Chapter Ninety-Seven: Crisis
As soon as Mu Tianxiang stood firm, Jing Ling had already withdrawn his hand and stood aside, and he couldn't see the expression just now when he raised his head and lowered his eyes.
Gently blessed his body at him, Mu Tianxiang stood up straight and looked in the direction of the emperor.
Empress Sun also turned her head at this time, but when she saw Mu Tianxiang's face clearly, she was obviously stunned.
But in just an instant, she regained her previous expression and smiled lovingly at Mu Tianxiang. Others may not have seen her fleeting love, but the emperor beside her was obviously aware of her stiff body, and immediately gently squeezed her hand, lowered his head and smiled comfortingly, but he smiled a little uncomfortably.
Empress Sun looked up and saw the emperor's guilty expression on her, and she just pulled the corners of her mouth and lowered her mind.
And just now she smiled so gently at Mu Tianxiang, which first made Mu Tianxiang stunned for a moment, and then her heart warmed, and she blessed her body with gratitude: "Thank you for the grace of the emperor and the queen." ”
"Miss Mu doesn't have to be polite. This palace also thinks of you with a naked heart, how can the emperor punish you for this. Empress Sun said to Mu Tianxiang with a smile, her tone was extremely gentle, after she finished speaking, she raised her head and glanced at the emperor with waves in her eyes and asked, "Your Majesty, what the concubine said is reasonable?"
"Reasonable! Reasonable!" Since the queen said so, the emperor couldn't refute her face in front of the child and the hundred officials, and immediately smiled and helped her to respond a few times.
Secretly gave the inner supervisor beside him a look.
The inner eunuch Gao Gonggong has been serving the emperor for more than 40 years, and he is the emperor's confidant, and when he saw that the emperor gave him a color, he immediately stepped forward and knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the blessing incense has been burned, do you want to invite the master to go to the blessing ash?"
The so-called blessing ash is the incense ash that burns out of the blessing incense. And the most important part of this sacrifice is also here.
At this time, Mu Tianxiang on the side, after listening to Gao's father-in-law's words, immediately bit her lip, and her clenched hands hidden in the sleeves of her skirt revealed her nervousness at this time.
If only there had been no previous accident that attracted butterflies. Maybe she can be very confident at this time, waiting for the emperor and Master Na Huize to go to the incense platform, but with the previous accident, she can't guarantee now that the incense type and then the incense ash are formed according to her setting.
Mu Tianxiang was motionless, staring intently at the incense platform
"Okay! What a pair of dragons and phoenixes are auspicious, the country and the people are safe, and the wind and rain are good!" Suddenly, I heard that next to the incense platform, the emperor suddenly let out a loud shout, and the sound was loud, resounding inside and outside the palace.
"All Aiqing may as well come forward to take a look, God bless my Jingsheng Dynasty to enjoy the prosperity of peace!" The emperor seemed to be in a very happy mood because of this blessing, stretched out his hand to greet the hundreds of officials in the audience, and stepped forward to share the joy of this God-given blessing.
Hundreds of officials heard this. I was curious, what kind of blessing ash. After looking at each other's eyes, they listened to the will of the saint and stepped forward to find out.
When everyone gathered around the incense platform and tiptoed to look at the incense ashes left on the platform, their hearts suddenly rippled. They all knelt down and kowtowed: "My emperor Shengming, inspired by heaven, this is the blessing of my prosperity and all the people, long live my emperor, long live long live!"
"My Emperor Shengming, Heavenly Court inspires. This good luck is the blessing of my prosperity and the people, long live my emperor, long live long live, long live!"
Even the people outside the temple, when they heard this sound, knew that it was a good omen for the sacrifice, and when they attracted the joy of Longyan, they also knelt in the direction of the Huguo Temple and rose in response.
In this way, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and soon the sound spread throughout Licheng and the surrounding towns, and the emperor prayed for Jingsheng to bless the country and the people in the coming year, and the good news of the wind and rain was spread all over the north and south of the river for a time.
Today is a great day for the whole country to celebrate.
Such a grand occasion is not as good as in previous years, and it is not as good as when all the people celebrate together.
On the occasion of the great joy of Longyan, the emperor did not forget to talk about the meritorious deeds, and the royal pen personally sealed the purple gas from the east, turned into butterflies and flies, and the world's auspicious blessing incense is the first blessing incense in the world, and Mu's incense workshop has naturally become this year's royal incense workshop.
"Thank you, Lord Longen!" Mu Tianxiang heard the emperor's voice, and her heart suddenly seemed to be a boulder, which easily made her feet soft, and without waiting for everyone to react, she knelt on the ground with a bang, and her mood was up and down.
Great, great, her fragrance is fine, really no problem.
It's great that Mufu's century-old foundation has not been destroyed in her hands!
At this time, Mu Tianxiang was very excited when he heard the holy reward in his ears.
The sound of such a nationwide celebration naturally spread to a bandit cottage at the foot of Lingshan.
In a hidden forest not far from the cottage, there were nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers in full costumes, lined up here.
At the front of the procession were two groups of tall horses, and the two of them sat majestically.
