Xiao Yichen lowered his head and winked at Ji Lingxue, then waved his sleeves, and a few cold rays of light shot out from his sleeves towards the window. The night was still silent, but a murderous aura arose for no reason.
Ji Lingxue stood up and opened the window. The cold wind blew in through the window. The window of the master bedroom of Chenhua Palace faced a rockery. "No one!"
Xiao Yichen flew out of the window, stood at the rockery for a moment, came back and said, "It ran away." As he said that, he picked up three white hairs.
Ji Lingxue's mouth twitched, "Is this a wild cat?" It was just a wild cat passing by. Isn't it a bit cruel to attack it like this
Xiao Yichen shook his head and explained, "Cats are not allowed in the palace." As for the reason, he didn't need to explain in detail.
Although he became emperor due to the situation, he was also somewhat rebellious, so there were many people who wanted to kill him. Even when he was sleeping, he had to be careful. Behind his inner strength, he relied on his five senses to recognize people.
Ji Lingxue closed the window and turned around. Xiao Yichen was standing behind her. When she turned around, she bumped into Xiao Yichen's warm chest. Xiao Yichen bent down and picked up Ji Lingxue and walked towards the bed curtain...
The next day, before dawn, Ji Lingxue was awakened by Mo Xiang to change clothes. Xiao Yichen left early to attend the morning court.
Mo Xiang was combing Ji Lingxue's long hair, and from time to time she glanced at the kiss mark on Ji Lingxue's neck. It was a happy thing that her master was favored by the emperor. Soon the palace would have princes and grandchildren, and it would be much more lively.
"Bang!" A crisp sound came from behind, pulling Mo Xiang back to her senses. She turned around and looked, her face pale with fear, "Master... Master..."
Ji Lingxue turned her head to look, but before she could see what was happening, a maid grabbed a palace maid by the ear and forced her to kneel on the ground, angrily scolding her: "How could you be so clumsy as a palace maid that you actually broke the Queen's Phoenix Coronet! Do you know that this is a Phoenix Coronet? If you delay the Queen's coronation ceremony today, ten heads of you will not be enough to compensate you!"
The nanny’s voice was sharp and piercing, and not only did everyone in the room understand it, but the guards standing at the palace gate probably heard it clearly as well.
Ji Lingxue's eyes were not on the little palace maid who was kneeling on the ground with a pale face. She looked at the noisy maid. Is this an old lady in the palace? She looked like she had never seen the world. Her master hadn't even spoken yet, but she took the initiative and made everyone in the Chenhua Palace know that her queen's phoenix crown was broken.
"Mo Xiang!" Ji Lingxue said.
Mo Xiang hurriedly helped Ji Lingxue up. The room instantly became quiet because of Ji Lingxue's action. The palace maids and nannies all knelt on the ground and dared not say a word.
Ji Lingxue walked over and saw the Phoenix Coronet lying on the ground, bent and deformed. She couldn't help but sneer. She had guessed that today's ceremony would not go smoothly, but she didn't expect it to start with the Phoenix Coronet. This masterpiece must have been made by Evian. It upset her so early in the morning!
Mo Xiang picked up the phoenix crown with a bad look on his face, "Master..." This phoenix crown was made of pure gold and took a whole month to make. There is only one of this kind.
"I deserve to die, Huang Hekou, please calm down!" The timid voice of the palace maid reached Ji Lingxue's ears. The little palace maid, who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, knelt on the ground, trembling all over, and spoke haltingly.
Ji Lingxue asked: "You know you deserve to die, so tell me how you broke the phoenix crown into this state?"
The little palace maid didn't dare to raise her head, and stammered, "Just now, Mammy asked me to take the Phoenix Coronet to the dressing table so that Aunt Moxiang could wear it. I was very careful... I didn't expect that halfway through... I suddenly tripped and the Phoenix Coronet fell directly to the ground... Damn it... Damn it!"
Ji Lingxue rubbed his forehead, took the phoenix crown from Mo Xiang and took a look at it, "Send someone to the Golden Palace to tell the emperor that we will be here a little late." After saying this, Ji Lingxue took the phoenix crown and walked towards the dressing table.
Mo Xiang was furious, pointing at a few new-looking maids and saying, "You go to the Golden Palace and pass on the Queen's order. You, you... and you all go out and kneel at the door, don't make trouble here." After giving the order, Mo Xiang walked to Ji Lingxue angrily and said, "Master, how are you going to punish that clumsy maid?"
Ji Lingxue shook her head. "Today is a wedding day. I don't want to see blood. Looking at her expression just now, she was pretty scared. That's enough." She fiddled with the phoenix crown with her fingers and took the nine phoenixes off directly.
Mo Xiang looked depressed, but when he saw Ji Lingxue was not in a hurry, he calmed down a lot, "Master, how are you going to save this phoenix crown?"
Ji Lingxue said: "Mo Xiang, comb your hair again. I want to insert the Nine Phoenixes directly into your hair."
Mo Xiang's eyes lit up and he nodded, "Okay!"
"The Emperor has arrived!" Soon, the eunuch's shrill voice was heard from the palace gate.
Mo Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Ji Lingxue in the mirror and said, "Master is really smart. Even without the phoenix crown, this bun with nine phoenixes looks great."
Xiao Yichen came in and asked, "Xue'er, what happened?"
Ji Lingxue turned around and saluted Xiao Yichen. Xiao Yichen was stunned. It was the first time he saw Ji Lingxue so stunning, elegant and polite. He held Ji Lingxue's hand and said, "Your Majesty, there is no need to be so polite."
Ji Lingxue smiled, "Why did the emperor come in person?" The procedure of the queen's coronation ceremony did not include the emperor coming to pick up the queen.
