Chu Lang

"Ziyu, haven't you slept yet?"

When Tang Zhong pushed the door and entered, Chu Yue was sitting quietly beside the bed. A red candle was lit at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed. With Chu Yue's thick black shadow reflected on the plain bed curtain, the atmosphere seemed a little weird.

When Chu Yue heard Tang Zhong's voice, she raised her head and smiled at him: "Brother, come in and sit down?"

Tang Zhong casually closed the door of Chu Yue's room, sat on the stool facing the bed, and asked, "Tomorrow is your big day, why haven't you slept yet?"

"For some reason, I always feel flustered and can't sleep," Chu Yue said.

Tang Zhong didn't persuade him to go to bed quickly, but said: "Then let me chat with you for a while?"

Chu Yue nodded, and just about to say something, suddenly frowned slightly, rubbed her stomach with one hand and let out a muffled grunt.

"What's the matter?" Seeing him suddenly like this, Tang Zhong jumped up from the stool anxiously.

Chu Yue paused for a while before waving at him and said, "Don't worry, Lin Yuan just kicked me."

Only then did Tang Zhong feel relieved, and sat back on the stool, bowed his body and said to Chu Yue's stomach: "Brother, don't be shy, can't you see that your father is in a bad mood?"

Chu Yue gave him a push, and said, "Why didn't you learn anything else well, just learned Gul's problem of too many real dramas?"

"I'll stop making trouble, tell me, what are you worried about?" Tang Zhong said seriously.

Chu Yue said, "I don't know, but I always feel very uneasy."

Tang Zhong walked up to Chu Yue, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of, Xie Changge is in the way of everything. If he puts you in his heart, he won't let you suffer any grievances."

Then Tang Zhong said: "I remember that your dowry was prepared by your father himself. When I was counting the dowry a few days ago, I saw two big boxes of silk inside."

Chu Yue was taken aback for a moment, then immediately remembered the custom of marrying daughters in the south of the Yangtze River.The two boxes of silk represent the two sides staying together, and carry the sincere blessings of the elders.

"I'm not his daughter, and he never planted a camphor tree for me. What's the use of talking about it?" Chu Yue asked.

Tang Zhong: "I just think...he probably loves you too."

Chu Yue smiled sarcastically, but did not respond to Tang Zhong.

"When will you go back to the grassland with Gurzhen?" Chu Yue asked after a while.

Although Tang Zhong said that he would never go back with Guerzhen, Chu Yue knew that if Guerzhen really wanted to leave, Tang Zhong would definitely follow him.

"Uh... wait until the beginning of spring next year, I still want to watch the birth of little Linyuan." Tang Zhong was very honest, "Gurzhen has been looking for a house these days, and when you get married, we will move to the house. Go live in the house over there in the West Market."

"Okay. Brother, do you want to be Lin Yuan's godfather?" Speaking of Lin Yuan, Chu Yue suddenly remembered what happened.

"Huh?" Tang Zhong stretched out his finger and scratched his face, a little embarrassed, "Yes."

It was getting late, and Tang Zhong saw that Chu Yue was getting sleepy, so he chatted with him and left the room.

Chu Yue didn't sleep very well all night, and when the day was about to dawn, the child in her stomach made a fuss for a while, and basically all the drowsiness was gone.He simply stopped sleeping, put on a coat, and leaned against the window to watch the sunrise.

With a little light in the clouds, the sky gradually turns fish-belly white, and the morning glow is thousands of miles away. Various colors spread from the far east, like a fairy who took the sky and the earth as his painting and accidentally knocked over the plate containing the paint.

Qingsong brought the breakfast into the room and said to Chu Yue: "The palace will send someone to help you dress up later, Your Highness, please eat more, you will be busy all day."

Chu Yue smiled at him and said, "Don't worry, I can hold on. Back then in Changsha, when I didn't have a bite of food for several days, didn't I survive?"

"Can it be the same? Your Highness, you are not alone now. You can hold on, but your highness can't hold on either." After Qingsong said, she stood obediently on the side and used it as a background board.

