Chapter 322: When the enemy comes, we will stop him; when the water comes, we will block it with earth.

In the following days, Manluo asked Xiyan to come and talk to Jiang Jingyue more often when she had nothing to do. This would help stimulate her brain and awaken her consciousness as soon as possible.

"Mother, please try this medicine..."

She lifted Jiang Jingyue up half an inch, gently pried open her teeth with a silver spoon, and poured the medicine into her mouth bit by bit.

"Mother, after fifteen years of separation, I am finally back. Please wake up and open your eyes to look at your daughter. I miss you so much..."

For Xiyan, being able to return to her father and relatives is already a blessing from God.

She cherishes her present happiness immensely and only hopes that her mother will wake up soon so that the family can live together in harmony and away from the past right and wrong.

Xie Zhen showed great importance to the recovery of his beloved daughter.

He ordered the Ministry of Rites to draw up a ceremonial program, add Princess Zhaoning's name and the time of her return to the imperial court to the imperial edict, and issue an imperial decree to announce it to the world:

"In the autumn of the twenty-fifth year of the Jingping reign, the Emperor offered sacrifices to Heaven in the Taimiao and declared: 'The Imperial Princess Tian has returned to the throne by the Mandate of Heaven, a blessing to the Southern Zhao. She has been entered into the Imperial Book of Records.'"

What followed was a grand ceremony to worship the heavens.

On this day, the Nanzhao Imperial City was dyed into a sea of ​​​​rosy clouds by the petals flying all over the sky.

When the gilded phoenix carriage slowly drove out of Lingwu Gate, the onlookers' exclamations almost overturned the glazed tiles.

Princess Zhaoning Xie Tian, ​​also known as Xiyan, sat upright on a soft couch woven with nine phoenix brocade in the carriage.

She wore a scarlet gown embroidered with double phoenix patterns in gold, overlaid with a lilac-colored light smoke gauze blouse. The cuffs were embroidered with lotus flowers in silver thread, which shimmered in the sunlight. Her hair was adorned with a phoenix-shaped hairpin inlaid with red gold and kingfisher feathers. A pigeon-blood ruby ​​hung from her forehead, reflecting off her skin, which was more translucent than the finest mutton-fat jade.

The specially made spiral ink for the imperial ministry made her eyebrows look like distant mountains covered in dark black. Under her crow-feather-like eyelashes, her almond-shaped eyes were wrapped in moisture, and her gaze seemed to be filled with flowing clouds. It even made the most skilled painter in depicting beauties in the imperial city forget to hold his brush for a moment.

"How can he be such a scoundrel!" someone in the crowd whispered.

"Princess Zhaoning of our Nanzhao is clearly the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady who has descended to the mortal world!"

These words attracted the approval of the people around, and countless eyes followed the beautiful princess up the stone steps of the Taimiao.

The golden phoenix embroidered on the hem of her robe seemed to be flapping its wings as if ready to fly in the sunlight, and every step she took was glittering with color.

When she knelt before the ancestral tablets in the Taimiao, half of the civil and military officials in the court were dumbfounded. They forgot to perform the ritual of three kneelings and nine kowtows, and were only focused on watching how a strand of black hair slipped from her hair and brushed against the gilded animal patterns on the altar as she kowtowed.

After that day, rumors spread in the streets of Nanzhao that the Princess Zhaoning, who had just returned to the court, was a beauty of heaven, a peerless beauty, with a glance that could shatter jade and a smile that could melt snow.

Such grace and beauty should be a good omen for the Southern Zhao, so how can it be considered a monster?

Everyone in Nanzhao was immersed in joy. Even Manluo was happy for her good sister.

Only Xiyan was feeling uneasy.

She understood what her father and grandmother were thinking. Such a grand ceremony was only to give her supreme honor, to compensate for everything she had lost, and to restore her identity as Princess Nan Zhao under the watchful eyes of the public.

She was moved and grateful, but also nervous.

Although Nan Zhao was thousands of miles away from Yandu, she was still worried that the man who was thousands of miles away and had a large army under his command would become suspicious.

If he knew that she was in Nanzhao, given his personality, he would definitely not let it go.

So, did her return to Nanzhao bring blessing or disaster to Nanzhao?

However, Emperor Xie Zhen of Nanzhao did not care.

He comforted Xi Yan:

"What are you afraid of, Tian'er? Are you worried that Xiao Nanyan will lead his troops south?"

The emperor's palm rested on the back of her cold hand, which was covered with calluses from years of holding a sword.

"You are my father's daughter, why do you have to hide your identity? If Xiao Nanyan didn't come to find you, my father would have wanted to find him. How dare he treat my daughter so badly? You have lived such a hard life in the past eight years, walking on thin ice, all because of him. What's worse, he actually..."

Xie Zhen glanced at Xiyan's slightly bulging belly:

"Father is still looking for an opportunity to vent your anger. When the enemy comes, we will fight him; when the water comes, we will block it with earth. Xiyan, father does not want to hide your identity and let you stay in Nanzhao without knowing the reason."

Xiyan's slender hands subconsciously fell on her lower abdomen.

Now, the baby in the belly is four months old. I just returned to Nanzhao a while ago. Without a few days of rest, I went to southern Xinjiang to collect herbs. After coming back, I exorcised the poison and cured my mother's illness. In addition, I have survived the discomfort of the early stage of pregnancy reaction. I have been eating well and sleeping well recently. I was so busy that I forgot to deal with this matter, and it has been delayed until now.

The four-month-old fetus was growing very fast, and her originally flat belly was already slightly bulging. If she delayed any further, she might not be able to get pregnant.

So, she finally made up her mind and secretly gave orders to the Imperial Hospital to prepare a dose of abortion medicine without telling her father and brother.

Since you want to completely break up with Xiao Nanyue, you can't keep this child.