Chapter 31: Old Stories 1
Five years ago, at the beginning of summer, Yan Bo, the prince of Yan Kingdom, suddenly went to Zhang's mansion to ask to marry Zhang Feiruo, and it happened that only Mrs. Zhang was at home at home, Zhang Feiruo was only Zhang Cheng's granddaughter after all, Zhang Cheng felt that he was not good at stepping over Zhang Feiruo's parents Zhang Qijue and Mrs. Yurong, and rashly agreed to Yan Bo's courtship, so he used "marriage matters, it should be ordered by parents" to prevaricate.
Later, after Mrs. Yurong returned to the house, she knew about it, and even if she asked her husband Zhang Qijue to enter the palace in person and politely declined Yan Bo's courtship, it was nothing more than a perfunctory statement to thank His Highness for his love, and the daughter of Weichen was ashamed of it.
In short, what it means on the surface is that Zhang Feiruo is a talented child, even if it is a marriage event, Zhang Qijue and Mrs. Yurong don't want to persecute Zhang Feiruo, and want to obey Zhang Feiruo's own will. But the implication is that "if our family already has a heart, His Royal Highness is not a good person, it is better to die as soon as possible."
But Yan Bo ignored Zhang Qijue's polite words, Zhang Qijue just left the East Palace of the Prince of Yanhuang Palace on the front foot, Yan Bo went directly to the imperial study to ask Emperor Yanchang Yan Tian for a holy decree to give marriage, and asked Yan Tian to give the title of "Shunxi Side Concubine".
In Yan State, the word "Shunxi" is not something that anyone can afford, and only seven concubines have been awarded the title of "Shunxi" since the founding of Yan State, and five of them have become the queen of Yan soon after being crowned, which shows the weight of the title of "Shunxi", but Yan Tian waved his pen on the holy decree of marriage - agreed.
Along with the marriage decree sent to Zhangfu, in addition to the title of "Shunxi", there are also a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, cloth and jade silk, and countless rare treasures. This can be regarded as Yan Tian's dowry to the Zhang family for Yan Bo.
When the holy decree arrived at Zhang's mansion, up to Zhang Cheng, down to Zhang Qijue and Mrs. Yurong, Zhang Feiruo, and a group of small servants and maids in Zhang's mansion, in order to meet the holy decree, they knelt outside the gate of Zhangfu.
Obviously, from top to bottom, no one in the Zhang family is willing to take over this marriage, but Zhang Cheng, who represents the big family of Zhangfu, after the eunuch of Xuan Paper announced the holy decree. But he could only say "Thank you, Lord Long" and accepted this holy decree.
The Son of Heaven gives him a marriage, how can he refuse it?
Because Zhang Cheng's wife had passed away for many years at that time, on the day he received the holy decree, Zhang Cheng personally led the Zhang Mansion to begin preparations for Zhang Feiruo's marriage. Because after January. Zhang Feiruo was going to marry into the palace in the big red golden silk nanmu sedan chair sent by the palace and become the side concubine of the prince of Yan Kingdom.
And in the past month, the Zhang Mansion has been so busy that it is called a chicken flying and a dog jumping.
Zhang Qijue is okay, what should he do every day, Zhang Cheng is busy buying a dowry for Zhang Feiruo's granddaughter. Mrs. Yurong sighed all day long, unable to do anything, and always muttered things like "Pity my daughter, she is married to a non-human".
As the core protagonist of the incident, Zhang Feiruo, although he ate and drank three meals a day as usual during this month, he kept his door closed, did not cry or make trouble, and was surprisingly quiet.
The holy decree has been issued, hide, it must not be able to hide. Since he was going to marry the royal family as a daughter-in-law after all, Zhang Cheng was unwilling to wronged Zhang Feiruo, and the dowry for Zhang Feiruo was the best thing that could be found in Yanguo, but after all, because the time was too tight, many things were too late to prepare for the wedding.
In the early morning of the wedding day, Zhang Feiruo has been quietly at the mercy of the bride - wearing wedding dresses, combing new makeup, saying goodbye to grandfather Zhang Cheng, father Zhang Qijue, and mother Yurong and Mrs. Mingfu in front of the gate of Zhang's mansion.
The family watched Zhang Feiruo climb onto the big red golden silk nanmu sedan chair in front of the Zhang Mansion, and when the sedan chair was far away, Zhang Cheng sighed and turned around and went back to the house. Mrs. Yurong has been looking at the direction of the sedan chair leaving, and her husband Zhang Qijue has been quietly accompanying Mrs. Yurong to stand in front of the door of Zhang's mansion and look into the distance.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Zhang Chengcai took his son Zhang Qijue and daughter-in-law Mrs. Yurong to the Yanhuang Palace for a banquet.
Yan Tian placed the wedding banquet in the gathering hall. All the civil and military officials went with their families, and for a time the hall was so lively, everyone had a smile on their faces, and the words of congratulations to Yanchang Emperor Yantian, Empress Lu Xun, and Imperial Concubine Da Ji on the high throne were endless.
At that time, I looked at those smiling and congratulating the civil and military officials and their families. Mrs. Yurong sneered: "A group of blunt boys!"
That night, the hall pushed the cup and changed the lamp, sang and danced, but no one thought that it was that night, the prince's east palace was inexplicably watery, and what was more coincidental was that the fire point was the new house prepared by the palace people for a pair of newcomers!
