On the twenty-seventh day of April in the fourteenth year of ZTE, it was another spring. Da Chu ushered in a grand wedding, and the carriage of Princess Qiqige, the sister of the Mongolian Khan, traveled all the way, and soon arrived in front of the palace. There are three tripods in front of the palace, and there are cooked suckling pigs and sheep lungs, a pair of rabbits and fourteen fish.

Xuan Nan stood outside the steps of the Taiji Hall in a large court robe. His left side is dressed

The palace people in red dresses, all the ministers wore court clothes, and they stood behind.

When Kikige's carriage arrived, the drums sounded.

The weddings in the Central Plains are different from those on the grasslands, and there are no singing and dancing. The heavenly wedding is even more serious. She got out of the carriage, holding the handle of the fan tightly in her hand, covering her face, and peeking at everything around her from time to time. The dark clouds carried her up the straight palace road, and behind her were the palace maids dressed in the clothes of the Han family. However, if you look closely at their faces, they are not as fair as the daughters of the Han family.

Finally, Kikige walked up to Xuan Nan.

The praiser said, "Huh." ”

Xuan Nan waved to Qiqige, and Qiqige returned the salute.

Then, Xuan Nan led the way and took Qiqige to walk up the steps step by step in the sound of drums, until he walked to the front of the main hall, Xuan Nan stopped and waved again, and then entered the hall from the west steps, and the court ladies and dark clouds helped Qiqige to enter the hall later. Xuan Nan and Qi Qige entered the palace.

The praiser said, "Huh." Xuan Nan and Kikige shook each other.

The praiser said: "But fan." In the music, Xuan Nan held Qi Qige's hand, and Qi Qi Ge shyly moved the feather fan covering his face inch by inch, and gave the fan to Xuan Nan. Xuan Nan handed the fan to the yellow door beside him, and walked to the hall with Qiqige.

Wuyun walked up to Qiqige and served her to water and wash, and Li Ji walked to Xuan Nan and served him to water and wash.

The Yellow Gate will carry the Ding and Dazun in, and put four jars of five animal bean paste and five grains.

At this time, the praiser reported that the food had been arranged, and Xuan Nan made a gesture to Qiqige, and the two of them entered the table, first not for their own use, but first to the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors and ancestors, after the sacrifice, this party was a formal wedding banquet.

After the two of them ate the meat together, there were palace people who brought tea to let the two of them rinse their mouths, and then drank the wine, which was a gourd divided into two halves, connected by silk threads, and was held by Du Xiang and Wuyun respectively and sent to the newcomer.

Xuan Nan and Qi Qige drank together.

The praiser said again: "Licheng." "The music is back.

Seeing that the most hectic and most fearful time of making mistakes had passed, Qiqige couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and turned around to see the dark clouds, only to see that the dark clouds were also relieved, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

After all the noisy rituals were over, Li Ji led Queen Qiqi to her dormitory, Jiaofang Palace. When Qiqige was not married, I heard my sister-in-law say that the Jiaofang Palace has always been the residence of the ancient queen, and the walls are painted with pepper and mud, fragrant and warm. Pepper has many seeds, taking the meaning of many seeds. Now that she finally saw this palace, it was even more gorgeous than she had imagined. The white jade paved ground and railings fold out a warm light, and the gilded wood carved phoenix spreads its wings on the eaves, opposite the Weiyang Palace in the distance. Walk into the hall, the dormitory is made of sandalwood as a beam, the crystal jade is the lamp, the pearl is the curtain, and the fan gold is the pillar base. The six-foot-wide agarwood bed is hung next to the shark silk treasure tent, and the tent is embroidered with pearls and silver thread begonia flowers, and the wind is moving, like falling clouds and mountains and phantom seas.

At this moment, it is already evening, and the dark clouds push open the long window of the coral, and the evening of dinner sends wisps of fragrance.

"What kind of floral scent is this?" Kikige asked, "It smells good."

"Back to my mother. It's pear blossom. Li Ji said.

"Where are these pear blossoms?" Kikige continued.

"In Minami Kaoyudai." Li Ji replied.

After a moment of settling down, Qiqige changed into Han family clothes and sat on the collapse of the bedroom. The couch is set up with a green jade incense pillow, covered with soft silkworm ice, and stacked with jade belts. There is a huge bright moon pearl hanging on the top of the treasure in the hall, shining brightly, like a bright moon. The ground is paved with white jade, embedded with gold beads, chiseled into the lotus, the flowers become the appearance of a five-stemmed lotus, the petals are fresh and exquisite, even the flower-stamen is also delicate and recognizable, and the barefoot step only feels warm and moist, it is actually chiseled with Lantian warm jade.

Her round and bright eyes looked at everything curiously, and quietly wiped the thin sweat in her hands with a silk handkerchief, and said in her heart, Qiqige, this will be your home in the future. Since returning to Mongolia from Da Chu, her heart has always stayed in Bianliang, even when she is dressing, she can see Xuan Nan's face from the copper basin full of clear water, his eyes are like stars on the grassland, every night when the sky falls, you can think of him when you look up.

"Your Majesty has arrived—" Lee's shrill voice pulled her back from her memories, and she hastened to check herself in the mirror. took a breath and sat on the edge of the collapse waiting for Xuan Nan. The carved sandalwood bedroom door opened, and the shadow of a teenager stood behind a screen carved of wenge, and she bowed her head shyly.

"Queen, I still have a lot of government affairs." With that, Xuan Nan turned around and left.

