332 Worship
Early in the morning, the eunuchs and palace 'women' who knelt on the ground in front of the Weiyang Palace. ΡΡΡ.(vii) (ix) x.S.ΡΠΎΠΌ The update is so fast. "Queen Mother, the emperor has already sent someone to urge, so let us go in and wait for you to wash and dress." "Queen Mother, please have mercy on us slaves."
"The Queen's Mother......"
As soon as Ling Jiantong in the house heard the words "Queen Mother", she felt uncomfortable, and she felt awkward, let alone take care of them.
But after a while, the sound of pleading outside really subsided.
Ling Jiantong's frowning brows gradually relaxed, could it be that they retreated in the face of difficulties and finally gave up?
Wait, that's not right......
What about the crackling sound outside the 'door' and the man's forbearance in pain?
Ling Jiantong lifted the quilt, got out of bed and walked to the 'door' of the room without putting on shoes, opened the 'door' and took a look, only to see all the palace people in Weiyang Palace trembling and kneeling on the ground, and the chief eunuch who came yesterday and a few 'attendants' guards were holding the board to hit the eunuch lying on the stool.
"What are you doing here?!"
Ling Jiantong suddenly opened her mouth to stop, although on weekdays, these palace people are a little verbose, but how to say that they are not bad-hearted, humble and polite to her, she hates Situ Qianchen, hates this cage-like palace, but these subordinates are busy every day and are pitiful enough, and now they have to be punished for her, how can she look at it?
When the chief eunuch saw that Ling Jiantong came out, he stretched out his hand to signal the 'attendant' guard to stop beating first, and then put on a smiling face, stepped forward and saluted: "Queen Mother, you are awake." β
Ling Jiantong looked him up and down angrily: "Just you beat people like this, if I don't wake up, won't I really die." β
The chief eunuch knew that Ling Jiantong would be angry, but this was Situ Qianchen's order, so he had to obey it.
"Queen Mother, don't be angry, it was the emperor who asked the old slave to come to Weiyang Palace to punish these snub palace people."
"Slack?" Ling Jiantong looked around at the palace people who regarded her as a savior, and said suspiciously: "Why are they lazy?" I, the master of Weiyang Palace, still think they are good, where is it your turn for an outsider to evaluate them, okay, stop fighting, if you are okay, just retreat. β
Ling Jiantong said that, he was about to turn around and go back to the house, but the chief eunuch behind him did not relent: "Queen Mother, they really didn't do their part, they didn't wait for you to change your clothes and wash on time, and participate in the worship after half an hour." β
It turned out to be a pilgrimage again?
Ling Jiantong sneered: "Did Situ Qianchen ask you to come?" β
The chief eunuch bowed his head, without a voice, but silently acquiesced.
Ling Jiantong knew that Situ Qianchen knew that he probably wouldn't participate in the pilgrimage, so he wanted to make such a move, and wanted to use the punishment palace people to 'force' himself to comply.
After going through so many things, does he really think that he is still that stupid and sweet?
These palace people are not related to her, why should she care about their lives and deaths?!
Ling Jian shook his sleeves and said a cruel sentence: "You can beat them as much as you like, worship, I won't go." β
Ling Jiantong's words can be regarded as extinguishing all the hopes of the palace people kneeling on the ground at once.
With the sound of "bang" closing the 'door', some palace 'women' couldn't help crying.
Ling Jiantong stuck to the 'door' of the room, listening to the louder sound of the board outside, as well as the screams and wails of the beaten, and the crying of the palace 'women'......
She covered her ears tightly, her body sank slowly, squatted on the ground, and hypnotized herself again and again in her heart, don't listen to it, don't care, she has been fooled by Situ Qianchen countless times, and she can't let him see jokes anymore.
Ling Jiantong, you can't be so unproductive.
Ling Jiantong, the life or death of those palace people has nothing to do with your half-'dime' money.
Ling Jiantong, you can't just give in!
Ling Jiantong closed his eyes tightly, but the next moment he still stood up, slammed open the 'door', and said sharply: "Stop!" Stop it! β
The 'guard' didn't listen to her, and continued to hit the palace 'girl' again and again, the palace 'girl' was still so young, a teenager, if she was disabled, it would be a lifetime thing.
"Stop fighting, I said don't fight, didn't you hear?!"
Ling Jiantong rushed out of the 'door' of the room barefoot, snatched the board from the guard's hand, and threw it far away almost with all his might.
The cries in the palace fell silent in an instant.
The palace people lying on the ground all looked at Ling Jiantong with red eyes, and their eyes were very pitiful, as if they regarded Ling Jiantong as their last straw.
"Queen Mother, did the old slave punish the slave to disturb you, then the old slave just moved somewhere."
The chief eunuch was just about to stretch out his hand and signal the 'attendant' guard to pick up the board, but Ling Jiantong immediately scolded: "Your courage is really getting bigger and bigger, who is your master?!" You dare to beat my palace people in front of me, come, drag him down for me first, and hit a hundred boards! β
Ling Jiantong completely showed the momentum of the queen's mother, but after all, the chief eunuch is the person next to the emperor, and this move is equivalent to slapping the emperor's face, everyone knows that although Ling Jiantong is the queen's mother on the surface, she has no real power.
