Chapter 108 Both Sides Suffer
In front of Xiao Xixi there was a fruit plate with a number of small yellow oranges on it and a pile of orange peels next to it.
The air was filled with the sweet scent of oranges.
Luo Qinghan sat down in front of her.
"Did you hear everything I just said?"
Xiao Xixi answered while peeling an orange: "Yeah."
"Is there anything you want to say?"
Xiao Xixi thought for a moment before saying, "Someone wants to see you and the eldest prince fight to the point of both being hurt."
"How do you know?"
"intuition."
Hearing this, Luo Qinghan asked again: "Who do you think wants to see us both lose?"
"A lot of people."
This answer made Luo Qinghan fall silent.
Indeed, many people wanted him dead, including many of his closest relatives.
The position of crown prince brought him to a position second only to the emperor, but it also took away many precious things from him.
A slice of orange was passed to his mouth.
Xiao Xixi asked: "Do you want to eat it? It's quite sweet."
Luo Qinghan opened his mouth and bit the orange peel. Sweet juice overflowed. It was indeed very sweet.
The sweetness dispelled the gloom in his heart and made him feel better.
Xiao Xixi asked: "Do you want more?"
"Um."
For some reason, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't want to move even a finger at this moment, and even had to be fed oranges.
Xiao Xixi fed him all the oranges one by one.
After he said it was okay, she wiped her hands, picked up another orange, and peeled it for herself.
Luo Qinghan picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. The tea diluted the orange taste in his mouth.
He asked suddenly.
"Do you think I'm pitiful?"
Xiao Xixi looked up at him, her face full of disbelief: "You can enjoy twenty dishes for every meal. If you feel pitiful, then people like me who can only eat a few dishes a meal will have no face to live! "
Luo Qinghan: “…”
Surprisingly, it actually makes sense.
Xiao Xixi stuffed the peeled orange into her mouth and started chewing it with big mouthfuls.
Luo Qinghan felt the need to defend himself: "My meal now consists of five dishes and one soup."
Xiao Xixi swallowed the orange flesh and hummed, "Won't there still be twenty dishes when you go back?"
"That is the palace rule set by our ancestors. I cannot change it."
"No one asked you to change. It's just that you can't get over it in your heart."
Luo Qinghan was silent.
It was indeed he himself who could not get over that hurdle and could not help but miss what he had lost.
Xiao Xixi picked up another small orange and peeled it while muttering, "If I were you, I would be so happy to have twenty dishes for every meal."
Luo Qinghan: "But this comes at a price."
"What in this world doesn't cost a price? Even if you go out to buy groceries, you still have to pay. Do you think it's worth it?"
Luo Qinghan thought about his current situation: "I don't know if it's worth it, and I haven't thought about it. Anyway, I don't have the right to choose."
"Twenty dishes have been placed in front of you. How can you not have the right to choose? You only need to say a word, and you can eat whatever you want. How comfortable!"
Luo Qinghan thought to himself that he was really confused. He actually chatted about these trivial things with a foodie. The two of them were completely talking at cross purposes.
Eunuch Chang came in to report.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince's Tutor and the Crown Prince's Guardian are here."
"Let them in."
The Prince's Junior Tutor and the Prince's Junior Protector brought some clothes, all of which were ordinary people's clothes, as well as travel permits, silver bills, dry food and other things needed on the road.
These were prepared for the prince's incognito journey south.
After they put down their things, they took another look at Xiao Xi, the treacherous villain who was bringing disaster to the country and the people, and then left with a heavy heart.
(End of this chapter)
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