After the marriage decree was issued, there was an endless stream of female relatives who came to congratulate her, and after a month, Huizhu wanted to close the door several times, but she couldn't help it in order to get through the relationship after Hongli's wedding. After another half a month, Huizhu was really annoyed, and seeing that the wedding was less than three months left, she said: "The original day is not a few days, this palace has to take a closer look, and nothing can go wrong." After that, go back to the palace directly, after all, the eight colored sedan chairs are to be carried into the Chonghua Palace. "Everyone knows that Huizhu is telling the truth, and it's not good to hand over the sign to say goodbye.

April 28, tentatively decided. The Ministry of Internal Affairs carried the ceremonial coins given to Mingwei and the coins given to the Fucha couple into the Fucha Mansion as a bride price; The Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared 50 tables of wine banquets, 36 sheep, 50 tables of gluttonous tables, and 50 bottles of rice wine to Fucha Mansion to set up a banquet to celebrate with a band.

On this day, the drums of Fuchafu are noisy, and the sheng songs are deaf, only to see the large mahogany boxes with ornaments, clothing, daily silverware, gold and silver carried into the palace one by one, wearing the prince and the prince, the minister, the guards and the officials and women of the second grade or above the court clothes come to the door with a smile, the officials of the Honglu Temple outside the gate give salutes, and the officials of the Qin Tianjian report the time; A prosperous and powerful image, suddenly envious of everyone's eyes.

In the deserted corner of the lively and noisy corner, Xiao Ranzi sat in a small carriage, staring at the vermilion red gate of Fucha Mansion through the curtains, until the end of the day, Fang ordered the carriage to return to the Old Summer Palace, and said to Huizhu: "Everything is going well, all the princes and ministers in Beijing have been funny and congratulated, and even the officials in other places have prepared courtesies...... When the servants returned to the palace, Lord Fucha and Mrs. Fucha were about to lead the male and female guests to kneel and bow in the direction of the palace. ”

Huizhu nodded secretly and said with a smile: "I think the original gift has come to an end at this time, and the guests should also say goodbye and leave." Su Xin clasped his hands together and recited a Buddhist sentence: "All the bride price is prepared by the master, and it will not go well." This cover is over, just wait for the wedding in July, and the master should also leave to return to the palace. Ah Xing hurriedly said: "Less than ten days is the Dragon Boat Festival, but after the Dragon Boat Festival is over, go back to the palace?" ”

As soon as Huizhu heard this, she knew the little Jiujiu in Axing's belly, shook her head and smiled: "You, eighty percent of you are disgusted with the rules in the palace, so you want to delay it for a few more days." Ah Xing stuck out her tongue and said embarrassedly: "It's also for the master, otherwise, who will hand over the Dragon Boat Banquet in the garden, and the food in this belly will still pass through the master's hands, and the people in the palace will be sure." ”

Hearing this, Huizhu couldn't help but smile, Wu depreciated himself as a nobleman and lost his qualification to raise Fuhui, and he had faded out of the palace and the social circle in Beijing, unless he was not out of the hospital if necessary, but not long after the marriage decree of Hongli and Mingwei, she reversed the normalcy of the past two years, and rewarded a courtyard of palace people on her birthday. I didn't want to be an accident in my life, Wu and the palace people in her yard, a total of ten people, had diarrhea on the second day, saying that they had eaten something unclean. Later, Wu said: "If you look up to people, you will not be well." "Let Huizhu only open her eyes and close her eyes, Quan Dang didn't hear it, fortunately, the Wu family has lived in peace since that day.

Thinking of this, a trace of doubt passed through Huizhu's heart, what did Wu's move mean? If it's just to discredit her, it's too child's play! Puzzled, he stopped thinking again, and just said what he said just now: "A round trip between the Old Summer Palace and the palace will take most of the day." The palace returned to Jingren Palace in May, and the palace affairs in the Old Summer Palace were beyond the reach of the whip, and someone must be in charge of it. ”

Over the years, Su Xin's wariness of the Geng family has become much smaller, so she smiled and said: "In the garden, it belongs to the concubine Yu Niangniang, and she has also been in charge of the master a few times, so it is not difficult to choose." Huizhu also thought the same, so she readily agreed.

After the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the first lunar month, on the morning of the second day, after the palace concubine was in the morning, Huizhu left Geng alone to speak. The two had a refreshment, and Huizhu pretended to be strange: "What's going on in the past two months?" Mrs. Fucha is because of her marriage with the palace, in order to avoid suspicion, why don't you come, it seems that this small temple in the palace is not for your big Buddha. Geng's face was frightened, and he hurriedly got up and knelt down, Huizhu made her jump like this, and her heart was a little weird, but she pulled Geng Shi to sit down with a smile on her face, and said, "Okay, how many years have you been friends, why are you still so polite?" Speaking of which, this palace called you this time because it has something for you. ”

Geng had already expected what Huizhu was doing to keep her, and he didn't say anything in advance, and after Huizhu said that he was in charge of the palace affairs of a garden, Fang said respectfully: "It is a blessing for the concubine to be in charge of the palace affairs of the first garden, how tiring is it, and the concubine should come down." Huizhu smiled, and talked to him for a long time, and suddenly saw that Geng's wanted to speak and seemed to be embarrassed, and said: "What are you embarrassed about, just tell this palace, although this palace is weak, it can also help one or two." ”

Geng sneered in his heart, but his eyebrows changed to worry, and he shook lightly: "It's not about the concubine, but some bad rumors about the mother." ”

