On the tenth day of October, late autumn, the sky is high and cloudy, the wind is bright and refreshing, and it is an auspicious day for Huangchen.

In the palace of Zhanghan, Emperor Liang and Concubine Jingjia began to change the court clothes of the previous dynasty under the service of the chamberlain; Several princes left the palace in splendid clothes and came to the imperial city in a sedan chair; King Yu put on a python robe to make up for the clothes, covered with a red brocade robe, his hair bun was tied with red silk, and he wore a yellow crown of wrong silk, and when he stepped out of the palace, Luan Yiwei was already waiting on the side; In the luxury fragrance pavilion, the lacquer carving Yan Li wears a hairpin with large sleeves and skirts, the hairpin is hairpinned with gold and cui flowers, the thrush points the lips, and finally the four-cornered plum is branded in the center of the eyebrows, and the Xipa is covered by the attendant maid under the support of the maid and the attendant is led by the sedan chair and the curtain, eight attendants lift the sedan chair, sixteen groups of lanterns lead the way in front, twenty groups of female officials follow behind, and there are royal forest guards guarding through the Ziyang Gate to enter the Daliang Palace.

When the princess's sedan chair arrived outside the palace of Dechengyuan, King Yu was already waiting in front of the palace, relying on the stop, the female official and the maid of the dowry lifted the curtain to support the lacquer carving Yan Li and walked to the side of the King of Yu. This is the first time that King Yu has now observed this princess of the Lower Tang Dynasty up close, and she will soon become his own princess, although her face is hidden in the hippa, through her figure, the king of Yu has vaguely believed the rumored beauty of the princess of the Lower Tang Dynasty. King Yu took the princess's hand, the female official and the maid retreated, a pair of beautiful people slowly stepped on the sixty-six white jade steps, the entire Chengyuan Palace was guarded by the Royal Forest Guard, as the captain of the Royal Forest Guard, Yan Keran stood not far away to witness this period of great power marriage.

The Chengyuan Palace in the unitary time is full of civil and military officials, the emperor's relatives are all there, and the dragon seat is sitting on the top of the Liang Son of Heaven and the actual controller of the harem - Jingjia Guifei, the first left hand of Emperor Liang is empty, followed by King Xiang, King Ling, King Zhuang and Princess Yunxuan, and under the right hand is Cai Quan, Xia Tang and personal envoys.

After a quick glance, King Yu realized that the crown prince did not attend such an important occasion, and thought so in his heart, but his footsteps could not stop, and a pair of beautiful people walked to the first position of Emperor Liang to perform three kneels and nine bows and a closing ceremony. Emperor Liang looked at the newcomer with a red face and finished the slightly tedious ceremony, and smiled, "Yun Qi, I finally waited for you to get married, and I can be regarded as completing a heartfelt matter." Send the princess to Hechuan Palace first! ”

After an order was given, the two women immediately stepped forward to hold the princess left and right to salute the palace and slowly withdrew from the Chengyuan Palace, while King Yu sat down in the second seat on the left.

"Fang is in the general trend today, my Liang and the Tang Dynasty and Xiliang are the top three, although there have been many festivals in the past, from today the Tang Dynasty and my Liang are relatives of the country, since mutual benefit and mutual understanding, and jointly seek the well-being of the people of the two countries!" Emperor Liang stood up and toasted to the envoy of the Tang Dynasty and his relatives in his hand.

The envoy immediately got up and saluted back and said: "The king of my country has always admired the elegance of the Liang Dynasty, and this time the princess came to the prince to make peace with the meaning of the long-term coexistence of the two countries. ”

"Haha, good, good!" Emperor Liang drank the wine in his cup, "Today is the wedding day of my beloved son Yunqi, dance and music, celebrate well!" After speaking, a group of cardinal dancers came to the stage, and the servants played Chinese music, and the noisy scene was slowly staged.

