Chapter 90 Little Star (2)

Jiang Jianming still knew a little about the love-hate relationship between Major General Xie and his wife.

To put it simply, the Xie family is a new aristocrat who started from the commoners. Their ancestors were rich in trade, and they had nothing but money. The Seekert family were old nobles who had surrendered to the empire. Unfortunately, even though their ancestors had a great reputation, they were not connected by their younger generations. The speed of decline in the past few decades was like sitting on a starship.

Xie Yuduo and Donna decided to have a baby kiss under the advice of their parents when they were still young children.

childhood sweetheart

Growing up together, we knew from a young age that the other would be our other half.

It stands to reason that the next step should be like the political marriages of the past and the present, or love or respect each other to make do with such a lifetime.

The problem lies in Xie Yuduo.

No one knows which gene of his ancestors did Major General Xie's military talent, pursuit of Xinghai and loyalty to the empire mutate from.

This person jumped to the Kaios Military Academy, graduated as the chief of the first academy, and after two years of working in Jin Ilun, he finally joined the Yin Beidou without any reluctance, and strode to the forefront of the far interstellar.

...Leaving the still young Miss Donna with the baby she just gave birth to.

And Donna von Seekert is an old-fashioned aristocratic woman who likes jewelry and flowers, yearns for romantic love, and hopes to have a handsome gentleman and a husband who will hold her arm at the dinner party. Xie Yuduo is obviously not the same. all the way.

Xie Yuduo has been stationed in the distant stars all the year round. When he was immersed in the fortress affairs, he could not even call his family for a whole year. Many young recruits thought that the major general was single until now.

Donna was alone day after day, year after year, raising her daughter alone. She couldn't bear to discuss her youth, and she couldn't bear the mental torture that she might receive news of her husband's death at any time.

Maybe at first, she just wanted to use nonsense to bring Xie Yuduo back, or at least cared more about the family.

It's a pity that until the love turned into hate, the couple still failed to reach a reconciliation.

Amid the ups and downs of the music, Donna stepped into the central ballroom, danced a few laps at random with the men who came forward to invite the dancers, and finally got on Lauren's shoulder.

The two danced to the music, Donna's black curls fluttering and her jewels glistening in the lights.

Jiang Jianming looked at it from a distance, and whispered to Audley, "So, Mrs. Seekert is in Aslan...cough, the major general himself knows about the mess?"

Audley took a sip of red wine: "It should be acquiesced, otherwise the military would not be able to let this kind of thing go unnoticed."

Jiang Jianming: "It's all... so, why don't you get a divorce?"

"Jiang, it's impossible for me to understand every detail of other people's private affairs."

Audrey smiled wryly, "It may be because of family-level reasons...it may also be for the sake of the children. In their situation, Major General Xie is also the general of the Silver Big Dipper. If they divorce, little Emilia will most likely be sentenced to Xie family, but Mrs. Donna can't bear her daughter. Anyway, Major General Xie doesn't care about her, that's all."

"..." Jiang Jianming stared at Madam Donna's expensive haute couture dress and all the jewelry, and thought to himself: If he knew that the major general was so rich, he should have paid more for it.

The snow dove that was damaged in the last Star City battle had already been sent to the Golden Sun Wheel to be repaired. With the addition of energy ammunition and other supplementary purchases, he was once again poor.

Time passed, and soon Audley was approached by Mrs. Donna to chat. Jiang Jianming avoided it with interest, waiting patiently for what would happen to him.

But until the dinner was over, Lauren only came over halfway and invited him to chat for a while in the quiet corridor.

And the content of the conversation was exactly as it was written in the letter, 70% to 80% were about the situation of the empire and where the crystalless race should go.

Fortunately, Jiang Jianming knew what he knew, and chatted with him cautiously with words that could not go wrong.

The conversation ended in less than an hour as fireworks started going off outside the house.

When the fireworks all over the sky illuminated the night, Lauren smiled and turned around: "Your Excellency. How are you? These fireworks. I put on a full hour every year, and everyone always likes it."

"As I said, I'm no longer the Crown Princess." Jiang Jianming said gently.

Lauren shook his head: "Until the next prince is chosen, His Royal Highness Le'an is still the crown prince, and you are still the crown princess."

Jiang Jianming insisted: "I have never been a prince concubine in the true sense. Private engagement is just a young and ignorant act. Your Excellency Prime Minister, let me go."

