The wind of wonder in Tianyue rises from the frontier fortress

The day before the big wedding day, the "Nazheng" team had already set off. According to the rules of the Great Xia Dynasty at that time, it was 200 taels of gold, 8000 taels of silver; Ten horses with saddles and bridles.This was originally a ceremony for the emperor to accept the empress, and now the empress has followed this example when she chooses her husband.

If it is gold and silver, it is not very rare. The most rare thing is that these twenty horses are all white and the same size. They are equipped with brand-new leather saddles. Below is a huge red tassel, which is full of the spirit of a dragon and a horse, and is full of vigor.What is even more enviable is that these twenty fine horses were all made to be very obedient, neither startling nor hissing, their heads raised calmly, their steps not only neatly stepped, but also able to cooperate with the idea of ​​advocacy.It's no wonder that this "Nazheng" team has traveled all the way, and even the 70-[-]-year-old man can't stop admiring, claiming that it's the first time he's been shot out of his mother's womb.

In addition, gold and silver clothes were given to the emperor's husband's parents and brothers, which were also sent along with the dowry.When the envoys arrived at the Cheng'en residence, the emperor's father, He Lanyunzhi, and his other sons were already waiting outside the gate to greet them.When the chief and deputy envoys were welcomed into the gate, there was still a group of people kneeling in front of the main hall to receive them. They were He Lanyunzhi's wife, Mrs. Zhou, and her daughters-in-law.

When the betrothal ceremony of accepting and recruiting ceremonies was set up, there was a table in the middle, where the imperial edict with red satin and gold letters and the dragon festival of the envoys were enshrined, and the emperor's husband Helan Zhanyu came out to listen to the announcement.After listening to the edict of the envoys sent by the imperial court to carry out the great ceremony, the imperial husband still returned to the second hall, and the rest of the affairs were handled by Cheng Engong He Lanyunzhi kneeling to receive the ritual objects, and thanking the north.

On the second day, the imperial city of the Xixia Kingdom was already boiling inside and out. The official road from the imperial palace to Duke Cheng’en’s mansion had already been paved with yellow sand. style.This time it was hard for those officers and soldiers in brand-new armor.It has long been passed down in the palace that the people are not allowed to embarrass the common people on a good day to celebrate together.Therefore, these officers and soldiers who can usually hold a whip and try to intimidate the people have no choice but to

Trying my best to push back the turbulent crowd as much as possible, shouting in my mouth: "Excuse me, excuse me!" Everyone hoarse their throats and sweat profusely from exhaustion before they can vacate the two corners of the official road center. A passage that is ten feet wide.

When He Lanyunzhi appeared in front of the crowd, the crowd was already boiling.I saw him wearing a sable crown and a big red python robe, sitting on a tall and shiny horse, his face was like spring flowers, his temples were like knives, it can be said that he is in good spirits when he celebrates a happy event, and he is proud of the horseshoe disease .

According to common sense, the empress enters the palace in a sedan chair, but He Lanyunzhi is a man after all, and it would be a bit weird to enter the palace in a red sedan chair, so with Li Wanhua's approval, Fangzi changed it to let him enter the palace on a horse. palace.It's just that there is another very important ritual note in the process of the big wedding, which is to welcome the relatives.

The empress and the emperor's husband are comparable to heaven and earth, and they are also enemies. It is contrary to etiquette for the empress not to greet the emperor's husband in person during her wedding.But if you really welcome them in person, there will be troubles that cannot be compromised in terms of rituals.There is no such reason in the world, so when the royal family gets married, they come up with an alternative method, where the emperor personally picks a dragon in the shape of a dragon. In the center, write a dragon character, and then put this dragon shape Ruyi in front of the phoenix chariot or the saddle of the imperial husband's horse, saying "as if I come in person", which means that the emperor welcomes him personally.

On this side, the sound of gongs and drums, the sound of firecrackers, was a scene of joy, but in the Palace of Qinzheng, Li Wanhua was still wearing ordinary clothes, watching the memorial quietly.Lu'er and He'er were by their side, serving tea and water as usual, but there was no movement on the wedding day.

After Li Wanhua finished reading the memorial for this day, she casually asked: "What time is it?" Lu'er replied with a smile: "It's almost the application time. At this moment, Prince Helan must have entered the palace."

Li Wanhua's face was expressionless, she closed the memorial, got up and stood up: "Go, go to the side hall to have a look."

Lu'er and He'er looked at each other, and quickly followed behind. Although Li Wanhua should be dressing up at this time and preparing for worship etiquette, Lu'er and He'er did not dare to mention this at all, just because today's empress is full of With low air pressure, anyone can tell from her face that today's emperor has three words written all over his body, unhappy.

