Chapter 65: marry

General Sun is not an important person in the court, but this person is not considered to be an unknown person, because he was the right arm of General Ji in his early years. Later, he was injured and abandoned an arm, and then he returned to Beijing to take up a job. Unemployment "old age".
But now that General Ji died in battle, General Sun was deployed to the northwest, which seemed to indicate something unusual.
Chunfanglou quickly verified this accidental information. Unfortunately, as I said before, General Sun came out of Beijing secretly, and verification was not easy. In the end, I got some piecemeal news. It was just that General Sun was indeed ill at home and had not seen outsiders for many days. In addition, they unexpectedly learned another news, that is, the Northwest's armaments have doubled this year.
The soldiers and horses have not moved, the food and grass go first, this seems to be another sign that the war is about to start...
This specious news was eventually passed on, and how it will develop next is no longer within the control of Lu Qipei and Qi Yang. But Lu Qipei was curious: "Where is General Sun now?"
Qi Yang wrote back to her: "I went to the northwest."
It's a lie, it takes nine points to be true and one point to be false, so it is true that General Sun goes northwest. The Liang State still had troops stationed in the northwest, and the establishment of the Rong State did not conquer all the tribes. Some grassland tribes did not want to surrender and moved to the northwest. The situation in the northwest is good for Liang, but it is a hidden danger for Rong.
General Sun’s departure from Beijing is not the point. His going northwest is the most important thing. Whether it is to transfer troops from the northwest to join the war, or contact those expelled tribes to bite back, it is fatal to the emptied country of glory today.
This is of course also a strategy to break the enemy, but the tribes expelled to the northwest are not friendly, and it is not easy to join forces in a short time. What's more, there is no basis for trust between the two sides. It is Liang Kingdom that makes trouble for the two sides to fight. Therefore, the emperor and several important officials felt that this strategy was not desirable after discussing it. The Northwest still sought stability.
What Qi Yang did, of course, was not to persuade the emperor to change the situation in the northwest. She just suggested that the emperor should lead a rare soldier to bypass the tribes and go directly to the Rong country, making the illusion that the northwest has changed.
Now that the news has passed to Xie Yuan through Chunfang Tower, when something happens in the northwest, I believe his worries will only get worse.
The only pity is that Qi Yang hasn't been out of the palace recently, and the two can only communicate briefly through letters. Only now they are getting more and more sticky. Sometimes a letter a day is not enough to communicate. It is normal for you to come and go back and forth, making the spies who help spread the letter almost doubt their own job.
In mid-October, the weather turned cooler, and there was snow and wind blowing in the north, but the war was still in full swing.
Xu was because the prince went to northern Xinjiang. The atmosphere in the capital that was originally tense due to the war gradually eased, and the days have returned to the past. Even Lu Qipei's days in Dali Temple have been calmer and more relaxed.
Of course, Lu Qipei's peace and ease in Dali Temple may not be just because of stability in Beijing. It’s even more because the colleagues knew that her wedding was approaching and she needed to prepare for the marriage, so she didn’t find many things to do--not to mention, even Master Shaoqing never let her follow her to the place of the dead. Avoiding taboo is one of them, and saving her from running around is also one.
Yes, Qi Yangpan's half-year wedding is finally approaching, just before the winter solstice at the end of October. Getting married in a very cold weather is not very friendly to the new couple, but Qi Yang chose this day by himself.
Soon after the emperor's imperial decree gave the marriage, Sitianjian came to celebrate the birthdays of Qi Yang and Lu Qipei. The two are close together, they are very good match, and they have chosen a few good days, but they are all very long. The closest one is at the end of October, and the next day will be the beginning of spring in the coming year, and it will be another six months. The emperor had no opinion, but Qi Yang obviously didn't want to delay any longer, so he had to choose this day.
Fortunately, the emperor dragged his feet before giving the marriage an order to marry his daughter. When it came time to get married, he wouldn't be embarrassed by the couple. Now everyone knows that the wedding date of Princess Qi Yang and Zhu Ma Ma is set at the end of October, which can be regarded as a happy event for today's not peaceful season.
The wedding date is approaching, and the two will not be distracted by other things, ups and downs, and wait for her to get married.
On October 27th, it is advisable to marry.
By the end of October, there had been one or two light snowfalls in Beijing, but it was a rare day to clear up.
The sky is clear, the blue sky is like washing, and the haze for many days when the snow fell before swept away, and it even made people feel lighter.
Lu Mansion got busy early in the morning. The princess married from the palace, but did not go directly to the princess mansion. On the first day of marriage, the wedding will still be held in the house of the husband and wife. After the marriage, the couple will go to the princess mansion. Of course, if the husband and wife are not in the princess’s wishes, it is common for them to be turned away after marriage, so many times There will also be a horseman's house next to the princess mansion.
The matter of the Royal Horse Mansion is still an afterthought, of course for Qi Yang and Lu Qipei, this place is purely redundant. Even the emperor saw his daughter's hate to marry, and he didn't think of building a mansion.
