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Chapter 321 The Prince’s Visit: England

"What time is it??"

"Replying to your majesty, it's twelve o'clock!!"

"The prince should be arriving soon, right??"

"Yes, it should indeed be here."

In the study, Liu Peng, who was taking a nap, took out the "Industrial" book open on his face, opened his "sharp" eyes, looked at the clock wrapped in gold on the table, and ordered:

"Let Hu Junding come to see me."

"Yes, Your Majesty!!"

Wen Ting lowered her head and left the study room filled with "imperial atmosphere".

"Crash!!"

Liu Peng picked up a newspaper on the table and saw the report on the progress of the "internal combustion engine". He threw it back without any reaction.

Hu Junding, who was in the cabinet, ran over "in a hurry".

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In London, England, Liu Yu, who was sitting on a gilded carriage, looked at the British-style buildings outside the window and the cavalry escorting him. His eyes "fluctuated" several times before finally calming down.

After walking for a few streets, he finally stopped in front of a heavily patrolled palace. Looking at the guards wearing tall bearskin hats outside the gate, Liu Yu looked carefully for a few times, and finally looked out again. Looking at the scorching sun in the sky, my mind wandered a few times, and finally with the sound of horse hooves, the carriage drove into Buckingham Palace.

In Buckingham Palace, Queen Victoria was packing up her dress. The dress was stretched very straight, revealing a touch of white.

Next to him, Prince Albert stood opposite him "indifferently". Seeing the "carefully" dressed Queen, he said somewhat funny:

"The last time Napoleon III came, I never saw you so grand. You must know that he is not the legendary emperor of Han, he is just a crown prince or a prince!!"

Albert deliberately lengthened his tone in front of Queen Victoria and said "Prince" in Chinese. This was something Queen Victoria specifically asked to learn in order to show respect.

Queen Victoria raised her head and glanced at her husband, then stepped forward to straighten his collar that was fastened with gem buttons. She kept moving her hands while saying:

"Albert, you know what kind of person Napoleon III is. Even if you respect him like God, he will only think that this is your cowardice, and he will even find ways to bully you!!"

Queen Victoria's lips showed disdain for Napoleon III, and then she continued: "But this prince is different. His father is a great monarch, a founding king. This is also the first time that their royal family has visited Europe. If we If you neglect him, the Han people will think that the relationship between the British Empire and the Han country is not good, and it will even make them angry. You have to understand that these upstarts want face the most!!"

"Yes, they really care about face, and so does Napoleon!!"

Albert echoed what Queen Victoria just said with a "sarcastic" expression.

"Your Majesty, people are here!!"

Hearing the voice from the attendant, Queen Victoria smiled at Prince Albert, and the two walked out of the room together.

Outside, Li Yu, who was "unafraid in the face of danger", immediately stepped forward to shake hands after seeing Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

"Hello, Your Majesty!!"

"Hello, Your Highness!!"

Looking at the "Prince" in front of her who did not curtsey, Queen Victoria's eyes flashed with a trace of "displeasure", and she casually stretched out her hand wearing silk gloves and gave the young "Prince" a gentle kiss. He shook his hand, but quickly retracted it.

Albert shook it hard, his expression soon changed, and he shrank back.

Queen Victoria then invited Liu Yu to visit the "Royal Palace" together, and Liu Yu "happily went".

"Your Royal Highness, what do you think of Buckingham Palace??"

“How does it compare with the imperial palace of Han??”

Queen Victoria wore a long dress with two maids behind her to help tidy up the skirt.

Prince Albert stood aside and looked towards Liu Yu from time to time.

"too small!!"

Liu Yu's words caused the two people's expressions to change instantly.

Then Liu Yu said:

"It's not good to be too big. When you get bigger, there are more people. When there are more people, there are more things to do!!"

"Your Majesty, does the British Empire have more or less?"

Liu Yu asked Queen Victoria in fluent English.

Queen Victoria glanced at her, and then replied: "The British Empire is a constitutional country. Even if you are busy, I can't be busy."

"Your Han Empire will be very busy!!"

Liu Yu recognized the "jifeng" in it and said with a smile:

"Whether it is constitutional or not, it is all for the sake of the country. If the constitution is good, we will use the constitution. If the constitution is not good, we will just throw it away."

“Isn’t that what France is like now!!”

(Alluding to Napoleon III’s current monopoly over France)

"But how long do you think the current France can last??"

“By that Napoleon nephew??”

Queen Victoria's tone became more "tricky".

"France is heading down the wrong path now. If they continue like this, their final fate will not be better than Napoleon!!"

Prince Albert followed suit.

Liu Yu chuckled, then walked to a flower bed, pulled out a transplanted rose, and pointed with a smile:

“If a flower is broken, can it still survive??”

"Of course not. In this world, there is no way to return from the dead."

Prince Albert followed suit.

Queen Victoria didn't say anything, she just stared at the "Broken Flower" opposite.

"So can Napoleon's empire come back??"

Liu Yu held the broken flower and continued to ask with a smile.

"Ha ha……"

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert "laughed" after hearing this, with happy smiles on their faces.

