Chapter IX: The Canonization Ceremony
Half a month later......
At this time, the Gusu Kingdom was also attacked by the Heavenly Ember Kingdom, which caused a great loss of vitality; The emperor and the queen both died, and Concubine Hui also hanged herself.
Qiu Tingrong had no choice but to wake up from his grief and inherit the throne; Rectify the court.
The Prime Minister's Mansion is now also sad because of the news of the disappearance of the second lady Ouyang Wan'er, Ouyang Wenhao hates why he didn't stop the Ninth Prince from letting Wan'er be a hostage; In this way, Wan'er will not be missing.
As soon as he thought of this, Ouyang Wenhao was heartbroken, and he spent his days drinking alcohol; At this time, Wan'er's father Ouyang was also deeply remorseful, and he couldn't bring Wan'er out that day; Wan'er's biological mother was also bedridden every day due to excessive grief.
The entire Prime Minister's Mansion was immersed in sadness and discomfort, except for the third aunt's courtyard, which was happy as if there was a great event; I saw that Ouyang Lin and her mother (third aunt) said: "Mother, now the second sister can't be found; Then can I replace my second sister and marry Brother Jiu? Then wouldn't I be able to become a queen! ”
When the third aunt heard her daughter say this, she was also surprised and responded: "Yes, you will be 16 soon, and you should be married; I'll tell your father another day that the first emperor has a will for the nine princes to propose; Now that your second sister is gone, your fourth sister is still too young to marry, and now you can only replace your second sister. ”
"Yes, mother, then you have to discuss it with your father," Ouyang Lin said excitedly to the third aunt.
came to the palace in a blink of an eye, because Concubine Hui and the first emperor had been together one after another; At this time, Qiu Tingrong had also ascended the throne.
In the main hall...... The minister of the palace, the Ministry of Rites, also made a suggestion, saying: "Your Majesty, the country cannot be without a mother for a day; If you haven't established a throne yet, I'm afraid the people's hearts will be unstable."
The rest of the Taifu and the left and right attendants of the various ministries also imitated the words of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu one by one.
Qiu Tingrong had no choice but to ask as he wished: "Then may I ask all of you Aiqing if there is a suitable candidate?" ”
At this time, the scholar of the palace said: "Your Majesty, on the day of your mother's concubine's birthday, the emperor said that you should marry the two thousand gold of the Prime Minister's Mansion; But now that Miss Ouyang Er can't be found, I'm afraid that it will be more than lucky; Lao Chen remembered that there was another third lady in his house who was also of age, and he could also marry the third lady according to the last words of the first emperor. ”
"Scholar of the Imperial Court, do you know what the background of that young lady's mother is? Her mother was brought back by Ouyang from the Singer Academy; Do you want our mother of the nation to be the mother of the country as a daughter born from the Singer's Academy? I'm afraid that's not right! General Tutong said.
Hearing that they had been arguing, Qiu Tingrong couldn't listen to it and shouted loudly: "Enough, Zheng himself will watch it; Aiqing take care of yourself! With that, he turned and left.
When the ministers reacted, they only heard the eunuch say in a thin and sharp voice: "Retreat from the court!" "The ministers dispersed this time.
Qiu Tingrong, who had retreated from the court, took off his dragon robe, turned around and fell into the bed.
At this time, the dark guard Yuebai walked in, and Qiu Tingrong saw Yuebai coming back and immediately got up and asked, "Did you find her?" ”。
The dark guard lowered his head and responded, "Your Highness, I followed them all the way to the outside of the city and lost a trace; I followed the bloodstains all the way to the woods outside the city, only to see the white coat worn by Ouyang Wan'er on the day of Concubine Hui's birthday; The subordinates were afraid that Ouyang Wan'er would be brought into the village by horse thieves..."Qiu Tingrong saw that the secret guard wanted to speak and stopped, so he said: "Continue to speak!" ”
"I've heard that there are horse thieves all year round, but I don't know where the village is, and that's all my subordinates know," Yuebai said.
