The queen is a bit cowardly

In April, the monsoon from the northwest blows into Tianping City. If it is an ordinary year at this time of year, the sky would already be filled with paper kites. This is Tianping. The capital of the entire Daxin Dynasty naturally has the best paper kite craftsmen in the dynasty. , They used their rough hands to turn bamboo into bones and paper into feathers, making the April sky compete with each other.

But this year, the sky in Tianping City is exceptionally clean, as clean as a piece of uncut jade, except for blue and white, there are no other colors to be seen.

Someone once wrote a poem: in April, the dragon plays with the phoenix, and the red, black and green enter the clouds.

But now, people can only look at the blue sky, what a pity for the April monsoon and the lonely paper kite.

In April of the 13th year of Mingde, the emperor was only going to do one thing—sacrifice to heaven.

The Temple of Heaven is located in the eastern suburbs of Tianping City. The carriages and sedan chairs of the princes and nobles continued along the Qinglong Avenue in Tianping City. After a while, Sikong's family stopped the general's horse, and at the other end, the little Sikou's concubine contradicted his wife. , the people on both sides of Qinglong Avenue watched the nobles' bustle chattering from the sidelines.

Tianping City didn't change anything because of the sacrifice to the sky, except for the paper kite that didn't rise.

The front of the convoy is mostly the direct line of the royal family. Compared with the courtiers behind the dukes and sons, they are more solemn. The heirs of the Tian family must be different from other families. The princes of the six directions did not dare to go beyond half a point.But among this group of grand-sounding descendants of the Tian family, there is a car that is particularly eye-catching, and a woman is sitting in the car.

The woman was sitting upright, with a dignified manner, and she was one of the few beauties in Tianping City, but the beauty's eyes revealed a kind of piercing aura, she was wearing red clothes, and the cuffs of the clothes were made of another weaving method. Embroidered with dragon patterns, Daxin is still red, and dragon patterns can only be used by the emperor's direct children.

But beside the woman, there is another young man lying down. That young man is very loose, and he is also full of red. Unlike the other princes who combed their hair neatly, there is still a strand of black hair untied on his forehead. It is in a bun, and there is a sword full of jewels on its waist. As for whether the blade is sharp, today's visitors don't care.

"Sister, it's really rare. The emperor has allowed the female relatives to attend today." The young master Chang Min said, this bastard who has not been paid attention to naturally never cares about other people's attention. .Brothers and sisters also need to avoid suspicion in some vassal lands, but Tianping City has always been civilized, and no one cares. They just think that Chang Min, a bastard, has the face to sit in the carriage of the direct line.

"The important affairs of the country are at the sacrificial ceremony, not to mention offering sacrifices to the heavens." Chang Lan replied, "It's you, you don't have a sitting position, you don't have a standing position, how can you share your father's worries in the future."

"Okay sister," Chang Min sat up obediently, he straightened the skirt kneeling on his knees, and continued: "That's right, if it wasn't for offering sacrifices to heaven, you would still have to sit and arrange flowers in the palace, how lonely that would be." .”

Although the feudal lords of the world came together and often acted arrogantly, everyone still abides by the etiquette for thousands of years in terms of sacrifice. In this ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, all blood members of the royal family, regardless of gender, old or young, were required to participate in the worship. Emperor Longguang had been on the throne for 13 years, and this was actually the first time Chang Lan participated in the sacrifice.

Chang Lan lowered her eyes, she didn't understand why her daughter always arranged flowers and tasted tea. She and other young masters learned the art of kingship, eloquence, vision, and strategy from Da Sima Huoxian when she was six years old. Chess is better than his brothers. Huo Xian once said to Emperor Longguang: "Chang Lan is a phoenix, so she can soar into the sky. It's a pity that she is a woman."

"I don't understand why women can't do what men can do." Chang Lan said in a low voice. Although she was dissatisfied, this was Da Xin, and she could only do what her daughter should do.

"I think so too. The other women don't know, but what the elder brothers can do, my sister must be better than them." Chang Min leaned forward involuntarily, the words just now must have come from his heart.

"By the way, sister, where will the priest arrange for you to sit for this sacrifice?" Chang Min asked. The arrangement of the seats represents the status of the attendees. Chang Langui is the eldest princess and the precious daughter of Emperor Longguang. Said that she would also sit in the front, and this was her first time participating in the sacrifice.

Chang Lan asked the waiter to present the post issued by the sacrificial officer. It was a piece of red silk cloth with the seat written on it. The seat was the chief in the southwest, although being the chief was not the so-called high position. The east is the most expensive, and Chang Lan's seat does not occupy these two places.Seeing what was written on the silk cloth, Chang Min was also taken aback. He wanted to take out his own silk cloth to take a look, but he was still in the east, so he had no choice but to hide his silk cloth.

"A Li." Chang Lan returned the silk cloth to the waiter and asked, "Who is sitting on my right?"

The girl named A Li was dressed in plain linen with looped cuffs on both sides. Her appearance was not very flattering, she even looked a little clumsy, but this kind of strong figure was suitable for work. Ah Li bowed again and whispered: "I have already found out that the person sitting next to you is the wife of King Lie Wu of Shangjing."

