Chapter 344 Take You Out to Play
Two days later, the officials of Xizhou found that the prince who had originally advocated that Daxing no longer marry the princess to another country for an alliance no longer mentioned the matter, and also accepted the advice of some people and used other people's candidates to marry off the Thirteenth Princess.
Instead, he changed his previous ways and began to prepare for the marriage of the Thirteenth Princess, submitting a memorial to the emperor every day, preparing food, cloth, and books as a dowry, and recommending officials, craftsmen, doctors and others to accompany the princess to Beili.
Huo Zheng named the officials who were most in favor of marrying the princess to Beili one by one as dowry. He wrote in the memorial that Beili was in urgent need of capable people to educate the people. Since these officials were so in favor of the marriage between the two countries, they must be willing to contribute to it.
So these people are the most suitable to go to Beili with the princess.
This statement has merit and basis.
When this memorial was presented to the emperor, the emperor saw that Huo Zheng was so sensible and no longer opposed the matter. He was very pleased and felt that what he said made sense, so he appointed several officials to accompany the princess to Beili.
Several officials who were singled out complained bitterly.
But they had always been talking about how great it would be to marry the princess to Beili. Now that the task had fallen on them, they couldn't refuse even if they wanted to. They could only stay at home and shut themselves up to curse the King of Chang'an for being so unkind.
As soon as the emperor issued the decree, the whole of Daxing was busy preparing for the princess's marriage.
The marriage partner was decided to be the Thirteenth Princess. Several officials from Xizhou who had been urging Huo Zheng to recommend other noble ladies to marry him expressed their regret when they mentioned this, but Huo Zheng said nothing.
General Wang and the others all found it very strange that the prince's mind changed so quickly.
Only Chunzhi knew what Huo Zheng was planning.
Prince Chang'an, who had always been loyal to the monarch and respected his father, finally realized the emperor's character and had to start pretending to obey him while secretly disobeying him.
The matter has been secretly accomplished.
Although most officials in Xizhou followed the lead of Prince Chang'an, no one could guarantee that there were no spies of the emperor here, so Chunzhi and Huo Zheng decided to go to Beili to grab the bride, but they did not tell them and only operated in private and prepared manpower.
The Imperial Astronomical Observatory observed the celestial phenomena at night and set the thirteenth princess's wedding date on the tenth day of the ninth lunar month.
This day is the most auspicious day for marriage in the year.
Jiang Hao and Song Wan'er's wedding date was also set on this day.
Huo Yanran was preparing for her wedding in the palace, and Song Wan'er was preparing for her wedding in the Song residence. It was said that the bride had to embroider her own wedding dress so that her husband's family could see her outstanding needlework skills and she would be highly praised in her husband's family in the future.
But the two of them, one felt that Beili didn't care about these things at all, and the other felt that Jiang Hao didn't marry her because of her needlework skills, so they didn't care much about wedding dresses and other things.
Queen Wang came to the Thirteenth Princess's bedroom and privately gave Huo Yanran a token to leave the palace. She said to her, "While you are still in the capital, go wherever you want to have fun. I will not restrict you."
Huo Yanran, who had been unhappy at first, suddenly came to life. She took the token to leave the palace, bowed to Queen Wang and said, "Thank you, mother."
Queen Wang touched Huo Yanran's head, her eyes full of pity, but she said simply, "Go and play."
Have fun.
Huo Yanran took the token to leave the palace and left with two personal maids.
In fact, the little princess had rarely left the palace before. When she stood outside the palace gate, she realized that she seemed to have nowhere to go after leaving the palace.
When my sister-in-law was in the capital, Huo Yanran always went straight to the Chang'an Palace every time she left the palace.
Now that her seventh brother and sister-in-law are far away in Xizhou, she doesn’t know where to go.
Huo Yanran stood outside the palace gate and thought for a while before deciding to go to the Song residence to find Song Wan'er first.
Song Wan'er was reading a storybook in the room. When she heard the maid outside come to report, she jumped up and asked, "Who are you talking about? Who's here?"
"Princess Thirteen." Jinshu spoke again, "Miss, the princess is here."
