Chapter 487: The Emperor's Wedding (Finale)
A month later, Xie Ronghua and Xie Heng's injuries were almost healed, and it was time to return to Chang'an, Xie Ronghua took Gu Hengxue and stepped into the carriage on the return journey under the escort of the forbidden army.
Seeing her like this, Xie Ronghua hugged her into his arms and said with a low smile: "I like it here, I'll take you here every year in the future, okay?" We've been out for too long, we have to go back to the palace first, otherwise those ministers will really give me a death admonition!" ”
Gu Hengxue listened to his words, turned her head to look at him, and asked uneasily: "Rong Hua, do those ministers know about the matter of you using the Zimu Gu to help Heng'er solve the Gu?" ”
Xie Ronghua smiled lightly: "If they know that they are afraid that they have all set foot on Lishan Mountain now, the last time I took Heng'er back to Beijing, I told them that Heng'er had recovered, and by the way, all the things left by the Liu family were resolved!" ”
Gu Hengxue listened to his words and said, "Then you and Heng'er have been here for so long?" ”
"What's this? You just gave birth to a child, I naturally want to accompany you, this is a matter of course! Xie Ronghua said with a smile!
"Won't they be upset?" Gu Hengxue whispered!
"Why are you upset, they heard that you gave birth to the second prince, I don't know how happy they are, and they also played for me to amnesty the world to congratulate King An on his birth!" Xie Ronghua sighed: "They have been looking forward to the second prince, but it has been many years!" ”
His words reminded Gu Hengxue of the days when she was in the palace, there were always people telling her about the thin heir, they were really afraid, he would have a child! Gu Hengxue sighed and didn't say anything more!
As soon as he returned to the palace, Xie Ronghua went to deal with the mountain of political affairs, and Gu Hengxue took the newly-born two children to the North Palace with Xie Heng to ask Xie Yun for peace!
I haven't seen her for more than a year, Xie Yun seems to be a little old again, Gu Hengxue took Xie Heng and knelt down respectfully and said, "The concubine has seen my father!" ”
"Grandson greets the emperor's grandfather!" Xie Heng said respectfully!
"Get up, all of you, come and let me have a good look!" Xie Yun said with a smile on his face!
Xie Heng and Gu Hengxue stood up and walked to him, Xie Yun took Xie Heng's hand and said with concern: "Is Heng'er's body well?" ”
"It's already good, thank you Grandpa Huang for your concern!" Xie Heng nodded in response, he listened to his words, nodded with a smile, looked at Gu Hengxue, and said lovingly: "I heard that Gu Zhaoyi gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses for Rong Hua, thank you for your hard work!" ”
Gu Hengxue shook her head and replied, "This is what a concubine should do, Father, Xiyue and Ning'er are outside the palace, I let them come in and show you?" ”
"Don't worry, Gu Zhaoyi, I want to talk to you alone!" Xie Yun groaned and looked at Xie Heng: "Heng'er retreat first!" ”
Xie Heng looked at Gu Hengxue, saw her nodding to herself, and bowed to Xie Yun and stepped back!
Xie Yun asked the palace attendants to retreat, and only after Gu Hengxue and him were left in the hall, he looked at Gu Hengxue and asked, "Gu Zhaoyi, should I treat you as Gu Hengxue or Yan Xining now?" ”
Gu Hengxue was taken aback and said with a smile: "It turns out that my father guessed it, and I was about to tell you!" ”
Xie Yun sighed slightly, and said, "When I saw that he was out of control for you, I guessed a few points, he has been hiding from me about you, don't worry about me!" ”
Seeing that Gu Hengxue acquiesced, he smiled bitterly: "It can be regarded as my own fault, Gu Zhaoyi, I used to really dislike you, and I think it was because of your demagogy that he became more and more disobedient!" ”
"Your Majesty wants his son to be obedient and use it for himself, but he doesn't let him have his own thoughts, isn't it difficult for a strong man?" Gu Hengxue said softly!
"Yes, so the result now can be regarded as self-inflicted, and later, seeing his self-enclosed appearance for you, I realized that it was really wrong back then, you were his life, you are gone, he is like a walking dead in this world, you are back, he has the appearance of a living person, Gu Zhaoyi, no matter how you came back in another capacity, I am grateful, you are back!" Xie Yun muttered!
Gu Hengxue looked at him in a daze, and said worriedly: "So, is my father willing to accept me?" ”
"You are his wife and the mother of his three children, and after so many things, if I still stop you from being together, I am afraid that even the last bit of family happiness will be lost!" Xie Yun smiled bitterly!
Gu Hengxue listened to his words, got up and bowed to him and said, "Thank you for your father's success, I will be filial to my father and take good care of my children with Rong Hua!" ”
"Get up, Hengxue, and bring my grandchildren to me!" Xie Yun raised his hand to help her!
