Crown Prince's Wedding Banquet

The leather shoes moved forward on the smooth marble surface, making crisp footsteps.

Zhou Muzhi shuttled in the corridor of the imperial palace. The tall and slender corridor windows divided the corridor in a strange way.The corridor quickly came to an end, and two servants stood at the door of the study.

"His Royal Highness Prince Qing." Dachun stepped forward and saluted respectfully, "You are here."

"Where's the emperor?" Zhou Muzhi stared at the study and asked Dachun.

"Your Majesty is waiting for you..." Before Dachun's voice fell, Zhou Muzhi planned to enter, "Your Highness needs to wait for your servant to inform you before you can enter. This is not proper etiquette..."

Dachun hurriedly stopped her.

Zhou Muzhi glanced at him and pursed his lips into a smile.

Dachun didn't know why he felt a shudder. Although he had already removed his glands and became a male and female servant, he could still feel the coercion emanating from King Qing.

He slowly stepped out of the way.

Zhou Muzhi's eyes didn't rest on him any more, and he pushed the door open without any politeness.

Zhou Muzhi entered the emperor's study in the East Palace. The emperor was sitting on the balcony reading a book with a flexible screen. When he saw her coming in, he didn't have any emotional reaction. He turned a page and said, "Dachun is so unruly now. If you don't report it, you will be punished." Come in casually?"

"Mother." Zhou Muzhi bowed his head, "You summoned me, what's the matter?"

The emperor put down the scroll and beckoned, and a middle-aged man Omega dressed as a concubine appeared with tea. He knelt beside the emperor and brewed a cup of warm tea for her.

"Your father wants to see you, so I asked you to come here." The emperor said flatly, "Isn't it, Ah Jin?"

The Omega who was replaced by Ah Jin replied cautiously: "Yes, Your Majesty."

He looked at his daughter whom he hadn't seen for a few months with a complicated expression, and said, "Mu Zhi, what you did outside recently... I heard His Majesty say it. You are so nonsense."

"Dad hasn't seen me for a few months, so you're going to tell me this?" Zhou Muzhi smiled angrily, "You want to be her lobbyist?"

"How could you not listen to your mother?" Tan Jin bit his lip weakly, with his emperor on one side and his daughter on the other, he was caught in the middle, in a dilemma.

"What does Dad want me to do?" Zhou Muzhi's face turned cold.

"Tomorrow's monthly parliamentary meeting, don't you want to attend?" Tan Jin said what the emperor taught him before his daughter came.

"I can't do it." Zhou Muzhi said without hesitation, "It's the hard work of many people to get to where I am today!"

The emperor laughed: "Ah Jin, look at the pair of good sons and daughters you have raised. The second son, Zhou Run, rebelled, and the third son, Zhou Muzhi, wanted to become the crown prince every day. They are really promising..."

Hearing the emperor mention these things, Tan Jin's face turned pale instantly when he thought of Zhou Run, who had long been tantamount to death. He was afraid of losing the last child, so he repeatedly begged: "Your Majesty... please let me persuade Muzhi again, and I will persuade her again. .”

"Mother, I know that I will never change these political matters. Why did you ask Dad to persuade me?" Zhou Muzhi said, "Why did you mention brother?! Do you want to humiliate me?"

"Humiliate you? Do I still need to humiliate you? You have already lost all the face of the royal family."

The emperor threw down the flexible screen in his hand and stood up, walked over the concubine who was kneeling on the ground, and walked in front of Zhou Muzhi. The huge spiritual coercion made all the attendants fall to the ground.

Wei Zhou Muzhi's face was pale, he gritted his teeth and insisted on standing.

"Mu Zhi bathes, respects and fears, and prudently... I named you 'Mu Zhi' back then to remind you to be cautious and awe-inspiring. Fortunately, you have become what you are now."

"Awe..." Zhou Muzhi gritted his teeth and said, "Awe is for someone worthy of awe, and that person is definitely not you, Your Majesty. After the accident with the second brother, it is not you."

The emperor's eyes were darkened by her disrespectful words: "I can punish you now for such words."

Zhou Muzhi looked at her extremely stubbornly, those black eyes inherited her genes well.

His Majesty's heart softened, and he said to her in a slow tone: "At the cabinet meeting last week, the Minister of Finance proposed that in order to stabilize the current political environment of the empire as soon as possible, the crown prince's canonization ceremony should be completed ahead of schedule, and 25 of the 16 cabinet ministers voted for it. Yes. Your brother's canonization ceremony and wedding will be arranged next month. This is not a bad thing."

