Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Countdown to the Wedding (1)
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The next day, everyone in the capital knew about the prince's upcoming wedding, and the royal people began to prepare for the prince's wedding early in the morning.
Sima Shu then felt how complicated marriage was in ancient times, and he had been busy with the big wedding in the next few days, although there were many complicated and cumbersome etiquette matters in the middle, but the previous preparation steps did not require him to come forward to handle it personally.
The candidate for the crown princess has already been decided, and the next step is to start methodical preparations in accordance with etiquette and conventions.
On the sixth day of the second lunar month, the emperor issued a holy decree to officially announce to the world: the second daughter of Lord Wang Yan was selected as the crown princess, and soon she will marry the prince, and prepare the ceremonial ceremony with Da Honglu.
On February 12, it was finally necessary for the prince to come forward in person to ask for the ceremony, with Zhang Hua, the middle secretary, and Pei Wei, the waiter, as the main and deputy envoys of the wedding, and the etiquette was adopted.
This is the first ceremony of the six wedding ceremonies in the Zhou ceremony, specifically, the two matchmakers went to the woman's house with the gifts prepared by the man's family to ask for the consent of the woman's parents, but now it is just to make up for the previous etiquette, that is, to take the formality, and the Wang family naturally readily agreed.
After that, it is the second of the six wedding ceremonies, asking for the name. Wang Yan handed over Wang Huifeng's name and birth date to matchmakers Zhang Hua and Pei Wei. The two of them then handed over the Geng post with eight characters and names to Queen Jia Nanfeng, although Xie Jiu is Sima Shu's biological mother, but because it is Queen Jia Nanfeng who is in charge of **, plus she is Sima Shu's mother-in-law, so she is responsible for the prince's wedding.
Although Jia Nanfeng was unhappy, for the sake of the future, she still had to pretend and go to divination in person to see if the two sides were in conflict with each other, and the result was naturally lucky. This is the second ceremony, and the emperor rewards the matchmaker, the ministers, and the chamberlain.
Although Sima Shu is the protagonist of the whole incident, he is basically a spectator, he stays in the East Palace and watches others busy. During this time, he took the opportunity to visit his mother at the palace. Seven or eight years have passed, and Xie Shuyuan doesn't seem to have changed much.
Sima Shu looked at this poor woman, and his heart was a little sour. It was originally a very painful thing to marry the emperor, but she also met a fool, coupled with the queen's jealousy, so that she didn't have many days at all.
Fortunately, Sima Shu became promising, so that some people in the court and the palace no longer dared to bully her at will, and now even Queen Jia did not dare to trouble her casually, so that her life was a little better.
"Mother!"
"Son!? ...... It's really my son, you, why are you here? Although Xie Jiu knew that the prince had returned to Beijing, he didn't expect to see his son so soon.
"Erchen came to see his mother, is the mother doing well?" Sima Shu was held by Xie Jiu's hand and said warmly.
"Okay, what about you? I heard that Your Majesty is going to hold a wedding for you, how are you getting ready? Xie Jiu looked at Sima Shu lovingly, and in the blink of an eye, the little kid had grown up Chengren.
"That's it, everything is in charge of the Great Honglu Temple, and the sons are just going through the motions!"
"Don't talk nonsense, when you get married, you have to treat others well, and the girls and concubines of the Wang family have also understood that they are dignified and beautiful."
"Okay, Erchen knows, the concubine came to you today and has something to tell you." Saying that, Sima Shu glanced around, in addition to a young palace maid, there were several chamberlains on the side.
"What's the matter?"
"Come in, y'all." Sima Shu shouted outside the door, and then four tall and strong guards walked in, "Mother Concubine, these people are the people sent from the new city by the sons, and they will serve you in the future and be responsible for protecting the safety of the mother concubine." ”
"Safe?" Xie Jiu suddenly became nervous, "Xizu, is there something going to happen?" ”
"Don't worry, mother, it's no big deal, you can rest assured. In the future, these four people will be responsible for your travel safety, especially when it comes to critical moments, you must follow their arrangements unconditionally. After instructing his mother, Sima Shu looked at a few carefully selected guards and said: "A few of you come here, you will be responsible for the safety of Shuyuan Niangniang in the future, if something goes wrong, don't blame this palace for being ruthless." ”
It's not that Sima Shu has nothing to do, but he knows that as the wedding date gets closer and closer, a storm will sweep through the entire Jin Dynasty. As soon as he returned to the capital this time, he felt a strong murderous intent tightly enveloping him, don't look at the queen's kindness to him, and try her best to arrange his wedding, don't you know that this is exactly the means by which Empress Jia paralyzes him.
After coming out of the palace, as soon as he came out, he saw Sima Zhi looking forward to it, looking at the other party's face with a sore face and unable to find the toilet, Sima Shu shouted from afar: "Hey! What are you doing, kid? ”
After Sima Zhi turned around and saw Sima Shu, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly ran to Sima Shu, panting and replied: "Your Highness, Manager Liu has arrived, and there are ...... And the Green Bead Girl has also arrived! ”
"Really? Let's go, let's hurry back! Sima Shu was overjoyed when he heard this, he hadn't seen Mr. Liu in charge of them for more than two years, and he really missed them.
