Chapter 169: Giving Marriage
Xiao Xuan and Emperor Liu's concubine had a good explanation before appeasing the eldest princess of Yongshou who was going to find Emperor Chu.
This matter finally came to an end, when the county lord of Duansu learned about Xiao Xuan's fall into the water, she was pregnant and it was inconvenient for her to visit, so she let Sister Chu enter the palace to visit Xiao Xuan.
Sister Chu stayed in the palace for a day, and only left the palace and returned to the Zhenguo Mansion in the evening.
"Brother?" As soon as Sister Chu entered the courtyard of the second room, she saw Duan Shaolan under the corridor. "Why is my brother waiting for me here?"
"Sister Chu, did you enter the palace today?" Duan Shaolan's injuries have almost recovered.
"Well, the princess sister is sick, and my mother asked me to go into the palace to talk to the princess sister." Sister Chu also pointed to the food boxes carried by the two maids behind her. "Sister Princess also gave me two boxes of snacks, do you want to eat some?"
"You, just remember to eat." Duan Shaolan beckoned to her, and Sister Chu ran in front of him. "Didn't you go to the palace to visit the sick? How is the princess in shape? Why did she fall into the water so well? ”
Sister Chu was a little confused by Duan Shaolan's series of questions, and it took a while for her to react.
"The princess's sister said that she had accidentally fallen into the water, so she caught some cold. It's not a big deal, it's just that the imperial concubine is not at ease, so she is detained by the princess's sister. "Sister Chu paused here for a moment, as if she remembered something again." The princess's sister also asked me to ask my brother how he was. ”
"yes, I see." When Duan Shaolan heard this, the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.
Winter turned to spring, and after that period of severe cold, the weather gradually warmed up.
March has arrived, and because Xiao Lu is about to get married, the palace is popular at the beginning.
Xiao Xuan, whose body had already recovered, looked at the group of palace maids who hurriedly walked outside the palace gate, and turned around and ordered the dantang beside him.
"Dan Tangerine, pack up ten snow satin horses for me, and the whole set of ruby heads I got for the New Year." In a few days, Xiao Lu was about to get married and leave the palace, and Xiao Xuan suddenly remembered that she had not officially prepared a makeup gift for Xiao Lu. "After the noon, you and Lvlin will follow me to Yuxiu Palace."
Dan Tang understood, and recruited two little palace maids to go down with her to pack up the things that Xiao Xuan asked her to prepare.
After that fall into the water, Green Forest had a wind chill, and he had only recently recovered from his illness, and he returned to Xiao Xuan's side to serve.
"Princess, you're really willing." Lu Lin said with a smile and Xiao Xuan. "That snow satin is rare, princess, you only got fifteen horses in total, and you directly gave ten horses to the eldest princess. And that set of ruby heads. But His Majesty personally ordered the best craftsmen in the Internal Affairs Mansion to make it for the princess, didn't the princess like it very much? Now he is willing to give it away. ”
"My big sister is married, and I'm her only half-sister, so it's only natural to add makeup to her." Xiao Xuan clicked on the green forest. "Snow satin and jewelry are just things outside of my body, and I don't have them anymore. The things I sent over were valuable, even if it was a whole of our sisterhood. And you, it seems that I have really spoiled you, and I don't know the importance of my speech. ”
"Princess, the slave knows that she is wrong." Lu Lin came back to his senses and knew that what he had just said was indeed a bit overstepping, so he quickly knelt down.
"Alright, get up." The green forest is impatient, but fortunately, the orange is quite calm. "You and Dan Tang are the most useful people around me, my requirements for you will naturally be higher than other palace maids, whether in the palace or outside the palace in the future, you must go through it in your mind before you say anything."
"Yes, the princess's instructions have been written down by the slave maid." Green Forest gets up. "The slave must remember the princess's instructions in the future, and stop talking nonsense."
In a few days, he will get married, and Xiao Lu will go to talk to Concubine Chen if she has nothing to do in the past few days.
There was nothing to do after the afternoon today, so Xiao Lu came to talk to Concubine Chen as usual.
While their mother and daughter were talking, someone from outside reported that Xiao Xuan had brought someone to Yuxiu Palace.
"What does Princess Zhaoyue mean?" Concubine Chen asked.
"Princess Zhaoyue said that she prepared a gift for the eldest princess to add makeup."
Before Concubine Chen said that she was going to welcome her in, Xiao Lu had already smiled and ordered to go down, let Xiao Xuan come over, and then prepare tea and snacks to entertain her.
After a while, Xiao Xuan came. There were also seven or eight palace maids behind him, each holding something in their hands, and it was indeed not small to look at the battle.
"Say hello to Concubine Chen." Xiao Xuan smiled and opened his mouth. "Hello big sister."
"Quick, please sit down with Princess Zhaoyue." Concubine Chen hurriedly changed people and led Xiao Xuan to sit down.
Xiao Xuan was not in a hurry to sit down, and first asked the palace maids behind him to put the snow satin and head noodles they brought on the table, and the round table that turned out to be empty was suddenly piled up.