Zhou Mu was taken aback.

"Originally, I wanted to marry you off after the imperial celebration. In this case, after the crown prince canonization next month, you should prepare early to marry that vassal king. The imperial army's swiftness requires the element of berkelium. Your selfless devotion to the Empire is needed."

The emperor's words made Zhou Muzhi almost spit out.

"I will not divorce my wives and concubines, nor will I marry any Alpha." Zhou Muzhi said, "I will never do what you wish."

The emperor took a deep breath, as if to make himself more patient with his daughter: "You said that the entire Emperor Star you are making troubles will not be peaceful, why?"

"No reason." Zhou Muzhi turned his head away.

"Because of your second brother, you hate me?" the emperor asked again.

"If your majesty has nothing to do, I will leave first." Zhou Muzhi said.

After she finished speaking, she turned around and was about to leave. The emperor said behind her: "The final trial will not pass, and you will not become the crown prince."

Zhou Muzhi froze, and looked back at her cruel and ruthless emperor mother, and then her eyes moved to her father who was still kneeling humblely, leaving only his back.

Zhou Muzhi closed his eyes in despair, and left here without looking back.

On the tarmac outside the palace, Minister Huo Lixin was waiting for her return on King Qing's shuttle.

"Minister Huo is here?" After Zhou Muzhi boarded the shuttle, he saw Huo Lixin who had been waiting for a long time.

"Yes, Your Highness." Huo Lixin said, "There is some good news from the Marshal, you must be interested."

"Let's talk on the way." Zhou Muzhi said, "There must be some good news today, right?"

Didn't the flying shuttle raise a storm, and in the wind it flew into the dark sky.

It was like flying into an unknown future with Zhou Muzhi.

She felt like she was stuck in a huge quagmire.

Bound by the ancestral system, by the emperor, by the obedient father, by Zhou Run who was exiled, by this huge empire... bound and coerced into the abyss, beyond redemption.

She was about to suffocate.

That being the case...she doesn't mind dragging everyone to hell together.

The sooner the better.

The year is 18102 in the Empire, the day before the season of bimonthly confluence, and three months before the Imperial Celebration.

The parliament ushered in the most important plenary meeting of the year.

The final review of the "Constitution Amendment Plan", which has attracted widespread attention throughout the empire, will soon be held in this parliamentary referendum. The emperor, the three judges of the Supreme Court, important people related to the royal family, cabinet ministers, marshals of the armed forces, and important people in the military must all participate meeting.

Elias carefully pinned the "Eye of the Sun" medal, which symbolized the crown prince's status, on Zhou Qin's ribbon.

Zhou Qin wore the official dress of the crown prince today - a dark blue long suit tailored well, decorated with a large area of ​​star embroidery patterns on the front, buttons made of golden silk threads decorated with buttons made of sapphires, dark red cuffs It also has the appearance of auspicious clouds and dragons.

The light blue and white ribbon was placed on Zhou Qin's right shoulder by Elis himself, together with the shining "Eye of the Sun" crown prince medal.

Finally, Elis hung the saber on the crown prince's waist.

"Your demeanor is very dignified and dignified today," said Elise.

Zhou Qin looked in the mirror: "It just matches your elegant temperament under Lan Xia."

Elis sent him downstairs. He picked up the pair of silk gloves on the table and put them on for Zhou Qin. The moment he pulled his hands away, Zhou Qin grabbed him.

Zhou Qin kissed the back of his hand: "Wait for my good news, Xia Lan."

"I will, Your Highness."

Zhou Qin took Du Bin and Ren Xingyu away from the crown prince's manor - this time Du Bin arranged a ten-member bodyguard team to ensure the safety of the crown prince in the parliament, and the shuttle that was driven out was also a shuttle that was rarely used by the crown prince. .

After the shuttle completely disappeared into the air, Elis took Bai Rong to finish his breakfast in the dining room.

After returning to the living room on the second floor, he turned on the TV and switched to the royal internal line.

The live broadcast of the monthly meeting is about to start.

The circular council meeting hall was in chaos, filled with whispers.

Zhou Qin came a little early, and he sat down in his seat. After a while, all 458 congressmen arrived one after another.

Then the cabinet ministers and Supreme Court justices entered, and Marshal Yang Haoyu also walked in.