": Then you will mobilize the Dark Guard to find out that cottage for me, Ouyang Wan'er, I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death!" Qiu Tingrong said with a dark face.
Originally, Qiu Tingrong didn't like Ouyang Wan'er, but since he saw Ouyang Wan'er help him defeat the grass thief and get along with him a few times later, he suddenly found that he was actually a little moved.
But I didn't know how to express it, and at this time, I just shouted to retreat from the court until my father-in-law walked in and said: "Your Majesty, what the minister said in the court today is not without reason; You'd better think twice! ”
Qiu Tingrong replied, "Zheng knows, so be it; I remember that the Inspectorate Zuo Yushi didn't have a daughter? Then Zheng Li made her the queen's president! ”
At this time, the eunuch's father-in-law just returned to ": the old slave went to the Internal Affairs Office to make arrangements". Seeing that Qiu Tingrong didn't speak, he retreated.
Two months later......
On a scorching day, the canonization ceremony was being held, and I saw a dignified person wearing a big red blue cloud pattern bead pair of peacock brocade clothes; Wearing a gold-inlaid jade phoenix, Bu Shao and Qiu Tingrong slowly walked up to the hall.
After worshipping heaven and earth, Ouyang Lin knew that the queen was robbed by the eldest lady of the inspector's house; Angry, she beat and pinched the maid next to her, pinching and pinching her flesh; I saw that the slave maid named Xiaoxiang held back her tears and had to say that Miss was angry.
Xiaoxiang's face was flushed after being beaten, this was not the first time she had been beaten; As long as Ouyang Lin was unhappy, he would be angry with her, but he had no way to refute it; Who let his father buy himself into this prime minister's mansion.
The maid Taozi, who had served Wan'er before, was also returned to the deed of sale and sent away, Xiaoxiang also wanted to; I can only ask Momoko to let her go to her mother to redeem her.
Night...... I only heard the sound of the wind whirring outside the house; Mu Dingling (the inspector's daughter, the current queen) sat on the bed alone and waited for Qiu Tingrong's arrival, and an hour or two hours passed; Before he could wait, he asked the lady to ask, and just as he was about to go out, Qiu Tingrong walked in.
Mu Dingling lowered her head shyly, but at this time, Qiu Tingrong said, "I just need a queen to marry you, you just need to take care of the harem." After speaking, he didn't look at Mu Dingling and left.
Mu Dingling panicked and couldn't hold back her tears and cried and asked, "Your Majesty, haven't you seen me yet, do you hate me so much?" ”
Qiu Tingrong turned around and glanced at Mu Dingling, this was actually the first time he had seen her; A pair of eyes are different from Ouyang Wan'er, Qiu Tingrong is only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a round goose egg face, black eyes, red cheeks, skin is brighter than snow, and her eyebrows are delicate but not what Qiu Tingrong likes.
When Mu Dingling saw that the emperor was leaving, he immediately stepped forward and hugged him and said, "Brother Rong, do you know that Ding Ling has really liked you for a long time; Don't you treat Ding Ling like this, okay? ”
"Even if I can get your favor once, Ding Ling is willing to stop bothering you in the future", Mu Dingling said aggrievedly.
Hearing Mu Dingling say this, Qiu Tingrong picked Mu Dingling up and walked to the bed; Gently put her on the bed and said, "You sleep, where did I go to Yiluo, she is still waiting for me." ”
Mu Dingling angrily threw all the fruits, tea and wine on the table after seeing Qiu Tingrong leave, but even so, Qiu Tingrong would not walk out.
At this time, she was aggrieved and cried on the table, and the slave on the side didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only silently clean up the garbage that had just been thrown to the ground.
She shouted, "Why, why, am I not even as good as a picked up kabuko? Why the hell!! Mu Dingling roared frantically. The long night slowly only heard the sound of crying in the queen's palace, but no one dared to say a word.