Gu Hengxue smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go!" ”
Her heart relaxed suddenly, she thought that Xie Yun would not accept her easily, it seems that all these years of life have made him figure out a lot of things, so she can feel at ease!
After getting Xie Yun's acceptance, Gu Hengxue met a few more friends who wanted to see her, not many people in the court knew that she was Yan Xining, except for Xie Ronghua's henchmen, only a few people knew, after all, the matter between her and Yan Xining was too unbelievable, and there was no way to explain it to people in the world, so in the eyes of outsiders, she was still just Gu Zhaoyi!
When Xie Ronghua proposed to crown Gu Hengxue as the queen, there was no opposition in the court, the concubine in the palace should be condemned, and the concubine should return home, now there is only one Gu Zhaoyi left, she just gave birth to the prince and princess, this queen is originally in her bag, why should they touch the emperor's moldy head and make him unhappy!
After the seal was a big event, after Xie Ronghua made a decision, the people of Qin Tianjian began to calculate the auspicious days, and the people of the Ministry of Rites also issued an announcement to the people of Wei State!
This is the biggest happy event since the founding of the Wei State, there are many discussions in the streets and alleys, Gu Zhaoyi's treatment of the epidemic in Anning Village has also been dug up, and the common people are preaching her virtue everywhere, and there is a good wife on the straight road!
"Your Majesty's movements are really fast enough, you just brought Uncle Yan's coffin back to Luoyang for burial, and his will spread all over the world!" Yun Yifan looked at the people discussing downstairs in the box of Luoyang Restaurant, and smiled at Gu Hengxue across the table: "If they knew that the future queen mother was now on this floor, I am afraid they would have to rush up and step on the restaurant!" ”
Gu Hengxue listened to his words, and smiled helplessly: "There are the governors here, they don't dare!" She took a sip of tea and said to Yun Yifan seriously: "Brother Yifan, thank you for helping me bury my father together!" ”
At the mention of Yan Feng, Yun Yifan's face inevitably had a little more melancholy, and he sighed: "When I first joined the army when I was young, Uncle Yan helped me a lot, but I didn't expect him to leave like this." ”
Gu Hengxue listened to his words, the look on her face fell lonely, and she muttered: "If he is still alive, it would be great for him to see me marry with his own eyes and see his three grandsons." ”
Seeing her like this, Yun Yifan persuaded: "Hengxue, so many years have passed, don't be sad anymore, you are going to get married, you have to marry happily, Uncle Yan will be happy when he sees you so happy now." ”
Gu Hengxue listened to his words, collected her emotions, smiled, and said, "I will live every day in the future." ”
Yun Yifan was about to speak, when there was a knock on the door of the wing room, and a guard said respectfully: "My lord, there is an urgent report from Chang'an." ”
Yun Yifan opened the door and closed it, read the content on it and said, "Hengxue, His Royal Highness King An is sick." ”
"What?" Gu Hengxue stood up in shock, and after reading the letter in her hand, she said urgently: "I'm going back to Chang'an first, on the day of the canonization ceremony, you remember to come to Chang'an to participate." ”
After she finished speaking, she couldn't wait for Yun Yifan to answer, so she left in a hurry, Yun Yifan read the words on the letter, and sighed in his heart, now that Dr. Xue is also in Beijing, His Royal Highness King An's strange illness is probably just an excuse from His Majesty, he wants her to go back early.
Sure enough, after Gu Hengxue returned to the palace, she found that Xie Ning was fine and not sick at all, looked at Xie Ronghua with a smug face, and said angrily: "I rushed back in such a hurry, how can you lie to me about the child's illness?" Don't you know how worried I am? ”
Xie Ronghua saw that she was really angry, and hurriedly stepped forward and coaxed: "I didn't mean to, as soon as you left Chang'an, you walked for three months, leaving me and the children in the palace, seeing that the wedding day is getting closer and closer, but you have no sign of coming back at all, if the queen is nowhere to be seen on the day of our wedding, then don't you want me to be a joke in the world?" ”
Gu Hengxue looked at his pitiful appearance, bit her lip and said: "I will naturally dare to come back before the ceremony, even if you want me to come back, you can't use Ning'er as an excuse, in case your crow's mouth really makes him sick, how can it be good?" “
"I was wrong, I apologize to you, next time it won't, you forgive me." Xie Ronghua hugged her and whispered.
"Come on, since you are wrong, you should be punished, from today onwards, until the day of the wedding, we don't have to meet." Gu Hengxue snorted, pushed him away regardless of it, took his son from the nurse's hand, and strode away.
"Hengxue!" Xie Ronghua said loudly behind her, Gu Hengxue didn't look back at him, but the corners of her mouth rose irrepressibly, the emperor's wedding is really worth looking forward to.
