Your Majesty, it's polite

The sacrifice begins when the sun rises in the morning. The emperor takes the lead, followed by the empress dowager and others, followed by the ministers.

There are clear regulations on who stands behind each official, and they are usually arranged according to their official positions. Tang Yunshu stands in the first few rows.

When you look up, you can see the minister of rites in front of you is reading the sacrificial text, and the wind blows over the long prayer flags, which flutter and dance wildly with the wind.

Tang Yunshu stood behind, knelt and knelt with them, and knelt for half an hour, and then knelt again after getting up.

Kneeling until it hurt your knees, Tang Yunshu finally understood why he didn't let the child come.

Such a kneeling method, no child can stand it.

Of course, except for the prince, he can just rest next to him after bowing down for the first time, and start bowing down again at important points.

The other princes really knelt casually without anyone noticing.

Tang Yunshu heard that Ting had been with His Majesty almost every time since she was a child. I really don't know how the two brothers insisted on kneeling.

The sacrificial activity lasted for a whole day, and it was finally over around Shenshi.

After drinking a bowl of rice in the morning, Tang Yunshu was so hungry that her chest stuck to her back.

Not only him, everyone is like this, a drop of water is not touched.

When he stood up again, Tang Yunshu almost yelled, he was exhausted.

After the sacrifice, everyone began to disperse in an orderly manner.

Xiao Changdao came to Tang Yunshu, supported his waist and smiled, "How do you feel, boy?"

"not bad."

He just had some soreness in his knees, nothing else.

Speaking of kneeling, there is still a grass bed to protect the knees, otherwise kneeling for a day will not be scrapped.

Xiao Changdao tsk-tsk said: "It's no good, I'm old after all, I think I knelt for a whole day back then, my waist didn't hurt and my legs didn't hurt."

Sometimes, disobedience is old enough.

"Senior, didn't you say that you were weak and sickly?"

Yesterday I just bragged to myself how pitiful I was when I was a child, but now I can kneel for a day without pain.

Xiao Chang gave him a white look, and said in a bad mood: "Isn't that when I was 30 years old? I was energetic, so nothing would happen. Alas, think about how powerful the emperor was at that time, but now he is just kneeling. Sometimes I have to do some movements, and then the emperor's brother just got together and disappeared, leaving only the kneeling part."

Tang Yunshu was about to step down the steps when someone stopped behind him: "Prince, Uncle Qingyang."

Turning around, I found that it was a little Taoist priest next to Shidao, who was holding a small box.

"What's the matter."

Xiao Changdao knew that he was very busy picking up roads today, and he started before dawn, so he might not even have a glass of water now.

Tang Yunshu found that this little Taoist priest was very handsome, with clear eyebrows, and looked very noble.

The little Taoist presented the box in front of Tang Yunshu, and said with a smile: "My lord, there are some cloud teas here. The master said Uncle Qingyang liked it, so I took it. There are really no more."

"Thank you." Tang Yunshu took it with her own hands, and said with a smile to the little Taoist priest, "When I have a good rest tomorrow, I will come up to thank the Taoist priest."

Xiao Changdao looked at the box in his hand, full of sourness: "It's really partial."

He asked for it for a long time before, but he was unwilling to give one or two, but now he is fine, unexpectedly

Tang Yunshu walked down the steps slowly, looking around, there are great rivers and mountains below, and the scenery is picturesque.

Back in the hotel, Tang Yunshu didn't say anything. After taking a comfortable bath, he ate a meal and threw himself on the bed to sleep soundly.

Mahayana came in with water, thinking about soaking his feet, only to see him sleeping soundly.

Walking lightly, Mahayana poured out the hot water and closed the door gently.

Tang Yunshu was woken up by the noise. When she opened her eyes, she saw the dimly lit candles in the house, and the sound of crickets outside, as if it was not dawn yet.

There is a cat outside that has been meowing, the sound is high-pitched, making it difficult to fall asleep.

"Mahayana."

"Father."

The Mahayana outside heard the sound, quickly got up and walked into the inner room, and opened the curtain.

Sitting up, Tang Yunshu yawned: "Why is there a cat outside?"

"I heard it too." Hanging the curtain on the little gold hook, Mahayana put on his coat for him: "Master, I'll let someone chase him away, do you want some supper?"

"No need." Shaking his head, Tang Yunshu rubbed his forehead: "Go and drive it away, it's annoying to hear."

In the middle of the night, it can scare people to death.

Mahayana nodded and walked outside to let the soldiers chase the cat.

Lifting the quilt, Tang Yunshu got up, put on his shoes, and wrapped his cloak around him.

When Mahayana came back and saw that he was about to go out, he said, "Master, but I have to get up at night."

"Ah."

Tang Yunshu wrapped his cloak tightly and left the house, heading for the toilet not far outside.

After releasing his hands, Tang Yunshu walked down the corridor, looking up at the starry and clear night sky, the bright moon hung high, and the soft light shone down, illuminating the lonely world.

A breeze blew, and Tang Yunshu seemed to smell a faint fishy smell in the air.

Frowning, Tang Yunshu suspected that he had smelled it wrong, his nose fluttered, and he really smelled fishy.

Mahayana also smelled it, and his expression changed: "Master, how can there be bloody smell in the middle of the night."

"Look and see."

Turning around, Tang Yunshu followed the smell and walked down the corridor, towards a place in the corner.

There was a bush of flowers in the corner of the small courtyard, which was faintly eerie, but the strong smell of blood came from there.

Tang Yunshu walked over and saw the corpse in the flowers under the bright moonlight, his face changed slightly.

