Chapter 30: Condolences
As soon as the cold spring of March passed, the weather suddenly warmed up, and the rain was clear in April, and the Nanshan was clear. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere is no catkins due to the wind, only sunflowers tilt towards the sun.
There are some sunflowers planted in the palace, but they are just some bones that are clustered up, but Zhang Zhaohua has no intention of looking at it, when she walks all the way, she is full of thoughts about things, and when she sits next to the princess, she is even more dizzy and restless by a heavy crown dress. However, she quickly came back to her senses and saw that Princess Xu and the palace maids around her were looking at her with some novelty. She became more nervous for a while, and said, "Mother, what's wrong with me?"
Princess Xu looked her up and down, but smiled and said nothing. Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but feel even more at a loss, but before she could ask, she heard footsteps outside, and Ah Wei came in and said, "Niangniang, everyone has arrived." ”
"Please come in," Princess Xu smiled: "What else is this to report!"
Soon Ah Wei came in again, and there were fifteen or sixteen people behind him, and when they rushed in, there was not much space left in the huge nave. When the leader was about to clean up the appearance and salute, the princess stood up and grabbed her sleeve and said with a smile: "Family, do you still need so many courtesies!
The old lady headed by her can't be called old, but she is in her forties and less than fifty, she was pulled by the princess, and said with a smile: "Since Niangniang said so, the courtiers were shy and confused!"
She thanked the princess and sat on the chair, but she saw Zhang Zhaohua at a glance, which made her smile pause, and the other people in the palace were more or less surprised when they saw Zhang Zhaohua - this was too obvious, Zhang Zhaohua only felt that the hairs on her back stood up, and she felt that there must be something wrong today.
These people looked at each other, and after reading Zhang Zhaohua, they began to look at their clothes, and then the one who was still the leader said with a little hesitation: "Niangniang, we heard the call, and we didn't wear a dress, it's really a little undignified——"
Princess Xu finally couldn't help laughing, Zhang Zhaohua suddenly realized, she saw that in this hall, she was the only one wearing a heavy dress, and even wearing a high crown, and the others, including the princess, were wearing regular clothes, and because of the warm weather in April, they all changed into light shirts, which was a stark contrast to Zhang Zhaohua.
It was self-defeating, Zhang Zhaohua originally heard that the princess said that she wanted her to meet the relatives of King Yan's subordinates, and she said in her heart that King Yan would be the emperor in the future, and these subordinates and attendants would be important ministers of the country in the future, and their wives would also be the first and second grades. Unexpectedly, the princess didn't mean to be serious at all, and these ladies were all wearing ordinary clothes, but she was dressed inappropriately, which made everyone else suspect that she was not wearing the right clothes, and also made the good atmosphere solidify.
"I don't blame you, I don't blame you," the princess couldn't help laughing more and more, pointed at Zhang Zhaohua and said: "You see, this is the princess Zhang, she is a etiquette person, I heard that I want to see you, I wore a crown dress, it can be seen that it is official, I haven't had time to ask her if she is hot!"
"Mother," Zhang Zhaohua also smiled, "The bride is very hot!"
Everyone in the palace laughed, and the princess asked A Rui to take Zhang Zhaohua down to change clothes, and when she came back, she said: "My wife and I have family etiquette, like a family member, and there is no intimacy." ”
Zhang Zhaohua nodded and said, "Yes, the bride understands that the family does not speak two words." ”
The princess introduced her one by one: "This is the Wang family, the wife of Zhang Yu, the commander of the left guard of Yanshan, the wife of Qiu Fu, the guard of Yanshan, and the wife of Zhu Neng, the deputy guard of Yanshan...... Yanshan right guards the wife of Meng Shan, the wife of the thousand households Meng Shan, the wife of the deputy thousand households Tan Yuan, the deputy thousand households Chen Yuan's wife Meng, the deputy thousand households Xu Xiang's wife Zhang, the right guard of Yanshan Wang Zhen's wife Zhou, and the wife of the hundred households Zhang Wu. ”
Zhang Zhaohua has seen them one by one, and there is no tension and crampedness when they came, everyone is a simple woman, about touch because her husband is serving in the army and they are close to the barracks, they are full of breath and grandeur, and their faces are also full of energy, with wide eyebrows and thick eyebrows, and the sitting posture is also particularly interesting, unlike Jiangnan women who hate to shrink into the chair, it is the appearance of sitting on half of the chair with the buttocks, leaning forward and leaning forward to exert force, quite a bit of the meaning of a golden knife and a horse, and it feels refreshing to see it.
