female concubine

At dusk, Jin Ren slowly moved forward facing the setting sun directly in front of him. Beside the frame were the officials of the Eastern Palace in court clothes, and the honor guards of Lubo and Advocacy.

The servant helped the crown prince down the car ladder and led him to wait at the east side of the gate of the Duwei's residence. The attendant of the Duwei's residence came out in court clothes and said loudly: "Dare to ask for a favor?"

The official kneeled down and turned the attendant's words to the Crown Prince, "Dare to ask for a favor?"

The crown prince bowed slightly, "Xu Fengzhi welcomes you personally."

The official then conveyed the words to the attendant, and the attendant entered to report.

Zhao Luting, the biological father of the Crown Princess, went out to welcome the Crown Prince, and the official of the East Palace, Zhi Yan, followed behind him.

The Crown Princess wears clothes and wears nine flower hairpin crowns and waits out of the pavilion, accompanied by Fu Mu, who guides and protects the Crown Princess.

When the crown prince entered, the attendants led the crown princess’s mother, the eldest princess Qin, out, and stood opposite the place where the goose laying ceremony was held outside the door of the inner courtyard pavilion. The palace servants supported the crown princess to the left of the eldest princess. There was only self-blame and guilt in his eyes, as well as uncontrollable tears gushing out.

【"Let's send Xi'er into the palace."】The words 16 years ago came to mind, and the eldest princess stretched out her trembling hands, "It was me...I pushed you up with my own hands."

"My lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is about to join the cabinet."

Princess Qin touched her tearful eyes, twitched her nose and said, "Your father has taught you what to do, and you will be taught by your father. You will work hard day and night, and you may not disobey your orders." Then she left with tears in her eyes.

The crown prince entered the Duwei's house and stood at the east-stage pavilion facing north, and Zhao Luting entered and stood at the pavilion gate from the west steps.

The officials introduced came forward and said: "Qi Dian Yan."

Zhao Luting went forward and knelt down, and the crown prince would pick up the wild goose from the attendant and award it to him.

Zhao Luting took the geese handed down by the Crown Prince and raised his head and said: "His Royal Highness, there are only two daughters under the knees of the minister and the eldest lord. The young girl has been raised in the palace since birth. Your Highness is kind, and I hope..." The general bowed his head choked with sobs: "I hope to treat the little girl well."

The Crown Prince hurriedly helped him up, "The commander-in-chief is not only my palace's Taishan, but also my palace's uncle. I will definitely live up to Xi'er." Then he walked out from the east steps.

Zhao Luting looked at the crown prince's back, and the five chapters embroidered on the green robe were very eye-catching, "His Royal Highness!" Then he knelt down again, "I will do my best to assist Your Highness."

The crown prince stopped for a moment, and then walked straight away.

The palace servants supported the crown prince and concubine to go out of the pavilion and change the phoenix sedan chair to the gate. The crown prince and the officials of the East Palace stood quietly in front of the door, and the etiquette officer called: "Uncover the sedan chair!"

Seeing that the Crown Prince did not respond, Prince Zhan Shi immediately stepped forward and said in a low voice, "It's time for your Highness to lift the curtain."

The crown prince regained his senses, and immediately let go of his hands in front of his abdomen, and stepped on the red shoes to the front of the phoenix sedan chair, and the palace attendants wearing flowers on both sides immediately opened the curtain of the sedan chair.

The crown prince kept his eyes open and did not move. After a while, he bowed his waist and stretched out his hands from the blue sleeves. The crown princess raised her head and saw her brother's gentleness as always. She immediately stretched out her hand shyly and put it into the strong palm. After getting out of the sedan chair and boarding the golden scorpion, the advocacy of the Taichang Courtyard sounded again.

The crown prince got married and stayed out of the court for three days. The whole world celebrated together. The emperor issued an edict to amnesty the world. The red and gold-decorated carriage slowly moved towards the East Palace with its back facing the setting sun. The crowd in the wide street was dispersed by the guards. Framed by a red horse, with 64 drivers, there is a guard of honor for the crown prince and concubine behind the car. The long procession walks under the golden light, and the streets blocked by the imperial guards are full of onlookers. Looking from the front, the welcoming procession Like coming out of the setting sun.

