Shu Yan is bored in Shangshutai on weekdays to handle official business and draft documents, and he has not moved his muscles and bones for a long time. In addition, I was very happy to see that the emperor was so frail and still insisted on plowing according to the rules of etiquette. When he returned to the party hall that night, he simply cooked some food and ate it, and his excitement was not diminished, but no one around him could share his excitement at the moment. Although there is Ye Chung, since he became this good brewer, he is in harmony with his nature, soaking in the good brewing department every day, often drunk, what can he say to him? So naturally I thought of Xiao Mo again: "This guy ...... It's time to come back! ”

The earth warms up, and everything sprouts. Outside the window, the orchid grass that Shu Yan and Zhixin gave away from Cailan has grown new shoots. Somehow, every time he sees this orchid plant, he feels full of strength, especially when he encounters setbacks in life and officialdom, looking at it, he will have the motivation to overcome everything.

The newly sprouted bluegrass made Shu Yan even more excited, and the loneliness after Xiao Mo left made him feel uneasy. He picked up the sword left by Xiao Mo, walked into the courtyard, and danced wildly, swaying the excitement that his own cultivation could not exert to the fullest. Practice to the end, wash and sleep by yourself. He lay on the bed and guessed: Biyu must be tired today, and now he should be surrounded and cared for by a group of servants. He has never been served by others when he is so old, and he can't figure out why it is necessary for a healthy person with hands and feet to have someone else do his life.

When I woke up the next day, my legs felt a little sore. "Is this worth it?" He thought to himself, he blamed himself for not being active for a long time, doing such a little work, dancing the sword for so long, and his legs would be sore. This has never been done before. This is not good, from tomorrow onwards, you have to exercise every morning, young man, you don't have a good pair of muscles! From then on, he would wake up a little early every morning, dance a sword, and then go on something else.

After pro-ploughing, it is time to operate the first silkworm. In fact, since the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, the emperor's personal cultivation has been held every year, but the queen's silkworm has never been held, and this year is the first time. The emperor's personal cultivation belongs to the main road, and the queen's silkworm belongs to the Kun Dao, and the two should be indispensable, but for various reasons, the gift of the silkworm has been abandoned for a long time, and it was so before the establishment of the Jin Dynasty. Since last year, there have been ministers to play the emperor: Your Majesty Shengming is benevolent, repairing the gift of the first king, plowing the field, and the queen should also be the virtue of life, and now the Kun Dao is not glorious, the silkworm ceremony is still lacking, and it violates the etiquette system, so I implore the emperor to restore the gift of the silkworm as soon as possible.

Sima Yan also deeply agreed with this, and immediately prepared to implement it. The silkworm ceremony has not been held for a long time, and as a formal grand auspicious ceremony, it cannot be held just by talking about it, and there is a lot of preparation work that needs to be done in between. In addition to being familiar with the series of steps in strict accordance with etiquette, a series of hardware facilities must be built. First of all, there must be a silkworm palace, and the silkworm palace is placed in twenty-seven silkworm rooms, and there are silkworm palace orders and silkworm palace officials in charge, of course, these officials in the silkworm palace are also filled by eunuchs. In addition, it is necessary to build a silkworm altar, which is one zhang high and two zhang square, and there are steps on all sides to take the stage. In addition to the silkworm palace, the first silkworm altar, there must be a mulberry picking altar, and on the day, there must be a curtain palace for the queen to rest.

The silkworm, like the pro-farming, is not only a symbolic persuasion of the world's female red, but also has a practical use for the silk it produces, that is, for sacrificial clothing.

The home field is in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang City, and the mulberry picking forest is opposite to the home field, in the western suburbs of Luoyang City. The first silkworm was led by the queen Yang Zhi, leading the emperor's concubines, princesses, dukes and ladies with titles, and some female scholars of the harem, all women.

On the day of bowing mulberry, before the queen arrived, the silkworm palace first had to sacrifice to the silkworm god. There are two silkworm gods, namely the Yuan Woman and the Princess Yu. The silkworm gods have been the same in all dynasties, but the specifications for sacrifice are not the same. In the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial specifications of the queen's first silkworm were one grade lower than that of the emperor's personal cultivation. In the Jin Dynasty, the sacrificial specifications of the first silkworm were improved, and they were also used as firmly as the emperor himself.

On the auspicious day, the queen Yang Zhi dressed up according to the ceremony, wearing twelve flutes and shaking, wearing green clothes and green umbrella covers, riding an oil painting mica car driven by six horses. The six-horse carriage was the highest specification of the chariot, and no one except the emperor and empress was eligible to ride. The specifications of the car are so high, and the person driving is not an ordinary person, but the wife of one of the nine Qings. The imperial servant was in charge of the emperor's carriages and horses, and the emperor traveled as the emperor's royal husband. In this way, it is logical that his wife is the queen's royal husband. In addition to the high-standard drivers, the crew is the wife of a general of the higher rank of the three princes. It can be seen that no matter how high the status is, they are all slaves in front of the Son of Heaven. In addition, there is also a court lady Shangshu wearing a sable cicada and wearing a scarf to accompany her. Except for the queen, the rest of the concubines and princesses rode in three-horse carriages, and the rest of the wives and wives of the princes followed in their husbands' standard cars, each carrying hooks, baskets and other things for mulberry picking.

