A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

According to the custom, when a woman gets married, her parents will tell her to marry someone else's wife, how to be humble and submissive, and how to manage the housework. Shen Ying held her daughter's hand, and said softly, "Take care of yourself, there are all kinds of things in the world, you can't do better than yourself."

After saying this, she turned her head slightly to look at King Chen, and seeing that there was no unpleasant expression on the other side, she saluted to King Chen Fushen: "You have to work... Your Highness."

"Please rest assured mother-in-law, my son-in-law will definitely take care of Jiuzhu." King Chen secretly held Jiuzhu's hand under his sleeve and smiled at her: "As long as I am here, I will not let anyone bully her."

"Okay." Shen Ying pretended not to see the hands they held together, bent over to pick up the cake on the table, picked it up with chopsticks and put it to Jiuzhu's mouth: "May your future life be like this? Dao dim sum, ?? sweet and sweet, ?? carefree."

When Jiuzhu swallowed the snack, the officials of the Ministry of Rites sang loudly: "The bride gets into the sedan chair!"

When King Chen saw Ming Jiyuan bent down and squatted in front of Jiuzhu, he stepped forward and said, "Uncle, let me carry it."

Ming Cunfu couldn't bear it anymore and stepped forward to stop King Chen: "Your Highness, you really can't let you do this."

Seeing the Ming family's opposition so firmly, King Chen regretfully gave up: "Okay."

The eight great wives and Mrs. Quanfu had nothing to say. They turned their heads silently, pretending that they didn't see anything. The prince's wedding, ?? How can anyone salute with the bride?

The Eight Great Life Women often deal with Vanity Fair, and they know more about royal affairs than the Quanfu ladies. After the Su Clan's canonization, many people began to suspect that His Majesty would canonize King Chen as the crown prince soon.

A prince who is very likely to become a prince would rather risk being impeached by the civil servants for not abiding by the custom, but insist on welcoming his relatives in person, and even call in several other princes to help out. What kind of heart is this?

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They looked at the young lady of the Ming family, who was being carried by her brother. It was rumored that Queen Su was extremely satisfied with Princess Chen. They thought it was a polite remark, but they didn't expect Queen Su to let her son do this.

After a woman gets married, it is difficult for her mother-in-law to get along with her daughter-in-law. It is a great blessing for Miss Ming to be liked by her mother-in-law who is the queen.

King Huai followed behind with his hands in his hands, trying to squeeze out the loving smile of his elder brother towards his younger brother.

"Things are a little troublesome." An Wang looked sad and his steps were heavy: "If the princess knew that when the fifth brother welcomed the marriage, he personally went to the Ming family to pick him up, and he would definitely quarrel with me for a long time after returning."

King Huai clicked his tongue: "If she dares to make a noise, you should go to sleep in the concubine's room. As a child of your father, can you still be afraid of a woman?"

Wang An smiled and didn't answer. He wasn't afraid of women, but he was afraid of his own princess.

"Big brother, there is no concubine in the second brother's room." King Jing reminded in a low voice: "Second brother... he is afraid of the inside."

"Mo, don't talk nonsense, I'm not called fear, I just don't have the heart to take a concubine." Wang An quickly denied it, and changed the subject: "The bride is about to leave the main gate, let's hurry up."

"He doesn't accept the concubine, so does Lu Zhaoyi allow him to have only the concubine in his backyard?" King Jing whispered, turning to King Huai and saying, "Lu Zhaoyi has a really good temperament."

King Huai had no impression of Lu Zhaoyi, but remembered that she was a taciturn woman who could only be regarded as a beautiful woman. She was originally a second-class maid serving by the Queen Mother. One day, the Queen Mother went to greet the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother gave Lu Zhaoyi to her father.

When he was a child, he had heard people say that Lu Zhaoyi was the eyeliner put by the Queen Mother, so he was always not favored by the father.

In fact, since the father emperor ascended the throne, he has only favored the queen Su, and the other concubines and concubines are no different from Lu Zhaoyi.

