Dear father:
I am pregnant and, as you wish, not Peter's child. Even though I know you set that damn guy up, I've never held any grudge against you. I understand what you think, the Cordore family should not have lowly descendants in this world, but it is a pity that you have achieved some, and you have missed others. As I said at the beginning of the letter, I am pregnant.
His body has the blood of the great Codor family, but also the blood of the humble Guart people. In your words, he should be a mixed-blood mongrel. You can control my life, you can control my husband, but you cannot control me or my soul.
My soul is pure, I have always believed that, and that is what you and others are jealous of.
I am not writing this letter to prove that I am purer than you, I just want to tell you that your daughter Vivian has finally embarked on the path you want to arrange for me.
I heard that in the eastern part of the empire some women stood up and called themselves "fighters for women's power." People called them feminists. The hypocritical villains of the New Party also expressed positive views on this. I may not be a great politician, but I can be an outstanding female representative of an era. I will respond to the voices from the heart of the Empire in the Tener region, in the Canles region, and launch the feminist movement here.
I'm just informing you, not asking for your consent. I understand that the feelings of politicians like you towards your children are far less important than your status and power.
Of course, as your daughter, I hope you can bless me and my career.
This is something that took me half my life to understand. If you don’t fight, people will not think you are humble. They will only think you are weak and incompetent.
May you live long enough.
May your bastards continue to harass you.
I wish you a speedy recovery.
Love your daughter.
Vivian.
The housekeeper put down the letter in his hand with some embarrassment and stood aside obediently. The content of this letter is a bit excessive, and it is simply a bottle of poison to the Governor who is almost paralyzed. The doctor has said that the last thing the Governor should do right now is to get angry, as that will affect the changes in blood pressure in his body and may make his condition worse. There's not a single word in Miss Vivian's letter that's nice, it's all irritating stuff.
Just when the butler was waiting for the Governor to vent his anger with swear words instead of his body movements, the Governor actually laughed? !
Is this a sneer mixed with hatred and anger after extreme rage
Or was he really smiling
The housekeeper quietly raised his head and glanced, and with just one glance, he saw the governor's sagging skin, the red blood that lacked congestion, and also saw his eyes that shone with some kind of intelligence and his true smile.
He is really smiling!
The Governor tilted his head, "Leave me alone for a while!"
The butler immediately withdrew, and as he stood at the door he said: "In five minutes I will knock and come in."
This is what the doctor and the Governor himself requested. Under any circumstances, he should not be out of people's sight for more than five minutes at most. The Governor still cherishes his paralyzed little life, and he does not want to embrace God yet.
After the door was closed, the Governor was the only one in the room. He couldn't help but laugh. It was rare to see him laugh so freely in the past few years, almost almost wildly.
Every family hopes to have a boy who will be the inheritor of their career and the heir of their bloodline. After having a boy, they also hoped for a girl, and Vivian came into this world with such expectation. She is the Governor's favorite daughter, and those illegitimate children cannot compare with her. Even though the governor wanted her to marry a famous nobleman, he finally agreed to her request and let her marry Peter at her insistence.
This shows how much the Governor dotes on Vivian, so much so that he even abandons marriage, a method of fornication that has a certain weight in politics, just to make Vivian happy.
Although he did things that made her unhappy, such as having one of Peter's balls broken, and letting doctors cut off the most important tube in his reproductive system. He actually did this to protect Vivian, not because Vivian thought he was doing it to avoid having a descendant of his own who had a humble bloodline and a humble background. Yes, with the wisdom of the old man, how could he not see Peter's purpose in approaching Vivian
So he used this method to "protect" Vivian. He believed that one day Vivian would understand, and this day did come.
The Governor doesn't really care about where the "half-breed bastard" in Vivian's belly came from. The higher his status, the higher the level of things he comes into contact with, and the more he can understand that the war between the old and the new parties has actually already occurred. A harbinger of the end. The old party rigidly maintains the "purity" of its inner circle. To put it simply, if you are not an old aristocrat of the empire, you will never be able to enter this inner circle and become a high-ranking and core figure of the old party.
