An Empire as a Betrothal Gift

The carriage stopped under a silver fir tree in the alley, and the two got down. The coachman saluted Ji Yue before driving away.

From the palace to the busy city, it was completely dark, but the lights outside were as bright as day.

"Let's go." Ji Yue said, "The carriage will pick us up here to take us back to the palace at Haishi."

They can play outside for two hours.

Seeing that no one was following him, Wei Lian couldn't help asking: "You don't have any followers?"

He didn't even feel the breath of the dark guard.

"Why let them follow suit?" Ji Yue said, "It's rare to go out of the palace, so naturally you have to have fun."

Not only Wei Lian had never seen the folk Lantern Festival, but it was also the first time for Ji Yue.He said that he was purely accompanying Wei Lian, but in his heart he had been looking forward to it for a long time.

"Let's go." Ji Yue said, walking out of the alley.

Wei Lian paused and silently followed.

Once out of the alley, the smoke and fire rushed to the face in an instant.The streets were bustling with crowds, shoulder to shoulder.Vendors hawked and yelled, and pedestrians gathered in groups.There are those who sell lanterns, masks, and candied haws.Men and women marched together, laughing and laughing, and some wore masks they had just bought.

Fireworks are blooming in the sky, and the moon is round and bright.In the distance, with the sound of oars and the shadow of lights, many women put lotus lanterns by the river, making New Year's wishes.There are many red cloth strips hanging on the marriage tree, which are filled with the names of lovers in pairs.Many talented scholars and beauties love to express their feelings here.

The pastry stand was surrounded by children, as long as they did the correct arithmetic, they could get free pastries.The snack shop set up a large shed outside, and customers can eat hot glutinous rice balls for only five copper coins when they sit on the bench.

A scene of fiery trees and silver flowers.

The crowd is crowded and the world is noisy.The moment Ji Yue and Wei Lian came out, they immediately attracted everyone's attention, and the world seemed to be quiet for a moment.

People all over the street cast their eyes on the two of them in unison, dumbfounded and amazed in their eyes.

Whose young master is this coming out to play... No, which immortal is this?

Today, many daughters of noble families came out to play, and many of them were imposing.But it is still rare to pick this one.

The young man in red is majestic and gorgeous, with stunning beauty.The young master in green shirt looks like an exiled immortal, as if carved like jade.All are good colors that are one in a million.

Such a character, a family can give birth to one who has accumulated virtues from the ancestors, and the two stand together, it feels so simple.

In layman's terms, their blood tanks were emptied by the beauty of the two of them.

Wei Lian calmly accepted everyone's gaze.

...It's a low-key thing to say.

Their appearances are all too exaggerated.

Wei Lian immediately covered his face with his sleeve, and whispered, "Let's go buy a mask."

Ji Yue nodded silently.

In front of the mask selling stall, Wei Lian was planning to pick two at random, but Ji Yue casually picked up a white fox mask, and put it on Wei Lian's face involuntarily.

The mask covered the young man's astonishing face, only revealing the bright red lips and delicate chin, which did not damage his handsomeness, but added a bit of mysterious reverie.

"It suits you very well, little fox." Ji Yue pursed his lips.

Without hesitation, Wei Lian put a blue-faced, long-toothed ghost mask on Ji Yue: "It suits you too."

Ji Yue: "..."

Ji Yue knew that he was known as the Living Hades outside, but this was the first time anyone dared to speak out in front of him.

"I don't want this." Ji Yue raised his hand to take off the mask.

Wei Lian changed hands and picked up a cute rabbit mask: "Then this one, choose one of the two, you choose."

Ji Yue silently put down his hand.

Then choose the Hades mask, at least majestic.

How could he be a rabbit if he was the majestic king of Qin.

It wasn't until he paid the money and went far away that Ji Yue belatedly remembered why he had to choose one of the two?

He obviously didn't have to listen to Wei Lian's words!

Unfortunately it was too late.Ji Yue continued to wander around depressedly with a grimace on his face.

The young people around him seemed very happy, looking at this and that along the way, feeling novelty in everything they saw.

I really have never seen the world.Ji Yue sneered.

But after thinking about it, he himself has not seen the world.

As the royal family, they have seen the bells ringing and the food being eaten, and the sky is full of wealth and honor, as if they are living in a fairyland.