When he was young and angry, he asked his mother-in-law why his father favored Su Shi and Yun Duqing alone. The mother-in-law did not answer him, but just looked at him quietly, until he no longer had the courage to ask any more, then the mother-in-law asked. He said a few words.

[The love between men and women is not important, but those with power are entitled to choose whatever they like. 】

"Big brother? Big brother?"

King Jing saw that King Huai was in a daze, and reminded him in a low voice: "The bride is about to get on the sedan chair."

King Huai regained his senses, looked at the sedan chair at the door, and his heart became sour again. Yun Duqing used a twelve-carrying sedan to marry the princess. When he married her, he used an eight-carrying sedan.

They are all princes, the difference is quite big.

Ming Jiyuan carried Jiuzhu on his back and carefully placed her in the sedan chair. He took the jade Ruyi from the wife's hand and put it on his sister's lap.

"Brother." Jiu Zhu secretly took down the face-covering fan, and winked at Ming Jiyuan: "Don't be sad, and don't worry about me. You lean your head over, and I'll whisper to you."

No matter what others think of him, Ming Jiyuan bent down and put his head on Jiuzhu without thinking.

"Go back and tell my father and mother that Jiuzhu didn't leave our house, but just brought back one more His Royal Highness."

Ming Jiyuan's pupils trembled, looking at his sister's eyes with a little more admiration that he couldn't express.

"Brother understands." Ming Jiyuan took a deep breath: "Sister, you have to remember that you must, must take good care of yourself."

"Yeah." Jiuzhu nodded.

"Master Ming, the auspicious time has come, it's time to get up the sedan chair." The life woman bit her head and walked to Ming Jiyuan to remind him in a low voice.

Ming Jiyuan glanced at his sister one last time, slowly lowered the sedan curtain, and turned to look at King Chen.

After the eldest brother of the Chen Dynasty bowed his hands, he turned over and rode on a horse tied with a big red flower, and said loudly, "Get up from the sedan chair."

He turned his head and glanced at the three brothers behind him.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, the three

The prince maintained a stiff smile and shouted loudly, "Get up from the sedan chair!"

King Huai: "Blossoms bloom, rich and noble, and lotus flowers."

An Wang: "Happiness is full of happiness and happiness."

King Jing: "The dragon and the phoenix are humming on the Feiqin."

"Get up."

The Twelve Warriors steadily lifted the dragon and phoenix sedan chair, and the sound of firecrackers crackled, as if the entire capital was lively.

The Ming family stood at the gate, and Ming Jingzhou held a basin of water in his hand, and he couldn't pour it out.

"What is the water splashed by the married daughter!" He was heartbroken, and poured the water on the door of his house: "My daughter of Ming Jingzhou, even if she is married, she is still my daughter."

"Father, the third uncle hasn't cried yet, why are you crying?" Ming Cunfu turned his head and saw his father was secretly wiping his tears.

"You don't understand." Ming Jinghai said with tears in his eyes: "Three generations of our Ming family, Zhuzhu has a daughter, and she was married off by the royal family. I feel uncomfortable watching it."

Ming Cunfu looked around, making sure no one noticed this, so he said, "My son thinks that His Royal Highness King Chen is very good, not only came to our Ming family to welcome the relatives in person, but also let other princes be the best man, it can be seen that he loves him very much. Nine beads."

"He loves Chongjiuzhu, that's right." Every elder saw that his daughters were emerald cabbage, and other people's sons were pigs.

"But I don't seem to have seen the fourth prince." Ming Cunfu asked in a low voice, "Could it be that the fourth prince resents that you and the third uncle exposed what the Zheng family and the Zheng family did, so they don't want to come?"

"Think things in a positive direction." Ming Jinghai wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Maybe the injury between the fourth prince's thigh has not healed, so he can't ride a horse?"

Ming Cunfu: "..."

This may not be a good thing for the fourth prince, right?

In the procession of sedan chairs, musicians dressed in red were playing, attracting countless people to watch.

