What happened after that was almost incredibly smooth in Lu Bingzhen's eyes.

On the tenth day of the third month of the spring of the seventeenth year of Yonghui, His Majesty issued an edict to marry Lu Bingzhen, the ninth mother of the Lu family in Fanyang, and the crown prince Xiao Min, and they got married in May of the following year.

Once this edict was promulgated in the world, not to mention the speculation of the powerful families on the court situation and His Majesty's thoughts, the first to react were the Langjun and the little lady of each family.

You must know that the crown prince Xiao Min, as a prince, is also a scholar and martial artist, and he is the dream person of countless high-ranking ladies. This time, the position of the crown princess fell to the nine ladies of the Lu family, and the ladies of those proud top families and magnates were not willing to be concubines with others, so they could only be with His Royal Highness the Prince, and Xiao Lang was a passerby from now on.

As for the nine ladies of the Lu family, her suitors are also like carp crossing the river. She has only been back in Beijing for more than three months, and the number of times she has gone out to the banquet is only five fingers, and her marriage to the crown prince as the crown princess has also made countless noble ladies and Xiaolangjun in Beijing sigh, only hating herself for being late.

They all thought that if they went to try it first, maybe now the ninth lady of the Lu family would be their daughter-in-law/wife.

Of course, there are also many people who are eyeing the position of Liangdi's side concubine in the East Palace, but those who are clear-sighted have taken advantage of this idea to rest early. Looking at the background of the nine ladies of the Lu family, you know that in the future, the grandson will come from the nine ladies of the Lu family. What is it to earn the position of a good concubine, it is true to earn a wave of grandchildren.

It was an old acquaintance of the Lu family who sent the holy decree to the Lu family, the angel who sent Lu Bingzhen to canonize Lu Bingzhen as the monarch of Qingning County not long ago.

The old eunuch still read out the will of marriage with a pleasant face.

"In the spring of the seventeenth year of Wei Yonghui, the year is Yinmao, the third month of Wuchenshuo, and the tenth day of the second year. With virtue and goodness, it will be Bangyuan; As a Li Chu II, it is allowed to return to the crown family. The eldest daughter of Lu Qi, the secretary of the ministry, the door attack Xuan crown, the family heirloom righteousness, the supple appearance, the quiet and the nature, the history of the training, the reputation of the country, the right storage, the only dynasty. But the crown princess, the order of the ceremonial order. The Lord does it. “

Lu Bingzhen was wearing a dress that was in line with the grade of the county monarch, and he respectfully achieved the holy decree, and shouted long live in his mouth.

Different from the confusion when he received the decree last time, Lu Bingzhen had expected this today, and even helped his parents to greet the angels who came to announce the decree with ease.

Not long after the decree of marriage arrived, all kinds of rewards in the palace were sent to the Lu family like flowing water, including jewelry and silk given by the queen's mother, as well as various toys sent by the East Palace. After that, there were congratulatory gifts from various families.

Of course, there are also various families that are good friends with the Fanyang Lu family, such as the Li family in Longxi, the Cui family in Boling, and the Wang family in Taiyuan.

And when the people of Fan Yanglu's family were busy receiving the order, the prince was also in the queen's palace to say goodbye, the mother and son were sitting at the table and talking to their henchmen, and the palace maids were all pushed out of the house.

"Queen Mother, it's the son who is not filial, and it takes hard for you to convince your father to give marriage." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Xiao Min said to his mother Empress Wen with a guilty face.

The queen mother pulled the corners of her mouth when she heard this, and comforted her son in turn, "Where is this because you are not filial, you are a rare good son in the world." It's all your father, the emperor, who is old, and when he sits on the throne, he forgets the days when our family used to tremble. ”

Thinking of last night, she was scheming and pleasing everywhere, just to let the husband who had gradually forgotten the friendship of the past remember a trace of old love, and the queen mother only felt disgusted.

But seeing her long-standing and extraordinary son, the queen mother had a trace of comfort in her heart. In the end, fate still favored her, although she took away her young and affectionate husband, her son still grew up to be his own honor guard.

The queen mother looked at her son who was growing into a gentleman, and silently cheered herself in her heart, "It's good to insist on becoming the queen mother a little longer, a woman's biggest ability is not to win the harem concubines and sit in the back seat, but to support her son to be the queen mother after she dies."

I have now come to the last moment, as the so-called 'half ninety of those who travel a hundred miles', I am the queen of the world, and I must not fall at this step. Endure this dead old man any longer, sooner or later it will be time for our mother and son to be free. ”

After some self-comfort, the queen swept away her previous depression and regained her radiant complexion. She looked at her son in front of her lovingly, thinking of her future daughter-in-law outside the palace, and felt more and more that the future was promising.

The women in the harem are very good at adjusting their mentality, and as for those women who are not good at it, they can't see half of them in the harem, and they are basically depressed and depressed.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows in his heart that it is not easy for his father to be willing to show a trace of father-son affection this time, and he is afraid that the future days will be more and more difficult, but he is still very happy to achieve his long-cherished wish for many years.

It's just that he is used to being moody, even if he can be completely relaxed in his mother's place, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only hooked his lips shallowly.

