【068】Cave room
Dongyue has ordered the ghost slaves to spread the red carpet from the foot of the Tiande Hall to the hall, and on the wide red carpet, there is an auspicious picture of a dragon and phoenix embroidered with gold wire every other zhang.
It also set up a guard of honor outside the Tiande Palace, and set up women to be happy in the Tiande Palace. In front of the high platform in the depths of the main hall, three long cases are placed, which are arranged in the shape of "product". On the deepest one, there are tablets of the great ancient gods, and in front of the tablets are two enamel circular incense burners.
On the two long cases on the left and right in front of this long case, a seal is placed on one table, and an edict is placed on the other table.
Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother first stood outside the hall, and when noon arrived, it was already the winter moon that had changed into regular clothes, so they faced the direction of the palace gate and shouted loudly, "The auspicious time has arrived!" Then I saw that the ministers who had just arrived, standing outside the palace gate, were dressed in robes, and came towards the Tiande Hall under the leadership of Chunyun and Xia Xing.
Yingzhao Lu Wu, Wu Zhiqi and Yu Rong, as well as Qin Yuan and the Five Thousand Households, are also among them. But because they are only a thousand households, they are at the end of the ranks of hundreds of officials. But for them, it was also an unforgettable honor. What's more, the queen's marriage has been unheard of since ancient times, and it is an eye-opener to come and see it once.
Ghost Mother and Xiao Shizhu entered the main hall first, surrounded by Dongyue and the guards, as well as ghost slaves and maids. When the ministers came to the outside of the main hall, they suddenly stood still and waited quietly.
Entering the hall, Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother slowly walked to the three long strips and stood still, and Dongyue, who was the officiant, shouted: "Go to the temple to see the ceremony, bow to the gods, and play music!" As soon as the words ended, the musicians standing on both sides of the hall began to blow and beat. In the festive and peaceful music, there was a pair of boys and girls dressed like golden boys and girls, and they walked out from both sides and handed the incense they were holding in their hands to Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother.
"Kneel!" After Dongyue waited for them to take the incense, she dragged a long note and sang: "Incense!"
"Lao Tzu doesn't kneel!" Xiao Shizhu straightened his back when he heard this, his face showed displeasure, and he scolded confidently: "I haven't even knelt for my parents, let me kneel down for a few pieces of rotten wood, what's the reason?"
Dong Yue's face suddenly showed a hint of embarrassment, this is an indispensable part of the ceremony, but it is inevitable, but at present, although Xiao Shizhu's official rank is not high, he is the husband of his own monarch, and he can't beat or scold.
Just as she was thinking about how to convince Xiao Shizhu, the donkey, the ghost mother had whispered in Xiao Shizhu's ear: "You are the Holy Son, although you are a human soul, you are born of an ancient god. Although I don't know which ancient god Ling Zun Lingci is, there must still be tablets of your parents in these tablets;
Xiao Shizhu thought about it for a while after hearing this, and felt that this was not wrong, so he stopped complaining and came according to etiquette.
In the sound of Dongyue singing loudly: "Rise, worship!", the husband and wife knelt down to take down the tablet, and respectfully incense, two incense, three incense, and then kowtow, and then kowtow, three kowtow!
After everything was completed, Xiao Shizhu didn't forget to scold: "It's really troublesome." ”。
"Ceremony!" Dongyue shouted, Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother slowly got up, the ghost slaves hurriedly removed the long case with the tablet on display, and Dongyue sang again: "Ascend to the seat, the ministers enter the palace!"
As soon as the words fell, the ghost slaves and maids welcomed Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother to the throne on the high platform in the depths of the main hall and sat down. Fortunately, the seat is not narrow, otherwise it would not be able to sit down.
After the ministers entered the palace and stood in line according to the civil and military divisions under the high platform, Dongyue picked up the edict on the long case, stood facing the ministers, cleared his throat, and recited aloud: "Since the lonely king came to Shuoyue Island, the dragon position in the middle palace has been hanging for thousands of years, and the lonely and lonely underworld under such a storm and clouds has passed. Fortunately, with the help of God, the existing general Xiao Shizhu, the spirit is high, the talent is quick, the fairness is selfless, loyal to the country and the people, the wind is bright; and for the lonely east to conquer the west, stabilize the Quartet, have the courage and resourcefulness to deny himself and serve the public, can be the husband of the king. Today, the orphan gave him the golden book dragon seal, named him a general, commanded the soldiers and horses of the whole country, and allowed him to govern the ghost kingdom with the orphan. ”。 As Dongyue's voice began, the pair of golden boys and girls came again, took the seal on the long case below, and after going up to the high platform, knelt down in front of Xiao Shizhu, holding the seal with both hands and offering it to him.
