Chapter 124: Autumn (Part I)
After receiving the reply, Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's finished."
After all, he is also a veteran of the love scene, divided and combined several times, and the pickling skills in his previous life came in handy after returning to the Warring States. Although Tian Jia is naturally smart, the 16-year-old girl is very immature in love, how can a high school girl fight with an "uncle" who is already in her 20s with a psychological age? Mingyue put a lot of thought into the design, and after a few rounds, sure enough, there was movement over there.
But what followed was not pride, but guilt.
Ask yourself, Mingyue confessed to Tian Jia with a bamboo kite this time, and asked her to go to Linziqiu Club with her before she left, the purpose was not only to have a good impression of her, but also to simply "My Fair Lady, Gentleman is good", but mixed with political purposes.
His bitter plan is ready, the place, time, and future hand have been planned, but there is still a lack of an east wind.
Although the sudden assassination in front of the eyes of everyone is enough to get rid of suspicion, but talking to oneself is not good after all, and a witness who witnesses the whole process and can speak in front of the Qi royal family is needed......
First of all, she is the daughter of An Pingjun, who is of noble birth and can enter and leave the palace of Qi at any time, and is also deeply loved by the queen, and it is said that she intends to give her the title of princess.
Secondly, King Qi may be surprised that she stayed with him at the time of the assassination, but the young man and girl have been together for a long time, and they secretly have palpitations, and it is reasonable to travel together before parting.
Third, if the daughter of An Pingjun is implicated, the shock caused by this matter can be multiplied several times, and then Tian Dan will also be angry with the Qin envoy and oppose the alliance of Qi and Qin.
"When the assassin's blood-stained clothes are found near the west of the city, the Qin envoy will be speechless......"
However, after such a calculation, Mingyue was also ashamed, and said secretly: "She treats me sincerely, and when she sees me separated, her face is full of reluctance." I am full of calculations, and I use her mind to complete the conspiracy, which is really despicable and shameless. But I can't help it, if I have the opportunity in the future, I will treat it with sincerity......"
He still has a lot of good feelings about Tian Jia.
But the premise of falling in love is that he successfully survives this crisis.
After gently folding the reply letter and carefully putting it away, Mingyue secretly made up her mind: "Autumn is a ...... Tomorrow is Autumn Day, and everything will be known! β
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Although there are many people who toss and turn on this night and can't sleep for a long time, as the rooster sings the world white, the first day of July, autumn has arrived.
Strictly speaking, this national sacrifice of the Qi State in the middle of the sixth month of the summer and the seventh month of the Mengqiu cannot be called the autumn sacrifice, but should be called the "sacrifice of the liΕ«". It belongs to one of the "five rituals" handed down by the Yin Zhou Dynasty, which are the spring ritual household, the summer ritual stove, the central (summer and autumn turn) ritual in the middle hall (middle hall), the autumn ritual gate, and the winter ritual line.
Although the people of the Warring States Period did not treat the ancestors of ghosts and gods as devout as they did in the Spring and Autumn Period, but had a little more utilitarian color, the traditional rituals were not neglected at all.
After Mingyue took the initiative to ask to return to the country, he was considered "interesting" by the king of Qi, so he lifted his ten-day ban and let him enter the palace to meet him, but he did not give him the opportunity to speak alone, only as a guest of honor of the Qi country, watching this mid-year sacrifice.
Because the old Confucian Teng Geng, who presided over the ceremony, has died, so the successor is another Confucian student, still a wide Confucian robe, a high Confucian crown, these Teng Geng's later disciples hold ritual vessels, and sacrifice heaven and earth with Ji and ox, and some people found that Chang'an Jun was also coming, so they turned back and glared at him angrily!
The revenge of killing the master, they didn't forget it, the atmosphere was very embarrassing for a while, but fortunately, the king of Qi came to relieve the siege.
The king of Qi appeared in front of everyone in a wide and heavy dress, because according to Zou Yan's calculation of the five virtues, this month belongs to the earth, and the matching color is yellow, so the color of the king of Qi's clothes is yellow, wearing yellow peiyu, riding in a wooden cart, driving a yellow horse in front of the car, and a yellow flag painted with dragon patterns is inserted on the car...... In short, he looked yellow, and with his sallow and sick face, it was a little funny, Mingyue hurriedly lowered her head, so that she wouldn't laugh out loud.
However, after sweeping around, Mingyue still did not find the mysterious envoy of the Qin State, it seems that the person is extremely cautious, and refuses to appear rashly before the dust is settled, and it is indeed extremely difficult to send someone to assassinate him.
