Weddings

On the second day of the first month, the Tang Guogong Mansion was hung up and down, the carriages and horses in front of the door were weaving, almost half of the court hall was gathered, the servants and maids at home did not dare to slack off, and the wind was born under the feet of each of them when traveling, and the southwest corner of the main courtyard set up a wide green house. The guests were divided into men and women were invited to the left and right side rooms, their own delicacies and cheese guests, male guests greeted each other and delivered news, no one dared to discuss the court affairs at this time, only smiled and talked about the elegance of the wind and snow, and there were also sour quotations and flattery. The ladies all gathered in the backyard with their close-fitting maidservants, compared their makeup and faces, and quietly discussed the longevity of each family.

As the housewife, Mrs. Dou never showed up, Mu Qing shared a room with a group of non-grade female dependents, and was sitting on the seat, greeting the politeness of the two ladies on the left and right who had never met, and moving her numb calves slightly from time to time. In order not to show it or be rude, Ah Yun deliberately chose a swallow-colored narrow-sleeved short shirt for her, tied a skirt with a white background and vine branches of the same color, with a cold-proof mouse gray fur jacket, it is still the spirit snake bun that was piled up when she first entered the Tang State Mansion, and the bottom of the bun was rightfully buckled with a lotus-like tin, newly carved with pink and white jade, and a thin gold tassel was pressed in the middle, and the gold hairpin with a double stack of treasure flowers was hidden behind the bun, slightly revealing two short strings of gold beads. There was a jade pendant with the same lotus flower on her ears, and her skin was whiter than snow, whether it was lotus or swallow red, she could afford it. It's not a dress, it's graceful and light but has a natural temperament, even the ladies nearby can't help but look at her a few more times, but Du Ruhui has no official position in the court, and others don't know which family she is.

Mrs. Xianyu is the mother of the female family, so she did not arrive at the Tang State Mansion, so she did not have to accept her to make Mu Qing secretly happy in his heart, but unexpectedly he saw another person. The two ladies beside each other whispered about a tall, glamorous and luxurious lady in the middle seat, who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old. She has something else in her heart, and she has no intention of listening to it, so the table is not far away. Inadvertently, I still listened to a rough idea. "That Mrs. Gao, a good character, somehow, in her early years, she was matched with a county lieutenant of the ninth grade, it seems to be ...... Fuyang Wei, but after a year, he left. ”

Captain Fuyang? This sentence seemed to poke Mu Qing with a finger, and she listened calmly. "But the eldest lady of the Gao Shilang family? The lady hired Jiupin Lieutenant, and Gao Shilang was confused? ”

"That's right, so I left after only one year. It's her who owes it. After the separation, he can be matched with someone again, although it is only General Pingnan from the sixth grade, it is better than the previous one. ”

The two women discussed a few words superficially, and in the end they were not upbringing, so they closed their mouths together, and turned to praise the grandeur of the Tang State Mansion in vain. Mu Qing raised her head and glanced at the lady of the Gao family from a distance, she was born neatly and her complexion was very good, and it was common sense to think that she was unwilling. If in a peaceful and prosperous world, even if it is ruthless. may be able to barely get by, but the current situation, if it is better to be separated earlier, than to tire her whole clan.

I thought about it for a while. A little maid crept into the house, found her among the others, walked up to her, bowed respectfully, and whispered, "Madame, please." Please come with me. Mu Qing glanced left and right, and the female relatives who were close to her heard Mrs. Dou's invitation by name and looked at her in surprise. She just didn't see her. got up and flattened her slightly wrinkled skirt, bowed her head and walked out with the little maid. I don't know who recognized her, so she whispered to the people around her, and when she walked to the door, she could already hear someone whispering "Yu Hang Gu" and "Du Keming". Inadvertently looked up, and vaguely saw the tall lady in the seat, looking at her curiously. She simply stopped, turned her head and smiled at the lady Gao, and taught the lady who was much older than her to hurriedly withdraw her eyes and hide around uncomfortably.

Mrs. Dou was not in charge of the main hall, but was waiting in her usual living room, Mu Qing carefully stepped into the room, gently lifted the heavy curtains, sniffed, faintly smelled a trace of blood mixed with the heavy incense, she secretly said that Mrs. Dou's illness was heavy again. When she entered the inside, the people around her had already been rejected, and she saw that she was dressed crookedly on the half-couch, and her face was coated with Yanzhisu powder, but she still couldn't cover the sickness, and her cloudy eyes made Mu Qing unconsciously think of Grandma's eyes after Daddy fell ill, and her heart couldn't help but feel cold.

She curtsied her knees and bowed, and Mrs. Dou, who was halfway on the couch, sighed weakly, and said slowly: "Approximately, my days are running out, and it is a blessing to be able to open my eyes and watch Erlang marry the little lady of the eldest grandson's family." After taking a few deep breaths, a very sincere smile bloomed on her face, and she asked Mu Qing: "Do you know why Erlang's wife must be the wife of the eldest grandson?" ”

"Mingli is for the inheritance of the Xianbei bloodline, and the right person is selected, only she is a Xianbei person, and she is a descendant of the royal family with her wife, so she should be the best." Mrs. Dou smiled and nodded, motioning for her to continue. "Looking deeper, I'm afraid it's because of her deceased father. Although General Changsun is no longer there, the shock of his thunderbolt is still there, and the Turkic khans are all afraid of him. Erlang married back not only the wife of the eldest grandson family, but also the prestige of the eldest grandson family in the Turkic tribes, in exchange for long-term peace in the borderlands, and not to make trouble from it when plotting for great causes. "These methods are not new, they have existed since ancient times, as early as when she first met the eldest grandson and knew her family lineage, she had a guess, and now it seems to be good.

