Feng Ru Ai's
Chapter 26

Luxurious trains from the royal residence, government officials and military officials were queuing in front of the main gate of MingQi palace.

The coronation ceremony was held in the courtyard of the main hall of the spacious MingQi palace. Just counting the hours, all the series of coronation ceremonies will be held and witnessed by honorable businessmen, government officials and military who are very lucky to be able to attend the coronation ceremony.

Many residents of the capital MingQi gathered in front of the gate to watch the luxurious trains pass in front of them. There was not much they did but chuckle in admiration as noble families or the families of government officials and military officials descended from their chariots and entered the luxurious MingQi palace.

In addition to the admiration ejected from their mouths, no doubt they also hurl words of envy over the clothes and jewelry of the mistress or young lady they wear.

"How fortunate they were to witness the coronation ceremony of the emperor"

"I don't really like parties or other ceremonies. I'm sure it'll be boring in there. It's just that I envy those who dress beautifully and luxuriously. If I had been in their position"

"I'm the same as you. I don't like boring parties. But even if I didn't like it, if I had the luck like they were attending the coronation ceremony, I would definitely come because I just love eating fancy food and of course free"

Too many words of admiration and envy that the residents of MingQi said. Too much to make the atmosphere in front of the gate of MingQi palace so noisy.

Just like the atmosphere outside the main gate of the palace, in the courtyard of the main hall the eunuchs and the ladies began to rush to complete the preparation of the coronation ceremony. Their rapid movements even the sounds of shouting and discussion or debate between eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting are now the setting.

Panic struck the eunuchs and maids. The new show will start in a few hours. But the guests have already arrived. Even the preparations for the coronation ceremony had not even been completed. The main courtyard of the palace hall still looked messy. In addition, luxury food dishes are not even available. But the guests have come to fill the seats - chairs lined up in accordance with the rank of each official.

Guests who dominate the courtyard are government officials. They need not be surprised that the most eager to attend the coronation ceremony are the supporters of prince Rong who will soon ascend the throne. Clenching their heads slowly while clearing their minds. Because the longer they think of the enthusiastic supporters of Prince Rong, the slower they finish their work.

The eunuchs and maids began to speed up their movement of finishing the decorations in the courtyard of the palace hall. Moreover, the sun is rising to the peak and the coronation event will be held soon. In the end they were able to breathe a sigh of relief as the decoration had finished coinciding with the fullness of the seats present in the courtyard of the main hall. The chairs had been occupied by MingQi royal officials along with their families.

After checking that the preparation for the coronation ceremony had been completed, the eunuchs and maids were finally able to take a short break as their current duties were completed. They will return to work after the coronation ceremony is over, as that time will enter the lunch session.

The atmosphere of the main hall courtyard is increasingly crowded with chat officials or office mistresses. Ai who sat with Fan Hua on the right side preferred to be quiet even though her mother was currently chatting with the Mistress of the Lim family. Ai leaned her back on the head of the chair, she felt very bored and sleepy at the same time.

"Why so long? If it's like this, I shouldn't have to come" dumel Ai who can be heard well by Fan Hua.

Fan Hua stopped chatting with mistress Lim, she now turned her head and looked at her daughter who displayed a sour face with pouting lips but looked adorable in the eyes of the woman who gave birth to her. It was actually not just Fan Hua who was feeling anxious with Ai, though, but the other guests especially the young men who could not afford to not glance twice at the petite beautiful figure sitting among the Feng military family also approved of Fan Hua's thought.

"Didn't the great general's daughter Holing look so adorable with such a pouting face?" Asked the young man in the seat of a row of government officials who faced the seat of military officials separated by a street that went straight to the terrace and main hall of MingQi palace.

"You're right. How lucky the man who married her later" replied the young man beside her.

In the middle of their conversation about the daughter of General Holing who stole the attention of many young men. There were many young ladies who were unhappy about the praise - the praise that the young men made for Feng Ru Ai. Other than the young ladies who were unhappy and envious of Ai, behind the entourage of officials was a figure of a man with a straw hood and mingling with the people feeling displeased with the gazes of the youths who admired Ai. Their gazes were so deep and intense and it made the man unhappy.

"After this, Ben Gong won't let them admire Ben Gong's woman"

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An hour has passed. But the royal family has not attended the coronation ceremony. I don't know what's going on. What was clear was that at this moment Ai started to curse the royal family in her heart because of them, she had to be caught in this kind of boring and annoying atmosphere.

