Thousands of times, the two of them had imagined the scene of the reunion, but they didn't expect it to be in this situation, seeing Smith's somewhat stunned expression, Li Xuanji burst into tears and smiled: "Mr. Smith, you are busy, I want to talk to this gentleman alone." ”

Smith answered, instructed a waiter to take the two to a special reception room, and then walked back and thought, "Could it be that the way we brew tea is really wrong, that's why that gentleman didn't drink Da Hong Pao?" ”

The reception rooms at the Recha Hotel are luxurious, with European furniture and a small self-service bar. Standing at the bar counter, Li Xuanji suppressed the impulse in her heart and asked softly, "Your Highness, what do you want to drink?" ”

Xiao Yungui approached the counter, but Li Xuanji unconsciously took a step back, but Xiao Yungui took two goblets and a bottle of brandy, and said lightly: "Are you so afraid of me?" Mrs. Rothschild. ”

When Li Xuanji heard the words of Mrs. Rothschild, her delicate body trembled slightly, turned around and said faintly: "I'm afraid that I can't control myself if I'm too close to you, His Royal Highness the King of the West." ”

Xiao Yungui sat back on the sofa, and after arriving at two glasses of brandy, he drank his cup down, and then sighed lightly and asked, "Is he good to you?" ”

Li Xuanji also sat opposite him, but he didn't lift the wine glass, but just hummed softly and said, "He is very good to me." ”

followed by a long period of silence between the two, and finally Xiao Yungui mustered up the courage to interrupt the silence: "Xuanji, I want you to come back to me!" ”

"Impossible, I'm already someone else's wife......"

"But don't you love him?"

"He's my husband!"

"You're deceiving yourself!"

"What's the point of saying that now?"

After a period of intense self-talk between the two. There was silence again, and then Xiao Yungui broke the silence: "Your brother was captured by us, and now he is in Shanghai." I think you can meet him. ”

"Thank you......" Li Xuanji lowered her head and said softly: "I can only see him, and I can't ask for anything else, right?" ”

Xiao Yungui hummed and said: "As a Han man, he aided and abused him, and did a lot of wrong things, I can't let him go for personal gain, he will accept the court's trial." ”

Li Xuanji breathed a sigh of relief and hummed softly: "That's fine." If you are really favoritism, I don't know how to repay your favor. ”

Xiao Yungui stood up suddenly, grabbed Li Xuanji's jade hand and said loudly, "As long as you come back to me." I can show favoritism, I can let your brother go! ”

Li Xuanji shrank back in some panic, but she couldn't open Xiao Yungui's big hand, looked at him sadly and said, "How can you be in a high position because of private affairs?" As an emperor. Do not raise up troops out of anger. Don't be trapped in love, I don't want you to be favoritistic, you must know that it is difficult to recover, why do you bother to trouble? ”

Xiao Yungui pulled Li Xuanji into his arms and said lightly: "I will reign in the world in the future, the earth is under my feet, the wind and clouds change color because of me, and everything in the world is up to me." So I'll always have the people I like around! ”

"It is precisely because you are the king of the west of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and because you will reign over the world in the future. It is precisely because you will control the world in the future that I will never be able to stay with you! Li Xuanji suddenly broke free and said with tears in her eyes: "How can the emperor have true love? Now that Clifford is at least single-minded with me, what can you give me? What about the West Princess? What did she do? What about the kingdom of heaven? Will you completely offend Clifford's family for me? The Heavenly Kingdom is in trouble because of this! You are the king of the west of the kingdom of heaven, not alone! That's why I left in the first place, and it's still for this reason now, unless you give up the throne of the King of the West, I can fly away with you! Can you give up the throne of the West King?! ”

Xiao Yungui let go of his hand in a daze, sat back on the sofa in a daze, and looked at Li Xuanji for a long time before saying, "Then what are you doing when you come back?" ”

Li Xuanji sighed lightly and said faintly: "This is my homeland, of course I want to come back and see, His Royal Highness the King of the West, don't you also need your approval." ”

Xiao Yungui was very depressed and lit a small knife brand cigarette, took a hard puff and said, "Do you need my help?" ”

Li Xuanji slowly shook her head and said, "I'm very happy that you can let me see my brother, thank you." ”

Xiao Yungui violently snuffed out the cigarette butt, and still said unwillingly: "Xuanji, is it really irreparable?" ”

The tears in Li Xuanji's bright eyes were like glittering pearls, and she smiled with tears in her eyes: "You continue to be your king of the west, and I will be my Rothschild lady, since fate has been arranged in this way, why bother mediocrity?" Even if you are in a high position in the future, you will find that many things are not really arbitrary, so why not stop there? Wouldn't it be better to keep each other deep in their hearts? ”

After drinking a large cup of brandy, Xiao Yungui felt that the effect of wine was so beautiful at this moment, after drinking a large glass of brandy, he slowly stood up, stretched out his right hand and said: "Madam, I will do my best to arrange for you to meet your brother, and I will have someone come to pick you up when the time comes, I wish you happiness." After that, he turned around and took a big stride and walked away without looking back, leaving Li Xuanji with her hands around her arms, tears gushing down like a spring, biting her red lips but seeing the red blood flowing down.

