All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Shen Lingxi raised her almond eyes slightly, sat on the horse, exchanged a glance with Yun Wang, and looked at everyone.

"Why?" Her eyes fell on the deputy general, "Tell me, why can't I go here, why do I want to enter the city from another place?"

The lieutenant general's face was full of loyalty, and he said in a flattering tone: "Princess, Yunxi, the saint of Yun Country, died in this gate six years ago wearing a red dress. Since then, there has been no precedent for a woman to enter the city wearing red. For the safety of the Crown Princess, please enter the city from another place."

Shen Lingxi lowered her eyes, saw the scarlet cloak on her body, and smiled.

She did not expect that after six years, she would be remembered by these people in such a way.

"Interesting, there is such a saying..."

Her eyes swept over the crowd again, and she asked leisurely: "If I want to enter the city through this gate today, what will happen?"

The lieutenant general didn't expect that this man was an unbelieving master.

He advised sincerely: "It is said that if a woman in a red dress enters the city through this gate, she will be possessed by a ghost. It may also bring disasters to the people in the city. Please think twice."

"Princess, please think twice." Everyone echoed in unison.

"A ghost? A disaster?"

Shen Lingxi sneered, "If that's the case, I will have to enter the city through this gate. I don't have any other skills, but I still have some skills in catching ghosts."

Everyone looked at each other.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked in feigned surprise: "However, since ancient times, only people who have died unjustly can turn into ghosts. Do you mean the holy woman by ghosts? Was she killed unjustly?"

As soon as this remark came out, all the officials fell silent.

They were promoted six years ago after Yun Kingdom was broken.

As the saying goes, "Winners lose bandits", they can hold important positions after the new king takes office.

Either they are genuinely talented, or they are the confidantes of Yun Hongshan and the Xiao family.

Although Yun Hongshan was ambitious, he was not many, and now he died in a foreign land.

More people who came today were Xiao family's cronies, and they were all familiar with each other who were rushing to come to the prince.

Shen Lingxi's question was really difficult for them to answer.

After all, the saint was pushed down the tower by Emperor Li as a "human sacrifice".

"Human sacrifice" is to sacrifice the body and soul to the witch god. After death, the spirit and soul will naturally disappear. How can it become a "violent ghost"?
If it is said that she really turned into a ghost after death, isn't that alluding to Emperor Lie's curse, is it false?

Is this curse true or false...

In the hearts of these people, there is naturally a steelyard.

Now the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty firmly believes in this curse.

These humble people dare not speak freely.

The kneeling officials didn't dare to say anything, and turned their eyes to Xiao Rui who was standing behind Yun Huang.

And Yun Wang, the real king of Yunjiang, was left aside by everyone like a puppet without any sense of existence.

"Why didn't you talk? Is it difficult for me to answer this question? Aren't you all quite outspoken just now?"

Seeing that none of them dared to answer, Shen Lingxi looked at Xiao Rui with a half smile but not a smile, "General Xiao is the most respected by them in Yunjiang, tell me, the ghosts and disasters they are talking about are referring to the deceased Her Majesty the Holy Maiden?"

Xiao Rui chuckled, glanced into the distance, stepped forward and saluted, "It's just some folk rumors, the Crown Princess doesn't have to take it seriously."

"Since folk rumors cannot be taken seriously..."

Shen Lingxi's smile disappeared from the corners of her lips in an instant, with displeasure on her face, she asked aggressively: "These people use such ridiculous excuses to stop me in front of the city gate and prevent me from entering the city."

"I want to ask, what do they mean by this? Is it trying to show my power?"

As soon as these words came out, the kneeling officials, including the deputy general, all shivered.

They originally wanted to remind this person kindly, and flatter him by the way.

Unexpectedly, if the flattery didn't work out, they would suffer for nothing.

Everyone's faces were not very good-looking. For a while, they stood up or knelt down, and the scene couldn't help but freeze there.

In the silence, the car carrying the prince, from far to near, stopped slowly behind Shen Lingxi.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as the carriage stopped, Xiao Rui led all the officials to greet the carriage: "Welcome Your Highness the Crown Prince."

"Congratulations, Your Royal Highness."

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi's lips curled slightly.

Chun Jun opened the curtain from the outside, and Chu Yan sat in the car, his cold eyes swept over the battle in front of him.

"What's the matter?" He asked calmly.

Xiao Rui's face showed embarrassment.

"Back to His Royal Highness, it is the Crown Princess..."

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Shen Lingxi immediately cut off his words with a smile, "These people under General Xiao said that women in red clothes are not allowed to enter Yunbian City through this gate. The old sister Xi is a ghost who was killed unjustly."

