Chapter 236: The Sacrificial Ceremony Begins

"Miss Weng, Miss Wen is the daughter of the Hou Mansion, so she is naturally worthy of this step on her head. Why are you so mean? Is it because you can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour? At this time, Bai Nianqing, who was walking in front, turned around and ridiculed this Weng Fan Butterfly.

I was also very tired of the daughter of the criminal servant in front of me, and I always felt that she was just looking for trouble, and she was the kind of person who stirred up trouble.

Weng Fandie was stabbed by Bai Nianqing's words like this, and her heart was immediately displeased, and she was about to open her mouth to refute, but she was stopped by Wen Rongzhen in front of her, only to see Wen Rongzhen shoot a gloomy gaze at her, which immediately quieted Weng Fandie.

An argument came to a silent halt.

It's just that even so, Aunt Fang, who was walking behind the eldest princess, glanced behind her intentionally or unintentionally, and then turned her head back to normal.

The group followed the eldest princess around the front hall and walked towards the palace gate, but when they stepped out of the threshold of the inner palace, they unfortunately bumped into the queen and others who came at the same time.

"The concubine sees the eldest princess." The queen led Princess Guo and Guo Yue to salute the eldest princess.

Although the position of the eldest princess is lower than that of the queen in terms of title, the eldest princess is the eldest sister of Zhao Duqi, and the throne of Zhao Duqi is not clear, so she needs to be the eldest princess as the faΓ§ade of her own accession to the throne, so as to seal the mouth of the people.

The eldest princess raised her eyes and glanced at Princess Guo and Guo Yue, and saw that although the faces of the two were quite normal, there was a trace of embarrassment in their eyes that was extremely difficult to detect, and then smiled gently: "Get up, King Guo's mansion is also far from the palace, but it has made the princess and the county lord work hard recently." ”

When Princess Guo saw the eldest princess so polite, she immediately said in a panic: "Back to the eldest princess, today is a good thing for the whole world to celebrate, how can the concubines feel hard?" ”

Hearing this, the eldest princess only smiled silently, and only after half a salary did she speak again: "I originally wanted to take advantage of Fang Cai's free time to chat with the princess, but I didn't want to be invited by the queen, it's a pity." ”

When the queen saw the eldest princess deliberately saying this, the look between her eyebrows became more and more cold, but her tone still carried the arrogance that ordinary people did not dare to: "I didn't expect the eldest princess to think of something with her concubine." ”

Everyone present was also stunned because of the tone of the queen's speech, and they only felt that the temperature around them had plummeted, and they all lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.

But the eldest princess smiled generously, and then said meaningfully: "Yes, it's just that the palace is still one step slower than the queen, and it's not enough to catch up at the moment." The palace got into the car first, and the queen was too tired today, remembering to step on the stool and then get on the back car. ”

As she spoke, the eldest princess slowly boarded the phoenix chariot in the queen's sneering face.

And the queen looked at the car that had been following Feng Yuan, and her eyes quickly crossed a trace of unwillingness, although she was the mother of a country, but she was inferior to the old woman in front of her.

The queen didn't say anything, raised her hand to support the golden phoenix with wings on her head, and then boarded the carriage dignified and elegant under the careful support of the eunuch.

At this time, the emperor led the civil and military officials to come over, and after everyone saluted the eldest princess and the queen, Zhao Duqi took the queen and sat on his dragon together.

All the civil and military officials spontaneously walked to the eldest princess's car and stood in line, and the rest of the family members stood behind the civil and military officials.

Until the ceremonial eunuch shouted: "The hour has come!" ”

Zhao Duqi's dragon was slowly moving at this time, and before the dragon was the leader of the Praetorian Guard, Lord Wu, who was opening the way.

At this moment, the palace door was opened, and the guards lined up on both sides immediately knelt down on one knee and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live." ”

Zhao Duqi and the queen sat together in the dragon bowl, and the expressions of the two of them were full of heavenly majesty, and the queen hid her previous displeasure very well.

Zhao Duqi's upright sitting posture showed the dignity of the royal family, so that the people who had long been gathered outside the palace looked into the dragon bowl, and they all wanted to see the appearance of the emperor and queen in the car.

Because of the importance of sacrificial canonization, Zhao Duqi did not agree to let the Nanyue envoy group participate in today's daytime activities, but asked Zhao Yuhuai to send someone to 'protect' the envoy group.

The large procession of the imperial palace walked on the long street in an orderly manner, heading towards the direction of the altar, and the procession of 10,000 people in this group was even more shocking than the envoy group of Nanyue yesterday.

Especially when the people saw the official wives and ladies who were not common on weekdays, they lowered their heads and whispered.

"You say, who is the eldest lady of the Protector's Mansion, the eldest lady who was fostered in the countryside before, and opened a medical center to treat people after receiving it." A woman, with a baby in her hand, squeezed vigorously into the crowd.

