Chapter 169 : The Emperor’s Birthday Celebration (1)
The Heavenly Emperor rose to power when he was fifty-eight years old. Before he knew it, he had already sat on the Dragon Throne for thirty years.
Despite having the power over every single creature across nine layers of heaven, the Heavenly Emperor often claimed to his sons that his seat was "the most coveted, but also the loneliest seat in the realm".
In exactly one week, the Heavenly Emperor was going to be eighty-eight years old. In joyful anticipation of the greatest birthday celebration of the century, the Golden Dragon Palace distributed ten thousand sacks of rice, flour, and salt each and also a thousand jugs of wine to each of the nine palaces.
To express their love and admiration for the reigning emperor, the Golden Dragon City decided to decorate the entire city with Fuxi Palace’s lucky red and golden colors. It also held a birthday festival in honor of the Heavenly Emperor.
The birthday festival lasted for seven days and seven nights.
Throughout the festival period, various street performers from nine palaces were ready to entertain the visitors with all kinds of performances.
During the days, there were the skinny but strong buskers who could split boulders bigger than them into pieces, but also delicate beauties who danced fearlessly atop of bed of glass shards and nails.
During the nights, actors and actresses took the stage to enact flattering stories of the past, such as the rise of the dragon clan to the Dragon Throne or the heroic tale from the Heavenly Emperor’s youth.
Whether it was day or night, the visitors needed not to worry about lack of food. Beauties with gentle bearings and sweet voices were scattered throughout the city to offer various delectable dishes and street snacks from all nine palaces to the delighted visitors.
Mingyu and Qingyun had only been to the Golden Dragon Palace a couple of times when they accompanied their master for work. In light of the ongoing celebration, Xie Jianyu decided to pamper the two beta maids and explore the Golden Dragon City together for an entire day.
In order to hide their real identities, they deliberately dressed like common folks.