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EPISODE 137 GRAIL OF THE COVENANT WINE

In that grand hall, all of a sudden stood up as His Majesty stood looking at a queen's palanquin arriving at the end of the main hall's kumala staircase.

Then holding his breath, His Majesty watched Xiao Yi descend from there, the beautiful woman was dressed in such a beautiful and heroic manner.

Xiao Yi was wearing a heart-red robe in tune with the color of His Majesty's robe.

Because Xiao Yi was adopted as the consort of a low-level concubine, they had to be re-enacted in an official marriage, even though the king had married her but did not go through a grand ceremony. That's why Xiao Yi was dressed in a hong-bearing robe with brocade embroidered with gold thread patterned with clouds and rolls of waves and gold pomegranates which all had their own symbolic understanding of a queen and the king's wife.

Xiao Yi's hair was raised high and on the top of his head was a crown of hongs, and was decorated with dozens of skewers of konde and buyao sparkling in pure gold like peacock tails.

With a belly that seemed to grow as if he was telling a great greatness in his responsibility behind his clothes, there was an heir to the throne who was breathing for the time to come out.

The queen's dress, which is also a bridal dress, is embroidered with various silvery-white, golden-yellow threads and cloud paintings along the shirt are embroidered with dark purple and orange threads.

All the jewelry she wore was of number one emerald, the best sapphire and jade.

Nothing beats Xiao Yi's beauty this somber morning.

Xiao Yi walked gracefully, but his head was raised straight. Only the tail of his eyes could steal a glance at the row behind the nobles. There was his father master Xiao Xie, his mother and his two older brothers Xiao ce and Xiao Ying.

He had heard of their arrival the day before as the king's honored guests, although they did not sit in the row of the main guests but Xiao Yi was happy.

The place where his parents were occupied by Governor Qian Lie and his wife, as guardians and adoptive father who had made him able to enter the palace as a concubine.

Behind her walked Chu Cu, who in the first time was groomed as the main lady-in-waiting, her clothes were of white linen with an imperceptible embroidery of small flowers. Her slender waist was tied to a belt of light purple stiff cloth, her hair was styled with a silver buyao tucked there.

Xiao Yi did not want a tall lady-in-waiting or to hold the end of his long robe. He only wanted Chu Cu to escort him to the queen's throne, his servant and friend from childhood.

Next to Chu Cu walked the bodyguard of Cun, who became his special bodyguard. He was not as dark black-black as usual but was now walking gallantly in the clothes of the military guards.

Everyone refrained from clucking in admiration at Xiao Yi's appearance today. She deserves to stand as the king's queen.

His Majesty stepped down from his throne to welcome Xiao Yi, the two of them met in front of the Lotus table in the middle of the hall.

The Prime Minister, as an elder and adviser to the king, stood up from his place while unscrewing a scroll of information handed over by eunuch Chen.

Everyone stood in their place, hearing the letter read aloud, he said,

Day twenty-eight month nine, the,

In the city of Yubei, the capital of the Yanzhi kingdom,

His Highness Yan Yue the son of king Yan Houcun and empress Xu Jiao would take a consort of her furen to become the chief consort, under oath of allegiance to always be the queen consort of the king until the end of his life and keep the good name of the glorious Yanzhi King, the good name of Weiyan Palace and the good name of the great Yanzhi kingdom.

Consort Yi will assume the title of chief consort of Xiao Yi and in a state of affairs become Queen Yi Her Majesty.

The edict was finished and everyone bowed down and bowed to His Majesty who was taking wine from the large cup on the lotus table with a large silver spoon.

Xiao Yi stared unstuckly at the wine inside the large silver spoon, it should be that if it was poisonous then the wine would immediately change color upon coming into contact with the silver.

But strangely enough, the wine spoon did not change color at all. He remains red, as red as the color of blood.

Everyone lowered their heads solemnly before then standing up to watch the king's consort drink the wine of the covenant that would be bestowed on himself by the king of Yanzhi, her husband, His Majesty Yan Yue.

The Queen Mother looked tensely waiting for the moment when the ambush signal against the king and all his supporters who were centered in the hall occurred.

The rebels, in bodyguard clothing infiltrated by deputy commander Zhao Juren, had been scattered everywhere, ready to deliver weapons if they had been marked.

Next to the empress, Zhao Juren stood with an even more tense face. He knew Xiao Yi had received the letter he had sent. He hoped that Xiao Yi would not drink the wine, because if he drank it then no one could resist death coming to snatch a piece of his life.

"As a form of covenant of a consort bound by faithfulness not only to her husband but also to the country led by her husband, Empress Xiao Yi will drink the wine of the covenant given by Her Majesty Yan Yue, the king of the great country Yanzhi." The prime minister opened his hand to invite His Majesty to drink the wine he had now poured from a silver spoon led in a small glass cup.

Xiao Yi stared pushyly, at the wine so red in the glass cup, alternating with him staring at His Majesty's face.

There was a sudden amount of doubt implied in his eyes.

For a moment he spread his gaze around the grand hall that was suddenly silent like a grave.

She really didn't know why everyone was holding their breath, how many sincere people wanted her to be His Majesty's consort, but he had no more idea how many were holding their breath now hoping to watch him die.

His Majesty gave the cup to Xiao Yi while smiling at the woman he loved.

Xiao Yi greeted him with trembling hands, his long, red nails, at the edge of the mouth of the cup, holding it tightly.

"Before I drink this wine..."Suddenly xiao Yi made a sound, he spoke in a loud voice but was very dignified.

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