Xiao Shizhu took the seal and hung it around his waist with the help of the ghost mother.
After all, before this, everyone had only heard of the canonization of the concubine, and had never heard of the queen leaving the cabinet, so the edict was also written unsatisfactory, and the meaning was almost over.
But Xiao Shizhu frowned after listening to her recitation, and asked the ghost mother: "How can I listen to the meaning of this edict, I seem to be an aunt?"
The ghost mother smiled softly and whispered in his ear: "It's not that you said that you don't want to be the king, so I can only wronged you to plug the door upside down." ”。
Xiao Shizhu looked at her with a shallow smile when he heard this, stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around her waist, and whispered: "It's not time yet, I will be the king when the time comes." ”。
While they were chatting happily, a salute was fired outside the hall, and the ministers below had begun to bow down and shout long live. Xiao Shizhu turned his head, looked at those ministers from above, took a deep breath, enjoyed the excitement brought by power, and said with a smug smile: "This feels so good, no wonder so many people in the world want to rebel and become emperors at the risk of being killed." ”。
As soon as he finished speaking, the maids went up to the high platform under the command of Dongyue, surrounded the ghost mother who had already gotten up, and walked towards the outside of the hall without looking back.
Xiao Shizhu was stunned, after all, he had never been married, let alone seen such a classical wedding, so he hurriedly beckoned to Dongyue and said, "Where are you going to send my wife?"
"Back to the general's words. Dongyue turned to face him, bowed slightly, and said, "They just sent my lord into the inner courtyard and prepared a cave room for you. And according to your request, we have ordered the imperial dining room to prepare a banquet, which is set up in the square outside the Tiande Hall for entertaining the ministers. Next, it's time for you to toast the hundred officials. ”。
"That is to say, the ceremony is over?" Xiao Shizhu got up suddenly, still going his own way and stretched his waist first; after seeing Dongyue turn his head a little, Xiao Shizhu finally breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't want to come to this troublesome ceremony again, so he didn't wait for Dongyue to say anything, and said aloud to the ministers: "Let's go, drink." ”......
After nightfall, Xiao Shizhu, who was a little drunk, walked towards the inner courtyard step by step under the escort of the forbidden army. After he came to the Tianning Palace, the original dormitory of the ghost mother, he saw that the palace had already been arranged as their wedding room.
The big red couplets are hung on both sides of the palace gate, and the boxes and cages of the whole house are pasted with Daxi paper-cuts, and the red candles illuminate the new house as fragrant as a dream, and the red light shines, making the room full of joy.
The ghost mother sat on the marriage bed in the depths of the main hall, with a trace of waiting anxiety between her eyebrows. The bed is covered with a hundred silk mattresses embroidered with children with different expressions, covered with a red jacquard camel hair blanket, and a big "Xi" character is embroidered with gold silk in the middle, and there are dragons and phoenixes around the left. There is a pair of jade pillows at the head of the bed, and a pair of red-faced and gold-rimmed brocades embroidered with phoenix luans are placed against the wall. In addition, there are dates, chestnuts, peanuts and lotus seeds on the bed, and the bed curtain with red satin embroidered dragon and phoenix double happiness hangs at the head of the bed.
There is a tall incense burner on the ground on both sides of the bed, which is lit with sandalwood, which makes the smell in the hall fragrant and fragrant, and also makes Xiao Shizhu feel calm.
He walked to the bed and stood still, waving his hand to signal that Chen Ruo could step back, and as for the rituals such as eating "descendants dumplings" and drinking "heyu", he was so easily exempted.
After only he and the ghost mother were left in the main hall, he walked to the ghost mother and sat down, hugged each other with one hand, grabbed the other party's hand with the other, burped a long wine, grabbed a peanut on the bed and ate it.
