Chapter 111: Marriage
With grief and indignation, Qin Fu walked out of the gate of the Shanggong Bureau like a fly without a head, and walked to a small garden near the Yongshou Palace, which was called Qinxue Garden, which was a small garden specially set up for her to play in when Duanqin was young. Now that the swing in the garden was still there, Qin Fu vaguely saw a figure sitting on the swing and swaying gently. He couldn't help but sneak closer to the swing.
When Qin Fu walked to the swing, the two immediately recognized each other, and they were a little overwhelmed, but fortunately, Qin Fu temporarily defused it by saluting the princess. After getting up, Qin Fu didn't know what to say, but he couldn't turn around and leave immediately, so the atmosphere fell into silence again.
"I heard that the day before the wedding, it is most taboo for the groom and the bride to meet, which is unlucky." Duanqin said casually while swinging.
"The minister will retire, and the princess should have never seen the minister." Qin Fu bowed down and resigned.
"Don't go yet!" Duan Qin hurriedly stopped, Qin Fu looked back at her in surprise, only to see the girl smiling playfully, and a little embarrassed to ask him for help: "You come here, help me push a little higher." ”
Qin Fu had no choice but to obey, he circled back behind the princess and pushed the swing up hard. Duanqin had a good time, laughing happily from time to time. Her silver-bell-like laughter also made Qin Fu, who had always been melancholy, a little happy.
Seeing that Duanqin was having fun, Qin Fu thought that he should retire, but was stopped by Duanqin again. Not only did she not allow him to go, but she pushed him to sit on the swing, and she swapped places with him and pushed the swing from behind. This move frightened Qin Fu and shouted: "Princess, don't!" How can you push the swing for your ministers? Stop, princess, and let the courtiers come down! ”
"You know I'm a princess, so listen to me! This princess is going to help you push the swing now, haha......" With Duanqin's laughter, the swing was pushed higher and higher, and Qin Fu felt as if he was about to fly into the sky.
It was only when he reached a frightening height again that he pleaded anxiously: "Enough is enough, princess, not any higher!" But this time no one answered him, and he hurriedly turned his head to see that there was already an empty body behind him. The stubborn princess who had just mocked him as a coward was gone, where had she gone?
The cold wind blew, and Qin Fu couldn't help but shudder, would anyone come here to swing in such a cold and naïve? Was what had just happened real or was it his hallucination? Qin Fu shook his head and laughed self-deprecatingly, he must have been confused by the quilt's laughter, which is why he had such a ridiculous dream.
Qin Fu stood up from the swing and prepared to leave the palace, and walked to the gate of Qinxue Garden, when a girl's sly joke faintly came from his ears: "You just haven't seen this princess......" He turned back in surprise, only the sound of the wind squeaking on the swing.
In the early morning of the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the sky was covered with fluffy snowflakes, and the entire imperial city was gradually shrouded in a vast expanse. The princess's procession was clad in red glow, as if it were winding into a flame on the snowy pavement, splitting the chaos.
Duanqin is not afraid of the cold and insists on wearing a red peony embroidered thin hookah mopping long skirt as a wedding dress, if it weren't for the maid Lan Ze to say that she would be willing to put on a thick brocade inlaid silver ratskin cloak outside, at this time she was afraid that she would be frozen into an iceman. She sat in the carriage of the wedding, holding a warm copper stove for hand warmers, which the Queen Mother had forced into her hands before leaving. Jiang Fang stood at the gate of Yongshou Palace and watched his daughter get into the carriage, they were all married big girls, but they were still so willful, Jiang Fang couldn't help but warm his eyes. I hope the colt can treat her well, Jiang Fang prayed silently in his heart.
Duanqin, who leaned out of the car window, kept waving goodbye to the queen mother, and also waved goodbye to the Dahan Palace, where she had lived for eighteen years, until Jiang Yuan's figure shrunk into a small dot and finally disappeared from view, and she reluctantly sat back in her place. Duanqin secretly took off his cloak in the carriage, and suddenly felt the cold surge, and couldn't help but shiver. She deliberately wore thin clothes, she just wanted to be sick from the cold, so that she might be able to avoid the night of marriage, she was not ready to be someone else's wife.
The convoy traveled all the way to Qin's mansion, and there were already people waiting here at the gate, and when they saw the princess's carriage and horses coming from a distance, they quickly lit strings of wedding firecrackers. In the deafening sound of firecrackers, Qin Fu, the groom who was also dressed in red, slowly stepped forward and knelt down in the direction where the princess's carriage was parked to greet him: "Congratulations to the princess, please get off the princess." As he spoke, he climbed onto the footstool and lifted the curtain of the carriage door to help the princess get out of the carriage, and a cold jade hand gently rested on the back of his hand.
Duanqin was led out of the carriage by Qin Fu, and a cold wind drooped down her hijab, and the jeweled begonia winged jade luan crown was clearly exposed in front of everyone. From time to time, the crowd of onlookers let out cries of amazement at the royal preciousness. Lan Ze panicked to retrieve the running hijab when she was stopped by Duanqin, who casually wore the hood behind the cloak to cover most of her face.