The maid was lying face down, with a bloody wound on her back, a sword pierced her chest, and the blood spattered all over her body, no wonder the smell of blood was so strong.

Mahayana stepped forward and turned the body over, and when he saw her face, he exclaimed, "It's Jin Qiao from the Empress Dowager's Palace."

Tang Yunshu frowned, looking at the maid's pale face, feeling uneasy.

Without saying anything, someone came to dispose of the body, and then quickly notified the commander of the imperial guards.

Mahayana followed him and said, "Master, something is wrong, why did this person die in our yard?"

Stepping out of the arch, Tang Yunshu said, "Didn't you find out? People died here, but the patrolling soldiers didn't find anything."

This is very unusual and simply impossible.

Even so, it still happened abruptly before his eyes.

It's not right, it's very wrong.

Tang Yunshu looked around in the dark corners, always feeling uneasy beating in the air.

All of a sudden, a fierce wave rose into the sky in front of Youliang, the bright flames illuminated the entire inside and outside of the hotel, and the fire snakes rolled up wildly.

"It's not good, it went off fire."

"A fire broke out in the queen mother's house."

As the flames grew louder, the voices of the maids and soldiers shook the entire hotel, and the noise was deafening.

Tang Yunshu looked up at the courtyard not far away that was completely devastated by the fire, and his heart was filled with uneasiness like rain and fog.

"Go and have a look."

If something happened to the queen mother, he must not stay in the courtyard, because the queen mother's courtyard is close to him, if he really goes back to sleep, the fire will definitely come to him with the help of the wind.

Soldiers, court ladies and eunuchs ran to the well with buckets, and came back with water to put out the fire.

When he arrived, the fire had already engulfed the entire courtyard, but he did not see the Queen Mother.

The queen mother was still inside, Tang Yunshu didn't care about other things, picked up a bucket of water to cover his head and fell down, and then rushed into the flames immediately.

Tang Yunshu didn't want to save the queen mother at all, and knew that he didn't need to save people, and had his own guards to help.

But he didn't think that it was Ting's biological mother. Maybe saving her life would change her view of herself.

No one thought that he would go inside to save people, Mahayana was shocked and rushed in after him.

The courtyard is not very big, and when I entered, I almost ran into the imperial guards who rushed out.

Seeing him, the imperial guards shouted in unison: "Uncle, get out, the queen mother is not inside."

After that, they didn't care about their dignity, and dragged Tang Yunshu outside.

Tang Yunshu rushed outside, his sleeves caught fire, and everyone hurriedly extinguished the flames for him.

The emperor and others rushed over, looked at the sky full of fire, and said angrily: "Where is the queen mother?"

Everyone knelt down immediately, and a court lady cried, "The Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is gone."

what?

The emperor kicked at the commander of the imperial guards and shouted, "Find the queen mother immediately, otherwise you won't want your head."

"Yes."

The Imperial Guard got up and led people to search around.

At this time, the emperor noticed that Tang Yunshu beside him was in a mess, and hurriedly said, "Yunshu, are you okay?"

"It's okay, but when I wanted to rush in to save people, I was touched by flames. Your Majesty should hurry up and find the Queen Mother. It is impossible for the Queen Mother to disappear without reason in the middle of the night."

Tang Yunshu looked at the fire that was gradually being extinguished, and his clear pupils reflected the darkness.

The fire grew with the wind, and burned two courtyards in a row, and Tang Yunshu's courtyard was also affected. He had no choice but to go to Zou Ensheng's courtyard to rest.

Xiao Changdao didn't know where he went, and he hasn't returned yet.

Walking down the corridor, when passing through a remote rockery forest, Tang Yunshu's excellent hearing allowed Tang Yunshu to hear the groans and gasps coming from inside.

He paused his steps, held his breath, looked ahead at the rockery group hidden in the darkness, narrowed his eyes slightly, approaching slowly like a wolf.

There is a low wall and bamboo forest not far from the rockery group. Tang Yunshu and Mahayana hid in the bamboo forest, leaning their heads against the wall and looking ahead.

Coincidentally, the thick clouds in the sky slowly dispersed, and the brighter moonlight shone down, clearly reflecting the people behind the rockery.

At the moment when he saw clearly, Tang Yunshu gasped for breath, widened his pupils in astonishment, and couldn't believe what he saw.

There are two people lying in the flat grass in the rockery in front, and the empress dowager is riding on a tall and thin man naked.

Oh no, to be precise, he is a Taoist priest.

The night was dark, Tang Yunshu couldn't see the Taoist priest's face clearly, and he didn't dare to approach him.

The queen mother is actually stealing people, the wild land is happy, such a big fire is still madly lingering.

Feeling sick, Tang Yunshu clenched his fists and slowly backed away in shock.

Who would have thought that he accidentally stepped on a branch in the dark, instantly attracting the attention of outsiders.

"Who?!"

The queen mother was moving crazily, when she heard the voice, her whole body froze, and she looked towards this side sharply.

"Grandpa, let's go."

Mahayana pulled him up and instantly disappeared into the night.

After returning to the courtyard, Mahayana immediately closed the door, looking at Tang Yunshu with trembling hands and feet: "Master, just now, just now..."

My God, the empress dowager actually had an affair with a Taoist priest.

This is a taboo violation. If you do not abide by women's morals and have an affair with others, you will be abolished.

If His Majesty knew about this, the whole sky would collapse.

Tang Yunshu said harshly, "Remember, we didn't see anything tonight."

This matter must not be spread, he is not for anyone, but for Ting.

The matter of the empress dowager's affair with someone was exposed, and those who died were not from the same family.

Ting respected the Queen Mother very much, knowing the truth, how could he bear it.