Chapter 162: Asking for Marriage
After Xiao Li'er expressed her position, everyone was naturally happy, and no one would really care about His Royal Highness King Qi, who was lying on the couch and unconscious, King Qi's marriage was so hastily closed, and even the wedding date could be early.
"Okay, if you don't have anything else to do, let's go to the table to eat first..."The emperor waved his hand, and before he finished speaking, Ruan Mianmian and Fang Cannon stood up together with panicked expressions, and stopped talking, "Wait!" ”
"Huh?" This was the first time the emperor had been stopped, and he looked at the two people with some surprise.
But he didn't want to look at Fang Cannon and Ruan Mianmian's face flushed, Ruan Mianmian pinched the handkerchief, and sat back in his position with a stunned face, but Fang Cannon had no way to retreat, so he simply walked straight to the middle and knelt down towards the emperor and the queen mother.
"Back... Returning to Your Majesty, the ministers cannon, ask to marry the lord of Ruliang as his wife, enter the general's mansion, and ask His Majesty and the Queen Mother to be fulfilled! Fang Cannon is a serious general who has been on the battlefield, but now he is so anxious that he scratches his ears and cheeks because of this sentence, his whole body movements are stiff, and it is not right to raise his head or bow his head, and he is sweating profusely after such a while.
The Queen Mother and the Emperor were also stunned for a while, but looking at the appearance of the two of them, they knew what was going on, or the Queen Mother laughed first, which made Ruan Mianmian even more restless, but she couldn't stop the joy in her heart, just like a child who finally mustered up the courage to ask his parents for colorful kites at the temple fair.
"General Protector, you said you want to marry the Lord of Ruliang?" The Queen Mother asked rhetorically.
"Yes, the minister's cannon, I am willing to marry the lord of Ruliang as my wife." This time, he answered much more smoothly, breathed a long sigh of relief, and glanced at Mu Ruqing and Lu Gui, who were secretly cheering him on the side, and his heart was a lot calmer.
"And what about your dowry?" The Queen Mother asked again.
Fang Dacang was stunned in his heart, turned his head to look at Mu Ruqing, his eyes were full of anxiety and questions, no, Brother Mu didn't say that he would give a dowry on the day of the proposal, if the Queen Mother caught it and didn't let go, wouldn't she be blowing it if she asked for marriage.
Mu Ruqing and Jiang Xinyue stretched out their hands and shrugged at him, they didn't give a dowry at that time, that is, the emperor directly pointed out the marriage, who knew that he needed to prepare these for his proposal, but she saw through the meaning of the queen mother in her eyes, she smiled at the corner of her eyes, she must not really want to embarrass him, and couldn't help but show a gloating expression.
Fang Cannon saw that they had no intention of supporting the move, and he couldn't kneel awkwardly like this, so he simply hugged his fists and replied: "Wechen is young, has no longevity, and has no family background, the dowry that Wechen can give is the entire general's mansion and my hands, and the cannon can promise here, if he can marry the county lord as his wife, then in the future, she will be the only hostess in the general's mansion, and she will never accept concubines to accept the house, and all the property in and out of the general's mansion in the future will be owned by the county lord. ”
The Queen Mother just wanted to make a joke with him, but she didn't want him to be so sincere to Ruan Mianmian, and to be able to say such a promise in front of everyone, so she couldn't help but nod and looked at the emperor, meaning that she had already agreed.
When things came to this situation, how could the emperor be unwilling, he already needed to encircle a new generation of talented courtiers in the court, and now Fang Dacang himself proposed to marry Ruan Mianmian, he really went to trouble with his heart, and immediately nodded and agreed, there is nothing more to do.
The emperor gave the marriage on the spot, which was naturally very happy, but for Ruan Mianmian and Fang Dacang, this was still the beginning, and there were countless cumbersome etiquette in the middle of the real marriage.
The first is the determination of the wedding date, because Ruan Mianmian has already reached the end of the year, so the wedding date will not drag on for two or three years like Princess Fangyan, but it cannot be held hastily, so it is set on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, which is the nearest auspicious day selected by Ruan Mianmian and Fang Dacang at the request of Ruan Mianmian and Fang Cannon.
Then there is the preparation process for the big wedding, Concubine Lan Guifei is married, and Yipinxiang is married by everyone, which is easy to say, but the scattered things are dizzy. Jiang Xinyue and Liu Xin'er ran around every day, pulling Ruan Mianmian from cups, plates, dishes and dishes to screens, tables and chairs, and visited all kinds of shops in the city, large and small, and customized many household items according to Ruan Mianmian's preferences, which were shipped to the General's Mansion for decoration before the wedding.
Mu Ruqing also waved his hand, and set aside a huge amount of money from Yipinxiang's account to buy a dowry, jewelry, clothes and even treasures for Ruan Mianmian, these things stacked up can hardly be measured by money, and Fang Cannon is also from Yipinxiang, and his wedding gift is also in Yipinxiang, it is Mu Ruqing who spends the most money, and he is actually very happy when he has always been careful about his budget.
Although Ruan Mianmian was busy all day, he did not forget his work, and took out one or two hours a day to do food and broadcast in the lobby of Yipinxiang, and chatted with the guests as usual, and then the good news of the county lord's marriage quickly spread all over the capital.
