Chapter 14: Arrived
Before dawn, Bai Yi woke up from his dream and suddenly realized that he was not alone.
She was lying on her side on the bed, falling asleep inward. Now he found himself holding a man's hand in both hands, lying in his arms.
You don't need to look at it, it's Hou Cong. He naturally has the ability to get the key, and he didn't wake up because he slept too peacefully? Or is he too good at light work, and his footsteps are too quiet? Or maybe it's the person who won't be guarded against at all when he's in a careless sleep.
Bai Yi let go of his hand and wanted to get up. As a result, he also woke up and pulled himself back into bed. Now it's face-to-face, and he's dressed in his sleeping clothes, but it's very hot, and his sleeves are rolled up.
"Eldest Prince, why are you here?"
"I'm looking for you."
"What do you have to say?" Bai Yi retreated as he spoke, and was pulled back by Hou Cong.
Despite this, Hou Cong's face was a serious commander's mode, and he told her what Dugu Zheng's soldiers said, and then instructed, "Since this is the case, let's take care of the errand." ”
Bai Yi pouted, "Look at what you said, I'm not just a good errand, I'm simply a promoter and a mastermind, okay?" Don't worry, you look at my attitude. ”
What he said made Hou Cong embarrassed, and brushed her messy hair that woke up for her, "What kind of attitude can you have?" You, this stunned one scared our three princesses, don't go up against the princess of Chengguo. ”
Bai Yi was not convinced, got up again, and broke free of his hand, "Hmph! I'm stunned! You wait to see how I am stunned! I'll wrap you into a zongzi and put it on the phoenix bed of Princess Yanyang. ”
Hou Cong didn't pull her again this time, but folded his hands behind his head, lay flat down, looked like watching a play, and even smiled kindly, "You put me up, I let others down, what's in it for you." ”
Bai Yi was stunned after hearing this, and reacted after a while, crawled past him to the bed, and said as he crawled, "I finally know how Dugu Zheng and Yuan are so unserious." It's all because of you! Hou Cong grabbed her when she climbed above her, but she directly held it down and didn't dare to move, and the white clothes stared at Hou Cong for a while, "I still thought, the two of them are so nonsense, you just don't care, can't you care?" It turns out that this is not the case, you are simply the ancestor of their nonsense! ”
"Then what are you angry about?"
As Bai Yi gave up control of Hou Cong and jumped out of bed, Hou Cong turned over by himself, lay on the bed, held his cheeks, and continued to be coquettish.
"Get up, don't make a fuss, there's a lot to prepare." Bai Yi said. Obviously, there is no longer any intention to continue to play with him in his tone.
Hou Cong has been very sensitive these days, and he came to sleep next to her in the middle of the night last night, and he also had the intention of testing it. Now it seems that she is really colder than she expected, it should be for Murong Xing.
So he got up, pushed open the door to make sure there was no one in the hallway, and walked out.
After a while, it was dawn, and Hou Cong was followed by Yuan You and Fluorescence, and he began to get busy again. Just after noon, the two little eunuchs of the princess's mansion rode horses to report the news, and drove away the idlers around the inn, set up curtains, and burned incense to pave the way. After a while, a pair of little eunuchs came every quarter of an hour, holding the princess's yellow robe, golden crown, and so on. Then, the soldiers appeared, and the various prestige representing the princess's military identity was also fully arranged, and the two sedan chairs slowly arrived, and Dugu was riding with the chief historian of the princess's mansion and many young generals with fair faces.
Five or six officials from the Ministry of Rites followed, including the one who had been sent to Yanhua Town to collect the body.
The band also brought it, and the palace music was curling.
The big sedan chair in front is dark yellow, and there are sixteen big pomp, and the one sitting inside is the princess herself. The one in the back is white, eight sets, prepared for Mo Chang.
Neither of these two sedan chairs could enter the small alley in front of the inn, so they stopped in the distance that could be seen from the inn - the most spacious small square in Bailu Town.
The sedan chair stopped. The music stopped.
Mo Chang is still wearing a white dragon robe today, but he wears a crown of hair, and he looks more and more handsome and elegant with noble majesty. Although Hou Cong and others have seen him countless times and even get along with him day and night, this is the first time they have seen him dressed like this. Familiar, with some strangeness.
In Mo Chang's opinion, why shouldn't Hou Cong and others be like this? Hou Cong got up early in the morning and gave an order, everyone dressed up according to the duty ceremony, although they lost their luggage when they crossed the river, the money was saved by Yuwen Changkong, and the fluorescence and the female soldiers were busy these days, that is, to guide and supervise the local tailors to work day and night.
