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神殿内—Within the Temple

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This might not be a relevant question, but the internet has not been very helpful, so I'm willing to try my luck here. What are the treasures given to the Empress (most prominently seen in Ruyi, I suppose)? I know the edict and seal are two of them, but there seem to be more carried behind her whenever she uses the sedan and also some plaques of gold? At this point, any insight you could offer would be greatly appreciated!

The treasures given to the Empress includes:

jinbao 金宝 - the Empress’ seal. Others from the rank of fei and up also have their own seal but they are called 印 yin and not 宝 which literally means treasure. 

jince 金冊 - proclamation book. When titles are bestowed, the proclamation is recorded on golden tablets as a record, and in the Qing dynasty, these proclamation books are written in Manchu, Han, Mongolian, and Tibetan. This is why the proclamation ceremony are called cefeng. When the Step Empress was disgraced, Qianlong recalled both her Empress’ seal and the jince from her promotions to ranks of fei, gui fei, huang gui fei, and huang hou. 

These are the items that Li Yu tried to return to Ruyi in the drama at the end but she refused to take them back.

Ruyi also gets given a bunch of other stuff which makes up her guard of honour/procession later:

Which is basically all the stuff these people are carrying here:

The procession/guard of honour is basically just a show of status and the number of people/items they carry vary according to rank but generally includes various combinations of things like umbrella, fans, incense burners, gold vases, incense boxes, spittoons, basins, stools, gold cross-legged chairs, etc - i.e. to prove you have enough servants to just carry these things you may or may not need for a stroll down the lane. 

They definitely had more stuff when going out on longer trips. Here's a Chinese reference that lists things in full if you want muddle through some machine translation.

The name for the procession vary according to rank too:

仪驾 yijia - ceremonial procession of the emperor, empress, empress dowager

仪仗 yizhang - ceremonial procession for imperial noble consort and noble consort

采仗 caizhang - ceremonial procession for imperial concubine (pin) and consort 

(By the way, we must have gotten at least 5 asks over the years about the procession of honour and just been putting off answering any of them because the details are too complicated and requires too much brain power to detail. Here’s your short answer to anyone who ever asked this.) 

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A nasal organoid system reveals enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases that regulate the extracellular matrix – the network of molecules surrounding cells – play essential role in determining the fate of airway lining cells (epithelium)

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With A Flap of Wings, part 3

(warning for discussion of suicide at the end)

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With the assistance of Nie Jinghe's infamous puppy eyes, Nie Xunyao has just succeeded in dragging his two older cousins out of the sparring round for dinner when his uncle blows past, visibly stressed. 

All four of the kids trade looks, then follow, curiosity outweighing hunger. 

"Diedie?" Nie Jinghe asks as they poke their heads into the door of his office. 

"What happened? Has someone been attacked?" Nie Mingjue adds. 

Nie Haoran looks up from the knot of talisman papers he is hurriedly weaving together and smiles, but it is so painfully forced that Nie Xunyao can't help shuddering and even Nie Jinghe looks uneasy at it. 

"Nothing the lot of you need to worry about," he says, and if his expression is unconvincing, his effort at sounding cheerful is almost insulting in how blatantly fake it is. "Shouldn't you be at dinner already?" 

"Jue-ge and Hui-ge wanted to break their sparring draw first, yizhang," Nie Xunyao says. 

"Fair enough. But you should get going before the kitchen aunties form a search party for you." 

With some apprehension and a lot of questions left to ask, they hesitantly edge away from the door to do as told, but not before Nie Xunyao recognizes what his uncle is making. 

It's a long-distance emergency summons. 

—

The question of whom the summons was for is answered the next morning when Nie Zonghui spots the figure in white and blue robes approaching from the south. 

Lan Qiren flies right past the fortress, but it's easy to pinpoint where he descends. 

Xinglu Ridge. 

Nie Xunyao checks with his mother and learns that his aunts hadn't come back the night before, and Nie Mingjue can't find his father, which means they must already be up there themselves. 