Then came Sunny King.

She stood at the door and looked around. When she saw Zhou Qin, she just nodded coldly and sat down directly opposite him.

At this time, Yong Mu squeezed and sat next to Zhou Qin.

"Isn't the prince coming?" Zhou Qin asked him.

Yong Mu whispered in his ear: "I'll come for him, it's not like you don't know that he can avoid things if he can."

After waiting for a few more minutes, the etiquette officer at the door slowly knocked on the guard of honor in his hand.

"His Majesty the Emperor is here!" sang the officer of ceremonies.

After three deafening guards of honor passed, everyone in the meeting hall stood up quietly.

The emperor put on a grand golden dress. She wore a gem-studded crown, a scepter in her hand, a ribbon on her shoulders, and a long cape that dragged the floor, and walked slowly into the meeting hall.

Everyone saluted her respectfully.

"May the Wuzhou Empire prosper forever, and the name of the Great Holy God will never fall!" Hundreds of officials and nobles submitted their submissions to her at the same time.

After the emperor sat on the highest seat reserved for her in the parliament, the speaker knocked on the speaker's gavel: "The monthly meeting of the parliament, coded 21-72-24, officially begins. Members are invited to prepare their speeches on today's agenda, and Vote."

"I don't think there is any need to watch it anymore." When the video of Zhou Mu's speech on stage was transmitted, Chen Cang said in Elise's ear.

"Chen Cang?"

"Yes, Mrs. Lan." Chen Cang said, "His Royal Highness and I are at the scene. The voting has already begun. According to the data I hacked into the network, Zhou Muzhi's previous advantages have basically disappeared. It can be said that His Majesty the Emperor is sitting in charge. Many people Changed his focus. Not only that, but also the various operations of His Highness the Crown Prince since he returned to the Emperor Star. "

"Zhou Muzhi has lost." Chen Cang said, "Your Highness asked me to inform you of the good news in advance."

Elis smiled: "It's expected."

"There is another good news waiting for you." Chen Cang said.

"What good news?"

As soon as Elis finished asking this question, Bai Rong had already entered the living room: "Xia Lan, Steward Wu sent me up to ask you to come down, saying that important officials from the cabinet and the inner court of the palace have arrived."

"Okay, I'll go downstairs right away." Elis changed into more formal clothes and took the special elevator to the first floor.

The cabinet administrator and Mr. Dachun from the inner court of the imperial palace were standing together and talking about something.

When he saw Elise, Dachun hurriedly stepped forward with a smile and saluted: "Congratulations, Xia Lan."

Elise looked at him puzzled: "Mr. Dachun, what does this mean?"

"Why, haven't you received an official document from the cabinet?"

Elis turned on the communicator. In the mailbox, an official document jointly issued by the cabinet officials and the inner court of the palace was in the first position. He opened it.

It says -

Her Majesty Crown Princess Iles Christian Lane:

We are honored to inform you that according to the discussion of the cabinet, the wedding between His Royal Highness Zhou Qin and you is planned to be on the 15th of next month, the day when the two moons of the empire meet.

When your wedding is approaching, congratulate with a respectful speech from ancient human beings.

"I would like to write a letter to Hong Jian with the covenant of white heads.

It is good to make the alliance of red leaves and record the mandarin ducks.

Marriage of two surnames, signing a contract together, a good relationship will last forever, matching the same name. "

And I wish the honorable two newlyweds happy.

Signed by: Department of Internal Affairs, Cabinet, Imperial Palace

wedding?

So fast?

He thought it was at least three to five months away.

A good relationship lasts forever, matching the same name?A good relationship lasts forever, matching the same name?

Even if Zhou Qin is really a well-educated, respectful, and wise-thinking lord.Even though he had already completed the psychological construction of getting married, at this moment, Elias still suffered an unbearable shock.

It was like a farce.

thought Elise.

"Congratulations... Your Majesty Lan." Dachun said, and took out the canonization document from the Inner Court Division, "Your Majesty the Emperor and His Majesty the Empress Lan, please accept the documents assigned by the Inner Court Division."

Elis took the paperwork in a daze.

It's no wonder that the content is a bunch of literary words, and he was finally canonized as the crown prince and concubine.

Concubine?Unexpected identity.

But it was the change to his surname that burned his eyeballs.

Elise Christian Chow.

From now on...

He takes his husband's surname.