Chapter Twenty-Five: Gloomy Sadness

"Prince Charles!?"

"Miss Xia?" Charles raised his head when he heard this, and smiled slightly, "Today, I am fortunate to finally gather the three beauties of your Xia family and have a glimpse of the beauty!"

Xia Menglu smiled dignified and generous, noncommittal, and raised the goblet in her hand sideways in the direction of Xia Youlan, "Just now I was talking to my sister Youlan over there about some interesting things that happened yesterday, and I was too involved for a while............" After that, she glanced at Charles coquettishly, "I only knew when Peirou came over!"

She blinked, and her euphemistic and self-deprecating words provoked the people at the table to laugh, and easily enlivened the quagmire-like atmosphere of Aosu.

Yan Jiujiu half leaned on the table, stirring the transparent straw in the juice cup, she secretly glanced at the laughing and happy O'Henry, and said in her stomach, "Laugh! laugh! Laugh! Laugh and laugh, revealing the dimples of those two fascinated people, and I don't know who to show them to with a drunken look!"

The weather at noon was not good, I don't know when it would be sunny and cloudy, the water beads in the air condensed into a thin mist, like wisps of cotton, she looked at the unknown high-rise buildings outside the window, and sighed that the pendulum of time was ticking and unconsciously turning a cycle.

Yan Jiujiu thought of when she was a child, although the family was poor, but whenever the New Year, the family always had to remove the old and buy some objects, meaning to wash away the bad luck of the past year, and make a good fortune, the new year and the new atmosphere or something, at that time she always loved to follow her mother to play the cotton quilt, and the boss of the Zhang family who played the cotton quilt personally went into battle, the cotton on a large square board was soft and fluffy, and the cotton wool flying all over the sky was like a little man at a dance party, and the sound of the spring was bouncing, at this time she would always sing nursery rhymes and step on the idea of jumping……

She always smiled and said, "My ninth son!

The cotton is bounced, and the dense red, red, green and green thin threads are clothed, and it becomes the quilt core, and when she goes home, she puts on the yellow line Ruyi red double happiness cotton quilt cover when her parents first got married, and then she can cover this colorful and festive quilt overnight is her expectation for the end of the year, and at night, the heavy and dense quilt pressed on the body not only warms the body, but also warms the heart, she is really happy, and the quilt is shrunk into a ball in the dreamland to smell the sweet taste of cotton wool, and she sleeps really well in those nights! But since the sun never sets, she lived in her uncle's splendid mansion, sleeping on a comfortable Simmons mattress, covered with a goose down quilt, wearing expensive and luxurious dresses, and wearing the name of a daughter, but tossing and turning for several nights, every night she woke up in a daze, the light goose down quilt on her body always gave her the illusion of floating in mid-air, she could no longer find the kind of hometown quilt simple and clumsy but can make her sleep at ease, at that time she always explained to herself, "Maybe I'm too down-to-earth? Maybe you haven't adapted to life in this foreign country yet. ”

O'Henry's voice rang in her ears, and she gradually came back to her senses, and her ethereal and distant voice became real, "What do you think?"

She looked at O'Henry's warm smile, and secretly helpless herself to look at the fog outside the window and think about it.

"It's nothing! It's boring! Look at the scenery and drink the juice and get out of your body!" she laughed, and stopped talking about it.

And Xia Menglu, who was already sitting next to her, said with a smile, "The original gods are out of the body?" she laughed, "It is said that the East is now democratic, how can you still believe in these gods!"

Yan Jiujiu hooked the corners of her lips to show politeness, she didn't want to have anything to do with the annoyance around her at all, so she just swept around the two gentlemen sitting opposite, sucking the straw and no longer speaking.

After some conversation, O'Henry and Charles both knew that the Xia family's daughter in front of them had excellent communication skills, O'Henry looked at Yan Jiujiu's lazy words and thought that he would take this opportunity to hone her temperament, and if he was not by his side in the future, she would be able to protect herself when she was not careful.

Charles did not make such a long-term plan, and the chivalry of the aristocracy made him feel as righteous as he did on the banks of the Thames that day, but the high royal upbringing made him still look modest.

"Miss Kim. Charles was the first to open the conversation, "That day was our first meeting by the Thames, such a reckless appearance was too rash, I haven't officially introduced it, I'm Charles, Victoria's brother." ”

Yan Jiujiuxing's eyes widened slightly, she stretched out her right hand wearing silk gloves and shook Charles's fingertips, and her tone was interesting, "Mr. Charles, thank you very much for your justice, and I appreciate your humility very much...... Of course, only in the form of your generosity that day!"

After saying that, Yan Jiujiu smiled at the thoughtful Charles, and then he understood, pointed at Yan Jiujiu and smiled: "Why do you still think I eat too much?"

He saw that Yan Jiujiu was noncommittal, and his muffled smile was very interesting, "You, you, but it's no different from what Victoria said!"

