After the third day of the first month of March, the queen mother's state funeral period is finally over. The high-ranking clans of the Jingshi all breathed a sigh of relief. For a whole year, no marriage or banquet was allowed, but many girls were delayed from leaving the cabinet. Jingshi gradually became lively, and the first to hold a big wedding was Zhao Wang Ye Minyu.

Ancient marriage was not just about marrying a daughter-in-law and living behind closed doors. For Ye Minyu, who is the prince, the political significance of marriage is greater than the marriage itself. Even if he performed well in the defense of Beijing, because he was not married, the officials of the DPRK and China still regarded him as a child subconsciously. If you start a family, it will be different, it means that Ye Minyu, the king of Zhao, has grown up, and the four princes in the court can rest assured that they can take refuge in him, which is of course of great significance.

So not long after leaving the national funeral, Concubine Xiao personally went out to make a statement to the emperor and married Ye Minyu early. Although the emperor is increasingly wary of his sons, he has no intention of obstructing him in this matter. First of all, he ordered to give Ye Minyu a spacious mansion on Qipan Street not far from the Forbidden City. The Ministry of Internal Affairs handled the opening of the four princes.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered Qin Tianjian to choose an auspicious day and hold a big wedding for Ye Minyu.

The emperor's meaning: Opening the mansion and getting married, all done together.

Now that King Zhao is powerful, he has faintly overwhelmed the prince, and the Internal Affairs Office and Qin Tianjian are all tightly stammering. Soon, the new Zhao Wangfu was cleaned up, and the auspicious day for marriage was also chosen, which was on the fifth day of the fourth month.

Ye Minyu, the king of Zhao, opened the mansion on March 28, and the palace is different from the prince's mansion. Deep in the Prince's Mansion, right under the emperor's nose, but the palace is far away from the Forbidden City, King Zhao himself has the final say, he is the unique boss in the mansion!

Leaving the Forbidden City and leaving the Chengqian Palace, Ye Minyu had a sense of pleasure that the sea was wide and the sky was high and the birds were flying.

Ye Minyu held a family banquet and invited Ye Minzhao and the subordinates of the three battalions to his new mansion for a banquet. It's not that the prince didn't invite him, but the prince pushed him because he was busy with government affairs. For this stingy and incompetent brother, Ye Minyu didn't take him too seriously.

The banquet was staggered and quite lively. Because Ye Minyu is now leading the reorganization of the three major battalions, the people who came to congratulate him on the joy of opening the mansion are some military attachés, these people don't know what Sven is at all, and they will order a fist with two sips of wine, and shout five and six.

The brothers Ye Minyu and Ye Minzhao stood at the top of the seat, and the little eunuch was attentively adding wine on the side.

When they were young and frivolous, Ye Minyu and Ye Minzhao brothers broke out in conflicts, one of them was short-tempered, the other was stubborn, and no one refused to admit defeat and surrender.

Ye Minyu shook his wine glass and sighed: "It's a pity that Brother Minchun was ordered to go to the northwest, otherwise it wouldn't be just you and my brother today." ”

Ye Minzhao thought to himself, the fourth brother and the prince are in the same boat, and Minchun, who doesn't want to be the prince's right-hand man, has a good personal relationship! But he couldn't ask this, but he just smiled and said: "Fourth brother, your wine is not bad, and I don't taste it like something that can be found in the Internal Affairs Mansion." ”

Ye Minyu snorted and said: "Don't you know what the rabbit cubs in the Internal Affairs Office do, even if there are the best things, they don't dare to offer them, for fear that they will raise the mouths and stomachs of the nobles, and there will be no good things to take out when the nobles ask for it again next time!" You don't know what to do, the tea that the head of the Internal Affairs Office drinks is much better than paying tribute to your brother and me! ”

Ye Minzhao smiled silently. He also knows all these tricks in the palace.

