() Liuxi, like Baiyuan, is a spoiled child, they will never take care of their own feelings, they are self-centered, and never consider the feelings of others. They have become accustomed to being pampered and accustomed to others being submissive to them.

As long as this kind of person has a slight disappointment, he will only feel that others are sorry for him, and he will never reflect on what is wrong with his behavior. Just like Liuxi in front of her, she didn't realize that there was anything wrong with what she was doing.

However, Liuxi is just a special case, and generally women who are spoiled by the family will not be like her! So after living two things, Liu Xi couldn't understand how the Guliu clan raised her, and what things had they taught her in the past ten years?

Liu Xi is still the young patriarch of the Guliu clan, can she afford the weight of a clan? Aren't you afraid of harming your people?

Gui Yi shook her head, forget it, it's none of her business anyway, as long as she doesn't come to harm His Royal Highness and the Gui clan, then she has nothing to do with herself if she is a scourge of the world.

The atmosphere was even more awkward and heavy in the silence.

Or Bai Zhen thoughtfully broke the silence, "Since you are here, why don't you accompany me in the next game." ”

Liu Xi breathed a sigh of relief and shook his head again and again, "Your Highness is superb in chess, I will lose every time I play chess with you, and I lose very badly, I am not your opponent, I always lose when I play chess with you, the most boring!" ”

Gui Yi looked at Liu Xi, and then at Bai Jin. It seems that this is when she is away, maybe this is how the two of them get along. However, in her impression, His Royal Highness is a humble gentleman, so he shouldn't let Liu Xi lose too ugly, right? Could it be that Liu Xi's chess skills are so bad that he can't even win if others deliberately give in?

Think about the previous life, Liu Xi always played tricks when he played chess with His Royal Highness, and His Royal Highness would always try his best to let her win. Could it be that Liuxi's chess skills are worse in this life?

For Liu Xi's words, Bai Zhen smiled, he looked at Guiyi, "Then the young god will accompany me in the next game, right?" ”

Of course, Guiyi will not refuse. Originally, she planned to come in and take a look, leave Liu Xi by mistake, but seeing that Liu Xi was talking so disproportionately, Gui Yi was reluctant to leave her behind.

She took the initiative to take the white chess piece and motioned to Bai Zhen to take the black piece first. She played chess seriously while looking at the person opposite. Seeing that he had lost some weight again, but his spirit seemed to be good, Gui Yi was a lot more relieved.

Liuxi stood aside and watched them play chess, at first she could still understand it, but then she became more and more incomprehensible. In the end, she got bored and went to pick flowers by herself.

After she picked flowers, made a few garlands, and caught a few butterflies, Gui Yi and Bai Jin were still playing chess without fear.

So boring!

She was so bored that she ran to the stone table to watch the chess again, but she still didn't understand. But it doesn't matter if she doesn't understand chess, she can see the faces of the two. She knew Bai Jin's chess skills, but Liu Xi didn't expect that Gui Yi was still calm, and she didn't seem to lose to Bai Jin at all, she looked at it with a feeling of meeting an opponent.

When Liu Xi was lying on the table and was about to fall asleep, he heard Bai Jin's warm voice sound.

"You won, and you will bow down."

"But I only won half a son and I conceded it." The way that I don't care. If it weren't for Bai Jin's obvious uneasiness in his heart, he wouldn't have lost to himself.

"We've been here for a long time, and we're going back, if Your Highness has something, you can send someone to find me." Gui Yi left this sentence and took Liu Xi to leave.

Bai Jin looked at her distant figure, and reached out to hold the string of beads on her wrist and rubbed gently. That was what Gui Yi wanted to give to him when they first met, and finally gave it to himself as a gift at last year's Shangsi Festival.

Bai Jin will always remember that she said that it was carved by her own hands, and she personally prayed for the white jade beads that she had been offering for several years. After he got engaged to Liuxi, he had already put away the hairpin that Gui Yi had given him, and he had never worn it again, only this plain bead had been worn.

Soon after Guiyi and Liuxi left, the guards around the water hall were also removed. It's just that on the day of the Shangsi Festival, when Angelica was standing on the high platform, he did not find the figure of Bai Jin in the crowd below.

She knew that this was a warning from the king to her, and it was a blow to her. Bai Jin, as a prince, did not appear on such important festivals and occasions, which was extremely unfavorable and disgraceful to him, but Bai Jin and Gui Yi did not take this matter to heart.

Because Baiyin didn't care much about Baijin's face before, and Baijin has forbearance and retreat for so many years, outsiders can only see the light of the Second Highness's Baiyuan, and they can't see Baijin's existence at all, so he doesn't care about this loss.

For Guiyi, face is a small matter, and things related to the life of the family are big things.

Two days after the festival, the queen found the king and made a message to the king. He said that last year, natural disasters were frequent in various places, and the people were suffering, and they should take advantage of the fact that shortly after the Shangsi Festival, they should send people to the disaster-stricken places to pray for the blessings of the people.

Wang Shang nodded with satisfaction, feeling that this was necessary. It should be that last year's natural disasters were quite serious, and there were many deaths and injuries among civilians and slaves, coupled with the poor harvest and rampant diseases, and the people's hearts were somewhat unstable.

"You can arrange this. By the way, bring food and medicinal herbs and the like, and find some people who know how to heal to bring them together. The king paced a few steps in the hall, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "In addition, this year's tax will be reduced by 20%, and this order will be brought with you when you send someone to pray for blessings." ”

"Your Majesty, you can't!" Ruan Tianyou couldn't sit still at this time.

Twenty percent of the tax is not a small amount, if she expected it to be good, the vassal states that have been affected by the disaster this year will cry poor by then, and the royal court will receive less tribute than in previous years. And the royal court has been fighting small wars in recent years, and the flowers have flowed out like water. The king obviously will not wronged himself, who will fill this big hole in the end? And not the vassal states that were not affected, or the powerful vassal states. And these two Nguyen countries are occupied!

The country of Nguyen has a queen, and the annual tribute is the most among all the vassal states, if the tribute is increased, then the country of Nguyen will also be greatly affected, and then the country of Nguyen is too busy to take care of itself, how can it be used by her?

"Why not?" Baiyin frowned in displeasure.

"Reducing the tax by 20% will inevitably increase the burden on the other vassal states in the future, and in the long run the vassal states will not be able to bear it, so why should the king offend the powerful vassal states for the sake of some untouchables?"

Although Baiyin knew that the queen's words were selfish, he still listened to her words and thought that there was still some truth. However, this tax still needs to be reduced, and the most important thing now is to stabilize the people's hearts and appease the grievances of those people.

"Don't worry, I won't embarrass my courtiers." Wang Shangdao.

"What does the king mean......" Ruan Tianyou asked tentatively.