Chapter 1156 I've Thought It Through

Leaving aside the palace and the Mu Mansion, the most heavily guarded place in the imperial capital is the Royal Ancestor Altar.

Here, the saints and ancestors of the Yuwen royal family are enshrined, and the oldest of them can be traced back to the dark days more than 10,000 years ago. In addition to the resident priests, only the Heavenly Master can enter the entire Royal Ancestor Altar without asking for permission. Others, including the princes and princesses, cannot come without the approval of the Yan Emperor. Those who violate the rules will be punished with serious crimes.

It was not until Emperor Yanling ascended the throne that a national master, that is, Wen Lao, was added to the pass list of the Royal Ancestor Altar.

This move made many people secretly ponder, because there has never been a national master in the history of Dayan. Wen Lao first took over the Supervisory Department, and then was honored as a national master as an exception. Now he has become a frequent visitor to the Royal Ancestor Altar. Everyone knows what Emperor Yanling is thinking. This is obviously to create a person who can check and balance the Heavenly Master of the Mu family.

In addition, Wen Lao and the other four elders also practiced the Dao of Yan, and it was rumored that it was a copy of the Mu family's Yan technique, which made many people at that time believe that there would be a civil strife in Dayan.

But the result was unexpected. The Heavenly Master was in seclusion, the National Master was orderly and did not offend the Mu family, and the Yanling Imperial Residence never showed an obvious attitude, as if this matter was just a normal appointment and dismissal. Dayan was peaceful for hundreds of years. Over time, many people let it go, and even almost forgot about it.

Until today, after hundreds of years, Mu Fangli, the then Heavenly Master of the Mu family, returned to the Royal Ancestor Altar, and this long-lost memory was suddenly evoked again.

Mu Fangli was in seclusion, and the position of Heavenly Master fell on him again, so he was absent from the sacrificial activities at the Royal Ancestor Altar in the past, and they were all handled by the National Master Wen Lao.

But today, at the Dayan Crown Prince's canonization ceremony, Mu Tianshi came in person, and Wen Lao also came. The two bumped into each other, and who would be the main sacrifice was very interesting.

"You go down, I'll take care of today's affairs."

Mu Fangli was very straightforward and told his men to send Wen Lao away.

Wen Lao did not get angry, and kept a polite smile and said: "Mu Tianshi, my emperor feels sorry for your hard work, so he has already handed this ceremony over to me, so I'll be the main priest."

With a light snort, Mu Fangli said in a calm voice: "Dayan law stipulates that the main priest should be the Tianshi, don't you know?"

Wen Lao smiled unchanged: "But you didn't come to the sacrificial activities in the past few hundred years."

"Are you assigning me?" Mu Fangli's eyes turned cold.

"Of course not, how dare I assign you to do it. What I mean is that you haven't handled this matter for hundreds of years, and I'm afraid you may be unfamiliar with some details, so I want to be the main priest today, first to help you recall, and secondly, it's hard to disobey the emperor's order, I hope the Heavenly Master will allow it!"

Mu Fangli's eyes turned cold: "Are you saying you want to teach me?"

"Of course not, Heavenly Master is worrying too much."

After saying this, Mr. Wen stood with a smile, and no matter how Mu Fangli stared at him, he didn't give in at all, and his face was always polite and humble.

Seeing that Mr. Wen insisted on not giving in, Mu Fangli frowned, and his eyes turned to see the Da Fengchang who was waiting quietly on the side, and immediately grabbed him.

"You say, should I be the main priest today, or should he be!"

Da Fengchang was sweating and his face was pale.

In theory, the main priest should be him, the Da Fengchang, but Dayan had a Heavenly Master, so he, the Da Fengchang, became a transparent person, and he was doing chores for the Heavenly Master every time he offered sacrifices.

Later, the Heavenly Master went into seclusion. He thought the opportunity had come, but who knew that another Imperial Master would descend from the sky. He was still a small, transparent person with a high position but little power. He even suspected that Emperor Yanling had forgotten his name.

