Chapter 129: The Old Emperor's Hidden Worries
"Poof~!" Sherlock almost didn't choke to death by Lei Luo's words, you lack virtue or virtue!
"Eat slowly, eat slowly!" Lei Luo immediately patted her on the back and handed her a cup of tea and said, "Drink some water!" β
"Ahem, cough, I said Lei Luo, I really doubt that you are the son of Marshal Thunder, why are you also a nobleman, why do you sometimes have no gentlemanly demeanor?" Sherlock said coughing.
"Can gentlemanly demeanor be eaten as a meal?" Lei Luo immediately asked: "If you can still chew and swallow so carefully and slowly after being hungry for three days and three nights, I will recognize you as the eldest sister!" β
Sherlock stopped talking.
But Katyusha could clearly hear Lei Luo's sarcasm, and she couldn't help but feel unconvinced: "You said as if you have experienced it?" β
Lei Luo swallowed the food in his mouth, and then said, "Have you ever been to a no-man's star?" β
"What kind of unmanned star?" You must know that some mineral planets are also uninhabited, but there are still extremely rare human beings living on them, which are used to operate robot mining.
"I was once left by my father on a desert planet!" Lei Luo paused and said: "Although there is no human civilization on it, there are many fierce beasts and plants, and the environment is extremely bad, I heard that the planet contains extremely high sand gold, but you also know that gold is not worth much in Titan, so no one goes to mine it." β
Lei Luo's tone seemed to be reminiscing, and it was like telling a story: "He threw me on that planet and said he wanted to hone me, but he didn't give me food and told me to find it myself!" β
"Oh my God, your father is so ruthless!" Sherlock couldn't help but ask.
Lei Luo looked at her and said, "He's done even more ruthless things, but you don't know it." But it was also forced by him that I was able to grow up quickly. Okay, don't say much, just tell you that I ate everything at that time, how can it be so cool at that time, there is the right to eat if you want, and not to eat and pull down! Eat it or starve to death, I've even chewed on the grassroots! Lei Luo smiled and said: "So people only cherish what they have lost, just like me, I cherish this delicacy the most now!" β
As he spoke, he actually grabbed a bowl of vegetables and ate them.
Maybe it was because of his extremely bland narration, but it made people fantasize about the hardships, and everyone was even more silent, and Katyusha actually gritted her teeth, and picked up the tableware again and began to learn to eat with his hula la.
For a while, the sound of chewing and the clanging of tableware echoed in front of the entire dining table, but it made people feel a warmth rising from their hearts.
Lei Luo saw it in his eyes, and his heart was slightly moved, but he laughed out loud: "That's right, but I was teasing you just now, how could I be so miserable, I'm just trying to trick you into losing your temperance!" β
"Everyone ignored him, Lei Luo's strength is the proof of what he said, do you believe that what he just said was a lie?" I don't believe it, and neither do any of you here.
Even Katyusha raised her drink glass to him with adoring eyes: "To you! β
Bite~! Lei Luo happily raised his glass and touched the cup, then took a sip and said, "Thank you!" β
He didn't seem to notice that Katyusha's eyes had changed when he looked at him, and if everyone was just polite before, there was a hint of appreciation and curiosity in his eyes when he looked at him first. Once a woman has curiosity about a man, it is likely to be the beginning of her emotional decline.
Princess Claire sat beside the old emperor with an expressionless face, and the old emperor was elegantly eating the curry rice on his plate, but found that Her Royal Highness the princess didn't seem to move a few times, and he couldn't help but look at her: "Have you been in for so long, you still don't know the preciousness of the food in front of you?" Waste is a shame! β
Princess Claire didn't speak, she began to bow her head and spoon to deliver food to her mouth, like a robot, without graceful movements, only swallowing without ladylike demeanor. It seemed to be a silent vent, and she did not have the graceful skilfulness that she once showed in front of everyone, but instead ate the contents of her plate like a vulgar tramp, and did not even mind the gobbling sound that came from herself.
This kind of resistance without words did not affect the old emperor's mood, and even he was in a good mood to look at her indecent eating appearance, and nodded with satisfaction.
Soon the curry rice on Princess Claire's plate had been eaten, and Her Royal Highness actually put down the cutlery, picked up the plate, and began to stick out her tongue and lick it on the plate, licking the bottom of the last plate. Everything was over in five minutes, and Her Royal Highness wiped her mouth with a napkin and said, "Satisfied, right?" β
The old emperor frowned slightly.
