Fourth, the East Palace and the West Palace (6)
"You're so polite," Benjamin said with a stern expression, his eyes expressionless, "but I think my article is fair." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"As long as the article is written by people, there is no absolute justice," the Queen Mother took a glass of champagne, smelled it, and took a sip of joy, "Anyone has a position, including you and me, to write with prejudice or arrogance, there will be no justice, Prime Minister William, you say, isn't it?" ”
Benjamin's thick eyebrows were raised high, and he glanced at the Empress Dowager Cixi fiercely, but he did not continue to speak, but just bent down and bowed and left.
Gao Xinkui and others, who were still wearing Chinese clothes, were left out in the cold at the table and no one cared, Guo Songtao is an ambassador, he knows a lot of people, and someone can come to say hello, Qinghai and others were originally going abroad for the first time, they have seen such a scene there, trembling and shrinking here like quails, Tang Wufu's legs trembled, "Lord Qinghai, look at these foreign women, they are all bare-chested and exposed, they are really not ashamed!" ”
"You don't care about those people," Qinghai trembled and picked up a goblet, a countess was quite interested in the peacock feathers behind Qing Hai's head, came over and said a few words to Guo Songtao, and winked at Qinghai again.
The Queen Mother talked and laughed freely in the crowd, drank a lot of champagne, and made an appointment with several counts and dukes to watch "Hamlet" together for a few days, and then have afternoon tea together. When another young viscount invited the Queen Mother to hunt together at his villa in Oxford, the protocol officer stamped his cane again, "Her Majesty has arrived!" ”
The band played an impassioned overture, everyone put down their wine glasses, and looked towards the foyer, a middle-aged woman wearing a long white silk dress, a shiny crown on her head, and a blue ribbon hanging diagonally, she gestured to the people around her as she walked, the man bowed, the woman unfolded her skirt and curtsy, Edward accompanied her, and walked to the middle, she looked towards the Empress Dowager Cixi.
The Queen Mother handed the wine glass in her hand to the people beside her, took a deep breath, walked slowly to Queen Victoria, also pulled up the hem of her skirt slightly with both hands, and curtsied, "Your Royal Highness the Queen, the Queen Mother of China from the Far East, greetings to you." ”
Qinghai looked angry in the corner, his eyes were bloodshot, "Nonsense! He roared and was about to step forward to stop him, but was stopped by Guo Songtao, who desperately pulled back, "My lord, what are you going to do!" ”
"The British are too rude! My Qing Dynasty and England are equal countries, why do we have to bow alone? The Queen Mother is so polite, but the Queen of England has no reaction, arrogant and rude, it's really impossible! Qing Haiqi's beard was cocked, "This matter is reported back to China, I don't know how many people are going to kill us and then quickly!" Insulting to the country! ”
"My lord," Guo Songtao desperately stopped, and Gao Xinkui just silently watched the performance of the two people in the court, Queen Victoria received a gift from the Empress Dowager Cixi, quite pleased, nodded, and invited the Empress Dowager Cixi to the side, the two were talking something, the Empress Dowager Cixi was full of smiles, and Queen Victoria was still very arrogant, and from time to time she just nodded to indicate that she heard.
"It's not a pity for me to die, blood is splashed, and I want the Queen of England to bow her head!" Qinghai rarely broke out with blood, Guo Songtao seemed to be unable to stop it, and many foreigners around them turned their heads when they heard the movement, and looked curiously at the two Chinese officials hugging each other.
Tang Wufu stepped forward and grabbed Qinghai as well, "Lord Qing, forget it," Tang Wufu was a little sad, "Our master already has an idea in his heart, this will not be done indiscriminately, we are courtiers, slaves, looking at the Queen Mother, we can't help anything else, don't make a mess, the master's thoughts, we can't keep up, she thinks about a lot of things, she slept well in the UK for a few days, but I don't know that it's for these things, let's just look at it." ”
Qinghai turned his head, looked at the sad Tang Wufu, gave up the struggle, and sighed, "Sitting in the well and watching the sky, it really doesn't work, thinking that in the east, the vassal comes to the dynasty, it is really a central country, and when we come to the West, I know that we are here with them, in fact, it is far from nothing." Gao Xinkui was still silent, Qing Hai turned his head angrily, picked up a glass of blood-red wine on the side of the desk, and drank it all in one gulp.
Empress Dowager Cixi laughed in front of Queen Victoria, she couldn't remember exactly when she needed to laugh at this kind of thing, but Cixi did it very well and didn't show a groveling expression, because the first salute of the initiative dwarf just now had already satisfied almost the whole of Britain.
This woman from the East is still very polite and humble, and William gave the Empress Dowager Cixi a label, and took a wine glass next to the two most powerful women in the East and the West, listening to the two people talking. (To be continued.) )