Lauren laughed a few times, then turned to look at the young man in front of him with deep eyes: "...The royal family and the empire owe you a lot, and I really have no position to advise you to let go of your heart."

The Prime Minister stretched out one hand, and his eyes seemed to reflect the flashing fireworks: "But Your Excellency Crown Princess, you must know that whether it is an individual, an empire, or even a species... don't give up something, yes It cannot evolve in the direction of progress.”

Jiang Jianming smiled politely: "Are you going to give up, like me, the so-called crippled human beings who have been eliminated?"

"how is this possible?"

Lauren pointed behind her: "Look."

Jiang Jianming turned back, the corridor was empty, at first he didn't understand why Lauren let him see it.

But as he looked up, he saw a portrait framed with a dark gold frame hanging at the end.

That's... a group photo of the Founding Emperor and Empress Dowager Sylph.

Jiang Jianming first saw Emperor Kaios at first sight.

This legendary emperor was only twenty-five years old when he first ascended the throne. He wears a crown and holds a scepter, and his platinum curly hair hangs down on the scarlet robe on his shoulders, winding all the way to his waist.

On his side, the still young Empress Dowager Sylph had silver hair and blue eyes, and she had ice muscles and jade bones. She was wrapped in a long white woven gold dress, with a smile on her pale pink lips, holding a bouquet of white lilies that symbolized purity, like a saint who came out of a fresco.

When Jiang Jianming thought of Madam Donna, he couldn't help feeling the contrast.

At that time, the Great Emperor and Queen Sylph were also politically married.

It was the 62nd year of the old imperial calendar. Before the rebel army launched from the Blue Mother Star had attacked the Purple Silk Star City, it was only a footstep away from the old capital of the old empire, Yong Paradise.

However, the arduous war has been going on for many years, and the resistance army has reached its limit in terms of people and materials.

Not to mention that the Purple Silk could not be attacked, the artificial defense fortresses, cosmic fortresses and the old imperial fleet stationed in Yongyuan Star City were still waiting for them to die, and the situation was desperate.

At this moment, the largest anti-Old Empire tyranny armed organization at the time, the White Dove Akaaba Society, made a crucial decision.

Join the Resistance as a "conditional surrender".

The two most important conditions are that one is to divide a special dominion within the empire, that is, the later glorious dominion...

The second is marriage, marrying Sylph Song, the youngest daughter of the chief consul of the White Dove Chiye Society, to the Great Emperor as his wife. After the new empire is established, she will be crowned the only queen.

The conditions were quickly accepted, and the resistance army, which received material support, and the reinforcements of the White Dove Chiye Club attacked twice, and broke through the Purple Silk Star City in one go.

Soon, a large number of old nobles in Yongyuan Park saw that the situation was over, and chose to surrender to save the lives of their families. The rebels only paid a small bloodshed price and stepped into the capital star of the old empire.

It can be said that this marriage has become a pawn in the decisive victory.

What is rare is that although it seems to be a forced choice under the situation, the emperor and his wife have always loved and respected each other... at least on the bright side.

Under the portrait of the emperor and his wife, Lauren raised her face with a slight smile.

"I truly love this empire and every living people in these three galaxies."

He looked at Jiang Jianming beside him and said slowly, "The Great Emperor led the human beings in this galaxy out of the dark quagmire, but this is not enough, far from enough... Injustice and filth still exist."

"I once asked a wise man why, and the wise man told me: because evil is not a muddy water, but a shadow that cannot be cast off."

"I hope to usher in a different era...a new world where all people can always have true light."

"And in order to bring you a better future, I am willing to help you give up some unnecessary burdens in the process."

Lauren frowned, and he whispered, "It's like a fish has a vast land without its fins. Your Excellency Crown Princess, can you...can you understand me?"

Jiang Jianming quietly listened to Lauren's words. He didn't show anything on his face, but his mind was actually a little distracted.

so similar.

Kaios the Great and Ryan...or rather, Garcia.

Perhaps it was precisely because of the resemblance that he felt subtly uncomfortable when he looked at the group photo of His Majesty the Great Emperor and His Majesty the Empress Dowager.

No, Jiang Jianming's eyes jumped. He thought blankly, how could I actually eat such low-level vinegar?

No, he couldn't be that naive.

It must be because Garcia has been entangled for a long time.

