The younger brother of the First Emperor

Chapter 215: Golden Flower Rain Spanning Thousand Years (Additional chapters, more to come)
"Have the compensation been issued?" Tian Yan held the woman's hand, a look of sadness on her face.

The woman raised Tian Yan's status again in her heart.

Although there were many nobles in Linzi, only a few of them could control the government to issue pensions to soldiers who died in battle. They were nobles among nobles.

She nodded with a haggard face:
“It was issued before the New Year.”

He lowered his head and retracted his hands, for fear of dirtying the noble person.

The pair of fairly fair hands changed positions on his body seven or eight times, and finally hung in the air awkwardly.

The woman felt that it didn't fit anywhere.

"Mother." A child's voice called out from inside the house.

After the child’s voice, there was a series of “da da da da” footsteps.

A child who was too young to be sure whether he was a boy or a girl ran up to the woman and looked at Tian Yan, Ying Chengjiao and their group with curious eyes.

The woman hurriedly pulled the child behind her, and her seemingly extra hands finally came in handy.

"The child is young and didn't mean to offend the adults." The woman nodded and apologized.

"It's okay." Tian Yan comforted the woman.

She bent down and gently stroked the child's head with her delicate hands.

The girl, who was thirteen years old and at most seven or eight years older than the child, asked in the softest voice:
"How old?"

The child replied in a playful manner:

"Five years old!"

Tian Yan touched the child's head with one hand and reached back to the personal maid with the other hand.

Xuanyi knew what the princess meant, and took out a gold cake the size of a Qin copper coin from her purse and placed it in the princess's palm.

Tian Yan held the small golden cake between two fingers and waved it in front of the child's eyes twice:
"Does it look good?"

The child's eyes were attracted by the golden cake. He shook his head along the golden light and nodded repeatedly:
"It looks good, it looks really good."

The voice is clear and childish.

Tian Yan smiled, grabbed the child's arm, gently spread the child's five fingers, and placed the gold cake in the child's palm:
"It's for you."

The child held it in his hand.

The five-year-old child did not know that this small golden cake was the money his parents had earned by going without food or drink for three years. He only knew that the yellow object in his hand looked very beautiful.

The child was very happy and held it up in his hand to show off to his mother:

"Mother, look! Look at me!"

The woman, knowing the value of the gold cake, quickly snatched it from the child and handed it to Tian Yan with both hands:

"This is too valuable, please take it back, sir."

When the child's new favorite toy was taken away, his mouth turned red and tears started to flow.

He cried and struggled on his mother's legs, trying to get his little golden cake back.

Tian Yan took the golden cake and gave it back to the child, and the child stopped crying and laughed.

The child was tucked into his arms like a treasure, his two little hands clasped tightly.

He looked at his mother with some caution, afraid that he would be taken away again.

The seventh princess Tian Yan smiled even more deeply. She stood between the child and the woman and said to the woman who was about to hit the child:
“Take it.

“Your husband died for his country, and no amount of dead bodies can make up for it.

"Today is New Year's Day, so consider it as a lucky money I give to my children."

The Seventh Princess had just said the three words "lucky money" when the woman in front of her didn't have time to react when she heard a cry behind her.

The child threw the little golden cake, which he had treasured so much just now, at Tian Yan, and cried loudly:
"I don't want the winning money! I don't want the winning money! I want my father! I want my father!"

Ying Chengjiao, who had been watching coldly from the side, saw the seventh princess Tian Yan's body stiffen at first, and then she hugged the child with slightly dirty clothes as if she were a treasure.

Eyelashes trembled and tears fell.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." The seventh princess sobbed softly.

Are you putting on a show in front of me... Ying Chengjiao narrowed his eyes and felt that he was very cold-blooded.

He tilted his head.

Seeing the seventh princess's personal maid raising her hand to wipe her tears, she sobbed.

He looked back and around.

Seeing the beautiful palace maids who were able to hear the sounds and see what was happening nearby, most of them had tears in their eyes.

When they noticed Ying Chengjiao's gaze, they lowered and turned their heads to avoid his sight.

One person might be a show? What about the two hundred and two people?

