All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 297 Dream (Two in One)

Staying up late on New Year's Eve, and the first day of the first lunar month is the day of the Yunjiang New Year's Ceremony.

Six years ago, when the Holy Lady was alive, the New Year's Ceremony was held on the Holy Mountain.

The people in the city had a great night of fun and climbed to the Holy Mountain all night long, where the saint danced on the altar and prayed, sending blessings on behalf of the gods.

Later, the holy mountain was destroyed. Although monks and Taoism were introduced from the Great Zhou Dynasty to Yunjiang, they never became popular in Yunjiang.

There is no other reason than that witch doctors are popular. Doctors can save lives and heal the wounded. As witches, they are naturally much more effective than those monks who only know how to burn incense and chant sutras.

Therefore, on the first day of the first lunar month, people who stay up all night will still go to the holy mountain to worship according to the old customs.

The carriage carrying the prince and princess, King Yunjiang's carriage, and several green cloth carriages drove towards the Holy Mountain before dawn.

The mountains are covered with snow, and the snow on the official roads has been shoveled away.

As soon as the carriage arrived at the top of the mountain, the patriarchs of several big families, leading their clansmen, and many common people were already waiting at the top of the mountain.

Shen Lingxi will not attend the New Year's Eve ceremony.

But on the day of the New Year Ceremony, even if she no longer wants to be a saint, she will definitely come to the Holy Mountain.

Because the first day of the first lunar month is also the birthday of Queen Xanxi.

Those family heads who are unwilling to give up still have a glimmer of hope - even if the Saint does not pray for the people of Yunjiang, she will still pray for the late Queen Zanxi.

However, to their surprise——

The curtain of the carriage was opened by the waiter, and a woman wearing a lotus crown and a plain white robe stepped out of the carriage.

Coming down with her was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was wearing a plain white Taoist robe and a crow-blue crane cloak, with a handsome face.

Behind the two of them, more than a dozen Kun Dao in robes came down from the green cloth carriages.

The last person to step out of the carriage was Su Xian, who was wearing a cassock.

The Kun Dao people walked up to Shen Lingxi and saluted her, "Uncle."

They all came to Yunjiang with Su Xian years ago and were from the Kun Dao of Jinxian Temple.

Shen Lingxi returned the greeting to them, nodded to Su Xian, and then led a group of people on foot towards Queen Zanxi's mausoleum in full view of everyone.

Everyone except Shen Lingxi and his party looked at each other in confusion.

"How can a saint wear a Taoist robe?"

"As a messenger of the gods...why should the saint worship the gods of the Great Zhou Dynasty? That's outrageous!"

"This Taoist philosophy of Zhou Dynasty has nothing to do with the saint, right?"

"It has nothing to do with the saint, but it has something to do with the crown princess. I heard that the crown princess is the 'Miao Ling Tianshi' bestowed by the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Bian is a resounding figure."

"But speaking of it, our gods are the spirits of this holy mountain. They are invisible and shadowless. On the contrary, they are the gods of the Great Zhou Dynasty. All of them have golden bodies. Are the gods of the Great Zhou Dynasty more powerful? "

The crowd was talking a lot, but some Si family members pretended to be casual in the crowd and explained, "You don't know this, right? The Crown Princess made a special trip from the Shangqing Palace in Taiyi Mountain to invite qualified experts to study it. The ancient book left by the saint."

The man pointed at Su Xian, who was following the team at the end, tall and straight, with fluttering clothes and a Taoist spirit, "Well, that person is No. 80, the eight-generation closed disciple of the Qing Palace on Taiyi Mountain. He is profound, erudite and knowledgeable, and knows the most about ancient Taoist books." He deliberately gave it away, "Guess what?"

These words whetted the appetite of many people, "What's going on? What's going on?"

"The classics left by the Saint are of the same origin as the classics preserved in the Qing Palace on Taiyi Mountain. In other words, the Saint was a Taoist practitioner on Taiyi Mountain more than a hundred years ago." The man said with certainty. typical.

As soon as the words came out, the crowd immediately booed, "You Si family, you only listen to the Crown Princess, so of course you just say what the Crown Princess tells you to say, and you dare to show such nonsense as shame. "

The man smiled calmly and said, "Words can be deceived, but classics cannot be deceived."

"The Crown Princess has already asked those Kun Dao from the Great Zhou Dynasty to start copying the classics left by the Saint. Soon, all the yamen and various aristocratic families in Yunjiang will be able to get the handwritten scriptures. The Qing Palace Classics on Taiyi Mountain Manuscripts are also very easy to get in the market, if you don't believe me, you can get it in your hand and compare it, and you will understand it in your heart."

