Chapter 83 The Big Pig's Trotters
Time flies, and two months pass in a blink of an eye.
Today is the vernal equinox, the time of the martial arts competition.
In the early morning, Jiang Ruoyan was served by the maid Lian'er, burning the fragrance of white ritham, bathing in the bath of green peaches, wearing a purple cloud python robe, and wearing a jade crown.
On the bronze mirror, Jiang Ruoyan's delicate face was as delicate as a woman's, which made Lian'er see the deer in her heart.
Childe is like jade, unparalleled in a lifetime.
Peerless elegance, unparalleled red dust.
The seventh prince, who inherited the queen's appearance, was really the most beautiful man she had ever seen, and there was no one.
After burning incense and bathing, the first thing Jiang Ruoyan had to do was to go to the queen mother Xue Yuxi to say goodbye.
But when he and Lian'er came to the queen's bedchamber together, they found that two people had come before them, and those two men were standing in the front yard of the dormitory, as if they had also come to greet his mother.
One is a beautiful woman in an orange palace dress, and she is Concubine Xiao. Concubine Xiao put her hands on her lower abdomen and stood elegantly. Standing next to her was the fifth prince, Jiang Jimo.
Jiang Jimo was dressed in a dark brown robe, he bowed, holding a tray with a Luanniao gold seal on the tray.
"Mother, why should we whisper to her?"
Jiang Jimo had been standing like this for half an hour, his back was sore and his legs were painful, and his mouth was full of resentment.
Concubine Xiao scolded coldly: "Shut up." ”
Jiang Ruoyan walked over from the side, glanced at Concubine Xiao, and then at the Luanniao Golden Seal symbolizing the queen's power on the tray in Jiang Jimo's hand, thoughtfully.
That night, Concubine Xiao ordered Li Huairen to take the seal away from his mother's hand, but today, Concubine Xiao came to return the seal in person.
Because, the direction of the wind has changed.
The reason why Concubine Xiao was able to fly in the harem was that she had an elder brother who held heavy troops and held great power, King Zhenxi.
But a few days ago, the king of Zhenxi was liquidated by the king Jiang Jinhe. The king of Zhenxi violated the yang and yin of the court in the arrangement of Wang Qingshan, and sought his own personal interests. There are also remarks of collusion with heresies. After the court discussion, several crimes were punished, the king of Zhenxi was cut from his post and taken prisoner, demoted to the marquis of Zhenxi, relieved of 100,000 soldiers, left 500 stones, and returned to the west alone, if there was no royal order, he was not allowed to return to the king for life.
The four major towns in the southeast, northwest and northwest are the kings, and now only the Qin family, the king of the south of the town, remains.
The elder brother fell, and Concubine Xiao naturally lost her confidence. Jiang Jinhe doesn't have to do anything to her, she can understand, no matter how dare she jump, she will soon suffer.
Seeing Jiang Ruoyan coming, Concubine Xiao looked at him with a complicated look in her eyes.
The young man in front of him was chased and killed by the dead soldiers she sent, but he was still alive and strong. Until now, this young man has also had this moment to see her show weakness.
Ask yourself, did she really want to kill Jiang Ruoyan just to make her son Jiang Jichu the crown prince?
No, not exactly.
There is a more important reason why she hates Xue Yuxi.
Xue Yuxi's appearance took away everything that should have belonged to her.
When Jiang Jinhe, the king of Qinghe, was still the crown prince, she was already the crown princess. Although it was a political marriage, Jiang Jinhe respected her like a guest, and she also vowed to be good to Jiang Jinhe wholeheartedly.
But when the woman Xue Yuxi appeared, everything changed.
For the sake of Xue Yuxi, Jiang Jinhe would rather be a commoner than the prince of Qinghe Kingdom. can even force each other to die and force the king to compromise.
Jiang Jinhe has eighteen concubines, including seventeen political marriages arranged for him by the Taishang King, and he has never complained, but only Xue Yuxi is an exception.
It is good to say that it is jealousy or anything, Concubine Xiao, who guards the deep palace alone, her love for Jiang Jinhe has changed beyond recognition.
The thoughts in her mind finally turned into a polite smile on her face.
