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Chapter 289: Oiran’s Parade

It was nearly the deepest part of autumn and there was the slightest sense of winter could be felt in the air. Everything was turning gold and it started to become a dreadful scene.

But the chilling of autumn couldn’t stop people from participating in fun social gatherings. The wide roads were cleaned out and guarded by armed soldiers to prevent the citizens from seeing the young Langjuns.

When the fortunate time came, hundreds of wagons, which were decorated with red ribbons, slowly headed for the Royal Leisure Palace from different directions. The pedestrians along the road all stretched their necks out to see.

“That Langjun is so good-looking; he’s like a god from heaven. I wonder which family he comes from…” someone said.

“Who cares which family he comes from? We will only be able to take a look at this moment alone,” another person responded.

Hundreds of wagons with red ribbons departed at the fortunate time. They were to all be in a parade on the main road of the Capital City.

The curtains of the wagons were lifted to show the Langjun’s sitting inside. Every single one of them had an extraordinary appearance and fine clothes. Their eyes wandered around and landed on some unmarried girls that nearly took their souls. Even the girls knew there was a big gap between their classes; they still did everything to dress themselves up and share intimate eye contact with the young guys sitting in the wagon. They all just wished that they would be lucky enough to have a relationship with them.

Jiang Pengji sat in an individual room next to the windows in a tea house. It was a perfect spot for her to see the scene by just turning her head.

“It’s just like an oiran’s parade… Hard to bear.” She took a sip of her tea, stealing a glance at one wagon that had just gone past her. She turned her eyes away.

The viewers in the streaming room shared the same idea as her. The streaming room boiled with excitement when the viewers had learned that they could see some parades before the evaluation. It was a good chance for them to see the young men of good quality that were all waiting for the parade.

But when the first wagon drove by, they covered their eyes with their hands and moaned that they had seen something that nearly made them blind.

Ruqi Ruzi Wuyangzhi: “I’m here to see pretty boys, not remove my eyeballs! You are being so mean, host.”

Laosiji Lianmeng: “If the host hadn’t of said that this was a legitimate activity, I would have thought it was an oiran’s parade for whore houses.”

Caolaoban Airuqi: “But if they are the oirans, is it possible that the whore houses still have customers?”

Maixi Zhaozilong: “If a person with nasty taste like Caolaoban can’t take it, it is definite that the whore house will not be open long.”

Jiang Pengji was about to make fun of them until she saw the ridicules from the streaming room. She almost had a hard time swallowing the tea in her mouth.

It was not pretty, but it wasn’t bad. Feng Jin, who sat at the other side of the table, couldn’t control himself after he heard what she said. He nearly spilled his tea on his new clothes. If he didn’t swallow his tea before Jiang Pengji had said what she did, he might have spit it out. “Lanting, you are really…”

“I’m just being honest. They flaunt much more than the oirans going for parades,” Jiang Pengji said to him with a grin. Her eyes curved like a new moon and there was a sense of amusement in her eyes. “I felt a bit of shame that you missed this evaluation because of your hand injury. But when I think of you sitting in the wagon with red ribbons and dressed flamingly gaudy, I just cannot picture it. Look at their clothes. They seriously wear pink, red, and green.”

The temperatures were turning cold, but it didn’t affect their passion for dressing up.

Their clothes were mostly light pink, lake green, sky blue, grass green, gold yellow, and bright red. The collars of their clothes were loose enough for them to show off their collar bones and they tied their hair with jade bands, then had some blossomed flowers or flower branches stuck into their hair. There was a thick layer of foundation on their face, which made them look like a white wall. Their lips had bright red lipstick, which gave people goosebumps.

The taste of the citizens in the current era had always been puzzling for her. The ones that she couldn’t land her eyes on were the beauties in the eyes of the citizens downstairs.

Jiang Pengji took a deep breath. She had to admit that the Langjuns did have outstanding facial structures, which proved that they were rather good-looking themselves. However, their makeup ruined everything. Jiang Pengji couldn’t stop questioning if they did something horrible to their stylists… But there was no such thing as a stylist in the current era.

Feng Jin looked at Jiang Pengji and said with a helpless face, “This is the trend that the gentry clan young men go after in the Capital City.”

“No matter if it is only a hundred people or a million people pursuing it, ugly is ugly. It is not considered beautiful just to stick something expensive on your head. If that is the concept, we might as well just admire the vase,” Jiang Pengji said, her lips twitching. Feng Jin was speechless.

Feng Jin coughed and said to her, “You are still too young to understand. You will get it in a couple years.”

Jiang Pengji glanced at Feng Jin, which made him feel a bit uncomfortable.

“If you think that is pretty, then why don’t you do it?” Jiang Pengji looked him up and down. He was in a stone green outfit, which had several layers and wide sleeves. His hair was tied up sharply with a simple decoration, which made people comfortable.

Feng Jin paused for a second and shook his head. “I don’t need anything else for decoration. I am a natural beauty,” he said suddenly.

Jiang Pengji found there was nothing she could say to that.

Feng Jin, you are so refined, even if you are narcissistic.

Jiang Pengji rested one of her hands on the window as she watched the wagons with red ribbons drive past the tea house one after another. The citizens turned into groupies and their eyes went straight towards the Langjuns. Some young girls took off their sachets and cast them at the wagons when they saw someone who made their heart beat fast.

It was very likely that the viewers started to get accustomed the scene in front of them. Jiang Pengji was speechless again. She felt sorry for the viewers. Their taste had to have been destroyed after such a thing.

When she was getting close to dozing, the bullet screens went crazy all of a sudden. The tons and tons of bullet screens nearly covered the whole screen. Jiang Pengji frowned. She wasn’t sure what had happened.

Xiaoquanquan Chuini’ou: “OMG, I see my hubby here! He is so cool!!”

Shuibian Sanguo Nanshen: “I feel like my eyes are fully recovered now. So great! o(≧v≦)o~~”

Laosiji Lianmeng: “I think I heard the sound of flowers blooming.”

Xiangchengwei Jitui: “My mom asked me why my phone screen is wet. Because I cannot stop myself licking it…”

Sanzhisongshu Lingshi: “I was spooked by the others, but he is definitely my aesthetic god. I want to rip his clothes off…”

She looked down to the street and heard Feng Jin’s voice near her ears. “This Langjun doesn’t seem familiar at all. I wonder which family he is from.”

The guy was in a dark blue outfit, but somehow the dark color didn’t make him look older. Instead, it matched perfectly with his snow white skin. He had an elegant face and his hair was splashed with ink. His lips had a natural red color to them without any lipstick and his eyebrows had their natural shape. Unlike the other Langjuns sitting in their wagons grinning at the citizens, he was sitting properly, his eyes closed. It seemed that he was in deep thought and there was a slight wrinkle between his brows as he frowned.

Jiang Pengji could even see his long eyelashes with her excellent vision. “It’s him…”