Mrs. Zhuang Qiangang resolved the incident arbitrarily, and the backyard of the Duke's Mansion quickly returned to calm under her shock. The disappeared Mrs. Duan and the new Aunt Gu were both as quiet as if they had never changed.
In a few days, it was the day of the emperor's wedding.
June is the hottest time of the year. In previous years, the Holy Emperor had already sent the Empress Dowager to spend the summer at Dizi Mountain, but the Qin Tian Jian decided to set the most suitable date for the Emperor and Xin Fubing to get married at this time - because of the grand wedding celebration, this year's summer vacation could only be avoided. .
The scorching sun scorches the whole city day by day, but it cannot extinguish the joy throughout the city.
From Xin Mansion to the Imperial Palace, the road along the way has been re-paved with loess and maintained with water every day.
Both sides of the road are covered with flowers, surrounded by emerald pearls, golden screens and silver flowers, and all kinds of unique decorations are like clouds, which makes people dizzy; the whole road is also smoked with the royal name of borneol, the south wind. As it blows by, the city is filled with fragrance.
This was just the scene of Xin Fubing being carried into the palace. No matter how you think about it, the scene in the palace must be even better. It was just such a big bustle, but Qiu Yilan couldn't see it.
She is already seven to eight months pregnant. To put it bluntly, Mrs. Tao, Mrs. Zhuang, Jiang Yashuang and others are not worried. Even she feels that she is clumsy at this moment. It takes two maids to stand up and sit down. Help from left to right. Going into the palace to have a wedding banquet like this, even with Empress Dowager Jiang taking care of her, would be a struggle.
Therefore, I took the initiative to stay at home without being persuaded by my elders or husband.
On June 15th, she got up early in the morning and sat under the grape trellis in the yard to enjoy the coolness. The maid brought him a chilled plum drink. The master and servant listened to the noise coming from outside the flower walls of the numerous buildings and speculated on the progress: "This will happen." Grandma and mother should have already entered the palace, and the Queen Mother is expected to have packed up and prepared for the audience... Her Majesty must first send people to make sacrifices to the heaven and earth and the Ancestral Temple, and only then can he tell the Queen Mother that he wants to marry and establish a queen... At this time, there should be an imperial edict When we get to the Xin family, will Cousin Xin take over the instructions after Li Li's death?"
"The Tian family's phoenix crown is really beautiful!" Su He said with sparkling eyes, "The young lady sent her maid to Xin Mansion to deliver something two days ago. I was lucky enough to have a look at the phoenix crown, which was placed in the house. , it’s so dazzling that people can’t even open their eyes! Not to mention the queen’s wedding dress, the embroidery is so vivid! The pile on the plate really looks like rosy colors! No, it’s the queen’s name. To save my face, I specially asked my maid to touch it..."
"Really? How does it feel?" Shen Shui was excited and regretful at the same time, "If I had known, I would have begged the young lady to let my maid go with me if I had known that day!"
"What's the relationship between the Queen and your young lady?" Qiu Yilan smiled and threw a grape into her hand. "I'll go back to the palace. Are you afraid that you won't be able to broaden your horizons by following me?"
The maids think about it too - this Queen Xin has never been seen by Qiu Yilan, and even the personal maids like them are particularly embarrassed!
So they all clamored for Qiu Yilan to take them into the palace to see the queen's wedding dress and other things, so as to make up for the regret of not being able to go to watch the ceremony at the moment.
After laughing and joking like this until the evening, Qiu Yilan ate alone, washed up, and rested - she only knew that everyone in the Jiang family would not be back until very late. Unexpectedly, not long after falling asleep, Jiang Tan's voice could be heard outside calling the maid to prepare hot water so that Jiang Yashuang could bathe and change clothes.
"Why are you back so early?" Qiu Yilan was still asleep at this time. Hearing the sound, he got up and called Chunran who was waiting outside, "Go and pour a glass of mint dew on the table for Nineteen!"
Jiang Yashuang walked in after a while. The smell of wine and food from the banquet was still obvious in the light mint. Her robe was wet like sweat. She was wiping her face with a handkerchief and said to Qiu Yilan, "Did I wake you up?"
"I haven't fallen asleep yet... What are you doing here at this time?" Qiu Yilan was a bit dumbfounded, "I've already eaten, packed up, and settled in. You might as well wait for the palace banquet to be over and come back with your grandmother and mother. "Why don't you come back early if you are really worried about me being alone at home?"
It’s not an embarrassing time to skip the table…
Who would have thought that before her thoughts were finished, Jiang Yashuang sighed: "Something happened at the table. Grandma asked me to accompany Brother Thirteen and Sister-in-law Thirteen back first. I just sat down and took two bites of the food. In the kitchen Is there anything to eat now?”
Qiu Yilan couldn't help but be startled, and first told Chun Ran: "Go and ask Mother Li to cook some side dishes, something quick and refreshing."
Finally, she walked to sit across from Jiang Yashuang and asked, "Sister-in-law Thirteen... How dare she be confused in a day like this? And today, cousin Xin is also a married woman. Shouldn't this be her?" Are you happy to see it come to fruition?"
Jiang Yashuang's face wasn't very good-looking either. Mi Yinyin, as the sixth-fang's in-law, was not related to him by blood, so she couldn't compare with his cousin's daughter Xin Fubing.
