Chapter 114: Romance in the Great Ming (Second Update)

  Jiang Xia still remembers that year when he was 16 years old, a junior fellow apprentice in Qianmen told him about something called "Hard Disk Goddess Cang X" and Jiang Xia was curious so he searched for it online. Then... he fell into the abyss.

  From that year on, Jiang Xia became the most romantic of the thousand kings in the history of Qianmen. From that year on, there was never a night when Jiang Xia slept without a beauty in his arms. From that year on, Jiang Xia developed a habit of liking to put his hand into the clothes of the beauty in his arms while sleeping and holding one of the two small white rabbits. This action could be done effortlessly even in Jiang Xia's sleep.

  At this time, Jiang Xia's right hand was exploring while muttering to himself: "This woman's chest is too flat, it's really scary, where can you even squeeze? At most, you can only pinch."

  Tremble...

  Zhong Bin was dreaming that he was being chased and killed by someone, when he drew his sword to fight the person, the tip of the other's sword pierced into his right chest. The pain felt incredibly real.

  At this moment, Jiang Xia also felt something was wrong.

  The two of them almost woke up at the same moment and opened their eyes at the same time.

  Four eyes met, and the changes in the two people's eyes were almost the same. First was confusion, then slowly waking up, then surprise, and finally Jiang Xia shouted loudly: "Ahhhhhh!!!"

  "Ah!!!!!!" Zhong Bin also shouted loudly.

  "You son of a turtle, I'm going to kill you!" Jiang Xia shouted out loud, but before he could even finish his sentence, Zhong Bin had already kicked him flying with one foot.

  "Bang!" Jiang Xia's body burst through the window of the house and fell out.

  Jiang Xia fell to the ground and cursed: "Bastard!"

  Then he rushed into the house, with a hot-blooded head wanting to fight with Zhong Bin until one of them died. Bang bang bang... In the end, Jiang Xia stared at the two panda eyes and walked out of the room. However, he glanced back at the room with his remaining light, sneered, and walked away.

  Before long, Zhong Bin came out of the room, his legs tightly closed and his hands covering his lower body. Looking at Jiang Xia's back, Zhong Bin coldly cursed: "Despicable!"

  Jiang Xia walked out more than a dozen steps, still with an unfathomable expression, and said: "As for the world's martial arts, it is indeed this move 'Monkey Steals Peaches' that is the most formidable."

  With that said, he walked away with a nonchalant air, his two panda eyes gleaming.

  The two of them started drinking in the afternoon, and unexpectedly fell asleep only to wake up when it was already dark. That night was uneventful, but as soon as Jiang Xia returned to his room, the first thing he did was write a sentence with a brush: "Prevent fire, prevent theft, prevent Zhong Bin."

  After finishing this sentence, Jiang Xia prepared some swelling and bruise removing medicine for himself and applied it to his eyes. When he was at Qianmen before, he had not been injured a few times. In order to recover from injuries as soon as possible, Jiang Xia had secretly studied various wound medicines and finally invented the Jiang's Wound Medicine that he used now.

  The next morning, Jiang Xia woke up early. This time he didn't wait for Ru Xiang and Nian Nu to serve him in dressing and washing, but instead dressed himself and washed up before going out the door.

  After leaving the Xiangyang Mountain Villa, Jiang Xia met Han Mufeng sitting in the driver's seat of the horse carriage. As soon as Han Mufeng saw Jiang Xia, he asked: "Brother Jiang, are we going now?"

  "Alright, let's go now." Jiang Xia nodded and jumped onto the carriage. As he was about to get into the carriage compartment, Han Mu Feng suddenly said: "By the way, I saw Zhong Bin walking away with a bundle on his back earlier. Did he leave without saying goodbye to you?"

  As soon as the words fell, Han Mufeng suddenly felt a chill of killing intent coming from behind him. Immediately afterwards, he heard Jiang Xia's faint voice: "Don't mention him to me, I wish him to find his true love and get married in a month, and invite me to drink at the full moon banquet seven months later."

  "It's time for Zhong Bin to find a suitable partner and get married." Han Mu Feng nodded in agreement, but as soon as he finished speaking, he felt something was off: "Huh? If they got married a month after finding each other, how could they be inviting you to a full moon celebration seven months later?" Only then did Han Mu Feng realize that Jiang Xia was teasing Zhong Bin.

  "Alright, let's hurry up and go, there isn't much time left." said Jiang Xia.

  "All right." Han Mu Feng immediately waved his whip and drove the horse carriage away.

  Han Mufeng finally sent Jiang Xia to the Leopard House, and after showing the token with the character "Tian" (Heaven) No. 1 to the guards of the Leopard House, Jiang Xia directly entered the house. As soon as he walked into the main hall of the Leopard House, Jiang Xia saw Zhu Houzhao, who exclaimed excitedly upon seeing him: "You've finally arrived! I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

  Jiang Xia nodded and asked: "How is it? Are things ready?"

  "Nothing is left, petals and that ring you mentioned are all ready. Shall we set off now to prepare?" Zhu Houzhao asked excitedly.

  Jiang Xia looked at Zhu Houzhao and asked: "What? Is that all? Where is the imperial edict?"

  Zhu Houzhao gave Jiang Xia a glance, shaking his head and saying: "I've truly never seen anyone play with the title of Zhuangyuan like this before. The key is that I still have to accompany you in playing. Don't worry, all the ceremonies are already prepared, and the one reading the imperial edict is the Minister of Rites, Cui Zhengyi."

