Chapter 034
The Queen's Decree
Huangfu Haobo has never been a person who easily admits defeat. Especially in front of women, it is even more impossible for him to lose easily.
However, not admitting defeat does not mean that he will give others a look casually. Especially in front of women, and in front of a beautiful woman he likes. He will naturally maintain the demeanor he deserves and the demeanor of a king.
Just as he wanted to get close to Xiao Li at the moment, but was cleverly rejected by Xiao Li.
Huangfu Haobo naturally would not be angry. On the contrary, he showed a gentle and elegant smile at Xiao Li. Even the words he said next seemed extremely gentle: "Miss Li'er is so heroic, she can even drink wine so impressive. I can meet a woman like you who is outstanding in literary and heroic, which is really fortunate to be proud of her life."
After saying that, he raised the jade glass in his hand forward, gently touched the glass that Xiao Li was still holding in his hand, and Wen Ya smiled and said, "Since that's the case, how about I have done this glass in one go?" As he said that, he turned his hand, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass.
However, Xiao Li suddenly met a cunning person like Huangfu Haobo, and he had no plans for a moment.
This is exactly the effect Huangfu Haobo wants to achieve. Seeing Xiao Li standing there and wondering what to say, Huangfu Haobo suddenly smiled at her and leaned closer to her and laughed in a low voice: "Wine a thousand cups of wine. Since Miss Lier, you and I have already drunk this glass of wine, then I will recognize you as a confidant."
Xiao Li was speechless for a moment, but after seeing that Prince Wu Huangfu Haobo said this, he had already turned around and left with a smile on his face.
He looked up again to look at Huangfu Haotian sitting opposite him, and saw that he was slightly closing his eyes, as if everything that happened in front of him had nothing to do with him. Suddenly, the passionate feeling in Xiao Li's heart was extinguished to the point of coldness.
He lowered his head and didn't look at the person opposite him. Xiao Li only picked up the nectar wine on the table in front of him and planned to drink a few glasses. However, he didn't expect that his mother suddenly reached out and snatched the wine glass from her hand, and smiled and said, "How can you be so greedy for a girl's house? It's better to listen to your mother's words and drink a cup of fragrant tea."
Xiao Li didn't listen to other people's words, but she naturally wanted to listen to her mother's words. So she had to abandon the wine and picked up the fragrant tea in front of her.
Just after taking a sip, I suddenly heard the voice from Prince Wu, Fu Haobo from the front: "I believe that all the beauties today are full of talents, and they are naturally unique compared to the dancers in the palace. I think my father and mother will be the same as my son. I must be very happy that I have such a beauties in Lingguo."
After hearing his words, the Empress on the High Platform showed a happy smile on her face: "Your Majesty, you are right. The Ai family's birthday today is indeed unique. It's a pity that when the banquet ends, the beauties of each mansion will leave the palace and return to their respective homes."
After hearing this, Huangfu Haobo couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and smiled, and thought to himself, "It's my mother who knows me." What I am waiting for is this sentence from my mother."
With a decent smile on his face, Huangfu Haobo spoke to the queen and said, "It seems that the queen is already a little reluctant to let go of all the beauties in her heart?"
The Empress lowered her head and met her son's smiling face, and she knew it. So she nodded and said, "What the emperor said is, you must know that the mother has lived in the harem all year round. Sometimes, she really wants to have the opportunity to learn about the latest news outside the palace."
Huangfu Haobo smiled even more when he heard this: "Since that's the case, why don't the mother pass on the imperial edict? Isn't it better to leave all beauties to stay with her mother in the palace for a few days?"
After hearing this, the Empress lowered her head and thought for a moment, and felt that Huangfu Haobo's words were reasonable. So she raised her head and looked at the emperor with a smile: "Your Majesty, what are you saying?"
The emperor looked at the queen, looked down at Huangfu Haobo, and then looked at the beauties present. Seeing that everyone's faces were full of expectations, he smiled slightly and said, "Since that's the case, the queen will decide everything."
At this time, Xiao Li was stunned when she heard this. I still remember that before entering the palace, Yuwen Ruocai once told her that she might stay here for a few days. But after all, she is a royal relative, and even if she stays in this palace for a few days, it would be no big deal.
But Xiaoli is different.
Just came to attend the Queen's birthday party today, for a so-called talent show - to put it bluntly, it was just to make her try her best to win the favor of the Emperor and the Queen.
This matter alone is enough to make Xiao Li feel upset. If she is allowed to stay in this palace for a few days, she will really be unable to imagine how she will deal with it.
Even though she was once a killer and had extremely strict organizational discipline, on that basis, Xiao Li was still a person who was used to being free.
