Chapter 34: The Wedding Night

In the morning, in the Taimiao, Han Ruzi saw the queen Cui Nuan Cui Xiaojun for the first time, she had been canonized at home, and she was considered an official queen.

The bead curtain blocked the entire face, and Han Ruzi didn't see her appearance.

In fact, the two of them did not have a chance to look at each other at all, they stood side by side, seven or eight steps apart, looking up at the tablet above, and listening to the recitation of the ancestral sacrifice in a subdued tone, which was more rigid than a puppet in a solemn atmosphere.

The second meeting was in Cishun Palace, where the emperor and the empress came to meet the Queen Mother, no different from in the Taimiao, they were still surrounded by a group of people, and they all walked and knelt down in accordance with the requirements of the ceremonial officials. The queen mother showed up, but she didn't speak in person, and the female officials around her did it for her, and exhorted the queen.

Next, the queen has another ceremony, the emperor went to the Qinzheng Palace, to accept the official greetings of the princes and ministers, the scale is much smaller than when he ascended the throne, but there are a lot of gifts, and it is very direct, all gold and silver, the number is linked to the level of the title or official position, I can not come, the gift money must arrive, and the official must read out one item.

Han Ruzi sat there boredly thinking, if he was the real emperor, he must go to see if the gold and silver really existed afterwards, and now he didn't even know where the royal warehouse was.

In the list of the second group of worshippers, Han Ruzi heard the name of Junyang Hou Huabin, glanced at it, and saw a beautiful man with a majestic figure in the prescribed position, who looked likely to be from forty to seventy years old, and was quite eye-catching among several columns.

Han Ruzi couldn't think of any attendant who looked similar to this person.

The Qinzheng Hall is relatively small, and there are not many people who come in every time, so the worship lasted for a long time, and Han Ruzi had nothing to do, so he silently ran the reverse breathing method, the abdominal pain had long since disappeared, and there was a faint flow of breath in the body, which might satisfy Meng E.

In the evening, the emperor returned to the Tai'an Palace, performed the last ceremony of the wedding, ate and drank with the queen, and then he could enter the cave room.

The queen has arrived, sitting on the brocade seat, the emperor is seated, sitting in the right seat, still shouted every move of the two newcomers by the ceremonial official, Han Ruzi took the wine glass from the hand of a female official, touched the cup with the queen, and then drank it hard.

No one cares if the emperor drinks or not, everything is done according to the rules, a good emperor will never change the rules on a whim, and a puppet emperor will not.

After three glasses of wine, the emperor and the empress symbolically ate a few dishes with rich meanings, the banquet was withdrawn, but the ceremony was not over, and ten middle-aged female officials took turns to come up and sprinkle flowers and fruits on the newlyweds, singing strange songs in their mouths. Next, two men and one woman take the stage to dispel evil spirits with even stranger songs. Finally, a male and a female ceremonial officer made promises and swore to the gods of heaven and earth on behalf of the emperor and empress respectively, and it sounded like the empress had more oaths to keep.

There is only one oath in Han Ruzi's heart, that is, not to touch the queen.

It was dark, the lights were bright, and the long ceremony was over, and the female officials gathered around the empress to enter the cave room, and then withdrew, lined up in two rows, and respectfully invited the emperor into the room.

The moment the door closed behind him, Han Ruzi suddenly understood, he was a little afraid of this moment, the more depressed he was during the day, the deeper his fear was now, Cui Xiaojun was different from the palace maid who taught the way of husband and wife, she was a formal queen, and she had visited the emperor and drank wine.

They are a real couple!

Han Ruzi didn't know why she was afraid, the queen was much thinner than the palace maid Tong Qing'e.

After standing at the door for a while, Han Ruzi found that Tong Qing'e was standing beside the queen, looking at the emperor with a confused gaze.

The emperor was also confused, "You...... Why stay? ”

"Slave maid...... Ask for a phoenix crown for the queen. ”

Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief, indeed, the phoenix crown on the queen's head was so big and heavy that she couldn't take it off alone.

"Is that okay?" Tong Qing'e asked.

"Uh...... OK. ”

Tong Qing'e carefully helped the queen take off the phoenix crown and put it on a plate next to her, and helped the queen and the emperor take off their heavy wedding dresses, fold them carefully, and then leave with the phoenix crown in both hands.

From this point on, there was no one to do it for the newcomers

Most of the candles in the room had been blown out, except for one left by the bed, and the candlelight flickered, blurring the bride's face. Han Ruzi stood in place for a while, then walked to the bed, facing the queen.

It was a little pale girl, with a few strands of hair hanging down her cheeks wetly, and her eyes were large, and her gaze was dazed, and she couldn't tell whether she was frightened or cold.

After staring at each other for a moment, the queen lowered her gaze.

The embarrassing feeling crawled upwards like a vine, gradually strangling Han Ruzi's neck, forcing him to say something to ease the atmosphere, he opened his mouth for a while and finally spit out a sentence: "Are you tired?" ”

The queen hummed softly and did not look up.

Han Ruzi still had his mouth open, ready to say the second sentence, but the result was unexpected - he hiccuped.

The hiccups were very light and short, Han Ruzi hurriedly shut up and held his breath, and not long after, the second hiccup persistently came out of his throat, and from then on, it was out of control, one after another, the more he tried to hold it back, the more frequent the hiccups became.

The Empress looked up and looked at the Emperor suspiciously.

"Right...... Belch...... Don't ...... Belch...... I might ...... Belch...... Somewhat...... Uh......" Han Ruzi couldn't go on.