Although all the people who participate in the silkworm ceremony are women, they must also be escorted by men along the way. At the front of the convoy, there was Luoyang Ling as a guide, and there were also lieutenants in the convoy, Hu Ben guards, and Yu Lin Lang generals to escort them. The entire convoy rode in the middle of the royal road, and the people outside the city hid on both sides to watch the grand scene. It's just that the cars of these female dependents are more tightly covered, and outsiders can only see the grand scene, but they can't see the people inside.

In the middle of the procession, the seventeenth princess sat on an oil painting car, heard the cars and horses outside, and the sound of the tiger army shouting, and knew that there must be many people on both sides, and it was very lively. I've been stuffy in the palace for a long time, and today is such an opportunity to get out of the palace, how can I hold it? She was still young after all, so she secretly lifted the curtain and looked out. I saw that the houses and pavilions on both sides of the street were scattered, the wine flag door plaques were shining, and the pedestrians on the street were even more bustling.

"Wow, what a hilarious one!" Princess Seventeen sighed.

"The whole world belongs to my Sima family, but unfortunately, I rarely see it." Although the scenery in the palace is good, it is boring to death: the buildings are all high-rise halls, golden tiles and red walls; The characters are all palace maids and eunuchs; The costumes are all silk silk. She looked at all kinds of people, all kinds of clothes, all kinds of cars and horses, and all kinds of buildings on the street, and she was dazzled, as if she had just arrived in the world. There are a lot of people crowded in front of a large store, and the sign in front of the door reads "Shuizhitang". "If water is like fat, it must be a shop that sells rouge gouache." The seventeenth princess thought about it, so she looked in, but there were three people standing in the door of the store, blocking her view, one with yellow hair and one with black hair, and two maidservants surrounded a young man. Although she is a maidservant, she is no worse than the characters in the palace. Look at that young man again-hey, isn't this the young man who sat with Xiao Mo and Shu Shangshulang at the imperial banquet? Thinking of Xiao Mo's teasing of her choice of a colt, the seventeenth princess blushed.

This scene was seen by Biyu. Today is Biyu's day off, and he and Ah Miao and Ah Yan are from the water fat hall where they choose some fat powder, but they don't want to catch up with the queen silkworm's car. The curtains on the other cars were tightly covered, but this one was the only one, not only did not cover it, but lifted the curtain by itself.

Biyu looked at the car driving in the distance and thought: "I don't know what the identity of this delicate palace man is, in terms of appearance, he is not inferior to Ah Miao and Ah Yan who are left and right to me." But judging by her age and attire, she shouldn't be a princess and a palace maid, is she a princess? ”

It's windy season. Biyu was in her delusional thoughts, when suddenly a gust of wind blew open the curtain of another two-horse carriage passing in front of her, and a noble lady and a young woman were sitting in the car. The girl stretched out her jade hand and hurriedly tucked the wind-blown curtain.

At this moment, he was facing the four eyes of Biyu. When the girl first saw a young man, she looked at each other for a short time, and was slightly embarrassed in a hurry, but soon regained her composure, and her heart was still calm.

But at this moment, Biyu froze on the spot, and he didn't come to his senses for a long time. Why? Biyu himself doesn't know much. This girl is beautiful, but not only because of beauty, it seems that there is a long-lost feeling, or déjà vu, or there is a sense of destiny in the dark. In short, he himself could not say. After a long time, looking at the car, he knew that this was not a royal car, so he thought: "Which lady in the house is this, just like a fairy." What did I deliver today? Not only did I see a beautiful princess, but I also saw a fairy girl...... "Thinking about it like this, and then look at Ah Miao and Ah Yan around me, maybe I am used to seeing it, but I don't have any color!"

Since getting the news that Zhixin fell into the water and died that year, Biyu has been hit with a lot of shock in his heart, as if he was stabbed with a knife. Although Zhixin was cold to him, although there was an insurmountable gap between them, maybe because of the drifting egg on the Shangsi Festival, maybe because of the coincidence that they were born on the same year, month and day, he also knew that it was impossible for him to marry a poor concubine, and she would not be willing to marry him, but ......

In the two years since he came to Luoyang, there have been many people who have been his matchmakers. Of course, the women are all daughters of wealthy families in Luoyang City, but, without exception, Biyu will refuse, and I don't know where this disgust comes from. Out of nostalgia for Zhixin? How could it be possible for a dead poor woman? He doesn't want to admit it himself? Is it because there are two gentle and considerate and delicate flower-like maids around you? I don't know, anyway, the fire of his body and mind was vented on Ah Miao and Ah Yan.

But today, he inadvertently peeked at two beautiful women, but it made his heart tremble and commit evil. "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island. My Fair Lady, Gentleman. "—The princess naturally doesn't dare to hope for extravagance, but with my family background, the other girl—should be desirable, right?

It was easy to find out which house the girl belonged to, Biyu was very surprised when she heard it, and smiled to herself: "It turned out to be such a coincidence." ”