"If they wanted us to be involved, they would have asked us to come," his mother points out gently, but he can see that she is worried as well. 

They decide to go.

They have traveled halfway up the path to the family tombs when Nie Zonghui quietly signals a stop, then points up into the trees. 

"Go home, He-mei!" Nie Mingjue calls without even having to look, and there's a rustling in the leaves before his little sister tumbles down from the branches with an indignant scowl. 

"I wanna know what's going on too!" 

"You're too little to go up to the ridge!" 

"Am not!"

Meng Shi loudly clears her throat to cut into the argument. "He-er, come here. Hold my hand, there's a good girl. Now, then, you will stay with me and be my guard while everyone's gone, hm?" 

Nie Xunyao has to look away to hide a smile at the way his little cousin's scowl doubles in ferocity at the realization she's been had. "I'll send down a note as soon as we know what's happening," he promises his mother, then he and Nie Mingjue and Nie Zonghui resume their hike towards the family tomb.

—

They can hear the music and sense the swirling waves of spiritual pressure before they reach the treeline. Nie Mingjue is acutely aware that he couldn't identify any of the Lan songs by ear even at sword-point, but it doesn't feel like a banishment song. 

Indeed, when they peek around one of the trees, the ghost struggling in the grip of Lan-xiansheng's music isn't fading or being dispersed. Hands wrapped around his own throat, he seems instead to be fighting a command to... 

A broken sob takes his attention away from the spectacle and he looks over to find that his mother and father are practically carrying er-niang, her hands over her mouth as all three- 

-wait. 

He looks more closely at er-niang's stricken expression, then back at the ghost trapped in Lan-xiansheng's spellsong. 

It can't be... 

It can’t be... 

The ghost is too old. 

A full-grown adult. 

But as he stares, transfixed by the tears streaming down the ghost's face and disappearing like steam as soon as they drip from his skin, he can see-

The ghost’s desperate attempts to break free fail, the musical command shattering the last of his defenses. Still clutching at his neck, he drops to his knees with an anguished howl that doesn't reach their ears, but seems to tear through Nie Mingjue’s soul.

He suddenly finds himself assaulted with a wave of dozens –hundreds– of emotions all at once and it's like taking a direct kick from a horse. 

And he knows- 

He knows-

"Didi..." he gasps just before he collapses in an unconscious heap.

—

When Nie Mingjue snaps awake, it's under a smothering blanket of panic. His breath wheezing in his chest, he tries to lunge to his feet and tumbles out of the bed he hadn't realized he was in. Strong familiar hands catch him by the shoulders before he can meet the floor with his face, but at the sight of his mother, the panic only doubles. 

"You can't- you can't banish the ghost, you can’t-" 

"Breathe, Jue-er. No one's banishing him," his mother says soothingly as she lifts him up and pushes him back into bed. "We're not exactly sure yet what we will be doing with him, but banishment is definitely not going to be in the plan." 

Relief washes over him, dousing the fear so quickly that, for a moment, his very bones might as well have turned to jelly. His mother presses a cup of water into his hand and he gladly gulps it down while he gathers his nerve for the question that's going to hurt no matter what answer she gives. 

"Lan-xiansheng confirms that our ghost is Sang-er," she says softly before he can ask, having always been able to read him like a child's book. 

He nods shakily, grateful that she has spared him from having to force the words out. "Did... did he say why Sang-di is... like that?" he asks instead, unsure whether he's asking why his baby brother who never was is grown, or why he is dead, or both. 

The expression that flickers across his mother's face is a complicated mix of emotions and, for a moment, he thinks she might refuse to tell him. He's all set to argue that he's old enough to know when she sighs deeply and rubs her eyes. 

"It's... As I'm sure you're already aware, Sang-er didn't exactly reply to Inquiry in words, so making sense of it all has been difficult. As best as Master Lan can figure, something caused Sang-er's soul to have a prophetic vision." 