In a teahouse next to the street, the tea customer sat alone on the second floor facing the street, and an empty cup was placed on the empty seat opposite. , sideways lifted the teapot on the stove and poured tea into the empty cup on the opposite seat, "It has been 20 years since the last prince's wedding. Human language."

On the left side of the street, the young man who was fortunate enough to watch the wedding of the King of Chu in the past is now a father, stroking a long beard and holding a child with a prickly horn, "There is no person or thing that lasts forever, and youth cannot last forever." Staying forever, people are easy to grow old, things change, but the original intention may remain." The man with soft feet and headbands hugged the child, "The most precious thing is that the original intention remains unchanged."

"Daddy, what is the original intention?"

The man hugged the child and smoothed his long beard, "Probably, it was the yearning when I was young." A woman in a veiled hat stood beside the man. After the conversation between the two, they bowed their heads and smiled.

The faint smile through the curtain made the man stunned, "What are you laughing at, girl?"

The woman bowed slightly to express her politeness, "The yearning when I was young is just the fantasy of a child who has never experienced the world. There are too many injustices and helplessness in this world, not that you can stay the same if you want to change."

The man disagrees, "Unless you die, you... will always be yourself, and the one who can change yourself is ultimately yourself. Oppression, compromise, desire, no matter what, the cause and effect are still your own."

"Have you ever tasted what it's like to be involuntary? Sometimes it's more terrifying than death. How many of the people in the street are walking corpses in shells, and how many of them are still themselves?"

The man turned his head, "The girl must come from an official family, right?"

The woman shook her head, "The slave's house is just an ordinary common people's house."

"Someone thinks... the girl's conversation is not right." Before the man could ask about his family, he lowered his veil and turned around to disappear from the crowd as the frame passed the woman.

In the middle of the frame, the crown prince sat upright on the left side of the bed, separated by the nine-panel crown, and the figure of a woman with a veiled hat flashed past his eyes like a fleeting shadow, until the moment he turned around, the crown prince suddenly held the gilded The armrest turned the body sideways.

--Da da da! ——The swaying crown blocked his sight, and the person had already disappeared.

"What are you looking at again, Your Highness?" Seeing him turning sideways, the princess turned her head and asked.

The crown prince was turning over and shaking his head lightly, his eyes were full of loneliness, "It's nothing."

The Crown Princess stretched out her hand in front of her abdomen from her green sleeves and gently covered the crown prince's hand, "I know what Your Highness is thinking..."

The Crown Prince tightly held the Crown Princess's hand, "I will never miss her after you today."

"His Royal Highness is the Crown Prince."

"I am also your husband."

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When Jin Ren reached the gate of the East Palace, the drivers retreated. The crown prince and the princess walked down the car ladder. The blue felt mat was spread from the car ladder to the palace gate. The concubine entered the palace gate, stepped over the saddle, straw mat, and scale beam, and then took the public transportation to the palace pavilion.

The officials led the crown prince to enter the room from the east steps, and the crown princess entered the room from the west steps. A table was set up in front of the bed in the bedroom, and the palace servants led the newlyweds to sit in front of the bed.

Sun Shanggong brought the female official of the Eastern Palace Food and Beverage Bureau into the room in formal attire. Shangshi knelt down and served the food. She ate three meals a day, and then served wine three times. At the third cup, the female historian replaced the wine glass with a ladle.

"The ceremony is complete." By the end of the ceremony, the sky outside the palace had already dimmed. The Sun family of the Shang Palace waved to many female palaces in the Shangshi Bureau, and changed into the official uniforms of the Inner Zhiju Bureau. Played: "His Royal Highness, please change the regular clothes." Then he knelt down and played to the Crown Princess, "Please release the dress to enter the tent, Your Royal Highness."

The palace people got up and surrounded the crown princess to undress, and Sun Shangpin got up and walked to the crown princess, "The insiders from the Shangyi Bureau sent by Shang Shu's internal inspection were sent to Du Wei's house to teach about sex. Is there anything your highness doesn't understand?"

Zhao Xi clenched his white sleeves and raised his head to look at the prince who was undressing beside him, then shook his head, "General Si Ji taught me everything, please trouble Sun Shanggong."

"The villain hopes that His Highness will remain the same as when he was a child, and don't suppress himself."

