Chapter 192 Welcoming the Bride
The auspicious time is approaching.
The bridesmaid was in a dilemma. "Princess, no one will carry you out of the house. What should we do?"
It was said before that Princess Jiaping would come to the wedding, but the princess hasn't come back yet.
"If no one carries me, I'll just walk out by myself." Qu Ling didn't care.
"How can this be possible?" the bridesmaid said, "There has never been such a rule."
A loud voice came from outside the door, "What are the rules? Where do so many rules come from?"
The maid's surprised voice was heard outside, "The princess is back!"
Qu Ling stood up suddenly, and the pearl curtains on her crown jingled.
Zhao Yuanrong came in, looking a little tired, with dust on his clothes.
"Sister," Qu Ling's eyes were hot, "Are you okay?"
Her voice trembled and tears kept falling.
There has been no news of Zhao Yuanrong since the day the deposed emperor abdicated.
She didn't dare to ask, as things were changing rapidly in the court, and she was afraid that asking the wrong question would cause trouble.
Seeing that everyone was safe, the worry that had been weighing on my mind for the past few days finally settled down.
Zhao Yuanrong held her face with both hands and said, "You are so beautiful, you can't cry."
"Where did my sister go?" Qu Ling choked up, "She didn't even leave me a message."
"I'll tell you later," Zhao Yuanrong turned to the maid and said, "I have a set of clothes that I made especially for you to wear today. Bring it here."
Her fingers lifted the bead curtain of her hair crown and said, "Let me send you out in style."
The auspicious time has arrived.
The main gate of the princess's mansion was wide open, and Zhao Yuanrong and Qu Ling walked out slowly.
"On the day my mother ascended the throne, Hou Xu and I were in the imperial guards camp." Only Qu Ling could hear Zhao Yuanrong's voice.
"I told him that if His Majesty doesn't abdicate, I will bring my men to force him to abdicate."
"The Hou family owes my mother."
The night I returned from the palace.
After everyone else fell asleep, her mother talked to her for a long time.
Among the three ministers selected by the previous emperor, Song Guang rebelled, Hou Lie had an ambiguous attitude, and Xiao Ci Yu was loyal.
Her master was one of the people who plotted against her mother's throne.
The adults were reluctant to tell her about old stories.
In the palace, Empress Dowager Song didn't allow anyone to mention her.
After Hou Xu sent the emperor back to the capital, he went to the imperial guards camp to rest, and she waited there.
From Hou Xu's expression, she concluded that he knew everything.
Right there in the training ground of the Imperial Guards camp, she drew her sword against Hou Xu.
"I won't let you go to protect the emperor."
Hou Xu stood with his hands hanging down and sighed softly, "I won't go."
Zhao Yuanrong said in a very calm tone, "Then you are not worthy of being the commander of the Imperial Guards."
"I know."
Hou Xu took out half a fish token from his arms.
"The remaining half is yours, and the Imperial Guards are also yours."
The pupils in Zhao Yuanrong's eyes shrank slightly.
"Brother, let's have a competition."
More and more people gathered around the training ground.
Someone was puzzled, "Princess, why are you pointing a sword at our general?"
Someone started to make a fuss, "The princess and the general are fellow disciples. Now that their swords are drawn, why not take this opportunity to decide the winner?"
It was at this moment that Hou Xu took action.
He knew that Zhao Yuanrong needed this competition.
Once the leader of the imperial guards is replaced, people will become unstable.
Let the soldiers know that their new commander has good martial arts skills and can play a certain stabilizing role.
"I won't let you," Hou Xu said, "you have to get it based on your ability."
The competition had not yet concluded when a loud bell rang from the direction of the imperial city in the distance.
"Something happened in the palace."
The imperial guards around the parade ground were in commotion at the same time.
Hou Xu ordered, "Everyone return to camp and wait."
Until the decree from the palace came, "Your Majesty abdicates the throne to the Princess."
A smile appeared on Zhao Yuanrong's face, but a huge wave of emotion was set off in the imperial guards camp.
The generals of each guard gathered in front of Hou Xu's tent.
The look they gave Zhao Yuanrong changed.
The appearance of Princess Jiaping at this time clearly implies that the commander of the imperial guards will be replaced sooner or later.
Someone in the shadows stood up with a sword drawn.
Before Hou Xu could speak, Zhao Yuanrong spoke first, "General, do you also want to compete with this princess?"
The palace did not issue an order to immediately replace the commander of the imperial guards.
Zhao Yuanrong was not idle.
In the following days, she beat people every day.
Someone lost to her and couldn't stand the loss, so he cursed, "A woman is worthy of coming to the Forbidden Army Camp?"
Zhao Yuanrong dislocated his arms and hung him on the flagpole at the gate. "Tell me loudly, am I worthy of this princess?"
This undoubtedly angered the public, and people kept challenging her to competitions.
Come one by one and beat them.
As the only child of the new emperor, she did not rush back to the palace to consolidate her position, but lived in the imperial guard camp.
Qu Ling's heart was shocked.
She lifted Zhao Yuanrong's sleeve.
Under the veil, vision is limited, but one can still see blue and purple marks scattered on the arms.
Qu Ling didn't say a word, but Zhao Yuanrong knew that she was very sad.
"That's nothing. As the emperor's only son, I naturally have to go through more trials and tribulations."
She took Qu Ling's hand and walked out, comforting her, "Physical pain is the mildest torture."
The wedding procession from the Marquis' Mansion had arrived at the street corner. Chi Yuan was wearing a bright red wedding gown and riding on a white horse, looking extraordinarily handsome.
Seeing Zhao Yuanrong personally escorting the bride, he was stunned for a moment, then dismounted and saluted.
Zhao Yuanrong nodded slightly.
She handed Qu Ling to Chi Yuan and said, "There's no need for me to say anything extra. I'm sure you already know what to do in the future, Master Chi."
The cold tone contained a warning.
Chi Yuan was very calm, "Don't worry, Princess, I will never let A Ling down."
"I don't think you'd dare."
Zhao Yuanrong also got on the horse and followed the sedan chair to the marquis' mansion.
The sound of firecrackers was deafening.
The streets were crowded with onlookers.
"Doesn't the bride have a dowry?"
"A few days ago, I saw the Marquis's Mansion carrying a lot of things into the Princess's Mansion. How come there is no dowry?"
"Could it be that His Majesty wants to confer the title of Princess on the County Lord and build a new Princess's Palace?"
This saves the trouble of carrying the dowry around.
"She is not His Majesty's biological daughter. A princess is the best she can be. If she is given the title of princess, what will the royal family think?"
This is also the attitude of most of the noble families in the capital towards Qu Ling today.
They didn't think that Qu Ling, who was once loved by the eldest princess, would be any different after the eldest princess became emperor.
The Dingxiang Marquis' Mansion was defeated, and the Jingwei Marquis' Mansion became a huge joke.
If the emperor really loved the princess, he would not let her marry into such a family.
There is almost no one visiting the mansion of Marquis Jingwei.
Servants hid in the dark in groups of three or five, occasionally looking out.
They were all sent by various prefectures to find out what was going on.
"It seems that no one has come to congratulate you," one of the servants said. "There's not even anyone reading out the gift list."
Another servant sneered, "If only they were perfectly matched, my wife would say that these two marquisates are like possessed by a demon..."
Before he finished speaking, the sound of armor colliding suddenly came from the end of the long street.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw the imperial flag leading the way, with the Thousand Oxen Guards following, and the imperial horses pulling the gilded carriage slowly approaching.
The servants looked terrified, and the teasing they had just done was long gone. "Hurry back and tell them that the emperor is coming in person."
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