The dining room of the harem is not very big, but a table three meters long is still set down, and the old Empress Catherine is sitting at the end of the long table facing the door, and this is what the old emperor sees as soon as he enters the door. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as the old emperor entered the door, he bent down to the old queen mother who was sitting, and the old queen mother nodded, pointed to the chair on her left and said, "The emperor is here, you sit here." ”

The old emperor didn't dare to say a word, obediently walked to the first seat on the left hand side and sat down, the princess followed closely behind her father, and tried to shrink her body behind the old emperor, as if she could avoid the old queen's gaze, and came to the second seat on the left hand side.

Just when the princess was about to sit down, the old queen mother took her eyes off the old emperor's body and looked at the princess, the old emperor immediately felt that the invisible pressure on his body was gone, he sat down with the situation, he didn't dare to look at his daughter at all, he only prayed for his daughter silently in his heart.

"Princess, are you still tired of being around your father as you were when you were a child, why have I heard that your father is a little conflicted recently?" the old queen asked lightly, and at the same time made a gesture to the waitress so that the waitress could serve the food.

"No, no, I don't have any contradictions with Xiaowei. The old emperor hurriedly argued.

"Emperor, I don't seem to have asked you, do I?!" The old queen mother turned her face to look at the old emperor, and the old emperor immediately felt that the invisible pressure had returned, and he immediately bowed his head and acted as if he didn't say anything.

The old queen mother glanced at the old emperor with satisfaction, then looked at the princess, a smile appeared on her face, and gently patted the empty position next to her with her hand and said to the princess, "Vivian, sit here." ”

The princess saw that the old queen mother had a smile on her face, and immediately knew that the old queen mother's anger was directed at her father today, she immediately became active, and when she passed by the old queen mother, she also hugged the old queen mother's neck from behind, kissed the old queen mother's cheek, and said while kissing: "Grandma is the best, grandma hurts Xiaowei the most!"

"Hmph, don't pat yourself here, tell me what's going on with your father?"

"Oh, no, my father and I are very good, and you saw it when you entered the dining room just now!" said the princess.

"Pretend, continue to pretend, and then pretend that I won't support you. After speaking, the old queen gently patted the princess's hand around her neck, and pulled her to the vacant seat on her right and sat down.

When the old emperor heard the words of the old queen mother, the already very huge psychological shadow increased exponentially, when he entered the restaurant, he had a very bad premonition, the general family banquet, they all use a round table, now use the long platform used for government banquets, and the old queen mother is not sitting in the middle of one end of the long platform, but on the left, and there is a vacant position on the right.

This arrangement is already very revealing, the old queen is ready to set up a prince, this prince is not the prince of the Frankish Empire, but the prince of the United Empire of Franks and Ice Elves, which is a position that can be equal to herself, at least in theory.

When the old queen mother let Vivian sit in the seat to her right, the old emperor's heart was melancholy and joyful, he himself did not sit in that position, but his daughter sat up, and his daughter also had the status of the eldest princess of the elven kingdom, which showed that his daughter was likely to be the first joint emperor of the two emperors to centralize power.

It should be explained here that the requirements of the two emperors of the United Empire are that one is the royal family of the Frankish Empire and the other is the eldest princess of the Elven Kingdom, and the identity of the eldest princess of the Elven Kingdom that Catherine got for Vivian makes her the only one who can inherit two thrones at the same time.

At this time, the food that came up one after another interrupted the conversation, and there was a moment of silence at the table, and the old queen mother quietly looked at Vivian's father and daughter, and Vivian and the old emperor were thinking about how to answer the old queen's questions below.

After the meal was served, the waitress led the maids to retreat quietly, and the three of them sat quietly until the old queen mother said, "Let's all eat, the rice is going to be cold." After saying that, she ate to herself.

In front of the old queen mother was a plate of chilled fruit and vegetable salad, the elven diet was more natural, they used raw vegetables and fruits as their staple food, supplemented by meat, and the years of studying in the elven kingdom were no less than suffering for Vivien.

It's raw food every day, and it's all vegetarian, it's okay in summer, and fruits and vegetables at room temperature in winter are not much better than ice cubes, so she used it for more than two years, and after paying countless stomachs, she finally got used to it. Seeing the sweet food of those elven playmates, Vivien's mouth was full of sour water, so that in the three years since she returned, she rarely touched the fruit.

The old lady is different, she likes these fresh fruits and vegetables very much, for the warmer franks, the fruit and vegetable salad at room temperature makes the old lady feel a little unnatural, so her salads are chilled.

