In August of the second year of Jiayou, Wushen, the princess of Yanguo surrendered. In the early morning of that day, Qiu He personally put on makeup for her, painted dizzy eyebrows with snail dai, pasted the golden wisps of cuidian on the smiling places on both sides of her, and decorated the sideburns with two curved crescent moon pearls, smeared oblique red cheeks, painted goose yellow on the forehead, outlined with a pen, and then added a carefully accumulated mica nanzhu flower between the two eyebrows. Coupled with the time spent wearing the crown of the four phoenixes and the gold leaf sideburns, it took two hours to decorate the head alone, and a lot of time was used to cover up the traces of the princess's strange eyes.

And the princess sat very cooperatively and motionless, until she put on her gown and tied a gold leather belt and a jade ring, and then she looked over the maids and searched for me, and asked, "Is it good-looking?" ”

The impeccable make-up was beautiful, but the heavy crown and layers of the gown made her difficult to walk and her posture stiffened, making her the most gorgeous pleasure I have ever seen in my life.

Is it good-looking? I still smiled at her and said, "Of course." ”

The princess wedding ceremony formulated by Ouyang Xiu and the doctors of the Rite Academy followed the ancient system, ordering the horses' household geese, coins, jade, horses and other things to be displayed outside the inner east gate, and then sent into the forbidden by the inner attendants. In the early morning, Li Wei came by horse, dismounted at the Donghua Gate, and the official led him in, stood outside the East Gate, bowed to the west, and waited for the princess.

The princess first went to the Funing Hall to bid farewell to her father. Jinshang quietly wiped away his tears, but he still smiled and persuaded the princess: "Don't cry, don't cry, Qiu He'er gave you a beautiful makeup, don't cry." ”

At this time, the princess's halogen book and honor guard have been displayed outside the inner east gate. After coming out of the Funing Palace, the princess slowly came to the inner east gate surrounded by hundreds of palace people, and was tired of Zhai Che.

The car is red and six horses, the carriage is red, decorated with the second Zhai feather, the cloth curtain of the dust is purple, the red silk net, the red Luo painting ribbon, the curtain brocade curtain. There are gold ornaments inside and outside the carriage, with colorful between, there are screen windows on both walls, there are cloud phoenixes, peacocks carved on all sides, carved turtle text, there is a golden phoenix standing on the top wheel, and eight phoenixes are standing on the cross wheel. The car is equipped with red mattress seats, with a civet head incense curtain, an incense burner, and an incense treasure. The whole body is resplendent and exquisite, like a finely carved jewelry box.

The beautiful Mo Drink Le entered the jewelry box with the support of the maids on the left and right, and the door curtain immediately hung down, completing the final packaging of the gift.

When the princess ascended to the car, Li Wei bowed again, and led the horse back first. When the auspicious time comes, the princess will set off in a car. At the front of the ceremonial guard, there are dozens of street soldiers, each holding a sweep and a gold-plated silver bucket, and the lead is sprinkled, which is called "waterway". Behind them were two rows of waiters in purple shirts and curly feet, carrying hundreds of dowries of the princess. Followed by dozens of palace concubines riding horses, all wearing red Luo pin gold robes, wearing real pearl hairpins, tufted heads, two by two on the left and right sides of the road to guide the fan, this column is called "short stirrups". After that, there were dozens of palace attendants and princesses and concubines who accompanied the marrying attendants.

The princess wears the front and back of the car with a red Luo pin gold palm fan to cover the cluster, the square fan is on all sides, the round fan is on all sides, the obstacle flower is ten, the candle cage is twenty, and the obstacle and the obstacle are one each. The queen took the Kowloon eaves to send the princess in person, and Concubine Miao Xian and the women of the palace also followed by the palace car. The queue of carriages and horses is mighty, stretching for several miles, all the way to the road, the crowd of people in Beijing is surging, and the spectators are like blockages.

After deliberation, the emperor and queen decided to give me a new position - to be in charge of the princess's mansion, to lead the princess's marriage to the palace ministers, and to be in charge of the specific affairs of the princess's mansion. At this moment, I was wearing a blue official uniform, riding on the side of the princess's chariot, perhaps the color of the dress was different from the brown chamberlain in front of me, and I attracted the special attention of the onlookers.

"This Lang Jun is wearing a green robe, isn't he a colt?" Someone pointed at me and asked.

The wedding dress of the men of the dynasty is to use the official dress commensurate with their rank, and if there is no official, they will wear green robes, so this person has this guess.

Someone immediately refuted him: "I don't know anything! The captain of the horse is from the fifth rank and should wear a red robe. This little Langjun has a fine white skin and a beard on his face, and most of them are Huangmen officials who serve the princess. ”

The questioner stared at me more and more curiously and laughed, "It's a eunuch!" It's a pity to see his eyebrows and eyes, but it's a pity ......"

I ignored it, straightened my waist slightly, did not squint my eyes, did not change my face, and continued to ride forward.

