In the few hours since Xin Zhuo returned to the Imperial Capital of Great Zhou Dynasty, she had heard people talk about the Empress Dowager several times. She thought to herself that this Empress Dowager must not be the Empress Dowager Mo back then. The old lady was too talented. The martial arts cultivator, who may have died after so many years, should be one of Ji Yu's elders, or the concubine and others left behind by Ji Peiyu.
Such a person obviously has nothing to do with him, and he never expected that he would be the concubine he left behind.
What concubines did he leave behind? I can’t remember clearly, but it was just a joke with the female disciple of the Dayan Sect. Could there be someone left?
"My concubine, who is the surname of this empress dowager?" Xin Zhuo asked.
San Jingzi hesitated for a moment and then said hesitantly: "I don't know the name of the Empress Dowager, and I don't dare to call her by her name!"
Xin Zhuo clicked on the table. The original power shared by Si Ying and Si Ying in Wangyue Well needed to be fused. The original power below Ji Yu and the group of immortal cultivators also needed to be collected. But there was no rush at this moment. At least relax. Let’s talk about it later in the evening. He waved his hand and said, “Take me to see you.”
"Here!"
San Jingzi opened the palace door and was about to ask someone to move away. He couldn't help but was stunned for a moment. He saw young palace ladies, eunuchs and imperial guards standing outside the palace. There were even a large number of eunuchs in the distance carrying large quantities of silk, porcelain, Beautiful jade and rare objects from mountains and rivers were placed in other pavilions.
In the courtyard, there were dozens of palace officials and female officials standing. In front of these people was a young man and woman.
The man wears a four-clawed dragon robe and looks majestic, while the woman wears a phoenix robe and a cloud bun with a graceful figure.
A group of people had been here for who knows how long, and were soaked in the drizzle silently. When they saw Xin Zhuo coming out, they knelt down in the yard and said, "Greetings to His Majesty the Holy Ancestor Emperor!"
Xin Zhuo glanced at it, looking unfamiliar.
San Jingzi on the side introduced Xin Zhuo in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the palace servants, internal prison officials and female officials must be sent by the emperor to serve your majesty. The two in front are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the emperor's eldest daughter, Princess Pingjiang."
"Great-grandfather."
The prince who was kneeling opposite looked cautious and said respectfully: "My father has to deal with state affairs, but he is thinking of his great-grandfather in his heart, so he sent his great-grandson Heping Jiang to accompany him as a filial piety."
Xin Zhuo was indifferent to this, nodded and said: "Get up!"
Everyone in the courtyard stood up one after another. Princess Pingjiang stepped forward, looking like a good girl, and said with a sweet smile: "Is the emperor's great-grandfather going to leave the palace?"
Sanjingzi saluted quickly: "Back to the princess, Your Majesty is going to drive to Niangquan Palace!"
Princess Pingjiang relied on her status as her great-granddaughter and said with a sweet smile: "The great-great-grandfather and the empress dowager haven't seen each other for a while, so why not change their clothes..."
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The Imperial Palace of the Zhou Dynasty has gone through four hundred years of wind and frost, and been repaired by more than ten generations of emperors. It is now extremely grand in scale, with palaces, halls, pavilions, buildings, courtyards, and altars stretching far and wide. It is luxurious and solemn, perfectly demonstrating the imperial style, but to say that it is the most Among the vast and majestic palaces, except for the dilapidated Immortal Immortal Palace many years ago, there are only the Baji Palace where the Holy Ancestor Emperor once lived, the Qiankun Palace where His Majesty the Supreme Emperor cultivated immortality, and the Empress Dowager’s Palace, which contains the four seasons of spring, summer and autumn, which can be called a retirement sanctuary. Niangquan Palace.
Three miles apart, through the layers of palaces and pavilions, you can hear the chirping water and the chirping of birds in front of Niangquan Palace. When you get closer, you can see that the palace stretches far and wide, half of it is on the mountainside, usually at the bottom of the mountain, showing a celestial phoenix. Among the ordinary images, there are many exotic flowers and plants, handsome palace maids and young eunuchs catching butterflies everywhere, and ignorant royal children jumping and playing happily.
At this moment, under the waterfall and lotus pond halfway up the mountain, there is the "Hundred Birds Immortal Terrace" paved with white jade. Hundreds of noble ladies, old concubines, noble daughters and female family members of sects are sitting cross-legged, surrounded by hundreds of palace ladies. Hold an umbrella and cattail fan to catch spring insects.
