As soon as he arrived at the Changchun Palace, the emperor told the Empress Dowager Cixi about the summoning of the military plane that day. Halfway through the conversation, the Empress Dowager Ci'an also came.

It happened that the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a big wedding gift from Chongli, the superintendent of the Guangdong Customs, so the empress dowager of the two palaces took those kitsch treasures that were mostly from the West, appreciated them carefully, regained the topic, and suddenly talked about the past in Rehe.

"At that time, I didn't expect to have today!" The Empress Dowager Cixi touched the wrinkles on her forehead and said with emotion, "In a blink of an eye, next year should be another unitary year!" ”

"How many great things have happened in the past eleven years!" The Empress Dowager Ci'an was more relieved than sighed, "Now you can take a breath!" ”

The person who said it was just expressing his feelings directly, but the person who listened seemed to feel that there was a sound outside the strings, and the Empress Dowager Cixi thought that the Empress Dowager Ci'an was persuading her to abandon everything and live a good life.

Thinking of Cining Palace, she felt disgusted, it was the place where the queen mother of the previous dynasties raised her age, a bottle and a few, never moving, and the eunuchs who served were also so-called "old adults", either hunched back, or unable to move.

People are not old, and they will be old as soon as they live in that place!

What suddenly appeared in her eyes was such a decaying and sluggish scene, and her nose seemed to smell a stale and turbid breath, and the Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't help but shake her head.

In the eyes of the Empress Dowager Ci'an and the emperor, this is naturally not based on the words of "rest".

So how do you say that? The emperor didn't dare to say it, but the Empress Dowager Ci'an couldn't help but say, "You can also look away a little!" Her words were very straightforward, "**** After so many years, I don't feel bitter?" People who are worried are the easiest to see old! ”

What made the Empress Dowager Cixi feel unpleasant was the last sentence, did she really look old? At that time, I wanted to take a mirror to take a look.

"In the past few years, I haven't reached my seventies or eighties, my teeth haven't fallen out, and the road is still moving, so I can eat more, I can go shopping, and enjoy a few years of happiness!"

In these few words, the meaning of Yin Yin's persuasion is obvious. The Empress Dowager Cixi smiled dumbly, "In the days to come, we will be like those old ladies!" ”

"There's nothing wrong with that." Empress Dowager Ci'an said, "I would like to live that kind of quiet and peaceful years." ”

"It also needs to be peaceful!" When the Empress Dowager Cixi said this, she looked at the emperor: "I will count on you in the future!" Ama said that you are born blessed, and you must be a peaceful man. ”

These two sentences seem to be expectation, and they seem to be ridiculed, anyway, when the emperor heard it, he felt that it was not a taste, so he quickly knelt down and replied: "No matter what, the son always has to ask the two emperors to teach and teach from time to time!" ”

"It's a big deal! You say that, I listen to it, come and see yourself in the future! ”

"You!" The Empress Dowager Ci'an was trying her best to win over their mother and son, so she followed the words of the Empress Dowager Cixi and warned the emperor: "Always remember that today's situation is thanks to your mother!" Many grievances and sufferings, but I am afraid that you may not know. ”

"Yes." The emperor replied respectfully, "The son does not dare to forget. ”

Together with the autumn wind, the palace went up and down, and the spirit was extraordinarily vibrant. The Empress Dowager Cixi personally circled Linggui and Xu Tong of the Ministry of Rites with a red pen as the chief and deputy envoys of the "Great Expedition", asking for the auspicious mouth of "Guizi Tongsun".

The "Great Levy" is the "Levy" in the Six Rites, and the dowry should be given. The date was on August 18, and the dowry was prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to the rules of the Kangxi period, it was two hundred taels of gold and ten thousand taels of silver; gold and silver tea tubes, silver cups; a thousand tribute satins; In addition, twenty horses equipped with saddle bridles.

