After Zhuangzi of Qingyun Mountain was bought, An Changqing found a craftsman to repair it, clean it and sweep it. After such repairs, it was already in the twelfth lunar month.
Seeing that the Laba Festival was approaching, a decree was passed from the palace, calling An Changqing and Xiao Zhige into the palace.
According to royal custom, as the princess of the Northern War, An Changqing and Xiao Zhige will enter the palace together on the next day of their wedding to thank them. It's just that several people in the palace didn't like Xiao Zhige, and An Changqing was also a male princess. Although it was a good thing for all parties, it felt disgusting to see it. He simply gave grace to save the two of them from entering the palace to greet them.
Therefore, An Changqing has not yet entered the palace.
An Changqing frowned a little after sending off the eunuch who passed the decree. At this time in the last life, the palace did not announce that they would enter the palace for an audience. After his big marriage in the last life, he never left the palace again. It was not until the banquet was held in the palace on New Year's Eve that he entered the palace with Xiao Zhige.
There are many rules and regulations in the palace. After entering the palace, his eyes were blackened, and he was even more cautious and cautious, not even daring to glance at him. He was tormented in fear and fear. Lunar New Year's eve.
At that time, the queen mother and the queen also summoned him, but he didn't dare to say more and see more, and he nodded his head in all things, at least he dealt with it, but he didn't even see what those people looked like.
Now that he was summoned into the palace ahead of time, An Changqing was worried about whether something had happened, and that he would get into trouble. But he recounted the things that had happened since his rebirth, but he didn't even think about what went wrong, so he asked the queen to call him into the palace in advance.
Unable to find the reason, An Changqing could only raise his vigilance secretly, thinking that in two days, at least learn the rules of the palace well. In the palace, there are aunts who came out of the palace. It's just that the palace has no female dependents, and it has not come in handy.
Now An Changqing can call someone over to ask about the rules and things to pay attention to in the palace.
"You don't have to learn this." Xiao Zhige stopped An Fu, who was going to pass on his mother, and turned to An Changqing: "When you follow me, they won't embarrass you too much."
An Changqing hesitated: "But... will this fall into place?"
The corner of Xiao Zhige's mouth twitched, and his expression was slightly cold: "The more handles I have and the worse my reputation, the happier they will be."
An Changqing was stunned for a moment, and then he thought of all kinds of outrageous rumors and rumors, and then he understood.
A prince who holds a heavy army, but has no mother to rely on, has no emperor's heart, and is destined to lose his eligibility for the throne. If he had a good reputation and became a hero of Daye, there would only be countless spears and arrows waiting for him.
The first person who could not tolerate him was Emperor Anqing who was sitting on the throne.
Only as now, with a notorious reputation, cruelty, and unpopularity, did Emperor Anqing dare to continue to hand over military power to him and let him guard the north for him.
This is the result that the palace wants to see, and it is also the result that all parties in the court want to see.
An Changqing raised his eyes and stared at him. The man sat on the side with a big golden sword, his back was as straight as a long spear, just sitting there quietly, he was as steady and reliable as a mountain, as if countless burdens could not overwhelm him.
But An Changqing had seen him being crushed with his own eyes.
He suppressed the emotion in his eyes, and suddenly understood the loneliness of the former emperor. In the last life, he clearly had a chance of winning, but he chose to let the commander of the Imperial Guards open the city gate; obviously there was still a chance to survive, but he chose to commit suicide in Qiwu Palace alone... At that time, he must be tired.
The iron armored long spear, alone guarding this great Ye Jiangshan, was scolded by all the people, and no one understood. Even the one who was supposed to be closest to him, regarded him as a flood and beast, fearing to escape. So in the end... he finally chose to let go.
Since this country can't be kept, then don't keep it; since they call him a tyrant, then he will be a tyrant.
All the people in the world will take care of him, and he will take all of the people in the world.
In the end, he came alone and left alone.
An Changqing let out a sigh of turbid air, suppressed the soreness in his nose, suddenly stood up, walked to him and squatted down, put his hands on the backs of his hands, and raised his head slightly: "But I don't want to hear them talk about you. bad words, you obviously... so good."
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Xiao Zhige took a breath and looked at him with deep black eyes. After a long time, his Adam's apple slid up and down, and he made a hoarse voice: "If you don't want to hear it, don't allow them to talk."
The words were always domineering, but An Changqing felt that the man's cold and stern face became cute, he leaned his face on his knee and rubbed his hand: "Well, so this time I enter the palace, I have to take care of it. Performance, so as not to embarrass you."
Xiao Zhige's heart was slightly warm, his fingers curled up, and then they covered the top of his head stiffly, and stroked along the jet-black hair: "I won't be ashamed."
"So you still have to call Mammy. At least you can't go wrong with the rules."
An Changqing raised his head, the soft and smooth hair slipped along his fingers, Xiao Zhige shook his hands in a loss, and said, "Okay, listen to you."
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On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, An Changqing and Xiao Zhige entered the palace together.
On this day, An Changqing got up early, and the dress for entering the palace was already prepared. Because he is a man, he doesn't need to dress like a woman, so he just put on a complicated dress.
