female concubine

After the imperial chariot returned to Xuande Gate from Dengshan, the number of guards under martial law decreased by half, and the guard of honor followed with two rows of servants carrying palace lanterns to the Xuande Tower to sit on both sides of the throne.

The sound of drums came from the Bell and Drum Tower in Da Nei, and ritual music played on both sides of Xuande Tower.

"Holy Lord coming to the building!"

The common people who had squeezed their heads and never seen the frame stopped and squeezed forward one after another, and looked up at the Huangluo colorful shed directly above the gate of the building.

The servants standing in front of both sides of the Huangluo colored shed rolled up the curtains hanging on the left and right ends. There were three chairs in the colored shed. ?”

"The officials don't need to tell the elders specifically about this kind of etiquette. The queen is the official wife and the mother of the dynasty, and she should show her face during the Shangyuan Festival."

Wei Huan nodded lightly, then stretched out his right hand in his red sleeve to hold Xiao Youqing's hand.

Xiao Youqing held her hand instead and looked at her, and said slowly: "I wish to go with you, and joy and sorrow will always be with me."

Listening to Xiao Youqing's words, the emperor tightly grasped the familiar warmth in his palm and got up from his seat. The two walked around the table in front of them and walked to the city wall. They knelt down one after another.

Standing on the Xuande Tower overlooking the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, there are two giant dragons arching the pillars made of Dengshan in front of the door. God, the emperor joins hands with the king to come to the world, "Pray for heavenly incense, pray day and night, pray for the common people to pray for a hundred grains in the sky, and bless my people. When the Yuan Dynasty arrives, Jinwu can't help it. The whole family is reunited. May the world be peaceful and happy without worries. Have fun with the people." After celebrating with the people, she turned her head and said in a low voice, "Sister, Shangyuan Ankang."

Xiao Youqing raised his head in surprise at the sudden words of the person beside him, and then replied with a gentle smile: "Shangyuan Ankang."

The emperors and empresses all wore red clothes and stood shoulder to shoulder on the city tower, and the people downstairs who looked up at them shouted together with the officials, "Long live your majesty, and your highness the empress forever. May the empress live forever."

After a while of mountain shouting, people beat drums in Duolou, and the drumbeats were fast and slow in an orderly manner. The guards on the towers located at the Zhuquemen in the south of the old city, the Jinglongmen in the north of the city, and the four gates in the southeast held torches to listen to the sound of the drums and lit the fireworks at the same time.

Index burnt out, -- bump bump! ——Fireworks flew from the city tower to the sky above Tokyo City, and there was an explosion in the sky, and the silver light enveloped the earth, illuminating everyone's faces very clearly.

The standing people looked up one after another, and many fathers in the crowd bent down to pick up their young children and sat them on their shoulders, holding them firmly with both hands.

It has been very lively every year since the end of the war, but it is not as grand as it is today. In the imperial city of Nuo Da, the alleys are empty, and the people gather in front of the Xuande Building to pay their respects to the emperor, making the stalls on both sides of the Imperial Street all crowded. Crowded with people and no room for stuff.

The emperor held an empty hand on his back and looked up at the fireworks that exploded above the city tower like shooting stars. How about the fireworks in the Forbidden City?"

Xiao Youqing turned her head to look at her side face, the flickering fire light illuminated the delicate facial features, "These fireworks come from Dongting Lake?"

The person in front of him shook his head and explained: "It's from Tanzhou, and it came from Jinghu North Road and passed by Dongting, but it's not all here. There are also some in Sichuan, which were discarded when the firearms manufacturing department developed firearms in the past six months. A lot of gunpowder is not as powerful as it used to be, and it is far from enough to kill in battle, but it is a pity to discard it, so the craftsmen turn it into fireworks and sell it to merchants for military supplements."

"Your Majesty is really a businessman who won't lose money."

"Is my sister praising me?"

Xiao Youqing gave a faint smile and did not reply, and immediately looked up at the silver flowers constantly drawn down from the sky, "Hundred silk lanterns are held in the sky, the goddess' new make-up is brightly colored, there is really a long sword that cuts dragons, and the madman blows the flute in the Dongting. It must have been the case.”

