Chapter 355: Resigned to fate
"Young Master, shall we continue to visit the night market, or shall we go back now?" Watching the others leave, Baldwin asked in a low voice in Li Zijun's ear.
"What's the hurry, we finally came out for a walk, there are so many delicious and interesting things waiting for us, I don't want to go back so early!" Li Zijun shook his head at Baldwin with a smile, and pulled him to blend in with the crowd of the night market again.
Li Zijun and Baldwin wandered until dawn, and then returned to the embassy without getting enough of it, and this time they did not hide their bodies and quietly return to their rooms, but swaggered in through the main entrance of the embassy.
"Grand Duke, are you back?" As soon as Li Zijun and Baldwin entered the embassy, Felix greeted them with a smile on his face.
"Oh, Felix-sama, why did you wake up so early?"
"I heard that the nightlife in Toscano is rich and colorful, and out of curiosity, I sneaked out with Baldwin to open my eyes, and please don't be weird, right?" Seeing that Felix hadn't slept all night, Li Zijun smiled secretly in his heart, but on the surface, he still showed great guilt.
"Grand Duke, you are too polite! It was the lower official who did not think it through, not only failed to make the corresponding itinerary for you in time, but also almost put you in danger because of the dog! If you make any mistakes, the lower official is really dead and difficult to redeem!"
"My lord, you are serious!" Li Zijun smiled and waved his hand to Felix.
"Dog?" Li Zijun seemed to react at this time, and asked as he looked at Felix with curiosity on his face.
In fact, Li Zijun is knowingly asking the young man who can be called a brother to the sheriff in the city of Tuscano, and who is also the cousin of the captain of the Dongyu Forbidden Military Academy. If it weren't for Felix, he couldn't really think of anyone else.
"Grand Duke. Can you take a step to speak?" Felix sighed, after getting permission from Li Zijun. Brought him back to his room.
As soon as he entered the door, Li Zijun saw Chad and Xia Zuo jump up from their chairs violently, rush in front of him quickly, and fall to their knees.
"Lord Felix, what's going on?" Li Zijun's face changed, and he pointed at Xia Zuo and said a little unpleasantly.
"Grand Duke, Xia Zuo is the son of Xia Guan! He already told me what he offended you last night, I really have no way to teach my son! I will hand him over to you now. If you want to fight or kill the lower officials, there is no difference!"
Hearing Felix's words, Li Zijun was stunned for a while, and then turned his eyes back to Xia Zuo and Chad.
The cold gaze was mixed with the thick murderous aura that Li Zijun naturally produced due to his long-term experience in the battlefield, as if the temperature of the entire room had dropped a lot.
Chad's performance was fine, but cold sweat soaked his back, Xia Zuo was too bad in comparison, and it didn't take long for him to start to tremble obviously!
"It's a family! Xia Zuo didn't know my identity after all, and besides, he didn't do anything. Hurry up!" As Li Zijun smiled, the atmosphere in the air instantly eased. He reached out and pulled Xia Zuo, who was already fainting, up from the ground.
"I didn't expect Brother Xia Zuo to have such a way in Tuscano, if I knew this, I would have followed you to the night market!" Li Zijun smiled and patted Xia Zuo's shoulder. It seems that I have completely forgotten the previous unhappiness.
"That's right, Grand Duke, just follow me. I promise to make you invincible in Toscano!Oops!" Xia Zuo was so good that he forgot the pain of his scar, and actually bragged in front of Li Zijun and his father. Enraged, Felix kicked him to the side.
"Bastard, you dare to say that you are invincible in Toscano, why don't you get out of here!" Felix turned pale with anger at his son, and kicked him out of the room.
"Grand Duke, this son of mine is really unscrupulous, I will definitely discipline him more in the future!" Felix assured Li Zijun with some trepidation.
It is natural that embassy officials represent the image of their respective countries and are respected by each other; And with Xia Zuo's current domineering in Tuscano, this is obviously far beyond the power and status that Ziqing should give Felix!
Felix put on such a big battle today, in fact, to test Li Zijun's views on this matter, so that he could formulate corresponding countermeasures.
"My lord is too worried! I think Brother Xia Zuo is very good! In the future, I'm afraid I still have a lot to rely on him!"
"You see I haven't slept all night, we have to attend the reception dinner held by Ziqing tonight, so I'll go back and rest first!"
