"Your Highness, Prince Xiao said he has something important to report." The attendant walked to the side of Prince Jin and spoke in a low voice.
"Let him go to the study." Prince Jin was silent for a moment after hearing this. He picked up a piece of meat for Princess Jin with his chopsticks and said in a deep voice.
The attendant went to report to Xiao Qinbei. Upon hearing this, Xiao Qinbei glanced at Prince Jin again, put down his chopsticks, and stood up from the round stool.
"Dad, are you going out? Don't you want to eat?" Xiao Shunan had just finished gnawing on a duck leg and was gnawing on a big pork elbow with both hands.
"Well, you'll come with me?"
Xiao Qinbei glanced at his face. It was greasy and he had no manners when eating. He had no manners at all.
Feeling a little disgusted, he pursed his lips and glanced at Zhao Chengqian sitting at the opposite table.
Zhao Chengqian sat upright, picked up dishes very politely, and ate slowly and steadily. He looked like a nobleman no matter how you looked at him.
"No, Dad, you know I'm so rude. It would be bad if I offended the prince. You should go."
Xiao Shunan put down the pig's trotter in his hand and wiped his hands and mouth with the handkerchief beside him. There was still some meat residue at the corners of his mouth. He squinted his eyes and smiled.
What's the point of him going? His father will be the one talking anyway. He might as well sit here and eat more meat.
Xiao Shunan was eager for his father to leave.
His father is not here, but he can eat as much as he wants!
"Dad, please go quickly. I'll come to see you after dinner."
Xiao Qinbei glanced at him and said unhappily, "Eat, eat, eat, all you know is eat!"
This... He has been well fed and well-dressed since he was a child, so how could he become such a fool!
Why!
Xiao Qinbei sighed and left the scene abruptly.
"What's wrong? I haven't eaten meat for several months. What's wrong with eating a few more pieces of meat?"
Xiao Shunan looked at Xiao Qinbei's leaving figure in confusion and curled his lips.
Never mind, who knows what his father is angry about.
It’s more important to eat meat, otherwise you don’t know when you will have another chance to eat it.
Xiao Shunan picked up the chopsticks again, picked up another piece of beef and put it in his mouth. He chewed it for a few bites and swallowed it. He then immediately picked up a piece of the remaining lamb chops and started eating it in big mouthfuls.
“It smells so good…”
It’s a pity that his father didn’t have this good fortune.
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At this time, in the study of Prince Jin.
Xiao Qinbei had been here for a while. After being led in by the servants, he stood in front of Prince Jin's desk waiting, but Prince Jin did not come yet.
The servant outside the door came in to serve tea, looked at Xiao Qinbei and said:
"Sir, why don't you go back to the banquet and eat something? I'll call you when the prince arrives."
After hearing what he said, Xiao Qinbei felt a little hungry. When he came over, he didn't even have time to eat a bite of the food.
The King of Jin was deliberately showing off to him. He hadn't come yet and no one knew when he would come.
Just as Xiao Qinbei was about to go out to eat something, someone outside called out, "Your Highness."
"The prince is waiting for you inside."
Xiao Qinbei stood up straight again and looked towards the door.
Prince Jin walked in and signaled to the attendant beside Xiao Qinbei. The attendant bowed, turned around and left, closing the study door.
"Prince Xiao, what do you want to see me for?"
Prince Jin walked around Xiao Qinbei and sat down on the chair behind the table. He tugged at his messy clothes.
Xiao Qinbei bowed and saluted, then said bluntly, "Your Majesty, I would like to ask you to save the people of Gan Country."
"Now, except for Youzhou and Qingzhou, all other places are plagued by the plague. The people not only have to suffer from hunger and cold, but also from illness."
"Please give me medicine to save the people of Gan Country!"
Prince Jin did not say anything, but instead looked at Xiao Qinbei silently, rubbing a string of white jade beads between his fingertips.
"Prince Xiao, I'm afraid I can't agree to this."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Qinbei raised his head abruptly and said excitedly, "Your Highness, are you planning to just leave this country alone and let the people die of illness?"
He originally thought that the King of Jin would at most make things difficult for him for a while but would still agree to this matter.
After all, the lives and deaths of the people are related to the country and the people, but no one expected that King Jin would reject it without hesitation.
"You are a member of the royal family of Gan State. How can you not care about the lives of the people of the world?"
"Or are you angry with me because of our personal grudges, so you don't want to agree?" Xiao Qinbei was angry. He had endured the matter with his sister.
However, because of the defiance he had shown in the lobby today, King Jin was unwilling to give him the medicine to save the people of Gan State!
He is really too petty. How can such a narrow-minded and vicious person become the ruler of the world?
Fortunately, Your Majesty still has hope for him and hopes that Prince Jin will return to Bianliang.
"presumptuous!"
Prince Jin glanced at him, his hand tightly gripping the white jade beads. "These medicines are not mine. How could I have the liberty to give them to you?"
Xiao Qinbei frowned, obviously not believing what he said.
"If it's not the prince's, then whose is it..."
He suddenly remembered something and paused.
"You mean this medicine was given by Ruanruan?"
King Jin said coldly, "Nonsense! Everyone in Qingzhou City knows that this medicine is from Ruan Ruan. You might as well ask Ruan Ruan for it instead of asking me."
"I have said that Ruanruan has made her own decision. How can I promise you that?"
Xiao Qinbei looked up at Prince Jin, his resentment rising to the surface. His face flushed and he angrily said, "Your Highness, there's no one else here right now, so why are you pretending?"
"You held a banquet today to recognize Ruan Ruan, simply because you wanted to use Ruan Ruan to contain Prince Xiao's Mansion!"
Things have developed to this point, and the King of Jin has forced him to this point.
He didn't want to continue arguing with Prince Jin and was ready to confront him directly. "Don't keep me in suspense. I won't agree to your request. Even if my Prince Xiao's Mansion is gone, I will never help you seize the throne."
"Let's be frank today. Even if you don't want Ruanruan to go with me, I will definitely take Ruanruan with me!"
"We in the Xiao Palace have always remembered what you did to my sister. And now you are still trying to deceive Ruanruan. Aren't you afraid that Ruanruan will hate you one day when she finds out?" Xiao Qinbei clenched his fists and spoke loudly, gritting his teeth.
Prince Jin frowned and said coldly, "I have already said that I have never done anything to your sister. If you don't believe me, then I am being unreasonable!"
In Xiao Qinbei's opinion, Prince Jin just didn't want to admit the mistakes he made back then.
"If that's the case, how do you explain why my sister was in your palace back then?"
His sister had been missing for several years, and Prince Xiao's Mansion had been searching for her for several years.
At the birthday party of Prince Jin, he found his sister in the Prince Jin's mansion.
How would the King of Jin explain this?
"How would I know where she came from?" Because Prince Jin was criticized by the emperor for no apparent reason, and the emperor did not believe him.
In order to appease King Xiao's anger, he even demoted him to Qingzhou on the pretext that he pleaded for the general who defended the country.
The King of Jin is still full of resentment. Who can he turn to for justice?
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