On the eighth day of February in the sixth year of Yongxi, the spring flowers bloomed, Chang'an City was full of red silk, ten thousand empty alleys, today is the day of the emperor's wedding, the officials of the five grades or more in the country gathered in Chang'an, congratulations to the emperor and the queen on the joy of marriage.
Gu Hengxue was woken up by the palace maids of the Shangyi Bureau at the time of the third watch, bathed and changed clothes, she was drowsy and let the palace maids dress her up, when the palace maids brought her the colorful glazed nine phoenix crowns symbolized by the queen, the strong weight made her neck hurt, and she also woke up in an instant.
In the huge bronze mirror of one person high, an extremely luxurious and beautiful woman is reflected, dressed in a fiery red wedding dress, on which a lifelike phoenix is embroidered with gold thread, the wings are on her shoulders, as if to take her up, straight up to nine days, between her cheeks dyed a little red, under the slightly curly eyelashes is a pair of eyes as bright as autumn water, the phoenix crown on the head, there are nine small phoenixes to form a huge golden phoenix, dazzling under the background of the glass, this is her unprecedented beauty.
"Hongshang Xia is shaking the crown step by step, and Tian Yingying is tired of Pei Shanshan!" Gu Hengxue muttered: "No wonder they all say that the woman on the day of marriage is the most beautiful!" ”
"But no, Niangniang's phoenix crown is made by His Majesty a hundred years ago, and the best goldsmith tailor in Jiangnan was ordered, and the dragon and phoenix gowns for the wedding were all modified by His Majesty himself, and the beauty of Niangniang is unique." The steward of the Shangyi Bureau smiled beside her.
Gu Hengxue listened to her words, and couldn't help laughing, there was a salute outside the hall, Zi Yan walked up to her and said, "Niangniang, the auspicious time has come, I will help Niangniang to go to the phoenix." ”
Gu Hengxue nodded with difficulty, and with her support, she walked out of the main hall and sat on the incomparably luxurious phoenix.
Gu Hengxue has long been Zhaoyi, so she doesn't have to marry into the palace from outside the palace, Feng Yu directly passed through the Chonghua Gate and went in the direction of the Taimiao, where the big wedding was held.
Gu Hengxue sat on top of the phoenix, looking at the palace roads covered with red carpets and the palace lights on both sides that were as bright as day, she was nervous and flustered, although Xie Ronghua had simplified the complicated ceremony as much as possible, but after all, it was the emperor's wedding, and some things could not be skipped, such as worshipping heaven and earth with him before the Taimiao Temple and accepting the congratulations of the ministers.
When Feng Bao entered the Taimiao, the square was already full of civil and military officials, there were people she was familiar with, more people she didn't know, Xie Ronghua was wearing a big red gown standing on the high platform, and the dragon robe of the same style as the phoenix robe called him handsome and extraordinary, looking at the Feng Yu who was getting closer and closer, his eyes flashed with amazement, and the smile on his face became deeper and deeper, this day was his happiest day, more happy than the day he ascended the throne and sat on the throne.
With the singing of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, the phoenix slowly fell, and Xie Ronghua stepped down from the high platform step by step in the surprise of the ministers, and personally reached out to pull Gu Hengxue off the phoenix.
According to etiquette, there should have been the queen's personal palace maid to help her onto the stage, but since His Majesty did it himself, they couldn't say anything, Gu Hengxue saw his smile full of joy, and the tension in her heart gradually faded, she held his hand tightly, and walked to the high platform step by step with his steps.
After the two of them walked on the high platform, he said a large number of blessings prepared by the Ministry of Rites, and said loudly: "Please worship the emperor and queen together in heaven and earth." ”
Xie Ronghua took Gu Hengxue and knelt down in front of the Taimiao, and the civil and military officials in the square also knelt down.
The emperor is the Son of Heaven, and he doesn't need to worship his parents anymore, he only kneels down to his ancestors, with the sound of the salute, Xie Ronghua took Gu Hengxue and slowly stood up, he took the phoenix seal and the golden book that Shang Jing brought up, handed them over to Gu Hengxue, and said with a smile: "From now on, I and the queen will live together, die together, and enjoy this prosperous world together." ”
Gu Hengxue listened to his words, nodded with a smile, he held her hand tightly, took her and turned around together, and walked towards the civil and military courtiers, and the courtiers cheered loudly in the square: "Long live my emperor, long live long live, long live the queen's mother, long live the thousand years old." ”
With their cheers, tens of millions of magpies were released and flew straight into the air, chirping joyfully, bringing the joy of the emperor's wedding to every corner of the Wei Kingdom.
Gu Hengxue looked sideways at him, as handsome as she was when she first saw him, at that time, she was very envious of the woman standing beside him, and today, her dream finally became a reality, the woman standing next to him became her, from now on, she will be by his side, until Fanghua is old, until her temples are gray, they will be the happiest pair in the world!