My brother entrusted his child to me, and I livestreamed raising the baby, making the Empress cry wi

Lin Ye suddenly slapped his forehead. He had been so focused on the live stream that he had almost forgotten to call the driver to pick them up.

He held the little boy's hand in one hand. The little boy was very well-behaved, neither shouting nor running around. He just looked around with curiosity, gently shaking his little head, the ball on his hat swaying with his movements.

Looking at the well-behaved little boy, Lin Ye felt his heart melt.

With his other hand, he took out his phone and sent a message to the driver, asking him to come to the Century Building area. The driver immediately replied, "Received."

He then put his phone back in his pocket, looked at the shocked faces of the group of people in the sky, and had a new idea.

The camera continued to move according to Lin Ye's thoughts.

……

This time, everyone's eyes were fixed on the middle of the road—where there was a long, green strip.

The green ribbon stretched from one end of the picture to the other, like a bright green silk ribbon spread across the gray road.

It was filled with all sorts of plants, neatly arranged in rows.

Most of the plants were a bright green, and they remained so even in this weather.

It is now deep winter in the Great Flame Kingdom, and most of the grass and trees are withered and yellow. However, the plants in the sky are as green as tender buds that have just sprouted in spring, fresh and vibrant, as if they could burst with water if you pinched them.

Interspersed among them were other colors—red and purple flowers like cockscombs, yellow and white flowers with striped petals, small clusters of them, dotting the green landscape, standing out particularly in this desolate season.

In the middle of the green belt, a taller tree is planted at intervals, with round canopies that look like open umbrellas, all neatly arranged with the same spacing.

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At the palace gate, the north wind howled, causing the flags on the palace walls to flutter wildly.

Zheng Xiao, from the Shanglin Bureau, stood there dumbfounded, his mouth agape ever since he saw the green ribbon.

The cold wind, carrying fine sand, lashed against his face with a slapping sound. He subconsciously pulled his official robe tighter, and his fingertips touched the icy fabric, making him shiver. He then realized that he had been standing for too long, and the soles of his feet were numb with cold.

But he couldn't take his eyes off it.

He was in charge of the greening of the capital and the palace—the gardens in the palace and the locust trees lining the streets of the capital were all under his responsibility.

Since the founding of their Great Flame Kingdom, they have been struggling with how to plant trees and flowers in the city.

Back when Lord Ye was here, he led them all over the Great Flame Kingdom to find suitable tree species for planting, and taught them step by step how to cultivate seedlings, how to transplant them, and how to water and fertilize them.

Only then did locust trees gradually fill the streets of the capital, and the palace gardens finally became lively.

But when winter comes, the trees and flowers are still bare, with only a few dry branches standing there, rustling in the wind, like skeletons.

He thought he was already very good at planting trees and flowers.

But at this moment, looking at the green ribbon in the sky, he suddenly felt a pang of sadness for the trees he had planted…

Crooked, uneven in height, and with inconsistent spacing, it is hardly suitable for formal occasions.

Those flowers were of a single variety, scattered haphazardly, and utterly devoid of any aesthetic appeal.

His Adam's apple bobbed, his chapped lips moved, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out of his throat: "Those weren't planted randomly..."

His fingers unconsciously clenched his sleeve, his knuckles turning white.

"That's...that was specially designed..." He turned his head slightly, as if talking to the air around him, or as if talking to himself, his eyes fixed on the neat rows of plants in the sky.

"Short ones as a base, taller ones as accents...and the colors are layered...dark green, light green...and even in the dead of winter, there are flowers..."

His voice grew softer and softer until only a whisper remained between his lips.

Because he discovered that he was trying to explain something far beyond his comprehension using his limited knowledge.

The neatness, the endless length, and the vibrant green life that remained even in the dead of winter...

It's beyond human capability!

Absolutely not!

