Suddenly a hand was placed on her shoulder, and she felt as if her heart had suddenly risen to her throat, and her whole body was stiff and she dared not move.
Soon, a gentle question came from behind: "Xi Xi?"
Zhong Yuxi finally let go of her worries. She looked back at Bai Zhi who looked worried. She walked over and hugged her tightly.
All the grievances, sadness, and pain seemed to be temporarily accumulated at the moment of hugging. Fortunately, there was such a friend. In this unpredictable palace, she existed like a bay of still water.
Bai Zhi hugged her back and asked softly: "The prince didn't embarrass you, did he?"
She shook her head over her shoulder.
"That's good." Bai Zhi patted her back comfortingly: "If he did anything excessive to you, please forgive him."
forgive?
Zhong Yuxi smiled bitterly, no need to forgive anymore!
"He has experienced a lot of things before, so he has such a character. In his heart, the country always comes first. No one can shake this belief. He doesn't know how to love, and the result of not knowing is...
It turns into plundering, and he thinks that the things he likes belong to him as long as they stay with him. In fact, sometimes he is stubborn like a child, hurting others and himself."
"Xiao Bai..." Zhong Yuxi interrupted her: "You don't have to tell me this, I will never have anything to do with him anymore. But you still have a chance."
Bai Zhi's face turned red: "At the end of the year, my service period will be completed for six years. In fact, I should have left the palace a year ago, but I stayed for one more year because of the prince's request. After leaving the palace, my family will give me
I will arrange for a well-matched aristocratic man, get married and have children, and forget everything that happened in this palace."
Zhong Yuxi could hear the loneliness in her tone and could only hug her friend tighter.
"Xiaobai, you will definitely be happy."
"Really?" Bai Zhi looked at the boundless snow: her happiness is so out of reach, just because the person she loves will always stand in front of her, he will not wait for her, and she will not be able to catch up.
"Xixi, let's go back first. Tomorrow His Royal Highness will negotiate with the prince of Chaoyang Kingdom at the border.
Zhong Yuxi sighed in her heart, are we finally going to negotiate?
If the negotiation goes well and an agreement is signed with the other party, then this trip to Qianyu Island will soon be declared over. But will it really go smoothly? Why does she always have a bad premonition in her heart, as if there is something wrong?
Great things will happen.
Lying on the bed, tossing and turning, but still unable to fall asleep, I noticed that Bai Zhi beside me was too, so the two sisters stayed together and whispered for a while, and it became a little bright outside.
Zhong Yuxi finally fell asleep for a while, feeling a little sleepy. She didn't even feel Bai Zhi getting up.
At about seven o'clock, Bai Zhi came back and saw that she was still sleeping. He touched her head and found that it was not hot.
So he called her softly: "Xixi, wake up."
She opened her eyes lazily, reached out and took the pillow into her arms: "Xiao Bai, don't make any noise, let me sleep a little longer."
Bai Zhi pinched her nose and said, "You're not sick, why are you so sleepy?"
Speaking of illness, Zhong Yuxi took a breath. Recently, she always had symptoms that looked like a cold, but it didn't look like a cold, so she didn't take any medicine, thinking that she would be fine in a few days.
He sat up from the bed and rubbed his eyes.
Bai Zhi said while packing her things: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince specifically ordered that you don't need to go to today's negotiation."
"Why?" Zhong Yuxi asked puzzledly.
Bai Zhi shook her head: "How dare I guess His Highness's thoughts."
"It's better not to go." Zhong Yuxi fell back on the bed and stared at the ceiling in a daze for a while, then suddenly sat up in a hurry and started to put on clothes.
Bai Zhi asked in confusion: "Xixi, what are you doing?"
She put her finger up to her lips and made a shushing gesture, and whispered, "I'm going to join in the fun."
