Since receiving the invitation letter from the Anas Empire, Xia Zoe has been thinking about what kind of birthday present he should prepare for the queen of the empire.
- This should be a gift that has never appeared before, but can make any woman fall in love with it.
This must also be a gift that makes all women irresistible, envious and jealous, and it will definitely make the queen the focus of the entire birthday dinner, stunning and attracting everyone's attention.
A new feeling of unparalleled beauty.
So, Xia Zoe intends to give the imperial queen a full-body custom-made gift, with makeup, perfume, haute couture dresses... a head-to-toe change.
I believe that no woman can refuse this gift.
He wanted to contact and befriend the queen of the empire.
One is to get in touch with the person concerned, and the other is to take advantage of the existence of this gift - there is an irresistible charm for every woman.
For now, Xia Zuoyi's situation in the empire is definitely not good.
After all, he holds a secret recipe for sugar that can yield huge benefits.
His Majesty, the king at the top, has the intention of watching, not to mention the various nobles who are surrounding him.
Just as Boris said, I don't know how many people are waiting for the opportunity to reach out and peel him off the bones and share the broth.
Since the booth was set up in the port, there have been people coming and going back and forth in the open and in the dark, beating around the corner and snooping around.
But what they brought back in the end was nothing more than a finished box of lemon candies, rose candies, candy paintings, or fruit wrapped in syrup.
The steady stream of gold coins all went into Xia Zuoyi's pocket, which made these people's faces show a painful but helpless look.
Xia Zuoyi received the money happily, and at the same time used the convenience of the booth to find out a lot about the imperial nobles.
That day, the man who talked to Tosi Cavendish in front of the lemon candy-making booth was one of those that Xia Zoe noticed.
—The chancellor of the Anas Empire, the Marquis of Darnell of the House of Laurie, who is also the Queen's nephew.
No wonder he disliked Tosi, the king's illegitimate son.
Xia Zoe heard in the empire—for the king's many lovers, the queen had made a lot of efforts to restore the king's heart at the beginning, but it was of no use.
The king was still showing mercy everywhere, and he did not give the queen any daughters at all.
So, probably because she was disheartened, the queen gradually fell silent, ignoring the absurdity of the king.
Even one of the king's beautiful mistresses mocked the queen in public, saying that the reason why she was not favored by the king was because she had a spare family and no beauty, not even a beautiful vase.
This word was spread.
Although the mistress who said these words was immediately dealt with by the Laurie family in revenge, the queen never came forward to refute the rumor.
She has not appeared in the palace for a long time, so long that even members of the royal family have almost forgotten her existence, so that the rumor that the queen is inferior to a vase has spread to this day.
Xia Zuoyi didn't know why the queen didn't come out to speak.
But the Queen's surname was Laurie.
Behind her, there is an old imperial noble who cannot be ignored supporting her, and it is precisely because of this that even if the king does not pay much attention to the queen, he will not ignore her.
But that only goes so far.
Otherwise, the king would not sit idly by and ignore the rumors that were unfavorable to the queen.
They didn't even count the "separation", which shows that the king and queen didn't even do the superficial work.
After Xia Zoe learned the identity of Darnell Laurie from the Grand Duke of Orville, he planned to send someone to contact him to try, and use the Laurie family to contact the queen first.
Not long after he returned to Duke Agia Joli's mansion, he opened the box he brought back from the ship, which contained a small and delicate perfume bottle.
- The length is about half the size of a palm, the bottle is flat, and the cap is exquisite. It turned out to be a rose made of stained glass.
Such exquisite and exquisite small objects are undoubtedly a very thoughtful and pleasing gift, whether they are used for their own use or given to others.
Xia Zuoyi pulled off the cork of the perfume bottle, and a deep and refreshing fragrance was transmitted from the bottle to the nose, and then evaporated and scattered in the air.
There are obviously no roses around, but it seems that people are in the middle of roses, and the petals are constantly falling. The smell that fills the air is not strong and pungent, but a rich and intoxicating smell.
Xia Zoe thought for a while, poured out a little rose perfume on her fingertips, and then applied it behind her ears and inside her elbows.
He had just put the cork back on, intending to put the perfume back in the box, when a servant suddenly appeared and knocked on the door.
After Judit goes to open it.
The attendant said: "Lord Lord, there is a guest who wants to see you. Lord Duke, please come and take a look."
Xia Zuoyi was a little puzzled, and followed the attendant to the front hall of the reception. He didn't expect to see an acquaintance here, the archbishop of the Holy See, Paul.
Paul put his right hand on his chest: "Good day, Lord."
Xia Zuoyi nodded to him and asked, "Is there anything you want to do with me?"
Orville respects the privacy of its guests.
Desinia, although living in his place, is free to move.
So after Xia Zoe met Paul, Orville thoughtfully left, and he was going to watch the beasts in the large paddock in the backyard.
Paul bowed his head and said respectfully, "My lord, Your Majesty would like to see you."