[Zheng Xiao, Director of the Imperial Forestry Bureau: I've been in charge of the capital's greening for over ten years. The locust trees lining the Imperial Road were all planted by me and my team, one by one. But the green belt in the middle of the road… the neatness, the trees and flowers thriving even in the dead of winter… I've never seen anything like it…]

[Commoner Zhao San: Look in the middle of the road! What's that?! It's green! A whole patch of green! Even in the dead of winter, it's still so green!]

[Commoner Qian Si: Trees? Flowers? Why are they planted in the middle of the road?! And in this freezing weather, all the trees here are bare, how come the ones over there are still green?!]

[Commoner Sun Wu: That green strip...it's so long! From beginning to end! How many trees and flowers must have been planted?! How much effort must have been put into it?!]

[Gardener Ji Yong: I'm a gardener in the capital, tending to flowers and plants, spending my whole life arranging flowers for nobles. But this level of neatness... I can't achieve it! My master couldn't achieve it either! My master's master couldn't achieve it either!]

[Wen Ren, Vice Minister of Rites: Did you guys notice? That green strip divides the road in two! The metal boxes on this side are moving this way, and the metal boxes on that side are moving that way! They won't collide at all!]

[He Wei, Chief of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Public Works: Using flowers, trees, and shrubs as partitions...it's both beautiful and practical...how come I didn't think of that! But...how much manpower and resources would that take?! Don't they do anything else but repair roads?!]

[Commoner Liu Adou: The flowers in those green ribbons are even more beautiful than the lanterns at our village temple fair! To see so many colors in the dead of winter, the place where immortals live is truly different!]

The merchants from the Western Regions then realized that this was neither divine punishment nor sorcery—it was a "heavenly curtain."

He had heard people at the inn mention it before, saying that it had appeared twice before, and that it contained glass that could keep out tigers, iron boxes that could run without horses, buildings where immortals lived, and food that immortals ate.

He didn't believe it at the time, thinking the people of the Great Flame Kingdom were just bragging.

But at that moment, he believed it!

I couldn't believe it more!

His lips were dry, cracked, and peeling; when he licked them, he tasted a hint of blood.

"The best road in our Western Regions is the stone-paved road in front of the royal city..." His voice was like a dream, his eyes fixed on the sky, his pupils reflecting the dazzling green plants.

"But compared to this road... it's practically a narrow, winding path..."

His Adam's apple bobbed, and he swallowed, his throat feeling as dry as if it were stuffed with sand.

"And there are flowers and trees planted in the middle of the road...and they're thriving even in the dead of winter..."

He couldn't continue.

Their western regions have always been short of water. It's difficult to grow even a single tree on a normal day, and in winter, the landscape is covered in yellow sand, with not a single blade of grass to be seen.

They planted a whole strip of trees in the middle of the road!

A whole row of flowers and trees that seemed to stretch on forever, still shining green even in the dead of winter.

Sitting on the camel, he felt as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over his head in the dead of winter, chilling him to the bone.

But his back was sweating profusely, the sweat soaking through his undershirt. A gust of wind made him shiver from the cold.

Great Flame Kingdom...

This canopy...

What on earth is that?!

The Western Regions kingdoms have long coveted the wealth of the Great Flame Kingdom. The newly enthroned king is ambitious and unified the Western Regions kingdoms last year.

Recently, I heard that Ye Fan, the national strategist of the Great Flame Army, had gone missing, so I had an idea.

Taking advantage of the Lantern Festival when various passes were open to traffic, he disguised himself as a merchant and set off for Dayan a month earlier than the envoy, all to slowly inspect the area along the way and find out the current situation of Dayan for the king.

But what did he see now?!

What kind of divine power is behind this canopy?!

If the gods decide to help the Great Flame, then even if they unite with other nations—mobilizing their entire forces—they'll probably just be delivering themselves to the enemy...

The South China Sea Traveler had just crawled out from under the stall because he had suddenly discovered a very serious problem!