The shadow of the country

It has been half a month since Abi entered Houye's mansion, these days Mu Yan and her have been treating each other with courtesy.Perhaps because of guilt, he wanted to make up for it in this way, so he gave her the best in food and clothing, and responded to her requests.

That day, Abi got up in the morning to wash up.Just sitting in front of the dressing table and picking up the powder box to put on makeup, I suddenly heard a few crisp birdsong outside the door.Looking out of the window, I saw a blue-eared kingfisher circling in mid-air.Abi's expression turned positive, and sure enough, the task was still dispatched.She went to the window, and the blue-eared kingfisher perched on the window frame.Xiang Abi twittered, and Abi listened carefully.

After the blue-eared kingfisher delivered the news, it spread its wings and flew out of the window. Abi looked sideways at it.Before the kingfisher flew far away, a silhouette was faintly reflected on the window lattice on the other side.When Abi saw who that figure was, that person knocked on the door: "Abi, is it convenient for me to go in now?"

Abi was startled, Marquis Zhong Ning would not come over at this hour, what happened today? ... If he really found out something, it would be difficult.Abi tidied up her appearance in a hurry, walked over and opened the door.

Mu Yan came in from the door, saw her and immediately smiled and said, "Abi, just now there was a blue-eared kingfisher hovering in front of your room, and its song was clear and crisp. Did you hear that?"

Abi shook her head lightly, with doubts in her eyes.It's just that the hand hidden in the sleeve has unconsciously clenched due to anxiety.

Mu Yan said with some regret: "That's a pity. There has never been such a spiritual bird flying into the Houye's mansion before. It must be Abi who brought auspiciousness to my mansion when you came."

Abi smiled slightly, heaved a sigh of relief, and secretly sighed that it was a false alarm.Later, he wrote: "Master Hou is absurd. Maybe it's just a coincidence."

When Mu Yan raised his head, he saw Abi's clean and unpainted face, and asked suspiciously, "Abi, you haven't put on makeup yet?"

Abi forced a smile, and wrote casually: "Master Hou came just as I was about to put on makeup, so I haven't had time yet."

Mu Yan thought for a while and said, "Then let me help you."

Abi was startled for a moment, since she entered the mansion for half a month, Marquis Zhongning has never done anything to her beyond the rules.But thrush is love, and it's the first time they have done such an intimate thing.Abi changed her mind again, getting closer to him might help her complete the task she just assigned.So he nodded in agreement.

Mu Yan took out a snail eyebrow from an exquisite small box, and sat down next to Abi, "A person with a slender eyebrow is suitable for a willow-leaf eyebrow, how about I draw a willow eyebrow for you?" He suddenly asked.

Abi didn't expect him to know all these things, and she felt a little bit of anticipation in her heart.So he smiled and nodded.

Mu Yan took Luo Zidai and traced along her brow bone carefully, and then blended it out naturally at the brow tip.After a moment, the painting was finished. Mu Yan handed the bronze mirror in front of the stage to Abi, and asked her with a smile, "How is it? Are you satisfied?"

Abi looked at her gentle and beautiful willow eyebrows in the mirror, her eyes moved, and she felt an inexplicable touch in her heart.In the past at Qunfang Pavilion, so many guests said that they really cared for her and were willing to pay a lot of money to redeem her body, but no one had ever been so thoughtful and willing to bend down to make up and paint her eyebrows.Abi smiled slightly, and wrote with a pen: "Master Hou has never married a wife or concubine, so how could he be proficient in the matters of makeup and eyebrow painting in his daughter's house?"

Mu Yan said lightly: "When I was not in the capital, I lived with my mother and younger sister. I will see them dressing up after a long time." He put the snail back into the box and put it away, then turned his head and said with a smile: " By the way, are the daily expenses of rouge and gouache enough? How about I accompany you to buy some later?"

Abi was a little unbelievable, slightly startled, and didn't know how to respond for a while.

Mu Yan thought that she belonged to her daughter's family, so even if she really lacked something, she would be ashamed to say it, so she took her hand with a smile, and said, "It's okay, if there is something missing, just ask. I said to treat you well, and I will give it to you." The best. Besides..." He paused, and continued: "Besides, you are the woman I like. It is only natural to accompany the woman I like to pick out some rouge and gouache. You can tidy up again, after breakfast Let's go."

Abi was taken aback for another moment, and finally smiled at Muyan, then nodded in agreement.

