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Chapter 726

(Chapter 726. The title is wrong.)
Although the Xie family wanted to stand up and oppose, citing the emperor's edict that he would never establish a queen, accusing the emperor of going back on his word and being untrustworthy, but things have come to this point, everything is connected, and it is a natural outcome, and it is what the people want.

If they continue to do so, they will be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. They are not only defying the will of the emperor, but also the will of heaven and the people.

Xie Zhili could only watch Jiang Yuebai become the queen and stand beside the emperor.

After the enthronement ceremony, in order to further win over the ministers, Li Beichen announced that the four girls who showed the strange phenomenon of blooming flowers in the first round today would undergo physical examinations immediately. If they passed the examinations, they could enter the palace to work today. The two in the second round would be initially conferred the title of P5 Jieyushi, and the two in the first round would be conferred the title of P9 concubines.

P5 Jieyu is only two levels away from the position of concubine, which shows how high her standard is. There is no way, she is a concubine chosen by heaven. It is hard to say about her moral character, but she is definitely smart and flexible.

The chosen girl and her family were overjoyed.

Concubine Xie also had strange phenomena and was promoted to Concubine De, ranking among the four concubines.

He also ordered the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to record the horoscopes of the young girls who came to participate in the selection today, and select those who have both good fortune and luck. After being selected by the Palace Administration Department and qualified, they will enter the palace.

In short, everyone who sees it will get a share and everyone will be happy.

After the ceremony, almost everyone was in high spirits, praising the grandeur of what they had witnessed that day.

After Jiang Yuebai returned to the palace, he did not go back to Wutongju, but went back to Yonghe Palace.

Logically speaking, Jiang Yuebai should live in Kunning Palace now that she is the queen. But the queen's coffin is still in Kunning Palace. Li Beichen's mausoleum has not been built yet, so Xie Kewei cannot be placed as a burial place, so she has to keep it there temporarily. If the coffin is forcibly moved today, it may cause unnecessary disturbances and complications. Let Jiaojiao take the position of queen first.

However, Jiang Yuebai was not willing to move to Kunning Palace. The murder scene always felt eerie and awkward.

After returning, she was asked to change into vermilion clothes, comb her hair again, and put on a nine-tailed phoenix hairpin, and then greet Li Beichen, who was wearing an ochre-red dragon robe.

These days, they lived in Wutong Pavilion. Li Beichen asked Susu to bring the palace servants to decorate Jiang Yuebai's residence, requiring it to be auspicious and festive but also solemn.

Everyone thought that the Empress was about to return to the palace and the Emperor wanted to give her a surprise. Unexpectedly, when the Empress came back she would be the Empress. Everyone was so happy that they couldn't stop smiling and said a lot of words of congratulations.

Their previous wedding night was also held in this palace. That was their first time, during the day. I didn't expect that the place where I came back to be crowned queen today would still be here. It felt like reliving an old dream.

Li Beichen even arranged for the Shangyi Bureau to hold a ceremony of drinking from the same cellar and drinking from the same cup.

Lao refers to the meat used in sacrifice, and the two people eat the meat used in sacrifice together. Then they hold the wine jar and drink from it hand in hand.

After the ceremony, everyone left.

The moment the door closed, Li Beichen turned around, lifted Jiang Yuebai's face, and gently touched her lips.

"Do you like it? My queen?" Li Beichen looked at Jiang Yuebai expectantly, his heart full of happiness.

Jiang Yuebai nodded, her face slightly red, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

She had never expected that she would be directly canonized today.

"Why don't you praise your husband? I've been thinking about this for two days and two nights to make sure everything goes well today. I had a terrible headache in the middle of last night."

Li Beichen pointed to his head and said, "Come and reward me."

"How do you reward me?"

Li Beichen turned his face towards her and said, "Kiss me and call me husband. You are my wife now."

Hearing the word "husband", Jiang Yuebai's face turned even redder.

She just felt her heart trembling, "The minister is still waiting for you to open the banquet. Go quickly."

Seeing Jiang Yuebai's mimosa-like appearance, Li Beichen's face became hot and his heart was filled with heat. He kissed Jiang Yuebai on the face and said, "Okay. You take a rest first. I'll leave first."

When I turned around, I bumped into the bedpost and had no idea how I got there.

