For some reason, I feel like I have some similarities with the queen in the painting, but I can't tell where it resembles.

Qiu An glanced at me and said cautiously: "Actually, you are more like Queen Ji, Princess Ji." ”

Before I could speak, Qingqing over there also opened her mouth.

"Sister, I've been holding back these words for a long time, as soon as I entered the door and saw the portrait of Queen Ji, I felt very similar to you, but after coming in, I looked carefully, and I didn't want to think about it more and more, and I didn't look at it for a while, and suddenly I raised my eyes, and I felt very similar. ”

Qingqing's brows furrowed when she said this, and Zhiman next to her also nodded, her eyes moving back and forth between me and the queen Ji in the portrait.

When it was getting late, I led everyone out of the secret room and went back to their lodgings.

Tomorrow is the palace festival, Zhiman and Qingqing both want to see a lively scene, I originally wanted to continue to stay in Fengyi Palace and not go out, but I couldn't stand the two of them for a while.

Qiu An also said to the side: "The princess may wish to change into unobtrusive clothes tomorrow, take a look in the corner, and go out to breathe as soon as she comes, and see what the palace sacrifice looks like." ”

I thought in my heart that it was nothing more than the same as the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony in the Water Palace, but when I saw the longing in Qiu An's eyes, I nodded and agreed.

Qiu'an accompanying me is just one of them, and it is true that I want to see people outside.

Qinghuang returned to Fengyi Palace before I fell asleep, and the figure of the red phoenix was missing, and there was no trace of sadness in Qinghuang's eyes.

"Empress Ji, she was killed, right?"

I touched the feathers of the green phoenix in my hand, and when it came back, it was extremely docile, and it stayed by my side honestly, not as noisy as before.

When Qiu An heard me say this, the look on his face was very excited, and his voice trembled a little and asked, "Why did the princess say this?"

"Empress Ji is also known in the human world, I see her face in the painting, at first glance it is a good-hearted person, listen to what you described, that day Empress Ji should have been poisoned, crazy hysteria will only find people with evil thoughts, Queen Ji is really not like, it must be harmed. ”

Qiu An was making the bed for me, and when he heard me say this, he nodded with sadness in his eyes, and said to me again: "Those poisoned people are extremely terrifying, and they want to disintegrate the rights of His Majesty the Human Emperor, but I am afraid that Emperor Zixi will also die in vain at their hands. ”

Who is this "they", Qiu An didn't say, but even the human emperor didn't dare to speculate, so she naturally wouldn't talk nonsense.

After Empress Ji's death, the Human Emperor ignored the opposition of anyone in the Three Realms, cleared all the charges for Empress Ji, and let her be buried as the most noble woman of the human race, restoring her innocence.

When I was a child, I heard others talk about this in the Water Palace, only saying that after the death of Empress Ji and Emperor Zixi, His Majesty the Human Emperor and Emperor Pingyu were sad for a long time, and Emperor Pingyu was originally an extremely kind person, but after so many changes, people began to be cold and arrogant.

Bai Rong didn't believe it when she heard these things when she was a child, saying that how could there be such thick feelings in the royal family, so she didn't want to marry the human emperor at first, but now after encountering many things in the imperial city, she was afraid that she would not marry the human emperor.

I asked Qiu An again, "Do you know the murderer?"

Qiu'an's eyes were cold, but he didn't intend to tell me who "they" meant.

"Empress Ji and the death of Emperor Zixi are naturally inseparable from the previous dynasty, at that time, the Emperor did not have the strength and courage he has now, and now His Majesty the Emperor is ready for everything, I am afraid that he will soon be able to redress the grievances of Empress Ji and Emperor Zixi. ”

On the second day, it was the big day of the Imperial City Palace Festival.

Because I promised them to go out together to watch the excitement, Qiu An got up early to dress up for me, we

But they were in trouble for a piece of clothing.

Although my clothes are plain, they are still princess clothes after all, and they will definitely be exposed when I wear them out like this.

When the two of us were at a loss, Zhiman brought me a dress like timely rain, which was very similar to the clothes worn by those female officials in the palace, and Qiu An helped me comb the ordinary hair of the female officials, so that no one would notice even if I mixed in the crowd.

At the time of the palace festival, the family and the Chongling clan only need to stay in their own fiefdoms, and they do not need to come to the imperial city to participate.

The mountain and river festival was presided over by some courtiers, the Jitsuri festival was presided over this time by Emperor Heiyu with a thousand spirit maidens, and the Qingtian festival was presided over by His Majesty the Emperor of Man this time.

The Blue Sky Festival, the Mountain Festival, and the Earth Festival are held on the lower buildings on both sides of the Star Picking Tower.

Qingqing and Zhiman, the two little girls, don't know where they went together, their status in the imperial city is not low, and they are innocent, so they can naturally go around.

Qiu An whispered to me beside me, "According to the old rules, Lord Wugong was going to be the master of the mountain and river festival, but I don't know why I didn't take the stage this time. ”

I searched for the figure of Lord Wu Gong in the crowd, and found that he was sitting under the Star Picking Tower at the moment, waiting for the start of the three sacrifices in the Imperial City, and Zhiman also ran to her master's side at this time, but her face was displeased, and I don't know if there was still a gap between her and her master.

Bai Rong was dressed in a costume, standing behind Emperor Pingyu, even though there were many outstanding spirit girls, she couldn't hide her dignified atmosphere, and she was captivating the country and the city.

I took a closer look, those white faces and carefree were still wearing the same dance skirts of that day, the Pingyu Emperor and the seven spirit girls who danced with a hundred beasts, although the dance skirts were still the same color as the ones I wore on the day I was killed, but the styles had changed slightly.

Bai Rong was on the high platform, looking at the people below condescendingly, with an extraordinary bearing on his face and smile.

I looked at Bai Rong from the audience and felt a lot of emotion, but I didn't expect that my sister, who grew up together, has been high and the best in the world since she was a child, and I came from a humble background and never could compare with her.

Bai Rong also seemed to see me, with an incredible look in her eyes, surprised and delighted, I was so far away, I could still see the light flashing in her eyes.

After all, it was a love affair that grew up together, and she was so sentimental to see me living in the world.

"Sister, you better be careful, now that the Emperor of the People has not made your will innocent, you are in this imperial city, don't attract people's attention. ”

Qingqing didn't know when she would return to me, and a little coldness drifted in her eyes, reminding me to say.

When the time came, Lord Wu Gong stood up and knocked the purple bell and drum under the star-picking tower, bowed to the human emperor, and shouted after getting up: "Imperial City Palace Sacrifice, Blessing the World." ”

The palace festival that has been prepared for a long time began at the voice of Lord Wugong, and the first in line was the mountain and river festival presided over by the courtiers.

The most powerful courtiers in the previous dynasty were families, such as Su Hanyan's mother's family was Yudao Mountain, and Jiang Qianchen's family was Shennong's family, these were all courtiers under the command of the human emperor, and their status was great.

And these courtiers like the Baili family have a slightly lower status, and they are presided over this mountain and river sacrifice.

Lord Baili has not been implicated because of the affairs of the previous dynasty, and at this moment he is still standing in the middle of the platform of the mountain and river sacrifice, I don't know if the emperor will let it go, or find another plan.

Lord Baili stood on the altar with a spirit, and in the row of people behind him, I seemed to see Bailirong's shadow.

Bailirong was the only woman standing on the altar of the mountain and river festival, and her expression was even more proud than her father's at this moment, and she couldn't see any weakness in her heart.

If it weren't for the fact that I almost lost my life at the hands of the retainers of the Baili family, I would have wondered if I had mistaken the murderer.

( = Old Song)