After leaving the Licha Hotel, Xiao Yungui didn't know how he returned to the Xiwang Courtyard in Shanghai, and then he got drunk, and after waking up, he took a cold shower, and then came to his senses and laughed secretly: "Xiao Yungui, Xiao Yungui, you are not a love saint, why do you have the trouble of a love saint?" As Xuanji said, how can you get love if you can't let go of power? Is it worth it for you to be a woman? ”

On the third day, Xiao Yungui arranged for someone to pick up Li Xuanji to meet Li Chong in the Shanghai prisoner of war camp, and Li Xuanji happily went. The Shanghai prisoner of war camp held dozens of high-ranking Qing army generals, and the rest also had hundreds of ordinary Qing prisoners of war, all of whom were diehards who were unwilling to surrender.

In the reception room of the prisoner of war camp. Li Xuanji saw Li Chong, who was dressed in prison uniform, his hands and feet were wearing heavy shackles, and his braids had been cut off. The front head began to grow inches of hair after not shaving for a long time, and the beard had not been shaved for a long time, although the whole person looked very haggard, but at least the limbs were sound, and there was no sign of being abused.

"Brother, are you okay?" When Li Xuanji saw his brother's appearance, no matter how angry he was with his brother, he disappeared.

Li Zhong smiled bitterly. Raising the heavy shackles on his hand, he said, "How good can the prisoner under the stairs be?" Just waiting for when to pull it out and cut off the head. ”

Li Xuanji couldn't help but shed tears: "I knew why bother today, my father and mother were killed by the Qing army." You are aiding and abetting, no wonder there is such an end. ”

Li Chong raised his head, still unruly and sneered: "Are you here to laugh at me?" Are you filial to your father? Filial piety to your father and mother will not marry a foreign devil! You won't watch your eldest brother get beheaded by long hair! Then our Li family will be extinct! ”

Li Xuanji just wept and said: "You say this and you have never repented so far, you think you have ended up like this." Will my heart be better as a sister? ”

Li Zhong sneered: "You wish your eldest brother died." Anyway, the last of your relatives in this world is gone, and you can do whatever you want. ”

Li Xuanji said with some annoyance: "Big brother, how can you say that?!" ”

Li Chong snorted and said, "How can I say it if I don't say that?" Will you still save me? If not, don't teach me a lesson here! ”

Li Xuanji looked at Li Chong in a daze and was speechless, how could the former gentle eldest brother become like this? After a long time, Li Xuanji sighed lightly and said, "I can't save you, you can do it yourself." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave, Li Chong hurriedly said: "Sister, what the eldest brother said just now was a little heavier." Don't go. ”

Li Xuanji said lightly: "If there is any wish that has not been fulfilled, I can do it for you." ”

Li Chong cried and said with a sad face: "Big sister." Are you really just watching your brother die? Then Li Chong's face was full of anticipation and pleading: "Eldest sister, I heard that your father-in-law is a big man in Britain, and you let him save Brother, it's really not good, isn't the King of Taiping Xi also your old friend?" You go and beg him, but if it doesn't work, you can stay with him for a few nights, maybe you can ......"

Speaking of this, only hearing a snap, Li Xuanji angrily slapped Li Chong, and then said loudly: "You are still not human, you actually said such a thing!" I don't have a brother like you! With that, he turned around and brushed his sleeves away.

Walking out of the prisoner of war camp, Li Xuanji walked to the foot of the wall and couldn't support it anymore, leaning against the wall to hide his face and crying, the distress of the king of the west and the disappointment of the eldest brother welled up in his heart together, and tears poured out, as if he wanted to cry out the sorrow of the past few days.

At this moment, a carriage stopped on the side of the road, and a person walked down, handed over a piece of silk, and said softly: "Are there any grievances?" ”

Li Xuanji raised her head and was slightly startled, but this person was her husband Clifford, and women always wanted to find a shoulder at such a time, so she leaned on her husband's arm and cried loudly.

Clifford gently hugged his wife, did not persuade anything, just quietly hugged her, and waited for her crying to gradually stop before saying softly: "Don't worry, I know that your brother has become a prisoner of the Taiping army, and I will rescue him." ”

Li Xuanji sighed softly, sobbing and said, "Clifford, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not agree, you don't have to ......"

Clifford smiled slightly and said: "The King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has agreed, I will pay a ransom, I came here today to go through some formalities, you take the car back first, I will bring your brother back later." ”

Although Li Xuanji hated his eldest brother, but that person was still his eldest brother after all, he hesitated for a moment and nodded, only then did Li Xuanji realize that there was a person standing next to Clifford, but it was the Consul of the British Consulate.

Ali Guo bowed slightly to Li Xuanji, Li Xuanji replied with a red face and gave a lady's salute, and then got into the carriage and went back to the Licha Hotel first.

Watching the carriage leave, Ali Guo stood beside Clifford and whispered: "I didn't expect that the person in the north who asked us to save was Madame's own brother, but I couldn't figure out that one brother was from the Qing Kingdom, and the other sister joined the Taiping Army. ”

Clifford smiled slightly and said: "In the words of the Chinese, this is the favor of the water, as for the different factions are normal, I heard that the consul's wife also believes in Islam rather than Christian?" ”

Ali Guo smiled dumbly and said, "Let's go, go through the formalities for our Mr. Li to be released from prison, your wife is still waiting for the reunion of her relatives......" (to be continued......