Ye Minyu said: "What we are drinking today is the authentic daughter red, which was transported by the political envoy of Zhejiang, Lord Huang, from Zhejiang on a fast horse. ”

Ye Minzhao took a closer look, and sure enough, the wine in the cup was "more tender than cold syrup, fragrant and nectar Yongchun", thinking that the fourth brother is really powerful now. He said: "Sure enough, it's a good wine, the fourth brother opened the house today, and it will be a big wedding in five days, it's really a double happiness, brother, I borrow flowers to offer Buddha, I will give you a cup first!" "Raise your glass and drink it all.

"Married?" Ye Minyu showed a trace of imperceptible anger on his face, to be honest, he really didn't have a good impression of Xiao Yunqian, a stupid woman. But now that the foreign family is his biggest help, he has to marry to appease the Xiao Party and obtain their full support, Ye Minyu now has mixed feelings in his heart, a little aggrieved, and a little helpless, but he has no joy and expectation before marriage.

It is said that life is unsatisfactory eight or nine times out of ten, who would have thought that he was a prince and the son of an emperor, and even his marriage was so unhappy!

Ye Minyu is now getting deeper and deeper, and quickly covered up the past. "Don't talk about my brother. Although you are a few years younger than your brother, you are not young, look at the woman you like, if you have, your brother will help you and your father to go, and discipline you to marry a satisfactory flower! ”

Ye Minzhao said with a smile: "I don't have to worry about my brother's affairs." I heard that there are still a few beautiful concubines in my brother's house, and when my sister-in-law enters the door, you will have a hard time here! Hahaha! ”

Ye Minyu slapped the table fiercely: "She dares!" He knew that Xiao Yunqian's temper was absolutely stupid enough to do such a stupid thing as "treating concubines harshly", but marrying Xiao Yunqian into the door was already his biggest limit, if Xiao Yunqian dared to act mischief in the palace, Ye Minyu would never give her a good face.

Ye Minyu picked up the wine glass and touched it with the little prince, her heart was messy and indescribable, she only felt that her sweet and refreshing daughter was as red as the bitterness of Coptis chinensis, and the wine was rising for a while, and the stubborn and beautiful girl appeared in a trance in front of her, she is now in Yuqing Palace and has become her sister-in-law.

Ye Minyu suddenly asked, "Our prince brother and the princess's sister-in-law are still living in harmony?" ”

Ye Minzhao loves the house and Wu, and pays more attention to the daughters of the Yang family, so he said: "I heard that the prince's brother is not very kind to our little sister-in-law, and the little sister-in-law is also a tough person, and she doesn't curry favor with the prince!" The relationship between the two people, at least not as harmonious as it seems on the surface! ”

Ye Minyu felt a pain in his heart when he heard this, and he gently patted the little prince on the shoulder with a little wine: "Fifth brother, you must not be like the prince and me in the future, you must find a woman you love to marry!" ”

The little prince thought about Yulan's delicate and beautiful face, and his heart warmed: "Then I will borrow my brother's auspicious words." ”

Ye Minyu took a sip of the wine in the glass, and instructed the little eunuch waiting on the side: "Pour the wine and pour the wine!" Today, our brothers and sons are not drunk and have no home! ”

Ye Minyu was very drunk that day, and even Ye Minzhao was drunk by him, and was carried back to Jingyang Palace by several personal guards.

After King Zhao opened his mansion, the Xiao family was also intensively preparing for Xiao Yunqian's marriage. The Xiao family knows the significance of this wedding. A year ago, the Xiao family prepared all Xiao Yunqian's dowry.

The Xiao family is rich and rivals the country, and Xiao Yunqian's dowry is self-evident.

Since the last time Xiao Yunqian took it upon herself to invite her cousin Shi Jian to assassinate the crown princess, Concubine Xiao ordered someone to look at her and not leave the house casually. Until she was about to get married, Xiao Yunqian was alive again. Now that she is confident that she will be the princess soon, her worth is different, and she trembled again in the Xiao Mansion.

