Chapter 342: Sacrifice to the Heavens
"Ahh Princess Linyang let out a miserable scream, and she and the box were instantly overwhelmed by the flames, and in less than a moment, they completely disappeared.
Xie Yunxiao was stunned for a moment, the fire path law from Bi Fang was so terrifying?
"Why don't I feel right?" Xie Yunxiao couldn't help but whisper to himself, his gaze swept around, but he didn't find anything unusual.
A few gullies and crevices on the ground were still there, and Xiao Mo's white bones were not far away.
But I don't know why, Xie Yunxiao always felt that everything that happened in front of him was not real.
"Am I overthinking?" Xie Yunxiao muttered to himself softly, he looked at everything around him and decided to walk through this city again.
The palaces here, Xie Yunxiao also walked through them one by one.
But inside the palace was empty, there was nothing.
"That's it, it looks like I'm thinking too much!" Xie Yunxiao wandered around the city for nearly two days before walking out.
In the mountain stream, the entrance has long been hidden.
Xie Yunxiao came out of it and didn't let it fluctuate much.
But at this time, the inexplicable feeling in Xie Yunxiao's heart still did not disappear, for the sake of insurance, he stayed in the mountains for nearly three days, but after all, he found nothing.
"Hope is just a feeling!" Xie Yunxiao muttered to himself softly, he decided to return to Xianyang.
Humble Garden, this is the fifteenth day of Xie Yunxiao's departure.
For half a month, Qin Zheng would come to Humble Garden almost every day, but every time he came, Xie Yunxiao was not there.
In the first few days, she thought that Xie Yunxiao was going to find Li Yuxuan, but after inquiring, she learned that Li Yuxuan had not returned to Xianyang when she went to Heilin.
In this way, Qin Zheng panicked, since he met Xie Yunxiao, Xie Yunxiao would tell her wherever he went, and he never said goodbye without saying goodbye.
Could it be that Xie Yunxiao didn't want her as an apprentice anymore, and quietly ran away and left Xianyang?
"No, no, Master won't want me!" Qin Zheng came to the Humble Garden today, talking to himself alone in Xie Yunxiao's courtyard.
Although she said this, she was really scared in her heart. It was hard for her to imagine how she would continue to walk without Xie Yunxiao in the future.
But at this moment, Qin Zheng turned his head suddenly, just in time to see Xie Yunxiao walking in from the courtyard gate.
Qin Zheng's eyes turned red, and he shouted loudly: "Master! ”
The voice was still reverberating in place, and she had already taken an arrow step into Xie Yunxiao's arms.
Xie Yunxiao was stunned for a moment, a faint fragrance entered his nose, he hurriedly stabilized his mind and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"I thought you were gone!" Qin Zheng cried and said.
Xie Yunxiao said softly: "How come? It's just that I went out for something, and when you were in the palace, I didn't tell you! ”
When Qin Zheng heard this, he was very happy in his heart.
"Master, what have you been doing?" Qin Zheng let go of Xie Yunxiao and couldn't help asking.
Xie Yunxiao will follow Princess Linyang and everything that happened.
Qin Zheng listened very carefully, and then she said, "So, my sister is gone?" ”
"She died in front of my eyes, but for some reason, I don't think she died, and there is an indescribable strangeness in that city!" Xie Yunxiao said.
"What does it mean if she didn't die, but you killed her?" Qin Zheng said.
Xie Yunxiao's eyes were filled with appreciation, he was worthy of being his apprentice, and now when Qin Zheng thought about the problem, he would not only be able to follow the vine, but also empathize.
"What do you think her purpose will be?" Xie Yunxiao asked.
Qin Zheng continued to think, and after a while, she said: "I don't understand what her purpose is for the time being, but it is certain that it is aimed at me!" ”
"Maybe it's not just you!" Xie Yunxiao said.
When Qin Zheng heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she took a deep breath, "I understand!" ”
Xie Yunxiao smiled and nodded, he believed that Qin Zheng would definitely be able to figure it out.
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.
Seeing that the winter solstice is coming, the weather has become much colder.
But this year's winter in Ningguo has not snowed so far.
The arrival of the winter solstice, for the royal family of Yuning, is the most intense festival of the year.
According to the custom left by the ancestors, on the day of the winter solstice, a ceremony to worship the heavens needs to be held.
In Ningguo, sacrificing heaven and earth, not sacrificing to immortals, living between heaven and earth, sacrificing heaven and earth, is not forgetting the source, not counting the classics and forgetting the ancestors.
Recently, King Ning basically doesn't take care of things, and all the affairs of the sacrifice to the heavens have been handed over to Fengchang and Qin Zheng.
Feng Chang used to be the second prince's person, but he was grateful to King Ning for not blaming him for his past, and cut off contact with the second prince, and put all his thoughts on the court.
In this way, this ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens, compared with previous years, is naturally not bad, and the preparation in some aspects, because of Qin Zheng's guidance, has been corrected, and it is already different from previous years.
It was also the direct contact with Qin Zheng that he really realized what kind of character Qin Zheng was, in comparison, the second prince Qin Jiao was too far apart.
It is precisely because after coming into contact with Qin Zheng that Feng Chang made up his mind, and in this way, he can be regarded as fulfilling his duty as a courtier and thinking about Ning Guo.
Arrange everything, Qin Zheng has been in Humble Garden for a while now.
Worshipping the heavens is an extremely grand festival for the seven kingdoms of the world.
At this time, he naturally wouldn't let Xie Yunxiao be idle, but if Xie Yunxiao said that she wouldn't go to the heaven sacrifice ceremony, it was estimated that she would immediately live in the Humble Garden and not leave.
