After Master Shi was called out by the housekeeper. When I returned, it was the early morning of the second day. Aunt Lin lay on the bed, tossing and turning all night sleeplessly. It wasn't until Master Shi came back that he asked anxiously, "But what happened?" ”

"There is a plague in the capital. Yesterday someone from outside called me to discuss. I lit an oil lamp and talked all night, but I couldn't come up with a charter. Master Shi was sleepy and yawned repeatedly.

"The plague?"

"That's right, there are too many people in the capital who have fled the famine to ask for food recently, many people have fallen ill on the way, and when they arrive in the capital, they still have to go to food, or starve to death or die of disease, and the corpses have not been disposed of in time, plus the recent hot weather, the corpses have deteriorated and rotted, and this plague has spread among the refugees."

"Is it dangerous or not?"

"I don't know about this, the palace has already sent a doctor to consult and treat it."

"The master is now the governor of the grain road of Zhili, why was he called to take care of the plague?"

"The new Shuntian Mansion Yin called to ask what the process was during the catastrophe in the past year."

"The master has been in office for ten years, and the wind and rain are smooth every year, and there are not so many refugees in the capital!"

The new Fu Yin, hearing this, immediately drooped his face. I didn't say a word all night, and I wouldn't let me go. Spent the night with them. ”

Aunt Lin frowned and said bitterly, "These dog things." ”

Aunt Lin was secretly scolding these snobbs who worshiped high and low in her heart, and Master Shi was already asleep on the pillow. Cover the teacher with a quilt. Aunt Lin tiptoed out of the warm pavilion.

A natural and man-made disaster was staged in the capital before Wanying's wedding.

Last autumn was rainy, and many grains were destroyed by the continuous rain before they could be harvested, and in addition to the continuous winter snowfall, the early spring warmed up too quickly, and the Yellow River flooded overnight, leaving tens of thousands of Li people hungry and cold and homeless. Refugees in the Zhili area can only ask for food in the direction of the capital. More than 100,000 refugees ate all the trees that had just sprouted along the way, and the grass that had just spit out the core.

When I first arrived in the capital, I still asked for food from door to door, and Shuntianfu could barely cope with it. Later, the more they wanted to come out, the more they couldn't come out, and the refugees simply robbed the grain store restaurant. For a while, the capital was full of roars of burning, killing and looting.

However, more and more refugees flocked to the capital, hungry and cold, and at the feet of the dignified Son of Heaven, in the first good place, there was also a fierce scene of starvation and corpses on the streets.

The imperial court tried its best to blockade it, but the news still dripped silently on the capital like spring rain at night, and then fell into essence, took root and sprouted, blossomed and set seeds, and finally dispersed with the wind.

However, hundreds of refugees died of the disease in a few days, and the people in the capital were terrified. Some men are even closed. The rice and vegetables on the market are almost extinct, the price has soared, and all the jobs undertaken by the men, if they are not to support their families, there is no one to be seen.

The big wedding is imminent, a kind of pox epidemic called: 'red face herpes', spread like a bamboo in the capital, this disease is spread to men but not women, the infected men, three or five days all over the body covered with red rashes, about ten days into herpes abscesses, itching unbearable, but more than a month to die whine.

The two imperial physicians sent by the imperial court contracted the disease one after another, and no imperial physician sacrificed his life to treat those patients. The hanging pot is just a beautiful legend of the prosperous age.

In the early spring of Yong'an ten years, the air is no longer full of young grass and new willows, after a long period of severe cold, people who have not waited for anxiety and panic to take off their winter clothes, the weather can't wait to enter the middle of spring, but one night of hard work to cherish the silk begonias in front of the pavilion, the cherry blossoms in the dyed well are blooming delicately.

In the season when everything is reviving and blooming, the smell of lime and burnt paste can always penetrate the closed doors and windows, which is overwhelming. Everybody knows that it's the smell of burning people.

Hongfu said: "Now the people who are sick and dead are no longer pulled out of the city, and they are burned directly in their own yards." ”

"Pull it out and burn it, and the living people have to put two in it." Qi Qiuli waited for Wanying to drink ginseng soup.

When Wanying heard this, she spit out the red date and ginseng soup she drank directly, tomorrow is the big wedding, but the original happy and peaceful day was stained with the smell of suffocation and death, which made people not happy at all.

Hongfu went downstairs with a broom, and the master had just entered the house, and before he sat down, a strong smell of vinegar came to his nose. The vinegar smoke three times a day has made Wanying unable to distinguish any smell, but the master is a man, and the stronger and heavier vinegar smell on his body makes Wanying really worried about him.

"The Queen Mother insisted on refusing, and the original personal welcome was also abandoned."

"The royal family doesn't have to welcome them in person, not to mention that the acne epidemic is rampant in the capital, and Qing'er is also worried."

"At noon tomorrow, the chief and deputy marrying envoys will come to the palace to marry, and Prince Rong will enter the palace to salute the Queen Mother."

"Yiying Etiquette Niang has already taught Qing'er, and she has already started drinking ginseng soup yesterday."

"Okay, good, your mother is doing things safely, dad can rest assured." Master Shi said three good words in a row, but some tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes.

I was so sad that I couldn't help but feel sad: "Daddy, Qing'er can't be filial piety in front of his father every day when he gets married, and his father must take good care of his body, and the blessing is still to come." ”

"Among the eight children, my father likes you the most, and your temperament is like your mother. Tomorrow you will be Prince Rong and Princess Rong, and today is also the last day of our father-daughter relationship. ”

"We are kings and ministers in front of people, but there are no outsiders, and my father will always be my father."