It is a secret that His Majesty the Pope personally came to the Anas Empire.
But now there are no outsiders, so Paul just said it directly.
Naturally, Xia Zuoyi didn't expect Segalot's arrival, so she couldn't help showing a bit of surprise: "The Pope is in the empire?"
"Yes."
Paul asked again.
Xia Zoe agreed, and before he left the duke's mansion, he ordered the attendant to tell the Grand Duke Orville that he had something to do.
When he came to the door, Xia Zuoyi suddenly found that he was still holding the perfume bottle in his hand, and it was unnecessary to put it back now, so he simply put it in his pocket.
…
The carriage stopped in front of a door with a wall covered with green dill flowers.
Paul led the way, passed the green courtyard, and entered the living room: "Lord Lord, Your Majesty is waiting for you on the second floor, please go up alone..."
He looked embarrassedly at Judit, the housekeeper who followed behind Xia Zoe.
Xia Zoe: "Judit, wait for me here first."
Judit said yes, and bowed.
Xia Zoe climbed the stairs, stepped on the soft carpet laid on the second floor, and turned around the corner slowly...
He put his hands behind his back and set his eyes on the windows on the side of the corridor, and finally saw a spot of light flashing on one of the windows, and there was movement—
Xia Zoe immediately turned around when Segalot approached quietly, and with a small expression of insight and smugness, she faced the Pope's face that showed a little surprise and then deepened the smile.
He grabbed the Pope's sleeve with one hand, trying to stop the movement of the other person reaching over to hug him, but he was wrapped in the palm of the opposite direction...
Segalot's other hand was wrapped around Xia Zoe's waist when he didn't react in time, and he picked him up at once, then took a few steps forward and placed him on the spacious window sill.
Xia Zuoyi couldn't help but puffed up and was depressed.
He was frightened like this twice in a row, and he couldn't think about it three times, but in fact, the biggest difference was in height and physical strength, which was really incomparable.
He sat on the edge of the window, kicked his legs, and said with a shriveled mouth: "Also ask His Majesty the Pope to make room, I'll be better."
However, Segalot approached quickly and sniffed the tip of his nose with some doubts: "I have smelled the fragrance of roses since just now... Wouldn't this little rose of yours really be made of roses?"
He was not too close, keeping a proper distance, but the faint scent of roses seemed like an attractive hook.
Segalot couldn't help but get closer again, his gilded eyes darkened, like a slush cast by brilliance, and he gently picked up the hair by Xia Zoe's ear with one hand.
Xia Zoe hugged his hand and pulled it down, took out the perfume bottle from his pocket and explained, "Your Majesty smells the smell of rose perfume."
"I ordered it to be made just now, and it is intended to be one of the birthday gifts for the queen."
"The smell of rose perfume has not been tested. I don't know how long it will stay on the human body. When you asked Paul to invite me, I was going to test it myself."
"Now it seems that the results are not bad."
Xia Zuoyi said, raised his wrist and sniffed lightly, and then turned his wrist to Segalot: "Your Majesty, take a sniff, it's also here."
Segalot frowned.
Looking at the serious and innocent expression on the face of the person in front of him, he suddenly raised the corner of his mouth and chuckled: "What's more, you are covered in the scent of roses."
Really a little rose.
Xia Zuoyi calculated the time it would take to get here from the Grand Duke's mansion, and couldn't help but nodded.
He said that the fragrance was well maintained, and then it will be seen when it fades and disappears, and how long it will last.
Segalot rested on the window sill beside Xia Zoe with one hand, and took a closer look at the perfume bottle in his hand with the other.
The Pope's smooth long black curly hair fell from his shoulders, and a few strands of hair lay loosely on Xia Zuoyi's arm, and fell into the palm of his hand in a few bends, a little itchy.
Xia Zuoyi moved his fingers, grabbed the hair and put it all back behind Segalot, the action was very natural.
The curvature of the corner of Segalot's mouth deepened, and the gilded eyes were even more radiant, and the laughter that could not be concealed overflowed from his throat.
He shook the perfume bottle slightly, watching the beautiful liquid inside, and said slowly: "This is another money-making idea that you came up with, using the status of the queen and the timing of the birthday dinner to sell the perfume?"
Xia Zoe gave the Pope a thumbs up: "Smart, you're right, but it's not just perfume."
"what else?"
"Secret for now."
Seeing that he no longer asked, Xia Zuoyi said, "Why did your majesty come to the Anas Empire?"
"I remember that even if the Queen's dinner, according to the Holy See's specifications, it should be a cardinal to attend..."
But he saw only one archbishop, Paul.
Segalot: "The two cardinals of the Holy See are busy with business, and neither of them really want to waste time attending the Queen's birthday dinner."
"Oh."
Xia Zuoyi nodded: "Then you are... "
"There is something to do."
Xia Zuoyi thought to himself: It turned out to be an official business in the Anas Empire. It seems that the Pope's attendance at the dinner was just a matter of convenience.