"The groom is really handsome."

"Have you seen the dragon-patterned beaded crown worn by the groom? Only the prince and grandson dare to wear such a crown."

"Huh, no wonder there are red lanterns hanging on both sides of the main road. The bride must be very beautiful."

"Why do you say that?"

"Three months ago, a prince got married, and the wedding was not so grand."

"How can those princes compare to this one, this is King Chen who is both civil and military. If you see the three handsome sons behind him, they are all brothers of King Chen."

"The overbearing prince and the princess of County Qiao are true..." An eldest sister with a vegetable basket looked at the sedan chair excitedly, her voice trembling: "The storyteller said that the overbearing prince once stood up to County Qiao. He vowed to marry her in the biggest wedding in the city, and he did!"

The reader closest to her retorted: "The storytellers are all telling stories, and those are fake."

"If it's a fake, how did this grand wedding come about?" The eldest sister rolled her eyes at the scholar: "How can you, those unscrupulous scholars, understand the overbearing prince's infatuation with the county head, hum!"

She twisted her waist chasing the sedan chair, got together with other women, and boasted of this wedding that countless women envied.

"I think you're just reluctant to spend money on your wife, so you deliberately pantothenic acid here." Another girl sullenly threw a sentence: "Still jealous that the prince was admitted to the top spot, you can't pass the test?"

Scholar: "..."

What kind of bullshit rumors are these?

He wanted to refute, but looking at the stern gazes of the girls around him, he was afraid that he would be surrounded and beaten, so he could only leave in despair.

He just had some inexplicable resentment towards King Chen and Princess Chen, but he wanted to see what the expressions of these women would look like when King Chen accepted his concubine.

The sedan chair is about to arrive at the Suzaku Gate, but the royal family members are still arguing about which door the sedan chair should enter.

"Although King Chen is the son-in-law, he is only a prince. It is an exception for him to marry in the palace. How can the princess' sedan chair pass through the main entrance?"

"Since it's the direct son, it doesn't matter if you pass through the main entrance of Suzakuzhong..."

"Bah! I think you just want to please Empress Su, so you ignore the rules of your ancestors!"

"Don't make any noise, the sedan chair has arrived."

Before the clan elders could react, they saw a line of dragon guards marching to the front of the central gate, lined up on both sides, and knelt down on one knee.

"King Chen's wedding, His Majesty has an order to open the main entrance!"

The clan elders who had been arguing just now were suddenly dumbfounded. They never expected that His Majesty, who was usually respectful and kind to them, actually overstepped their opinions and used such a strong attitude to let the Dragon Guard open the front door. .

Glancing at the sabres on the waists of the Dragon Guards, the clan elders shut their mouths wisely.

They are all old guys who have survived two dynasties and can still save their lives. Their biggest advantage is not that they have royal blood flowing through them, but that they are aware of current affairs.

As the owner of this palace, His Majesty didn't mind Princess Chen's sedan chair being carried in from the front door. What else would they mind.

The Zhongzheng Gate slowly opened in the sight of everyone.

The smile on King Huai's face suddenly became even uglier than crying.

Central gate!

Only the queen can be carried in from the front door!

The royal father doted on the fifth brother, how did he dote on him to such a degree? He gritted his teeth, trying to make the smile on his face look bright and natural when he raised his head.

He's not sour, he's not sour at all.

Seeing the Zhongzheng door that opened in front of him, Wang An was quietly relieved. He finally thought of a way to coax the princess.

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If the princess asked him why he didn't go to her mother's house to greet the sedan chair in person, he would say that the fifth brother's wedding was an exception, and everything was the intention of the father.

What the prince greets in person, what does one hundred and eighty carry a dowry, or what twelve carry a sedan chair, can't compare to the scenery of the sedan chair passing through the main entrance of Suzakuzhong.

As long as everything is pushed to the father, the princess will not drive him to the study to lie down.

King Chen glanced at the wide-open Zhongzheng Gate, turned his head to look at the sedan chair, touched the horse, and the horse's hoof stepped into the Zhongzheng Gate.

