Chapter 184 The Real World (3)
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September is the month of dragon rising.
That morning, a small blue ball of light landed on the pillow and bounced vigorously.
"Minister, wake up! You will be crowned and married today!"
"It was Li Yue who ascended the throne, not me." Zhu Qingchen pulled the quilt to cover his head and corrected it sullenly.
"Go tell Li Yue now that you want to be the emperor, and he will definitely let you be the emperor."
“But I don’t want to be one.”
"Then you should get up quickly too. You are the queen and you are getting married today."
"I'm so sleepy." Zhu Qingchen turned over, curled up into a ball, and lay on the bed. "I went to bed too late last night. I'll sleep for another quarter of an hour."
"You were so nervous that you couldn't sleep last night, and you refused to get up this morning." The system said helplessly, "Chenchen, my vacation is about to end, and I won't be able to wake you up very often."
"What?" Zhu Qingchen woke up immediately after hearing this, and jumped up from the bed, holding the quilt, "Tongtong, you're leaving?"
From the time he returned to his original world to the time he unified the world.
A full year and a half has passed.
Zhu Qingchen had long regarded the system as one of his good friends and never thought that it would leave.
"But……"
"I ask for leave from the control center every day. I have already taken my leave a hundred years in advance, just to watch you get married." The system was very disappointed. "But you are still lying in bed. Hurry up and get up! Get married in front of me! My cameras are ready!"
Zhu Qingchen blinked his eyes: "I... I don't want you to leave, so I won't get married..."
"What?!" The system was shocked.
"If I don't get married, you won't leave."
The system saw his sad expression and changed its tone to one of sorrow: "Chenchen, I have stayed until now just to see you get married. Can't you even fulfill such a small wish of mine?"
"But I really don't want you to leave..." Zhu Qingchen explained in a low voice, "Tongtong, in order to keep you, I am willing not to get married. Anyway, Li Yue and I are already an old couple, so it's okay not to have a ceremony."
"You damn kid!" The system was so angry that it flew over his head and jumped around, "I will really beat you to death!"
Zhu Qingchen pulled the quilt over his head and fell back onto the bed powerlessly: "Then just beat me to death."
Seeing that Zhu Qingchen was about to fall asleep again, the system changed its strategy: "Chenchen, as a system, I have never attended a wedding, let alone an ancient emperor's wedding. Can you bear to let me leave with regrets?"
Zhu Qingchen couldn't bear it, so he poked his head out from under the quilt.
At this moment, the servant knocked on the door outside: "Master Zhu, are you up?"
Zhu Qingchen glanced at the system and got up from the bed: "I'm up."
The system was happy: "Okay, get up, get up, get married!"
Zhu Qingchen pursed his lips: "Then you are not allowed to leave."
The system flew behind him and pushed him hard: "Got it, at least I won't leave today."
"Yeah." Zhu Qingchen stood up reluctantly and washed up simply.
The dress was too thick and complicated, and he couldn't handle it by himself, so he had to ask his servants to come in and help him.
The Great Zhou Dynasty established the rule that black and red are the most respected colors. Zhu Qingchen's outfit was bright red, which was modeled after the official uniforms of civil servants, but more gorgeous.
Zhu Qingchen held his face in his hands and sat in front of the bronze mirror.
The palace servants gathered around him, combing his hair and putting on his crown: "I wish you a very handsome man today."
"After today, I will call you Junhou."
"Your Majesty didn't fall asleep last night. He practiced swordplay in front of the palace all night long. In the morning, he practiced boxing again. I wonder if he didn't sleep all night."
Zhu Qingchen smiled and said, "I didn't sleep much either."
I watched ten cartoons in a row last night, which broke the record.
In the bronze mirror, the small blue light ball flashed with a gratifying light.
After packing everything up, Zhu Qingchen stuffed two pieces of dessert into his mouth and prepared to go to the main hall.
They could not meet before the ceremony, so Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue lived in side halls on either side of a palace.
When Zhu Qingchen went over, Li Yue also happened to come over.
The two men met in the corridor. Zhu Qingchen lifted his clothes, walked quickly forward, raised his hand and touched Li Yue's eyes.
Sure enough, Li Yue didn't sleep well and there were some dark circles under his eyes.
"Li, you're actually putting on powder!"
