Chapter 171: Sky Screen Live Streaming System (Volume Complete)

Traveling during the holidays is not even what makes other parents feel the most conflicted.

What makes them feel the most stifled is: Xie Yang has never signed her nephew and niece up for academic tutoring classes, nor has she ever bought them any supplementary teaching materials or practice test papers beyond what their school teachers required.

With things this way, they naturally have plenty of time.

And so, while their peers were busy preparing for the stressful College Entrance Examination and the transition from primary to middle school, Xie Yang set off once again with her nephew and niece—

This time, they arrived in Norway.

In this small country closest to the Arctic Circle, although it was not the best month to see the aurora, they had been fortunate enough to see it twice when they went to Canada and Finland during National Day a few years ago; this time, the main goal was to ride snowmobiles through the natural forests of the Arctic Circle.

Being able to encounter the aurora would certainly be lucky, but they would not be disappointed if they didn't.

"Xie Yang? Is it really you, Xie Yang? I thought I had recognized the wrong person!"

As the aunt and her two niece and nephew were checking into the Blue Lagoon hotel on the island of Bergen, a lady wrapped in a shawl walked over.

Xie Yang turned back to meet her surprised gaze, rummaged through her mind for a long while, and finally recalled a name: "Fu Minyun?"

One of her three college roommates.

What a coincidence!

Nine years ago, when she was traveling with her nephew and niece on an island at the southernmost tip of the motherland, she ran into another roommate, Hu Qinqin.

Nine years later, she ran into another roommate in the northernmost city in the world.

"Are these your son and daughter?"

Fu Minyun looked at Xie Jilin and his sister with surprise, thinking to herself that these two children were truly handsome!

One could find Xie Yang's shadow between their brows; it seemed they took after her.

After all, back in college, she was the department beauty whom boys flocked to, but unfortunately, apart from attending classes and returning to the dorm for a nap, she was elusive at other times, and few people could ever run into her.

Xie Yang smiled: "No, these are my nephew and niece, my own brother's children."

Fu Minyun was stunned.

She suddenly remembered that many years ago, Hu Qinqin seemed to have mentioned something to her on WeChat, saying that Xie Yang had found some kind of job and her income seemed quite good, as she was actually taking her brother's two children to stay in a five-star hotel on an island.

She didn't expect that in this encounter, she was still traveling with her brother's two children, so what about her own children?

Thinking this, she asked it out loud.

Xie Yang gave her a calm smile in return: "I'm not married, where would I get children from?"

"Ah? You're still not married?" Fu Minyun almost dropped her jaw in shock, "The boys who liked you and wanted to pursue you in college could fill a bus, it's just that you were always a loner... I didn't expect that after so many years, you're still single. Why? Do you really plan to never marry in your life?"

Xie Yang's eyes held a smile: "Isn't this good? I think it's quite good. In this life, there are many things to do; marriage is just one of them. It is certainly lucky to meet someone who is compatible and willing to spend a lifetime together, but if you really can't meet them, there's no need to force it. After all, people are living, and days are fixed; how we live is our own choice."

"..."

【Wuwu! Aunt must have delayed her lifelong event for the sake of the Little Marquis and the Princess!】

【Although she is smiling, she might be weeping in her heart.】

【Aunt must be very bitter inside.】

【Aunt has sacrificed too much!】

Xiao Yanze stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the Sky Screen, feeling not only pity but also admiration.

All these years, for the sake of her nephew and niece, she must have shouldered a great deal of pressure.

Every Spring Festival, her relatives back home often urged her to find someone to accompany her through life; it wasn't that they were urging her to have children—on the contrary, her uncles and aunts were very open-minded, feeling that it didn't matter if she had no children of her own, as Jinbao and Linbao were raised by her and were equivalent to her own children. It was mainly because as the children gradually grew up and the time they spent with her became less and less, they hoped she would have someone by her side who knew how to care for her.

But every time, she brushed it off lightly.

Thinking about it, she must be worried that if she had a partner, or had her own children under the advice of a partner, she would neglect the feelings of Jinbao and Linbao, right?

If Xie Yang saw the bullet comments and heard the heart of the Great Liang Emperor, she would surely laugh out loud.

It really wasn't as noble as they thought!

It was purely because she hadn't met anyone she felt compatible with.

If her heart wasn't moved, she couldn't be bothered to settle.

But the people of Great Liang didn't know the inside story; they always felt that "Aunt" had sacrificed a lot, and the mood index suffixed to the bullet comments was showing an increasingly positive value.

Simultaneously increasing was the happiness index of the people of Great Liang.

As the Fish-Rice Symbiosis demonstrated a very significant effect on increasing production;

The Potato had already been popularized in Great Liang, especially becoming an indispensable staple food for the poor;

The secret guards sent out by the Heavenly Industry Emperor to search for high-yield food crops also truly brought back sweet potatoes and Corn.

After the people of Great Liang began living the good life of "eating their fill," they also learned about the Mulberry-Base Fish Pond from the cartoons the Little Marquis watched.