When a group of vehicles drove to the border, Mayor Zakir looked at the prince's car from behind. He was still worried about the disappearance of His Highness Sixth Prince. The prince asked that His Majesty the King should not know about this matter, so as not to worry the old man.
Therefore, he also blocked the news as much as possible. However, the one who was missing now was a prince, and it was on his territory. If the higher-ups were to blame, he could not bear the responsibility.
Just as he was sighing, suddenly a head wearing a little red riding hood appeared in the rearview mirror.
He turned around in surprise and saw Zhong Yuxi looking at him with a smile.
"Ms. Zhong? You...why are you in the car?"
Zhong Yuxi secretly hid in the car with the help of Bai Zhi. At this time, she made a face to the mayor: "Mr. Mayor, please don't throw me out of the car."
The mayor looked helpless and said quickly: "You don't dare, you don't dare."
No matter how low his emotional intelligence is, he can still see that this little girl is very popular with His Highness the Sixth Prince and the Crown Prince. Yesterday, the Crown Prince even carried her upstairs in full view of everyone.
As soon as Zhong Yuxi said a word, she started to get carsick. She leaned against the car window and said sheepishly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, I'm going to take a nap."
"Ms. Zhong, go to sleep. I'll call you when you get there."
Zhong Yuxi fell asleep in a daze. She had been suffering from motion sickness recently. She thought she might be acclimatized.
After an unknown amount of time, I felt the car stop, and Zakir's secretary Hilke woke her up.
Zhong Yuxi's first reaction was to jump out of the car, find a snowdrift and vomit.
I felt a lot better after vomiting acidic water from my stomach.
The feeling of motion sickness is really unbearable.
Silk came over and handed her a bottle of water. The mayor's secretary wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and looked like a gentle and bookish person.
"Thank you." Zhong Yuxi nodded towards him.
He nodded to her, turned around and followed the mayor.
The location of the negotiation was chosen in a church in Bianjing. The first floor of the church was a place for prayer, and the second floor was a large rotunda.
She was afraid of being seen by Xuanyuan Ye, so she hid quietly behind the pillars in the hall, and Zacher quickly went to work on negotiations and had no time to take care of her.
There is a long, finely carved mahogany table in the middle of the hall. On this side, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is already seated. Zakir is sitting next to him, and Hilke is standing behind him. The table on the other side is still empty.
Soon, a group of people filed in. At the front was a young man in his twenties, wearing a well-tailored suit. Although his appearance was delicate, there was a trace of cruelty hidden in the corners of his eyebrows and eyes.
He was surrounded by cheers and crowds, obviously his status was extraordinary.
Sure enough, Zucker hurriedly stood up to greet him and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness."
It turns out that this young man is Jin Xianyu, the eldest prince of Chaoyang Kingdom.
Obviously he did not understand the language of his country, so he shook hands with His Highness the Crown Prince with the help of an interpreter.
The two parties did not exchange pleasantries and went straight to the point.
Zhong Yuxi listened from a distance and did not think that this was a negotiation, because from the beginning to the end, the smell of gunpowder on the negotiating table never dissipated, but became stronger and stronger.
She couldn't understand Jin Xianyu's language and looked at the surrounding terrain in boredom.
This floor is a patio structure with a pointed tower top, surrounded by wooden railings, and a corridor behind the railings.
Just when he felt that something was wrong, he suddenly heard an angry shout from the other side. It turned out to be Jin Xianyu who slapped the table and stood up. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince looked calmly and looked back at him with a faint smile on his face and said: "That's the condition.
Chaoyang Kingdom cedes half of its ownership of the Fudo Sea, and our country has no room to station troops on the border."
Zhong Yuxi thought, this is not a negotiation, it is just a talk. No wonder Jin Xianyu is so angry.
He was angry at first, and then suddenly smiled sinisterly: "Your Highness, since you are not sincere, let me tell you the truth. I came here today with no intention of negotiating."
He lightly snapped his fingers: "Do you think you can still walk out of this church today?"