220 Princesses' Dispute
This day passed like a dream, with several twists and turns.
From the eldest lady of the Xu family, to the queen of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and then to the princess of Daming Yan, fate shook like a pendulum, and finally the dust settled. Emperor Hongwu's decree of marriage arrived at the Zhan Garden of the Duke of Wei on the same day, and three days later, Qin Tianjian chose an auspicious day, which was set on the eighth day of the second month of the next month.
Hearing the news of the marriage of the fourth prince Yan Wang, the royal family went to Queen Ma's Kunning Palace to congratulate her, and the pot-bellied Princess Huaiqing held her stomach and smiled: "Congratulations to the queen mother for having a virtuous daughter-in-law, the eldest lady of the Xu family is a cool person, I like her very much." ”
Princess Huaiqing is innocent and lively, she is the most favored princess in the palace, Queen Ma touched her belly with pity, "This is very good, your aunt and sister-in-law will be more harmonious in the future, but it is snowing outside, be careful of slippery roads, your belly is old, and you have to rush to congratulate you with joy." Pregnant women should be careful in everything, and when they give birth to a child, you love to play there and play, be obedient, and endure for a few months. ”
Princess Huaiqing smiled: "It's not in the way, Wang Ning has been with me." When I gave birth to this abrasive little ball, after the confinement, it happened to be spring flowers, I wanted to go hunting with Wang Ning, I hadn't ridden a horse for a long time, and I wanted to be happy on horseback all day. ”
Everyone laughed, and Queen Ma couldn't help laughing, "Good child, you have to be called Xiaoqiu, if you really give birth to a slippery child who doesn't slip and jumps up and down all day long, there will be times when you cry." ”
Princess Huaiqing said with a smile: "When the time comes, the child will be sent to the queen mother to be raised, the queen mother is the best at tuning/teaching children, our brothers and sisters are raised under the mother's knees, all of them are excellent, even I am not bad." ”
Everyone laughed again, Kunning Palace was very lively, a cluster of flowers, and Queen Ma was happy.
At the royal dinner, the lights were brilliant, Queen Ma personally pointed to a few dishes, paused, and asked Hu Shanwei: "You and Miss Xu have known each other since childhood, what dishes does she like to eat?" ”
A lover eventually became a family, Hu Shanwei was happy for Xu Miaoyi, and there was joy between his eyebrows and eyes, "Miss Xu doesn't pick her mouth, she eats everything, but she likes butter snails the most." ”
Queen Ma said: "These dishes are sent to the Wei Mansion together with ghee pickled snails. ”
Given by the queen's mother, the Xu family knelt down in the direction of the palace to thank her, and the dishes to be rewarded should be sent to the ancestral hall for the ancestors first, but the ghee snail was left to Xu Miaoyi.
Xu Da said to his daughter: "The emperor has prejudices against you, which cannot be eliminated in a year or two. But the queen likes you, in the future, be filial to your mother, be a daughter-in-law, the important thing is to deal with the relationship with your mother-in-law, what is the attitude of your father-in-law, don't worry, listen to your left ear, come out of your right ear, as long as you don't collide with your face, so that your father-in-law can't get off the stage, it will become a ......"
Poor and dignified first contributor to the founding of the country, both a father and a mother, his daughter is about to get married, Xu Da can't wait to hand over all his experience in life to his daughter, and even the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be a few words, all day long either teaching his daughter, or taking care of his daughter's dowry.
Xu Miaoyi's heart warmed, like crooked on her father's shoulder when she was coquettish when she was a child, "Thank you, Daddy, in order to fulfill me and Zhu Di, you don't even want the title." ”
Xu Da's body stiffened, and then he naturally touched the top of his daughter's head, "Half a life is to defend the country, I can't even protect my family, and I can't even protect my family, so what kind of general should I be." It's just that in the future, you will become Princess Yan and the daughter-in-law of the Zhu family, and you will have King Yan to protect you, and what your father can do for you is very limited. ”
Xu Miaoyi said: "Father doesn't need to introspect, you have done enough for your daughter." ”
Xu Da said: "Now that the Tianyuan Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty has just succeeded to the throne, and the new emperor has succeeded to the throne, in order to gather people's hearts, exclude dissidents, and transfer contradictions, they usually start wars, and the emperor rejected his letter of courtship, and a big war between the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty is about to begin." After sending you to get married, my father will return to the battlefield, and it is estimated that he will not come back for a year and a half, so you have to take good care of yourself. ”
When it came to the Liba thorn she bought, a chill flashed in Xu Miaoyi's eyes, "I used to plague my cousin, and now I am my father's enemy, Xiaoba is really my mortal enemy." ”
Xu Da said: "This time, King Yan Bacheng will also participate in the war. ”
This time is not only a battle between the two countries, but also related to the dignity of King Yan as a husband, and no one can tolerate the hatred of taking his wife.
Xu Miaoyi said: "I'll go too, I used to follow my father's Northern Expeditionary Army as a military doctor for two years." ”
Xu Da picked up a butter bubble snail and stuffed it into his daughter's mouth, "Are you embarrassed to mention the past?" Stay in King Yan's Mansion obediently, can't I join forces with King Yan to beat that stinky and undried eight thorns? ”
Xu Miaoyi puffed out her cheeks and said, "Okay, my father beat him up for me." ”
Wei Guogong Xu Jiazhan Yuan is happily preparing for the eldest lady to marry, the palace banquet is also in full swing, Princess Lin'an, who has just been pregnant, and Princess Huaiqing, who is about to give birth, are sisters of the same mother, all of whom were born to Concubine Mu Sun, but Huaiqing's concubine is Wang Ning, who was born as a commoner, and Princess Lin'an's concubine is Li Qi, the son of Li Shanchang, the former prime minister of a famous family.
