Daming: Let you supervise the country according to the order, and you go to cultivate immortals?

Chapter 148 The emperor's big wedding, the night of the crouching tiger!
Before dawn, sporadic dots dotted the sky, and thin clouds lingered in front of the bright moon.

In Beiping Mansion in the north, Lan Yu was boxing in King Yan's Mansion. He had been boxing for a whole night. Since he submitted the memorial, he had been waiting for Ying Tian's reply.

After all, the current traffic is completely different from the past. If it was in the past, it would take a day and a night to send a memorial from Beiping to Yingtian, even if it was eight hundred miles away.

Waiting for the emperor's reply to send it back, it is basically impossible to go back and forth without three or five days.

But now, it only needs to be sent through the Qiankun Supervisor, which saves a lot of time.

"Father, you haven't slept all night. Tomorrow is the day of His Majesty's wedding. I'm afraid I don't have time to approve your memorial. Why don't you go and rest first. If there is a reply, my son will be sent to you as soon as possible."

Lan Yu's most favored adopted son, who was practicing boxing with him, frowned and said.

"nonsense!"

"The sage is wise and mighty, and he is the sage king who will bring peace to all ages. What I submit is related to the military affairs of the frontier. How can your majesty disregard the country for his own private affairs?"

"In the future, if you talk such nonsense again, I will never forgive you!"

Lan Yu sternly reprimanded, and the adoptive son quickly knelt down, bowing his head and admitting his mistake.

I thought to myself that my adoptive father's pretense is a bit too much, and it's fine to pretend in the memorial, but this is also the same in front of my family.

How can this righteous son know the great wisdom, the highest state of "pretending" is to "pretend" himself, and when he can't tell the truth from the fake, how can others tell the difference? !
From Sapphire's point of view, her wisdom is beyond the ancient and modern.

"Father! Father!"

At this moment, Lan Yu's other adoptive son rushed into the martial arts arena, holding a secret letter from Ying Tian in his hand.

Lan Yu was stunned for a moment, and walked up to her quickly, snatched the secret letter from her adopted son, opened it, read it carefully, read it seven or eight times, and then put it down, deeply moved. Take a breath.

Then, there was a stern look in his eyes.

"Order, send troops outside the pass!"

Sapphire didn't procrastinate at all. After giving the order, she turned around and went back to the house to change her armor.

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Sudi, the study room in King Su's mansion.

At this moment, King Su Zhu Li frowned tightly.

Opposite him, there is an old general with a white beard, who is leisurely eating the Jiangnan snacks sent by Yingtian, and drinking a sip of freshly brewed Longjing tea, his face is full of joy and enjoyment.

"The old general still wants to drink tea and eat snacks?"

Zhu Xi looked at Geng Bingwen who was enjoying himself, and couldn't help asking.

As far as he is concerned, it is already imminent.

"Oh? Why is Your Highness worried?"

Geng Bingwen hadn't tasted Jiangnan snacks for a long time since he was assigned to eat ashes in the Northwest. Therefore, with the establishment of the Qiankun Sub-supervisor and the arrival of a large number of supplies from Yingtian, Old General Geng's mouth never stopped.

Even if you come to Su Wang's mansion to discuss matters in the middle of the night, you still have to have a bite.

"Isn't the old general asking this knowingly?"

Regarding Geng Bingwen's pretending to be deaf and dumb, Zhu Mu frowned even tighter than the side concubine he had just accepted.

"Hehehehe."

Geng Bingwen smiled cheerfully seeing Zhu Li's worried appearance.

This smile fell into Zhu Xi's eyes, it seemed to be a mockery to himself, MMP in his heart, he couldn't help but want to swear, but when he thought that he would have to rely on Geng Bingwen to defend the city, he forced this The curse words on his lips were swallowed back.

"What is the old general laughing at?"

Zhu Yu asked in a calm voice, he didn't ask Geng Bingwen to come to the meeting for most of the night without sleeping, but he didn't ask Geng Bingwen to drink tea and have snacks.

"I laugh at Your Highness's worries are all vain things."

Geng Bingwen took a sip of tea, and squinted his eyes to be intoxicated by the fragrance of tea.

"Timur's army is coming soon, how could it be false? The old general should not make fun of this important military event."

Zhu Xi didn't understand what Geng Binwen meant. The enemy army was about to overwhelm the border, so he would not think of a way to defend against the enemy, but he still wanted to drink tea and cakes here.

At this time, Geng Bingwen stood up holding tea.

He took another deep sip, and exhaled a long breath of hot air, which hovered in the air, and a hint of arrogance suddenly appeared on his face.

"Your Highness, put your heart in your stomach, as long as I, Geng Bingwen, are here, even if there are millions of soldiers, they will never even think about stepping into the pass."

