Chapter 41 Empress Dowager Wu lives in the market
It was perhaps the most special wedding ever.
Hundreds of chariots were in front, several mighty, red silk horses were behind, and in the middle were eunuchs and palace maids holding various dowries, and on both sides of the road, Deng Ai specially arranged more than 1,000 Cao Wei soldiers with weapons in hand, and the red helmet cherry blossoms above their heads were like small fireballs suspended in mid-air, which stretched to Sima Banru's Chinese military camp tent.
The rewarded people stood on the side of the road, and from time to time there were bursts of cheers.
The wedding turned into a good opportunity for Deng Ai to show off his military might.
These people, who had been celebrating Liu Yong's victory a few days ago, were now conquered by Deng Ai's arrangement almost at the same time, and felt that the fall of the city was an inevitable inevitability.
At the back of the crowd, a little higher, a simply decorated carriage was parked, and a young woman with her cheeks hidden from a light veil sat on it, looking up at the procession with her head tilted as best she could.
The coachman was armed with a long whip, and he wished to raise his already slender neck a few inches higher.
"The newcomer's car is coming."
I don't know who screamed.
As a result, the crowd began to stir and crowded to the front.
Cao Wei's soldiers on the side of the road immediately raised their weapons horizontally, forming a long rope like a chain to block the crowd.
"I heard that Princess An Ning is more beautiful than a fairy, and she is the most beautiful woman in my Shu."
"It's just a pity that it's cheaper than Sima Banru."
"The thousand-year-old son of King Jin, if you think about it, you will not be disgraced by the identity of the princess."
"How come the villain has never heard of me before that there is a princess in Shu."
"It is said that she is the righteous sister of His Majesty, and she must have been born in the market."
"Princess An Ning will agree to this family business for the sake of the people in my city, and I can't blaspheme."
The last sentence was not loud, but it immediately stopped everyone.
The woman sitting in the carriage looked past and saw only the back of a man who was slightly taller than the others.
The back seemed familiar, and the woman quickly thought for a moment.
Duan'er's car slowly passed by the crowd, and the four wedding maids did not squint, their bodies were jeweled, each handsome and abnormal, and the aroma of fat powder wafted from afar, filling the entire street. The maids are so beautiful, what is Princess An Ning who sits in the middle with a golden hood on her head and is not a fairy-like figure?
People are speculating in their hearts about what Duan'er looks like.
The car has been going on for a long time, and the crowd is still not dispersed.
The coachman, who had raised his neck, walked to the front of the car at this time.
"Girl, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, can you go home?"
The woman retracted her gaze, thought for a while, and nodded, "It's okay, presumably my wife is also in a hurry." Do not reveal your whereabouts, you need to detour. ”
"The villain knows." The coachman replied.
The carriage tried to find some remote paths, bypassing the streets and crowds, and after a stick of incense, it stopped in a deep alley.
Two wooden doors opened, and a man's head poked out, and after he was sure that there was no one else, the man pushed open the door and asked for a carriage to enter the courtyard.
The courtyard is divided into two floors, with more than a dozen rooms, but probably the owner of this family is not prosperous, and many houses have shown signs of dilapidation because they have not been inhabited for too long. However, if it is launched more than ten or twenty years ago, it is not difficult to imagine that the owner of this house has also been prosperous.
"Madame is waiting in the hall, and the girl may go and meet her on her own." The man said.
The woman agreed and walked into one of the rooms in the middle.
As soon as he stepped into one foot, a black shadow suddenly flashed in front of him, and a tall man with a dirty face suddenly flashed out from the side and grabbed the woman's hair.
"If you don't come to me to play these times, do you dare to run out to find a wild man?" One of the man's faces almost touched the woman's, and the silly look was disgusting.
"Uncle Xiao Guo can't be rude." The woman cried out with her hands over her cheeks.
The man didn't give up, grabbing her hair hard.
"Uncle Xiaoguo, stop quickly, I'm worried that I will be spanked again." Another woman's voice rang out, and a young girl ran out of the side door of the room.
Probably this "little uncle" has been spanked a lot, and when he heard this, the strength in his hand weakened a lot, but the other hand was groping on his buttocks, and it seemed that there was still pain when he was beaten.
The woman took the opportunity to break free.
"Uncle Xiaoguo can't mess around, the slave maid has an urgent matter to find the Queen Mother, you can go to the back yard to wait for me first, and then go to look for you after I finish talking to the Queen Mother."
"Really, if you dare to deceive again this time, beware of me when I am spanked by the imperial aunt, I want you to accompany me." The man said.
"Uncle Xiaoguo, just go first, Ling'er won't lie to you anymore."
"Okay then." The man wiped a handful of dirt from his face, sniffed his nose a few times, and with a "smack", a long strip of light brown liquid was sucked into his nose.
The two women also seemed to have gotten used to the man's behavior and left separately.
This woman is the palace maid Ling'er next to the Empress Dowager Wu, and here is Wu Yi's mansion at the beginning, and the man is Wu Zhi.
When Cao Wei's soldiers approached the palace, Empress Dowager Wu wanted to call Liu Yong and escape from the secret passage with her, but was stopped by Ling'er.
"Although the city is broken, but Your Majesty is still the lord of Shu Han, the slave maid feels that no one dares to be rough with Your Majesty, the Queen Mother still escaped with the slave maid first, and will come to inquire about the news in the future, only by saving our lives, it is possible to have a chance to meet Your Majesty again." Ling'er's words moved the Empress Dowager Wu.
The two escaped with another maid.
Wu Yi's mansion is now almost no different from the mansion of ordinary people, and at that time, almost all of them hid in their own houses and did not dare to come out, and Empress Dowager Wu and others fled here without being discovered by anyone.
After coming here, Empress Dowager Wu found that there was almost no one in the entire mansion, and several family members hired before took advantage of the chaos to rob a lot of things, leaving only a janitor and a coachman who had nowhere to go.
Wu Zhi didn't know the pain of losing the country, and when he saw the arrival of the imperial aunt, he was so happy that he danced with his hands, pulling Ling'er and another palace maid.
Worried that he would run out and talk nonsense and reveal the news, Empress Dowager Wu specially told the two to watch him, and asked the only two remaining men to seal the front and rear gates.
Fortunately, there is still some food in the house, which can be maintained by a few people for a while.
The development of things was beyond the expectations of Empress Dowager Wu and Ling'er, Cao Wei's men did not harass the people, and even some people came to greet them, asking them to return to their previous lives as soon as possible.
Empress Dowager Wu was worried about Liu Yong, and kept sending coachmen to investigate, knowing that Liu Yong was not treated slowly, so she was relieved.
The news that Liu Yong married his sister to Sima Banru was also heard by the coachman.
"The Queen Mother, this time it was the slave maid who went out to investigate in person, almost all the slaves and maids in the palace knew each other before, but I want to see who this Princess Anning is." Ling'er took the initiative to ask.
Now, the Empress Dowager Wu is sitting on a chair in the hall, wearing a very ordinary women's robe, without the scenery of hugging the front and back, the Empress Dowager Wu is like a noble lady who is in the middle of the family but still retains the aristocratic temperament, still noble and elegant.