Chapter 4 Engagement? Isn't it fashionable to get out of marriage?
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Baiyun City is located in the southernmost part of the Lianyun Mountains and is the smallest of the thirteen cities in Lianyun of the Great Qin Dynasty.
Although the city is small, the momentum should not be underestimated, and the walls made of huge stones are dozens of zhang high, like an ancient giant, guarding the invasion of foreign enemies. According to legend, these boulders were carried here by the first generation of city lords to build the city walls with the strength of one person, so it is conceivable that the strength of this city lord is strong.
In the city, the streets are also full of people, and the traffic is busy.
Yanyu Pavilion is the largest restaurant in Baiyun City, and it was overcrowded just after noon.
Xiao Chen, who was sitting in the private room with Pang Guang, couldn't help but sigh, this Yanyu Pavilion was indeed a good place.
The inner cloud top sandalwood is the beam, the crystal jade is the lamp, the pearl is the curtain, and the gold is the pillar base. On the first floor, two circular staircases in the center of the hall surround the rockery fountain to the second floor, the staircase is made of white jade, inlaid with gold beads, magnificent.
There is a stage in the center of the second floor, which is suspended by 10,000 transparent silks. On the top of the stage hangs a huge moon pearl, shining brightly, like a bright moon. The sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl on the stage played the piano and danced, which was beautiful, how could this scene not make people forget to return and indulge in it.
"Brother, one. I wish you a beautiful cup with this cup!"
Xiao Chen's raised wine glass stopped in mid-air, and he wondered, "What hugging a beauty?"
"What? you don't know yet!" Pang Guang put down the wine glass in his hand, and when he heard that Xiao Chen didn't know about it, he became interested for a while, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has decreed marriage, brother, you are going to be engaged to Chu Qiuling, this is not what it is to hold a beauty." ”
"Chu Qiuling?" Xiao Chen was still looking for her information in his memory, and Pang Guang drank all the wine in the cup and continued: "Although this Chu Qiuling can't cultivate and is still disabled, his appearance and family background are there, and he is not wronged by you. ”
Can't cultivate, disabled?
It's her!
Chu Qiuling, eighteen years old, is the only daughter of Chu Yuntian, the city lord of Baiyun City. At birth, due to the abnormal body position, the meridians were blocked, and the meridians could not be cultivated, and the blockage of the meridians also led to the disability of the legs. It is rumored that Chu Yuntian has searched all over the world for all these years, but he has been unable to do anything.
Chu Qiuling looks like the country and the city, known as the first beauty of the Great Qin Kingdom, but this world is cruel, you can't cultivate, no matter how good-looking you are, you can only live for a few decades, and after a few decades, you will just be a pink skeleton.
The city also jokingly called Chu Qiuling and Xiao Chen as: Baiyun Double Waste.
"I don't think I've met her, do I? Why am I engaged?"
Pang Guang swallowed the chicken leg in his mouth, wiped the oil on his mouth, and said, "It was His Majesty's decree to give marriage." However, I heard from the grapevine that she made a bet with the Lord of Mingyue County, as if she was going to marry you if she lost. ”
Who is this Mingyue County Lord, and does he have a grudge against me? Xiao Chen was quite helpless, this was really lying down and being shot. Didn't you say that if you cross over, you will get out of marriage? Why did this engagement fall on his head?
In the morning, my mother was called by the second uncle, and it should be to discuss the matter. His status in the Xiao family has fallen to the bottom, and the son is equivalent to a nominal name, and this marriage will definitely have more advantages than disadvantages for the Xiao family. Although Chu Qiuling said that he couldn't cultivate and was an ordinary person, and the name of the county lord was also a notion, but Chu Yuntian was different, although he was a descendant of the royal family, he won the favor of His Majesty by his own strength, and named Chu Qiuling as the county lord.
Chu Yuntian is the strongest city lord in the thirteen cities of Lianyun, and the Xiao family must be hugging this leg.
