The sun on the horizon gradually set in the west, covered by the cold palace wall, and only some afterglow was seen yellowing and sprinkled all over the human realm under the blue sky.

Seeing that it was time for dinner, Emperor Pingyu was still sitting in the hall, a group of spirit girls were waiting respectfully in the hall, no one felt hungry, and the shadow was stretched diagonally to the door, but it still seemed lonely.

Xia Ran was still at a high place, and because the time was not early, he roughly talked about the preparations in the Hesui Palace before the sacrifice.

All the spirit girls need to take a bath when they go back tonight, and they need to take a bath tomorrow before they can start to learn the sacrificial matters, until the day of the Imperial City Palace sacrifice, all the spirit girls in the Hesui Palace need to fast every day, including the Pingyu Emperor.

If there is any situation during the period, if there is any situation during the period, you need to tell the emperor to avoid missing the palace festival.

The twelve spirit girls in the Hesui Palace, Wuzhen left, and there were eleven people in total.

The earth sacrifice requires Emperor Pingyu to take nine women to dance the witch dance-Heavenly Spirit Dance, and it just so happens that there are only a few spirit girls in the Hesui Palace, and Jiang Qianchen and Su Hanyan, the two daughters of the family, although they have a very high status in the hearts of others, but the rank of the previous dynasty is there, so they can't dance the Heavenly Spirit Dance together.

Because they come from a family, they can go to participate in the mountain and river festivals.

The mountain and river sacrifices have always been visited by important ministers, and there has never been a woman on the stage, and now the Emperor of the People and the Peace Jade Emperor Ji have this arrangement, which can be regarded as an extra gift.

On the way back, Qiu An whispered to me: "Princess, in fact, it is not a big deal for the concubines of the family to participate in the earth sacrifice, there were no noble princesses of the spirit clan in the imperial city before, and it is not all the royal jade emperor Ji who chose a few courtiers' daughters to replace them." ”

"Maybe this time is after the election of the emperor, the palace sacrifice is extra solemn. I glanced at Qiu An and signaled her to be cautious.

Qiu An understands the truth, and a clever concubine like Su Hanyan and Jiang Qianchen naturally understands it, but they both kept their duties from beginning to end, and there was no inappropriate look, and they had no objection to the emperor's arrangement.

Su Hanyan I know, people are extremely responsible, and they are well-cultivated, but Jiang Qianchen was very unexpected outside the hall, and he didn't say a word from beginning to end, nor did he show any dissatisfaction.

It wasn't until Emperor Pingyu waited for Xia Ran to finish speaking, and allowed everyone to return to the palace, the moment Jiang Qianchen turned around, I saw a fleeting flash of different color in her eyes, and there was really dissatisfaction, and there was a trace of something I thought was ambitious.

When I returned to the Yong'an Palace, a female official with an eye came to bring the medicinal powder for tonight's bath.

There are many rules for the palace festival, such as bathing tonight, bathing tomorrow, learning the spiritual bath during the fasting during the palace festival, and the Luan soup bath the night before the final official palace festival, and the herbal spiritual powder added is different.

After the female official finished delivering the medicinal powder, she respectfully said to me: "The medicinal materials used in the bath tomorrow will be brought by someone before dawn, please take a bath with peace of mind." ”

Today and tomorrow, the Hesui Palace will remove the guards, and the female officials on duty are all female officials who are not shallow in cultivation, in order to let all the spirit girls take a good bath in body and mind.

"Thank you!" I said gratefully to the female officer, and looked at Qiu An again.

Qiu An signaled, took some gold in the room and gave it to the female officer, and the female official's eyes flashed with joy, but she didn't say a word, and bowed her head and withdrew.

I don't need those gold and silver treasures on weekdays, but I can't stand the fact that I always have to reward the palace people, but fortunately, Jingkang knows that I have a weak temperament and don't have too much money and things, so I don't know where to get a lot of gold and silver to send to me.