Assassinating oneself is different, you can do it at any time, and the success rate is 100 percent......
Throughout noon, under the scorching sun, the sacrifice was carried out in a decent manner, the process was so boring that Mingyue wanted to yawn, the joy of the people in Linzi City, and the old-fashioned rituals in the palace formed a sharp contrast, he only asked this torment to end quickly, so that he could go to the most lively Zhuangjieyue City tonight.
In the entire sacrifice, the only thing that made Mingyue's eyes shine was that the princess and the daughters appeared on the stage in person, holding the cow's heart on the altar to sacrifice, and then danced a dance.
"Those are the eldest daughters of the noble families of the Qi Kingdom."
Hou Sheng thought that Mingyue didn't know, and told him that the reason why every time he sacrificed, he would invite the eldest daughters of various noble families to enter the palace to help the sacrifice was because there was a custom in the Spring and Autumn Period in Qi State, the eldest daughter of his own family did not marry, stayed at home to be a house witch, presided over the ancestral hall sacrifice, and called it "Wu'er".
Mingyue is speechless, this should be the vulgarity drummed up by the orthopedic saint Qi Xiangwang, I really don't understand how those people like their own sisters and sisters?
Jiang Qishi couldn't help but have children and aunts in the family**, this custom was popular everywhere, and after the Tian family took over, he got rid of the bad habits, which gradually decreased. However, according to ancient customs, the eldest daughter of the family would still practice some sacrificial rituals, and every time there was a big sacrifice, they would be asked from various clans to help with the sacrifice. β
Mingyue bowed his head, looking at the high altar, among the women, there was a beautiful person, he could recognize at a glance that it was Tian Jia, the daughter of An Pingjun, but saw that she was different from the usual men's dress, but wearing sacrificial clothes, wearing lotus clothes, tying a ribbon, wearing an orchid crown, and Pei Luli......
For a moment, Mingyue and Tian Jia's raised eyes intersected, and they smiled at her, but before they could get a response, she was hidden in the crowd by the other princesses and princesses, and disappeared.
The dance didn't last long before it ended, the women retreated, Mingyue couldn't find her anymore, I think they would leave the palace when their mission was over.
Next is the feast, eating the remaining sacrifices just now, in front of the ministers, King Qi smiled, officially announced that Chang'an Jun will return soon, although the relationship between Qi and Zhao has broken down at the moment when King Qi changed his mind, but it still seems to be too close.
The king of Qi wanted to step down the steps of Zhao State and maintain the apparent peace between the two countries, and Mingyue was also respectful, giving the king of Qi enough face, and everyone was happy. During this period, people kept getting up to say goodbye to Mingyue, some were reluctant to accept his benefits, and some still hated him, and couldn't help but sneer and laugh at him that he was going to be driven away.
Everyone felt that this was a sign of Chang'anjun's failure, messing up the Qi and Zhao Alliance, and when he returned to China, see how King Zhao found an excuse to clean him up!
Mingyue pretended to have a big deal in her heart, and she didn't want to pay attention to them, and even used the excuse that she was unwell, and she didn't even touch a drop of wine, Teng Geng died, so naturally no one dared to force him to drink anymore.
At dusk, the feast was over, everyone was drunk, and Mingyue also left the Qi Palace and returned to the Proton Mansion, but he didn't stay long, he drove again, and no one came to stop him - his grounding had been lifted, and he was free at this time, and he could go wherever he wanted.
However, no one noticed that the person standing in Chang'anjun's car today was not Shu Qi, who never left an inch in the past, but Zhao Kuo, who planned the plan with him, and the entourage was also fully armed.
When the car drove out of the gate, there was a retainer of Pingyuanjun, together with the person sent by Mingyue to report the news to Zhao State, he hurriedly entered the mansion, and happened to meet them at the gate, and hurriedly dedicated a letter from Pingyuanjun to Chang'anjun!
There are still three chicken feathers on the cover of the wrapper, which is the mark agreed upon when Mingyue said goodbye to Pingyuanjun, and the three chicken feathers mean "extremely urgent"!
Mingyue's heart tightened, she opened it and looked at it a few times, and then closed it, her face cloudy.
"Childe, what's wrong?" Zhao Kuo asked in a low voice, after all, the stakes are very high, and he is also a little nervous about tonight's matter, and he is most afraid of any accidents.
"There are some variables in Zhao Kingdom."
Mingyue didn't seem to want everyone to know about this, so she didn't say it explicitly, after stuffing the silk book into her sleeve, she looked ahead, and said categorically: "But it doesn't affect us, plan tonight, everything is business as usual!" β