"The Lantern Festival begins"
As the Queen Mother finished speaking, a melodious music sounded, and a string of huge lanterns appeared on the stage.
The lantern has eight petals, held by eight girls. When the eight petals close together, a huge lotus flower is formed.
Suddenly the lotus bloomed and the stamen moved slightly. Only then did people realize that the stamen was a woman in colorful clothes.
When the woman appeared, the audience cheered. The man was the eldest princess of the Fengming Empire. Long Chen took a look and looked good and deserved a thumbs up.
After the eldest princess appeared, she stretched out her jade hand and two elegiac couplets appeared. The first couplet was: God blessed the phoenix, and the second couplet was: The country was prosperous and the people were safe, which made the audience burst into cheers.
Long Chen smiled slightly. As the imperial princess, it was also sad enough, just like a group of crickets living in a small jar.
Fighting all day long, but thinking about yourself, it’s the same. If you don’t fight with others, you will be trampled by others.
It would be fine if he just stepped on you, but the key is that he wants to trample you to death. This has nothing to do with grudges, good or bad. Perhaps this is the most primitive evil in human nature.
While Long Chen was feeling, the second princess appeared. When Long Chen was distracted, he didn't see how the second princess appeared, which made Long Chen regretted it.
But next it was Chu Yao's lantern. Long Chen widened his eyes, afraid that he would miss something.
"boom"
First, a firework burst into the sky, illuminating the sky and making all the women cheer.
But just as I remembered the cheer, I suddenly saw a huge shadow appearing in the sky, and a kite made of a giant dragon roaring.
At the same time, opposite the dragon, a colorful phoenix flew over with its gorgeous wings, sprinkling golden powder all over the sky, like a real phoenix coming to the world.
“Wow, so beautiful”
With the colorful powder all over the sky, the dragon and the phoenix shine together, like a myth, bringing everyone into a strange world.
"boom"
A dragon and a phoenix circling and flying, slowly landing, and a huge white light spewed out of the dragon and phoenix's mouth. The white light exploded and the ribbons flew.
当彩带散去,一个古装丽人,缓缓浮现在众人面前,柳眉款款,凤目依依,秋水浮动万古,好一个绝世美人.
"call"
As soon as the third princess appeared, the whole scene suddenly became boiling. Many princes had long heard that the third princess was extremely beautiful and charming. Today, they finally saw the third princess' true face and screamed wildly for a moment.
Long Chen looked at the third princess and was stunned for a moment. This was the first time Long Chen saw Chu Yao who had deliberately dressed up.
Chu Yao's beautiful eyes flowed and looked around in the crowd. Suddenly, her beautiful eyes lit up. Her jade hands shook, and a round ball slowly flew out, and actually headed straight for Long Chen.
Bang!
Long Chen reached out to catch the ball, and saw that there was a small tail on the ball.
The audience suddenly became silent, everyone's eyes were staring at Long Chen, and the Empress Dowager's face changed slightly, but she didn't say anything.
But if the person with the most ugly face is the only one of the princess Xia Changfeng. Although he wanted to show a light and light look, he really couldn't do it, and his whole face turned green.
The Empress Dowager has decided to marry Chu Yao to Xia Changfeng, but Chu Yao's performance today is clearly a symbol of auspiciousness, and the ball in her hand is directly thrown to Long Chen.
Originally, a ball had no special meaning, but with the preparation of the lantern in front, it was completely different, exactly the same as the ancient procedure of throwing a ball and choosing a husband.
At this time, despite efforts to control Xia Changfeng, he still could not stop his body trembling, and blue veins on the back of his hands swelled up.
"Changfeng, be patient," Wei Cang looked at Xia Changfeng.
"Master, don't worry, Changfeng can bear it." Xia Changfeng nodded, but he still couldn't hide his trembling in his voice.
At this time, Xia Changfeng wanted to bite Long Chen to death, and Long Chen also noticed everyone's strange gaze.
Among the people present, only Master Yunqi had a smile on his face, while others were either complicated or jealous.
Long Chen looked at Chu Yao in the field, and saw her beautiful eyes smiling, and was looking at herself affectionately. Her jade hand gently pointed at the ball in Long Chen's hand.
At this time, Long Chen understood that it was actually a firework. He reached out and pulled the small tail on the ball and threw the ball into the sky.
"Bang"
A brilliant light dispersed, illuminating the entire square. After the light dispersed, two flashing words appeared in the sky.
"The dragon travels thousands of miles across the sea, and the phoenix leaves the sycamore tree to accompany the nine provinces"
Looking at the two lines of words that had not dispersed for a long time in the sky, Xia Changfeng finally couldn't control himself and crushed the teacup in his hand.
"Long Chen, if I don't tear you into pieces, I won't call you Xia Changfeng, and Chu Yao, you bitch, I will make you live worse than death."
The blue veins on Xia Changfeng's face slammed, and Chu Yao's actions made him even more embarrassed than slapping him hard.
The empress dowager's face was also extremely ugly. She didn't expect that Chu Yao was so bold that she would show her love to a man in such a public occasion.
Long Chen was also stunned. When he saw Chu Yao standing on the stage in the distance, Chu Yao's pretty face was covered with red clouds, but his face was firm.
