Chapter 42: A Hot Day

At the beginning of August, it was the hottest day in the capital. Fortunately, the capital is located in the north, and even if it is hot, it can't be hot for a few days. If it is placed in the capital city geographically located on the equator, at this time, people will long to soak in the water every day, and they will also want to shoot the sun in the sky with an arrow.

However, Yan Feng does not have myths such as Hou Yi shooting the sun, and Yan Feng is not popular with any mythological stories, although this country was almost a country built nearly a thousand years ago, but the ancient history of this world does not know how long. Rather than believing in those ethereal legends of ghosts and gods, the royal family and people in Yanfeng believe more in the ancestors who founded the country.

Everyone believes not only in the members of the royal family, but also in every ordinary person who participated in the founding of the country. Therefore, in Yanfeng, there are basically no religious symbols such as temples and churches, and the tablets that every family seeks protection from are basically the ancestors of the founding of the country.

At the beginning of August, the Yanfeng royal family also released a message to the whole country through the Ministry of Rites that Zhao Hongming, the eldest prince of Yanfeng, would hold a big wedding ceremony at the end of September.

Those who have the ability to find out the news from various sources will not be surprised. But this news is still unknown to most people, and everyone is surprised and begins to inquire about the details of this news.

The main questions are who is the princess who is going to marry the prince, where is she from, how old is she, and how good-looking she looks?

Ordinary people don't get much benefit from this prince's big wedding, so their concerns are more gossipy. And those who want to get some benefits from this ceremony have these problems of not caring who the prince marries and whether she looks good or not.

As long as they can make a profit, even if the prince wants to marry a man, it has nothing to do with them.

Zhao Hongxing belongs to the more gossip category, he wants to know what kind of fairy character Zhao Hongxing is the "sister-in-law" who didn't even fancy the Gu family's daughter, but started thinking about it five years ago.

In fact, Zhao Hongming and the future imperial concubine have known each other for more than seven years, and when they were training outside Yanfeng, they didn't know who they "hooked up" from, which is almost the tradition of these princes in Yanfeng. But he never brought this girl back and showed it to the people in the family, and when the royal family spread the news that he was about to get married, many people didn't even know that Zhao Hongming had a favorite beauty.

Taking advantage of the news just came out, the storytelling and singing tiles in the capital began to perform all kinds of repertoire of the so-called "love history of the eldest prince", and each declared that their one was the "original and genuine", and it was the repertoire they created after asking "people in the know".

The audience who went to watch these shows didn't really care whether the things they played were genuine or not, they were just curious about what it was like for the prince to fall in love, so they came together to have a good time, so those tiles in the south of the capital were almost full every night. In this way, a group of people who made profits from the wedding ceremony that had not yet begun for the eldest prince of Yanfeng were born.

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Gu Mansion, in Gu Nan's courtyard.

"Sister, Zhao Hongming has already decided to get married, so don't be obsessed with him anymore, okay?" In the courtyard, Gu Nan's second brother Gu Bai persuaded her in the room.

Gu Nan did not answer Gu Bai's words, but silently painted makeup alone.

"Sister, let's not go on like this, even if you do it, what can you do? Will he, Zhao Hongming, refuse this family business now, and then turn his head to marry you?" The eldest brother Gu Song is also in the courtyard, and the two brothers seem to be persuading this Gu Nan together.

"Brother, my little sister has never given up halfway in doing things over the years. Facing the bronze mirror, Gu Nan slowly drew one stroke at a time on his face.

"Aside from being rejected by him, I've never failed. After finishing the last stroke, Gu Nan put down the pen in his hand for makeup.

"Then you won't take such a big risk for him?" Gu Song jumped to his feet in anger.

"You can't look down on so many good sons, so why don't you just knock that Zhao Hongming?" Gu Bai also danced along......

"No, I'm not trying to fight him. Gu Nan said, gently brought a veil for herself, then stood up and walked towards the door, a person who did not wear a veil but looked like her walked out of the shadows of the room and sat down in the position where Gu Nan made up for herself.

