On the third day of my wedding, I still got up early. sat on the bed and stretched a lazy waist, then picked up the calligraphy and painting by the pillow, and said to it happily: "Today I want to go back to my mother's house, you can accompany me back." ”

After chattering at it for a while, he reluctantly put it back to the pillow and said, "You stay here obediently for a while, and I'll go freshen up, and I'll take you away when I'm done." ”

The palace ladies and grandmothers knew that I was going back to the door today, and they lined up in front of the door early. When they saw me appear, they pushed me to the mirror together. Some knelt down with water, some washed my face, and some combed my hair. After some tossing, a bright face gradually appeared in the mirror.

I was stunned in the mirror, I never realized I could be so beautiful dressed up! The combed mamma in this palace is really not covered. I think that when I used to entertain His Royal Highness King Qi at my mother's house, several servants in the family stuck my head on my head like a jewelry store, which was dull and vulgar. At that time, Xiaocui also laughed at me for being poor, the more I didn't dress up, the more beautiful I became, and the more I dressed up, the more unseemly I became.

Not to mention the dress on the wedding day, I didn't even dare to look in the mirror at my face painted like a red butt. In this way, before getting on the sedan chair, my mother thought that my face was not red enough, and personally brushed me with a layer of rouge like a wall, and said bluntly: "A little red, it looks joyful." ”

No wonder His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to say that I am ugly, my face, whoever looks at it is shocked.

My dear mother, who is really not good at dressing up, is no wonder to be jealous and abused by women all over the country. Isn't it enough to arouse the anger of the people of a woman who is not good-looking, well-dressed and often miserable, but who is favored by a tall and handsome prime minister?

After dressing up, the palace ladies took the opportunity to flatter me and praised: "The crown princess is so beautiful!" ”

I know that I am not a big beauty in this court full of beautiful women, but under the costume, I also have a little beauty.

But it's also their duty to flatter me, isn't it to please their masters when they are slaves?

So I just nodded slightly and said, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

I turned around and took the calligraphy and painting and walked out, when a little palace maid named Xiao Zhi couldn't help but ask me curiously: "Your Royal Highness the Crown Princess, what is this thing you always hold?" He was embarrassed to say, "We've been guessing in private for the past few days." Before the words fell, he was surrounded by several white eyes.

I amusedly asked, "So what do you all guess?" ”

Xiao Zhi said: "I just can't guess it, it's bigger than a rolling pin, it's rounder than a washing hammer, it's harder than a scroll of calligraphy and painting, if you want to say it's gold and jade Ruyi, there is no elbow." ”

I said in my heart: Of course it's hard, I'll put a copper sleeve on it. But I didn't want them to know about it, I just said, "You can guess what it is, as long as you don't touch it, it's my lifeline." ”

The palace maids nodded again and again, but they still couldn't hide their doubts.

When I arrived at the Queen's Qinghui Palace, the Queen had already prepared all the things she wanted to reward my father and mother. When I showed me the gift list, I realized that there were indeed a lot of good things on it. Royal is royal, and a little reward is enough for an ordinary family to eat for a few lifetimes.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the groom. But I waited and waited, but I didn't see anyone. I know that the queen has quietly sent someone to invite her several times.

When the prince finally arrived, Xie Jiu actually followed behind.

The queen's face sank in public, and she said to Xie Jiu: "Xie Cairen, you have been in the palace for several years, and you won't not understand the rules of the palace." Since you know that today is the day when the crown prince accompanies the crown princess back to the door, why didn't you urge him to come over earlier? ”

Xie Jiu was slightly stunned, because since the queen knew that she was pregnant, she had not given her a cold face. blushed at the moment, lowered his head and said, "The slave and maid urged it, but the prince just refused to get up." It wasn't until at last the slave and maid agreed to go with him that he wouldn't come. ”

I've really convinced her, does she still want to accompany us back to the door?

