Chapter seven hundred and nineteen dolls(1/2)
Half past Si, the people on the west street of the Imperial City of Jin gave in to both sides, and then they knelt on their knees and kowtowed respectfully.
Two rows of royal guards made up a 100-man team led the way and escorted a golden dragon chariot driven by six horses, carved with dragon and phoenix patterns and gem pearls.
After the dragon chariot passed, the people on both sides stood up. Some of them said enviously: "We, the emperor, and the queen, are really in love. Not only are the queen allowed to return to the father-in-law's house to visit relatives every year, but they are also allowed to ride on the emperor's dragon chariot."
Someone echoed, "I heard that the prince passed by the father-in-law's mansion early in the morning. The father-in-law's family is very blessed."
Outside the main gate of the father-in-law's mansion, A Si and Yu Jin stood and waited with their servants.
Prince Fang Jun, who said he wanted to help them see when their mother queen would arrive, ran back from the corner and said, "Here's here! It's the team led by Uncle Guo."
Yu Jin pulled Fang Jun to his side: "With the Royal Guard present, don't mess around."
Fang Jun smiled and said, "Jun'er is very sensible."
When the golden dragon chariot was parked in front of the gate of the father-in-law's mansion, a burly guard with a knife salute to A Si and Yu Jin and said, "Slave Guo Wei was ordered by the emperor to escort the Empress back to the Jin'an Gong Mansion. I have met Duke An of Jin, Duke An of Jin, and His Highness the Crown Prince."
A Si, who was named Duke An of Jin, said to Guo Wei: "Guard Guo, please get up."
Guo Wei stood up and walked to the dragon chariot to ask for instructions: "Empress, Jin'an Gong Mansion has arrived."
A solemn voice from the dragon chariot said, "Check up the curtain."
Four palace maids on both sides slowly lifted the curtains for him as they said.
The stars wearing golden phoenix hairpin and snow-white sable fur returned from the dragon chariot.
A Si and Yu Jin led everyone to kneel down and said, "See the Queen."
Xing Hui knew that her father didn't like this complicated tape, so she quickly stepped forward and helped A Si and Yu Jin up and said, "No need to be polite."
Xinghui said to Guo Wei again: "Guardian Guo, you will send the gifts brought by the emperor to the mansion. You will return to the palace with me in the afternoon at Shen time."
Guo Wei and the members of the Royal Guard said in unison: "As for your order!"
Xinghui saw Fang Jun secretly looking at her, and she chuckled and said, "Go back home."
When he entered the Jin'an Gong Mansion, Xinghui ignored the four personal palace maids who were following him, took A Si and Yu Jin's hands and walked towards the warm room with a familiarity.
Yu Jin knew her daughter's temperament, so she greeted the four palace maids first and asked them to go to the residence to rest in the living room. Then she said to the two confidant maids: "Take the venison meat in the kitchen and roast it in the room next to you, and then submit it to the queen when she wants to eat it."
"Yes." The two maids replied.
Xinghui showed a joyful expression as soon as he entered the warm room, because her parents not only prepared a wide chair with a velvet blanket for her, but also placed various pastries and fruits she liked to eat next to the wide chair.
Xing returned around the heating stove in the house, took off his sable fur and leaned against the wide chair. She said to Yu Jin, "Mom, bring me another blanket to cover my legs."
Yu Jin said to her, "Xinghui, no matter how you say it is the queen. If you don't pay attention to etiquette, no wonder Empress Dowager Dexian will complain about you."
Yu Jin said that, but she had already held a velvet blanket in her hand and handed it to Xinghui.
After Xinghui covered it, he said, "Mom, I am already very tired from the etiquette in the palace. I can come back for a day before the New Year every year, so please let me have a good rest."
Fang Jun, who was sitting on the chair, peeling tangerines, also replied to Xing: "Grandma, my mother is right."
"What's right! I haven't said about you yet. You're going to be twenty-nine next year. Has your Crown Princess chosen?" Yu Jin asked.
Seeing that the conversation turned to him, Fang Jun immediately handed the peeled tangerine to A Si. He said, "Didn't my grandfather be in his early thirties when he married you?"
"You!" Yu Jin was so angry that Fang Jun said that, so he simply sat aside without saying anything.
A Si, who had eaten a piece of tangerine, said to Fang Jun: "Your grandma is just caring about your lifelong affairs, and you still use me to anger her. You, go and coax your grandma."