Especially the Zhang Wang family, who is the leader, has a square face, a high and wide forehead, a straight and straight nose, and is full of heroism. When she heard that Zhang Zhaohua's ancestral home is Yongcheng, Henan, and her mother's surname is also Zhang, and her family's surname is Wang, she felt very fateful and said with a smile: "If Mrs. Zhang doesn't dislike it, we can talk about relatives!"
But it turned out that Wang's husband Zhang Yu was also from Henan, and it was even more coincidental that he was still in Kaifeng, less than a day's distance from Zhang Zhaohua's house.
Zhang Zhaohua couldn't ask for it, and said with a smile: "My house is on the diagonal street near Zunyi Gate in Anfufang, I don't know where my wife's house is? ”
Wang smiled and said the address, Zhang Zhaohua asked the others like this, and secretly wrote down that it would be very cheap to communicate with each other in the future.
"Seeing you," Princess Xu said: "I think of Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Fang again, one followed her husband to Yongpingwei, and the other went to Tongzhouwei, if you want to see each other again, you have to wait until the New Year's holiday." ”
This is talking about Zhao Yi and Fang Sheng, Zhao Yi was originally a hundred households of Yanshan Wei, but now he has been transferred to Yongpingwei, and Fang Sheng has also become the commander of Tongzhou Wei.
"Niangniang," Zhou said with a smile: "Zhao and Fang were both promoted because of their merits, but because they were to be transferred out of Beiping, they were not happy, and it was not for His Royal Highness to comfort them, let them do it, and they would not leave." ”
"I want to serve the imperial court," Princess Xu sighed: "The palace is too small to block the wings of the bird, just like your husband, the credit is enough to be promoted, but he still follows His Royal Highness, it is wronged to you." ”
"What do you say," they all said, "Peking is our home, what should we do to leave home!"
Princess Xu recounted to them and said: "Before our Royal Highness set out on the expedition, he also told me that the soldiers worked hard with him, and asked me to comfort their families and relax their hearts.
Everyone laughed when they said this, and they all nodded: "My grandson followed His Highness on the expedition to protect the family and defend the country, and his duty is to refuse, so we women will take care of the housework and not let them have worries." ”
King Yan goes out two or three times a year, which is considered to be an active attack, and there are a few sporadic times to chase and suppress Yu Kou, and there are also those who go to Liaodong to conquer scattered tribes, because the King of Liao is in the country, and the soldiers and horses are not familiar with it, and now he is also helping this younger brother train and train soldiers. This time, King Yan took his troops to Liaodong to conquer the savage Jurchens, and he just left two days ago.
Zhang Zhaohua said: "It is also the generals who are not afraid of the wind and frost to guard the border for the country, we have a peaceful life now, your ladies run the house, the virtuous and the fed, and also have outstanding merits, if we don't guard the family and work hard, how can the soldiers have food and clothing?"
This also won a piece of approval, Princess Xu smiled: "This time it is not to go to the Mongolian people, but to chase and suppress the savages, the cavalry is fast, but more than 20 days less than a month, you can come back, before the autumn will not move the army, let's get together, I have thought about it with you, in May, let's avoid this evil month, just row and shoot willows in Xihaizi, live for a month and don't go back, from June to August, let's go to the big garden of Wengshan to enjoy it!"
King Yan has a manor in Wengshan in the western suburbs, and these tribal generals have also built a garden, but it is not too big, as soon as they heard that they can go to the garden this summer, they all smiled and said: "Weng Shanbo is really a blessed land in the world, I don't want to come back when I go, I just want to live in the garden all the time!"