Chapter 27 and the Rites
- Two years later.
Since the eradication of Song Wanqing and the others, the harem seems to be much quieter, Zheng Li is also settled, and Meng Qingzhen has found a doctor for Lu Muchen and is also telling the good news day by day.
In this short period of two years, many changes have taken place within the palace, and the second prince Chang Jingchu was named King Rui'an, given the fief Ancheng, and promised to stay in the capital for a long time and concurrently serve as the military division of Chang'an. Chang Jingwen, the king of Chang'an, served as the commander of the Chang'an army, and the king of Wenxuan inherited the title of regent. Si Nanxing was awarded the title of Captain of Zhengyi Pin by Chang Yue because of his extraordinary ability, and at the same time supervised Qin Tianjian, which was a great honor.
And today, it is also Chang Yuanli's ceremony.
Chang Yue had been preparing for this day for a long time, and had ordered someone to send him a gorgeous costume and a phoenix crown early in the morning.
These five-fold costumes are all dark blue, representing the supreme power, second only to the emperor, the beast pattern embroidered by the gold thread is Chang Yue's special order hundreds of embroidery girls overnight to make it, the two sides of the costume are added with a small range of tiger stripes, and this phoenix crown is fully inlaid with ten black gems, all of which are rare ores paid tribute by the Longyuan Kingdom, and the annual output is only about a hundred.
"Your Highness has finally grown up." Liuli smeared her with brown-red lipstick, "The blue color is a good foil for Your Highness." ”
She picked up the pair of blue ink jade earrings again, "Your Highness doesn't have ear piercings, it's a pity that this pair of earrings is gone." ”
Chang Yuanli doesn't like to wear earrings, and she hasn't let people touch her ears in the past few years, so this time, Chang Yue made a black and purple agate tassel earhook according to her needs.
"Are the Sixth Highnesses ready? Your Majesty is urging you tightly! Tan Wei asked at the door.
Liuli smiled and helped Chang Yuanli up, opened the door, there were already many people waiting outside the side hall, Chang Yue specially prepared two ceremonial officials, one by Si Nanxing to lead her to the main hall, and let a first-class Taiwei be the ceremonial officer, Chang Yue was also open-minded.
Today's ceremony was in the main hall of Jingren Palace, she was dressed in a dark blue five-fold costume waiting outside the main hall, and the ceremonial official arranged by the Ministry of Rites took Xuan into the hall.
In the main hall, Meng Qingzhen sat on the main seat instead of Lu Muchen, with Chang Yue sitting next to him, and on both sides stood the left and right ministers, Chang Yuanqin and Su Ziwen, Jiang Chuanmo and some officials, as well as the king of Hezhao County, who had not been seen for a long time.
As she approached the throne, she knelt on her knees, folded her hands between her eyebrows, bowed deeply to the ground, got up and bowed again, and bowed three times.
Meng Qingzhen got up to pull her hair, and inserted the gilded agate phoenix hairpin made by the palace for her, "Now that you are an adult, you have to take on your due responsibilities." ”
Meng Qing helped Chang Yuanli to get up, facing everyone, and the ceremonial official sang loudly: "Licheng!" ”
Tan Wei then held a holy decree, everyone held their breath, the ceremonial official was only responsible for the ceremony, and Tan Wei's holy decree was related to Chang Yuanli's title and position in the court in the future.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, the sixth princess Chang Yuanli is the king of Yue, give the fief to seal the yang, you can freely enter and leave the palace and live in the capital for a long time, Qin this!"
"Xie Mu Huang!"
She took the holy decree with both hands, King Yue was still her after all, and the title with the empress homophone was the same as that of King Chen, Chang Yuanqin's face became extremely ugly when he heard this title.
The accompanying fate of the king also refreshed the cognition of Chang Yue's favored daughter, what is Fengyang, the degree of prosperity is not less than the second city in the capital, if it is not smaller than the capital, the capital of Nanyu Kingdom will be located there, living in the capital for a long time is a great favor for the prince, and now, the prince in the capital is only King Chen and King Rui'an.
Without the shackles of the six princesses and the restrictions on leaving the palace, Chang Yuanli, who became the king of Yue, was like a python without natural enemies, and she moved out of the palace to the Yue Palace, and took away all her things and people in Jingren Palace.
