rebirth [rebirth]

On the way back to the palace, neither of them said much.

After the long welcoming team had all returned to the outer gate of the Chiyan Gate, Han Bin got off his horse to salute Rong Jingxuan and Xie Mingze, and walked to the front of the team with the gift jade in his hand.

He is only in his thirties this year, and he is the youngest first-rank courtier in this dynasty. His voice is loud and clear, and he sings loudly, and his voice can shuttle back and forth between the corridors of Changxin Palace.

Seeing him take a deep breath, Gao Sheng said: "The empress returns to the palace and opens the palace gate."

As his voice sounded, starting from the outer gate of Chiyan Gate, the palace gates inside opened one by one. Xie Mingze was riding on a jade horse, and he could clearly see the bluestone palace road spreading out layer by layer, passing through the six white marble steps of Qinzheng Gate. , and finally extended to the foot of the Hall of Qinzheng.

The Qinzheng Hall is the largest building in the entire front palace, and every three days the big courts are held here, and the daily small courts are held in the Jiaotai Hall behind the Qinzheng Hall.

Naturally, the Empress Dowager Ceremony had to be held in front of the Palace of Qinzheng. At this time, the civil and military officials had already been waiting on both sides of the palace road, waiting for the emperor and empress to return to the palace.

After Han Bin sang, he hurried back to Rong Jingxuan, waiting for his instructions.

Rong Jingxuan turned his head and glanced at Xie Mingze. Seeing his peaceful eyes, he nodded slightly at Han Bin.

Han Bin got the order and immediately sang loudly: "Get up."

As soon as he sang, the guards standing quietly on both sides of the palace road immediately moved slowly.

There are seven palace gates inside and outside Chiyan Gate, and all the accompanying guards have to enter the palace through the six side gates on both sides of the main gate, but only Rong Jingxuan and Xie Mingze can go through the tallest and largest main palace gate in the middle.

As the team slowly moved forward, Rong Jingxuan and Xie Mingze came to the gate of the main palace.

Rong Jingxuan involuntarily turned his head to look at Xie Mingze, and saw that he was looking at the majestic palace wall in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Go in?" Rong Jingxuan asked in a low voice.

Xie Mingze turned around, the moment his indifferent eyes touched Rong Jingxuan, his spirit seemed to glow, and he seemed to be refreshed again. He smiled at Rong Jingxuan and gave a soft "hmm".

Rong Jingxuan reached out and handed the folding fan to Xie Mingze.

Xie Mingze stared at him, then reached out to hold the familiar folding fan firmly.

In this way, the two held the door together and rode their horses into the palace.

The long doorway was empty, only the sound of horseshoes echoing.

From the outside of the palace to the inside of the palace, one has to walk this long palace road.The palace gate is too deep, the sun on both sides can't reach the center, just a few steps forward, it feels like the world is getting dark.

However, the inside of the shadowless palace gate is not depressing, because right in front of them, the bright sunlight from the entrance of the cave is shining on the bluestone palace road, and the vermilion figure of Qinzheng Gate seems to be waiting for them.

Suddenly, Xie Mingze said something in a low voice, he spoke very quickly, and Rong Jingxuan couldn't hear him clearly.

Rong Jingxuan turned around, shook the folding fan in his hand, and then looked at Xie Mingze suspiciously.

Xie Mingze smiled at him again, but this time the smile seemed to contain more things.

Rong Jingxuan felt that Xie Mingze was a little different, he couldn't tell what was different about the other party, but the two grew up together, and he could feel even the slightest change in Xie Mingze.

Rong Jingxuan wanted to open his mouth to ask, but when he opened his mouth, he found that the two had passed through the outer palace gate and were walking in the urn city.

The guards holding etiquette on both sides were still walking in silence, Rong Jingxuan suppressed what he wanted to say, and walked through the inner gate of Chiyan Gate together with Xie Mingze, and came directly to the gate of Qinzheng Gate.

Han Bin just walked up to the two of them, and asked the two Majesties to dismount.

From here, it's time to walk.

