Barely able to see what was going on on the ship, when there were people standing on the deck, I saw a familiar figure walking over in front of me.

Miaoyan and I stood there all at once, a little frozen.

The man had just taken two steps, and suddenly as if he felt something, he stopped and hesitated for a moment, then slowly turned his head to look at us.

It's Liu Qinghan.

Today's groom officer.

It was the groom's official, naturally it should be a joyful body, he was wearing a bright red wedding robe, the belt and headband were red, that was the color he had never worn in the past, the red was very gorgeous, the bright color was reflected on his pale face, as if the face was also dyed with a layer of light red, and the pair of clear eyes became more and more black and white, looking at us with a hint of surprise.

However, I don't know if it's because the weather is too hot, the wedding robe is very thin, or because he is too thin, even if he wears the big red wedding robe, he still feels like a pinnacle, when the wind blows, the wide placket and the vast sleeves are filled with the wind, hunting and flying in the wind.

It's like a fire, too.

He is both familiar and strange.

And I had already heard it, and the words around me were almost suffocating, and the hand holding my hand was clearly spasming.

Several people faced each other like this, but soon, Pei Yuanxiu had already come back to his senses, took a step forward with a smile, and bowed: "Lord Liu, great joy." ”

Liu Qinghan raised his eyes to look at him, as if he was still distracted for a moment, and then smiled, and also raised his hand, but he bowed respectfully to Pei Yuanxiu: "The son is coming, there is a long way to welcome, and I hope to forgive my sins." ”

"Where, where."

Pei Yuanxiu stretched out his hand and raised his arm, and the two of them stood up straight and smiled at each other.

It's just that I don't know if it's my delusion, probably because he still wears that half of the silver mask, in such a dark sky, the mask shines a little cold, and even his smile is dyed with such coldness and coldness. Even, in those bright eyes, I only saw a smile, but I couldn't see a smile.

Pei Yuanxiu took a step back and said to us: "Qingying, Zitong, Miaoyan, I have come to see today's groom official. ”

After speaking, Liu Qinghan also raised his head and looked at us.

He glanced at me, and then the gaze was very light, and quickly moved away from me, and then looked at Han Zitong, and finally fell on Miaoyan's body, and after we all met the courtesy, he smiled and said to Miaoyan: "Miaoyan is also here, and the third uncle is very happy." ”

“……”

"Wonderful words are so lovely today."

“……”

Miao Yan looked at him with a somewhat wooden expression, even if he heard this, he still didn't react, just looked at him like this, and even some streamers were already flashing in his eyes.

As soon as he saw her like this, Liu Qinghan immediately seemed to understand something, his face revealed a little embarrassed, and he looked at Pei Yuanxiu again, Pei Yuanxiu smiled: "Miao Yan came to participate in such a wedding for the first time, and he may still be a little uncomfortable. ”

Liu Qinghan smiled kindly.

At this time, Pei Yuanxiu looked around again and said, "What about the bride?" ”

Liu Qinghan hurriedly said: "Yuanzhen, she is still dressed in the back hall, and the old grandmother has explained some things to her." ”

"That's right." Pei Yuanxiu smiled: "Then wait for a while." ”

Liu Qinghan also smiled and arched his hand, and then said, "Those people, please go and sit inside first and have some refreshments." Wait a while when Yuanzhen is ready, I'll let her come over. ”

"It's fine."

After speaking, the two of them bowed again, and it happened that someone over there was calling the groom official, Liu Qinghan said that he was not accompanied, then turned around, and walked to the other side without looking back.

We stood in place for a while, feeling that Pei Yuanxiu was looking at me, I only lowered my head to look at the wonderful words with pale faces, but my eyes had been fixed on Liu Qinghan, and called her softly: "Wonderful words." ”

She looked up at me.

"Don't you have something to give him?"

“……”

Her eyes flickered for a moment, as if she had just remembered, but she turned her head a little dumbly to look at the man who had walked to the other side and greeted another group of new guests, and was silent for a while before she said, "I...... Mother, I'm not ready yet. ”

“……”

"I'll give it to him later."

“……”

Looking at her gloomy appearance, I didn't say anything more, just gently stroked her hair.

At this time, several young maids dressed very happily came over, saluted respectfully, and then said, "Several, please come here." ”

We were about to follow, but just after taking two steps, two attendants next to us stepped forward and stopped the guards behind us: "Please stay, a few of you." ”

We looked back.

The two attendants said: "The princess is married, and there are no swords and sharp weapons on the wedding hall, and a few of them are either waiting outside, or please unload the sharp weapons." ”

When the guards heard this, they immediately frowned.

However, looking at the attendants who followed the distinguished guests in front of them, it is true that no one is carrying sharp weapons.

Pei Yuanxiu turned around, pointed to the two guards who looked more mature and steady, and said, "You two take off your armor and follow us in; You guys, just keep watch outside. ”

"Yes, Childe."

With that, the two guards unloaded their weapons and handed them to the people next to them, and the others, who were still very vigilant, retreated to the edge of the deck and stood there steadily, like statues.

