Chapter 167: The Prince's Concubine

After a few days of turmoil, the Shifu was really quiet for a few days. Wanying's heart was very comfortable, she had nothing to do, thinking of the poem that Aunt Zhao said she wanted to transcribe herself, she took the letter paper smoked with plum fragrance, and took a bottle of plum blossom essence from the dresser, walked to the bookcase, scooped a small spoon with a small spoon, and handed it into the inkstone. Put away the plum blossom essence and gently grind the plum ink yourself. Smelling the fragrance of plums, my heart is like a red plum, competing to open. Satisfied, he knelt down on the desk, and wrote the poems he had made in the palace together with 19 poems, and finished transcribing them neatly.

Because it was winter, the ink had not yet dried for half a day, Wan Ying saw that the subway cover on the beast stove was still in the house, and walked to the dressing table again, picked up the plum blossom essence, walked to the stove, scooped a large spoonful and poured it into the stove.

Suddenly the plum fragrance in the house is like the sea, very elegant and chic, Wanying spread the letterpaper on the bookcase on the iron shelf, but she didn't expect to put only one, and regretted it again and again, looking at the burnt yellow and blackened letterhead, she scolded herself with a smile in her heart: "Stupid, stupid, patronizing in a hurry, I forgot that the fire can burn the paper." ”

While entertaining herself, Qi Qiuli pushed the door in. As soon as he opened his mouth, he asked, "Miss, is it that the plum blossom essence bottle has been broken, and I smelled it downstairs." ”

After glancing around, there was no debris on the ground, and he was ready to go back to work.

Wan Ying stopped and said, "Take a fan and fan the ink on these pieces of paper, right?" ”

After Wanying finished speaking, she knelt on the desk and transcribed the yellowed poem again. Qi Qiuli took the fan, confirmed it one by one, and handed it to Wan Ying, who also happened to fan the one she wrote with a fan at this time.

Pinching the letter paper around Mei Xiang's fingers, Wanying took a small basket, put the letter paper in, and then put a stack of plum blossom cakes on the letterhead, covered with a silk handkerchief embroidered with plum blossoms, and went downstairs alone.

Although the weather in the first month of the month is unexpectedly warmer, it is still much warmer than in the wax moon. The noon sun sprinkled warmly on Wanying, who carried a small basket and looked at the pines and cypresses along the way, and her mood was also very comfortable. Occasionally, I found a sparse spring plum, and then looked at a budding look, and my heart was even more overjoyed.

Ying Ying came to Aunt Zhao's courtyard in a circle, and unfortunately heard that there were guests inside. The old mother, who was squatting on the well platform at the gate of the yard to wash clothes, saw Wanying, put down the clothes in her hands, rubbed her hands on her apron, hurriedly ran over, and said with a simple and loving face: "The third sister is here." ”

"Auntie, have a guest here?"

"Well, the eldest young master of our uncle's family, is about to marry after the first month, and the second lady of the imperial merchant Li family will come over today to report the good news to my aunt."

"In this case, Wanying will not go in, please ask my mother to give this basket to my aunt, and then say hello to my aunt for me."

"Sister, it's not easy for you to come here, how can there be a reason to leave without entering the house, sister, wait, I'll report to you."

Wanying smiled and waved her hand, and said gently: "Thank you mother for your kindness, I will come back tomorrow." Now that I'm going in, my aunt is going to greet me again, and I'm going to greet my nephew, so why don't I come back another day......"

The old mother carried the basket and said from the bottom of her heart: "It's really a beautiful and sweet-mouthed sister, in my opinion, it's not that our sister is blessed, but the prince is blessed, and he married a fairy like my sister." ”

Wanying could see that the old mother was not welcome, smiled at the old mother, and said coquettishly: "Mom......"

The old mother saw Wanying's embarrassment, and smiled heartily, and said: "Since my sister is still here tomorrow, I will tell my aunt that Ming'er will sit at a table of my sister's favorite dishes and wait for my sister." ”

"Then bother my mother to help Wanying carry it, and Wanying will go back first."

