Emperor Fengtian Chengyun issued an edict: The third daughter of Emperor Taizong Wen was granted the title of eldest princess of Changshan. She has reached the age of hair and can discuss marriage. Xiao Yong, the son of the Xiao family in Cixi County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang,..., has both political integrity and talent,..., canonize the title of Prince Consort.
Commander-in-Chief, I wish you to marry the eldest princess of Changshan. I appreciate this."
After Lu Yi read out the imperial edict conferring marriage, he planned to bend down and hand the imperial edict to Xiao Yong after hearing "The minister/caomin/... accept the edict", and at the same time put a smile on his face and said to him, "Prince Prince Consort, get up quickly."
, a slave cannot be treated like a prince-in-law kneeling like this';.
But he failed to hear the words he should have heard on time. He couldn't help lowering his head and saw Xiao Zhuo, Xiao Yong and his son kneeling on the ground in a daze, as if someone had cast a body-holding spell.
like a statue.
Lu Yilue looked at their father and son with some surprise. He had seen such expressions before. Many ignorant people would behave like this when they heard the great news; but after all, Xiao Zhuo was a well-known big businessman in the capital, and even
He had heard about it in the palace, and it was said that he had seen such a figure in the early years. He was a little surprised to see such an expression when he heard the good news.
"Mr. Xiao, Prince Consort, hurry up and accept the order." He had to say.
Hearing this, Xiao Zhuocai came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream. He suppressed his excitement and was about to reach out to receive the order, but saw Lu Yi shaking his head at him and pointing at Xiao Yong. Xiao Zhuo hurriedly stretched out his hand.
He pushed Xiao Yong. Xiao Yong stretched out his hand dullly and took the imperial edict from Lu Yi.
"Mr. Xiao, Prince Consort, you must keep this imperial edict." Lu Yi said with a smile while handing the imperial edict to him.
"Thank you, Eunuch Lu, for reminding me." Although Lu Yi's words were meaningless, Xiao Zhuo still said this, took out something from his body and quietly put it in Lu Yi's hand, and invited him into the house for a cup of tea.
Lu Yi squeezed the thing, smiled with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Mr. Xiao, your Majesty is still waiting for the servant to reply, so he won't drink the tea in the house. But we still have such a big event as the princess's marriage.
We have to come and go, and there is no rush to drink tea at this time."
"There is something else I want to tell Mr. Xiao and the Prince Consort. Your Majesty has asked people to count the days. The third day of the ninth lunar month is a good day. We, the Xiao family, need to prepare these things for the wedding ceremony.
On the day you two put on your auspicious clothes and take these gifts, go to the inner east gate and wait."
"Here, Eunuch Lu, we don't understand the etiquette of the Tian family, what should we do?" Xiao Zhuo asked.
"Mr. Xiao, don't worry. His Majesty has already arranged for the marriage envoy. The marriage envoy will come to our Xiao family in the afternoon and tell us what to do. However," Lu Yi looked around at the courtyard of the Xiao family's business store and said:
"Mr. Xiao, although the princess's mansion after her marriage was given by His Majesty and does not require our family to prepare it, the arrangements for this year have to be in and out of our home. I am afraid it is not suitable for the prince-in-law to live in such a place."
"After I paid a visit to the Marriage Master in the afternoon, I went to look for a house. I will definitely not bring shame to the Tian family!" Xiao Zhuo replied immediately, with a firm tone.
"That's good." Lu Yi smiled again and said, "Your Majesty always values family ties and treats the eldest princesses as treasures. It is a great grace to grant marriage to our family."
"The common people will definitely thank God for his grace!" Xiao Zhuo said again before he could finish.
"Okay!" Lu Yi praised with a smile, and then said: "But Mr. Xiao, you don't have to call yourself a commoner to your slaves. According to etiquette, His Majesty will give you a fourth-grade official title, and you are also an old man. It's just that His Majesty hasn't given the official title yet.
It's not easy for me to change my words."
"How dare you be called a lord by Eunuch Lu?" Xiao Zhuo said hurriedly.
Afterwards, Lu Yi said a few words to Xiao Zhuo before returning to the palace.
Of course Xiao Zhuo wanted to send him out of the door, and he did not waste the time before sending him out. He asked in a low voice: "Eunuch Lu, I wonder if you can tell the common people why your majesty chose my son as your consort?"