Summer is originally hot and dry, but a little spark can ignite a raging fire, not to mention that there are many flammable items in the palace, when Yan Bo, who was entertaining guests in the Hui Palace, hurried to the front of the palace after learning the news, the fire was unstoppable, and the palace people went to water and put out the fire one after another, but still could not stop the slightest bit of fire, and the scorching breath made people unable to approach at all.
Emperor Yantian, Empress Lu Xun, Imperial Concubine Daxi, as well as Zhang Cheng, Zhang Qijue and Mrs. Yurong who came later were stunned when they looked at the raging fire in front of them, and after a long time, Mrs. Yurong came back to her senses first.
At that time, Mrs. Yurong grabbed Yan Bo's shirt and shouted to Yan Bo heartbreakingly: "Where is my Ruo'er? Where is my Ruo'er? Is she trapped inside? You quickly send someone in to save her!"
Yan Bo didn't answer Mrs. Yurong, but just let Mrs. Yurong pull at his clothes and go crazy, because Yan Bo was also stunned by the fire in front of him.
Later, Mrs. Yurong was pulled away by Zhang Qijue after returning to her senses.
Emperor Yan was on the side, and Mrs. Yurong's behavior could be described as disrespectful. In any of the nine countries, disrespecting the prince is equivalent to disrespecting the emperor, and their Zhang family can't afford this sin!
After all, Yan Tian is the lord of a country, compared to others, he is much calmer, and only ordered all the leisure palace people and guards in the palace to come to the prince's east palace to help extinguish the fire, and then left with Lu Xun and Daxi.
That night, before the crazy fire, Fu Zhangcheng, an old lady who had just turned seventy, fainted without relieving her breath, and then fell seriously ill and almost died. Mrs. Yurong cried heartbreakingly all night, if it wasn't for Zhang Qijue to stop her, I was afraid that Mrs. Yurong herself would rush into the fire to find Zhang Feiruo. And Yan Bo, he also stood stunned all night.
Five years ago, in the Imperial Palace of the Yan Kingdom, the fire in the Prince's East Palace burned all night before it was extinguished by a downpour of ten days in the morning.
After the fire was extinguished, Mrs. Yurong, who had been drenched in heavy rain and had her hair in a disheveled bun, was the first to rush into the ruins of the palace that had been burned and collapsed by the fire.
At that time, Mrs. Yurong, the whole person was in a state of madness, obviously those charcoal fires still had scorching residual heat, Mrs. Yurong's hands were burned to blood after just a few flips, but she didn't feel the burning pain, she just desperately rummaged through every place on the ruins with her hands, and kept muttering to herself: "Ruo'er, where are you? Mother is coming to look for you, come out quickly! Don't scare your mother! Ruo'er!"
Zhang Qijue, who has always been taciturn, looked at Mrs. Yurong who was so crazy, and his heart was so uncomfortable that he turned over the river, but he was a big man after all, and he was not as chaotic as Mrs. Yurong to lose his mind.
Glancing at the crown prince Yanbo, who was still standing dumbfounded, Zhang Qijue immediately ordered the palace people who were exhausted from a busy night to find tools to help rummage, but Zhang Qijue was clear in his heart, and he wanted to find the bones in the raging fire that burned all night, but he was afraid that it was unlikely.
Later, the truth was indeed as Zhang Qijue expected, the palace people searched for a whole morning, and the last corpse was not found, only a blackened phoenix crown made of pure gold was found in the location of the dormitory.
Mrs. Yurong, who was still frantically rummaging, rushed over and snatched the phoenix crown in the hands of the palace people with a speed beyond ordinary people's imagination when she saw the blackened phoenix crown.
Looking at the phoenix crown in her hand that had been burned black, but roughly retained its original appearance, Mrs. Yurong cried heartbreakingly, crying while crying: "This is the phoenix crown I designed for Ruo'er with my own hands and built by craftsmen, my Ruo'er! Ruo'er ......"
At that time, Mrs. Yurong's clothes were all wet, her flowers were discolored, her hair was scattered, her hands were full of wounds, and her hands were full of bloodstains.
On that day, all the palace people present who were soft-hearted were infected by Mrs. Yurong and cried one after another. For a while, the prince's east palace was a heart-wrenching cry.
At that time, Mrs. Yurong was like crazy, and her mouth kept saying as if she was accusing: "It's all you, it was you who hurt my Ruo'er! I said a long time ago that Ruo'er didn't want to marry here, I said it a long time ago! But you have to force Ruo'er to marry, it was you who hurt my Ruo'er! You pay back my Ruo'er!
Because of the night of crying, Mrs. Yurong's voice has become hoarse and does not return to its original state, if you don't listen carefully, I am afraid that you will not be able to hear what Mrs. Yurong is saying.
Looking at such a crazy Mrs. Yurong, Zhang Qijue was also very uncomfortable, and wanted to help Mrs. Yurong get up several times, but at that time, Mrs. Yurong's mind was already a little confused, and anyone who approached Mrs. Yurong would be smashed open by Mrs. Yurong with the charcoal fire around her, including Zhang Qijue. There was even a palace maid who was hit on the forehead by Mrs. Yurong because she couldn't dodge, and there was blood at that time, and the other palace people didn't dare to step forward when they saw this.
As for those guards, they wanted to forcibly step forward and knock out Mrs. Yurong so that they could send Mrs. Yurong back to Zhang's mansion, but they were stopped by Zhang Qijue. (To be continued.) )