Chapter 13: The Wedding Ceremony
Ji Huan very "politely" invited Ji Gongyan away with the objects that could be thrown at hand, and sat on the bed in a daze.
"Little Master...... Is it better? Rong Xin asked cautiously.
Ji Huan looked at Rong Xin and remembered how she felt last night. "Can I ask you something?"
Rong Xin was taken aback. "Don't use that word...... The slave is just a servant girl, don't dare to disobey, how can He De ......"
"I said it to his face, you are my friend, so you really have something to ask for." Ji Huan looked at Rong Xin, who was cramped and uneasy. "Don't call me any little lord in the future, just call me Huanhuan."
"No, no, this is a great rebellion ......"
"Rong Xin, the maid of the Wing Palace, obeys orders."
Rong Xin hung her head respectfully. "Slaves and maids are ......"
"From today onwards, I will appoint you as the head of the Wing Zhen Rite Palace, and do the affairs of my Wing Zhen Palace, Fun Horse, Xiao Yin, Zuo Carrying Servant, Baisi, and Shu Mansion, no longer need to call yourself a 'slave', you can call the name of Concubine Bao."
"Slave maid...... Rong Xin took the order...... Rong Xin wanted to laugh but held back, and whispered: "But the little master...... The harem does not have the power to appoint officials...... Besides, I'm a woman, how can I exercise official power......"
"Look, what is this?" Ji Huan took out a card.
"It's ...... The dynasty card of Tianguan Tsukazai...... Little master, how can you have this brand?! Rong Xin was shocked again, what kind of character is this! A harem concubine carries the waist card used by the prime minister to go to court.
"Himenomiya gave me a place to play." Ji Huan smiled slyly. "I've heard that if the person who sees the card sees himself, he also has the power that the brand brings, and I didn't let you go to the court to be a court official, don't worry so much."
Rong Xin knelt down at the moment. "Thank you for the great grace of the little master, Rong Xin is toothless and unforgettable."
"It's all said, don't call me a little master......"
ββ¦β¦ Look at the little master, you are very homesick, according to the rules of the house, how about calling you Miss in the future? Call the name of the milk true, forgive Rongxin for not daring to ......"
"It's okay, I don't force you."
Ji Huan lifted the quilt, picked up his neatly folded clothes, and put them on without waiting for Rong Xin to get started.
After washing his face indiscriminately, he pushed open the door of the dormitory, and saw a group of people waiting outside.
"The people of the Wing Zhen Palace, I have changed the rules today, I am not allowed to call me a little master, a master or anything, I am commensurate with the identity of 'Miss', and everything is as usual."
The people below were stunned, and they couldn't believe their ears.
"In the future, I will treat you as my relatives, and I hope you can open your hearts to me."
A smiling little face didn't apply half of the makeup, but it amazed everyone present. I thought that a child like Ji Huan, holding a stomach full of grievances, should sprinkle fire for a few days, take down people to get angry, or have a cold face, but no one would have thought that he would suddenly get such a result.
"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong with my decision? I mean, I don't have any arrogance, I'm going to treat you as equals, and I'm going to try to satisfy all the things that make you happy......"
"No, no, thank you for your kindness!"
"God open your eyes, we are following the right person, Miss Hongfu Qitian!"
The people on the wall looked at Ji Huan's smiling side face and couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
"Your Majesty, if you don't leave, you're going to miss today's court meeting......" Cangji next to him reminded in a low voice.
"I didn't choose the wrong person, this is my joy...... My baby ......" A pair of eyes were straight as if he hadn't heard it, Cangji saw the king's infatuated expression for the first time, and his heart was furious.
"Your Majesty!"
Ji Huan looked at the excited palace people, and in a trance heard someone shouting something on the other side of the wall, turned his head to look, but only saw the row of bare trees outside the wall.
Rong Xin looked at the "colleagues" so elated behind Xi Huan, and couldn't help but feel emotional, everyone has suffered losses and hunger in the harem, but now it is like a real home, with a sour nose, looking at Xi Huan, who is more than half of his head short in front of him, he wants to know more about this little girl.
"Hmm...... Have you had breakfast? If you don't dislike me as a newcomer, let's eat together? β
With that, he rolled up his sleeves and walked down the steps. "Where's the room?"
A few palace maids on the side were stunned, and hurriedly stopped, "Miss, Miss, breakfast is ready, how can I let you do it......"
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The heavy sound of bells rang, and the officials walked out of the council hall one after another.
"What's the matter with the king in the past two days, and why did he suddenly start to be diligent? In the past, it was all axiomatic government. β
"Brother Qiao, don't say much, I'm afraid that the direction of the wind will change......
"Maybe it has something to do with the new concubine."
The two people who were discussing in front of them turned back one after another when they heard this. "Yin Taibao ......"
Yin Taibao, Yin Ke, one of the three dukes, assisted Zhou Tianzi to hold state affairs, and was in charge of the three officials and the Quartet Marquis, and his status in the court was second only to Taifu, and he enjoyed the right to speak as others did.
"Since the king came back from Baodi, he has judged the two of them before, so there is this speculation, yesterday's banquet was obviously a faΓ§ade for this concubine......"