"I thought that sister Xi was in Yunjiang during her lifetime. She was both a saint and a princess. Even if she died like that, she married His Highness and became his official wife. She should be respected by others. Looking at it now, it is really chilling."

"Your Highness, please comment. I came to Yunbian City for the first time. They not only slandered Sister Xi, but also used Sister Xi to suppress me. Do they have any dissatisfaction with me?"

She has "Sister Xi" on the left and "Sister Xi" on the right, with undisguised dissatisfaction and pride in her tone.

All their "good intentions" were misinterpreted as malice.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is unreasonable.

Chu Yan was slightly taken aback.

The officials, including Xiao Rui, were also a little apprehensive.

Just now he only cared about charming the Lord, but he forgot that the one who jumped from the tower is the Prince's "Original Match".

The man who fell in front of the city gate back then, his body was bloody and bloody, was collected by the prince himself...

In front of the current princess, mentioning the former prince...

Not to mention stepping on and holding a handful, even for trivial matters such as entering the city, the incumbent should be asked to "avoid" the predecessor.
The blood on the lieutenant general's face faded immediately, "Damn me, I have no intention of offending the princess, please punish me!"

The rest of the kneeling officials also pleaded guilty.

Chu Yan's eyes darkened slightly.

He knew that Shen Lingxi would not mention Princess Yunxi for no reason.

Not to mention troublesome officials for no reason.

He simply said: "You offend the Crown Princess, you should ask the Crown Princess for your sins, and how to deal with you is up to the Crown Princess. The meaning of the Crown Princess is the meaning of loneliness."

Xiao Rui narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

When Chu Yan was in Yunjiang six years ago, although he was young, his style of acting was very arbitrary and decisive, and he always said the same thing.

In the past five years, although he hadn't seen Chu Yan again, he had heard about his reputation, and his cruelty was even worse than when he was in Yunjiang six years ago.

In any case, Chu Yan is definitely not the kind of stupid person who lets a woman decide in front of everyone.

Now he not only protects Shen Lingxi, but also says such things.

Come to think of it, it was the sudden death of Yun Hongshan that made the Xiao family arouse the prince's suspicion.

Xiao Rui glanced at the lieutenant lightly.

The lieutenant hurriedly kowtowed to Shen Lingxi: "It was the lower officials who offended the Crown Princess, please punish the Crown Princess."

"Please punish the Crown Princess." Everyone hurriedly agreed.

Shen Lingxi's eyes swept over them, and finally fell on Xiao Rui's face.

"General Xiao, I don't quite understand your rules in Yunjiang..."

She pointed at those kneeling people with the whip in her hand, and asked with a faint smile: "Those like them who commit crimes below and offend the Palace, according to Yunjiang's rules, how should we deal with them?"

Now Yunjiang is at a time when people's hearts are in turmoil.

For ordinary people who are newcomers and encounter this kind of thing, just give them a step up and give them a few reprimands.

But Shen Lingxi was not reluctant, and asked Xiao Rui directly.

Still in the case of her being unreasonable.

Xiao Rui's eyes were dark, and because of Chu Yan's power, he raised his hands and replied: "According to Yunjiang's rules, give ten lashes in public."

Shen Lingxi gave a "tsk", with a look of unbearable expression on her face.

"With so many people, it's too much for one person to give ten lashes in public. It's not appropriate."

The kneeling people breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words.

Yunjiang's punishment of caning, not to mention ten strokes, but five strokes, would hurt his muscles and bones, and if his body was weak, half his life would be lost.

However, the next moment——

"Nine whips are ready."

Shen Lingxi's clear voice was full of well-intentioned words: "Nine has the meaning of 'long-term', I hope you can remember this lesson for a long time. In the future, you should be cautious in your words and deeds. Don't say anything you shouldn't say. No matter how nonsense you talk, don’t slander people who shouldn’t be slandering, I hope you can take this as a warning.”

Crowd: ...

Nine times out of ten, you really know how to reduce sentences.

After Shen Lingxi finished speaking, she still didn't forget to look at Mu Huai'an beside her, "General Mu, you are new to Yunjiang, you must not be familiar with the laws and regulations of Yunjiang, so go and watch General Xiao carry out the execution on behalf of me. "

Mu Huai'an suppressed the corners of his raised lips, and bowed in response.

Xiao Rui's face was already darkened.

When did he say he was going to execute her?
He is a dignified general of Yunjiang, even the Duke of Zhenguo with great military exploits, in the boundary of Yunjiang, he must be courteous to him three points.

Today, not only was a woman shouting and shouting in public, ordering him to be the executioner.

He was also worried that he would be favoritism and let Mu Huai'an, a weak-looking yellow-haired boy, supervise his execution.

