Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1546 Bright Red

"Eh, Shangluo?"

While eating breakfast, Victoria suddenly noticed something: "Shangluo, why are you all red?"

"I applied wax because it was cold."

Across from him, Phaethon glanced at him and said, "Isn't that a sallow face? A rosy face should indicate vitality."

"Yes Yes Yes"

"Hey? Shangluo?" Victoria suddenly noticed again, "Why do you smell so milky today? You smell so good."

"This is the fragrance of heavenly beings."

"Hey hey hey?" Victoria looked at Little Red on the other side of the table again: "Why are you two so red? She even smells like ginger and star anise."

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"Ah! I see!"

Both of them looked up and became alert. Shang Luo, in particular, knew that Victoria could be very intuitive at times.

"You two must have had hot pot last night!"

"Oh right, we're having hot pot."

"But isn't hot pot supposed to be spicy?"

“There are different kinds of hot pot.” Shangluo quickly replied, “Sichuan hot pot is very spicy, but our hot pot here can be non-spicy.”

“He’s telling the truth,” Faethon murmured. “There are indeed different kinds of hot pot. But whether these two are eating the hot pot from here, I don’t know.”

Good morning everyone!

Phaethon heard Apollonia's voice on the channel: "Why are you only waking up now?"

I had a nightmare last night. I dreamt I was eating hot pot broth, it was so scary. It tasted like fish soup.

Xiao Hong suddenly looked up: "It's dragon soup."

In an instant, Fa'e Tong understood.

She gave Shang Luo a meaningful look—they had known each other for a long time. Based on these fragmented pieces of information, she had pieced together what had happened last night.

"It's so good to be a child spirit, you can even pray for rain, right?"

"Everything else is fine, but how did you manage to guess my prayer for rain? Did you secretly study something without my knowledge?"

"Because Zhu Ling called and told me to go to sleep early and not disturb your rainmaking. Idiot. Otherwise, why do you think I didn't wake up with such a commotion?"

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Only Victoria was still confused: "So, what exactly happened last night?"

"It's nothing, just eat." Fahrenheit poured her another cup of soy milk, then looked at Xiao Hong. "So, have you decided? Are you leaving?"

“Dragons, what miserable creatures.” Little Red shook her head. “My state of mind is actually determined by my body temperature. When I’m hot, I don’t want to stay in one place for too long.”

This is the method for raising dragons that Zhu Ling provided yesterday. Dragons are a natural phenomenon, a meme creature, whose nature is like water—flowing. Every story has a dragon, just as every story has a wedge or hook to motivate the whole thing to move beyond the door.

So Shangluo chose to physically heat the stove, giving Xiaohong a good "stimulation" to get it to a red-hot temperature. Then, she was ready to start moving.

Of course, it wouldn't be fair to trick Xiaohong into cooking like that. So he let Xiaohong cook on his stove once, and that settled things.

At least Xiaohong was very satisfied.

The temperature was quite high, even for celestial beings, so high that Shangluo was now a deep red.

"Alright, I'm full." Xiao Hong stood up. "Thank you all for your hospitality these past two days. This place feels more like home than Taiye Pond. I'll come back once I've finished my business."

Without hesitation, she walked to the courtyard's central patio and then left from the middle of the courtyard—this was the proper way for a dragon to ascend to heaven.

"Ah, alright." Phaethon stood up. "You're really efficient. You resolved such a difficult Dragon King issue in just two days."

"Ah."

"Huh? You seem a little reluctant to part with it?"

"I bought pet supplies and only used them once, so I feel like I got ripped off. I don't know if she'll be able to brush her teeth by herself when she gets there."

"You actually started keeping one, huh?"

"A little. It feels like releasing a caged bird back into the wild. It's a bit of a shame. But ultimately, she belongs to the sky. A dragon can't stay coiled in a well forever."

“Then Ao Zang will be able to free up his time to solve bigger problems,” Shang Luo said in a deep voice.

Xiao Hong is crucial to Aozang's grand plan.

In the plans of Heaven and the Dragon Palace, a considerable area of ​​the world belonged to the Dragon Palace. However, Ao Zang, the Dragon King, also had his own territory. Ryukyu was his foundation, and its industries and businesses were crucial to the entire Dragon Palace. All his overt and covert operations revolved around Ryukyu.

If Ao Zang doesn't settle his main base first, he won't be able to deal with bigger problems, because in addition to his own base, he has 49 other Dragon Palace Cities that need to be settled.

Aozang was not comfortable entrusting such a crucial task to his daughter. As he said, Otohime's dragon bloodline was not pure enough, and her ambition was too strong to be contained—although she appeared to be a conservative in the politics of the Dragon Palace, the nature of the Dragon Palace was as changeable as flowing water.

Whether or not to change, when to change, and what form to take should be decided by the Dragon King, not by the Princess.

Although Princess Otohime is the head princess representing the dragon clan and a crucial part of the Dragon Palace, she has no right to challenge the Dragon King. The consequence of challenging the Dragon King is imprisonment in the Imperial Prison—in fact, Princess Otohime hasn't been released yet. This is because Aozang plans to decide where Princess Otohime should go after resolving Xiao Hong's situation.

However, Ao Zang still considered the bond between father and son.

Firstly, he did not directly execute his sons who challenged him, but only imprisoned them.

Shangluo, a history major, knew that such actions usually did not end well in history. For example, the Liu Song dynasty of the Southern Dynasties caused many coups by princes and imperial relatives because they failed to execute those who should have been killed.

Of course, the Northern Dynasty killed those who deserved it, and the frequency of coups was not low.

However, Liu Yilong was acutely aware that he was being killed by his own crown prince. Such an event is extremely rare in history. If Liu Yilong had properly addressed the crown prince's rebellious intentions from the beginning, while it's hard to say whether he would have had a better ending, the absurd event of the crown prince murdering the emperor would certainly not have occurred.

Since Princess Yi is here, the safest course of action is to deal with her directly. However, this is a matter within the Dragon Palace, so Shangluo can't say anything.

There's a second point, which is even more dangerous. Not only did he not kill him, but he also attempted to educate him and even entrusted him with important responsibilities. This made the same mistake as Liu Yilong, who continued to reinforce his crown prince's troops until his death.

(End of this chapter)