Chapter 170: The Rite of Passage (1)

The eldest princess has been imprisoned by Emperor Tan who was sent to the Mingfeng Pagoda of Huayan Temple for the reason of recuperation, because the eldest princess appeared behind the case of King Ding's rebellion.

Emperor Tan was sad and angry, but he still remembered that she was his only sibling sister, so he let her live and let her survive in the Mingfeng Tower.

The county lord of Yunhui has lost the support of the eldest princess, but he still doesn't know how to restrain himself. After the Li family took her back to the Li Mansion, she also scolded Mrs. Li many times and even threw vases and the like.

Mrs. Li changed her previous style of swallowing her anger, and directly called a few powerful mothers-in-law in, and threw the county lord of Yunhui into the gloomy ancestral hall alone and starved for three days on the grounds that she thought her husband was praying for blessings.

Yun Hui can't even step out of her yard now, the Li family gave her the most remote yard, and all the dowry girls she brought were sent out, and now all the people around Yun Hui were sent by Mrs. Li. She couldn't get someone to send a letter to the queen.

Mrs. Li not only did this, but also put her mother-in-law's score every day, asking her to set the rules of the province in the morning and dusk, and the straight Yunhui County Lord had a sore back and legs, dizziness, and a person trapped in the Li Mansion called every day should not be, and the earth was not spiritual. Fortunately, the Li family still cares about her royal status, otherwise she will be a sad and overly voluntary martyr, and she can come back with a chaste archway.

Xiaoyu doesn't care about the hard life of the Yunhui County Lord, there must be a cause and effect, if it wasn't for the Yunhui County Lord who harmed others and hurt himself, he wouldn't have fallen to the point where he is today.

Now Xiaoyu is busy with her own affairs, she is now the second lady of the Anguo Mansion, and Mrs. has already said that her and her affairs must be handled well.

Qi Pan and Lu did it with great fanfare before, Qi Baiyang, a hot emperor's cronie, and the people who came to congratulate Miss Qi and Lu Zhixi at that time simply blocked most of the street where the Guogong Mansion was located.

Today's Anguo Mansion is really like flowers and brocade, fire cooking oil, and even the storyteller in the restaurant is talking about the heroic deeds of Anguo Gong bravely capturing the king of Miaojiang.

Xiaoyu was uneasy, no matter in her previous life, she didn't see too many things like this kind of prosperity and decline from history.

"Mother, I think it's better to forget it, according to my daughter's meaning, just invite a few young ladies and ladies who have a good time to watch the ceremony!" On this day, Mrs. called Xiaoyu to Canglangju to discuss the matter of etiquette, and Xiaoyu said to Mrs. half-coquettishly and half-formally.

"Yo, look what you're talking about!" Mrs. took Xiao Yu's hand and said, "Now it's not as good as in the past, your father has just been promoted to the grandfather of the country, and how many pairs of eyes are looking at him." Your sister and the ceremony are so lively, you can't be casual, and you look at ......"

After speaking, Mrs. reached out and took a thick stack of posts from the small table on the side and said, "Look, these are here to say hello to you!" This officialdom, there is a lot of knowledge, you see, this, this, these are important ministers in the court, since others took the initiative to hand over the post, if we blindly refuse, we will offend people, you know? ”

Madame didn't expect Qi Pan to understand these bends, but she saw that Xiaoyu was smart and sensitive, so she deliberately mentioned something about it.

Xiao Yu looked at the payment on the post, and had to nod with a bitter face.

"Pan'er can be a praiser, Zhengbin who do you want to invite, it is best to be respectable, in fact, I think Mrs. Qin is very suitable, she has always been with you, and personally pointed out your calligraphy. It's just that I recently heard that she is old and not in good health, so she doesn't go out easily, why don't you try to mention it to Old Madam Qin? "Madame has conducted a long-awaited ceremony, and she is very familiar with the process of the ceremony.

Xiao Yu bowed his head lightly and said, "Okay, I'll try it, then the other female guests who need to be invited will bother my mother!" ”

Madame said "um", flipped through the post in her hand, and said, "Otherwise, it would be good if you could invite the crown princess to be your guest!" ”

Xiao Yu's face changed slightly: "Forget it, the prince is addicted to drugs now, Sister Qin is going to die of worry, where do you still have the heart to do this?" ”

Madam sighed and said: "Hey, this child is also a hard life, who would have thought that a good prince could become like this, speaking of which, the last time I saw the crown princess was during the queen's Qianqiu Festival, and my face was not very good at that time." Miss Qin was originally the most cool, but she didn't expect that in just two years, she would be so tormented that there was no smile on her face! ”

Xiao Yu couldn't help but think of Qin Xueyi, when she first married the prince, Qin Xueyi often wrote letters to complain about some trivial matters of the prince, but slowly there were fewer such letters, and the smile on Qin Xueyi's face gradually decreased.

Especially the two princes who entered the door later, Liu Yajuan followed the rules, and routinely persuaded the prince, the prince didn't like her to preach like Mrs. Liu, except for staying at Liu Yajuan's place on the wedding night, and the back gradually fell out of the cold.