The two 'squires' looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
"What? I'm a queen mother, do you dare not even listen to me?! β
The chief eunuch put the dust aside, walked to Ling Jiantong, who was full of anger, and knelt down: "As long as the queen mother dresses and goes to the Yonghe Hall to accept the worship of all the people, even if the old slave is killed, he will be willing." β
"What if I still don't want to?"
The chief eunuch didn't raise his head, but every word that could be said fell on Ling Jiantong's ears very clearly: "Then I'm afraid that tomorrow the subordinates in your palace will be replaced with a new batch." β
The implication is that if she doesn't agree, the people in the palace will be beaten to death?
"Queen Mother, you can save us."
"The Queen's Mother......"
Ling Jiantong staggered back, she couldn't help but laugh bitterly, Situ Qianchen really ate her to death.
Ling Jiantong finally compromised.
She sat in front of the bronze mirror, like a lifeless puppet doll, allowing the lame palace 'women' behind her to serve her.
The youngest palace 'girl' Xiangqiao couldn't help but 'sob' while combing Ling Jiantong's hair, her left cheek was opened to the point that it was swollen and tall, Ling Jiantong raised her eyes and looked at her, and couldn't bear it in her heart: "Xiangqiao, you have suffered from such a ruthless master, and I will transfer you to another palace as an errand tomorrow." β
When Xiangqiao heard that Ling Jiantong was going to send him away, she hurriedly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand, and shook her head vigorously: "Xiangqiao is willing to follow the queen's mother, begging the mother not to send Xiangqiao away." β
Ling Jiantong glanced at her, and there were many palace 'women' reflected in the bronze mirror, most of them were in their cardamom years, but unfortunately they could only be trapped here with her.
Ling Jiantong had already put on the golden phoenix robe that only belonged to the queen's mother, and the various dazzling headdresses on her head, standing in front of the bronze mirror, so generous, it was different from the unkempt wild girl before a stick of incense.
Sure enough, that sentence is really true, people rely on clothes, and horses rely on saddles.
With the support of the palace 'girl', Ling Jiantong sat on the sedan chair that had stopped outside the Weiyang Palace early and went to the Yonghe Palace.
Situ Qianchen's dragon robe was added, and he looked extremely handsome.
Ling Jiantong seemed to be held by the stars of the moon, and there were civil and military ministers standing on both sides of the Yonghe Palace, I don't know how long they waited, they had not seen what the queen mother looked like, and now when they saw it, they were really generous.
The hem of this phoenix robe is too long, and it is not possible to move fast at all with Ling Jiantong, and the headdress on his head must weigh two or three catties, Ling Jiantong's neck does not dare to move, for fear that if he is not careful, this expensive headdress will fall to the ground.
The ancient 'woman' was so miserable.
Ling Jiantong finally stepped up the steps and stood beside Situ Qianchen, the two of them were perfectly matched, and there was really no way to find the emperor and queen in heaven and earth who were so right.
Situ Qianchen smiled at the corner of his lips, reached out and took Ling Jiantong's right hand, his eyes were soft: "Jiantong, you are so beautiful today." β
Ling Jiantong rarely heard Situ Qianchen's praise, and most of them either quarreled or spoke viciously.
Before Ling Jiantong opened Zhu's 'lips', he heard an overwhelming sound of kneeling from the audience.
"Your Majesty, long live long live long live."
"Queen, Chitose Chitose Chitose."
Ling Jiantong never thought that she would one day become the mother of a country, standing in such a high position, a 'woman' would feel that her life was worth it, but Ling Jiantong looked at the subjects kneeling at her feet, but there was an inexplicable sadness.
According to the old rites, the emperor and the queen should ride in the same sedan chair and accept the worship of the people in the capital.
But Ling Jiantong was reluctant to sit on the same sedan chariot with Situ Qianchen, Situ Qianchen seemed to have thought of it a long time ago, in addition to the emperor's royal sedan chair, there was a 'fine' sedan chariot that was not inferior to 'color', the former one was engraved with a golden dragon, and the latter was painted with a golden phoenix.
This glance shows that it is the queen's.
This was built by Situ Qianchen a few days ago, and it was only tailored for Ling Jiantong alone.
On this day, all the people in the capital knelt on both sides of the street, shouting Long live the emperor and the queen a thousand years old.
Ling Jiantong sat in the sedan chair, carried by sixteen people, and naturally it was extremely stable.
The sedan was extremely spacious, and Ling Jiantong sat inside, looking outside through the sedan curtain on one side from time to time.
She has lived in Tianyuan Country for a long time, this market, she doesn't know how many times she has walked back and forth, the stall vendors here, the owner of the shop, she is all 'mixed' with a familiar face, there is no shortage of acquaintances at such a glance.
This is the shopkeeper of the king who sells cloth, this is the boss Li who sells clothes, and this is the seller of wine......
Ling Jiantong looked at them one by one, her heart was both kind and strange, she was about to put down the curtain, but she didn't expect that the last casual glance saw a familiar figure in the crowd.