This concubine can eat too!

Princess Jin'an, who is favored by Emperor Huadi, is going to get married, and the queen, as the head of the harem, suddenly has to make preparations in advance. First, she will take the horoscope of the two of them and hand it to the fortune teller. Several auspicious days for marriage were arranged for the queen to choose.

Jin'an is the most important princess of the emperor. She did not gain real power for a day, and the empress did not dare to startle the snake. She chose a date on her own, so she took the fortune teller's approval and drove to Fukang Palace after lunch to seek the emperor's will.

The eunuch close at hand presented the approval document, Song Huaxi stroked his beard, and carefully looked at the date on the approval document. He couldn't rashly pick the fastest date, so he tentatively asked the queen, "How about the day after next autumn?"

The queen, who was sitting by the side and sipping fragrant tea, waited quietly for him, wondering if there was some reason why this old fox was in a hurry to marry Jin An, and she was already guessing in her heart that if the emperor chose the nearest date, then her The suspicion was correct, the old fox had something left on Jin An.

What worries her the most is that he handed the tiger amulet to Jin'an to hide.

"The fortune teller said that the three days are all good days, suitable for marriage, and the day after the fall, as the emperor pointed out, is the best of the three days, and it is more suitable for weddings." She neither agreed nor objected, sharply Under the phoenix eyes, there are all doubts trying to see through the old fox's mind.

Song Huaxi squinted his eyes while holding the thin bamboo paper, stroked his black beard with one hand, frowned suddenly, and asked slowly: "Zhao Tong, when was Jin An's birthday? It’s Jin’an’s birthday.” He looked sad and sighed.

Zhao Tong is also his close personal chief eunuch. He has followed Song Huaxi since he was the prince, and he is loyal to him. He is also one of the few people who can guess the emperor's thoughts. The emperor asked him about his favorite princess for no reason. birthday?There must be a reason for things to happen. Every year, the emperor asks him to prepare gifts one month before Jin An's birthday. There is no reason to forget them.

He stepped forward slightly, bent down and whispered: "Return to the emperor, Princess Jin'an's birthday is on the eighteenth day of the third lunar month in early spring. This servant dares to say that if Princess Jin'an is married after the autumn, it will be the eighteenth day. I'm afraid the princess will suffer gossip when she marries in Guizhou, which will damage her reputation."

Song Huaxi didn't speak when he heard the words, he meditated silently for a moment, he shook his head and sighed, and said reluctantly, "That's right, I originally wanted Jin'an to stay by my side for a few more days, but I can't ruin Jin'an's reputation with my own desires. , then..." He touched another day on the bamboo paper with his fingertips and said: "Let's set the date to be the day after the year, at least let me and Jin'an spend the last New Year, Queen, how about the day after the year? "

He turned around and left the decision half in the queen's hands.

Immediately, a soft and elegant smile spread across the queen's face, and she frowned. The emperor asked her to choose?Heh, his tone of voice, his eyes, his words, how could she fail to understand that he didn't even give her a chance to veto "It's okay, the emperor has always liked Jin An, so let Jin An accompany the emperor for another good year before getting married."

The date of marriage is thus set on March [-]th of the next year, which is the second suitable day for marriage calculated by the astrologer, which is neither the fastest nor the latest.

With this result, the queen squeezed the bamboo paper in her palm after leaving Fukang Palace, gritted her teeth, turned around and raised her eyes to stare at the word Fukang Palace. Going back to Ci'an Hall, as a queen, no matter how much you don't like Jin'an, you have to start busy with Jin'an's marriage.

The beginning of autumn is here, and the New Year is not far away.

Princess Jin'an is scheduled to get married in early spring, and the news has spread throughout the palace, courtiers, and many wealthy businessmen have heard about the happy event. As the most beloved princess by the emperor's side, the queen will certainly not be sloppy. Forty court ladies and eunuchs were even sent to Guizhou to take care of the Hou Mansion in advance. Among them, the queen arranged a few informants to observe Ren Moxian.

After the birthday banquet, the queen became suspicious of his identity, and sent someone to Guizhou to investigate the details of this person. After half a month of careful investigation, a secret letter was sent, detailing the situation of the Ren family, which made her doubt the current situation. Ren Moxian was not the real reason, it was because the four members of the Ren family encountered bandits, and Ren Shouqing, who had been in the army, was no match for the bandits, but an ordinary servant was able to save Ren Moxian's life from the bandits' knife.