"Concubine Chen, big sister, it's me who didn't think about it. The eldest sister's marriage has been set until now, and the eldest sister will get married in a few days, so I remembered that I haven't given the eldest sister an official makeup gift. Xiao Xuan slowly sat down and said to Concubine Chen's mother and daughter. I am not as generous as the ladies in the palace, today I specially ordered someone to prepare ten snow satin and a set of ruby heads, and I hope that Concubine Chen and the big sister will not dislike it. ”
Snow satin is rare to see that Concubine Chen and Xiao Lu both know, the head style of the ruby is gorgeous, and the smallest ruby used is the size of a fingernail, the point is that the quality of each one is excellent, and the color is red and shiny.
"Look at what the princess said, I see that this gift is already very valuable." Concubine Chen and Xiao Xuan said politely. "But when it comes to gifts, where are you still working, you deliberately go here and send someone to send them."
"The eighth day of the new year is the big sister's big day, and as a younger sister, I must come over to give gifts in person." Xiao Xuan and Concubine Chen finished talking, and turned their heads to look at Xiao Lu on the side. "I don't know what I prepared for this gift, is the eldest sister still satisfied?"
Snow satin is a tribute, very rare, only two weaving mills in Yunnan can be made, hundreds of weavers take years to weave a hundred. Xiao Lu knew in her heart that even if Xiao Xuan could get her hands on only a dozen or twenty horses, she could send ten horses at once, which was indeed very generous.
"In the middle of the year, my sister accidentally fell into the water at a flower banquet, and I haven't had time to say sorry to my sister in person." Xiao Lu came back to her senses, and her mood was actually very peaceful, and she said to Xiao Xuan with a smile. "Now that I'm about to get married, I'm really happy to receive such a generous gift from my sister, and I'm a little embarrassed."
"Since it was an accident, the big sister doesn't have to say sorry to me." Xiao Xuan took the tea and took a sip gently. "This gift big sister is happy, and I am the best. I wish my eldest sister a hundred years of good harmony with the concubine and an early birth of a noble son. ”
"I've borrowed my sister's auspicious words."
Xiao Xuan and Xiao Lu sisters talked a lot back and forth, and Concubine Chen only sat quietly on one side with tea in her hand.
Xiao Xuan sat for a while and left, Concubine Chen's hand gently stroked the snow satin on the table, the tentacles were soft and delicate like a baby's skin, and the color was beautiful and glowing in the sun.
"This snow satin queen just sent two big red horses, saying that she would let the Ministry of Internal Affairs cut your wedding dress for you." Concubine Chen looked at the ten snow satins, which were colorful and very suitable for makeup, and couldn't help but sigh. "In the end, she is the daughter of a favorite concubine, and her confidence is better than that of the queen."
"Does the concubine have a favorite color, I'll leave two horses for the concubine to make two new clothes."
"What am I going to do with this? I don't lack new clothes, anyway, no matter how well I dress in the palace, it's useless. "As a woman, she is naturally keen on clothes and jewelry, and Concubine Chen's hand lingered on the snow satin and did not leave." It's of great use for you to keep it, you get married and leave the palace and have your own princess's mansion, you have to have a banquet in the diplomatic world and the princess's mansion, you have raised your skin during this time, which is suitable for these gorgeous colors. ”
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Deng Ting entered the palace again, preparing to marry Xiao Xuan early tomorrow morning.
The princes also returned to the palace in advance with their respective princesses to prepare for the wedding.
On the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month, the Yihua Palace was also lively. The eldest prince and the sixth prince came over with the concubine and the children who came out.
A group of little hairy heads were laughing and playing in the hall, and the palace maids and nurses who followed were very busy.
"I see that the palace is already very festively decorated." The eldest princess Wen is pregnant again, but she is not yet pregnant. "The eldest princess is married, and then it will be Xuan'er's turn."
"Isn't it?" The sixth princess, Zhao, also said playfully. "At that time, the mother concubine will not be so idle."
"yes, the children have grown up in the blink of an eye." Speaking of Xiao Xuan, Emperor Liu's concubine looked at Xiao Xuan, who was leading her nephews and nieces to play in the hall. "Look at her, she still looks like a child king, but she has grown to fifteen years old, and she looks like she is about to get married."
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, before dawn, Xiao Xuan got up and dressed up and went to Yuxiu Palace.
"I've seen Princess Zhaoyue." Deng Ting, who was wearing a pink dress, saw Xiao Xuan and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
"Today is a good day for big sister, so I don't have to be polite." Xiao Xuan smiled and asked. "I remember that there is a young lady in the Ding'an Hou Mansion, why didn't I see it today?"
When the Jokhang girls' families get married, they will invite their friends and sisters to marry.
In the palace, Xiao Lu only has a half-sister like Xiao Xuan, and everyone in the clan who is the same age as her has already married, and she has many cousins in the Ding'an Hou Mansion.
It's just that those concubines in Ding'anhou's Mansion were raised in front of their biological mothers and aunts, and their decency and rules were a little worse, and Mrs. Ding'anhou didn't let them enter the palace to be ashamed, so she only sent Deng Ting, who was raised in front of her, into the palace alone.
"There are still some sisters in the family, but they have never entered the palace, and my mother is worried that they will lose the rules in the palace, so she didn't let them come." Deng Ting said shyly.