Yin Ke paused, looked at the drum that had just walked out of the back, and frowned: "This is not a place to be discussed, you two might as well go to the cold house to talk about it?" β
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On the morning of the second day when the newlyweds enter the palace, the other concubines in the harem usually come to celebrate and get to know each other.
Before this, the harem hall 12 Xia, the queen Lanxing Palace is in the center, the other eleven halls around its heart, such as the stars holding the moon, and this wing palace, is a new palace that Ji Gongyan ordered to build a year ago, inserted into the best position of the east scenery, standing in the palace can see the high mountain outside the wall, riding directly on the face of the Lanxing Palace.
The group of women walked in the winding royal city talking and laughing, most of them dressed gorgeously, as if they were going to some important banquet.
"I don't know what this new concubine looks like." A woman and her sister were talking, and their voices were very high-pitched.
"It is said that this concubine is just twenty-seven years old, and she is still a child." The man next to him chimed in. "Maybe it hasn't grown yet."
"Maybe something, right? Otherwise, how could the king break the pattern in the palace and build another palace. The voice was a little higher, and it was particularly harsh in the sound of his laughter.
When the woman in front heard this, she slowed down.
"Hagi Yuan, you must not be presumptuous in your speech."
The gentle voice said this sentence, and it was like a thunderbolt in the ears.
The woman turned around, but smiled again: "In the future, everyone will be a family, and it will be rude to choke people with words." β
The figure is slender, wearing vermilion yarn, the long hair is tied into a high bun, the three golden hairpins are shining, a pair of phoenix eyes hanging on the face of the inverted goose egg can not pick out half of the dissatisfaction, the half-squinted eyes can not see joy and anger, the red lips are not angry and self-righteous when they are lightly opened, and the whole body brings people a sense of solemnity.
"Also, the king's deeds, the people in the harem have no right to judge, if I hear such a sentence......"
It's still the color of a smile, but the sun on it makes people feel like falling into an ice cave.
"Yes......" Hagi Yuan didn't dare to meet her gaze and lowered his head.
The group reached the gate of the palace in the wings, and the palace people came to greet them: "Welcome to the queen." β
"Why is the palace so lively?" After Shen, Jiang Meng was very curious. "Don't you run a feast?"
Jiang Meng was suspicious in her heart, stretched out her hand to push open the palace door, and the scene in front of her scared a concubine.
There are all kinds of good dishes on the stone table, and the servants and maids are sitting at the table, which is lively and unhappy.
When the people saw the queen and the concubines visiting, they knelt down one after another.
Jiang Meng's breath of blood surged, and he was furious: "You subordinates dare to deceive the master? There are no rules! β
For the first time, the people of the Wing Zhen Palace saw the queen angry, sweating all over her body and not daring to answer.
Ji Huan had just entered the courtyard with a vegetable plate, and his hands trembled with fright, and the two vegetable plates both fell to the ground and died.
"What is this for?" Ji Huan glared at Jiang Meng angrily. "Don't scare my palace people!"
Jiang Meng glanced at Ji Huan, not wearing fancy clothes, not applying fat powder, hanging hairpins, short and thin appearance, but she did not lose her courage, and then looked at the noodle plate, and immediately judged: This little concubine must have been bullied by her subordinates when she was young, and she didn't know the rules.
Jiang Meng walked over and looked at Ji Huan, who was a head shorter than herself, she was really a poor baby, and hugged her.
"My sister has been bullied, and my sister will help you punish these evil people."
Ji Huan was held tightly in her arms, her plump figure made her breathless, and she struggled to break free, "Why punish them...... Who are you? β
Jiang Meng looked at the little girl with her waist crossed in front of her, and felt pity, this child was so cute. Since entering the palace, there has been no such stupid and confused person around.
"Do you know that in the palace, the subordinates are to serve the master's meal? How could it be possible to sit at the table and let one of your concubines serve the dishes. I couldn't help but reach out and scratch Xi Huan's little nose. Silly boy, people don't know if they're deceived. β
Ji Huan was stunned: "I know, I let them eat with me." β
Jiang Meng's hand froze in mid-air, "...... What did you say? β
"I asked them to eat with me......"
The first time he saw someone who entered the palace and didn't follow the rules of etiquette, Jiang Meng was stunned, and the concubines behind him also held their breath.
After all, the queen is the queen, and immediately rounded: "Oh...... Presumably, my sister has just entered the palace, and I don't know the number of etiquette in this palace......"
Who knew that Ji Huan raised his face: "I know the number of etiquette, but I want them to be happy and free." β
Everyone present was silent, and for the first time, the cold scene made the palace people who could speak well feel embarrassed.
"You...... Are you the queen? Looking at the women in gorgeous clothes behind him, only the person in front of him has the right to speak, and Ji Huan is not really stupid.
Jiang Meng came back to her senses, and for the first time she heard someone ask her like this. "Are you the queen?" "People don't know what to do.
"Hmm...... Well, I'm ...... In the future, it will be ...... to call my sister" Jiang Meng didn't expect that he would accidentally use idle words to pick up the stubble.
