Chapter 60: Sacrifice to the Heavens
Looking at Yan Ji's calm response with all my hands, Emperor Yongde asked:
"Is it right or wrong for me to punish Concubine Yue?"
"Then the girl has to ask first, what does the Holy One think of human life? Is it a broom to cherish itself? Of course, Yan Ji knows that men are soft-hearted.
Perhaps, he was depressed in his heart, and she had mistreated the concubine he had cherished for many years.
"Why do you ask?" Emperor Yongde felt the illusion of blocking his heart again.
Yan Jiao pursed her lips, glanced at Li Ying reproachfully, and said, "I didn't want to pollute the ears of your mother and son, but since I still want to ask, I said it." ”
She raised her eyes to look at Emperor Yongde and asked in his heart: "Why does the Holy Lord think I want to put on a game and choose Concubine Yue?" Or do you think I like to hurt innocent people? ”
Emperor Yongde couldn't answer for a while, only to see Li Ying say quietly: "This matter is my fault, the matter of the harem has never been revealed to the emperor, does the saint like the bright and dazzling peony with a long flowering period in the Yaochi Palace?" ”
Yan Ji sighed slightly after Emperor Yongde nodded: "Human life is the best food for raising flowers." ”
"What?" Emperor Yongde's eyes widened in shock.
"There are countless bones of palace maids under the garden of Yaoguang Palace." Li Yingguang thought that he also had a chill.
Emperor Yongde took two steps back in shock and re-examined his mother's words, is he the only one who doesn't know?
Since he was a child, his mother taught him that all men are equal, but he was lucky enough to join the royal family, so he could not worry about food and clothing.
After becoming the emperor, he told him that if he was born as a human being and devoted himself to the royal family, he should respect life even more.
When he was growing up, he had never seen his mother treat the palace people harshly or smash the objects in her palace at every turn, which was indeed very different from his mother.
"The Holy Lord thinks, why can the three princes of Southern Chu easily know the location of Si Tianjian's family?" Yan Jiao's lovely face continued to ask, "Holy Lord, do you know where Si Tianjian is located?" ”。
Emperor Yongde did not answer immediately.
"I think what the saint knows is that the military power of the imperial city is in the hands of the Duke of Wei, and it can't be bad for Concubine Yue, and the two brothers Li Cheng still have a breath of air, so they have to put down the cause of Empress Li's death for the time being, isn't it?"
Emperor Yongde responded: "Yes." But I don't know that Concubine Yue has such a heart. ”
"It was the cowardice of the saint who killed Empress Li, and it was the saint who gave them the opportunity to attack the Li Cheng brothers." Yan Ji was blunt.
"Bold!" Emperor Yongde was dyed with anger at this word.
Yan Juan said with a smile: "The saint boldly shouted people, the girl is just a passer-by who can see the context clearly, dare to ask the saint, in this period when the war is not rising, is Wei Guogong's move considered a collaborator?" ”
She was just a passerby, if Li Ying hadn't been involved, she would have left long ago.
Emperor Yongde was asked again, and there was really nothing about this girl that didn't bother him.
Li Ying raised her eyes and asked, "Does the emperor know where Gonggong Sun is from?" ”
Although Yan Jian voluntarily came to the door to find abuse, she had to pay the price if she dared to hurt her best friend!
"I've never seen him come forward to serve." How could Emperor Yongde pay attention to such details.
"He is from the Wei State Mansion, has the Holy Lord found out that he is a pure body after adulthood?"
"How did you know?" Emperor Yongde looked back at Yan Ji in shock, what else can't be found out about this girl?
"His feminine voice is pretended, and after hurting people and seeing blood, he can't help but get excited, leaking the original low male voice."
Yan Juan saw that Emperor Yongde was still thinking about it, so she opened her mouth and asked again: "Can the saint pay attention, Sun Gonggong has an Adam's apple that symbolizes men?" That's why you can't serve in front of you. ”
These are also details that were only discovered after today's fight, and they can also explain why Sun Gongguild has such a vicious and murderous side.
The little father-in-law who has been clean since childhood has no adolescent male hormones, no voice change and no Adam's apple.
As an adult, he was a martial artist, and he was elected as a clean father-in-law, can his heart not be gloomy?
It is a great luck not to be in the palace to mistreat Concubine Yue!
It's a pity! Countless souls under flowers in the Yaoguang Palace.
Deliberate tolerance is also murder, let alone this cruel mercy.
"Don't be in a hurry to think about how to punish the saints, let's see after the sacrifice to the heavens!" Yan Ji stopped Emperor Yongde's desire to speak and continued, "What happened today must not be spread outside, and the news must not be leaked before the matter of sacrificing to the heavens is completed. ”
All of this is just the beginning.
In Fangcai, the entrance and exit of the Yaoguang Palace had been completely blocked, and not even a single mosquito was released, and it was announced to the outside world that Concubine Yue was concentrating on fasting and refusing to open the door.
Even the placement of grandpa was properly completed before dawn.
Yan Xiao only felt that she was making trouble before dawn...... That's nice!
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The suburbs of the capital of the Yong Dynasty
Emperor Yongde chose to be located on the outskirts of the capital as a place of worship, and built a platform several zhang high on the flat ground, because the time was getting closer and closer to the time of the sacrifice, but the emperor did not come for a long time, and the courtiers gradually stirred.
"Yu'er!" Wei Guogong found the eldest prince Li Yu in a crown dress in the crowd of black oppression, and walked over, satisfied with his grandson's superiority like a pine and a lofty spirit, which made him involuntarily smile arrogantly.
"Grandfather!" Li Yu bowed respectfully.