On that day, the Lu family made a lot of preparations to marry the princess. Officials from the Ministry of Rites arrived in the morning to make the final inspection and adjustment. And Lu Qipei, the person involved, didn't even need to mention it, and was caught by the ceremonial officer and killed him.
Lu Qipei listened patiently, the smile on his face always like a spring breeze. Although the ceremony officer of the wedding has told her more than once, although she has experienced these past lives personally, and she still remembers them fresh, the joy in her heart can't stop.
After a long time, a serious courtesy official finally recounted the wedding process for the last time. He raised his eyes to see Lu Qipei's joyful face, and his serious eyebrows couldn't help but relax. He bowed his hand as a gift, and finally smiled and said something that was not so annoying: "The lower official wishes the Ma Ma and His Royal Highness, a hundred years of good union, forever together."
This is the first wedding blessing Lu Qipei has received. He smiled and said in return: "Thank you for your kind words, my lord."
Congratulations, each is busy. Guests will come to the door later, and then there will be endless congratulations.
In the middle of the afternoon, good time arrived, and Lu Qipei went out with the wedding reception team prepared by the Ministry of Etiquette. Blowing and beating all the way to the palace, there are many people on the roadside, so it's so lively.
There was no accident in front of the palace. The team that only welcomed the relatives stopped in front of the palace. Lu Qipei dismounted and followed the courtesy officer to the palace.
It is not Jingchen Palace or Xuanshi Palace. The princess came from the Queen’s Changqiu Palace when she married. Even if the Changqiu Palace has been vacant for many years, Qi Yang, who is dressed up today, is still here waiting for the horse to pick him up.
Of course, it is not so easy for Lu Qipei to accept people. Although there was no one in the imperial palace to block the door, there was the emperor, the giant Buddha, sitting in the town, and it was a good time to catch Lu Qipei. In the end, until the auspicious hour was approaching, the emperor sighed earnestly and said: "Qipei, I will hand over the emperor to you today, you must remember to love her and value her, and don't deceive her!"
When he finally heard the end of this sentence, Lu Qipei, who bowed his head and listened to the training for a long time, was so touched that he would cry. She hurriedly bowed to salute, and promised: "Your Majesty, don't worry. The minister's heart for the princess can be learned from the world."
Hearing this, the emperor finally let her go, looking at the back of the young man with a little melancholy.
When Lu Qipei came out of the main hall, he exhaled for a long time. It was a big winter, and he only felt that the back of his palms was sweating—it really was a big difference. She married a princess in the previous life, and the emperor didn't talk like that.
But fortunately, after passing this level, there will be no obstacles anymore.
Lu Qipei saw Qi Yang smoothly in the apse. Her Royal Highness, dressed in auspicious clothes, was dignified, and the makeup on her face also added a three-point color to her originally tender face.
The princess did not have the custom of covering her head when she got married, so as soon as Lu Qipei entered the apse, the two faced each other.
When Qi Yang saw Lu Qipei, his face that had been tense because of tension instantly loosened, and the corners of his lips curled up and he smiled brightly. The waves of the eyes are full of tenderness.
Lu Qipei looked a little dazed for a while. Although this is the second marriage between the two, they have different moods before and after. In her previous life, she married the princess instead of her younger brother, and she felt terribly flustered. Where was the mood to see the little princess' makeup look? Not to mention it when she greeted people back to the house. At the wedding banquet, she deliberately drank two more glasses, and the whole bridal chamber was drunk and mixed.
Thinking about it now, I just feel a pity, but fortunately they still have a chance to come back...
Seeing Lu Qipei only staring at the princess, after a long time not regaining his senses, Zhi Ting on the side finally couldn't help but coughed slightly and reminded: "Come on, the auspicious hour is almost here, you should welcome the princess back to the house as a gift.
Lu Qipei regained his senses at once, and was a little embarrassed when he was reminded. Finally, he pursed his lips and smiled shyly before stepping forward.
To welcome the princess out of the palace, Lu Qipei rode on Qiyang's sedan chair. The young man in red, handsome, looked back from time to time, even though he couldn't see anything through the curtain, his smile remained unabated.
Before dusk, a couple of newlyweds returned to Lu Mansion with joy and blows.
The son of the emperor married a daughter, and since he was not allowed to go there in person, most of the time the elders of the clan were the presiding officer. Lu Qipei happened to have no elders, so the presiding officer of this wedding was handed over to a respected prince in the clan.
Shao Qing, the auspicious hour will arrive, and the princess is surrounded by the crowd and stepped into the Xitang, and married under the auspices of the old prince.
After the ceremony, the two stood up and looked up, and their eyes naturally fell on each other.
There is a slight smile on that face, and deep nostalgia in those eyes, only knowing each other.
But it was only a moment of looking at each other like this, and then a couple of newlyweds were sent into the new house surrounded by everyone. There were a lot of people who went to join in the fun, until they finished all the wedding process, Lu Qipei was dragged away in a blink of an eye.
For the wedding banquet, the bridegroom is of course to be filled with wine. Today, the prince and princess have come a lot!
Lu Qipei was very concerned, until he took the drink and drank the first sip—well, it's not very tasteful, a bottle of white water.