On the day of the winter solstice, the sky and water are cloudless, although the sun is shining, the temperature is exceptionally cold.

The southern suburbs of Luojing ushered in a continuous stream of pennant cars and horses, and the wheels clattered on the ice and snow.

The supreme emperor sat on a golden chariot drawn by eight horses, escorted by thousands of armed forbidden soldiers, and slowly walked to the south of the altar of the mound.

At this time, there were already thousands of civil and military officials under the altar who had been waiting for a long time, and the twelve officials of the Ministry of Rites had already stood on the Circle Hill Terrace step by step, representing the 12th Chen.

In addition, the ceremonial officials hold the pennant ritual vessels in their hands, and stand on the steps of each floor of the altar of the mound, and the standing position is arranged according to the 28 constellations

Dressed in a yellow robe and wearing a crown of 24 jade algae, the emperor held the tablet of God Hao, and climbed to the top of the four-story altar step by step along the noon day.

He was followed by the emperor's eldest son, Li Tong, and he was also holding a tribute to the ancestral god of God in his hand.

And Prince Li Xian's son Li Liu, and dozens of heirs of the clan and the princes of the vassal kings who stayed in Beijing also followed up in turn with tribute.

The rest of the ceremonial officials accompanied each side with ritual utensils.

There are singers chanting the greetings loudly, and after the singing is finished, there are several trombone horns blowing, accompanied by the sound of drums, the emperor himself places the tablet, and bows down to the high altar.

Bow down, and the earth will be clear.

Second worship, ancestral ghosts and gods.

Three worships, four seasons of immortals.

Each prostration, three prostrations and nine prostrations must be performed respectfully, even if the emperor is no exception.

After the emperor's ceremony, he strongly supported the royal body and did not shake, walked around the top of the circle, and stepped down the altar from the side steps; As the prince of Yaxian, Li Tong, continued to come forward to worship the emperor's ancestors.

Then came the final dedication of the sons of the clans.

The most tired of this sacrifice is the number of relatives and court officials, whenever the emperor and the prince bow three times and nine bows, they have to kneel together, this come and go, then bow and bow no less than 100 times, some frail old ministers can not stand it, faint directly on the spot.

However, even if he faints, he is held by the children and grandchildren around him to complete the final ritual.

Xiao Boyan and Xiao Luo were also among the courtiers, and after kneeling, their faces seemed to be the same.

Sitting in the carriage, Xiao Boyan still couldn't hold back in the end, and Kun Kun's waist and legs.

Xiao Luo sneered, attracting the eldest brother's sideways glance.

"What are you laughing at?"

Xiao Luo immediately sat up straight, and said seriously: "I didn't laugh at anything, I just remembered the appearance of those courtiers just now." ”

Xiao Boyan snorted lightly, pinched his legs, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

"Brother, why haven't you visited Jianing recently?" Xiao Luo asked casually. In the past, although the eldest brother didn't pay much attention to Jianing, Jianing would take the initiative to come to the door. But now these two people seem to have a kind of posture of not getting along with each other.

Xiao Boyan didn't have a trace of expression on his face, let alone words.

"You...... Do you really want to divorce her? ”

Xiao Boyan opened his eyes and looked at his younger brother, "My mother doesn't like her, and the matter of quitting her family is a foregone conclusion." It's just that I can't go to the Zongren Mansion right now to eliminate the wedding sticker. ”

Xiao Luo had mixed feelings in his heart when he heard this, and couldn't help it: "Brother, if you quit with her...... Think of a reason first, don't break her heart. ”

Xiao Boyan hooked his lips slightly, bringing out a touch of mockery, "I won't break her heart if I don't withdraw from my relatives." ”

He sat up straight, lifted the curtains of the car, looked out and leaned back, "You don't have to worry about this matter." ”

Xiao Luo was silent.

The eldest brother and Jianing quit their marriage, he should be happy, but why is it so bad in his heart.

Maybe even if she loses that layer of involvement with her eldest brother, she will no longer want to marry the Xiao family who embarrassed her.

Did she never want to pay attention to herself again?

"Xiao Luo, it's time to do it over there in the Western Frontier, the longer the delay, the more variables there will be."

Xiao Luo was stunned for a moment, tightened his eyebrows and whispered, "I know, I will notify the other side to make a move as soon as possible." ”

A few days later,

The eldest princess's mansion received gifts from Li Wen of Qizhou, a pair of young cranes and a pair of half-human-high amethyst roughs, as well as a box of pearl and gemstone heads, and a box of various jade carved jewelry.

Yuzhu smiled: "County Lord, that Li Shizi...... Oh no, His Royal Highness King Qi really has a heart, and he doesn't know where to collect the rare treasures, but he actually got so many of them, didn't he empty the treasury in his mansion. ”

Qingluan also smiled, picked up a bracelet made of chicken blood jade, put it on his wrist and compared, and then took it off again.

"These things are precious but very fragile, and it would be a pity if I broke them while wearing them, so let's put them away."

In this life, Li Wen did not die on the road, this is already a big change, and she has to try her best to reverse the adversity of her previous life little by little.

Xiao Boyan said that even if you ascend to the throne in the end, it can't make you as easy as in your previous life.

More than a month passed, and seeing that New Year's Day was not a few days away, a messenger suddenly sent an urgent message from Western Xinjiang.

The eldest princess was immediately shocked when she read the letter, and hurriedly asked her daughter to come.

"Aman, your father is seriously ill in Western Xinjiang, how is this good?" The eldest princess was in turmoil for a while, she didn't mean to ask for help from her daughter, she just wanted to find her relatives to relieve her fears.

"What?" Qingluan felt a pang in his heart, and immediately took the letter and looked at it carefully.

The letter was sent by General Li, and Wei Dehou suddenly fell ill with an emergency and was almost unconscious.

Qingluan only felt that his whole body was cold, and his mind was in a mess, "How can this be?" "Obviously, in his previous life, his father returned to the capital with all his beards and tails, how did he get an emergency at this time?

Don't......

She didn't dare to think deeply, as long as she thought of a possibility, she would almost immediately pick up a knife and kill someone.

In this life, the emperor's uncle did not have the prospective father's return to Beijing, and such a thing happened to him, if it wasn't for someone deliberately assassinating, she really didn't know how such a coincidence happened.

The kings of the previous life died one after another, could it be that they were as sick as their fathers?

"Mother, I'm going to visit my father in the western frontier." Qingluan's eyes were slightly red, and she hugged her mother and begged.

The eldest princess's lips trembled for a while before she slowly spoke, "No! Mother asked Han to go to Xijiang again, he knows a lot of friends in the rivers and lakes, and there are a few good medical skills, let them go to save your father. ”

She only has this one daughter, if her husband has something long, she can't afford to pay for her own Aman.

"Nope! Mother, I'll go and see it too, so I can let me know what's going on with my dad there. "She hadn't seen her father in years, and she couldn't lose him without even seeing him in this life.

"No way!" The eldest princess said categorically, "Your father will be fine, Han Zai is not far from Xijiang now, I will immediately send him a letter with a flying pigeon, he will only be a few days away from Xijiang, and if you go, the road will be cold and freezing, and there will be no talk for a month." ”

Qingluan's heart was broken, and she said with tears in her eyes: "Mother, my father is there alone now, I want to accompany him......"

The eldest princess burst into tears instantly, hugged her daughter tightly and said, "You go to accompany your father, don't you care about your mother?" ”

"Aman didn't care about his mother." Qingluan whimpered and cried, remembering that in her previous life, she hadn't even seen the last side of her father, and she became more and more sad.