Seeing that her adopted daughter was about to get married to her son-in-law, Mrs. Qiu San cried so hard that her heart broke. Then she knelt down sadly in front of her husband and begged: "Master, after all these years of marriage, I have never asked for anything. Now..." She wiped away her tears.
He said, "It's not yet clear whether the child will pass this test. I just want to go to the Taoist temple to see her. Although it doesn't help, at least having my mother beside me to comfort her a few times is better than carrying her alone."
Mr. Qiu San also felt extremely uncomfortable and sighed, "I know I can't help my child..." and shed tears.
The third wife knelt down and threw herself at her husband's legs: "Girl, you are stubborn. You have survived the past few years as if you were dying. If the master doesn't come back, or he marries someone else early, it's nothing. But this happens again."
...This is another cut on her knife edge! It looked like that last time...I'm afraid I will kill her! Please let me take a look at her, just because she is still a child,
It's okay if your mother gives her a hug." Mr. Qiu San leaned over and hugged his old wife, crying.
Early in the morning two days later, when the sky was just dawning, the third wife got on the carriage and left Qiu Mansion with four large food boxes. She said she was going to Qingcheng Mountain to pray for her daughter. She waited at the city gate for a long time before opening the city gate;
He didn't come back until he was in front of the city gate three days later.
There were only two days left before Situ Cen and Miss Qiu were to get married. Someone rushed into the city and rushed to a military camp in the west of the city to report to Master Qiu Er. Master Qiu Er was so anxious that he immediately jumped on his horse and ran to his elder brother Qiu Liang's Yamen. Qiu Liang heard this
He stood up and said, "What am I talking about? I know this person can't make people worry."
Master Qiu Er stumbled and said, "What should we do? I don't know where he got so many soldiers and horses to surround the Taoist temple. Things are going to be big!"
Qiu Liang walked around the room twice and said, "Without any further delay, ask the third child to come with you."
The two brothers rushed to Master Qiu San's Yamen again. Unexpectedly, Master Qiu San refused to go! He said with a dark face: "If you want to go, you can go alone, I won't go." Qiu Liang and others tried to persuade him for a long time, but he just ignored them. Helplessly
, the two brothers worked hard on their own and led the people to Qingcheng Mountain.
When I arrived at the Taoist temple guarded by soldiers, I saw, what a man! There were many elite soldiers densely surrounding them. There were about a thousand of them, each with a gun on his back and a long knife on his waist, which looked majestic. Qiu Liang squinted his eyes.
After looking at Huizi, he immediately shouted: "No, I've been fooled!"
His brother asked: "What's wrong?"
Qiu Liang said: "Although these people's clothes are similar to military uniforms, they are different from the uniforms of our Shu soldiers. They also wear ordinary cloth shoes, and the styles are very mixed. Do you see that?"
Mr. Qiu Er took a closer look and stroked his beard and said: "Yes, it is indeed not the uniform of Chinese soldiers. The military boots of Chinese soldiers are all provided by officials."
"And they have no spirit." Qiu Liang said, "They don't look like soldiers at all. Besides, the guns and guns they carry... Why doesn't it look real to me?"
Mr. Qiu Er shouted loudly: "It's really not true! It's a fake fire and gun!"
I heard someone slapping my hands, and I saw Situ Cen coming towards me on horseback with a smile, cupping his hands and saying, "You two uncles have good taste!"
Situ Cen smiled and pointed behind him: "They are idle men I hired from the market. Are they guns, spears and knives... Well, do you two uncles know that my niece-in-law and I just bought a weapon factory? These
They’re all made of wood.”
Qiu Liang was dumbfounded: "What are you doing, Your Highness?"
"It's nothing, I'm just kidding." Situ Cen suddenly suppressed his smile and said coldly, "I'm about to get married, but I heard that my unmarried daughter-in-law is still making wishes in the Taoist temple. I thought, what kind of wish should I make?