But I have never seen the various forms of the world, all living beings, and the smoke of thousands of families in the world.

If you don't see the fireworks in the world, how can you see the world.

"Hey, candied haws!" The young man beside him suddenly called out in surprise.

Ji Yue looked up, and he really saw a candied haws seller, and all the people who went to buy it were children, or elders with children.

"Go and buy a bunch." Wei Lian looked back at him, "I heard it's delicious."

Wei Lian had never eaten candied haws.Candied haws is a folk food, which is not available in the Chu Palace.He only heard from Changshou that candied haws taste sour and sweet, but he never had the chance to try it.

It's hard to see it once, so I naturally want to taste it.

Ji Yue was a little moved.As a king who loves sweet cakes, candied haws is naturally his favorite.

But Ji Yue didn't want to fulfill his wish due to the boring loss he had just had with Wei Lian.

"Are you a child?" Ji Yue mocked unceremoniously, "Only children eat candied haws."

Wei Lian slightly disappointed: "I've never eaten it before."

Ji Yue was a little shaken.

Wei Lian suddenly leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Brother, I want it."

Ji Yue: "!!!"

This sound directly brought him back to the night half a month ago, when the young man was surging under his fingertips, and the tails of his eyes were red.

That night he went back and poured three buckets of cold water.

Wei Lian is simply poisonous.

Ji Yue tried to stick to the bottom line: "I don't—" He will never be led by the nose by this cunning fox!

The little fox was still standing in front of him, with crooked smiling eyes and a friendly tone.

"Is it good?"

Ji Yue: "...OK."

After a stick of incense.

Holding a bunch of candied haws in his hand, Wei Lian looked at Ji Yue in surprise: "I told you to buy a bunch, why did you bring the whole bunch back?"

Ji Yue, who was carrying the whole rack of candied haws like a candied haws seller: "..."

He also wanted to know why he was so obsessed with ghosts that he bought the whole shelf of candied haws.

Just because Wei Lian said "Brother, I want it"?

he just……

I just want to give it all to him.

Ji Yue angrily pulled a bunch of candied haws from the shelf and put them in his mouth: "Can't I eat it by myself?"

Wei Lian said coolly, "Only children eat candied haws."

Ji Yue: "..." His face hurts.

Ji Yue said stiffly: "What's wrong with me being a child? I'm only as big as seven three-year-olds."

Wei Lian: "..."

It's the first time I've seen someone describe the age of 21 so freshly and refinedly.

What a three-year-old Ji.

Wei Lian asked sincerely, "Aren't you afraid of toothache after eating so much?"

Ji Yue: "A real king is not afraid of any pain, brother."

Wei Lian smiled: "But we still have two hours, don't you find it inconvenient to carry it all the way?"

Ji Yue was silent.

He found that it was really silly and two.

Just when he saw a group of children playing together in front of him, he stepped forward and directly stuffed the candied haws rack into one of the hands, and said "I'll see you off".

When I went to the clothes, I learned the name and the name.

"It's so lively over there." Wei Lian looked in one direction, "What are they looking at?"

Not far away, people formed a circle to watch the scene inside, and cheers came from time to time.

Ji Yue said, "You'll know if you go and have a look."

He pulled Wei Lian into the crowd and pushed to the front.It turned out to be a group of river and lake jugglers who were performing boulders on their chests.

Ji Yue lost interest after watching it for a while: "Small skills. Anyone with a little internal skill can do it."

Wei Lian didn't answer, but looked very enthusiastically.

Seeing that he was interested, Ji Yue patiently continued to read.

The next performance is A Living Man Swallowing a Sword.I saw a strong man raised his head and swallowed a long sword inch by inch, which made the onlookers feel anxious, and even some timid girls covered their faces in fright and couldn't bear to look directly.

In the end, the strong man swallowed the sword until only the hilt was exposed, and then pulled it out without any damage.

Everyone was stunned, and then applauded violently: "Good!"

Ji Yue explained the mystery with one word: "That sword can be retracted."

Then came the juggling.

Ji Yue: "It's just a blindfold."

Wei Lian: "..."

Fortunately, Ji Yue's voice was not loud, otherwise they would have been kicked out if they made such a disruption.

