In the past of the New Year, Zhang Ru has gone to Yuqing Palace a lot more, firstly, the estrangement between the brothers has been temporarily unraveled, and secondly, Zhu Youzhang's marriage has been put on the agenda.

As the prince of a country, he is not too old, and it is time to talk about marriage.

He can afford to wait, but the little girl Zhang Yaoyao can't afford to wait.

I knew the prince when I was a young man, and my heart was all hanging on Zhu Youzhang, and now she has grown into a big girl, and if she doesn't get married, she will become an old girl.

In addition, Emperor Zhu Jianshen of Chenghua felt more and more unwell, and the marriage for the prince as soon as possible was also regarded as the emperor's wish, which was proposed by the cabinet, led by the Ministry of Rites, and assisted by Jinyiwei, and the prince's wedding began to be in full swing.

It takes a lot of time for ordinary people to prepare for the wedding, not to mention the prince's wedding, and the household department directly allocated 20,000 taels of silver to the prince to organize the wedding, and the rest of the silver came out of the inner treasury.

This is already a very generous move, you know, the misers in the household department, even if they refuse to pay much money for major events in the frontier, can contribute 20,000 silver to the prince's wedding, it is already for the prince's very sensible sake.

With silver, people naturally have a lot of people, all the palace eunuchs in Yuqing Palace are busy, and there are naturally special officials from the Ministry of Etiquette in charge of the number of rites, and some old palace maids around the imperial concubine are responsible for the number of etiquette in the palace.

Even the Jinyi Guard under Zhang Ru was temporarily deployed by the emperor to Yuqing Palace to protect the crown prince.

The major event of the whole country celebrating together cannot tolerate the slightest sloppiness.

Early in the morning, Zhu Youzhu didn't know how many red, green, and green guys were embellished by those old palace maids, and even Zhang Ru, the commander of the brocade guard, didn't dare to say anything in the face of those old palace maids with dead faces.

On the sixth day of February in the twenty-third year of Chenghua, the people of Beiping City went out of their homes early, and the crown prince greeted his relatives. The people who like to watch the excitement will naturally not let go of such a good scene, although they don't know that there has been no such situation in the hundred and fifty years after the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming ritual system as a whole follows the Zhou rites, on the basis of the six rites of acceptance, asking for names, Naji, recruitment, invitation, and personal greeting, there are also etiquettes such as meeting the emperor, the queen mother, the queen, the gift, and the temple.

Cumbersome etiquette can drive people crazy, but only by completing these etiquettes can they get married, which is a passing scene that Zhou Rite must go through.

Wan Guifei, who should have died a month ago but was hung by Zhu Jianshen with precious medicinal materials, reluctantly showed up with the support of the palace maid and returned to the palace early, on the day of great joy, the emperor did not dare to force Wan Guifei to continue to come out, if he died at this moment, that good happy event may become the biggest laughing stock since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

The dowry has long been sent to the Zhang family, Zhang Yaoyao's father, who was originally only a prisoner of the country, and was later appointed by the emperor as the secretary of Honglu Temple because his daughter was going to become the crown princess, Zhang Luan can be said to have laughed.

Such a good thing does not fall on others, but on himself, so it's no wonder that he is unhappy.

Of course, with his identity and status, he could not think of the emperor's plans.

The dictatorship of relatives has always been feared by the royal family, Zhu Jianshen favored Wan Guifei alone, and let the Wan family be arrogant for decades, but the Wan family could not have much authority in the court after all, because Wan Zhen'er herself was not from a wealthy family.

Zhang Yaoyao's conditions meet the requirements of the emperor, plus she is very clever, and the Zhang family is a scholarly family, which meets the requirements of the royal family.

The old man thought that his daughter had become the crown princess, and his status had been greatly improved, and he was a little above the top in front of Zhang Ru.

At this time, Zhang Ru was too lazy to bother with him, and he was not too uninteresting, so the matter passed like this.

On the night of the candles in the cave room, Zhu Youjiao, who was tired for a day, was very uninteresting and pulled Zhang Ru to drink drunk.

Looking at that kid's plan, it seems that the wedding night is to have a drunk with Zhang Ru.

Zhang Ru couldn't resist him, once he wanted to leave, Zhu Youzhu would pull him and stare at him with a pair of bloodshot eyes and ask if he was a brother.

In this way, Zhang Ru can understand the deep resentment in his heart, so Zhang Ru has always been by his side, even if his father-in-law sneered at him, Zhang Ru was not angry.

In the end, it was the emperor who came forward in person, and Zhu Youzhu let Zhang Ru go, and honestly returned to Yuqing Palace, the East Palace, to have sex with his new wife Zhang Yaoyao.

That night, Zhu Youzhu shouted Su Qiqi's name and had sex with Zhang Yao.

When the two completely tore apart the big trouble between men and women, along with the pain in his body, Zhang Yaoyao had two more lines of tears on his face. As for what Zhang Yaoyao's mood was at that moment, few people knew except herself.

After the happy event, it was again to return to the door and divide the seal, and Zhu Youzhu and Zhu Jianshen, who were very busy, had no time to pay attention to Zhang Ru. However, Zhang Ru had time to enter the palace, so he specially went to see Wan Guifei, who was sick in bed.

