A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

Spreading her hair, Shen shi gently used a wooden comb to comb her daughter's hair from root to end, smiling with tears in her eyes: "Over the years,?? I often buy some hair accessories for little girls,?? It's a pity it hasn't been used all these years."

"Mother, give me a double bun, ?? You made me look so beautiful, ?? The hairpin you bought before, ?? I must look good now wearing it." Jiu Zhu turned around and hugged Shen's waist and acted like a spoiled child: " My daughter loves those cute and pretty hair accessories."

"Okay." Shen shi bent down and patted her daughter's back lightly, as if to coax a young child: "What kind of bun do you like,?? What kind of bun will my mother give you today."

Ming Jiyuan looked at the mother and daughter who were embracing each other. Don't hide the tears in his eyes, he exited the room, and closed the door for his mother and sister.

After the mother and daughter hugged together for a long time, Mrs. Shen took out a carved wooden box from the house. After opening the box, it was densely packed and neatly packed, and there were many jewelry used by little girls.

Gold collars, golden bells, long-lived hundred-year-old locks, all kinds of step-by-step pairs of hairpins, gemstones and jade, all of them have a naive and childlike interest.

"It's so beautiful." Jiuzhu touched these jewelry, so a box full of them, how long has my mother waited for her to come home?

"Take all these away." Shen shi combed her daughter's hair: "May you and Chen Wang's white hair have the same eyebrows, Qin Se and Ming, and your love will never be separated."

The movements of her hair are a little unfamiliar, but every movement is extremely gentle: "It's not easy for the royal family, but if you have a firm heart, nothing in the world will be difficult for you."

Double bun, the hairstyle that unmarried girls often wear.

Shen shi pinned the red bean hairpin on both sides of her hair: "Does it look good?"

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People in the world only know the love of red beans, but they don't know that their relatives are very affectionate.

"It looks good." Jiuzhu looked at herself in the mirror and nodded her head: "Thank you mother."

"Jiuzhu." Shen shi put her hand on her daughter's shoulder: "Don't wrong yourself, the Ming family will always be your place to stay."

"Mother." Jiuzhu held her hand: "Don't be sad."

"I'm not sad for my mother." Shen shi forced a smile: "It's just that I can't bear it."

The setting sun passed through the window lattice and climbed onto the dressing table, like a naughty child.

Jiuzhu put her arms around Shen's waist again: "Mother, this place will always be my home."

A drop of warm tears slid across her cheeks and rolled over the corners of her mouth.

King Chen woke up from his dream, looked out the dark window, and sat cross-legged on the bed. Is it still light?

Tai Miao, who was serving outside, heard the movement, stood outside the tent and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, are you awake?"

"Master the lamp." King Chen got down from the bed: "Bring some water, this king wants to take a bath."

"Your Highness, you only took a bath last night..."

"I don't like to say the words of this king a second time."

"Yes, Your Highness."

King Chen touched the balm on the table, remembering that Ming Xiaozhu was allergic to incense, worried that she didn't like the smell, took out a handkerchief and wiped her fingertips.

Early spring morning, it was very late.

Sun Caiyao was sleeping when she heard the noise in the yard next door. She was worried that these people would wake up His Highness, so she called the palace servant and asked, "Why is it so noisy outside?"

"His Royal Highness Chen is going to take a shower in the morning, and the people below are waiting." The palace servant looked at her embarrassedly: "Prince Concubine, today is His Royal Highness Chen's wedding, you... take care of it."

Waking up so early to take a shower?

Sun Caiyao was puzzled: "There are still several hours before the auspicious time of the big wedding. Did King Chen prepare too early?"

"My servant heard that His Royal Highness King Chen was going to meet the princess in the residence of the Servant of the Ming Dynasty, so he got up early to prepare." The palace servant told what he heard: "It is said that the Ministry of Rites originally did not agree with the Royal Highness of King Chen going to the residence of the Servant of the Ming Dynasty to meet the bride. Son of a bitch, but His Highness insists on going, the Rites can only compromise."

The royal family is respected, and when a prince marries a concubine, there is almost no need to go to the concubine's house to welcome him.