Queen Victoria looked at Liu Yu much better, and then invited him to have afternoon tea together.

Before Liu Yu left, he re-inserted the broken flower into the soil of the flower bed. Within a day, the flower rotted, but the rhizome penetrated deep into the bottom of the flower bed.

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Liu Yu stood in front of the mirror and wiped his face. In recent days, he had been attending parties organized by the British royal family and drank a lot of wine that was not suitable for his age.

Next to him stood Jiang Wei, his attendant who had grown up since childhood. Jiang Wei was considered his companion.

I also went with him on this trip and did some secretarial work.

"Your Highness, this is today's event."

Jiang Wei handed a black notebook to Liu Yu who had finished wiping his face.

Liu Yu glanced at it for a few times, then muttered: "It's a dance again, why are these British people more troublesome than the French? I think they really have nothing to do!!"

"Your Highness is right, these British ghosts really don't have much culture. They are either salons or cocktail parties."

Jiang Wei then scolded Britain.

After cursing, Liu Yu looked at her a few more times and ordered: "I will go hunting with the queen today, but I will reject everything else."

"Damn, it's all rubbish!!"

Among so many "boring" activities, Liu Yu chose one that was not so boring.

Jiang Yu, who was behind him, immediately agreed, and then went out to inform the "attendants" sent by the Queen.

Liu Yu, who was in the room, carefully looked at the "well-looking" young man in the mirror. There was a heroic spirit between the young man's eyebrows, like an eagle about to take off. Of course, this was what outsiders saw, but Liu Yu saw it himself. He is just an "ordinary" looking boy, a naughty rich young man with some "knowledge".

Liu Yu imitated his father's behavior and loosened the collar a little, but it felt "frivolous" and changed it back.

He didn't leave the room until Jiang Wei urged him.

.........

Boom! !

Gunfire rang out and several foxes were knocked down, the favorite sport of the British aristocracy, fox hunting.

Liu Yu rides on a tall black British purebred horse, holds a gold-plated shotgun, and wears a slightly tight khaki hunting suit. He looks more aristocratic than Prince Albert next to him.

Queen Victoria, who was on another white horse, saw Liu Yu hit a fox that turned at high speed with one blow, her beautiful eyes lit up slightly, and then she praised:

“His Royal Highness’s marksmanship is even better than those generals!!”

“Have you ever been in the Junior Military Academy??”

(The Junior Military Academy is a relatively popular school in Europe, specially used to train those noble children. It is considered the earliest boarding school)

"No, my father prefers hunting, so I have hunted with him since I was a child." Liu Yu's simple and capable sentence revealed two pieces of information. One was Liu Peng's hobby of hunting, and the other was relationships.

Queen Victoria was a very smart person. After hearing this sentence, she smiled and said:

"I also like hunting. It's a pity that I don't have the opportunity to hunt with your father. If possible, I would like to hunt with him in the London countryside."

"I am also very interested in His Majesty the Emperor's marksmanship and hope to see it."

Prince Albert followed.

Hearing such obvious diplomatic hints from the two people, Liu Yu did not react at all and just answered with a smile:

"My father also welcomes Your Majesty the Queen to go hunting in Xijing. Xijing is bigger than London and has more forests. There you can hunt all day long, and you can even hunt jaguars with better skins than bears."

Liu Yu even stretched out a hand in an inviting expression.

Queen Victoria smiled "embarrassingly", and then euphemistically said "physical problem" to answer this question that she didn't know how to answer.

At the end of the fight, Queen Victoria was riding on her horse, looking back at this "handsome" young man from time to time, and couldn't help but ask:

"I heard you are engaged??"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I am engaged to a daughter of a marquis."

Liu Yu raised his hand and fired another shot, hitting a driven hare with a "bang".

Queen Victoria, who was standing aside, was a little disappointed after hearing this, but her eyes soon brightened up again and she continued:

"If I remember correctly, you can have multiple wives!!"

Liu Yu didn't know how to answer such words, so he could only nod his head silently.

But Queen Victoria, who was opposite, said happily:

"Although you cannot marry a princess from the royal family because you are already married to one, you can still marry the daughter of an ordinary noble."

"In this case, I will hold a dance for you tomorrow night, and then I will find some young noble girls for you to dance and get to know each other."

The more Queen Victoria talked about it, the happier she became, and she even directly commented on which company had more beautiful and "noble" girls.

Prince Albert on the side smiled awkwardly at Liu Yu, his eyes full of apologies. After all, the Queen is like this sometimes. When she sees a "young man" like Liu Yu, she becomes "gossip" The heart cannot be extinguished no matter what.

In the end, Queen Victoria did not give Liu Yu a chance to refute, and directly announced that she would choose a "concubine" for him.

He even vowed:

"If your father wants to cause trouble, then come to me. I won't mind."

Liu Yu's face twitched several times in succession, and then he smiled awkwardly.

It wasn't until after he left that Liu Yu slapped himself in the face. Now he regretted coming to hunt today. If he had known it would be better to talk to those British "old men" about international affairs, they would not do such a thing. Things come up.

.........

