Because it was the day when the Yelu royal family worshiped their ancestors and gods, Lasu Rong came to invite the general several times after the winter. In the end, Yelu Qingge had no choice but to take Mei Liangchen back to Shanhezhai to prepare for the annual family ceremony.
Sacrifice to heaven.
Sacrifice to heaven.
The Heaven Sacrifice, also called Suburban Sacrifice, started in the early days of the founding of the Min-Liao Dynasty. It was held on the rooftop of the northern suburbs of Beijing on the winter solstice. In order to express their worship of the celestial body, princes from various places would hold large-scale sacrificial activities on the same day.
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This year, because Emperor Tianyun was seriously ill, all the sacrifice procedures for the Winter Solstice were simplified. Even so, when Mei Liangchen saw groups of cattle and sheep being slaughtered and tons of wine arriving at the palace, he was also attracted by the magnificent scene.
Too shocked to speak.
Yelu Qingge was busy with military affairs, so naturally he could not stay in the palace to supervise the matter. He walked forward, called Lasu Rong, and handed Mei Liangchen, who had just recovered from his injury, to him, and asked the old housekeeper to teach her how to manage the affairs of the palace.
Rasu Rong was shocked, but the general's expression definitely didn't look like he was joking. The way he looked at Mayne showed the kind of doting and tenderness he had never seen on the general's face in his decades of staying in the palace.
This posture clearly indicates that Mayne is regarded as the future princess.
He didn't dare to ask what exactly Mayne had agreed with the general. He could only quietly ask Agula and Muren for the inside story. But the two adults looked happy to see it happen and hesitated.
Tell the truth to his worthless old slave.
In the end, it was Suguna who saw that the old manager was puzzled and frowning all day long, so she took the initiative to tell him about the general and Mayne. Suguna said that the general was going to write to Emperor Tianyun to marry Maynejia as the princess of the North.
Princess Wuya, who was driven away, heard that she was causing trouble in the palace and was sent back to the Wuya tribe by Emperor Tianyun, who strictly ordered her not to travel without permission.
While Rasu Rong lamented Mayne's good fortune, he was also secretly worried about the coming storm. Because since the founding of the Min Liao Kingdom, no prince has ever been able to marry a commoner woman as his principal concubine.
This day.
The sky was blue, the wind was biting, and there were thick snow particles on the blue glazed tiles of the palace. The breath turned into ice. Mei Liangchen huddled in his blue cloth robe, and went to the kitchen of the palace with Su Guna to check the supplies for the next day's sacrifice.
Offer sacrifices.
"Hold it quickly, be careful of freezing hands!" Su Guna put an exquisite carved hand stove into Mei Liangchen's hand, but her round face turned red from the cold air.
Mei Liangchen refused with a smile, "You can keep it warm, I'm wearing thick clothes!" In addition to the green cloth cotton robe on her outer coat, Yelu Qingge also forced her to wear a newly made fox fur fur inside.
When I looked in the mirror, I felt that the originally slim person had turned into a round, fat man.
Although she was afraid of the cold, she never wanted to tie herself into a rice dumpling in the winter when the dripping water turned into ice in Beijing.
"That can't be done! The adults will feel distressed if they see it!"
"He is really annoying! Su Guna, don't you know? As long as he returns to Shanhe Zhai, our comfortable life will definitely be over!" Mei Liangchen frowned and put the hot hand warmer in his heart.
Pressing it with both hands, it looked like a fat penguin wandering around the yard.
Su Guna covered her mouth and laughed, and said angrily: "You are so blessed that you don't know how to be blessed!"
Mei Liangchen raised his hand to knock off the snow on the flower branches, curled his lips and said: "He doesn't cherish me at all! Last time in the meeting hall, I said such disgusting words to him, but he just touched my head as if to dismiss me.
He sent me away like a dog! Suguna, do you think I am still blessed like this?" Thinking of that day, I bravely swore to him to confess my love, but he was not moved at all, and even refused to say a word of affirmation.
The abominable deeds he mentioned made his heart, which was so full of passion, turn cold for the most part.
"Pfft..." Su Guna laughed at the sound. Her little master was actually still angry about the fact that the general deliberately ignored her that day.
She lifted a bit of the remaining snow on the rose branches onto Mei Liangchen's face, and teased her with a smile: "How come you, a smart and clear girl, are confused by the General's indifferent temperament?"
"What do you mean?" Mei Liangchen was really confused. Is there anything that Su Guna knew that she didn't know?
Su Guna rubbed her red face and said with a smile: "Then later, didn't you find that Master Agula and Mr. Muren suddenly changed their attitudes and were so nice to the girl that they had nothing to say? When Mr. Baiyin came to see the girl, didn't you find it?
Didn’t you also say some mindless words of thanks?”
Mei Liangchen tried hard to recall it, and it seemed that there was such a thing. She was so dazed by them at the time that she didn't even think about it.
"Silly Mayne... Because of those words you said, the General not only reduced the prisoner's guilt, but also held a meat feast for three days in the military camp. What's even better, starting from this month, all the people at the bottom
The monthly salary of the soldiers is twice as high as before!" When Su Guna mentioned these good things, she was even happier than the soldiers who had received the benefits.
Mei Liangchen, who was stunned, finally understood why Agula and the others had always spoken to her in a respectful tone recently. Even the unruly and ferocious Zuo General Muren was too kind to her. It turned out that this was all Yelu Qingge.
Her contribution was that he used his own unique way to tell the whole world openly that he was so happy to get her love!
"I don't know..." She was the last one to know. Perhaps, he never intended to let her know everything he had done.
"Alas..." Su Guna sighed longly and said with envy: "If there can be such a man in the world who treats me well for a day, Su Guna will be satisfied!"
Mei Liangchen brushed off the snow on his face, looked at her thoughtfully and said: "After the first day, I will think about the second day and the third day... I hope this kind of happiness will continue forever.
"There is no one who is not greedy." Especially she, a woman who desperately longs to be loved and loved, once her hands touch the door to the magnificent dream, how can the door of happiness be easily closed...
After all, she is just an ordinary, selfish, ordinary woman...