Chapter 28 The Emperor's New Clothes?
In the carriage, Tang Xiaoshan finally actually met this Ming concubine.
The Mingfei is so beautiful that she is wearing a gorgeous red and blue dress. Because her style is completely different from the outside world, it is hard to say what kind of clothes it is. The palace bun is combed on her head and tied on the top, which is somewhat like the flying fairy bun that became popular in the Han Dynasty. This kind of palace bun is said to be combed by a fairy who descended to the palace during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Emperor Wu of Han ordered the palace to imitate it, so he was named "Flying Fairy".
Ming Concubine had a noble status, so Tang Xiaoshan naturally did not dare to be too casual. He gave a tribute and called "Empress" Ming Concubine to turn light and said with a smile: "You are not a person from the Kingdom of God, you don't need to be so polite. I see that you are about the same age as my daughter, and even a little younger than her. My original surname is Yue and my name is Rainbow, so you call me Aunt Hong."
The surname Yue has never been heard in the Central Plains. Tang Xiaoshan said, "How is this good?"
Concubine Ming sighed and said, "Uncle Ling and I are both old acquaintances. It is not an exaggeration to call me Aunt Hong."
Tang Xiaoshan was secretly surprised and could not understand how his uncle met the imperial concubine in the Heavenly Realm.
The two started chatting in the car. Mingfei Yue Caihong asked her uncle Tang Min in detail about the disappearance and why Tang Xiaoshan found this place.
Tang Xiaoshan said something in conjunction with him, but missed the fact that she was not only here for her uncle, but also wanted to find missing girls in various parts of China.
The carriage is moving further and further away, and before we know it, we are about to enter a tree city.
The cities within the Kingdom of God are all converted from giant Sarat trees. There are leaves on the top to shelter the wind and rain, and the inner tree strips are used as channels, which are interlaced with complex interlacing.
The same is true for this tree city. The trunk is as big as Mount Tai, and the middle is hollowed out by someone using magic.
The carriage drove into the city, and on the distant mountains, four people watched the carriage disappear.
These four people are a boy and three girls.
One of the girls said, "Brother! How could Shuxiang, Moxiang and Hongying be with the carriage and enter the city so openly? Aren't they being hunted by the people of the Kingdom of God?"
The boy said, "Looking at the carriage, the style is extremely exquisite, and there are soldiers accompanying you around. It seems that they have met some noble people."
Another lively girl said, "Why didn't you see Yunzhi and Sister Xiaoshan? Did Shuxiang actually throw them away?"
The third girl had no expression on her face: "Even if Sister Shuxiang threw away her, she wouldn't throw her away.
sister."
The boy was naturally Tang Xiaofeng, and the three girls Luo Hongqi, Zizhi and Yuying were by his side.
Tang Xiaofeng smiled and said, "Sister and Yunzhi are both in the carriage, I have seen them." His spiritual energy could see through the carriage board.
Luo Hongqiu said: "What should we do now?"
Tang Xiaofeng pondered: "Looking at their current appearance, it seems that nothing will happen for the time being, but we should enter Tree City first and try to contact them so that they can rest assured."
Zizhi said: "Our clothes are very different from those here, even if the accent is cheated.
I can't cheat my clothes on my body, I'm afraid I'll steal some clothes first."
Tang Xiaofeng said: "No, I have seen their clothes, and I just need to change the magic next."
He first asked Luo Honglu to stand there, took a big cloth himself, covered her body, pretended to blow a breath, and then pulled the cloth. Luo Honglu's clothes had indeed changed style, becoming like an ordinary nose in the realm of heaven and man.
Zizhi was very novel when she saw Tang Xiaofeng covering Yuying's body. The blue clothes on Yuying's body also changed, so she jumped excitedly: "It's my turn, it's my turn."
Tang Xiaofeng smiled and said, "Come on now." He covered Zizhi's body and quickly pulled it open.
Zizhi lowered her head excitedly, trying to see what her clothes had turned into, but she saw her trembling slightly, the fragrant grass was sad, and she screamed, covering her belly and squatted down: "Brother, you, you, quickly turn my clothes back." She was naked.
Tang Xiaofeng looked at her pointed tun petals squatting on the ground, with a delicate figure, and smiled and said, "Aren't you wearing them?"