After listening to Wanying's words, Master Shi was very pleased, and said with tears in his eyes: "I went to the palace, and Miss Feng Er, the palace also sent eight palace maids, in previous years, the palace draft, the queen mother had a fancy person, and she also sent a few to the palace." Daddy thought selfishly, this is better, it is much better than the three-legged situation, Qing'er has become the queen mother's daughter-in-law, and after tea and dinner, she also has to study and study the queen mother's heart and mind. If you want to stand in the middle, you have to learn to check and balance others. It has always been a battle between the court and the harem, and it has never been a real fight. Master Shi looked at Wanying cautiously, and said word by word: "Attack-heart——。 Everything is in the heart. Remember that the hearts of people you win are the most unreliable, and if you can follow you for some kind of benefit, they will inevitably betray you for the greater good, and remember to stay away from such people. At the end, he said: "You have to respect the Li family, the nurse who took care of the prince in the palace, and if you can get her help, you will be much easier in the palace." ”

"Thank you Daddy for your teachings. Qing'er will remember it in her heart and dare not forget it for a moment. ”

Master Shi's hearty laughter was particularly crisp in the cramped air: "When you were one year old, the prisoner of Qintian once said that you hit the Lord Gold, which is unspeakably expensive, but now it has come true, the prince and concubine, ranked first-class, isn't it unspeakably expensive?" ”

After a while, Aunt Lin came in and said, "The little guy outside has a message to come in and say that the Feng and Zhou families will come to inquire about the route for us to go out tomorrow." ”

The maids sent the clothes and accessories for tomorrow's big makeup. On the hanger of yellow rosewood, the black blue pheasant robe, the color of the clothes is dark blue, Zhai Wen is red, the five colors are twelve, etc., the white yarn is single, the gold cloud dragon pattern collar is weaved, the wide sleeves reach the ground, and the beauty is indescribable. The inner clothes are Zhu, the upper is Zhu Jin, the lower is Green Brocade, the knee is with the clothes, the green clothes are leather, and the white jade is double. The country name of Wanying Dynasty is Zhou, and the etiquette law does not follow the Zhou system, and the wedding dress of the queen and princess is also a continuation of the tradition of the Shang and Zhou eras.

Everything is ready, just wait for the auspicious time.

The next day, Wanying got up, pushed open the window, a fresh and cold air poured into the room, the house was brightly lit inside and out, and hundreds of servants in the front yard and backyard were all making final preparations for the wedding.

The one who dressed up for Wanying was still a famous Cai Niang in the capital, but for half a year, Cai Niang saw that Wan Ying was becoming more and more affectionate than before, and she knew in her heart that everything was just because of the prince's concubine.

"The folk woman combed her hair for her mother that day, and when she saw the noble lady Ji Xiang, she concluded that her wife must be the best among the people when she came to Japan." Although it is a big wedding today, it has not yet been completed, and she has called Wanying her mother. It can be seen that Cai Niang is accustomed to being inflammatory, and the song is flattering.

Aunt Lin looked at Wanying from the side, and was reluctant to marry Wanying in her heart, and said: "Before she passed the door, wouldn't Cai Niang call her Niangniang to kill her." He turned to Qiu Li and said, "Go to the kitchen and tell them that they will bring a few bowls of hot honey cheese later." ”

Cai Niang is so smart, as soon as she heard Aunt Lin's words, she knew that her ass was slapped on the horse's leg, and she quickly changed the topic and said: "The food in the house has always been fine, and I am fortunate to taste it today, it seems that it is worth the trip!" ”

The high mustache looks at the fairy bun, the phoenix crown stands in front of the towering bun, twelve pairs of delicate gold flowers are lined up in turn, and the twelve coats of arms such as the sun, moon and stars on the auspicious clothes reflect each other.

The decent peach blossom makeup not only has the shyness of being a bride at the beginning, but also does not lose the dignity and dignity of a royal wife. Wanying sat in front of the mirror, looked at herself in the bronze mirror as beautiful as a fairy in the nine heavens, and looked at the peach blossom powder face full of pearls and greenery, and the tears in the corners of her eyes seemed to be about to come out, and then the mother in the bronze mirror turned her head to wipe her eyes with a silk handkerchief, and turned around and handed things to Cai Niang as if nothing happened.

The makeup has been newly completed, it is the time to leave the Treasure Pavilion, Aunt Lin helped Wanying down step by step, Wanying did not dare to look back, for fear that the tears in the corners of her eyes would spend this makeup, Aunt Lin also said that the bride can't cry when she gets married.

The main hall has already been lit up, Wan Ying sat in the middle of the main hall, through the thin red sand curtains, the men and women from all over the house stood in the courtyard and bowed three times and bowed to Wan Ying.

At noon, the auspicious time has arrived, and the greeting envoy reads to his father the edict of the emperor. Then the deputy envoy placed the golden book of the imperial prince and concubine on the book, and the female official guided Wanying to the throne, and the female official of the ceremonial ceremony read the golden book treasure to Wanying:

Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, I heard that the hereditary three-product car riding general Shuntianfu Yin Shi Wenrui's daughter Shi Wanying, gentle and generous, outstanding character, skilled and generous, show outside the wisdom, the queen mother and I heard very happy, Prince Rong Yuyan has served me for more than ten years, when marriageable, when the choice of merit and matching. The value of Wanying's master, waiting for the word boudoir, and my brother to create heaven. The special general's Xu Peirong Prince Yuyan is the concubine. All etiquette will be handled jointly by the Ministry of Rites and the Qintian Supervisor, and the marriage will be completed on a good day.

Chin this.