Jiang Yuebai suddenly curled the corners of his lips.

Li Beichen grinned at her, turned his head, and walked out with big strides, bumping into the corner of the table again.

Ah. My thigh hurts.

He held onto the table, grimacing in pain, and looked at Jiang Yuebai with self-mockery. He found that Jiang Yuebai was looking at him with a mocking expression.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

After Li Beichen left, Jiang Yuebai checked the system.

Wow, I just heard the system ding-dong ding-dong announcement. It turns out that there are so many messy, weird, and various things rewarded. But since it is a palace fighting system, don't expect it to be serious. It's all for palace fighting. Of course, various parenting gift packages are still quite serious.

[Congratulations to the host for reaching the peak of life! ]

Jiang Yuebai looked at the system interface happily. Of all the tasks, only the last one was left, which was to die of old age. Only then did she realize what was going on. Being the Queen Mother was not her core KPI. It didn't matter whether her sons became emperors or not, as long as she could live to die of old age.

Can I leave the baby behind after giving birth, throw it to their father, and go back to Jiangnan to live in seclusion? This harem is the most dangerous place. If you are not careful, your life will be over.

As she was thinking this, she suddenly felt the fetus moving in her stomach. The children seemed to sense her happy life without her husband and children, and they all raised their legs to protest.

She patted her belly and said, "Forget it. Just stay here for now."

The ministers were very sympathetic to the emperor's thoughts, congratulated him, drank a few glasses, and then left one after another. Everyone was very happy.

Except Yuan Jianzheng.

He didn't know why he had been suffering from insomnia since the past few days, and last night he could not hold on any longer, so he drank some wine to help him sleep. When he woke up, it was already noon, which was long past the auspicious time after the election.

By the time he had dressed, taken his props and rushed to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, everyone had left. The person who stayed to clean the Imperial Ancestral Temple described the extraordinary scene to him.

Yuan Diqi knew something was wrong when he heard that Xie Zhili was not selected. She must be very sad. He had promised to help her. After all, she was his distant cousin.

But I have never been drunk and sleepy to this extent.

And there actually was an auspicious aura about Concubine Ning, and so many people witnessed it with their own eyes, it couldn't be fake.

Maybe this is God's will?

He stood alone in the autumn wind, looking at the bright sun in the sky, feeling that he was in the vast universe.

Suddenly, she realized that her obsession with Xie Zhili was no different from Xie Zhili's obsession with the position of empress and the emperor.

Perhaps people's obsession is as insignificant as dust?
He laughed loudly, then lowered his head and chuckled at himself, swinging his sleeves and returning to the Imperial Observatory. After finding Yuan Langfeng, he grabbed him and beat him up, "Did you get your grandfather drunk on purpose?"

According to the seniority, Yuan Diqi is Yuan Langfeng's great uncle. Although he is young, his seniority is very high.

"It's unfair. It was you who asked me to drink. I was just accompanying you. Grandpa asked me to drink with you, so I have to drink obediently."

"I asked you to drink and you got me drunk?" Yuan Diqi kicked Yuan Langfeng speechlessly.

Yuan Langfeng said innocently, "A little drunkenness can make you feel better. If you don't want to get drunk, no one else can get you drunk. Whenever you get drunk, it means you have something on your mind."

"Come and drink with your grandfather." Yuan Diqi said depressedly.

"Great. Today is the emperor's big day. A banquet will be held, and I heard there will be plenty of good wine. Shall we go?" Yuan Langfeng was a little excited.

Since the department boss didn't go, it would be difficult for him, a small soldier, to join the high-level game. But if Yuan Diqi went, he could be a small follower and broaden his horizons.

Yuan Diqi said unhappily, "I'm going to the observatory. If you want to drink, go and drink it yourself."

"That won't do. How can I go if grandpa doesn't go? Let's go to the observatory and have a drink." Yuan Langfeng picked up two jars of wine and climbed up the stairs.

Yuan Diqi glanced around, "Where's Xia Mingxian?"

"Here, here. What does Lord Yuan want me to do?" Xia Mingxian poked his head out from a pile of bookshelves, holding a thick book "Astrology Book" in his hand.

"I heard that you did a good job hosting today," Yuan Diqi stared at Xia Mingxian with an inquiring look, "Are you this year's Jinshi?"

