I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Chapter 303: Worshiping on Behalf of Husband

The emperor coughed up blood, Xiefang Palace was in chaos, and Concubine Song was crying bitterly.

"Why are you crying?" The emperor raised his hand to wipe away Concubine Song's tears and shouted back, "This matter must not be made public."

Kazuo Li led everyone away and closed the door.

The emperor said, "My beloved concubine, from now on, you must be good and take care of Hui'er."

"May your majesty live forever." Song Moli cried.

"I also wish for a long life, but I cannot defeat the heavens." The emperor embraced Concubine Song and said, "Next month is the Double Ninth Festival. I should also comfort my ancestors."

"What does your majesty mean?" Concubine Song slowly raised her eyes.

The emperor patted the beauty's shoulder and said, "The secret cannot be revealed."

The news that the emperor offered sacrifices to his ancestors at the Taimiao on the Double Ninth Festival, comforting the heavens and the earth, shocked all officials. They were shocked not by the fact that he was offering sacrifices to his ancestors on the Double Ninth Festival, but by the fact that Prince Ningyuan was allowed to participate in the sacrifices.

Prince Ningyuan's participation in the sacrifice indicated that the emperor tacitly accepted Chu Mingzheng's position as crown prince.

Such abnormal behavior made Lu Mingyang very nervous.

"Forget it!"

Chu Mingzheng walked into the study and saw Lu Mingyang still lying on the desk, flipping through books. He took the book from her hand and carried her to the inner room.

Lu Mingyang put his arm around his neck and asked, "Your Highness, why is he suddenly so nice to you?"

"If you want to destroy me, you must first drive me crazy?"

Lu Mingyang felt that what he said made sense. "You have to be more careful these days. Don't let him find any fault with you."

"understood."

Chu Mingzheng smiled, put Lu Mingyang on the bed, and began to undress.

Lu Mingyang blocked him dissatisfiedly: "I'm talking to you about serious matters."

"I have some serious business to attend to." Chu Mingzheng pressed forward. Lu Mingyang didn't understand why, even though they were an old married couple, she still blushed when she saw him like this.

"Didn't mother write to say that Xing'er's princess is pregnant? We don't need to be so anxious."

"No, I'm the eldest brother, I can't let him laugh at me about this."

"Who laughed at you?"

"you!"

"How do I... um..."

Damn it, he wouldn't even let me finish my words. Lu Mingyang obediently pulled the quilt over him while he still had the strength.

Everything went on as usual until the evening of September 8th, when Concubine Dowager Jing came to the Ningyuan Palace in person.

Lu Mingyang was surprised: "How did you get out?"

"There's no time to talk about that." Concubine Jing took out a piece of underwear with blood-stained sleeves and said, "Your Majesty is coughing up blood. Once a person coughs up blood, his end is near."

"That can't be!" Lu Mingyang was panicking: "Your Highness also coughed up blood before."

"Your Highness is pretending. How can he be the same as Your Majesty?"

"Yes!" If coughing up blood wasn't a symptom of impending death, the emperor wouldn't have let down his guard against him. Lu Mingyang asked Concubine Jing, "Your Majesty's death is imminent. Logically, you should suppress Your Highness. Why did you allow Your Highness to accompany the sacrifice and hint to the court officials?"

"This is indeed strange." Otherwise, Concubine Jing wouldn't have risked leaving the palace to report the news. However, she didn't dare to speculate and said, "Princess Ningyuan, I can't stay here for long. Please be careful."

After Concubine Jing left, Lu Mingyang hurried to the study.

In the study, Chu Mingzheng was looking over the procedures for tomorrow's sacrificial ceremony. It was incredibly complicated, one set after another. Lu Mingyang leaned against the desk and asked, "Your Highness, is it complicated?"

"You still have to remember it." Although he has been a prince for so many years, this is his first time to hold a sacrificial ceremony.

Lu Mingyang took the book and said, "Then I'll read it and you recite it."

Chu Mingzheng laughed: "Are you afraid that I'll make a fool of myself?"

