Chapter 157: Sacrifice to the Heavens
Taijing City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Today is the day of the wedding of the eldest lady of the Dong family and the emperor, and what she has to do now is to sacrifice to the sky.
Dong Qinghe and Emperor Chu Chen sat in the carriage, and the people below them all put down what they were doing, those who sold things stopped selling, those who ate stopped eating, and the children who were crying also stopped crying, lying in the arms of adults, holding the necks of adults, and looking over with wide eyes, although they didn't understand what it meant.
This is the emperor and the queen coming.
The carriage passed slowly, and the crowd around her slowly decreased, and Dong Qinghe's nerves that had been tense could be regarded as relieved, and sitting on it to accept the worship of ordinary people made her feel a sense of cautious and majestic oppression.
constantly reminded her that she had placed the hopes of so many people on her.
What kind of heaviness is this, Chu Chen shook her hand, for fear that his queen would not be adaptable.
On the streets, the carriage moves slowly, and this road is taken every year, and it is like this every year when I go to worship the heavens.
When they arrived at the place, the people behind dismounted one after another, and stood in front of them, standing with their hands down, waiting for Chu Chen and Dong Qinghe.
This is the big wedding of the emperor and queen, not for the sake of the world's national fortune, but just a small sacrifice.
Only the sacrifice to heaven for the sake of national fortune is a great sacrifice, and these are all rules.
If it is a big sacrifice, it has to be early in the morning, when to come out, walk a few steps, the emperor's sacrificial dress is embroidered with several threads, there are regulations.
This is a small sacrifice, so there are not so many rules.
"Greetings to the emperor, greetings to the queen."
Everyone knelt down one after another, Chu Chen and Dong Qinghe got up, and Chu Chen raised his hand: "Get up." ”
Below, Zhu Yi and Yun Qi helped Dong Qinghe down, and when she came down, Chu Chen slowly came down this time.
Gonggong Lu stood aside, Chu Chen didn't need other people's help when he came down, he was the emperor.
Waiting until Chu Chen came over, he said, "Let's go." ”
Chu Chen and Dong Qinghe walked slowly on the middle avenue, and when they walked over, the ministers behind them all came out and followed.
Until they came to a small attic, the two went in, and someone inside was waiting, and when they saw the two come in, they took up the clothes in their hands, and they were about to put them on.
This is the robe to be used to worship the heavens, and the two of them came out after putting them on, preparing to go to the heavens together.
The ministers were waiting quietly below, and when the two came out, they all went to worship the heavens together.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites had already prepared, and the emperor and the empress stepped on the circular altar together, step by step.
"The festival begins."
There were officials wearing high hats, holding a book in their hands, and their faces were pious.
"Salute."
The emperor and empress stood on the highest place and led the civil and military officials to salute the rank representing the heavens, which represented the heavens.
"Read."
Next to it, a special official began to read, which is to pray to heaven on behalf of the emperor.
Dong Qinghe had seen these words, and when he listened quietly at this time, he had a different feeling.
"Toast."
Chu Chen took the wine glass next to him, toasted to the tablet, and poured the wine on the soil sprinkled with grains.
After him, it was Dong Qinghe who toasted, and after Dong Qinghe toasted uprightly, he put the wine glass back in place.
"Read."
At this time, I have to read other words, the emperor and queen are married, and naturally God wants to agree with the queen's phoenix.
"The current emperor and queen got married, and then she was the daughter of Dong Chengshuo, the contemporary head of the Taijing Dong Mansion, and she ...... since childhood"
After a compliment, Dong Qinghe herself was a little embarrassed, she was not chaste and virtuous, dignified and generous, as for the affection with the emperor, it was even more not, she didn't plan to really have anything else with the emperor, this kind of thing can't be messed with, who will the royal family talk about what feelings.
Since ancient times, there has been no true love that has been glorified in the royal family, and they are all stupid people.
Just like Emperor Xian and Emperor Cui's concubine, don't they have true feelings, no, they really have, but as a result, it's not that both of them are dead, their only son is also dead, and their daughter doesn't see the light of day.
How sad it is, a dignified emperor and an imperial concubine ended up like this.
For the emperor, the identity of a good collaborator is already very good, and Dong Qinghe doesn't want much.
"Toast."
This time the two toasted together, toasting the marriage of the two, the emperor is the son of heaven, the daughter-in-law of this god, should always show it.
"Singing and dancing."