"It seems that the hijab can be omitted today, don't you mind?" Duanqin didn't look at Qin Fu when he spoke, and Qin Fu couldn't see her expression clearly when she was blocked under the hood, so he just nodded in a daze. Duan Qin couldn't see Qin Fu's movements, and when he saw that he didn't make a sound, he regarded it as a default, so he tapped the back of Qin Fu's hand with his armor and whispered, "What are you doing in a daze?" If you don't take me in soon, I'm going to freeze. ”
"Ahh The minister is rude! Princess please. Only then did Qin Fu react, holding Duanqin's arm and bringing her into the inner hall.
Today's officiant is the emperor himself, and under the auspices of him and Qin Yan, Qin Fu and the princess bowed to the hall step by step. As an old servant of the Qin Mansion and the hair of the Qin Fu, Li Jingxi made an exception and allowed Zimo to follow the wedding team to the Qin Mansion to watch the ceremony. Unexpectedly, the Xian father and son were all present.
Xian Yuanshao had already seen Zimo, and he couldn't wait to rush to her immediately, but unfortunately his father and brother and many courtiers were on his side, and he was not allowed to be presumptuous. So Yuan Shao had an idea to summon the two young sisters and asked them to entangle Zimo first, so that he could join them naturally as soon as he was free.
Children are always much freer than adults, Pomegranate and Cherry successfully found Zimo's location and pulled her to hold her: "Sister Zimo, do you remember us?" Why didn't you come to see us? Pomegranate and Cherry hugged Zimo's thighs and asked with their cute little faces.
"Little pomegranate, little cherry, hello! It's not that my sister doesn't go to see you, it's because the palace rules are strict, and my sister can't go out of the palace casually. Zimo squatted down and touched the heads of the two.
"When my sister-in-law was not pregnant with a baby, she always played with us, but when she had a baby, my father didn't let us quarrel with her. Finally, when my sister-in-law gave birth to a baby, she had to recuperate for a while, and we were all bored to death! Sister Zimo, can you not stay in the palace and live in our house? "The pomegranate man is a big ghost, her words sound childish and naïve, but in fact, it is a hint that she hopes that Zimo will marry into the immortal mansion as soon as possible.
Zimo guessed that it must be Xian Yuanshao who instilled strange thoughts in the two of them again, she pinched Pomegranate's little nose and diverted the topic and asked, "Did Lord Tingting give birth to a boy or a girl?" Have you got a name? ”
"My sister-in-law gave birth to a little nephew, and my father named the little nephew 'Zhiyuan'!" Cherry hastened to answer.
"In this way, that's really congratulations to General Xian and Major General!" Zimo whispered that the child's attention was easily diverted, but someone behind him suddenly said loudly: "Don't divert the topic, you haven't answered when you will be able to 'live' in our house!" Zimo turned his head suddenly, and was slapped on the forehead by Xian Yuanshao.
"Ouch, it hurts! You hide behind your back to scare people, and you want to bully me, how can there be such an unreasonable person? Zimo rubbed the door of his head that was bounced by him, and said angrily.
"Master has always been unreasonable, what can you do with me?" Xian Yuanshao looked proud and proud.
"Humph! I've also delivered the congratulatory gifts, I've finished watching the wedding, and I'm going back to the palace! Zimo made a gesture of "too lazy to pay attention to you" and turned his head to leave.
"Hey, don't go! Why did you see me leaving? We haven't seen each other in a month, and you don't miss me at all? Xian Yuanshao stopped her and didn't let her go.
"It's just, why do you have to leave when you first come? The eldest prince renovated the Qin Mansion for the second son's marriage, and there are several interesting places, don't you want to take a look? Why don't you take a few distinguished guests to visit? The elusive Amo suddenly interjected, interrupting the tugging between the two.
"Amo! It's you again! Why are you everywhere? Zimo said angrily.
"Haha, look at what you said, I'm the guard of the horse and the old servant of the Qin Mansion, where can I be if I'm not here?" Amo bowed his hand to Xian Yuanshao.
"I can walk around the Qin Mansion with my eyes closed, what's there to see? I don't believe that in just one month, what kind of tricks can be renovated? Don't go. Zimo clasped his hands around his chest to show that he was not interested.
"If she doesn't go, I won't either." Xianyuan Shao also shook his head politely.
"Oops, what a pity! The pond in the backyard has been frozen, and this year it was specially set aside as an ice frolic venue, and all kinds of colorful lights were hung around it, which was very beautiful! It's a shame not to watch it! Seeing that Zimo was not cooperative, Amo winked at the two children seductively.
Pomegranate hesitated and bit her nails, and finally couldn't resist the temptation to ask: "Big brother, is the ice frolic you said really that fun?" Can you get us up and skate? ”
"Absolutely! Do you want the two little ladies to go down and have a look? Your brother and sister Zimo must still have important things to say, so let's not bother. Why don't we go to the ice arena and wait for them while playing? Amo's proposal made the two little girls very excited, they looked at Yuan Shao and Zimo, and finally decided to follow Ah Mo to play without "disturbing" their two-person world. Ah Mo also quietly glanced at Zimo before leaving, she knew what he was hinting at, Qin Yan's patience was probably running out.