It is impossible to make clothes that take hundreds of man-days to make, but it is okay to maintain dignity in color and shape.
Headed by Hou Cong, he did not wear the clothes of a military general, but dressed as a civil official, according to his rank, he wore a red robe and a gold crown, and the white, Changkong, Yuanyou, and fluorescent others wore blue reembroidered shirts and red boots, all wearing silver crowns and swords.
On top of all this, there is a white gauze overall.
Because the first emperor of Liguo was newly mourned, he also had to serve filial piety.
When the music stopped, the town fell silent.
The little eunuch who came first was originally under the eaves of the inn, but at this time he quietly walked over, stood in the middle of Hou Cong and Mo Chang, and said word by word, "Her Royal Highness Princess Yanyang has arrived, please kneel down to greet Her Royal Highness King Yangxian." ”
When she was a child, it stands to reason that Princess Yanyang was going to kneel when she saw Mo Chang. But this ritual has never been observed, nor has it been taken care of.
Now, that's all about to change.
As if he hadn't heard it, Mo Chang looked at his former relatives from a distance of more than a hundred feet.
Hou Cong nodded slightly at the little eunuch and bowed his hand to Mo Chang, "Your subordinates escort Your Highness there!" ”
Mo Chang smiled bitterly at Hou Cong, and saw Hou Cong take a long step forward, without looking back. Yuan and Fluorescence followed, while Bai Yi and Changkong fell lightly and followed behind Mo Chang.
Mo Chang turned his face sideways, and he could see the slender hand in white clothes stretched out in the blue robe and pressed on the sword.
He looked up and met the resolute and close smiling face of the white cloth.
"Your Highness, please." She said.
Mo Chang finally took a step and walked along the Jiangnan alley surrounded by the tent, towards the sixteen sedan chairs.
Along the way, after experiencing these ten days, the people of Bailu Town have long known about the return of the prince, and now they are all silently watching from the window on the second floor......
Princess Yanyang sat steadily in the sixteen sedan chairs. Thinking about it, everything may be fate. As a side branch, she decided that her status was inferior to Mo Chang at the moment her father was born. But who knows?
She knew a group of people were coming towards her. She heard Dugu jumping off the horse, and her entourage also jumped off the horse.
There were no curtains in the square, and people were surrounded by ordinary people. Dugu is a pretty person, striding forward, every movement is like a painting, and at a place where Mochang is about 20 zhang away from here, he shouts loudly: "Greetings to His Royal Highness King Yangxian!" His Royal Highness was frightened all the way, and today he has to return to his hometown, the mausoleum of the first emperor is safe, and the holy grace shines from afar! His Royal Highness Chitose Chitose Chitose! ”
With that, he leaned to the side, and knelt down as he made way out.
It didn't matter if he knelt down, the people around him all shouted the honorific name of the first emperor and knelt down crying.
People are always very sympathetic to tragic characters, and even the bad ones in the past will be forgotten. The first emperor of Chengguo, who was also a great political and military achievement, couldn't even see his eldest son when he died, and said that he wanted his son to die, and the dragon chair was also sat on by his nephew, who doesn't feel pitiful?
The generals and civil officials who came with Princess Yanyang didn't even think about it, they did the same, and knelt down with a thousand years of speech.
Princess Yanyang couldn't sit still, and opened the sedan curtain to find the chief historian, but found that he was not on the horse.
Looking ahead, the chief historian was also kneeling with his ass pouted.
Passing the group of kneeling men, she saw her cousin. I saw a man next to my cousin.
The golden crown and red robe, covered with a layer of white yarn representing filial piety and sorrow, are magnificent, complexion like jade, deep eyes, sword eyebrows are like paintings, knives and axes sharpen the nose, lips, and face, all over are arrogant and disdainful, and it seems to be mixed with some vicissitudes and infinite stories.
Hou Cong.
Princess Sunny was stunned. Unknowingly, he stepped out of the sedan chair.
Everyone reads poetry, and a few write poetry.
And he must be the poem itself.
The poem didn't stop, but walked past the kneeling bodies and approached Princess Yanyang.
Lifting the robe, stepping on the front foot, kneeling on one leg, every movement is like a dream.
"Hou Cong, the general of the military guard of Dali State, in accordance with the holy decree of His Majesty the Emperor of our country, and the intention of connecting the north and the south, specially escorted His Royal Highness Dacheng Guoyang Xianwang to return to his hometown in the south! The subordinates led the department to meet Her Royal Highness Princess Yanyang, Her Royal Highness Chitose! ”
What Princess Yanyang didn't expect was that she didn't say anything, and the man got up on his own.
His eyes looked at him, and the people also looked at him, "Your Highness, your subordinates will accompany you." ”