In a word, Zhu Yu was shocked in place, so confident? !
Is this old man stunned?

Everyone in the world knows that Xu Dachang and Yuchun Lanyu are peerless and brave generals, but very few people pay attention to Geng Bingwen, the old general who is known as the first defender of the Ming Dynasty.

Back then, Geng Bingwen, with a meager soldier, forcibly persisted in Zhang Shicheng's rear for ten years, and Zhang Shicheng was paralyzed.

"Two."

At this moment, Lin Dong's figure appeared at the door of the room.

Both Zhu Li and Geng Bingwen looked at Lin Dong, their expressions suddenly became serious, because the appearance of Lin Dong meant that the war was approaching.

"Accurate news, Timur's vanguard army is already hundreds of miles away from the pass, and they can reach the pass at midnight tonight."

When Lin Dong said a word, Zhu Xi frowned immediately.

Geng Bingwen slowly put down the tea in his hand, looked serious, and cupped his hands towards Zhu Lai.

"His Royal Highness King Su, I will go to set up the city defense first."

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At the same time, Ying Tianfu.

The streets and alleys are lit up with lanterns.

His Majesty the Emperor's big wedding is naturally for all people to be happy and celebrate together.

From dawn, the entire Yingtian Mansion became busy, and many celebrations were carried out in various parts of the city, all of which were to pray for His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress, and pray for the fortune of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, in Duke Wei's mansion, under the guidance of the Ministry of Etiquette, various etiquette procedures were moving in an orderly manner.

The emperor's big wedding, how can it be compared with ordinary people, the process and etiquette are extremely complicated.

Before Wei Guogong's mansion, starting from Wei Guogong Xu Huizu, everyone in the mansion, even a dog in the woodshed, was lying on their stomachs at the door, waiting quietly.

Not only the people from Duke Wei's mansion, but to be precise, the clan members of the Xu family, but all relatives who can fight with each other have rushed here.

Starting from the gate of Wei Guogong's mansion, a red carpet was spread, leading directly to the palace.

"Why hasn't it arrived yet?"

Xu Huizu was very anxious, looked into the distance again and again, and asked Xu Yingxu beside him three times in a row, and Xu Yingxu was almost tired of being asked.

"Brother, there is still a quarter of an hour before the scheduled wedding reception time. This is all planned by the Ministry of Rites. It is useless to be in a hurry."

Xu Yingxu repeated what he had said three times.

I thought to myself that my eldest brother, as the commander in chief of an army, is extremely calm on weekdays, why is he in such a hurry today.

Seeing Xu Huizu's anxious appearance, Xu Miaoyun who was beside her also covered her mouth and laughed.

"Brother is really eccentric. When I got married, I didn't see him being so caring."

Xu Miaoyun was in a very good mood at the moment. After all, the news of the great victory in the southern border had been sent back to the capital, which meant that his husband and three sons could all commit crimes and meritorious deeds, at least they would not receive other punishments.

As a woman, she doesn't expect her husband and children to have any great achievements, she just hopes that they can return safely and the family can be reunited.

"Miaoyun, what you said is wrong. When you got married back then, your father was still there, so it's not your brother's turn to worry about your marriage."

Xu Huizu looked at Xu Miaoyun, and said very seriously, for fear that Xu Miaoyun thought he was biased.

"Know, know."

"I haven't seen you for so many years, brother, you are still such a wooden fish head, can't you hear that I am joking with you?"

Xu Miaoyun has been a woman for more than [-] years, but as long as she is in front of Xu Huizu, she instantly regains her innocence as a girl.

"It's a pity that Zengshou will be guarded outside by the emperor's order, and he can't come back to participate in the little sister's big wedding."

Xu Miaoyun sighed.

Xu Zengshou is the third and youngest brother of Xu Huizu. He is only one year older than Xu Miaojin. Because of his close age, he has the best relationship with Xu Miaojin.

Just as the brothers and sisters were chatting without saying a word, there was a melodious and festive sound of drum music.

In an instant, everyone cheered up and looked towards the red carpet.

I saw that along the red carpet, there was a large-scale and mighty team welcoming the relatives.

According to the general process of receiving relatives, the bridegroom official will do such things as welcoming relatives.

But the emperor is different, his status is supreme, and he is ninety-five years old. Naturally, it is impossible to come to Wei Guogong's mansion to greet him in person, so he ordered a minister with sons and daughters to go to greet his relatives as the emperor's representative. This time, Huang Guan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, came.

Looking from afar, the guard of honor and the drum band are in front of the welcoming procession, with the welcoming envoys in the middle, followed by a large number of welcoming officials, eunuchs, and bodyguards.

As the team gradually came to Wei Guogong's mansion.