Qiqige suddenly looked up, and Xuan Nan was already gone. She chased after her and shouted, "Your Majesty, you don't know my name yet......"

At this time, the young man stopped, and without looking back, he said, "I call you the queen."

Qiqige's voice gradually lowered, "My name is Qiqi......" Before the words were finished, Xuan Nan had already walked out of the bedroom. Looking at the beauty and emptiness here, she sat on the ground, only to feel that the wisdom and pride of the past were certainly gone.

"Princess, maybe Your Majesty really has a tricky government to deal with." Dark clouds comforted.

Kikige smiled and said, "You're right."

The next day, the moon did not fade, and the morning light was faintly bright. Kikige sat by the window, and she saw a delicate little building appear in a dim yellow light, mysterious and quiet. Around the small building, pear blossoms are planted in the distance.

"Princess, today I want to meet the Queen Mother, worship the ancestral temple, and have a banquet with Your Majesty to send off the envoys." The dark clouds are here again.

Kikige nodded. Then, more than a dozen palace maids rushed in, and after some busyness, they covered up Qiqige's sleepless haggard night. She was like a puppet and had to be helped out of the Jiaofang Palace.

The carriage parked outside the Jiaofang Hall was different from yesterday, Xuan Nan stood beside the carriage, with a white jade crown tied up his hair, wearing an ice blue shirt with narrow sleeves, the placket and cuffs were embroidered with royal blue silk threads, and the indigo blue trousers were tied in the brocade boots, and walked towards her.

"Queen, did you rest well yesterday?" Xuan Nan's eyes were smiling, warm and pure. Then he took her hand from the clouds and helped her to his dragon bowl.

"Hmm!" Kikige nodded flatteredly, feeling very complacent, and couldn't help but smile brightly on her face.

Long Bao first went to Jianzhang Palace to meet the Queen Mother, and then after changing his dress, the emperor and queen sacrificed to the Taimiao, and finally the feast of sending off the relatives and envoys. At the end of the day's elaborate liturgies, it was 10 p.m. The emperor and queen sat at the top of the Taiji Palace, and sent the envoys and ministers of Dachu to sit as observers.

Xuan Nan's conversation was elegant and funny, and the subordinates laughed and laughed during the banquet, and also complimented the Mongolian envoys just right. Kikige only hated that she didn't learn Chinese well enough to understand their conversation. She frowned slightly, and sat down beside Xuan Nan cautiously.

In such a state of her, Xuan Nan discovered herself. While the palace people were serving mutton, Xuan Nan took a piece and put it in Qiqige's bowl and said to her: "This is a pit sheep, the taste is different from other places, you can taste it."

Pit sheep is the famous dish of the Great Chu court, to dig three feet deep to make the wall of the well, with bricks to build a straight stove, open a door in the middle, put an iron pot on the top, put an iron frame in the middle, slaughter, cure the whole lamb, with salt all over the body, add ground pepper, pepper, green onion, fennel pickled, with an iron hook to hang the backbone, hang upside down in the furnace, cover the cauldron, around with mud coating. Burn with firewood until the wall of the well and the iron pot are red, and then burn with a low fire for one or two hours, seal the door of the stove, and let the firewood simmer overnight.

Qiqige saw that Xuan Nan personally prepared vegetables for herself, and the haze in her heart was swept away, and after thanking her, she lowered her head and took a bite, and suddenly felt that this mutton tasted extremely fresh and had a strong fragrance. Xindao: I have also eaten pit sheep on the grassland, why didn't I find it so delicious.

After eating, she turned her head and saw that Xuan Nan's bowl was empty, Xu didn't eat because she didn't care, she tried to speak fluently, and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, do you want to eat?"

Xuan Nan smiled slightly and said, "You can take care of what you like to eat."

Seeing the emperor's love and affection, a messenger praised him: "Your Majesty congratulates Your Majesty on your centennial friendship with the queen." Immediately, the ministers of Da Chu also agreed.

After the banquet, Qiqige and Xuan Nan rode together again. The frame shuttles between the upper forest garden on an April day, through the deep paths, and through the sea of clouds. The road meets a palace wall, a pear blossom comes out of the wall, and then there is the plaque of this palace: Nanfutai. The elegant and chic book made Qiqige can't help but pay attention, and she said with great interest: "Your Majesty, I thought the pear blossoms here were particularly fragrant yesterday......

Xuan Nan looked at this palace and was fascinated, and even treated her as if she didn't exist.

Qiqige originally thought that Xuan Nan's attitude today showed her acceptance and recognition of him. However, at the moment, it turns out that this is not the case. When he arrived at the Jiaofang Palace, Qiqige got out of the car with the support of the dark clouds and stood in place waiting to watch Xuan Nan, presumably waiting for him to get out of the car and enter the Jiaofang Hall together. Xuan Nan waved his hand gently, and the carriage left away from him, without even leaving her a word.

Looking at Xuan Nan in the distance, she really couldn't understand why his attitude towards herself in front of people was so different. The budding hope was abruptly extinguished by him, and he gave her a strong sense of frustration that she had never experienced as a princess.

The night of the sky steps is as cool as water, the red candles in the window are swaying, the drizzle outside the window is slanting, and the water is quietly dripping down the eaves, and a circle of ripples is blurred on the ground, like sighing and retaining. Kikige extinguished the candle, pushed open the creaky window, and sat on the edge of the bed with her knees crossed, staring out the window at the rain falling and behind her was the gorgeous and empty room......