Huizhu raised her eyebrows and motioned to continue, Geng Shi flashed his eyes and said with a slight chin in his head: "Niangniang, do you remember the day when it was first set?" The bride price sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Fucha family is complete with mink skins, fox skins, and otter skins, as well as silver plates, silver bowls, silver pots, and silver plates used in the dining room, tea room, and tea room, not to mention silk and satin. After a pause, he glanced at Huizhu's puzzled gaze and explained: "Although it is a system of etiquette, the emperor has always been thrifty, and he used his iron and bloody wrists to make the ministers repay the money owed to the court. And the lady is so luxurious and extravagant about her wedding, she is bound to suffer some tongues. ”

Listening to the second half of Geng's words, Huizhu frowned almost invisibly, but it was not necessarily extravagant on the day of the initial appointment, but it was just that the prince had prepared a full ceremony for marrying his relatives, and the Gyeonggi nobles rewarded their face, so that there was no absence at the banquet, and it was not as serious as Geng said. But after thinking about it, the recent limelight is enough, and Yinzhen is not as good as staying with her almost every day this month, and she has always had to take the lead; But the wedding later was the highlight, which made her wronged Hongli, and she really didn't want to ......

Just thinking about it, I saw Geng leaning forward and suggested: "Niangniang, it's not good to talk about it." It's better to ......" halfway through the words, he suddenly stopped saying nothing, and just looked at Huizhu. Half a language knows the full meaning, Huizhu doesn't like Geng's words in her heart, but as the saying goes, "Reach out and don't hit the smiling person", so he only said: "Yu Concubine, your kindness is understood by the palace, but you may not know that the cost of redecoration of Chonghua Palace is paid by the palace alone, and the matter of welcoming relatives and setting up a banquet in the back is handled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the palace is not easy to ask." ”

After hearing this, Geng's heart tightened, and he was alerted to Huizhu's see, and he was busy looking at it, and saw that her expression remained unchanged, holding a blue and white porcelain tea cup with a leisurely face, and looking for tea foam as if playing; Xu is because of the imminent wedding of Hongli, there is a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and the shallow dimples on her cheeks are swirled, which makes people feel close.

When Huizhu became pampered, the two of them admired each other from the beginning, until today, they are getting farther and farther, which is unattainable for her! But God is unfair? The quantile is far lower than Huizhu, she can accept it, after all, their strong favors are very different; But Hongli is only three months small, and he is also the prince of the Qing Dynasty, why should he be divided into high and low, favoring one over the other! Thinking of his smart and sensible son at the beginning, and now Hongtian, who is acting recklessly, Geng's heart hurts like a knife, and then looks at the shallow smile on Huizhu's face, which is smoother and more swirling, only to feel that it is extremely dazzling, and I can't wait to wave the smile on her face with a palm. However, the reality is that she can't, she can only let her ten fingers buckle into the palm of her hand, and use pain to remind her to "look up to people and snort"! Huizhu took a sip of flower tea, sighed comfortably, raised her eyes but saw that Geng's face was not very good-looking, hurriedly put aside the tea lid, and pulled Geng's hand to cover it, it was cold and scary, and couldn't help but whisper, "What's wrong with you, your face is white and bloodless, and your hands are so cold, you have to call the imperial doctor to take a look." As he spoke, he called Xiao Ranzi into the house in a loud voice. A trace of guilt flashed in Geng's eyes, and then his eyes changed, and he waved Huizhu's hand away with some eagerness, and suddenly got up. Huizhu was stunned for a moment, looked at Geng Shi dumbfounded, and said in surprise: "Concubine Yu, you ······" Geng's figure stiffened when he was about to leave, and then he slowly turned around, already with a gentle expression, and bowed respectfully to Huizhu, saying, "The concubine was greedy for cold a few days ago, and she caught a cold before she covered her mattress at night. That's why I was a little in good spirits, and I hope that Niangniang won't blame the concubines for being rude. Huizhu raised her eyebrows and smiled: "I see, I haven't come to visit the door for the past few days, but I have suffered from a cold."

Okay, this is very strange, you go back to the branch to rest first, and the palace will send the imperial doctor to ask you for a pulse after a while. Geng reluctantly smiled and said, "Xie Niangniang cares, and the concubine retires." With that, he turned and left.

Xiao Ranzi looked inquiringly at the direction where Geng had left, and only after a long time did he retract his gaze, and looked at Huizhu with a complicated expression: "Master, the slave always feels that Concubine Yu Niangniang has been like a ...... recently. By the way, as if I have lost my soul, I am not as calm as before. Huizhu recalled the knot in Geng's heart, and remembered Yinzhen's deliberate indulgence, so she couldn't help but shake her head and didn't respond.

Then he explained the matter of the Old Summer Palace, and on May 11, Huizhu returned to Jingren Palace with Baolian. On the same day, he first asked the Wulanala clan to say goodbye, and sent some Western things to the blessings in the Chuxiu Palace, and after accepting the congratulations of the concubines such as the Song family, he plunged into the preparations for the Hongli wedding.

After two months of busy preparations, the Chonghua Palace, where the Hongli couple lived after marriage, was completely renewed, with carved buildings and beaded curtains embroidered in the palace. Hou Huizhu thought that the red silk with black and gold was the most eye-catching, so he ordered the palace people to decorate the furniture in the hall with black lacquer and gold.

In this way, after the Chonghua Palace in the marriage room was closed, Huizhu personally screened the palace people who would serve the Hongli couple in the future, and they didn't realize that it was the eighth day of the seventh month.

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