Concubine Xiao smiled and said, "Your Royal Highness the Seventh Prince." ”
Jiang Ruoyan looked at nothing, and directly crossed Concubine Xiao and entered the hall. Lian'er behind him saluted Concubine Xiao and immediately followed.
Today is a martial arts competition, and Xue Yuxi, as the queen, naturally has to attend. At this moment, she is dressed in embroidered phoenix gold clothes, her long sky-blue hair is coiled up, she is wearing a gorgeous golden hairpin, the corners of her mouth are smiling, and her whole body exudes a noble and elegant atmosphere.
"The child greets the queen mother. Jiang Ruoyan bowed and said.
Xue Yuxi Lian moved lightly, came to Jiang Ruoyan's side, and motioned for Jiang Ruoyan to get up. Her lips opened lightly, and she asked Jiang Ruoyan, "Yan'er, do you think that your mother should forgive her like this?"
Jiang Ruoyan knew that the queen mother was talking about Concubine Xiao, so she said: "But it is up to the queen mother to decide." ”
"You child, you also said that you want to share the worries of the queen mother. Okay now, when something happens, you will pass the buck. What are you talking like?" Xue Yuxi said angrily.
Jiang Ruoyan smiled and said nothing, he knew that the queen mother should have a decision in her heart.
The humiliation of seizing the seal cannot be ignored. But for Xue Yuxi, what made her most intolerable was Concubine Xiao's persecution of Jiang Ruoyan in the past three years.
Xue Yuxi knew that Concubine Xiao hated her, but Jiang Ruoyan was innocent?
In the past three years, Jiang Jinhe has been "retreating" for three days in the last dynasty, but in fact, the laying of the soul dementoring array that summons the heavenly soul for Xue Yuxi has entered a critical period, and Jiang Jinhe has spent all his energy on that soul dementoring array.
Concubine Xiao took advantage of Jiang Jinhe's lack of mental affairs, and Xue Yuxi was at the weakest moment, and she was persecuted Jiang Ruoyan in various ways.
How could Xue Yuxi be willing to spare Concubine Xiao?
However, Xue Yuxi thought about it again and again, and decided not to punish Concubine Xiao first. She said to Jiang Ruoyan: "Yan'er, after everything is over, Weiniang will personally teach her a lesson for you, okay?"
Now, Jiang Jinhe is still playing with the Elder Pavilion, it is an extraordinary period, and she can't make trouble for her man.
Jiang Ruoyan nodded, "Listen to the queen mother." ”
"Men are big pigs' trotters, and the dead ghost wants to take me to the troubled waters of his royal family. Xue Yuxi said coquettishly.
Jiang Ruoyan: "......"
Why did you even scold me?
In the end, Xue Yuxi didn't embarrass Concubine Xiao much, and drove her away without a trace after retrieving the back seal.
Mother and son began to talk again.
Xue Yuxi knew that Jiang Ruoyan was also going to participate in the martial arts competition today, so she didn't stop it, but said to Jiang Ruoyan, "Come on." ”
After a while, Jiang Jinhe sent the palace attendants over. With the waiter company, Xue Yuxi and Jiang Ruoyan went to Fengtian Hall together.
Fengtian Hall is the first hall of the royal palace.
Jiang Jinhe was dressed in a dragon robe and a royal crown, standing in front of the court, and Wang Wei was hehe.
Xue Yuxi came to Jiang Jinhe's side.
Jiang Jinhe took Xue Yuxi's hand, the two looked at each other and smiled, slowly walked to the throne in the hall, and then accepted the courtier's worship.
The ministers began to report on the recent events of the kingdom.
In addition to the major event of the martial arts competition, there was also a very important topic in this court meeting, that is, the relocation of the capital.
The proposal to move the capital was put forward by the old lady Wang Chan.
Wang Chan is an old minister of the three dynasties, and his age is twilight. He walked out of the ranks of the ministers with a board in his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister has recently watched the sky at night, and he saw that the stars were displaced, and the king's anger was southward. Where the mandate of heaven is, it should be Nanfu. The old minister thought that the king should obey the mandate of heaven and move the capital south. ”
The minister seconded. Taifu Liu Zhengxiang stood up and said.