When Li Wanhua entered the side hall of Fengming Palace, Chu Qingxi and others happened to greet her.Today, Chu Qingxi seems to have dressed up carefully, but when she saw Li Wanhua, she couldn't help being taken aback, and asked, "Yingyue, it's already this hour, why are you still dressed like this?"

Li Wanhua looked at the brand-new clothes on her body, and saw that she swept her crescent eyebrows lightly and wore golden hairpins on her head, which was a little more gorgeous than before, and her heart couldn't help being a little bit sweet and sour.The sweet thing is that this must have been deliberately dressed up by Chu Qingxi because of her wedding day, but the sour thing is that the person she is going to pay homage to is not her.

Seeing the sadness and joy on her face, Chu Qingxi couldn't help but sigh slightly in her heart, but on this big day, she couldn't make Li Wanhua sad, so she smiled and said: "Today I'm well dressed, you want to Whatever errand I have to do, just order it down."

Li Wanhua stared fixedly at Chu Qingxi who was smiling like a flower in front of her, feeling mixed feelings of sorrow and joy in her heart. She knew that the people of the entire Great Xia Kingdom were sharing this grand event, and she couldn't allow her to back down any longer, but the smiling Chu Qingxi in front of her Qingxi, her eyes are full of understanding and encouragement. Li Wanhua knows her heart. Today, as long as she needs it, Chu Qingxi will do her best to accompany her to complete this grand wedding.

"Although it's not you who worshiped me, but if you're by my side, I'll treat it as you, so what's the point?" Li Wanhua thought to herself.Now that it's done, she doesn't want to do any more pointless things like crying and crying. She has shed enough tears for this matter, and Li Wanhua secretly made a decision in her heart: "The issue of children cannot be avoided. Now that we have reached this point, I can only go all out. As long as I give birth to a child, I will be free, and it will not be too late to think about things in the future."

So she smiled at Chu Qingxi and said, "Qingxi is dressed so nicely today, could it be that she wants to steal Yingyue's limelight?"

Hearing this, Chu Qingxi couldn't help laughing: "Who dares to steal the bride's limelight? I'm just a footman today. What orders do you have? Even though the arrangement is good, you don't know if you want me to run errands, or Let me pass the message?"

Listening to Chu Qingxi's jokes, Zhu Wen and Bihen were also holding their mouths and laughing, Li Wanhua glanced at her, and said with a smile: "Isn't it the same thing to pass a message and run an errand?" She pretended to think about it After thinking about it, he said with a smile: "The errands of spreading rumors and running errands have never been missing in this palace. Just now I thought about it, but there is indeed an errand that is not easy to find."

She watched Chu Qingxi and the others' gazes fall on her curiously, and couldn't help laughing secretly: "There is a very important errand on this big wedding, which most people can't handle." Her inquiring eyes fell on Chu Qing He smiled and said, "However, Qingxi, maybe you can give it a try."

Chu Qingxi wondered: "What's the matter, just tell me."

Li Wanhua suppressed a smile and said: "Jiaotai Hall has a wedding bed."

As soon as this remark came out, Lu'er and He'er couldn't help but burst out laughing.Chu Qingxi and the others became more and more surprised, and Bihen couldn't help but said: "What's so funny about this wedding bed, I and Zhu Wen make the bed for sister Chu every day, it's nothing unusual."

Seeing that the three of them looked confused, Li Wanhua couldn't help laughing "giggle".It turns out that the errand of laying a wedding bed is indeed very particular, and only a first-class married woman with both children and hair is eligible for this kind of qualification.Chu Qingxi Yunying is not married, so how can she have children, so Li Wanhua is making fun of her by saying this.

Hearing Lu'er's explanation with a suppressed smile, Chu Qingxi couldn't help Xia Fei dimpled, and scolded with a smile: "Well, you Li Wanhua, you actually made fun of me." In theory, calling the empress by her name is a crime of disrespect. However, Li Wanhua didn't take it at all, she just looked at Chu Qingxi with a smile and said, "It's fine if you don't want to make the bed, then from now on, just stay by my side until the wedding is over."

Chu Qingxi nodded with a smile, in such a day, what reason would she have to disappoint Li Wanhua again?She looked at Li Wanhua with a smile, and said softly: "It's getting late, Yingyue, let me accompany you back to the palace to change your clothes. If you miss the auspicious time, what will happen?"

Li Wanhua nodded, and did not reject her proposal, because what should come will come eventually, since it cannot be avoided, then face it with strength.

The main hall of Fengming Palace, Li Wanhua's bedroom.