Qingqing and Jingkang had the same idea, and they sent a lot last time, I was afraid that she would not do things well, so I thought about giving some to Youzi, but I didn't expect Qingqing to say to me proudly: "Sister, you can take it, my third sister has brought a lot of treasures in the fox clan, and there is no shortage of money." ”

When Qiu'an sent the female officer back, he locked the doors of all the rooms, and waited for me to bathe.

She had already boiled the water, mixed some cold water into it until the water was just right, poured the powder in and stirred it well, and nodded to me.

I just entered the barrel, the mist surrounded my eyes, and the comfort around my body hit me, and I felt comfortable in my heart.

Qiu An watched me run comfortably from the sidelines, and a smile appeared on his face.

I am the only one in the Jiao clan who doesn't like to bathe in cold water, the third woman doesn't know, I haven't bathed with her, but Bai Rong is used to using cold water, I don't know how she is now.

"Tomorrow Qingyu, who will you learn from about the harem sacrifice?" I asked Qiu An with my eyes closed in the barrel.

"Wu Gong. Qiu An told the truth.

The Wu Gong in the Imperial City, the Great Witch of the Jiao Clan, and the priests of the Immortal Realm mentioned by Jing Kang are all similar existences, but the royal families are different and the names are different.

Qiu An had a complicated look in his eyes, and said to me beyond bounds: "When you start to learn sacrifices, princess, those guards will also come back to continue to be on duty, but in addition to the guards, Wu Ji is the only man who can enter and leave the Hesui Palace." ”

"What about the Human Emperor?" I couldn't help but wonder.

Qiu An shook his head and said to me: "His Majesty the Human Emperor is not allowed to enter the Hesui Palace, Lord Wugong will set up a formation in the Hesui Palace, and all the spirit girls must not go out easily." ”

I nodded, looked at Qiu An's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and said to her: "If you have anything to say, just say it, if you don't want to say it, you don't have to rush for a while." ”

Qiu An lowered his head and said "yes" with some embarrassment, and said something to me about the pre-sacrifice matters.

Even if something big happens within the spirit clan, the spirit girl must stay in the Hesui Palace of the Imperial City with peace of mind, not allowed to go back, and not to be sad, to learn to be hard-hearted, if you insist on going back, you will not be allowed to set foot in the Imperial City again in this life.

If you are infected with a cold or other illness in the Hesui Palace, you don't have to participate in the sacrifice anymore, but you won't be guilty of it, you need to recuperate in a secluded and quiet place in the imperial city, and you can only come out after the sacrifice is over.

I nodded, I didn't expect that there were so many rules for the palace sacrifice, although Xia Ran didn't say it explicitly just now, but the maidservants around the other spirit girls would also tell Qiu An the truth.

I was lying in the wooden barrel, the medicinal powder was really extraordinary, and I slowly felt that my body was refreshed, although the aura was suppressed by the Hidden Spirit Pill, but this feeling was very similar to when I broke through the level when I practiced before, and the aura was very strong.

Qiu'an brought another bucket of hot water, and added it to the barrel while feeling the temperature of the water.

"Princess, you need to be careful of the two concubines of the family, if any of the nine spirit girls has an accident, Su Jiang and the two girls will definitely come up to make up the number. ”

I nodded, knowing that Qiu An's reminder was not groundless, those two girls were extremely talented, and their talents were extraordinary, much stronger than some spirit girls, and they were temporarily subordinated to the nine spirit girls according to the official position of the father clan of the previous dynasty, but I was afraid that I would be unwilling.

"Princess. Qiu An sighed, as if he had mustered up all his courage, before he made up his mind to say what he said to me.

"Out of the Hesui Palace, it may not be all a bad thing, if you seize the opportunity, you may have the opportunity to stand on the star-picking tower with the Emperor of the People, and co-host the Blue Sky Festival!"

Qiu An was stunned after speaking, and he was still watching my reaction.

It is my wish to go out of the Imperial City, and it is naturally good not to come back in my life, but that kind of end may affect the Jiao clan.

As for Qiu An's other ways, I didn't want to think about it any more, so I closed my eyes, soaked in the bucket for a while, got up and wiped it, and went back to bed to sleep.