Chengqian Palace is located in the center of the entire palace. Layers of stones are piled up to form a platform. The outside is inlaid with white jade. There are white carved jade railings arranged in a circle. The appearance is somewhat similar to the Temple of Heaven in the modern Forbidden City.
Somewhat similar.【】
The nine-meter-long white marble dragon-carved staircase stretches all the way. The exit is directly opposite the huge entrance of Chengqian Palace. There are ninety steps in total. The height of each step is exactly one centimeter, which means long and long.
May the Northern Qi Dynasty endure for a long time.
Every third step on both sides of the stairs is occupied by a guard. Each one of them is fully armored, holding a halberd in his hand, standing with an expression on his face, like a statue, adding a bit of dignity that cannot be blasphemed to the gorgeous and graceful palace.
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Qi Mo and Zhong Qingye walked to the gate of Chengqian Palace, and their father-in-law, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly greeted them. He first knelt down respectfully and kowtowed, and then said in a soft voice: "Your Majesty is still here.
I'm dealing with things in the study room, and I've specially asked my servants to come to greet the prince and princess, and ask them to take a short rest. Concubine Shu will be here soon."
Qi Mo glanced at Zhong Qingye and saw that she was not listening at all, so he could only nodded coldly and said: "I understand."
Qi Mo pulled him across the 50-centimeter threshold of Chengqian Palace and walked into the main hall. After a visual inspection, he found that the main hall alone was more than two hundred square meters in size. There were blue hangings hanging on the beams facing the gate.
The golden word "upright and bright", the font is in beautiful regular script, each stroke is heroic and majestic.
In modern times, the Forbidden City in Beijing covers an area of 720,000 square meters, with a construction area of 150,000 square meters. There are more than 980 existing buildings and more than 8,700 rooms. The entire Forbidden City is surrounded by ten-meter-high towers.
The city wall has a moat of more than 50 meters wide, which shows its majesty and majesty.
Zhong Qingye is not familiar with the Imperial Palace of Northern Qi, but from what she knows, it is probably not much worse than the Forbidden City. Just the extravagant decoration in this room shows how good it can be as the most important place in a country.
How luxurious is it?
The Qianqing Palace and the Qianqing Palace, where the emperor went to court to handle government affairs, and the Study Room, where memorials and other matters were handled, were called the three most important palaces in the palace. On weekdays, in addition to the maids and eunuchs who arranged cleaning or waiting,
, no one else is allowed to enter, and those who disobey the order may be directly beheaded. Therefore, under normal circumstances, these three places are rarely visited by people.
The same is true now. The huge palace is as quiet as a tomb. Looking around, apart from the cold and gorgeous decorations, it seems that there are only two people, Qi Mo and Zhong Qingye.
But from the moment she walked into the palace, Zhong Qingye noticed that on the surface, there were only two people in the palace, her and Qi Mo, but the breathing hidden in the secret was dense. At first glance, there might be hundreds of people.
With so many people secretly guarding the palace, as soon as anyone in the palace makes any move that they shouldn't do, they are afraid that they will jump out like ghosts, make stern remarks and even draw swords.
Zhong Qingye closed his eyes slightly, with a cold mockery flashing in his eyes. He raised his head and looked at Qi Mo. They both felt the same emotion in the other's eyes and smiled at each other without saying much.
After waiting for a while, I heard a male duck outside the palace shouting at the top of his voice: "The Queen is here!"
Zhong Qingye didn't know much about the empress in the palace. Hearing that Concubine Shu didn't know who she was, Qi Mo secretly squeezed her palm. Zhong Qingye was stunned for a moment, and when he received his comforting eyes, he said,
He immediately raised his eyebrows in understanding.
Concubine Shu is probably her younger sister Zhong Ying.
Thinking of what Zhong Ying had done before, Zhong Qingye curled his lips secretly, she was still a concubine? There are no ladies in the world anymore.
After thinking about it, she still had to do the work on the surface. She followed Qi Mo and retreated to the side of the room, lowering her head slightly, pretending to be respectful, but actually staring at the palace door with the corner of her eyes. She hadn't seen him for so long.
I wonder how far her sister has climbed.
With a sweet laugh like a bell, a woman in gorgeous clothes, surrounded by four or five girls in emerald green palace clothes, slowly stepped into the huge palace gate of Chengqian Palace.
Wearing a long skirt in the color of haze, the cuffs are embroidered with light blue peonies, a few auspicious clouds are outlined with silver thread, the hem is densely lined with blue sea water clouds, and the chest is a wide piece of light pink brocade
The chest is wrapped, and the slender willow waist is tied with a golden water dragon brocade belt, shiny jade ornaments, and a sachet hanging by the waist.
There are three temples on her head, with a pink tassel hairpin stuck on each side of the temples. The pearl string is hanging down, shaking slightly in the air. On the central bun, she wears a pair of peacock dancing gold hairpin inlaid with jade beads and agate.
With its wings spread out on both sides, it looks elegant and magnificent.
On the face, Concubine Shu's face is the most popular plum blossom makeup nowadays, with a pair of slightly upward almond-shaped eyes, with light purple eye shadow on the corners of the eyes. As the eyes rotate smartly, they are radiant. There are two curved willow leaves.
She has thin eyebrows, a bright red plum blossom painted on the corner of her eyebrows, her pink face is moist with spring, and her red lips are not parted and her smile is charming.
Zhong Ying was originally a beauty, and her figure was different from Zhong Qingye's. Compared to Zhong Qingye, who was hiding her unruliness, she was more like a gorgeous rose, with an alluring charm from head to toe.
After all, she has become a woman. She has lost her shyness and agility as a girl, and is charming and passionate. With Zhong Ying now completely changed, Zhong Qingye can finally understand why she can suppress the three thousand people in the harem and let Qi Qi.
Mu dotes on her alone.
She has the capital!
"I came late and kept the prince and princess waiting for a long time. I am here to apologize to you two." There was a faint smile on the corners of the bright red lips, and Zhong Ying's voice was as clear and crisp as before, but it was louder than before.
A somewhat charming, plain and concise sentence, coming out of her mouth, it was like singing.
Seeing how superior she was even hiding her smile, the corners of Zhong Qingye's mouth slowly curved in an arc, which seemed to be pity and ridicule.
She didn't know what Zhong Ying was so proud of. Didn't she understand that she was just a plaything in Qi Mu's hands, one of the three thousand women in the harem?
When he is happy, he can lift you up to heaven. When he is unhappy, he can knock you down to hell anytime and anywhere. What is there to be proud of with such an identity?
"Your Majesty, Concubine Shu, you are so polite. Your Majesty and I have just arrived. We can't take on the responsibility of our empress." Who doesn't know how to talk about the situation? When Zhong Qingye was flourishing in the Military Intelligence Department, she, Zhong Ying, didn't know where she was.