The first thing she did when she stayed in the Yue Wang's Mansion was to replace all the people sent from the palace, including those sent by Chang Yue and those sent by Meng Qingzhen, and she sent them to clean the courtyard together, leaving no one with her.
"Your Highness, there are people outside the palace who ask to see you." Yu Xiaonian carried two bowls of freshly cooked osmanthus lotus seed soup to the hall.
Who would come to see her at such a late hour?
She got up and walked towards the door, the door of the house had been opened, she must have been an acquaintance, otherwise her secret guards would not have been able to open the door.
"Who is it...!" A gust of wind suddenly and forcefully brushed Chang Yuanli's neck, she hurriedly turned around but there was no one, and in the tense state of her whole body, she fell into a familiar embrace.
"Alley... I am back. ”
It was him, her third brother, who disappeared without a trace after leaving without leaving a letter two years ago, and she didn't know that he had returned to Luo'an until the mother gave her holy decree, and now he was standing in the palace of the king of Yue wearing a battle robe.
Chang Yuanli hugged him back, grabbing the clothes behind Chang Jingwen with his hands, "It's good to come back... Just come back..."
"I came back in time for you, and there are no good things on the way, so my brother will give you a good birthday gift another day." He wiped Chang Yuanli's tears of joy with the back of his hand, "It's all the king of Yue, why are you still crying so much?" ”
"I'm happy!"
"Okay, good, happy, come in, why are you wearing so little on this cold day?" He put the cloak on his body over Chang Yuanli's body, which was only wearing two single clothes.
The lotus seed soup prepared by Yu Xiaonian was just cold enough to eat, and the brother and sister talked about the past while eating a sweet supper.
It wasn't until Chang Jingwen mentioned last year's war that he suddenly asked: "The Nujiao people have been very powerful in recent years, and they have repeatedly provoked the border areas of Nanyu Kingdom. ”
"Huh?" She had never heard of this group before, and immediately sounded earnestly.
"He is a descendant of the barbarian clan and the Nanyu Kingdom, and he is good at horse tactics and is proficient in horse archery."
"Can't the third brother beat him?"
"They are too sleek, they are good at fighting ground shield battles, consuming the physical strength of our army, if they attack rashly, they are really... It's hard to say. ”
Chang Yuanli turned the silver ring on his finger, "Is there still an army in the Nanyu Kingdom that the mother emperor has never used?" ”
"No, you can't touch that!"
The army that Chang Yuanli said, its composition is not a human, but a beast, because this army needs experienced animal trainers and beasts with high IQ and agility, so this army has never been on the battlefield since its establishment.
"Whew!"
Xiaobai suddenly appeared, followed by a white and gray cub.
"These two?" Chang Jingwen curiously picked up a little gray cub, the little wolf cub didn't recognize it at all, and stretched out his little pink tongue and licked his palm, "Have you chosen a name?" ”
"Big gray and white." A cheap name is easy to support, and she has always adhered to this fine tradition.
"Isn't Xiaobai unworthy of anyone? Why did you suddenly have a child? ”
Chang Yuanli snorted coldly and kicked Xiao Bai who was lying at her feet, "Who knows, when I came back last month, there were these two behind my buttocks." ”
She also wondered, she didn't know how noble the she-wolf bloodline she used to breed with Xiaobai was, but she couldn't look down on it, good guy, she just did big things in a muffled voice, and the children came out.
"Third brother, I want to talk about business with Ten Thousand Beasts."
It seems that his sister is determined to build this unpopular team this time.
"Do you want the army to find the mother? Why do you want that mess? ”
What Chang Jingwen didn't know was that the huge Nanyu Kingdom, although there were many people, but the army was too small, and the only few armies, the forbidden army was headed by Chang Yuanqin, the king of Chen, including the Nanyu army, which was also in her hands, the Chang'an Army was a cavalry army established by Chang Yue for Chang Jingwen two years ago, and the Yulin Army was originally controlled by the regent, and Chang Yuanli was not qualified to interfere with these important armies, and the remaining small army was scattered and scattered She couldn't look down on it, so the remaining one was the Wild Foot Army.