Chapter 47 One Dead Two Lives? (1)
"The Emperor has arrived!"
Everyone was kneeling on the snow. Zhai Xiying let go of You Ruo's waist and pulled her to kneel on the snow.
"Hiss~!" Youruo was suddenly pressed on the snow, and her knees could not bear the cold temperature for a while.
Zhai Yuan was wearing a rhubarb dragon robe and a warm tiger skin. He passed by everyone and walked to the place specially designed for him on the ancestor worship platform. He said: "Everyone should be flat!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Finally able to get up from the snow, You Ruo glared at Zhai Xiying fiercely.
"The ancestor worship ceremony begins!" Eunuch Liu's sharp voice floated in the sea of snow.
Most of the female family members participated in the royal ancestor worship for the first time and followed their respective princes in a panic. Lu Youruo did not know the steps of the ceremony and could only move with Zhai Xiying.
Prime Minister Lu Batian, who had not seen him for a long time, climbed up to the high platform for ancestor worship, stood beside Zhai Yuan, holding a bright yellow scroll and read: "In the 20th year of Jian'an, the Shengtian Dynasty under the current emperor's rule...
The world left by the royal ancestors was managed and prosperous..."
Lu Batian read a long sacrificial speech, accompanied by the prince coughing from time to time.
"The emperor will be the first to offer incense, the empress will take the back seat, and the prince and concubine will prepare." Eunuch Liu's voice sounded again.
Zhai Yuan took the three sticks of incense from the little eunuch's hand, and the smell when burned was a soothing scent of sandalwood.
After bowing three times and finishing the ceremony, Zhai Yuan handed the incense in his hand back to the young eunuch, who helped him insert it into the golden incense burner.
Following closely behind was the Queen...
During the process of worshiping the ancestors, the abbot read the memorial speech: "The descendants of the royal family will be prosperous and the virtuous will win..."
The prince and the princess knelt on the high platform together and kowtowed three times. The prince had been suppressing the discomfort in his throat and tried not to make any noise that would disturb his ancestors during the memorial ceremony.
After the ceremony, the princess supported the prince as he walked down the platform.
Then, the second prince, King Yu, took his concubine Wu Peiting and his concubine Lu Si to the high platform for ancestor worship.
Because Wu Peiting had a big belly, she was the only one of the three who stood to worship.
Everyone's eyes were on the high platform for ancestor worship, and no one noticed how Princess Yu fell on the steps to the lower platform.
"Ah..." A panicked cry seemed particularly out of place in the especially sacred and quiet atmosphere at this time.
The crowd who had not yet had their turn to worship did not dare to move around and could only look at the situation on the other side of the high platform.
Princess Yu was on the stairs with only a few steps left. She accidentally rolled down the stairs.
"Tingting!" Zhai Xiyu helped Wu Peiting up and asked nervously: "Did you hurt the child?"
Wu Peiting's face became very pale, but she still shook her head and said: "Nothing!" Her heart was also beating very fast.
Lu Si stood behind the two of them, comforting Wu Peiting with an anxious look on her face, showing the deep sisterly love between the two.
The emperor saw that nothing serious had happened to Princess Yu. He just stared at Wu Peiting with sharp eyes. Wu Peiting lowered her head in fear and scolded Lu Si in her heart!
If this bitch hadn't stepped on the hem of her clothes, causing her to lose her center of gravity and fall off the high platform, how would she have attracted everyone's attention!
Lu Youruo kept looking at Lu Si who was on the ancestor worship platform, and naturally saw Lu Si's outstretched foot, specifically stepping on Wu Peiting's snow fox fur.
Under the mask, her brows were furrowed again. Considering that Wu Peiting was in the dangerous eighth month of her pregnancy, she fell to the ground almost half a meter away, so something must have hurt the child.
Observing Wu Peiting being supported by King Yu from a distance, her face turned pale and colorless due to fright, but from such a distance, Youruo could not judge Wu Peiting's condition.
The three people walked more than ten meters, and plum blossoms began to bloom on the snow. Wu Peiting moved a step, and a few drops of blood dripped on the snow, forming a stunning red plum...
"Ah, sister Princess, you are bleeding!" Lu Si shouted in shock.
He finally moved his gaze away from Princess Yu and fell on her again.
Chapter completed!