Chapter 176 Lantern Festival

At night, the lights hinder the moon.

The upper part of the imperial city is full of Kongming lanterns, and Qi Yu, Yi Chen and Shirley are walking on the lively road. IF YOU PAY CARE, YOU WILL FIND THAT EACH OF THE KONE LIGHTS FLOATING IN THE SKY HAS A NAME, SHERRY. Only when others came, those words were like charms, but Qi Yu knew that it was Shirley's English name. In this way, it should be Yi Chen's masterpiece.

"I said you were a good boy, but I thought of such a romantic method." Qi Yu said, "Speaking of which, there is something I've always been concerned about. Why on earth do you want me to bring silver?"

"Have you brought this?" Yi Chen asked.

"I brought it." Qi Yu said, "You repeatedly told me, can I not bring it? But you always have to tell me why I need to bring silver.

"How much did you bring?" Yi Chen asked, "Do you have 5,000 taels?"

"Huh? No." Qi Yu said.

"How much did you bring?"

"One hundred taels of silver." Qi Yu said, "You didn't tell me how much money to bring. What's the matter? Is 100 taels of silver not enough?"

"Not enough, I want 5,000 taels." Yi Chen said.

"What do you need so much money for?"

"Of course, it costs money to make so many Kongming lanterns. One Kongming lantern costs 100 taels, and I made 50 in total. Does it cost 5,000 taels of silver?" Yichen said, "Hey, I've handed over my 5,000 taels of debt to you. Anyway, I'm waiting in your name, so hey hey."

"Hey hey." Qi Yu said, "Hey, I'm missing 5,000 taels of silver. No, I don't have money. I've been very poor recently. If you want to be romantic, you even ask your brother to pay for you. You are too unkind.

"Oh, please." Yi Chen said, "You see, Shirley likes these very much."

Qi Yu said depressedly, "You like women, but that's my money. Oh, forget it, it's only 5,000 taels. I can still pay for it.

In the crowded crowd, everyone was attracted by the Kongming lanterns all over the sky. But Qi Yu didn't know that he had been following a person more closely behind them, and that person was not someone else. It's just that Shen Wuli, who was once handsome, somehow turned half white, but his face was only in his forties. After walking with Qi Yu for about half an hour, Yi Chen noticed that there was a realization behind him and turned around, but he didn't find anything.

On the other hand, in the palace.

Emperor Qi looked at the Kongming lantern in the distance and didn't know what Qi Yu was tossing around again. However, it was not Qi Yu, but Yi Chen, and the English on Kong Ming's lamp also made Emperor Qi feel that it was a charm that could kill people. Not far away, Yi Xinrou came slowly.

"I have bad news. Do you want to hear it?" Yi Xinrou looked up at the sky and said, "It's so beautiful."

"What bad news?" Emperor Qi asked, "Really, you never tell me bad news."

"But this time it's really bad news. The world is going to be destroyed, and even the four gods can't stop it." Yi Xinrou said, "You have always felt that Qi Yu was hiding something from you, and now you have got the answer. What are you going to do?"

"Really?" Unexpectedly, Emperor Qi was not surprised at all.

"Are you not surprised at all?" Yi Xinrou said.

"Don't be surprised." Emperor Qi said, "If even the four gods can't stop it, what can I do?"

"Ye." Yi Xinrou said, "I'll go back first."

"Let's talk with me." Emperor Qi said, "What on earth do you think this world is?"

"Hm?" Yi Xinrou didn't know what Emperor Qi wanted to say.

"I've been thinking about what the world is." Emperor Qi said, "In the past, my mother told me that people must be careful everywhere. They can neither live too flamboyantly nor too humble. But now that I have become the monarch of the State of Qi, I think it's better to be a prince. Why do you think this is?

"I don't know." Yi Xinrou said, "But I don't think people can be without ambition?"

"Ambition?" Emperor Qi said with a smile, "So, are you ambitious?"

"Yes, I'm ambitious." Yi Xinrou said.

"What is your ambition?" Emperor Qi asked.

"Master the whole world." Yi Xinrou said, "This is my ambition."

"What do you, a woman, want to do to control the world?" Emperor Qi asked, "Even if you master the whole world, what can you do? As you said, if the world is really going to be destroyed, what's the use of mastering the world?"

"I like it." Yi Xinrou said, "If death is the end, then people should not exist in this world at all, because people always die, so it's better not to exist at the beginning. But now that you have come to this world, there is no need to leave with regret.

Emperor Qi said, "I didn't expect you to be like this."

"What?"

"Nothing? I just didn't know that my queen was such an ambitious woman. Emperor Qi said.

"Don't like it?"

