After the prince's coming-of-age ceremony, his wedding will follow.

Although it was the Emperor who granted the marriage, Su Bi still insisted on completing the three books and six ceremonies.

When accepting the marriage proposal and accepting the marriage proposal, Su Bi asked Prince Dun to come to the Ning Palace to ask for marriage. According to the seniority, Prince Dun was the uncle of Emperor Shao Yuan, a respected elder in the royal family, and even Emperor Shao Yuan had to give him some respect.

After Emperor Shao Yuan ascended the throne, Prince Dun only occasionally attended and presided over important royal family events, and rarely appeared in public. The fact that he was able to propose marriage to Prince Ning's mansion this time shows how much the prince values ​​this marriage.

When it came time to pay the betrothal gift, everyone had a new understanding of how important Princess Yuexi was to the Crown Prince.

Not to mention that the two live geese at the top of the betrothal gift were caught by the prince himself, even watching the betrothal gift being carried from Linhua Palace to Prince Ning's Mansion, which was so heavy that it bent the servants, was shocking.

Although His Majesty attached great importance to this wedding and opened his private treasury to add a lot of good things to the betrothal gifts of Linhua Palace, the endless betrothal gifts of several hundred yuan were actually paid out of the Eastern Palace's own pocket.

When everyone saw the betrothal gifts, they were suddenly puzzled by their previous impression that the Eastern Palace was weak. Apart from other things, in terms of financial strength, there were probably few noble families in the entire capital that could compare with it.

The betrothal gifts were still being carried into Prince Ning's mansion, but Huaichuan was ordered to pay a visit to Ning Xihua.

When he saw Ning Xihua, Huaichuan bowed respectfully and presented a wooden box with both hands over his head.

"I am offering this to the princess on the orders of my master."

Ning Xihua was a little curious about what it was that was worthy of Huaichuan, who had not yet recovered, to make this trip in person and present it to her so solemnly.

She took the wooden box and slowly opened it. Inside lay a white, round jade disk.

Ning Xihua carefully picked up the jade disk and found that the jade was warm and transparent, with dragon patterns engraved on it, which looked lifelike and seemed to be swimming in the jade.

Although it is a jade disk, she feels that it is more like a token.

"What is this?"

Huaichuan bowed his head and replied, "The master said this is the betrothal gift promised to the princess before."

Dowry?

Ning Xihua suddenly remembered that on the way back to the capital, she asked Su Bi whether the properties under his name were included in the betrothal gift, and he replied that they were all hers.

She thought he was just saying it to cheer her up, but she didn't expect him to take it seriously.

"This token can control all the industries under the master's name and command all the staff, secret guards and soldiers under the master's command."

Including the 20,000 private soldiers who returned to Beijing from Yizhou.

If the private seal that Su Bi gave to Ning Xihua before was just a personal token, then this token was equivalent to the emperor's jade seal, symbolizing supreme power.

The enviable gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings outside the door were just formal betrothal gifts, while this token and the power it symbolized were Su Bi's real betrothal gift.

Ning Xihua was a little surprised. This was equivalent to handing his entire life and property over to her.

If she had second thoughts, and used this token to manipulate a few chess pieces at will, Su Bi might fall into the abyss in this treacherous court and die without a burial place.

Ning Xihua sighed.

Su Bi was the crown prince and had experienced many unpredictable human hearts when he was young. Now that he could still place such trust in her hands, this friendship really made her feel flattered.

She carefully put the jade disk away, covered the wooden box, and looked up at Huaichuan with warm and firm eyes.

"Please tell His Highness that I accept this betrothal gift and will not let him down."

…

The third day of March is the Shangsi Festival, which is a good time to get married.

Ning Xihua was picked up from the bed by Song Yi early in the morning, and was forced to wash before she even opened her eyes.

People say that brides are usually too nervous to sleep the night before their wedding, but Ning Xihua is different.

Not only did she sleep soundly, she was also complaining about why the wedding had to disturb her sleep so early in the evening.

Song Yi and the other maids and nannies in the room wanted to scrub her inside and out, but she just kept her head down and just wanted to catch up on sleep.

It was not until the matchmaker came to open her face that the stinging pain on her face drove away her sleepiness.

Then there is another series of combing, putting on makeup and changing clothes.

It was already past noon when the whole process was completed.

Ning Xihua didn't care about whether there were any rules about not eating on the wedding day, and directly asked the kitchen to prepare some easily digestible pasta, and took Song Yi to have a full meal. There was no other way, this wedding looked like it would take a lot of physical effort, and it would be easier to work after eating a full meal.

The bridesmaid wanted to stop it, but seeing that no one in Princess Yuexi's room objected, she stopped talking. She was the most experienced bridesmaid in the official matchmaking, and she had escorted countless princesses, princesses, and noble ladies from marquisates and prime ministers over the past few decades.

Although Princess Yuexi was approachable, she was a person with her own ideas. She didn't need to be annoying. Besides, the princess loved her very much. A girl like her would definitely treat her well and live a good life no matter where she married.

After finally making it to dusk, the wedding procession had already arrived at the gate of the mansion.

The servant in front came excitedly to report that the Crown Prince had come to welcome them personally.

Ning Xihua was not surprised. Although according to custom, officials from the Ministry of Rites would come to welcome the prince's bride, she knew that Su Bi would definitely come in person.

The bridesmaid quickly checked her makeup and added some lip balm. Song Yi also checked her dress from top to bottom and smoothed out the wrinkles.

The blast of firecrackers at the gate of the mansion meant that the groom had entered the house.

As soon as he entered a door, he was stopped by Ning Yuehang.

Ning Yuehang said with a smile, "Your Highness is here to welcome me in person today, but you have to fight with me. After all, my fifth sister is not that easy to marry."

Su Bi agreed with a smile.

Since it was not appropriate to use swords and knives on such a wedding day, the two men exchanged a few moves with their bare hands.

Everyone thought that Ning Yuehang was just going through the motions. After all, these moves looked very basic and anyone who had practiced martial arts would know them.

But Ning Yuehang knew that Su Bi's moves were real kung fu, and although they seemed to be careless fancy moves, each and every move contained powerful strength.

After several dozen moves, Ning Yuehang cupped his hands and clasped his fists, "Your Highness wins."

Su Bi still smiled gently, "Thank you, Fourth Master, for letting me."

After all, he was given a big red envelope.

Ning Yuehang was originally feeling a little disappointed because of the defeat in the battle, but when he felt the thickness of the red seal, he immediately smiled.

His brother-in-law, the prince, is much more generous than his father and second brother.

When they arrived at the second gate, Ning Yueyan had been waiting for a long time.

Ning Yueyan bowed and smiled, "I won't say anything else. Your Highness, please write a poem to urge me to put on makeup."

"There is no need to put on makeup, but to leave the eyebrows ready for painting."

"Today I am fortunate to meet Qin Jin, and I have already taught you to go down to the dressing room."

"I send a message to those who are tired of makeup, and say, lightly apply rouge and powder to learn to be lazy."

Without the help of her groomsmen, Su Bi composed three poems in a row to encourage her makeup, each of which was blurted out.

"Your Highness is very talented! Please!"

Ning Yueyan clapped his hands in praise, his face full of smiles.

"Second Master, you are flattering me."

Su Bi finally handed Ning Yueyan a red envelope.

When they reached the third door, it was King Ning who was standing there.