At this time, Wan Guifei was completely out of shape, her eyes were closed and she was lying on the bed, her body was so thin that she couldn't look like it, her head was full of white hair, and her forehead was inlaid with deep wrinkles.

Seeing the current appearance of the former enemy, Zhang Ru's heart was a little dissatisfied and disappeared at this moment. There is always a day when people die, and this day of Wan Guifei came later than imagined, but it was enough.

Accompanying Wan Guifei was an old grandmother, seeing Zhang Ru begging to see, the old lady was like a great enemy, but the identity of this young man was not something she could compete with after all, so she could only stare at Zhang Ru carefully, and try not to let Zhang Ru get close to Wan Zhen'er's bed.

Maybe it's the destiny of heaven, maybe it's the creation of people, when Zhang Rugang sat down on the edge of Wan Zhen'er's bed, this concubine Niangniang, who had fallen into a coma, suddenly opened her eyes.

The first thing I saw was a young face that I was very familiar with and very unfamiliar with, Wan Guifei did not show any panic, and commanded the old lady beside her with a very calm expression: "Help me up." ”

Zhang Ru took the initiative to reach out, helped Wan Zhen'er up, and stuffed two soft pillows under her neck: "Time flies so fast." ”

Wan Zhen'er smiled: "Yes, time flies so fast, yesterday you were a child who didn't know anything about the world, and now you are already so high." ”

"You can't do it anymore." Zhang Ru put his hands behind his head and said lazily.

Wan Zhen'er stretched out her shriveled hand and held Zhang Ru's arm tightly: "Can you let go of the people of the Wan family." ”

Her tone was very earnest, and there was even a hint of pleading in it. When people are about to die, there are always some people who can't let go, and the old and young of the Wan family are exactly what she can't let go.

It's coming, there are not many people who can accompany you, people from Wanjia are a group, and in addition, the old lady who has been with her is one. Even the emperor, who often came to visit after he was sick, lost his whereabouts during this time because of the prince's wedding.

"What do you think?" Zhang Ru's attitude is not very clear.

Temporarily, he wanted to see this half-cut enemy who was about to enter the ground, at first he wanted to see Wan Zhen'er's despair before he died, but when he really saw Wan Zhen'er, who was already terminally ill, he realized that this was not what he wanted.

Whether he kills enemies on the battlefield or faces the assassinations of those assassins, he will not be soft on killing. However, in the face of such an old woman, he felt that his mentality of watching a play was extremely cruel.

"Outsiders say that you are cold and have never known what it means to be soft-hearted, but I think you are not the kind of person who is ruthless. It's just that in your position, you have to be ruthless in everything you do. If you hadn't been around you all these years, the current prince would have to be replaced. Wan Zhen'er was in much better spirits and said with a smile.

At this moment, Zhang Ru felt kindness from her.

This is something that has been felt in the Empress Dowager Zhou, and this time, it was actually felt in the enemies of the past.

He didn't answer, no matter what others thought, he was just doing what he wanted to do and should do. What others think is someone else's business, as long as he doesn't tease his head, he can pretend not to see it.

Only mediocre people will have no one to attack, and only dead dogs will not have anyone to provoke.

Wan Zhen'er said to herself: "You are a good boy, with your help, you will definitely be a good emperor in the future." The only thing I can't let go of is the children of the Wan family, in fact, their nature is not bad, but their status is too high, which makes them a little carried away. There are many things that Your Majesty doesn't say, it's not that Your Majesty doesn't know, he just values his feelings and doesn't want the people around him to leave one by one.

But he is an emperor, so indecision is not okay.

Bad guys, only I can do it. ”

"You mean that there is another secret to the killing of Aunt Ji back then?" Zhang Ru grasped the main point at once.

Wan Zhen'er said noncommittally: "It's been so long, what's the point of knowing the truth now?" She died, and it was a relief to be free from love and hatred in this earthly world. Fortunately, I'm also dying, it's good to die, and I don't have to think so much when I'm dead. ”

"Have you ever regretted killing so many people?" Zhang Ru is very calm and authentic.

Even he couldn't believe his calm mood, he thought that he would get out of anger, and he thought that he would sneer at Wan Zhen'er.

Wan Zhen'er shook her head slightly: "There is no regret medicine in this world, and it is useless to say regret." For the sake of His Majesty, some things are done, even if they die, they are worth it. ”

Zhang Ru closed his mouth and stopped asking anything.

Seeing that Wan Zhen'er had a tendency to fall asleep again, Zhang Ru immediately asked the old woman to go to the emperor to come over, he was afraid that it would be Wan Zhen'er's return.

The old lady hesitated to let others report to the emperor, and she kept staring at Zhang Ru, for fear that Zhang Ru would harm Wan Zhen'er.

"Can you promise me that after I die, I will be filial piety." Wan Zhen'er suddenly made an almost rude request to Zhang Ru.

Zhang Ru's eyes widened, a little incredulous.

There is no relationship between him and Wan Zhen'er, and there is not even any communication with Wan Zhen'er, he really can't figure out why Wan Zhen'er would propose to let him wear linen and filial piety.