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The two women under the city tower who had won the emperor's calligraphy returned to the tent after thanking them.

"Obviously they are two different fonts, but what your majesty and your highness wrote are somewhat similar." He Wenying unfolded the scroll and compared the two words in surprise. What she held in her hand was the last sentence written by the emperor.

And in Liu Miaoyi's hand is the next sentence written by the queen, "People say that after getting along for a long time, they will become more and more similar, whether it is appearance or habits, officials are good at calligraphy and painting, and there is a saint who was praised by the late emperor as a contemporary painter." Holy uncle."

"Did the officials and the sages know you before when they looked at you and called you by your title?"

Liu Miaoyi nodded, "The official family went to Qishan when they were princes."

"But the last battle with Xixia? I saw that the official's face was wounded, but it wasn't very obvious."

Liu Miaoyi shook her head, "Earlier than this, the officials have suffered far more than you can see."

He Wenying stared at Liu Miaoyi suddenly, "Sister Miaoyi doesn't want to marry Jiang Zhongcheng, could it be..."

"What else do you have in your mind besides love and love?"

He Wenying pointed to the ink characters on the table, "There is still leisure and elegance, reciting poems and painting, drinking tea and arranging flowers."

The female envoy of the Liu family entered the curtain, walked to Liu Miaoyi's side, bent down and said in a low voice, "Girl, Jiang Zhongcheng has come to our tent to look for you."

"Isn't it bothering him to be like this every day?"

He Wenying covered her mouth and snickered, "Poor Jiang Zhongcheng is so infatuated~"

"Do you want to change this word?"

"I won't say it anymore, Sister Miaoyi can't go back and take the words back." While speaking, she reversed the positions of the two words, rolled up her hands and presented the previous sentence to He Miaoyi, "This is not what a gentleman did." .”

"You are better at doing business than me, the daughter of a merchant's family. The words of a saint are harder to find than those of an official." Liu Miaoyi took the scroll and got up and said: "Okay, I should go, you slow down." Enjoy it slowly."

"Okay, let's bring one more lantern."

"Ah."

After Liu Miaoyi left, she calmed down to watch. Not long after, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl walked in from outside the tent, bent down and put down the hand stove, "The fireworks outside are so beautiful. Daddy said that His Majesty brought them from the south." Won't your sister go out and have a look?"

"There are fireworks every year, every year like this, no matter how beautiful it is, it will be fleeting."

"It's great to be amazed for a moment, not to please others, but for yourself. This is what my sister said."

"You do remember clearly."

"This year, the officials took the saint to watch with us on the tower. Daddy said that he has been an official for so many years and has never seen the first emperor and the first queen standing side by side together." He Ruying looked at the words on her sister's table, Staring at the round eyes, "The writing is so beautiful, is it the one given by His Royal Highness the Queen?"

He Wenying nodded, "The sage is even gentler than what they said. He has the tendency to chase after Ou Yu. His words are really like him."

"Tsk tsk tsk, my sister is also a nymphomaniac, or because of a woman, did sister Miaoyi take the official pair?"

"Ah."

"Then Xiao Er is really bold. Is it true that all the Xiao family members are like this? There was a captain Yun Qi who didn't want to break into the palace gate at night, and now there is another Xiao Jiansheng Shangyuan who rushed to the holy driver, and they are all the Erlang of the Xiao family. See you After seeing my sister’s appearance, I regretted it and went to ask the official for a marriage. Fortunately, the sage and the official are sensible, so let that fat man hide at home and regret it.”

"Ruying, why are you so open-mouthed when you leave the house? Even if it doesn't matter, you can't judge people by their appearance."

"Oh."

Liu walked out with the scroll in her arms. Before reaching the curtain, she saw the scarlet robe looking around. She pulled the maid carrying the lantern and turned to leave.

"Second Niang." Fei Pao seemed to have spotted her, and after calling out without any response, she chased after her, "Miao Yi!"

Mrs. Liu turned to face Qi Fu, "Jiang Zhongcheng is blessed."

"Why do you always avoid me?"

"Jiang Zhongcheng is self-respecting," the female envoy stepped forward and stood among them, "Jiang Zhongcheng is an official of the court and even a law enforcement officer. If he always visits the gate of Shaoqing's house frequently, isn't he afraid of being charged with forming a party for personal gain?"

