Chapter 8: The four waters become the candles of the cave house

The princess was the daughter of the emperor. The marriage of the princess is also known as "surrender", "marriage" or "surrender". The Captain of the Horse is a fourth-rank official, but for Chen Ying, this Captain of the Horse is a third-level demotion to the ranks.

Chen Ying rode a red horse and carried the "Ninety-Nine Rites", which is not equal to a bride price, nor is it equal to a dowry, but when welcoming relatives, it needs to be carried to the Wumen Mansion and received by the inner attendant.

The so-called "ninety-nine" ceremony is to take nine or multiple of nine, and the gifts are 99 saddle horses, 180 pairs of armor, 211 horses, 90 packs, 90 banquet tables, 81 sheep, and 40 jars of milk wine and rice wine.

According to the etiquette system, when Princess Pingyang gets married, she needs to pay farewell to the emperor, the queen mother, and the queen respectively. However, the situation of the Tang Dynasty is special, there is neither a living queen mother nor a queen, because Li Xiuning is a concubine, Li Yuan did not set up a queen again, and other concubines are not qualified to accept Li Xiuning's farewell at all.

In the evening sunset, the bride Li Xiuning sat in front of the dresser, looking at the sunset that came in from the window grid, listening to the sound of footsteps in the princess's mansion, standing up expectantly and anxiously, walking to the door, and seeing the eunuch of Da Changqiu singing: "The auspicious time has arrived!" ”

Li Xiuning was obviously relieved, dressed in auspicious clothes, and bowed to Li Yuan in the Wude Palace.

Li Yuan's eyes on the throne were slightly red, and he looked at Chen Ying from afar, his fists clenched tightly.

According to the "Legend of the Ram", the princess said, "The Son of Heaven marries a woman to the princes, and the princes will be the lord of the same surname", so she is called the princess. According to the Spring and Autumn Jue of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it can be roughly divided into six levels: king, duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male. When Zhou Tianzi married his daughter to the princes, he did not personally preside over the wedding, and let the princes who were also surnamed Ji officiate the marriage, which is the origin of the "princess". And because the surname of the Zhou royal family is Ji, the daughter of Zhou Tianzi is also called "Wang Ji", and "The Book of Songs, Zhaonan, He Bi Xuan" wrote: "He Bi Xuan, the beautiful Wang Ji also." Since then, "Wang Ji" has also become a synonym for the emperor's daughter. The daughters of the princes are also called princesses, and the "Historical Records: The Biography of Wu Qilie" records that "the uncle is the prime minister, the princess of Shangwei." ”

Li Yuan's gaze was like a sharp arrow staring at Chen Ying, and Chen Ying was a little hairy in his heart by Li Yuan's direct gaze. However, what surprised Chen Ying the most was that behind Li Yuan, Chen Ying saw Li Jiancheng.

Chen Ying also knew that Li Jiancheng was presiding over the war with Dou Jiande in Hedong, but why did he come?

In fact, Chen Ying was also very curious.

Watching Li Yuan and Li Xiuning's father and daughter stage a farewell scene, Chen Ying quietly moved to Li Jiancheng's side: "Meet His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"Sister-in-law, don't call yourself a subordinate in the future. We're all family! Li Jiancheng patted Chen Ying's shoulder and said, "I'll talk about it later!" ”

Chen Ying said suspiciously: "Shouldn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be in Hedong?" How did you return to Chang'an? ”

Li Jiancheng said with a smile: "Providence makes people, Dou Jiande has actually surrendered, the battle of Hedong is over, and the palace can naturally return to Chang'an!" ”

"Dou Jiande surrendered? When did this happen? Chen Ying was even more surprised at this time, history has completely changed, Dou Jiande, who was obviously captured by Li Shimin in history, actually became Li Jiancheng's credit in this time and space.

Just when Li Jiancheng told Chen Ying, Chen Ying realized that Li Jiancheng used Wei Zheng's strategy to pretend to be Chen Ying to arrive in Zezhou, and Dou Jiande saw that the general trend had gone, and led the rest of the troops to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

Although Chen Ying knew that Liu Heimin was dead, but Dou Jiande became Li Tang's prisoner, if Li Yuan still beheaded Dou Jiande like in history, there was no guarantee that there would be any Liu Heimin, Zhang Heimin or Zhang Heimin and the like.