He was just watching something new, and was about to leave to go to another place to have a look. When the big man beat the gong, he shouted in a rough voice: "This is the last performance, everyone. You have never seen it before."

Wei Lian paused as he turned around, and then heard the big man continue talking.

"Big, change, live, people!"

After he finished speaking, two men lifted a large box from the carriage behind him. Look at the size...it was about the same size as a coffin.

Just enough room for one person.

"Let's take a look, is this box empty now?" The big man opened the box, and everyone stretched their necks to see that it was really empty inside.

The box doesn't have much space, and the inside can be seen at a glance. Even if there is a hidden compartment mechanism, the remaining space definitely can't hide a person.

The big man saw that everyone had already seen it, so he covered the box, and said some words about the scene of "the rich have money, and the poor have no money", and asked people to walk around the field with a bowl.

"Look! People are about to transform!" The big man yelled and opened the box violently.

A slender, white hand with a silver bell stretched out from the edge of the box.

The crowd held their breaths.

A pair of purple cocked shoes appeared in people's sight.The woman is dressed in purple tulle, revealing her snow-white skin, and her whole body is tinkling with silver bells.The long hair is tied into countless braids, embellished with silver ornaments, and the beautiful eyes are flowing, sometimes showing a bit of exotic style, which instantly attracts the souls of thousands of men.

What a beautiful woman.

There was a faint sound of inhalation from the crowd of onlookers.Ji Yue frowned, his disgust was beyond words, only blocked by the green ghost mask.

He hates purple very much.

"Looking at her attire, she looks like someone from Liang." Wei Lian said softly.

The country of Liang is located in a remote place, and is good at witchcraft and poisonous arts. The women's dress is extremely bold, which is beyond the reach of the women of Qin and Chu.

"I've met you, my slave, Myrna." The woman stepped out of the box, her winking eyes were like silk, and her voice was soft, "Today's performance is over, everyone, don't rush to leave. The slave's family will perform a separate show for a gentleman. I would like to ask one of the gentlemen present to assist in the completion. I don’t know which gentleman is willing to help the slave family?"

The men cheered up and shouted: "Girls choose me!"

Who doesn't want to interact with beauties?Men are eager to try, and they all hope that they are the one picked by the beauty.

Melna glanced around, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and she said to the green-clothed young man wearing a white fox mask in the middle: "My lord, can you join us?"

Ji Yue: "Don't go—"

Wei Lian: "Okay."

Ji Yue: "..."

How dare you be disobedient!

Ignoring Ji Yue's obstruction, Wei Lian stepped forward a few steps, her thin lips under the mask lightly raised: "What do you want me to do, Miss?"

Melna rolled her eyes: "It's very simple. As long as you look into my slave's eyes, it will be fine."

Wei Lian looked at her seriously: "And then?"

Melna was full of autumn water, and she smiled sweetly: "Then the young master will..."

Her red lips parted lightly: "Fall in love with my slave."

After a while, Melna's eyes were almost sore.

The young man wearing the white fox mask has always had clear eyes and never got caught in them.

He also asked quite elegantly: "Are you ready?"

Myrna's face changed: "Who are you?!" Unaffected by her charm?

Even her grandma said her seductive skills are perfect, no matter how determined her mind is, as long as she is a man, she will not escape her control.

Liang Guo's demon girl is dissolute by nature, she harvests yang to replenish yin to improve her skills, I don't know how many men have been picked by this method, and she hasn't missed a time yet.

She fell in love with this handsome man who couldn't hide his majesty even though he was wearing a mask, and thought that he would be able to hook someone to the bed tonight, but she didn't think it was a piece of wood.

Wei Lian nodded, expressing his approval: "Your skills are indeed profound."

"Unfortunately, I also like men."

Myrna: "..."

"You like the red dress that is with you?" Melna glared at Ji Yue angrily, unwilling to be reconciled to her charm being inferior to that of a man.

"He?" Wei Lian was taken aback for a moment, "He... maybe."

"What's not possible? You Qin people are just twitchy. If you like it, you like it. If you don't like it, you don't like it. How can there be so many possibilities?" Melna snorted coldly.

Wei Lian lowered his eyes and thought, recalling the sweetness of the candied haws he tasted just now, he suddenly smiled brightly.

"You're right, I like him."