The gossip's eyes were full of jealousy, staring at the brightly dressed and well-maintained aristocratic ladies and ladies who slowly walked in front of them, and their mouths were still not idle, and they began to discuss right and wrong.

"I didn't see it, but I was fortunate enough to see the county lord of the Guo Wangfu, it was simply the posture of heaven and man, and the beauty was not like a mortal woman at all." A young man beside her was staring greedily at the various beauties walking in front of her, almost drooling.

"Look at you who are not serious, don't want to eat swan meat here in this toad, these people are also worthy of you? I won't bring the child, you can bring it yourself. ”

When the woman saw that her father-in-law was so lascivious in front of her, she immediately felt unhappy, and immediately threw the child in her arms to him casually regardless of the occasion, and turned away angrily.

This is standing at the back of the crowd, and a man wearing a hat listened to the conversation between the young couple just now, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but be dyed with a sneering smile, and then muttered: "Isn't the beauty of a mortal woman?" ”

Upon hearing his whisper, another man beside him, who was also dressed but slightly younger, immediately spoke, "It's just like that, huh." ”

"Let's go." Seeing that the ladies of these official families had already walked in front of him, the man immediately lost interest, turned around and went in the other direction.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Don't you want to ......" The young man was a little puzzled, but when he saw the man turn away, he could only follow him closely, and no longer join in the excitement in front of him.

At this time, the procession had already arrived at the altar, Zhao Duqi and the queen left the dragon with the support of the eunuchs, and the eldest princess and Princess Guo also followed closely behind their respective cars.

The civil and military officials are on one side, the families of each family are on the other side of the team, and the prime minister is at the head of the civil and military officials.

In addition to the emperor and empress, Zhao Yuhuai and Zhao Jinhuai and several other princes and concubines of the harem, the eldest princess was the leader, standing in front of the ladies of the official family, and gave way to the emperor and queen the aisle with a red sheep felt carpet in the middle.

"The hour has come. Sacrifice. At this time, the celebrant stood on the right side of the altar and shouted, and heard the heavy and solemn sound of the bell.

I saw that on the other side of the altar, Zhao Duqi and the queen were holding each other, stepping on the red carpet together and walking towards the altar.

Everyone present bent down and saluted, and it was not until the two of them stepped on the last step of the altar that they saw everyone straighten up slightly.

At this time, the celebrant shouted again, "Incense." ”

At this time, I saw two stronger eunuchs lifting together, and three pillars of incense with a length of about one meter and a diameter as thick as a child's wrist stepped forward, Zhao Duqi and the queen reached out at the same time and firmly held the three incense sticks, waiting for the celebrant to solemnly say "Kneel." After the word.

I heard the sound of a ragged man under the altar, the sound of everyone kneeling, Zhao Duqi and the queen slowly knelt on the gold wire cushion in front of them with serious expressions.

"May I be a young Qi country, a peaceful country, and eternal prosperity." Zhao Duqi and the queen spoke in unison.

"May I be a young Qi country, a peaceful country, and eternal prosperity." Then, the crowd below immediately shouted in response.

After the two little eunuchs on the side saw it, they immediately stepped forward one left and one right, carefully helped Zhao Duqi and the queen, and removed the soft cushion in front of them, while Zhao Duqi and the queen personally inserted the incense into the incense burner in front of them.

"The eldest daughter of the Sun family stepped forward to listen to the order." Seeing Licheng, the celebrant immediately followed the next link.

I saw that the music sounded again, Sun Ronghui was dressed in a red palace dress of a noble concubine, and with a solemn expression, she slowly walked on the red carpet to the altar with the support of Huang Lao Taijun and Hua Lao Taijun.

When they reached the bottom of the altar, the two old ladies let go of her, and the two turned around and walked back to the line together, while Sun Ronghui lifted the hem of her skirt lightly, and then knelt down on both knees.

At this time, under the instruction of Zhao Duqi, the chief eunuch stepped forward with the holy decree in his hand and read it aloud: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: The daughter of the Sun family, Sun, is smart and sensitive, dignified, and can be called an example of women in the world, so she was canonized as a concubine, awarded twelve gold books, gave gold seals, and personally gave her to live in Weiyang Palace, and admired this." ”

"Concubine Xie Lord Longen, long live the emperor, long live long live." Sun Guifei immediately kowtowed to thank her, her voice was as clear as spring water, and it was refreshing to listen to.

The father-in-law slowly walked down the steps and handed the tray with the holy decree and the golden book and gold seal in his hand to Sun Guifei's hand.

"Licheng." At this time, the celebrant's voice slowly sounded.

Everyone knelt down to Zhao Duqi again, kowtowed, and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

Only then did Zhao Duqi walk down the altar with the queen, and Sun Guifei below had been helped up by the female officials waiting on the side, and then retreated to the side.

It was only at this time that everyone breathed a deep sigh of relief in their hearts, fortunately, there were no accidents during this sacrificial canonization, otherwise they would really be scared to death.