Yan Jiujiu smiled and nodded, took a sip of juice, and said no more.

Still lamenting Victoria's vivid description, Charles shook his head with a smile and gestured to the waiter to pay.

Seeing the general trend, Xia Menglu collected the scheming in her eyes, held the red wine glass in front of her, and smiled, "Miss Jin, I was abrupt!

Saying that she was going to drink and apologize, Yan Jiujiu was shocked, looked up at Xia Menglu with an apologetic face, not like a fake, and stopped her hand at the moment and said: "You don't have to be like this, Charles is my friend, you know each other, you are naturally my friend, as the saying goes, there is a fate to meet thousands of miles away, and there is no chance to meet and not know each other, you and I meet is fate, you don't have to stick to these forms of ......"

"Huh...... You can't say that, if you are a friend, you don't have to talk about these politeness!" She scratched the back of her head as she spoke, but only Henry noticed Xia Menglu's abrupt movements, and sure enough, Xia Peirou, who was at the adjacent table, got the code, and walked over in a sassy manner, "Sister!"

O'Henry's eyebrows jumped slightly.

I saw her shouting happily, as if she hadn't seen the tall red wine glass in Xia Menglu's hand at all, and pounced on it with a smile, Xia Menglu naturally couldn't stand the sudden pressure, she subconsciously mixed with a little pretend tilt, "Eh!" she exclaimed in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry......"

"Xia Peirou! What are you doing? Even if your father spoils you at home, you are so reckless outside!" Xia Menglu acted very realistically, "Look at Miss Jin's skirt!"

Xia Peirou looked like a child who had done something wrong, staring at the eldest sister who was hurriedly wiping her dress, and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...... I ......"

"Okay, okay, don't talk about her, her eyes are red!" Yan Jiujiu was a little reluctant, and she was a little inexplicable about Xia Menglu's sharp accusations in her heart.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Xia Peirou pulled the broken hair around her ears, and suddenly thought of something, "Sister, didn't we come here after shopping? I bought a dress, it just so happens that my body is about the same size as Miss Jin, why don't you put on the newly bought one and respond to the emergency first, and then I will dry clean this dress and send it to the house?"

Xia Peirou was no longer as pitiful as she was just now, her face was euphemistic but inexplicably proud, fleeting, Yan Jiujiu saw it really, but he didn't think about it, and said: "No need, it's too troublesome, I'll ...... it myself."

"Eh, let's go, let's go!" Xia Menglu was afraid that she would refuse, her eyes signaled to Xia Peirou, and the two of them pushed and shoved Yan Jiujiu away.

Looking at the backs of the three of them walking away, Charles thought, "Henry, is there a problem with that dress?"

"Hmm. O'Henry replied softly.

Seeing that he was not in a hurry, Charles frowned slightly, "That ......"

Ou Henry breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, I don't think Miss Xia Youlan will use such a despicable method." ”

He brought the coffee cup to his lips, and between the cups, he glanced faintly in the direction of Xia Youlan, and when Xia Menglu and Xia Peirou walked towards them, Xia Youlan threw something into the trash can...... That thing must be the key!

He thought about it again, Xia Menglu's painstaking loneliness Charles couldn't help but understand, why did he pretend to be crazy and stupid, what was the purpose of talking and laughing besides unraveling the siege?

Between thoughts, Yan Jiujiu Mingyan's smile lingered in his mind, he put down his coffee, and felt upset, "I'll go first!"

Charles didn't know why, nodded in response, but sighed in his heart-

Top floor of the De Laus Trade Building.

"President, this is today's Wen Jiàn. The curvaceous brown-haired female secretary entered the office with a stack of papers. He was followed by another secretary who brought the espresso and wore a professional suit.

"Okay, put it here first. O'Henry stared at the computer screen, staring intently.

The two beautiful secretaries looked at each other, in the past, their president was always gentle and warm like the spring breeze in March, why did they look gloomy and uncertain today?

The computer screen was a bare desktop, O'Henry was not working, and when he was stunned, he heard sparse chattering outside.

"What's wrong with the president......?

"Really...... Do you think so too?" said the woman mysteriously, "It can't be thinking about your sweetheart, right?"

"Ahh......h

The two of them speculated intermittently in O'Henry's ears.

"Sweetheart?" he keenly captured the word, "sweetheart......

As if he understood something, his obsidian-like pupils suddenly dilated, "Could it be ...... Charles likes her?"

The white porcelain cup in his hand shook a few times, and there were several layers of friction and biting sounds, he settled down, pursed his lips, and scooped a little worry with a pair of dimples, "Does Qi Xuan know? Maybe she knows that there are not many royal princes as good as Charles! Maybe she doesn't know......" Thinking of this, O'Henry's mind flashed pictures of the two of them talking happily, one by one, one after another......

The sun poured through the floor-to-ceiling windows, but O'Henry seemed to have a back on his back, and there was nowhere to hide.