Princess Lin'an is the longest princess of the royal family, and she has been married to Li Qi for several years before she is pregnant, so she is very careful, unlike her sister Princess Huaiqing, who is smug and laughs unscrupulously.
"Sister, accompany me to fold a peach blossom and give it to the queen mother to insert a bottle." Princess Huaiqing drank a few glasses of warm rice wine, her cheeks were red, the bridge of her nose was still beads of sweat, and the innocence and liveliness in her eyes were no different from before she got married.
Princess Lin'an leaned on the smoked cage, the dishes in front of the table only moved a few chopsticks, just for show, she hadn't eaten much, she waved her hand lazily, "It's always this heartless virtue, the queen mother said that the road is slippery, everything will be said after giving birth, you want to go to the peach garden to make trouble." ”
Princess Huaiqing pulled Princess Lin'an up, "Sister, since you and I got married, went out of the palace to live in the princess's mansion, I rarely accompany my mother, today the fourth brother is engaged, the queen mother is happy, let's send a peach blossom together, the poetry says, 'The peach is dying, scorching its flower, the son is home, IKEA and IKEA', what a gift for the occasion." ”
"It just so happens that we are all pregnant, and the two pregnant women folded the peach blossoms to send their mothers, and they also blessed the fourth brother and Xu Miaoyi to give birth to a noble son as soon as possible, and the royal family will add Ding as soon as possible, and the queen mother will definitely like it. Anyway, we just walked a way, and the work such as selecting peach blossoms and cutting branches was done by the palace people, and we didn't do it ourselves. ”
No one will please people for no reason, although Princess Huaiqing is not a concubine, but the most favored by the emperor is because she is careful and generous, and knows how to observe words and feelings.
In front of her sister, Princess Lin'an lacked the dignified and elegant pretense of the royal princess, generous and virtuous, she sighed faintly, and her words were a little sour:
"You like Xu Miaoyi so much? Have you forgotten that in this Lanzhou defense battle, her father Wei Guogong didn't know what was crazy, and he must pull all the three brothers of the Li family to the battlefield. ”
Of course, Princess Huaiqing remembered that after the concubine Li Qi left, her sister was actually fine, and the fetus was very stable, but the imperial doctor asked for the pulse three times a day according to Emperor Hongwu's instructions, and the atmosphere became tense in vain...... Princess Huaiqing says:
"It's said that I've been stupid for three years since I've been pregnant, how can someone as smart as my sister be more confused than me? The things in the court have nothing to do with us being princesses, what is the reason why my sister said that Wei Guogong committed 'madness'? Who are we? The most noble Zhu family royal family in the world, except for our Zhu family, all the people in the world are courtiers, whether it is the Xu family or the Li family, they are all courtiers. As a princess, how can she be biased because she married the Li family? It is very inappropriate to belittle the Xu family in order to promote the Li family, and if the father and queen mother know about it, they will be scolded. ”
was taught a lesson by her own sister, Princess Lin'an was a little angry, "You said that I was biased, are you selfless?" Your concubine Wang Ning is a good friend of Xu Miaoyi, of course you think that the Xu family is good. If I marry the Li family, how can I not be upset for the Li family? ”
Princess Huaiqing said: "Of course I have selfish intentions, but I like Xu Miaoyi, it's just a personal friend, I think she is very temperamental to me, if she is the kind of pretentious person, even if it is Wang Ning's own sister, do you think I ignore her?" And I have never deliberately held the Xu family for the sake of a Xu Miaoyi, or deliberately stepped on other famous families for the sake of the Xu family. ”
Princess Lin'an laughed angrily, "According to what you said, the Li family was bullied by Wei Guogong, and I can only stand by and watch?" ”
"Sister be cautious!" Princess Huaiqing said: "Your father-in-law Li Shanchang is the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty who has just returned to his hometown, and the Duke of Wei is the military general with the highest status in the Ming Dynasty. What's more, the border crisis is the responsibility of the husband, if I were a man, I would also carry a gun and charge into battle. The Li family eats the king's fortune, the matter of loyalty to the king, what's wrong with the conscription battlefield? Even my father has no objection, let's be a princess and blame Wei Guogong in turn? ”
Princess Lin'an was not convinced, "But Li Qi is my husband." ”
Princess Huaiqing said coldly: "Sister, our princess is different from other women, other women are not married to their fathers, but they are married to their husbands. And the glory of the princess's life, and even the glory and wealth of the children come from the father, not the family of the concubine, sister don't put the cart before the horse, the child you conceived in October is surnamed Li, but the future of the children, is it because they are surnamed Li, or because they are the grandsons of their father? Sister to think through. ”
Princess Lin'an was speechless by her sister, and her sister seemed to be right, she couldn't refute it, but it was difficult to resolve the Geng Jie of Xu Miaoyi in her heart, but such a tricky woman was about to become Princess Yan, and the life of the Li family would be difficult in the future. 166 Reading Network