Since they are all children, there is naturally no such thing as bullying the small. Qiao Ran thought without any psychological burden.

Stepping back from His Royal Highness's side, Zhou Shilin, Zhen Shiyuan and Xu Hexiu, who had been waiting below, hurriedly greeted her, and without waiting for her to speak, they invariably asked.

"How?"

"How's it going?"

"What did Your Majesty say?"

Qiao Ran glanced at the three of them and said, "Your Majesty said she knew." ”

That's all! The trio were disappointed.

Compared with the disappointment of the three of them, the girl reacted as usual, and said, "Okay, I'll go back and watch the song and dance!" ”

At this time, there is still a mind to sing and dance...... Zhou Shilin glared at her dissatisfiedly and reminded her: "Your Majesty means that His Highness will not be held responsible. ”

Sure enough, in the end, he is the only heir under his knees, even if it is so unreasonable, even if His Majesty is a strict mother, he will not continue to pursue it.

"It doesn't matter." In this regard, the girl saw it quickly, pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "As long as Your Majesty knows." ”

Compared with the bear child who cleaned up His Royal Highness, and Yuan Jiaojiao, who had a clear position of paranoia and disgust for her, Shui Xing's change of attitude made her more concerned.

No matter how Your Majesty protects His Royal Highness, he will definitely be able to investigate the water line.

For her, that's enough.

When the group returned to their seats and sat down, looking at Zhou Shilin who came over, Zhen Shiyuan unceremoniously gave a roll of his eyes: "Are you sitting here?" ”

This surnamed Zhou's own position is 108,000 miles away from here, and he still wants to poke his weakness, he Zhen Shiyuan has a good memory, and he will not forget this stubble.

"You move aside." Zhou Shilin was also thick-skinned, sat down next to Zhen Shiyuan, and said, "You can't sit in such a big position alone, what a pity to waste, come on, sit together!" ”

As he spoke, he reached out and took two pieces of osmanthus cake on Zhen Shiyuan's table.

Zhen Shiyuan snorted coldly, and was about to have a seizure, but when he saw Zhou Shilin, who had taken the osmanthus cake, turn his head and hand one of them to Qiao Ran, then raised his chin and said, "Look at the princess!" ”

Zhen Shiyuan, who was about to have a seizure, instinctively turned his head to look over, but saw that Princess Zhenzhen was shaking her hand with a cold face, so she slapped the maid beside her.

Although the singing and dancing in the hall were loud at this time, they were far away from the real princess, and they couldn't see anything, but looking at the maid's rapidly swollen face, several people still felt a pain in their faces.

The maid who was slapped immediately knelt down and kept kowtowing. Seeing that Princess Zhenzhen's anger had not subsided, probably considering that she was still on the palace banquet at this time, and that she still had some scruples about Your Majesty, Princess Zhenzhen raised her foot and gave the maid a kick, and the maid retreated prostrately.

"Look at our golden branches and jade leaves, we are not in a good mood!" Zhou Shilin, who witnessed the whole process, gloated.

Qiao Ran glanced at him and said, "That maid should be able to speak in front of Princess Zhenzhen, and it was this maid who came forward to buy the little patriarch of Wusun before." ”

However, no matter how favored and eye-catching, a moody lord is also at risk of being slapped at any time.

This is just a small episode for the ministers in the palace, and many people don't even notice this stubble at all.

At this time, it was approaching the time of the child, and the singing and dancing in the hall had come to an end, Qiao Ran's eyes turned to not far from His Majesty's head, there was no one in the original Zhang Xie position, obviously the Yin and Yang Division and others had gone down to prepare for the national ceremony.

To be honest, except for His Royal Highness, the entire palace banquet has not caused any trouble until now, and even Qiao Ran is a little surprised by this.

Of course, it's a good thing that there are no surprises.

Mrs. Ping Ping went home for annual leave after attending the palace banquet, isn't this what every Dachu official wants? She's no exception.

Qiao Ran forked a piece of meat and stuffed it into her mouth: In this way, if it is really as Zhang Xie and she guessed, it is more likely that the other party will make a move at the sacrificial national ceremony.

Seeing the girl stuffing meat piece by piece into her mouth, Zhou Shilin subconsciously glanced at the few remaining meat plates on the table, and while taking away the fork on Xu Hexiu's table, he handed over an orange on Qiao Ran's table, and said, "Don't patronize eating meat, come, eat oranges." ”

The girl didn't raise her eyelids, and the skewer in her hand forked the remaining two pieces of meat as if she had eyes, and then picked them up and stuffed them into her mouth, saying, "The Great Governor is too polite to protect you, you can eat it yourself!" ”

Zhou Shilin's teeth ached: Which one is polite to you? Didn't you see him staring at that meat for a long time? He didn't believe that the girl who could be noticed in the little things in the corner in the past was so big that she turned a blind eye to him alone.

