Chapter 45: Milady
As Lu Shijuan told everyone in a hotel on the outskirts of Paris, the plot of "The Three Musketeers" can be roughly divided into three parts: the royal scandal, the Battle of La Rochelle, and the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham.
These things are actually related to each other.
The Battle of La Rochelle was originally just a civil war in France. The two sides were the orthodox Catholics (the king's army) and the Protestants called Huguenots (the rebels).
However, the Duke of Buckingham, who was obviously an Englishman, came to intervene and sent troops from the sea to support the Huguenots. The purpose was just to ask the husband of the French king to defeat his mistress on the battlefield, so that he could defeat his mistress in the peace talks afterwards.
As a representative of England, he went to Paris to show off his power, let the queen see his majesty, and win the favor of beauties.
The Duke of Buckingham not only made the French king wear the emerald crown, he was also France's greatest enemy on the battlefield.
So, there was an assassination plan.
The candidate who accepted the order of the Bishop to assassinate the Duke of Buckingham was not Rochefort, a powerful man. He was talking about the original Rochefort. Our "Rochefort" was too weak, and
It's Milady, who seems to be powerless.
Just like the protagonists played the role of saving the queen in the royal scandal, they were actually serving the queen's party forces. At that time, the French aristocrats did not care about the interests of the family and the country, and they were romantic and more willing to work for the nobles.
Ladies contribute.
Therefore, due to the tip-off from D'Artagnan and others, Milady was captured and imprisoned by the Duke of Buckingham as soon as she arrived in England. However, this level of difficulty seemed to increase the difficulty in completing her mission.
Just a little bit of seasoning.
The young lieutenant responsible for guarding her was originally the most loyal follower of the Duke of Buckingham. He was willing to sacrifice his life and everything for his lord. He was informed in advance of all the cruel and cruel deeds Milady had done and was even warned not to do so.
When talking to her, I was very cautious.
Five days later, the poor lieutenant fell madly in love with Milady. He not only tried every means to help her escape, but also sacrificed his precious life to complete the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham, the object of his allegiance.
Was it Milady who seduced him?
No, she didn't, at least she didn't use any means that could be called "sexual".
Because she knew very well that the young man guarding her could not be impressed by simple beauty.
What she used to capture the lieutenant was her purity and her nobility, although all of them were just disguised.
First of all, she packaged herself as a kind-hearted woman who was forced to be imprisoned here.
Then, she let the young lieutenant "accidentally" discover that she was in pain and that she wanted to commit suicide in exchange for relief.
The kind and upright lieutenant could not watch such a "pure" person die in front of him, so he gradually began to talk to her.
After listening to Milady's carefully crafted lies, Mr. Lieutenant was convinced that she was the purest and most beautiful woman in the world, and believed that the Duke of Buckingham was a shameless person who imprisoned her and should be cut to pieces.
The fact that a romantically inclined duke who likes to give green crowns to enemy kings is a shameless man may not be deceptive in itself.
All this sounds very simple, and compared with those palace fighting TV series, it does not seem to be anything powerful. But in practice, it is an almost impossible task.
The most critical point is that the lieutenant did not say a word to Milady at the beginning, and he was not willing to listen to her nonsense. The lieutenant had long been taught that "this is a vicious woman, everything she said was...
is a lie" view.
Therefore, she cannot speak or use words to deceive.
She had to rely on subtle movements, expressions, or even just one look to reflect everything she wanted the other person to believe into the lieutenant's iron-clad heart.
Even she couldn't be sure whether the other party was watching her from outside the cell, so she couldn't slack off twenty-four hours a day, every minute, every second, and she had to perfectly perform the setting she had made.
As for when the two of them really spoke for the first time, the fate of the poor young man, the lieutenant, was actually doomed, and he would eventually slide into the abyss of eternal destruction.
Although Milady is executed by the protagonists at the end of the original novel, for readers, the image of this woman has long been alive.
Therefore, when Lu Shijuan and Xixiang realized that a "living" Miledy was standing outside the door, they had such a frightened reaction.
"We must not have anything to do with this woman! She is too dangerous, too elusive, and is the biggest variable in the world." Lu Shijuan said firmly.
"But now it seems that she is the one who actively wants to have a relationship with us."
"Ignore her! Anyway, she will be sent to London by the Bishop soon to steal the Queen's token to the Duke of Buckingham. It will only be in the next few days."
"Can I really ignore it completely? I feel like her voice just now seems to have some charm or command effect. I'm afraid she has also awakened some kind of supernatural power."
"After all, it is normal for Milady, an important villain in the story of spiritual recovery, to have special abilities. I will also remind others tomorrow."
Perhaps because they were too nervous, neither Lu Shijuan nor Xixiang realized that if they reminded them tomorrow, it might be too late...
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Although the night is dark, it cannot stop the otaku from cultivating immortality.
Ashin kept pulling the mouse back and forth, sorting out all the information collected from this world on the computer, including all the low-level exercises open to them in the study room of the Bishop's Guard dormitory.
This is his real purpose in entering the world of "The Three Musketeers" to collect intelligence.
For new books that have just been opened, each major book club group has different countermeasures depending on the type of task.
Large-scale tasks like "Robinson Crusoe" often involve a large number of new reincarnations, who will be assigned to a certain book club group that needs to recruit new people based on negotiation.
For small tasks such as "The Three Musketeers" with a small number of people, the book club alliance will only send one person to collect information on all aspects of the world, and then share it with all book club groups after returning to the bookstore space, so that they can make decisions later.
Strategies for launching and completing this article.
A new book has just been opened, and life or death is unpredictable. As the most dangerous scout character, if Ashin dies in a mission in this world and has to use his monthly pass to avoid death, his monthly pass can be reimbursed to the book club!
Just when he was tired from working and was about to play games for a while, there were soothing footsteps outside the door, and then there was a knock on the door.
"Mr. Ashin, I have taken the liberty to disturb you late at night, can I come in?" said a moving voice.
Chapter completed!