Chapter 59 Princess Tai'an's Wedding
Inside Yuqing Hall.
When Yan Shixu returned to his bedroom from his study, it was already past midnight.
Yongtai stepped forward silently and respectfully presented a piece of rice paper with both hands.
Yan Shixu expressed his doubts.
"What's this?"
Yongtai said, "Your Highness, this is a letter from Wen Fengyi to Your Highness."
Yan Shixu raised his eyebrows.
Letter? Do they still need letters to communicate with each other when they are both in the East Palace?
He took the rice paper and unfolded it.
There were six neatly written words on it.
——You are lying, it’s a puppy——
Yan Shixu chuckled.
Seeing Yongtai stretching his head to look over, he hurriedly folded the rice paper again and put it between a half-read book on the bedside table.
This little Fengyi is becoming more and more bold, and even dares to call him a puppy.
Yongtai, who was standing by, saw the smile on his prince's face and clicked his tongue several times in his heart.
That Wen Fengyi is truly extraordinary.
As for the matter of the baby in Wen Li'er's belly, the Queen Mother and the Crown Princess acted as if they had never mentioned it, and their previous thoughts gradually disappeared.
The Crown Princess's attitude towards the baby in Wen Li'er's belly has obviously changed.
She no longer looked forward to the birth of the child as much as before, nor did she care about Wen Li'er's pregnancy condition as often.
Wen Li'er felt slightly relieved at the Crown Princess's change of heart.
She was so happy that no one was watching her child.
Although I don’t know why the Crown Princess suddenly changed her attitude, this is a good thing for her.
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In the blink of an eye, Princess Tai'an's wedding date arrived.
Yang Guifei was extremely dissatisfied with her marriage into the Chengde Marquis's Mansion.
If this marriage was arranged by the Queen Mother, she would refuse it for her daughter at all costs.
But on the contrary, her daughter herself likes it very much!
The mother and daughter had no idea how many times they had gone back and forth over this matter.
My daughter is getting married tomorrow, so there is no point in objecting anymore.
In addition, the emperor was already annoyed with her because of this matter, so Yang Guifei finally stopped making trouble.
She picked out a lot of good things from her private storehouse and asked the palace servants to send them to Yan Xi Palace.
During this period, Yan Shiyan only had a disagreement with his mother about the matter of the son-in-law.
But in fact, she still likes to be close to her mother.
The two men clasped hands together, expressed their feelings to each other, and reconciled as before.
The next day.
Princess Tai'an's wedding day.
Zhuque Street was blocked with carriages and horses, and pearls and jade fell to the ground like rain. The emperor's gift exceeded the regulations.
The Chengde Marquisate emptied its treasury for three days to entertain the people, and from then on the Marquisate and the country shared the same prosperity.
The palace was covered with red silk, and palace maids and eunuchs were busy running around.
The bustling scene outside was so lively that even the Yaohua Palace felt a sense of joy.
Wen Li'er was pregnant, so it was naturally impossible for her to join in the fun.
But she did not detain the palace maids in the East Palace. On such a happy day when the whole country was celebrating, it was nothing for the palace maids to share in the joy.
But neither Nanny Qin nor Nanny Ding went, and none of the palace maids went.
Wen Li'er was puzzled: "Don't you want to watch the spectacular scene of the princess's wedding?"
Nanny Qin laughed, "Of course they don't want to. But if they all go to join in the fun, who will take care of the master? Your belly is so big, you can't be careless at all."
"Then let's take turns to go and have a look."
When Nanny Qin saw that her master said so, she agreed to the wishes of the palace maids.
However, she repeatedly told them to just watch from afar.
Don't come too close and cause trouble for your master.
Several palace maids responded happily.
The princess's sedan chair was decorated with gilded carved phoenixes, and sixteen snow-white horses were pulled side by side. The pearl tassels hanging from the roof reflected the sunlight, and the people along the way burned incense and knelt in worship.
Because the main gate of Chengde Marquis Mansion was not as tall as the carved phoenix, the mansion demolished the east wall overnight and paved a hundred feet of red silk as a road. The locust trees on both sides were filled with gilded torches, which looked like a red dragon winding into the mansion from a distance.
Princess Tai'an wore a crown with nine phoenixes and four pheasants, which was inlaid with three hundred pearls from the East China Sea. Her wedding dress was embroidered with a hundred flowers in gold thread, and her cuffs were decorated with silk threads made of peacock feathers. When she moved, the silk threads flowed and danced, as if she was wearing a shawl.
When performing the ceremony of heaven and earth, a white marble altar was set up in the front yard of the marquis's mansion. Princess Tai'an and Chengde Marquis's son Gu Ci held Xuangui in their hands and worshipped the sun, moon, mountains and rivers together.
The ceremonial officer chanted loudly, "Heaven and earth unite in virtue, and the crane and the phoenix sing in harmony."
As he finished speaking, a hundred red-crowned cranes were released from their golden cages, flying around the courtyard three times with red silk in their beaks.
It means "a match made in heaven".
The emperor specially sent the eunuch with a list of gifts to announce the imperial edict, granting the princess's mansion a thousand acres of land, eighty gold utensils inlaid with gems, and a pair of blood-jade ruyi from the Western Regions, which symbolizes "being together until old age".
When everyone in the Chengde Marquis' Mansion knelt to receive the imperial edict, thousands of copper coins were scattered in front of the mansion, causing the streets to celebrate.
Until midnight when all the guests had left, the marquis's mansion still lit thousands of glazed palace lanterns.
The firelight shone through the window, illuminating half of the city's night sky with gold.
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