"Then hurry up and greet them!"
Song Wan'er put the notebook on the table and immediately went out with Jinshu, Luoshang and the others.
This was not the first time Huo Yanran came to the Song residence. She walked straight in with the palace servants, and she and Song Wan'er soon ran into each other.
"Princess!" Song Wan'er ran towards Huo Yanran and hugged her, "I missed you so much!"
Huo Yanran hugged her back and pretended to be unhappy, "You missed me, but you didn't write me a letter or send someone to pass on a message?"
"The palace is different from other places. I'm afraid something might happen if I pass a message inside, and it would cause trouble for the princess..."
Song Wan'er spoke in a low voice. Ever since she learned that the Thirteenth Princess was going to marry Beili, she had actually wanted to go to the palace to meet the princess.
Unfortunately, Chunzhi was not in the capital, and as a merchant's daughter, she could not enter the palace.
Huo Yanran did give her a token, saying that if she missed her, she could use the token to ask someone to deliver a message to the palace.
But she was frightened by her father's sudden marriage, and she didn't dare to use the token.
"Did you take it seriously?" Huo Yanran raised her hand and scratched the tip of Song Wan'er's nose. "I was just joking with you. I don't blame you."
"real?"
Song Wan'er raised her eyes and looked at Huo Yanran, trying to see something in her eyes.
"Of course it's true." Huo Yanran said, "Otherwise, why would I come to see you?"
Song Wan'er seemed to remember something and asked her, "Princess, why did you leave the palace today?"
"Come out and play." Huo Yanran took Song Wan'er's hand and walked out together, "Didn't you say you wanted to go to the brothel to drink wine and watch singing and dancing? I'll take you there to play."
Miss Song loves reading storybooks and wants to travel around the world like the heroines in the storybooks. Unfortunately, she has been weak since childhood and cannot learn martial arts, so although she yearns for the world of martial arts, she cannot actually step into it.
When she was with Huo Yanran, she had talked about many things she wanted to do: go to a brothel to drink wine, watch singing and dancing, gamble in a gambling house, and go to the highest point in the capital to watch the stars late at night...
Many things are considered unorthodox by women in the eyes of others.
So when Song Wan'er said it, it was like a dream. Even if she never had the chance to do it in this life, it would be nice to talk about it and just dream about it.
Unexpectedly, the princess would suddenly come to Song's house today and say that she wanted to take her out to play.
Song Wan'er was pulled out by Huo Yanran, and asked in surprise, "No...are you really going?"
"Since I'm here, of course I really want to go." Huo Yanran found Song Wan'er's reaction very interesting and smiled brightly. "It's agreed that I will take you and you bring the money, and we will have a great time."
Huo Yanran left the palace in a hurry and forgot to bring the silver.
Fortunately, Miss Song is not short of money.
"Okay." As Song Wan'er walked forward, she told Jinshu Luoshang to go back and get the silver, and to make sure to bring more.
Seeing the Thirteenth Princess's current attitude, she was afraid that she was going to spend all her money.
Fortunately, the Song family is rich.
The two ran hand in hand through the corridor. The afterglow of the setting sun fell on the courtyard. The flowers in the garden fluttered in the wind, and the branches and leaves swayed gently.
Song Anlan walked slowly from the other end of the corridor. Seeing the two people running out with smiles, he stopped where he was.
"Brother."
When Song Wan'er saw him, she also pulled the princess to stop.
Since the emperor granted her marriage, Song Wan'er rarely went out. Song Anlan did not restrict her in what she did, and he had his own embroiderers to make her wedding dress.
But Song Wan'er knew that she had grown up and could no longer cause trouble for her brother.
Song Anlan bowed to the Thirteenth Princess and said, "Greetings, Princess."
"No need to be polite." Huo Yanran smiled at Song Anlan, "I came here to take Wan'er out to play, but I didn't inform Mr. Song in advance. Please forgive me."
"Princess, you're too kind." Song Anlan took off the Song family token hanging from his waist and handed it to Song Wan'er. "Take this. Spend as much money as you want. Go out and have fun."
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