Official kneeling on the ground: I haven’t read your Majesty’s imperial decree granting marriage yet! Where’s your Majesty?
Lin Tingxu and He Jinchun: Did Gu Shun call too early? We haven't entered the palace yet! You can't bow to us in the courtyard, right?
Everyone: Shouldn't they first bow to heaven and earth, then to their parents, and then to each other as husband and wife? Why did they first bow to the Buddha? Why does it feel so awkward? They don't seem to be here to celebrate the wedding of Prince An and Lin Luoling, but to witness Prince An and Lin Luoling becoming monks?
Then he heard Gu Shun shouting loudly: "Husband and wife bow to each other! Send them to the bridal chamber!"
Lin Tingxu and He Jinchun stood outside the courtyard in a daze, watching their daughter and Prince An perform the ceremony of greeting each other as husband and wife.
Prince An was hunched over, his face extremely pale, and he looked as if he was going to die in the next moment. He was extremely weak. He held Lin Luoling's hand and walked out of the hall. He bowed to Lin Tingxu and He Jinchun and said:
"I am really unable to organize the banquet. I would like to trouble my father-in-law and mother-in-law to take care of it for me!"
After that, Prince An waved his hand at Cao Peng, raised his fist and coughed softly, "Butler Gu, why don't you invite all the adults to the wedding banquet? Please record the gifts brought by all the adults in detail in the book, so that I can present them to my father for review later."
"Yes! Farewell to His Royal Highness Prince An and His Majesty Princess An." Gu Shun bowed.
Prince An led Lin Luoling to the sedan chair, and the guards strode away like the wind.
It was not until Prince An and Lin Luoling disappeared that Lin Tingxu and He Jinchun looked at each other in bewilderment, both muttering, "It would be fine if the three letters and six ceremonies were not there, but the wedding ceremony was so sloppy, is this the end?"
In the Tianqi Kingdom, as long as the family is well-off, even if it is a minor official, when the groom brings the bride home, there will be wedding music and dance. Even if it is simple, it will be lively and exciting.
The wealthy and powerful attached great importance to the scale of music and dance.
There was no saddle or fan, no tent or curtains, and no wedding wine.
With the ceremony of the prince marrying the princess, long live the emperor, scatter golden fruits, tie the hair together...
His Royal Highness Prince An and Lin Luoling did not have any, and after worshipping the Buddha, they went straight into the bridal chamber.
Gu Shun took out a very thick book from his bosom, bowed slightly to the officials kneeling on the ground and said, "His Royal Highness Prince An and His Majesty Princess An have been settled. I will record the gifts that you have brought in the book one by one."
After saying that, Gu Shun gave Xiao Meng a look, and Xiao Meng immediately understood. He called on the guards to lead a group of officials to line up and collect the gifts they brought.
The officials were unable to recover for a long time and stood in a long queue in a daze. Their family members were kneeling on the ground at a loss, not knowing whether to queue or where to stand.
Princess July blinked her lively little deer eyes, stepped forward and hugged He Jinchun's arms and said, "Mrs. Lin, let's go have Heytea together."
Without waiting for He Jinchun to respond, Princess July forcibly dragged He Jinchun to the side hall next door.
When Lin Tingxu, Lin Yuning and Lin Yuru saw this, they hurried to chase after Princess July and He Jinchun.
After Gu Shun recorded all the gifts brought by the officials in a book, he asked Xiao Meng to bring the guards to invite all the officials and their families to the dining hall of Jingfu Temple.
After the officials took their seats according to their positions, a group of nuns came in carrying trays.
The officials and their families looked at the table full of wild vegetables. The most unusual dish was tofu.
A priceless gift, and you just let them eat grass?
They all held their chopsticks, feeling bitter in their mouths, and didn't know where to start.
Some officials covered their chests, feeling heartache, flesh pain and headache. It would have been fine if His Majesty hadn't seen him, but they didn't even get to see what His Royal Highness Prince An looked like. They brought the treasures from the mansion as gifts, but in return they got a table of wild vegetables cooked in clear water.
Gu Shun held up a cup of tea and said helplessly, "Please forgive me, everyone. This is a nunnery after all. It's not right to serve chicken, duck, fish and meat on the table under the eyes of the Bodhisattva. I'm afraid the Bodhisattva will blame me!
When the prince is in better shape, he will certainly host a banquet in Prince An's mansion to entertain all the officials. On behalf of Prince An, I would like to offer a cup of tea to all the officials and scholars present. This is my prince's favorite tea. Please try it, it tastes very good..."
Gu Shun drank it all in one gulp. Seeing this, how could the officials and their families dare not drink?
They picked up their tea cups, looked at the green tea soup, and drank it all together with an expression as if they were going to die.
Bitter! Astringent!
Is this tea? It's clearly wild vegetable soup!
Cao Peng and his wife looked indifferent. They picked up a piece of tofu with chopsticks to eliminate the bitter taste in their mouths.
The other officials looked at each other, and the meaning of their eye contact was very clear: His Royal Highness Prince An was bullied so badly by Prince Jin and Prince Rui. Not only is Prince An's Mansion in ruins, but look, the tea he drinks on a daily basis is wild vegetable soup.
Now they suddenly felt balanced for some reason. The gifts they gave to His Royal Highness Prince An, and the booklet of reports that His Majesty had submitted, would surely make His Majesty understand how good they were to His Royal Highness Prince An, and perhaps even give them a promotion in their official positions.
But what they didn't know was that before Gu Shun came to the dining hall, he had already ordered the Silver Feather Guard He Hongkun to pack all the gifts sent by these officials into boxes, together with the booklet in which Gu Shun had recorded them, and had the Silver Feather Guard deliver them to the Lin Residence and hand them over to the butler Jiang Feng.
As soon as the guards carried the sedan chair to the bamboo forest, Prince An stopped it and walked towards Jingxin Courtyard hand in hand with Lin Luoling.
Prince An's eyebrows moved slightly, fearing that Lin Luoling would be suspicious and think that she was a second bride, so the wedding was so simple.
He explained, "I have imagined the scene of marrying you countless times. I was just unsure. I was afraid that your father and mother would stop you and me from getting married. After all, we don't have the imperial decree of our father to grant the marriage. I am also afraid that the officials planted by the King of Jin and the King of Rui will do something bad. Therefore, this wedding was held...
I will definitely give you a grand wedding in the future, okay?"
Hearing this, Lin Luoling's eyes passed through the red agate bead curtain swaying in front of her, and seeing Prince An's uneasy expression, she chuckled, "Your Highness Prince An is really good at scheming."
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