Chapter 840: There's No More Room to Maneuver
This car, in the bright and festive joy slowly through the West Chang'an Street, and then through the stone tablet alley, Xijiang rice lane, when Feng Yuan arrived at the Daming Gate, the sun has been slightly southward.
The wedding honor guards arranged by the Ministry of Rites composed of palace maids and eunuchs have already been waiting in front of the door. Among them, the palace maids are all wearing pink jackets and red skirts, with lotus crowns on their heads, and the eunuchs are wearing dark green embroidered python robes and black gauze three-mountain hats. No one is allowed to have a free hand and hold a incense cage, a lantern or a canopy.
When the ceremonial officer in charge of greeting greeted Zhu Changxun saluted, commanded the greeting and sending off team to leave first from the Dongjiang Rice Lane on the east side of Daming Gate, and welcomed Zhu Changxun's horse and Jiang Shu's Feng Yuan into the door, a group of people lifted the incense cage and lantern in their hands, raised the canopy in their hands, and followed Lu Ci in order.
Under the guidance of the ceremonial officer, through the thousand-step corridor covered with red carpet that had been swept away by the snow, all the way to the north, through the south gate of the imperial city, Chengtianmen, and then to the Duanmen inside, and soon after, in front of the south gate of the palace.
Cars and horses were not allowed to pass through the forbidden area of the palace, so Zhu Changxun stopped, turned over and dismounted neatly, and turned his head to look at Feng Yuan behind him.
Jiang Shu came down from above with the support of Ping Qian and Xi Niang, and met his dark eyes, knowing that there was no room for maneuver in the marriage with this person, and his face couldn't help but change.
However, at this time, she still has a sense of proportion, and no matter how reluctant she is, she still walks towards him head-on.
"Let's go." As soon as he arrived beside him, the slightly cool hand covered by the wide sleeves of the gown was suddenly gently held by his warm palm.
Jiang Shu struggled twice, did not break free, and did not dare to show too obvious in front of everyone's eyes, nodded slowly, led by him, and walked towards the open middle door of the majestic building in front of him.
Ping Qian and the bride couldn't go with them, so they automatically retreated to the side, and the big wedding guard with incense cages, lanterns, or canopies in the back followed in.
After the noon gate, Zhu Changxun loosened Jiang Shu again, strictly followed the norms of the wedding, separated from her by three steps, and walked along the palace road paved with the red carpet in parallel, through the already set route "Jinshui Bridge - Hongzheng Gate - Zhongzuo Gate", to the Jianji Hall where the ceremony was held.
When the group passed through the middle left gate and entered the Jianji Hall in a majestic manner, the emperor, the queen mother, the empress and a group of concubines who were waiting to receive the worship were already waiting in the wide corridor in front of the hall with more than ten steps above the ground.
Emperor Zhu Yijun wore an ochre yellow dragon robe with twelve dragons and twelve stamps, wearing a crown decorated with gold dots and two dragons playing with pearls and black yarn wings, wearing a white jade leather belt around his waist, and white soap boots on his feet, standing in the middle of the palace gate.
On his left and right sides, respectively, are the Empress Dowager Li wearing a dark blue embroidered Zhai dress and wearing a crown of nine dragons and four phoenixes, and Queen Wang, who is wearing a crown of nine dragons and nine phoenixes in the same style.
On the other side of the Empress Dowager Li is Zheng Guifei, the mother concubine of Zhu Changxun, who is the groom. At this time, she was wearing a dark blue bow robe with a Luan phoenix cloud pattern complement, covered with a red silk coat, wearing a dark blue woven gold cloud and phoenix pattern xia veil, and wearing a double phoenix crown of Jiuzhai.
On the other side of Queen Wang is the biological mother of the current crown prince Zhu Changluo, Concubine Wang Gong. Due to her lower status than Concubine Zheng, although the style of the dress is the same as her, the bead embellishment of the phoenix crown and the embroidery of the xia curtain are relatively simple.
Further to the left and right, there are concubines above the concubine level such as Concubine Zhou Duan, Concubine Li Shun, and Concubine Liu Zhao, who are also dressed in ceremonial dresses.
Dozens of palace maids dressed in pink jackets and red dresses with lotus crowns on their heads holding incense cages stood on either side of them.
The door of the temple and the wooden lattice window behind everyone are all closed, and there is a huge red background gold character "Xi" on the door, and the flower windows on both sides are also hung with the same style slightly smaller "Xi" characters, and the gilded font reflects the bright sunlight in the morning, exuding a dazzling light.