Chapter 493: Weddings and Funerals (Plus Change)

Outside the room, a group of imperial doctors and palace maids gathered, and Qin Shi Huang was also waiting anxiously.

Seeing Chen Xu come out with the princess in his arms, everyone was dumbfounded.

"Aiqing, you...... What do you mean by that? Qin Shi Huang looked at his daughter with his arms hanging in Chen Xu's arms in a daze, and couldn't help but ask with an anxious face.

"Your Majesty, you have promised to marry Princess Qingning to me, and I now want to take the princess back to the house and bury her with a wife!" Chen Xu said with a calm face.

"Princess......" The palace maids and palace people who were waiting all wailed and knelt down.

"Aiqing, you...... Why are you doing this, the wedding has not taken place, which makes me feel uneasy...... "Although Qin Shi Huang had been mentally prepared for Wang Qingsleeve's death, he was very entangled in Chen Xu's unbelievable request, and the look of surprise on his face was more obvious than the sad color.

"Please also ask Your Majesty to agree!" Chen Xu looked at the emperor very stubbornly.

"Come on, where are the guards, escort the Marquis of Qinghe and Princess Qingning to the Marquis of Qinghe's mansion!" Qin Shi Huang waved his hand and commanded.

"Huh~" A group of forbidden soldiers quickly prepared the carriage, Chen Xu hugged Wang Qingsleeve and walked into the carriage step by step, and after sitting down, he still hugged her cold body tightly.

"Princess, princess, wake up~~"

The two little maids also cried and climbed up and knelt in front of Chen Xu, holding Wang Qingsleeve's arm and shouting loudly with tears and blood on their faces.

The carriage started, and under the escort of dozens of black-armored forbidden soldiers, the carriage rolled along the palace wall, and a group of palace maids and palace people from Qingning Palace also followed behind crying.

In the places that passed along the way, all the palace attendants knelt on the ground and bowed, and the internal officials of the internal history also lowered their hands and stood with a sad look on their faces.

"Green sleeves, you are far away, my husband will sing you a song, so that you are not too lonely on the road......"

"Heaven and earth are leisurely passers-by, the tide rises and falls, grievances and grievances, life and death, and a few people can see through, the red dust is rolling and the infatuation is deep, and there will be a time when you will gather and disperse, leave half awake and half drunk, at least you follow ...... in your dreams"

With this strange ballad hummed softly, the carriage swayed and bumped, out of the inner courtyard, through the palace gate, all the way the palace people knelt on the ground, some cried bitterly and some were sluggish, the escorted forbidden army was silent, and the palace maids who followed were even more mournful, crying all the way, and finally went out of the palace to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion.

Countless passers-by stopped to watch, people came from all directions, and many people also knelt down to worship with sad faces, and there were weeping voices along the road.

The people of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion had already been alarmed by the forbidden army, Chen Jiang and Shui Qingrou greeted the door under the support of the housekeeper and the subordinates, originally heard that it was the Qinghe Marquis who took Princess Qingning back to the house, but they were greeted by the crowd who cried all the way.

Seeing his desolate son walking down from the car with a woman in his arms, Chen Jiang's six gods had no owner, and he didn't dare to approach with tears in his eyes: "Xu'er, what happened?" Don't scare your mother! ”

"Mother, the child is not filial, and I brought back a daughter-in-law for you, it is Princess Qingning!" After Chen Xu finished speaking, he turned his head and swept his eyes over the crowd of the entire Hou Mansion, "Butler, prepare the coffin according to the etiquette of the Hou Mansion, arrange for someone to go to the manor outside the city to survey the cemetery, and prepare for the burial of the princess!" ”

"Huh?!" Hundreds of people covered their mouths and exclaimed almost simultaneously.

Chen Jiang's pale face staggered back, and he was quickly supported by several little maids.

"Xu'er, what happened?"

"Mother, the child promised to marry Princess Qingning, but the princess couldn't wait for the wedding, the child couldn't bear her to go alone, so she wanted to be buried in my Chen family with a wife ceremony, and asked her mother to agree! The child kowtows to you instead of Qingning. Chen Xu hugged Wang Qing's sleeves and knelt in front of Chen Jiang's three heads with a puff.

"Son!" Chen Jiangshi pounced on Chen Xu and hugged him, tremblingly reached out and touched Wang Qingshou's cold cheeks and cried.

Shui was gentle and her face was full of tears, she grabbed Chen Xu's arm and whimpered softly to help him up.

"Woo woo...... The entire Hou Mansion instantly burst into a cry, and the servants and maids all knelt down densely.

"The holy decree arrives~" With a long shout at the door of the Hou Mansion, a gray-haired official from the Zongzheng Office came in a hurry with two palace people, unfolded the silk book and read aloud: "The Marquis of Qinghe asks to marry Princess Qingning, I promise to marry, the three books and six ceremonies are all complete, Zongzheng records his name, and often chooses the time, the servant occupies the test today is a good day and auspicious time, Xu Ying's wedding gift, a hundred hectares of mountains and forests, a hundred hectares of grain fields, ten boxes of gold beads and beautiful jade, thirty maids, one hundred slaves, and one hundred horses......"

After reading it, the official closed the silk book and walked up to Chen Xu, bent down and saluted, and whispered: "Master Hou, please accept the order!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Chen Xu nodded, and Yu Wuya, who was standing next to him, took the silk book.

"The Holy Decree has arrived~" With another long shout, Shaofu ordered Zhao Wei to hold a black silk book and lead a group of officials from the Shaofu, the Ministry of Industry, Fengchang, and Zongzheng to enter.