According to the rules for the marriage of the prince, the day before the wedding, the dowry was to be sent from the mother's family and carried to the mansion of King Zhao. The fourth day of the fourth month of April happened to be the day of the dowry, who knew that the auspicious time was reached, and the dowry still did not go out. It turned out that Xiao Yunqian was making trouble in the house, and she just refused to let the dowry go away.

Xiao Yunqian's stepmother, Zhou, was in charge of Shangshu Fuzhong, and she was in a hurry. "My aunt, what the hell are you going to do? The auspicious time is coming, why are you blocking the door of the house, just don't let the dowry be carried out? ”

Xiao Yunqian was wearing a new red makeup and sleeved jacket, her head was full of pearls, and her eyes were dazzling: "Mother, my daughter just wants to ask you, what is worse than the Yang family in our Xiao family, why is her Yang Yuxin's dowry one hundred and twenty-eight, and my dowry is only one hundred and eighteen!" Could it be that my mother thinks that I am not your own child, so she deliberately neglects me, and you are not afraid that the imperial concubine will punish you? ”

The Zhou family is the continuation of Xiao Sanye, and Xiao Yunqian was already ten years old when she married into the Xiao family to fill the house, and she knew everything. She relied on her aunt to be the emperor's favorite concubine, and she was against herself everywhere, which was notoriously difficult to serve. Because of the short time of marriage, Zhou was busy rearranging Xiao Yunqian's dowry, and it really took a lot of thought, and she didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. I just want to marry this aunt out of the scenery as soon as possible, so that I don't have to be picked by her all day long, and my life is extremely aggrieved.

Zhou said: "Grandma look at what you said, your marriage is the first priority in the house, and the old man has to decide it himself, where do I dare to be good at it?" Your dowry was set early in the morning, although the dowry was only one hundred and eighteen, but the silver alone was 100,000 taels, and there were countless acres, Zhuangzi, and shops. Your dowry is all sorted out by me personally, and I can guarantee this for you! ”

Xiao Yunqian didn't like this stepmother, so she went against her everywhere: "I don't care about anything else, if my dowry is not one hundred and twenty-eight today, I will never let this dowry go out." ”

Zhou's anger rushed straight up, she had been busy for such a long time, and her stepdaughter not only did not have the slightest gratitude, but also talked to her mercilessly, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed: "Grandma, although we don't look good on the face, isn't the inside glamorous?" What's more, the dowry of one hundred and eighteen is also set by the old lady himself! If you don't believe me, you can just ask the old lady! ”

The two compartments were in a stalemate, and Xiao Yunqian's father, Master Xiao San, came over and said angrily: "When is it, why hasn't the dowry been sent out?" ”

Zhou explained Xiao Yunqian's reason, and Xiao San was really angry in his heart, this daughter was really ignorant. Thinking that she was about to become Princess Zhao, maybe she would be the queen in the future, and he didn't want to offend his daughter ruthlessly, he calmed down, softened his tone and said to Xiao Yunqian: "The one hundred and eighteen dowry was set by your grandfather." The eighth girl of the Yang family is the crown princess, so she can naturally raise a dowry of one hundred and twenty-eight, but you are only a princess after all! ”

Xiao Yunqian said: "The other princesses also have one hundred and twenty-eight dowries to marry, my husband is the emperor's son, and his status is extraordinarily valuable. ”

Master Xiao San said angrily: "This matter was decided by your grandfather, his old man has his own reasoning, you just need to follow it, where is so much nonsense!" ”

Xiao Yunqian couldn't swallow a breath because of the rain in front of her: "My daughter just doesn't understand why?" ”

At this time, a majestic voice came out: "You don't need to understand! "But it was Xiao Zongchang who came in person. He glanced at Xiao Yunqian, and didn't understand how he could give birth to such a stupid granddaughter because he was famous in his life, his son and daughter were all extremely smart. Let her marry King Zhao like this, I really don't know if it's a blessing or a curse. Knowing this, it is better to choose another woman in the clan to marry King Zhao.