It's not intentional, what else could it be?

Seeing that there was no meat on the table, Zhou Shilin threw Xu Hexiu's fork on Zhen Shiyuan's table in front of him, and was about to speak, but saw a palace maid trotting over, and after walking to their side, the palace maid stopped and took out a waist card in his sleeve, presented it to Qiao Ran, and said, "Master Qiao, Zhang Tianshi sent a slave and maid to ask you to come over." ”

Another one! Zhen Shiyuan, who wanted to make a gesture at the bamboo sign thrown on the table, couldn't help but glance at her when he heard this, and changed his words halfway through the words: "You really haven't stopped this night." ”

After a while, Zhou Shilin was a little Zhang Tianshi, and there was a disturbance about His Highness in the middle, and even His Majesty was invited.

It's just the time to participate in a palace banquet, which makes this palace so lively, if you stay in the palace for a few more days, you have to set off the sky.

Qiao Ran spread her hands innocently and said that it had nothing to do with her, and then took the waist card in the palace maid's hand and looked at it carefully, and after making sure that there was no problem, she got up and followed the palace maid to the outside of the hall.

"What a lot of nobles!" Looking at her departing back, Zhen Shiyuan let out a sigh of emotion again, and the next moment he heard Xu Hexiu's voice ringing out.

"Lord Zhen, why did you take my bamboo sticks?" Xu Hexiu said as he snatched back his forked meat bamboo skewers, and took out a handkerchief in disgust and wiped it seriously, "Don't use other people's eating utensils indiscriminately, you will get sick." ”

Zhen Shiyuan hurriedly explained: "I didn't take it." After a pause, he didn't forget to find out the "culprit", and said, "Zhou Shilin wanted to grab meat with her to eat." "Of course, it turned out that I didn't grab a piece of comfort.

Zhou Shilin had already occupied Qiao Ran's seat at this time, and automatically skipped Zhen Shiyuan's words, and couldn't help but scoff at Xu Hexiu's words: "If this is the case, there will already be no one left in the barracks." "These children of the family are also a little weaker, and those with fine skin and tender meat are not good to look at.

Xu Hexiu only concentrated on wiping his bamboo sticks and said, "This is what Master Qiao said. ”

Zhou Shilin was silent, and let out the same emotion as Zhen Shiyuan: "She is really noble. ”

……

Qiao Ran, a nobleman who had a lot of things, didn't care about this, and under the leadership of the palace maid, he traveled all the way to the Qingtian Palace, which was not far from here.

At this time, when the sun was approaching, there were many more fireworks piles on the square in front of the palace. The palace road was full of forbidden guards waiting to be guarded.

Under the leadership of the palace maid, Qiao Ran stepped into the Qingtian Palace.

As soon as she stepped into the hall, she saw several official hats with high crowns and streamers in the hall shaking, and then looked at her in unison.

The official hats of the Yin and Yang Division and Qin Tianjian are much higher than the ordinary official hats, and I didn't feel that I had only seen Zhang Xie wear such an official hat before, but at this time, when I saw such a bunch of tall official hats together, Qiao Ran subconsciously touched the Yin and Yang official hat on his head.

"Afraid that the hat will fall off if it is too high?" I don't know if it's because of the good relationship in the near years or something else, the great heavenly master who once had a relationship with each other also wore the high-crowned hat today, but his expression was no longer as serious as before, and he smiled and joked when he saw her holding the hat.

This joke immediately made Qiao Ran couldn't help laughing, and the slight restraint that had been seen at first sight of so many people suddenly disappeared, and he bowed slightly and walked towards them.

Zhang Jiezheng, who was surrounded by a group of Yin and Yang Heavenly Masters in the middle, looked at her with a smile, and when she approached, he said: "I just saw you go out during the banquet, and there are some things happening there in the forbidden army is His Royal Highness, so I don't have to worry."

Qiao Ran nodded and said with a smile: "It's just a trivial matter." ”

If it was really a trivial matter, His Majesty would not let the ministers in the palace leave behind, but this is not the time to speak, yes, Zhang Xie did not continue to ask, but just dodged and let go of the long table behind him.

On the long table are some of the things necessary for the national ceremony, such as high candles and incense engraved with the peace of the four seasons, and there are dishes prepared for the sacrifice of heaven and earth.

Some of them were indeed things she hadn't seen before, but the things on the long table seemed to be not much different from the things she had seen for worshipping heaven and earth.

Qiao Ran glanced at the things on the long table and looked at Zhang Xie and them in confusion.

The Great Heavenly Master spoke, "The worship objects on the table have been tampered with. ”

Qiao Ran let out an "ah", looking surprised.