Now that I’ve paid it off, do I have to go back to Chengdu? Don’t delay the date of getting married.”
Qiu Liangqiang smiled before he was about to speak. He saw the prince sitting on the horse and turning around from behind Situ Cen, with a smile on his lips and cold eyes: "Master Qiu."
The Qiu brothers quickly rolled their saddles and dismounted from their horses, saluting: "Your Majesty."
The prince said: "Miss Qiu has been praying for so many days. I think everyone knows her sincerity. The day after tomorrow is a big day, so the bride and groom should hurry up and get there. This marriage is a gift from my father and the king."
Qiu Liang and his younger brother looked at each other for a long time, then sighed and lowered their heads and said: "Since the prince has his destiny, how dare I disobey him."
Master Qiu Er ordered the soldiers to get out of the way, and the two brothers walked towards the temple. Situ Cen wanted to follow, but Qiu Liang said: "You two can't see each other until you get married."
Situ Cen said: "I want to see if she is okay."
The prince smiled and said: "The bride and groom can't meet each other before we get married. Anyway, she will be your wife the day after tomorrow. You can watch her for as long as you want." Situ Cen had no choice but to stretch his neck and look inside.
After a long time, a carriage stopped at the entrance of the Taoist temple. A graceful woman with a veil on her face and a handkerchief in her hand, followed by two maids with red and swollen eyes from crying, walked out slowly. Situ Cen looked at her and smiled.
She bowed her head. The woman lowered her head and helped the old woman get into the carriage. The two maids wiped their tears vigorously and followed slowly. The two elder brothers of the Qiu family were in front of the carriage, and Situ Cen followed behind.
The group of people slowly went down the mountain.
The carriage moved much slower than a single horse, and it took more than half an hour to arrive at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain. It was almost dusk, and everyone was walking at the foot of the mountain. Because they had to get married the day after tomorrow, they really didn't have time.
He was so exhausted that he had to light a fire and drive on the starry night. It usually takes two or three hours for a carriage to travel from Chengdu to Qingcheng Mountain. Walking is slow at night, and when thousands of people arrive outside Chengdu after midnight, they can't find the inn.
It was cold in Huizi, so the prince ordered him to stay overnight in one of his villages.
The work was really hard during the day. The prince's house in Zhuangzi was large and the people who served him were dedicated. Everyone slept soundly. It was noon when they woke up. Anyway, the bride also received it and they will get married tomorrow. Situ Cen was very happy for the two of them.
Master Qiu was very polite. Since the prince was the host, he invited everyone to have lunch. Even the thousands of idle men hired by Situ Cen and the 500 soldiers under Mr. Qiu also had a good meal. There was a lot of commotion.
Yes, it's past time for everyone to leave Zhuang Zishen.
Situ Cen and the prince personally sent the carriage to Qiu Mansion, went in to have tea and chat for a long time, and then left at Youshi. After these two days, Qiu Liang's old bones were all broken. Even so, he still had to give orders to his two younger brothers for half a day.
Mrs. Qiu San sent a message from inside, saying that the banquet had been prepared in the kitchen, and the two masters from the second bedroom and the second bedroom were left to have dinner at their house. I was thinking about what the prince might do tomorrow, Qiu Liangnao Renzi
They all hurt; the three brothers had to discuss how to deal with it. Moreover, the wine tonight was really good, and all three old men were drunk. The two elders returned to their respective houses and tortured the servants so much that they fell asleep immediately.
In the blink of an eye, dawn came, and Situ Cen, the third son of the King of Shu, and Qiu, the eldest daughter of the Qiu family, were about to get married. The two houses were bound to be at war. However, something happened to the Qiu family again at this moment. Mrs. Qiu San's head hurt when she woke up early in the morning.
, then his heart ached, and finally he felt pain all over his body. Mr. Qiu San knew that his wife was unhappy, so he had to order his two aunts to help his adopted daughter dress up. Not long after, Mr. Qiu fell down again and hurt his waist! It was obvious to get married.
