I’ll Be the Male Lead’s Sister-in-Law

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the first lunar new year.

From the thirteenth onwards, the city began to light up the lights all night, until the fifteenth day of the year, the lights were like a river and it was very lively.

Xuandemen had already set up light sheds. On the 15th, the emperor and his concubines will come to Xuandemen on the 15th. It is a well-known event in the city. Xuande Gate is the dividing line between the palace city and the inner city. It is said to be a gate, but it is actually a towering city wall. There are watchtowers on the east and west sides of the city. The city wall and the palace wall behind are continuous, separating two worlds inside and outside.

Xuande Gate is the first gate of the imperial palace, which is no different from the emperor's face. Therefore, Xuande Gate was built extremely tall, standing on it, overlooking the whole city.

The city wall of Xuandemen and the left and right sides form a flat and wide square. Coupled with the lofty status of Xuandemen, all the big ceremonies and celebrations of the imperial court are located here. The barriers, canopies, and thrones on the city walls have been prepared for a long time. Now that the time is approaching, the eunuchs and court ladies on the Xuande Gate come and go, all busy doing the final inspection.

Mu Mingtang left for a banquet in the palace in daylight. The emperor hosted a banquet in the front dynasty, and the queen banqueted the ladies in the back. When the lights were on, the emperor sent a signal from the dynasty to leave. Shi Shiran walked towards the tower.

Shangyuan is one of the best events of the year. It is especially rare that women and men can play freely. This time the emperor's grace, all the concubines in the harem can go to the tower to watch the lights without limiting their positions. The concubines and concubines in the harem who are not idle do not know how long they have been looking forward to this day.

The top of the tower is already fluttering with colors and canopies everywhere. The officialdom in front of Xuande Gate was full of people, all looking forward to the tower. I don't know when it started, the running figures of the **** palacemen on the tower rose frequently, and after a while, suddenly there was a loud drum, and there were rumors everywhere that "the officials are coming."

The people gathered in the square passed word of mouth, not knowing the truth or not, the various large groups hurriedly performed their acrobatics. When Mu Mingtang followed the queen and others to the gate, he saw the lights below, the gongs and drums, and the excitement seemed better.

Now Mu Mingtang is sure that she has indeed come from a small place. She has never seen this kind of magnificence.

After the emperor and the crowd ascended to the tower, the atmosphere downstairs suddenly exploded, shouting long live one after another. In fact, the tower is so high that the sky is dark again at the moment, and the people under the city gate can't see the faces of the people above, but can only vaguely see the attendants gathered above, and there are many beautiful females who are like fairy concubines to follow. Even if the people couldn't see it, they could guess that those were the emperor, the queen and the princesses. They were immediately encouraged and excited.

Mu Mingtang was standing next to the queen, with a great perspective, seeing the many restaurants in the city with lights and colorful lights. The lights rushed into a river, like the Milky Way falling for nine days, and from time to time there are Kongming Lanterns rising, as if to introduce the lights of the world into the sky, it is very magnificent.

Mu Mingtang was deeply shocked. On this day in Shangyuan, because of the emperor’s visit, the most famous drama troupes and craftsmen in the city gathered in Xuandemen Square. The capable people downstairs showed their magical powers, and there were so many tricks that everyone’s eyes were overwhelmed.

The queen saw Mu Mingtang looking at the lights downstairs intently, and asked with a smile: "Wang Concubine An looks so intently, but likes the excitement?"

There are not one hundred and eighty noble female families on the tower. However, the empress of many public officials and Mu Mingtang alone talked to Mu Mingtang in such a close tone, and many people immediately looked to Mu Mingtang. Mu Mingtang did not hide it, nodded and admitted: "Yes, this is the first time for a minister's wife to watch a lantern in the capital. I have never seen such a prosperous before."

The person involved admitted that it made other people difficult to perform. The queen also smiled and said: "I haven't seen lights outside for many years. I don't know that there are so many tricks now. This year's Lantern Festival is lively. Princess Ann just took this opportunity to have a look."

"Thank you Empress Empress." Mu Mingtang nodded and responded. The Queen intentionally showed her comfort to the Ancestral House in front of everyone. She spoke very softly with Mu Mingtang, and pointed at the lanterns downstairs to comment with Mu Mingtang. Jiang Mingwei was also standing not far away, watching her mother-in-law, who had always been harsh to her, facing Mu Mingtang as if she had changed herself, and her heart was extremely complicated.

It’s really ironic. The queen asked Jiang Mingwei to be simple and humble, not to let Jiang Mingwei wear expensive dresses, but gave a reward to Mu Mingtang. Pride is not jealous, save money at no cost, but for Mu Mingtang, be gentle and tolerant, even Mu Mingtang has not seen the lanterns in the capital, and he personally showed Mu Mingtang one by one.

Don't say far away, just like now, Jiang Mingwei has been standing here for so long, and the queen hasn't even asked a question, and has given a look. The contrast between the two compartments is really annoying.

