How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

The effect of the ice lanterns was beyond Xie Chengze's expectations and gave him more confidence.

However, in his plan for the Ice and Snow Capital, ice lanterns are only a small part, while ice sculptures and snow sculptures are the big part.

Sheng Yiren has asked the Chamber of Commerce for help and mobilized all the craftsmen who can carve statues in Liaozhou, Shenzhou and Shangjing, but Xie Chengze still feels unsure. He doesn't know much about carving, and these craftsmen come from all over the place. It will definitely take a lot of time for him to be in charge of ice carving, and it will be bad if the opportunity is delayed.

Or... trick Gu Li over here?

Although it's freezing cold here, and it feels a bit unfair for the old man to travel so far at his age, it's not his fault that he doesn't know what to do.

The conscienceless Xie Chengze secretly pulled out a piece of paper and planned to write a letter to Gu Lao. At this time, Hu Lai rushed in excitedly, "Your Highness, do you have paper and pen? The people in the capital are urging me to write a letter of denunciation!"

"Oh, here you go." Xie Chengze handed him a piece of paper, but Hu Lai waved his hand, "How can this be enough?"

"Huh?" Xie Chengze was confused when he saw Hu Lai rudely taking away all the papers on the table.

"Come back here!" Seeing Hu Lai was about to leave, Xie Chengze knocked on the table, "Write it here for me!"

"Well... okay!" Hu Lai thought Xie Chengze didn't trust him, so he sat next to Xie Chengze. Seeing Xie Chengze picking up a pen and looking like he was going to write a letter to someone, he asked, "Your Highness, are you going to fool people too?"

Xie Chengze: ...Although I don't want to admit it, but... "Yeah."

"Then let's, the master and the servant, fool people together!" Hu Lai said enthusiastically, then he picked up the brush with shining eyes and started writing as if inspired by god.

Xie Chengze wrote two words while Hu Lai had already finished writing two lines.

He couldn't help but look over and saw the following words written on Hu Lai's letter:

[On the first day after leaving the capital, at noon, the Second Prince rode a horse. The horse was pitch black, strong, and had hair as smooth as oil. It was a Ferghana horse named Black Dragon from the stables of Cheng Huan Palace. It was quite favored by the grooms of Cheng Huan Palace. On weekdays, it would blah blah blah...]

Xie Chengze watched helplessly as he wrote a description of the horse in a sloppy manner, writing nearly five hundred words.

Xie Chengze: ...

Hu Lai, you are even more outrageous than the prefect who wrote a memorial to His Majesty to ask about his health!

Xie Chengze lowered his head and began to write a letter to Gu Lao. When he finished, Hu Lai was still writing furiously. He had already written about the second day after leaving Beijing, what kind of food and tea the Second Prince had eaten and drank in the county town he passed through. He described the meal in extremely gorgeous words in 800 words, and his words were full of the Second Prince's appreciation and satisfaction with the meal.

When Xie Chengze came back from dinner, Hu Lai was still writing a letter at his desk. He gnawed on a cooled multi-grain cake in his hand as he wrote. On the third day after leaving Beijing, the frail Second Prince began to have a high fever. His face was hot and his skin was rosy and tender, like a crabapple bud about to bloom after being drunk on strong liquor, or like a young lady in a storybook who had been drugged and was waiting to be picked. He wrote a thousand-word imaginary erotic story, which made Xie Chengze's eyes go dark and he fainted on the bed.

In the middle of the night, she dreamed that she was wearing a wedding dress and tied to the bed, and the groom who climbed onto the bed showed the handsome face of Shen Yuan. Xie Chengze sat up in shock in his dying dream and found that Hu Lai had lit the lamp all night. He had already written about the second prince's sixth day after leaving Beijing, when he was robbed by mountain bandits and taken to the mountains to become the leader's wife. The thrilling process and the cruelty of the robbers took eight full pages!

Xie Chengze: Brother! You should take a break!

Don’t your hands hurt?!

Hu Lai: No problem! I am ambidextrous!

The next day, Xie Chengze went out to investigate the freezing conditions of the Hunhe River north of Qiantai Mountain. When he came back, he saw Hu Lai sleeping on the table. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that this guy finally knew how to rest.

Then Hu Lai suddenly raised his head and said with great energy, "Aha! This dream I just had was great. Let me write this down!"

Hmm? Dream?

What does Hu Lai’s dream have to do with writing letters?

Xie Chengze walked over curiously and saw Hu Lai writing: [On the thirteenth day after leaving Beijing, at night, the Second Prince woke up from his dying dream and summoned his subordinates to tell him about his dream. The Second Prince dreamed that he broke up with the Crown Prince and when he was forcing the palace to rebel, he suddenly felt that the Crown Prince was handsome and had a strong desire to imprison the Crown Prince in the East Palace. Blah blah blah...]