As if he was going out, when Gu Nan walked into the courtyard, he said calmly to the two angry and helpless brothers in the courtyard.

"I just don't want to just watch him get married. ”

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On this day, Zhao Hongxing, Le Aya and Zhao Zhongling were chilling by the lake in the palace. The scorching heat of August is the same as the royal family in this palace city, how hot it should be or how hot.

Zhao Hongxing and Le Aya, who were suspended because of the heat, and Zhao Zhongling, who didn't want to do anything because of the heat, came to the lake and wanted to try to escape the heat. Unfortunately, it was the red sun at this time, and there was not a trace of wind by the lake. On the contrary, because of the water, the humidity is slightly higher but a little stuffy.

But Zhao Hongxing and Zhao Zhongling, who were sitting in the pavilion, really didn't want to move, and they spread out on a chair, lazily enduring the high temperature to destroy their spirits.

Zhao Hongxing was very puzzled, his dignified blood was not afraid of the high temperature of nearly 1,000 degrees, why could he be so hot that he couldn't stand it when the temperature reached more than 30 degrees? This body has violated scientific common sense in many places, so don't obey the laws of nature like this, right?

In fact, the only people who felt hot were Zhao Hongxing and Zhao Zhongling, but Le Aya didn't feel anything, she sat in the pavilion very leisurely, eating snacks and drinking herbal tea.

This is mainly because Rakuya can use internal forces.

As a kind of power produced by the martial artist's body after cultivating the exercises, internal force can not only strengthen the physical strength and improve the attack effect, but also regulate the body function, so that the martial artist can adapt to the bad environment as soon as possible. The deeper the internal strength, the higher the ability to adapt to extreme environments.

Although Le Aya has become a six-fold martial artist with her superb swordsmanship and superb internal strength, she is only eleven years old and far from being comparable to those older martial artists in terms of the depth of her internal strength. However, even so, Le Aya can speed up the ability to bring the temperature in the body to the surface of the body by controlling the internal force, and it can also circulate heat dissipation.

If you want to talk about science, just say that this cooling method is really scientific, but if you want to say that it is not scientific, Zhao Hongxing really didn't see anything that could cool himself down in this way in his previous life.

Zhao Hongxing and Zhao Zhongling were more unlucky, because of the relationship between the bloodline of Yan, neither of them could cultivate internal strength. Zhao Hongxing can make the power of the bloodline like the internal exercise, and let the power of the bloodline run in the body like the internal force. But this will not lead to anything, but will cause your body temperature to rise rapidly due to the power of the blood you use.

He doesn't feel hotter himself, but the people next to him have the feeling of a big summer stove.

This world also has the technology of making ice from saltpeter, but coincidentally, when it comes to the hottest days, not only in Miyagi, but also in the entire capital, the ice is in short supply. Because the production capacity is very limited, everyone can only rely on their own ability, who has who uses.

This is no exception even for the royal family, the only ice cubes bought today were sent to Xiao Biqiao, after all, not letting Zhao Yuling and Zhao Xiuling, the two little girls, be hot, is the most important task at this stage.

Zhao Hongxing and Zhao Zhongling couldn't complain about anything, the two of them also received this treatment when they were young - although they were too young at that time to remember - but the two who have become older brothers and sisters must carry forward the fine style of caring for the young and take care of their younger sisters, so they can only endure it.

At this time, Zhao Hongxing misses the air conditioner that can make air conditioning.

Just when Zhao Hongxing and Zhao Zhongling were half-asleep (half-unconscious) by the heat, Zhao Hongwei came with a big sun.

"Why did you two run here to take a nap?" Zhao Hongwei said as he looked at the two people who collapsed on the chair, and then said hello to Le Aya: "Good afternoon Aya'er." ”

"Hello fourth brother. Le Aya got up and bowed, then sat down and continued to eat a snack.

"What's the matter? Zhao Zhongling "woke up slowly" and asked Zhao Hongwei weakly.