The matter of moving the capital is already known to the high-level members of the major families in Wangcheng, and the reason for moving the capital does not need to be repeated. What night watching the sky, Wang Qi is biased to the south, it is all nonsense, just to use it as the reason for moving the capital. The only thing worth debating about is the choice of a new site for the national capital.
After the ministers expressed their opinions, Jiang Jinhe decided to settle the new capital in a large city called Qiongzhou in the south of Qinghe Kingdom. Qiongzhou is the most prosperous city in the south of Qinghe Kingdom, and it is very close to the Jiang region, where successive Qinghe kings will build palaces, which is the first choice for the new site of the national capital.
Jiang Jin River under the king of the Zhao Gong government, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu is fully responsible for the relocation of the capital. The relocation of the capital will be carried out after the end of the competition, and there must be no mistakes.
After the matter of moving the capital was agreed, several ministers in charge of the martial arts conference began to report to Jiang Jinhe about the relevant matters of the martial arts conference. After the courtiers finished their reports, Jiang Jinhe announced the start of the triennial martial arts competition.
Subsequently, Jiang Jinhe led the courtiers to move the royal altar.
On the altar, there are three sacrifices, and the great elder of the royal family holds the head of the four knives of the protector - the ritual knife spring flocculent, leading the clan officials, such as Zongbo, Shishi, Dazhu, etc., to sacrifice to the sky, the earth, and the ancestors and saints.
The ritual knife was originally a symbol of royal power, but it was stored in the Elders' Pavilion for a hundred years. Originally, the Elders' Pavilion had the power to command the entire Qinghe Country. But now it's just a "symbol".
Today's sacrifice is the same, it was supposed to be presided over by the great sect uncle, but it was presiding over by the great elder.
Jiang Jinhe intended to announce to the world that although the great elder of the royal family had a ceremonial sword, he still had to be ordered by him to preside over this sacrifice under the orders of King Qinghe.
The Elders' Pavilion is only in charge of clan affairs, and it still has to bow down in front of the king's orders!
After the sacrifice, the tournament officially began. Just below the altar in the square, under the paving of the relevant personnel, the square quickly turned into a tournament venue.
The younger generation of warriors over the age of six and under the age of eighteen will participate in the martial arts competition under the witness of heaven and earth and the sages and ancestors.
The young warriors of the Qinghe royal family, the teams of the major sects and major families entered one after another.
Among these teams, the royal family, the Xuanxu Sect, the Heavenly Eagle Faction, the Chixuan Palace, the big chaebol Liu family, the superior family Ling family, the Zhennan Wang Qin family, and even the young warriors of the Tianxia Dart Bureau and the Four Seas Qianzhuang stationed in Qinghe Country are all popular teams to win the championship.
Of course, since he is a young martial artist in the entire Qinghe Country, it is naturally not only the young martial artist of these royal families, major sects and major families. There is also a team of young warriors who will also participate, they are selected from various counties and townships in Qinghe Country, and all of them are civilian warriors.
These civilian warriors have always been not favored, and in the four hundred years since the founding of the Qinghe Kingdom, only a few have been able to achieve the top ten results in the martial arts competition. As for the first place in the Qinghe National Martial Arts Competition, there is only one.
Two hundred years ago, that young genius from a civilian background swept through all the warriors of the younger generation of the Qinghe Kingdom and dominated an era. This is still a legendary story of Qinghe Kingdom. It's just that that the civilian genius later had a broader world, so he left the Qinghe Country.
The young warriors of the royal family were led by the seventh prince Jiang Ruoyan and the thirteenth princess Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu looked like she was only ten years old, she was dressed in white, holding a horizontal knife begonia, and her height looked two points shorter than her five-foot three-point horizontal knife begonia. The little white rabbit was prostrate on her shoulder.
"Seventh brother, where is your obstacle knife Dongzhu?" Jiang Yu leaned over to Jiang Ruoyan with a smile on his face and asked.
Jiang Ruoyan raised her eyebrows, "I put it in the Void Ring." He was unhurried on the surface, but he chuckled inwardly. He handed over the obstacle knife Dongzhu to Liu Zhixi, and he didn't want to come back yet.
So Jiang Ruoyan looked at the team of Liu family's martial artists, glancing left and right, looking for Liu Zhixi's figure.
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PS: Sorry, it's been a lot lately. Change the update time, and update it every day at 21:00 in the future.