Zizhi was so anxious that she was about to cry: "Where is it?"
Tang Xiaofeng laughed and said, "Your outfit is called "the emperor's new clothes. Only the emperor can wear them. There is an allusion in it. Do you want to listen to it?"
Zizhi said qiyly: "You, you bully people."
You will be the emperor in the future, so this is just a preview for you. Tang Xiaofeng smiled and covered her with a big cloth, which changed her style.
Zizhi stood up, pursed her lips, and muttered, "Brother, you are really good at taking off your clothes, but now you have to lose your clothes." After saying that, she found something wrong. At first glance, Luo Hongqi shook her head helplessly, and Yuying looked at her.
Her pretty face suddenly turned red, and she wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into the tree city with her three girls.
Although the city gate was extremely strict, at this time, they had all changed into costumes in the realm of Tianren, and Zizhi's cleverness and Tang Xiaofeng's "magic" naturally could not see that they were outsiders.
Many people in the realm of heaven and man are extremely large, but there are also many people with figures like them. Although they live outside the realm of heaven and man, although each generation is taller than each generation, they live shorter than each generation. Only those living in and around Zhongdu have a longer life span. Over time, an invisible hierarchy has been formed. Those who are extremely large, their ancestors are either herders or poor people who can only live on the outside. Most of the normal body types like them have family backgrounds, and their ancestors are either rich or noble, and are more respected.
This is a bit like the "Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System" before the Wei and Jin Dynasties forcibly classifying each person's family background. This hierarchy system was only slowly broken after the emergence of the imperial examination system.
It is precisely because of the imperial examination that even ordinary people may soar into the sky that the aristocratic system in China after the Tang Dynasty began to fall apart, and there would be no caste system that still existed in India a thousand years later, or aristocratic system like the medieval European era.
In this realm of heaven and man, are there systems such as imperial examinations? They do not understand yet. Although the hierarchy is stricter than that of the Tang Dynasty, it seems that it is not as strong as in the Tianzhu or Tufan. People with family backgrounds look down on the poor, but it seems that they are only limited to "looking down on them". Just like before the Wei and Jin Dynasties, children of aristocratic families were walking on the same street as the dog-slaughtered people. The children of aristocratic families may be more proud of being superior, but there is no need for the dog-slaughtered people to give way to him. The road is facing the sky and each walks halfway.
Unlike the strict caste system in India, when the untouchables meet people of higher castes, they not only have to kneel, but also go to the other party's feet. The common people of the Celestial Empire usually kneel down when they are suing.
In some time travel novels in later generations, before the protagonist traveled to the Tang and Song dynasties, the ministers knelt down when they saw the emperor and claimed to be slaves. It was really too many Qing dramas. Before the Tang Dynasty, ministers gathered with the emperor and were on par. In the Song Dynasty, ministers only bowed to the emperor. Although the saying "three kneelings and nine kowtows" appeared early, it was only used in extremely important ceremonies, and it was generally only used to kneel down in the sky and the ground. It was only from the Ming Dynasty that kneeling became a normal state. However, although the ministers at that time knelt on the emperor, the ministers often scolded the emperor when they caught the emperor. In the Qing Dynasty, it was no longer "kneeling" but "bedding".
By the way, in the Qing Dynasty, before Qianlong, not anyone could call himself a "slave" in front of the emperor. At that time, only Manchu ministers called themselves slaves, and Han ministers could only claim to be subordinates because they did not even have the qualifications to be "slaves". Only during Qianlong did they begin to allow Han ministers to claim themselves to be slaves in front of him, which was a gift.
The people in the realm of heaven and man are actually descendants of Yan and Huang. They only gradually moved in during the chaos of the world such as the tyrannical Qin or the Five Barbarians and the Five Barbarians Invasion of China. Although many customs are different from the outside world, on the one hand, the environment here is different after all, and on the other hand, it is also because after the Five Barbarians Invasion of China, the outside world has undergone serious Hu transformation and the customs have changed greatly. Although we have followed the root cause and everyone is considered descendants of Yan and Huang, but there are huge differences in customs.
But the biggest difference is that many women here don’t wear kuba.