The queen believed that the Ren family had met a bandit, and made careful investigations to find out that the route Ren Shouqing chose at that time was often haunted by bandits and robbed civilians and businessmen passing by, but she did not believe that Mo Xian could escape from the bandit's knife.

This matter seemed very bizarre. When she saw something suspicious, Xi Zuo mentioned in the back of the secret letter that they asked the people in the city about the people in Ren's mansion, especially Ren Moxian. I don't have any impression, because Ren Moxian was born prematurely. He has been sick and weak since he was born. Since he was born, he has gone out dozens of times, and they are all in sedan chairs. Almost no one has seen his appearance. However, he carefully searched the entire town and found a remote The residents, a few members of the family there once saw Ren Moxian far away by the lake. According to their description, they met Ren Moxian on the day of the birthday banquet. They were all thinner than ordinary men, not tall, and their faces were pale, but prominent. Although the redness of the lips is red, it also looks like a frail scholar.

Looking at the family's description, the queen felt that he was the person in the palace that day, but she did not believe that the emperor would rashly see him as Jin An's husband-in-law, just because Ren Shouqing had saved his life and took his favorite Jin'an came to repay this kindness.

The incident was so strange that the queen was worried, so she placed her own people in the team.

Things change and stars change, autumn goes and winter comes, and after the winter solstice, the entire palace begins to prepare for the New Year. Song Huaxi resisted his sickness and asked Zhao Tongmo to write a lot of blessings on red paper with a brush, and ordered people to send them to the concubines in the harem. He also wrote some gifts to the important officials of the court.

His condition has been delayed a lot under Huaxia's medical treatment and acupuncture. The body is his own. Song Huaxi is very clear that he has often felt tired. The recent memorials can only be approved in two to three days. His state In the eyes of the queen, there is no need to say more, she already knows.

So the queen and Song Ling acted more and more, and became more and more blatant, forming a party with the courtiers, weakening the real power of the prince, and pushing Song Ling up.

Accompanied by Jin An, Song Huaxi had a warm and joyful New Year. Jin An came to Fukang Palace every day to pay respects to Song Huaxi. Jin'an set off for Guizhou.

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There are a large number of people sending off the relatives, so the movement will be slower due to the large number of people. When they arrived in Guizhou City, the silver snow all over the ground turned into snow water as the severe winter faded away, but the temperature went in the opposite direction. .

Outside the city gate, Gu Changyan was wearing a dark red luxurious blouse and the black sable fur that the servant girl Xiaofeng forced her to put on before going out. The palace people who came over had been waiting for a long time. She and the servants who were disguised as secret guards had internal skills and were not afraid of the cold, but it was hard for the group of palace people behind them who were almost too cold to feel it.

If the princess doesn't come again, she wants to prevent those palace people who don't know internal skills from going back first, and let her and the hidden guards wait.

"Xiaofeng, why don't you go back home first, it's too cold." Gu Changyan turned slightly sideways and looked at Xiaofeng, the maidservant who was a body away from her.

Xiaofeng was the little beggar she met when she couldn't bear the boredom of living a useless life in the Hou's mansion, and resolutely led a group of hidden guards to a nearby town. When she noticed Xiaofeng, she was being guarded nearby. The old beggar bullied her and snatched a few copper coins from her broken bowl. After being robbed, Xiaofeng hid aside and cried, reminding her of how she cried out a few mothers when she was a baby.

She went to ask Xiaofeng why she came out to beg, Xiaofeng told her life experience, because her father and mother gave birth to many daughters and couldn't support them, so they sold them to a family as a child bride. Marrying her back is a joy, but not long after she married, the man died of illness, and the man's parents called her a bastard, killed his son, scolded and beat her, and passed out after beating her. Leaving her in the wilderness to fend for herself.

Finally gritted their teeth and went back to find their parents, but the cold-blooded parents said that the married daughter could not come back, and they had no money to support them, so they beat her out of the house with a stick, because she was young, dirty all over, and had no job I had no choice but to leave the village with tears in my eyes, and walked a few miles to the relatively affluent Guizhou City to beg. The adults in the town would give her one or two copper coins when they saw her young and pitiful, and some small vendors would close their stalls. In the life of begging, Xiaofeng felt a little warmth of human kindness, but she didn't expect to offend the big beggars nearby and make them jealous. Changyan meets the scene where Xiaofeng is robbed of money.

