After the servants set up a table in the main hall, where incense sticks were burning, Song Yixiao wore solemn make-up and magnificent clothing, kneeling before the hall decently.
After the protocol officer finished reading the article about conferring Song Yixiao with an honorary title, which contained pairs of four parallel constructions and six-character sentences, Song Yixiao kowtowed and expressed her profound gratitude to the Emperor’s honor. Raising her hands above her head, she took over the imperial decree made up of the jade axis and brocade embroidered with flying phoenix-like birds and stood up with the help of the maids by her side. Before she offered her greetings, the protocol officer joined his hands together in salute as he said indifferently, “Your Highness, I have to leave first since I have other official business to take care of!”
“Please take care of yourself!” Based on the protocol officer’s behavior, Song Yixiao knew it was clear tha
Both Jian Xubai and Song Yixiao knew the aunt sent by Empress Dowager, who turned out to be Yuguo, who had accompanied Song Yixiao to the Eastern Palace previously.“Your Highness, Her Majesty was told that something had happened in your mansion last night and Your Highness had been injured. Feeling concerned, Her Majesty sent me here to inquire about the details.” After Yuguo paid her respects, the Jian couple invited her to sit down. Taking a cup of tea served by Jinxun over at her hands, instead of directly taking a sip, Yuguo added with concern, “Your Highness, I wonder how you were injured? Was the injury a serious one?”Song Yixiao pointed at her neck and replied with a smile, “Thanks for Her Majesty’s kindness. I was just somewhat physically injured. It was of no consequence.”She added, “It was because of my carelessness that I was trapped. I feel ashamed about making Empress Dowager worry about me!”Yuguo replied, “Your Hi
Xie Yiren chuckled and said, “If she had targeted me, at worst, I would have apologized to others in the Sikong Family and stayed somewhere else where she couldn’t see me, which would have solved the issue! After all, I went there to offer my congratulations because of my friendship with Yiluo rather than for her sake. Did you know who she had targeted after she had been done with her makeup that day?”Song Yixiao asked, “Who?”“Her legitimate grandmother, Her Highness Great Grand Princess Zhenyang!” Xie Yiren sighed and continued, “Never have I ever seen such a disobedient and unfilial girl in my life!”Song Yixiao was astounded, “How come?”No wonder that Xie Yiren, a legitimate lady brought up obediently according to the rules in Duke of Lai’s mansion, would be driven crazy. In her opinion, Sikong Yihan, who had accused her legitimate grandmother, Great Grand Princess, in public, was overwhelmingly rebellious and cruel!
The weather on the fifth day in November was cloudless and sunny, making everybody assume that the weather the next day surely would be quite good too.However, nobody expected that it would snow that night.In the morning on the sixth day, by the time Empress Su got up, the window in the hall had opened a fraction. The chilly wind coming directly at them was mixed with the snowflakes and icicles surprisingly. As the wind blew past the face, people felt it painful as if their faces had been pierced by a knife.“As the saying goes, a fall of seasonable snow gives the promise of a fruitful year. Rarely has it snowed since the beginning of the winter this year. I hear that all the officials in the court are concerned that the spring plowing will be affected!” As the eldest palace maid, Fangyu, saw the look on Empress Su’s face became dull, she added in a hurry, “However, when the happy day comes when Her Highness Princess Changxing gets married, i
The pavilion was not as good as a real house. After the thick snow and the straw on the top were taken away, the cloth beneath the ragged reed mat was shown.“Hurry!” Pei Yourui’s hair was disheveled and scattered. Her Ruyi hairpins on the bun were gone, her fur was thrown away on the ground nearby, her wrist became purple in the air due to the cold winter wind and her slim and tender fingers were stained with blood for digging the frozen snow packs.However, she had no time to care about that. At the moment, she was only staring at the familiar cloth and urged loudly, “Hurry! Dig faster!”Looking at their young lady pull off a bundle of straw, the servants hastily moved faster.After a while, the rafter and eave purlins of the pavilion top were tied with the spare ropes to several horses. As the leading guard commanded, the horses were whipped and thus ran forward, dragging the pavilion top up. The left straws, reed mat and snow m
The wedding feast in Princess Changxing’s mansion didn’t end until the midnight. On the way back to Duke of Yan’s mansion, Song Yixiao lifted a bit of the curtain and saw the falling snow. She recalled that the compliment about “perfect couple and living together till old age” and couldn’t help sneering. Suddenly, she just threw down the curtain.Having drunk some wine at the feast, Jian Xubai was resting with his head leaning against the carriage. When he heard the noise, he opened his eyes and asked, “What’s wrong?”“It’s too windy.” Song Yixiao raised her arm without looking at him, saying indifferently, “The wind blew across the curtain.”Hearing that, Jian Xubai instantly fetched the cloak and put it on her, saying in a soft voice, “Do you feel cold?”Song Yixiao nodded her head aloofly, “I’m okay.”Jian Xubai stared at her for a while and heaved a sigh. Then he closed his eyes and leaned back.A grud