Today, the Heavenly Master and the Imperial Master bumped into each other, and his boring life finally had a little adjustment. He wanted to sit on the mountain and watch a good show, but who knew that the Heavenly Master would push him to the forefront with just one sentence.

Looking to the left, Tianshi Mu stared at him. He secretly swallowed his saliva and looked to the right. The Imperial Master also smiled and looked at him gently, but that smile made him feel cold in his heart.

Seeing that both of them were waiting for his answer, he hesitated for a few times, gritted his teeth, bowed and said respectfully: "I think the emperor's order should be respected!"

He didn't say it directly, but he also said the answer.

Respecting the emperor's order, isn't that the Imperial Master Wen Lao?

He is not a stupid person. He knows that he can't afford to offend the Heavenly Master and the Imperial Master, but the one he can't afford to offend the most is Emperor Yan.

If you offend the Heavenly Master or the State Master, you will at most give him a hard time. If you offend the Emperor Yan, you will be disobeying the Holy Heart, which is fatal!

Nodding slightly to the Great Fengchang, Wen Lao smiled at Mu Fangli: "Mu Tianshi, you see..."

"Today is the big day of my grandson's wedding. If you mess it up... Humph!"

Flicking his sleeves, Mu Fangli turned and left.

Looking at his back, Wen Lao bowed and said: "Farewell, Mu Tianshi!"

There were small episodes inside, and the same was true outside.

Sitting on the chariot with no walls on all four sides, Li Chuyi was in a very bad mood.

Thinking that he would have to sit in this chariot and go around the imperial capital for three days after the ceremony, so that the people of the whole city could see this handsome face, he felt that the world in front of him was gloomy.

This is not a prince, this is a monkey!

Originally thought that this was the extreme, but when he got off the car outside the imperial ancestor altar, he felt even worse.

Officials of all ranks were waiting in line. He saw Yu Yao at a glance. Seeing her standing quietly beside Yu Wen Taihao and smiling at him, his heart suddenly stopped and he felt mixed emotions.

Seeing his arrival, Yuwen Taihao came over with a group of princes and princesses. There were singles and couples in the group, but he only had eyes for Yuwen Taihao and Yu Yao in the front. Seeing the two people approaching with smiles on their faces, he suddenly felt angry and raised his feet to greet them.

As soon as he took a step, the little monkey chased after him with a low voice.

"Your Highness, you can't move, you have to wait for them to come over to greet..."

The voice stopped suddenly, and Li Chuyi suddenly turned around and looked at him coldly. He swore that he saw murderous intent in the other person's eyes. The chill in his bones caused all the remaining words to get stuck in his throat, and he lowered his head deeply. Dare you say one more word.

"snort!"

With a cold snort, Li Chu turned around and left.

The princes and daughters who greeted him were all astonished. They didn't know whether he did this on purpose or if he really didn't know the rules.

Yuwen Taihao was not surprised at all. He smiled slightly, stepped up his pace, and came to Li Chuyi in a few steps.

"There are countless people in the history of Dayan who are eager to become the prince, but you are the only one who is so explicit."

Yuwen Taihao teased, but Li Chuyi was in no mood to continue. He turned to look at Yu Yao and frowned: "Why are you here too?"

"The emperor asked me to come." Yu Yao replied softly.

Li Chuyi's heart sank.

The word "Emperor" is not only a title, but also an attitude. Yu Yao used to be called Emperor Yan, but now she calls herself Emperor. She is afraid that she has...

"Have you thought about it?" Li Chuyi asked.

Glancing at Yuwen Taihao, Yu Yao nodded with a smile, and the determination in her eyes made Li Chuyi sigh secretly.

"Brother the Great Emperor..."

"Congratulations to the eldest brother..."

The other princes and princesses gathered around. Li Chuyi was so upset that he had no time to deal with them. He walked straight through without even looking at them with a cold face, leaving all the princes and princesses frozen in place in embarrassment, with slightly ugly faces.

How could Li Chuyi care about them? Regardless of the little monkey's crying dissuasion, he walked straight in front of a group of officials and stopped in front of Wang Dachuan under the stunned gaze of everyone.

Although he knew what he was going to do, Wang Dachuan was still shocked. He thought they should have a very subtle way of talking to each other, instead of being so open-minded.