What a shame!
"His Royal Highness..."

Xiao Rui raised his eyes to look at Chu Yan in the carriage, and hoped that His Royal Highness, who always enforced the law impartially, would speak a fair word.

Unexpectedly, Chu Yan just said indifferently: "So, there is General Lao Xiao."

"Since the matter has been resolved, King Yunjiang, let's go into the city." He nodded towards Yun Huang.

Yun Wang saluted and got down, got on his horse, and led the way in person.

Chunjun put down the curtain in time.

Seeing this, Xiao Rui knew that there was no room for change, so he grimaced and waved behind him.

The crowd immediately made way for a passage.

Shen Lingxi wore a red cloak, followed Chu Yan's carriage on horseback, and walked slowly towards the city.

Wherever she went, the common people turned their attention.

It has been many years since the death of the saint, and no one has passed under this city gate wearing red.

"Look! Aunt Saint is back!"

Among the people watching on both sides, a silly kid with a long hair comb was sitting under the eaves of his house, clapping his hands and shouting excitedly in Shen Lingxi's direction.

Shen Lingxi turned her head to look at him, a faint smile slowly bloomed on the corner of her lips.

In the eyes of everyone, that smile seemed to overlap with the red figure from six years ago.

Some people couldn't help but stretch out their palms with their palms up, make the gesture of Chengze God's grace before, and kneel down in her direction.

"Saint... like a saint..."

"It's her, she's back..."

At first, it was just some inaudible whispers, but then, for some reason, more and more people followed the car.

The voices of those discussions are also getting louder.

The voice was carried into Xiao Rui's ears by a soldier trotting.

Xiao Rui looked at the red back that was fading away, and a sinister light flashed across his eyes...

*
For Yun Wang, the newly promoted King of Yunjiang, the canonization ceremony has not yet been carried out.

Although he still doesn't have much prestige in front of the officials in Yunjiang, he can still make the arrangements for Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi's daily life.

The former Yunguo Palace has long since been changed to the residence of the King of Yunjiang.

However, King Yunjiang is only a vassal king after all, and in terms of rituals, he cannot go beyond the Great Zhou Imperial City, so only half of the palace is used, and the other half has always been vacant.

Among them are the Lingxi Palace and the Medicine Palace where Yunxi lived before.

Coincidentally, "Consonance" was the name of her bedroom in her previous life.

The carriage stopped slowly in front of the Consonance Palace.

Shen Lingxi dismounted and stopped in front of the palace gate, looking at the renovated plaque, feeling as if she had been separated from another world.

Chu Yan got out of the carriage, slightly surprised in his eyes, and asked Yun Wang, "Why do you live here?"

He has been stationed in Yunjiang for a year, so he naturally knows about Yunguo Palace.

Consonance Palace was the residence of the little princess during her lifetime.

Yun Huan lowered his eyebrows and said, "Mingde Palace, where Your Highness lived before, was struck by lightning during the heavy rain a while ago, and most of it was destroyed. So I made my own opinion and ordered people to clean up the place."

Chu Yan frowned invisibly, and was about to ask him to change places——

But Shen Lingxi had already stepped in.

His phoenix eyes flickered slightly, thinking that when he was sitting in the carriage and heard the whispers of the people, he took a deep sideways glance at Yun Lu, and followed him up.

In the Lingxi Palace, it was as simple and clean as in the previous life.

Layers of light blue curtains flutter gently with the breeze.

In the gilded copper furnace, there is an unknown orchid incense burning, which makes people feel a sense of tranquility when they enter the hall.

The window on one side is open, and you can see the sacred mountain peaks in the distance dyed golden by the setting sun.

There is a large desk in front of the window, and a few red plums in full bloom are inserted in the white jade porcelain vase on the desk.In the middle is a peach blossom paperweight carved from pink jade, and a piece of yellowed rice paper is pressed.

There is still an unfinished ink painting on the rice paper.

If it weren't for the good wolf hair next to it, it would have been dry and bald.Everything on this desk seems to be that the owner has just left for a while and will be back soon.

But at that time, who knew that when he left, yin and yang were separated, and things changed.

Standing in front of the desk, Shen Lingxi gently stroked the painting with her fingertips, and remained silent.

Chu Yan walked to her side.

His gaze swept across the painting, but was attracted by the handwritten book beside him.

On the faded blue cover of the book, the word "Medicine Classic" is written with a slightly immature but sharp brushstroke.

Look at the familiar handwriting.

For a long time, those doubts that have plagued Chu Yan's heart.

At this moment, I finally have the answer...

There is still one watch to go, one watch to self-punishment, and two more watches, but it will probably be in the morning.