Li Yue grabbed his hand and rubbed his face.
"Zhu Qingqing, you put on powder too."
"They wiped it for me, saying it would make me feel more energetic." Zhu Qingchen slapped his hand away, "Stop rubbing my face. You wiped it all off."
"Oh." Li Yue took a deep breath, "Then shouldn't you take your hand back first?"
The two of them held each other's hands, squeezed into the main hall, and sat down.
"Li Yue, don't squeeze me." "Zhu Qingqing, why do you keep holding my hand?"
"Why do you say that? You ruined my makeup."
The emperor drove the chariot, and all the civil and military officials in official uniforms entered the palace through the palace gate in a grand procession.
Fortunately, they arrived in time. If they had arrived a little later, Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue would have fought each other.
The ceremonial officials outside the palace sang in unison: "Welcome the Emperor and Empress to offer sacrifices to the Heaven!"
All the civil and military officials bowed and saluted: "Welcome the Emperor and Empress to offer sacrifices to the heaven!"
Zhu Qingchen wanted to slap Li Yue's hand away, but Li Yue insisted on holding his hand. He stood up and walked out of the hall.
Under the complicated overlapping sleeves, the two people's hands were tightly clasped.
Walking down the steps and arriving in front of the imperial carriage, Li Yue slightly turned sideways, held Zhu Qingchen's hand, helped him up first, and then went up himself.
The carriage drawn by six horses left from Chaoyang Gate in the east and went all the way to the altar for offering sacrifices to heaven outside the city.
The altar has ninety-nine stone steps, towering into the clouds.
As the ceremonial officials sang in harmony, Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue held hands all the time and climbed the stairs step by step.
Standing on the altar, the two of them held a cup of rice wine brought from Fengxiang City and poured it out slightly.
For a moment, everything was silent, with only the sound of wine being poured onto the altar.
Offer sacrifices to heaven, earth, mountains and water.
The sky is cloudless and the sun is shining brightly.
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue drank the wedding wine together among the heaven, earth and mountains and rivers.
In the history books of the future, it will be written that they were childhood sweethearts, that they shared joys and sorrows, lived and died together, and that they ruled the world together and loved each other without doubt.
The red line stretches out in the history books, entwining their names for hundreds and thousands of years, and will never change.
*
The ceremony was elaborate. It started with offering sacrifices to heaven, and then the emperor returned to the palace to receive worship from all officials in the Purple Palace.
There was a palace banquet until the evening.
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue sat in the main seats and accepted toasts from familiar court officials.
At the beginning, everyone was still a little reserved. It was the first time for Li Yue and Zhu Qingchen to be emperor and empress. They all had smiles on their faces and their movements were reserved and gentle, looking like they had the demeanor of an emperor and empress.
result……
Later, after three rounds of drinks, everyone had drunk a little too much and didn't care so much about etiquette.
The friend they had known since childhood stood up shakily with a glass of wine in his hand, his cheeks flushed, and said, "Your Majesty has finally got what you wished for. Your Majesty has liked Zhu Qingqing since childhood, I have seen it a long time ago!" Li Yue's face changed, and just as he was about to stop him, he was held down by Zhu Qingchen: "What do you mean?"
"Zhu Qingqing, you still ask me why." The friend laughed, "When we were kids and had snowball fights, His Majesty never hit you; when we roasted rabbits together, His Majesty always let you eat the rabbit legs first; when we stayed overnight together, everyone else slept in a mess, but His Majesty would hug you..."
Zhu Qingchen looked at Li Yue with suspicion and amusement.
Li Yue waved his hand and ordered his guards: "Master Liu is drunk, take him away to sober him up."
Zhu Qingchen held his hand and said, "Let him speak, let him speak!"
Immediately afterwards, another friend stood up with a wine glass in hand, and stood opposite Lord Liu, challenging him.
"Hasn't Zhu Qingqing liked your Majesty for a long time? When your Majesty was thirteen years old, he followed the late emperor and the late emperor to the battlefield. His toe was pierced by an enemy arrow. Zhu Qingqing insisted on visiting him in the middle of the night, crying while riding a horse. It was just a toe pierced. When he arrived a little late, your Majesty's wound had healed."
Zhu Qingchen's expression froze. Was this true? Why didn't he remember it?