She remembered that the booklet Mo Xiang gave her said: The day before the ceremony, the emperor would send officials to offer sacrifices to heaven, earth and the imperial temple, and personally go to Fengxian Hall to perform the ceremony. On the morning of the day of enthronement, the imperial guards were set up outside the Chenhua Palace, and the empress drove under the palace steps and outside the palace gate. The empress climbed the steps to the Jinluan Hall to receive the worship of all officials. The empress knelt in the hall, received the imperial edict, and received the phoenix seal. After the ceremony, she was helped down by the emperor, sat on the phoenix sedan chair and circled the imperial city, and was worshipped by the people.
Xiao Yichen smiled and said, "Come and pick you up!"
Ji Lingxue thought to herself: Xiao Yichen, are you afraid that I will get lost, so you come to pick me up in person
Xiao Yichen held Ji Lingxue's hand and led her forward. "Today is sunny and cloudless, and the weather is fine. I have rolled out a ten-mile red carpet to lead you from Chenhua Palace to Jinluan Palace. From now on, we will walk hand in hand, and time cannot separate us."
Ji Lingxue turned her head to look at Xiao Yichen. His words expressed her true feelings. She wished they could live a peaceful life together forever.
Xiao Yichen turned his head and looked at her as well. The moment he walked out of Chenhua Palace, peach blossoms were flying all over the sky and fell on Ji Lingxue's hair, between her eyebrows, and on the hands of the two people holding each other.
Ji Lingxue looked up and saw the blue sky and white clouds, the weather was sunny and windy, and all the palace gates were hung with red and blue hydrangeas; the palace gates were wide open to the new queen, and Xiao Yichen took her to walk on every road that was covered with carpets. The carpets with red background and blue flowers were dazzling, making the whole scene grand and majestic. This was the most important day for her, and a day she would never forget.
“Long live the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor; a thousand years and a thousand years and a thousand years of the empress… Wherever he passed, the palace maids and eunuchs knelt on the ground, kowtowed and shouted in unison.
The sound echoed again and again until it reached the Golden Palace.
Taking the Phoenix Seal from Xiao Yichen, Ji Lingxue smiled and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Xiao Yichen took her hand and walked towards the phoenix sedan chair parked at the entrance of the Golden Palace. The two of them did not feel crowded sitting together.
In a corner of the cold palace, where Ji Lingxue and Xiao Yichen could not see, Ruge was fighting with a dark shadow holding a sword. They had been fighting from dusk till dawn, and both of them were covered in wounds. Ruge's white hair was also stained with red dots, like red plum blossoms blooming in the snow, dazzling and eye-catching.
The black shadow was Yuchi Gongru. He didn't expect that Yuchi Ruge would be able to grasp his whereabouts accurately, and not only that, but also destroy his plan.
Last night, he told the palace maid about his plan. Unexpectedly, as soon as the palace maid left, Yuchi Ruge blocked him in the cold palace, and then they started fighting.
Yuchi Gongru made a feint and flew towards the broken palace wall. Originally, he wanted to jump over the wall and escape, but he didn't expect that there were thousands of imperial guards holding spears standing in neat rows outside the wall, with the tips of the spears pointing at his butt.
Yuchi Gongru twitched his lips. Not wanting to get hurt, he twisted his body in mid-air and sat down on the wall. He made a stop gesture and panted, "Stop fighting for now. Let's take a break."
How could Yuchi Ruge not know that this was the other party's delaying strategy? Calculating the time, Ji Lingxue should have accepted Feng Yin and went back to the palace hand in hand with Xiao Yichen. A faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He would keep her safe today.
Yuchi Gongru laughed twice, bringing Ruge back to her senses.
Ruge looked up at Yuchi Gongru, who was sitting on the city wall in a slightly embarrassed state, and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve. "What are you laughing at?"
Yuchi Gongru wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his finger, "I'm laughing at you being so stupid. The person you like has become someone else's queen, but you are entangled with me again. I really don't know what you are thinking."
Ruge smiled, "I just want her coronation ceremony to go smoothly." He flew onto the wall and stabbed Yuchi Gongru's vital point with the sword in his hand.
Yuchi Gongru blocked a sword and attacked again verbally: "I don't know whether it will go smoothly or not. You can stop me, but you can't stop other variables. The grudge between us should be settled today. Today it's either you die or I live!" The flash of swords and shadows were drowned behind layers of tiles.
Sitting on the phoenix sedan, Ji Lingxue's hands trembled. Xiao Yichen asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
Ji Lingxue shook her head, she looked at the layers of golden tiles, "It's okay..."
The team suddenly stopped, and the eunuch reported: "Your Majesty, Empress, Princess Yun wants to see you."
Xiao Yichen nodded, and soon, Yiyun came slowly in a pink palace dress, holding a box in her hand.
"Yiyun greets the Emperor and the Empress!" Yiyun bowed politely with a smile on her face.
Xiao Yichen waved his hand and said, "Princess Yun, what do you want to see me and the Queen for?"
Yiyun said: "Yiyun specially sent a gift to wish the Queen and the Emperor a long-lasting marriage and a loving couple."
Xiao Yichen nodded, and the eunuch quickly brought the box in Yiyun's hand in front of Xiao Yichen. Xiao Yichen opened it and took a look. Inside the box was a pair of ceramic dolls, which were made according to their current attire. The dolls were delicate and very cute.
Ji Lingxue reached out and picked up the female ceramic doll, looked at it, and said with a smile: "Princess Yun is thoughtful."
Yiyun bowed again and stepped aside, but her eyes were always fixed on Ji Lingxue's hand holding the doll, with a strange smile on her lips.
(End of this chapter)