It's just that now that the holy decree has been issued early, he has only one way to marry Xiao Yunqian to Ye Minyu.

"Grandfather!" Xiao Yunqian knelt down aggrievedly, her face full of tears! Xiao Zongchang thought that she was about to become a princess after all, so he suppressed his anger and instructed Xiao Yunqian's maidservant: "Help your young lady up!" His voice softened: "You go back and think about it, you are married to King Zhao, you are the most important member of my Xiao family, you can't do such nonsense in the future, regardless of the overall situation, grandfather doesn't ask you to make much contribution to the Xiao family, just hope ...... "I hope you don't drag the Xiao family into the abyss of destruction!"

Xiao Zongchang's words didn't come out after all, and he flicked the sleeves of his robe and said, "That's it, you go back and think about it!" ”

Xiao Yunqian made a fuss at her mother's house, and this matter quickly spread to Zhao Wangfu. Ye Minyu listened to the eunuch's report, and did not raise his head, only squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Idiot!" ”

Xiao Yunqian didn't want to think about it, now that the emperor is more and more vigilant against his sons, if the Xiao family is beautiful at this time, and the dowry is one hundred and twenty-eight, and the crown princess is on a par with the crown princess, wouldn't it be clear to tell the emperor that King Zhao is also going to be on a par with the crown prince, and wouldn't it be known to passers-by that he wants to seize the crown prince's position?

Sure enough, it's an idiot!

On the fifth day of the first month of April, Ye Minyu, the king of Zhao, got married, half of the Beijing division was colorful, and the Manchu Dynasty came to congratulate the civil and military, and the city was a sensation. Naturally, the emperor would not go out of the palace to participate in the wedding, so he sent the crown prince Ye Minshu to congratulate him.

At the wedding, Yang Yuxin wore a nine-tailed phoenix hairpin on her head, a red princess dress, graceful and luxurious, dignified and elegant, sitting next to the prince and smiling slightly, with impeccable demeanor.

When Ye Minyu's eyes made contact with her, she only felt that there seemed to be a thousand words in her gaze, and it seemed to be calm and unwavering. King Zhao felt a pain in his heart, and he was bitter for a while.

Ye Minyu was expressionless, like a marionette, and the salute officials took him to complete all the etiquette. After being sent into the cave room, he only lifted the bride's hijab, and without even glancing at the tail of his eyes, Xiao Yunqian arrived at the front to accept the toast and celebration of the civil and military officials.

That night, Ye Minyu ignored the persuasion of the personal eunuch, drank until the glass was dry, and got drunk, so he rested directly in the study in front of him, and the cave room never set foot in half a step.

The next day, Ye Minyu took Xiao Yunqian into the palace to kowtow to Concubine Xiao. Concubine Xiao saw that Xiao Yunqian's eyes were red and swollen, and although the fat powder on her face was thick, she couldn't cover it, so she obviously cried. His son had a cold expression, and he did not have the joy he should have when he got married.

She sat upright and accepted the big gift from the two, said two clichés like "I want the husband and wife to be harmonious, Qin Se and Ming", and found an opportunity to ask everyone else to go down, leaving Ye Minyu alone.

The mother and son sat opposite each other and were silent for a long time before Concubine Xiao sighed and said, "Yu'er, when he waits for you to ascend the throne, even if you want to abolish the Xiao family and change to a queen, my mother will not stop you." It's just that now, you can't do without the support of the Xiao family, so you can be wronged, just think that you have a cat and dog by your side! ”

Ye Minyu's stiff face gradually added a trace of expression, but the expression was extremely bitter: "The son understands all this that the mother concubine said." Son, I'll get along with Xiao well! ”