Saying goodbye to the old mother, Wanying went back along the road she came. From the east to the west, it was necessary to bypass the courtyard of the main hall where her wife lived, and Wanying only asked her wife to say hello in the morning, and then the ghost made a fool to walk back from the path behind the main hall.

Along the stone path, when I was about to reach Aunt Cui's courtyard, I saw Aunt Cui's personal maid Cai Wei talking to a middle-aged man.

When Wanying got closer, she heard that the two seemed to be arguing about something. But I don't understand.

"Did you hand her the letter I asked you to carry?"

"These days, where can I be free?"

Suddenly, Cai Wei caught a glimpse of Wanying, and hurriedly stepped forward and said loudly, "Third Miss, why are you here?" ”

Wanying said pleasantly: "I sent a few pieces of letter paper to Aunt Zhao, and I was about to go back." ”

"That's the case, then sister, hurry back, I just saw that Aunt Lin is looking for my sister everywhere?"

Wan Ying glanced at the two of them, and the middle-aged man suddenly tightened his expression and twisted his face to the side. Wanying suddenly felt that this man was a little familiar, and after thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't remember where she had seen it.

Wanying hurriedly returned to the Treasure Pavilion, Aunt Lin grabbed her and said in a hurry, "Where did you go?" ”

"I'll go to Aunt Zhao's courtyard, Aunt Zhao's nephew will get married in a few days."

Aunt Lin didn't care about listening to these trivial things, and pulled Wanying and said, "The will of the palace is here." The eunuch in charge of the Pavilion Department is now announcing the decree in the main hall, and your father has already gone to receive the decree. ”

Wanying almost jumped up with excitement, and said excitedly: "Really? Is it the will of Qing'er and the prince's wedding? ”

Aunt Lin also looked unbearably happy, nodded and said, "Exactly, exactly!" ”

Wanying took Aunt Lin into her arms, hugged Aunt Lin tightly, and said coquettishly: "The twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month is really an auspicious day of the zodiac, Qing'er turned the yellow calendar, if you don't come today, you have to wait until the second day of February, and sure enough, you will come today!" ”

Since returning to the house, there has been no snow in the sky, and the house is getting warmer day by day, sometimes sleeping at night will feel stuffy and lift the quilt to breathe, the days at home are the most comfortable and comfortable, but Wanying can't stand the lovesickness, and I haven't seen Prince Rong for a long time.

On the twenty-sixth day of the first month, the auspicious time of the zodiac. The head of the inner court, Gonggong Wei, and the new head of the Yeting Department, the two personally came to the door to deliver the marriage letter and gifts. There are 20,000 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver, two pure gold Ruyi handles, a pure gold tea tube, 1,000 brocades, and 40 horses. The wedding date is set for March 19.

Aunt Lin looked at the edict of marriage, stroked the gift placed in the Treasure Pavilion, and said with boundless joy on her face: "March 19, everything goes well, everything goes well, and it is an auspicious day for the zodiac. ”

The wedding date has been set, and the holy decree to the world has already spread all over the country with the rite team of Father-in-law Wei, Wanying held the holy decree, with her most tender eyes, touched it over and over again, and wrote every word in cinnabar:

Fengtian carried the emperor's edict and said: Prince Rong Yuyan, good character, benevolent temperament, served me for ten years, conscientious, and worked hard all night. Yun Yi chooses the best to match, and is in the palace. The hereditary three-rank chariot cavalry general Shuntianfu Yin Shi Wenrui's daughter Shi Wanying, who is cautious and dignified, is established as a concubine. Chin this.

It's finally time to come. The worries that don't matter are finally wasted in the cracks of the past years. can get a one-hearted person, and the white head is inseparable. Even if you are alone in three lives and three lives, you will eventually wait until you are old in this life and this life.

Wanying held the holy decree tightly in her arms, looking at the word 'concubine' on the holy decree, her eyes couldn't help but drip two strings of tears of joy.