"I'm done, let's go first!" Princess Claire stood up as she spoke, bowing expressionlessly and retiring.
"Stop!" The old emperor grabbed her arm, and then shouted: "Sit down!" β
The princess looked at him coldly and did not speak, and then sat back in her seat. After she sat down, the old emperor let go of his hand, and then hastily ate a few bites of food, and then motioned to the attendants to remove the food, and then said to Princess Claire: "You hate me? β
The princess didn't speak, just looked at him with a blank face, and it seemed that she had decided to vent her frustration with this.
Who knew that the old emperor still had the appearance of hiding a knife in his smile: "What right do you have to hate me?" β
The princess trembled, and thought in her heart, yes, what qualifications do I have, even if it is the princess of the empire, the person in front of me can still decide her life and death in one breath, and what is the use of fighting like this? The emperor of the empire may not be able to easily decide on the appointment or dismissal of an important minister, but he can decide anything within the imperial family, even the death of the emperor!
"Remember, you don't have the highest authority, don't put on your arrogant face, because you don't deserve it!" The old emperor smiled, but the words in his mouth were full of sarcasm and murderous intent: "What is the difference between fighting against me and challenging my patience now, and waiting for death in the dungeon?" β
Her Royal Highness opened her mouth, and then said nothing, but her demeanor became weak, and she even leaned back in her chair. After being silent for a long time, she suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly: "Does Grandpa Huang like to destroy your children and grandchildren like this?" β
"I have many descendants!" The old emperor's words pierced Princess Claire's heart like a sharp knife, yes, the old emperor has three sons, five daughters, and there are many grandchildren, how can he send one of himself.
"But you're the one I think will be the most promising!" This comment penetrated into the princess's heart like a heavenly sound.
Princess Claire looked up at him incredulously, thinking she was hallucinating.
"You must be wondering, why do I think so highly of you and torture you like this?" The old emperor paused and said, "Don't you think that hurt is also a kind of love?" β
Princess Claire said: "It is undeniable that I have understood a lot of things and learned a lot during this time! β
"What can you experience, betrayal, deception, and killing, but isn't that what an emperor must go through?" The old emperor said.
"Grandpa, you're going to let me" Princess Claire felt incredulous, and she looked at this relative, an old man in his twilight years, a seemingly faint emperor.
"I have already sent someone to ask your father to write an edict of abdication, and it won't be long before the people of the entire empire will know that your princess Claire, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, will become my first heir in line in the name of the imperial grandson!"
Princess Claire shuddered for a moment, but she didn't react much, in fact, she had already vaguely felt that the old emperor had a purpose in hurting herself like this, and it was likely that she would inherit her father's career, but she still had more of a self-deceptive fantasy, hoping to stay away from this swamp, but now it has been proved that everything is impossible.
"The reason why I asked people to play a bitter trick for you is to tell you that you should know your responsibility." The old emperor paused, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and threw it to the attendant behind him, and then continued: "Life is not a fairy tale, and you are not a princess in a fairy tale world, you will not have a prince on a white horse to save you, you can only rely on yourself!" β
"I'm just teaching you to look at things from a different perspective, and people are kind and often selfish at the same time. Your connivance with others is likely to cause more damage! β
"Maybe these people really died for you today, then have you ever thought about how many people have died for you before them, do you think about whether the person who assassinated you died for you, and whether the person who protected you died for you, in a word, you have no ability to protect yourself, it will only make more people die for you!"
"Your seemingly kind gesture has only caused more deaths!" The old emperor said and smiled: "Your third uncle seems to have the advantage step by step, but he is ambitious and talented!" β
"He chose the wrong camp in the first place!" The old emperor sneered: "Who does he think he wants to be the second Tobi Son (the prince who staged the coup d'Γ©tat more than two hundred years ago)?" It was a dream, and Tobia was able to succeed because of his proximity to many of the military generals, and he had the support of the military, so that he could launch an attack on the Arda people in flagrant violation of the orders of the emperor. But he was really doomed to fail because a woman lost the support of the military, and even formed an anti-eye! β
"And your third uncle, that idiot, actually took refuge in the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the beginning, he doesn't know that the military and the Ministry of Finance have always been at odds, just because his blatant statement has made at least half of the soldiers resist and disgust him, but he himself is still in his bones!" Although the old emperor's eyes were very yellow, his spirit at this moment told Princess Claire that the person in front of him was still the emperor of the empire's pacification of the coup, a wise old man!