Chapter 18: The Worries of the Crown Princess

Crown Princess Victoria and her husband, in the morning, listened carefully to Joey's experience at the Charlottenburg Palace yesterday, and after rational analysis and judgment with her husband, Princess Victoria finally accepted her husband's point of view, that is, her husband's teacher, Earl Ron, must have recommended the crown prince to the emperor on his deathbed. The emperor's appointment to a new position in the palace was the result of this recommendation.

And the trigger for this result is likely to be Joey's middle school news and the Prussian military uniform on his body.

The crown prince is optimistic about the outcome of meeting with the emperor, but the crown princess's mentality is still very cautious, after all, the emperor has exiled the crown prince in disguise for eight years, leaving an indelible impression on the crown princess's heart.

After the crown prince left, although the crown princess accepted her husband's analysis intellectually, she was still emotionally worried. As a result, when he signed the cheque for Professor Koch's grant with his private secretary, Sir Stokema, he absentmindedly agreed to Joey's request to write a new grant contract and re-sign it.

By noon, the crown prince had not returned home, which made the crown princess even more cranky, so that Joy and Sir Stockhorse went out to visit Professor Koch, and hurriedly agreed without asking.

In the afternoon, after her husband came home and told herself, the crown princess felt that she was confused in the clouds. She couldn't believe that her husband was appointed by her father-in-law as the Minister of Economy of the Empire early in the morning, and the father and son, who had not spoken for many years, actually talked in the office all morning, and the old emperor could still accept it happily, the crown prince's proposal for economic industrialization and trade liberalization, and even the crown prince was left by the emperor to eat at noon. After listening to her husband's narration, there was only one feeling left in the crown princess's heart: It's not that I don't understand, but that the world is changing fast.

When Crown Prince Frederick told the crown princess in a positive tone, the reason for the emperor's change was because Joey went to secondary school. After the Prussian dress he was wearing, the crown princess remembered the conversation Joey had had with her that morning after she had recovered from her illness.

Later, when the crown prince wanted to ask Joey for questioning, the crown princess suddenly remembered that Joey had gone out with his private secretary, and he seemed to have promised Joey in the morning to get him a new funding contract. The crown princess hurried into her study and found a copy of the sponsorship contract that Joey had placed on her desk when she went out in the afternoon.

Sir Stockhorse finally sent Joey back to the palace on Unter den Linden before dinner, and after having dinner with the family in the dining room, Joey wanted to continue to tell his sisters about the magical adventures of the boy with a lightning scar on his head, but was taken directly into the Prince's study by the Crown Prince and his wife.

"Joey, Dad received your appointment to the Emperor's grandfather's new position this morning. Dad is going to be the Empire's Minister of Economy. The crown prince said to Joey as he sat behind his desk.

"Ha, that's great! I told my mom in the morning that my father's new appointment would be good, and it would never be a bad outcome, as my mom said! Joey sat on the sofa excitedly and shouted at the crown princess beside him.

"Jojo, do you remember what you said to me the morning when you were sick?" The crown princess looked at Joey and asked.

"What's wrong, Mom?"

"Jojo, how did you come up with the idea of going to the Empire's middle school and wearing your father's clothes?"

"Mom, I've already told you why I went to middle school, and as for wearing Dad's old military uniform, it's because you haven't made me this kind of clothes..."Joey said with an innocent look on his face with his hands spread.

"No, Joey, that's not what Mom meant, I want to ask you, how do you know, you go to secondary school and wear Prussian clothes to see your grandfather, so that you can help your father." The crown princess asked with a serious face.

"This is the case," Joey struggled to organize his words while looking at his mother with a serious expression, "This is the thing, when I went to the palace last month to see Pipsqueak and Fangs hibernating, Grandpa happened to visit Earl Ron and came back, Grandpa called me over and kept asking Dad how he was doing, like what kind of work is going well, what do you usually eat, what do you usually do, and do you still cough often?" ”

"Cough!" These two words were like a bolt of lightning that struck Joey in an instant, and Joey suddenly remembered what would take the crown prince's life in the future.

Looking at Joey, who suddenly froze and didn't speak, the crown prince and his wife looked at each other in surprise, and the crown princess just wanted to speak.

Joey jumped to his feet and shouted, "Daddy, you're going to get your throat checked, right now, tomorrow, early tomorrow morning!" With that, Joey turned around and ran to the crown prince's desk and rummaged, "By the way, and Dad, you can't smoke cigars anymore, and cigarettes can't do it, I'm going to take them away." And I'm going to make a no-smoking sign for my dad and put it in the office, no one can smoke in front of you in the future! ”

"Joey, stop, what are you doing?" The crown princess stood up and shouted to stop Joey from confiscating cigars and cigarettes on her husband's desk.

"Mom, these cigars and cigarettes are not good for Dad's throat, they will want Dad's..."Joey tried to swallow back the last word, looking anxiously for another more appropriate word to express his feelings, "Mom, I went to Professor Koch's institute today, and I saw a study on the harm of tobacco to the human body. Tobacco hurts Dad's throat a lot, and now Dad coughs every day, a big reason is these things, Mom, you don't want Dad to leave us early! ”

"You're just talking gibberish, Joey, wait I'm going to punish you for your rudeness!" The crown princess glared at Joey angrily, and then looked between her husband and the cigar box in Joey's hand, and after a few turns, she asked Joey with a worried face, "Mr. Professor said that tobacco is really harmful to people's bodies, is it really great?" ”

"Yes Mom, this thing can cause lung cancer and throat cancer, and it will kill people!" Joey looked at her mother, whose face was about to turn blue again, and hurriedly remedied, "I'm not saying that Dad will get cancer, I mean that tobacco is very harmful, they are not good for Daddy's throat, for the sake of Daddy's body, Dad had better quit them!" ”

"Okay, okay, Joey cares about me too." The crown prince got up and put his arms around the crown princess, "Joey, I'll find a time to look at my throat, but not tomorrow, I still have a lot of work to hand over, as for these cigars and cigarettes, well, my throat will always feel bad when I smoke them, if I don't smoke, I won't smoke." ”

"Dad, you have to go and see it as soon as possible, you promise!"

"Okay, as soon as possible, I promise."

"Good night Mom and Dad, I'm going back upstairs." Joey nodded, then slipped out of the study with the confiscated cigar box and cigarettes.

"Wait, Jojo, you little fox!" Princess Victoria grabbed Joey's ear, "Mom's words haven't been asked, you just want to leave, ha, you just found this excuse, it's really good!" ”

"Mom, it hurts. It's really not an excuse, I'm talking about science. Joey begged for mercy.