Chang Lan nodded, Shangjing Kingdom is one of the sixteen feudal kingdoms, and envoys from fifteen princes came to worship this time, and Shangjing Kingdom sent the prince and wife.

"I'm afraid this is the arrangement of the father again." It was Chang Lan who was sitting next to him, but this Mr. Min was a little impatient: "I am afraid that he is planning to finger marriage again."

"Slap your mouth." Chang Lan blamed her a little. She looked at the increasingly dense carriages nearby and said, "Don't speculate on the holy will."

"Oh." The young man pouted.

While the two were talking, the carriage stopped suddenly. Chang Min almost staggered because of his improper sitting posture, and immediately straightened his body. Chang Lan was sitting beside him without losing his posture.

"What's wrong?" Chang Min asked the groom.

The groom was looking ahead, he turned his head and bowed and replied: "I don't know where the country princes came from, but they collided with Lord Chang'an."

Now that the vassals are fighting, the vassal states are no longer the teachers of Qin Wang, but it is still impossible to be openly presumptuous in Tianping City, not to mention that Lord Chang'an is the younger brother of Emperor Longguang.

"What color hood?" Chang Min asked.

"Black color." The groom replied.

"Fu Guo." Chang Min sat down again, but remembered something, and said, "Didn't Fu Guo send someone from among the sixteen princes?"

The Kingdom of Fu is the westernmost vassal state of the Daxin Dynasty. It was also recognized as the upper state of the Central Plains a hundred years ago. With the continuous invasion of the West, the Kingdom of Fu gradually merged with the tribes in the west and stayed away from the ethics of the Central Plains. The wild talisman, let the princes of all walks of life join together horizontally and vertically, but they just play without the wild talisman.

"By the way," the young son patted his head: "Don't you be the one from Da Sikou's family?"

Da Si Kou is one of the six ministers of the imperial court, responsible for the friendship between the two countries. The so-called his family is also a character, and it is because of this character that Man Fu cut off his contacts with Da Xin and has not spoken to Xin for five full years. The country pays taxes.

"You mean the abolished king of Fu Kingdom?" Chang Lan asked.

"Isn't that the woman?" Chang Min said with a smile, "Only the Man Talisman will let a woman be a vassal."

"It's a pity, it's still abolished." Chang Lan said regretfully with her head down. A woman can not only enter the temple, but even be a prince, which is beyond her reach.

"Like the kind of licentious people who can't protect the country, they will be destroyed when they are abandoned. It is ironic to hear that this abandoned king occasionally sells straw sandals for his livelihood." Chang Min said in a low voice: "If If it’s Sister who is in Manfu, then she must be a generation of Mingjun.”

Chang Lan smiled, but stopped talking. She envied the queen of Fu Kingdom for her high spirits, but she knew that as long as she was in Daxin, she would never be a wise king. She would only put on her wedding dress on a certain day, with The mission given by this identity is to marry someone she doesn't have, give birth to that person's heir, and take concubines for that person. Like every woman in the Daxin Dynasty, she hides behind a man and achieves a man's world. .

But is this her life?Chang Lan looked at the busy traffic and her dull brothers in front of her.

No, she refuses to accept it!

The groom flicked the reins, and the carriage continued to move forward. The sacrificial beasts in the distance made vulgar calls, as if they didn't know that at the end of the road, what awaited them was death.

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"Excuse me, is there anyone here?"

"Can I sit here, please?"

"I'm sorry... I borrowed it."

The woman in black walked around the banquet in a restrained manner. She was dressed in a man's clothing, and what's more, she was wearing a hakama on her lower body. Arrange a table for two, with good tea and exquisite snacks on the table, the women whispered about everything in Tianping City, such as which minister's son made another military exploit, and which minister received a younger brother? concubine.

The woman in black looked around again, looking for a place where she could stay. She knew that she was not welcome, but who made her lose the silk cloth with the seat written on it.She had no choice but to walk bravely, asking if she could sit down whenever there was an empty seat, or find a place where no one was sitting, but she was asked to leave by the owner of the seat after a while.

Suddenly, the eyes of the woman in black lit up. There was a seat in the front row that had been vacant, and the woman in red at the same table had an indifferent expression, unlike the other people who had an expectant expression on her face. This was an opportunity. The woman squeezed forward again.

"I'm sorry... borrow a way."

"Thank you, please step aside."

In the end, she squeezed to the front. She looked at the woman in red, who had reached her hair but did not curl her hair. She reckoned it was a young girl, but the woman's expression was too indifferent, but since she had been rejected many times, She was not afraid of being rejected again, the woman in black patted the hakama's legs back, knelt on the mat, and glanced at the woman in red quietly, she was not surprised by her appearance, and even ignored her.

"Excuse me, is there anyone here?" Jiang Qingluan asked cautiously, "Can Gu sit here?"

Chang Lan turned her head to look at Jiang Qingluan. She had three-dimensional features, starry eyes and sword eyebrows, and blue eyes. She was really a beautiful woman.

"Sit down, there's no one here anyway."