Chapter Seventy-Eight: Ancestor Worship

The snow was falling, covered in silver, and Sheng Jing was pressed under a snow quilt.

With the departure of the Heavenly Family Ancestor in sight, an order that was secretly passed to the auspicious shop made the faces of the four of them black for a few days.

There is a purpose in the East Palace, and the southern suburbs worship the ancestors, so that the second girl of Hua can accompany her relatives.

The heavenly family worships the ancestors, and those who can go are all descendants or ministers, and their faces are bright, and those who are slightly on the side are not qualified.

Such a grand ceremony to comfort the ancestors actually let a shop of people go with him, but I am afraid that it is not enough to pretend to be a servant servant.

Cheng Yingyu knew that the stakes were very high, and a saint like Zhao Xixing would not be ignorant of his power, and he must have his reasons for doing so at the risk of death.

So, she looked at Douxi, who had come to convey her fate: "...... The East Palace will not be afraid of our identity and want to purge the remnants in front of the ancestral mausoleum to correct the emperor, right? ”

Xiao Zhanyun Niang and Rong Wei also broke out in a cold sweat, and the knives and scissors were all in their hands.

"Say! Is the Zhao family going to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots? Sure enough, this thief didn't have a good heart in the first place! ”

Douxi was so frightened that his legs and feet were weak, and Zhang Er was confused: "Ouch, ancestors, where is this!" The East Palace has already been arranged, and it is said to the outside world that Miss Shen Yin wants you to go, so go with you to relieve your boredom! ”

Shen Yin, as the concubine of the Pingchang Marquis Mansion, the emperor and queen acquiesced to the candidate for the East Palace, and she must be qualified.

And because of the friendship of the last time I entered the palace to serve the sick, the southern suburbs are far away, so I let a few laughing people go with me to relieve the boredom of the sick seedlings, and they are barely qualified.

Zhao Xixing is really a good cowhide to the outside world.

"In my opinion, it's best not to go, and if you go, you won't be able to come back." Xiao Zhan's face became more and more gloomy, and he said coldly, "The people who accompany the southern suburbs are all the right-hand party members of the year, and you and I are equivalent to sheep in the mouth of the tiger!" ”

Rong Wei and Xiao Niang also hesitated. It's not just a sheep into the mouth of a tiger, it's just a matter of taking the remnants of the previous dynasty to sacrifice the flag before the new dynasty's royal business, in a word.

Douxi was confused. dropped a sentence of "Anyway, the words of the palace, who, who dares not to go", and disappeared into the snow as if fleeing.

Ji Xiang Pu fell silent.

Cheng Yingyu looked at the foot-thick snow under the eaves, and suddenly thought of him who lit an orange lamp for her on that snowy night, smiling, like a glimmer of light, reflecting her eyes bright and warm.

So, she saw outside the cage, the locks of time rusting.

In March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, in April the peanut trees are mixed, and in June, it is your sunshine that is overwhelming.

She stretched out her hand in a trance, wanting to catch the falling snowflakes, and seemed to want to touch, a world she had never seen before, so that the sunlight would shine in her palm.

"Go. Let's all go. After a long time, the woman whispered from a dream, "It's been three years, it's time to go...... Look at him. ”

In the past, I went back, and the willows followed.

Now I think about it, the rain and snow are falling.

Finally, the old man returned, and you have been waiting for a long time.

The Xiao family of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was in the world, the emperor was unified for three hundred years, and the right prime minister of the dynasty was headed by Zhao Yin, and the last king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty died of vomiting blood on the day of the palace change.

Zhao Yin respected Emperor Zhou Ai as his younger brother, saying that he was the father of Emperor Zhou Ai and the righteous son of Emperor Zhou Shun. As a result, the name of the Great Zhou Dynasty was retained, the old system of the Great Zhou Dynasty was continued, the emperor was buried in mourning, and the customs of Xiao were inherited.

As a result, the situation of the replacement of the old and the new quickly calmed down, and the notoriety accumulated by the Luo's case quickly turned to spring, the people's hearts were stable, the dust settled, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty died in April, and only three months later, in July, the Guozuo of the Western Zhou Dynasty set the peace of Kyushu.

