shock!Little Orphan, she made the perfume world cry

In Zichen Palace, Mu Junyan was furious.

When Queen Mother Fan came in, she saw her angry son and the officials of the Ministry of Rites who were as silent as cicadas.

"The canary...is it really dead?" the Queen Mother confirmed again.

Mu Junyan kicked away the pots and cups that he had just smashed, and sat down on the golden nanmu throne angrily. He didn't answer, but stared viciously at the three kneeling people below.

Zhen Wenyuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, wanted to reduce the sense of presence as much as possible, but the queen mother asked, but the emperor didn't say a word. As the first person responsible for this matter, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and explain: "Reporting to the queen mother, it is used to welcome the gods at the Luna Ceremony." A pair of canaries, just found a hen dead."

"What's the matter? The Ai family saw it with their own eyes when they brought it back in April, it was alive and kicking! How did you raise it!" The queen mother was so anxious that she almost poked Zhen Shangshu's nose with her fingers.

In fact, it is no wonder that the queen mother and the emperor are angry. The canary is said to be a fetish that can communicate with the gods in the sky. Therefore, every time the ceremony of welcoming the gods of the moon god, a pair of boys and girls will fly the canary. Report to the Heavenly Court and respectfully invite the Moon God to come down to earth.Now that the god-welcoming spirit object is gone, anyone would feel ominous.

This canary bird is very rare and precious. It usually only lives in the East China Sea. It is also called puffin. It is difficult for ordinary people to understand its habits, and it is very difficult to catch it. In the past, two pairs were usually caught back just in case. This year, only a couple were caught.Since the Ministry of Rites took over the pair of canary sparrows, they have been worshiping them like gods. The food and daily life of the pair of canary sparrows has become the top priority of the Ministry of Rites, but who would have thought that even so, something went wrong.

As the head of a chapter, Zhen Wenyuan naturally had to explain the cause and effect, but what made him feel guilty was that even he himself didn't know why the sparrow died!He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said cautiously: "This canary finch has always been raised by experienced craftsmen from the Ministry of Rites, and there has never been a mistake. It's just that I didn't expect that the hen would be fed just now. …I lost my breath. I asked the doctor to look at it, but they couldn’t see why.”

"That is to say, you don't even know the reason why this divine bird died?" The queen mother asked: "Minister of Rites, Fang Shilang, tell me, how do you explain this?"

"Reporting to the Empress Dowager, the lower official took a three-day leave because of the child's passing week, and the Ministry of Rites was taken care of by Langzhong Wu Di. Today is the third day, so when the incident happened, the lower official was not present, but the matter was of great importance. The lower official heard After hearing the news, he rushed over to understand the situation." Fang Shilang spoke earnestly and thought clearly, although he cleared up his responsibility in a few words, he didn't give the Queen Mother a sense of shirking responsibility, on the contrary, he felt that he was a dutiful responsible.He went on to say: "Lord Zhen and we inspected the scene and found nothing abnormal. The craftsman responsible for raising the sparrows has also been detained pending trial. It's just that the reason for this is difficult to discern for a while. The next official thinks that the most urgent thing is to rehabilitate as soon as possible." It is important to find a female sparrow so that the grand ceremony can be held smoothly on time."

"Look for another one?" You said it easily, not to mention whether you can catch it smoothly, even if it goes well, you will meet it as soon as you go, and you will catch it as soon as you come across it. From here to the East China Sea, it will take more than ten times to go back and forth. God, the time spent on the road alone may not be enough!Mu Junyan immediately denied that he was so anxious just now because he thought of this.

"I have a workaround, I just need to find a reliable person, I should be able to give it a try." Fang Rongchang replied solemnly.

Mu Junyan was quite surprised: "Is there any other way, let's hear it!"

"My minister obeys the order." Fang Rongchang bowed his promise, and said: "It is indeed too late to go to the East China Sea to catch canaries, but on Crane Island, which is not too far from Ziyang City, there should be a To Sparrow."

"Crane Immortal Island?" The Queen Mother was very surprised: "It is said that the island is full of exotic herbs? How do you know that there are sweet sparrows? I have never heard of it before."

"At the beginning, our sparrow hunting team found two pairs of sparrows on the East China Sea, but one of them was snatched by a man in black. Our men wanted to take it back, but they were not our opponents, and that man was very arrogant. He also provocatively said that if you have the ability, go to Hexian Island to get it." Fang Rongchang thought for a while and added: "Many people heard it at the time, and the sharp voice should be the legendary island owner Granny He."

"If the finch is really in Hexian Island, that's a way." Of course, the Queen Mother had also heard about Crane Island, and then she frowned and said, "It's just that the owner of the island may not be so easy to hand over the sparrow. Bar?"

"The empress dowager thinks very much that the island owner has a weird and tricky temper and is difficult to deal with. It is said that she has two major hobbies in her life, one is a love of fragrance, and the other is a love of medicine, so all kinds of exotic fragrances are grown on his island. And herbal medicine, if someone wants to ask for incense and medicine on the island, he must bring spices or herbs to exchange, and it must be not available on his island! There is another difficulty, the island is said to be extremely difficult to reach, and the journey is difficult and dangerous. able to pass……"

Before Fang Rongchang finished speaking, Mu Junyan interrupted: "Then you said so much, isn't it nonsense? You were not her opponent in the sparrow hunting team at that time. Who should we send now? And where are we going?" Find spices and herbs not found on her island?"

Fang Rongchang was scolded, he wasn't annoyed at all, he didn't make excuses, he just stood silently without making a sound, because he found that the empress dowager seemed to be thinking, so he shouldn't need to remind her any more.

Sure enough, the Empress Dowager was silent for a while, stopped asking about Hexian Island, and instead stared at Zhen Wenyuan and said, "When something like this happens, the Ministry of Rites is duty-bound, especially the craftsman who raises the finch, must be strictly tortured and carefully investigated. The Ai family don't believe the cause of the death of the finch, there is no disease and no disaster, how could the sparrow die inexplicably!" The Queen Mother Fan said slowly: "Zhen Shangshu, what happened this time... what should you say? How to deal with it?"

Zhen Wenyuan knew that the Empress Dowager was about to be held accountable, and a fine layer of sweat was added to the sweaty court clothes.Although it is only a small sparrow, it is related to the Grand Ceremony of the Moon God, and even more so, it is related to the fate of the country of Da'an. Even if it is not a man-made disaster, I, as the head of the Ministry of Rites, should be punished." Zhen Wenyuan paused and then said loudly: "Please punish the emperor and the empress dowager."

Seeing Zhen Shangshu like this, Fang Shilang and Wu Langzhong also knelt down and pleaded guilty, expressing their willingness to accept the punishment.

"What's the use of being punished?" Mu Junyan stood up from the throne and said angrily, "You guys bring back the finch and come to plead guilty! Otherwise, just raise your head and see me!"

Upon hearing this, both Zhen Wenyuan and Wu Di fell to the ground, shaking so much that they couldn't even utter the words of begging for mercy.