Chapter 34: Honeymoon in Xiamen

readx; The guard of honor and the drum band are in front of the greeting procession, the greeting messenger is in the center, followed by the greeting officials and guards, and when they go out of the palace, they will join the honor guard, carry a large number of gifts, and go straight to the Chamber of Commerce. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 All the family members of the officials in the info chamber of commerce knelt at the gate to greet the family. The greeting messenger shouted the edict. Li Xinlan wore the queen's dress, wore a phoenix crown and a xiaxia veil, and knelt to accept the gold book and gold treasure. After the auspicious time arrived, the group returned to the palace, Li Xinlan was sent to the hall to worship heaven and earth, and Zhang Guanghua was already dressed and waited here for a long time. He didn't have to worry about the next thing at all, and under the guidance of several old people, he and Li Xinlan made a big gift together. The Emperor's wedding was officially completed.

Hehe, the next step is to enter the cave room. Zhang Guanghua's heart was agitated, and he couldn't wait to kiss Fangze now.

However, when he was taken to the wing room behind the courtyard by the old women, he found that the emperor's wedding was quite complicated, and his heart suddenly cooled. After entering the cave room, you must first worship the gods and pay homage to the heavens, the earth, and the ancestors. There is a dining table under the west window of the new landlord's room, and in front of the table is a variety of food that symbolizes the couple's feast.

After finally entering the cave room, they had to "drink a glass of wine", and they used the same scoop, and the two of them each drank some rice wine mixed together. After doing this, seeing that it was dark, Zhang Guanghua was pulled out of the door by the palace attendants and taken to another room, took off his crown clothes, and changed into civilian clothes, and at this time he didn't even see the shadow of the queen.

Just when Zhang Guanghua was sitting on the chair and drawing circles boringly, the queen was first introduced into the cave tent by the palace people, and the palace people took off her dress first, and then Zhang Guanghua, who was in plain clothes, was introduced into the room and slept on the same bed with the queen.

Looking at Lan'er, who was lying on the bed with a quilt covering her face, Zhang Guanghua smiled, and also lifted the quilt and got in.

"Lan'er, let's spend a good night together!" Here...... 3529 words omitted.

On the seventh day of the fifth month of May 1355, all the craftsmen of Anxi County and all the officials of Zhangzhou Road received a 200 yuan "voucher" issued by the "Anxi Commercial Bank", and the entire territory of the Chinese Empire was immersed in a happy atmosphere.

"Lan'er, whatever you want to eat, I'll buy it for you." Zhang Guanghua took Li Xinlan to stroll hand in hand on Gongqiao Street, feeding each other snacks with her from time to time. If you ignore Lu Yishan and the others who are hanging in line far behind, it is really a romantic date.

"Hey, that's boring." Zhang Guanghua looked at the little bird next to him, the queen with a happy face, and then looked at the string of tails that couldn't be shaken off at the back and said, "Let's go, let's go to the Chamber of Commerce to have a look." ”

Li Dazheng and the village chief were in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce, sipping fragrant tea with Erlang's legs crossed. Taking advantage of the few days of the emperor's wedding, they all had a good leisure.

"Ouch! Everybody's here. Zhang Guanghua led the queen in, and the guards automatically stood guard outside the door.

"See Your Majesty! See the Queen! And they all left their seats and knelt down.

"Don't make all these false courtesies, Li Da, I came here to tell you, I'm going to go on a long trip."

"What? Your Majesty is not satisfied with his current life. Li stood up with a smile, looked at Li Xinlan, and winked at Zhang Guanghua and said.

"you, didn't it take up the county government for so long, and it couldn't delay your work, right?" Zhang Guanghua took Lan'er's hand hard and said. Li Xinlan was quite open last night, but she didn't expect to be shy again when she saw her uncles and uncles today.

"Also, using the county government as the palace is just an expedient business, and it is a last resort, it is to rebuild a palace for Your Majesty, Your Majesty has no good location, and now our cement production has expanded many times."

"You don't have to worry about choosing a location, I decide freely, it will be a very beautiful place."

Zhang Guanghua pulled his wife to sit down, and someone immediately served hot tea. Zhang Guanghua took two sips and said to Li Xinlan: "My dear queen, haven't you always wanted to see the sea?" How about we go on a 'honeymoon' together? ”

"What's a 'honeymoon'?" Li Xinlan looked curious.

"I'll take you where you want to go......"

"How's that going to work!" Zhang Guanghua hadn't finished speaking, but he didn't expect Li Da and a group of people to shout.

"Your Majesty is a golden body, I'm afraid it's not safe to go to such a far place."

"Yes! In fact, Zhangzhou Road is not bad, why don't you go somewhere. The coast is not very peaceful, and most of them are ravaged by pirates, and if it is a big city like Quanzhou, it is better to say, but other places are too dangerous. The point is that Quanzhou is not yet under our control, and Your Majesty had better not go to the beach casually. The village chief also spoke and rejected Zhang Guanghua's proposal. Zhang Guanghua felt that he was more worried about his granddaughter's safety.

"It's okay, I'll dress up in disguise, pretend to be a businessman who runs maritime trade, and just go to Tong'an County under the jurisdiction of our Zhangzhou, and with Lu Yishan's protection, there will be no problem, so it's decided!"

Seeing that Zhang Guanghua made a decision, although everyone was unwilling, it was difficult to refute.

Zhang Guanghua, who resigned from the post of "Zhongshu Shilang" and military advisor, was unofficial and light, he said that he would go, took his wife, Liu Carpenter, Zhao Hui and a few skilled craftsmen, and Lu Yishan and his party looked for a carriage, first went west to the Jiulong River, and then changed to a merchant ship and went down the river through Zhangzhou Road, and found a capable official on Zhangzhou Road, and then continued to take a boat into the sea to reach "Jiaheyu".