"I didn't go to Shaoqing's house to find Liu Shaoqing, I..."

"Men and women don't know each other, Jiang Zhongcheng has a lot of young ladies in Tokyo who have not been out of the court. Why do you just pester my girl?"

Fei Pao stopped embarrassing her, raised his brows, took a step back, folded his sleeves and bowed, "It's Jiang who is bothering you."

"Jiang Zhongcheng," Mrs. Liu stepped forward to stop him, "I dare not forget Fengxiang Mansion's life-saving grace, Miaoyi, I will ask you today, Mr. Jiang, is he willing to accept a wife whose heart is in the court or in the business?"

"Chaotang?" Jiang Luochuan turned around, "What do you mean?"

"Don't talk about the court, just talk about my Liu family's business firm. You can't find me when you visit the door recently because I have been helping my brother in the bank. Now half of the Liu family's property is under my name. I will... .”

"It can all be taken care of by someone else."

Liu Miaoyi turned cold, "Personally."

Fei Pao took a step forward, and the whitebait bag hanging from his waist shook slightly, "You know, it's not that I don't want to, but those people, how could they allow the wives of scholar-bureaucrats to show their faces..."

"You are not the No.1 I asked these words. Jiang Zhongcheng doesn't need to find excuses to explain. Thanks to Zhongcheng's wrong love, what Zhongcheng is looking for is a virtuous and virtuous family's first wife, not the daughter of the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple."

"Why?" Feipao clutched the edge of his sleeve, "I begged you in a low voice over and over again. I submitted a letter of recommendation to ask the officials to transfer your father to the capital, and I also asked the sage to hold a family banquet to persuade the adults. It is to get the adults to agree to the marriage. Now the adults I agreed, but you pushed back and forth instead?"

"You asked the officials to transfer Dad to the capital?"

"Yes, when the state officials are transferred to Beijing, they need to be screened and recommended by several major examinations. I have worked with Liu Shaoqing before." Changing an official to meet the emperor requires three appointments, six examinations and five people's nominations, and one of them is a supervisor. It is Qin Fenglu's transshipment envoy.

"On behalf of my lord, I would like to thank Jiang Zhongcheng for his support and support."

Fei Pao's patience has been exhausted by her, "What do you mean?"

"My lord, Xie Enran, is not grateful. Jiang Zhongcheng's selfishness is before the country, but I believe that the letter of the official appointment notice is the meaning of the official department, and it is also the king's will that the adults have devoted their loyalty to the country."

Fei Pao's gloomy and indifferent face said, "I know you have a past with the official family, but Her Royal Highness is my cousin, if I go to ask her, as long as His Highness asks her, the official family will definitely give you a marriage. Do you still have to resist then?" purpose?"

Mrs. Liu is well aware of the empress's position in the emperor's heart, but there is nothing wrong with speaking, and she frowned when she saw the more and more extreme people, "Yes, I dare not resist the order, but I don't believe in the empress that the officials are thinking of. I will respond to your unreasonable request. It turns out that the power in the officialdom really exposes the ugliest side of people. Today you use power to suppress people, but I misjudged you at the beginning." Mrs. Liu refused to back down at all, " If the imperial decree really comes to the Liu family and Jiang Zhongcheng wants to marry him by force, then come and carry the slave's body!"

"you..."

The author has something to say: Tanzhou is the ancient name of Changsha, Dongting Lake was called Yunmeng in ancient times

Mr. Jiang is no longer the boy he was back then.

Even if he marries Liu, he will take concubines

In ancient times, there were very few aristocratic families who did not take concubines, although there were. (In fact, in general, wives would not object to their husbands taking concubines, because if there is no concubine and the couples are healthy, they will probably continue to give birth and breastfeed. It is terrible to think about it.)

除了生孩子就是养孩子（好遭罪…）感谢在2020-05-1607:28:27~2020-05-1619:22:55期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 1 salted fish falling into the water at night;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mines: once upon a time, there were 3 mountains; 1 diving bud u;

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: 30 bottles of freshly squeezed watermelon juice;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!