Zhao Xi looked at Sun Shanggong, "Does Sun Shanggong know, I have been waiting for this day for 16 years."

Sun Shanggong retreated and bowed to him, and led the crowd to kneel down, "The Minister Shangshu introspects Shanggong Sun respectfully wish His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Concubine the piano and zither, and the descendants will continue." The cabinet exits.

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The next day, the palace people rolled up the curtains, and after washing, they dressed and changed their clothes respectively. The crown prince wore a purple official suit and a soap gauze folded upper towel, and the crown princess wore a red dress and entered the palace to meet the emperor.

In the Kunning Palace, the emperor sat in front of the bronze mirror, playing with Xiao Youqing's rouge box in his hand. Xiao Youqing pulled up her temple hair, and there were many white hairs mixed in with the black hair. The concubines are even smaller."

The emperor raised his hand and gently held Xiao Youqing's hand, "Don't worry, it's just white hair, I'm in good health."

Xiao Youqing took out her hand and rolled up all her hair, "If you are so honest and obedient with your mind and your mouth, why should I worry?"

The emperor put the rouge box back on the dressing table, "The crown prince has been established, and the crown princess has also been registered. It has been 14 years." The emperor looked sideways at the map of mountains and rivers presented by Xu Chongju on the screen, which was the territory of the former dynasty at its peak , "Only the land of Hexi has been taken back."

"The Ministry of War has expanded the Shenji Battalion. It has not slackened its military affairs in the past few years. Are they going to use troops abroad again?"

The emperor turned around, "I know how to use soldiers." Before Xiao Youqing could say anything, the emperor said again: "But I don't know how to conquer."

"Is the official's words still credible now?" Xiao Youqing walked to the side and took off the red and yellow shirt hanging from the hanger last night.

The emperor got up and approached him and hugged him into his arms, "Standing at thirty, not confused at forty, I am no longer full of enthusiasm when I was young, and I am also afraid that some mistakes will make all my previous efforts come to naught, and I am even more afraid...to stay alone You are alone in troubled times."

Xiao Youqing held the robe, "You still have me, you won't waste all your previous efforts," then raised his head and stared deeply: "If you really care about it, take good care of your body. For me, as long as you are here, everything will be returned Significant."

After looking at each other for a while, the emperor rubbed into her neck, "I will, I will."

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Wende Hall

Crown Princess Zhao Xiyi paid homage to the emperor, and stood waiting for His Majesty outside the main hall of Wende Hall. The emperor and empress entered the hall and were seated. The servants walked out of the hall and bowed and crossed hands in front of the Crown Princess, "His Royal Highness, you can go in. "

Zhao Xi entered the Hall of Wende and immediately bowed down. The palace servants came forward with a plate of dates and chestnuts. The Crown Princess got up and took it and presented it to the imperial court. She knelt down and said, "The bride has seen your uncle."

The emperor got up and helped the bride up, "If you are not comfortable in the East Palace, you can come to the inner palace and tell me. If I have something to do, I can go to the inner palace to find the saint."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Afterwards, she went to the empress, took the scorpion plate brought by the palace servants and presented it, knelt down and said: "The bride has seen Jungu."

Xiao Youqing got up and helped her up, and said earnestly: "You marry into the Eastern Palace and become the Eastern Palace Concubine, I have told you everything I should have warned and said before that, and I will not favor anyone like the officials. If you don’t like it, you have to say it, don’t let the etiquette restrain you and let yourself be wronged.”

Zhao Xi nodded, "The concubine knows that no matter if it is an uncle or an uncle and aunt, the concubine will serve her parents well with His Royal Highness."

Xiao Youqing returned to his seat, leaned over to the emperor's ear, and the emperor beckoned, "Let the crown prince enter the palace, I have something to say, the bride should leave first."

"Yes." The palace servant helped the crown princess down the stairs and out of the palace.

The Crown Prince who was waiting outside the hall stepped into the hall wearing a purple round-neck official uniform, and met the Crown Princess who came out of the hall, and the Crown Princess said, "Your Highness."

The crown prince bowed slightly and returned the salute, and said softly: "You wait a moment, I will come out and go home with you in a while."

The Crown Princess stared at her penetrating eyes, lowered her head and replied, "Okay."