【Photography ABO】White Rose

That night, Joseph and Aesop cuddled each other and slept their first peaceful sleep since returning home.

The next morning, they went out holding hands, but they unexpectedly bumped into Lena who was passing by with something in the corridor.The little maid waved her hand to greet them, with a bright smile on her face, with a look of neither age nor age: "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, are you so affectionate so early in the morning?"

Aesop cleared his throat embarrassingly: "Lena, you must understand the rules." But Joseph beside him didn't care at all. We just communicated about an important matter, and now we are both very happy."

Lina suddenly realized: "Your Majesty and Your Highness are finally ready to have a child?"

Aesop almost choked.Joseph still maintained his smile without changing his face: "Well, I hope there will be sooner."

After Lina left, Aesop finally couldn't hold back anymore.He reached out to poke Joseph, his cheeks flushed a little: "Joseph, what you just said...are you serious?"

"To fool the little girl." Joseph took his hand and continued to move forward, "but I would like to put this matter on the agenda. If you want, we will after the British business is over."

He downplayed the British affair as if it were as easily settled as food and water.Aesop nodded silently. He looked at the tall and straight figure of Joseph walking in front of him, and thought to himself: Joseph is really powerful.As long as Joseph faces it with him, he will not be afraid of anything.

That morning, they walked through many parts of the palace together.Joseph didn't say anything, but Aesop could see that he was finishing up many previous things.

Joseph went to the hut first, hid his photo properly, and locked the door of the hut.Immediately he went to collect a document, which was about the specific matters of signing an agreement with the parliament on the 10th.Finally he went to the office, and Aesop watched as he dug out a photo from a drawer and walked over to the camera.Aesop followed curiously, and Joseph reached out to cover his eyes: "Don't look."

The next moment, a dazzling light flashed - even though Aesop's eyes were blocked, he could still feel the bright light.Joseph moved the hand in front of his eyes away, and Aesop opened his eyes, and saw a man who looked a little familiar on the opposite side of the two, and the fear that had not yet faded seemed to be on the man's face.Joseph smiled at him: "You can go. You were considered meritorious in your work before, and I will send you a sum of money."

"I..." The man was about to say something, but Joseph interrupted him: "Don't ask. I'm in a good mood recently, it's as simple as that. Finally, I would like to give you a piece of advice: when you do things for others in the future, just do your job well. Don't presume."

The man left.After he left, Aesop asked Joseph: "That man is your former subordinate? Why..."

"The most important thing about political scheming is not to be soft-hearted and not to trust anyone. Because you have to know that those who threaten you if you let go of your soft-heartedness may really plot behind your back in the future and drive you to a desperate situation." Joseph said in Sitting down at the table, with a solemn expression on his face, "For example, I showed you the photo yesterday not only for you, but also for me. Because if you didn't personally give you the chance to kill me easily and let you choose, I think, I will never be able to remove the last layer of defense against you, and I will not be able to fully trust you. This is the case with you and me."

Aesop took a deep breath.He gently put his arms around Joseph's shoulders from behind: "Now, you can trust me completely. I hope you can sleep peacefully by my side."

"Last night was fine." Joseph held Aesop's hand and pulled him to sit beside him, "Now, let's settle your matter."

He opened the notebook in his hand and began to record while speaking: "Don't think too much about me, I only found out about your situation yesterday. The situation you are facing is very complicated, but fortunately there is still time, we can work together Try to get it over with. Britain wants to kill me, yes, but yesterday afternoon I gave a speech in front of the people, pointed at Britain. If they insist on doing it in this situation, then if something happens to me or important MPs , no matter how injured you are, as long as you get a little evidence, the war is inevitable. Presumably they don't want to make such a big commotion yet." Speaking of this, he raised the corners of his lips confidently, "Besides, they don't have any insiders anymore. .but I have."

"You have an inside line in England?" Aesop was surprised.

"Of course there are, although not many. Facing another country whose relationship has been bad in essence, who wouldn't want to keep a hand." Joseph wrote a line on the paper, "Then, the biggest danger at present is that you may be Retaliation, even if this incident happens, it will be difficult for us to settle the blame on the UK—because you have not conflicted with the interests of the British royal family. But..." Joseph paused at this point, "It seems possible Will there be a conflict?"

"What did you think of?" Seeing Joseph's expression, Aesop suddenly had a premonition.Sure enough, he saw Joseph raised the corner of his mouth, and continued to say: "Yes, Aesop de la Thornes is British, but she is also my queen, and she is currently the queen who holds the real power of the palace affairs under my hands. If we let the people know that you are the queen who was forced to marry because you were squeezed out by the British royal family, because you are currently doing things for France, and even have a part of the power, which has caused British dissatisfaction, and you are very likely to be harmed by the British... and What will happen?"

Aesop's eyes lit up: "In this way, I will also be included in the scope of France's care and protection? But first, spread such rumors?"

"Yes, in this way, Britain will not dare to touch you again, not to mention that moving you now has little meaning to them, they dare not send new people over, arresting or killing you can only be a means of revenge I'll leave this matter to you, and I'll be busy finalizing the affairs of the parliament recently, and I still have a lot of interests and details to deal with." Joseph said, picking up a pen and scribbling something on the paper, Then he tore off the piece of paper and handed it to Aesop, "These people can help you with this matter, just go find them. If you need to use the British internal line, tell me, and I will handle it."

Aesop reached out and took the piece of paper, on which was Joseph's handsome and sharp handwriting.He flicked the names of the people written by Joseph with his fingertips: "Leave this to me completely, is it okay?"

"It's okay, believe in yourself. I was even ready to let go of you completely yesterday, you understand." Joseph smiled at him, "It's hard to be around me, I'm much older than you, and Will get old quickly, so you will inevitably bear the burden of me not being able to fake others, and there will be more and more of them. But don't worry too much, no matter what you face, as long as I live in this world, I will stand behind you."

His words made Aesop feel warm in his heart.Aesop looked at the smiling Joseph, and couldn't help stretching out his hands to hug him tightly: "Well, I will do my best. We will have many years to live together, even if you grow old like a grandfather, I will I will always like you. We can spend countless days and nights together, walk out of the palace together to see Paris in four seasons, and be the happiest couple."

"Yeah." Joseph smiled and stretched out his hands to mess up his soft gray short hair, "But you got one thing wrong: after having that photo, my appearance will not change in any way until the end of my life, Maybe you will be the one who looks like the old man in the future. Besides, I have another question—will there be a third person in our story?"

"What third person?" Aesop didn't react for a while.

"I mean children."

As soon as he said this, Aesop's face turned red again - in the morning, Aesop had already blushed once because of this question.Aesop hesitated and hawed for a long time, and finally stood up "teng": "Didn't you say in the morning that you will think about it after the British incident is over... let's decide then!"

As he spoke, he fled in a hurry and went to sit at the small table in the other corner of the room.Joseph was still acting like a baby more and more: "Dear Aesop, you see, I'm too old to have children, it's very pitiful."

"..." Aesop raised his eyes and glanced at him hesitantly, then quickly avoided after meeting his gaze, and continued to look at the documents at hand seriously.

Joseph curled his lips and looked away.He thought: It doesn't matter, they still have a long time to decide this matter.

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