Wei Guogong stroked his goatee and patted Li Yu's shoulder with satisfaction and said, "Good boy! Do a good job for the saint, don't live up to the expectations of the mother. ”
"Grandfather! Yu'er remembers! Li Yu looked at the direction of the city gate worriedly, and he didn't see the royal car coming for a long time, so he couldn't hide his worry and asked, "I don't know why I haven't seen my father's royal car so far?" ”
Wei Guogong snorted coldly and said disapprerovingly: "I know that the queen will be deposed sooner or later, and I don't want to come." ”
Li Yu secretly thought, knowing in his heart that his father was not such a temper.
"Grandfather, has there been any news of the queen mother in the past two days?" Li Yu went directly to the suburbs today to worship the sky, and did not enter the palace first to ask his mother for peace.
"I just came to report yesterday that although the Holy Lord is fasting, he still goes to live in your mother's palace." Wei Guogong was still excited about last night's spy return.
The daughter is a noble concubine, and the grandson is the eldest son of the emperor, so she hopes that the queen's position will correct the grandson's lineage.
It's been a whole year since the queen appeared out of thin air, and there is finally a chance to get rid of it.
Just thinking about it, Wei Guogong was surprisingly happy, and there was wind when he walked.
Li Yu twisted his eyebrows, and in another quarter of an hour, he was going to sacrifice to the sky, and the jade silk, Jinshu, and Zhuwen had already been prepared on the altar, waiting for the arrival of the saint.
However, he couldn't wait for the Holy Master......
As everyone began to whisper, Yao Xiang and the other princes also leaned over at this time.
"King Yujun, can the Holy One entrust you with the matter of sacrificing to the heavens?" Yao Xiang didn't believe that the Holy Lord would hand over the matter of worshipping the heavens to a child who had no experience and was weak-crowned.
But looking back at the absurdity of a year ago, he was stuffed again.
He didn't go to court for six whole months, and he was drowned out by the song.....
It won't really be coming, will it?
"Yao Xiang, my father didn't hand it over to me." Li Yu earnestly resigned.
How so?!? Everyone has question marks on their faces.
What about the Holy Master? This is not the first time to worship the heavens, and it has never happened that the saint has not arrived!
Just when everyone was at a loss, the familiar figure of the beautiful woman was dressed in plain clothes, covered with grass and feet, and was escorted by the imperial city guards just out of the city gate, and the queen was bowing in three steps, kowtowing in nine steps, and slowly came to the altar.
Many people wept with tears to dissuade the queen from continuing to bow, and followed the queen to kowtow, and the closer they got, the more the people's cries shook the sky.
The demon queen in the eyes of the courtiers led the people to kneel and pray to the sky, and this scene stunned everyone.
The queen's plain white silk clothes have been dyed with pieces of red plums, and the grass shoes are stained red with blood step by step, and walking on the loess in the suburbs, it is even more bloodstained mixed with soil ash.
The wound gradually expanded between the pulling, leaving more blood stains on the loess, and the blood marks on the forehead and the prostration, stained the eyebrows and eyes and plain clothes, and did not stop.
Suddenly, the bright sunlight gradually obscured the earth, and the darkness gradually enveloped the earth.
Li Ying knew that the eclipse was coming, and she bowed to the altar even more reverently.
Among the people who cried, some people continued to cry and ask the queen to take care of themselves.
When the mother of the court prayed for rain for the people, and the tengu eclipse, the people had forgotten the fear of the eclipse, and only remembered to accompany the queen to kowtow to the altar.
Even if there were many slanders and criticisms of the Mother of the Nation before, when I saw that the Mother of the Nation was willing to bow down and pray for rain for the sake of the people, all the pretensions were put down.
Li Ying came to the altar, and was assisted by the attendants to clean her face and change the bundle, and the pain from kowtowing did not become Shen Ying, and her elegant demeanor was still like a shocking wandering.
It is born with nobility and grace, even if there is no palace decoration, plain hair can also set off the elegance of the mother of the country.
This scene stunned the courtiers, who can even if their daughter has worked hard to raise the elegance that has not been exchanged for so far.
Who said that the queen is the queen of demons?
Li Ying calmly looked back, shook hands with the people who followed, and comforted: "Don't panic! When the main shrine is on the altar, the day will be able to see again, and the long-awaited rain will come. ”
The warm whispers that can soothe people's hearts have successfully subdued the people around them.
For the demon queen who was surrounded by the people, and the courtiers who were even more isolated by Jin Wuwei, they couldn't intervene as if they were watching the play, so they could only watch dumbly as the queen continued to kowtow and slowly ascended to the altar.
Sure enough, only halfway to the altar, the sky gradually returned to clear and comfortable, and he was offering jade silk and ripening in place of the emperor.
Half an hour after the repeated salutations, the sky was gradually darkening, dark clouds covered the sun, and a cool breeze was blowing in all directions.
The people began to cheer at this precursor to the rain, and the courtiers sank their faces.
Before the prayer was recited, the rain had fallen slowly, Li Ying worshipped the blessing with both hands on the altar, and knelt down deeply for a long time without getting up.
The rain gradually changed from silk rain to bean raindrops, soaking the sacrificial text on Li Ying's hand, and the ink stains were no longer clear.
At this time, Li Ying couldn't tell whether it was the tears on her face or the rain, and she was so moved that Yan Huan's calculation was successful again.
The pain and torment from the court prostrations to the altar were completely let go at this time.
Li Ying held the memorial text, looked at the jubilant people in the audience, and showed a majestic smile.
O her people!
For the first time in this generation, I was moved and happy to work for the benefit of the people.
No more grievances! No more torment!