Old days in the box

Chapter 260 What a surreal oriental cyberpunk! ?

The original head of the family left the wing, leaving only the two princesses in the room.

Yuan Wuyousheng fell down on the wooden mat helplessly, lying in a "big" shape and looking up at the ceiling of the room, letting out a sad girlish sigh.

What kind of life do you want?

Yuan Wuyou may not be sure what kind of life he wants, but he is very sure that what he wants is not the kind of life of wives and concubines where everything is done well and everyone cares about them.

She was born an eagle, but she could not live the life of a canary in a cage.

"Now that the court has made a decision, don't be too sad. In my opinion, in the final analysis, you just want to cross Zixiao Pass and go to the unknown west to make achievements. The emperor cannot lead troops on the front line."

Li Xianning picked up her embroidery again and said softly while finishing the embroidery.

"Xian Ning still understands me." Yuan Wuyou cried sadly.

In fact, Yuan Wuyou didn't really want to sit on the position of emperor of the Jade Realm. Her real dream life should be to spend half her life in the army, leading troops to expand territory for the country, and establishing her own unparalleled achievements.

When she was a child, she heard her father tell the story of the war between the Jade World and the Western Empire thousands of years ago. Her blood boiled when she heard it, and she insisted on pestering her father to repeat it several times every night. In the war-torn times, we will surely achieve great achievements that will go down in history.

But unfortunately, the reality is that she was born in a peaceful and prosperous era that lasted for thousands of years. The Jade World had already had a truce with the great empire in the west for a long time. She retreated from the endless peaks and established the Zixiao Pass, hiding in the world for thousands of years.

Apart from becoming the Emperor of the Jade Realm, she could not think of another way to realize her military life.

"Get up, this is for you." Li Xianning smiled, and the embroidery picture in her hand was finally completed. She placed the embroidery picture on the low table and placed it in front of Yuan Wuyou.

Yuan Wuyou sat up from the wooden mat floor and saw a meaningful and exquisite embroidered picture placed in front of him.

What was embroidered in that picture was not an ordinary Jiangnan landscape with birds chirping and flowers fragrant, but a tree angel embroidered with pure gold thread. The infinitely spreading sacred tree was stretching out from his back, looking down at the dark earth from a high place. Countless demons are rising from it.

It was a picture depicting the western empire. Although the Jade World and Byzantium had ceased war for more than a thousand years, the knowledge about the European West had not completely disappeared from the Jade World, so she could still recognize the embroidery content.

In the war stories told by my father, the great empire in the west believed in a goddess who came from the sacred tree. Under her were two angels who carried the name of the tree and the name of the mountain. In addition, there were endless legions to help. It is simply infinitely powerful.

Unexpectedly, what Li Xianning had been embroidering in her room would be such a piece of embroidery!

"This is..." Yuan Wuyou clicked his tongue in surprise and couldn't help but pick up the embroidery and look at it carefully.

"Your heart is not in the throne, but in the outside world, in the military achievements. If you really have the opportunity to go out, will you really not regret it?" Li Xianning looked at her and asked gently like an older sister.

"Of course." Yuan Wuyou nodded holding the embroidery.

"Then I won't hide it from you. In fact, I'm not here to comfort you today. I'm here with the royal decree. The emperor has an order. She wants to secretly summon the Yuan clan's Wuyou daughter to come to the palace to discuss important matters."

Li Xianning's tone changed in an instant, and she suddenly became serious. She took out a golden dragon chant memorial from her sleeve. It was stamped with the jade seal of the current emperor. It was the authentic royal edict!

The head of the original family guessed wrong. Li Xianning came here today not to tell his friend about his failure to be elected, but because he was entrusted with the royal decree and came specifically to summon Yuan Wuyou into the palace!

"Your Majesty the Emperor...want to see me?" Yuan Wuyou was stunned, and quickly took the imperial edict from her hand, opened it and looked at it carefully.

In fact, according to the etiquette in the palace, only the person responsible for conveying the order is qualified to view the Dragon Song Memorial. Even the person to whom the order is conveyed must bow respectfully, just like personally paying homage to His Majesty the Emperor before he can receive the order and view it.