"Thunder, rain and dew are all your kindness. Since His Majesty has decreed the marriage, Mr. Xiao better not ask." However, Lu Yi just said lightly. Of course, Xiao Zhuo did not dare to ask.
After Lu Yi and others were sent away, Xiao Zhuo immediately ordered his disciples: "Close the door quickly! If anyone asks for a meeting, unless it is for the imperial court to deliver a decree or something related to a marriage, they will report it to me first, and I will agree to it before they can
Open the door and let people in!"
"Yes, sir." The two doors were a little strange, but he still agreed and closed the door immediately.
Xiao Zhuo took Xiao Yong and ran to the backyard, walked to his dormitory, sent all the servants out, and closed the door tightly.
The servants all felt a little strange: 'Why did Mr. Six do this?'; but then they heard a sound coming from inside the house that they had never thought they could hear.
"Is this the Sixth Master's laughter? He is laughing so loudly that you can hear it here?" A servant said in horror, as if he had been frightened.
But no one answered his question, because everyone was as frightened as he was, and some people even looked at Xiao Zhuo's dormitory with dull eyes.
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"Hahahaha..." Xiao Zhuo's laughter kept coming from inside the house.
He laughed very happily. He had not laughed like this for many years. It seemed that since his son was born and he came home for his son's growth, he had never laughed like this.
He was nearly thirty years old when he returned home, and there were not many things that could make him very happy; besides, he had to take care of business at home, and was engaging in intrigues with his business partners. Although he often smiled, he was somewhat sincere.
He couldn't explain it clearly. When he returned home after attending business, he had many clan matters to worry about. Nothing could make him laugh like this.
But today, he finally encountered something that made him very happy. When the princess gets married, his son will soon become the prince-in-law. Their family will soon get rid of their status as merchants and become relatives of the emperor. He can also become a princess.
My father-in-law is a generation older than the emperor!
Moreover, the princes-in-law of the Ming Dynasty are not like the princes-in-law of the Song Dynasty, who just have a superficially noble status and have no power. There are still several eldest princesses, and the princes-in-law of the eldest princess are in the governor's house and are local officials.
, Mei Consort even served as a minister and was one of the most powerful nobles in the Ming Dynasty. Although I don’t know what your majesty will do after his son marries the princess, his future will definitely be good.
How could he not be happy like this? How could he not laugh out loud?
Xiao Zhuo laughed for a long time, until his throat ached from laughing, and then he slowly stopped laughing. He sat on the bed, picked up the water cup, drank all the water, and ordered Xiao Yong: "Yong'er."
, give dad a glass of water."
But after he finished the order, he didn't hear Xiao Yong's answer. He raised his head and looked over, and saw Xiao Yong sitting in a chair, stunned. He didn't know whether it was because he was awarded the Prince Consort, or because of Xiao Zhuo's laughter just now.
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Xiao Zhuo was not angry when he saw this, and called again. Only then did Xiao Yong react, pick up the kettle and fill his glass.
"Yong'er, are you happy that you gave me the title of Commander-in-Chief Prince Consort?" Xiao Zhuo asked with a smile.
"Of course I'm happy to be happy, but I always feel that this is so fantastic, just like a dream, as if I've been dreaming since the day before yesterday."
"The day before yesterday, I first dreamed that I had passed the imperial examination. Everyone in the capital who had friendship with our family came to celebrate, and the house was very lively. Yesterday, I dreamed that I was summoned by His Majesty. I saw Your Majesty again with my own eyes, and was encouraged by His Majesty's gentle words.
Sentence: Today I dreamed of being granted a marriage by His Majesty."
"This is truly a most beautiful dream. If this is really a dream, I would rather live in this dream forever." Xiao Yong said in a very dreamy voice.
"Haha, son, all this is true, or in other words, you will live in this dream that is as good as it can be, and you will never wake up no matter what you do." Xiao Zhuo said with a smile.
Xiao Yong also laughed. Of course he knew this was not a dream, because he had used various means to verify that he was not dreaming after listening to the imperial edict announced by Lu Yi. Up to now, his arm was still swollen. He was just now
Describe your thoughts after hearing the imperial edict read out by Lu Yi.
"Yong'er, daddy sees that you are already happy, so he wants to talk to you about business."
Xiao Zhuo's face became serious. "If you become the consort, it will be a good thing for our family and our Xiao family, a great good thing, a huge good thing! But it is hard to say whether it is a good thing for you."
"There are all kinds of princesses. It would be great if you could meet someone with a gentle temperament or someone who is compatible with you, but it would be bad if you met someone with an unruly temperament."
