Chapter 40: The Secret of Marriage
Xie Wan and the princess are the same generation according to their generation, and Princess Cheng has a high status, so they can't say anything, so they can't help but don't speak.
Old Madam Wang said slowly: "The princess said so, is he still not satisfied with this marriage?" ”
Princess Cheng said with a little embarrassment: "Where is there anything dissatisfied, Miss Rou has such a good character, with him, he is high." It's just a child's heart, and it's screwing that strength with me for the time being......"
The old lady shook her head and said: "Princess, please forgive the old man for speaking bluntly, you also said that the girl has the grace to save her life in Xiaojunwang, and she heard that she was born very neatly, if Rourou passes the door in the future, there is such a concubine, how should Rourou live in the future?" ”
"Princess, we are all parents and elders, everyone wants their children to live a better life in the future, that is, we all came from that time, who can bear to have such a loving aunt by her husband's side?"
Princess Cheng's face was solemn, speechless for a long time, and she said for a long time: "Originally...... The soft girl is also there, I don't want to talk about this, but I think your house is also an enlightened person, so it's good for the child to know about this. Presumably, you don't quite understand why the queen would give Rou Yatou to the king of Er'an County to marry me that day, instead of a certain prince, after all, almost everyone thought that the daughter of the Lu family would marry the prince as a concubine. ”
"Actually, my sudden proposal to marry that day was not a whim, but the fulfillment of my husband's last wish......"
Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and everyone looked at each other, not knowing how this matter could be related to King Cheng's head. Princess Cheng smiled faintly and said, "I don't know if you still remember, when the emperor drove to Mongolia, Marquis Weiyuan and King Cheng were among them at that time. ”
Mrs. Wang said: "This is true, but it was many, many years ago, and at that time, Ah Zhun and King Cheng were only more than ten years old, and Ah Zhun still followed the old marquis." ”
Princess Cheng nodded and said: "Yes, but you may not know that in Mongolia, Lu Zhun Xiaohou used to go out with King Cheng and several other young sons of about the same age, and met wolves in the grassland at night, they protected each other and fought with wolves, Lu Houye was bitten by a wolf in the shoulder in order to protect King Cheng......"
"Ahh But it was Mrs. Wang and Xie Wan who exclaimed at the same time, they looked at each other, nodded, and said in their hearts, Lu Zhun did have a wound on his shoulder, as if he had been bitten, but he refused to say what was going on. Xie Wan was also angry with him because of this incident, and wondered if it was the affair he caused outside.
"At that time, I happened to come back from my grandfather's house, his tribe was far away, I took the guards to camp here at night, the tent was not far away, the guards who came out to patrol at night heard the exclamation, called for someone to rush over, and saved them from the mouth of the wolves, and that was the first meeting between me and King Cheng."
"It turns out that you didn't come to the capital to see King Cheng later?" The outspoken Qi asked out, and only then did he react to the abrupt question, and blushed embarrassedly.
Princess Cheng smiled a little mischievously, and her face, which had traces of time, actually showed a bit of girlish charm because of this smile: "Of course not, if I saw him for the first time when I came to the capital later, how could I look at him with such a handsome appearance!" ”
She continued: "The guards rescued them and brought them back, and I asked the doctors who accompanied me to wash their wounds and give them medicine, and they begged me not to tell anyone else that they had seen them, because they had come out secretly from the adults, and if the elders knew about it, they would be beaten." I agreed, and those boys also prayed to heaven and earth that night, saying that they would become brothers. ”
"What?" This time everyone exclaimed, become brothers? Lu Zhun, King Cheng, and how many others? How is it possible, no one knows that there is such a relationship?
What a big deal is it to marry Jin Lan, they are so childish, and no one knows?
Princess Cheng smiled, but there was a bit of gloom in her smile: "As a result, before they returned to Beijing, there was a major incident in Beijing, the hussar general Mu Kuan, the prime minister Zhao Yilin and others were defeated, and among the young men who swore brothers, two of them were children of these families." ”
Mrs. Wang was silent, overthrowing the former general and prime minister, and the old marquis Lu also contributed, and those people were from the Empress Dowager Zhao's faction, Zhao Yilin Zhao Xiangye is the queen mother's brother, and King Cheng is the biological son of the Empress Dowager Zhao.
The partisan struggle between the DPRK and China, or even the struggle for the throne, was bloody, and a few teenagers who did not know the world realized the cruelty of the world for the first time. After returning to Beijing that time, some of the young people who married Jinlan were dismissed and exiled with their families, and there was nothing left overnight, and some of them rose with the rise of their families, and their glory grew.
And King Cheng, who was rescued by Lu Zhun, slowly changed from the pearl-like young man to the prince who was addicted to wine. Maybe this is to protect himself, but it also makes everyone forget the little prince who was amazing and brilliant and moved the Beijing division with a sword.
The teenagers tacitly agreed that no one mentioned the matter of Yijie Jinlan again, and even their parents and brothers did not know that this had happened. When they met again, they just smiled politely and detachedly, as if they had never crossed paths.
But the girl who appeared on a snowy night and rescued them from the mouth of the wolves remembered that she witnessed their protection of each other, witnessed the piety of thanking God when they bowed to God, and also remembered the beautiful young man as beautiful as a pearl in her heart.
Princess Cheng lowered her head, quickly raised her sleeve and wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye with a handkerchief. Everyone looked at it, but no one said anything.