So, she really couldn't imagine that if she had to stay in this place of gold and jade every day and live a life of being raised like a pet, not only that, she would have to do everything she could like a pet every day to try her best to please this group of noble masters.
Ha, when she thought of this, Xiao Li was very worried that she really couldn't adapt to such a life.
However, although some things can be avoided, she is afraid that she will never be able to avoid this matter today.
After all, she had already violated the will of the emperor because of the title. So this time, I'm afraid she could only let others obediently.
Sure enough, after pondering for a while, the Empress smiled and said, "Since that's the case, then the Ai family will choose a few outstanding beauties and stay in this palace for two days. First, it will allow them to see the style of my royal family; second, the Ai family also wants to listen to people talking about some new things outside so that the Ai family can also relax and relieve boredom."
"However, with so many beauties coming today, who should I ask to stay?" The Queen said, and glanced at Huangfu Haobo with a pair of smiling eyes.
Huangfu Haobo hurriedly replied with a smile: "Of course, the mother should have decided on this matter. However, in the opinion of the son-in-law, these three beauties who were awarded the title of Beijing Talent Girl, are naturally not missing."
Suddenly, I felt like there were a hundred grass-mud horses racing by. Is there anything?
If Xiao Li was not born with a good cultivation, she just wanted to rush directly to Prince Wu, first shoot the left and right, and then get a dizzy dagger and gently peel off the weird mask on his face.
This standard hypocrite is so hateful.
In fact, Xiao Li's eyes are still very vicious.
At this moment, Prince Wu’s plan was actually very simple.
Since the first meeting, hasn’t Xiao Li always been disdainful of him, Prince Wu?
Although he is the second prince of Lingguo and Prince Wu, he can't run to the general's mansion to steal people, right?
Actually, he has not done this before, but that time, she finally ran away again, right?
Since that time, this young lady who used to like to leave the house alone from time to time has become much more careful in her actions. In this way, for Prince Wu, there have been fewer opportunities to approach her again and thus capture her heart.
If this is just an ordinary thing and she is just an ordinary woman, then that's fine. Prince Wu Huangfu Haobo could turn around in a chic and gorgeous way, and even show no expression.
However, Xiaoli is different.
Since the first time he saw her accidentally, her every frown and smile has been deeply imprinted in Huangfu Haobo's heart, making him unable to walk away.
What's more, it would be fine if she was just an ordinary woman in a boudoir, but she was still the daughter of General Xiao Chaogui.
How could Huangfu Haobo not give up all his thoughts on her if he is a unique woman like her?
And this time, if he could really keep Xiao Li in the palace, especially with her mother's side, would he be afraid that he would never have the chance to get close to Xiao Li again?
Of course not.
So, since the opportunity is right in front of you, Huangfu Haobo will definitely hold it firmly in his hand. Otherwise, with his character as Prince Wu, he would not be able to watch that Xiao Li would be held in his arms one day by other men.
What's worse, what he least wants to see is the eyes of these brothers around him, Huangfu Haobo, who have always had a sense of inspiration. At least he can see everything that has been lurking around him and is not good for him at a glance.
Therefore, in his eyes, except for the crown prince's heart, he was always obsessed with Sister Youlan. The other princes, including the fourth, the fifth and the seventh, Huangfu Haobo, could not guarantee that in their hearts, they would not be like him, all of them were thinking about Xiao Li.
But this time, he believed that his chances of winning would be greater. As the saying goes, the moon will be the first to get close to the water. As long as it is something that Huangfu Haobo made up his mind, there has never been a time that he had never done before.
But what he never expected was that this time, he still miscalculated. Not only that, it can even be said that his approach this time was an indelible failure in his life.
Not only him, but even Xiao Li himself did not expect that this time the harem Xiaoju would bring to her future life.
Until the end, when the banquet was finally over, the Empress had already made the final decision. Of course, there were no missing sisters Xiao Li and Yu Wen. In addition, Tang Xuanji and a woman named Liu Mingyan were staying with them.
Although Xiao Li really didn't want to stay here, she had to obey the Queen's decree.
However, when she said goodbye to her mother, she couldn't help but follow Mrs. Xiao's hand tightly, and she was always reluctant to let go.
Mrs. Xiao seemed to feel the uneasy in her heart, so she smiled lovingly at her: "I was left here for the first time when I entered the palace. Are you a little uneasy?"
Xiao Li looked at her mother, and her eyes showed her dependence that she had never been before: "Mom..." She had never felt like this, just like she was still a child, she was so reluctant to leave her mother.
Seeing her like this, Mrs. Xiao couldn't help but smile gently at her again. Then she stretched out her hand, gently tampered with her hair hanging down on her forehead, and said to her gently: "You just relax and play here. After these two days, my mother will definitely come to the palace to pick you up, okay?"
Chapter completed!