The next morning, Jian Xubai and Song Yixiao restored to the previous intimacy after getting up. Jinxun and other servants who came in the room for service saw their interaction and all felt happy to realize that they had made peace.They cleaned up through talking and laughing. After breakfast, they arrived at Jinguo Grand Princess’s mansion by carriage together.“Yixiao’s eyebrows are nicely penciled today!” When they arrived at the back hall, Jinguo Grand Princess and her husband were not there yet. Neither were Earl Shouchun and his wife. Only Commandery Princess Qingjiang and Nie Wuying were chatting at the back hall.Seeing that Jian Xubai and Song Yixiao walked into the hall with their hands held together, Commandery Princess Qingjiang stopped chatting with Nie Wuying and teased them instead, “Yet, somehow I find the way of penciling very familiar.”“I penciled the eyebrows for her.” Jian Xubai acknowledged, “Actually, I use
Linghu Deyin was under Duke of Ji, but he was the highest-rank official of the Ministry of War. As he lost his mother, Jian Xubai, Director of the Bureau of Military Appointments, should go for condolence anyway.At the moment, they couldn’t go to visit the Yuan Family anymore. Jian Xubai said goodbye to Song Yixiao and got off the carriage first. He took the horse of one of the guards and rode back home to get changed. Today was the tea ceremony of Jian Yiyou and Princess Changxing, so his clothes were not simple and unadorned, which were not suitable for him to go to the Linghu Family’s mansion now.He left in a hurry while Song Yixiao had no time to delay and directly ordered the carter to rush back home.As a saying went, husband and wife should be in rapport with each other. Since Jian Xubai’s supervisor lost his mother, she had to condole with the womenfolk of the Linghu Family.After a while, Song Yixiao finally arrived at D
Jiang Muting had stayed at home for claiming to be sick since the Empress Dowager granted the marital arrangement for Prince of Wei and Commandery Princess Nanzhang.In order to clear up the misunderstanding between her and Jiang Muting, Song Yixiao tried a lot of ways hoping to have a face-to-face talk with her but she failed in the end. She didn’t give up until she heard Jian Xubai talk about different political views after they got married.Today she was here only to walk through the formalities. However, to her surprise, before she even went to the mourning hall, she bumped into Jiang Muting first.In a hurry she advanced and said with delight, “Muting? Long time no see!”“Yeah, long time no see.” Jiang Muting looked thinner than she was at the feast of the Shangsi Festival, but maybe as the incidence happened half a year ago, she looked fine. She took a few glances at Song Yixiao and then went across the threshold, saying casu
At this moment, the Grand Princess of Jin's residence.Jia Yao gently picked up the silver pot on the table and poured warm rose dew into the giltsilver begonia marigold, the sound of the flower dew entering the marigold seemed particularly silent against the backdrop of the whirling winter rain outside the window.The north wind rolled through the court, lifting up a snowy mist, and the obviously warm springlike interior was flooded with a chill for no apparent reason.She suddenly heard the sound of a rustling of the Chinese tent, and busily set aside the silver pot that had only been halfpoured, turning to check just in time to see the palefaced Grand Princess of Jin rising tremblingly to her feet."Is Your Highness thirsty?" Jia Yao took three steps to the edge of the couch and held the master, on one side taking a hidden bag from the side and padding it behind the Grand Princess so that she could lean more comfortably, and on the other side she said wit
With this sudden question, even though Jian Xu Bai has always been deeply favored by the Empress Dowager, he could not help but feel creeped out!He was stunned for a moment before he got up and left the couch, kneeling down in front of the Empress Dowager, and said in a deep voice ''Why did Imperial Grandmother make such a remark? I don't dare to say that I don't have any selfishness, but I have never thought of usurping the throne! The reason why I will support His Highness King Su to ascend to the throne, apart from worrying about Second Auntie, is also because His Highness King Su has the qualifications of a wise ruler, and can succeed the late Emperor's divine warrior!"Taking a deep breath, he knocked heavily on the ground, "I never thought of betraying Lu!""Good boy, mourning home but just so ask, why do you have to be so solemn?" The dowager empress looked at him with complicated eyes, bent down to help each other, sighed, "Mourning family naturally believ
In fact, the large empire, to say that no one can really stop that so far still silent Yu Qinghan may not be the problem is, whether the empire can hold, related to the entire Qingzhou Su's future!Therefore, the first and foremost thing that the candidate for guarding the city should do is to make the Su family trust him, otherwise, even if he is talented, the Su family will not be able to give him this important task!And because of the Marquis of Yan's support for King Su, even though there is now a disconnect between the Su family and the Su family, they are unanimous on the big issue of supporting King Su to ascend to the throne so Su Shaoge immediately considered Lv Qinghong of the Marquis of Yan after having no one at hand himself.As for the other generalship talents in the city, Su Shaoge could listen to their advice, but would definitely not give the forbidden army directly to their command!Now Su Bofeng said, if Lu Qinghong can't hold up Yu Qing