This is someone singing and dancing below, this is the song of worshipping the heavens, the dance of worshipping the heavens, and only the people of the virgin body can participate, symbolizing purity.
Communicating with God is naturally the purest and most spiritual person.
This Dong Qinghe has never seen it, looking through the red hijab, it is really good-looking, these are all passed down from generation to generation, and have undergone improvements again and again, and they are the crystallization of countless people, naturally they are not comparable to ordinary songs and dances.
Dong Qinghe likes these, she likes them very much, at least she likes this tone.
"Toast."
This is the third time to toast, this time through singing and dancing to the heavens, even if you watch the song and dance end, you have to toast each other.
Dong Qinghe followed Chu Chen to pour the wine on the soil sprinkled with grains, with a solemn expression.
"Please pray, Your Majesty, Niangniang."
Chu Chen took the thing handed over and read it aloud, and everyone else showed seriousness, although everyone knew that it was not written by the emperor himself.
Dong Qinghe's prayer was also originally written, and this was the first time many people heard Dong Qinghe speak loudly.
The sound is crisp and melodious, very beautiful, and has a sacrosanct meaning.
After reading it, everyone came back to their senses, this is Dong Qinghe, the future queen mother, it sounds pretty good.
This is also the first time she has participated in the sacrifice of the heavens, she has seen other sacrifices before, compared to this one, they are much simpler, this is the real sacrifice.
Chu Chen was also very happy in his heart, this queen was well chosen, at least on the surface, she was still very knowledgeable, and her performance was very good.
If he could, Chu Chen really hoped that Dong Qinghe could help him manage the harem wholeheartedly, after all, the palace was his home, and since ancient times, there has never been an emperor in a mess in the harem who can become a generation of Ming Jun.
The emperor is determined to be a generation of Ming monarchs, which is his long-standing wish.
In this regard, many people can actually see from the emperor's behavior decree, and they don't know what to say, after all, many things also require the cooperation of the people below, not just the emperor's thinking and behavior decisions.
What really decides is the behavior of the people who form gangs below.
Dong Qinghe didn't know that he was still pinned on such high hopes by the emperor.
She just thought that the emperor was just trying to find someone to suppress He Xianshu and Luo Zhao.
The eldest lady of the Dong family is indeed a very good candidate, she is not in good health, her reputation is high, and there is a Dong family behind her, she is low-key, and she has been pampered by the Dong family since she was a child, the Dong family will definitely protect her, where to find the most suitable person.
Dong Qinghe is the most suitable for what he wants, as long as he doesn't kill Dong Qinghe, the Dong family will always be his people.
Dong Qinghe has always thought so about these, otherwise it would not be clear why the emperor would identify with her like a person who has never met her, and the queen mother has never seen her.
The queen mother gave her a marriage, which can be said to be subject to the consent of the emperor, after all, the emperor is the son of heaven and the king.
has always maintained an arrogant and cold look, and cooperated with the completion of this sacrifice to the heavens, and Chu Chen walked down with Dong Qinghe.
can be regarded as over, Dong Qinghe really wants to take a breath, this attitude is too tight.
As a result, everyone slowly rode back on horseback, followed by Dong Qinghe and Chu Chen's carriage, all the way back to the palace.
Today, a wedding banquet was set up in the palace, and everyone had to go to the palace to eat, and when the carriage went back, there were not many people around, so it was much faster, and soon they arrived at the gate of the palace.
After entering the palace, the carriage was separated from the people behind it, and this was to go to different places in the two palaces.
Only then did he slow down his speed and go all the way in, as long as he saw the two people sitting on it from a distance, no one dared to stop him, and he went all the way to the outside of the Yongming Palace where Dong Qinghe lived in the future.
"You go first to rest, I have to go to the front, there are some things."
"The concubine obeys."
Dong Qinghe bowed, and walked inside with the support of Zhu Yi and Aunt Yunqi.
This is to go to Yongming Palace, which is where she will live in the future, that is, the queen's palace.
A large area of osmanthus trees around Yongming Palace really made Dong Qinghe look very comfortable, yes, it should be like this, who asked the emperor to marry her, which caused so many people to feel uncomfortable in their hearts, and she also made the emperor uncomfortable in his heart.
Yesterday, along with her other things, Aunt Hua Qi and Aunt Guan Xiang had already come in to take care of them, and this morning, Aunt Ye Ye also came in with Qiu Wei and Pei Nian, and they had already put it in order, just waiting for her to go in.
