"That's enough, you can eat the rest yourself." Hua Yanxi refused.
"Then you have some more tea."
"No, I'm not thirsty. Don't bother me here."
The palace attendant on the side also said: "Your Highness, it's time for you to comb your hair and change your clothes."
Ye Yibai finished the cakes in a few seconds and went to the outside room.
The palace servant who was combing Hua Yanxi's hair smiled and said, "Your Highness, the Fifth Prince, really loves you very much."
The palace attendant next to her said frankly and honestly: "Any other Highness would not be so considerate and considerate. The Fifth Princess is truly blessed."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that his words were ambiguous, as if the fifth prince was a fool in the connotation, and he immediately knelt down with a pop of fear on his face.
"Fifth Prince Concubine, spare your life. I don't mean that. I just envy the Fifth Prince Concubine for being able to marry someone like His Highness who knows how to deal with cold and hot things. I beg the Fifth Prince Concubine to have mercy on you."
The palace man heard something about the fifth prince and concubine yesterday. Even the prince and princess could not do anything to her. He was a palace man, and he could only move his fingers if he wanted to kill her.
Hua Yanxi said softly: "Get up, you didn't say anything wrong, and I'm not the kind of person who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong."
Hearing this, the palace maid breathed a sigh of relief, and her movements became more and more cautious, and other palace maids did not dare to speak any more.
Soon, the two of them dressed up and rushed towards the main hall.
When we arrived outside the temple, many people had already gathered.
Afterwards, the princes and princesses stood in two rows according to their ranking, and the ministers behind them stood in four rows according to their rank, led by the prime minister.
At this moment, there was a glimmer of light in the sky, and the palace attendants on both sides were holding lanterns for lighting.
When the emperor and the queen arrived, they walked to the front and led everyone towards the ancestral temple with great momentum.
Outside the main hall of the ancestral temple, several princes who had been punished to kneel all night were kneeling there and were numb from the cold. The look of them standing close together was particularly tragic.
Suddenly, a prince heard some slight movement and reminded: "Is the sacrificial ceremony about to begin?"
"Okay, it seems so." The prince, who was frozen and stuttering, said slowly.
"Then what should we do? We just continue to kneel here? My father and the ministers are coming soon. What if those ministers see us like this?"
A certain prince who had given up struggling said: "So what if you don't want them to see it? Do you still dare to disobey the father's will? If he finds out that we are not here later, our face will be saved, but the father's
How to explain?"
Several people scratched their heads and thought of several solutions to no avail, and finally decided to welcome the coming storm.
One by one, they cheered up, straightened their backs, looked at the ancestral temple, and looked like they were concentrating on repenting and protecting the ancestral temple.
The sacrificial ceremony had a fixed route. Although they heard the noise, it still took a lot of time to wait for them to arrive because they had to go around several palaces.
At this moment, the sky was bright and the originally gray sky became clear.
The emperor and the queen were the first to step forward and stand outside the ancestral temple. The rest of the people stood a few feet away from the steps, forming a long line that could not be seen to the end.
Except for the several princes of the royal family and their family members, only the few ministers at the front witnessed the miserable state of several princes.
"Why are you still standing there? Why don't you get down and stand still." The emperor felt upset when he looked at these careless and unlucky princes.
After hearing this, several people stood up immediately, walking a little staggeringly, but they did not dare to neglect and stood in the queue according to their own ranking.
The sacrifice was complicated and lengthy. Listening to the long words read by those people, several people who had already endured a bright night were even more sleepy now. They pinched their thighs one by one to hold on.
It wasn't until the emperor and the queen entered the ancestral temple to offer incense to their ancestors that someone finally couldn't hold on any longer and several people fell down with a "bang bang". Immediately, palace servants came out and carried them all down, and they finally got a chance to breathe.
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But those who also knelt all night but still persisted in not fainting looked at the few people who were being carried away with envy on their faces.
Ye Yibai said secretly: "If you feel tired, just rest on me to save effort."
Hua Yanxi shook her head: "I'm fine."
"It will probably take a few hours to end, so don't force it, or you can pretend to be faint and I'll carry you away."
Hua Yanxi said: "It's really not necessary. It's just standing in the cold wind. I can still hold on. It's not a big deal."
Coincidentally, those standing in front of and behind the two of them happened to be the fourth prince and the sixth prince.
Although the two of them were beaten yesterday, they still escaped death because of their mother-in-law.
Hearing Ye Yibai's words, the Sixth Prince said disdainfully: "What are you doing in front of our ancestors? How dare you pretend to be dizzy in front of our ancestors. Thank you for your words. If you dare to do this, I will report it to my father later."
Opportunistic."
Ye Yibai didn't even bother to talk to him. He was still standing upright, but he quickly punched the sixth prince back in the stomach, causing him to kneel down immediately in pain.
The sixth prince was in so much pain that he couldn't even speak. The fingers pointing at Ye Yibai were trembling, and his forehead began to sweat. It took him a while to recover.
Several other princes saw this movement, and although they didn't know the situation clearly, they guessed that it was related to Ye Yibai and the two of them, so they didn't mind their own business.
The sound of ringing bells came from the ancestral temple, ringing twelve times in a row, indicating that it was already noon.
Those ministers got up before dawn and entered the palace. They didn't even have time to use their breakfast. They were already hungry. So many of them secretly took out their private work from their sleeves and bit it secretly under the cover of their official robes.
One or two mouthfuls.
Even if someone sees it, they won't say anything. The braver ones will even exchange food with each other.
These people were far away and had good connections to cover them, so there was no problem. But this group of princes was different. Everyone wanted to catch each other's pigtails, so naturally no one dared to bring private goods.
Although you can pretend to faint, you will definitely be laughed at afterwards, and it will easily leave a bad impression on the ministers, so those who can persist persist, and even start to compare with each other, with provocation in their eyes.
Rely on this provocation to pass the time.
In the midst of these back and forth glances, suddenly the fifth prince Ye Yibai fell down.