Xiao Chen picked up the wine glass, turned his fingers slightly, looked at the wine trembling slightly in the glass, the light in his eyes flashed, and he said in his heart: I will definitely be the person who stirs up Baiyun City.
At this time, the hall downstairs suddenly became agitated, as if he guessed that Xiao Chen was going to ask, Pang Guang opened his mouth first: "You don't have to look at it, it must be the two brothers of the Li family who make a miasma every time they come." After speaking, his face was full of contempt and disdain.
Xiao Chen opened the curtain slightly, at this time the three young men on the jade ladder were slowly walking up, and the two behind looked quite similar to Li Sheng, the second son of the Li family, and Li Jin, the third son, and the person at the head was not Li Yu, the eldest son of the Li family, this person was holding a folding fan, wearing a white robe embellished with gold wire, and a dragon-shaped jade pendant hanging from his waist.
"Hey......" Pang Guang also saw a group of three people, looking puzzled, but he could see that he knew the young man in white who was the leader.
Lowering the curtain, Xiao Chen handed Pang Guang an inquiring look.
Pang Guang said thoughtfully: "Brother, I see that it is a little difficult for your Xiao family to retain the elder seat of the Divine Weapon Pavilion this year, and the young man in white is the third prince." ”
Xiao Chen knew that Baiyun City was famous for refining spiritual weapons, and spiritual weapons, as the name suggests, were a magic weapon that could cooperate with your own martial spirit to exert its maximum combat power.
And the Shenwu Continent is not dominated by various countries, but by powerful sects. There may be dozens or hundreds of countries in each region, but there are only a handful of powerful sects, and they are in charge of the resources of the continent and have strong strength. And various countries have also sent talents and materials to these sects.
The Divine Weapon Pavilion is the place where the Great Qin Kingdom collects and refines spiritual weapons for these sects. There are four elder seats in the Divine Weapon Pavilion, which are re-elected every ten years, allowing the more capable refining families to enjoy the authority of the empire's resources.
The Xiao family is one of them.
The refining family of Baiyun City is the most powerful in the Xiao family, the Li family, and the Wang family.
Sixteen years ago, the old master of the Xiao family, who was the most powerful refiner, and the current head of the family at that time, that is, Xiao Chen's grandfather and father, both disappeared. As a result, the Xiao family's refining level was greatly reduced, and the elder seat of the Divine Weapon Pavilion in the last ten years was only barely obtained. And this year's ten-year period is coming, and with the growing strength of the Li family and the Wang family, it will be even more difficult for the Xiao family to continue to be re-elected in the year-end election competition.
"Drinking, drinking, it's not something that people of your level or I think about. Pang Guang saw Xiao Chen pondering and interrupted him.
After listening to Pang Guang's words, Xiao Chen picked up the wine glass again, took a sip, stared at the fat man and said, "Fat man, do you want to live like this all your life?"
"Hehe, I think that's good. ”
Xiao Chen knew that Pang Guang understood his words, although what he said didn't matter, Xiao Chen still saw a trace of unwillingness on his face.
"Hahahaha!" After draining the wine in the glass, Xiao Chen laughed and left.
Leaving a blank look on his face, "This...... It's an inexplicable laugh. ”
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"Ling'er, why are you doing this?" Chu Yuntian's eyes were soft, but his face was indeed full of doubts about his daughter's feelings.
"It's all right, father. Chu Lingqiu said softly.
"Isn't it just a gamble? as long as you don't want to, no one can force you to do anything. I will go to His Majesty to take back the decree. Chu Yuntian gritted his teeth and said. It is not easy to take back the holy decree, Chu Yuntian knows, but he is willing to fight even if he fights for his daughter.
"It's okay, father. Chu Lingqiu came to Chu Yuntian's side in a wheelchair, took his hand and smiled: "Father, you help me go to Xiao's house to make an invitation, I want to meet him." ”
"Alas......"