"That island is so big and beautiful, I really want to live my life on it with my husband, and never fight again." After two days on the boat, Li Xinlan also slowly overcame the vomiting of seasickness, and at this time, as soon as the boat entered the sea, she saw a huge island, and couldn't help but jump with joy.

Zhang Guanghua looked at the endless silver-white beach in front of him, although this is an island very close to the land, but at this time it looks more like a new continent in terms of area.

"Since the "National Code" says that the emperor can't take care of state affairs, then I will set an example. A mountain, let's go, land on the island! Zhang Guanghua said hello, and the boatman prepared to find a sheltered fishing port and park the boat in.

"Huh! There's a boat parked there! Lu Yishan's eyes were sharp, and he saw a fishing boat at once.

The boatmen adjusted their sails towards their goal, and in a moment they sailed into the small fishing port.

It is a natural U-shaped harbor with a wooden stack diagonally out into the sea. Looking inward, there is a small village surrounded by trees, where groups of fishermen are sorting their nets in the sun.

Before Li Xinlan, the elfin and eccentric girl, could not wait for the boat to stop, she couldn't wait to jump onto the wooden stack and beckoned Zhang Guanghua and them to come down quickly.

Before Zhang Guanghua got off the boat, Lu Yishan also led the guards to the shore first, holding flintlock pistols to guard everywhere.

"Don't be so serious!" Zhang Guanghua swallowed slowly in the back, commanding the boatman to carry all the luggage on the boat, and was the last to get off the boat.

"Let's go and have a look in the village." Seeing that everyone had gathered on the shore, Zhang Guanghua spoke and walked towards the island.

Chen Jinlin is 65 years old this year, and he is the head of this small fishing village. His family has been living on the island since the Tang Dynasty moved to the island. Because there are only more than 1,000 households on the island from ancient times to the present, it is relatively easy for them to catch fish, and their lives are barely passable. It's just that there is no city on the island, so there are no shops to buy and sell goods, and every time they need to change a little salt or iron, they need to sail to Tong'an County on the shore. In the past, he did all these important things in the village, but now that he is too old to drive a boat, he does not go to sea himself, but leaves the business of buying and selling things to those juniors.

Today, the sun was shining and the wind was calm, and he moved a bamboo chair to lie under the big tree in front of the door. Watching the children in the village scurrying around, teasing the earth dogs that ran around him from time to time, he enjoyed this comfortable life very much. If it had been a month ago, he would have definitely not had this leisure, but since the thousand households where the Yuan army was stationed on the island were empty, he spent more and more time out to bask in the sun.

"Village chief, there is a big group of people outside the village!" A little hairy boy with a bare ass shook him awake from closing his eyes on a bamboo chair.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was the kid from Chen's big family in the village.

"Our village is so far away on land, how can anyone come?" Village Chief Chen stood up slowly, looking puzzled.

When he walked outside the village, he was surprised to see a group of people in fresh clothes and carrying firearms. This is an official family! Could it be that the Yuan army is back?

"Grass people, knock on your lords!" He hurriedly beckoned the people of the village to go out, and knelt down to the ground to salute the officials.

Zhang Guanghua was only halfway through when he saw people in the village running towards him, and some hairy children were still standing in the distance and looking at them curiously.

"Folks, please get up. I'm not an adult, the latter is. Zhang Guanghua helped them up one by one, pushed out the official named Shi Tao who came with him, and continued to ask: "Which of you is the head of this village?" Now that this island has been recovered by our rebel army in Anxi, everyone will be citizens of the "Chinese Empire" in the future. ”

The old man standing at the front of the villagers walked forward, arched his hand to Zhang Guanghua and said, "The old man is the village chief of Chenjia Village, I don't know if the adults will take over the Qianhu House first, or have a few drinks in the village?" We don't have much produce in our village, but some of the catch is relatively fresh. ”

As soon as she heard that there were fish to eat, Li Xinlan cheered, she had been swaying on the boat for the past two days, and she had not eaten any dry food. Now I feel so happy when I get off the boat, I feel so hungry.

"Then bother everyone."

Under the leadership of the village chief, Zhang Guanghua and others lived in the rooms cleared by the villagers, and then ate a simple but delicious meal. Lu Yishan paid the money, and Li Xinlan was clamoring to go to the island to have a look, so a group of twenty or thirty of them went out and walked along the island.

"Your Majesty, I didn't expect the seaside to be so beautiful!" Li Xinlan was bouncing on the beach, kicking the sand from time to time, catching up with sea crabs, picking up and carrying beautiful shells with her, and filling her hands with her after a while.

"Didn't I say on the boat, don't call me Your Majesty anymore, call me Gongzi."

"Yes, husband."

Everyone walked around the island for a week, from morning to afternoon for about 8 hours, when everyone returned to Chenjia Village, they were all tired and lay down, Zhang Guanghua calculated, the coastline of this island added up to almost forty or fifty kilometers.

"Childe, you said before that you had already chosen the address of the palace, is this it?" Lu Yishan held a gourd scoop and asked Zhang Guanghua while pouring water: "It's too far here!" ”

"Not here, it's too close to the sea, but I'm going to build a palace here."

"CCB Palace?"

"Yes! I am going to build a city to be the first port of our 'Chinese Empire'. And I even had the name of the castle in mind. ”

"What's the name?"

"Xiamen City! Meaning the door of the State Building. ”

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