She wants to bring Xiaofeng back to the house to be a maid, Xiao Qi disagrees, he thinks the child's life experience is suspicious, and Gu Changyan speaks directly with the last word, that is, whoever has a hard fist is the one who says it, not to mention that she is a hou Father!Xiao Qi is only a housekeeper in the mansion!

At the moment when Gu Changyan could touch Xiao Qi's acupoints with one finger, Xiao Qi knew that the girl named Sun Rufeng was going to live in the Hou Mansion.

When Xiaofeng was about to answer that she was not cold, he heard some movement on the road far away, and also drew Gu Changyan's attention away.

A simple but five-horse carriage approached slowly on the wide road in the distance. It didn't take long for the carriage to stop in front of Gu Changyan. The one leading the carriage was Yu Lige, a town general. Lieutenant General Qin Huai.

Gu Changyan could see that the emperor's uncle loved Princess Jin'an very much because he could be escorted by the deputy general of General Zhen Guo himself.

Qin Huai got off his horse, Gu Changyan also stepped forward to salute, and raised his voice: "See Princess Jin'an, I have seen Vice General Qin."

"At the end of the day, please refer to Ren Hou." Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there was no official rank for those named Hou Bo. Hou Bo was just a title given by the emperor to those who had made great contributions to the country. The Marquis Ren in front of him is not only the son-in-law appointed by the emperor, but also the descendant of a meritorious official who saved the emperor's life. It is reasonable that even though Qin Huai is a second-rank official, he also saluted him as a superior.

"Vice General Qin, the journey has been tiring, and the weather is also very cold. Go to the city to rest quickly. Ben Hou has ordered people to prepare hot tea and snacks." Gu Changyan smiled politely, and then looked at the carriage, presumably there was someone inside. Princess Jin'an, right?

She also stepped forward a few steps to the sedan chair, and said: "Princess Jin'an, I also ordered the servants in the princess' mansion to make hot tea and make some local special cakes for the princess to taste. In the evening, Weichen The minister also gave orders, and made some mild dishes according to the princess' taste."

Before the day to marry the princess, Gu Changyan is not allowed to live in the same mansion with the princess. Firstly, it is not in accordance with the etiquette, and secondly, the "man and woman" are incompatible. How can a woman who is not yet married stay in a man's house? Stayed overnight at the mansion, so the day after Song Huaxi revealed to the ministers that he would give Jin'an to Gu Changyan, he sent someone to Guizhou to choose a quiet place to build a princess mansion, and he personally named Lan Ting. village.

At the urging of the emperor, the craftsmen rushed to build almost day and night, and it was completed just before Song Ruolan set off for Guizhou.

"It's time to take care of you." In the carriage, Song Ruolan was wearing an elegant lake blue dress, wrapped in a thick white mink fur, with a silk scarf covering half of her stunning face.

The reason for hanging the silk scarf is to prevent Gu Changyan from seeing her face before officially marrying her. She persuaded her to wear it a mile ago, but she refused on the grounds that Ren Moxian wouldn't see it in the carriage, Die'er immediately changed into a crying face, puffing her cheeks with grievance.

Die'er has been with her since she was a child, and it can be regarded as growing up with her. Seeing that her big round eyes are about to squeeze out two pools of water, Song Ruolan's heart softened, so she asked her to wear a silk scarf to cover her face Allow.

"It's what I should do. It's not too late. Now I will escort the princess to Lantingzhuang to rest."

Gu Changyan turned back to her steed, and a servant immediately squatted on the ground, she stepped on the back and shoulders of the servant, and got on the horse with a slightly clumsy movement, and in the dark, she needed Xiaofeng to help her In the end, such a shameful situation was seen by the sending team behind.

Qin Huai frowned slightly, thinking in his heart why would the emperor choose him as Princess Jin'an's son-in-law?Do you even need someone to help you get on the horse?

But Die Er beside the carriage was not as able to hide her dissatisfaction with the Marquis Ren as Qin Huai. She puffed up her cheeks and whispered to the princess through the small window of the carriage that Ren Moxian almost fell off the horse just now. Also complained that it was too embarrassing.

Song Ruolan was a little puzzled, her father would not rashly choose such a weak man as her husband-in-law. Before that, she was sure that Ren Moxian must have something special about him...

Now that Die'er said this, her faith was a little shaken.

She slightly opened the curtain of the small window and poked half of her head out, looking at the very thin back of the steed walking in the front.