"Chad, get up, I still have something to tell you!" Li Zijun called Chad, who was still kneeling, smiled and nodded to Felix, and left the room.
After returning to his courtyard, Li Zijun severely reprimanded Chade, canceled his personal vacation, and ordered him to stay in the embassy and obey orders at any time.
At this point, Li Zijun's handling of this matter came to an end.
"This matter is finally over!" Hearing Li Zijun's punishment of Chad, Xia Zuo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's over, it's still far away!" Felix snorted.
"I've always heard that this kid is not simple, but I didn't expect that when I saw him today, he was even more difficult than I imagined!"
"What's the matter, he's not going to let me go?" Thinking of the scene of being watched by Li Zijun, Xia Zuo couldn't help but shudder violently, and he was a little uneasy.
"You, you are a little fish and shrimp like him, he still disdains it, what he is really interested in is you and me!"
"Father, what are you talking about?
"To put it bluntly, it's very simple: he's using today's events to threaten me with my full support for his next actions!" Felix paused slightly.
"Otherwise what?"
"Otherwise, he will find a way to get me back to Dongyu! The reason is ready-made, that is, 'Your arrogance has seriously affected the relationship between our two countries!'"
"That's not going to work!" Xia Zuo immediately thought of his disappointment when he was in Dongyu, and hurriedly waved his hand.
"Father, after all, you are a close confidant of the eldest prince, and you are still shouldering the task of the eldest prince in Ziqing, he won't just watch you being brought back to China by Edlaide, right?"
"Virgil Bixia's training of the Southern Legion is clearly aimed at the Great Prince. Some time ago, the eldest prince was able to unite his cronies to delay the execution of this jihua. However, after Edlaide took Ogden with a thunderbolt, the generals of the Southern Legion were killed, promoted, or transferred, which also completely broke their previous alliance. ”
"The Southern Legion is the foundation of the Great Prince, and he's so anxious about it at the moment, he can't take care of me anymore!" Felix sighed deeply.
"Otherwise, we will directly join the Ziqing Empire! With their usual respect for you, I don't think they will treat you badly!" Xia Zuo looked around and said in a low voice.
"What nonsense?!" Felix was taken aback by Xia Zuo's words, and walked quickly to the door, making sure that there was no movement outside, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"The reason why those people in Ziqing are in awe of me is not because I have anything in myself, but because they are in awe of the Dongyu Empire! They are worried that the mighty Dongyu Empire will suddenly attack them!"
"In addition, the status of the eldest prince's cronies has also benefited me a lot!"
"Without these, why would Ziqing be so respectful to me?!"
"Defecting to the Ziqing Empire, I'm afraid that as soon as I apply here, they will immediately arrest our father and son and escort them back to the Dongyu Empire!"
"Is this really going to happen?" Xia Zuo also had a frightened expression on his face when he heard his father's words.
"It really can't be true! In the future, don't mention those words to anyone again, that's just self-explanatory!"
"Then what should we do now? Do we really want to help the Grand Duke of Edlaide? If we do this, will it be tantamount to disobeying the orders of the Grand Prince, and I am afraid that we will offend the two princes, Curtis and Walter!"
"After all, the eldest prince is beyond his reach, and as the battle between him and the sixth and fifth princes becomes more and more intense, my role in him will become more and more important. As for Curtis and Walter, after all, we are Dongyu's courtiers, and it is understandable to obey the orders of the Grand Duke of Edlaide, unless it is true that we have changed the result, they should not make it difficult for us!" Felix frowned and whispered to Xia Zuo.
"Then do you think Princess Gladys will be rescued?" Xia Zuo is not stupid, he understands that all the crux of the problem is focused on Gladys, and he can't help but feel a little curious in his heart.
"Nine times out of ten, the 'mixed poison' in Gladys's body comes from Curtis and Walter, both of them are ruthless people, if it is really their hands, they will never give Gladys a chance to turn the tables!
"Then you mean: Princess Gladys is going to die this time?"
"I did think so, but after seeing Edlaide's performance today, I think Princess Gladys may have a chance to live!"
"If Princess Gladys is really saved, will the Grand Prince, Curtis, and Walter be angry with us?"
Felix didn't answer Xia Zuo directly this time, but turned his head to look at his bedroom, which housed the rare treasures he had collected over the years.
"This time we're left to fate!" Felix's face was full of contradictions and entanglement......s!