Coupled with Qiu Yilan's influence, he has always stood by the former in the grudge between Xin Fubing and Mi Yinyin. Today's incident was indeed caused by Mi Yinyin. When his wife said this again, there was a hint of disgust between his eyebrows: "It turns out that His Majesty sent someone to inform Heaven and Earth and the Ancestral Temple this morning to meet with Fourth Aunt at the Taishi Palace. After the fourth aunt agreed, she returned to Funing Palace and asked people to go to Xin Mansion to welcome cousin Xin into the palace... Everything went well! "
The incident happened when Xin Fubing entered the Beique Hall of Zishen Palace and sat on the phoenix chair to receive her homage. Mi Yinyin acted a little awkwardly for some reason. And she was very confused - when a group of people got up, she didn't get up, so she could just ignore it; but when a group of people knelt down, she didn't kneel down, so she stood out from the rest!
The chamberlain who simply sang the ceremony was afraid of her status and said nothing. But there were so many people there at that time, and the people in front of her didn’t see it, but could the people behind her see it
However, everyone knew that today was the great joy of the emperor and the empress. None of the people in the palace or the new Empress Xin who was looking down from above said anything. Who would discuss it publicly
Just because it wasn't discussed openly didn't mean it wasn't discussed, so after the dinner started, the news spread secretly throughout the table.
Outsiders don't know about Jiang Yalan, Mi Yinyin, Xin Fuling, Ou Bicheng, the emperor... this five-cornered love affair entangled with grudges, but how can the parties involved not know it
Jiang Yalan was more willing to marry Xin Fubing. If Xin Fubing hadn't had any feelings for him, Mi and Mi Yinyin would have tried their best to let his uncle become his father-in-law.
Xin Fubing is getting married today, and she is still the queen after entering the palace. Not to mention she is dressed dazzlingly, and her aloof aura is completely different from the impression of her "cousin" status in the past - a beauty under the spotlight, not to mention that she was once obsessed with her, and has been to this day. Jiang Yalan, who can't completely forget her, is a brave stranger. Seeing this scene, it's hard not to envy the emperor's sexual blessing, right
Under such circumstances, it was impossible for Jiang Yalan to say that she had no ideas or regrets.
When I heard that Mi Yinyin had behaved inappropriately when meeting the queen, she was naturally very unhappy and said to her: "If I had known that you couldn't even do the courtesy today, you might as well have just confessed and stayed here like the nineteen younger brothers and sisters." Home!"
Then Mi Yinyin cried naturally in public!
"You also know the current status of our family. Regardless of rank, it is the most conspicuous position when sitting. When she cried like this, everyone in the palace noticed it!" Jiang Yashuang mentioned it at this moment. Still a little annoyed, "How embarrassing and frustrating was that scene?! The fourth aunt's face looked like she wanted to throw something at her!"
"What happened next?" Qiu Yilan also frowned. Wasn't Xin Fubing's marriage troublesome enough? This Mi Yinyin simply doesn't want to cause trouble to others, right? !
Jiang Yashuang sneered and said: "Then the hall suddenly became quiet. This scene made Brother Thirteen so embarrassed! Just when he was about to stand up and confess on behalf of Sister Thirteen, Cousin Xin reacted quickly and said with a smile that she and Sister Thirteen The third sister-in-law is better than a biological sister. It seems that the thirteenth sister-in-law was so happy that she cried for her when she came out of the palace to become the queen! The fourth sister-in-law, her grandmother, and her little aunt joined in to make things right! "
He sighed tiredly, "Even when ordinary people get married and relatives go to have a wedding banquet, they don't just care about themselves and their children and ignore other people's once-in-a-lifetime event - let alone the wedding of an emperor and empress? How many people are here? , from last year to this year, not counting the savings from previous years, the purpose is to make this wedding go smoothly! It’s better for her to be jealous, so many people’s hard work almost went to waste!”
"Who said she was so lucky to have a mother-in-law like Sixth Aunt who loves her niece more than her own son?" Qiu Yilan became more and more annoyed as she listened, and sneered, "The grudge between her and Cousin Xin was a matter of love from beginning to end. She was the one who took the initiative to chase Cousin Xin to cause trouble! Earlier when Fifth Aunt came back, Sixth Aunt went to apologize to Fifth Aunt, but she didn't even pay attention to such a big arrogance. I really don't know how much the Mi family doted on their daughter to get used to it. Such an ancestor comes! But the ancestor is also the ancestor of the Mi family, and when we come to the Jiang family, we will continue to act like our ancestors, that is, bullying my uncle and aunt for their good nature!"
But Qiu Yilan's words were not all eye candy - for such a daughter-in-law, let Qin Guogong try it out!
Not to mention He's kind of cheating niece, even a good mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhuang, is only a good daughter-in-law, and there is no way for her daughter-in-law to go over her biological son. For someone like Mi Yinyin, Mrs. Fangzhuang's men would have either been forcibly turned away or gone back to her parents' home!
"After Cousin Xin reconciled, my aunt told Brother Thirteen and Sister-in-law Thirteen not to eat at the banquet, and while Mr. He thought so, but he was a man and would not talk about his sister-in-law very much. He said calmly, "Grandma asked me to accompany you back because my grandmother saw something wrong with Brother Thirteen. After all, I don't trust you very much."
Qiu Yilan asked: "What about Brother Thirteen on his way back?"
"As soon as I left the palace, I wanted to quarrel, but I stopped me." Jiang Yashuang said calmly, "After leaving the palace, Brother Thirteen said hello to me and rode away directly, looking in the direction of Jinghu Lake. there."
As mentioned earlier, the bank of Jinghu Lake is the most famous fireworks spot in Beijing. Jiang Yalan ran there, obviously deliberately trying to show Mi Yinyin's face!
"The thirteenth sister-in-law?"
"I followed her carriage to the gate of the Marquis Mansion. I saw her come back after entering the door." Jiang Yashuang breathed out, "Let's not talk about her anymore. Is the food ready? I got up early and entered the palace today. I have been busy until now. , I didn’t even drink a few sips of water, I felt really hungry.”