Chapter Seventy-One: All Nations Come to Court
"Tomorrow is the big court, I have to be busy all day, the saint didn't come to see you, don't you blame him?" The queen asked as she stirred the decoction.
I shook my head again and again, how could I blame him, my life was saved by the Holy Lord and the Queen, and as the king of a country, he naturally had a lot of things to deal with. There is a more important reason, perhaps it is a common problem of women, when they are most vulnerable and need to be taken care of, they only want the specific person in their hearts to visit them, and today's saint, my own uncle, I have not had any friendship with him, nor do I have any thoughts about him, so this family affection is very light, just like a friend I just met yesterday, so he doesn't come to see me, I don't feel uncomfortable, but if Ye Linghan doesn't come, I will be sad for a long time.
"It's a smart girl, it's good if you can understand, rest well after taking the medicine, I will send someone to send you the clothes and jewelry you need to wear at the court meeting early tomorrow morning, there will be a maid who will come early to comb your hair and dress up, someone will come to pick you up early in the morning to go to the Taiji Palace, the saint will announce to the world in front of the princes and envoys of all tribes and the courtiers of Chang'an, you are Princess Qingyi." The queen finished feeding me the last mouthful of medicine and said slowly.
I couldn't help but shake my whole body and announce to the whole world?
"As for your assassination of the Fourth Prince." The queen mother continued: "The reason for this incident is just that Heze was jealous of your relationship with Ye Linghan, and her maid spread rumors and slandered you, and you were also wronged and imprisoned." Fortunately, Ye Linghan knew your true identity, reported to the saint in time and avenged you for your grievances, and you were able to restore your status as a princess. ”
I was stunned, why? I was originally the murderer of the Four Princes, although I knew that Ye Linghan erased all the evidence behind his back, and did it without knowing it, but I knew that the Holy Lord and the Queen Mother must have known that I was the murderer of the Four Princes.
"This is all to protect you, your current identity is different, the princess of the Northern Desert, the rebirth of the princess of the Northern Desert is unknown, but it is unpredictable how the court will look at this matter, if you still have the identity of an assassin, I am afraid it will be difficult to survive. Qingyi, do you know, the saint can't sleep all night for you and your mother, how much he wants to be reunited with you, so, okay, no matter what you have done before, now you are the princess of Qingyi, don't let the saint be sad, okay? ”
I nodded blankly, I know that they are doing this to protect me, and the murderer of the fourth prince has naturally become a traitor in southern Xinjiang, they can protect me like this, I am really very grateful, but why should this matter be blamed on Princess Heze in vain? Princess Heze is the queen's own daughter, she does this, how much infamy will Princess Heze have to bear in the future? First of all, his own internal colt had an affair with another woman, and Heze was jealous and wanted to frame me, Heze's life can be ruined like this, although she once slapped me three times because of Ye Linghan, but she is young and vigorous after all, and she has not made any noise about this matter after beating me, and she has not held me any accountable, and at this time, I have a conscience to ask her to carry such a big black cauldron, and she estimates that she will treat my sister as a thorn in the eye in the future.
The queen mother seemed to see my uneasiness, she smiled lightly: "You don't have to worry, all this is Heze's idea, she released a rumor yesterday, saying that you are in prison because of her jealousy, and she also directed and acted in a play, ran to the saint to cry, she did this, nothing more than to give the saint a step, she knew that the saint had the heart to protect you, but there was no way, so she came up with such a play, and took this grievance for you, and it was rare for her to have a piece of her mind." ”
What the? All this is voluntary by Heze? And the idea was still hers? In this way, I owe her a lot of favors, and only Bing Xue is smart enough to think of this idea, but although she did this to relieve the siege of the saint, how much grievance did she have to bear in her heart......
"Son, do you remember what I just said?" The queen asked earnestly.
I nodded, she smiled comfortingly, and gently helped me lie down, "Then I'll go first, you have a good rest." ”
The next day, the pilgrimage platform of the Taiji Temple.
I wore a brocade robe embroidered with red peonies, a phoenix with a golden head, a jasper hair tie pulled my green silk out of a beautiful flowing cloud bun on the top of my head, a glazed hairpin and a crested hairpin, accompanied by the long hair hanging down my shoulders, swaying in the breeze, I still wore half of the mask that Liyan gave me, covering the terrible scars on my face, and nervously stood in the depths of the emperor.
Under the stage are hundreds of civil and military officials and envoys of various countries, they are neatly arranged in several columns, and the left and right columns are Tang officials, standing in order from front to back according to their secondary ranks. In the middle and front rows are the princes and visiting envoys, and in the back are the families of the female guests, with five or six hundred people. Standing on the left side of the pilgrimage platform are the ladies and princes and princesses below the level of harem concubines, and today they are all dressed neatly and brightly. And standing on the right are the princes and eldest princesses, dressed in brocade and jade robes, all reflecting their dignity. They stood on the left and right sides, with solemn demeanor, showing the hospitality of Chang'an and the domineering spirit of the head of all nations!