Thinking of this, Chen Yingchong Li Jiancheng said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, no matter what, you must save Dou Jiande's life......"

Li Jiancheng asked puzzledly, "Why?" ”

Chen Ying was about to answer Li Jiancheng's words, but he heard Li Yuan shout coldly: "Hou Mo Chen Ying! ”

"The minister is here!" Chen Ying said subconsciously.

Pei Lin mouthed towards Chen Yingnunu, Chen Ying suddenly realized, and hurriedly changed his words: "My grandfather is above, and my son-in-law is here!" ”

"Sanniang I can leave it to you, don't let her be wronged in the future!" Li Yuan is not like an emperor at the moment, but more of a father, repeatedly telling Chen Ying not to wronged Li Xiuning.

"Grandfather, rest assured, it's too late for my son-in-law to love Sanniang, how can she be wronged?" Chen Ying only patted his chest to ensure it.

With the arrival of the auspicious time, Li Xiuning boarded the chariot and returned to the Liang Guogong Mansion in Chang'an City with Chen Ying.

Chen Ying is actually rejoicing, fortunately he married the princess of the Tang Dynasty, not the princess of the Ming and Qing dynasties, otherwise at that time, the princess needed to live in the princess's mansion, and the concubine lived in the concubine's mansion.

Just as Chen Ying was returning from the palace with the team to pick up his relatives, a four-wheeled carriage also drove into Chen Ying's Liang Guo Mansion. The carriage had just come in through the side door, Xu Jingzong was still very surprised, at this time there were hundreds of guests who came to Chen Ying's mansion for the banquet, whether they had friendship or not, such as Taiyuan Wang's family, Wenxi Pei's family, and even Xingyang Zheng's family, who was quite unhappy with Chen Ying, also sent representatives to congratulate Chen Ying's wedding.

Xu Jingzong looked at this very shabby carriage, and it was very strange that he actually entered the Chen Mansion all the way unimpeded. However, when he learned that the carriage was coming from Lingzhou, Xu Jingzong's face had an extremely strange expression.

After a big bow and a big worship, Chen Ying held a red silk ribbon in one hand, and directly grabbed the delicate little hand of Li Xiuning, who was wearing a red dress, and walked into the cave room with the other hand.

Li Xiuning wore a red hijab on his head, couldn't see the way, only held Chen Ying's hand, and walked cautiously, there were two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls in the room, both wearing bright wedding clothes, childish, but they were beautiful embryos, they were none other than the pair of sisters with green beads and red sleeves.

The red sleeves and the green beads called in unison: "The slave maid meets Ah Lang and Madame!" ”

"Ah Lang" in this era, almost equal to the title of "master" in the Ming and Qing dynasties, is the subordinate to the master's honorific title.

Chen Ying was a little unaccustomed to hearing such a title, took Li Xiuning's hand to the edge of the bed and sat down, and removed her hijab. Under the candle, her face was charming, and her eyes hid the shyness and anxiety of a new bride, watching Chen Ying take off her hijab, Li Xiuning sat on the edge of the bed and didn't know what to do or what to say.

Chen Ying waved his hand, and the green beads and red sleeves slowly withdrew from the bedroom.

Chen Ying excitedly held Li Xiuning's hand and said, "Thank God, I finally got what I wanted, and I can overthrow the princess openly!" ”

"Knock down?" Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying suspiciously: "What pushes down?" ”

Chen Ying pressed Li Xiuning on the bed with a slight force with both hands, and pounced: "This is the ...... to push down."

Li Xiuning's face flushed, and she said angrily: "Get up, don't snub the guests!" ”

"Guest, what guest, now the world is big, and there is no wife the biggest!" Chen Ying was cheeky and intimate with Li Xiuning, and then walked out of the bedroom.

Just walked out of the bedroom and met Xu Erniang head-on.

"Ahh I don't know what Xu Erniang is thinking, I was startled by Chen Ying's sudden appearance, to say that Xu Erniang is not lost at this moment, it must be a lie, after all, she is just a concubine, and she is less separated from Chen Ying.