The old emperor and Vivien each placed a large dinner plate in front of them, in which was placed a steak of about one and a half catties, fried red and black pieces of meat and splashed with black pepper sauce and tomato sauce, which made people appetite.

There are also a few home-cooked stir-fried dishes on the table, a sweet and sour fish, a plate of braised pork and a plate of small fried meat, which are still meat-based, and a plate of fried cabbage, which was placed in front of the old lady, but she only ate two bites symbolically, and stir-fried dishes like this are not her liking.

The old emperor cut the steak in front of him into 7 or 8 pieces, inserted one and threw it into his mouth and chewed it in large gulps, while Vivien cut the steak into very small pieces and savored it in small bites.

The old emperor looked like he was gobbling up, but he didn't eat fast, while Vivian ate in small bites, but he didn't eat slowly, the speed of the two was about the same, and the old emperor didn't touch the other dishes on the table at all, but Vivian would take two bites of the dishes on the table from time to time.

The two of them looked at each other in the eyes of the old queen mother, she frowned unconsciously, she put down the spoon, and said to the old emperor: "Emperor, are you taking that kind of pill again?"

The old emperor swallowed a mouthful of steak with great difficulty and said, "Grandma, that medicine is just a medicine to boost the spirits, not a poison. ”

"This medicine is not a good thing, I want to test the ingredients, you refuse, but I have tested the cup you drink water when taking the medicine, from the traces left on it, this medicine can boost your spirit, but there are also great side effects, the boosted spirit is obtained by overdrawing your mental strength, and it is also very addictive, in the long run, your vitality will also be affected, it is better not to eat." The old queen mother said with a frown.

It's just that what the old queen mother doesn't know is that this medicine not only overdraws mental power, but also overdraws vitality, but the drug that overdraws vitality is wrapped in the middle of the drug that overdraws mental power, and if you don't cut the pill directly, it can't be tested at all, and the old emperor is strict about the pill, and no one touches it at all, so that the old queen mother wants to take the pill for testing several times but can't.

"I know, I'll eat less in the future. The old emperor responded like this in his mouth, but he didn't dare to look up at the old queen mother, the old queen mother sighed lightly "hey~", and continued to eat the fruit and vegetable salad silently. Silence returned to the table.

The meal was completed in this obviously low air pressure state, except for Vivian, who seemed a little heartless, the old queen mother and the old emperor were thinking about their own business.

When the meal was removed, dessert was put on the table, but no one moved, and the old lady asked Vivien the question before the meal.

Vivien said softly: "Actually, my father and I just had a little disagreement about my marriage, and there was nothing too serious. ”

"Yes, yes, there's only a little bit of a disagreement between me and Xiaowei. After the old emperor said this, he was killed by the old queen mother's glaring and murder law.

"I also know that my father is doing this for my good, and the third son of the Linton family is indeed a very good boy, and marrying the Linton family is also good for consolidating the royal family, but I just don't feel good about that guy. Vivien's voice was a little higher.

"What do you mean by not feeling ......" The old emperor was about to reprimand Vivien, but the old queen mother's murderous eye arrived again, and the old emperor's words were left in his own throat.

The old queen mother kindly modeled Vivien's head with her hand and said: "I think when I was about the same age as you, it was the same, so many excellent elven archers and elven magicians couldn't impress me, I felt that they were too girly, without a little manhood, until Louis the Great led the army into the territory of the elven kingdom."

The tenacity of the human soldiers, their discipline, and their armor protection are far superior to the elven soldiers, and the elven soldiers are no better than humans except for bows and arrows and magic, so they lost, and they lost to the point where they needed to use the elven women and relatives, and my sisters and I were the chess pieces of the relatives, the chess pieces for Louis the Great to choose.

None of the other sisters wanted to come out and kiss, but the first time I saw Louie, I knew that this man was the man I was looking for, but unfortunately he was not an elf. ”

"So Grandma fell in love with the Emperor at first sight?" the fire of gossip in Vivi's peace of mind began to burn.

"Hehe, Louis the Great is not my good match, I only need a political marriage with him, I just felt that he was not annoying at the time, and several other sisters have made it clear that they don't want to get married, only I am left, so I sympathize with this harmony in line with the idea that even if I want a political marriage, I want to find a guy who looks more pleasing to the eye. The old queen paused and said: "As for the long time of contact with him, I found that I was really in love with Louie, so sometimes time can really change many things." ”

The old queen raised her head and stared at the roof in a daze, she should be remembering the gains and losses of her political marriage.