Chapter 2 Crossing
The group walked outside the hall, Fu'an walked in quickly, and said, "Your Majesty, the county lord has arrived outside the palace." ”
The emperor threw the piece in his hand and said; "Announce her in."
"Lord Xuanjun enters the hall."
"Little girl Xia Qingqing, meet the emperor."
Xia Qingqing just wanted to give a salute, but the emperor raised his hand and said: "Excuse me, I haven't seen you once in the past year, but now that I have finally raised it, I will exempt you from saluting in the future, you have to take care of yourself!" ”
"Hurry up and move a stool closer to me for the county lord."
"Qingqing, come to me, since you have recovered, the old prince is so happy, and I am also very happy." The little eunuch hurriedly brought a chair.
Xia Qingqing's eyes lit up, it just so happened that she didn't want to kneel all the time, when she was secretly happy, she didn't forget her business, she looked at the bookcase in front of her, didn't dare to look directly at the holy face, and said: "Thank you for the thousand-year-old Lingzhi and Snow Lotus that the emperor gave to the courtiers, now the courtiers are very good." ”
The emperor raised his eyes and said, "You are now well, and the marriage with the third prince is approaching, why don't you choose a day to get married?" ”
Xia Qingqing's heart trembled, she raised her head and looked at the emperor in surprise, her breathing was suffocated in an instant, and she completely forgot the rules for a while: he really deserves to be a person who can give birth to three princes as good-looking, but the emperor has the appearance of a dragon and a phoenix, and the appearance of heaven and day.
The nine-inch body is enough to stand up to the sky, and the long black hair is vented down, looking extremely elegant.
Between the two thick eyebrows, there are several marks. At first glance, there are a lot of serious things, and a pair of big peach blossom eyes.
It's a beautiful man.
But no matter how handsome you are, you can't eat it as a meal! Xia Qingqing screamed in her heart, although she was a Yan dog, but this was too fast!
Let her know more!
She hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the courtiers have been haunted by the sickbed since she was a child, and this time she was cured, completely relying on the emperor's dragon qi to bless the world, and the imperial doctors used the medical relics given by the emperor to cure the little girl." ”
"There are still parents and grandfathers in the little girl's family who have not yet served, and I implore the emperor to postpone the marriage and fulfill the heart of the little girl to serve her parents."
The emperor laughed when he heard this, and the charm of a pair of peach blossom eyes did not diminish because of age, and her heartbeat accelerated when he saw it.
"It's still a good tutor in the old prince's family, look at it, the children are all virtuous and virtuous, not to mention, but also gentle and polite."
"The sons are all fighting in the field again, speaking of which, your family is also a great contributor to our Qixia Dynasty."
"Perhaps, even if you are like this, if you want to come, the old prince will think so, so let you play and postpone the wedding date."
"You're sixteen?"
Xia Qingqing felt a trace of embarrassment in her heart, she was twenty-six years old, still sixteen, ten years younger for no reason!
Who can accept this?
With a belly in his heart, there was no leakage on his face, and he replied: "Yes, the little girl is sixteen this year." ”
Then the Emperor said, "Well, in the autumn of two years' time, when you are eighteen years old, you two will be married." ”
Xia Qingqing had no choice but to kneel and salute, "Thank you, Lord Longen." ”
Out of the palace gate and sitting in the sedan chair, she subconsciously muttered to herself: Fortunately, most of the women in this dynasty started to discuss marriage at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and there were also those who got married at the age of seventeen or eighteen or even in their twenties, but unlike other dynasties, she could be a grandmother at the age of twenty, otherwise, she couldn't stand it once she crossed over to become a grandmother.
Then, she combed through the information in her head, because she was frail and sickly, the female gentleman who taught her often adjusted the content, but still told the in-laws of the ministers of the DPRK and China.
Thinking back to these three princes, his biological mother was originally a concubine who was not valued by the emperor.
I never thought that once I was pregnant, I flew on the branch and became a phoenix, and after successfully giving birth to the three princes, I was promoted to a virtuous concubine.
Since then, the three princes have been raised under the knees of the queen mother, but they have never lived any wronged days.
But how can there be so many things about the royal family, the movements of the people in the palace all change according to the emperor's preferences, if the emperor can't remember him at all, then his life must not be too easy, Xia Qingqing is falling into memories.
According to the ancestral system of the Qixia Dynasty, the princes were all divided into territories and titles when they became adults, but the three princes were famous princes in the dynasty, and they had no fiefs if they had a name.
The emperor just gave him the title of virtuous king, and he didn't know what he thought, what was insinuating.
Thinking of this, she also felt that although these three princes were good-looking, they were not a good match.
Fortunately, the emperor agreed to postpone the marriage, and in the past two years, she had to plan well and withdraw the marriage as soon as possible.
The sun is setting.
Her family's house is located in a corner of the capital, and it is half a day's walk from the palace. When I chose to live here, I was from the attitude of the old prince to escape the world.
"Miss go home, go and tell Madame."
Xia gently came out of the sedan chair and strolled into the house.
Along the way, the maids greeted her one after another, and she was a little like a world away, recalling the life experience of this body, and talking about it from before.
