"Come on Yu Ning, you want to go to Xuanwu Gate too, right?" Ming Ruo had already heard Princess Ning Ping's words and opened the car door himself.

Princess Ning Ping also wore a plain palace outfit today, wearing a black silver-edged felt cloak on the outside and a silver-wired phoenix hairpin on her head. She was obviously going to attend the winter ceremony.

"That's right." Princess Ningping didn't need anyone to help her, so she got into the car quickly, "Brother Nine Emperor, Sister Nine Emperor."

"Sit down quickly, is it cold?" Mingruo asked Princess Ningping to sit down.

"I wear a lot, not cold at all."

Madam Dong also got into the car, put the wontons in place, and brought the dishes and spoons.

"Do you want to try wontons? I'll serve you a bowl." Mingruo first served a small bowl and handed it to Si Haochen.

"No, no, no," Princess Ningping waved her hand, "I just finished eating and saw the guards in the mansion also came to buy wontons, so I followed her. Sister Jiu Huang should eat it quickly, it will be not delicious if it is cold."

"Okay." Mingruo asked Madam Dong to pour a cup of hot tea for Princess Ningping before she started eating wontons.

Princess Ningping carefully looked at the magnificent carriage. This was the exclusive car given to the Ninth Emperor Brother by the Emperor, and it looked unparalleled.

"By the way, did you come out alone?" Mingruo felt that Princess Ning Ping was wild, and every time she saw her, she always came alone.

"I am with my mother. Later, I was so hungry when I saw the wonton stall that I asked my brother to take me to eat wontons." Princess Ningping said with a flash of grace, and suddenly slapped her head, "Oh, my brother is still waiting for me next to the wonton stall!"

Mingruo rubbed his forehead and asked Xunyi to tell the prince Hong, saying that Princess Ningping had followed them.

Xunyi came back soon, and Si Tianhong rode his horse.

"Tianhong has met the Ninth Emperor's Brother and the Ninth Emperor's Sister-in-law." Si Tianhong bowed immediately.

"No gift." Si Haochen responded.

"Brother, you are here." Princess Ningping greeted Prince Hong through the glass window.

"Thank you for remembering your brother." Prince Hong felt distressed. He originally said that he would come back with his elder brother and sister-in-law, but this is gone forever.

"Haha." Princess Ning Ping smiled so hard.

The carriages are getting closer and closer to Xuanwu Gate, and there are more and more servants from various mansions, and there is a sense of bustling traffic.

In the mansion with a relatively low title, the carriage must be stopped at the entrance of the palace. Si Haochen's carriage can enter the palace directly, but there is no need to walk outside.

After getting off the carriage, a palace maid and eunuch came to guide the way. The male guest and the emperor attended the rituals on the south side of the altar, and the female guest and the queen attended the rituals on the north side.

"Go, I'll pick you up after the sacrifice is over." Si Haochen helped Ming Ruo take care of his cloak.

"Don't worry, Brother Ninth Emperor, I will be with my sister-in-law Ninth Emperor, and my mother is there." Princess Ningping took Mingruo's arm.

"Yes." Si Haochen nodded, watched Mingruo leave with the palace maid, and then took Prince Hong to the South Palace.

Before the ceremony began, everyone was waiting in the hall. Although there were many cages, the main hall was too wide and the doors and windows were not tight, and the temperature inside and outside the hall was not much different.

"Where are you going to make trouble again?" Princess Duanze is a middle-aged beauty who looks quite majestic, but her eyebrows are very soft and she doesn't look like a difficult person to get along with.

"Mother, I came with the ninth emperor sister-in-law, so I didn't make any noise." Princess Ningping immediately became a good-looking little daughter when she saw her mother.

Princess Duanze grabbed Mingruo's hand and said, "Yu Ning is spoiled by me, causing trouble for Qinghuang."

"You are polite, Yu Ning is very good. Thanks to her here, I am not bored." Mingruo replied with a smile.

"Just don't bother you, let's sit here for a while." Princess Duanze pulled Ming Ruo down, and the two of them chatted about irrelevant gossip.

Because Prince Duanze and Mingruo have very high seniority, there are endless people coming to pay their respects. Prince Duanze has chosen good character and introduced a few words to Mingruo, and the atmosphere is quite warm.

Until the Eighth Princess came over with a veil, everyone around her felt that her temper was weird and slightly dispersed.

She first gave the courtesy manner before she asked inadvertently: "I wonder if the gift Mingyu gave to the emperor, does the emperor still like it?"

"I like it very much, I wear it often." Mingruo smiled and his eyebrows were curved, "Princess Ping is intent."

"Wear?" The eighth princess frowned. The balm she gave was a disfigurement that would stop using it. This idiot shouldn't have applied it to her face and just put it on her incense balls. "I gave it to her, and I'm using a good cream for wiping her face."

"Princess Ping remembered the wrong thing." Ming Ruo lifted up his sleeves, and a few circles of crystal clear tourmaline beads were wrapped around his snow-white wrist. Not only was the color bright and transparent, but it looked very valuable at first glance. "You gave me a string of tourmaline Buddhist beads."

"Ah!" The Eighth Princess was shocked. Isn't this the Buddhist beads she gave to the Queen Mother? How could it be on Xiaojiu's hands? The Buddhist beads and balm were put into brocade boxes by her own hands. The two boxes she used were very different, so she would never make a mistake. Before the Eighth Princess could figure out what the problem was, she thought of something even more terrible - if the two gifts were mixed up, the Queen Mother received the balm...

"The Empress is here." The eunuch's sharp voice came, and the originally noisy hall suddenly became quiet.

Everyone saluted the queen one after another. The queen raised her hand, and the eunuch beside her said again: "Don't give me a gift~ I'm calm~"

There were sounds of bells and drums outside, and the women and noble ladies stood in order according to the ranks and entered the altar under the guidance of the queen.

Amid the drum music, he recited a long passage of blessing. If it weren't for the fact that it was a bit cold outside, Mingruo would have thought he would have fallen asleep. About half an hour later, with the sound of a clear bell, he entered the incense stage.

The female official lit the incense line and handed it to Mingruo. Mingruo bowed three times as Princess Duanze next to her, and then handed it to the female official, who then inserted the incense into the incense burner.

After all the noble ladies and noble ladies had incense, the winter ceremony was welcomed. Everyone respectfully sent the queen Fengjia to leave and slowly headed to Qianqiu Palace where the vegetarian banquet was opened.

Qianqiu Palace is closer to Xuanhe Gate, and it will take a long way to walk through Xuanwu Gate.

When the queen left, she arranged a sedan chair for Princess Duanze. Princess Ningping was still struggling whether to invite Ninth Emperor Sister to join them, and then she saw that Ninth Emperor’s carriage arrived.

"Brother Ninth Emperor is here to pick up Ninth Emperor's sister-in-law." Princess Ningping made a face at Mingruo.

"You're talking too much." Princess Duanze patted Princess Ningping's back of her hand.

"Mother, it hurts." Princess Ningping rubbed the back of her hand.

"See you later." As a modern person, Mingruo would naturally not be joking by Princess Ning Ping.

"Yeah." Princess Ningping nodded repeatedly.

Mingruo walked to the carriage, and Si Haochen reached out and held her up: "Are you cold?"
Chapter completed!