Uncle Guo, your heart thief has been promoted again

Chapter 347 Pearl
The Xiannong Ceremony and the Silkworm Prosperity Ceremony were held as scheduled three days later, and the sacrificing uniform turmoil that had tormented the Shangfu Bureau for nearly a month was finally over without any danger.

However, as a member of the Queen's Clothing Bureau, Jiang Baoyu missed an interesting event at the empress' silkworm ceremony because he had to accompany the emperor when he held the Xiannong ceremony.

The so-called pro-silkworm ceremony is a ceremony in which the queen presides over the silkworm altar and leads all the concubines to worship the silkworm god Leizu.

At the silkworm kissing ceremony, the queen will hold a gold hook, the concubine will hold a silver hook, and the others will hold an iron hook. Everyone will hold a yellow bamboo basket and go to the mulberry tree to pick mulberries. The mulberry leaves will be chopped by the silkworm woman , fed to young silkworms.

The silkworm kissing ceremony is actually a continuous process. The empress and the crowd picking mulberry is just the beginning. After the silkworms cocoon, the silkworm women will choose the best silk to present to the empress, and then the empress will present it to the emperor and empress dowager.

Immediately, an auspicious day was selected, and the queen and the Congsang staff entered the weaving room together, reeled and dyed the silk, and used it to make sacrificial clothes in the future.

Because they have to come here once a year, the queen and all the concubines are just going through the motions, picking one or two mulberry leaves before going back, and leaving the rest to the silkworm women.

However, a strange incident at this year's Silkworm Ceremony attracted the attention of the Queen and all the concubines, so that they did not leave the scene for a long time, and even sent someone to the Xiannong Ceremony to pass on a message to the Emperor.

The reason was that after the silkworm woman fed mulberry leaves to the young silkworms, she saw writing on the silkworms.

Putting it together, it turned out to be: "Dongfang Xuanyi, a legacy of the sea."

According to regulations, the sacrificial attire for silkworm ceremonies should be Ju Yi, which is as yellow as the young leaves of a mulberry tree, and everyone from the queen to the married woman must wear it.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, no one would act here wearing black clothes.

It just so happened that a woman was passing by in the east at that time, wearing black clothes, she said that she came from her hometown to find her father in the capital of God, but she didn't know that it was the empress who was holding a silkworm kissing ceremony, but she just saw that there were so many people here, she came to watch the excitement.

When asked how she got in past the nearby guards, she didn't know anything, and only said that she didn't see the guards when she came down from the mountain.

Something was wrong, so the queen had to ask the emperor for advice.

The emperor hastily ended the Xiannong ceremony, returned to the palace and ordered the woman to be interrogated.

I found out that this woman is from Liangzhou and County, and her mother is an ordinary village woman at the foot of the mountain in Hexian County. She rescued a man on the mountain 16 years ago.

Later, the man said that he would go home and ask a matchmaker, and eight palanquins were carried to marry the village woman, but he never came back.

The village woman gave birth to a girl alone, but fortunately she was in the deep mountains, so she didn't receive any supercilious looks.

Now that the village woman died of illness, the woman was entrusted by her mother to come to the capital of God to find her father according to the slight messages and tokens left by the man.

I don't want the emperor to be very sad after listening to the woman's detailed description, and immediately ask the village woman's name and appearance.

The women answered one by one, and handed over tokens for the emperor to check, but it was the concentric jade pendant that the emperor carried with him. Almost every woman the emperor liked had a piece. Shui Lige and Zhao Yunmo were dumbfounded when they saw it.

The emperor was straightforward, he immediately recognized his daughter, and announced in front of civil and military officials that this girl was Dayan's veritable eldest princess, bestowing the title Mingzhu.

Because Concubine Zhao's children were not well-connected, Princess Mingzhu was left by her side to be raised.

At the same time, the emperor also ordered an amnesty for the whole world, held a grand banquet, and celebrated the tenth day with the whole country, for fear that others would not know that the eldest princess of the pearl was the emperor's favorite Princess Dayan.

