The most grand diplomatic event of the Chinese Federation in the summer of 1906 was undoubtedly the visit of Princess Sissi of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
After the news of the princess coming to China came out, gossip immediately spread that the princess was here to get married, so all the young men and young masters from all walks of life gathered in Beijing.
But this princess who came from afar only stayed in the federal capital for less than a week, and then she went south non-stop to visit Helanggabo. This made all the dignitaries in the mainland confused. In private, some had ulterior motives.
Some people seized this opportunity to spread remarks such as "Beijing might as well change its name to Peking".
It is unknown how many people would listen to this blatant sowing discord, but everyone knows who the Austrian princess is trying to win over when she comes to China.
Lin Youde warmly entertained the Austrian princess in Langgabo.
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At Jie Feng's dance party, Chen Haihui kept poking Lin Youde.
"Come on, it's obvious that they are here for you."
Lin Youde sat still in his seat holding the wine glass, just watching his wife dancing on the dance floor with the Austrian nobles who were accompanying the princess on her visit to China.
Chen Haihui saw that Lin Youde was indifferent, so he encouraged him harder: "Go quickly, you see, everyone knows that she is here for you, so no one invites her to dance. A beautiful girl has no one at the dance from beginning to end.
It's so shameless to come and invite me. How can you let me hang out in social circles in the future?"
"What are you talking about?" Lin Youde was a little annoyed by being poked, and finally said, "You kid, after getting married, you turned into a good man, but you encouraged me to flirt with women?"
"You are a big pervert, can I compete with you?" In the entire naval system, only Chen Haihui dared to talk to Lin Youde like this, "And what are you dissatisfied with? The beauty that was brought to your door, and the food that was served to you,
The person you brought into the room tonight is yours, and the princess's entourage may have a celebration banquet when you go back to see you take the person away, so they are counting on you to have extra meals tonight."
"Although she is indeed beautiful, her breasts are too small and are not my cup of tea."
Upon hearing this, Chen Haihui immediately punched Lin Youde in the shoulder: "Come on, it's okay. You can't use the watermelons on your chests as a standard."
Lin Youde waved his hand.
To be honest, Lin Youde was quite interested in this Austrian princess. He did a little research on Sissi's family tree and found that she was actually the famous Princess Sissi in history, the Queen of Austria and Hungary. It was said that she was personally known as Sissi.
Her charm conquered Hungary and Italy and successfully resolved the crisis of secession. It was impossible for Lin Youde to have no expectations and no desire to take her into the palace for the queen's daughter.
Chen Haihui is really right about this. He, Lin Youde, is a hopeless pervert, a playboy who wants to include beautiful girls in his maid team to show off even if he doesn't push him. Of course, Lin Youde is now in his thirties.
, and he has a successful career, so he can no longer be called a playboy.
However, after actually seeing the Austrian princess, Lin Youde's desire cooled down. It wasn't really because her breasts were too small. Lin Youde visually judged that Princess Sissi's breasts should be at normal levels. To describe it as a fruit, it would be a cantaloupe.
Size. Other things like height, body curve, and leg shape, this Austrian princess is far above the standard, and her temperament is beyond praise.
In addition, her long, bright chestnut-colored hair also impressed Lin Youde.
But Lin Youde still couldn't get enough of this girl.
Feeling that a marriage with the Austro-Hungarian Empire was unprofitable was only one of the reasons. Another reason was that Lin Youde always felt that there was an unattainable aura lingering around this girl. That aura was like a wall, separating her from everyone around her.
Come on…
Even when facing the truly unattainable Queen Isabella of England, Lin Youde had never had such a feeling.
Lin Youde subjectively believed that she must be the kind of "real princess" who could still feel the little pea across dozens of velvet beds. Lin Youde somehow wanted to keep away from such a princess.
Lin Youde doesn't like delicate women.
Lin Youde told Chen Haihui exactly what he thought about the Austrian princess.
So Chen Haihui sighed.
"I think you are hopeless, and I, who think you are right, are hopeless."
"You've been doing it for a long time, so you're not interested, so you pushed it to me?"
"This is different. People are here for you. It's natural for you to go up. I'm just like a dog and a mouse meddling in other people's business. But it's not a problem to leave a girl alone like this. You are just like saving Joseph in Hong Kong ten years ago.
Like Fen, please save this poor girl."
"I already danced a song with her at the beginning of the ball."
"That's not a reason." At this time, the song had just ended. Josephine rejected the invitations of several other men and returned to her husband's seat. "My dear, Austria has expressly prohibited its own people from inviting anyone before you."
That princess, and here in China, based on the 'social wisdom' of your society, everyone decided that it was inappropriate to invite that princess to dance before you. This is different from the dilemma I encountered at the Hong Kong Governor's ball.
, at that time, as long as a brave man came to invite me, the situation could be opened, but now, the only person who can lift the spell cast on the Austrian princess is you, my dear."
Lin Youde took a deep breath.
Thinking about it the other way around, it's right. If you don't like her, just don't ask her to be your mistress, but there's no need to embarrass her at the dance.
So he pressed the armrest of the chair and prepared to stand up, but at this moment the Austrian princess acted first.
The princess who stood up immediately attracted everyone's attention, but she did not walk towards Lin Youde - in fact, she did not even look at Lin Youde.
She went straight to the band in the corner of the dance floor, and after saying a few words to the conductor, she obtained the right to use the piano placed in the corner of the band area.
The moment her slender fingers touched the ivory keyboard, as if they might melt and disappear at any moment, she dominated the entire dance with her music.
If it were Lin Youde who only knew famous piano music such as "Moonlight" in the past, he would definitely be able to say "oh, it sounds so good". But now Lin Youde has talents in art and music, and has what can be called a professional
Artist level guy.
"The third movement of Beethoven's Sonata No. 31 in A flat major," Lin Youde could directly hear this information from the melody that lasted less than half a minute, "Well, I made some adjustments..."
After Lin Youde said this, he stopped talking and listened intently to this heavenly piano solo.
After the song ended, he stood up and took the lead in applauding.
After the applause fell, he said: "It's a very good performance. It expresses the outburst of despair very well. Your feeling of being left out at the ball has been conveyed to me. I am very..."
"lie."
"Eh?" Lin Youde stood there in shock, "What?"
"You said that my mood is conveyed to you through music, that's a lie." The Austrian princess looked directly at Lin Youde with clear eyes, "A real pianist, no matter what his mood is, will perform the perfect piece of music accurately. The so-called
'The emotion poured into the performance' is just the reviewer's self-righteous interpretation."
Lin Youde's jaw almost dropped to the floor, but he quickly put away his shock and clapped again.
Everyone else in the venue looked at each other, wondering what Lin Youde's applause meant.
Lin Youde's solitary applause did not last long. He put down his hands and smiled and commented: "Yes, you are right. Music criticism is really just the listener's self-satisfaction. Your Royal Highness, you really gave me
A surprise.”
"Really? Then will you marry me?"
"I reject."
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"However, my child needs a music teacher. If circumstances permit, I would very much like to take up this position myself, but unfortunately this is not realistic. May I ask, Your Highness the Princess, if you are willing to stay in Helanggabo for a while?
?”
"Well," the girl nodded simply, "I didn't plan to leave when I came."
Lin Youde raised his eyebrows and looked back at Chen Haihui, who was winking at him.
It seems that this Austrian princess is more interesting than imagined.