After saying this, the man stopped arguing with them and left.

But his words were heard by many people and spread secretly.

Since Shen Lingxi had arranged these trivial things in advance, she naturally wouldn't care.

Before leaving Yunjiang, she had to do two things in the Holy Mountain. One was to invite Liu Meiren and the others to enter her mother's imperial mausoleum to confirm that there was nothing suspicious in the tomb.Please ask Su Xian again to arrange the burial method for the queen mother's mausoleum to prevent anyone from wanting to bury her mother in the mausoleum again.

The second is Kui Shijiu and Shao Hua, the two souls killed by Urda.Now that Urda's soul has been refined, it's time to send them to transcendence and reincarnation.

With the help of Kun Taoists from Jinxian Temple, Su Xian's salvation ritual was performed with great fanfare.

Although Shen Lingxi did not perform the rituals with him, as the only relative of Queen Zanxi, she was also in the magic circle to pray devoutly for Queen Zanxi.

Just because she was here, the heads and clan members of the aristocratic families, and even some of the Yunjiang people who trusted her very much, knelt down and worshiped here just like they did six years ago.

On the other hand, Yun Wang, according to the practice when Yun Hongshan was still alive, went to the ruined site of the Holy Mountain Altar to worship the gods after worshiping the Yun family's ancestors.

The number of people worshiping with him was not even half as usual.

It was a coincidence that the originally cloudy weather suddenly cleared up and the weather cleared up while Su Xian and the Jinxian Guankun Taoists were doing their rituals.

There is golden sunshine shining on the tomb of Queen Xanxi like a divine light.

In this way, there will be more people who follow Shen Lingxi to worship.

It is almost foreseeable that in less than a year and a half, in Yunjiang, where witches and doctors have been completely divided and ruled, both Taoism and Buddhism will slowly recover.

In this way, no one will ever take advantage of people's belief in the "Saint Girl" to cause trouble like Xiang Zhou and Urda did.

People can also live and work in peace and contentment on this land.

The religious ceremony lasted from early morning until afternoon, and then came to an end.

When all the people had dispersed and in front of the transcending circle, only Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan were left, as well as Shaohua standing a foot away, separated from them by the transcending circle, with tears in his eyes.

"If the Queen knew that the princess was not only back in her body, but also married to a man of her dreams, I don't know how happy she would be."

Shen Lingxi smiled, and she held Chu Yan's hand in front of Shaohua without any secret, "Auntie is going to Jiuquan. If you see your mother, please tell her that we are fine. Please rest assured."

Chu Yan raised the corners of his lips slightly, held her hand, and followed her gaze to the void, "If you have any trouble, please tell my mother that I will take care of Lingxi for her and never let her suffer any injustice."

Shaohua looked at the two people's clasped hands, nodded with a smile, stepped into the transcendence circle, and his soul turned into dots of starlight and dissipated in the sun...

*
Shen Lingxi's body was extremely exhausted from the past few days of exertion. Not long after she got into the carriage, she leaned on Chu Yan's shoulder and fell into a deep sleep.She had a messy dream.

In the dream, the mother was holding the hand of a girl in red and walking up to her.

The face of the girl in red was blurry, but it could be vaguely seen that she looked like her in her previous life.

"My child, you have to walk your own path in the future." The mother said to her uneasily: "Although you have someone you can rely on now, you still have to think carefully about everything and never relax. Be alert...you have to be careful..."

The girl in red spread out her hands in front of her. On the mottled palm lay a jade pendant covered with black cracks. The black cracks seemed to have dark light surging.

"Be careful..." She whispered quietly: "You must be careful."

A moment later, Aweng, who had long since disappeared in the moonlight, suddenly broke into her dream and said to her reluctantly: "You girl, you fooled me with a fake marriage. Now that the fake marriage has become real, shouldn't you take care of me?" My grandson-in-law came to see me..."

She also dreamed that Emperor Ru, who had been shot into a hedgehog and died on the city tower, looked at her with wide eyes, "If you dare to kill my son, I will make you pay for it with blood!"

Shen Lingxi frowned very tightly, struggled constantly, and slept extremely uneasily.

It wasn't until she fell into an extremely warm nest that was covered with heavy feathers, and her nose was filled with the delicious scent of medicine, that she finally fell asleep peacefully.

It felt like I slept for a long time.

Shen Lingxi opened her eyes again, and the huge bedroom was empty.

The earth dragon was burning brightly, as warm as spring, and the familiar benzoin was burning in the hall.

She sat up and found that she had changed into pajamas.

Thinking that she had already established a relationship with Chu Yan, and that only the two of them had always lived in this dormitory, her cheeks instantly felt hot.