Li Yue imitated what he had done just now and held his hand: "Zhu Qingqing, let him speak."
These things brought back memories of the past, and in the palace, the "old men" in Fengxiang City stood up and spoke.
"I remember it too! When we were little, Your Majesty and Zhu Qingqing always caught colds together and recovered together. If one of them caught a cold, the next day the other would definitely catch a cold too. They were like candy canes, sticking together all day long, even when they were sick."
"When they were young, the elders told them to become sworn brothers, but they refused to do so! It turns out they were waiting for today to be married! If they become sworn brothers, they can't get married, right?"
"Since your majesty went on his first expedition at the age of thirteen, every time you go to war, you always bring special products to Zhu Qingqing, and no one else gets any."
"Every time your majesty goes to war, Zhu Qingqing will be sad for a while."
"Your Majesty has long been interested in Zhu Qingqing."
"Hasn't Zhu Qingqing already had a crush on Your Majesty?"
A group of people seized on the evidence of their early love and became more and more excited as they talked, almost climbing onto the wine table.
Zhu Qingchen and Li Yue wanted to turn their heads away, but they bumped into each other again, their foreheads hitting each other.
The two people's foreheads touched.
Li Yue whispered, "Zhu Qingqing, how about we go back first?"
Zhu Qingchen nodded: "Let's go back, they won't find out." If they didn't leave now, all their secrets would be exposed.
So embarrassing.
"Let's go." Li Yue made a prompt decision, put his arm around Zhu Qingchen's shoulders, and took him away from the back hall.
The two men returned to the bedroom and dismissed the attendants.
"No need to wait on me, go down. Go and wait outside until the palace banquet is over, and then send the gentlemen back."
The servants closed the door and the two systems stayed outside, leaving only the two of them in the hall.
Zhu Qingchen fell down on the couch and breathed a sigh of relief: "I was scared to death, how come these people knew everything?"
Li Yue stood in front of the table and poured two glasses of wine: "So you really cried when my toe was pricked?"
"I..." Zhu Qingchen choked for a moment, and did not answer, but asked back, "So when a few of us friends sleep together, you always hug me, is it because you..."
"Because you are warm and comfortable to hug." Li Yue remained calm and sat down beside him. "Are you sad every time I go to war?"
"You never hit me during snowball fights?"
"You cry every time you send me off to battle?"
"You don't want to be sworn brothers with me because you want to marry me?"
"right."
The two of them chatted until they reached——
Li Yue admitted it openly.
"Yes." Li Yue responded again and handed the wine glass in his hand to Zhu Qingchen, "I want to marry you. I wanted to do that when I was sixteen, so I refused the elders' request for us to become sworn brothers."
Zhu Qingchen took the wine glass and blushed a little: "Li Yue, you have evil intentions."
"They said I got what I wanted today, and it's true."
Li Yue held his hand, and the two of them crossed their hands and drank a cup of wine in the bedroom.
Putting down their wine glasses, the two of them sat on the small couch, knowing what to do next, but not knowing what to do.
Zhu Qingchen tugged at his heavy dress and whispered, "Then should I change my clothes first?"
"Yeah." Li Yue's expression was indifferent. "You've been tired all day. I'll ask them to bring in some hot water. You can wipe it first."
"Oh." Zhu Qingchen glanced at him secretly and found that he really had no reaction, so he walked behind the screen and took off his complicated dress.
But he forgot that he needed the help of attendants when putting on the formal dress, and he would definitely not be able to handle taking it off by himself.
Zhu Qingchen held a pile of clothes and poked his head out from behind the screen: "Li Yue, are you there?"
Li Yue took a basin of hot water from the attendant, closed the palace door again, and looked back at him.
Zhu Qingchen raised his sleeves and smiled sheepishly: "Help me."
"Yeah." Li Yue stepped forward and placed the copper basin on the shelf next to him.
Zhu Qingchen raised his hands. Li Yue stood in front of him, lowered his head slightly, and helped him untie the laces of his dress.
The candlelight flickered in the bedroom, reflecting on Li Yue's profile.
Zhu Qingchen looked at him with excitement, and quietly took a step forward, putting the toe of his shoe against his and poking him gently.
Li Yue frowned: "Don't go any further, it can't be untied. Why are you kicking me again?"
