Riding the Pheonix Chapter 476: 1

The phoenix lottery will be used to choose the concubine after the Qingming Festival.

Due to a sudden death in his family, Prince Sihuai had his spirit placed in Xuandu Temple and prayed day and night.

On that day, the emperor brought his concubines and princes to the temple to worship.

The emperor waved to Yang Shu and said, "Offer incense to your father and ancestors."

Yang Shu responded in a low voice, took the incense, and bowed respectfully.

The emperor said: "Brother, this is your eldest grandson Ayan. In the past twenty years, he has grown up. It is time to marry a wife, have children, and flourish. Today I will choose a concubine for him. I hope you will be there. God is willing to choose a good match for him."

After praying here, Xuanfei came over and said: "It's ready, please move."

So the group of people moved from the back hall to the front hall.

This hall is dedicated to Bixia Yuanjun. The two sides have been separated. The nobles can clearly see the situation in the hall when they sit here.

Concubine Pei waved to Yang Shu and asked Yang Shu to sit next to her, and asked with a smile: "Are you nervous?"

Yang Shu nodded: "A little bit."

The concubines, who had rarely left the palace, all laughed.

Concubine Hui said: "When Cheng'er got married, she ran out without even wearing her crown."

After chatting and joking for a while, there was a sound from outside, but it was the Taoist priest guarding the temple who reminded that someone had come in.

Everyone stopped talking and looked towards the main hall.

……

Mingwei went out early in the morning.

Madam Ji and Mr. Dong accompanied her out, and Ji Ling also took leave of absence to accompany her.

Unexpectedly, they arrived not too early, and the teahouses and restaurants on the roadside of Xuanduguan were already crowded with people.

The gate has not opened yet, so I can’t go in now, and there is no place in the teahouse, so I can only wait on the roadside.

Mingwei heard someone talking to Ji Ling outside. After a while, her eldest cousin came over and said, "Cousin, one of my classmates has reserved a seat here, and his family members are also acquainted with you. Let's go over and sit down. ?"

Ming Wei was surprised. She had never been in the circle of ladies in the capital and didn’t know many people. Who was this person?

After entering the teahouse, she found out that it was Fang Jinping, a classmate from Mingcheng Academy.

Wei Xiaoan, one of the girls she met in the academy, had already married elsewhere, and Fang Jinping also got married the year after she left. Unexpectedly, Ji Ling met from that family.

The two families met and exchanged some polite words, and Fang Jinping couldn't wait to pull her to a corner to talk.

"Well, Ming Xiaowei, when you left Beijing, you asked someone to come over and send you a message, but now you don't tell me when you return to Beijing. If this matter hadn't caused such a big fuss, I wouldn't have known you were back! ”

Ming smiled and said: "I just came back not long ago. I didn't have a day to spare. I heard from my aunt that you were married and I didn't know what was going on with your husband's family, so I didn't dare to disturb you."

"Just make excuses, you're obviously lazy!" The two chatted and asked each other how they were doing.

Fang Jinping went straight to the point: "When I heard about this, I remembered that when you were leaving Beijing, it was the time when that person was demoted from Beijing. And when you returned to Beijing, he also came back. To put it bluntly, Have you been to the northwest in the past few years?"

Mingwei nodded: "Yes."

Fang Jinping didn't expect her to admit it so straightforwardly. He was amazed at first, and then envious: "You are so silent! Following thousands of miles is quite romantic. But you are also too courageous. If others know about this, , what should I do if the reputation of elopement spreads?"

Ming Wei said: "My uncle's family are all good people."

"Other people said that if someone deliberately... forget it, it's all over. Today is a good day, so I won't mention it anymore."

Fang Jinping is well-informed and talks about everyone who will come today.

Mingwei learned a lot of gossip from her.

For example, after the autumn hunting that year, the prince wanted to make a girl from the Lu Xiang family his step-concubine, but the emperor liked the girl from the Pei family. As a result, neither family was willing, and finally he chose another lady from a famous family.

The new crown princess has a harsh temper and cannot get along with the prince, and they often quarrel.

And Wen Ru entered the East Palace, and Wen Ying became a joke. She never stepped out of the Hou Mansion and stopped going to school.

It took more than half a year before King An decided on the princess.

Everyone said that King An was ridiculous. Unexpectedly, he was afraid of his wife. One time when he went out to drink wine, Princess An led people into the building and took him back. From then on, when King An wanted to have **** with women, it was all in secret. of.

Ming Wei was dumbfounded.

Prince An was the later Ling Emperor. Except for the first two years, his subsequent career as an emperor could be summed up in four words: dissolute and immoral. I didn’t expect that he would have this style in his early years?

By the way, the history books say that King An escaped from the capital without his wife and children, and they all died at the hands of King Xin. If Princess An could really control him, maybe she wouldn't be so ridiculous, right?

But don’t even think about being an emperor. Sitting in that position and possessing supreme power, no matter how powerful your wife is, you can’t control her. Even if you control her temporarily, sooner or later she will rebound.

Just as he was talking, Fang Jinping's sharp eyes saw a carriage passing by the building, and asked curiously: "Isn't this the carriage of the Marquis Chengen's family? Their family..."

Before he finished speaking, the gate of Xuandu Temple opened, the carriage stopped next to it, and several ladies dressed in rich clothes got out.

"That's Wen Ying??" Fang Jinping was stunned, "Could it be that she also..."

Ming Wei had already received the news, and was not surprised at all: "It should be so."

Fang Jinping sneered: "She is so shameless! When she got lost~IndoMTL.com~, she blamed Wen Ru, but who knew that later on, the prince still accepted Wen Ru. That's it, She still insists on not marrying young, and she will stay until she is nineteen this year, right? Now she actually has a crush on His Royal Highness the King of Yue?"

Mingwei said nonchalantly: "This is indeed a good way for her. It's just a lot. It doesn't take much effort. There's no shame if you don't win. If you win, you'll become a princess." No one will laugh at her anymore."

"Why are you so calm? She wants to take your place!" Fang Jinping felt resentful for her.

Ming Wei said: "There are so many people today, but she is not the only one missing."

Fang Jinping thought about it, and worried about her again: "There are so many lots in the lot, and the chance of winning is too small. If you don't win, then you..."

"Don't worry, it's mine, no one else can take it away."

Everyone was close to entering, so they also went downstairs and entered Xuandu Temple one by one.

Although the people who came to Xuandu today were all here for the Phoenix Lotus, they still pretended to worship in each palace before going to Bixia Yuanjun.

Seeing people coming, the Taoist priest guarding the temple brought the lotus tube.

The lotus tube of Xuandu Temple usually has ninety-nine lots. In front of everyone, he put a lottery ticket with a phoenix feather on its tail into the tube, making a total of one hundred.

If you want to win the phoenix lottery, you can only get one out of a hundred.

This lotus tube was placed on the altar table in full view of everyone.

The first people to enter the palace were a pair of sisters. They kowtowed respectfully to Bixia Yuanjun, and then picked up the lottery tube under the attention of everyone.

The two asked the Taoist priest guarding the temple, and the other party replied: "You can either draw lots or draw lots, whatever you want."

One of them chose to draw lots, the other chose to draw lots, and soon got their own lot.