"Look! A palanquin in the palace! It's coming! ”

"Which girl got the emperor's favor?"

"I'm so envious!"

Will this also be the day in the history of the Imperial City?

The mandarin duck sat in the red sedan chair, her head was a little groggy under the heavy headdress of the Western Regions, and the red hijab covered her beautiful face. The voices of people on the street were mixed with the sound of firecrackers, and they came into the sedan chair that was still swaying forward, and the ears of the mandarin ducks came out.

The scenery outside should be as prosperous as that day, right? Did Ah Lan feel the same way when he sat here?

The mandarin duck put his hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat, and there was an inexplicable sense of sadness in addition to the warm joy.

……

"Mandarin duck, you put this dress in your wedding dress." Chu Huai pushed the door of the mandarin duck's room and threw a piece of clothing that the mandarin duck wore that day in the village of the gods on her bed.

"Master, remember to knock on the door next time you come in!"

"Knock, you didn't hear it."

"You clearly didn't knock! But what do you mean, Master? The mandarin duck picked up his clothes, very confused.

"Dress, when the emperor asked, he said that it was the tradition of the Western Regions, and the witch who married to the Central Plains must wear the clothes of the Western Regions in the wedding dress."

"But when I was in the cave room, Xiao Yuan would definitely recognize my face, I am obviously not from the Western Regions, why am I wearing clothes from the Western Regions."

"Won't you pretend you can't remember the past? Only in the memory of the Western Regions, the emperor asked you something, and you denied it, just pretend that you don't know anything? ”

"Oh! I understand. "Why didn't I think it would be like this!

"I thought you'd be a little smarter." After these words, Chu Huai walked out of the mandarin duck's room without looking back.

In the distance, the sound of the flutes and trumpets that were getting closer and closer to the Chu Mansion could already be faintly heard. The mandarin duck hugged his clothes tightly in his arms, "Master, I will come back to see you." ”

"Mother? Empress? ”

"Huh?" The mandarin duck's thoughts were pulled back by the shout of the man outside the window, "What's wrong?" ”

"Niangniang, the palace has arrived, it's time to get off the sedan chair. Come, the old minister will help you, you come slowly. The light outside shone through the red hijab like the eyes of a mandarin duck, and the curtain was lifted.

She held her hand in the direction from which the voice came, and soon someone took her hand and told her to watch her step.

Compared with the streets of the imperial city, the palace is much more deserted, no longer the lanterns that can be seen everywhere, and everyone in the palace is also doing their own things, not caring about the mandarin ducks walking by their side, silently.

Only in a room in a corner of the palace has it been slightly decorated, and the doors and windows are plastered with the new word "Double Happiness", and nothing else.

It's just that these things in the palace are all unknown to the mandarin ducks who are blocked from sight.

"Niangniang, you just sit down here and rest for a while, and the old minister will retire first."

Mandarin Duck can't remember how many turns she had taken around the palace by this minister to come here, but with her familiarity with the palace in the past, she should be in a very remote room now.

Mandarin Duck had some doubts in his heart, why did Xiao Yuan choose the cave house here?

The door was softly shut, and the mandarin duck sat down on the edge of the bed, which was soft, about a freshly loaded cotton quilt. She touched it, and the silky feeling of the satin spread to her palm, and it seemed that it had not yet been contaminated with popularity, and the corners of the mandarin duck's mouth hidden under the red hijab were raised easily.

……

"Mandarin duck, didn't you think you were quite beautiful?" Chu Huai half leaned against the door, looked at the mandarin ducks in the room who were already wearing wedding dresses, and joked.

"Master, didn't you think I was pretty before?" The mandarin duck's face had been put on delicate makeup, and she looked at Chu Huai with disdain from the bronze mirror, "I used to be one of the best in the imperial city, and I often appeared in the mouth of the storyteller, okay?" ”

"Just the face that you used to cry and mourn every day, like someone owes you money, and it's still beautiful?"

"Master, how can you say that?" The mandarin duck put down the bronze mirror in his hand, turned around angrily, and glared at Chu Huai.

"Poof." Chu Huai saw the mandarin duck like this, and couldn't hold back his laughter for a while.

"Master! What's so funny about that! Don't laugh! The mandarin duck was a little red from Chu Huai's laughter, and he looked like he wanted to lock him out of the door.

"Isn't this happy that you're finally getting married?"

"Who believes it...... mandarin duck muttered, but his eyes suddenly glanced at the hair ornament placed aside, "Master, do you know how to wear this?" ”

"How do I know what this kind of girl wears!" Chu Huai looked at the headdress that the mandarin duck was holding up, and almost wanted to exit from this room immediately, and always felt a bad premonition!

"This seems a bit cumbersome, Master, why don't you help me?"

"Can I say no?"

"Master! You're my master! How can you not help your apprentice when he is in trouble! ”

"Okay, okay, you say, how do you want me to help you?"

"Master, you come in first, and if you push it back, you will have to go out of the courtyard." The mandarin duck stretched out his hand, waiting for Chu Huai to come and take over the silver ornament as big as a small wooden basin, "Do the girls in the Western Regions really wear such heavy headdresses?" ”

"This is specially sent by Master Shu from the Western Regions to send it to you, if they don't wear it, where did they get this thing? I heard Master Shu say that there are indeed witches in the Western Regions who wear this kind of headdress every day. ”

"When you say that, do you mean that I want to wear this thing every day in the future?"

"What do you think?"

The mandarin duck almost shook her hand and poked the hairpin into Chu Huai's hand, she could clearly feel that Chu Huai had shrunk her hand, and the force on the top of her head was also deflected to the side, and she was only a little short of about to bring her head up to that side.

"Master, let go! Hair is going to be torn off! ”

"I'm letting go now, your hair is going to break."

……

The crowing of the rooster woke up the mandarin duck who had fallen asleep on the bed at some point, and she opened her eyes violently, but it was still dark in front of her.

She reached out and touched her face, but what she touched was the familiar feeling of the red cloth.

Could it be that Xia Yuan didn't come to see him this night?

The mandarin duck didn't care about any etiquette and preaching, so he directly ripped off the red hijab on his head and threw it aside, the flickering candlelight in the room had long been extinguished, and a stall of solidified wax oil flowed on the table, and the only small oil lamp on the wall was still tenaciously illuminating a small inch of the world.

The bedding was neatly folded under her, and there was no sign of anyone coming, even the wine glasses on the table were still neatly arranged.

The mandarin duck felt a little throbbing in his heart, it turned out that there were really people who could be so ruthless and abandon people in the cave room alone on their wedding night.

He didn't seem to be the Xia Yuan she knew anymore, but even so, she still loved him so much.

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