Ps. Thank you for the tip, ArthorSW, your support is my motivation.

At the dinner party in the Princess's Palace, Joey finally heard the anecdote of the visiting Russian guests.

At the dinner table, William spoke to his mother and younger siblings, as well as to Aunt Anne's family, and his nephews, Stolin and Mr. Parsons, about what he had seen and heard at Charlottenburg Palace today.

Now William's personality is becoming more and more extroverted, and he always shows extraordinary enthusiasm and activity in front of his parents, siblings, and guests who live in the palace, and especially likes to talk endlessly.

Compared with the previous indifference, William's performance is now accepted by the crown prince and his wife, but sometimes, his way of expressing himself that makes it difficult for others to interject, and whether he jumps out of the desire to dominate, still makes it difficult for others to adapt.

However, William's conversation tonight, supplemented by Crown Prince Frederick, who was also an eyewitness, was very lively and approachable.

"Willy, you say he actually tipped the servants of Charlottenburg, and it was a tip of 10 marks?" Crown Prince Victoria asked his eldest son in surprise.

"Mom, the 10 mark tip is true! I swear to God! William swore an oath.

"Yes, Wiki, I saw with my own eyes that there is 1 Imperial Golden Mark, and there is also 10 Marks, which is a tip in two denominations, which is really extravagant." Crown Prince Frederick chimed in and added.

"Yes, mother, and more than that, he also gave a lot of precious stones to the ladies of Charlottenburg Palace, and the maids got some fine stones, and those ladies of status got some decent jewelry." William turned to the attentive audience at the table and continued, "It seems to me that these decent jewels are not cheap. ”

Hearing this, the ladies present all exclaimed, while the men were quite embarrassed.

The onslaught of the wealthy Grand Duke Sergei was not over, and William threw another bomb, "He actually gave my empress grandmother a necklace full of diamonds on behalf of the Romanov family, I don't know how to describe this necklace." ”

William thought for a moment, and then affirmed, "At least at the ball in Berlin, we haven't seen that noble lady wearing a similar diamond necklace. ”

"Oh my God!" Crown Princess Victoria's heart finally couldn't hold on, and the first exclamation was followed by a series of exclamations.

This news is too expensive, and none of the ladies here can withstand the test of these shining stones. Even Joey's two younger sisters, who knew what diamonds were, showed a hunger for the hardest of stones.

Fortunately, Joey, who came from later generations, saw more artificial crystals and artificial diamonds, and his immunity to sparkling stones was a little higher, so he broke this embarrassing scene at the beginning.

"Dad, since Russia is so rich? Why do you still raise a dozen rubles for a metric ton of wheat and turn your face with us? Joey asked his father, confused.

"The Romanovs are an ancient family, their ancestors have been nobles in Russia for thousands of years, and they have ruled Russia for more than two hundred years, and it is only natural that they have amassed such a huge wealth." Crown Prince Frederick hesitated for a moment and continued.

"Anyone other than the Romansovs, well, let's put it this way, more than twenty years ago, in the eyes of the former tsars, there was only a difference between nobles and serfs in Russia."

"However, no matter how rich you are, you can't spend it like this!" Joey's Aunt Anne said dissatisfied.

"That is, such a rich royal family should repay the bottom society of Russia with charity, instead of spending money like this, something will happen sooner or later if it goes on like this." Princess Victoria also agreed with Aunt Anne.

"Mom, I heard from the Russians that these gems are common in Russia, and in their land there are countless of them. Even, Sergey that .... Belch! Wilhelm tried not to let his swear words come out, and after a sigh of relief, he continued, "Sergei said that these gems are not worth anything at all to the Russian aristocracy, but we people regard them as treasures. ”

"So rich, no wonder our British government wants to fight the Russians, if you can pick up gems in the land of the Russians, I also support our government to beat the Russians! These riches should be in the hands of civilized people. Dreyer said without a big deal.

"That's right, Dirk, you have a point, you can take me to be an accountant if you want to go, I promise not to miss a single gem." Stallin echoed.

"Dirk, Thomas, you two little war maniacs, don't meddle." Dreyer's sister, Joey's Elizabeth teacher, interrupted her brother and the student's nonsense angrily.

"The Russians have a lot of gem resources, and indeed they have the confidence to do so." Crown Prince Frederick explained to his wife, children and friends from a professional point of view.

"However, I think science is the real gemstone, and compared to science, I believe that diamond is only a substance after all, and gemstones can definitely be made with science, and science is more precious." Mr. Parsons's words were addressed to the whole table, but his face was always looking at the beautiful Miss Elizabeth.