But since there was no one else here, Xian Ning acquiesced to her rude behavior. After all, she knew the temperament of her best friend best.

"It's really a summons from His Majesty the Emperor, isn't it! Could it be that the Emperor knew about me practicing my swordplay here and there? Or was it that I accidentally cut off Mr. Xiangguo's wig last time? I know! It must be so. I tried my sword on the peach tree in the palace and chopped off all the peaches. It's over. I didn't mean it!"

Yuan Wuyou began to talk nonsense, and he sat on the table and shook his head from side to side, shaking out all the bad things he had done before.

"Your Majesty the Emperor has no time to care about such trivial matters. Stop thinking nonsense. This time there is really something important to call you into the palace." Li Xianning couldn't help being amused by her again and looked helplessly at this innocent and straightforward girl. .

"...That's good, that's good." Yuan Wuyou then breathed a sigh of relief while holding the royal edict.

Thanks to her slow and slow temperament, she was able to achieve such a pure and harmonious friendship with Li Xianning. Anyone else would have noticed the strangeness of this Li family princess.

For example, at such a young age, how did she obtain the emperor's decree that even the original head of the family was not allowed to know?

The emperor wanted to secretly summon Yuan Wuyou, why not let the Yuan family inform him but let her, the princess of the Li family, go and summon him?

And most importantly, how did a girl who was only sixteen years old get involved in the emperor's core team, gain the emperor's trust, and handle such secret edicts for her?

Li Xianning was beautiful and talented. There were thousands of people around her since childhood, but only Yuan Wuyou could form a friendship with her. This was not without reason.

"Then let's set off. The emperor should have been waiting for a long time by now." Li Xianning tidied up her messy dress and said to her.

Yuan Wuyou nodded, and the two princesses got up from the wooden mats in the boudoir and left the boudoir.

When they just arrived at the original mansion, Li Xianning had already ordered people to prepare carriages and horses outside the door to wait for them. At this time, the two princesses sat in the same carriage and quickly sent them out of the mansion and into the jade world. Within the capital.

The capital of the Jade Realm is called Yuxu Royal City, also known as Yujing. It is the royal capital located at the foot of Bailong Mountain, an oriental city with unprecedented prosperity.

It was still early at this time, and the soft sky shone on the pagodas, temples and buildings in Yuxu City, reflecting a faint golden auspicious light. Among them, you can see the advanced drainage system operating on the Tongque Terrace, and you can also see the towering towers in the city. Stone rings of clouds crisscrossed the sky, arcing from one place to another. It was a transportation system called the Tianqing Stone Carriage. Huge tracks were built in the sky in an artificial way, and the enclosed cars were driven by flint power to quickly travel between different areas.

Each Tianqing stone ring like this can accommodate dozens of stone sedans, and one stick of incense can move tens of thousands of people. And because it is built in the air, it does not need to occupy any space on the ground. It can be said to be a great benefit to migrant workers.

Li Xianning and Yuan Wuyou arrived at the city by carriage and horse. They took this kind of sky-qing stone sedan directly to the palace gate and quickly arrived at the palace in Yuxu City.

Along the sky-high stone ring, they can see the mysterious Bailong Mountain located behind the Yuxu King's City. It is the sacred mountain where the White Jade Dragon Girl was born. It is surrounded by white clouds and mist all year round, whether in summer or winter. One cannot see clearly.

The speed of the Tianqing stone sedan was very fast, and within a moment, they had arrived at the palace from the city where the original residence was located.

The two princesses stepped down from the spacious stone sedan, followed the guide route that Li Xianning had arranged, and soon arrived in front of the palace gate smoothly, waiting for the guard's response and communication.

Li Xianning has walked this road countless times and is already familiar with it. For Yuan Wuyou, this is the first time she has formally stepped into the palace gate.

"Princess Xianning, Wang's edict has been confirmed, please come this way." Within a moment, a bachelor of the Forging Steel Fire Ministry had already walked out of the palace gate, leading the way for Li Xianning.

"Who are these? Your Majesty in the Ministry of Steel and Fire?" Yuan Wuyou looked at the old bachelor who was leading the way and secretly asked Li Xianning beside him.

