Chapter 164: The Dinner Party (5)
The appearance of Fernandez made the pupils in the eyes of Prince Kirk subconsciously, and the hand holding the wine glass was unconsciously tightened, but soon he returned to normal, and said with a smile on his face: "It turned out that our handsome prince has arrived ......"
Although Fernandez and Kirk share the same father, their looks are very different.
Kirk was ugly in appearance, with a rough face, and although he was of medium build, he was stocky, while Fernández had a handsome face and delicate skin like a woman, and he was tall and thin.
If Tang Jie didn't know these two people, if he had to guess, he would definitely not guess that these two people were a pair of brothers.
Fernandez had short blond hair, and his eyes were as blue as the sea, unlike Kirk's brown eyes, he had a pointed face and a thin chin, and his whole face was completely in line with the aesthetics of the nobility, fair and handsome, while Kirk had a square face, a raised forehead, and deep-set eye sockets, like a wild beast.
But although Fernandez and Kirk look very different, there is one thing that the two of them are very similar.
That's that they all have a pair of sharp eyes!
The blonde prince came slowly with a smile on his face, his smile was so perfect that even the strictest court etiquette couldn't find fault with it, but Tang Jie saw it in his eyes, but he felt that the man in front of him was like a cold poisonous snake slowly approaching him!
"Your Royal Highness the Prince...... Tang Jie also gave Fernández a chest salute in accordance with his custom of saluting Kirk, "It's an honor to meet you!"
Kirk on the side saw that Tang Jie used this kind of etiquette without discrimination, and secretly felt a little better in his heart, he turned his face, looked at Fernandez, and said with a smile: "Dear brother, can't so many beautiful and moving women in the ball keep you? Why did you come here?"
Fernandez also said with a smile: "My dear brother, the most beautiful and touching woman at tonight is of course Her Royal Highness Angel, and she unfortunately already has a belonging, so no matter how many women there are, they can't keep my heart." ”
Kirk's eyes shrank, and he was not moved at all in the face of Fernandez's seemingly joking, but actually provocative words, but smiled more and more intensely: "Is it?
Fernandez smiled and asked, "My dear brother, then I use these women to exchange this woman with you, are you willing to change?"
Fernandez's eyes suddenly shot a sharp gaze, staring straight at Kirk, and Kirk's eyes flashed with a flash of anger, he suppressed this anger, and also looked at his brother with an unflinching gaze: "My brother, you must know that some things are predestined from birth! What does not belong to you will not belong to you after all!"
A strange smile appeared on Fernández's lips, and he said, "Oh, is that really the case? But if I remember correctly, when I was first born, my mother looked at me and said, "Ah, this poor little man will be at most a jockey who raises horses in the Emperor's court, and he will be of no use." ”
When Fernandez talked about his mother, Kirk on the side was suddenly stunned, and his eyes unconsciously revealed a trace of emotion and remembrance.
Fernandez looked at Kirk and continued: "But what about the facts? Standing in front of you is not a noble waste who eats and drinks and waits for death, but an imperial general tempered from the flames of war!
Fernández raised his eyebrows with two sideburns, and a majestic aura was about to come out: "My dear brother, everything in this world may or may not belong to you! In the end, it is not an ethereal fate that determines the ownership of these things, but ourselves!"
Fernandez stretched out his hand, his fingers in the air into a fist, "So, my dear brother, you have to take care of her!"
Kirk snorted coldly and did not speak.
Tang Jie watched the brother arguing with each other on the side, fighting openly and secretly, and he was very unhappy in his heart.
The woman he cherished was caught in this complicated and dangerous palace battle, whether she married Kirk or not, whether she could become the queen of this vast empire, she eventually became a victim in this palace political struggle.
Kirk and Fernandez are ostensibly talking about Angel's belonging, but in reality they are arguing about Angel's symbolic throne.
Whether he can marry Angel or not, this is of extremely important political significance to Kirk, and now the whole country knows that the future emperor is about to marry Princess Falco of the Western Continent, and the wedding ceremony and His Majesty the Emperor's abdication ceremony are carried out at the same time, once the wedding ceremony changes, it not only means that the abdication ceremony will also change, but also will seriously damage Kirk's prestige in the hearts of the common people.
Tang Jie thought about Angel's stubborn and mournful face, and couldn't help but feel a faint pain in his heart: she was supposed to be in charge of her own destiny, but in the end she became a victim of a political marriage!
Tang Jie turned around and looked out at the outside of the palace, the oppressive and fighting atmosphere here made him almost collapse, he desperately longed to leave this turbid and dangerous imperial capital in the next second!
However, are you willing to leave alone?
Leave her alone in this unaccompanied, enemy-ridden place?
If she stretched out her hand to herself and begged her to take her away, then even if there were swords, mountains, fires, and hell abysses in front of her, he would take him through it!
But she didn't......