He didn't show disgust at his drunken burp ghost, but asked shyly, "What are you doing?"
"What are you talking about?" Xiao Shizhu smiled evilly, turned his head and widened his eyes, looking at the shyness that was hovering on the ghost mother's face, and said, "I was going to have a few more drinks just now, but Ying Zhao and Wu Zhiqi had to let me come back soon." And if I get drunk today, they won't be able to explain it to you in the future. I patted my chest and told them, is Lao Tzu the kind of ghost who rushes into the cave room when he sees his daughter-in-law? But they didn't follow me, and forcibly drove me back to the cave room with you. Then what do we say we should do now? Can we not accept their 'good intentions'?", and smirked at the ghost mother.
"I was so drunk that I was left here for a long time, and I was embarrassed to say. After the ghost mother snorted, she raised her hand and gently patted his chest, and then pretended to be angry, turned sideways slightly, and didn't turn her head.
Xiao Shizhu let go of her and stood up, walked three or five steps steadily, and said, "Do you see I'm drunk?" Before he finished speaking, he stumbled, fell forward, and fell to the ground with his face touching the ground. He also did it on purpose, plus there was a red carpet on the ground, and he didn't dare to fall down deliberately if he fell.
When the ghost mother saw it, her heart suddenly tightened, and she hurriedly got up and walked to him with her skirt and squatted down, stretched out her hand and shook him, and said urgently: "Husband, husband?"
Suddenly, Xiao Shizhu turned over, looked at the ghost mother's anxious and worried face with his back to the sky, and asked with a smile, "Distressed, right?" As he spoke, he grabbed the ghost mother's hand, pulled her down on top of him, hugged her tightly and smiled.
"Let you scare me. Seeing the corners of his mouth rise and show a wicked smile, the ghost mother knew that he was deliberately scaring her just now, so she couldn't help but say, raised her pink fist and hammered it into his chest, and at the same time said angrily with a sullen face: "You are so bad, how can I like you such a villain?" After speaking, he glanced at Xiao Shizhu.
"Then I have to ask you. After she beat her a few times, Xiao Shizhu got cheap and behaved, looked at her eyebrows with interest, and asked: "It's too late to regret it, I'll leave now and go back to my Tiangu Garden or Xiao Jiajun camp." ”。
"You dare!" the ghost mother moth raised an eyebrow and glared at him.
"Hahaha, it's still reluctant to give me up. Xiao Shizhu saw that she believed it, and his eyes were even more proud, he helped the ghost mother to get up, and then took advantage of her unpreparedness, bent over, put his left hand under the ghost mother's shoulder blades, put his fingers under his left armpit, put his right hand on the crook of her leg, and picked up the ghost mother with both hands and hugged it horizontally on his chest.
Since the ghost mother was born, it was the first time she had been hugged by a ghost like this, and her excitement and joy suddenly rose from the bottom of her heart, swimming all over her body to open her pores at the same time, her heart was also a little nervous; she wanted to break free, but she was afraid of falling, so she had to subconsciously wrap her right hand around Xiao Shizhu's neck, and her left hand clasped her right hand to form a ring, which was a lot more relieved.
"Let's go, let's go into the cave room!" Xiao Shizhu carried her to the bed and put her down, reached out and ripped off her embroidered shoes, overwhelmed her, staring at her apricot face and peach cheeks and looking at her carefully.
"What are you looking at?" the ghost mother looked shy, hurriedly turned her head away, and asked in a slushful voice, "It's not that I haven't seen it before." ”。
Xiao Shizhu didn't feel embarrassed when he heard this, but deliberately smacked his lips, showed disgust, pretended to complain, and said, "I said daughter-in-law, you should lose weight." Looking at the few catties of meat, why is it so heavy to hold?".
The ghost mother was stunned for a moment, and in a moment she reacted to Xiao Shizhu teasing her, but she didn't speak, but turned her head and opened her cherry mouth, and the next second later, she suddenly raised her head and bit Xiao Shizhu's left shoulder without hesitation.
It wasn't until Xiao Shizhu shook in pain and snorted that she let go, admiring the other party's grinning appearance, and said proudly: "Let you talk nonsense." ”。 As he spoke, he wrapped his hand around his neck again.