Several times Ai yawned, several times she rubbed her eyes and tried to stay awake. If only his father's seat was not in the front row, Ai might have fallen asleep.

However, after he was trapped and returned to the past. Ai quietly studied manners and everything related to the young lady of the nation including learning 4 arts without anyone's knowledge. Although Ai is quite good at calligraphy art, but in MingQi young noble lady must be smart at least 2 of the 4 arts. In addition to young lady bagsawan must be good at 2 arts, they also have to be good at managing finances so that later when they marry a young master of the noble class as equals will not get reproach or gossip from the husband's family or outsiders.

"Huaayammmhp!"

There were some people quite surprised by what Ai did. Because for children who are left far away by their mothers on the battlefield will usually behave bar bar and also rude. But in their eyes the daughter of General Holing is different. He seems very educated in manners and ethics. Of course what they saw was clearly very different from what they had imagined.

The daydreams of some people who noticed Ai suddenly collapsed when a large drum at the beat of the hammer - taru. The loud, loud noise generated jolted and resuscitated everyone who was in the courtyard of the main hall of MingQi palace. When the drum stopped producing a sound, a eunuch standing at the side gate that was the barrier between the main hall and other buildings then shouted loudly and loudly.

"Her Majesty the emperor and his highness the empress have arrived...."

Hearing the eunuch's announcement, everyone stood up from their seats and began to bow until the emperor Wei and empress Lien occupied their respective thrones. The moment both the higher-ups and the MingQi ruler had occupied their seats. Government and military officials also returned to their seats.

After all the officials sat down, the Wei emperor stood up and gave a word before the coronation ceremony. After giving a speech that was only a few lines, the Wei emperor sat back down and raised his wine cup while inviting his officials toast and drink wine together. Everyone was now sipping their wine except for the ladies and young ladies who only drank their tea.

While drinking tea, Ai occasionally glanced at emperor Wei and empress Lien. When the tail of Ai's eyes looked at Empress Lien who seemed so proud with her great clothes and thick makeup and all the luxurious jewelry she wore somehow made Ai's heart feel pain. Ai felt as if - her heart would be squeezed strong.

This was not the first time I felt it. He also felt the same way when he met Prince Rong at a noodle shop in the capital MingQi some time ago. The feeling of dislike that was dominated by hatred made Ai involuntarily squeeze the cup strong until her nails whitened.

There was a very difficult anger for Ai to describe when she saw Empress Lien or her son. I don't know why he doesn't like them both. As Ai knew, from the mass memories she had bestowed from the Creator the ruler of destiny, time and the universe. He had no problem that made him hate both of them to this point.

"Ai'er.. What are you doing? It was impolite to stare at her noble consort Lien like that" Fan Hua reprimanded at her daughter in a very low voice but was able to be heard very well by Ai

Ai blinked her eyes. His consciousness was forcibly gathered as his mother's voice broke his daydreams and thoughts. Now Ai then immediately lowered her head and became indifferent to the surrounding. Luckily both Empress Lien and the invited guests were unaware of Ai's gaze which seemed very presumptuous. If they realized it or empress Lien realized it, I don't know what Ai would face.

Maybe Ai got a reprimand, maybe also got a punishment. Ai's second opinion of the sense that he would get from his presumptuous attitude. Moreover, from the memories of the past, Empress Lien was extremely cruel and violent.

Ai breathed a tired sigh. He always forgets that he is in a place where the rules are very strict. Offending the more powerful, the death penalty awaits them. If in the future they are most - most just jailed or pay a fine. But in the past one's life seemed - something trivial and trivial.

"Ai'er... Why are you staring at the empress like that? You want to be punished?" Fan Hua asked in a soft voice yet there was a lot of pressure on every word she threw out.

"I don't know!"

Fan Hua let out a heavy sigh. At the stroke of Ai's head with affection. His actions clearly warmed and quieted the turbulent flames in Ai's heart. I don't know why he likes his mother's little deeds that sometimes make him calm and comfortable. Maybe because he had been lacking love. Therefore even a simple thing like this feels very luxurious and valuable to him.

"Next time don't do it. I don't want you to be scolded, beaten or punished by someone else. You know son, you were born in Mom's womb. I'm obviously not willing if someone else hurts you"

Fan Hua's words warmed Ai's heart. I want to feel Ai crying at this moment. But all his intentions instantly evaporated as the eunuch again shouted and announced the arrival of someone.

"Your highness prince Rong and prince Yan have arrived...!"

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TB

December 8th, 2019