"Congratulations on the wedding of Wang Ye and Princess!"

The Imperial Guards, the Dragon Guards, and the Jinjia Guards knelt down in unison: "I wish the prince and the princess to bring their white heads together for a hundred years."

Behind the Zhongzheng Gate, there is a red carpet that can't be seen.

The petals fell from the palace wall, and a few slipped into the sedan chair. Jiuzhu lowered her head and picked up the petals that fell on her body, and found that these flowers were not in season.

She heard her brother mention that in order to keep the flowers blooming in all seasons, some families will deliberately spend money to build greenhouses and cultivate new flower seeds, which cost countless money.

How much money did the wedding between her and His Highness cost His Majesty and the Empress?

Picking up the fan to cover her face, she raised a small slit in the curtain of the sedan chair and secretly looked outside.

On both sides of the palace road, every few steps stood the maid and eunuch holding lanterns with happy characters, countless petals flying all over the sky, red yarn lingering, bursts of joy, everything was like a dream.

The sedan chairs passed through one door after another, and the night became dark. The lanterns with happy characters in the hands of the maids and eunuchs merged into a long dragon, which illuminated the entire palace brilliantly.

"Drop the sedan!"

King Chen got off his horse and walked to the door of the sedan chair.

"Your Highness, please knock on the sedan chair with your feet."

Knocking on the sedan door with your feet to show that after marriage, men are honored and women are humbled, and the husband is the heaven of the wife.

King Chen raised his foot, but put it back. He bent down and tapped the sedan chair three times with his knuckles under the astonished eyes of the wives: "Ming Xiaozhu, this king welcomes you to enter."

Lifting the sedan curtain, he saw Jiu Zhu exposed outside the fan with smiling eyes.

He smiled, reached out to her with one hand, and took the Ruyi on her knee with the other: "Come, follow me."

Jiuzhu put her hand in his palm.

"The bride gets off the sedan chair, and the drums welcome you."

The red carpet is very soft, stepping on it, as if walking among the clouds.

"The newcomer leads the red, and the auspicious cloud surrounds the courtyard."

Someone put the red silk into Jiuzhu's hand, she looked down at the big red hydrangea in the middle of the red silk, and secretly looked at King Chen.

"Don't be nervous." King Chen whispered in her ear: "You are now the king's concubine, and no one dares to disrespect you."

"His Royal Highness, I'm not nervous." Jiu Zhu squeezed the red silk tightly: "I'm just curious about your current appearance, Your Highness."

"Then do I look good today?" King Chen squeezed her hand lightly.

"Good-looking." Jiuzhu added: "His Royal Highness looks good every day."

"The newcomer crosses the door, and the good relationship is forever."

Stepping into the gate of Qilin Palace, King Chen looked at the brazier placed in front of the two of them, bent over and hugged Jiuzhu horizontally, and stepped over the brazier.

The eight great wives who accompany the two of them: "..."

The brazier is really not for men to cross.

Forget it, forget it, since King Chen insisted on going to the Ming family to pick up his relatives, everything has been messed up.

Before she could react, Jiuzhu had already been picked up and put down by King Chen. She wanted to look back, but remembering the rule that brides should not turn back on the day they got married, she had to resist the urge to turn back: "Your Highness, what was on the ground just now?"

"It's nothing." King Chen bent down and arranged the skirt of the wedding dress for Jiuzhu: "Anyway, you stepped over with me."

"Oh." Jiuzhu followed King Chen and continued to walk forward, stepping on the red carpet and stepping up the steps, into the main hall of the Qilin Palace, which was already full of guests.

There are all the noble people in the court, the only one who doesn't have it is Jiuzhu's maiden family.

The firecrackers sounded one after another, and Jiuzhu saw the emperor and the empress sitting on the top, and most of the guests standing on both sides bent down to salute to her and the emperor.

The ceremonial official stood up and read a long and beautiful article.

