Getting Rich from Legend of Zhen Huan

By the time the first snow fell, all the procedures had been completed. No matter how reluctant the Queen Mother was, the Fifth Princess had to get married.

The day before her wedding, the Imperial Household Department carried the Fifth Princess's dowry to the Princess's Mansion. After the dowry was delivered, the Imperial Household Department was responsible for displaying it.

Along with the dowry came a "marriage trial princess". Her task was to sleep with the prince consort before the princess was married, to check whether the prince consort had any hidden diseases and his sexual life.

After the trial marriage, someone must be sent immediately to examine the couple and report the results back to the palace. If there are no abnormalities, the marriage ceremony can be held normally.

After the princess is married, the princesses who are tried out for marriage are usually kept as the prince consort's concubine, and a few of them are also made maids of the princess.

The trial marriage ceremony was a unique custom in the Qing Palace. It was only limited to the marriages of royal princesses and was forbidden to other princes and nobles.

Jiang Chen was somewhat worried about the existence of the trial marriage princess. He and the fifth princess did not fall in love at first sight or have a mutual affection for each other, but Jiang Chen did not want to have a concubine in his family for no reason.

This matter was resolved by the Fourth Prince, although he couldn't understand why Jiang Chen refused to eat the meat that was right in front of him. In order to test the character of the prince consort, the princesses for trial marriage were often gentle, beautiful and affectionate. Is Jiang Chen really a Liu Xia Hui?

The Fourth Prince had a worse guess. He quietly asked Jiang Chen, "Wangxuan, tell me the truth, are you not capable?"

As he spoke, the Fourth Prince glanced at Jiang Chen's lower body to make sure that Jiang Chen understood what he meant.

Jiang Chen was startled by the Fourth Prince, but he still explained seriously: "No, I just have no interest in trial marriage."

The Fourth Prince nodded in agreement, not knowing whether he believed it or not. Perhaps in his opinion, whether Jiang Chen could do it or not was not the purpose of this marriage. If the Fifth Princess was wronged, he would make up for it after he ascended the throne.

The Fourth Prince arranged everything, and with the help of the Queen Mother and Concubine De, no one knew that Jiang Chen did not sleep with the trial marriage princess.

The next day, the emperor married his daughter and the princess went out to marry him.

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The fifth princess, dressed in auspicious clothes, was waiting for the auspicious time to arrive. She first said goodbye to the empress dowager, Kangxi, and Concubine Tongjia who was in charge of the harem, then saluted her biological mother, Concubine De, and then, guided by the ladies of honor, she got on the sedan chair and left the palace to go to the princess's residence.

Kangxi was better off, but the Empress Dowager and Consort De were already crying until they could not breathe. Even if the Fifth Princess settled in the capital, she would be someone else's daughter-in-law from today on. Even if the Empress Dowager missed her, she could not let the Fifth Princess stay in the palace for a long time. The Fifth Princess already had a husband, and if she stayed in the palace for a long time, people would gossip about her.

The fifth princess who was riding in the carriage also burst into tears. From now on, she would truly enter the secular world.

The sedan chair was carried by the lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In front of it was a ceremonial guard, followed by the bride's wife, wives, and other ladies, and finally the escorting military officers on horseback. The procession to escort the bride was huge.

When they arrived at the princess's mansion, Jiang Chen's father had died early, so Li Guangdi received the male guests in the outer hall, while Jiang's mother received the female guests in the central hall.

The wedding ceremony that followed was far less lively than when Yixiu married into the Fourth Prince's mansion. Everyone gathered in the room and watched the Fifth Princess and Jiang Chen perform the ceremony in silence. Only the person in charge of supporting the wedding kept saying auspicious words and guiding the newlyweds to complete the ceremony.

As the Fourth Lady and the sister-in-law of the Fifth Princess, when Concubine De cannot leave the palace, the elder sister-in-law is like a mother and she should be present to take care of her when necessary.

But Liu Youyou felt her soul trembling and her stomach bloated and wanted to vomit as she looked at the dark red color in the twilight, the silent and well-behaved newlyweds, and the guests around her who were laughing, clapping, cheering, and joking during the ceremony.

Even though Liu Youyou knew that Jiang Chen was a very good person, she still saw a woman being swallowed up by the cannibalistic feudal society.

But Yixiu couldn't vomit or be disrespectful. Today should be her proudest day. Her uncle married the fifth princess. This meant that the Fourth Prince and Yixiu were completely tied to the same boat. This was a blessing that many people envied.

Therefore, Yixiu should laugh happier than anyone else and be more proud than anyone else.

In agony, the Fifth Princess and Jiang Chen completed the ceremony, which made Liu Youyou feel relieved.

The Fifth Princess stayed in the room while Jiang Chen had to go to the front to entertain the guests.

Only the Fifth Princess and her personal maid, Feiyan, were left in the room. The Fifth Princess finally couldn't hold back her fake smile anymore. She said softly, "Feiyan, help me remove my makeup!"

Feiyan was a little surprised and tried to dissuade him: "Princess, the prince consort hasn't come yet."

The Fifth Princess looked indifferent, "My husband won't care."

It was originally an exchange of interests. How could Jiang Chen be angry over such a small matter?

Feiyan didn't dare to anger the Fifth Princess who was in a bad mood at the moment, so she could only remove the jewelry for her bit by bit.

After removing the Phoenix Coronet from her head, the Fifth Princess finally felt the existence and severe pain of her scalp. Feiyan cleverly massaged the Fifth Princess' scalp, and the Fifth Princess closed her eyes and enjoyed it.

After recovering from the fatigue, the fifth princess felt hungry. "Fei Yan, ask the kitchen to bring some hot food."

The people in the Princess's Mansion were all carefully selected by the Empress Dowager and Concubine De. Even the family members are in the hands of the Fifth Princess. Who among them dares not listen to the Fifth Princess?

Various kinds of meals had been prepared in the kitchen early, waiting for the fifth princess to deliver the message.

The fifth princess has learned many health-preserving techniques from watching the queen mother over the years, and she just asked for a bowl of steaming chicken noodle soup.

By the time the fifth princess had finished her meal, Jiang Chen also returned to the room reeking of alcohol.

Feiyan heard Jiang Chen's footsteps coming in, looked at the Fifth Princess anxiously, and coughed twice to remind her. The Fifth Princess continued to eat her noodles calmly. Feiyan was so anxious that she almost coughed out her lungs, but even so, the Fifth Princess continued to eat her noodles slowly. Well, this chicken soup is well-cooked and delicious.

As Jiang Chen entered the room, he smelled the aroma of chicken soup. Then he saw the fifth princess eating noodles. The little palace maid beside her lowered her head in shame, not daring to look at anyone, and saluted Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen was not annoyed, he just asked: "Princess, is there any food in the kitchen? I am hungry too."

The fifth princess had expected Jiang Chen to be so angry that she would jump up and down, but she had to endure it because of her status. But she didn't expect that Jiang Chen's first sentence would be that he was hungry too.

This sentence broke the awkward atmosphere, and Feiyan quickly made up for the Fifth Princess, "We're waiting in the kitchen, what would you like to eat, Prince Consort?"

Jiang Chen smelled the aroma and didn't choose anything else. "Give me a bowl of chicken noodle soup too!"