a)

On March 16, after Nacai, Mingming, Najib, Nazheng, and Request, the Holy Lord issued an edict: the eldest daughter of Shen Liangzhi, the secretary and supervisor, is the princess of Guangping; Murong Lin, the second daughter of Murong Chun, a scholar, was the princess of Jianning.

On March 28, we greeted you with a personal gift. On that day, Chang'an City was crowded with people, and the alleys were empty. This time, the royal family made a big fanfare to choose concubines for the two imperial grandchildren, which was very alarming. Generally speaking, it takes a year and a half to get married in less than a month. Could it be that the royal family can't wait, the emperor is so anxious to take his granddaughter-in-law? Of course, this is the joke of the market.

The two emperors and grandsons are the sons of the crown prince, the king of Guangping is the longest, and the king of Jianning is the third; In particular, King Guangping, when he was born, was named "Emperor Sun" by Emperor Xuanzong, and he can be regarded as one of the hottest figures in the world.

Guangping Wang Jiao is in moderate stature, elegant posture, radiant, eyebrows have their own imperial family brilliance, embroidered on the sun, moon and stars of the big red crown, take the royal jade chariot, not three moments from the Guangping Palace, holding candles, front horses, drum chong, waiting, guarding more than 1,000 people, mighty through Yongxing, Chongren, Shengye, Daozheng four squares, personally go to Changle Fang Shen Mansion to marry the concubine, is for the "personal welcome". As for the king of Jianning, he will set off from the palace of Jianning a quarter of an hour later to greet his relatives.

This is the first time that the citizens of Chang'an City have witnessed the demeanor of the King of Guangping, although they were stopped by layers of guards, they could only look at each other from afar, and they were still amazed, "Longxing Fengju", what kind of concubine should be worthy of such a royal grandson? It can be seen that this Concubine Shen is blessed and very accessible.

In the first few days, there were female officials from the Shangyi Bureau in the palace who came to the Shen Mansion to teach the number of weddings. The ordinary people of this dynasty have been extremely particular about weddings, not to mention the court, as large as the cloth seat, set up the liquor, enter the feast, lower the table, bow to the knock, be seen, and set up the method of baptism, as small as the knock and worship the divider, all of which are practiced one by one, and no mistakes can be made.

Shen Pearl was sitting upright in the boudoir at this time, and a light red soap covered her flower and moon appearance, but it couldn't hide her cranky thoughts. Since March, she has experienced the biggest choice of her life. She has never believed in fate, but she always thinks consciously or unconsciously: her life, in this month, has completely changed in just thirty days. If she hadn't been canonized, where would she be now? On the way back to Wuxing? The luxuriously decorated ox cart and the attendants like clouds of attendants will naturally attract the side eyes of passers-by, but that's all, she has been lost in history since then, no one knows that in the Tianbao years, there was once a woman named Shen Zhuzhu. This is not a good thing.

However, this is not possible. The royal jade has recorded her name, place of origin, and parents, and she is destined to live and die with that strange world, what a terrible thing. On the third day of the first month of March, she returned late and talked with her father for a night, what the specific content, she seemed to be all vague, only one sentence, she remembered in her heart, several midnight dreams, turned over and over again is still that sentence: "Life and karma, fiber must be repaid." Children, if you owe someone something, you have to pay it back. "It's somewhat ridiculous that the father is a typical Confucian student, and when it comes to persuading his daughter, he actually uses Buddhism.

Hongrui came in lightly, attached to Shen Zhuzhu's ear and said, "I just heard from Anfu that the second son of An was tied up in Fanyang by Lord An, and he can't come to the capital. "Hongrui and Su Ci are the maids who accompany the marriage, and today they are very relaxed when they are busy jumping up and down in the mansion, so they were sent by Shen Pearl to inquire about the news.

Shen Pearl has always been worried about An Qingxu, and he was relieved when he heard the words, thinking that this is good, as long as he doesn't make trouble in this kissing ceremony, thank God, when he becomes a parent, the dust settles, and it will be useless to make trouble.