Nie Mingjue frowns. "He wasn't even born yet, how-?" 

"We don't know. We might not ever know, because he's trying to shut us out again." She reaches out and gently pets his hair, and her face softens in a sadness that has him bracing himself for the worst news possible. 

"A-niang... tell me." 

"Whatever Sang-er saw, it convinced him that his birth would bring a chain of disasters down on the sect. On our family. So he stopped it from happening." 

The bracing didn’t help. Nie Mingjue feels the bed seemingly drop out from under him. 

His brother... had killed himself? Before he'd even had a chance to live? 

These disasters... had Nie Huaisang somehow known Nie Mingjue’s feelings about having a younger sibling… that he hadn’t wanted one? Would that have been part of it? Would they have grown up resenting each other… or worse? Would- 

The cloth of his mother’s sleeve carefully swiping his cheek brings him back to reality and makes him aware that there are tears dripping down his face. 

"A-niang, I- I have to go talk to him. I have to."

“In time, Jue-er. I promise he won’t be going anywhere. For now, you have to rest.”

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[Discreetly married RenCheng, chaos discovery]

RenCheng | Mo Dao Zu Shi Modern AU 31-05-2022

[married #rencheng, modern sett., chaos >:3]

Jiang Cheng and Lan Qiren are both rather discreet men. One because he grew up with everything he did compare to others, the other because this is simply how he grew up.

This is probably why it wasn't all that surprising for lqr and jc to marry in such a discreet way, without officially telling anyone. They want it to be small and intimate, they knew both their family would have blown it out of proportion.

(they were also very aware of the rather large age gap too, there was no need to add to it).

The only ones present were little a-ling and little a-yi. Jl had fallen into shared custody between him and jgy after the unfortunate demise of his sister and brother-in-law.

ljy had been adopted by lqr somewhere at the beginning of their relationship, jc more than happy to help raise the little boy.

Their wedding was small, but having these two young boys with them was enough.

Afterwards they never really made anything official aside from documents. They didn't hide it either, they were simply discreet men who kept the intimacy for when they were alone at home, away from prying eyes.

They would both tell people how much they loved their husbands when asked, sharing a little house where they took care of ljy and jl. They went to events together, and people never questioned it.

Then chaos happened one evening when the Jade's brother and wwx came over for dinner.

lwj was asked to go get something upstairs for lqr and wwx decided to follow along, being a little snoopy since lqr never allowed him to go about freely in his house ("unfair, a-cheng can do it though 😤").

And slowly wwx started to realise that many of the things he found around the house belonged to his chengcheng?

Was his a-cheng cheating on his husband with lqr😱?! Even lwj frown, looking unsure if his own uncle was really cheating on his husband with jc.

cue wgxn running back downstair, their mission forgotten as they joined people back in the living room.

"A-cheng!? You are cheating on your husband?!" suddenly accused wwx cue jc looking at him all "???" because last time he checked he never did anything with anyone else than lqr, at least not since he started being with him.

"I didn't think shushu would do such a thing," lwj said, sounding disappointed.

this led to the four people in the living room being even more confused. "What are you even talking about?" jc ends up asking wwx.

"I found your thing scattered around the house" ("You snooped around?😑") "a-cheng you cannot do that to your husband!?".

silence follows wwx statement, the brother and wwx looking tense and apprehensive of knowing what exactly is going on.

"My things are "scattered" all over the house because 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 my house" jc points out, lqr shaking his head with a sigh.

this only made the trio even more confused. Since when? this led to lxc and wwx asking questions to their respective family member, clearly confused.

"They are married, you dumbass" jl ended up pointing out ("language" jc scolded after).

This left the trio gaping at the news, looking at the little family as if they all had grown a few other heads.

"Since when!!!!" wwx quickly asked

"You never told me" lxc frowned

"🤨??"

"I told you I was married" lqr said before drinking some tea

"I did too" simply shrugged jc, "Not my fault you never asked to who or didn't figure out in the past ten years"

"Ten years!!"