"Dads will try to find out about Princess Changshan's temper and temperament, but our family used to be just businessmen, and we are out of reach of the royal family, so we may not be able to find out. And even if we find out that she has a bad temper, there is nothing we can do.
It can only make you mentally prepared."
"If, I mean if, the princess is really bad-tempered, you must remember to be patient. Although you are a husband and wife, you are also a monarch and a minister. It is okay to joke around between husband and wife, but you must pay attention to the princess's mood and look at her face.
, you must not disobey the princess when she is angry."
"Also, you must also pay attention to the fact that the servants in the princess's mansion cannot be offended. Some people have served the princess since childhood and have different feelings. Even those servants who were transferred after the princess's mansion was built may not be in the palace.
It doesn’t matter, I can’t offend you.”
Xiao Zhuo gave a lot of instructions. But the more he gave them, the more strange he felt. After thinking about it again, he finally understood: 'It's like I am a daughter who is getting married according to his father's instructions.';
"Isn't marrying a royal princess the same as marrying a daughter?" He continued to think: "Most people marry and obey their husbands, but the ruler and his ministers are above father and son, and husband and wife. Of course, the prince-in-law treats the princess in the same way as the daughter-in-law treats her husband."
.';
He said a few more words and said, "But it's a little early to tell you this now. I'll tell you before you get married. What do you want to tell dad?"
"Dad, are we going back to our hometown?"
"Return to what? We have to organize your wedding. As the master, of course you can't leave the capital. I don't trust you to be alone in the capital, so I can only stay."
"And I planned to go back yesterday because I was afraid that the patriarch would decide your marriage without permission. The emperor granted the marriage, but the patriarch got impatient and made another engagement for you? There is no need to go back."
"But we have to get your mother back from her hometown as soon as possible. Eunuch Lu just said that the parents of the consort who are preparing for the wedding have errands, so we can't send people away. I will immediately send someone to rush back to my hometown to tell the clan members about this, and also Your mother takes it over."
"Is there anything else you want to tell dad?"
"I want to know the princess's temperament, but you can't tell your son, dad." Xiao Yong said this first, and then said: "I also want to know how the princess felt when she learned about the marriage."
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Yesterday afternoon, the back hall of Qianqing Palace.
"Third sister, my brother is asking you again, are you willing to marry this person? Now that the imperial edict has not been issued, you can still go back on your word." Yunxi held the already drawn up marriage edict in his hand and said to the person standing there. Yun Yun on the side asked again.
"Oh, Brother Huang, you have asked Third Sister this question seven or eight times since you retired from the Xiao family. Every time, Third Sister's answer is the same. There is no need to ask it again." Yunzhi said quickly.
But Yunxi glanced at her and said to Yunyun: "Third sister, this is your lifetime matter, you have to think about it carefully."
"Brother, there is no need to ask. My sister has made up her mind. He is her husband!" Yun Yun said firmly.
Yes, the word Yun Yun used was not consort, but husband. She didn't choose Xiao Yong to be her consort because he was suitable in all aspects and she didn't dislike him, but she fell in love with Xiao Yong at first sight. .
When she woke up after taking a nap at noon, she saw the little eunuch next to her brother walking in. After bowing, he said that his brother invited her to come. She came to Qianqing Palace with some doubts. When she saw Yunxi, she heard that she was going to Take a look at Xiao Yong yourself and see if you are willing to let him be your consort.
Yun Yun originally had an all-or-nothing mentality and agreed as long as Xiao Yong didn't look annoying; but when she hid behind the curtain and saw Xiao Yong, her heart suddenly started to throb.
Xiao Yong's appearance is not very good-looking. Although his behavior is completely in line with etiquette and he looks very comfortable, there are many such people in the palace, and his speech seems a bit restrained. Among ordinary people, he is naturally a rare outstanding talent. But in the royal family, which is used to seeing outstanding people, it doesn't make them stand out.
But Yun Yun felt as if his heart had been moved, and he immediately identified Xiao Yong and wanted him to be her husband.
She suddenly remembered what her second sister Yun Lan had said to her and Yun Zhi many years ago: "You are still young. When you grow up in two years, you will understand."
She also suddenly understood what her second sister was thinking back then. 'It turns out that this is how it feels to like someone.';
She also thought: 'I will never make the same mistake as my second sister. Since I like him and he is not engaged, I will let him be my consort, no, husband.';
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