The more Jiang Mingwei thinks about it, the less it feels in her heart. Both are princesses. Regardless of the occasion, as long as Mu Mingtang is there, Jiang Mingwei can only step aside and play a supporting role. What's more terrible is that everyone let her endure, let her be modest, as if she avoided Mu Mingtang, it was a matter of heaven and earth.

Damn it, if it wasn't for Jiang Mingwei's previous life to read the book, she would have thought that Mu Mingtang was the protagonist. Jiang Mingwei thought about what was going to happen in a while, took a deep breath, and kept telling herself that something big would happen next, that her and Xie Xuanji's fortunes would rise sharply from today, and it was not worth arguing with a small person.

She is the one who marries the son of destiny. Mu Mingtang is now just the last carnival before the fall.

Thinking this way, Jiang Mingwei really calmed down. She is now full of fire in the forbidden palace for a while, and she doesn't even bother to watch the performance downstairs, and even when others talk to her, she doesn't care.

She has big things to do, so how can she spare time to care about these little supporting actors? Jiang Mingwei doesn't care if she offends people, anyway, after today, she is the queen and queen mother's hero. How do these insignificant ladies and wives comment on her, and what are their relations?

On the other side, the **** saw the emperor and the others rising up and offering treasures, and said: "Report to the official family. Today, a folk stranger has made a dragon lantern to congratulate your majesty. I heard that the dragon lantern is three feet tall and decorated with gold floating powder. . Especially longan, I heard that it’s made the same as the living one."

A nearby minister heard it and echoed: "Your Majesty is the emperor of the true dragon, and the folks present dragon lanterns to celebrate, and they complement each other. Such a big dragon lantern, except your Majesty, I am afraid that no one can hold it down."

I heard too much and quickly agreed: "Isn’t it? I heard that since the start of forming the dragon shape, the workshop caught fire frequently, and the craftsmen who made the lamp said that they had killed the **** to be light and could not hold the dragon. So this lamp has been made since. It’s never been lit, I’m afraid it’s only in front of officials that it can be lit up without incident."

The queen heard it not far away, and smiled and responded: "It seems that the concubine has been entrusted with the blessing of the official family, and can see the dragon lantern today. Until now, the concubine has never seen such a big lamp. ."

The crowd naturally echoed. The emperor was so pleased by the crowd that he smiled and waved: "There is such a miraculous thing, I really want to see what the lamp is like a living dragon. Where is the lamp car? "

The **** who presented the lamp was overjoyed and said, “I’m fighting the lamp on the road. If the road goes smoothly, I will send it to Xuande Gate at about the hour, and light on the hour at the hour.”

Docking lanterns is also a Shangyuan custom. Before the Shangyuan Festival, the lights cars have to go to the government to report. After the three days of having fun in the night, all kinds of lights cars will depart from the streets and alleys. In juggling, every time at an intersection, when two lights meet, you must fight the lights. The government will have a special person to compare and compare at the intersection. Only the winner can pass, and the failed lights must go back home. On this day of Shangyuan, the streets and alleys were very lively. The closer the lights were to the center, the brighter they were. Only the leader could walk to Xuandemen Square.

This dragon lantern fights the lantern from the end of the city, and one can imagine that he is very confident in himself. The emperor laughed when he touched his palm: "Okay, there is a reward."

There was laughter at the city gate, and Mu Mingtang felt awkward for some reason when he heard the crowd praising that the emperor was the emperor of the true dragon. She went to see Xie Xuanchen quietly, and saw that Xie Xuanchen didn't say anything, as if she hadn't heard what everyone was talking about.

Mu Mingtang also pretended not to know, she was about to withdraw her gaze, Xie Xuanchen felt that she was looking at him for some reason, and looked in this direction.

Mu Mingtang shook his head and signaled that he was okay. Across the crowd, Xie Xuanchen couldn't hear what Mu Mingtang was saying, so he walked directly to the female family and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xie Xuanchen came over in front of everyone, which embarrassed Mu Mingtang. She was embarrassed to say that you heard it wrong. Actually, I didn’t call you, so I could only point to the sugar man’s small stall downstairs and said, “Look, how good the business is in that small stall. I also use sugar silk to draw words."

Xie Xuanchen glanced at her finger, nodded at random, and said to the **** behind him: "Go downstairs and buy a sugar man, who is a monkey."

Mu Mingtang didn't expect Xie Xuanchen to act so straightforwardly, so she just said casually and he let people go out to buy. You know, now they are upstairs in Xuandemen City. Don't look down on the sugar-buyers just a few steps. Among them, they have to go out of the palace, check the waist card, and pass the guards. The procedures are very complicated.

Mu Mingtang quickly grabbed Xie Xuanchen's sleeve and said, "No need, I'll just check it out."

"What can I see from so far away? A sugar man is neither expensive nor troublesome, just like to buy it." Xie Xuanchen was completely unmoved, and said to the eunuch, "Don't you go?"

The **** secretly glanced at these two masters, and now he got Xie Xuanchen's words, he was very obedient, and he turned around and left after answering. A **** walked down, and many people turned back: "What is he going out for?"

"I don't know, it seems that I took an errand to Wang An and went down to buy sugar for Princess An."

