Chapter Ninety-Seven: Male and Female
Two days later, Weaving Dream and Zhu'an stood next to the altar of the Nanfeng Hall again, but this time they did not come for the competition, but to watch the ceremony.
The enthronement ceremony of the streamer.
The Nanfeng Hall is full of lights and has a new look, and it is even more grand and gorgeous than the day of the Tuoba Festival.
The one hundred and eight stone steps leading to the altar have been replaced with a new red carpet, and on both sides of the steps, in addition to the ceremonial officials and female officials wearing uniform crimson dresses holding flowers and incense burners standing solemnly and quietly, two columns of pennants fluttering in the wind have also been erected, and the totems of the southern country are painted, hunting in the wind, and the scene is becoming more and more grand. There are still a lot of lanterns floating in the central mirror lake, like a lotus flower that suddenly blooms in a pond, it is a lot more lively than the last time I saw it, and even the competition platform in the center of the mirror lake has put a statue of a vermilion bird beast, which is sacrosanct, and the ground that was damaged in the final has been repaired again, and there are almost no traces to see it.
The well-arranged Nanfeng Hall will usher in a grand ceremony to welcome the new king.
The new king ascended the throne, how could the people of the southern kingdom who loved to join in the excitement be absent, and once again crowded the open space on both sides, bustling, everyone was full of happy and excited smiles, looking forward to today's ceremony.
The two of them also came for this, and the three people who came out of the Dongxuan Hall each won three games after drawing lots, and in the end, they each had to have a contest between the three of them to compete for the final winner.
However, the two of them came to help the streamer, and since the streamer had won the game by his own means, this final competition was no longer necessary, so the two of them glanced at each other and announced their abstention with a smile on the spot.
So far, the streamer has become the final winner of this Tuoba event.
According to the rules, he is the new king.
Streamer informed them early, please they must come and see, after all, he really hopes that these two people who stood by his side gently when his life was the most confused can also witness such an important moment by his side at this time. He specially asked the female officials to leave two places for them to be next to the altar, a place that belonged to the southern royal family on weekdays, so that they could easily watch the ceremony, and the two of them had no reason to refuse so much, so they gladly went.
After the enthronement ceremony, the streamer will hand over the Evil Gu to them as promised, and the purpose of this trip to the south has finally been achieved, and it is barely smooth. After all, they had originally planned for the worst, but when they had no choice but to do it, they could only be a gentleman on the beam once to steal the evil Gu out, although such a plan was not very gentlemanly, but there was really no other way. Now that there is no need to do such a sneaky thing, the two of them are relieved, and it is better to be able to take the evil Gu openly.
The two were talking in a low voice, and three salute bells rang in the hall, and with the singing and drinking of the ceremonial officials, solemn ceremonial music sounded, and the enthronement ceremony officially began. It is still the holy woman who worships the ancestors and prays for blessings first, and then goes to the enthronement ceremony of the streamer.
Weaving Dream watched with interest, waiting for the streamer to come out
Wait, she was stunned, what is the situation......
Although her right hand was still wrapped in a bandage, she had been much better in the past two days under the careful and proper care of Zhu'an, at least now when she was doing things with her right hand, Zhu'an finally withdrew his watchful and somewhat condemning look. It's not that the right hand is idle, after all, the right hand is a dominant hand, and it is more convenient to use.
She raised her right hand and pointed to what she was seeing, and began to doubt her eyes.
"Brother...... Streamer him this is ......"
I saw a familiar thin figure walking out from the direction of the palace, but today it was very different, the whole person was bright, like a bud blooming with dew in the first ray of sunshine in the morning.
The messy soft short hair that started from the meeting was carefully combed today, and a light-colored forehead was tied between the forehead for decoration, and there was a heroic feeling of wearing short hair. The face that was beaten to the deformation in the final finally recovered its original appearance after a few days of recuperation, even if there were faint bruises, if you looked closely, you could see that it was slightly covered with rouge gouache, but at this glance, the little face was exceptionally white, and the eyes like the saint became more and more blue, as if they were filled with stars from the sea.
However, these are not the reasons for Weaving Dreams' surprise, the crimson auspicious dress that Streamer is wearing is ...... Women wear it, right?
