Zheng Ji couldn't move any further and felt annoyed.
She was too busy these days, her mind was either in Chang Ding Liang Sui or in Fengju and Taifu's Mansion. She didn't realize that March was already here.
In March, there is a big event for the harem, and that is the silkworm kissing ceremony.
The so-called silkworm kissing ceremony is when the queen leads a group of concubines to worship the silkworm god Leizu, collect mulberry and feed the silkworms. The main purpose is to encourage people to cultivate mulberry trees. It has always been a major royal event.
For many years since the founding of the Dade Dynasty, the ceremony of kissing silkworms has been quite perfected, and all etiquettes have fixed standards.
Things that happen once a year, just like the four seasons of the year, have been experienced too many times and are too familiar. You just need to do it step by step and follow the established rituals.
Zheng Ji would forget this matter, not only because he was busy, but also because he was too familiar with it.
After all, compared with major events such as leaving the palace and opening a mansion, she naturally forgot about the wedding ceremony, which took place in March.
However, this silkworm kissing ceremony in the previous life was extraordinary!
It affected many people in the court, especially the concubines in the harem, and many people lost their lives because of this silkworm ceremony.
However, this time the silkworm kissing ceremony did not affect the mother-in-law and her.
There is no danger of her life, which is one of the reasons why she forgot about the wedding ceremony this year.
but……
how to say? When time passes long enough, you will find that things that were ordinary at the time actually had many waves brewing underneath. Many turmoils in the future were caused by these ordinary things.
In the previous life, due to changes in the palace banquet, she was banned from the Mingguang Palace by her father. As a result, her mother-in-law was neglected. Even though her mother-in-law was a noble concubine, she did not participate in the wedding ceremony.
The world is really full of blessings. The mother and concubine did not attend the wedding ceremony, but escaped the disaster.
At that time, after she heard what happened at the wedding ceremony in the bright light, she breathed a long sigh of relief and was very happy for it.
At that time, she didn't know anything. She was too young, had too little experience, and didn't understand that some twists and turns would not appear at the time, but would come out later.
Not only her, but everyone also didn't expect that such a big thing would happen to the silkworm kissing ceremony that everyone is so familiar with.
She couldn't tell her mother and concubine what happened during the wedding ceremony in her previous life, so she could only make insinuations.
So, she calmed down and asked Concubine Jiang: "Concubine, will the Empress still host this year's silkworm kissing ceremony?"
"Of course the Queen is presiding over it. Who else could it be besides her?" Concubine Jiang smiled.
Although Empress Xue lived in seclusion and was not liked by the emperor, she was the master of the harem after all. Who else could host the wedding ceremony besides her?
Of course, you don’t have to be a queen.
During the reign of Emperor Ai of the previous dynasty, he asked his favorite concubine Gu Tanhua to kiss the silkworms instead of the queen. The result...
An ominous omen fell from the sky, and in the end the previous dynasty was gone.
Yin Jian came first, so the emperors of the Dade Dynasty all remembered this lesson and did not dare to let anyone other than the queen preside over the wedding ceremony.
It's just that there is no beginning and no end. There was also an emperor in the Dade Dynasty who asked his favorite concubine to preside over the wedding ceremony. Although the country was not destroyed like the previous dynasty, the country also suffered from constant disasters, and it was like a faint king.
Although the emperor dotes on her, he does not dote on her so much that he is willing to risk destroying the country and becoming a coward for her sake.
Besides, even if the emperor asked her to host the wedding ceremony, she would definitely not want to!
She didn't want to be scolded and scolded by Du Tong and the others. She had been scolded too much now.
After hearing Concubine Jiang's answer, Zheng Ji fell silent.
Yes, the wedding ceremony was of course hosted by Queen Xue, as was the case in the previous life.
However, who would have thought that Queen Xue, who had presided over the silkworm kissing ceremony for five years and was extremely familiar with all etiquette procedures, would actually have an accident during the silkworm kissing ceremony?
The reason why this year's silkworm kissing ceremony was extraordinary was because something happened to Queen Xue when she was kissing the silkworms!
As the empress of the dynasty, Empress Xue was the mother of all the people. What happened to her during the wedding ceremony was of great significance.
Zheng Ji still remembered that when the news of Queen Xue's accident came back to the palace, the entire harem was shocked.
Especially when the unconscious Queen Xue was carried back to Kunning, the maids and chambermaids did not even dare to breathe.
The father was even more furious and ordered Fengchen Wei to investigate the matter thoroughly.
It is said that the emperor laid down millions of corpses in anger, so the final silkworm ceremony affected so many people.
Because she was grounded at that time and did not see the situation outside with her own eyes. In addition, she was only arrogant, and her mother-in-law did not tell her the details of the matter.
She only knew that the reason why the wedding ceremony went wrong was because of Concubine Tao Xian!
Concubine Tao Xian tampered with Empress Xue's robe to kiss silkworms, and applied a layer of drugs harmful to spring silkworms. As a result, Empress Xue poisoned all the spring silkworms to death during the process of kissing silkworms.
Queen Xue also fell into a coma because of being contaminated with these poisons. If the imperial doctor had not arrived in time, her life would have been lost.
Not only did he ruin the wedding ceremony, but he also murdered the queen of a country. The nature of this matter was really too bad. If it wasn't handled well, it might even involve his father.
So Feng Chenwei tried his best to investigate, and finally found Concubine Tao Xian.
Aunt Yueyuan, who was close to Concubine Tao Xian, confessed that she was instructed by Concubine Tao Xian to use the power of the Tao family to coerce and lure the ceremonial officer to tamper with the dress.
Aunt Yueyuan also admitted that Concubine Tao Xian conspired to kill Empress Xue in order to replace her.
However, Concubine Tao Xian denied the accusation and even brought out the Tao family as security.
Concubine Tao Xian's grandfather, Tao Jingyuan, was the general of the Zhenbei Protectorate and was very influential in the army. With this relationship, Concubine Tao Xian could avoid death, but she was also demoted to the status of a beauty.
The Tao family even handed over the military power of the Zhenbei Protectorate to appease their father's anger.
Judging from the time, this incident had the greatest impact on Concubine Tao Xian and the Tao family, and had nothing to do with the Jiang family and Concubine Mu.
However, since then, the Tao family has targeted the mother-in-law and the Jiang family everywhere, as if the two families were feuding, and they would never stop fighting.
The reason why the mother-in-law and the Jiang family suffered so many times was because of the Tao family's handiwork, especially since the Tao family had been operating in the military for many years.
Later, she took charge of the Chang Ding Shi rate. She had doubts about this and went to investigate.
However, Concubine Tao Xian said that she had never done any manipulation during the silkworm kissing ceremony. After the Tao family peeled off the cocoon, she found out that Aunt Yueyuan had taken money from the Jiang family and deliberately made false accusations in order to bring down the Tao family behind Concubine Tao Xian. .
The Tao family was forced to hand over military power, which meant that their foundation was destroyed. With such deep hatred, how could the Tao family not take revenge? I just regret that I haven’t done enough!
Only then did Zheng Ji understand that this silkworm kissing ceremony was not only for Concubine Tao Xian and the Tao family, but also for Concubine Tao and the Jiang family!
She lived her life again and returned to before the wedding ceremony, so naturally... she had to do something.