"Fourth brother, my brother will give you a cup first!" King Xiang picked up the wine cup with both hands and slowly poured the purple elixir into his throat, "The fourth brother has finally got married, and the sister-in-law is the princess of the Tang Dynasty, it is simply a good couple, and the younger brother is very happy for the fourth brother!" ”

"The fifth brother should be more happy about the degree of favor of the fourth brother, right?" King Ling casually picked up the wine glass in one hand and gestured to King Yu, "After all, it only took two years for the fourth brother to go from the county king who guarded the frontier to the prince of Wuzhu who now holds a heavy army, and this marrying the princess of Xia Tang is even more involved in the national policy of my big beam, look at the position of the fourth brother, it seems that the location of the East Palace is not far away!" ”

"Seventh brother, you can't talk nonsense!" King Zhuang kindly dissuaded but was ridiculed by King Ling: "Sixth brother, the younger brother still calls you Sixth Brother is just to see how old you are and how old I am, you still have to be your cripple county king, and you can't interfere in this court matter!" ”

"Yun Rui!" Seeing that King Zhuang was embarrassed and embarrassed, King Yu scolded: "How can you say that we are all brothers, Yunhong is also your brother, if you let your father know what you said......"

"Father knows! Isn't that just right! Fourth brother, you really don't have a sense of power? King Ling then began to question loudly, and King Xiang found that Emperor Liang had begun to notice his side, so he hurriedly stepped forward, "Fourth brother is right, we are all brothers, Yun Rui, you drank too much, fourth brother and sixth brother don't mind, after all, today is the fourth brother's big day, right, Yun Xuan?" ”

Yun Xuan, who had been watching from the side but had no way to intervene, didn't expect King Xiang to suddenly turn the conversation to herself, so she had to nod her head again and again, and when she saw King Xiang holding King Ling, she hurriedly learned to add some food to King Zhuang's plate.

Jingjia Guifei duly sandwiched a piece of dim sum to Emperor Liang and successfully diverted Emperor Liang's attention, King Xiang saw that Emperor Liang no longer looked at his side, and once again put on a smiling face and saluted King Yu with a glass of wine, King Yu coped with the drink and turned to look at the dancing girls, and then looked at those officials, it was indeed a bit like sitting on pins and needles. The position next to this should have belonged to the prince, although he was grounded before because of his behavior, but on such an occasion, the prince did not attend and became the head of Emperor Liang's knees, which is completely unreasonable.

At the end of the dance and music, King Yu was still immersed in his own thoughts, but he saw the Ministry of Rites Shangshu bowing his head and saying: "The old minister has something to say to Your Majesty!" Don't look at the Ministry of Rites, Shangshu is full of gray hair, but his speech is full of energy, and his voice makes the focus of the audience focus on himself.

Although Emperor Liang was a little dissatisfied, he still patiently asked, "Lord Fang, what's the matter?" ”

"The old minister has been upholding the etiquette of our dynasty since the previous dynasty, and the prince's wedding involves the national fortunes of the two countries, how can the prince of the East Palace be absent? The old minister implores His Majesty to lift the prince's grounding! ”

"I have my own opinions on the matter of the prince, Lord Fang doesn't need to say more." Emperor Liang was quite displeased.

"Please also ask Your Majesty to allow the prince to come to Chengyuan Palace immediately, the East Palace is the capital of the country, and it cannot be ......"

"Enough!" Emperor Liang slammed the wine cup in his hand on the table, "I'm still here, what can I talk about?" Fang Chun, for the sake of you being an old minister of the two dynasties, I will not condemn my guilt, and I will go back immediately! ”

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty is very right!" Cai Quan snatched the conversation and saluted: "Lord Fang is a famous etiquette, Your Majesty understands that Lord Fang is old, and the envoys of other countries are here, can you let the envoys say that my Liang is rude to the old ministers", Cai Quan secretly gave Fang Chunfei a look, and the latter kowtowed knowingly: "Please also ask Your Majesty to forgive your sins."

On such an occasion, there were foreign envoys present, and Emperor Liang looked at Cai Quan with relief, and waved his hand to let Fang Chun retreat. Concubine Jingjia grabbed Emperor Liang's arm, sent a cup of pure brew in time, and said softly: "Your Majesty's dragon body is important."