"Let us welcome the crown prince from across the ocean, Prince Liu Yu!!"

The host dragged out a "disgusting" British tune, which instantly destroyed Liu Yu's normal mood.

clap clap clap! !

Liu Yu just walked out and waved, and the young nobles below applauded him enthusiastically. Looking down, there were very few men. Most of them were brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters. The meaning was self-evident.

Liu Yu talked about some "topics" that he often talks about these days, and finally got off the stage with a nonsense sentence about "English-Chinese friendship".

As soon as I stepped off the stage, I was surrounded by dense "butterflies".

Smelling the pungent perfume, Liu Yu painfully faced the "mosquitoes" coming towards his face.

When he couldn't stand it anymore, Liu Yu saw a shy British girl with brown hair and some small spots who was pushed behind. His eyes lit up, and he immediately pretended to be interested, walked through the butterfly swarm, and reached out to the other party. Handed.

Sophie looked at the stretched out arm, raised her head, and showed her "ignorant" little face. When she saw the person opposite, she was too scared to speak.

"Beautiful lady, can I ask you to dance??"

Listening to the standard "British accent", Sophie noticed the "fiery" eyes around her, blushed, stretched out her hand, and placed it on the hand that was not too big but was very warm.

Some people around him made "haha" noises. Of course, there were also jealous murmurs, such as "the idiot from the Earl's family", "a fool who couldn't even get into college" and "a declining family".

But Liu Yu, who was holding his waist, didn't care so much. At this time, he was feeling the rare "freedom".

Sophie, who was opposite him, blushed and asked:

"Then why did you choose me? I'm not as beautiful as them."

Liu Peng lowered his head and looked at the "dumb" Sophie, and asked with a smile:

"I still don't know what your name is??"

"Sophie, Sophie Bobbitt."

Listening to this aristocratic surname who was not very familiar with the terrain, Liu Yu asked funnyly:

“Where is your home in London??”

Sophie's originally cheerful face instantly darkened, and she replied in a low voice: "Our family has declined. My grandfather's generation had already sold their properties in London and gone to Scotland."

After finishing speaking, he said with some worry:

"You should regret finding me now!!"

Liu Yu looked at this "Scottish girl" and after looking at the eyes of the people around him, he immediately understood the meaning.

"Of course, no one likes a Scotsman."

Feeling Sophie's constant "trembling", Liu Yu squeezed her little hand, brought it to her ear and said with a smile: "I'm from Han. To me, Scotland is no different from England."

"The only difference might be..."

"What could it be??"

Sophie asked hurriedly, and blushed again when she saw Liu Yu's "joking" eyes.

"The difference is that Scottish food is slightly better than British food."

"Just like you."

Liu Yu and Sophie were in the middle of the dance floor. Sophie's whole body turned "pink", like "Linna Bell".

"Is what you said true??"

Sophie mustered up the courage to look at this foreign boy who was "playing with" her, her beautiful eyes filled with anxiety and "pink".

Liu Yu didn't speak, he just put his arms around each other, and after dancing the last of the three dances, he returned to the stage and continued to speak on the manuscript he had written overnight.

Sophie, who was in the audience, looked at the "talking" and "heroic" young man on the stage, listened to his "heroic words", and instantly fell into an illusory sense of happiness.

When everything was over and the dance that lasted "two and a half hours" came to an end, Liu Yu packed up his clothes that were wrinkled by butterflies and those careless "lip marks", and planned to leave with Jiang Wei in the royal carriage.

"Wait a minute!!"

Hearing the "slightly" familiar voice behind him, Liu Yu stopped just as he stepped into the car, and saw the girl named "Sophie" or "Morphine" walking towards him.

"You haven't told me yet, is what you just said true??"

Sophie stood opposite Liu Yu and looked at him with "firm" eyes.

Liu Yu panicked and took out his handkerchief, wiped the traceless dress, and replied in a calm tone:

"Yes, it's true, you are unique, you are the most unique girl in Scotland!!"

“Have you ever been to Scotland??”

Liu Yu stopped wiping his chest, and then said:

"No, I haven't been, but I have a gut feeling that you will be the most beautiful girl in Scotland!!"

"Why??"

Sophie's "stubborn" questioning was not "dismissed" by Liu Yu's words at all.

Liu Yu paused, stuffed the handkerchief into his pocket, and then replied:

"You know, I've seen many women, and none of them are as beautiful as you."

"so……"

"So you're going to let me be your concubine?"

Sophie's words made Liu Yu "at a loss", and in the end he could only respond with "You can't rush this kind of thing."

But Sophie didn't care so much and said with a more "stubborn" look:

"I know you're just using me as a shield from them, but I don't care."

Listening to Sophie's "not so stupid" words, Liu Yu looked at the "stubborn" Scottish girl opposite with complicated eyes.

Finally, he handed the handkerchief he had just wiped to the other party:

"I don't like people washing my personal belongings."

Sophie took the handkerchief and nodded with a blushing face.

Then he watched the carriage leave. After leaving, he touched his hot little face and muttered: "You are crazy, you are completely crazy Sophie!!"

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(End of this chapter)