Everyone who heard this sighed in their hearts, just a sugar man, there are people on the side of the road, if you want, choose which day to buy on the street, have to make a big deal today? But who made King An happy? Neither the emperor nor the queen said anything. They talked too much.

But acid is really acid.

After waiting for a while, the **** came back and graciously presented a well-behaved monkey candy man to Mu Mingtang. Mu Mingtang previously said no, but when he really saw the naive sugar monkey, he immediately fell in love with it and was reluctant to eat it.

Mu Mingtang glanced at both sides, everyone was dressed up and waiting, except that she was holding a sugar man in her hand, which seemed to be very serious.

A little princess who was held by the grandmother saw it, and immediately shouted for the sugar man. Her biological mother was extremely embarrassed when she heard that she hurriedly twisted the little princess to let people hug her.

The concubine didn't seem to be favored, she was promoted to the concubine by giving birth to the princess, and she didn't look like Mu Mingtang was dressed gorgeously. The concubine sincerely apologized to Mu Mingtang with fear: "Princess An calmed down her anger, the fifth princess was young and ignorant, and she did not intend to offend the princess."

Mu Mingtang also held a sugar man in his hand, looking young and charming, who was originally a look very pleasing to children. Mu Mingtang didn't know when she turned into such a terrifying image in the eyes of others.

Mu Mingtang said warmly, "It's okay, the fifth princess is so old, it's normal to like to eat sweets. I have never eaten this candy man. If the fifth princess doesn't dislike it, please take this one."

The birth mother of the fifth princess looked hesitant, she was at a loss, not knowing whether to pick it up. Mu Mingtang handed the things to the **** and sent them to the fifth princess. The concubine finally determined that Mu Mingtang was not telling the truth, she really wanted to give things away.

The concubine hurriedly looked at Xie Xuanchen again, and Princess An passed his gift to others in front of King An, and King An was not angry? Not only this concubine, but others were also quietly paying attention, but they watched for a long time and found that Xie Xuanchen really didn't care, and didn't care at all.

The concubine was surprised, and even the queen who was watching over here was surprised. The concubine reacted and quickly brought the five princesses over to thank Mu Mingtang.

How could Mu Mingtang care about children? She actually liked children very much, but thinking of her identity, she decided not to cause trouble to the mother and daughter who looked difficult, so she resisted talking to the fifth princess.

After this little storm passed, Mu Mingtang sighed regretfully, watching the various acrobatics and various snacks downstairs. Xie Xuanchen was right, so far away, what can be seen, such a grand event, it is interesting to be clearly in it.

Xie Xuanchen and Mu Mingtang have been with each other for so long, so they can feel her little movements clearly. He saw Mu Mingtang staring at the bottom, knowingly, and asked: "Do you want to go down and see?"

Mu Mingtang widened his eyes flatteredly: "Can you?"

"As long as you like it." Xie Xuanchen simply confessed, "You stand here and don't move, I'll be right back."

After that, Xie Xuanchen went and said something to the emperor. The emperor looked at Xie Xuanchen in surprise and then looked in the direction of Mu Mingtang. In the end, he nodded in a good temper, and asked something gently. Look at your mouth, you should bring more guards and the like.

Mu Mingtang knew that the matter was done. When Xie Xuanchen came over, without speaking, Mu Mingtang leaped over happily, and naturally pulled Xie Xuanchen's sleeve.

So they swaggered out of the tower under the eyes of everyone, passed through the guards, and merged into the torrent outside.

Jiang Mingwei, other servants of the public servants, and even the queen mother, just watched Mu Mingtang happily leave the palace and go shopping outside.

The fifth princess still had sugar residue stuck to the corner of her mouth, and when she saw her, she pulled her biological mother's sleeve and asked: "Mother concubine, why can they go, but we can't?"

The concubine sighed silently and whispered: "Because they are Wang An and Concubine An."

Jiang Mingwei stood on the top of the tower, watching the guards running downstairs with her own eyes, and finally drove away the people, clearing a path for King An and Concubine An, escorting Xie Xuanchen and Mu Mingtang away. The people on both sides were shocked when they saw that they had come down from the tower. They scrambled to see Mu Mingtang and Xie Xuanchen, but were finally stopped by the Imperial Guard. It didn't take long for Mu Mingtang and Xie Xuanchen to walk away, and they couldn't find them anymore.

Jiang Mingwei was determined to look at the direction they were leaving, when another lady of the country saw it and sighed softly with her: "Wang An is really conniving to Princess An. This is the case on New Year's Eve, and it is still the same today in Shangyuan. Out of the name, I didn't expect to be so considerate in the name of the princess."

Jiang Mingwei didn't want to reply when he heard it, but fortunately, the lady of the country official just sighed, and did not intend to listen to Jiang Mingwei's reply. After Mrs. Guo Gong finished speaking, she left by herself.

Jiang Mingwei stared into the distance. There were a million people in Tokyo. Today the whole city was dispatched, and the streets were crowded with cars and horses. All this looks so prosperous, but Jiang Mingwei knows that soon, a fire will overturn everything.

Jiang Mingwei couldn't help being lost. Those foreign spies were obviously in the crowd. Where are they?