Zhao Yin's face is very sufficient, and it is too unrealistic to move the ancestral tomb of the Zhao family to Shengjing, so after he overhauled the ancestral tomb of the Zhao family, he regarded the imperial tomb of the Xiao family in the suburbs of Shengjing as the ancestor of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

In order to distinguish between them, the ancestral mausoleum of the Zhao family is called "Xiling", and the imperial mausoleum of the Xiao family is called "Dongling".

This is the imperial tomb where the twelve kings of the Xiao family are buried. From the beginning of Xiao Taizu to the end of Emperor Xiao Ai.

On this day, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting, green pines and cypresses greet each other for ten miles.

In the snow leading to Dongling, a long line of carriages and horses is marching, the yellow cover covers the sky and the sun, the green feathers are overwhelming, the guards and slaves are mighty like a long dragon, clustered with several eight-seated carriages carved with dragons and embroidered phoenixes, and the traces of the wheels in the snow are connected into a winding moat, extending to the end of the gray sky.

Cheng Ying lifted the curtain of the car, and the snow melted before it reached the palm of her hand.

"Look at this posture, even the minions are on fire, everyone exhales a breath of heat, and the snow can't fall." Xiao Zhan's mocking voice came from the side, "Zhao Shengren has good means, he is so willing to pay money, he is all here to save face." ”

After a pause, the man's tone became astringent again: "What royal brother, what righteous son, they are all his own words in the royal world......

"Alright." Cheng Yingxu glanced at him, "He can recognize this, keep the name of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and let the world settle down within three months, this is his ability, and it is also a good deed for the benefit of the people." ”

Xiao Zhan choked. His face was indignant, but he didn't refute it.

Rong Wei and Xiao Niang dozed off in the car, snoring lightly. It doesn't seem to have much fluctuation about this trip to Tanglin, and she only wants to pick up some cypress branches and go back to bacon.

Even if the auspicious shop is in the name of "serving Shen Yin", it is also a four-horse silver spring cushioned carriage, the car is as warm as spring, wrapped in fox skin pillows, the road can be like a dreamland.

Cheng Yingyu glanced at the hazy green hill not far away, Tanglin, and could already see the pagoda on the top of the mountain, and his heart beat faster.

It's been three years, and she can finally go to see him recently and ask him if he is doing well in the snow.

She had a lot to say to him, telling him that he had grown taller, eighteen, called Hua Er, which was an approximation of the flowers, lived in the suburbs of Beijing, opened an auspicious shop, there were two Xinyi trees at the gate of the garden, and every spring, they opened a bowl of big purple flowers.

She also wanted to tell him that she had met someone named Zhao Shenyan.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the carriage was traveling hard, Cheng Ying's head rested on the window lintel, looking at the gradually clear green mountains, his eyes were staring at astringency, and he was reluctant to move away.

The heartbeat, as the carriage jolted, also jolted.

Closer, closer, across the long road of time, it is the flowers that have returned.

The woman was thinking about it, and suddenly the carriage stopped, and Douxi's voice sounded: "Second Miss Hua, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is invited." ”

Cheng Ying was stunned. But he couldn't find an excuse not to go, so he had to put on a big hat and lift the curtain to get out of the car under the sword-like gaze of Xiao Zhanrong Wei and Xiao Niang.

The wind and snow came to her face, and she was instantly out of breath.

It turned out that the warmth in the car was just a joke about the wealth of the world, and it was only on December that the hideous minions were revealed at this time.

"Flower two...... Girl...... Please...... Let's ......" In the whistling north wind, Douxi led the way, and his voice was swallowed up.

Cheng Ying grabbed the edge of the gray squirrel's hood and surrounded his face so that he could barely see the figure of the attendant, and the marching team also stopped, and everyone was pestled in the snow, blowing into a snowman.

Cheng Yingyu offended a few times, and sped up his pace, one foot deep and one foot shallow, the north wind blew his face as if he was about to crack, and all he inhaled into his nose was snow foam.

In this way, she lost half her life, and finally arrived at the imperial tent of the East Palace, but she still gasped.