"Your Majesty, Wang Dachuan, is meeting His Royal Highness the Great Prince! His Royal Highness..."

"Stop talking nonsense, where are the people?"

"Your Highness, could you please lower your voice..."

"I didn't shout, what are you afraid of? Besides, is there anything shameful about this?"

"this..."

Secretly smiling bitterly, Wang Dachuan quickly returned to the topic, came closer and whispered: "Your Highness, the person has been brought up, but it is not convenient to bring him here in this kind of occasion. His Highness can send someone to the Supervision Department to pick up the person afterwards."

"It doesn't have to be later, it's now!"

Li Chu didn't want to wait any longer and turned around to greet Li Sinian: "Uncle Four, Hai Wufeng has brought it up. Please go to the Supervision Department to get him."

"Okay, I'll go right away!"

Li Chuyi turned around and left, but was stopped by Li Chuyi again.

"Wait a minute, take Heizi with you, just in case those turtles|grandsons cheat on you, you can have a helper."

Xiao Erhei was very happy. Those etiquettes were bigger than Li Chuyi's head. He was worried about what to do for a while. When he heard this, he immediately jumped on Li Sinian's head.

"Let's go, let's go, I'm going to die from suffocation!"

Li Sinian smiled bitterly, letting it pull his hair like a rein, and followed Wang Dachuan away from the Imperial Ancestor Altar.

Half relieved, Li Chuyi turned around and nodded gently to Yu Yao.

Yu Yao's eyes suddenly lit up, and then a layer of mist quickly filled the mountain. Hai Wufeng was her biggest heartache, and her wish to be rescued by him was more than half fulfilled.

Suddenly, a low bell rang, everyone's expressions became solemn, and Yu Wen Tianhao also came over solemnly.

"Get ready to enter. Do you know the rules?"

"That's right." Li Chuyi said ambiguously, scaring the little monkey behind him half to death.

It was fine for King Zhenxi to hear this. If King Zhenxi spread it to Emperor Yanling's ears, then his sin would be serious.

"Don't be afraid. Rules are dead and people are alive. I will remind you later. As long as you do it roughly right, no one will blame you for small mistakes." Yuwen Taihao comforted you.

Li Chuyi sneered and glanced sideways: "Do you think I will care?"

He shook his head helplessly, then straightened his face and signaled Yu Yao to go over to the family line-up. Yuwen Taihao stood beside Li Chu with a solemn expression, and behind him were the princes and princesses lined up in order.

When the sound of singing came from afar, Li Chuyi sighed and followed the guard of honor and walked towards the altar. Then came the King of Zhenxi, the princes and princesses, then the civil and military officials, and finally the family members of the officials and the wealthy families of Dayan, such as the Nalan family, the Zhao family, etc., all of them were included, and the top wealthy families in the imperial capital A lot of people came.

In the Nalan family's team, Nalan Mingyue stood next to her grandfather Nalanduo, looking at the little figure in a yellow robe in the distance, and glanced secretly at the corner of her mouth. He looked at King Zhenxi again behind him, then turned slightly and glanced at Yu Yao, the head of the family, with his peripheral vision, his eyes darkened.

Some things are destined to be unavailable.

Or should I say it was over before it even started.

This is the saddest thing.

Sighing, Nalan Mingyue steeled herself.

Since you can't get it, just watch silently.

If you can't be a couple, it would be nice to be a close friend.

"Mingyue, what's wrong? Why are you not in a good mood?"

Grandpa's voice came, Nalan Mingyue smiled and shook her head: "No, I'm in a good mood, just a little depressed."

Looking at Li Chuyi in the distance, Nalan Duo thought he understood something, smiled playfully and said lovingly: "Don't worry, Grandpa will make the decision for you. Once things here are over, I will go to your Grandpa Mu, and Grandpa will definitely help you..."

Listening to Nalan Duo's rambling about his "grand plan", Nalan Mingyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and her heart was warm but also a little bitter.

Some things are destined to be understood by very few people.

Li Chuyi can, but it's a pity that his grandfather doesn't understand.