In fact, before the Han Dynasty, women mostly wore deep clothes, and there were basically no kids in the deep clothes. Even if there were, they were still open-crotch covers. That is, the "knot-crotch" worn by only children in later generations was called "tibia" in ancient times. It was only after the Five Barbarians invaded China. Because of the influence of Hu women, kids became popular. The disappearance of "tibia" was the event after the emergence of Neo-Confucianists in the Ming and Qing Dynasties who wanted to lock women with chastity belts.
Tang Xiaofeng discovered that the women here basically retained the habit of covering their clothes from the Qin and Han dynasties and not wearing kuba. As for the fact that these women clearly used deep clothes or long clothes, why did he know that they were not wearing kuba? Please don’t ask him about this. He just regretted it. He should have "adapted to the local customs" and destroyed the three beauties around him.
It seems shameless to wear a deep dress or a long skirt on the outside, but it is a habit, but everyone is like this. In fact, there is nothing strange about it. If the women here see the girls wearing miniskirts more than a thousand years later, most of them are shy, I am afraid they will still feel ashamed. After all, although the women here, or the women in front of the Han Dynasty are not used to wearing a kui, they are wrapped tightly outside. You even have big clothes out. Is it amazing to wear a thin little kui?
They stayed in an inn and paid for the copper coins that Tang Xiaofeng used his "magic" to transform. Although the style of the copper coins is different from that of the outside world, there is not much difference. As for the inn, it is built on a branch that was chiseled through. Although the shape looks strange, it can be used to live in people.
Tang Xiaofeng asked Luo Hongqi and Yuying to stay here first, and Zizhi went outside to find out the news. Zizhi was beautiful and had good eloquence. With her own kingly aura, she found out all the news.
After returning to the inn, the four of them gathered together. Zizhi said, "Who went into the city with Sister Xiaoshan and the others was the concubine Yuebihong of the God Emperor. The Emperor had two concubines, one was called the Immortal Concubine and the other was called the Ming Concubine. Yuecaihong was the Ming Concubine among the two concubines. As for why Sister Xiaoshan and Shuxiang were with this Ming Concubine, it is impossible to find out now. I only know that they are now living in the palace where the God Emperor and his concubine were on patrol."
He also said: "This Ming Concubine's identity is very not simple. I heard that the Divine Emperor is seriously ill. The emperor who was born to the Divine Emperor is likely to be the next Empress.
Luo Hongqi said in surprise: "Can women be emperors here?"
Zizhi said: "It is not possible generally. It seems that only when the God Emperor has no son, the Emperor can inherit the throne and become the empress through some ritual and vows to never marry. This time, this is such an exception. Although the God Emperor has two concubines, only the daughter born to him by Ming Concubine, called Shujie Emperor. Then again, compared with the outside world, although the Heavenly Realm is relatively stable, the bloodline of the God Emperor is rarely passed down to the third and fourth generations of this God Emperor has no blood relationship with the former God Emperor, but it is "abdicated and come."
Luo Hongqiu said, "Abdicate?"
Tang Xiao* smiled and said, "It was said that it was abdication, but the man was vague when he mentioned this matter, and probably he was forced to abdicate."
Zizhi said: "There are only so many that can be found now. After all, we dare not ask too much to avoid being suspicious."
Luo Hongqi said: "It's not easy to be able to find out so much. Thanks to you. If it were someone else, I'm afraid that someone would be suspicious if I said a few more words."
Tang Xiaofeng said: "No matter what, I will go to the palace tonight to meet my sister and Shuxiang at least let them know that I am near them, so that they can take care of anything if there is anything."
Luo Hongqiu said, "Brother, I'll go with you."
"No need" Tang Xiaofeng smiled and said, "It's not like going to fight, I'll just go alone."
It's late at night and people are quiet.
Tang Xiaofeng came to the palace and walked around.
I don’t know why, but the defense in the palace is extremely strict.
Generally speaking, no matter how strict the defense is, it will slowly relax over time. The defense here is so strict, it must be because something uneasy happened during the day.
He went around for a long time and couldn't find an opportunity to sneak in.
So he stopped, gathered the spiritual energy in his eyes, and looked down.
In an open palace like this, there must be well water or spring pools.