The central idea is to praise her, as well as praise her and His Royal Highness made in heaven and earth, and wish them a long-lasting love.

After the ceremony official who finished reading the article withdrew, King Chen whispered in Jiuzhu's ear: "This article was written by the father and the mother in person."

Jiuzhu blinked, really?

King Chen nodded.

He saw the two with his own eyes, and for a certain sentence, he turned over several books.

"Salute."

"Worship heaven and earth."

"Second worship to the high hall."

Jiuzhu turned around and knelt down towards Emperor Longfeng and Empress Su.

Several princes looked at King Chen and Princess Chen who were kneeling in front of their father, with mixed feelings. When they got married in the palace, not only the mother and concubine could not leave the palace, but when they worshipped the high hall, they could only bow down to the private royal seal representing the father.

Yun Yanze glanced at the three older brothers who entered the door with Yun Duqing and concealed the suspicion in his heart.

Why did the three of them come to the wedding hall together, and they came so late, and they didn't see the father and emperor being unhappy at all.

This feeling of being kept in the dark and only being excluded from it does not make people happy. He lowered his eyelids, looked coldly at Yun Duqing who was smiling, and after seeing Ming Jiuzhu who was helping him get up, his eyes fell on the hands that the two of them clasped together.

"Happy husband and wife."

Jiu Zhu and Chen Wang turned sideways, and the two looked into each other's eyes.

Qi laughed.

King Chen couldn't see the corners of Jiu Zhu's raised mouth, but he knew she was smiling because her eyes were so bright and beautiful.

He raised his hands, pressed his left hand on his right, raised his eyebrows, and bowed down.

The tops of their heads touched, and King Chen chuckled softly, holding the dragon and phoenix crown on top of Jiuzhu's head and making her stand up.

Emperor Longfeng and Empress Su looked at the lovers who were peeking at each other and couldn't hide the smiles on their faces.

Liu Zhongbao took a step forward and sang with a smile in his voice: "Send the newlyweds to the bridal chamber."

King Chen took Jiuzhu to the father and the queen and bowed, and took her by the hand to the apse.

Emperor Longfeng knew that with him and Meidai, the guests present did not dare to laugh out loud. Weddings are auspicious if they are lively.

"Zhen and the Queen will go back to the palace first." Emperor Longfeng looked at King Huai: "Boss, you are the eldest brother, and the adults of the Ministry of Rites, please entertain the guests well."

"My son obeys the order." King Huai responded quickly, and the smile he pretended to be was a little more sincere.

On this occasion, the father still believed in his son the most.

Empress Su nodded slightly to King Huai: "There is work for His Royal Highness King Huai."

"The mother's words are serious. As the elder brother, the son should help the younger brother entertain guests." King Huai saluted respectfully, daring not to be disrespectful.

He could be ill-mannered in front of his father, but he didn't dare to wait for Empress Su slowly.

"His Royal Highness." Jiuzhu and Chen Wang went around several corridors before finally arriving at their wedding room: "The Qilin Palace is so big."

"Tired?" King Chen helped her to sit down: "Eat something to pad your stomach first."

"His Royal Highness." The Eight Great Wife of Life and Mrs. Quanfu finally couldn't bear it any longer: "You guys haven't had the wine yet."

Come on, let the bride sit down first after entering the door. According to the folk customs, this indicates that after the two get married, the bride will be in charge.

The first wife glanced at the charming and charming Princess Chen. No matter how she looked at it, she didn't look like a strong woman, and it could be seen that folk customs were not allowed.

"His Royal Highness, please take the bride's blessing fan first."

Jiu Zhu held the handle of the fan in his right hand, supported the fan surface in his left hand, and put the fan in King Chen's hand.

Under the candlelight, people are more delicate than flowers.

King Chen put the fan into the wooden box, took two glasses of wine from the wife's hand, and handed one to Jiuzhu: "Have you ever drunk wine before?"

"No." Jiuzhu shook her head: "Master said that wine hurts the mind and should not be drunk."

