The Witch's Taste

Chen Qianqian-Extra
Hu Yu, the chief minister of the imperial cabinet, went through a strict security check with a full-body scan and then changed into the court uniform for an audience with the emperor.

Generally speaking, cabinet ministers do not frequently meet with the emperor, but use long-distance communication for routine government affairs communication.The reason why Hu Yu had to apply for an audience this time was mainly because there was a new emperor in the Grand Palace.

As for who, I don’t know.

It is in line with the Xia royal family's consistent mystical style.

Hu Yu, the first assistant, is 142 years old this year. He has undergone many life-extending surgeries and has been in charge of the cabinet for a hundred years.

After careful calculation, including the new emperor this time, he has survived four emperors - and each emperor has more or less strange things.

The first emperor was an expansionist. During his reign, he allocated a huge amount of funds to the colonial spaceship project, which expanded the empire's territory by one-third. It also made the empire and the federation on the opposite side of the galaxy 200 years earlier in bordering each other. Years or so.

The second emperor had paranoia about being persecuted. After he ascended the throne, he quickly invested in expanding the scope of royal spies. He was also keen on conducting counter-espionage and large-scale purges in the country. He killed many people every year and silenced the people of the empire.

The third emperor, the previous old emperor, was a fanatical militarist.During his rule, he engaged in massive arms construction and continuously invested money in the military-industrial complex. At one point, financial officials collapsed and resigned en masse...

When every emperor decided to go his own way, Hu Yu, as the chief minister of the cabinet, would apply for an audience and state the pros and cons in front of the emperor, trying to turn the tide and put the destiny of the human empire back on track.

Of course, it turned out to be completely useless.

Although the emperors each had their own strange habits, they were surprisingly consistent in their attitude towards the chief minister:
You keep talking, but I won’t listen anyway.

Hu Yu is also very indifferent to this. After all, the empire belongs to the emperor. As the chief minister, he seems to be inferior to one person and more than ten thousand people. In fact, he is just a senior worker of the emperor - I will get this salary. I must be honest and speak out. I have no choice whether your Majesty will listen to you or not.

Now the fourth emperor, Hu Yu, the first assistant, said that his mood is stable and he only hopes that the new emperor can be a little normal.

Anyway, no matter what he sees this time, the well-informed old chief assistant will not be surprised anymore.

What weird emperor have I not seen before?
Following the mechanical waiter walking in the corridor, Hu Yu had calmed down, gathered all his thoughts, and was ready to meet the mysterious new emperor.

Then, he saw a little girl running out of the opposite corridor.

The little girl looks about five or six years old, and she is very cute.He had black curly hair and pointed ears. He must be a mixture of humans and elves. He was timidly scratching the corner of the wall and staring at him nervously.

Hu Yu:……………………

The old chief assistant stood silently, then slowly opened his eyes and stared at the curious and timid little girl opposite.

The chin also slowly sank until the mouth was big enough to fit a tea egg.

Who can tell me why there is a little girl in the Grand Palace? !

It is not that there are no living people in the Grand Palace, but they are all from the royal family, and they live deep in the palace and never see visitors. They are only responsible for some security work, such as review or monitoring.

However, even if Hu Yu used his more than 140 years of experience as an elder, he couldn't think of any position that this little girl could hold in the Grand Palace.

The doorman who greets guests?

Just when his mind went blank, he only heard his mother's anxious call in the distance:
"Sissi! Don't run around, Sissi!"

Xia Zili quickly ran over and picked up the little girl who was huddled in the corner - the latter was still looking at the old chief assistant with her big curious eyes.

Following her daughter's gaze, Xia Zili also noticed the presence of the old chief assistant, showed an apologetic smile, and said:

"Sorry, my daughter disturbed you. Don't worry about us."

She hugged her daughter and turned around to leave, while Hu Yu stared at her blond back, feeling troubled in his heart.

In the Grand Palace where the Supreme Head of Humanity lives, there is a half-elf mother and daughter!
Wait, I think I've seen the appearance of that half-elf before. Is he one of the top executives of the starship humans who returned to China a few years ago...

Hu Yu followed the mechanical waiter with a confused face and continued walking deeper into the palace.

Xia Zili carried her daughter to the lounge next to her, then pretended to be angry and lectured her sternly:
"Didn't I tell you not to run out without permission?"

"It's not unauthorized." The daughter said cutely, "Dad agreed."

"He agreed?" Xia Zili was really angry this time, "What did he say?"

"He said he could go out and play for a while," the daughter replied.

"You are here, I will go find your dad." Xia Zili stood up, asked her daughter to sit down on the chair next to her, and then left to settle the score with Chen Ziang.

Sissi sat on the chair boredly, her legs shaking impatiently, until a female figure suddenly appeared in her shadow.

Then she solidified into a smiling Suzuna Tsukimiya, holding a bag of candies bought outside.

"Little Sissi." Suzuna Tsukimiya said with a smile, "Mom came to play with you."

"Aunt Yuegong." Sissi said honestly, "Mom said I can't call you mom from now on, I can only call you aunt."

Tsukimiya Suzuna felt unhappy, but said:
"As long as she doesn't know. Come on, call Suzuna's mother."

"But..." Sissi still hesitated. It wasn't until Suzuna Tsukimiya peeled off the candy's coat that she swallowed her saliva and said, "Then you must not let her know, otherwise I will not admit it. ."

"Of course, this is a secret between us mother and daughter." Suzuna Tsukimiya held out her little finger, "Come on, let's pull the hook."