When they were done, the two attendants took a step back, stretched out their hands and made a "please" gesture, saying, "Please." ”

We followed the maids into the cabin.

This cabin is very huge, as we just saw in the river, as if a huge palace has been moved to this ship, carved beams and columns, glazed gold bricks, it looks extraordinarily luxurious. Speaking of which, Pei Yuanhao went down to the south of the Yangtze River several times, but he was not too extravagant, this time for Pei Yuanzhen's wedding, it was really extravagant, many officials stood on the deck, looking at this high-rise building towering on the red boat, they were dumbfounded.

When we entered the hatch, there were already many guests in the main hall, all standing or sitting in twos and threes, each whispering something, and at this time, everyone turned their heads to look at us.

Suddenly, all the sounds were gone.

On the faces of those people, there were smiles, surprises, flatness, shock, and even some panicked eyes, as if they couldn't believe what they were seeing, and even the teacup in their hands fell to the ground, and it fell to pieces with a thud.

Immediately, a maid stepped forward to take the casual away, and quickly wiped the floor clean.

And Pei Yuanxiu and I walked in slowly with wonderful words and Han Zitong.

Along the way, the people who were originally standing in the center of the hall and talking subconsciously retreated to both sides, and the surprised eyes of those people set off the silence of this moment extremely depressed, and even the wonderful words that had been muffled and lowered their heads felt something, took my hand, and looked left and right.

When those people saw her, their eyes became complicated.

In the crowd, someone was already talking in a whisper.

"That's __"

"Princess."

"Away from the princess?"

"His Majesty the Emperor has already given the name, it is Princess Miaoyan."

"But she's still with that person......"

"Shhhhh

"Oooh......"

Wonderful words seemed to understand what those people were talking about secretly, and then looked up at me, with a little doubt in her eyes, I knew what she was wondering about, but I just smiled and squeezed her little hand.

By this time, several maids had led us to a chair in the middle of the temple and sat down, served refreshments, and then withdrew.

At this time, we raised our heads and looked around.

As soon as we met our gaze, those who were originally looking at us and whispering all turned their eyes away at this time.

I glanced around briefly.

Although it has been many years since I left the capital, the ability to remember has not been so completely lost, and some of the familiar faces of officials were quickly rummaged through in my mind, overlapping with these people in front of me...... But what caught my attention more were some faces that weren't too familiar.

Near the head of the temple stood a group of people, a group of guards, and they surrounded a man who sat on a circle chair.

It was a boy in his thirties, with very dark skin and a very thin body, and although he was wearing a long shirt, it gave the impression that there was no body in the long shirt at all; He has a smart and exposed face, especially the forehead is extraordinarily broad, but the chin is sharpened, giving people a strange feeling. His eyes are very thin, and the slender corners of his eyes are slanted into his sideburns, which also shows a bit of arrogance. The little nails of this man's right hand are still very long, and he scrapes his eyebrows with the tips of his nails from time to time.

He is__

I was trying to identify him from the appearance of his clothes, when I heard Han Zitong frown and said in a low voice: "Yuan Mingde? ”

Yuan Mingde? Yuan?

I subconsciously said, "He is a member of the Runan Yuan clan?" ”

Han Zitong glanced at me coldly, as if he didn't want to pay attention to me at all, but after a while, he still nodded and said a cold "um".

This is a local strong gentry in Runan.

Not far from this Yuan Mingde, there was also a person sitting, followed by a few attendants, it was a crane-haired old man, who looked like he was always around seventy years old, his face was full of wrinkles, his eyes were closed, there were so many people coming and going, noisy and noisy, he seemed to be completely inaudible, but behind him stood a young white-faced man, also in his thirties, gorgeously dressed, with one hand on the old man's shoulder.

I know these two people.

The old man who has been sitting still is the grandson of the Marquis of Jin, who took this title from his old father, but he has not made any achievements, I heard that he has been sick for many years, but I don't know why he was still present at the wedding of the eldest princess. The son behind him is his youngest son, the old son - Gongsun Qi.

I was thinking about it when a dark shadow suddenly flashed in front of me, and when I looked up, it was a group of people walking in front of us.

The leader is a middle-aged man, not tall, not short, not fat or thin, with a pair of smiling eyes on his white and chubby face, as if two black sesame seeds were dotted on the white steamed bun, which looked very rich; But compared to the previous two people, his clothes were not so luxurious, and he only had a jade ring on his hand.

Although I know that the guests who can receive Pei Yuanhao's wedding card on this ship, except for civil and military officials, must not be some simple characters, but this person looks too ordinary, like an ordinary rich businessman, and he didn't even attract my attention, if it weren't for him coming to us, I would hardly have looked at him.

He smiled and arched his hand towards us, "Childe, madam, Miss Han." ”

Pei Yuanxiu also looked at him with a smile: "Young Master Lin, it's been a long time." ”

"I didn't expect to be lucky enough to meet Childe here, it's really a blessing for three lives."