"You carry it on your back." Lu Mingyang tapped him.

"Okay!" For years, he hadn't been like a child, testing himself. Chu Mingzheng finished his recitation and asked, "My wife, have I passed?"

Lu Mingyang smiled and nodded, then asked him, "There will be so many people tomorrow, how will they know you are the King of Ningyuan?"

"Clothes and hair ornaments. These are what people look at during important events like court meetings, sacrifices, and ceremonies."

Lu Mingyang said "Oh", put down the memorial, reached out and grabbed the front of his shirt, and flirted with him with a seductive look: "Your Highness."

Chu Mingzheng's body trembled, and he held the hand that was teasing him with grievance: "Yangyang, I have to leave at two quarters past three in the morning." Now he can sleep for less than two hours.

"Then I want to go too."

Chu Mingzheng laughed: "What time was it when you left?"

Sacrifices are performed separately by men and women, and women's worship is very simple.

"Just for a moment!" Lu Mingyang said coquettishly.

Chu Mingzheng shook his head.

"You go to sleep, I'll find someone else...ah..." Lu Mingyang left angrily.

Her feet suddenly left the ground, and when she came to her senses, she had fallen into Chu Mingzheng's arms.

"Who are you looking for?" Chu Mingzheng asked.

"What do you care?" Lu Mingyang snorted coldly.

"I see you don't want to get up." Chu Mingzheng carried the person into the inner room.

……

In the darkness, Lu Mingyang opened her eyes and looked at the man sleeping beside her. She pressed the sleep acupoint behind his ear. Although she didn't know what the emperor was going to do, she had a strong premonition.

All the prosperity of tomorrow is a trap, a trap that will doom Chu Mingzheng.

So, she could never let him go.

Lu Mingyang leaned over and kissed her greedy eyes.

"Your Highness, the time has come." Zheng Hao walked into the inner room, saw this scene, and hurriedly retreated.

"return!"

Lu Mingyang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, stood up and walked towards the clothes that symbolized his status, and said, "Put them on me."

Zheng Hao then realized that the princess wore her hair in a man's bun and even wore a man's style undergarment. He knelt hurriedly and said, "Princess, you are deceiving the emperor."

"I'm not afraid of deceiving the emperor, I'm only afraid that my husband will resent me." But even if he did, she couldn't let him go. Lu Mingyang ordered, "Hurry up, you can't afford to miss the time."

"Yes!" Zheng Hao had no choice but to obey the princess.

After Lu Mingyang put on his clothes, he said calmly, "Give His Highness some fever medicine. If anyone from the palace comes to ask, just say that His Highness has caught a cold and can't get out of bed."

Zheng Hao asked, "Princess, why do you do this?"

"Stop asking."

She knew the ritual process by heart. Lu Mingyang boarded the carriage and headed for the Imperial Ancestral Temple. In the darkness, no one could see her face clearly, but even if they could, no one wanted to cause trouble by stopping her and asking questions.

She rose step by step to the top of all officials.

The emperor stood on the platform of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, looking down upon the heavens, the earth, and his subjects. Lu Mingyang knelt with all the officials, shouting "Long live the emperor!"

The emperor offered sacrifices to his ancestors, and then King Ningyuan offered sacrifices to his ancestors.

Lu Mingyang lowered his head, walked up the stone steps, and walked towards the emperor standing on the platform.

The emperor wore a crown with twelve tassels, the crown worn by the crown prince and the prince wore a crown with nine tassels, and the crown worn by the prince of a county wore a crown with seven tassels. However, the emperor specially granted the prince of Ningyuan permission to wear a crown with nine tassels.

This undoubtedly hinted to all officials that after the sacrifice, Prince Ningyuan would be conferred the title of prince, or even crown prince.

Although he knew it was fake, the two extra strings of tassels were indeed much more convenient. Lu Mingyang lowered his head slightly, but the emperor didn't notice anything unusual. Perhaps, his mind wasn't on Chu Mingzheng at the moment.