dognovel Chapter 140 Heart-to-heart talk
Chapter 140 Heart-to-heart talk
It was just a sudden thunderclap.
Before, people were still marveling at how honored it was that the Duchess sent them medicine.
Now we know that this is not the Duchess, but Her Royal Highness the Princess?
How could they have deserved the princess' personal delivery of medicine to them?
The doctor was also dumbfounded.
But these words were said by Lord Babbitt himself.
The person in front of me is actually Her Royal Highness the Princess?
He almost rolled over and crawled on his back as he apologized, "Your Highness, please be magnanimous. I was blind and confused you with the Duchess. Please forgive me."
Cecilia waved her hand and said, "You go down first."
The doctor crawled away again.
Her eyes fell on Babbitt again, and she made room for him. "Would you like to sit down?"
Babbitt sat next to Cecilia very naturally.
The woman holding the child had long since left this place of trouble.
Her little tent was fortunate to be able to accommodate both Her Royal Highness the Princess and His Excellency the Duke in one day.
She looked at her son who was sleeping peacefully in her arms and kissed his forehead.
Her Royal Highness is truly a good person.
Before, when Cecilia was the only one there, a lot of people gathered around this small open space, hoping to provide some help within their ability when Cecilia needed it, in order to repay Cecilia for sending her the medicine.
But since Babbitt sat next to him, there were fewer and fewer people in the small open space in front of him.
"When did you know there was an epidemic?"
Cecilia thought about it and told the truth, "When we set out from Petra."
Babbitt laughed when he heard this, "That's why you asked Valken and the others to leave quickly."
Cecilia nodded.
The two fell into a brief silence.
"Is there anything you want to ask me?"
Cecilia frowned and looked at Babbitt. Of course, she had the question she wanted to ask, "What do you want?"
After asking the question, Cecilia felt that the question was a bit vague and wanted to add to it, but Babbitt had already started answering.
"What do I want?" Babbitt paused. "I want a home and a wife who loves me. Of course, I love her too. If she wants, we can have a child. If she doesn't want, that's fine."
Babbitt seemed to have opened up a conversation. Cecilia wanted to interrupt but never found a chance. "As long as she loves me, I can give her everything. I can give her anything she wants with both hands, if she is willing to give me a home."
Cecilia always felt that Babbitt's words were meaningful, so she chose not to understand. "It seems that our Duke already has a favorite girl."
Babbitt looked at Cecilia's profile, and the words came to his lips countless times, but were finally swallowed back.
"Actually, what I wanted to ask just now is, why do you want power?"
This time Babbitt did not answer immediately, but just looked at Cecilia.
Cecilia also felt that the question was presumptuous.
I was the one who pretended to be stupid and ignored the other party's hints to me, so it was understandable that the other party didn't want to answer my questions.
The people in the slums seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and Cecilia heard Babbitt speak only after a long time.
"Why do you think I want power, Your Highness?"
Cecilia shook her head; she knew nothing about Babbitt.
In the original novel, when Freya and her companions came to the south for rescue, Babbitt was almost dead.
Freya and others hurriedly rushed to the manor, but when they arrived, Duke Babbitt had already died.
Cecilia was stunned.
Yes, the only passage in the original book that mentions Babbitt is:
“The duke, who briefly brought a little better life to the southern people, died in the epidemic in late autumn before he could see the vibrant south.”
Did I misunderstand Babbitt, or did Babbitt in the original book die from the plague before he had the chance to show his ambition?
"Then why does Your Highness think that I want power?"
This time it was Cecilia's turn not to know what to say.
"I never thought about power, but I made a promise with a little girl that when I got power, I would let her see the South that she wanted to see."
Cecilia began to reflect on whether she was being too sentimental just now. The little girl that Babbitt mentioned couldn't be the original owner, right?
The original owner came here by himself from birth to the age of twenty and had never left Petra, so how could he be interested in the south?
However, Babbitt's answer was indeed beyond Cecilia's expectations.
Is Babbitt such a pure loving person?
He actually acted based on a childhood agreement. It seemed that the little girl meant a lot to him.
"What kind of South did the little girl want to see back then?"
There flashed across Babbitt's eyes, which were full of affection even for dogs, an expression that Cecilia could not understand.
"She wanted to see a South where everyone could have enough to eat, everyone had a job that paid well within their ability, everyone could afford medical treatment when they were sick, everyone had a good place to live when they were old, children could study freely, adults could pursue their own goals, and everyone could live the way they wanted."
Half of Cecilia's body felt numb.
This passage...
Judging from the content alone, it is a genuine desire to make the people in the south live a good life.
But these are too difficult.
The country where she originally lived took the efforts of several generations, or even more than a dozen generations, to allow her, her luckier descendant, to see a relatively complete version of such a society.
Her generation and many generations after her will continue to follow this path of development, allowing future generations and their descendants to live a better life.
"It's a beautiful yearning, as if I had seen the society she was talking about."
Cecilia blurted out subconsciously.
Babbitt smiled, "She said it was a scene she saw in her dream, so she can be considered to have seen it with her own eyes."
At this moment, Cecilia really wanted to strangle the system and ask it clearly how many taskers there were in this world!
But I have to say that the little girl Babbitt described is very courageous.
They actually tried to overthrow the long-standing feudal ruling class of kings and nobles and build a socialist country with democracy and the rule of law.
It's not that Cecilia hasn't thought about it.
It is too difficult to implement.
Plus, she really was a little overwhelmed.
From the time she faked her death until now, she had hardly had any rest.
Right now, the demons are still waiting for an opportunity in the Wakadi Mountains, and she hasn't received any latest news in the south these days.
When there is foreign invasion, it is indeed a good time to start a revolution.
But the prerequisite is that the ruler is incompetent.
Gallup clearly does not meet this premise.
Since the rulers are either incompetent or foolish, then revolt would be divisive and extremely detrimental to the country's stable development.
The people are the ones who ultimately suffer when a country develops unsteadily.