"I heard that the Hou Concubine of Qinghe, I am very sad, Princess Qingning is my beloved daughter, and now I promise to be buried with the ceremony of the Hou Concubine, and I will give the cemetery ten hectares, give 100 pieces of jade, give 100 sets of clothes, give a bronze carriage and horse, give 100 catties of mercury, give a pair of Zizi wooden coffins, and order Feng Chang to find auspicious soil, and order the Ministry of Industry to relocate 3,000 prisoners, and complete the tomb of the Hou Concubine within three days, without delay......"

"Concubine Zheng Yizhi arrives~"

"Hearing the concubine of Qinghe, the woman is very sad, and she is specially given a pair of jade pendants and a set of phoenix curtains......"

"Concubine Shuyi's will arrive~"

"Childe Fusu arrives~"

"Tongwu Hou arrives~"

"The Imperial Doctor of the Supervision Province has arrived~"

"The Prime Minister of Zhongshu Province, Lord Li, has arrived~"

Almost at the same time, countless four-bridled carriages followed, and soon the gate of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion was full, and countless forbidden troops also imposed martial law on the entire street at the gate, not allowing ordinary people to watch and pass.

Under the command of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the mourning hall was quickly arranged, the flags and flags were lined up all over the house, and the palace maids and palace people of Qingning Palace were all dressed in linen and filial piety and knelt down to cry bitterly.

The two little maids cried to death and fainted.

It was a wedding like no other.

At the same time, it was also an unprecedented funeral.

The matter of Qinghe Marquis courting the emperor in person today did not attract too much attention because of a great change in the court, but this sudden movement made the people of Xianyang divert all their attention.

On the day of Qinghehou's courtship, Princess Qingning was ill, but Qinghehou still personally married the princess and returned to her home, and she was buried with his wife.

This is an unprecedented anecdote, and it makes countless people throb, but it makes countless people even more puzzled, why did Qinghe Hou do this, in this era when ghosts and gods are in power, this is an extremely strange and extremely unfortunate thing.

It is unlucky to marry a dead man!

But the Marquis of Qinghe was not moved at all, not only personally welcomed Princess Qingning back to the mansion, but also personally placed her in the coffin.

And Qin Shi Huang also knew that Chen Xu was unprepared for this matter, so he issued orders one after another, and one after another edicts continued to be transmitted from the palace, and the Ministry of Rites and the government of the Shaofu immediately took action, and the imperial cemetery was allocated under the Nanshan Mountain, and the prisoners who built the mausoleum were also quickly summoned to start construction, and everything was in order.

It was night, the stars and the moon were gone, and it was as dark as ink.

Except for the occasional patrol guards, the rest of the Hou Mansion had already fallen asleep, and the two little maids had already fainted from crying and were carried to the side room to rest.

Above the mourning hall full of plain water, there was a coffin in the center, and several huge bronze ice boxes were placed around and below the coffin, and the cold air emitted by the ice cubes inside made the temperature of the room drop a lot.

Inside the half-hidden coffin lay a beautiful woman in a gorgeous dress, her face was snow-white and her expression was serene.

On the offering table in front of the coffin, there were spiritual tablets and incense burners, cigarette smoke curled up, and the oil wax of the thickness of two arms burned, reflecting the entire mourning hall dark and dim.

Chen Xu sat on a chair, and by the dim candlelight, he looked at a snow-white silk handkerchief in his hand, on which a sleeve word and flower patterns were embroidered crookedly, and two lines of words were written in the blank space.

This was given to him by Wang Qingsleeve in Qinghe Garden that day, but unfortunately he was sleeping at the time, because he didn't have a good impression of this woman, so he naturally ignored it, and then ran a newspaper and returned to his hometown to marry a relative, so he completely forgot about it.

Maybe...... She has a lot of things in her heart that she wants to say to herself, but even if she wants to hear it now, she never has a chance again.

If I could turn back time, would I go to him?

Chen Xu thought silently in his heart for a long time, and finally sighed, thinking about it or not, between himself and Wang Qingsleeve, there is absolutely no common language, when they lived together in Xiaohe Village for more than a month, the words of the two added up to ten sentences, and every time Wang Qingsleeve snorted coldly, Chen Xu rolled his eyes and announced the end of the exchange.

It was a state of indifference to the point of almost hostility, so although he had a deep memory of Wang Qingsleeve's two long legs, Chen Xu didn't have a good impression of this cold and short-tempered woman, so after Wang Qingsleeve left, Chen Xu almost left her behind and concentrated on spoiling his gentle sister.

Thinking of the situation when Wang Qingsleeve came to the house yesterday, and remembering that the two little maids in Qingning Palace today said the words of the last immortal healing, Chen Xu sighed again, stood up and walked to the front of the offering table, and prepared to light the handkerchief in his hand.

"Engong, why are you doing this?" Yu Wuya was still haunted by Chen Xu's marriage to a dead princess, and stood next to him with a depressed face.

Chen Xu stood silently with a handkerchief for a long time and sighed: "Brother Wuyan, in fact, this life is too boring, life and death cannot be controlled, I really don't know what life is for, looking at the silent ...... of jumping around today, and maybe dying tomorrow."

"Engong don't want to think nonsense, Princess Qingning is too seriously injured and sick for a long time, and it is beyond human power to save her, you promised to marry her, and now you have done it, she is not blessed to enjoy, life is endless, but it is endless, this is the way, the master also said that I am just a mayfly between heaven and earth, life is in a trance and there is no trace to be found, so Wuya just wants to live a free life!"

"It's too difficult, born in the world, you have to eat, drink and Lazar, there are joys, sorrows, and sorrows, how can you come from there, I don't know if the predecessors of Chi Songzi travel the world, whether they live at ease? Alas...... I hope she crosses the Nai He Bridge, drinks Meng Po soup, forgets what happened in this life, and can be carefree and free in the next life......"