Shen Zhu's eldest brother Shen Jiefu slowly paced in at this time, he has always loved his sister the most, his father is straightforward, his mother is just a stepmother, since his sister is a concubine, the car outside the house is like a dragon, climbing the person who makes friends and sits in the room, since ancient times, he has relied on each other, who knows if there will be a disaster from the sky tomorrow. Besides, this family business is really reluctant. There is no discussion inside and outside, the concubine's sister Mrs. Han is bent on marrying her daughter to the king of Guangping, I heard that the concubine was Shen Zhu, crying and disturbing the emperor's concubine for several days, the concubine is not enough, it is said that she is not very director, just choreographing songs and dances, and she also dislikes her tricky niece; On the contrary, the emperor was uneasy and almost changed his mind, and in the end it was the father of King Guangping, His Royal Highness the Prince, who had always been docile and kind, who had a great temper in front of the saint, and even broke the jade cup sent by Yang Guozhong, which was decided: Shen Pearl was the concubine, and the daughter of Mrs. Han Cui's was the widow, and she was welcomed into the palace on the same day. At such a beginning, the Yang family is a saint, and my sister will be sad in the future. (Tang system: the widow is the prince's concubine, two people, five products, ten people, six products.) ）

After a long silence, he finally spoke: "Pearl, you must cherish this time-" He stopped abruptly, what else could he do but ask him to cherish? Everything is a foregone conclusion, useless is a scholar, he is a brother in vain, no wonder his father will always point to the bridge of his nose and scold angrily, his temperament is so cowardly, he hates iron and steel, and he is not as good as one ten-thousandth of his sister.

"Brother don't worry, look at my sister, I have been bullied since I was a child!" Shen Pearl lifted the soap luo and smiled unhurriedly: "But my brother and sister-in-law should come to visit my sister more in the future!" My sister-in-law has a letter recently, when will she come back to Chang'an? ”

Speaking of his wife, Shen Jiefu couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Erniang is messing around, the Chengri family is crazy and upside down, traveling everywhere, the day before yesterday, I wrote to Huangshan, and I didn't even come to my sister-in-law's wedding, it's really unreasonable!" "Shen Jiefu's wife, Gongsun Erniang, is the sister-in-law of the famous sword dance master Gongsun Auntie.

"I envy my sister-in-law for marrying a good husband like my brother." Shen Pearl is both joking and heartfelt.

Before I could say a few more words, I could hear the drums outside, and I knew that the king of Guangping had arrived. Shen Jiefu was speechless, Shen Pearl smiled, reached out to hold his brother's palm slightly, and said softly: "Brother, don't worry." ”

"Sister, you have to remember that you have to endure everything, don't be strong, and don't show your edge. Remember, remember! Before leaving the door, Shen Jiefu couldn't bear it, and finally admonished.

b)

What followed was a long and tedious wedding, with constant knocking, worshipping, and rubbing. Rao is pearl is talented, just ten days of knowledge and strong memory, there has been no mistake, really to do the courtesy, still tossing and turning, let the marriage of plain porcelain and red rui support and guidance.

This is perhaps the most important day of my life. Her husband, the King of Quang Binh, was on the opposite side or on the left, and she could not see his countenance, and strangely enough, she seemed to be able to put aside the complicated etiquette and smell his uniform and gentle breath clearly; Lowering his eyelids, you can see his shining clothes. She, like all brides, is full of shyness.

Saying goodbye to her parents for the last time, she was helped out of the gate by Su Ci, and Su Ci reminded in her ear, "It's time to get on the wheel", she nodded secretly. Under the soap, you can vaguely see the wheel axle, carving the dragon and painting the phoenix, which has never been seen exquisitely. The jade chariot has always been only available when the prince accepts the concubine, and there is no precedent for ordinary princes, but this time one was given by the emperor, which is an outlier.

"Princess, please board the car!" The master of ceremonies was still singing loudly, and he was caught off guard by a hand from the carriage and grabbed her left hand. This is not in the etiquette! She heard a slight commotion from the audience beside her, and the master of ceremonies' voice was a little knotted, as if an arrow was fired in mid-air, but it was only a matter of moments, and soon everything was back to normal. This hand is as warm as jade, and strong and powerful, he took it slightly, and easily boarded the wheel, "With me, don't be afraid!" His deep voice seemed to be as close as it was far away, Shen Zhuzhu's face was actually red, his heart was warm, his eyes were lowered, and he fell on his colorful clothes.

Suddenly remembering ten years ago, she woke up from a drowning coma, her whole body ached, slowly opened her eyes, the beautifully decorated room, the strange lady, the strange air, the strange world, the eight-year-old she was born of fear from ignorance, screaming and jumping out of bed and running. It turned out that this was a dragon boat that she had never seen before, and the incomparably vast space made her heart empty and at a loss, and a pair of young people's hands stretched out to choke her hand: "With me, don't be afraid."