Xu Erniang seemed to have a hundred thousand words and wanted to talk to Chen Ying, but when the words came to her mouth, she didn't know what to say.

Chen Ying said curtly: "Sanniang may be bored in the room, you go talk to her!" ”

Originally, this was an unintentional remark, but when she heard Xu Erniang's ears, Chen Ying asked her to go to Li Xiuning to pay a salute, which was equivalent to acknowledging her identity in the side room.

Xu Erniang promised slightly, bowed down and said, "The slave understands!" ”

Chen Ying's wedding, people with status all went to the banquet in Chang'an Chen Mansion, like those craftsmen, servants, and helpers in Chen's Mansion, and the people in the Qinglin, Chen Ying's tenants, and hired laborers, gathered in the Qinglin to attend the banquet. Chen Ying didn't worry about support, even if it was a homeless man on the street, as long as he said auspicious words such as "Congratulations to the horse, congratulations to the horse" to the steward of the Chen Mansion, he could also participate in the flowing water banquet held in Qinglin.

Although the scale of the flowing water banquet is not high, it adheres to Chen Ying's consistent tradition, and the wine and food are enough, and the wine and dishes are all available.

When Chen Ying was about to change careers in the front hall, Xu Jingzong quietly said to Chen Ying: "Lord, Lingzhou...... The county lord of Baicheng has given you a big gift! ”

"What kind of gift," Chen Ying asked a little weakly.

Xu Jingzong pointed to the two big boxes in the front yard and said, "It's those two big boxes!" ”

"Open!" Chen Ying didn't think much about it, and said subconsciously.

Guo Luo stepped forward and opened the big box at once, Chen Ying only glanced at it, and found that this was a set of heavy Mingguang armor, and the shape was very exquisite, even if it was an ordinary piece of armor blade, it was engraved with inscriptions and tiger lines.

Chen Ying originally wanted to try it on, but Xu Jingzong said: "The lord should go and entertain the guests, this matter is not in a hurry!" ”

Chen Ying thought about it for a while.

Chen Ying actually didn't know that this set of armor weighing more than 100 catties was not for Chen Ying to wear at all, and this was not Li Daozhen's good intentions, this was clearly a set of armor with a punitive nature.

But Chen Ying didn't know, and Xu Jingzong didn't say it. As a result, Chen Ying entered the banquet hall and toasted the guests who came one by one, with great guilt for Li Daozhen, Chen Ying drank and drank a little big. It wasn't until late at night that Chen Ying got drunk and helped Zhou Qing back to the cave room.

Although Chen Ying's head was still a little awake at this time, when he entered the room, he found that the flowers and candles in the cave room had been burned more than half, and Li Xiuning was already lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.

The red candle was gone, the firelight was shaking, Li Xiuning was neatly dressed and leaned her head against the brocade quilt to fall asleep, Chen Ying gently hugged Li Xiuning, moved her head to the red pillow, and quietly took off her coat. The weather was hot in June, and Li Xiuning wore a short gauze medium coat in her wedding dress, which was also a red wedding dress, but it revealed a lot of delicate skin, and her tentacles were soft and smooth like jade, which made people's hearts move.

Just when Chen Ying took off Li Xiuning's coat, Li Xiuning's eyelashes moved slightly, obviously awake, but the woman's skin was a little thin and she deliberately pretended to be asleep.

Li Xiuning pretended to sleep for a long time, and found that Chen Ying was actually lying on the bed, and after a while, the snoring sounded.

People who drink too much alcohol tend to fall asleep. Chen Ying was exactly like this, seeing that Chen Ying was asleep, Li Xiuning observed for a while, and repeatedly confirmed that Chen Ying was asleep, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed.

Li Xiuning's puffing appearance also fell in Chen Ying's eyes. He was also pretending to be asleep.

It's okay now, the four eyes are facing each other, and they can't pretend anymore.

Li Xiuning's breathing was a little short.

Chen Ying was getting closer and closer to her.

Li Xiuning said a little nervously: "What are you going to do?" ”

"Cave Room!" Saying that, Chen Ying waved his sleeves, and the new house fell into darkness.

For the sake of harmony, 10,000 words are omitted below.