The Great Heavenly Master didn't talk nonsense, beckoned, and after a while, a palace maid came over with a plate.

On the plate are some things wrapped in paper bags and wax clothes. She stepped forward and picked up the dagger on the side, and then made a mark on the paper bag and wax coat on the plate, and a strong smell of blood rushed into her nose in an instant, Qiao Ran rubbed her nose uncomfortably.

"These paper packets and wax garments were found in the animals used in the sacrifices." The Great Heavenly Master said and pointed to the pigs, cows and sheep heads on the long table, and said, "The murderer only needs to find a way to break these paper bags and wax clothes, and the blood will flow on the sacrificial table." ”

"Flowing rivers of blood" at the sacrificial ceremonies to pray for good weather in the coming year is obviously not a good sign, and the other party's purpose is clearly revealed.

"I came to you to ask you to see these objects that will be used in the sacrificial state ceremony, but there are still those who have been moved." The Great Heavenly Master said, the smile on his face that had previously turned to majesty again, "The national code cannot be lost. ”

For the people, the annual national ceremony is the hope of the people, the long-term hope for peace and prosperity in the coming year, and the basis of the people's aspirations.

It turned out that it was for this matter, Qiao Ran glanced at Zhang Jie, responded, and said, "I will try my best, but this matter cannot be completely guaranteed." ”

"It's okay, you can do your best." The Great Heavenly Master said, "If you can prevent it, if you can't prevent it, my Yin and Yang Division will not be afraid." ”

Qiao Ran replied and turned her head to look at the things in the hall: "Are all the things used in the national ceremony here?" ”

"Not bad." The Great Heavenly Master said and led everyone to the side, so that she could have a full view of the things used in the hall, and one of the Yin and Yang Heavenly Masters also smiled: "Lord Qiao, don't be too nervous, I will check it first, those blood bags and wax clothes were found out at that time, you just need to check it again." ”

Qiao Ran smiled and began to squat down and look at the things in the hall one by one, from the long table to the items needed for the sacrificial ceremony, such as peach wood strips, etc., he picked up and inspected each of them.

After checking it, she turned to the Great Heavenly Master and said, "I don't see any problems. ”

"It's best to be so natural." Although he said this, the expression on the face of this Yin and Yang Division Great Heavenly Master was still solemn.

The girl paused for a moment, but when she spoke again, everyone in the hall was startled: "I don't think it's right to check this." ”

What the? Is this wrong? Several Yin and Yang Heavenly Masters looked at her in unison.

Facing the gazes of everyone, she smiled and said: "I look at this blood-wrapped wax suit is quite big, even if these animal heads are very big and cover these blood bags and wax clothes, but if you want to do something on the national ceremony, knowing that the Yin and Yang Division will definitely investigate in front of the national ceremony, but hide these things so early, this murderer can't help but look a little unsmart." ”

When the Great Heavenly Master heard this, his eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly: "Are you saying that this is very likely that the other party is in the suspicious array?" It is very likely that the real preparation is not among these things prepared by the Onmyoji? ”

It's comfortable to talk to smart people! Qiao Ran smiled and nodded: "I think so, since the things of the Yin and Yang Division have been checked, then the other ones will also have to check it." ”

The Heavenly Master of the Yin and Yang Division said with a little embarrassment: "But in addition to the objects of the Yin and Yang Division of our sacrifice, there are no objects from other places on the sacrificial ceremony!" ”

Qiao Ran was stunned for a moment, and was about to say something, but heard Zhang Jie's voice suddenly sound.

"Yes." He said, "There's one thing that doesn't come from my Yin and Yang Division, and it's something that outsiders can't open and examine. Because once inspected, this thing is useless. ”

Everyone was amazed: there is such a thing?

"Those fireworks." Before she could open her mouth, the girl gave the answer.

Of course, this inference is reasonable, but it is just that they should turn the fireworks over and examine them, and estimate that they will be useless.

Therefore, even if they knew that this inference was reasonable, no one moved for a while.

After a period of silence, the Great Heavenly Master finally spoke up again: "There is still half an hour before the time comes, if the fireworks are dismantled one by one at this time, it will be too late to let Xingsheng and bring in new fireworks." ”

After a pause, without waiting for everyone to speak, the Great Heavenly Master turned his head and instructed the palace maid: "Go and invite the people of Xingshenghe to come over." ”

Since you suspect that there may be something wrong with fireworks, then look for someone who is prosperous and harmonious. Although it can't be taken apart for inspection, at least it can be seen by the people of Xinghe.

If something goes wrong with her Yin-Yang Division, she will never blame the Yin-Yang Division, but what if it wasn't something wrong with her Yin-Yang Division?