I see, I see.

The sound ———of drums filled the entire space of Chang'an City.

By the time she was put into her new home, she was exhausted. Su Ci and Hongrui carefully took down her soap, and four maidservants on each side hung their hands to serve them.

As far as the eye can see, it is all dazzling red. At dusk, it was almost late at night, the carved window of the new house was ajar, the bright moonlight melted into the room, two huge dragon and phoenix treasure candles, shimmering in the flames, outside the room, in the distance, faint laughter, wine orders, and the footsteps of servants and servants passing through the room.

A little maid entered the inner room and ran to the ground to play: "Princess, as usual, Cui Ruren is outside to pay respects." ”

Su Ci and Hongrui hurriedly stepped forward to dress Shen Pearl and helped her to the outside. Cui Ruren was already standing there waiting, she was also wearing a red wedding dress, round and jade, very beautiful, seeing Shen Pearl come out, she greeted her with a curling smile, half blessed, and said in a tone: "Cui Caiping see the princess!" Before the words fell, the female master of ceremonies sang as usual: "According to the ceremony, Cui Ruren will kneel three times and bow nine times to the princess!" Another female master of ceremonies had already brought a big red futon for Cui Ruren to kneel and worship. Cui Caiping's complexion immediately changed, and his voice was sharp and high: "What! I've never even knelt like that! I don't do it! ”

Shen Pearl sighed in her heart, thinking that this Cui Caiping was really the same as the legend, and if she got along with the palace in the future, she must be a troublemaker, and if she was entangled with her every day, it would be too unnecessary. Xiang Hongrui made a look, Hongrui understood, took out a few small gold ingots wrapped in red paper from his arms, and stuffed them into the hands of several female master of ceremonies one by one, Shen Pearl smiled: "Our sisters, where do you want to perform such a heavy ceremony, sisters, forgive me?" Several female emcees also knew some of Cui Caiping's stories, and they were afraid of the power of the Yang family, and they had both benefits, so they didn't say anything and went back to the palace.

Here, Shen Pearl had already pulled up Cui Caiping, who was still annoyed in his heart, took out a crystal clear jade hairpin that had already been prepared from his arms, gently inserted it into Cui Caiping's bun, held her pair of slender hands, and said happily: "I heard it just now, it turns out that my sister's name is Caiping, what a wonderful name!" From now on, we are sisters, and we must take care of each other and help Your Highness together. My sister has seen the world, my sister and I are in a hurry, and there are no good things, this jade hairpin, don't dislike it. Shen Pearl's words seemed to be plain talk, just polite clichés, but they actually contained deep meanings. One is to be commensurate with sisters, although they have brought the relationship closer, but they have also distinguished the concubine room, and confirmed their identity as the concubine; The second is to remind Cui Caiping with "Helping His Highness together" that the two are in the same boat, and now that the concubine is favored, the Yang family will do whatever he wants and do things that are unfavorable to him. Besides, the jade hairpin is not a general thing, Lantian is rich in beautiful jade, the ancestor of Shen Pearl had traveled to Lantian a hundred years ago, and inadvertently got a piece of beautiful jade, warm and delicate, fat luster, its sound is like the aftermath of the golden rock, and the residual sound is far away, slowly exhausted, it is to hire skilled craftsmen to create a few jade hairpins and jade, this is one of them, although the Yang family has the power of the world, but such a jade hairpin, the material can not be more. This Cui Caiping has always been domineering, even her parents let her score three points, I wanted to take advantage of today's door, find some provocations and make trouble with the concubine, and set up some prestige, so that the whole house can not underestimate her, who knew that Shen Pearl treated her like this, she seemed to be full of energy, but there was nowhere to do it, so she had to say a few words to Shen Zhu's sister and sister and left.

Fengtu tassel with sunset (3)

The night was getting deeper, the noise was getting weaker and fainter, and a maid couldn't bear it anymore, and yawned secretly.