Fortunately, Xie Yunxiao didn't shirk it, and helped arrange everything, not to mention how happy she was in her heart.
Inside the palace, Zhao Yu and King Ning were basking in the winter sun.
"Your Majesty, if you don't go to take a look, the concubines are afraid that if Zheng'er doesn't do well, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will look at it!" Zhao Yu held up his big belly, and his eyes were full of worry.
King Ning said with a smile: "You have to believe in Zheng'er, I thought it would take a while for him to adapt, but I didn't expect that in terms of dealing with political affairs, his talent is really good, as if he was a natural emperor!" ”
Obviously, he didn't know that when he was in the Zhao Kingdom, Qin Zheng had already begun to study the way of the emperor, and dealing with government affairs was just a part of the way of the emperor.
When Zhao Yu heard this, she just smiled indifferently, she knew that there was no natural emperor in this world, and the reason why Qin Zheng was so powerful was because of Xie Yunxiao.
Before they arrived in Xianyang, Xie Yunxiao and Qin Zheng were planning everything.
It is obviously not by chance that we have come to this point.
Zhao Yu couldn't help but glance at King Ning, and thought in his heart, if King Ning knew about the people behind him, how would he react?
"No, the king can't know, especially the female body of Zheng'er, as Zheng'er said, we have no way out!" Thinking of this, Zhao Yu didn't dare to look at King Ning.
King Ning didn't pay attention to this, in his eyes, Zhao Yu has always been the woman who has no scheming.
"Zheng'er is doing well now, that's because you have good guidance, Your Majesty!" Zhao Yu smiled softly.
King Ning smiled indifferently, "So don't worry, when the time comes, we will go to the heaven sacrifice ceremony, and the rest, the widow believes that Zheng'er will definitely do a good job!" ”
Recently, the second prince has been very aggrieved, and those ministers who used to be on his side have all fallen to Qin Zheng one by one.
Xiao Mo, who can give advice, doesn't know where he went.
Princess Linyang, who made a promise, also disappeared.
Qin Jiao came to Queen Qiao Yu's palace, and he really couldn't continue to remain calm.
"Jiao'er, no matter when, you have to believe your sister, since she said that she wants you to wait for a while, then you can wait!" Qiao Yu said.
Over the years, she has been in the palace and has long been fed up with other people's faces, but this has also trained her extraordinary heart.
For her. Success or failure is not so important anymore, alive, I just want to see Princess Linyang and Qin Jiao raise their eyebrows.
"What the queen mother said, the sons also understand, but has the queen mother seen it? Those who used to be on our side have now become Qin Zheng's minions, which is a great disadvantage for us! Qin Jiao said.
Qiao Yu glanced at Qin Jiao, "If you expect those people to succeed, then you are very wrong, they are just grass on the wall, when you win the victory, they will be like Qin Zheng to you." In the world, how many such wall grasses are there? ”
"What the queen mother said, the sons and daughters understand, but the sons are really angry, how many benefits have those people taken from us? Now it's so shameless! Qin Jiao said.
Qiao Yu said: "If you can't even bear this, how can it be a big deal!" ”
"Yes!" Qin Jiao agreed, and he tried his best to stabilize his mind.
In the blink of an eye, it was already the winter solstice.
On this morning, King Ning took the minister of civil and military affairs, as well as the prince Qin Zheng, to the outskirts of Chengyang.
The worship of heaven has always been selected in the northern suburbs of Xianyang, where the terrain is flat and adjacent to Weishui, so it is natural and reasonable to choose here.
Because Xie Yunxiao is Qin Zheng's master, he has a special identity, and today he actually walked in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs and rode with Qin Zheng on horseback.
King Ning sacrificed to the sky this time, and it was not Queen Qiao Yu who brought it, but Mrs. Zhao Yu.
No one objected to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, after all, now that Qin Zheng was already the prince, in their hearts, Zhao Yu's status was no less than that of Queen Qiao Yu.
"The concubines can't say that they are coming, this boat is tiring!" Zhao Yu was not complaining, she had a gentle smile on her face.
King Ning said with a smile: "This is a ceremony to sacrifice to the sky, how can you not come, after all, Zheng'er is now the prince!" ”
Zhao Yu listened, just smiled indifferently, and her heart went up and down.
In the blink of an eye, the large procession had arrived at the place where the ritual of worshipping the heavens was held.
The civil and military officials stood on two sides, each on one side.
At this time, Feng Chang and his subordinates are busy with their work, and when everything is ready, the hour will be one, and the ceremony of sacrificing to heaven will begin.
Although the seven kingdoms of the world are all worshipping the heavens, the Ning country is rarely different.
Ningguo does not worship the gods, but the heavens and the earth, as well as his ancestors, so there are many fewer steps.
Qin Zheng is the prince, and King Ning is still the king of today's Ning Kingdom, and the ceremony of worshipping the heavens naturally needs to be led and presided over by him personally.
He and Qin Zheng walked towards the Temple of Heaven, and at this time, the incense and so on had already been prepared.
Xie Yunxiao stood in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, looking at Qin Zheng and King Ning, walking towards the high Temple of Heaven step by step, at this moment, there was a little turmoil in his heart.
Qin Zheng became the prince, which was the first and most difficult step.
The second step is to become the king of Ning, and the third step is to dominate the world of Kyushu.
There are three key steps in the grand plan to dominate the industry, but there are still many small steps in the middle.
The road doesn't look very long, but it's actually quite long.