Ying Chengjiao shifted his gaze and looked at the woman whose husband had died in battle, and at the crying child, his Danfeng eyes full of scrutiny.

[Did this mother and son deliberately come here to act in front of me?]
From the seventh princess's initiative to introduce that every household has a mahogany door god, to a house without a door god, to the love and pity for the people at this moment, everything is too coincidental. Ying Chengjiao has experienced many coincidences, most of which are carefully calculated artificial coincidences.

The boy always had a sense of falsehood about the scene before him.

He traveled to many countries and had never seen a royal family that loved its people so much, including the Qin Dynasty.

The boy observed for a long time but could not find any flaws. Even the crying of the five-year-old child seemed extremely real.

The small golden cake on the ground was shining with golden light, but no one was interested in it, even though people usually fought over it.

Lucky money is a New Year custom in the State of Qi.

The people of Qi, where the spirit of immortality is prevalent, believe so.

Children with innocent hearts can see things that adults cannot see, such as ghosts.

On the first day of the new year, children will receive lucky money from their elders to ward off evil and bring good luck.

This custom is mainly for elders to express their good wishes for wealth, peace, longevity and happiness to the younger generations.

The meaning of lucky coins and hanging peach wood door gods are similar.

The meaning of Yasheng is to get rid of evil and gain good luck.

The seventh princess' convoy left this unhappy house.

The sound of joy once again entered everyone's ears, but for a moment it was difficult to awaken the joy of the convoy.

The streets are bustling with activity.

A four-horse carriage could be seen every hundred meters, and the melodious sounds of flutes and pipes echoed over the streets.

The dragon dance team wandered along the long street, the majestic dragon shook its head and tail, wandering among the crowd.

Thousands of lights are hanging in the sky, how dare they make the bright moon lose its color.

When tens of thousands of people play in the streets, ghosts and monsters will stay away from them.

The finest wine in the store was drunk up in one night, and Linzi bid farewell to the old year with wine.

The flowers on the trees are blown off in one day, and the east wind brings the flower rain to welcome the new spring.

The convoy stopped with clanging sounds because Yingzi stopped his horse.

This place is close to the outer city, and the moat flows slowly beside it.

It was unknown what the two shirtless men were holding in their hands. They used the objects in their right hands to hit the objects in their left hands, and a sound like thunder was heard.

Then, Venus dots shot up into the sky, brighter than the numerous stars high in the sky.

The onlookers cheered and smiled in the splendor.

"Making iron flowers?" Ying Chengjiao was a little bit unbelievable.

The iron flowers that he had never seen in his previous life were actually seen two thousand years ago.

Golden flowers were in full bloom. The seventh princess, Tian Yan, had lifted the car curtains at some point.

Ying Chengjiao was drenched in the golden rain, looking at Tian Yan's beautiful profile which still contained a hint of sadness, and was a little dazed.

Obsessed with the country.

Crazy about people.

The country is prosperous.

The superior loves his people as his own children.

The young man suddenly discovered that the prosperous era he had dreamed of had already been achieved in the State of Qi.

Tian Yan noticed Ying Chengjiao's gaze and lowered her head in embarrassment.

She knew that Yingzi's behavior was very rude, but she found it difficult to feel any ill will towards him.

Such romantic golden light rain, coupled with a beautiful young man riding a white horse, made Tian Yan, who had not drunk a drop of wine, feel a little drunk.

She raised her head boldly and rudely, looking bravely at Yingzi.

Her face was flushed, her eyes were like autumn water, and she called softly:

"Does Tian Yan's appearance still appeal to Ying Zi?"

The seventh princess wanted to speak but hesitated, and looked at the young man with drunken eyes.

Ru Yuanbao's ears were hot and trembling. He was waiting for the boy to speak with a mixture of fear and anticipation.

[Yingzi...you won't say anything rude or frivolous, will you?...then what should I do...]
Tian Yan was thinking randomly and felt that the waiting time was really long.

Finally, she heard Yingzi's words:

"Princess, who is your teacher?"

Tian Yan: “…”

The car curtains were suddenly drawn down, and the Seventh Princess withdrew her excitement.

(End of this chapter)