Jiang Jianming was annoyed with his strange emotions, and he was naturally a little bad.

He wasn't aware of his own problem of "talking when he's in a bad mood, and he becomes very vicious", so he opened his mouth calmly, and the first sentence was: "You're wrong, Your Excellency Lauren."

In the distance, colorful fireworks exploded, and the chill night wind brought the laughter of children.

Jiang Jianming said calmly: "It's not that the fish gave up their fins to have a vast land, it was the fins of the fish that evolved into limbs that can crawl, and the fish took to the land."

"It seems that your knowledge of biology is still somewhat lacking."

He smiled warmly, "It's fortunate that you didn't cut off the fins of the fish in ancient times, otherwise it would be terrible."

"..."

Silence pervaded the night.

In the corridor, the shadows of the two people stretched faintly, as if some kind of confrontation.

I don't know when, the elegant smile has faded from Lauren's eyes. He glanced at Jiang Jianming with a chilling look, from head to toe.

Jiang Jianming cleared his throat: "Sorry, just kidding."

Lauren finally retracted her gaze and smiled heartily: "Where's the word... Your Excellency is right, I have shallow knowledge and have been taught."

Their conversation was discontinued. After Lauren stroked Jiang Jianming's chest and saluted, he turned and walked into the yard where the people gathered together.

Jiang Jianming stood here alone for a long time, blowing the cool night wind and staring at the beautiful and well-matched portrait of the empress.

He knew that it was not a painting that the artist had completely free to use, but a copy of a photo, and it was said that the original was kept in the White Jade Palace. Many people who believe in the great emperor like to buy a copy to hang on the wall, or to make an electronic projection of a reproduction of a photo.

In a trance, Jiang Jianming had an illusion that the eyes of the emperor and the empress dowager on the painting seemed to be looking at him from a distance.

He didn't know where this feeling came from. Maybe every people who looked up to the statue of the emperor would have this kind of mood... He didn't know.

"Di Di..."

The sudden sound of the wrist machine called Jiang Jianming, who was wandering in the sky, back.

It was the time he set by himself to remind himself to check the text messages and to comfort the little Highness who was locked at home by him in time.

At this stage, it can be speculated that there is something wrong with Lauren, and Garcia has been annoyed for a long time by insisting on going to the banquet alone.

But there is no way, whether it is to avoid stunned by the grass, or to avoid causing a large-scale public commotion, Garcia is not suitable for following him.

Garcia himself knew about this, so in the end he just emphasized the need to reply to the message in time. If he does not reply within the time limit, then His Royal Highness will kill himself.

Jiang Jianming immediately turned on his wrist phone to reply, but soon, he unexpectedly discovered... In addition to several text messages from Garcia, there was also a message from the military.

The sender was Marshal Chen, and there was no text in the content, but a video file was attached.

Jiang Jianming was refreshed and hoped that the real crystal mine had clues. While confirming that there was no one around and no surveillance, he hung up the headset and opened the video with his finger.

The wrist phone projected the video into a small window, and the general who appeared on the opposite side was wearing a Yin Beidou military uniform. His handsome eyebrows were intertwined with fortitude and romance that should have been contradictory.

"Little Excellency, it's me, I'm Xie Yuduo."

Major General Xie sat lazily on the seat, one leg was folded over the other, and his eyes were full of energy.

The background behind him is a bit strange, not in the fortress nor in the wild, but like the control room of the hull.

"I left this message with the military's interstellar liaison device. You and His Royal Highness should be together, so I won't nag again."

"It might be a little sudden, I don't want to scare you, but..."

The cheers of the crowd were misty in the distance, and Xie Yuduo's voice was drowned in it.

On the projection, the smile between the major general's eyebrows was also illuminated by a line of white light rising in the night sky, and his lips opened and closed:

"I am now sitting in the starship of the Silver Big Dipper, and the starship is on its way to the crystal nest."

boom……

Fireworks bloom, as gorgeous as day.

Jiang Jianming was shaken by the light and his mind went blank.

The world was rejoicing, and the sound of the heartbeat was elongated and amplified in the eardrum, which caused him to not hear clearly... or to suspect that he did not hear Xie Yuduo's words clearly.

Jiang Jianming moved the progress bar of the message a little bit forward, so he heard it clearly this time.

Xie Yuduo said, "...The starship is on its way to Crystal Nest."