Although he temporarily acted as the patriarchal order to preside over the emperor's wedding, Han Bin was not stage frightened at all. He first saluted Rong Jingxuan respectfully, and then asked Xie Mingze to change his dress in the side hall of Qinzhengmen.

Xie Mingze nodded gently, he gently released the hand holding the fan, and was invited all the way to the side hall by Xiao Fuzi.

Rong Jingxuan didn't ask until he couldn't see Xie Mingze's figure, "Has the Supreme Emperor arrived?"

Han Bin, who had always been very calm, couldn't help sweating at this one sentence. He struggled for a long time, but still replied truthfully: "Return to Your Majesty, just now the son of An Guohou sent a message, saying that he has not found where the Supreme Emperor is."

Since the Supreme Emperor abdicated to Rong Jingxuan the day before yesterday, he has not appeared again. Not only Rong Jingxuan has never seen him, even the chief eunuch who has been with him has no idea where this Majesty has gone.

Along with him, there is also the Taoist Tianzhi who is said to be a god descending from the earth.

Because the Empress Dowager is still alive, it is reasonable to ask him to be worshiped by the Empress Dowager in today's Empress Hall, but since he has disappeared for a long time, then this ceremony is not enough.

Besides, he didn't want Xie Mingze to salute him at all.

Rong Jingxuan snorted coldly, and ordered: "Since the emperor is not here, don't bother him to walk around, and the final kneeling ceremony will be cancelled."

Han Bin wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, and immediately replied, "No, Your Majesty is wise."

After the two finished talking, Rong Jingxuan walked quickly to the Hall of Qinzheng.

Since the civil and military officials were already waiting on both sides of the palace road, he didn't walk the palace road, but walked around from the corridor on the left.

Rong Jingxuan was tall and long-legged, and since he had practiced martial arts since childhood, his feet felt windy when he walked. Zhong Qi and Han Bin who followed behind had to trot forward to keep up with him.

When they came to the side hall of Qinzheng Hall, the palace people hurriedly waited on Rong Jingxuan to change into another auspicious costume, so that the auspicious time was not delayed.

When Rong Jingxuan came to the main hall, the six ministers, the left and right generals, and the Grand Master Gu Guli had already been waiting for a long time.

The rest of the nobles of the opposite sex such as the Marquis of Anguo, Marquis of Xinyang, Marquis of Wuping and Marquis of Huaiyuan were also present.But now that the clan is dying, Rong Jingxuan asked the two eldest sisters to leave Yong'an City early, so no one from the Rong family was present at the wedding of the emperor and empress.

Rong Jingxuan walked to the throne and stood firmly, then looked at the next courtier standing expressionlessly.

Since no clan was present, the courtiers thought it was the royal family who were unhappy, so they were even more cautious, for fear that the emperor would see something strange on his face.

Rong Jingxuan first nodded to his teacher, Grand Master Gu Zhenli, and then said: "Princess Jiayue's son-in-law is seriously ill, and Princess Rouran has just become a princess, and the sixth brother is ill, so I didn't let him come."

In fact, it doesn't matter whether he explains it or not, but he doesn't want the courtiers to look down on Xie Mingze, so he still needs to explain it.

Another one is to make the teacher feel at ease.

Sure enough, when he finished speaking, Gu Guli, who had been furrowing his brows, eased his expression.

After Rong Jingxuan finished speaking, he said to Han Bin again: "Han Aiqing, is the auspicious time here?"

Han Bin hurriedly saluted and said, "Report to Your Majesty, three quarters in the afternoon will be an auspicious time, and the grand ceremony can begin."

Rong Jingxuan nodded to Zhong Qi, and then said to Han Bin: "Han Aiqing has worked hard all the way, thank you."

After he finished speaking, he led the courtier Xungui who was waiting in the main hall out of the palace gate.

Outside the door, under the nine white marble steps, the courtiers stood neatly.

Zhong Qi walked up to the sixth step and sang loudly: "The auspicious time has come, all the officials greet you and enter the court, kneel down."