Xiao Zhige also changed into the prince's dress, the pattern on the dress was the same as his, only Xiao Zhige was black and red, while An Changqing was white and red. The two are tall and strong, and the other slender and handsome. They are two completely different temperaments, but when they stand together, they fit unexpectedly.
Even An Fu sighed in a low voice: "Looking at it like this, the prince and the son are really a good match."
An Changqing quietly pursed the smile on his lips, Xiao Zhige glanced at An Fu, although he didn't say anything, his expression was very soft.
The two packed up and went out together.
When we went out, the snow fell swayingly outside, and the groom came over in a carriage. As soon as Xiao Zhige opened the curtain, he withdrew again and asked Wang Fugui to go to the warehouse to fetch his fox fur cloak.
The fox fur cloak was made of a rare silver fox that he hunted in Yanzhou. After this cloak was sewn, it was kept in the warehouse because he practiced martial arts and was resistant to cold. At this time, it just happened to be used by An Changqing.
Wang Fugui came over with the cape, Xiao Zhige took it, shook it away, and carefully draped it over An Changqing.
An Changqing was indeed a little cold. Although this dress was very complicated, it was not warm. At this time, his fingers were cold. After Xiao Zhige put the cloak on him, he cut off the cold wind outside.
After tying the tie, Xiao Zhige said, "Go up."
An Changqing smiled at him and stepped on the horse stool. Xiao Zhige did not ride a horse today, but also accompanied him in the carriage. An Changqing, wrapped in thick fox fur, his hands warmed by Xiao Zhige, drove to the palace gate in the swaying carriage.
After passing two gates and reaching the inner palace gate, you have to get off the carriage and transfer to a soft sedan to enter. The two got on the sedan chairs respectively, carried by the palace servants, and walked swayingly to the Kunyi Palace where the Queen Mother was located.
Without the big stove, An Changqing rubbed his hands together, took a deep breath into his palms, and opened the sedan curtain to look out.
The palace was the same as he remembered, but it was not as dead as he remembered. Because the New Year is approaching, there will be a banquet in the palace, and the maids and eunuchs are all dressed up everywhere, and you can see the palace people in a hurry along the way.
The soft sedan swayed for nearly a quarter of an hour before reaching the Kunyi Palace.
An Changqing got off the sedan chair, rearranged his clothes, took off the fox fur and handed it over to the maid who was serving, before stepping into Kunyi Palace with Xiao Zhige.
In the inner hall, the earth dragon was burning, and a warm fragrance rushed toward the door when entering the door. An Changqing did not look sideways, and followed Xiao Zhige to meet him.
"Give a seat." The queen mother raised her hand slowly, and a palace maid brought two chairs. An Changqing and Xiao Zhige sat down and finally saw the true faces of the Queen Mother and the Queen.
The Empress Dowager is nearly sixty years old, but she only looks in her early fifties. She has a kind face and a string of Buddhist beads around her left hand. She looks very approachable. The Empress sits at the bottom of the Empress Dowager. Shi Zheng looked at An Changqing with a smile, and said, "A few days ago, I was sympathetic to your newlyweds, and I didn't call you into the palace. It happened that I entered the palace today, so I gave the rewards I prepared earlier, so as not to avoid it. You say that I am partial to being a mother, and I am partial to the Crown Princess."
The queen mother swept over An Changqing calmly, slowly twisting her hands and putting on the beads.
An Changqing lowered his eyes and said in his heart, here we come.
It's just that he was already prepared, and at this time he just pretended to be frightened and said: "Changqing dare not, the crown princess has a noble status, and she is also the elder sister-in-law, and the mother and queen should love her. Changqing and the prince have no complaints."
"Having said that, but after all, they are all children raised by me, and a bowl of water still needs to be leveled, and I can't bear to feel wronged." The queen smiled and motioned for the maid by her side to bring up the reward: "See if you like it or not. ."
An Changqing quickly stood up and thanked him. On the tray brought by the palace maid, there are jade pendants, calligraphy and paintings, and other gifts, all of which are suitable for men.
After accepting the reward, An Changqing sat down again and heard the empress say again: "I have two sons, the prince and Zhige. The prince gets married early, and the children can walk. Now only Zhige can make me feel at ease. He's finally married, and it's time to spread the leaves..."
An Changqing's heart sank as she listened to her continue: "You are newly married Yaner, and the mother and queen don't want to be disgusting to put people in your room, but Zhige is impatient, Changqing, as a princess, you should persuade you. If you want to persuade, you can't just rely on his will, you have to have a bloodline inheritance..."
An Changqing lowered her eyes and quickly thought about the intention of her words. In a sudden change of mind, a countermeasure was quickly made.
He suddenly got up, lifted the hem of his clothes, knelt firmly on the ground and kowtowed: "Please punish the imperial grandmother and the queen mother, Changqing cannot obey."
"This child..." The queen was startled and called for someone to help him up.
An Changqing knelt down and refused to stand up, raised his head stubbornly, and said loudly, "Changqing had a white-headed appointment with the prince long ago. In this life and this life, I only wish the two of them to stay together and never leave the white head."