The team stopped, and Huang Guan rode his horse slowly to the front of the welcoming team. He dismounted with a smile on his face. It was also a great honor to be appointed by the emperor as a welcoming envoy.

"Congratulations to Duke Wei, congratulations to Duke Wei."

Huang Guan clasped his fists to salute, as usual he had to congratulate first.

"Thank you very much."

The polite scene still had to go on, even though Xu Huizu was very anxious, thinking that you are an old nose, what are you talking about, why don't you announce the edict quickly.

Feeling that the politeness was about the same, Huang Guan gave a dry cough and took the imperial edict from the attendants beside him.

When Xu Huizu saw the imperial decree, he was overjoyed and quickly led hundreds of people from the Xu clan to kneel down.

"Emperor Kaitai of all ages issued an imperial edict:..."

After the decree was over, Xu Huizu hurriedly received the decree, and then excitedly greeted Huang Guan into Wei Guogong's mansion. In the center of this festooned front yard, Xu Miaojin was already wearing a queen's dress, waiting quietly.

After Huang Guan came in, he took out another imperial edict.

Under the arrangement of the ceremonial officer, Xu Miaojin led the maid to kneel down to accept the gold book, gold treasure, and wear the queen's phoenix crown.

The moment Xu Huizu saw his little sister wearing the queen's phoenix crown, Xu Huizu's eyes were flushed, and his excitement was beyond words.

He was not excited because Xu Miaojin became the queen, but because his little sister was finally married.

Among the children of the Xu family, Xu Miaojin is the youngest. After Xu Da passed away, Xu Huizu almost brought them up by his side. Although he is an elder brother, he loves him like a father and daughter.

"Empress, please enter the sedan chair."

After Huang Guan announced the edict, he stepped aside respectfully and saluted.

Xu Miaojin was taken aback for a moment, when she heard the word 'Empress Empress', she obviously hadn't reacted yet, so she became a queen?

"Ah."

Nodding slightly.

Xu Miaojin's eyes were slightly red, and she looked at her elder brother Xu Huizu, sister Xu Miaoyun and others. After seeing Xu Huizu nodding with a smile, Xu Miaojin walked out of Xu's gate slowly with the support of Lian Er, and boarded the exclusive queen's car .

The welcoming team played drums again and walked back to the palace along the red carpet.

This red carpet was spread all the way from Wei Guogong's mansion to the Forbidden City.

And in the Forbidden City, Fengtian Hall.

Zhu Xiongying was wearing a black gold crown robe. Today was not only his wedding ceremony with Xu Miaojin, but also his enthronement ceremony.

After waking up early in the morning, Zhu Xiongying finally sat on the dragon chair in Fengtian Hall after a whole set of extremely complicated etiquette, which also meant that the enthronement ceremony could be declared over.

It's also thanks to Zhu Xiongying's sacrifice to heaven and earth that these things have been removed, otherwise this meeting will definitely not be finished.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live...!"

Zhu Xiongying glanced at the kneeling officials shouting long live, but his thoughts were elsewhere.

"This person should have picked it up."

Just as Zhu Xiongying was thinking, there was the sound of drums and music from outside Fengtian Hall, and all the officials showed joy.

This means that the wedding ceremony can officially begin.

"Your Majesty, the wedding party has arrived, please change your clothes and move away."

A servant of the Ministry of Rites came out and said in a loud voice.

The black gold crown robe that Zhu Xiongying was wearing at this time was used for enthronement ceremonies, while the big red imperial robe was worn for the big wedding, and the place where the big wedding ceremony was held was not the Fengtian Temple, but the Zhaixing Tower.

'This broken etiquette is really troublesome. '

Zhu Xiongying frowned slightly.

Changing clothes, paying homage, holding banquets, accepting congratulations from the courtiers, amnesty for the world, etc...

But for the night of today's crouching tiger, everything was endured.

When everything settled down, it was already night.

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Night, Zhaixing Tower.

Xu Miaojin sat quietly in the main hall on the ninth floor of the Zhaixing Building, with her red hijab still covering her cheeks, the maid beside her was waiting quietly, Lian Er stood nearest, her hands were holding a tray with a red cloth on it, and placed a A mahogany stick.

'Tap', 'tap', 'tap' footsteps came.

It was clearly visible that Xu Miaojin's body trembled slightly.

Although, the two once had an encounter in a dream, but after all, the dream had no trace, and the feeling was quickly forgotten.

"Three, seven, twelve..."

Xu Miaojin carried it silently, this is the action sequence she prepared yesterday.

"Miss Miaojin, we meet again."

When the gentle and pleasant familiar voice came, Xu Miaojin's heart skipped a beat, her head was dazed, and she forgot all the sequence that she had memorized in an instant.

She could feel that her hijab was being lifted slowly.

(End of this chapter)