Xia Mingxian was a little nervous, "Yes."

"You have read so many books, why did you come to the Imperial Observatory?"

"I don't know either. I feel very strange, too. I never thought I would be assigned here before the exam. But now I seem to like it more and more, and become more and more interested in it. Maybe... this is the arrangement of fate." Xia Mingxuan spoke a little incoherently.

He was actually shocked by the miracle Jiang Yuebai brought today, which made him believe that there might really be gods in this world.

The key point is that he has only learned for a few months, and today is his first time to preside over a ritual. He didn’t expect the effect to be so good. He feels that he may have a talent for being a charlatan. The emperor is really good at judging people.

In fact, the emperor was attracted by his ability to write articles that were serious and full of nonsense, and he was also very confident. As it turned out, the emperor was right.

Yuan Diqi said cheerfully, "Let's go to the observatory and have a drink."

"I don't drink," Xia Mingxian declined, "and the observatory is too high. I don't dare to go up."

"Are you afraid that I will hurt you?"

Xia Mingxian replied timidly, "I'm just afraid of heights. I get scared when I'm standing on high places."

In fact, he was afraid that Yuan Diqi would kill him for what happened today, because he put something in the wine they drank yesterday.

"Let's go. How can people from the Imperial Observatory never been to the observatory?" Yuan Diqi pulled Xia Mingxian's arm and went up to the observatory.

Xia Mingxian climbed to the height trembling, his whole body shaking.

Yuan Langfeng looked at the two of them and said, "Why did you drag him up here? Aren't you going to scare him to death?"

Yuan Diqi held out his hand, "There's always a first time for everything. Bring me the wine."

Yuan Langfeng handed over the jar of wine, uncorked it, and handed it to Xia Mingxian, "After drinking, we will be family."

Xia Mingxuan hesitated for a moment, then took a few gulps.

Yuan Diqi said quietly, "There is poison in it."

"Ah?" Xia Mingxian screamed and fainted.

Yuan Langfeng turned his head and glanced at him, "Why are you scaring him?"

"Who knew he was so easily frightened." Yuan Diqi laid Xia Mingxian flat on the observatory.

The observatory is twenty meters high, about the height of a six-story building. On autumn nights, the view is extremely broad.

Yuan Langfeng asked with a smile, "Is it still about what happened last night?"

Yuan Diqi snorted coldly, "You dare to drug our ancestor, you are courting death."

Yuan Langfeng laughed loudly, "I'm impressed by you. You're pretending really well."

Yuan Diqi lowered his head and drank without saying anything.

The emperor didn't want him to go. If he couldn't do it and didn't help, both of them would be punished by heaven. It was better to just go with the flow and not go.

Yuan Langfeng sighed, "Love is the most torturous thing. The most painful thing is to ask for it but not get it."

Yuan Diqi took a sip of wine and looked into the distance. "I suddenly felt more open-minded today. I am not miserable anymore."

She said that she had to become the queen. Otherwise, the emperor would execute the entire Xie family because of their great achievements, and she would have no ability to fight back.

Does being a queen give you the ability to fight back? Since ancient times, when the king orders his subjects to die, they must die. This has been the case in the rise and fall of dynasties.

She said he didn't understand what family affection and blood connection meant, so he said such words so lightly. If it was his own family, he wouldn't do that.

She was right. He had no family. Both his parents were dead. The master said that a person like him, who had no relatives and was lonely, was suitable to be a heavenly master.

Yuan Langfeng glanced at Yuan Diqi who was deep in thought, "Let me tell you a secret. When you say you want to get over it, you often don't. People who really get over it won't say anything, they just smile and drink."

“Isn’t this the meaning of spiritual practice?”

Xia Mingxian, who was lying on the ground pretending to faint, thought to himself, "So this is the situation. The emperor really guessed it right."

The wind on the observatory was blowing, and he felt like a fairy. Unconsciously, he fell asleep due to the alcohol.

Yuan Langfeng, "Is he asleep?"

"I don't know," Yuan Diqi glanced at Xia Mingxian and looked up at the bright moon hanging high in the sky, just like the person in his heart.

My nephew is right. He said he let it go, but he hasn't let it go yet. Just take your time. One day he will.