The people inside the courtyard had heard everything clearly. The empress tried her best not to look at what Ren Baqian was doing. She spoke to Hong Wu from time to time, and it was obvious that she was somewhat absent-minded.
Hong Wu sighed when he saw her like this, sat down for a while, and left.
When he went out, he saw Ren Baqian working on the candy tree and snorted. This guy was doing this kind of crooked trick again.
He couldn't think of the word "sycophant" even after thinking about it a few times. However, this was what he was thinking.
The Protectorate of the Northeast was still at war with the Yun Nation. Although Great Xia had retreated, this matter obviously couldn't be forgotten.
Furthermore, the entire north of the nation was in a state of depression.
Under such circumstances, as an official, Ren Baqian didn't think of proper ways to do proper work and instead made these childish things to please the empress. This made Hong Wu very angry.
If Ren Baqian wasn't capable, Hong Wu wouldn't be so resentful and would at most look down on him.
However, from the variety of things that Ren Baqian made, he seemed to be quite capable. Hong Wu was even more dissatisfied that Ren Baqian made these things as soon as he arrived.
Ren Baqian squinted at Hong Wu while making the cotton candy. Are you going to bite me?
I didn't do anything to you or provoke you. Why are you snorting for no reason?
It took a lot of time to redecorate the tree. The three-meter-tall tree was covered with layers of colorful cotton candy on the outside and all kinds of candies and chocolates on the inside. From afar, it looked very attractive with red and green colors.
Ren Baqian made two more cotton candy and gave them to Qing Yuan and Hong Luan. The two of them looked at him greedily, but the empress was inside and didn't dare to ask for more.
Lin Qiaole, on the other hand, was sitting on top of the wall with a lollipop in her mouth. Her eyes were closed, and her head kept nodding down. Within a few minutes, she fell off the wall. She woke up with a start the moment she fell off the wall. When she realized that she was falling off the wall, she curled her body into a ball and did a somersault in the air.
Boom!
Lin Qiaole didn't feel any pain after falling to the ground. Her eyes were wide open, and she was obviously in a daze. Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
In less than a minute, her eyes closed again, and her body fell to the side with a gurgling sound coming from her throat.
Ren Baqian turned to look at her and shook his head. This fellow was hopeless!
Ren Baqian entered the house and saw that the empress was still sitting in front of the table in a daze. He said, "Your Majesty, the gifts are ready. Do you want to place them in the house?"
"Alright!" The Water Empress nodded. Just now, after Hong Wu left, she sneaked a peek and was very tempted.
Ren Baqian looked up at the roof, calculated that it was high enough, and said, "Your Majesty, I want to dig a hole in the ground."
The empress did not ask why and continued to nod her head. "Alright!"
Ren Baqian turned his head and shouted for Shi Hu to come in. In an empty space at the side of the room, he smashed a stone slab on the ground into pieces and instructed someone to dig a hole there.
After the pit was dug, Ren Baqian instructed his men to uproot the tree, plant it in the pit, and fill it with soil.
As soon as the tree was brought in, it attracted the empress's attention. Her eyes followed the tree closely.
Especially the sweet smell of the cotton candy, it made her heart itch.
"What is this?" the empress finally asked.
"Your Majesty, let me introduce this solemnly. This is the candy forest within the wine pool and fruit forest in heaven!" Ren Baqian pointed at the tree with both hands and introduced it very solemnly.
In Dayao, the value of meat wasn't high. People's staple food was meat, so it was very easy to make a meat forest and didn't cost much. Especially for the empress, the candy forest was the way to go.
If the emperor who said, "Why not eat minced meat" was in Dayao, he would definitely not be recorded in the history books.
Why not eat meat? Isn't it cheap to eat meat? There's nothing wrong with it!
The empress was extremely excited. This candy tree was very interesting to her and was more to her liking than other gifts. .
She nodded deeply and asked, "Very much to my liking. But what is a wine pool? "
"As the name suggests, a pool is filled with wine. People in the pool can open their mouth to drink wine and live a drunken life every day."
The empress thought of that scene and was somewhat tempted.
However, how much wine would it take to fill a pool?
"I want a wine pool!" The empress's eyes lit up.
"When we return to the palace, I will build one for Your Majesty!" Ren Baqian immediately said. It wasn't troublesome to build a wine pool, but it would take some time. It wasn't something that could be gathered in a day or two.
Ren Baqian took a pair of extra-long scissors from the hands of the bodyguard. There were two wooden sticks tied to the handles of the scissors. He stood under the tree for a long time before using the scissors to cut the rope that was tied to a cotton candy stick.
This kind of scissors wasn't easy to control and would easily miss.
Ren Baqian quickly grabbed the cotton candy and passed it to the empress.
"Your Majesty, try it! This candy forest needs to be cut to be interesting. "
Reaching out to pluck something wasn't as fun as cutting it with scissors. It had to be slightly more troublesome to be interesting.
It was just like how many people were willing to use the claw machine even though the money from it was enough to buy a doll.
This was something that Ren Baqian suddenly thought of. When he returned, he would find a place to build a claw machine and stuff the dolls with candy. He would give the empress 100 coins every day and then adjust the probability of the claw machine.
The empress would be able to catch one or two candy dolls with 100 coins.
It would definitely be very interesting.
That is, if the empress didn't smash the claw machine.
The empress took a bite of the cotton candy and nodded her head in satisfaction.
With this candy tree, she wouldn't mind even without the rainbow clouds.
"Your Majesty, do you want to try?" Ren Baqian asked as he watched the empress eat the cotton candy mouthful by mouthful.
The empress took the scissors and immediately discovered a problem. The wooden sticks at the back weren't tied tightly, and the scissors would sway.
However, this was a small problem for her. Her hands moved as fast as lightning, and candy began to fall from her head.
It was just like picking fruits in the forest.
As the candy fell, the empress seemed very happy and excited like a little girl. Her hands didn't stop moving, and candy fell to the ground in no time.
"The harvest is indeed joyous!" Ren Baqian commented.
The empress rolled her eyes, stuffed the scissors into Ren Baqian's hands, and walked back to the table with her hands behind her back. She walked on tiptoe and looked very happy.
Staying at Tiesuo Pass for more than half a month was too boring. Now that Ren Baqian was here, she finally had some fun.
The empress's happiness spread to Ren Baqian, causing him to smile.
He collected the candy on the ground and placed it on the table for the empress. Then, he instructed the guards to continue hanging candy on the tree.
Ren Baqian walked to the empress's side, took out the little red flower, and said, "Your Majesty, I saw that this flower is outstanding and has the bearing of an empress. I felt that I should pick it and give it to you."
The guards who were hanging the candy at the side looked sideways at the sky … and then at the roof.
A few days ago, when you picked a bunch of flowers at the city commander's residence, they all saw it.
The empress held the half-dried flower in her hand. The color was red, which she liked, but she felt that it looked a little familiar.
"This seems to be a flower planted at the city commander's residence in Liao City?" The empress asked doubtfully. This kind of flower didn't exist in Lan City, but she had some impression of it after staying at the city commander's residence for a month.
"It turns out that this flower has been contaminated with Your Majesty's aura. No wonder it has the bearing of an empress." Ren Baqian was full of nonsense.
The empress rolled her eyes, looked at him, and said, "You are always by my side. Have you been contaminated with my aura?"
"I have been contaminated with Your Majesty's aura!" Ren Baqian thought for a while and felt that these words sounded like a dog relying on its master's power.
"I have been contaminated with Your Majesty's aura!" This sounded like a fox exploiting the tiger's might …
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