The dowry is not heavy, but the heavenly family is rich and noble, not calculated in the money, just the 10,000 taels of silver, which is specially cast in the furnace room of the household silver treasury, a large ingot of fifty taels, protruding from the dragon and phoenix pattern, shining silver, shining with the sun.

Twenty horses are also pure white, it is the so-called "mellow horse" driven by the ancient emperor of heaven, the same size, with a new leather saddle, the snow bright "copper work", the yellow string reins are lined with a huge red tassel under the horse's neck, and the color is extremely distinct.

For these twenty horses, the Shangyuan reimbursed 80,000 pieces of silver, and spent three months of work to train the horses very obediently, not alarmed or neighing, with their heads held high, and their steps not only stepped neatly, but also matched with the ideas they were advocating.

This horse team alone made the old man in his sixties and seventies nod his head intently, saying that "after living for so many years, it's the first time I'll see you!" ”

In addition, gold and silver clothes for the queen's grandfather, parents, and brothers were also sent along with the dowry.

When they arrived at the back house, the queen's respected brothers were already waiting outside the gate.

On the second day after his establishment, Cezanne came forward to thank him, and after touching the nail, he already knew that he had three things that could not be compared to his son in any way, one was the title of champion; the second is the title of Duke Cheng'en; The third is the identity of the three flags, so this day is very interesting, let Chongqi take the lead, and kneel under his son's shoulder.

Waiting for the main envoy and deputy envoy of the festival to welcome into the door, there was still a class kneeling in front of the main hall, which was Chongqi's wife Guerjia and her sister-in-law and daughter-in-law. But the queen was not among them, and she would not show up until the time of the levy.

The etiquette of the "Great Expedition" is of course grand, but for the sake of the happy event, it is naturally not too serious, and when arranging the dowry, Linggui and Xu Tong congratulated Chongqi first.

At the moment when they greeted each other, the ceremonial dowry of the Great Expedition had been set up, and a table in the center was dedicated to the system of vermilion and gold characters and the dragon festival of the envoys. The two long tables on the left and right, one empty, one furnishing the rituals, and twenty horses, like the "horses" of the court, stand facing each other in the courtyard, standing still.

So the empress got married, and from the day the emperor personally bestowed Ruyi, made her empress, and advocated sending her home, Arut and her grandfather, parents, brother and sister-in-law abolished the family gift.

The first is that the whole family knelt outside the gate to greet her, and she had to assume the status of queen, and she must not return the salute to her kneeling parents, at most nodding her head

Wait to enter the gate, then enter the main room, live alone in the second hall of five rooms, at the same time there are palace maids to serve closely, outside there are guards in the Qianqing Palace class to guard the door, check the access control, extremely strict, especially young men, no matter what kind of relatives, it is difficult to enter the door.

Therefore, in the past six months or so, in addition to sacrificing and eating meat, almost all six relatives of the Chongqi family have been cut off on weekdays.

Inside, it is not easy for Chongqi to see her daughter, and when she sees her in a few days, she will be well-dressed. Her mother and sister-in-law met every day, but they entered the palace and served the queen as if they were a woman.

Twice a day, the queen is alone, the food is sent out of the kitchen, and the girl sends it to her eldest sister-in-law, who sends it to her mother, who holds the spring in her own hand, and then stands aside until the meal is finished.

In the first few days, Arut's was like a thorn in his back, he couldn't swallow it, and he got used to it for half a year, but in order not to bear to let his mother stand for a long time, a meal was always eaten very quickly, but there were always twenty or thirty dishes at each meal, and the work of just sending them to the table was quite considerable.

Of course, the queen is in addition to the second hall, the door does not go out, only once in half a year, the second hall is out of the day. This day was the second time, accompanied by the palace maid, who went out of the hall to receive the edict.

After hearing the announcement of the edict of the envoys sent by Qin to carry out the grand ceremony, the queen still returned to the second hall. (To be continued.) )