“Mother!?” Shen Yong stepped into the Qingshou Palace and glanced around in confusion.
The food on the table was still steaming, but only Old Madam Shen was sitting at the table.
Sisters-in-law…Chen Yong glanced in the direction of the greenhouse and raised his eyebrows slightly.
Madam Shen smiled and looked at Shen Yong.
"Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year. A new year begins, starting tomorrow..."
Madam Shen glanced at the greenhouse, smiled, turned to look at Shen Yong, and continued,
"Although it's a joint marriage, I'll still treat you like a newlywed couple. We won't see each other until the wedding is consummated."
"Today is New Year's Eve. Drink this bowl of soup and it will be like you're having a reunion dinner with us."
As she spoke, Madam Shen brought a bowl of Ten-Ingredient Tonic Soup and handed it to Shen Yong.
"Okay." Shen Yong took the bowl of soup with a smile, "Happy New Year to my mother and sisters-in-law!"
"Good, good, good, as long as you are all healthy!" Mrs. Shen smiled as she watched her son finish drinking the nourishing soup.
"You go back and rest, so that we can have a good reunion dinner together as mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."
After Chen Yong left the Qingshou Palace, the six sisters-in-law came out of the warm room with red faces.
Old Madam Shen took Cheng Suihua's hand and said with a smile,
"You sleep with your mother tonight..."
Cheng Suihua blushed and nodded shyly, "Yes..."
As soon as she got up in the morning, she saw people from the Imperial Household Department carrying boxes of things to decorate her yard.
The big red silk lanterns and the big red dragon and phoenix quilt...
.......
"May the Emperor be blessed with good health!"
Lan Xin and a group of palace maids knelt down and saluted with a smile on their faces.
"No need to be so polite~" Chen Yong walked into the room with a flushed face. As soon as he stepped into the room, a warm wave hit his face.
There were charcoal fires burning in all four corners of the house, making it warm.
The pillars were wrapped with bright red silk, and twelve pairs of gilded dragon-shaped candlesticks stood in the corners of the hall. The flames illuminated the golden candles, dyeing the entire room the color of sunset.
The bride, covered with a red veil with dragon and phoenix patterns, sat beside the bed.
The bride was wearing a bright red gauze dress, which made Chen Yong tense up and his throat tighten.
Lan Xin looked at the emperor staring at his master, pursed her lips and smiled, then left the room with a group of palace maids and closed the door considerately.
With a "creak", the moment the door closed, Cheng Suihua nervously clasped her hands together.
As she heard the footsteps getting closer and closer to her, her heart beat faster and faster.
Chen Yong walked to the bed, looked at the peanuts, longans and lotus seeds covering the bed, and smiled softly.
He picked up the jade ruyi and gently lifted the red veil with dragon and phoenix pattern on Cheng Suihua's head.
When the jade ruyi touched the edge of the veil, the golden tassels trembled slightly.
Cheng Suihua's heart tightened, and before she could even raise her eyelids, a ray of light shone on her face.
"Hua'er~~" Chen Yong's trembling voice instantly brought the stunned Cheng Suihua back to her senses.
Cheng Suihua's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her cheeks were red and hot as if they were burned.
The crackling sound of the candle shells was accompanied by the candlelight popping one after another, and the wedding candles had been burning past three o'clock in the morning.
The candlelight flickered in the house, and the palace maids who were keeping watch outside the window had long been dismissed by Lan Xin. The melon seeds and peanut shells on the ground were blown up by the cold wind and slammed against the carved door with a red double happiness pattern.
The house didn't become quiet until dawn.
(Sister-in-law's dependency value: +15, total dependency value 68...)
(Total dependency value 312......)
When Chen Yong woke up, he saw that his dependence value had exceeded 300. Excited, he turned over and hugged the sleeping Cheng Suihua and started kissing her.
"Stop it~" Cheng Suihua's hoarse and soft voice came out of her throat. She curled up her body tiredly and fell asleep in Shen Yong's arms.
Shen Yong smiled with satisfaction, his hands gently stroking Cheng Suihua's smooth back.
He directly opened the system mall, bought the elixir of immortality without hesitation, and stuffed it into his mouth.
(300 dependency points consumed, 12 dependency points remaining...)
The entrance of the elixir of immortality slid into his body in an instant, and then he felt a surge of energy rushing straight to his head, and his warm body suddenly became hot.
The bones made crisp sounds and a stream of gas quickly moved through the body.
After a moment, Chen Yong breathed a sigh of relief and felt a lot lighter. He could fight for another three hundred rounds without any problem.
Chen Yong turned his head to look at Cheng Suihua, who was tired and sleeping in his arms. He suppressed the anger in his heart, hugged the first woman in his two lives tightly, closed his eyes with a smile on his face, and fell asleep together.
From the first to the third day of the Chinese New Year, a full three days.
Chen Yong and Cheng Suihua never got out of bed except to wash up.
Early in the morning on the fourth day of the New Year, Cheng Suihua watched Chen Yong leave and breathed a sigh of relief.
Although she felt a little lost and reluctant, but...
Cheng Suihua rubbed her sore waist and lowered her eyelids shyly. She really couldn't take it anymore.
Mother said that three days after the wedding, starting from the first day of the new year, my seventh brother will stay in the courtyards of his six sisters-in-law for three days each.
Today is the fourth day of the New Year. My seventh brother should attend the morning court and go to my second brother’s wife’s yard tonight.
In the Golden Palace, the ministers were frowning and whispering to each other.
Ever since Emperor Qianhuang left the state banquet on New Year's Eve, saying "I will inherit all seven branches of the family", the past three days have been extremely difficult for them.
In three days, the threshold of their house was almost trampled by people who were trying to find out the news.
Naturally, the ministers were unwilling to see such a thing happen.
Who doesn’t have a girl of marriageable age, waiting to be sent to the palace to give birth to a prince?
Now the emperor directly announced that he would not choose a concubine and would have seven wives, shattering the hopes of countless ministers.
The six in-laws of the Shen family had previously severed ties with their daughter. After Shen Yong ascended the throne, no one dared to visit them, for fear that Shen Yong would settle accounts with the six families.
Ever since the news of the emperor taking over seven branches of the family came out, these six families have become powerful again.
The families that had previously had marriage contracts with these six families all came to the door in the past three days to rush to finalize the wedding date.
If we don't use connections now, it will be too late to use connections when the girls from these six families give birth to princes.
After the six ministers left the state banquet, they gathered together to discuss a solution.
They discussed it until late that night and came up with a perfect solution.
Who would have thought that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, news suddenly spread in the palace that the emperor had already practiced the dual-heirship.
This time, the six ministers’ world collapsed. All their discussions were in vain and all wasted.
Yi Zhengjin had a dark face and sneered in his heart as he looked at the six ministers with their heads hung and worried expressions.
These old guys, their calculations were in vain.
"The Emperor has arrived!!"
The chief eunuch shouted loudly, and the ministers who were mumbling incessantly shut up and knelt down quickly.
"Long live our emperor!!"
"My dear ministers, please stand up~" Chen Yong raised his hand with a smile on his face and swept his eyes over the faces of the ministers.
The chief eunuch swung his whisk and shouted at the top of his voice,
"If you have something to report, please do so. If not, please leave the court----"
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