After another half an hour, another woman walked in, with a delicate appearance, a shrewd air in her eyebrows and eyes, and her appearance was a handmaid, but she was different from other handmaidens, she was not wearing a red wedding dress, wearing a white narrow-sleeved shirt, a green vest, a light red long skirt, and a small hairpin pinned to the single bun. His Royal Highness is now being pestered by several princes to drink, and he is afraid that he will not be able to come for a while, so the princess has worked for a day, so she should rest and rest first. ”

Saying that, the maid who followed behind had already served a pot full of snacks, all the same, pea yellow, kidney bean rolls, jade cakes, peace cakes, curry rolls, all dazzling, all delicate and delicate Soviet-style dim sum, Shen Pearl didn't feel "puffed", Dugu Jing had already continued: "This is what His Royal Highness personally instructed the slave maid to make, the princess tasted it, but it was still smooth?" ”

Shen Pearl nodded slowly and laughed: "Listen to your accent, you are also from Jiangnan?" ”

Dugujing replied: "The slave's ancestral home is Yangzhou. ”

"That's very close to Wuxing, we are fellow villagers!"

"Slaves don't dare." Dugu Jing still answered quietly with a glance, and he was not surprised, which made Shen Pearl a little boring. Dugujing commanded a group of maidservants to lean on the pillows in an orderly manner, and served Shen Pearl properly before leaving.

Shen Pearl hadn't eaten anything all day, she was already hungry, but she couldn't speak, so she picked up a few pieces of dim sum and ate it, leaned on the bedpost, and slowly fell asleep.

In the haze, there seemed to be a pair of warm jade hands caressing her forehead and cheeks, gently stromping her hair, and the slight smell of wine, she woke up suddenly, her hand was held in the warm palm of the person in front of her, the young man of the year, the current king of Guangping - her husband.

His appearance is not much different from ten years ago, the same bright eyebrows and starry eyes, handsome very, the difference is that the childishness of the youth ten years ago has been replaced by a cold and noble atmosphere faintly protruding between the eyebrows, drinking the newly brewed osmanthus bar, the smell of good smell wafted in the warm pavilion, looking at her intently, did not speak, but there was a Ling Ran momentum oppressive, making people breathless, those eyes were deep and bright, straight to the hearts of people.

She blushed and looked around, only the two of them were left in the huge room, she suddenly felt extremely embarrassed, so she had to hang her head and bow her head and say: "Your Highness, you are drunk...... Rao is rich and rich, I don't know how to continue.

"Don't call me Your Highness, call me Li!" Li Jiao ordered softly. She was given to him by God, that year he traveled to the south of the Yangtze River with his father and mother and concubine, and he was the only one who saw her struggling in the water, and he didn't even think about it, so he jumped into the lake to save her, how old could he be at that time? frightened the guards around him, and rescued her. For many years, talking about this matter inside and outside the palace has become a good story, "His Royal Highness the King of Quang Binh fished out a pearl from the lake", her name is Pearl. Choosing a concubine, there are so many ladies to be selected, I can't interject, and I can't even have any hints to the emperor, the more I am praised, the easier it is to be squeezed by others, I thought there was no hope, but I let myself get it.

Shen Zhuzhu's face was so red and hot, where could he scream, remembering that he had not yet removed his head full of golden hairpins and jade, and the heavy weight was very uncomfortable, so he hurriedly reached out to pluck one of his hair.

"I'll help you," Li Jiao's heart fluttered, and he stood up to help her pull out the pile of jewelry. He has always had a good grasp of things, although he was poured a lot of wine today, he was only three or four points drunk, at this time in the face of the jade man, it seemed to add a little more drunkenness, clumsy, barely pulled out the four butterfly golden steps, and did not pull out the gold-inlaid tourmaline hairpin for a long time, but made Shen Zhuzhu's hair ache, frowned and sighed softly, but felt that the lips were hot, and Li Jiao had kissed her pink lips deeply.

Under the kiss, Shen Zhu's whole body was soft, and her whole body was warm and she couldn't exert any strength, so Li Li put her down on the bed.

"Your Highness", Shen Pearl called softly, "Call me!" He continued to deepen the kiss, intoxicated by the sweetness of her mouth, her hands and feet were still weak, and she smelled the breath in him, so familiar, and as he kissed more and more, the hand slowly climbed up his broad shoulders and arms, and wrapped its arms around his body with affection. He seemed to be encouraged, lips, eyes, forehead, hair, neck, neck, little kisses from gentle, to overwhelming, wanton and arrogant kisses made her whole body weak, weak as mud, and her breath became coarse.

"Pearl, it's been ten years, and I'm finally getting you." He leaned down and pressed her underneath him, whispering in her ear.