  Jiang Xia nodded and patted Zhu Houzhao's shoulder, saying: "This is a major event in Big Brother's life, of course it has to be grand."

  "I really want to know where your hometown is, it's actually got such a custom, but it's quite interesting." Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.

  Jiang Xia smiled slightly and said, "I'll tell you where I'm from when I have the chance."

  "Having said that, Jiang Xia said: 'Let's set off.'"

  ……

  The architecture of Beijing is laid out based on a central axis that runs north-south.

  Yongdingmen Gate in the south of the outer city is the starting point of this central axis, while Zhonghuamen Gate north of Zhonghua Gate and the Bell and Drum Towers are the terminal points.

  It can be seen that this road from Yongdingmen to Zhonggulou is the most prosperous street in the capital.

  At this moment, the sun has just risen, and the vendors on both sides of the street have set up their stalls to do business, and those shops have also opened their doors to start doing business.

  Suddenly two teams of guards with knives ran out and stood on both sides of the street, maintaining order. Then a large number of horse-drawn carriages came over, carrying big wooden barrels to start paving red flower petals on the ground.

  People on both sides of the street didn't understand what was going on, so they all gathered around to watch, discussing what it was for.

  On the other side, Han Mu Feng drove his horse carriage back to Xiang Yao Mountain Villa. He rushed into the villa and immediately found Cui Ru Shuang and Cui Nian Nu. The two women had just come out of Jiang Xia's room and were wondering why Jiang Xia had left so early.

  "Brother Frost and Sister Nian, Jiang Xia is waiting for you on the other side of Yongding Street. He says it's urgent and wants you to hurry over."

  "Anything important?" Like Frost and Nian Nu slightly stunned, then immediately nodded: "Good, we'll go over right away."

  "Ah, I'll drive the horse carriage for you."

  At this moment, Yongding Street is already packed with people on both sides of the street. Jiang Xia stands in a peach-shaped heart made of flower petals, wearing a red cross-collared long gown and holding two bouquets of flowers.

  I think many people have already guessed what Jiang Xia is going to do - proposing.

  In his past life, Jiang Xia was a rogue with a wandering heart. He had never met a woman who could make him want to settle down, not even Xun Yue Xing Hong, who only managed to stir up true feelings in him, but he had never thought of marrying her.

  Now in the Great Ming, there are no Interpol agents chasing him all over the world, nor international hitmen who accept huge sums of money to kill him. A comfortable life with two beautiful women makes Jiang Xia feel content with his current life.

  He knew that Daming was different from later generations. Later generations could get on the bus first and then buy a ticket, but saying so here would be detrimental to the girl's reputation.

  Jiang Xia had been enduring and hadn't really taken the step with Ru Shuang and Nian Nu, all for the sake of giving them a legitimate name before that.

  As Han Mu-feng drove the horse-drawn carriage over, Jiang Xia's heart suddenly became excited. Zhu Hou-zhao, who was standing in the crowd wearing casual clothes, also had an excited face, as if he were the one proposing.

  Jiang Xia stared intently at the horse carriage, and although they were quite far apart, he still clearly heard Han Mu Feng say: "Yue Frost sister, Nian Nu sister, we've arrived."

  Choi Yo-seong and Choi Yeon-no stepped out of the carriage, and everything in front of them suddenly stunned the two women. They saw that they were slightly opening their pretty small mouths, unable to close them for a long time.

  The wide street was maintained by the leopard guards of the Leopard House, so only Jiang Xia stood there. From where the carriage stopped to where Jiang Xia stood, the entire street was covered with red flower petals, making it look like a sea of flowers.

  Chui Zhengyi led several subordinates out of the crowd and shouted loudly: "The imperial edict has been issued, Jiang Xia is to receive the edict."

  Jiang Xia knelt on the ground and placed the bouquet in his hand to one side, making a bow and saying: "Your humble servant has received your decree."

  "By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: In the fifth year of Zhengde, during the Imperial Examination in the capital, Jiang Xia from Jiangxia was ranked first and awarded the title of Zhuangyuan. This imperial edict is hereby proclaimed to the world, let all the people rejoice together."

  "The humble grass citizen thanks Your Majesty for your sacred kindness, may our Emperor live forever and ever!"

  After finishing speaking, Jiang Xia took over the imperial edict with both hands, then held the imperial edict in one hand and the two bundles of words in the other, stood up and looked at Cui Ruxue and Cui Nianslave.

  Han Mu Feng reminded the two girls: "What are you still dazing about? Hurry up and go, Jiang brothers have been waiting for half a day."

  Cui Ruxiang and Cui Nian Nu looked at each other, and tears welled up in both of their eyes. Hand in hand, they walked over together, while Jiang Xia also emerged from the peach blossoms.

  After the three met, Jiang Xia handed the bouquet of flowers in his hand to the two women, and then inserted the imperial edict into the waistband at the back of his waist.

  Jiang Xia said, "The Buddha said: In the previous life, five hundred glances were exchanged, and it was possible to exchange them for a brush with each other in this life. If that's true, then I'm willing to use next life, next next life, next next next life's time, to exchange again for meeting, knowing, and loving you."

  Jiang Xia suddenly knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "Ru Xue, Nian Nu, marry me, okay?"

  "Good!" Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but shout out loud, leading the applause.

  The people watching from the side of the street also applauded, in this Great Ming where marriage was only a parental order and matchmaker's words, they had never experienced such romance. The unmarried girls in the crowd were all infatuated, they hugged their chests with both hands and said one after another: "I really hope that I can meet a man like him who would do the same for me someday, it's so touching."