There were also palace maids around, looking at Dong Qinghe and them one by one, they all stood and came over to salute: "The slave has seen the queen's mother." ”
"No courtesy." Dong Qinghe will often use these two words from today onwards.
After all, she is the queen, and many people want to salute her, and according to the rules, even her parents need to salute her in the future.
It's just that the royal family is different, beyond all rules and ethics.
Heaven and earth are the king's teacher, heaven and earth are above, and the king is in front of the family, and the royal family is more than ethics.
From today on, she is also a member of the royal family, the mother of the nation, and she sits in a seat that only the most noble woman in the country can sit.
Because she entered the palace with the big wedding of the emperor, in fact, she really pays attention to it, and her identity is more noble than those who came up from the crown princess, princess, and princess, not to mention those queens who got up from ordinary palace concubines, which cannot be compared at all.
In the history books, the so-called highest status of women is like this.
Zhu Yi helped her young lady step by step to walk forward, this is to Yongming Palace, and she also knows it.
This time, Miss is the queen, and she is estimated to become the highest status in the Dong family's secret guard, no, it should be explained that Wei was in the He family, in order to cover Dong Qinghe's own kung fu, and he had to go to see Han Zhen in a hurry, Dong Qinghe hugged her and used light skills to pass, but everyone thought she was flying, just taking Dong Qinghe with her.
Yongming Palace is very big and gorgeous, this has been renovated by the royal family and Dong Qingdu, can it be good.
It can be said that it is a real fusion of gorgeous and low-key, of course, these are extremely rich.
After receiving the news, the three aunts, Pei Nian and Qiu Wei were waiting for her outside the palace gate, followed by everyone in the Yongming Palace.
"Slave maid to meet the queen."
Everyone saluted in unison, and the voice was as good as the yellow warbler out of the valley, with the squeamishness of a woman, but also heroic.
"Get up."
Dong Qinghe waved his hand and motioned for everyone to get up and slowly go in together.
There are two points of Zhu Xiaoju's meaning in Yongming Palace, Dong Qinghe understands that this is what Dong Qingdu means, and only he will do this.
A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, this place is actually not bad.
When she arrived at the main hall of Yongming Palace, Dong Qinghe raised her eyes a little depressed and looked at the red hijab on her head, there was no doubt that she must be the most tired bride ever.
The emperor and empress don't need to worship heaven and earth when they get married, after all, the emperor's status is too high, and even the queen is far from being comparable.
In short, I want to go to the heavens, and that's enough.
Today is still the day of the emperor's wedding, Dong Qinghe is sitting in the arranged wedding room, his eyes are full of red and gold phoenixes.
Listening to them carefully talk about today's events, they finally have some understanding of Yongming Palace and the situation here.
After a while, the emperor came, including Dong Qinghe, everyone got up and went out to greet him, this is the emperor, this is the person who holds all the power of life and death, not to mention that this is still in the palace.
"The slave has seen the emperor."
"Excuse me, sit."
The latter word was said to Dong Qinghe, Chu Chen sat down with her hand, and asked her with a smile, "Are you hungry?" ”
From Dong Qinghe going out in the morning until just now, the emperor remembered that Dong Qinghe hadn't even drunk a sip of water, let alone eaten.
"Not yet." Dong Qinghe's soft voice came out, which was very delicate.
Yes, she is not hungry yet, this is true, because the internal strength and medicinal power in the body are too strong, Dong Qinghe supports it for a much longer time than ordinary people, even if she doesn't eat all day, she won't feel how hungry she is.
"I'm tired of you today."
At this time, someone outside came in and said: "Your Majesty, the queen, the princesses and the eldest princess are here." ”
This was sent by the Queen Mother, these are all to see this little couple, although the emperor is high and powerful, is the son of heaven, but they are also the elders of the son of heaven, not to mention that today is a happy day, the queen mother specially asked them to come.
"Come in, please."
The emperor smiled and instructed that from the moment he saw Dong Qinghe, his attitude was very good, but in fact, he really couldn't say how good he was now.
That's right, today is his big day, even if he is the emperor, he is going to get married, not to mention that it is rare for him to hold such an emperor and queen wedding in history.
Mainly before entering the Yongming Palace, he found something he didn't want to see.
On the edge of Yongming Palace, there are many osmanthus trees.
He naturally remembered that Dong Qingdu planted it, but he really didn't like it, and he didn't like it very much.