It couldn't be given away. Mr. Qiu San secretly scolded the brat for being ignorant and sent his eldest son from his ex-wife to marry his adopted daughter. Miss Qiu's mother and brother were both injured and sick, but he was the one who was responsible for both the marriage and the marriage.
It was run by someone else, and Mr. Qiu San and Mr. Qiu took over temporarily. They didn't understand what they were doing, and they made a big fuss. Fortunately, the two Mr. and Mrs. Qiu's family also came over to help, and they were like a bunch of panicked chickens.
I barely managed to get everything done.
Not long after, the bride-to-be came, and the sound of firecrackers and blowing sounded throughout the street. When the Qiu family saw that it was Situ Cen's housekeeper who came to greet the bride, they felt a little strange. The housekeeper hit Qiu Liang.
The Qian'er laughed and said: "Master Qiu... Our Highness drank a few too many drinks last night..." Qiu Liang glared at him: "Nonsense!" Even so, he felt uneasy in his heart. When Xi Niang came over to say good luck,
When it was time to arrive, Qiu Liang didn't care about anything else and hurriedly asked his niece to get on the sedan chair. The two wives of the Qiu family watched with their own eyes as the eldest girl helped the maid to sit on the sedan chair and took a breath. The dowry was given yesterday. Now people are also giving it away.
In the past, this subcontracting calculation was done properly.
The three elder brothers of the Qiu family have not left. Except for Mr. Qiu's eldest son, the other men of the Qiu family have not left either. They are thinking about when the third highness will come back to cause trouble and how to deal with it. Only the third wife is just bored in the yard,
No one was allowed in. The two ladies wanted to comfort her, but they were not allowed in. Mr. Qiu left through the west corner gate early, saying he was out to find a doctor he knew well to look at his back injury.
After waiting for a while, Uncle Qiu sent someone to report the news, and the person on the other end had arrived at the hall safely. Qiu Liang didn't relax a little until now, because he asked the man if the road was smooth. The man said: "It's all smooth. Half of it.
On the way, we passed a temple for the Concubine, and the eldest lady insisted on going in to pay her respects. We stopped for the time being, without wasting much time."
Qiu Liang frowned: "How can there be so many things on a happy day?"
The messenger added: "When the eldest girl came out of the temple, it happened that the second master also came! So he and our uncles sent the girl there. Just when they were about to get up the sedan, the groom's official and others rushed towards her."
Qiu Liang suddenly felt something was wrong: "Who has passed by?" He turned to look at his third brother.
Mr. Qiu San said: "Didn't the second one show his waist and go to see the doctor?"
Qiu Liang thought for a while and stood up suddenly: "No! Quick, go see if the person is still there!" Unable to wait for his servants to report the news, he jumped on the horse and ran away. Mr. Qiu San also followed.
The two of them ran straight to a secluded small house in the south of Chengdu. There were many pines and cypresses here, which survived the cold weather, and were full of all kinds of chrysanthemums. It looked very beautiful. The two old men ordered someone to open the door and went straight to the back.
Suddenly they heard the sound of Yao Qin coming from inside, and they all breathed a sigh of relief. They called the steward over to ask how the girl was doing and if anything had happened these days.
The steward said: "The eldest lady has nothing to do. She even set off fireworks for fun the day before yesterday. Yesterday the princess sent a father-in-law and a nun over to give the girl a few things."
Qiu Liang was shocked: "How does the princess know she is here? I am the only one who knows here!" He hurriedly ran inside.
I saw a woman sitting in the octagonal pavilion in the back garden playing the harp. She looked very similar to Miss Qiu, except she was not her. When the woman saw the two of them coming, she stopped her harp and bowed gracefully: "See you.
Pass two Masters Qiu."
Qiu Liangliang's head turned inside out: something happened! He asked, "Who are you!"
