After nightfall, Luo Wei talked with Xie Yu about the affairs of the court in his own study at home, and said everything. In the end, even Luo Zhiqiu wanted to set Xie Yu a proper marriage, and the two of them both talked about it. Rowe didn't say anything about the meeting.
Wei Lan followed Luo Ze to the house of Zhao Henian, the general of Fengwu, as a guest. Luo Wei did not object to Wei Lan interacting with the generals in the army, but Luo Ze was even more keen to treat Wei Lan as the next Ning Fei.
The banquet in the palace is also at its most lively, singing and dancing are peaceful, and the ruler and ministers are having fun together. Fairy music fluttering, dancing girls' long dresses flying, and fragrant powder falling in bursts.
Chang's daughter sat in the Qingwendian's new room and made a noise for a day, but it was so quiet that she could hear the chirping of insects outside the window. There were six other palace servants who accompanied her in the room, but they didn't speak. Chang's daughter listened to the intermittent insect chirping, and became even more nervous, her palms sweating. I don't know how long I sat, but just when Chang's daughter thought that the whole night was going to pass, the door was pushed open from the outside, and the sound of congratulations spread into the room. Chang's daughter held both hands together, only in this way could she keep herself from trembling in front of others.
The grandmother, who has the ceremony, spoke the auspicious words of the newlyweds passed down from generation to generation.
When Chang's daughter heard the words of Zaosheng Takako, her face couldn't help but heat up. When the maids stopped talking, the Chang's daughter heard a man's voice saying: "You all go down, go outside to receive the reward, you are not needed here." This should be her husband, the second prince Long Xuan . This is the first time that Chang's daughter has heard Long Xuan's voice. The voice is clear and smooth, and the tone is gentle, but there is no sense of joy.
The irrelevant people in the room all retreated, and only Long Xiang was still standing.
"Why haven't you left yet?" Long Xuan asked.
"You drank a lot today," Long Xiang said, "do you care about this tonight? Would you like Fuyun to bring you a bowl of sober soup?"
"Are you stupid for reading?" Long Xuan drove Long Xiang out of the house, "Several younger brothers are still in front, you go and entertain them for me, just remember one thing, don't say anything that shouldn't be said, don't talk nonsense!"
"I'll stop you from drinking, what can I say that shouldn't be said?" Long Xiang was pushed out of the door by Long Xuan, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "The same is true for those few, the father and the emperor are with the third brother, so they dare not dare to say. I'm going to make trouble with the third brother, and I only rely on it to make your big marriage here. If you have the ability, go to the third brother! "
"Shut up!" Long Xuan fierce Long Xiang said: "Do you want me to scold you on this day too?"
Long Xiang whispered in his mouth and went to the front hall.
Chang's daughter heard someone closing the door, and listened carefully to the movement in the room, as if she and Long Xuan were the only ones in the room at the moment.
Long Xuan glanced at the Chang's daughter who was sitting on the new bed. On the red hijab was the mandarin ducks embroidered with gold thread and playing in the water. Long Xuan sat at the table and took a piece of cake to eat. He was hungry early, and it was lively all night, so Long Xuan only had time to eat now. Looking at the two mandarin ducks embroidered with gold thread, Long Xuan recalled the mandarin duck buttons that Luo Weifu threw into the ink pool again, and his heart was in chaos again. , just a little better.
Chang's daughter had a red hijab on her head, so she couldn't see it, but she had been listening carefully to the movement in the house, but the prince's meal was a rule established by a young man, silently, and the Chang's daughter only knew that Long Xuan was in the house. , but did not know what Long Xuan was doing.
After eating some cakes, Long Xuan walked to Chang's daughter.
Chang's daughter sat quietly, unaware that Long Xuan was in front of her.
Long Xuan waved his hand and extinguished the candle beside the bed.
The people in the old palace who were guarding outside the house were all happy when they saw the lights in the new house go out.
Long Xuan stepped out of the window, and when Fortune was watching Long Xuan came out, he immediately whispered, "Your Highness, everything has been arranged for the servant. Is the princess here?"
"You stay here," Long Xuan said in a low voice, "She will not lift her hijab by herself as a bride, I will come back as soon as possible."
"Yes," Fuyun replied: "The slaves are here to guard."
Long Xuan climbed out from the harem wall of Qingwen Hall, and left Qingwen Hall without anyone noticing.
"His Royal Highness?" In the bridal room, Chang's daughter shouted boldly, but no one paid her any attention after waiting for a long time. Chang's daughter didn't know what happened. The wedding night shouldn't be like this, but Chang's daughter didn't have the courage to shout a second time. All she could do was wait.
Tonight, the banquet at the Great Zhou Palace will be held until dawn, and the monarchs and ministers will not go home if they are drunk, but not all places in this huge palace can feel the joy of the prince's wedding.
For example, the East Buddha Palace in the depths of the palace, offering offerings to the Buddha, could not wash away the bad luck of this palace.
The guarding of the East Buddha Palace is a chore, just like today, the two princes got married, and there are royal rewards up and down the palace, but it was late at night, and there was no one for their reward. to distribute.
"Wouldn't you just forget us?" Some guards couldn't wait any longer, and asked them the commander of this group of people.
"It's not just us here," the guard commander reassured his subordinates and said: "There is still a cold palace in this palace, as well as Ye Ting, as well as Concubine Liu's Eying Palace, maybe there is no reward money, those places are not as good as us. here."
The guards looked at their own boss together, do you have to compare such a half-hearted thing? Who is worse than who
"Shut up and be honest." The commander thought about his own words and felt bored, and said impatiently, "How can your majesty lose our reward? We think it's money, but in your majesty's eyes, is a little silver money? ?"
The guards were talking here when they saw the eunuch in charge brought the little eunuch under him.
"Reward money!" A guard said happily.
The commander wanted to train his subordinates, but looking at the group of people around him, all of them had bright eyes, so the commander didn't care. They are in a cold place here, and they can’t compare to their colleagues in the good places of Changming Palace. They are rewarded from time to time. The royal family does not reward them. The ministers often put money in the pockets of those people. These guards who guard the cold palace are also guards, but they are more popular than people.
Here, the eunuch in charge began to pay out rewards according to the roster of guards.
Not long after, two more eunuchs came with food boxes in both hands.
The commander looked at the eunuch walking in front, and knew that he was the father-in-law of the imperial kitchen, who delivered supplements to the Empress Dowager every day. "Why are you still sending food so late today?" The commander asked the father-in-law.
"The wedding of the second and third highnesses was specially ordered by His Majesty to make the Empress Dowager happy," the father-in-law said.
"Then let's go in," the commander remembered his share of the reward. Seeing that this was an acquaintance who was seen every day and often came to this East Buddha Palace to run errands, he didn't ask any more questions, and ordered his men to open outside the East Buddha Palace. He let the two people in through a small door, without even taking a look at the eunuch who was following the acquaintance.
The Queen Mother sat in a small Buddhist hall with a white porcelain Guanyin statue in front of her, with a compassionate face and compassionate eyes. The queen mother recited the Buddhist scriptures silently, and knocked on the wooden fish when she read the last sentence.
"Grandmother."
After hearing the shout from behind, the wooden hammer in the Queen Mother's hand fell to the ground. The old queen did not get up, but sat and turned around quickly. In front of her was a man in a low-grade eunuch uniform. The queen stared at the man's face, opened her mouth, and called out for a long time: " Xuan'er!"