"It's not a big deal...... Zhao Hongwei couldn't help but want to laugh when he saw that Zhao Zhongling, who was always full of vitality on weekdays, turned out to be so hot, "How good it is for you to go to your mother's room and stay there, where there are ice cubes to cool down your sisters." I usually take you in my mother's house when I'm fine, why don't you go today?"

"I ...... How can I rub the ice cubes for my sisters to escape the heat!" Zhao Zhongling tried to sit up straight, making himself look very righteous and said.

"In the days when the sixth brother also needed to put ice cubes when he was young, why should you go and go back?" Zhao Hongwei asked.

"Huh?" Hearing this, Zhao Hongxing, who was still paralyzed in the chair, immediately opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Zhongling.

Why do you still treat men and women differently? Zhao Hongxing, who was crooked in the chair, thought to himself.

"I ......" Zhao Zhongling was speechless for a while, turned his head to look at Zhao Hongxing and glanced at him, and then turned his head away in embarrassment.

"I ...... Wasn't I young at the time......" Zhao Zhongling defended himself.

"Ahem. Zhao Hongxing cleared his throat and sat up. He didn't plan to continue to ask Zhao Zhongling why he was treated differently, and it was not good for him to force her to be anxious.

"The fourth brother has something to do with us?" Zhao Hongxing asked.

"Oh," Zhao Hongwei didn't continue the topic just now, "Daddy asked me to ask you, I'm going to the camp in the western suburbs to conduct some experiments on the new thunder fire in a while, do you want to follow and have a look." ”

As soon as Zhao Zhongling heard this, he immediately collapsed back in his chair, "I thought I had found a cooler place, but it turned out that this was the case, I was not interested, so I didn't go." ”

"Ah, I've been looking forward to this for days, I'm going. Zhao Hongxing stood up and said excitedly that he was going.

Zhao Hongxing was about to pull Zhao Hongwei away, when he suddenly remembered Le Ayalai, and hurriedly turned around and asked, "Is Aya'er going?"

Le Aya thought for a moment, put down the snack in her hand, and then nodded, "Hmm." ”

"Why are you going to see that on this hot day, it's loud and scary after it explodes, not to mention, there is a strange smell, it sticks to the body for a while and can't get rid of it, and it smells weird. Zhao Zhongling leaned back in his chair and said to Le Aya.

"I'm just going to take a look with the sixth brother. Le Aya said, standing beside Zhao Hongxing.

"Oh~Is it~" Zhao Zhongling raised his eyebrows exaggeratedly.

"Actually, the western suburbs are much cooler than the capital, but in a forest, it's not hot at all. Zhao Hongwei whispered to Zhao Hongxing.

"I said if you're hot, why don't you go and swim in the lake twice?" After talking to Zhao Hongxing, Zhao Hongwei seemed to suddenly think of it, and proposed to Zhao Zhongling.

Zhao Hongxing smiled, he knew that Zhao Hongwei was joking with Zhao Zhongling. There are no swimsuits in this world, and if you want to swim, you can only swim bare. Zhao Zhongling is such a big girl, and there is no break or block by the lake, she shouldn't really go into the water to escape the heat.

"Oh, don't say that's a good idea. At Zhao Hongwei's reminder, Zhao Zhongling looked at the lake and let out an exclamatory sound.

Hearing Zhao Zhongling's words full of "Why didn't I think of it", Zhao Hongxing asked in disbelief: "Sister, are you serious?"

"Uh-huh!" Zhao Zhongling turned his head and nodded very hard, his eyes flashing with a glint that had lost his mind because of the heat.

"Uh-huh. Before leaving, Zhao Hongwei gave a solemn order to the maids around the pavilion.

"I have shown me your fifth princess, if she really wants to do something stupid, drag her to Her Majesty's house. ”

Zhao Hongxing and Zhao Hongwei had no doubt that she really dared to loosen her clothes on the spot, and then ran to the lake and plunged into the lake.