Liu Yajuan is also a non-contentious character, fortunately, Qin Xueyi has a lot of intersections when she is in the boudoir, and she takes care of it all the time, and she barely has a foothold in the East Palace.

And the other Liangdi, Zhou Muyun, is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and I don't know what method she used to let the prince favor her soon after she entered the mansion. If it weren't for the ancestors' stipulation that he must stay at the crown princess on the fifteenth day of the new year, it is estimated that the prince would have to stay with Zhou Muyun for these two days.

The prince's favor made Zhou Muyun not take Qin Xueyi, the crown princess, in his eyes at all, and opposed Qin Xueyi everywhere. Qin Xueyi was born and was a big-hearted woman, and she was framed by Zhou Muyun for several things, which made the prince even more disgusted with Qin Xueyi.

In addition, every time the prince took drugs, Qin Xueyi had to persuade each other hard, and every time the two had to argue, it hurt the harmony of the husband and wife even more. It wasn't until last winter that the prince accidentally pushed Qin Xueyi to the ground in a dispute, but unfortunately Qin Xueyi was only two months pregnant, and unfortunately had a miscarriage.

This incident alarmed Emperor Tan and reprimanded the prince fiercely. But the crown prince has reached the age of crowning, and Emperor Tan's reprimand only pushed the prince into the distance again. The prince can't listen to anyone's words now, only Zhou Muyun can still coax him for a while.

After the miscarriage, Qin Xueyi quickly became depressed, and her face, which was originally bright and bright like a flower, now withered as quickly as a falling flower. Not only did she lose a lot of weight, but her eyes no longer had the vigor they had when she was unmarried, but they were like dry wells. Old Madam Qin went into the palace to see Qin Xueyi twice, and when she came back, she only sighed.

However, Zhou Muyun is becoming more and more comfortable in the East Palace, and now only her words can play a role in front of the prince. She tried her best to let her mother's family secretly send a lot of tonics and coax the prince to eat them, but she didn't know if it was Zhou Muyun's bad luck, although the prince stayed with her almost every night, but her belly had not moved at all in the past two years.

Zhou Muyun, who was seeking a son around the capital, begged Guanyin, but it was still useless. Although the prince was limited to the amount of Wushisan he could take, every time he called the imperial doctor to check the pulse, he found that the prince's drug addiction was not only not alleviated, but became heavier and heavier, and the imperial doctors were helpless and had no other way but to use the best medicinal materials to supplement the prince.

At this moment, the prince has been bedridden for several days, at this time, how can Xiaoyu use his happy events to stimulate Qin Xueyi.

The day before the ceremony, Xiaoyu tried on the dress to be worn the next day in Qixia Temple. According to the ritual process of the ceremony, Xiaoyu has to wear four sets of clothes.

The first set is the clothes worn before the hairpin, the second set is the plain skirt that matches the hairpin when the hairpin is added at the beginning, the third set is the curved deep coat that needs to be changed when the hairpin is added, and the fourth set is the formal long-sleeved long skirt dress that is changed after the third hairpin crown.

The hairpin used for the small fish and the flute is a double fish inlaid pearl silver hairpin prepared by the lady, and the hairpin used is a red gold dotted emerald and gemstone hairpin given by the old lady Qin.

Old Madam Qin has already promised to be the guest of honor for Xiaoyu and Lu Li at that time. And the last hairpin crown is customized by Xiaoyu and his wife to Duobao Pavilion in person, with gold as the support, ruby-based, surrounded by a circle of broken diamonds like stars, the stars shine, making people unable to take their eyes off.

The clothes worn at the ceremony were also carefully designed by Xiaoyu himself, and then carefully made by the cloud shop, but the pattern on the large-sleeved long skirt dress was embroidered by six embroidery girls who worked day and night, and it took half a month to embroider.

What Xiaoyu had to do at the ceremony was practiced many times by Aunt Liu, who made Xiaoyu kneel every day and her knees hurt terribly. The words that need to be said at the ceremony Xiaoyu have been on his back for a long time, and he can finally speak fluently, which can be said to be everything ready, only the east wind is owed.

Before Xiaoyu was a praiser for Qi Pan, he felt that there were so many things, and he was glad that he didn't have to torture him so once, but he didn't expect that he would have to experience it like this now.

Although Qin Xueyi couldn't be there, she sent someone from the palace over early to present the gift she had prepared for Xiaoyu. It is a rare jade green hosta, the hairpin is made of bamboo shape as a whole, and there is a big eastern pearl inlaid on the bamboo leaf, which looks like a drop of dew on the bamboo leaf, and it is very good-looking.

Although Yue Gongzi and Murong Hua couldn't watch the ceremony as men, they also gave gifts. Yue Gongzi is a silver hairpin full of diamonds, the largest diamond on the hairpin is the size of the little finger of the small fish, and the whole is drop-shaped, which makes the small fish staggered.

That is to say, the Datan people do not like diamonds, so the price of diamonds is not favored by the nobles of the capital. But Yue Gongzi knew that Xiao Yu had a soft spot for this, and he really spent a lot of effort to collect it, and it was difficult for him to collect so many diamonds.

The hairpin sent by Murong Hua is much simpler, a sandalwood hairpin, the pattern is simple, the carving is meticulous, and it is obvious that it was made by himself.