Chapter 38: Misunderstanding, Awkwardness, Frustration
What about the Dunrou Princess Mansion in the small Suzhou Hutong?
The attraction is not only far less than Princess Rong'an's Mansion in the alley behind the Li Fan Yuan, but even, after a month, Guan Zhuofan faintly has a sense of resistance.
The reason is not that in Princess Dunrou's mansion, there is a lack of a mother-in-law who is beautiful and smiling.
Guan Zhuofan's first impression of Princess Dunrou is actually very deep and very good.
In the second year of Tongzhi, Guan Zhuofan was appointed governor of Jiangsu, and went to the United States to quell the turmoil and went to Beijing to see His Majesty. In order to have more opportunities to directly contact the queen mother of the two palaces, he invited himself to join the palace guard and fulfill his "responsibility" as the imperial guard. Cixi tacitly understood in her heart and gave a feast and a feast. Princess Dunrou accompanied the little emperor to the feast, which was the first time the two met in their lives.
Guan Zhuofan remembered that the little girl had a pair of big eyes like paint, with a dignified and beautiful appearance, and two glass emerald earrings, swaying and shaking. Gestures, very steady, sitting there, calm as water, and the little emperor like twisted sugar, very different, not at all like a girl of her age.
However, those big black and white eyes are very energetic, turning and flowing, and extremely flexible, which can be called the four words "bright eyes and good eyes".
At that time, Guan Zhuofan turned around a thought: This girl, at a young age, is already with a noble temperament, I don't know what kind of description she will have when she grows up?
At that time, whether it was Guan Zhuofan or Princess Dunrou, they would never have imagined that in the future, the two would "get married".
King Gong once said to Guan Zhuofan: "Yixuan, next time, you want to meet your niece - it's not my princess who sells melons." What a good boy! ”
Guan Zhuofan remembers it clearly. When he said this. On King Gong's face, there is a reserved smile that parents are proud of their children.
This look made Guan Zhuofan quite moved. At that time, I was still thinking: In the future, Lao Tzu's own children must be angry, even if they can't be like Princess Dunrou, everyone loves them, and the Queen Mother is rushing to ask for it, and she can't be like her brother Zaicheng. was so stubborn and debauched that he was so angry that he wanted to whip him.
However, this "next time" never appeared.
The second time Guan and Dun met in their lives, it was Princess Dunrou "surrendered", facing the north street of the inner city, and the palace of Prince Xuan was built, and the princess and the forehead were like a ceremony.
On the Yin'an Palace, Guan Zhuofan saw Princess Dunrou for the first time, and he had a strong sense of time and space disorder: the woman opposite. It seems that he has just resigned from the banquet of Shufangzhai and put on a red wedding dress. Across time and space, every payment comes.
The appearance and expression, as it was back then, have hardly changed.
What's going on?
Where has the time gone?
After a long time, Guan Zhuofan figured out this question: when Shufangzhai gave the banquet, Dunrou was already childish, and the deepest impression he left about her in the depths of his memory was her maturity that was not commensurate with her actual age. A few years have passed, and Dun Rou has passed his prime, and his face has actually changed quite a bit, but it still can't give him the feeling of "growing up" - because he has "grown up" a few years ago.
In addition, compared with that year, compared with the face, the change in Dunrou's body is actually greater, but it is hidden under the wide wedding dress, and it is impossible to distinguish.
Therefore, Guan Zhuofan will have this "beautiful misunderstanding".
Guan Zhuofan originally thought that this "beautiful misunderstanding" indicated that he and Princess Dunrou would have a good start in their married life. It's a pity that the next development of things is not like that.
Like, there is only "misunderstanding", not "beauty".
According to the ritual note, the princess and the forehead should not look at each other before entering the cave room, and all the actions during the salute are completed under the guidance of the celebrant officer.
Princess Dunrou strictly complied with this rule, "Nine knocks into a ceremony", from beginning to end, her eyelids drooped slightly, and she did not look at Guan Zhuofan squarely. The beautiful face seems to be a clear pool without wind and rain, and there is no change in mood.
The joy, excitement, and nervousness that a bride must have are no sign of it in her.
With Princess Rong'an's spring flowers and sunrise, there is a world of difference.
Not only that, but her state was maintained until the princess and the forehead finished eating the "joint feast", and all the blessings, wives, and maids withdrew from the marriage room, leaving the newlyweds to go to the "joint marriage" by themselves.
There were only two people left in the room, her and Guan Zhuofan, Guan Zhuofan walked over to her, and Dunrou's expression and posture changed subtly, and it inevitably showed nervousness.
However, this tension is not the shyness and timidity of Princess Rong'an, who secretly looks forward to it, but - how to say it? It seems like...... It seems like...... The enemy was about to attack, and the defenders tensed their nerves.
It's a strange feeling.
This strange feeling runs through the whole process of "merging".
Guan Zhuofan could feel that Princess Dunrou was trying to suppress her strange nervousness, but as a teenage girl, it was the pain of breaking melons, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't completely cover her body language.
And also...... In bed, she strictly followed the requirements of etiquette for his wife, "dignified and polite".
It can be imagined that for Guan Zhuofan, a modern person who has traveled through, the whole process is so awkward.
The night before yesterday, the set of "kung fu" he used for Princess Rong'an seemed to be completely ineffective in Princess Dunrou's body.
Guan Zhuofan has never had such an awkward experience in this kind of thing in his life, whether it is before or after the crossing.
The frustration was too strong.
After the clouds and rain stopped, the husband and wife only said one sentence each:
"Lord, please settle it."
"Huh? Oh. ”
……
In the darkness, with the faint light of the palace lamp outside the window, Guan Zhuofan looked at the top of the black hole and was stunned.
What's going on?
I don't know how long it took, but in the quiet night, I could faintly hear the person next to me making a very slight snort, but it was not very even.
Is she asleep?
Guan Zhuofan's consciousness finally blurred.
Before falling asleep, a thought vaguely came to me: she will not ...... What's that...... Cold, right?
After that, the husband and wife get along with each other every day, and this awkward feeling is consistent.
No matter when, no matter what happens, Princess Dunrou is as calm as water, she is in Guan Zhuofan, living and greeting, and there is no shortage of rules and etiquette, but Guan Zhuofan feels that he seems to be with a ...... A symbol – yes, a symbol – lives together.
This...... Something is wrong!
Is she like this in front of the Queen Mother and the Little Emperor, in front of her biological parents?
This is the "really good boy" of King Gong's "Wang Po Selling Melons"?
If so, would Cixi spoil her so much? Will the little emperor treat her as his own sister?
Impossible!
*(To be continued......)