novelinnhs Chapter 155 Princess's Banquet
Chapter 155 Princess's Banquet
Chapter 155 Princess's Banquet
"I'm not sure about today's mission yet. Let's go to the guild and see what they've assigned us."
Including the extermination of the Void Beasts in the Eastern Heavenly Mountain, Lu Ren and his team have completed three Silver-level missions in the past half month. They now only need one more mission, and the first three were:
The newly emerged Misty Zone is frequently teeming with Void Beasts, requiring large teams of professionals to eliminate them.
The city's sewers are suspected to have been invaded by Loulan Boling, and a small team is needed to investigate.
A severely wounded Loulan Bone Inn is lurking in the mountains outside the city, requiring a team of professionals to handle it.
The tasks issued by the association are divided into official and unofficial ones. Official ones are generally rescue, encirclement and suppression, and extermination.
There are many unofficial ways to play. When Lu Ren was in Linjiang, he and the young lady all played unofficial games.
Whether it's a private commission, a job, or a service purchase, the reward for the task is determined by the person who posted it.
However, the issuers of these unofficial task assignments are also restricted. Ordinary people are generally not qualified to issue tasks of bronze level or above, and there are also restrictions on the number of tasks that can be issued, such as how often they can be issued.
A behemoth like the Shen Clan Guild can issue silver-level missions through the Professionals Association.
Previously, Shen Wangshu had planned to have his guild randomly select a few silver-level players and then have them use connections to complete the five silver-level missions in Yanzhou.
Lu Ren and his group no longer go to the association; they mostly come to the Tianxing Guild. The Listening to Dragon's Roar team is a professional team under the Tianxing Guild, and someone in the guild will help them accept missions.
The western courtyard of the Shen clan's territory was the Tianxing Guild. When Lu Ren and his group crossed the clan's territory and arrived at the Tianxing Guild, they found that Shen Yaoxing and the others were still there.
"Young Miss, haven't you set off yet?"
Seeing them approach, Shen Yaoxing showed them the mission information in her hand.
"It seems we don't need to separate for now; we've taken on the same mission today."
When Ali heard that she could spend time with her girlfriends again, she exclaimed happily, "That's wonderful, Xiaoying!"
"Hey, hehe, Ali!"
The happiest person was Jiang Yueying. Although she had made up her mind, she felt more at ease with Lu Ren by her side, though she would never admit it.
Upon hearing this, Lu Ren asked in confusion, "Is it another group mission?"
Like the mission to hunt down the Void Beasts near the New Year Fog Zone last time, it was a large-scale group mission that required more than ten teams to participate.
Shen Yaoxing shook her head. "No, this mission was issued by the Jiang family. Look at the name of this mission."
Lu Ren looked down and saw it was a Silver-level mission—The Princess's Birthday Banquet.
The royal princess was also in Yanzhou before, but this time her mission was simply to attend the royal princess's birthday banquet?
This task has no limit. In other words, as long as you attend the royal princess's birthday banquet, you will be considered to have completed a silver-level task, and the reward will be calculated according to the silver-level task. Although it is the minimum standard, it is still one million Yu Yuan.
Lu Ren asked, puzzled, "What's this all about?"
"Not surprising, the royal family does a lot of these kinds of showy things."
Shen Yaoxing didn't seem to care and explained, "The Autumn Gathering hosted by the Gu Clan has attracted a lot of attention, but the condition for participating in the Autumn Gathering is to complete five Silver-level missions within a month in Yanzhou. There's still a week left, and even we are one mission short, let alone other visiting teams."
This task was posted this morning. The condition for accepting this task is that it must be accepted within 2 hours of its posting. Those outside Yanzhou will find it difficult to come in time.
Within Yanzhou, any silver-level team that receives a request to attend this tea party today can complete a silver-level mission and receive generous rewards.
Whether or not they are interested in participating in the Autumn Gathering, it is virtually impossible for them to miss this mission.
Shen Yaoxing said, "It's too demanding for professionals from other places to complete five tasks within a month. For those who want to participate in the Autumn Gathering but are struggling to meet the required number of tasks, this is a free task."
It just so happens that it's the princess's 19th birthday, and the royal family used this as an excuse to launch this money-spraying mission. Everyone can see that this is an attempt to win over freelancers from the Fire Spirit Realm. But if you go, you get a million and also complete a silver-level mission, so no one would refuse, and they'll also develop a good impression of the royal family.
To Shen Yaoxing, the royal family was just a large family similar to the Ji and Gu families, so she talked about the royal family casually.
But the Lu siblings were different.
