Today's capital is particularly lively, there are several times more people on the street than usual, juggling, small vendors, shopping in the market, it is very lively, and people are crowded in.

Si Yuanqiong changed into a dragon robe, this time the costume was much more grand than usual, and even the hat on his head became heavy, as soon as he put it on, he felt a little pain in his head, and he quickly got used to it. Today is a crucial day.

Outside the main hall, all the civil and military officials knelt outside the door, waiting for Si Yuanqiong to get up and walk towards the direction of the temple of worshipping heaven.

The concubines in the harem still stay in their dormitories without incident, and don't move around. Generally, their female dependents are not allowed to participate in such big events.

Bai Muyan also got up early in the morning today, still holding a book in his hand, although his eyes were staring at the words on the book, but his eyes were not on the book, he looked outside, looked at the violet in the room for a while, and stood up again for a while.

The maidservant girl next to her also felt that she was abnormal, so she asked, "Niangniang, are you worried about something?" ”

Bai Muyan didn't answer her question directly, she put down the book in her hand, and instead asked, "Has the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony begun?" ”

The maidservant replied to her, "Back to the mother, it's already begun." ”

Bai Muyan then asked, "How long has it been?" ”

"Just getting started!"

Bai Muyan put down the book at this time, walked into the inner room, picked out a set of men's clothes, and when he was about to change, he was stopped by the maidservant, thinking that she must be going to the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, so he said to her, "Niangniang, you can't go to the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, if the emperor finds out, he will cut off his head!" ”

"You have a lot to do, just don't let him find out." Bai Muyan murdered her, and soon her clothes were changed, and she still had a set of men's clothes in her hand, which was directly thrown to the maid next to her, but what else did the maid want to say, she was too frightened to say it by Bai Muyan's eyes.

Bai Muyan waited for the maid to change her clothes and wanted to go out, Si Yuanqiong's guards came in, saw Bai Muyan's dress, and asked, "Niangniang, who are you?" ”

"Huh? Oh, I thought about the excitement on the streets today, so I wanted to buy some of my favorite jewelry or something. Bai Muyan was a little stunned by the sudden appearance of Si Yuanqiong's guards, and he asked this question, so he made up a random reason.

"I see, but the emperor instructed that today's ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens is too mixed, and he instructed his subordinates to protect Niangniang, so that Niangniang should not go out and walk around, for fear that there will be people with bad intentions." The guard said word by word, very reasonable and polite.

Bai Muyan looked at the guards standing in front of him, and moved out Si Yuanqiong's words, thinking that he would definitely not be able to get out today. So he didn't explain too much, and responded succinctly, "The emperor has a point, then I'll stay here today and won't go anywhere." ”

"Thank you for your compassion to your subordinates!" The guard saluted her respectfully and walked out, but he remained at the gate.

Bai Muyan saw him leave, but guarded at the gate, his plan was disrupted, and she walked around the hall in a hurry, and suddenly she realized something, and ran to the side room again, rummaged through her dresser, and saw that the bottle was still there, so her nervous heart was relaxed.

Si Yuanqiong and a group of civil and military officials under the protection of the forbidden army, safely arrived at the scene of the temple of the sacrifice to the sky, and it was obvious that in the east, there was a large tripod placed in the middle of the road.

And the place where the summit is set up is a high platform, and the flags printed with the country's logo are inserted on all sides of the high platform, and today it happens to be a breeze, blowing everyone a little drowsy.

The crown prince, like all the ministers, also participated in this ceremony, but this time, he was not wearing the prince's clothes, but the prince's clothes, because the emperor was Si Yuanqiong.

As the person presiding over the ceremony announced the start of the ceremony, Si Yuanqiong first walked on the high platform, and as a result, the monk who presided over handed over the three incense sticks, bowed to the heavens, and then knelt down, kowtowed three heads, and finally inserted the incense into the big ding.

Then, according to the size of the official rank, one by one went up to repeat Si Yuanqiong's actions just now, which was actually to sacrifice to the sky. After this series of actions was completed, the presiding monk went down, and it was the turn of 4 Confucian scholars to come to the stage, each of them holding a book in their hands.

Each book is different, two of the Confucian scholars first went out to hand over the book to Si Yuanqiong's hands, Si Yuanqiong had to take it with both hands, and then put the received book in Dading and burn it.

Originally, it looked like an ordinary thing, but the prince standing below stared at the book in Si Yuanqiong's hand, and his expression began to change, he kept staring at the two books, and soon someone would hand Si Yuanqiong a fire fold.

Si Yuanqiong didn't seem to feel that something was wrong, took the fire fold from another Confucian student, and slowly walked to Dading, facing the corner of the book to burn.

There were a small number of people in the audience waiting for what happened next, and soon a deafening "bang" broke the original calm here, and even the white curtain words in the dormitory couldn't help but raise their hearts at a moment.

She immediately walked out and shouted loudly, "Chunmei, Chunmei!" ”

The person who was replaced with Chunmei immediately appeared in Bai Muyan's eyes, "What's wrong with Niangniang?" ”

"Is there something going on outside?" Bai Muyan asked worriedly.

"Nope!" Chunmei had a question on her face, because she hadn't heard any bad news since the morning, so she didn't understand why Bai Muyan asked like this.

Bai Muyan didn't hear anything from Chunmei, but she was still a little uneasy, so she walked out of the bedroom, walked towards the door, met the guard, and asked, "Is the emperor back?" ”

"Back to Niangniang's words, not yet." The guards were still so respectful.

"Is there any news from the emperor?" The worry written on Bai Muyan's face was not concealed, and she didn't know where to put her hands to express her uneasiness.

The guard stood still and could see her uneasiness, but he couldn't say much, only "No." ”

After listening to Bai Muyan, he wanted to go out, but he was still stopped by her guard, and he used Si Yuanqiong's words to speed her up, and he couldn't let her go out at any time, saying that it was to protect her.

Stopped by the guards, Bai Muyan could only go back, quietly waiting for Si Yuanqiong's news, in fact, she really wanted to go to the scene to see if anything had happened, otherwise why was her heart so uneasy.

The guard looked at Bai Muyan and looked outside from time to time, with a worried expression. For such a moment, he wanted her to go out, but his emperor's orders couldn't let her out, so he could only stick here.