The spiritual energy that could see through the five elements finally helped him find an undercurrent leading to the inside.
He drilled his body and used the sword energy of the five elements to help him drill into the undercurrent underground and sneak into the palace quietly.
Soon, he came out of a well.
Since he has entered the palace, the rest is even easier to deal with. The main function of those guards is to prevent outsiders from sneaking in, and he has changed from an "outside thief" to an "inside thief".
He was walking around the east and west in the palace. Even if there was a guard passing by, he was seen through his spiritual energy in advance. Not to mention the dangers along the way, he was not even shocked.
This is just the palace where the God Emperor and his concubines settled during their parade. Generally speaking, one or two palaces are built in various places. Most palaces have not been used since their completion. This situation is not only here, but also in all dynasties in the outside world.
The palace looks the same. There are signs of temporary cleaning in many places, and it is not even thorough enough. If the Concubine Ming had not passed by this city today, it would have been abandoned like this.
The defense of the entire palace was already stricter, and one of the halls was even more stricter. Tang Xiaofeng guessed that the place must be where the Mingfei Yue Caihong lived, so he bypassed the place and searched for other places.
Finally, he saw Lin Shuxiang in one of the halls.
Before he could get close, Lin Shuxiang was alert: "Who is it?"
Tang Xiaofeng praised secretly, and the gentle maid's cultivation was obviously deeper. He laughed in a low voice and said, "It's me."
The gentle maid was surprised and happy: "Young Master?"
Tang Xiaofeng flew out and faced her. Lin Shuxiang saw that it was indeed him, both liked him and was also unexpected.
When Tang Xiaofeng saw her staying here alone, he asked her sister and others. Lin Shuxiang said: "Mo Xiang and Hongying have already rested, and Miss 1 and Miss Yunzhi are taking a bath inside."
"Take a bath?" Tang Xiaofeng subconsciously wanted to use the spiritual energy to look inside.
"Young Master!" Lin Shuxiang called out reproachfully.
Tang Xiaofeng coughed dryly, remembering that he had been busy since he entered the Loulan realm and had not taken a shower for a long time. Although he had just entered the underground river, he forgot to take a shower.
Listening to the sound of water rushing inside and talking to his sister and Yunzhi, he saw that he wanted to take a shower.
Lin Shuxiang was extremely happy when she saw the young master coming and went in to report it. Tang Xiaoshan learned that his younger brother was outside, and was also surprised. After washing his younger brother with Yunzhi, he called him in.
When the siblings met, Tang Xiaofeng saw that his sister's skin was rosy and her hair was slightly wet. Yunzhi was like a peach after the rain, and the sky was full of rain. The two of them wore gorgeous dark clothes similar to those that were more common before the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It was also a common style here. As for whether they followed the local customs and did not wear kuku, Tang Xiaofeng had not started research.
Tang Xiaoshan was also very surprised when he saw his younger brother and asked him if he had seen Zizhi and Yuying.
Tang Xiaofeng told them that Zizhi and Yuying were both in the city, and blinked at Yunzhi again, saying that Zizhi had notified you about being with me? Yunzhi's face suddenly turned red... It turns out that you were "notifying" me?
Tang Xiaofeng asked his sister why she was mingling with that Mingfei, and Tang Xiaoshan told him what happened in the daytime. Only then did Tang Xiaofeng know the reason.
Tang Xiaoshan whispered: "My Concubine Ming and Wang Binglu seem to recognize Uncle Min. Not only that, I also met Wen Jin in this Heavenly Realm. She said that Uncle Min was also kidnapped into this Heavenly Realm. When the Concubine Ming learned that Uncle Min was robbed, she accidentally said, "I harmed him. In my opinion, if you want to find Uncle Min, you must start from this Ming Concubine."
He also said: "Mr. Wang Binglu not only knows Uncle Min, but seems to be an old friend of his father. After learning about my origin, he took care of me secretly. It's a pity that I was invited by Concubine Ming to live in the palace, but Mr. Wang lives outside. I couldn't talk to him in detail, otherwise, I could ask clearly."
Tang Xiaofeng said: "Wang Binglu? I have never heard my parents mention this name. Well, Wang Binglu........., Wang Binglu..." Suddenly he thought about something...
Chapter completed!