After a flight of nearly two hours, the helicopter landed at the palace of the Nordic royal family in Bergen, the second largest city in Northern Europe.
The palace is located on the outskirts of the city and covers a large area, although it is in a state of disrepair due to the decline of the Nordic royal family in recent years and the constant cuts in the royal budget by the parliament.
The Nordic royal family’s own financial situation is not good either, although the a*sets are more than one billion euros, but most of them are discounted real estate, and these real estate, the Nordic royal family can not be sold in their lifetime, such as their palace in the capital city of Oslo, and the palace in Bergen, is worth a lot of money, but once they sell their ancestral property, they will certainly be rejected by the Nordic people.
It was as if the English royal family had turned around and sold their Buckingham Palace, which would have caused an uproar.
Once the helicopter landed, Ye Chen could feel how stretched the place was.
There were only a few staff members on duty in the large palace, and the stone paved floor in the square in the middle of the palace had many damages that had not yet been repaired, and what was even more outrageous was that more than a third of the streetlights around the palace were not lit.
Helena had not expected the palace to be in such a state of disrepair.
She had not been to this palace for years since she had lost her dependence on the Nordic royal family, and seeing such a dilapidated state, she felt a little embarra*sed for a while, and could only say to Ye Chen with some shame, “Sorry, Mr Ye, this place is in a poor state of repair, so please don’t mind.”
After Helena had just finished her enthronement ceremony, the butler had mentioned the condition of this palace to her, hoping that the royal family could allocate 10 million euros to repair this palace.
But Helena declined the offer in order to reduce the cost of the royal family.
At that time, she would have preferred to use the funds to do more activities and publicity to increase the influence of the Nordic royal family.
But how could she have ever imagined that one day this palace would have crossed paths with Ye Chen?
If she had known that this day would come, she would have broken her penny in half and squeezed out some budget to renovate the palace, at least not to make it look so shabby.
Ye Chen also saw that Helena was a bit embarra*sed, so he smiled and said, “I think this place is quite good, it has very Nordic local characteristics, and it looks like it should be a real historical building, unlike those tourist attractions that are full of modern antique buildings, which are opulent but give people a somewhat unconventional feeling.”