This alone will limit the future development of the old party. On the other hand, the New Party, a group of new nobles in the empire, does secretly implement the concept of "no elites, no high-level people", but the range for them to choose from is too large. No matter where you are from, no matter what you were like in the past, as long as you are now recognized as an elite, you will have the opportunity to enter the top leadership of the new party and enter the real core.
What should be conservative is tradition, not such stereotyped prejudice.
The reason why the old party is still able to keep pace with the new party is not because of how powerful the old party is. They are just resting on their laurels. The capital accumulated over hundreds of years is being slowly consumed by them, and one day they will eat up all their old capital. At that time, the new party will take full advantage.
Therefore, the Governor sees it very clearly that the world ultimately belongs to the new party, to the new party that does not care about origin or composition, and only absorbs elites, and does not belong to the old party.
However, he knew that something like this would happen, but he could not change his position because it was too late and he could not do it.
But he hopes that someone in his next generation can stand up and become another person. It can be said that this is putting eggs in the second basket, or it can be said that it is speculation about the future and the new party.
He noticed that Vivian mentioned the feminist movement in her letter, and he had to say that Kansas was indeed too remote, so remote that she didn't even notice who were the founders of the feminist movement or who were the participants.
Yes, she didn't notice.
The initiator of the feminist movement was the direct granddaughter of one of the current five giants of the old party, and many of the participants were women from big aristocratic families. We must know that women from ordinary families are either busy working to make money to support their families all day long, or they are busy spending their lives among their children. How many ordinary women have the time, money, and charisma to do such obviously thankless tasks? matter
No!
To put it simply, the feminist movement itself is the initial quarrel between the enlightened people of the old party and the new party. Everyone is trying to find a new way out, so these women stand at the forefront of the times!
The Governor is very happy that the Codor family finally has someone who understands, although her "understanding" may be due to her anger at her past life, her current experiences, and her anger at the unclear future. But at least she's on the right track!
The knock on the door woke the Governor out of his thoughts. He said "Come in". The butler opened the door and stood by it, closing the door gently.
"Take out the letter paper and pen. I want to write a letter to Peter."
The housekeeper immediately removed the letter paper from the cabinet, bowed his head at the desk, and quickly wrote down what the Governor had said. Finally, he read out the contents of the letter and let the Governor read it again before putting it in an envelope, dripping sealing wax, and stamping it.
The letter was handed over to the person in charge of external liaison at the manor a little later, and was then carried by a driver across two cities. At noon the next day, it was delivered to Turnel and appeared. In Peter's hand.
Peter looked at the seal on the sealing wax solemnly, then cut off one end of the envelope and took out the letter paper.
His father-in-law, the Governor, rarely took the initiative to contact him. In fact, he knew very well that this was because his father-in-law looked down on him. The last time he was able to take the initiative to write a letter like this was when he was elected mayor of Turnell, so he didn't know what the letter said or what kind of things he would encounter next. He hated this feeling, this feeling of being involuntarily being teased by fate.
He spread out the letter paper that exuded a light fragrance and had gilded edges, and the next second he overturned the table in front of him. Scented tea, pastries, some condiments and spices made a mess on his expensive carpet. The muscles on his face twitched slightly uncontrollably, and he was extremely angry inside!
"Didn't you say that no one has ever been in contact with Madam? Then how do you explain this letter?" Peter casually clenched the letter into a ball and threw it at the butler standing beside him. The ball of paper hit the butler's muscle lines with a snap. The knife carved his face, then fell to the ground and bounced.
The housekeeper silently bent down to pick up the letter, crumpled it open, and the first sentence he said was "Congratulations, you are going to be a father"!
There is no doubt that Mrs. Vivian's pregnancy has been known to the Governor. How this matter will end has nothing to do with Peter. He has lost control of this matter.
This was also the thing he couldn't tolerate the most.
(End of chapter)