Chu Yue sighed, and then thought about it, anyway, the days when she couldn't lift her hands or carry her shoulders were just temporary, and when she gave birth to a child, she would still be a lively hero.

Not long after putting down the chopsticks, Shi Xuan walked in with a few court ladies: "Your Highness, these people are here to help you wash and change your clothes. At noon, His Highness will personally pick you up into the palace."

"Thank you, sir. Qingsong, take Master Shi to have a cup of tea." Chu Yue confessed.

Qingsong took Shi Xuan out of Chu Yue's bedroom, and the other palace people began to get busy.

Chu Yue is a man, so he can't wear the attire of a woman when she got married.The hair on his temples was picked up by the palace servants to gather a few strands at the back. Because they were worried about being too plain, the palace servants specially prepared a red forehead with gold thread embroidered with auspicious clouds and wrapped it around his forehead to the middle of his hair. Hair hanging down.

Xie Changge personally participated in the design of the wedding dress. It was not as complicated as ordinary dresses, and it covered Chu Yue's nearly five-month-old stomach in a seven or eight ways.

Gulzhen passed by with a bunch of candied haws, poked his head into the room, and whistled at Chu Yue: "Not bad. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince prepared it with great care." Then he looked at the sun again, and talked to Chu Yue. Yue said: "It's about time, I'm going to block the door, and give His Royal Highness a good fortune." After saying that, she bounced downstairs.

"Come back to me." Tang Zhong yelled from behind.

The two couples were a little too noisy, Chu Yue smiled in a low voice, and asked the palace servants beside him, "What did he mean by blocking the door?"

"Going back to Your Highness is a folk custom in Dali. Usually, relatives and friends of the bride stop at the door to ask the groom for wedding money."

Chu Yue: "He is more familiar with this than me."

"He runs to the street when he has nothing to do, so he knows a lot." Tang Zhong leaned on the door frame and said with his forehead.

With the sound of gongs and drums, Xie Changge rode a white horse and led a mighty group of people to the gate of the post house.

Gulzhen moved a Mazha, and sat in the middle of the gate impartially, chewing his candied haws: "Oh, His Royal Highness came in person."

Xie Changge got off the horse and said, "I'm always worried about others coming to pick up Ziyu."

"It's not difficult for you to love him for a while, but the difficult thing is to love him for a lifetime." Gulzhen stood up, and handed the candied haws to Xie Changge, "Do you want to eat?"

"What do you mean by that?" Xie Changge asked.

Gulzhen put the last hawthorn in his mouth self-consciously: "If you want to eat it, I won't give it to you... just tell you, I'm from my mother's family."

Xie Changge was too lazy to continue to be poor with him, and wanted to go around him and go in, but saw Gulzhen easily blocking him: "If you buy me, I will let you in."

"Mr. Xie, don't be as knowledgeable as him. Ziyu is waiting for you in the room." Tang Zhong took Gulzhen aside with one hand.

Under the leadership of Qingsong, Xie Changge arrived in front of Chu Yue's room.

According to the custom of leaving the country, the two couples cannot meet during the preparations for the wedding.Although Xie Changge sneaked to find Chu Yue several times during the period, but each time he only had time to say a few words, which basically could not alleviate the pain of lovesickness.

Chu Yue was dressed in red, with a smeared forehead, looking a little more ostentatious than usual.

"That's why you're here." Chu Yue stood up to greet her.

Xie Changge walked up quickly, put his arms around his waist, and kissed Chu Yue's cheek: "Ziyu, I miss you." Then he reached out and touched his stomach: "Linyuan has grown up again. A little bit."

"Yeah. It grows pretty fast." Chu Yue said with a smile.

Xie Changge took Chu Yue's hand and led him all the way to the door.Qingsong, Mo Zhu, and Tang Zhong followed behind Xie Changge and Chu Yue, and the door of the post house was closed after they left, heralding that its task of receiving the prince of Zhao Kingdom had come to an end.

"Ziyu, will you ride the horse with me, or go to the sedan chair behind?" Because the "Prince Princess" is a man, there is no need to worry about the so-called "showing her face".