The woman smiled and said, "I am Zhang, the concubine of the Prince's Mansion."
Qiu Liang was stunned for a long time and sighed: "Where is my niece?"
The woman said: "I don't know where I am. I'm just going to take the place of Miss Qiu for two days."
Qiu Liang closed his eyes for a long time and said, "That girl must have run away pretending to be a nun in the palace."
"That's not true. The girl is young, how can she pretend to be a grandma." The woman said, "She is pretending to be a father-in-law."
It turns out that Miss Qiu did not go to Qingcheng Mountain. Qiu Liang knew that Situ Cen was not easy to fool, so he only told the outside world that his niece went to the Taoist temple to fulfill her wish, but actually chose a maid with a similar figure to her to pretend to be her and send her there; the real Miss Qiu was only here
Hidden in the small house. A few days ago, Mrs. Qiu San wanted to see her daughter, so she asked the maid, mother-in-law, and servant Dingnuyuan to bring an empty carriage to the Taoist temple. The third wife secretly took another sedan and left the house from the back door, and quietly brought her here.
Such tricks could coax others, but how could they coax Chen Ruijin? She followed the third wife's sedan all the way and learned where Miss Qiu was.
Naturally, the four large food boxes sent by the third wife were not all filled with food. There were also more than twenty fireworks and two long letters hidden in them. Jia Cong thought, what kind of woman could make Situ Cen, a descendant of the Tian family, so infatuated?
He must be a genius, and the letter details how to use those fireworks to send messages. Miss Qiu then followed her instructions and communicated with fireworks outside the wall. The big dog and bodyguard Qiu Liang set up in the house were not even aware of it. The third wife returned to the house, day and night.
He gossiped in the ears of the third master, complaining that the two eldest brothers had ruined his daughter's life. As the wedding day approached, the third master was already unhappy, and the third wife complained even more when he talked about it.
The day before yesterday, Situ Cen and his brother Shi Zi led thousands of idle people to Qingcheng Mountain to cause trouble, but Qiu San was angry and refused to go. Unfortunately, Qiu Liang and his second brother had no choice but to go there by themselves. Qingcheng Mountain was not in Chengdu after all, so they had to go back and forth.
One day. At midnight the day before yesterday, everyone rushed to the prince's village outside the city. They were tired and hungry. They didn't realize that the soup they ate had Anshu powder in it.
Therefore, the two masters of the Qiu family were still sleeping until yesterday morning. The prince sent a nanny and a eunuch pretending to be the princess to give gifts to Miss Qiu, and brought six maids and four young eunuchs to hold the gift box;
Mrs. Zhang mingled among the young eunuchs. Then Mrs. Zhang and Miss Qiu changed their clothes. Mrs. Zhang stayed behind and pretended to be a young lady. Miss Qiu pretended to be a young eunuch and went out. The guard only paid attention to the six maids and the young nanny.
They never paid attention to the little eunuch. Besides, they had never seen what the eldest girl looked like!
After the "Princess's People" left, they immediately sent someone to Qiu Liang's Mansion to report the news. At that time, Qiu Liang was still sleeping outside the city. In the afternoon, although Qiu Liang had returned to Chengdu, he was still in Lao San's Mansion. By the evening
Qiu Liang could go back, but he was already drunk. Today he sobered up, and it was the official day for the two to get married. The person who reported the news was still at Qiu Liang's house until now, and he didn't find time to report the matter to him.
master.
Even the Shuangzi Niangniang Temple has been rushing to put up a sign in the past few days, just to find an excuse to return the dropped bag.
Since Qiu Liang didn't know, the Princess of Shu didn't know even more. Now that the worship service was over, what if Qiu Liang knew? Situ Cen wasn't afraid of him, he just wanted to avoid the Princess.
Qiu Liang sighed: "What should we do?"
Zhang said: "My lord, please don't worry. Those two must have run away by now. If the princess is to blame, I can't blame the adults."