Are you kidding? The feudal imperial system was only abolished 18 years ago. If those two siblings had been born 18 years earlier, they would have had to kowtow to the princess on the street!
"It's the princess's birthday, brother! We've made something of ourselves! We can even attend the birthday celebration of the Great Yu princess!"
Lu Youhe has a very petty-bourgeois mentality, and he's loud and boisterous. After all, he's someone I've only ever seen on the news and television since I was a child—a truly important person.
The Jiang family rebuilt the Han dynasty in an era when China was shattered and the people were suffering. Even now, with the change from an imperial system to a two-party system, the Great Yu royal family still enjoys a strong sense of identity and a good reputation among the people.
In each post-disaster reconstruction, the royal family's businesses, mines, and forest farms would lower prices and provide grain at fair prices during disaster years. They also built a large number of welfare homes and schools, as well as various welfare subsidies for different groups of people.
Last winter, the two poor little guys, Lu Ren and Lu Youhe, survived on subsidies provided by the royal family.
Lu Ren was actually alright, but Lu Youhe was indeed a bit of a fan of the royal family. She never expected to be able to attend the princess's birthday party one day!
Who didn't dream of being a princess when they were little? But there are real princesses in this world.
Lu Ren pretended not to care, "It's just a princess, why are you so excited?"
"When you were little, you watched TV and said you'd marry a princess someday!"
Lu Ren was taken aback. "How young must that be? It must be kindergarten."
He was just a kid. When Lu Ren was little, he even said he wanted to be Ultraman. You can't take that seriously.
He retorted, "When you were little, you also said you wanted to marry that second prince. A while ago, someone reported you for being underage, and it caused a huge uproar."
Lu Youhe blushed. "Well, well, if we just talked nonsense when we were kids, who cares about these things now that we're grown up? But the Second Prince is such a good person, he must have been framed!"
For royal families under a constitutional monarchy, they mostly lack actual political power. However, "presence" itself is a unique form of power—reigning without ruling, but needing to be seen.
The royal family positions itself as a "living symbol" of national stability through frequent public appearances, state visits, and charitable activities.
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The royal family's "showing off" is essentially a transaction in which symbolic value is exchanged for the existence of the system.
In modern society, the gossip about royalty attracts more attention than some popular celebrities. Every now and then, a member of the royal family appears on official media, which many children see on TV. From an adult's perspective, it's probably understandable how such a show is conducted, but it certainly aroused children's aspirations and adoration when they were young.
Seeing the two arguing again, Ji Liguang was somewhat puzzled. In her eyes, princesses and princes weren't necessarily that noble.
However, the royal family is too good at hype, and ordinary people do have different expectations and opinions about the Jiang family.
Upon hearing them mention the Second Prince, Ji Liguang thought for a moment and said, "The Second Prince? I think I saw him in the palace when I was little. He was quite an annoying guy, and he called me a tomboy."
Upon hearing this, Lu Youhe immediately became indignant: "Huh? How could the Second Prince be like this? He's such a bad guy! Ali is clearly so beautiful!"
Lu Ren: "————" If I remember correctly, the Second Prince has been my sister's idol for over ten years, but in the blink of an eye, he's become the villain she talks about.
"It's nothing, I knocked out one of his teeth with one punch, haha!"
"Ah Li is amazing—but, that's a prince! Is he really alright?"
"I've already apologized to him, what else can he do?"
Lu Youhe "————" knocked out the prince's tooth in the palace, was it all just a matter of apologizing?
The royal aura shattered instantly, and Lu Youhe suddenly realized that there seemed to have been a princess by his side all along!
With profound respect, she said, "Princess Ali, let me touch you."
"What are you saying? Why are you touching me?"
Ali was baffled by her strange reaction. Shen Yaoxing, seeing that everyone was present, said, "Alright, enough talk, let's go. Consider it a break."
Lu Ren suddenly interrupted, coughed twice, and said, "Wait, Miss, there's no rush. I'll go back and change my clothes."
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Shen Yaoxing raised an eyebrow, looking at Lu Ren with some confusion, "Why are you changing clothes?"
"This isn't a princess's birthday party, I'm going to change into something more formal."
Shen Yaoxing: "————" She said that being a princess was nothing special, but this man was clearly very much looking forward to it.
Are you looking forward to it?
No way.
"Your face screams 'expectation'."
Lu Ren quickly wiped his face, as if he could erase those two words.
"Don't change it, just leave it like this."
"oh oh."
Seeing that the young lady was a little unhappy, Lu Ren immediately dared not act rashly.
It's normal to have expectations. He's a princess, after all. It's like being a fan. People online might criticize him, but who wouldn't rush to ask for a photo and autograph if they met him in real life?