Pei Yuanxiu smiled: "Same luck." ”

I looked at him, then at the smiling "Lin Gongzi", and suddenly reacted - the Lin family in the clouds.

These people can't be said to be powerful, but in their respective territories, they are all tyrants, and I am no stranger to them - in Pei Yuanxiu's study, their names are written on those documents, but I didn't expect to see the real body here one by one.

These are all the powerful gentry in Wei Ningyuan's mouth, and they are also the most affected group of people in Pei Yuanhao's new policy.

I looked at Yuan Mingde, Gongsun Qi, and the Lin clan in front of me, and couldn't help but think of the two assassinations that Pei Yuanhao suffered in Yangzhou, especially the second time, which was experienced by me and Miaoyan, and even caused me to be injured.

It is very likely that the black hand behind the scenes is one of them.

Or, it's them joining forces.

Pei Yuanhao actually invited them to Pei Yuanzhen's wedding, and they were all present, it seems that this wedding banquet will not be so simple and eye-catching.

While thinking like this, I subconsciously looked around a few more times, and saw a very eye-catching person.

It was also near the head of the hall, opposite Yuan Mingde, that the figure of a strong man came into my eyes.

This man was very tall, much taller than almost all the people in the temple, and with broad shoulders and thick shoulders, he looked particularly striking, he was about fifty or sixty years old, with a square face with a round middle, a face full of horizontal flesh and a pair of eyes with excessive whites, and his expression looked very arrogant; He was dark-skinned, sturdy, giving people a great sense of oppression, a robe inlaid with gold and silver, and ten fingers were almost full of huge rings inlaid with various gems, which looked extraordinarily luxurious, but it was very incompatible with his simple and almost reckless temperament.

Pei Yuanxiu glanced at him, and his gaze became complicated.

I asked softly, "Who is that person?" ”

Before Pei Yuanxiu could speak, the Lin Gongzi standing in front of us had already smiled and said: "Madame, I'm afraid I don't know you yet, that's someone from the Bohai Ao clan, judging by his age, it should be the third generation of Ao Ping." ”

Bohai, Ao?

When I heard this place, this surname, I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart.

That is the closest to the grassland, and Shengjing adjacent to the place, this Ao family is in the Central Plains Dynasty and the grassland tribe of a force, although after the royal family went south to occupy the Central Plains, the Bohai Sea domain was also divided into the territory of the Celestial Empire, but because of the special geographical location, although the Ao family is a vassal, but also has a relatively independent territorial jurisdiction, although not the same as the Han family, but they are in the minds of everyone in the local area, the Ao family is the uncrowned "King of Bohai".

Moreover, his jurisdiction includes most of the maritime territory, which can lead directly to the East China Sea.

Pei Yuanhao was able to appear at sea so quickly last time, and the land route would not be so fast, it is very likely that he will ship directly from the Bohai Sea to the East China Sea and Zhoushan.

Of course, ships in the East China Sea can also go directly to the Bohai Sea......

Thinking of this, I subconsciously glanced at that Ao Ping more.

At this moment, the previous red shadow walked into the cabin again, and the people in this hall were all in good spirits when they saw him, and their eyes and expressions were different, and the Lin Gongzi in front of us was still talking to Pei Yuanxiu before, as if he was very affectionate, but as soon as he saw him come in, he immediately said "unaccompanied" to us, and walked back to where he was standing before.

This man is a very good two-headed grass and knows the direction of the wind.

However, it didn't matter if he didn't avoid it, because the bridegroom, who was about to become the master of the horse, did not look at us at all, but after a few maids who came in through the side door whispered something to him, he kept whispering something, and as he walked forward, I heard the last sentence be- "Also, remember to tell Princess Sù that her second brother has arrived." ”

The maids received the order, and immediately turned around and ran back as fast as they could.

That's when he looked up at us.

The people in the hall looked at him.

He dusted off his sleeves, then raised his hand with a smile and bowed: "Everyone, it's a shame." ”

Everyone laughed and said, "Why did the groom say this." ”

"The bridegroom is overjoyed."

……

Some of the people who came had their own thoughts, of course, the most thoughts were those who came to stammer, Pei Yuanzhen got the title of Princess Anguo to open a mansion in Yangzhou, which has definitely spread to the ears of everyone here, and Liu Qinghan has always been Pei Yuanhao's favorite minister, such a couple, how much role they can play in the court in the future, and even how much power they can form, it is really unimaginable.

After a while, another maid came up to offer us refreshments, and I asked a few words by the way, only to know that the side doors on the east and west sides of the front of the main hall could lead to the inner courtyard, and there were gardens and all kinds of side rooms in the back, and even the cave room of the princess and the concubine was set up in the inner court. And the fairy, the princess dresses up in the wing-in short, everything that a mansion should have, here is everything.

It seems that Pei Yuanhao has indeed put a lot of effort into this sister's wedding.

At this moment, I heard the master of ceremonies outside say loudly: "There is a guest here!" ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone's eyes looked at the gate.

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