Happy Valentine's Day
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"Nothing, nothing. It's an honor for our country that you are here." Prime Minister Tang said casually.
This is also a polite remark. Only he himself knows whether he is truly honored.
However, Si Shuo lived up to the rumors about his handsome appearance and gentle and refined speech, making him the candidate for his ideal son-in-law.
The carriage drove smoothly into the city, and Shuo lifted the curtain to look at the scene outside.
They entered the city from the west gate, and this is West Street.
As soon as Si Shuo looked up, he saw a tall building, which was Zuixian Tower.
There were no such tall buildings in the Simu Kingdom because of the strong winds and sandstorms all year round, and most of the buildings were short bungalows.
This was not the first time that Si Shuo came to Fuding Kingdom. This time he came purely for fun and was not surprised.
Prime Minister Tang was still introducing him enthusiastically: "This building is called Zuixian Building, and the one opposite is East and West Building. Both are among the best restaurants in Funing City."
Si Shuo nodded and smiled, "The restaurant is very profitable, right?"
"Ah," Prime Minister Tang felt uncomfortable when he thought that Zuixianlou was run by his sworn enemy's grandson Yu Chenghao, and Dongxilou was owned by his sworn enemy's grandson-in-law. "No, it's not. The cost is high and the profit is low. It's not going to make much money!"
Si Shuo raised his eyebrows noncommittally, not giving Prime Minister Tang face and said, "But I see that business here is very good. If there is a lot of traffic, can't we make a lot of money?"
He was quite interested in restaurants and wanted to open one himself, but in a place like Simu Kingdom, there were wineries everywhere.
"This..." Prime Minister Tang was at a loss for words. He thought the Regent had been smiling, yet he felt a surge of pressure. He thought he was being clever and asked, "Is Sir Si interested in the sixth floor?"
Si Shuo didn't say anything, and the atmosphere became awkward for a moment.
"Ah, what kind of girl does Lord Si like?" Who can imagine how greasy it is for a man in his forties or fifties to ask this question to a handsome boy of only nineteen.
"Beautiful." Si Shuo answered crisply, thinking that the Prime Minister was boring because he had no topics to talk about.
But he does like pretty girls. Who doesn’t like pretty girls? Don’t you?
Prime Minister Tang was delighted. His daughter was so beautiful that she could captivate the whole country. Since the regent was so superficial, Ruzhi would have an opportunity to take advantage of him.
"I have a little daughter, sixteen years old..."
"Does the Prime Minister have a son?" Si Shuo interrupted him with some expectation in his eyes.
Prime Minister Tang was confused when he interrupted. Why did he suddenly ask if he had a son? Could it be that this regent was a... homosexual?
"Um, I..." He has more than one son in his family, two real older sons.
But both of his sons like girls...
"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking casually." Si Shuo is more interested in the Prime Minister's son than his daughter. This is not a good sign, Prime Minister Tang sighed in his heart.
"I have two sons, both of whom are relatively young."
Si Shuo actually wanted to know what outstanding qualities the son of the Tang Prime Minister, an important official in the court of Fuding Kingdom, had, and whether he would pose any threat to Simu Kingdom in the future.
This was his wise awareness as regent.
"Still in swaddling clothes?"
"No, no, no, that's not the case." Prime Minister Tang thought the Regent's thinking was too jumpy. "The eldest son is only eighteen, and the youngest son is sixteen."
"Do you hold any position in the court?"
Prime Minister Tang was facing Si Shuo's interrogation, which was like checking the household registration. If it were not for the fact that he could not offend the Regent, he would really have kept silent.
His two well-behaved and sensible children must not fall into Si Shuo's hands.
"No." They are still in school and are indeed still young.
Si Shuo looked at me as if he understood, continued looking out the window, and stopped talking.
Just when Prime Minister Tang was sweating and thought that there would be no more accidents, a rotten egg made a parabolic motion from the carriage curtain opened by Si Shuo and landed accurately on Prime Minister Tang's arm.
Perhaps the person who threw it used too much force, causing the egg to break into pieces and spilling egg white all over the sleeve of Prime Minister Tang's court robe.
Si Shuo looked at the shattered eggshell with some amusement, and he was trying very hard to hold back his laughter.
"Stop the sedan!"
Prime Minister Tang had never been hit by anything in his life, let alone rotten eggs.
The sedan chair stopped, and the driver ran to the curtain and asked Prime Minister Tang what happened. Fanxing also went around from the sedan chair following behind to Si Shuo's sedan chair.
"Master Prime Minister, the road ahead is blocked."
Prime Minister Tang was just thinking how absurd this was and just as he lifted the curtain, another wilted cabbage leaf was thrown in and hit him right on the forehead.
Cabbage leaves slid from Prime Minister Tang's face and fell into the carriage. Si Shuo stopped smiling and looked quietly outside the carriage curtain. The people on the roadside were staring at him with the same eyes as if he were the murderer of his father.
Prime Minister Tang was about to explode when he saw Si Shuo's handsome face pull down and look at him with a half-smile: "Are they going to throw me away?"
What a bunch of unruly people! The lives of the people living on the border are in the hands of this man on the carriage. He has no idea of the rules. If he angers him, the innocent people in the seven border cities will be buried with him!
"Master Si, I will solve it! I will solve it immediately!" Just as the words fell, another rotten tomato was thrown in. No one dared to act rashly on Si Shuo's side because of the black-faced big man Fanxing's support. But Prime Minister Tang was in trouble. The tomato hit him directly on the crown of his hair, and the bright red juice flowed down from the top of his head and dripped into his mouth along the bridge of his nose.
"Is this how you treat guests?" Si Shuo was obviously angry, but he still maintained an ambiguous smile. He really couldn't believe this so-called Prime Minister who could barely save himself and had a rotten tomato on his head.
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