"yes ten years" ljy smirked, going to the corner table where stood a couple of frames. "Look at how small we were the day they got married" he added while bringing the frame with him.

"It's not our fault you never realised jiujiu was literally living with his husband, why did you me and jiujiu were always here when you came over?" jl asked, before a grin also spread over his lips, "Why we were always by yizhang side when going to a diner or other events"

"And when a-die couldn't pick me up when I was sick, it was Baba who came to pick me up" ljy commented "I even called jiang cheng baba in front of you more than once" the teen pointed out.

"Wei Ying, you were literally invited with lan wangji to our tenth-year anniversary last month" jc pointed out. they had gone for a nice dinner in a fancy restaurant and had invited the 3 men.

Silence came again as the Jade brother and wwx seemed to be slowly reviewing the past ten years, and from the look of it, they were also slowly finding more and more occurrences where everything made more sense knowing they were married.

the silence was broken when a melody started to play, jc looked down at his phone.

"Ah, food is ready," he said while standing up, "I'll need both your help," he said towards the two young men who followed after him.

jl and ljy both looked rather smug about all this. They had known for so long and had seen how happy the couple had been all these years without people bothering them. They were the ones who had been there ten years ago!

jl even stuck his tongue out to wwx, the man who claimed to know everything about his jiujiu but hadn't even figured out who his husband was all this time.

Later, the diner was served and a conversation started between the little family as if the event of earlier hadn't happened.

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(that was pretty fun to write really, rencheng being a happily married couple for ten years and the people close to them none the wiser about it (maybe jgy had his own suspicious or had figured it out)

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So uhhh… Imma just drop this and run

A-Yuan grew up without a mother.

Disciples from other sects try to be mean about him for it, but those from YunmengJiang fights them back for it. It was not his fault, his fellow disciples would say, that they are just jealous that he was practically the heir to two major sects.

‘Your father despises you,’ a particularly mean spirited disciple from MolingSu had jeered at him, ‘because you killed your mother! That is why you’re named Wei Yuan rather than Lan Yuan!’

It was not his fault, his yima and jiujiu sighs in the privacy of their halls. As they wipe the tears that he had shed behind closed doors and holds him close to their hearts. A-yuan takes comfort from these, but the rhythm was just off. It was too calm, too steady, not fluttering beats that it had been in his dreams.

His dreams is where his A-niang lives, singing him a lullaby as he strokes his hair. His father accompanies him with the qin, his deep voice harmonizes with his mother’s perfectly. This lures him to deep sleep as he clings to his mother’s fingers, long and thin white like jade and it was just as cold.

When he dreams like this, A-Yuan wakes early to go to the ancestral hall to light incense for his mother and clean his tablet carefully. He offers him lotus flowers and a bowl of lotus seeds that he had stolen from the kitchen. Jiujiu would scowl and sighs that he was too much like his mother, and would punish him later by making him run laps around the training field for stealing. Later, Yima would laugh when she hears the story while Yizhang looks at the siblings worriedly. All the while A-Ling clings to his hand to beg him to play the dizi.

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In fairness, that's because he only has one maternal uncle for most of his life. Wei Wuxian could be jiujiu too, but he's kind of dead. I don’t know Chinese, but I do think it would be funny if we called lwj yizhang (there's no word for mother's brother's husband, obviously, so I stole the term for aunt's husband. I've also seen yifu)

Everyone else besides those two would be paternal uncles, or bofu/shushu.

No arguments that jiujiu is jc is THEE uncle tho

(I've had some really fun discussions with my friend group about which Jin Ling (paternal) uncle gets the right to be the littlest brother or xiao di and that's a hilarious conversation. If you include marriage and sworn brothers and sworn brothers' brothers, the list includes most of the main cast. Including Jiang Cheng being a paternal uncle twice over)

For all the jokes about Jin Ling's many uncles, when he actually calls for his jiujiu, he only means one person and I just think that's nice for Jiang Cheng

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