Looking at Long Chen, tears slowly flowed out from her beautiful eyes, which made Long Chen feel pain: Is she desperate? She actually had the idea of ​​death and wanted to express her wish before she died?
Looking at Chu Yao's tears, Long Chen's brain suddenly turned blank. He suddenly stood up and shouted: "Don't abandon the blood of life and death, the dragon and phoenix depend on each other until they are old."
Long Chen's roar was like a big bell, shocking everyone's heart. His roar revealed his unswerving will and his determination to rather die than surrender.
Chu Yao's delicate body shook, her jade hands covered her cherry lips, and tears rustled down her beautiful eyes. Originally, she only hoped that she could express her wishes in the last days, but she did not expect anything, but hoped that Long Chen could understand her heart.
But wouldn’t Long Chen’s answer put him in a desperate situation? For a moment, Chu Yao was moved and regretful, feeling that she had harmed Long Chen.
"The third princess is tired, come and help her down." The empress dowager suppressed the anger in her heart and said coldly.
Five guards came over and were about to invite Chu Yao away, Master Yunqi said lightly: "Empress Dowager, it's wrong for you to do this."
It is a good thing for young people to dare to love and hate. Chu Yao, come, if you don’t dislike it, just sit next to the old man.”
The Empress Dowager's face changed. He did not expect that Master Yunqi, who had never been concerned about the world, would interfere in the affairs of the empire.
When Chu Yao saw Master Yunqi speaking, she was overjoyed. She didn't ask Master Yunqi to protect her, but she thought Master Yunqi could protect Long Chen.
Thinking of this, Chu Yao slowly knelt down on both knees, but before she could kneel to the ground, Master Yunqi stretched out his hand and a gentle force lifted her up.
"Children are all their own people, so don't want these ordinary etiquettes." After Yun Qi said that, he pulled Chu Yao next to him and sat down.
But what is strange is that Wei Cang, who was originally not in dealing with Yun Qi, just looked at him coldly without saying a word.
Although the empress dowager was angry, she didn't want to offend Yun Qi because of this little thing. Without the support of the Alchemist Guild, no matter how powerful the country was, it would soon fall apart, so she could only endure it.
However, as the queen mother, she was extremely scheming and calm on her face, and she smiled and said, "Since that's the case, let's continue the show."
After the empress dowager said this, Shi Feng next to Long Chen stood up and moved his muscles and bones: "Hehe, I'm finally here to appear."
In previous years, the procedure was that after the princess presented the lantern, she was a prince competition to compete for the title of Fengming's first warrior.
"Let's go, the queen mother. I came from Daxia from all over the world and happened to catch up with the Lantern Festival. I specially brought a wonderful program to the queen mother," Wei Cang said suddenly.
"Oh? The program brought by the master must be extremely exciting." The queen mother was slightly stunned and smiled.
"This is my unfair apprentice. I am seventeen years old this year and I am already a real pill disciple." Wei Cang said, but his eyes were fixed on Gu Cang, especially "real" and these four words are particularly serious.
Everyone looked at Long Chen. As long as they were not fools, they knew that Gu Cang was referring to the mulberry and scolding the locust, and that Long Chen was just a parallel product.
Long Chen was qualified as a pill disciple, and many people deeply doubted his true strength. After all, Long Chen's alchemy was refined within the guild and the outside world did not know it, so most people think that Long Chen was just lucky and might not have any real talent.
After all, he has been named a waste for too long, and Long Chen has risen too fast recently, so many people have doubts that Long Chen has a big hand behind him, and that big hand is likely to be Master Yunqi.
But no matter how magical Master Yunqi is, he cannot turn a waste into a pill disciple in just over two months.
When Long Chen heard Wei Cang's words, a sarcasm appeared on his face: The good show is coming.
Yun Qi didn't say anything, but listened to Wei Cang continue: "Today, let the little disciple show his ugly appearance and refine a furnace of pills for everyone on the spot."
Hearing Wei Cang's words, there was a burst of cheers in the audience. The alchemist had a respectable status. Everyone present had only heard of alchemy, but had never seen it with their own eyes.
They are full of respect and curiosity for this profession. If they can see the formation of a pill with their own eyes, it will be a great opportunity for them.
"But the so-called good things come in pairs. Bai Chi represents my Daxia Alchemist Guild, a younger generation of alchemists. I wonder if someone has come out to show off his skills in the Fengming Guild." After Wei Cang finished speaking, he looked at Master Yunqi.
"She is your disciple, but Long Chen is not my disciple yet, so your thoughts may have been lost," Master Yunqi said lightly.
Long Chen's heart moved. Could it be that the reason why Yun Qi has been reluctant to accept himself as a disciple is because of this?
"It's all for fun, it's not for nothing."
As Wei Cang spoke, a jade bottle suddenly appeared in his hand, and there was a flame as thick as a thumb in the bottle, constantly twisting.
"This is the beast fire of the second-level monster flame leopard. Whoever wins will reward it to whom I will reward it."
Xia Baichi looked at the beast fire, and a hint of excitement appeared in her eyes. She had been thinking about the beast fire for a long time, but unexpectedly, Wei Cang was finally willing to take it out.
To be continued...