Chapter 126: The Emperor's Ceremony (Second Update)
On April 12, at the second quarter of the first month of Yin, the villagers woke up one after another, and the chief asked the people from Fuhua Building to prepare a bucket for bathing and boiled water first.
Everyone went to the thatched house, came back to brush their teeth and eat, porridge, small cakes, pickles, tea eggs.
After eating, the bath water was boiled, and everyone took a bath, changed into new clothes and shoes, and brushed their teeth again.
At the beginning of the year, the main thing is that the long hair dries slowly, and a few hand towels are rubbed.
Look at the sky, it's about to dawn, and the day dawns early in summer.
The shopkeeper of Fuhua House woke up and asked, "What are you going to do?" The street is closed outside, and today His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will accept the concubine. ”
"That's right! It is the west side of the street in front of our restaurant, Changfu, we are waiting outside the restaurant, and the team of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince comes over and we follow behind. ”
The lieutenant nodded, yes, and the place where we live is next to each other, on the opposite side of the west side of the road, and Changfu sits north and faces south.
The twenty guards in charge of protection had already left, and another soldier had entered the Fuhua Building and occupied a position across the street from the window.
"How do you get there? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and concubine, do you still want to watch ......the ceremony," the shopkeeper said and stopped.
He thought carefully about the other party's dealings with the palace, and then looked at the festive new clothes and another set of jewelry that the other party had changed into today, it seemed that ......
"It's a viewing ceremony, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invited us over, and we have to stay for a few days, waiting for the banquet. Zhu Taiyi, are you here? ”
The chief said to the shopkeeper very honestly, and when he looked up, he saw that Mrs. Zhu and the other four people had arrived, and the four of them had also changed into new clothes and held signs in their hands.
They had come to bring the people of Xiaqiu Village into the procession, and the whole road was heavily guarded at this time.
This was called Changfu Street in Zhu Wentian at that time, and the bridge to the east was Xihua Gate, and to the west was the Dayuanxing Yongshou Palace that he walked to the day before yesterday.
The location of Fuhua Building is the most suitable, if you prepare a few hundred catties of nitroglycerin in advance, and wait for the prince's team to arrive next to it......
"Shopkeeper, let's go first, come back in the evening for dinner, it's better to have a soup." The lieutenant said hello and went out with Mrs. Zhu and the four of them.
The shopkeeper was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses, and he patted his forehead: "Oops! It's so big, huh? Thanks to the attentive attention. ”
He was afraid for a while, the crown prince and concubine, there is a fixed team, and if he can add people, he can add people?
Mrs. Zhu took the thirty-two people to figure out the identity first, and then they went back to the courtyard to find a stool for the village elder to sit on.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still a long time before he comes, and there are still ceremonies going on there.
The people of the village must go out first, let the guards know each other, and then they can't leave the field of view again, what if they are replaced and assassinated?
This wait is an hour, the team arrives, it is not lively, and when the people in front of it pass, the people of the village enter the team and go to Changfu together.
The crown princess dressed up and waited outside her attic, and no one stopped her.
The process continued, the prince passed, and it was another set of etiquette, talking to the princess's mother.
This set is over, another hour, pick up the kiss, the team goes back, go back and toss again, it's already past noon.
However, the people from Xiaqiu Village entered the imperial city, and they followed the team in, and no one stopped them.
All the way to the prince's mansion, the prince made a gesture and invited the princess to come in and perform a joint ceremony, which was also a bunch of rituals, and this etiquette was the same as that used by the queen and the emperor.
Next, the two sides changed to regular clothes, and the two sides sent cooked food to each other to eat, yes, they had eaten.
The people of Xiaqiu Village are hungry now, and they didn't go in to see the people changing clothes and eating, so they stood outside the Chunhe Palace.
"Everybody come with us." Mrs. Zhu greeted her.
The procession walked back, and as they walked, they entered a large hall with the words 'Wuying Hall' on it.
"Wuying Palace? Is it where His Majesty usually finds his ministers to deal with affairs? ”
After the little girl looked up at the words, she remembered the situation introduced by Brother Hanhan.
"Don't make a sound." The lieutenant turned around and reminded.
Everyone went in, and there was no body search, and there was a person standing in front of him, looking at everyone with his hands behind his back and smiling.
"Your Majesty!" Mrs. Zhu and the four immediately knelt down.
Puff tom tom ......
The thirty-two people from Xiaqiu Village also knelt down and shouted one after another, "Your Majesty." ”
After shouting, everyone was tidy, and shouted together: "Tianfu is virtuous, Haiyu Xianning, and Shengbow Wanfu." ”
There's a mix of 'hey, hey, hey, ......'
"Okay, get up, this is our Hanhan, right? Hey, hey, hey! ”
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at a young man with a blank face who said one word hey, and knew who it was, the village keeper of Xiaqiu Village, Hanhan!
"Well, Hanhan, I, hey, hey, hey, hey!" Zhu Wentian continued hey.
"Yes, it's so good! Take a seat, we know you're hungry, so we're going to eat here. ”
There are palace maids next to them who bring basins, hand towels and soaps, and everyone washes their hands and faces.
Thirty-three tables were eaten, separated, with a stool behind each.
Zhu Yuanzhang sat down first, everyone sat down, and the palace maids served the food.
"I don't know what you like to eat, but the doctor at the hospital said that you should drink soup first if you are hungry for a long time, so I made duck rack radish soup.
In addition, the village in our village is old, and they prepare a cup of medicinal wine, deer antler and ginseng.
The others are also recipes given by our Xiaqiu Village, and I think everyone is willing to eat them. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang spoke with a smile on his face, looking very kind and close to the people.
As he spoke, he carefully observed the thirty-two people, first looking at the chief, and then skimming at Hanhan.
Others are fifteen or sixteen years old, and there are even younger children, the eldest mother-in-law, and the village elder.
The village elder took a closer look, but he didn't see anything, wow!
"Your Majesty gave a banquet, and I thought about our taste habits, and the grass people were grateful." Captain Satom got up and replied.
"Sit, don't get up to talk." Zhu Yuanzhang pressed down with his hand.
"Yes!" The lieutenant sat down again, and the etiquette said, in case you meet Your Majesty, Your Majesty asks, bow when you stand, and get up and bow again when you reply to Your Majesty when you sit.
Then a rakuka came in and made a lot of fun beside him, but the sound was not loud, and another was dancing in the middle of the temple.
In order not to be cold, otherwise eat with the emperor, the emperor is silent, everyone dare not speak, and as soon as the emperor speaks, everyone else stops.
Some people play and dance, they whisper to others, and when the emperor doesn't ask him, it doesn't hurt to eat by himself.
Everyone looks at the dancing people, who will stare at you whether you eat or not?
"Take a sip of soup, and then drink the medicinal wine." Zhu Yuanzhang said to several village elders that he would drink the soup first.
The village elders are nervous, the emperor is this, not fierce at all, drinking soup, he is indeed thirsty, if he doesn't steal rock sugar, he can be thirsty.
After a few sips of soup, it was much more comfortable, and they drank the medicinal wine with their heads up, and then drank the soup.
The children also keep the etiquette, don't grab it, shut up when they eat and chew something, usually no one cares, and today they try to control it.
One by one, they also painted light makeup, festive, and Zhu Wentian's face was powdered.
Zhu Yuanzhang is happy, this is the people of Daming Village, it would be great if all the villages in Daming were like this!
"Yichang, how is the rice and jute planted in Xiaqiu Village?" Zhu Yuanzhang waited for everyone to eat a few bites before talking to the chief.