"Well, pull the hook." The child seemed to have a strange superstition about this action, and with the sweet candy in his mouth, Sissi quickly gave up her original reserve, "Thank you, Mom."

Tsukimiya Suzuna was immediately overjoyed.

Hahahaha, I screamed again!She screamed again!Xia Zili, how do you feel?How does it feel?
Alas!I want to be a mother! "Let's go, mom will take you out to play!" She took Sissi's fleshy little hand and said proudly, "This time we will go to the amusement park."

"But mom will be angry." Sissi hesitated again, "I mean, blond-haired mom."

"It's okay. I've already told your father and he agreed." Tsukimiya Suzuna skillfully coaxed her, "He will convince your blond-haired mother."

"Oh." Sissi nodded confusedly.

My mother didn't agree with me going out, but my father agreed, and then my mother listened to my father, so I could go out.

She smiled brightly and said innocently:
"Mom Yuegong, let's go to the amusement park."

--------

It was still the familiar Imperial Study Room, but the people inside were different.

The old chief minister Hu Yu met the new emperor Xia Qingyu.

Before even having time to be surprised that the new emperor was a woman, Hu Yu heard Xia Qingyu ask lightly:

"The Chief Minister has come to see me specially. What important matters have you got to tell me?"

The real purpose of Hu Yu's visit was to make the workers look familiar in front of his master.Of course, even if both parties agreed, they couldn't say it openly, so he just knelt on the ground skillfully and replied:

"I have come to ask for instructions on the national policy for next year."

Before Xia Qingyu could speak, she heard Xia Zili's roar in the distance:

"My daughter is only so young, so don't worry about letting her run around alone!"

Xia Qingyu:…………

Hu Yu:………………

"It's a national policy." After being silent for a while, Xia Qingyu said in a cold voice, as if to change the subject, "The focus of the cabinet's work next year should be on preparing for war with the Federation."

The old chief assistant Hu Yu was silent for a moment, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and asked:

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for my ignorance: Should we guard against invasion, or should we proactively start a war?"

"Of course I will take the initiative to start a war." Xia Qingyu said calmly.

Hu Yu was speechless by her matter-of-fact tone.Given the current disparity in overall strength between the Federation and the Empire, what is the difference between taking the initiative to go to war and taking the initiative to commit suicide?
Although he was used to all kinds of unreasonable decisions made by emperors in the past dynasties, the old chief minister felt that he still had to give some advice to such an approach that would lead to self-destruction:

"Your Majesty, this..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the angry mother roaring in the distance:
"You didn't agree? But my daughter said you obviously agreed!"

Hu Yu was sweating more and more, and for a while he didn't even know whether it was more fantasy that the empire was going to take the initiative to go to war with the Federation, or that it was more fantasy that a couple in the Grand Palace was quarreling over their children.

He could only force himself to forget the distant voice and continue to persuade with painstaking efforts:

"Now the federation's comprehensive national strength is stronger than ours. If we want to go to war, we must win quickly. Otherwise, the other side will only need to expand its army in a few years to build a large fleet."

"However, if you want to win quickly, you must engage in a blitz war, which is too risky. If you are not careful, you will lose everything..."

Before Hu Yu finished his advice, he saw Xia Zili walking out angrily, followed by Chen Ziang, who was frowning.

"Sister!" She looked at Hu Yu who was kneeling on the ground, suppressed her anger, and asked in a low voice, "Are you busy?"

"I'm not busy." Xia Qingyu waved her hand indifferently, "It's not a big deal, just tell me."

The old chief assistant Hu Yu was once again dumbfounded: The Empire is going to take the initiative to go to war with the Federation, and a full-scale war involving the two major forces in the galaxy is not a big deal in your opinion?
So what is a big deal to you?

"Qianqian said that her father agreed to her going out to play." Xia Zili said with her hands on her hips, "But Chen Ziang said that he didn't know about it at all."

"It's normal for children to be playful when they are still young, but lying is an issue that cannot be tolerated... It must be Suzuna's mistress who deliberately wants to teach our daughter a bad way!"

Hu Yu, who was kneeling on the ground, shrank a little and wished he could bury his head in his collar and completely cover his ears.

Gua!Don’t let me hear about your royal family affairs!I'm really not interested!
"Zili." Chen Zi'ang advised gently, "Qingyu is meeting with the ministers. We'd better not disturb her and find Qianqian first to ask her questions."

"I'll go too." Xia Qingyu suddenly said, "As Zi Li said, being too playful is not a problem, telling such clumsy lies is not... However, children's values ​​are established quickly, and it is not difficult to change them. , let me have a good talk with her."

She turned to look at Hu Yu who was kneeling on the ground. She seemed to remember that the old chief minister was still there, and assumed a majestic posture again, and said indifferently:

"The first assistant is over [-] years old, so there is no need to worry too much about this matter. I have made up my mind to retire."

Then, Xia Qingyu, her sister and brother-in-law hurriedly walked outside the Grand Palace.

Hu Yu, the old chief assistant, stood up slowly, suddenly feeling a heavy feeling of exhaustion.

Not only did she take the initiative to declare war on the Federation, but she also felt that this matter was not as important as finding her sister's daughter... This new queen is an unprecedented super weird thing even in the history of the empire.

I have never seen such an emperor before!Compared with her, the previous emperors were simply normal "faint kings".

Otherwise, why don't you resign?

(End of this chapter)