Now it is the tenth day. Today, the emperor announced to all the officials that Princess Mingzhu understood the righteousness and learned that the Jin State had the intention of making a marriage. He offered to go to the Jin State to make a marriage. Filial piety, and for the sake of the common people in the world, he had to reluctantly agree.

Every time Jiang Baoyu thinks of this incident, he still finds it funny.

She really deserves to be Shui Lige, who actually came up with such a trick to save her friend's Princess Showa, who has played the foolish Baitian in the palace for so many years, it's really hard for her.

Tattoos on silkworms, after eating enough, the stomach will be stretched, the eye of the needle will be stretched, and the characters will become obvious. This method is used to pretend to be a manifestation of God, so that the emperor can find the lost pearl of the sea, and a person who can replace the princess Showa The "eldest princess" married far away is really a clever plan.

It would be better if this "princess princess" had some good looks, and her family was poor. Once she became a princess, she would have no worries about food and clothing, and everyone respected her. So what if she married far away?
In order to preserve her glory and wealth, she has to keep her identity a secret and wholeheartedly seek benefits for Dayan?Allegiance to Dayan?
The more Jiang Baoyu thought about it, the more he felt that Shui Lige was a talent. With such a mind, it was a shame to be a secluded woman in the harem.

But as long as he thinks that Jiang Baozhu's disappearance may also be related to Shui Lige, Jiang Baoyu can no longer admire Shui Lige.

I have to find a way to get close to the people in the harem and inquire about it.

Since Concubine Shu could know what happened back then, it meant that Shui Lige's work was not impenetrable, as long as she had the heart, she would be able to find out something.

She was in a daze, but there was a fierce quarrel in Mu Gui's room.

"It's time to go to my place! I came first!"

"So what if you came first? Baoyu is my niece. If she doesn't help me, will she help you?"

"Stop arguing!"

Mu Gui seemed to have a headache from the quarrel between the two, and suddenly opened the door, stood at the door and said to Jiang Baoyu: "Jiang Zhangyi! Come in with Xu Dianyi!"

Jiang Baoyu had been in a daze just now, and now he didn't even pay much attention to who was in Mu Gui's house, so he went to find Xu Qingmeng in a daze, and the two of them entered Mu Gui's room together, and saw Chen Shangfu and Jiang Yuanhui both inside.

Seeing her and Xu Qingmeng coming in, both looked eager to try.

It seemed that if someone gave orders at this moment, they would rush to snatch him.

Then Mu Gui said impatiently to the two of them: "Princess Mingzhu is going to marry far away from Jin, and Concubine Zhao, as her mother and concubine, wants to make her a wedding dress with peacock feather satin and floral damask, and needs your assistance." , so I specially ordered Chen Shangfu to second you two for a few days."

Jiang Yuanhui was dissatisfied with Mu Gui's statement of Chen Shangfu's appeal first, and she was too busy to intervene, but Mu Gui didn't give her a chance, and continued: "But the Crown Prince's coronation ceremony is coming soon, and the East Palace Shangfu Bureau needs to prepare a dress for the prince, and also wants to use it." The satin silk weaved by ourselves is used as the material, so Jiang Shangfu also came to me to second you two."

Mu Gui said it expressionlessly, as if it was an unimportant matter, and he still said calmly at this moment: "As for where you are going, whether to go or not, I am still unwilling to make arbitrary decisions. , I have to listen carefully to the opinions of the two of you."

Jiang Baoyu looked at Chen Shangfu, who was full of hope, and at Jiang Yuanhui, who was determined to win, and speculated in his heart.

The men of Dayan should be crowned at twenty, but the crown prince has a special status, and he has learned the art of king since elementary school, and his temperament naturally matures earlier than ordinary children, so the crown prince of Dayan is usually crowned at twelve.

In two months, the crown prince will be twelve years old, and it is really time to prepare for his coronation ceremony.

But the prince is in the East Palace, not in the Harem.

"Responding to your lord's words, my officer—"

"Before that, you might as well listen to Ben Shangfu's opinion first."

Before she finished speaking, Mu Gui expressed his opinion first and interrupted her...

　Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia for the description of silkworm kissing ceremony in this article.

　　The content of Ju Yi refers to "Dictionary of Ancient Chinese Clothing".

　　
　
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