Zhu Qingchen opened his eyes wide in disbelief and tilted his head to look at him: "What did you say?"
Li Yue remained calm and asked, "Why did you kick me?"
Zhu Qingchen was so angry that he hit him: "What do you mean by kicking you? I'm seducing you! Seducing you!"
Li Yue paused for a moment, helped him untie all the laces, and said calmly: "Zhu Qingqing, you are not in good health. You can't do strenuous exercise right after eating."
I see.
So he knew.
Zhu Qingchen tilted his head and moved closer to him, then kissed the corner of his lips. There was a loud "chi" sound.
The cheek that was kissed turned visibly red.
Li Yue's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and this time the pause was longer than the last time: "Zhu Qingqing, you are wearing such thick clothes. If you sweat, you must wipe it off quickly, otherwise you will catch a cold."
Zhu Qingchen changed direction and shone on the other corner of his lips, making another "chi" sound.
Now Li Yue's face turned completely red.
Zhu Qingchen said confidently: "I will sweat anyway. Besides, I am sweating because the heating is on in the bedroom, not because my clothes are too thick. Whose palace has heating in September?"
Li Yue tried hard to keep his tone serious: "Zhu Qingqing, you will really catch a cold if you do this."
"It doesn't matter." Zhu Qingchen trembled and pulled Li Yue's belt, "Because I'm playing with fire."
Li Yue patted his waist and asked, "Where did you learn this?"
"I learned it when I was playing with fire." Zhu Qingchen lay in his arms, raised his head, and put his lips, which were soaked with wine, precisely on Li Yue's lips.
Li Yue's hand holding his belt suddenly tightened, and then Zhu Qingchen's belt was pulled open. The complicated dress hung on Zhu Qingchen's body, and because it was too heavy, it slowly slid down.
The clothes slipped to the ground, and Zhu Qingchen stood in the middle wearing only a single layer of clothing.
Li Yue took him out from the pile of clothes, touched his back to make sure that he was not sweating, and no longer bothered to wipe his hands and feet. He pressed his head and deepened the kiss.
Zhu Qingchen tripped over the clothes on the ground and almost knocked over the screen.
After the kiss, Zhu Qingchen climbed onto Li Yue's neck like a koala, hung on Li Yue, and proudly lifted his non-existent little tail.
"Li Yue, you have never liked reading since you were a child, so you must not have seen the fire avoidance map, right? You must not know what to do next? I have seen it, I am far ahead, from now on, everything will be under my command..."
Before Zhu Qingchen could finish his words, Li Yue blocked his mouth: "Zhu Qingqing, I just don't like reading."
Although they all looked at the pictures and appeared more confident than the other, it was still not easy to put it into practice.
The two of them huddled in bed, studying together the paintings that Zhu Qingchen carried with him.
"Like this? That's it."
"No, Li Yue, this won't work, it's too..."
The red candle shadow flickers, and the red curtain hangs slightly.
This study took an hour, and the red candle was half burned.
Li Yue wanted to try out several pictures, and Zhu Qingchen was so angry that he punched Li Yue's chest: "I didn't see you being so diligent when you were studying."
Li Yue whispered, "For the last time. Zhu Qingqing, don't sleep. I have a gift for you."
So another half hour passed.
After the incident, Zhu Qingchen sank into the soft bedding, his face flushed and his whole body steaming.
Li Yue touched his forehead and confirmed that he was just hot and not having a fever.
He was about to order some hot water and was about to get out of bed when he was stopped by Zhu Qingchen.
"Gift..." Zhu Qingchen opened his eyes, "Where's my gift?"
Li Yue lowered his eyes and asked in a low voice: "Zhu Qingqing, are you sure you want it now?"
"Yes." Zhu Qingchen fell on the pillow and nodded firmly, "I want the gift now."
He persisted until now just for the gift Li Yue mentioned.
"Well, don't regret it then."
"Well, I will never regret it."
Li Yue opened the secret compartment at the head of the bed, took out a few small wooden signs, placed them on a tray, and placed them in front of him.
"What is this?" Zhu Qingchen picked up a wooden sign, but it was dark in the tent and he couldn't see it clearly.
Li Yue explained: "Those old men said before that even if you like men, you should have many male lovers. It is the way of heaven for kings, princes, generals and ministers to have three wives and four concubines."