The southern kingdom advocates the four elephants, and the Vermilion Bird is respected, so the red of the Vermilion Bird is also the color of the southern royal family, the most noble color, like the auspicious dress worn by the glazed saint is also solemn and crimson, and the new king's auspicious dress is also natural to choose red, but why is the hem of the auspicious dress of the streamer a skirt?
That's the style of a woman's dress, right?
This...... Is it always mistaken?
Different from the surprise of Weaving Dreams, Zhu'an had a calm face, as if he had known it for a long time, and saw that her eyes were full of dissatisfaction and threat, so he explained in a low voice.
"Well, Ah Meng, the little girl must wear a skirt. ”
“......”
Little girl?streamer...... Is it a girl?
What's going on?
Why didn't she find out......
This can't be blamed on her, the streamer has been a messy short hair since they met, few little girls will have such short hair, and the streamer is just a thirteen-year-old child, the voice is childish, soft and glutinous, and it is impossible to distinguish the gender from these points of view alone, plus the streamer himself deliberately concealed it, and claimed that he was a man when chatting with Weaving Dreams, Weaving Dreams did not doubt him, so he acquiesced that Streamer was a boy.
However, the sudden truth, now that I think about it carefully, it seems that there are traces to follow, but her own mind is not on this, and she didn't pay attention to it.
When he first met the streamer, his brother's reaction was very strange, he didn't want to have too much physical contact with the streamer, and he didn't want to live in the house with the two of them, and the streamer told them that she didn't participate in the Tuoba Festival to be king, but to marry a saint, and at that time my brother's face was extremely weird, presumably at that time
My brother was surprised that a little girl wanted to marry a woman, which was too fantastical. It's just that the streamer refused to say it, and Zhu'an thoughtfully did not break through the streamer's concealment, after all, not everyone has the courage to cut off their long hair so casually.
But after weaving dreams, I also felt that I was a little sluggish, thinking about it, how could there be such a crying boy, after meeting them, he cried almost every day, and every time he looked like that, it made her feel very distressed.
It's so hateful that I actually lied to her!
The line of sight was far away from the streamer on the altar, and in the solemn and solemn atmosphere of the entire hall, the streamer secretly winked at her, and it looked particularly out of the crowd of solemn officials with serious faces.
Weaving Dream originally wanted to pretend to be angry, but she couldn't help but laugh when she saw this.
Whether it's a little girl or not, isn't this still the streamer they are familiar with?
Standing on the altar with his back straight, he listened to the ceremonial officer read the Southern Rites in his ears in a low and serious voice, and his voice was like a bell, which made people awe-inspired. In her sight is the imaginary grand scene of worship of all peoples, such a scene is tantamount to a scene that can only be seen in such a high position, which always makes people's blood boil and yearn for it.
Although she had longed for such a grand scene in her heart, when she was really in this position, the scene like a dream was really staged in front of her eyes, but she inexplicably felt very calm in her heart, not as excited as she imagined.
Maybe this is just because what she is pursuing has never been royal power and wealth, and she is on the rise.
All she wanted was to protect and change this rotten fate.
In order to protect his sister, Tianque Jun, who bravely went to death, if he did nothing and let him die like this, his name would soon be forgotten by the fickle people, and the people who remembered him would fall into the quagmire of pain day and night.
She never understood before, why Sister A, who still stood out among so many outstanding children, was silent and crying at the Jin Feng ceremony, and she didn't understand until later, because she was forced to choose the path she didn't want to set foot on, it was like wearing a heavy shackle on her hands and feet, and she felt depressed when she even walked out of the palace to look at the sunshine outside.
Sister Ah is obviously a gentle person, who has always taken care of her and guarded her, but because she likes someone, she has to suffer so much, and she falls into the tragedy of an infinite cycle of being given to a strange winner by the state as a reward for battle again and again.
Did Tianque-kun do something wrong?
Did Sister Ruri do something wrong?
The streamer's heart told himself that they were clearly not wrong, that what was wrong was such a vain and cruel struggle, and that what was wrong was this sick tradition.
She chose to protect her sister, protect her heart, and protect the path she wanted.
Despite all the obstacles, her expectations have slowly begun to fill up from a dream, and now she has done it.
What more could she do?