Low-lying land was dug deep into ponds, the excavated silt was piled up as foundations, mulberry trees were planted on the bases, fish were raised in the ponds, mulberry leaves fed silkworms, silkworm excrement fed fish, and the pond mud from the fish ponds was taken up to serve as fertilizer for the mulberry trees...

Silk was spun into yarn and woven into clothing; the noble class had a better choice in clothing materials, and as the price of Cotton Cloth was brought down, ordinary people gradually achieved freedom in clothing as well.

The glass formula left behind by the Imperial Son-in-law was indeed difficult to simplify in terms of process due to the lack of certain auxiliary tools, but after nine years of production, the volume of glass pushed to the market was already quite large.

Not to mention every household, most families with a little savings could install a bright glass window.

Those who really couldn't afford large windows installed a small skylight on the roof, which was in any case brighter than wooden lattice windows.

The south reclaimed fertile fields that produced three harvests a year, while the north utilized biogas for heating, geothermal heat from hot springs, and glass Greenhouses to grow fresh green vegetables and fruits in the cold winter season.

The people of Great Liang were well-fed and warmly clothed, and when they were free, they could go to the bustling markets to experience restaurants, dessert shops, large supermarkets, and amusement parks that were becoming increasingly similar to the world of the Sky Screen...

Xie Yang took her nephew and niece to experience being "little masons" and went to the science museum to observe the "interesting functions of Niter," and the Great Liang Dynasty followed suit, testing out Cement, Gunpowder...

With elite troops holding Fire Copper weapons clearing the way, the imperial court traded green vegetables and fruits with the tribes outside the pass during the snowy season, exchanging them for tons of beef and mutton, sturdy horses, and thick furs...

The material life of the people of Great Liang became more prosperous year by year, and every household had the means to send their children to school.

Schools everywhere imitated the world of the Sky Screen, not only offering academic courses, physical education, and labor skills classes, but also enrolling female students.

The social status of women in Great Liang gradually improved, and in all aspects, they were moving closer and closer to the world of the Sky Screen.

"Aunt! Look! The aurora!"

"Aunt, let's make a wish together!"

【Ding! The total pleasure value has reached its limit! This live broadcast session has concluded successfully!】

The moment a brilliant aurora appeared in the high sky, a strange electronic system voice rang in Xie Yang's ears.

At the same time, the Sky Screen that had hung over Great Liang for ten whole years suddenly vanished.

【Ah! The Heavenly Palace is gone!】

【I fear it hasn't just vanished; the Heavenly Palace must have discovered something abnormal and stopped showing it to us!】

【Ten years! Now that the Heavenly Palace has suddenly disappeared, I really feel a bit unaccustomed to it!】

【Does this mean we will never see the Little Marquis and the Princess again?】

【The voice and smile of the Aunt will remain in my heart forever!】

【The Aunt is a heroine among women! We admire her immensely!】

Among the common people of Daliang, voices of regret, reluctance, and nostalgia emerged.

In the Daliang Imperial Palace, from the Emperor and Empress Dowager down to the palace maids and guards, everyone felt regret.

Xiao Yanze stared blankly at the sky that had returned to a deep blue.

It was as if these ten years had been nothing but an illusory dream.

The Daliang People, himself included, were merely people within a dream.

Yet, even if it were a dream, it allowed Great Liang to benefit profoundly and learn a great deal.

The sudden disappearance of the Sky Screen left him with not only regret, but also a complex emotion that was difficult to describe or explain.

This complex emotion, growing from faint to deep, led him to resist taking more concubines into his harem and to emulate the Heavenly Palace by promoting a monogamous marriage system.

An emperor is heartless.

He bore the burden of the ruling cause of the Xiao clan, and the insights and knowledge gained over these ten years were enough to give him the ability, confidence, and courage to lead the people of the nation in carrying out sweeping reforms!

One day, he would build Great Liang into a nation no different from the Heavenly Palace!

I wonder if, at that time, I might have the fortune to meet her?

Xiao Yanze raised the teacup on his desk, lifted his eyes to gaze into the clear, azure sky: "A toast to you! Wishing you peace!"

On this side, Xie Yang bundled up the Sky Screen Live Streaming System—which had been impatient to unbind from her and the siblings Xie Jilin and Xie Ji the moment the ten-year deadline arrived—and decisively sent it back to the factory for repairs.

She had no desire to enjoy a Golden Finger that could destroy an entire planet if it self-destructed.

With this, the Task for this plane was considered complete.

In the previous plane, the Main System had rewarded her with a special Prop—【Set Off Immediately】, meaning that after completing a task, she could travel to the next task world at any time without a cooldown. However, there was a limit of 3 uses in total.

It was just that, thinking of how her nephew and niece had come to treat her as their closest kin over these ten years, she didn't know how sad the two children would be if she were to suddenly pass away.

Since she would be doing tasks in the next world anyway, she might as well stay for a few more years; she would treat it as a vacation.

After all, for her, before today, the four words "Earth destruction" had constantly hung over her head like a blade, and the pressure had been ever-present. Now was the time to truly enjoy this world...

(End of this chapter)