"So?" Zhu Qingchen's eyebrows jumped for no apparent reason. "What did you do?"
"You are now above everyone else, and you must have what others have, so I specially prepared some male favorites for you."
"What?" Zhu Qingchen was shocked, but his voice was a little hoarse and he couldn't shout, "What did you prepare for me?"
Li Yue put the wooden sign that had slipped from his hand back into his hand, hung up the curtain, and allowed Zhu Qingchen to see the words on the wooden sign clearly.
Zhu Qingchen was still shocked: "Li, you are too much, aren't you? I don't want it!"
Li Yue was very calm: "From today on, Zhu Qingqing can choose someone to sleep with you."
"Are you crazy?" Zhu Qingchen picked up the wooden sign in his hand, and after looking at it carefully, his eyebrows twitched wildly, "You are not crazy, I am crazy."
Li Yue remained calm: "These are the men carefully selected for you."
Zhu Qingchen had a complicated expression on his face. He raised the wooden sign in his hand and pushed it in front of Li Yue: "Yuwen Shu? Who is this man called 'Yuwen Shu'?"
Li Yue introduced him: "The regent of the grassland, he is strong and powerful, with overwhelming power, and the most majestic goshawk on the grassland."
"Isn't this you?" Zhu Qingchen casually picked up another sign, "Yu Xingzhou?"
Li Yue continued to introduce: "A classic domineering CEO, in charge of the Yu Group, mastering car repair skills, and can switch between domineering CEO and car repairman at any time."
"You're awesome." Zhu Qingchen looked at Li Yue with a complicated expression and picked up another piece. "Changyuan?"
Li Yue smiled and said, "The Demon Lord in the world of cultivation can switch between dragon form and human form. It is said that there are two dragon forms..."
Zhu Qingchen interrupted him hastily, poking at the wooden sign: "I want him, I want Chang Yuan, summon Chang Yuan to sleep with me immediately. I want to see how you can conjure up two..."
Before he could finish his words, Li Yue lifted the quilt off him and hugged him.
But till the end, Zhu Qingchen still didn't figure out whether Li Yue had actually produced two or how he had produced two.
He was so tired that he fell asleep. Later, Li Yue carried him to wash up, but he didn't feel anything.
*
The emperor and empress got married.
As expected, news of the court strike came out early the next morning.
Zhu Qingchen lay on the clean and soft bed, unable to even get up.
During this time, Li Yue held him up and helped him eat breakfast. He drank some porridge, then slipped back into the bed in a daze and continued to sleep.
By noon, when he had finished digesting the porridge he had drunk in the morning, he woke up from hunger.
Zhu Qingchen wrapped himself in a quilt and climbed out of bed.
Li Yue, who was sitting next to him reviewing memorials, touched his forehead and asked, "Are you up?"
"I'm hungry." Zhu Qingchen sniffed, still having the strength to say, "Chang Yuan served me well last night, and I will reward you handsomely."
"Thank you, Lord Zhu. Chang Yuan is flattered."
Li Yue asked his servants to bring in lunch, and Zhu Qingchen ate in bed without even getting out of bed.
After lunch, Zhu Qingchen curled up in bed again and opened the wedding gifts sent by his friends yesterday.
The gifts were piled up like a mountain. There were calligraphy and paintings, which were what Zhu Qingchen liked; weapons and hidden weapons, which were what Li Yue liked; and some things with good meanings, such as two jade pendants, two heart knots, and two small dolls, which were to congratulate them on their marriage.
All the presents were unpacked except for the last box in the corner.
Zhu Qingchen asked Li Yue to bring the box over, and they opened it together.
Inside is——
Two cups of milk tea and a serving of fried chicken, Zhu Qingchen’s favorite combination flavor.
Two stickers of Zhu Qingchen’s favorite cartoons were given with the milk tea, and the back of the stickers were printed with:
My dear minister, I will see you again if we are lucky enough.
Under these snack stickers, there is a feather fan.
At the beginning of each small world that Zhu Qingchen experienced, a feather of light would fall between his eyebrows.
The system then weaved these light feathers into a small fan for literati and gave it to Zhu Qingchen.
Zhu Qingchen opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
I looked around, but I couldn't see the two little blue and red balls of light anymore. !
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