The queen pursed her lips and smiled, "Your Majesty is too nervous. ”

Han Ruzi shook his head vigorously, he understood what was going on, and blamed Meng E for the pill he took, which caused abdominal pain a few days ago, and now it brought hiccups, "I...... Belch...... ...... to be held later Belch...... That's it. ”

"There is water on the table......"

Han Ruzi hurriedly turned around and ran to the table, picked up the teapot and poured a glass of water, and drank it in small sips, it was still useless, once he almost squirted out the water, he quietly ran the reverse breathing method, and sure enough, it had some effect, the hiccups did not stop, but not so often.

A hand gently stroked his back, Han Ruzi was startled, hurriedly dodged, and said to the queen, "Don't come here." ”

Empress Cui Xiaojun raised her right hand and said confusedly: "Yes, Your Majesty." Does Your Majesty really need help? ”

Han Ruzi shook his head, as soon as he was nervous, the hiccups became serious again, he pressed one hand on the table, closed his eyes, and concentrated more on breathing backwards, trying to trace the direction of the breath in his body, the hiccups became less and less, and occasionally he would come again.

He opened his eyes, and it seemed that the queen was still standing beside him, yawning.

"I'm sorry." Han Ruzi was very upset, "You must be tired, uh, go to sleep." ”

"Your Majesty, rest too."

"I ...... Belch...... To stand for a while, you go to sleep first. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The queen walked to the bed, lifted a corner of the quilt, gently slipped in, and lay there motionless.

Han Ruzi blew out the last candle, walked to the chair in the dark, removed the cases above, and lay on it fittingly, without bedding and pillows, he didn't care. In the silence, he felt that he heard a very slight sigh, not disappointed and regretful, but relaxed and released.

The young queen was as nervous as he was.

Han Ruzi had something on her mind and slept uncomfortably, so she got up very early the next day, tiptoed to the bedside, and met a pair of big eyes that were slightly frightened by the hazy sunlight.

The queen didn't dare to sleep much either.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Han Ruzi whispered, "Someone will come in and urge us to get up, I have to ...... Uh...... "The hiccups didn't stop completely.

The queen nodded slightly and rubbed into the bed. She slept visibly honestly, and the quilt barely changed.

Han Ruzi lay down in the quilt, thinking about his promise to the King of the East China Sea, and found that the hiccups were about to get worse again.

There was a knock on the door, "Your Majesty, you can get up." ”

When he knocked on the door for the second time, Han Ruzi said, "Come in." ”

Many palace maids rushed in, and the emperor and empress once again entered the life of action puppets, dressed, went to different rooms to bathe, changed new clothes, incense, dressed up neatly, and went to the queen mother to say goodbye.

The queen visited the queen mother on the first day of the wedding, the etiquette was still very heavy, the courtyard of Cishun Palace was crowded with female officials and deacons and eunuchs, the emperor and the queen knelt outside the door first, the emperor stayed, and the queen entered the house alone to accept the queen mother's teaching.

Han Ruzi hoped that the queen would learn as little as possible.

There was no figure of the East Sea King in the crowd.

The emperor, who had just gotten married, also had to listen to the government, saying that he put all the people first. There is news in the eastern part of the country, the war is as smooth as expected, but the rebels are far from being cleared, there are quite a few cities in the territory of Qi that are loyal to the king of Qi and cannot hold on, the most important thing is that the first rebel King Qi himself has not been caught, since the defeat of Luoyang, he disappeared all of a sudden, Taifu Cui Hong divided a large number of troops to track down the whereabouts of the king of Qi, there are many clues, all of them ended in nothing.

As usual, Han Ruzi didn't stay in the Qinzheng Pavilion for too long, and in less than a quarter of an hour in total, he frequently heard an unfamiliar name - Chun Yu Xiao, which didn't sound like a court official or a local hero, a bit like the military advisor of the King of Qi, and a bit of a mage.

When the eunuch asked the emperor to drive back to the palace, Han Ruzi finally couldn't help it, and asked the prime minister: "This is Chun Yuxiao...... Belch...... Who is it? ”

The emperor rarely asked questions, and talking with hiccups was unprecedented, the prime minister was a little stunned for a while, and the eunuchs who surrounded the emperor were also quite nervous, until no one came out to stop him in the political cabinet, Yin Wuwu bowed to the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Chun Yu Xiao is a person who wants to be angry in the eastern part of the country, and he is the one who bewitched the king of Qi to start an incident, and he is actually the master of rebellion." Your Majesty can rest assured that Chun Yuxiao will never go unpunished for too long. ”

The first time Han Ruzi heard this title, he didn't understand it very much, but he didn't ask any more.

The queen was not in Tai'an Palace, I don't know where she was taken, and she didn't come back during the whole day, but Han Ruzi was relieved, and she had nothing else to do, so she kept running the reverse breathing method to suppress the urge to hiccup.

In the afternoon, the concubine of the Emperor Shangguan came to supervise a group of eunuchs and palace maids to clean up the new house, and only had a short time to talk to the emperor in private.

"Treat the queen well, she will be very useful in the future."

Han Ruzi didn't care about "later", and asked in a low voice: "Who stuffed the note to me that day?" ”

The imperial concubine didn't want to answer, so she thought for a moment before saying, "Zhang Yanghao is the person chosen by Luo Huanzhang." ”

Solving a doubt, Han Ruzi asked again: "You said that the Queen Mother harmed Emperor Si, is there any evidence?" ”

The imperial concubine came for this and replied very simply, "Yes, Zuo Ji is the evidence, if Your Majesty can subdue Zuo Ji, you will be able to know the truth." ”

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