If the prince valued the imperial concubine, he would personally go outside the palace gate to lead the bride off the sedan chair, such as her wedding with His Royal Highness. If you follow the rules and procedures, you only need to wait for the bride to enter the door before walking over the threshold of the second door with her holding the red hydrangea.

King Chen and Ming Jiuzhu got married in the Qilin Palace. If King Chen greeted him outside the Suzaku gate, he would have given Ming Jiuzhu a face.

Seeing that the prince and concubine didn't speak, the palace servant said cautiously, "Or else, the servants will go and talk to the servants in King Chen's yard and ask them to be quieter."

"No need." Yun Yanze lifted the curtain and walked in: "Today is the day of the fifth brother's great rejoicing. It's better to be more lively."

"Your Highness, are you awake?" Sun Caiyao saw Yun Yanze coming in and stood up to greet him.

"Sit down, we don't have to pay attention to these rules between husband and wife." Yun Yanze pulled Sun Caiyao to sit down, and turned to ask the palace servant, "You just said that fifth brother insists on going to Ming's house to welcome relatives?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

Yun Yanze smiled helplessly, turned his head and said to Sun Caiyao: "The fifth brother has always been so temperamental, and only he dares to do what other princes dare not do."

Hearing this, Sun Caiyao felt relieved, yes, when His Highness greeted her outside the gate, he already valued her very much. Of the other princes, who would dare to act like King Chen regardless of his willful willfulness?

King Chen took a shower and changed his clothes, and put on his complicated wedding clothes. His jade-like face was even more white, tender and handsome by the red clothes.

"Why haven't the officials of the Ministry of Rites arrived yet?" He sat in the main hall, wanting to drink tea but was afraid that his stomach would bloat halfway, which would make him indecent. There is only one big wedding, and he can't make his wedding with Ming Xiaozhu not perfect.

"His Royal Highness, the halogen book team is ready, and the dragon guards and golden armors are all in place." The little eunuch said: "But the officials of the Ministry of Rites said that the auspicious time has not yet arrived, please wait a moment, Your Highness."

"Tsk." King Chen got up and paced around the house. He didn't think time passed so slowly on weekdays, so why is it so slow today?

"Fifth brother, congratulations, fifth brother." King Huai brought King An and King Jing in, and when he saw the wedding dress on King Chen's body, he felt a hint of pantothenic acid in his heart.

The son is as precious as the mother, and in the end it is the son of the queen, and Yun Duqing's wedding dress is a half-level higher than them.

"Thank you for the three brothers." King Chen raised his eyebrows when he saw the three of them, and bowed to them: "The three brothers came just right, and the younger brother still has something to ask for."

Seeing that King Chen took the initiative to bow to him, the three princes couldn't help but take a step back. How could Qing Yundu be so polite to them on weekdays?

So polite, there must be a problem, and the problem is still very big.

King An and King Jing silently looked at King Huai who was standing in the middle, and King Huai said bravely, "If the fifth brother has something to say, we don't need to be so polite."

Bah, it's not a good thing to see at a glance.

"I see a private wedding. When the groom welcomes the bride, there will always be brothers to help. I don't know if the three elder brothers are willing to help the younger brother with this small favor?" King Chen said with a smile: "My father always said that the older brothers are mature and stable, and they are close to siblings. , presumably the brothers will not refuse?"

Three princes: "..."

Even if you lick your face and run to the Ming family to welcome your relatives, you also need a few other brothers to accompany you, and there is a limit to your face thickness, understand?

"Welcome to relatives is about festivity, and the three elder brothers tie these three red belts." King Chen stuffed each of the three elder brothers with a belt: "Brothers, the auspicious time is coming soon, so let's go now?"

The three princes were in a daze with their ugly red belts.

Did he give them a chance to refuse?

"Big Brother..." King An turned to look at King Huai, hoping that Big Brother would bravely reject Yun Duqing's shameless request.

King Huai turned his head to avoid the hopeful eyes of the two younger brothers, and put the red belt around his waist: "My brothers, those of us who are older brothers should help our younger brother to welcome his relatives, there are so many people."

