Miss Louisa From the Valley of the Wind

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"Because he wants to get married again."

"She said she wanted to have a successor, as if I didn't want the same thing" Lorine's voice seemed to me.

There was deep sadness in his voice.

"But isn't it common for a king to have more than one wife? At least that's what I know"

"Indeed right. But the rules at Gordon limit that. When a king has a queen, he cannot remarry. Unless he first divorces his empress or the empress dies. But it could also be before he had an empress, he first had a few concubines after that just raised an empress."

"Complicated rules"

"Yes, it's a little complicated. But it was made to protect the right of an empress so that the king would not arbitrarily. And a king who once had an empress but divorced her, then he could not raise another empress again. Unless he remarried the queen he had divorced. The position of the highest concubine he could lift was to be a grand concubine but it also had to have quite heavy requirements"

Louisa scratched the non-itchy scratch on her head. Feel how complicated the rules are at Gordon's. Although he knew all of that was well intended so that no divorce would occur between the king and the empress.

It doesn't feel like they're talking long enough, even in Louisa's dreams. But it all feels real. He knows a lot of things. When Louisa opened her eyes, it was morning.

"Sir, have you woken up? Let me clean His Majesty's body. "the sound of Reneism is heard beside him.

"Mother, may I take a shower. My body feels so sticky"

"Today not yet. Enough servant lap only empress. Tomorrow, Your Majesty can take a bath."

"All right mom"

The servant then wiped Louisa's body with a cloth until it was clean. Once all is done, go back to helping Louisa put on a new clean dress. All done, Louisa's face feels fresher now. Reneism clapped twice, before entering two servants carrying trays. One tray contains

the food, while the other tray contains herbal medicine.

"Greetings noble empress." said the two in a slightly bowed position.

"Greetings I receive, please"

They then put the tray they brought on the table. And started serving that food. Louisa sat in her bed with the help of Reneism.

"You can go. Let Reneism serve me."

They looked at Reneism with a nod to Reneism's head.

"Then we declare His Majesty's resignation"

Reneism takes food and feeds Louisa until her food is exhausted. And then help Louisa take her herbal medicine until it runs out .

"Mother today has a lot of tasks?"

"No empress. My only duty is to accompany the empress"

Usually Reneism has a task that is not small. She was the right hand of the Queen. So that some of the empress' work will be taken over by her. But after the king decided to divorce the empress Lorine, then automatically the duties of the empress were withdrawn from her and executed by the queen mother. And thus the duty of Reneism was only limited to the personal servant of the empress, no longer involved in the affairs of the palace harem.

They spent the whole day talking. As much as possible Reneism tried to avoid talking about the king and Lorine's divorce. Because he did not want to make Lorine sad. It was already night time, Reneism asked Lorine to rest.

But just before leaving, Louisa clasped Reneism's hand tightly.

"Mother." she hesitated.

"Tell me what's going on in His Majesty's mind. Servant will listen"he said gently.

"His Majesty the King said that I was barren. That's why he divorced me. Is it possible that what the king said is true?"

"The Empress, you have examined the palace healer over and over again . Doctor Kurd won't lie about anything important. If he says the empress is healthy and fertile, it means that it is true. Your Majesty is just a little impatient. After all, as far as I know, in the Valley family no one has ever been found barren. And his majesty never experienced severe pain, which if can affect the fertility rate. So I'm sure that's not true. Do not think again, rest assured someday Your Majesty will surely regret his decision to divorce you. Now rest, Your Majesty, so that you will be healthy again soon"

Louisa smiled. Although he did not really care about the king's decision, but in his heart he pityed the queen Lorine.

Sometimes Louisa could unconsciously feel what Lorine was feeling. And then compare it to his love story that turned out to be inversely proportional to his own dreams.

***

Louisa's health changed for the better. He was able to walk without feeling dizzy. Because of the long time in the room, Louisa wanted to walk the road to see the state of the palace.

With Reneism he walked towards the palace garden. They sit on a bench in the garden while enjoying the beauty of the flowers that bloom there.

"Ren, I'd like to work out a plan for what I'm going to do after the divorce verdict is cleared. Did my father come home from the border? I want to ask for his opinion"

"Not yet empress. Maybe in about a week the new general's in the palace."

"If you have arrived at the palace please inform him that he will see me immediately."

"Good empress"

"Ren, accompany me to the palace library. I've got something to look for there"

"Let's Your Majesty"

They walked together to the library. Sometimes they cross paths with the servants and guards on duty. About five minutes later they arrived at the library.

The library was huge with thousands of books neatly arranged on long shelf shelves.

Like the library in general, the atmosphere here is very quiet and even cold. Even in Lorine's memory, he only went to the library while still studying medicine.

Louisa's looking for a map of Gordon's kingdom.

After finding him, he took him to a table and pulled a chair and sat there. Louisa picked up the brush as well as the writing paper she had prepared beforehand and started to make some notes.

After completion the map was returned to its place, and replaced by taking a book about the history of Gordon's kingdom.

He wanted to get to know more about Gordon's kingdom, because from Lorine's memory he didn't know much. He read it really.

From the book he also knew about the history of the birth of rules about the divorce of kings and queens. Also about the condition of the appointment of a concubine into a great concubine.

One thing that makes Louisa surprised, for the last five hundred years only once a concubine was appointed as a great concubine.

She was the first female general and played an important role during the war. He was also a patron and advisor to the crown prince, even until the crown prince became king Gordon. And the concubine was named Grand Concubine Louisa Balley..