It's just that every time His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks of Wang Jian, the seventh lang of the Wang family, he can't help but wonder if Lu Bingzhen has a relationship with him. After all, he had never heard of Lu Bingzhen boasting that Langjun was a good Langjun who could be entrusted for life.

Contact again, Lu Qi and his wife are eager to get engaged to Wang Jia Qilang for their daughter, which is really just what Lu Qi and his wife mean. Could it be that Lu Bingzhen actually revealed the intention of wishing for the seven langs of the Wang family.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince forcibly stopped his divergent thoughts, gritting his teeth and thinking, "No matter what the Lu family's Jiuniang agreed to marry me for, as long as she enters the East Palace, she will only be my Xiao Min's crown princess in this life." ”

Before the decree was announced, the officials in charge of this matter in the Ministry of Rites informed Lu Qi of the matter early in order to show favor to Lu Qi, the secretary of the ministry and the quasi-prince's father-in-law. Because of this, Lu Qi is also at home today and has never been to court.

After the eunuch who delivered the decree left, and Daohe's relatives and friends also left, it was already the time of sunset. Li instructed Onyx to bring a group of servants to set up a meal in the main courtyard.

Lu Bingzhen sat at the table opposite her parents, and during the banquet, she couldn't help but raise her doubts about today's marriage. She knew that His Majesty was suspicious of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but today's events were too smooth and fast, which made her suspicious of His Majesty's suspicion of the Prince.

Since His Majesty is already so suspicious of the crown prince and can't tolerate the crown prince, why did he let the prince achieve his long-cherished wish so easily and smoothly, and why could he tolerate His Royal Highness the crown prince marrying the daughter of such a prominent family as the crown princess?

Isn't Your Majesty worried that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be strengthened like a tiger after having a prominent Yue family, and one day he will even be able to surpass himself to reach the top of the imperial pole?

In the end, Lu Qi has been up and down in the court for many years, and when she saw her daughter's doubts, she opened her mouth to solve her doubts.

"It's not surprising, Aar. First, the relationship between His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not so tense from the beginning. When the prince was young, His Majesty loved to take him to study with him, and whenever the prince made progress, His Majesty would boast about the prince to the ministers, calling him 'my unicorn'.

Today's queen mother is also a smart strange woman, she can accompany His Majesty through the ups and downs of the previous years, and can protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the fifth princess in the chaotic situation of the harem to grow up safely, which shows that she is not a simple person. If the queen has a heart, it is not difficult to arouse the love of licking calves when His Majesty was young. “

Li was busy taking care of family affairs on weekdays, and he didn't know much about the government and politics, so he only felt slightly relaxed when he heard the words. Now that the daughter and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are grasshoppers on a rope, naturally the better the situation of His Royal Highness the Prince, the better the future situation of the daughter.

Lu Bingzhen was still a little puzzled, just because he remembered the father-son friendship with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the past, could he make this suspicious Majesty willingly send a Yue family that was enough to help her son win the heir?

But his father was obviously reluctant to say anything more, and his mother was even more relaxed after listening to his father's words, so Lu Bingzhen put aside his doubts for the time being, relaxed his expression and smiled lightly.

The wedding is scheduled for early May next year, and Lu Bingzhen's birthday in early April will be shortly after Lu Bingzhen and Lu Li.

Li pondered about this wedding date, and faintly had a feeling that the other party wanted to marry his daughter into the East Palace immediately after his daughter and the ceremony. Li even felt that if it weren't for the fact that the daughters of the few powerful families in this Joseon had married before the ceremony, His Majesty's decree would have been married earlier.

However, the Li family soon didn't have the heart to think about these things, because the palace sent four people to teach the etiquette of the future crown princess according to custom, namely Mama Zheng, Mama Feng, Mama Liu and Mama Sun.

These four grandmothers are also old people who have been in the palace for many years, and they know that the status of the nine ladies of the Lu family is different from that of the previous princesses. In addition, the four of them were rewarded and beaten by the people of the East Palace before they came, so they naturally saw the wind and steered the rudder, and treated Lu Bingzhen not daring to make it difficult for him to hold his identity, but treated the people of Fanyang Lu's family politely.

When teaching the palace rules and etiquette every day, the four grandmothers did not impose more restraints on the rules and etiquette of Lu Jiu Niangzi, let alone reprimanded and whipped, but spoke softly. After all, the previous reprimands and restraints were just one of the means to polish the future princesses, in order to make the princesses and princesses more in awe of the heavenly family.

The four grandmothers were really tolerant of Lu Bingzhen, and even when Lu Bingzhen tentatively proposed to go to the girls' school to take classes, after the four grandmothers looked at each other, Mama Feng, the oldest woman, said calmly.

"It's naturally okay for Jiu Niangzi to go to the girls' school, although I am not talented, I have also heard of the reputation of the Lu family's girls' school. In the future, the crown princess must have both ability and political integrity, and it is naturally excellent for the nine ladies to have a desire to learn. It's just that we also have our own responsibilities, and I ask Jiu Niangzi to allow us to go with us. ”

What the other three grandmothers didn't know was that Mama Feng was originally the person who His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had brought in, and before she came back, she was specially summoned to the East Palace by His Royal Highness the Prince, repeatedly emphasizing that she should accompany the future Crown Princess, and the most important thing was to cut off the connection between Wang Family Qilang and the future Crown Princess.