Chu Yue patted the horse's neck and said, "Of course I'm riding with you. It's a pity that I can't ride alone now, otherwise the two of us can ride the horse to the palace together, and there will be a good story."

"The prince is getting married, and it will be a good story to take the princess and the little emperor's grandson on the same horse." Xie Changge carefully helped Chu Yue onto the horse, and then rode on himself.

The wife and the youngest son were in their arms, even though the autumn wind was blowing, there was no sense of sadness and loneliness, but a bit of joy of "the spring breeze is proud and the horseshoe is anxious".Horseshoes stepped across the specially cleaned streets, followed by a team of hundreds of people. The two sides of Suzaku Avenue were crowded with people who came to watch the ceremony. Shi Xuan led a small group of people and threw red envelopes containing copper coins towards the crowd.

The ten-mile long street is covered with red silk.At some point, a firecracker was set off on the corner of the street, and several children gathered around with their ears covered.The magpie that had just landed on the branch was startled by the firecrackers and soared into the air, and the loud sound almost overwhelmed the sound of the cannons.

"The first time I met Ziyu, he couldn't even read a word, and he would always follow my ass and call each other brother and brother. In the blink of an eye, he was already going to be a father." Tang Zhong looked back with tears in his eyes. Erzhen said.

Gu Erzhen hugged Tang Zhong into his arms, and patted his head comfortingly.

Mo Zhu snatched a red envelope from Shi Xuan directly, put that small copper coin in the palm of his hand, and was stunned for a long time.In the blink of an eye for more than ten years, the children he had watched growing up were also getting married, and all kinds of emotions came to his mind, and Mo Zhu didn't know how to express it for a while.

Among the group of people, only Qingsong was happy. He was still young and didn't quite understand that getting married was obviously a happy day. Why did one or two of them look so sad?

The people entered the East Palace all the way. The palace where the ceremony was held was urgently repaired by Xie Changge, and it was called the Tongxin Palace.

After getting off the horse, the eunuch next to the emperor held a bowl of rice, bowed to the two of them, and said, "This old slave congratulates the crown prince and the crown princess. Please take a bite of the rice from your majesty."

"Is there anything special?" Xie Changge asked.

The eunuch smiled and explained to the princess: "There is a saying that 'the relatives in the house come to pick up the treasures, add makeup and food to keep from ancient times', after eating this meal, you are thanking your family."

Chu Yue took the rice, said "Thank you", and took a bite of the rice.The rice chewed in his mouth, accompanied by body fluid, became sweet and fragrant. Li country people love pasta, and Chu Yue hadn't eaten rice for a long time, and when he ate the rice, he felt homesick for no reason.

Before entering the palace, several eunuchs were holding baskets and throwing some beans on the ground.

"Didn't I tell you not to spill it? The princess has a body, what if she accidentally falls when she steps on a bean?" Xie Changge frowned and asked Shi Xuan behind him.

Shi Xuan hurriedly knelt down on one knee, and explained to Xie Changge: "It was originally ordered, but His Majesty ordered to sprinkle some beans to drive away evil spirits, for good luck."

Xie Changge didn't dare to disobey his father's wishes, so he could only say thank you, and then hugged Chu Yue horizontally: "Then, Ziyu, let me take you in."

Chu Yue wrapped her hands around Xie Changge's neck, and pressed her forehead against Xie Changge's. The breaths of the two were mixed together, and they lowered their eyebrows and raised their heads, as if they had lived forever.

The author has something to say:

The wedding customs refer to "Daily Life of Citizens in the Song Dynasty", and some of them are self-made.

Two sides stay together: In ancient times, a large family in the south of the Yangtze River gave birth to a daughter and planted camphor in the courtyard. When the daughter married, the tree became a tree.The matchmaker watched outside the tree courtyard, knowing that there was a girl waiting in her boudoir, she happily came to the door.When the daughter returned, the father and brother felled the tree and made a box with silk as a dowry. They took "two boxes of silk" (excerpted from Baidu)