Uncle Lu is Lu Qinghong, the divine archer on the Wuhuan battlefield back in the day, Jian Xubai's right hand man although he is old, but also because of his age, even if Lu Qinghong has never been a commander before, in this kind of battle of defending the city, his rich experience in the sand field is the newcomer group of forbidden army is currently in urgent need of.After all, even Yang Jue himself, aside from yesterday's battle to seize the palace, had never experienced a real war.... In fact, last night s seizure of the palace could not be considered a war at all, but rather a sneak attack of a heavier nature.After understanding Su Shaoge's intention, Jianxu Bai pondered for a while and said, "Uncle Lu can lend it to you, however, he can't go with you right away, I have to give him a few words of advice!"Su Shaoge breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I should!""Uncle Lv, in your opinion, is Su Zhiyong really not confident in relying on Yang
Originally, according to Su Shaoge's intention, with Song Yixiao to take away the Jiangnan Hall secret guards "with the wind" after the token, directly erase Song Yixiao in two times to get together the token through the "with the wind" of the master, nailed Gu Shao.So send the Su family early infiltration into the "with the wind" people in fact, not necessarily "with the wind" in the people, anyway, the secret guards in addition to the internal no one knows, "Dai Feng" things to kill people are the same. "Dai Feng" to do things to kill people, recorded in the "with the wind" account is the same.Anyway, when Yang Jue led his troops into the palace, the heads that were thrown in front of He Wenqiong were all killed by "Gu Shao's secret guards from the Song family".In addition to dragging Gu Shao into the water, forcing him to help stabilize the situation and people's hearts afterwards, this is also to create the false impression that "you see, Minister Gu actual
This sudden palace change lasted until the faintest light of day, when the sound of swords and guns shouting and killing gradually subsided.But the panic in the imperial capital, from the royal family and officials down to the peddlers, could not end yet the day had already dawned, but the gates of the imperial capital's workshops still had no intention of opening."There are two pieces of news, one good and one bad." Su Shaoge reappeared in the flower hall of Marquis Yan's mansion, his face unable to tell if he was happy or angry, "The good news is that last night's takeover of the palace went very smoothly, inside and outside of the imperial city, no, it should be within the imperial capital, it's all already within our grasp!"But the bad news is very bad, "The forbidden troops sent to Wei's house missed their mark, allowing Wei Xi to escape up the city wall and let down at night!"If it was just one Wei Xi, Su Shaoge wouldn't be worried, the problem is,
After a moment of silence in the hall, Bell said in a hard tone, "Then why did Grandma hand over the 'Follow the Wind' token to Second Duke Su just now? In case he took it ...""Have you noticed?" Song Yixiao's gaze was icy cold as he said, "I only gave him the token, and he didn't ask for anything else I remember when I only had half of the token in my hand, I had asked him for advice on the matter of the Six Valves' secret guards, and he said that the token could first and foremost only be used by the head of the family, and only by the head of the family who had reached the age of the bundle of hair! Of course I am the only one left in the Jiangnan Hall's direct line now, so of course this rule is not so strict. But, he's neither under me nor is he anyone of mine, and he can actually mobilize 'Follow the Wind' with just the token! What do you think that means?!"Bell was slightly lost in thought and said ''So there are Su family members in the 'Follow the Wind'? But
Su Shaoge mildly said, "Of course it's useful when your father gifted the dark guards to Gu Shao, although it wasn't announced to the public, my Su family heard about it."He paused here, giving Song Yixiao a moment to think, before continuing, "So if there is a 'Follow the Wind' out there right now, it's always easier to do the aftermath, I don't know what Grandma thinks?"Song Yixiao stroked the jade bracelet on her wrist and mused.She understands the meaning of Su Shaoge's words, the socalled "I have heard of the Su family", meaning that they have the evidence of Song Yuan to Gu Shao's gift of secret guards, then this interception of He Wenqiong, as long as the "with the wind" is involved, regardless of whether the order comes from the Song Yixiao or Gu Shao, will be credited to Gu Shao's head in the end! The final result will be put on Gu Shao's head!So if you hold Gu Shao's handle, you can coerce Gu Shao to help the aftermath then the aftermath will
He Wenqiong is very disappointed to look at the screen outside the granddaughter's silhouette, although He Xiuyi did not enter the palace before, with his grandfather in fact not see a lot, but in the end is the eldest granddaughter, He Wenqiong occasionally listen to his son and daughterinlaw mentioned to He Xiuyi's character is still an understanding of the granddaughter of the broken not have the guts to join the conspiracy to kill the eldest Princess of Changxing things.The problem was that when the palace maid accused He Xiuyi of being displeased with Empress Su, in full view of everyone, instead of immediately retorting, He Xiuyi exuded a clear sense of trepidation!Now who doesn't know that she did express her displeasure with Empress Su?"This child is still too young and has experienced too little!" He Wenqiong sighed inwardly and decided to divert the blame he asked to reexamine the scented sachets made by Ms. Jiang, and questioned whether the scented s