However, these people were all surrounding a silver-haired, childlike woman wearing a purple phoenix robe, with a high bun, thousands of phoenixes covering her knees, and a crutch with a phoenix head.
Although this woman was old and her face was full of kindness, her aura was overwhelming and suppressed the entire audience, making people dare not blaspheme.
At this moment, she held a scroll of bamboo slips in her hands as delicate as a girl, and said softly: "The white jade capital in the sky, the fifth city on the twelfth floor. The immortal caressed my head, tied my hair and received eternal life..."
After reading it, he sighed quietly: "This is a poem left by the Holy Patriarch. It is really a fairy tale. The various allusions and anecdotes in it seem to be not human affairs. It makes the world's literati and poets ashamed, and mourns the family. Years ago, I never learned anything from him."
An old princess smiled and said: "The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager don't need to do this. How much more can the Holy Patriarch do? The Tao Te Ching, Thirty-six Stratagems, and Sun Tzu's Art of War are regarded as treasures by all the countries around the world. The classics revered as gods by various sects are all left by the Holy Ancestor back then."
A woman said: "The Holy Ancestor's civil, political and martial arts can be regarded as a model for the world's wise kings. The emperors from all over the world cannot even match him!"
There were gasps and praises all around.
A bit fake.
Many women even sighed and looked at the face of the empress dowager. Seeing that she was happy, they flattered her even more outrageously. In fact, they had never met the Holy Ancestor Emperor.
And the more they praised her, the more the silver-haired and childlike Empress Dowager enjoyed and happy. Over the years, she and the Holy Ancestor Emperor have been bound together. She could no longer tell the difference when they praised the Holy Ancestor and also praised her. .
As a result, the scene uncontrollably turned into a collective praise meeting.
It took a while to calm down.
A female member of the sect asked curiously: "I wonder what level of martial arts cultivation the Holy Ancestor achieved back then?"
The Empress Dowager sighed and said: "The creation of heaven and earth, the ultimate principle of the universe, the martial arts cultivation of Saint Ancestor, who among the old people in the imperial capital does not know? In those days, Honghua, Tianji, Taiping, Shen The hidden ancestors united with the empress in a coup. The holy ancestor carried the infant emperor on his back. With one shot and one shot, he monopolized dozens of ancestors and empresses from various sects, killing them all with only half a stick of incense! It can be said that one person can bring peace to the world and shock the world. , which one can compare?”
This is not false. In the battle at the Imperial Palace, Xin Zhuo killed the ancestors of various sects and the empress, which has been included in the annals of history. Who among the literati, princes, ministers, and disciples of the major sects in the Great Zhou Dynasty did not know about it?
There was praise everywhere again, but this time there was no falsehood, it was all from the heart. Even though the Holy Ancestor had disappeared for nearly a month, those things back then were still deafening, and every time I mentioned them I felt like I was in a trance.
"The Holy Ancestor is so outstanding in martial arts, martial arts and cultivation, and the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager have been no less generous in recent years. The husband and wife must have had a deep love for each other back then, which is enviable!"
The daughter of a duke's family was at the age when her love affair was just beginning. At this moment, she held her chin in her hands and her eyes were bright.
All the princesses and wives nodded their heads. They often heard the Queen Mother talk about the past events of the Holy Ancestor, but they had never heard of the affairs between the two couples. Logically speaking, this should be a good story. After all, the Empress Dowager has been extremely skilled and talented over the years, and she can be called the pillar of the empire.
Unexpectedly, the face of the empress dowager, who was highly respected and loved by the world, showed a trace of humility, resentment and grievance, and disappeared in an instant. She sighed: "How did that old thing ever take pity on the Ai family? He left the Ai family behind. The person is gone, and the Ai family thinks about it every day and every night..."
As he spoke, he couldn't help wiping away tears.
This was half true and half false. The lie was that she had no idea about Xin Zhuo's description of "old thing". It was true that Xin Zhuo had never pityed her. No, he rarely even looked at her.
She said this deliberately, not because she was really complaining, but because it showed that the relationship between the couple was really good back then, and she could vent her resentment by the way.
It's just that a group of princesses, ladies and daughters couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing how to express their opinions.
At this moment, the girl who had spoken before suddenly had her eyes brightened. She looked somewhere and said in surprise: "What a handsome young man. Isn't he the prince's grandson? Is he the son of some prince's family? Why are you here?"
Hundreds of ladies looked at it together, and their eyes lit up.
(End of chapter)