As his words fell, all civil and military officials faced the central palace road together and knelt down.

"Long live my emperor, a thousand years old empress."

So many people were speaking in unison, and the voice was deep and long, echoing in the wide square in front of the main hall.

With such a voice, Xie Mingze walked into the official way bathed in sunshine.

Behind him, the guard of honor belonging to the queen moved forward in an orderly manner.

He was originally a tall man, different from a delicate woman, and he walked as fast as Rong Jingxuan.

Not long after, Xie Mingze had already walked in front of the main hall, he stopped at Zhong Qi's signal, and stood quietly waiting for instructions.

Zhong Qi raised his voice again: "Get up."

Hearing the sound of clothes rubbing against each other, all the civil and military officials in the rear stood up one by one, and secretly looked at the new queen.

Speaking of looking at him, in fact, most of the courtiers present knew Xie Mingze, let alone those in the hall.

"Invite the queen to the palace." Zhong Qi said again.

Xie Mingze took a deep breath and stepped onto the wide and smooth white marble steps.

It wasn't until he reached the entrance of the main hall that he stopped again.

Next, naturally everyone except Rong Jingxuan and Zhong Qi bowed down again.

Holding the imperial edict in his hand, Zhong Qi read out the canonized edict aloud.

"Sacred words from the sky, the only way to set up the main palace is to secure the world. Please ask the heaven today, and I am fortunate to have the god's decree. Mingze, the eldest son of the Xie family in Yong'an, has a literary and martial arts strategy, and a pure and harmonious virtue... He was ordered by the emperor to write a treasure book. As the queen of the palace, you will be in harmony with the sky, be diligent and frugal... to prosper the ancestral temple, to revitalize the mountains and rivers. Qinzai."

Although this edict was spoken in Rong Jingxuan's tone, it was not written by him himself, but by Taoist Tianzhi.

On that day, he calculated the calculation to resolve the omen of Da Chu's subjugation, and it was such an edict.

Rong Jingxuan saw that these were all praises of Mingze, so he didn't make any changes, and directly canonized them for use.

Another one, with such an edict sealed by the Supreme Emperor, Xie Mingze will be justified in the future.

After reading the imperial edict, Rong Jingxuan personally stepped forward to help Xie Mingze, and asked him to stand side by side with him in front of the main hall to receive the worship of civil and military officials.

Under the main hall, Zhong Qi said loudly: "The ceremony is complete, and all officials bow down."

Before the officials could stand still, they knelt down again. This time, they kowtowed nine times to the emperor respectfully, and said in their mouths: "Long live the emperor, a thousand years for the empress, Da Chu Yong'an."

After the Empress Seal Ceremony, Rong Jingxuan and Xie Mingze will go to worship the ancestors.

From now on, Xie Mingze's name will be written on the genealogy, alongside Rong Jingxuan's.

When the two came out of Fengtian Hall together, the golden crow had already slanted to the west, and the magnificent sunset glowed on the glazed tiles, which was too beautiful to behold.

The ministers who are qualified to participate in the palace banquet have already gone to Jiaotai Hall first, and they are the only ones standing at the gate of Fengtian Hall at this moment.

Rong Jingxuan looked at Xie Mingze who looked normal, and asked in a low voice, "Are you going to the palace banquet?"

As if he didn't expect him to ask such a question, Xie Mingze lowered his head in thought for a moment, then shook his head.

Rong Jingxuan saw that the maids and eunuchs were waiting outside the hall, so he leaned into Xie Mingze's ear and whispered: "Xiao Liu is already in the bedroom, when you arrive later, Xiao Fuzi will tell you what to do."

Xie Mingze suddenly raised his head, some inexplicable expectations were hidden in his eyes, Rong Jingxuan couldn't help being stunned, when he wanted to take a closer look, he found that Xie Mingze had returned to normal.

"No, my minister...take orders."

Rong Jingxuan stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder, watched him get on the jade chariot, then turned around and went to Jiaotai Hall.

There are still many things waiting for him to do there.