Xie Chengze: ...

Xie Chengze could no longer bear it, raised his hand and hit Hu Lai on the back of his head, "What nonsense! Hu Lai! You are so good at talking nonsense, why don't you just call it nonsense!"

Hu Lai quickly stood up, folded his hands and bowed, saying happily, "Thank you, Your Highness, for the name! I like this name very much!"

Xie Chengze: ...

Xie Chengze: @#I￥%f#￥you%*

It feels like I slapped a lackey in the face, but was licked by him instead.

Xie Chengze, feeling dizzy and dazed, decided not to bother with Hu Lai. He supported his dizzy head and went to the woodshed. The cook of Qianjinzhai was making multi-grain cakes. When he saw him, he immediately bowed and said, "Second Prince."

"Is there anything to eat? I'm starving." He has been using his brain too much recently and he always feels hungry.

"The steamed buns are out of the pot." The cook opened the steamer beside him and hesitated for a moment. They, the bandits, were not meticulous in their eating habits, and the steamed buns they made did not look good. It was really hard for such a delicate person like the Second Prince to suffer in Qianjin Village.

Xie Chengze didn't dislike it. He reached out and took out a hot steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth.

As he was chewing, the tough guy suddenly burst into tears and sniffled.

"Second Prince!" The cook saw this and ran over in fear, not knowing what to do for a moment, "What's wrong? Is it because the food is too unpalatable?"

"No." Xie Chengze wiped away his sad tears, held the steamed buns in both hands against his lips, and said with a nasal voice, "I just miss the snacks made by Qinghe."

He hasn't eaten any sweets since he came to Liaozhou.

Outside the woodshed, the man holding the rabbit ice lantern paused.

Qinghe...

Having been in Liaozhou for so long, he never expected that he missed the person in the capital so much. When he saw the beautiful and noble young man crying in front of him that day, Shen Yuan was panicked, but at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a secret joy in his heart, thinking to himself that it turned out that the other person cared so much about whether he trusted him.

But at this moment, seeing the young man shed tears easily for others in private, and even these tears were closely intertwined with the emotion called longing, Shen Yuan clenched the handle of the ice lantern in his hand, and the complex emotions in his heart rolled and could not be calmed down.

The torrent of time flowing back separates him in the future from these people in the past. He looks at his friends who once fought side by side with him. Even though he is happy to have them back, he still feels that there is an invisible gap between them, making it difficult for him to fulfill his wish down to earth.

I just felt like I was walking on a lonely rope hanging on a cliff. If I was not careful, I would fall into the abyss and never wake up again.

He felt increasingly lonely and cold, and every step he took was bound to lead to bloodshed.

But the appearance of Xie Chengze undoubtedly added another "alien" to the world.

He knew the past life, and his wish coincided with his own. It was like a craftsman who could make bridge wood came to him from the other end of the rope and shouted excitedly: Wait for me! I can save you!

After breaking the ice of distrust between the two, he originally thought that he and the other party would support each other and be each other's only one.

But at this moment Shen Yuan realized that he, Shen Yuan, was the only one walking alone in this world. In Xie Chengze's eyes, he was not the only one with bright colors.

He has Wuhen and Wuzhi who protect him, Zhu Xiaobiao and Jingze who follow him, and Su Qinghe whom he can miss. He is not lonely in his heart, and more and more people of all kinds will appear around him in the future.

Shen Yuan is in his world...

It's just one of them.

Not worth mentioning.

Looking at the young man sitting on a small stool, chewing a dry steamed bun, his red eyes from crying just like the lifelike ice lantern rabbit in his hands, Shen Yuan pursed his lips, turned around and left the woodshed silently.

Xie Chengze ate three steamed buns before he felt full.

Although his head was still a little swollen, he had to find the craftsmen to discuss the ice cutting in Hunhe River soon. Time was tight, so he didn't waste time on eating.

When Xie Chengze stood up and walked out of the woodshed, he suddenly felt something bumped under his feet. He looked down and saw a rabbit ice lantern that was carved very delicately and cutely.

He bent over and picked it up. He saw that the little ice rabbit's two long ears were slanting upwards, and its four short legs were flapping as if it was flying in the clouds. There was a round and small rabbit tail behind its butt, which looked extremely pleasing to the eye.

The most eye-catching thing is that two small round beads are inlaid on the ice rabbit's eyes, which are bright red, just like someone's bloodshot and crying eyes at this moment.