She chose to face the cold palace alone, she chose to marry a strange man, and she chose to live a lonely and lonely life.
This is her power and freedom, Tang Jie can't interfere with it, he can only stand alone not far away and watch her silently, bless her, and pray for her.
Kirk and Fernandez looked at each other for a while, and suddenly they both smiled at the same time, and Kirk said, "My dear brother, you are still so young and vigorous......
Fernandez said-for-tat: "My dear brother, you are still so old and serious......"
Kirk secretly satirized Fernandez for being young and immature, and Fernandez sarcastically mocked Kirk as a dying old man, although these two people were full of smiles, but the middle words in the words were sharp and compelling, which made Tang Jie feel a fierce momentum.
Kirk no longer has illusions about recruiting Tang Jie, and he expects that the reason why Fernandez came here is also because he wants to recruit this black-haired guy, but Kirk believes that although this dark-haired guy is now very close to Fernandes, he will not completely surrender to Fernandez and become his lackey.
Because this man has an unruly soul, no one can conquer him!
Kirk smiled, nodded to Fernandez, and turned to leave.
When he left, he didn't look at Tang Jie again, as if he was already a dead man.
Fernandez watched Kirk leave, he suddenly smiled, leaned against the railing of the balcony, and smiled at Tang Jie in a rather presumptuous and casual manner: "Is my brother difficult to entangle?"
As a dignified and elegant prince, Fernandez leaned on the railing casually like a commoner, and spoke to Tang Jie in an approachable and very familiar and natural tone, which made Tang Jie suddenly have an illusion: he seemed to be talking to an old friend for many years.
Tang Jie's heart sank, and he secretly sighed: None of the two sons of Kriza XVI is a fuel-efficient lamp!
Tang Jie smiled and replied to Fernandez's words: "But I feel that you may be more difficult than him." ”
Fernandez was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Tang Jie to answer him like this, he was neither humble nor arrogant, and he laughed out loud: "Is this a compliment? If so, then I will laugh at it!"
Tang Jie did not answer Fernandez's words, because although this young and handsome prince had a sincere and kind smile on his face, his words were full of traps and traps, and he would fall into them if he was not careful.
He looked at the party in the hall and said politely, "My Highness, if you don't have anything else, I think I'm going back." ”
Fernandez was not annoyed by Tang Jie's deliberately distant gesture at all, he smiled, naturally hooked Tang Jie's shoulder, and said to him: "Do you really think this kind of dinner party is very interesting? No kidding, come, come with me, I will take you to another dinner party, I promise to make you unforgettable!"
Fernandez's words were close to a smell that could not be refused, this is a kind of natural majesty of a person who has been in the top position for a long time, Tang Jie frowned secretly when he heard this, and hesitated slightly.
This guy invited me to another dinner, was it going to be a feast?
What kind of heart is he in peace?
Fernandez tilted his head sideways and looked at Tang Jie with a smile, his eyes sharp and slightly provocative: "What, don't you dare to go, are you afraid that I will harm you?"
Although Tang Jie is not an easily irritated person, he can't help but feel his blood surging when he sees Fernandez's gaze.
What's more, Tang Jie has been in battle for a long time, and he is a master of art, not to mention that he has no worries now, even if the other party has a trap and ambush, he is holding a miracle arrow, and if he wants to leave, he must be able to go.
Thinking of this, Tang Jie smiled: "Your Royal Highness, you don't have to provoke me with such words, just go! I just hope that there will be more delicious wine and more beautiful women at that dinner!"
Fernandez was overjoyed, he also laughed, patted Tang Jie's back with his hand, and bumped his shoulder affectionately: "Ha, then you are right, I don't have anything else there, but there is wine and beautiful women!"
Although Fernández is a noble prince, he relied on military exploits to kill with a knife and a shot, and he looks elegant and dignified in ordinary times, but once he encounters something happy, he will reveal the rough habits of the military camp.
But this habit is very appetizing to Tang Jie, to let him hold the shelf all day long, Lilly and Lilly, it makes him more uncomfortable than killing him, Fernandez's move suddenly made Tang Jie secretly feel much closer.
He smiled slightly: "Then I'm looking forward to it!"
Fernandez smiled and took Tang Jie out of the banquet, and the two got into Fernandez's luxury carriage, Fernandez said to the long-waiting guards through the door curtain: "Go home!"
There was a sound of horses' hooves, and Fernandez's personal guards escorted him and Tang Jie out of the palace.
Fernández leaned against the window of the carriage, he opened the curtains, looked at the brightly lit palace, and said with a smile: "You know what?"
Tang Jie asked puzzledly, "What do you know?"
Fernandez said lightly: "When you agreed to participate in my banquet, you have already picked up a life!"
Tang Jie was furious in his heart, his back rose slightly, like a man-eating beast that would burst out at any time, and he asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, what does this mean?"