"Shh, don't make any noise in the palace." Li Xianning raised a finger to her lips to signal her, without answering directly.

Yuan Wuyou's impression of Li Xianning's job was still at the time when she was called into the palace to become a trainee bachelor at the age of twelve, but what she didn't know was that after these four years, Li Xianning had already become a founding member. Senior Grand Maester of the Ministry of Steel and Fire, Director General of Reserves.

Now there is no minister above her, and she only has to report to the current emperor.

The two women entered the palace and were quickly led to the area where the Steel Fire Department was located, and turned into a winding courtyard.

The jade world started with skillful foundry craftsmen. The supreme white jade dragon girl gave them the power of casting and smelting. This also made the Forged Steel Fire Department the most important department in the history of the jade world.

Since it involves Lady Dragon's divine grace and many secret core crafting techniques, the headquarters of the Forged Steel Fire Ministry is not set up elsewhere, but placed directly in the palace, under the personal supervision of each emperor.

What is here is the most advanced advanced manufacturing in the jade world today. All kinds of secret technologies that have never been seen or known to the outside world are gathered here. The emperor and the General Director of Steel and Fire will discuss and study them together, and then decide whether to flow to the people. .

Yuan Wuyou and Li Xianning turned into the Steel Fire Department, and an elegant and unique flowing water courtyard immediately appeared in front of them.

This place is lined with green trees, and the sunlight is largely blocked. At first glance, it looks no different from a secluded ancient courtyard. But if you look closely, you can see rootless palace lanterns floating in the air and scattered around. It emits harmless light particles and illuminates its surroundings.

Occasionally, one or two giant machine birds that are taller than humans will fly down and turn their mechanical necks to look around, lifelike. Bachelors from the Steel and Fire Department are on the ground checking their mechanisms and conducting repeated experiments.

The entire courtyard didn't feel out of place at all. The ultimate casting technology and ancient architecture were harmoniously integrated, and under the influence of the power of steel, it evolved into a unique style in the jade world!

"Wow, you can even create birds? Wouldn't it be easy to cross the Zixiao Pass to monitor the enemy's situation?" Yuan Wuyou finally couldn't help it anymore and screamed, scaring the giant birds.

"Stop screaming, this way, this way." Li Xianning quickly grabbed her hand that was waving excitedly and led her into the courtyard.

"I can only stop here. I'll ask you to drive me personally later, Chief Xianning." The old bachelor led them here, stopped in front of the courtyard gate of the department, and bowed his head to Li Xianning.

Li Xianning nodded politely to him, and then walked in with Yuan Wuyou.

Yuan Wuyou didn't notice that the old bachelor's name for her best friend had quietly changed. She followed Li Xianning into the courtyard and passed through the briefly dark corridor.

What appeared in front of her was a closed and spacious space with no light everywhere. A huge oven was placed in the center of the room, emitting a faint light and becoming the only light source inside.

Unknowingly, she had reached the core area of ​​the Steel and Fire Department and entered the area where the bachelors were conducting closed research.

The huge oven in front of her was very similar to the flint oven she had used to cut off four people with one sword when she was eight years old. They were both products used to supply energy through the air, but this oven was far superior in terms of size and craftsmanship. Those flint ovens back then seemed to be perfect creations after several generations of upgrades.

An ordinary-sized flint oven is enough to charge the weapons of fifty people.

Then what is this huge oven that is almost three people high and five people wide in front of us supplying energy?

Yuan Wuyou was a little timid and followed Li Xianning's footsteps into the dim workshop. In front of them, a figure wearing a white dragon robe had already stopped by the oven.

"Your Majesty, Princess Wuyou, the daughter of the Yuan family, has been ordered to come to see you." Li Xianning walked forward with Yuan Wuyou and reported softly.

There was no one in this closed workshop. The huge and spacious vertical space was pitch black, making it impossible to see clearly. Li Xianning's voice kept reverberating in it, forming an echo.

The woman in the white dragon robe turned around. Her long hair was fixed with a delicate gold hairpin, and her temples were combed along her ears and down to her chest. A tear stain fell on the corner of her eye, as if from a classical ink painting. Like a gentle woman coming out.

The current emperor of the jade world is Chu Lihua.

(End of this chapter)