Before Ruan Mianmian and their wedding, August 10 was the wedding of King Qi.
King Qi is still not awake, and occasionally when he wakes up, he is sick and doesn't like to talk, and others can't see how sane he is. Xiao Li'er has been living in the palace during this time, and she runs to King Qi every day to take care of her fiancé, giving herself a virtuous name, and also testing the reality of King Qi.
She was bored leaning in front of the window and watching the little palace maid decocting medicine under the eaves of the porch, and the steaming mist diffused along the swing of the pu fan, just floating in front of the window, it was a pungent medicinal gas. Although Xiao Li'er is serving, she doesn't need to do it herself, the princess-to-be, she just needs to stay here and look at the man lying on the bed with pale eyes two steps away.
King Qi is still handsome when he speaks, the bridge of his nose is high even if he is lying down, he is as tall as a mountain, Xiao Li'er is bored in front of the window, so he simply sat down in front of King Qi's bed with bare feet, looked at his face attentively, and his hand unconsciously stretched out to touch the tip of his nose.
There was no one in the room, King Qi was not favored, and now that he was in a coma, no one took him seriously, and there were very few people serving in this remote palace, and they all hid in the lower room to sleep, play cards and eat wine, and the errand here turned out to be an idle errand.
Xiao Li'er's fingertips were only a little short of feeling the touch of the tip of his nose, and he could already try the slow airflow brought by his steady breathing, at this time, the original quiet and beautiful, Qi Wang who was lying on the bed closed his eyes and suddenly reached out to hold Xiao Li'er's wrist.
"Don't make a noise."
This low warning really shocked Xiao Li'er who was about to scream, she stared blankly at King Qi opening her eyes, the tail of her eyes raised high was lazy and sharp, and she didn't use much strength in her hand, but she forgot to break free.
"Whose person are you?" King Qi opened his mouth low.
"I'm a little pity."
"Who sent you?" King Qi coughed lightly and did not give up.
"I'm coming myself." Little Li'er couldn't feel this person's temper, and she didn't know why he pretended to be unconscious for so long and refused to wake up.
Just when the two were at a stalemate, the door outside was suddenly pushed open with a creak, and the little palace maid came in with a medicine jar, and brought in a somewhat dazzling ray of sunlight.
"Miss, what's going on here?" The little palace maid looked at Xiao Li'er suspiciously, and seemed to always feel that there was something wrong in this hall, but she couldn't say why.
"It's nothing, I'm talking to myself." Xiao Li'er was startled by the palace maid's sudden push of the door, thinking that King Qi was not in a coma was exposed, but when she turned around, she saw that King Qi still closed his eyes, and even put his hand back in Fang Cai's position, as if he had never moved, and he had to help the round, which was regarded as a gesture of goodwill to him through this incident.
The palace maid did not continue to ask, she took the medicine over and handed it to Xiao Li'er, and went out with the tray by herself, and the hall was extremely quiet.
Xiao Li'er stirred the brown and black medicine with a spoon, and said softly: "Lord Wang, she is gone, do you still drink this medicine?" ”
King Qi really opened his eyes, and his disgusted expression was reflected on the surface of the medicinal soup, motioning for her to take it away and pour it down.
"Huh? Since the prince is not in a coma and does not look seriously ill, how did you escape from drinking medicine when Li'er was away? Xiao Li'er took the medicine bowl and gently stretched out her hand, the medicine soup slipped into the spittoon, Li'er shook the empty bowl, and suddenly felt that King Qi was very interesting.
"In the past, I couldn't escape, I could only swallow it, but now I can escape, so I naturally avoid these pains." King Qi rubbed his eyebrows, then turned his shoulder sideways and ordered: "Rub the back of your shoulders for this king, you can't use your strength if you lie down for too long." ”
Xiao Li'er reluctantly turned him over, groped his palm on his broad shoulders a few times, found the right position and pinched the strength to stretch his muscles, although he couldn't see the expression with his back, but Xiao Li'er could feel that his whole body was a lot more relaxed.
"Lord, don't you know yet, Li'er is the fiancée given to you by His Majesty, and she is the future Princess of Qi." Xiao Li'er's tone was calm, and the movements of her hands did not ease.
"So, you and now I'm in the same boat." King Qi laughed playfully, "I was able to survive by being seriously ill, when was I unknowingly wiped out, and he was kind enough to choose a concubine for me?" ”
"The prince is wrong, we are not people in the same boat, and becoming a husband and wife is naturally a prosperous couple, but it will not be a loss. If the prince dies alone, there will inevitably be gossip outside, but if the prince is not alive, His Majesty and the Queen Mother treat the prince's widow well, which is their good name. ”
"If you dare to say this to this king, you are not afraid that this king will pull you before he dies?" King Qi's voice was cold, containing a hint of anger.
"Since Li'er can say these things openly, naturally she won't do this, at least their methods won't be implemented through my hands, as long as we are safe, I will always lie that you never woke up, so it's not a good thing to be with you every day." Xiao Li'er has her own thoughts, being a widow and being imprisoned in this golden cage is by no means as easy as Ruan Mianmian said.