On the left side of the emperor stands the queen's mother, today she has a phoenix crown and phoenix robe, exquisite makeup, folded hands and put down her chest, showing the bearing and style of the mother's world, and behind the queen stands the three concubines of Gui Shuxian diagonally, they are also carefully dressed today, and they show their demeanor with every gesture. And on the right hand side of the emperor stood me, and behind me stood a group of young men I didn't know, presumably several princes.
When the emperor took a few of us to stand still, the eunuch opened the court meeting with his throat, and in an instant, the rhythmic drum beat began to beat down one after another, and finally turned into a magnificent rumbling sound! Five or six hundred people in the audience bowed their heads and congratulated: "Long live the emperor, long live the queen, and the Tang Dynasty will be Yongxing!" ”
The momentum is like a rainbow, and I was shocked by this momentum at once! The emperor beside him smiled happily, he raised his hand and said: "Welcome the princes and envoys of various states to come to my Chang'an as guests, everyone has worked hard all the way!" However, all the heroes gathered in Chang'an to discuss the well-being of the people and discuss the prosperity of the world, which is really the blessing of the people of the world! Chang'an must make the most grand hospitality! ”
After finishing a sentence, the eunuch next to him solemnly read out the etiquette and etiquette, I saw this court meeting for the first time, the complexity of the process and the height of the style suddenly made me dare not come out, I can only stand there in a good posture, and strive not to be ugly.
Below is the individual worship of the princes and envoys of each tribe, and they come forward one after another as if they had been rehearsed, without the slightest disorder. Each clan brings their own unique gifts, which are received by the appropriate personnel.
"Miao Jiang enshrines two clams and a pair of gentians." The eunuch pulled his throat to report, the king and the princess of Miao Jiang took the prince who was only seven or eight years old to come forward and salute, and the saint sent the king of Miao down the pilgrimage platform after greeting them a few words, and I was also immersed in the congratulatory gift that the eunuch shouted at the throat just now, Miao Jiang's specialties are really strange, Miao people are known for their poison, all kinds of insects and beasts in its territory are strange, and this Zhu clam is a blood-red toad unique to Miao Jiang, I heard that those who eat this toad can not invade with poison.
"Dali enshrines a pair of blood jade." The eunuch then reported it.
Blood jade? Everyone in the world knows that blood jade is a good thing, and wearing it with others can prolong life and make the face ageless. But I don't know that this blood jade is not a stone, but a living life, it can nourish people's yin and yang, and it can also suck blood and eat flesh to take people's lives, which is really weird. I didn't know at the time that this piece of blood jade would become a tool for killing people in the future.
But the complexity and rarity of the congratulatory gift is far more than that, Yingzhou's envoy gave a pair of flowers, legend has it that this flower only blooms one flower with a seed, but this flower does not grow in the soil or raised in the water, but needs to be raised on the skin of the virgin girl. This flower is extremely rare, only Yingzhou has this seed, and only the saint of Yingzhou can raise it to bloom, the attraction of this flower is that it can bring people back to life.
Hongming knife, the holy object that the swordsmen are chasing, legend has it that when the sword was made, the blood of the virgin of the extreme sun was added to the refining furnace, and this knife was later obtained by the chivalrous warriors of the rivers and lakes, and it was used to kill a thousand wicked people but never killed a good person by mistake, and the bayonet sucked the blood of the wicked, and after completing the thousand beheadings, it could automatically distinguish between good and evil, and automatically beheaded the evildoers. It is rumored that if a good person is injured with this knife, the knife is as heavy as a thousand gold, and cannot be lifted, and if you want to kill a bad person, it will be as good as cutting mud.
Cat's opal, the prince of Persia paid tribute, although this kind of stone is also in the palace, but the Persian is the purest color, the size is three times the size of the palace, a stone is densely covered with twenty cat's eyes, absolutely the best in the world. Could this opal be the most valuable opal? I don't think so, every tribe will not pay tribute to their best things, but they will be willing to pay tribute to their second and third things to save face. So in this way, the best opal in the Persian palace must be even more powerful than this! Legend has it that if there are more than 30 cat's eyes on an opal, this stone can be psychic, divination and predict the future. I wonder if there really are such stones in Persia, and there are such diviners?
Who said that above this court is just a deceitful Yingge Yannuan, the legend of the rivers and lakes will never be old, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, whether it is above the court or in the humble room. Here, the power of the court and the iron and blood of the rivers and lakes are perfectly combined, because this is Chang'an.