Emperor Qi shook his head and said, "It's not about whether you like it or not. You are the queen of the Empress Dowager herself. Even if you don't like it, there's nothing you can do, don't you think? But to be honest, it's not bad to be used to the submissive women in the court.

"Ye." Yi Xinrou said, "In the past, I lived in a very poor village, where there was nothing. So I've always wanted to leave that village. Maybe you don't believe it. If I hadn't left there, I probably would have gone crazy now.

"The village where I used to live?"

"Yes, it is located in a small village in Cangguo." Yi Xinrou said, "But now, that village no longer exists."

"Doesn't exist? Why?" Emperor Qi said, "It's not you who let that village disappear!"

"How is that possible?" Yi Xinrou said, "Qi Yu said that the village was swallowed up by black tentacles. I remember that if my brother's Qinglong hadn't saved me that day, I might have died. But I think it's incredible that I didn't expect that there would be a unicorn in such a village.

"Are you talking about Liansheng?" Emperor Qi saw from Liansheng's hair color that he should be a unicorn.

"Ye." Yi Xinrou said, "Liansheng is very timid, but I really can't imagine that he is a unicorn. I heard that the people selected by Kirin can dominate the world. To be honest, I am very jealous of Qi Yu. At the same time, I hate him. Obviously, he can't do anything, but he can let Kirin choose and escape when he encounters something. Why can such a person unify the world? Why on earth?"

"Each person has his own destiny." Emperor Qi said, "Like me, although I don't have the ambition of the world, I have always hoped that I can become the monarch of the State of Qi. But after my father died, I completely gave up this idea, but I never thought that I would sit on the throne in the end. Maybe this is the so-called gas.

"Is it angry?"

"Yes, luck." Emperor Qi said, "This is meetable but not sought. As you said, Qi Yu's personality can't unify the world at all, but Kirin chose him, so this is his luck, or something we don't know. What you see should only be superficial. You really don't know him.

"No." Yi Xinrou said, "I know him very well. Through her, I know more about Qi Yu."

"Why are you so sure? You should know that a person's heart is the most difficult to see through." Emperor Qi said.

Yi Xinrou looked at the lonely face of Emperor Qi and knew that the emperor's heart must not be as good as what he saw from his appearance, and he must have a very gray past. Because she knew that Emperor Qi would shed tears in the dead of night. But Yi Xinrou never asked Emperor Qi, because she didn't like to spy on other people's daughters, because she didn't love Emperor Qi at all. But for Yi Xinrou, such an illusory thing as love is not important at all.

For some women, love is the most important thing in life. But Yi Xinrou doesn't think so. She thinks that women should hold power instead of clinging to men. If she entrusts her whole life to a man, she can't do that at all and doesn't disdain to do it.

So she married the most powerful man in the State of Qi just to unify the world in the future. Maybe no one can understand why a woman wants to unify the world. Even if she doesn't want to rely on men, it is enough to control the power of the whole country. Why do they have to greedily control the power of the whole world? Potential.

"I know Qi Yu's weakness." Yi Xinrou said.

"Oh? Then I'm very interested in what Qi Yu's weakness is.

"Qi Yu's weakness is me." Yi Xinrou said.

"Why do you say that? Does he love you?

"No." Yi Xinrou said, "He doesn't love me. But she loves my face.

"You confused me. What's going on?" Emperor Qi was also interested. He wanted to know what Qi Yu's weakness was.

"His favorite woman looks exactly like me, but now I have the memory of that woman. So I know that Qi Yu's biggest weakness is me. Yi Xinrou said, "But now I'm not sure if I'm really his weakness, because he has changed and has become nothing."

Emperor Qi said, "How much did he want before?"

"Yes, he wanted a lot of things before, but he didn't dare to face it, so he couldn't do anything, and now he doesn't want anything, but he manages the whole state of Qi very well. Do you think it's ironic?"

"Indeed." Emperor Qi said, "Forget it, I won't talk about him."

Land.

Princess Shuning sat alone in the pavilion and looked up at the dark night sky. She suddenly felt very tired. She didn't know what she had been doing for so many years. Unify the world? Why unify the world and what can happen later? It's just an illusory dream. Even if you have suffered all kinds of hardships, but now you have a glorious king who loves you deeply, what else do you want?

If your ambition can't be filled, then one day you will be destroyed by your ambition. However, after so many years of patience, do you have to give up like this?

I don't know, she really doesn't know whether to continue or let go. For a long time, she finally felt that one of the people was a tragedy. From birth to death, it is just a conspiracy that has already come to an end. However, there are always times when you want to jump out of the conspiracy and see if that sentence is true.