A concubine behind him raised her face and said coldly: "Since you know that Niangniang is here in person, she still makes the palace look like this, and she doesn't greet it in advance, so she really has no education at all." β
Ji Huan looked up at the concubine who interjected behind her and frowned.
"Say I don't have a tutor? Shouldn't you let people know in advance when you visit someone? I still have to be greeted by someone when I come so suddenly, I don't know if you are uneducated or I don't. β
The concubine didn't get angry, but laughed: "Heh, is your family's family rule to eat with your subordinates?" Sure enough, the little barbaric girl who came out of the poor mountains and bad waters. β
The word "eating" can be regarded as quite vicious, which is equivalent to scolding people that the whole family is livestock, and the appearance of pigs and dogs when they eat is used as a reference.
During the Zhou Dynasty, the first and third ladies were in a high position, at least the women of the feudal family could only be promoted to the throne when they entered the palace, and the nine concubines followed by the daughters of the feudal kingdom should sit in the position, and what the concubine did not expect was that Ji Gongyan would seriously dispose of the old system for Ji Huan, a person outside the establishment, and take it seriously, and what I didn't expect was that Ji Huan entered the palace and was the head of the "four" ladies, named after the national surname, yesterday's banquet was hastily announced, and only a few people in the harem inquired about it. I thought that this woman from the fiefdom of Baocheng was just a new concubine, and she had to talk to herself about the old and new generations.
Ji Huan is neither humble nor arrogant: "I didn't expect this harem to be mixed, the people who speak foul words are so rampant, although the clothes are neat and not as good as the beasts, it must be the system of the harem, there is a sparse assistant, the teaching of children and children, the lack of Yu Jiao, the teacher of Tingxiang, and the etiquette is lost." β
If you don't make a big move, you still treat me as a child? If you want to scold people, you can even scold all your harem and your hometown!
When the concubine heard this, her face was flushed, and she was about to reply to her mouth, but she coughed loudly.
Jiang Meng was born in the Shenhou Mansion of Shenguo, and was taught by a scholarly family since he was a child, and for the first time he heard that someone could say scolding words in a literary manner, and he also said a sense of the picture, and he jumped in front of him, just like the paragraph in which Jiang Taishi scolded Di Xin in the bamboo slip, he couldn't help but look at Xi Huan differently, but Ji Huan's sentence even pointed out that her queen was negligent in harem control, so she could only turn back to the concubine: "Yan Yuqin, you really shouldn't have said this foul word today, it seems that I really neglected the harem etiquette." β
When Yan Yuqin heard this, she hurriedly made amends, and was so frightened that she didn't dare to say anything more, and complained more and more in her heart about this little visitor from the Praise Kingdom, obviously to support the queen's magnificent momentum, but in the end she was rude.
Jiang Meng saw Yan Yuqin's muffled voice, turned around and took Ji Huan's soft little hand, "My sister must not know this unwritten system." "Turned." When the newlyweds enter the palace, the old ones come to visit Shi Li the next morning. You see, these are our sisters. β
Ji Huan was held by the hand and saluted with one hand: "I've seen my sisters." β
I don't know which woman in the back row sneered: "When you are so young, you have to call your sister." β
Jiang Meng glanced at it and ignored it: "Yesterday, I heard that at the banquet, the Son of Heaven accepted the concubine into the palace, reorganized the establishment, gave the name of 'concubine', and awarded the position of 'lady'. When everyone heard the words "lady's seat", their eyes widened.
"Concubine Bao is the youngest sister I have seen since I entered the palace. Instead, you should call her 'sister.'" Yubi looked at Ji Huan, with a smile in his eyes.
Ji Huan looked up at the queen's eyes, but she was in her twenties, and she already had such a broad mind, in just two sentences, she officially recognized the great name of a harem, and gave the despised her a chance to sell a good person.
"My sister is right, although I have a name, but my vision is still young, I should call everyone 'sister', I hope you sisters will give you more advice in the future."
Jiang Meng looked at this little concubine, smart and clever, although she was straight, she also knew how to be reasonable.
"Concubine Bao is young, presumably it is the first time to arrive, I forgot to tell me about today's events, sisters, don't blame me for my face, this is a day of celebration, I hope you Haihan."
Jiang Meng is a good-tempered person, and he really doesn't want to recite the words of etiquette and system in people's ears every day, these concubines and wives are also quite resentful when they guard the empty room as soon as they enter the system, (in fact, it is because Ji Gongyan doesn't like the harem stuffers who are messed up with him), so it is inevitable to see that this little girl who is not prepared to welcome them in advance is not pleasing to the eye. If you don't press the name of Ji Huan today, I'm afraid that you will make enemies everywhere, after all, the harem has no power, that is, it is just blowing the wind on the pillow.
"The subordinates of the Wing Palace, let's clean up first. It is important to give the newcomer the gift first. β
Ji Huan dragged Rong Xin and whispered in her ear: "Let them go to the side room to eat secretly, leave me alone, and kneel for a long time." β
Rong Xin led away.
"I've seen my sister."
"I've seen Concubine Bao." One by one, he saluted and introduced, and Ji Huan's breakfast was dragged on until noon.