What a gentle tone and beautiful expression! Could you please use another language?
They chatted for a long time, and finally it was time to go back. Ji Yingying was invited to the Empress's Palace to change into the princess's gorgeous clothes.
"These clothes were originally meant to be sent to your residence, but since I need to wear them tonight, I've left them in my palace."
Ji Yingying was looking at the dress. It was beautiful, extremely beautiful. There were far more beautiful princess dresses than the ones she had seen at the museum.
【What beautiful clothes! Host, you'll look stunning in them.】
I'm already pretty, but this dress makes me even prettier. I love it!
Ji Yingying suddenly remembered that she hadn't replied to the Empress, so she quickly turned around and said to the Empress in a coquettish tone, "Your Majesty, you are so kind. This dress is so beautiful."
"Today is a banquet for foreign envoys. As the eldest princess, you should naturally wear fine clothes. You can wear the ones your mother prepared for the next banquet at your home."
“Okay, okay!”
My mom also prepared clothes for me?
No, Mom already knew you had a lot of clothes, so she didn't prepare any for you.
Wow, she's trying to save money!
Yes, to save up for her dowry.
Ji Yingying smiled: "I guess my life in this one will be the same as my last."
[Enough talk, come on, go try it!]
With the help of palace maids, it took an hour to change clothes and apply makeup. By the time everything was done, Ji Yingying was exhausted.
She then followed the Empress to the main hall, where all the officials had arrived except for the Emperor. Ji Yingying found her seat and sat down.
The envoy hasn't arrived yet; I'm curious to see if they are a race with white skin and green eyes.
No, at most it's Japan or South Korea, not Australia. Our region is too far from Australia; our current maritime technology isn't advanced enough to see white people yet.
Have you looked at the map?
[I watched it when I was a child. I glanced at it a couple of times when the Hai Xiang Kingdom attacked last time, and I vaguely remember some of it.]
Can't you be a little more attentive?
[Pay attention? Pay attention to what? Have you ever seen a good-for-nothing with fighting spirit?]
I've never seen one, but I've also never seen a truly capable but useless person.
Now you've seen it.
【I just laugh!】
[You can tell if someone is white or not once they come in.]
【Absolutely not, shall we bet?】
[Hehe, I'm not betting with you. I'm just a gossip-eating system; I want to enjoy the gossip.]
[Xiangxiang, think about it. We've made a bet. Maybe if I lose, I can go to the house of someone with melons to watch the show, just like you want. Maybe you can level up three more times.]
Ji Yingying said enticingly, "It's a pity that Xiangxiang completely ignores her. Ever since it was bound to Ji Yingying, it has been deceived and tempted countless times."
It has long since become an impenetrable fortress.
"The Emperor has arrived, the Crown Prince has arrived..." The Emperor and the Crown Prince have both arrived. After the Emperor took his seat, the envoys also entered shortly afterward.
As expected, they weren't white. They really were Japanese people who looked like Koreans, just dressed similarly, not to the point where they could be easily identified at a glance like in my previous life.
"Envoy Ishino Akira greets the Emperor of the Tenyou Dynasty."
"Envoy Shirakawa Osamu has met with the Emperor of the Tenyou Dynasty."
…………
Besides the man and woman, there were two male envoys and one female envoy.
"Rise and take a seat!"
After they sat down, they began to sing and dance, having a wonderful time!
These girls are so beautiful! So graceful, their dance moves so elegant, and those breasts…
Stop thinking about it, be more reserved.
【Alright!】 Ji Yingying couldn't drink alcohol, so she had only water in front of her. Apart from her, almost all the ministers had brought their families.
The palace was a vast, dark mass.
Sitting next to Ji Yingying were Fang Yulan and Ji Cailiang. Ji Cailiang's seat wasn't that close to the front; he was only in such a position because of Ji Yingying.
"Mother, look! Someone over there is plotting against us."
"who?"
"It's that the daughter of that minor official who's plotting against the daughter of that concubine. But it won't be that quick; it should be nearing its end."
Fang Yulan frowned; her daughter had never made a mistake.
"Then what should you do?"
"We shouldn't do anything, we'll see when the time comes."
After the song and dance performance, the Emperor asked, "Prince Shi Yelang, is there any woman you fancy? The women seated here are all my princesses."
"Your Majesty, not yet!"
The ministers were dumbfounded. They didn't even like this? Did they want to fight? Besides, the empress had married a prince to the country, not sent him to marry someone back to Haixiang.
[This prince has some juicy gossip, wanna eat some?]
[Eat it! How can you not eat the melons from other countries?]
[Throughout the journey, the prince complained and blamed everyone, while his maidservant, eager to rise in rank, constantly tried to seduce him. Now, the prince's heart belongs entirely to that maidservant.]
Moreover, the other empress wanted to use his good looks to seduce the people here, planting a secret agent. It's just a pity that this prince is love-struck.
[Haha, what a useless man. He hasn't even had a chance to prove himself before being turned against him by his own people. What's the point of him coming here? To get tortured?]
[In those countries, the empress oversees the nation, and men are merely appendages of her. Some men are just like the women in our country—spoiled and ruined by their wives.]
Oh dear, why wasn't I born into that small country? Maybe I could have raised ten or eight husbands.
Forget about it. They practice monogamy; a wife can only have one man. If she has more than one, she will be punished, or even killed.
Good heavens, the Heavenly Dynasty is truly blessed. Now I'm a princess too, and I can keep male concubines.
[Hehe, you really are a little yellow girl!]
[Let's continue with the juicy gossip about this prince.]
There aren't many scandals about him, but the only interesting one is that his father frequently made him sick in order to win his mother's favor.
It's normal for him to be sent here; his father doesn't love him, his mother wants power, he's just a pitiful little thing.
[Host, I suggest you bring the fourth princess.]
[Is there some gossip about the Fourth Princess?]
Yes, the Fourth Princess is assertive. After all, she is the daughter of Consort Wan, who has always been averse to trouble, and the Fourth Princess is no exception. Most importantly, she is the only princess without a sweetheart.
"So, no matter who the prince consort is, it's all the same to her, right?" Ji Yingying asked rhetorically.
Yes, no matter which man the Fourth Princess marries, her fate will ultimately be unfortunate. But this prince is different; he is also from the inner quarters, which perfectly complements the Fourth Princess.
[I won't participate, I won't recommend it, let's just watch the show!] Ji Yingying doesn't really recommend marriage alliances. They just formed an alliance between the Fifth Prince and the Princess of Baohe Kingdom, and now they're forming another alliance with the Fourth Princess. What's going on... it would be better to unify the whole country!
But war is too costly and exhausting for the people, and the emperor doesn't seem to have the same abilities as his charming ancestor.
"Yingying, tell me, what suggestions do you have?" When the Emperor heard that there were no suggestions, he immediately called her out.
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