Fernandez didn't seem to feel Tang Jie's fierce murderous aura coming from the other side, he waved his hand and said, "Don't get excited, it's not me who wants to kill you, but my dear brother!"
Tang Jie was stunned for a moment, although the murderous aura on his body did not immediately converge, but it also diluted a lot: "What do you say?"
Fernandez looked at Tang Jie with a twinkle in his eyes, and he said: "Don't you know how much trouble your own existence has caused to my brother? Although the scandal between you and Her Royal Highness the princess has not spread, it is already obvious in the eyes of the discerning person, do you think my sharp-eyed brother will not be able to detect it? Even if he doesn't notice it, he won't allow you, a guy whose political interests conflict with his, to live in the world!"
"Before he ascended the throne, you were his obstacle, and after he ascended the throne, you, the king of the Nilsia Sea, were a thorn in his eye and a thorn in his flesh!" Fernandez looked at Tang Jie with a smile, "So, he must kill you!"
Tang Jie sneered and said, "But, even if he wants my life, he won't do it in public, right?" Moreover, the wedding ceremony is imminent, isn't he afraid of causing something to give people the truth?"
Fernandez laughed, he turned around and took out a thumb-sized delicate porcelain bottle behind him, and said: "This is the most violent aphrodisiac in the world, it's called 'Flame', as long as you get a drop of this thing, you will become a ** big beast!
Tang Jie frowned: "I don't understand......"
Fernandez put the porcelain vase in front of Tang Jie, and then said with a smile: "You answer me: If Lydia suddenly finds you and wants to have a drink with you in private, will you refuse?"
Tang Jie's brows tightened, he pondered for a while, and said: "Although I have a bad impression of her, but a toast from a beautiful woman, I don't think I will refuse." ”
Fernandez snapped his fingers and laughed: "Then you are half dead! As long as you promise her, then she has a hundred ways to put the aphrodisiac in this bottle into your wine, and once you drink it, then you are finished!"
Tang Jie was shocked, when it came to this, if he didn't understand what it meant, then he would be an idiot and a fool!
Once she drinks this glass of wine, she will definitely want to ** Lydia like crazy, and Lydia only needs to shout loudly, and the people who have been ambushed around her will swarm in and subdue herself!
At that time, a terrible catastrophe awaits you!
Attempting to ** the only daughter of the Duke of Tareras, this crime will not protect Tang Jie even if it is Kriza XVI!
Tang Jie fought a cold war, if it weren't for Fernandez to wake him up, with his character of pity and cherishing jade, he would have been hit!
"But, isn't Lydia from your side?" Tang Jie said with his mouth stammered.
Fernandez sneered: "Hmph, woman, once you get in love, you will become blind and crazy! This stupid woman will one day pay for her extreme character!"
"Wait, what are you talking about?love?Why does she hate me so much and wants to kill me?I have no grievances with her!" Tang Jie asked in surprise.
Fernandez looked at Tang Jie, a trace of jealousy flashed in his eyes, and he laughed: "You hateful guy, you have stolen the hearts of many women in the imperial capital, but you are ignorant!"
Tang Jie smiled bitterly, and he sighed: "So, what does all this have to do with this dinner?"
Fernandez laughed: "Since my dear brother can't recruit you, then he will plan to kill you." And this murder plan between him and Lydia was arranged a long time ago! If it wasn't for my subordinates inadvertently intercepting this news, I wouldn't be able to help you!"
Tang Jie looked at Fernandez and said, "So, I owe you a favor?"
Fernandez waved his hand: "No, in a sense, we are still in the same boat for the time being, and this kind of gesture is nothing at all." And, for the sake of the god Raphael, you have such a good relationship with Agatha, even for Agatha's sake, I will help you. ”
Tang Jie was not moved by Fernandez's words, he followed Fernandez's words and said: "What's more, I have a great use value for you! In the current struggle for the throne, you not only have to win over any chess piece force that can be won over as much as possible, but even if you fail to compete for the throne, you can retreat to your territory in the future, and then use my power to harass Kirk's rear, you can recuperate and build up momentum, right?"
A strange color flashed in Fernandez's eyes, and he looked at Tang Jie in surprise: "You are really a smart person! I have a higher opinion of you! However, what I want to say is that I don't treat you as a pawn, and I don't want to recruit you to be my subordinate." I want to be friends with you, friends who can help each other on an equal footing! Would you like to accept this friendly friend?"
Fernandez's eyes were fixed on Tang Jie, he was waiting for Tang Jie's response.
And Tang Jie also stared sharply at the ambitious young prince in front of him, he knew that as long as he agreed, then he would have the strength to fight against Kirk in the imperial capital.
But if he objects, then Kirk and Fernandez will hunt him down!
When the time comes, he will be embattled in the imperial capital, and he will be the enemy!
To say yes, or not to say yes?
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5,500 words update,In addition, I recommend a fantasy novel "Dragon Grammarian" that is about to be completed