Chapter Eighty-Three: The Maiden and the Empress

"Where did Xiang go?" Ye Qing probed her brain, since Xiang officially appeared, she has been living in Qingzhi Fantasy Township, living next to the little girl Shi Ke, but when Ye Qing thought of her, she couldn't find her. “

"She." Ao Xuehua sighed: "Because Tina promised to sign a memorandum of cooperation with her during the day, she is now running over to discuss specific terms." ”

Ye Qing was full of black lines: "Then can I first convict her of betraying the enemy, so as to set an example?" ”

Ao Xuehua was overjoyed: "I can't ask for it, as long as you can do it, after all, she is the only master in this world, who doesn't treat her as a treasure." ”

Ye Qing covered her face: "How can there be such a childish master, she has shattered all my previous illusions about her." ”

Ao Xuehua smiled: "Actually, sometimes, it's because of her childishness that she can get to this point, why, suddenly remember that there is something wrong with her?" ”

Ye Qing pointed at himself: "Isn't tomorrow my game?" I really didn't have any confidence in the face of that monster, and I thought that she always used those strange alchemy methods to deal with ingredients, so I wanted to ask the master if there was anything I could do to hold my feet temporarily. ”

Ao Xuehua looked at Ye Qing seriously, a little incredible: "This is not like you, Xiao Jiu, you would be so obsessed with asking for help from external forces." ”

Ye Qing hung his head and was dejected: "If there is a thousandth hope, I won't be like this, okay, but I thought about it carefully, with my current strength, the chance of winning her is not even one in 10,000 Okay, fortunately, Xiang won a game in advance, and now it's just one to one, even if I lose this game, you will have you to guarantee it, after all, you are Sister Xuehua, no one in this world can really surpass you, but when I think of Sister Xuehua, you compare her with her is the best and most proficient in potions, and I instantly feel that I have lost hope in life." ”

"And." Ye Qing looked at the surrounding furnishings, almost everything in Qingzhi Gensylvania was from her planning and arrangement, and now she didn't think that she would be forced to leave just after she was done, and she was really unwilling: "If I lose, I will not only have to shut down Qingzhi Gensokyo, but also be driven back to Lanlan City, and in the future, I can only hear the news of her and my brother from afar, and I feel angry when I think about it." ”

Ao Xuehua's eyes were serious: "Could it be that Ye Qing, if you lose, are you really willing to temporarily give up your studies in the academy and return to Lanlan to be voluntarily grounded for three years?" ”

Ye Qing clenched his fists and was a little annoyed: "It's definitely not voluntary, okay, but willing to gamble and lose is the basic upbringing, I can't do anything like losing and staying here, if things are reversed, she still pesters my brother if she loses, then I will definitely laugh at her, but if it is me, even if she doesn't say a word, I will feel very uncomfortable." ”

Ao Xuehua smiled and said calmly: "Then you will try to win her, I can tell you that in the next game, I am seventy percent sure of winning my little sister, in this case, she will be the one who will be expelled from Ye Ye City, to be honest, getting along with her day and night also puts a lot of pressure on me." ”

When Ye Qing heard this, she couldn't help but tease: "I didn't expect that Sister Xue Hua was also such a person who likes the new and hates the old and abandons the old from beginning to end, don't you remember that Sister Xue Hua and her relationship used to be very good?" ”

Ao Xuehua took two steps, turned around and showed a somewhat complicated smile: "Yes, it used to be very good, to some extent even more than the relationship between you and me now, and even when I left the Oss Passage Commercial Federation, I deliberately changed my itinerary to meet her, but sometimes personal friendships are not only unhelpful, but harmful." ”

Saying this, Ao Xuehua sighed softly: "Soon after I arrived in Lanye, that time in the City of Eternal Night, the civil strife of the Clouft family finally broke out, and Tina took advantage of the defeat of the old and new factions to defeat and imprison her parents, and then met with Yi Lanshan, exchanged a series of conditions and chips for the support of the mountain lord, and used this support to gain a firm foothold in the Clouft family. ”

"And the Oss family, as a long-term ally of the Clouft family, faced with the killing of their long-time partner Douglas in civil strife, a girl who was only fourteen years old ascended to the position of head of the family through the support of Yi Lanshan, and most judgments believed that Christie was just a puppet supported by Yi Lanshan, and there was a rather loud voice inside that encouraged the empire to send an elite force as soon as possible, or completely overthrow Christie's rule, and even if it was bad, Christie would be brought under its own protection."

Ye Qing listened to this description, and stopped talking.

Ao Xuehua smiled slightly: "Yes, all the high-sounding reasons are just because the current Clouft family is weak, but they control such a fat and attractive place, as the Oss family who knows the most about Clouft and has the strongest penetration, they finally get the opportunity to annex or completely control the Clouft family in one fell swoop." ”

"My father knew that I had an old friendship with the new family, so he wrote to me to ask for my opinion, and I used all my connections and hole cards to try to suppress this voice, and made my father promise to wait and see for a while even if he missed the best opportunity."

"In this gap, on the one hand, Christie showed her invincible absolute combat power in the Heavenly City Realm, on the other hand, several Heavenly Realm powerhouses who guarded the Quartet also announced their allegiance to the new family master, and returned to the Black and White Temple to meet Christie for the first time, at the same time, rumors about her being Alayya knew also slowly spread, and little by little it was confirmed by the insider, just like that, Christie spent the most dangerous period of the first succession to the throne without danger, for this, she specially wrote a personal letter to express her gratitude to me."

"But I didn't look at it." Ao Xuehua said succinctly: "Instead, he burned the letter to ashes in front of the messenger and asked the messenger to bring the ashes back." ”

"Why?" Ye Qing asked.

"Because, in that matter, she not only deceived her parents, but also me." Ao Xuehua said calmly: "I can do my best for her interests as a former friend, but at the same time, it does not mean that I will forgive her for this matter." ”

"Moreover, many of her methods in dealing with civil strife were too cruel for me to agree with."

"However, these are not the most important places, in fact, the most important thing is because she is already the head of the Croft family, the shadow queen of the business federation."

"Just like if you become the Emperor of the Apocalypse in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, you will never be able to return to your former relationship with him, and it is the same for me, more importantly, you are only the ninth princess of Lanye, if you don't have the most unbearable situation, you have no chance of the throne, and I am different, if there is no accident, I will eventually become the first empress of the three empires, and at that time we will be even more difficult to get along."

"Between countries, any attempt to obtain concessions from the state through personal relations is an illusion, and I do not want her to have such unrealistic illusions, nor do I want myself to have such unrealistic illusions, our friendship is already fragile, and I have long been unwilling to test it."

Ye Qing wanted to speak and stopped, and after brewing for a long time, he finally slowly spoke: "Why do you have to become an emperor?" ”

Ao Xuehua was silent for a while, and then slowly turned around, her chin raised and her head bent into a wonderful arc: "It's not that I want to be." ”

"It's they need me to be."

(End of chapter)