Princess Cheng raised her head and continued: "My husband told me before he went to the battlefield that if he is not there in the future, if Yue'er and I have the ability, we will definitely protect the safety of Lu Zhun's family. He said that if it wasn't for Lu Xiaohou sacrificing himself to save him, he would probably have died in the wolf's belly, and there would be no moon. ”
"I haven't said these words to anyone, but I think Lu Xiaohou must know the true nature of the prince. My family Yue'er is notorious outside, but I guess Marquis Lu may not be too opposed to this marriage, I don't know if I guessed right? ”
Xie Wan nodded, she sighed in her heart, on the day of the queen's wedding, she wrote a letter and sent it to the border city of Pinglin, and the letter was full of dissatisfaction with this marriage.
Unexpectedly, when she received a reply from her husband a few days later, the tone of the letter seemed to be quite happy, and she was advised that things should not just be taken on the surface, maybe the child was not as bad as the rumors.
At that time, she was still angry at her husband, why she didn't care about her daughter's happiness so much, but she didn't expect it...... Maybe the intersection with the Cheng Wangfu is something that the husband has always wanted to do, but he didn't dare to do.
Princess Cheng said: "Don't hide it from you, in fact, the royal brother and the imperial sister-in-law did want to marry the soft girl to the prince at first, but the royal brother wanted to marry Xiao Qi, but the imperial sister-in-law wanted to ask for Xiao Sixteen. Xiao Qi is already twenty-five years old, but there is no concubine yet, the imperial brother has long been anxious, this time I heard that your soft girl is dignified, so he moved his mind. And the royal sister-in-law ...... It's nothing more than trying to find a solid home for Xiao Sixteen. ”
"But I looked at it coldly from the side, and the Hou Mansion didn't seem to have the idea of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, and marrying the prince at this time...... You must also understand what I mean, if you really get married, the Lu family will inevitably be involved, and no one knows what the imperial brother thinks. After thinking about it, I didn't go to ask the imperial sister-in-law, but went directly to the imperial brother. ”
"It's strange to say this, the royal brother didn't speak for a long time, I thought it was not, and then I hit the shelf in the nervousness, and an object fell to the ground, but fortunately, the carpet in the side hall was thick, but it was not broken. I saw that it was not a special thing, it was an inkstone, and the material carving was fine and considered a treasure, but it seemed to be some years, and there was a clump of bluegrass carved on it. But the imperial brother looked at the inkstone and somehow his face changed greatly, and then he sighed and agreed to my request. ”
When Lu Binrou heard this, her heart moved, Lancao? She remembered that there was an inkstone in her mother's study, carved with a clump of bluegrass. My mother said that it was given to her by her grandmother after she got married, and that it was something that my grandmother had in her boudoir when she was young, and that she had carved orchid grass because of the blue character in her grandmother's name.
It seems to be a set of four in total, each engraved with four different varieties of orchid. Lu Binrou used that inkstone to grind and write every day for a while, so she was very impressed.
She remembered that her grandmother had saved the emperor, could it be that the emperor still remembered the grace of saving his life, so he agreed to Princess Cheng? It's just that marrying that King Anjun saved her, this favor has to be too easy, and maybe it pushed her into another fire pit.
Lu Binrou remembered what Princess Cheng said just now about King Anjun and the Nangong girl, and deeply felt that she seemed to be the culprit who forcibly broke up the two.
But...... Lu Binrou thought aggrievedly, I don't know, and I don't want to!
Explain clearly, although the result was not satisfactory, the purpose of Princess Cheng's visit was achieved. She was probably saddened by this memory, and her expression was not as bright as when she came, but obviously a little lonely, and she sat for a while, and then said goodbye and went back.
The Lu family is also feeling more and more heavy because of the unknown relationship between the two families in her mouth, and it seems that it is not good to get married or not.
Xie regretted it infinitely at this time, if he was in the border city at that time, he would have made up his mind early and found a simpler family to let Rou'er out, where would there be these things now. At that time, Jing'anhou's younger brother General Chen Guanheng's family was good, although there was no title to inherit, the child was a few years younger than Rourou, but the Chen family also had a simple population, Mrs. Chen was the most good-natured, and she watched Rourou grow up, and her daughter would definitely not suffer a loss when she passed the door.
Otherwise, it was okay to make a mistake in Yunzhou City at that time and give Rourou to Gu Hui by mistake, although the Gu family is a little more complicated, but Gu Hui is really good, and he has a younger brother, so he can let his younger brother stay in Yunzhou in the future, and Gu Hui will serve in Beijing. You don't have to live with your in-laws' own family, and with the Lu family guarding you, you won't make Rourou uncomfortable.
Now this is good, it is difficult to ride a tiger, nothing is right. I don't know what's going on with the boy of Na'an County, a merchant girl, just born neatly, why is she fascinated like that. How soft and good a girl in her own family is, can't she compare to that foxy woman......
Mrs. Xie is troubled here, and Lu Binrou here is also soft. I didn't expect my father to have such a heart-wrenching story with Prince Cheng back then, and the little county king turned out to be a person who knew how to repay his kindness, and he insisted on marrying that woman, presumably not only for the appearance of others, but also for the grace of the beauty. Alas, how can I be caught in the middle? I don't want to marry someone who has a heart, so it's better to be Gu Hui......
She was taken aback by her own thoughts, Gu Hui? Could it be that unconsciously, he has been influenced and regarded him as an object that can be discussed for marriage? God, don't you hate him?