It's just that it's expensive. You have to abandon everything and bathe in blood to be reborn. But many times, even if you abandon everything and go through hardships, you may not be able to succeed. This is the cruelty of fate. But it is also true.

Can the so-called fate be interpreted by everyone?

Shuning smiled and thought that when she first arrived in the State of Lu, she remembered that as soon as she arrived in the State of Lu, her father was overthrown, and Qi Ming, where did Qi Ming go? I haven't seen him for so many years. I just thought so, but I heard footsteps behind me.

"Little sister."

Shu Ning turned around and saw no one else, but Qi Ming that she was just thinking about. It's just that Qi Ming's hair turned fiery red, followed by a beautiful woman who came out of the painting. She could even see a faint fog around the woman. Princess Shuning knew that that woman was not simple. In the decade of the flood of wizards and mages, she had been used to seeing these.

"Brother." Princess Shuning got up and said, "Why are you here?"

"I want to see you." Qi Ming said, "How have you been doing for so many years?"

"Very good." Princess Shuning said, "Brother, how about you?"

"The same." Qi Ming said, "I haven't seen you have a child for so many years."

"I don't want children." Princess Shuning said, "Don't say this, big brother, there must be something wrong with you coming here this time!"

"It's nothing, just come to see you." Qi Ming said, "I'm relieved to see that you are safe and sound. At first, I thought King Rong was not good to you, so it looks good."

"He is very kind to me. It's my own problem." Princess Shuning said, "Do you know that Qi Xian has become the emperor?"

"I know." Qi Ming said, "It's better to let the second brother be emperor than to let the weak Xingle King be emperor, not to mention that he is our father's enemy."

Princes Shuning said, "Brother, have you ever thought that maybe our father is not dead?"

"What?" Qi Ming asked with some shock, "Why did you say that?"

"I just feel that my father is not dead yet. I feel that everything is like someone has set up a game, and we are just pawns." Princess Shuning said, "Think about it, everything started by my father, and I heard that my father said before he died that he would definitely come back."

Qi Ming shook his head and said, "That's impossible. How can my father come back to life? Everyone watched him turn into powder and disappear with their own eyes. How can he come back? Shuning, don't doubt it."

"What if I suddenly turn into powder and disappear in front of you today? So do you think I'm dead?" Princess Shuning asked.

"What do you mean?"

"At that time, it was incredible to turn into powder, but everyone seemed to ignore it, but I have always wondered how to turn into powder and disappear." Princess Shuning said, "Now, I finally understand that my father is likely to know magic or witchcraft. Now, it is easy to turn into powder. We seem to have entered a dead end. All the words, I don't think my father is dead yet."

"You said so..." Qi Ming listened to Princess Shuning's words and didn't know how to refute it for a moment. Indeed, as Princess Shuning said, he believed that his father was dead all the time, but now what she said made her shaken.

Yes, it was incredible to turn into powder and disappear at that time. Why didn't anyone notice this? Is it true that as Shu Ning said, his father is really a wizard or mage and still lives in this world? Is such a thing possible?

"Brother, do you think all this will be set by your father?" Princess Shuning said, "From the beginning, it was a mystery set by her father."

But why did my father do this? He has no reason to do this at all." Qi Ming said, "Why do you pretend to be dead? What's the good for him to do this?

"I don't know, this is just my inference." Princess Shuning said, "Maybe it's wrong. I'm just a little suspicious."

"But why are you so suspicious?" Qi Ming said.

"Intuition." Princess Shuning said, "You are the direct prince, and you won't understand the sadness of me, a concubine princess. Since I was a child, I wanted my father to pay attention to me, so I looked at my father all the time. I know my father better than anyone else. He seems cruel, but I know he is more merciful than anyone else. But this is not the reason why I suspect that he is not dead, because since I was very young, I often heard my father talk to himself that he would come back after he died.

"Come back after you die?"

"Ye." Princess Shuning nodded and said, "My father has a black brocade bag. He once told me that it contained all his secrets, but I have never seen that bag again."

"It's so complicated..." Qi Ming said, "I didn't expect it to be so complicated"

"Who would have thought of this? It's really complicated." Princess Shuning said, "But as I said before, everything is just my inference. Brother, you don't have to pay attention to it. Maybe the truth is not what I said."

"That's what you said, can I not pay attention to it?" Qi Ming said with a wry smile, "It seems that I need to go to Qi."

"What are you going to do in Qi?" Princess Shuning asked, "Is it possible that you are going to investigate the cause of your father's death?"

"No, just go and have a look." Qi Xian said, "After all, I haven't been back for so many years. I heard that Qi Yu has become the prince, and I also want to see him."

Princess Shuning said, "Then go back. Maybe there will really be an answer there."