The days are comfortable and calm, when there is no marriage decree, Wanying always suffers from gains and losses in her heart, and now she finally steps on the road steadily.

One sunny afternoon, Wan Ying'an sat in a warm corner of the attic, holding a letter from Yuyan in her hand. After experiencing the harsh winter, I cherish the warmth in front of me more and more, it is already February, the air is no longer cold and fierce as a month ago, I got up and pushed open the window, the strong sunlight pierced my eyes and couldn't open them, but my body was extraordinarily warm.

Such good weather is the flowering period of daffodils. Between winter plum and peach and plum, narcissus, camellia, and spring are in full bloom. And Wanying's favorite is narcissus, which is not as easy as spring flowers, and there is no rustic enchantment like camellia. It is as elegant as a lily, and there is some independence of water hibiscus.

The gentleman among the flowers, people recommend orchids first, but Wanying doesn't think so. Always have a soft spot for daffodils. is as noble and steadfast as orchids, but compared to the messy emptiness of orchids, Wanying values the neatness and elegance of narcissus more. This is everyone's beautiful room IKEA.

There is too much snow this winter, the original flowering period has been delayed until now, downstairs with a shallow tank of narcissus, red fu will add some warm water sooner or later, a month of tossing, in vain red fu day by day warm water moisturizing, finally urged the flowers to bloom.

In Prince Rong's letter, there is an endless amount of thoughts, and at the end of the letter, the queen mother sent eight palace maids to make him very annoying. Wanying is also a little hesitant, just like the rotten yellow leaf on the daffodil root, if there is no daffodil, it is naturally independent and beautiful, if there is, after all, it is a bit of a bad scenery.

However, this is the old system in the palace, and no one can escape the process that must be there before the royal weddings of all dynasties.

Thinking about it tiredly, the letter mentioned He You'an, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River. According to Daddy, the rebels in the Jinling area have been cleared, and General He insisted on going south, intending to smash the rebels' lair.

Wan Ying pinched Prince Rong's letter, and thought in her heart: The decree of the great wedding announced to the world must have been seen in the south, so it would save the trouble of interpretation. From now on, it can be regarded as a different side of the world, he will be his upstart in the court, and I will be my bride.

The thoughts in the letter, mixed with worries and joys, sat at the table with mixed joys and sorrows, until the sun set, only to find that she had lost her mind for a long time, and even the cigarette in the sleeve stove was burned, and she had not seen it.

The prince's wedding is usually prepared a year in advance, and the Pavilion Office has already prepared the items needed for the wedding of Prince Rong and Miss Feng Jia, and everything is ready-made, but it doesn't take much effort.

The panic is in the teacher's house, the wedding date is just around the corner, Aunt Lin is really anxious, and she wants to talk to Wanying several times, but she always gives up because of fatigue and lack of energy.

Prince Rong also implored the Queen Mother to use Ouchi's office to make a dowry for Wanying. In this way, Aunt Lin's eyebrows were slightly stretched.

All the four seasons of the court clothes, crowns, pearls, phoenixes, jewelry, jade, porcelain, wood, etc., are made by skilled craftsmen in the palace overnight, and the master only needs to pay for the silver taels.

Aunt Cui was so angry that she couldn't eat, sat in her warm pavilion, threw her cup, and scolded: "I originally thought that the wedding date was urgent, and maybe I could accompany some dowry less, but now the palace office is helping to rush the work, and the palace office is spending more than our family's budget." Even if there is a mountain of gold, she must be allowed to move it all. ”

These secret words in the room somehow came into Qi Qiuli's ears and told Wanying word for word.

After hearing this, Wanying said boredly: "Don't mention this to my mother." ”

The gift utensils used on the wedding day were undertaken by the palace. However, the rest of the four seasons are routinely dressed, jewelry, utensils, including books and antiques, etc., and thousands of things of all sizes still need to be seen by Aunt Lin one by one.

Aunt Lin said: "Getting married is not as good as entering the palace before, and naturally the more you bring, the better." ”