Prince An and Prince Jing silently retracted their gazes, bowed their heads and resigned themselves to their red belts.

Who says the eldest brother is like a father?

Big brother's brotherhood towards them can only be regarded as a landslide.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites saw that King Chen not only came by himself, but also brought three other princes, and turned to his colleagues: "Do the other three His Royal Highnesses owe His Highness a lot of money?"

"Cough." The colleague coughed dryly: "At least it's my own."

King Chen is their own member of the Ministry of Rites, and Princess Chen is the daughter of an official of their Ministry of Rites, and she is also her own. My own people bully other princes, can that be called bullying?

"Your Highnesses are really fraternal, which moved the lower officials and others." The Ministry of Rites loudly praised the four people's brotherhood, although the other prince's face was downcast, this did not affect the speed of their praise.

What brothers and sisters are respectful, blood is thicker than water, brothers are of one heart, etc., they keep pouring out, exaggerating their level and exaggerating their demeanor.

For a time, the three princes were not good anymore.

"The auspicious time is here, get up!"

King Chen rode on a horse tied with red hydrangea, looked up at the red paper and flowers falling from the palace wall, and clung to the reins in his hand.

He is going to take the princess home.

In the Ming family, Jiuzhu was accompanied by the eight great wives and ten Quanfu wives. There were dragon guards around the mansion. She held a fan in her right hand and Yu Ruyi in her left, so she didn't dare to shake her head.

The dragon and phoenix wedding crowns are beautiful, but they are too heavy.

The sound of firecrackers sounded outside, and soon there were many voices. As the voices got closer, the Eight Great Life Women vaguely felt that something was wrong.

In a royal wedding, isn't the bride's family sending people to the sedan chair and entering the palace directly?

Why is there so much noise outside.

Just wondering, they heard someone outside the door, someone was reciting a makeup poem. This voice sounded like... like King Chen?

King Chen himself came to greet the relatives?

The eight great wives exchanged glances in disbelief. One of them secretly opened the door and looked out, and found that not only King Chen was here, but also three princes, King Huai, King An, and King Jing as best man.

She sucked in a breath of cold air, turned to look at the wives of life and the wives of Quanfu in the house, and said after correcting her demeanor: "After the groom has finished urging the poems, ask the bride to bid farewell to her parents and move on to the sedan chair."

The highest-ranking life wife drew a stroke between Jiuzhu's eyebrows: "Haiyan Shuangqi, Shiyong Haoqi."

"County Lord, please cover your face with a fan, and don't let others see the charming lady."

The door of the room opened wide, and the wife and Mrs. Quanfu accompanied her on both sides. One of the wives was going to help Jiuzhu and hold Yuruyi's hand.

"This king is here." King Chen walked to Jiuzhu's side, held her hand, and whispered in her ear: "I will accompany you to say goodbye to your father-in-law and mother-in-law."

"Your Highness, this doesn't fit..."

Illegal.

The lifeless wife swallowed her words before King Chen's sharp gaze.

In the main hall, Ming Jingzhou and Shen Ying were sitting in costumes. When they heard the sound of firecrackers, the tears in Shen Ying's eyes almost fell.

But when she saw King Chen who came with her daughter, and the three princes who followed the eight wives, the tears in her eyes stagnated.

What is King Chen doing?

"Unfilial daughter bids farewell to father and mother." Jiuzhu handed Yu Ruyi to the nearest wife, holding a fan in both hands, and knelt down to the second old man.

"Kow!"

At the moment when Jiu Zhu kowtowed, King Chen bent down and bowed to the end.

You can't kneel to your ministers, but as a junior, you can still bow to your elders.

All the Ming family members present looked at King Chen, who bent over and bowed to the end, with a thoughtful expression.

Ming Cunfu wanted to go up to King Fuchen, but was stopped by Ming Jinghai.

"Kow again."

Bow again.

After the third kowtow, Shen Ying stretched out her hand to support her daughter, and Ming Jingzhou also supported King Chen's arm.

His Royal Highness King Chen used his strength to enhance the sincerity of the prince when he married the princess.