This abrupt scene happened without warning and ended so quickly, King Yu saw it in his eyes, but it was really not a taste in his heart. At the next banquet, King Yu could no longer raise his interest, and in the face of the frequent congratulations of the officials, he pretended to be happy and dealt with things one by one, until the end, the muscles of his face were already tense, no less than a battle.

Hundreds of officials retreated, Emperor Liang returned to Zhanghan Palace with the support of Jingjia Guifei, and King Yu finally got out of the palace led the way to Hechuan Palace by the inner servant - the palace built for the marriage of the prince in the palace, Hechuan Palace was built in the south of Jingye Pond, just diagonally with the East Palace, and the two palaces were reflected in the lake under the moonlight.

When King Yu pushed open the palace door of Hechuan Palace, the crown prince and the crown princess in the east palace were lying on the bed in a groggy state. The maid who was secretly sent in by the Tai Guizong sent in again on time two days ago brought food to Xi Ru on time, and it was the most favorite snack that the prince had not seen for a long time, Xi Ru looked at the prince's gobbling up, and her heart was both happy and sad, happy that her husband could recover some of the prince's vigor when he was full, and he could still eat means that there is no danger of his life for the time being, so his position as the crown princess is still stable, and the backer of the Tai family is still there; It's sad that the prince of a dignified country has fallen to this, and as the crown princess, she has to rely on her maids to secretly help, and she has to eat secretly, which is unimaginable in the past!

"Aren't you going to eat?" The prince asked the princess who was sitting across from him as he stuffed food into his mouth.

"Your Highness eats more, these are what His Highness loves to eat."

"Mmmm, it's been a long time since I've eaten it, Xiru, how did you do it?"

"Your Royal Highness, don't worry, if the concubines don't steal or rob, you must be quiet, and you can't let those palace people outside know, otherwise if you let your father know, I'm afraid I'll be angry again."

"Father? Father, he just wants to starve me to death! As soon as the prince was excited, he splashed out with the crumbs and saliva of food, "My father wants me to die in this palace, so that he can set up another prince!" ”

"Your Highness Hugh is talking nonsense!" Xiru hurriedly suppressed the prince's angry voice, looked outside uneasily, and after finding that there was no movement, she said softly: "Your Highness will definitely be able to regain the favor of your father, with Xiru here, with Xiru's mother's family, you will definitely help Your Highness ascend to the throne!" ”

"Xiru ......." The prince choked back tears, indescribably moved, the only one who has been with him these days is this princess. Xiru, you can eat some too", the prince grabbed a piece of dim sum from the food box with his bare hands, carefully sent it to Xiru's mouth, watched her chew, and asked quite childishly, "Is it delicious?" ”

At this moment, she was as strong as Xiru's heart was also pulled by someone, her eyes began to be sour, she nodded vigorously, this scene is her happiest moment since this time, at this moment she is no longer the crown princess of the Liang Dynasty, but an ordinary wife who has been treated gently by her husband, she thinks that they are really just such an ordinary couple, enjoying the simplest little happiness.

"Eat more!" The prince opened all the rest of the food box, and each kind of snack picked out the most intact piece and sent it to Xiru's mouth, Xiru also picked up the snack and fed it to the prince, the two under the moonlight loved each other, and if there were bystanders, they would be moved.

As the number of pastries continued to decrease, Xiru gradually felt a little tired, her body felt weak and her eyelids became heavy, she looked at the prince with her hand support, the prince was more serious, and at the moment he was already leaning on the desk, about to fall into a deep sleep. At first, under Xiru's call, the prince still barely opened his eyes to give some reactions, and after a long time, he fell into a complete sleep, and no matter how Xiru called, he couldn't wake up again. Xiru realized that there was something wrong with this snack, but at this moment her brain was no longer able to turn, she wanted to stand up and call someone, but after several attempts, she also followed in the footsteps of the prince.

What Xi Ru didn't know was that all the palace people in the East Palace had withdrawn from the palace without her knowledge that night, and the maid who gave her food sprinkled layers of blue-gray powder in the East Palace, and quietly ignited the powder with flint in a corner of the East Palace, and Mars began to spread to the entire East Palace along the route of the powder.