Her father is Xia Yunfeng, the third son of the old prince, and the youngest son.
The old prince has three sons in his life, but there is no daughter, and her uncles and uncles have no girls, whenever a newborn is born, the old prince is looking forward to it, worshiping the Buddha and eating vegetarian, hoping to get a granddaughter, until she is born, the old prince is ecstatic, and immediately entered the palace to ask the emperor to make her the county lord.
Her two cousins' little nephews, Xia Jingqi Xia Jingshun, were running past her, and they didn't forget to salute her and said, "Little aunt, little aunt, you go quickly, grandfather has been waiting for you in the study for a long time." ”
Yes, their family has always been a patriarch, but she is the only girl.
As soon as she goes out, the whole family has to take action, and when she comes back, she must go to the house to say goodbye, and if she sees a rare person, she will be ridiculed.
Walking through the exquisitely laid garden, she came to her grandfather's door, and when she saw that the door was open, she also walked in and greeted her grandfather: "Grandfather, Qingqing is back." ”
My grandfather was concentrating on painting a picture of Danqing, and he didn't stop for a while, his eyes were slightly raised, his face was angular, and his long eyebrows were in the sideburns.
The cyan clothes are embroidered with dark lines of the same color, and there is a hint of nobility in every move, even when sitting
The power of ten thousand people is invincible, and the state of grandeur is high.
Xia Qingqing approached and said, "Grandfather's skills have improved again, and he will definitely become a famous master of our dynasty in the future." ”
"Now your danqing has been sold for thousands of taels, and it will definitely be sold for tens of thousands of taels in the future."
Grandfather put down the pen with a smile and said, "You little girl, you know money!" ”
"Tell me, what reward did you get when you went back to the palace this time?"
Xia Qingqing smiled shyly and twisted, and said: "Uncle Huang, isn't it just those rewards for some ornaments, some jade pendants or something, it would be better if you were more direct and directly exchange them for gold and silver for me." ”
Yes, since Xia Qingqing woke up this time, she especially likes gold and silver, these cheesy things in the eyes of big families, and her grandfather has no way to take her.
Helplessly, he pointed to her little head and said: "You, you don't do your job day by day, and your daughter's needlework is not done at all, you know gold and silver." ”
"Look at the bracelet on this wrist, it's the third pair in recent days, right?"
Xia Qingqing swallowed a sip of tea, stroked the bracelet and said, "Yes, yes, look, this is a pair of complicated osmanthus bracelets that my second brother Jing Huanxin gave me, it's beautiful!" But pure gold, it's just a little tiring to the hands. ”
"You little girl, you still bring your tired hands, and then turn around and tire your thin wrists out of the mark." Grandfather said helplessly.
"I'm not tired, I'm not tired at all."
Xia Qingqing hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Grandfather is the best, I like this thing, I am not afraid of being tired, this thing, the more the better." ”
Xia Qingqing said helplessly, you really don't know how expensive this gold will be sold in the future!
The average gold of jewelry costs more than 500 yuan a gram, and with her meager salary, she may not have the money to buy bracelets if she saves for several years. Now it's hard to have no worries about food and clothing, bracelet, that's not as many as she wants.
Since Xia Qingqing got better, she especially likes yellow and white things. Many curiosities in the capital have launched new styles, thinking that they can attract Xia Qingqing, as long as Xia Qingqing can look at it, they are willing to offer it with both hands.
Because their family is not only the meritorious heroes of the entire dynasty, more young generations are not afraid of the cold and heat, and they have been stationed at the border for ten years, shedding their blood for the border war, and sparing no effort to shroud the body in horse leather, in exchange for leaving a name in history, becoming the iron-blooded general in the hearts of the people, and becoming the only iron-hat palace in the Qixia Dynasty that does not have to be hereditary in accordance with the law of etiquette.
The Qixia Dynasty has only been handed down for more than 300 years, and once because of the war, the casualties were serious, and the Xia family almost broke off the inheritance.
At that time, the crown prince of the dynasty became more and more unscrupulous, and he was more harsh on his younger brothers and sisters, and he often punished his subordinates violently and often punished him with capital punishment for a small mistake, and he was even more cruel and unkind to his people, just because he lived in the emperor at that time and was old and frail, and no one could dissuade him.
For a while, the government and the opposition complained, and the second prince of the dynasty, Yinzhen, and her ancestors decided to rebel.
They are in the name of heaven and earth are not benevolent, and they should be virtuous, after a bloody battle, and finally ascended to the throne, her family was also given to the iron hat king because of the dragon's merit, and was passed down from generation to generation, and the ancestors have a close relationship with the royal family for generations.
When it was passed on to her generation, the family style was even more low-key, for the sake of the peace of the house, children were not allowed to mess with flowers and grass outside, men did not set up concubines, women did not marry concubines, and many women in the capital were envious, and they once wanted to marry into her family.
The old prince has been fighting on the battlefield all his life, and in his later years, he wants a soft and gentle little padded jacket to be cared for in his arms all day long, but her uncles and uncles have no one to compete for, and her grandchildren only have a daughter like her.