Fengguan, Xiapei, Zhuchai, Yuhuan, the eyebrow pencil outlines the green eyebrows like Dai, and the rouge renders the picturesque beauty.I saw that Li Wanhua was wearing a "Dragon and Phoenix Harmony" robe, and she was wearing pearl and jade headdresses in the shape of dragon and phoenix, Double Happiness, Ruyi, etc., which made her more noble and elegant, gentle and amiable.In addition to these, Xi Niang also prepared a red satin hijab with the pattern of "Hundred Sons and Nine Phoenixes", but Li Wanhua caught a glimpse of it and frowned and said, "I don't need these things." The Xi Niang smiled and said: "Your Majesty, this bride When you get married, you need to use Xipa." As soon as she said the words, she suddenly realized her slip of the tongue, and hurriedly knelt down and said repeatedly: "Your servant made a slip of the tongue, please forgive me by the emperor."

Li Wanhua glanced at her indifferently: "On the day of the big wedding, I will naturally not punish you, so go down." The bride hurriedly kowtowed and retreated, going to help other matters without mentioning it.

Chu Qingxi was by Li Wanhua's side, looking at Li Wanhua in a happy attire, and said with a smile: "Shadow Moon is so beautiful today." Li Wanhua's wonderful eyes fell on Chu Qingxi gently: "Qingxi is also beautiful. With you by my side, I won't be so scared."

Her voice was a little lonely, but she returned to normal after a while: "Today is my big day, I should be happy, shouldn't I?" She suddenly stood up and asked, "When is it? "

Just at this moment, I saw Lu'er and He'er in brand new satin jackets kneeling in front of Li Wanhua together, and said with a smile: "Now it's Zhengzheng, the eighth day of November, the emperor's great joy and auspicious time!"

Li Wanhua remained silent, and after a while, only the bells and drums rang outside the palace gate, which meant that Helan Zhanyu, the husband-in-law of the Great Xia, had entered the palace through the main gate of the inner city.

"It's time", a girl in palace costume bowed and saluted: "Please come and drive." She is Li Muyao, the youngest daughter of Duke Huai of Da Xia, and speaking of it, Li Wanhua should be called "cousin." During the wedding, Li Wanhua needs eight young relatives as followers, this Li Muyao, because of her close relationship with Li Wanhua since childhood, has become the leader of these young relatives.

"Let's go." Li Wanhua nodded, and was led by eight young girls holding palace lanterns, followed by the imperial ministers and imperial guards, who carried Chu Qingxi onto the dragon chariot, and arrived at the Jiaotai Palace in a short time. Resting in the warm pavilion of the wedding room.

At this time, Helan Zhanyu's imperial horse had also arrived in front of Jiaotai Hall.After dismounting in front of the hall according to the etiquette explained by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, bluffing the bowstring three times outside the gate of Jiaotai Hall, and stepping over the brazier, another woman will always fill it with small gold and silver ingots, gold and jade ruyis, rubies, and miscellaneous grains Mi Gu's "vase" was stuffed into his arms, and at this moment, Longting Fang, who was carrying the treasure of the prince, was walking forward.

Helan Zhanyufang could enter the main hall of Jiaotai Hall only after the officials of the Ministry of Rites brought the treasures of the emperor and prince into the collection.At this time, the empress had calculated the moment, and just as Helan Zhanyu stood still at the west head, the empress Li Wanhua also appeared at the east head.

At this time, the drums and music rang out, and the elegant rhyme sang together. Li Wanhua and Helan Zhanyu completed the nine-knocking ceremony amidst the bustling and noisy sound, and became married couples.From the beginning to the end, Li Wanhua's gaze stayed on Chu Qingxi. Only by looking at her can Li Wanhua patiently complete the tedious and suffocating etiquette. Only by looking at her can Li Wanhua find a trace of this invisible marriage shackles. strength.

Seeing Li Wanhua and He Lan Zhanyu both step into the new house, Chu Qingxi heaved a long sigh of relief.It was also time to say goodbye, the task I promised Li Wanhua had been completed, and Li Wanhua also told herself about Zhao Ning's whereabouts before paying homage.

It turned out that Xu Huanzhi had already sent Zhao Ning to the capital two months ago. The Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom knew about this and immediately sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to ask the Song Emperor to hand over the princess and continue the friendship between Song and Liao.The Shenzong Zhao Ren didn't want to see Zhao Ning, so he hit it off with the Empress Dowager Xiao, and immediately issued an order for Zhao Ning to get married again. Counting the time, she should have arrived in Liao Kingdom.

Thinking of Zhao Ning being trapped in the Liao State, Chu Qingxi's heart felt as if it had been put into a pan of oil, and he wished to threaten to give birth to two wings, so as to rescue Zhao Ning from the dangerous situation in one fell swoop.Now that Li Wanhua's big wedding is over, she can be regarded as the most benevolent, so Chu Qingxi will not delay any more. On this night of fiery trees, silver flowers and universal celebrations, she took Zhu Wen and Bi Hen, and brought her blessings and gratitude to Li Wanhua, and embarked on a search. Zhao Ning's journey.