Fang Jun took the tangerines handed over by A Si, and he ran to please Yu Jin and said, "Grandma, you eat tangerines. After you eat them, I might meet a decisive person next year."
Yu Jin's tense face suddenly smiled: "This is what you said."
Fang Jun said to A Si: "Grandpa, you see, grandma is not angry."
A Si also laughed, but then a glimmer flashed in his eyes. He asked Xiang Xing and replied, "Xing'er, are you good in the palace recently?"
Xinghui, who was lying on a wide chair, was eating a piece of pancake. She swallowed it and said, "It's pretty good, but I'm a little tired."
Yu Jin said carelessly: "What's wrong?"
Xing replied, "I have been sleeping a little late recently. At the morning of Mao, I have to get up to pay tribute to Empress Dowager Dexian. On the sixth, nineteenth day of every month, I have to copy Buddhist scriptures for her and pray for peace. When she is in her mood, she still needs to embroider and make clothes according to her requirements."
Yu Jin reminded: "If you can enter the Tian family, you must abide by the rules of the Tian family. Don't neglect Empress Dowager Dexian."
"Mom, I've been paying attention. But I always feel that Empress Dowager Dexian doesn't like me very much. She clearly can tell her servants to do what she wants me to do. If Brother Yi hadn't helped me all the time, I feel that Empress Dowager Dexian would make things difficult for me in many ways." Xinghui said with grievance.
Yu Jin whispered, "This is your duty. Even if the emperor favors you, Empress Dowager Dexian is his biological mother. If these complaints come to her, not only you, but our family will be held accountable."
Fang Jun replied to Xing, "Grandma, Empress Dowager Dexian is making things difficult for my mother. Once I went to the palace to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager. Before I even walked to the door, I heard her ask the Emperor why he chose the Empress Dowager for my father. The Emperor said that this was destiny, so she told her not to take care of her too much, and to enjoy her old age in the palace. But the Empress Dowager seemed unwilling to do so. She said that she could not control her destiny, but she could still enforce the royal rules."
Yu Jin was really angry now. She slapped the table and said, "What trouble are you causing here again!"
Fang Jun was so scared that all the tangerines in his hand fell to the ground.
Seeing this, A Si said, "Okay, it's the New Year, don't do this."
Yu Jin said angrily: "You both spoiled them! As a royal family, there is no rule at all. Now he dares to criticize the Supreme Emperor and the Empress Dowager here! If these words are spread, how do you let the royal family view our family?"
A Si's eyes narrowed and said, "Royal? I value my family more than the royal family!"
Yu Jin was shocked by A Si's gaze. She had only seen this kind of gaze when Shi Wu broke off contact with A Si. At that time, A Si was tired and wanted to go back to the waterfall. If Xinghui hadn't appeared, he might have left long ago.
Yu Jin suppressed his anger and asked A Si: "What's wrong with you?"
Before A Si could reply to her, Xinghui said first: "My father just thinks you are too flirting with the royal family. In your opinion, even if I am troubled by Empress Dowager Dexian, I deserve it. But my father doesn't think so, he feels sorry for me."
Yu Jin's anger that had just been extinguished was instantly ignited. She clenched her fists and said, "Everything is my fault. I shouldn't have promised you this marriage!"
Xinghui frowned and said, "Mom, can you just talk about the matter? I'm talking about you who helps the royal family, but you talk about my marriage. I'm very grateful for letting me meet Brother Yi, but this does not mean that everything the royal family does is right."
A Si said aloud, "Xing'er, you can say less. Today is the day for our family to reunite. Jun'er, help your mother and grandparents go to the next house to get some roasted venison. Grandpa is hungry."
Frightened Fang Jun said a word and went out of the warm room.
As Si seemed to be really hungry, he picked up a piece of red bean cake at hand and started eating. The red bean cake that should have been sweet and soft and glutinous. He smelled like a wax in A Si's mouth. Because Shi Wu sent a message to him before, telling him that the plan had begun, and Shi Wu also said that Xinghui had the fourth layer of spiritual power of a monk's Qi Condensation in his body. A Si knew what this meant, so he asked Xinghui's recent situation in the palace. Who knew that what he heard was the empress dowager Dexian's trouble for her. After Yu Jin repeatedly defended the royal family, he also expressed his thoughts. His family is always more important than the royal family!
There is a small city called Shuiguan City 15,000 miles north of the imperial city of Jin. Although it is not as rich as the imperial city, it is also full of traffic.
Shi Wu, wearing a brown robe, and Xia Yinyin, wearing a blue robe, floated down on the main road three miles away from Shuiguan City.