King Chen chuckled and wrapped her arms around her: "Today, for my sake, I'm wronged you to have a drink."

After drinking a glass of warm wine, Hongyun quickly climbed up Jiuzhu's cheek, she frowned, the wine is really unpleasant.

"What your master said is right, drink hurts people." King Chen took the wine glass from her fingertips: "In the future, we won't drink it anymore."

He raised his hand and motioned for the wife and Mrs. Quanfu to step back.

The wife and Mrs. Quanfu couldn't wait to retire. The wedding was too much trouble, and they couldn't bear all the unexpected actions of King Chen.

"His Royal Highness." Jiuzhu pointed to the heavy dragon and phoenix wedding crown on her head: "Hurry up and take this off for me, my neck hurts."

"Wait." King Chen stood up, walked behind Jiuzhu, looked at the dragon and phoenix crown for a long time, and then figured out how to take it off.

"It's quite heavy." Putting the dragon and phoenix crown on the table, King Chen asked the eunuch to change a table of fresh hot dishes: "Eat something first."

The room was a little quiet, and Jiu Zhu looked at him with moist eyes: "Your Highness."

"Huh?" Chen Wang took a chopstick and put it in the bowl in front of her: "What's wrong?"

"My head is a little dizzy." Jiu Zhu rested her cheek with one hand, "Is Your Highness still going out to entertain guests?"

"Go out and walk around and come back." He reached out and touched her cheek, feeling a little hot, and said with a smile, "Is your alcohol intake so bad?"

"My mind is very clear, but I'm a little dizzy." Jiu Zhu picked up the bowl to eat, and King Chen scooped her a bowl of porridge. When she finished eating the porridge, she didn't get up and leave the room.

It wasn't until Eunuch Sli urged him several times that he snorted into Jiuzhu's hair: "You go to bed and rest first, I'll be right back. There are palace maids and eunuchs waiting outside the door, just call them if you have anything."

"Oh." Jiuzhu nodded, waiting for King Chen to leave, then got up, walked to the bed and sat down, and found something under the quilt.

I opened the quilt and saw that it was longan, red dates, peanuts and walnuts.

She crushed a walnut with her bare hands, took out the walnut inside and threw it into her mouth. Jiu Zhu curiously continued to rummage on the bed and found a few books under the pillow.

Book?

Jiuzhu picked up the book and glanced at it, then threw it aside with little interest, sat cross-legged on the quilt, crushed all the walnuts one by one, took out the walnut kernels and put them together.

As soon as King Chen went out, the crowd gathered around enthusiastically. Especially those royal scumbags who used to follow behind King Chen, they brought wine glasses and approached King Chen: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, we have already prepared what you ordered us to do, and we will send things over in the next few days. ."

King Chen looked at them silently, seriously recalling what he had instructed them.

"I just didn't expect famous books and ancient books to be so expensive. In order to buy these things, our brothers' wallets have been emptied." The royal dudes were even more bitter than Huang Lian. Cricket and cockfighting are expensive.

It's hard to be a good person.

"Yeah." King Chen nodded inexplicably: "Very good."

Anyway, talking about buying a book in front of him in the future is better than talking about cockfighting.

And a few brave ones,

He wanted to go to the bridal chamber, but was ruthlessly rejected by King Chen.

"My princess is timid and thin-skinned. You should speak more politely in front of her in the future. Don't scare her."

Would the royal dudes dare to refuse this request?

They didn't dare, so they could only agree with a bitter face.

But what is the standard of gentleness?

He said he would go back after only wandering around for a while, but he was determined not to swing twice. King Chen hastily toasted everyone and walked to the backyard.

Everyone knows that today is the night of the bridal chamber, and no one is ignorant to stop it.

Pushing open the door, King Chen saw Jiu Zhu crushed a walnut with two fingers.

"His Royal Highness, are you back?" Jiuzhu remembered the book that she had thrown aside, and lay down on the bed to pick it up: "His Royal Highness, there is a villain's book here."