Teacher Elizabeth still treated Mr. Parsons with a cold expression, "Oh, at least that's after the use of science to synthesize diamonds, but I don't remember who has this technology now, is Mr. Parsons not building ships and is going to change to diamonds?" ”

It was rare for his dream lover Elizabeth to talk so much to him, and Mr. Parsons's mind suddenly heated, and he said, "Yes, I must make a diamond to propose to you!" ”

"Click!" Joey suddenly felt a crack in his dream of ship power.

"Don't, build the speedboat first, and then consider artificial diamonds!" Joey couldn't help but interject, "Mr. Parsons, you have to have a minimum bottom line!" ”

Hearing Joey talk about the "bottom line" once, everyone at the table, even Aunt Anne and Dreyer, laughed, everyone knew that Mr. Parsons pursued the bottom line of Teacher Elizabeth, but there was no bottom line.

At first, Miss Elizabeth couldn't sit still, and after saying sorry, she hurried out of the dining room, and then Mr. Parsons followed suit.

When the guests had almost left, Joey suddenly asked William a strange question:

"Willie, you're going to Charlottenburg Palace by yourself today, right?"

"I went with my father, what's wrong, Jojo?" William couldn't figure out what his brother wanted to ask him.

"Did Cousin Elizabeth go?" Joey asked.

"No, you know, Ella lives in Sanssouci now." William was even more strange, and almost blurted out, "Let Elizabeth live in Sanssouci Palace, and avoid Sergei, the gray animal, or Jojo, your idea." ”

"Sergey didn't say, do you want to see Cousin Elizabeth?" Joey continued to ask.

"Oh, that's right, he knew that I was in love with Elizabeth, congratulated me in person, and asked why I didn't come, and I told him that Elizabeth was in Sanssouci Palace, and he couldn't make it." William replied honestly.

"Oh!" Joey tilted his head back exaggeratedly and groaned in pain.

"Jojo, what's wrong, what's wrong?" William looked at Joey even more confused.

With the keen intuition of being a mother, Princess Victoria was the first to wake up, looked at her eldest son with a look of pity, and said, "Willy, Jojo probably means that he is worried about Sergei and is going to Sanssouci Palace to see Elizabeth, you have to cheer up." ”

"Huh?!" William's face instantly changed from dazed to annoyed, clenched his fists and said angrily, "This guy actually tricked me!" ”

"Well, this guy gives a tip of a gold mark when he sees someone, a gem to a maid, and a jewel to the nobles, which in itself has no good intentions." Joey added, then turned to his father and asked, "Dad, what do you think Sergei looks like compared to Willy?" ”

Crown Prince Frederick looked at his angry son, thought for a while, and said, "This doesn't need to be asked, of course my eldest son is more handsome, but Grand Duke Sergei is also good-looking." ”

Joey nodded and said, "Willy, Sergei is playing with the handsome Prince Charming, giving gems and jewelry to the ladies of Charlottenburg Palace just so that they can say good things about him in front of Cousin Ella, including those who give huge tips to the attendants. ”

Then he comforted William and said, "Willy, in fact, you don't have to blame yourself, these silver bullets, even if you don't say where Cousin Elizabeth is, he will know, someone will always tell him." ”

"What should I do?!" William asked anxiously.

Joey just wanted to make an idea for William, but was stopped by his mother's gaze, and as Princess Victoria signaled, Joey noticed that there were two younger sisters around him who were listening attentively, and Joey wisely shut up quickly, not preparing to poison his two younger sisters.

Sophie and Margaret are both clever little clevers, and they immediately realize that they will never hear that Joey's brother is going to come up with some "good" idea to defeat the bad guys, and in disappointment, the two clever ghosts decide to punish their brother.

"Mom, now Jojo remembers to write to Mary and tell stories, but she is always making excuses for our bedtime stories!" Sophie immediately raised her little hand and complained to her mother.

"That's right, Mom, he wrote the second part of the story for Mary, and the story he told us is still in the first part!" Margaret shook her blonde head and said not to be outdone.

"Joey, he's eccentric!" Sophie and Margaret complained angrily.

The accusation of the two little clevers made the anxious William couldn't help laughing, and Crown Prince Frederick shook his head helplessly.

The crown princess looked at Joey with a stunned look, smiled slightly in her heart, and then said seriously, "Jojo, you must put your sisters and Mary on the same level and treat them fairly, you must tell your sister bedtime stories, and you must be as fast as Mary." ”

After that, he looked at his two little daughters with love on his face, and said softly, "Sweethearts, if Qiaoqiao can't do this well, his mother will ban his feet, okay?" ”

"Oh, grounding, well, you two little ones won!" Hearing this, Joey reluctantly admitted defeat.

Dinner was soon over, and before Joy could discuss with William, Crown Prince Frederick asked Joy to wait for him to come down to the study, and Joy knew that his father also had something to hear from him.