Moreover, during Lu Ren's childhood, he often saw that princess appear on various programs. For Lu Ren, she was like a childhood goddess, no less than seeing Dongfang Tiexin from "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Tao Su from "The Amazing Ayou", or Princess Kelixia from "Rock Kingdom" when he grew up!
As the group set off again, Shen Yaoxing noticed that Jiang Yueying, who had been somewhat tense, suddenly relaxed.
She felt a little helpless; this guy had become so dependent on Lu Ren now, she didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Thinking of something, she suddenly asked, "Speaking of which, Xiao Yueying also has the surname Jiang, maybe she's related to the royal family?"
Upon hearing this, Ali also said, "It seems that the royal family's ancestral profession is the Demon-Slaying Fire Mage, which is somewhat related to the fire magic of Moonshadow?"
Yu Zaomian was a little confused and said, "The Demon-Slaying Fire Master is a warrior class, right? Xiaoying's fire magic is a mage class. What's the connection?"
When Jiang Yueying saw that the topic had turned to her, and that there were half of the people present who were not familiar with her, and that she was being watched by others, she immediately felt that she was going to be unable to speak properly again.
She subconsciously looked at Lu Ren, who then said, "Yueying's ancestors were from the Zhennan King's branch, which is not wrong to say they were royalty, but many generations have passed, and their bloodline with the current royal family is very thin."
Lu Ren suddenly spoke up to help her out, diverting everyone's attention to the situation, and Jiang Yueying immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Yaoxing was taken aback and looked at him, asking, "Lu Ren, how did you know?"
"Moon Shadow's older sister told me that."
"Huh, how do you know Sister Yueying?"
Jiang Yueying was also taken aback. She knew that her ancestors were related to the King of Nanshan, but she didn't know that her sister had said so much to Lu Ren.
"You guys, you even chat sometimes?"
Lu Ren held his phone and typed rapidly: "Yes, your sister sends me a lot of messages every day, sometimes I can't even reply to them all."
Jiang Yueying was a little anxious, "What are you two talking about?"
"They were talking about you, and even sent me a lot of photos of you when you were little, from when you were born until you were in high school."
"Holy crap!"
"There are also photos of you taking a bath when you were one year old."
"No, you're not allowed to look! Those kinds of photos are disgusting!"
"Unfortunately, that's already etched deep in my memory."
Lu Ren took out his phone. "It's time to report to your sister again. Come on, look at the camera."
Jiang Yueying was embarrassed: "No, don't make it sound like I'm a primary school student on a field trip."
Despite saying that, when a passerby pointed their phone camera at her, she still weakly made a peace sign at the camera and then forced a smile.
Lu Ren couldn't help but sigh, Yueying was truly adorable.
Ji Liguang then said, "If that's the case, then Yueying is also a princess. Lu Ren, why are you so eager to see that princess? Isn't there a princess right here?"
"I have no expectations, Ali, don't talk nonsense."
"Waaah, Princess Moonshadow, let me touch you."
"Holy crap!"
Jiang Yueying was at a loss: "I... I'm not... and why did you want to touch the princess so much?"
"When I was little, there was a folk tale that if you touched the princess, you would be immune to all diseases!"
Ji Liguang looked on with surprise, "Where did you get this strange folk tale from?"
In fact, there are many such folk tales in the slums. Children will take them seriously. The people at the bottom have received a lot of help from the royal family. Even Lu Ren, who now examines the situation from an adult perspective, can hardly find anything wrong with the royal family. Even if many things are just for show, at least they have done something practical.
The royal family also has a guild. The princess's residence is a large manor. When Lu Ren and his group arrived, quite a few people had already arrived.
Lu Youhe kept looking around, trying to see where the princess was, but she was too short and her view was blocked by the crowd.
Lu Ren picked her up and put her on his neck. She didn't feel embarrassed at all and sat on Lu Ren's shoulders, looking around.
Lu Youhe was initially excited, but quickly lost interest. "Is this where Princess Dayu lives? It doesn't seem any different."
Lu Ren laughed, "You really dare to say that. Just two months ago, you were living in a doghouse in the slums."
"What slum? Lu Ren, you've changed! That's an urban village!"
"Don't swing around like that, or you'll fall."
"You're more used to living at the young lady's house. Lu Ren, don't marry the princess. You should marry into the young lady's family instead."
Lu Ren reached out and pinched her thigh, and she cried out in pain and pounded his head, a perfect display of brotherly affection.
Just then, a typical taunt from a supporting character came from behind: "Marry a princess? Where did this country bumpkin come from, talking nonsense here?"
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