The nine princesses of the East Palace

After waking up, I was forced to wash up, then do my makeup, apply lead powder, apply rouge, draw black eyebrows, apply decals, face dimples, apply oblique red, and apply lipstick... In short, it was a toss.

I haven't eaten yet, I'm about to faint from hunger, Yong Niang asked the dining room to cook some soup for me, after I drank it, I felt better.

Over the past few months, under Yong Niang's urging, I have almost memorized the "Rituals" by heart, and I know that today's wedding includes several forms, reception, worship, welcome, offering sacrifices to gods, and drinking henjiu... You have to change several sets of clothes, and you have to wear a blue-colored Zhai, decorated with nine lines of colorful Zhai patterns on a blue background, a phoenix crown on your head, and a red Zhai dress for worship. You also need to wear a phoenix crown, jade hairpin, and various headgear... …

After the female officer in Shangyi dressed me neatly, I felt like my neck was going to be broken.The inside and outside of Yufu Palace were changed into red, and even the three little guys Xiaoxue, Aba and Axia were tied with red bow ties, which was very festive.

??Zhai is exquisite and heavy, with long hem. I can't even walk carelessly, so I have to walk with my shoulders like Fang Shangyi taught. Fortunately, there are shoulders to sit on, so there is not much to walk.

The phoenix crown on my head made me almost unable to think. Fortunately, the "Rituals" memorized on weekdays played a role. I kept bowing and bowing. I didn't hear clearly what the master of ceremonies said, but nothing happened at all. That's right, the canonization ceremony is over.

Then the female officer Shangyi changed me into a big red Zhaiyi, and my whole body was bright red. Looking at myself in the bronze mirror, I felt that even my face was red.

Weddings in the Central Plains are really strange. The bride hardly had time to eat on the day of her marriage. I went to do as the Romans did, and I was so hungry that my stomach was growling. Fortunately, Yong Niang brought food with me, and occasionally slipped it to me. I fill my stomach.

During the church visit, first I was led by Xi Niang who was in charge of the wedding, and then Li Chengyin led me. I had to cover my head the whole time, so I couldn't see Li Chengyin's face at all, and I didn't know what clothes he was wearing. All we can see are our shoes, which are all red. His shoes are long and mine are short.

After the master of ceremonies had a long conversation, we worshiped the heaven and the earth, the emperor, and husband and wife, and the ceremony was finally completed.

"Are you tired?" Li Chengyin's voice sounded from above his head.

His voice is very small, but it has some magical power. When I heard it, I was so wronged that I wanted to cry, "I'm tired, my neck is about to break." I whispered back.

It is said that being a bride is the happiest thing in a woman's life, but I feel that there is nothing more tiring than this. If it doesn't end, I will be smothered to death by that hijab.

Li Chengyin said: "Go back and wait for me, eat something well, you won't be tired after eating."

I really believed him. After being sent back to the palace, I could eat something secretly, but the red hijab was still tightly covered, and Yong Niang kept telling me that it couldn't be uncovered, and I had to wait for Li Cheng. Yin to reveal.

I waited and waited, I waited for several hours, but Li Chengyin didn't come, I felt very depressed.

I raised my hand and was about to take off the hijab on my head when I heard the maid outside the door call "His Royal Highness", so I withdrew my hand.

"Let's all go down." Li Chengyin said.

I heard the sound of the door opening, and the sound of his footsteps, one after another, getting closer and closer, as if stepping on the tip of my heart, which made my heart tremble and I became inexplicably nervous.

He came, he walked beside me, and I could already see the wedding shoes on his feet embroidered with golden dragon claws.

He stopped still, and I waited for him to remove the hijab. After waiting for a while, my palms started to sweat.

His hand finally grasped the corner of the hijab, and he lifted it off. I only felt that my eyes were bright, and the candlelight on all sides was very bright, illuminating the hall brightly, and his whole body, his face, was also illuminated. .

He is wearing a red robe with many exquisite patterns embroidered on it, including dragon patterns, mountains, fire, etc. I think of "Rituals", and know that as a prince, he is very particular about dressing when he marries a concubine. With nine chapters, Dai Gongmian, I have never seen him dressed so formally, his face is like a crown jade, his appearance is clear and elegant, standing there, as if his whole body would shine, it made me stunned.

He looked at me too, for a long while.

I felt that my head was being overwhelmed, so I came back to my senses, and said, "I can't breathe because of the phoenix crown and pearl hairpin headgear, quickly take it off for me."

He was stunned for a moment, raised his hand to pick the phoenix crown for me, but took it back, "Wait a minute, I haven't drunk the Heying wine yet."

He didn't say that I would have forgotten that there was such a thing.

He brought two glasses of wine from the side, and the two glasses of wine were tightly connected together by a red thread.

I happen to be a little thirsty right now, and I'm about to drink one of the cups, Li Cheng Yin seemed to guess that I would do this, and stopped him: "Fool, that's not how I drink it."

"Then how do we drink it?" I looked at the two glasses of wine in confusion.

Li Chengyin seemed to smile a bit, raised his wine glass, hooked my arm, crossed my hand, and then walked around in front of him, "Okay, you can drink."

I nodded in a daze, and held the wine glass close to my mouth. We were not so close to each other originally, but if we want to drink the wine in this glass, we have to get very close, almost head to head, even the breath of each other. feel it.

I don't know if the stove in the room is too hot or what, I feel hot all over my body.

"Drink." He urged suddenly.I saw that the wine glass in his hand was also stuck to his mouth, as if he was waiting for me to drink together.

"Hmm." I quickly drank the glass of wine in one gulp. The wine was filled with the fragrance of flowers, clear and delicious, and I don't know what kind of flowers it is made of.

After I finished drinking, Li Chengyin also finished drinking, I sneaked a glance at his wine glass, there was not a single drop of wine in it, what a pity, I still want to drink again.

After Li Chengyin put the wine glass back, he took off the phoenix crown for me, the pearl hairpin on his head jingled with his movements, making a crisp sound, his movements were very light, unexpectedly it didn't hurt me at all, I Staring at the pattern on his clothes the whole time, he was a little lost in thought.

Today is like a dream, we had another wedding, I really became his princess, we were still fighting yesterday.

He fiddled with it for a while, and finally took all the things off my head. Without the heavy phoenix crown, I finally felt a little more relaxed, and finally breathed out.

He suddenly found a pair of scissors, the scissors were shining sharply, and my eyes flashed, I flinched in fright, "What are you going to do?"

Countless images flashed through my mind, all of which were the tragic scene of me being stabbed to death by Li Chengyin with scissors on the wedding night.

He didn't make a sound, but picked up the scissors with a "click", cut a bunch of his hair, then approached me, made a "click", cut a bunch of my hair, and then put the scissors aside.

I finally breathed a sigh of relief, felt safe, and started watching his every move again.

I saw him put two locks of hair together, then tied a knot, and put them in a red box.

"What does that mean?" I asked puzzled.

He looked at me and said with a smile: "Tie hair as husband and wife, there is no doubt about love and affection."

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