The honor guard advanced slowly, and it was delayed for more than an hour before they reached the new mansion of the princess and the concubine. Li Wei has been waiting in front of the gate, as soon as the princess descends the car, a praiser stepped forward to lead the horse to the princess to salute, welcome the princess in, the princess walked to the front of the dormitory, Li Wei waved again, and guided her to the next level, and asked her to enter the room to wash.

After the princess rearranged her makeup, the wedding officer invited the princess to sit opposite the horse, and Li Wei bowed to the princess again, before sitting with the princess, drinking three times, bowing again, and then accepting the royal feast given by the queen.

There are a total of nine imperial feasts, and after a line, the queen and the women of the inner life say goodbye to the princess and drive back to the palace. The princess was the most difficult to give up Concubine Miao Xian, chased all the way to the courtyard, and pulled her mother's sleeve and burst into tears. Concubine Miao Xian was also very sad, but she could only comfort her with tears and smiles, saying that she could often return to the palace in the future, and it was not difficult for mother and daughter to meet. At the urging of the ministers, Concubine Xian gritted her teeth and pushed the princess away, hurried out the door, hurriedly got in the car and left, without looking back at her daughter.

The princess wept so much that she almost fell to the ground in tears. The nurse Han was busy helping me, and I wanted to step forward to help, but unexpectedly, a woman flashed out and grabbed the princess from the other side before me.

It was the princess's mother-in-law, the aunt of the country's uncle, Yang.

"The princess didn't cry anymore. Now although you are separated from Miao Niangzi, but since you enter my house, you are the same as my daughter, and I will love you like your mother. Madame Yang said to the princess with a smile.

The princess whimpered and frowned at her. Mrs. Yang stared at her face, shook her head and said, "Tsk, crying like this, it took ...... rouge"

Yibi said, Yibi took the sleeve, and was about to wipe the princess's tears, the princess resolutely avoided it in disgust, but she still didn't give up, and still smiled and said: "The face is full of tears, come, my mother will wipe you clean......"

The princess dodged left and right, quite angry. I immediately summoned a few maids and ordered them to help the princess into the room to make up for her makeup. At this time, a person strode over, waved at Mrs. Yang, and said: "The national dynasty is in the ceremony, the princess saw her aunt after the three dynasties, and it is not appropriate for Mrs. to talk to the princess at this moment." ”

The one who spoke was the princess's house supervisor, my young teacher Liang Quanyi. He served in the former province for many years and has been promoted to the rank of commissioner. When the princess surrenders, as usual, she must choose an old and dignified official-level minister to be the princess's house supervisor, and his duty is to guide the princess and the concubine to behave, observe their living conditions, and regularly report to the emperor. Liang Quanyi has outstanding character and good reputation, and when he chose the princess's mansion supervisor, he felt that he could not find a suitable candidate among the officials in the later province, so I recommended Mr. Liang to him, and he gladly accepted it, and soon ordered Liang Quanyi to be appointed as the princess's eunuch of Yanguo's mansion.

Now that Mrs. Yang heard what Liang Dujian said, she had no choice but to give up and retreat to the backyard. She was probably very uncomfortable, she said as she walked: "This royal rule is many, marry a daughter-in-law, and the aunt will not ......be able to see it sooner."

Compared with Mrs. Yang's excessive enthusiasm, Li Wei, the concubine, behaved quite steadily, slightly restrained, and completely obeyed the orders of Liang Dujian and the praiser in every move. After that, when he was in prison with the princess, he was very careful when he even bit the piece of mutton, and looked at the praiser from time to time, as if he was worried that the magnitude of the bite did not conform to the etiquette.

The princess remained expressionless during the process, and never raised her eyes to look at her husband across from her.

I and the palace ministers who accompanied me always stood beside the princess, and it was not until the evening when the newlyweds entered the bedroom that they entered the banquet one after another, and received the princess's wedding feast.

The palace people who had been busy all day finally relaxed at this moment, smiling one by one, guessing boxing and toasting. It's really bright, staggered, and the only one is absent in its center.

I gazed in the direction of the princess's new house, but I didn't dare to think about it. In order to hide the loss of consciousness at this moment, I took a large glass of Jiaqingzi's full wine at the moment and drank it with my head up.

This simple drinking action caused everyone to applaud, Zhang Chengzhao immediately stepped forward to toast me again, and I didn't shirk it, and drank it all with a smile. This aroused their interest in testing my amount of wine, almost everyone poured wine and invited me to drink, I did not refuse, drank every glass in front of me, and saw Liang Quanyi looking embarrassed at the wine toasted by others, so he walked over, took the wine, smiled and said to the toaster: "Liang Dujian can't drink more, I drank this wine for him." ”

So, I had one more reason to continue drinking. But actually, I'm not a good drinker. Dozens of glasses of alcohol made me feel sad, and finally I was drunk as I expected.

The princess is now ...... What's going on?

I thought vaguely before the strong liquor crept into my brain and wiped out the last of my consciousness.