Mrs. Dou covered her mouth with a handkerchief and gasped for a while, but the smile on her face did not decrease by half, Mu Qing looked at her and smiled hard, and the old saying that a person is good at his words suddenly appeared in his mind. It was easy to calm down her breath, and when she took away the handkerchief, the pale red blood stains were impressive, but she didn't care, she still maintained a smile, stretched out her hand tremblingly, and grabbed Mu Qing's hand, her hand was cold, and there was no warmth in the palm of her hand, and Mu Qing's heart was filled with a chill.

"You're so smart and transparent. Sometimes I think that you are also my child, but it can be seen that I am greedy. Mrs. Dou said to herself, her gaze slid from her forehead to her neck little by little, and then gently let go of her hand, and groped for a flat wooden box behind herself, rubbed it a few times, and slowly handed it to her. Mu Qing was puzzled, raised his hands and took it. Mrs. Dou stared at the wooden box and raised her chin slightly, motioning for her to open it.

There was a letter wrapped in silk silk in the wooden box, and Mu Qing unfolded it and swept it in ten lines, it was the letter to Li Chuze, Tang Guogong's handwriting, and the vermilion Tang Guogong's big seal, just as good, she looked up at Mrs. Dou in disbelief. "It's my book, and I'm sick now. In terms of strength, I owe a little, and I have less energy than in the past. Mrs. Dou smiled bitterly, and there was a hint of sweetness on her lips, "Since the first concubine room carried him into the door, I have had more time to read every word he wrote to me. Take it, for I owe it to you. ”

It's been a long time. Mu Qing thought that she had nothing to say, and was about to get up to say goodbye, she said quietly: "When Erlang was young, Yuan Yanling met him by chance, saying that he had the posture of a dragon and a phoenix, and he would definitely help the world and the people in the future." I have entrusted him to you and your wife, and I hope that I will do my best to support you. As for my big man, it's the Li family who can't live with you. As she spoke, she struggled to prop herself up from the couch. bowed to Mu Qing, and Mu Qing hurriedly got up and stretched out his hand to support him. Yuan Yanling, it was Yuan Tiangang, and he also met for her. As soon as the gods and ghosts said it, she didn't believe it, but she didn't know where this Yuan Tiangang God was, and everyone believed in his proverbs.

"It doesn't have to be that way. But madam, in this situation, it is necessary to maintain it without authorization. Why do you have to work with the army? Mu Qing respected her from the bottom of his heart and had pity, but because she had helped Tang Guogong detain her, Mu Qing had to respect her and stay away. At this time, I felt compassion in my heart, thinking that she was just a poor woman who was bent on helping her husband, and why not herself, so she softened her heart and persuaded softly.

Mrs. Dou pressed her chest and gasped a few times, then opened a soft smile again, and her cloudy eyes suddenly became bright, "Look at my shape, staying in the Eastern Capital is just waiting for a few days, if I accompany him, or if I am lucky enough to see the last sight, I will have no regrets." ”

Mu Qing stopped talking, Mrs. Dou closed her eyes slightly, she seemed to be very tired, so she comforted her with a few words, and got up to say goodbye. The front is soaring, the women are twisting and saluting, the men are staggered, weaving a fine net, covering the entire Tang State Mansion, Mrs. Dou strangely sucks the bitter and sweet two tastes at the same time, entangled and struggled between this net, until her fresh and moist youth was drained, and in the end, she dared to break through the net with her withered body, and fought with her heart.

She handed the flat wooden box to Ah Liu, and told her to collect it in the package she was carrying, and not to leave an inch. Ah Liu carefully took the wooden box and wrapped it in a cloth bag, which originally contained the brocade cut from the multicolored horse pattern, which was full when it came, and now there was only a little undivergent left, and a few more objects that were given to each other by the ladies who had been close to each other.

The twilight was already low as he spoke, and it was dark early in the middle of winter. Someone came to report that the car driver of the wedding was about to arrive at the house, and the boys who met the obstacle car not far away, just waiting to be sent away, and they arrived in a blink of an eye. Sure enough, after a while, someone shouted for joy, the bride arrived, the bride arrived. There was a maid carrying the barricade, and the bride was wearing a dark blue large-sleeved shirt, and walked upright from the top of the passing felt that was handed forward one by one, and her face could not be seen clearly, but she could only vaguely see her childish figure, and the luster of the gold and silver hairpins that flashed from time to time on the temples. Mu Qing could roughly imagine her delicate smile under the delicate makeup, full of honey. Then he turned his face to look at Li Shimin, who was walking in front, the crimson robe could not set off his joy, he didn't look back at his bride all the way, he walked forward step by step stiffly, and even walked a little fast, and the bride behind him seemed a little unable to keep up, and the person who spread the felt was also in a hurry and didn't know the essentials.

Mu Qing stood in the crowd of people watching the ceremony, looking at the side of the main family table in front of her, someone looked in her direction, she looked up carefully, it was the eldest man of the Li family, Li Jiancheng bowed slightly to her politely, and then smiled sadly, which made her back feel cold, not afraid of him, but it was the night of Qixi that still taught her to tremble. She tilted her head slightly, raised her eyebrows and gave a deep smile, then looked away.

It seemed to be in a hurry, and after the ceremony, the bride was sent to the Qinglu to sit in the tent. Li Shimin was surrounded by everyone, and went to the neatly stacked wine jar with a sigh of drinking. Mu Qing tossed and turned for a whole day, already tired, and thinking that Yinghua would not have a good time at home, so he wanted to return home more and more. Looking forward to the closing time, most of the guests dispersed, Li Shimin was too drunk to move, Du Ruhui came to look for her, and she didn't care about saying goodbye, she finally got into the carriage and went back to her house. (To be continued......)