The sacrificial ceremony was temporarily canceled.
Emperor Zihao didn't say anything, so the ministers had no choice but to stay in the same position and wait. Their dazzling eyes kept turning, trying desperately to find out the emperor's thoughts from the clues so that they could talk about this in the future.
When asked about something by name, he could answer questions fluently.
When the sun finally slowly climbed to the top of the head, a group of masked guards in black pressed the sacred virgin with messy temples up to the main peak. It was originally the place where sacrifices were made to the heaven and earth. A huge high platform had been set up in advance, and
They were piled high with sacrificial cattle, sheep and fruits, and they hadn't had time to remove them.
Abandoning the left and right, and letting go of Yu Luojiao, Yan Xi's unchanging coldness seemed a bit unfathomable.
"Your Majesty, is your Majesty, is she okay?" Taking courage, Yu Luojiao took half a step forward and asked gently.[
Yan Xi looked away, unwilling to meet her complicated eyes, "A drug was secretly added to the holy water. Do you know your guilt?"
"Your Majesty, the Guangming Cult has always relied on this recipe to win over the common people. Yu'er has reported this matter to you before. Master Jiuding's reply at that time was to allow me to make my own decision. Therefore, this sacrificial ceremony will also use this method.
I broke the past tradition, really, I didn’t mean to harm the empress." Biting her lip, tears of grievance hung in the corners of her eyes, hanging there without letting them fall, like a pear blossom with rain.
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However, Yan Xi noticed the traces made by time on this woman. Even if she tried to hide them, the small fine lines at the corners of her eyes could not be blocked.
"You have an excuse for this matter. Then how do you explain that the eldest prince and the third prince were kidnapped from the imperial mausoleum?" Yan Xi's topic jumped quickly, and it was not too much to cause Tao Xiaowei to faint.
He stopped at the holy water issue, but brought up the incident that really made Yu Luojiao feel frightened.
"Your Majesty, why did you ask Yu'er about this matter? Logically speaking, the guards over there are not responsible for the Guangming Cult, so I really don't know." Trying to pretend to be innocent, Yu Luo's heart trembled.
, and was also afraid of Yan Xi’s look in his eyes, everything was lost in his sharpness.
Yan Xi frowned, and he was not annoyed by the expected denial, "So a few days ago, the body of the eldest prince was found by the Sun God Lake, a territory of your Guangming Cult, and it has nothing to do with you?"
At this point, his indifference turned into ridicule, and he curled his lips in disdain for Yu Luojiao's daring and unwillingness to act.