When I returned to the East Palace, I saw a carriage, quietly parked outside the door. On the side of the carriage, the green beads that had not been seen for a long time looked much clearer, and the two years of lovesickness turned into tears of joy at this moment. At this time, she was holding her little hands tightly, her eyes were full of anxiety, and she looked at the corner of the street.
After seeing Sima Shu's figures, Lu Zhu's body shook slightly and walked out. Lu Zhu's heart suddenly kicked to his throat. However, the person involuntarily took a few steps forward.
After seeing the face that was still smiling and calm as water, the green bead hung high in his heart for many days, and finally let go.
looked at the prince dressed in yellow clothes and looked at him with a smile. Lu Zhu raised his hand and covered his mouth with a smile. Bean-sized tears rolled down her beautiful cheeks and fell.
"Your Highness!" Lu Zhu was crying and laughing, his eyes were hazy with tears, and he looked at Sima Shu in the rainstorm.
That delicate look is lovely. Sima Shu smiled happily and strode over. Stretch out your arms and take the beauty into your arms.
"That's great!"
The nephrite jade in his arms is warm and fragrant, and Sima Shu's mood has several ups and downs. When it came to his mouth, he finally turned into these two words. was really hugged by Sima Shu, and Lu Zhu's fear over the years finally poured out.
She hugged Sima Shu hard, choked and cried: "Concubine, concubine still thinks that she will never see His Highness again!" Whining! ”
"It's all lonely, it's not good, it makes the beauty worried!"
Sima Shu's eyes were hot, and he hugged the woman who had shared hardships with him, and said with a little choked up. Luzhu's heart trembled, desperately hugged the prince, shook his head vigorously, and tears fell like rain.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
"Okay, okay, don't cry, if you cry again, others will laugh at you!"
The crying eyes were red and green, and he couldn't help blushing, and hurriedly loosened Sima Shu's waist, shyly fiddled with the corners of his skirt, and stood aside. But Lu Zhu still reached out and grabbed Sima Shu's robe, and couldn't bear to give up.
Sima Shu laughed, stretched out his arms, and hugged the green bead again. Then, he kissed Green Bead's face fiercely. Green beads giggled, like a happy child.
At this time, a white-haired old chamberlain came out of it, looking at Sima Shu with trembling hands and feet, with tears on his face: "Your Highness, Your Highness, the slave maid finally has the face to see the first emperor!" ”
When the news of the prince's pacification of Guanzhong reached Xincheng, Manager Liu finally couldn't help crying with relief. He felt that he would finally live up to the trust of Emperor Wu, and finally wait for the day when the prince turned into a butterfly and spread his wings. Since receiving the news of the prince's return to the capital, he couldn't wait to entrust the new city to Sima Yi and others, and he hurried to Kyoto with the green beads.
"Great work, Boss!"
For this old man who is disabled and strong, and really loves himself, Sima Shu is full of respect in his heart. If it weren't for the manager's help, maybe he would have died in the East Palace.
"Seeing His Highness's appearance now, the slave maid is finally relieved, with His Highness's achievements today, I think the first emperor will be relieved to know it." Manager Liu said with relief, saying that when he saw the prince selling wine and meat, he never thought that the prince would have today's achievements.
"It's thanks to the Steward's help, by the way, Sir, did Lone let you bring something with you?" It turned out that since receiving the order to return to Beijing, Sima Shu asked Xincheng to prepare some things for Chief Manager Liu to bring to the East Palace, including a batch of firearms and ammunition.
"Your Highness, rest assured, this time the slave maid brought a batch of newly invented grenades, gunpowder packs, as well as five hundred muskets and a large number of weapons and ammunition. At the same time, there are also some bows and crossbows, horizontal knives, and these weapons can be armed with a thousand people. At the same time, the slave maid has not brought a large sum of money to His Highness. ”
"Okay, the manager did a good job, with these things, we can be invincible."
Sima Shu was very happy, with these things, Sima Shu could arm an elite army, plus the troops controlled by Meng Guan, he didn't believe that he couldn't fight those local snakes in the capital.
"Alright, let's stop standing at the door, let's all go in and talk. By the way, is the manager all those things hidden? ”
"Don't worry, Your Highness, the slaves and maids put luxury goods such as glass on the bright side, and the firearms are hidden in the dark grid, and when they are unloaded, they are all responsible for the henchmen, even after arriving in the East Palace, outsiders only think that the gifts prepared by His Royal Highness for the wedding will definitely not let people find anything greasy in them."
"Your Highness, the slave maid heard that the queen gave birth to a son? It'......"
"Hehe, the manager has nothing to do with Lone, as for whether this child was born to the queen...... Hum! ”
"Your Highness won't, does the queen have such guts?"
"The queen doesn't have the courage to do this, but she can't help but be picked up by others!"
Because Manager Liu brought a group of people, the East Palace suddenly became lively, and Sima Shu would not feel that there were not enough people, and under his arrangement, everyone began to slowly control the entire East Palace from the inside.
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