The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Chapter 136 Many Letters

The Earl of Arundel offered to ask for taxes, which was tantamount to renunciating his title of nobility.He had already been elected to the council of the aristocracy, but the plebeians had elected him again.It is said that without hesitation he gave up the former seat and readily accepted the latter.

Here are two pieces of news.The first was what Grace had heard in a meeting at the Palace, where the grown-ups had cursed the Earl of Arundel for his corruption, for wanting to divide the country's elite.

The second piece of news was what Alan told him and wrote him a letter.At the end of the letter, Allen also said the same: the aristocracy is about to split as much as the priesthood.

They all knew what the Earl of Arundel was capable of.

Sure enough, soon, some big nobles began to imitate Arundel.Like Arundel, they became traitors among nobles and heroes among commoners.

When Grace was parading with the king, she broke through the cheering crowd and even the guards, climbed into their carriage, and shouted in front of the king: "Nobles pay taxes! Bishops pay taxes!"

The guards immediately took him off the king's golden carriage, rolled his hat and stuffed it into his mouth, and the yelling became "boo hoo", and he was hit hard on the back several times, "boo hoo "The sound turned into a scream that could not be uttered.

Grace subconsciously stood up and stretched out a hand, but the man had already been taken away by the guards.He looked around, and the people on both sides of the street showed the same startled expressions as him, but they quickly recovered and continued to shout: "Long live the king! Long live the commoner queen!"

They still cheered and threw kisses to Grace, and rich townspeople who had flowers in their hands threw them at Grace's feet.A flower flew towards the back of Grace's hand, Grace felt a sting, raised her hand quickly, and saw a thin streak of blood on the back of her hand.

He raised his head, wondering who threw the flower so high, and was careless, not scraping off the thorns on the stem.But people all look the same and have the same mouth shape.Grace's heart was beating fast, and she thought she heard "Long live the king" and "Long live the queen of the people" in those "Long live the king!"

The king took his hand and looked at it carefully, wiped the blood with a handkerchief, then took his fingers and whispered: "Don't be afraid." It was he who was afraid, and his fingertips were cold against the grid Lace palms.

This is the last parade ceremony before the wedding.

"I feel uneasy," Grace wrote to Allen, but he didn't write it himself, but he dictated it, and Anna ghostwritten it.Ana's spelling still needs practice, and each sentence takes a long time to write, but Grace tries to be careful.

He had Anna write: "I have a hunch that the nobles will fail. Give people what they want now, or they will make them lose more. But I can't convince them."

In the following routine imperial meeting, Allen gave up the low-key manner he had been pretending to be since he returned from the front line, and quarreled with his colleagues about it.Even General Cromwell stopped supporting him and sent him to the provinces to suppress peasant riots.Allen also said he was sick, and the meeting approved his indefinite leave of absence.

Grace wrote a letter to care about his mood, and he wrote back saying that when he was depressed, he would feel happy just thinking of him; If it was silly, Allen wrote back that his laughter was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard, and he didn't mind letting himself say more silly things like that, just to make that good laugh a few more times; Lace said that she would get sleepy after hearing that kind of words too many times, and Allen said that her kiss could help him wake up.

They can send and receive more than a dozen letters a day.

Grace burned the letter and immediately wrote a new one: "I'm suddenly sleepy."

An hour later, Grace drove into a rough alley in a light carriage.The curtain was lifted from the outside, first a hand was put in, lifted his veil, then a pair of soft lips were put in, and pressed against his lips.Ten minutes later, the carriage hurried towards the palace again.

Eva worries about Grace's situation, and Grace thinks she's being careful enough, but Eva doesn't think it's enough.But she can't stop Grace, because only Master Allen's letter can make Grace laugh like a hiccup, and other times Grace doesn't laugh at all.

Master Allen's letters are sometimes very short, just one or two extremely scribbled sentences, which read enthusiastically like poetry, and sometimes are long ones, telling an interesting anecdote.

"...that was a biologist who, in Lamarck (an authority on evolution, opposed to creationism, held that species change, that one species may have evolved from another, rather than created directly by God into what it is now)... He named his theory "practice inheritance", saying that organisms can acquire a certain characteristic through exercise and pass it on to future generations. He cited many possible Examples of letters: For example, a blacksmith develops stronger arms through long-term use of his arms, so the son of the blacksmith also has more developed arm muscles than his peers; ears...that makes sense, and I found out at school that if the father is learned, his sons usually get good grades. The scholar also told me that Rousseau made a contribution to popularizing Lamarck's oratory After a lot of hard work, I also donated a sum of money to this scholar as my contribution to modern science."

Grace wrote back: "I have seen a dog with a broken tail mated with a dog who was blind and produced a litter of healthy puppies that lacked neither tail nor eyes."

Allen wrote back, "What a great experiment! I've never heard of this before! I'm going to have to ask him about it."

Grace laughed again at his letter, because Ellen rarely looked so silly.

Two days later, Allen mentioned the matter again in a letter, "I told your example to the scholar, and he explained that it was because tail docking and blindness were both 'strengths developed for adapting to the environment' , so the example you gave does not meet the conditions of his theory."

Grace gave him another example: "Mr. Foreman, who delivered the letter to the mountain, took the job from his father, and his father got the job from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his own. An errand from my father. According to that theory, Mr. Foreman's father's grandfather would have developed a pair of big feet from walking all day, and then passed on the characteristics of big feet to Mr. Foreman's grandfather; Foreman Mr.’s grandfather will make his own feet that are already larger than ordinary people bigger, and then pass them on to Foreman’s father... Inherited from Mr. Foreman, we should see a pair of huge feet, but Foreman’s wife ( She often went to the mountain to work as a helper) once praised Mr. Foreman's small feet, and made shoes for him to save fabric."

Allen replied: "This is another excellent example! I have to talk to him again!"

The next day, he replied: "I had another chat with that scholar, and he told me about many geological research findings. As for the counterexample you mentioned yesterday, he explained that it is because of genetic It's a 'chance' thing, not all strengths are 'certain' to be passed down, due to exposure* (not that I use the word on purpose, I'm just paraphrasing the scholar) and the conditions of pregnancy Some not-so-fortunate special cases have been affected by it."

Grace replied: "According to this explanation, I am the unlucky exception to the 'must'."

Allen wrote back and asked him cautiously: "Are you angry?"

Grace's shoulders trembled from laughing, and Anna couldn't catch what he said several times.He said, "Fool! You have been fooled! The blacksmith's son has stronger arms because he helps his father swing the hammer, and the porter's son has sharper ears because his father asked him to help him hear the sounds outside the house. I guess you must have revealed your love for Rousseau before he told you about Rousseau's help to Lamarck, and before that he took the initiative to talk to you because you were rich and disgusted with creationism. He is a smart People can justify themselves, and the ultimate goal is just to make you pay for him!"

Allen still asked in his reply: "Then were you angry just now?"

Grace replied, "I'm sleepy."