"You're awake." Liu Meiren looked over at her and saw her appearance. She smiled and joked, "Luckily you're fine, otherwise the young man would be very anxious."

She said, as if she thought of something funny, "You little husband is really interesting. You two sleep in the same bed all day long, but he can't even help you change clothes. Oh, my nephew is here." When he is such an old age, he can even do so much."

Shen Lingxi's cheeks burned even hotter.

"I, I, this clothes, he, he gave... to..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, she realized that her voice seemed to have been scratched by something, making it rough and hoarse.

"Tsk, tsk." Upon seeing this, Liu Meiren shook her head regretfully, "You will be disappointed this time. He asked the maid to change your clothes, and he stood behind the screen with a blushing face."

She approached with a gossipy look on her face and pricked her ears: "Tell me honestly, have you two not consummated your marriage yet? Does the young man... have any health problems? I looked at New Year's Eve, or... You first...um...take the initiative, is he...not good? Otherwise, I will ask them if they know of any medicine that can be used for him..."

Shen Lingxi: ...

She recalled how when she and Liu Meiren first met, the old people among them gathered together and talked freely.

I began to regret my actions on the tower on New Year's Eve.

This simply opened a new window for them to gossip. How will they live in the future?

"How long have I been asleep?" Shen Lingxi quickly changed the subject.

Liu Meiren gestured, "I slept all day and all night, and it will soon be the morning of the third day of the first lunar month."

Shen Lingxi rubbed the center of her brows, feeling that her head was dizzy and a little swollen.

"What's wrong with me?"

Liu Meiren floated to the side of the couch and sat down. She rarely looked serious, "Su Xian came to see you and said that your soul was unstable. Although the soul refining array on the holy mountain has been destroyed, he died there after all." Too many people have some influence on you."

"Su Xian said that Xiang Zhou had been operating in Yun Kingdom for more than ten years. There are still many undiscovered formations in Yunbian City. With your current body, you are still recovering. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. He I suggest Mr. Xiao Lang to leave as soon as possible."

Shen Lingxi suddenly understood. No wonder she fell into a deep sleep as soon as she touched the pillow after returning to this body.

It seemed that being separated again had some impact on her.

"Even if he didn't mention it, our original plan was to set off back to Yunbian City on the third day of the new year."

As she spoke, she thought of the dream she had for no reason.

"My charred body was handed over to Su Xian for disposal that day. Do you know what Su Xian did with it?" she asked.

"He had people separate the charred corpses and put them into boxes covered with charms. He ordered them to rush back to Taiyi Mountain. He said he wanted to ask several elders from the Shangqing Palace to destroy the bones completely."

Liu Meiren said, as if she had thought of something, her expression became solemn, "Speaking of which, a strange thing happened outside the city gate these past two days."

Shen Lingxi's eyes suddenly darkened and he looked at her questioningly.

"In the past few days, the weather has become warmer, and the snow outside the city gate has almost melted." Liu Meiren said with a puzzled face: "Someone discovered that the place where Sheng Kun was burned to death that day suddenly formed many ice crystals. Those The ice crystals did not melt when exposed to fire, but instead there were many pigeons pecking at them. In just two days, they were almost pecked by those pigeons."

Shen Lingxi's eyebrows moved slightly and she quickly asked, "Where are those pigeons?"

"Of course he flew away." Liu Meiren waved her hand, "Anyway, when you leave the city later, you will pass by. Then you can just see it with your own eyes."

Hearing this, Shen Lingxi looked around and asked, "Why haven't you seen our ancestors and Xu Yuanshan in the past few days? Where have they gone?"

"Xu Yuanshan has been following his wife. My ancestor was worried that he would do something bad again, so he naturally followed him."

At this point, Liu Meiren suddenly clapped her hands and said, "By the way, Mrs. Li Er quietly went outside the city gate the day before yesterday to see the excitement!"

*
An hour later.

When the first ray of sunshine in the morning shines on the city gate.

The carriage carrying Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi slowly drove out of Yunbian City under the thick snow.

Black-armored guards rode beside the carriage.

The carriage just drove out of the city gate. About a quarter of an hour later, Chunjun, who was riding beside the carriage, reported: "Your Highness, Crown Princess, look quickly..."

Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan looked at each other and opened the curtain.

Beside the official road that has mostly been covered with snow, there are crystal clear things, shining under the sunlight.

A group of pigeons gathered around the ice crystals, pecking at them quickly.

Shen Lingxi clearly saw a pigeon pick up a piece of ice crystal, then flap its wings and take off, flying towards the east...

(End of this chapter)