The queen scolded: "Nonsense! He has the temperament of a child, but you are eighteen years old, why do you follow him? I sent you to the East Palace to see how old you are a few years older than him, and you are usually quite polite and sensible, why are you going back more and more now? When the newlyweds return to the door three times, what do you look like when you go with them? I have never heard of such a thing since ancient times, and you want us to be laughed at by the world. ”

Xie Jiu hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, and at the same time defended: "The slave just said that, in order to coax His Royal Highness the Crown Prince over." The slave maid never thought of really returning to the door with the prince and the princess, and the slave and maid still understood this bit of etiquette. As he spoke, he cried softly.

When the prince heard that Xie Jiu didn't go with her, he made a fuss on the side and said, "Ah Jiu won't go, I won't go either, I want to play with Ah Jiu." He went over and pulled Xie Jiu up and said, "Ah Jiu, let's go play, let's play yesterday's one, okay?" ”

The queen asked Xie Jiu sternly, "What did you play yesterday?" It won't be ...... That's it, right? You must know that you are a pregnant person now, and sexual intercourse is strictly forbidden. ”

Xie Jiu hurriedly said that there was no such thing, they were just playing with crickets. He glanced at me again and said, "This cricket is still a love object given to the crown prince on the wedding night of the crown princess." ”

The surrounding eunuchs and palace maids all snickered, and the queen also frowned and glanced back at me.

I had no choice but to quickly kneel down and explain: "The courtier-in-law just heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince recognized the birth, and ordinary people refused to let others approach. The daughter-in-law was afraid that something would happen on the wedding night, so she gave the prince a cricket, but she hoped to shorten the distance, establish a good relationship with the prince, and let the wedding be completed smoothly. ”

With such an explanation, the dark clouds on the queen's face dispersed, and she pulled me up with pity and said, "It's hard for you, you think so thoughtfully." It's just that the emperor doesn't allow him to play things like crickets, for fear that his playthings will lose his mind. ”

I immediately said, "My daughter-in-law knows, so I won't let him play in the future." ”

In the end, the queen and Xie Jiu took another time to coax the prince to board the court.

On the way, I asked the prince, "What about the big cricket?" ”

The prince said depressedly: "Ah Jiu won't let me bring it, saying that I am afraid of losing it." She asked me to put it in her room and said she would play with me when I got back. ”

I knew it! When the cricket entered Xie Jiu's room, don't think about taking it out again.

I hurriedly comforted the prince and said, "It's okay, I still have several at home, all of them are very large, and they have won the first place in the cricket fighting competition." ”

The prince's eyes immediately widened, and he said in surprise, "Really? ”

I said, "Really, not only crickets, but also super masters who play crickets, and they will teach His Highness how to play crickets." No one has taught His Highness this yet, has he? ”

The prince nodded busily: "No, no, the masters teach those four books and five classics all day long, and they are annoyed to death." ”

I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry about it in the future, I will buy back a lot of interesting things for Your Highness, and I will specially ask the master to teach Your Highness to play, so that Your Highness will also become a big player, the kind that fights invincible opponents all over the world, okay?" ”

The prince danced with joy, and I said to him, "But you can't tell anyone about this kind of thing, for if your father finds out, he will confiscate all your good things, and he will punish you and me." ”

He asked in a low voice, "Can't even Ah Jiu tell you?" ”

I said, "No, you have to promise me not to tell anyone, including Ah Jiu, otherwise, I won't buy you any fun." ”

He hurriedly promised: "If you don't tell me, you must buy it for me!" ”

"Mmmmmm, as long as you don't tell others, I'll buy you fun every day, and I'll play with you every day."

The prince was so happy that he was about to jump off the chariot, and finally we pulled the hook and stamped it at his request, and at the same time said: "Pull the hook, hang yourself, for a hundred years, and you won't change the hexagram." ”。

I exhaled softly, and said to Xie Jiu in my heart: You can keep that cricket and play slowly, it is worth five thousand taels of silver, you can't afford it, play carefully. In the future, I am afraid that the prince will never go to you again.