Yan Shaoting, who was sitting on a horse and carrying a spear, listened to the cheers coming from the Huguo Temple, the corners of his mouth twitched, and the faint worry in his heart suddenly dissipated, and he glanced back at Yan Yi beside him, and only gave him a look.
Yan Yi, who received the order, immediately turned his horse's head and commanded more than 3,000 officers and soldiers behind him: "The generals will listen to the order, surround the stockade of the Zuoshan League, don't let anyone go, neglect to supervise, and serve the military order!"
The soldiers would be well-trained, and they knew the secrecy of this operation, so they only raised their weapons and shook them in response.
Seeing this, Yan Yi waved his hand left and right, and the soldiers immediately dispersed in an orderly manner, quietly surrounding the entire cottage, leaving about a thousand people
"The secret passage of the stockade, has it been explored?" Yan Shaoting glanced around and asked Yan Yi.
"Back to the young master's words, the humble post has sent someone to block the exit, I'm afraid it will be impossible to escape. Yan Yi responded with a fist.
To say that Yan Yi, he has followed Yan Shaoting since he was a child, and he enlisted in the army back then, relying on his real talent and hard work, as an adjutant, accompanied by the left and right, he has won battles again and again, although Yan Shaoting does not have an official and a half position now, but the name of this position has indeed not changed.
Yan Shaoting frowned, although he had changed his title as a young general back to the young master, but this humble title still made him a little disliked, but because Yan Yi was too concerned about the past days in the army, he couldn't persuade him to change it for a while.
In his heart, Yan Shaoting is still a heroic and martial major general in his mind.
Yan Shaoting didn't say much, waved his hand, and motioned for someone to break in from the main entrance.
Using 3,000 well-trained soldiers to encircle and suppress bandits with only 100 people, to be honest, is a bit overkill, but there are also a lot of considerations.
Without much effort, Yan Shaoting had already led all the soldiers to break into the debt, and went straight to the backyard where the morning and dusk were still sleeping in the village, and he simply took down the thieves.
Tying up the thieves to the open space in the front yard, Yan Shaoting sat on the horse, glanced at the disheveled bandits, and some of the thieves kidnapped them, tarnished their innocence, and shrunk in the corner shivering, he suddenly squinted and asked in a deep voice: "Are all the people here?"
"Back to the words of the major general, his subordinates have sent someone to thoroughly inspect the courtyard, and no one has been sent. ”
The leader of the three thousand generals was once a general under Yan Shaoting, named Gaoshan, but later returned to the dynasty with the army, and he has been staying in the city, responsible for supervising and patrolling the security in the city.
Yan Shaoting nodded at him, looked around again, and always felt weird, so he asked in a cold voice, "Where are the other people in the village?"
Frightened by Yan Shaoting's cold momentum, this group of bandits immediately turned pale and shrunk their necks in fear.
"My lord asked, don't hurry up and recruit from the truth!" Although he didn't understand why Yan Shaoting asked like this, Gao Shan still held the knife on his waist and yelled at everyone: "If you dare to hide it, my sword has no eyes!"
Listening to Gao Shan's cruel words, everyone was even more frightened, and some people had secretly looked at a man with a goatee and a sinister appearance in the crowd.
Seeing this, Gao Shan immediately stretched out his hand and dragged the man to Yan Shaoting's horse, took out a knife and rested it on the other party's neck and said, "Say it quickly!"
"Back to ...... Back to the words of adults...... I am the boss in the village...... Yesterday...... Yesterday he said that he had a big business and brought his brother out...... I haven't returned yet...... "The master was pressed against his neck by the cold blade, and he was suddenly frightened, and replied tremblingly.
"But the truth?" asked Gao Shan, grabbing the master's hair and pushing the knife closer to his neck.
"Back to ...... Back to the adult's words, the little one will never tell half a lie, and I hope the adult will see it!" Seeing this, the master immediately cried and begged for mercy with a sad face.
"Search the mountains along the way!" Yan Shaoting heard that, his heart sank, and he immediately ordered three thousand soldiers to go down the mountain to search.
Sure enough, after noon, I heard a report from someone that more than 40 corpses had been found in the mountains.
Yan Shaoting had a cold face, and followed the soldier to the place where the body was found, which was a small mountain, and there were more than 40 black-clothed people lying in it.
Seeing the red belt on the arm of the man in black, Yan Shaoting suddenly squinted.
Since the sudden retreat of this group of people yesterday, he had a vague premonition, thinking that this group of people had discovered something, so they suddenly fled from the scene, and even the target they wanted to deal with did not have time to solve, so they fled in a hurry.
Looking at the situation now, it is clear that someone has secretly dealt with this group of people and made them pay a terrible price for their unwise actions.
It's just that who is the person who made the move, and why did he make a move on this group of people? Yan Shaoting fell into a bitter contemplation because of this, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure it out.
Until Yan Yi sighed, walked in front of those corpses, and pulled out the exposed red thread from the chest of one of them, but he didn't expect to take out a bronze medal.
"Red Fire Order?" Yan Shaoting was shocked when he saw this token. (To be continued......)