After Mu Yan left Abi's room, she felt a little disappointed.Looking up at the sky, the sky is still blue and bright.The only thing he can give Abi is kindness.But kindness is not love after all, his heart has long been locked, and he can no longer love anyone except that person.

The tenth day of this month is the emperor's wedding day.The emperor will marry Linxi, the daughter of the prime minister, and Wanlu, the niece of the Zuo Jianyi doctor, and personally issue the imperial edict, the treasure of the empress, and enshrine the empress and noble concubine.Because the emperor married two empresses in one big wedding, the Ministry of Rituals prepared extremely meticulously.

As early as the fifth day of the lunar new year, the entire palace was already busy, and the palace was decorated in a festive and luxurious manner by the order of the empress dowager.The double happiness characters sticking gold and powder have been affixed in front of each palace gate, and the walls of Kunhe palace are also painted with vermilion lacquer and silver special copper oil.That night, the dowry of the queen and concubine entered the palace, and the dowry sending team was mighty and mighty like a long red dragon.The whole capital city is full of joy.

On the tenth day of the lunar new year, Shen Shi.The phoenixes of the queen and concubine have been carried into the palace gate.Lin Xi was sitting in the phoenix, dressed in a red silk embroidered Double Happiness auspicious suit, holding a gold and jade ruyi and a "dragon" character written in the emperor's imperial pen, and the noise of singing and dancing outside the sedan chair was heard.Although she was familiar with the rules and etiquette of marrying the emperor, she was still extremely nervous.

Two Ming Huang Fengyu stopped in front of Fengtian Hall.Yilan led Lin Xi to get off the sedan chair with a red silk, and together they worshiped the ancestors of heaven and earth, and together they were kowtowed by the officials and congratulated by their wives.After the ceremony was completed, Lin Xi went to Fengyu again, and went to Kunhe Palace to wait for the emperor.

At Xu time, the banquet is over.Yilan is led to Kunhe Palace again by a group of palace people wearing bright red embroidered robes.Every step of the big wedding needs to be carried out according to the complicated etiquette set by the ancestors, and there is no chance of making any mistakes.Yilan has been busy since the early morning, but she can't help feeling a little tired and exhausted.Yi Lan walked to the gate of Kunhe Palace, and stayed for a while, caressing the red double happiness lettering on the gilded red gate.After the wedding, he became a husband.From now on, the people who will spend the rest of his life with him and sleep in the same bed will be his wives and concubines.The big red Double Happiness lettering on the door was plastered on the door.Even if this marriage is unparalleled in the world, what is the point of receiving the blessings of all the subjects in the world?Even as a human emperor, he is helpless. After this night, he can only drift away from the person he wants and loves in his heart.

Just as Yi Lan was thinking, a servant behind her urged: "Your Majesty, the auspicious time has come, you should go in."

Yi Lan came back to her senses, her hands caressing the characters of Double Happiness drooped down, and walked into Kunhe Palace with strides.I secretly smiled bitterly in my heart.His helplessness, where did it start today?

Yilan entered Dekunhe Palace, only to see Linxi sitting on the Longfeng Xi'an bed covering her happy handkerchief, twisting the silk on the auspicious clothes with her fingers, her knuckles turned white.She heard Yi Lan's voice coming in, and her body froze even more nervously.Seeing this, Yilan felt pity suddenly in her heart.Today, this woman, like him, is like a puppet at the mercy of others.From now on, she will be his queen, but she will not be his lover after all.Apart from being kind, he couldn't give her more.

At this time, a group of maids walked into the Kunhe Palace, presented the happy pole, and said another congratulatory speech.Yi Lan took it silently, and lifted the hijab on Lin Xi's head, revealing a very beautiful face.The wedding candles in the hall were burning, jumping up and down, the flames made her cheeks blush, and the golden flower between her brows was also flickering under the candlelight, and this faint light made Yi Lan's eyes sting slightly for a moment.

After the congratulatory speeches of all the palace people, the palace people slowly lowered the curtain on the jade hook, quietly put a snow-white silk on the mattress, knelt down, and filed out , there is only one Tongshi that records the matter of the emperor and the queen's housekeeping.Just now the bursts of prosperity and beauty suddenly stopped, and it was as hazy as in a dream, as if it had been a lifetime away.

Lin Xi lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Yi Lan at all, while Yi Lan looked at the red satin embroidered curtain of Double Happiness on the bed, keeping her expression on.This moment, which he had been avoiding before, had finally come. No matter how much he resisted, the doomed doom could not be reversed in the slightest.

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