Seeing that Shi Wu was in a bad mood, Xia Yinyin looked for a topic and said, "Brother Shi, is there someone who is very important to you in that house just now?"
"Well, there is my fourth uncle. His daughter Xinghui, mentioned earlier, is also going home to visit her relatives today." Shi Wudao.
Xia Yinyin said: "That's really a coincidence."
Shi Wudao: "It's not a coincidence. I came to Jin Imperial City once after I told the three brothers of Zhang outside Xuanjia Village. I told the fourth uncle about my initial plan, and we agreed to see you again on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month. The reason why Xinghui went home today was probably because he deliberately did it. I have also discovered that Xinghui had the spiritual power of a cultivator in the fourth level of Qi Condensation Cultivator. According to Fang Yi's plan, he would use her as spiritual power when he was promoted to the foundation building stage."
After hearing this, Xia Yinyin settled there awkwardly. She felt that the topic she was looking for was really not very good.
Shi Wu turned to her and said, "What's wrong?"
Xia Yinyin shook her head and said, "It's nothing. I just feel that Brother Shi has never laughed when he came out of Xuanjia Village."
Shi Wu cooperated and said with a wry smile: "Is this OK?"
"Forget it, Brother Shi should do whatever he wants." Xia Yinyin felt that Shi Wu was laughing uglier than crying now.
Shi Wu said as he walked, "Yinyin, in the future, you will receive Xuan Kuo's command signal. You can ask the leader Liu Han for instructions on my behalf and ask her to send someone down to pick Xuan Kuo up."
"Okay, Yinyin has written it down." Xia Yinyin said.
Shi Wu said gratefully: "I'm thankful for you."
Xia Yinyin said unhappily: "Brother Shi, where is this?"
"Of course you're welcome." Shi Wu smiled knowingly this time.
Xia Yinyin laughed happily after hearing this.
The two people who walked into Shuiguan City were immediately watched by the people on the street. They were all talking about this pair of fairy-like men and women.
Shi Wu found an ordinary inn in the city. After paying for the two rooms for four days with the last small piece of gold on the gold medal, he and Xia Yinyin meditated and rested in their respective rooms.
Four days passed in a flash. Not only did they not come out to walk around, but they had not even had food to drink.
When it was You, the inn owner thought that it was New Year's Eve and he didn't want to cause any strange things. So he asked the friend to knock on the door of the two of them. Unexpectedly, the doors of the two rooms were not locked. When the man saw that no one responded after asking, he plucked in and walked in. The utensils inside were neatly placed, and the bedding and other things had never been moved. The rumors of immortals visiting in Shuiguan City spread wildly.
In the imperial palace of Jin, royal relatives and important officials in the court who came one after another were taken to Wanxing Hall by palace maids and eunuchs.
Emperor Jin Fang Yi was in the bedroom where Queen Xing returned.
Xing Hui told Fang Yi that he was depressed since he came back that night. She told Fang Yi that she was really tired and that she would not only practice at night, but also get up early during the day to pay her respects to Empress Dowager Dexian. Empress Dowager Dexian would come and call her if she was interested.
Fang Yi heard the words and told Xing directly that he would help her deal with these things in the future, and she just had to practice well at night.
Xinghui thought Fang Yi felt sorry for her, but he didn't know that everything that happened in the Jin'an Gong Mansion had been passed back to Fang Yi by spies. He thought that he could start to be promoted to a foundation-building monk after New Year's Eve. At that time, he swallowed the foundation-building pill and used Xinghui as spiritual power supply. When he was promoted to the foundation-building, he would announce to the public that Queen Xinghui suddenly died of a serious disease. As for A Si, who was disrespectful to the royal family, he would also spread the news that Jin'an Gong Si Nu Chengji died of depression after killing him.
Xinghui, who is now kept in the dark, is trying to make a red costume that Fang Yi ordered someone to make for her. The golden silk flying phoenix pattern on it made her look unspeakable. Xinghui turned around and asked, "Brother Yi, am I beautiful?"
Fang Yi smiled and said, "My Xing'er is the most beautiful."
Xing Huiyi laughed: "Which concubines are going to attend today's New Year's Eve dinner?"
Fang Yi said pamperingly: "You are enough."
Xinghui said with satisfaction: "Then let's go over."
At the moment of You, with the eunuch general manager saying "The Emperor and the Queen arrive", Fang Yi and Xinghui entered Wanxing Hall together.
To be continued...