Chapter 8: All kinds of waters come naturally to be a wedding candle

The princess is the emperor's daughter. The princess' marriage is also called "success", "marrying under the bride" or "success". The prince-consored Duwei is a fourth-rank official, but for Chen Ying, the prince-consored Duwei was demoted to the third level.

Chen Ying rode a red horse and carried the "Nine Nine Ceremony", which does not mean a bride gift or a betrothal gift. Instead, when welcoming the bride, he needs to be carried to the Meridian Gate Mansion and received by the eunuch.

The so-called "nine nine" ceremony means that the number is nine or multiples of nine. The gifts are ninety-nine saddles and horses, one hundred and eighty pairs of armor, two hundred and one horse, ninety horses, ninety packs, ninety banquet tables, eighty-one sheep, and forty jars of milk and rice wine.

According to the etiquette system, when Princess Pingyang gets married, she needs to say goodbye to the emperor, empress dowager and empress first. However, the situation in the Tang Dynasty was special. There was neither a living empress dowager nor a queen. Since Li Xiuning was born, Li Yuan did not make another queen, and other concubines were not qualified to accept Li Xiuning's farewell.

In the evening sunset, the bride Li Xiuning sat in front of the dressing table with a phoenix crown and a robe. She looked at the sunset that was coming through the pane and was in a daze. She listened to the sound of footsteps in the princess's mansion, stood up expectantly and anxiously, walked to the door and saw the eunuch singing: "It's auspicious time!"

Li Xiuning was obviously relieved, and put on auspicious clothes and bowed three times to Li Yuan in Wude Hall.

Li Yuan on the imperial throne had a slightly red eyes, and he looked at Chen Ying from afar, his fists clenched tightly.

According to the "Gongyang Zhuan", the princess said, "The emperor married a woman to the princes, and the princes must have the same surname as the princes, so she was called the princes. "The title of the title in the spring and autumn of the Western Zhou Dynasty can be roughly divided into six levels: King, Duke, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Male. And under the King, the Emperor of Zhou, the fifth grade of Duke, Bozi, and Male. When the Emperor of Zhou married his daughter to the princes, he did not personally preside over the wedding, and asked the princes of the same duke of the surname Ji to take the marriage. This is the origin of the "Princess". Moreover, because the Zhou royal family surnamed Ji, the daughter of the Zhou emperor was also called "Wang Ji". The Book of Songs·Zhao Nan·He Biography" wrote: "Whe is the beauty of Wang Ji." After that, "Wang Ji" also became the synonym for the daughter of the emperor. The daughter of the princes was also called princess. "Records of the Grand Historian: Biography of Wu Qi" records that "Dong Shu was the prime minister and was the princess of Wei."

Li Yuan stared at Chen Ying like a sharp arrow. Chen Ying felt a little embarrassed 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 presided over the war with Dou Jiande in Hedong, but why did he come?

In fact, Chen Ying was also very curious.

Seeing Li Yuan and Li Xiuning performing a heartbroken farewell scene, Chen Ying quietly moved to Li Jiancheng: "Go to the Crown Prince!"

"Son-in-law, don't call yourself a disciple anymore. We are all a family!" Li Jiancheng patted Chen Ying on the shoulder and said, "Let's talk about it later!"

Chen Ying said in confusion: "Shouldn't the Crown Prince be in Hedong? Why did you return to Chang'an?"

Li Jiancheng smiled and said, "God will make people beat me, Dou Jiande actually surrendered, the Battle of Hedong is over, so I can naturally return to Chang'an!"

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

Just as Li Jiancheng told Chen Ying, Chen Ying realized that Li Jiancheng used Wei Zheng's plan and pretended to be Chen Ying to arrive in Zezhou. Seeing that the general situation was gone, Dou Jiande led the remaining troops to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

Although Chen Ying knew that Liu Heita was dead, Dou Jiande became a prisoner of Li Tang. If Li Yuan still killed Dou Jiande like in history, there would be no Liu Heita, Zhang Heita, or Zhang Heita.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying said to Li Jiancheng: "Your Highness, no matter what, you must save Dou Jiande's life..."

Li Jiancheng asked in confusion: "Why?"

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

"I'm here!" Chen Ying said subconsciously.

Pei Ji said to Chen Yingnu. Chen Ying suddenly realized and quickly changed his words: "My father is here, and the son-in-law is here!"

"I'll leave Sanniang to you. Don't let her suffer in the future!" Li Yuan was not like an emperor at this moment, but instead had a father, repeatedly reminding Chen Ying not to be wronged by Li Xiuning.

"Don't worry, my uncle, it's too late for the son-in-law to love Sanniang, how could she be wronged?" Chen Ying only had to pat his chest and promise.

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

Chen Ying was actually very glad. Fortunately, he married a princess from the Tang Dynasty, not the princess from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Otherwise, at that time, the princess would have to live in the princess's mansion and the princess lived in the princess's mansion. Although the princess and the princess were named husband and wife, they actually lived a life of separation.

Just as Chen Ying returned from the palace with the bride's team, a four-wheeled carriage drove into Chen Ying's Liang Duke's Mansion. The carriage had just come in through the side door, and Xu Jingzong was still surprised. At this time, there were hundreds or thousands of guests coming to Chen Ying's house for the banquet. Whether there were any friends or not, such as the Wang family in Taiyuan, Wenxi Pei family, and even the Zheng family in Xingyang, who was quite unhappy with Chen Ying, also sent representatives to congratulate Chen Ying on his wedding.

Xu Jingzong looked at the very shabby carriage and entered the Chen Mansion without any obstacles. It was very strange. However, when he learned that the carriage came from Lingzhou, Xu Jingzong's face was extremely strange.

After a big holiday, Chen Ying held the red silk wedding belt in one hand and grabbed Li Xiuning's delicate little hand in a big red dress with the other hand and walked into the bridal chamber.

Li Xiuning had a red veil on her head, and could not see the road. She only held hands for Chen Ying and walked carefully. There were two girls of fifteen or sixteen in the room, both wearing beautiful wedding clothes, and she was still childish, but she was a beauty. They were not others, but the sisters Lu Zhu and Hong Xiu.

Hongxiu and Luzhu called out in unison: "I pay homage to Alang, madam!"

In this era, "Alang" was almost the same as the title of "master" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was the respectful title of the servants to the master.

Chen Ying was a little uncomfortable with this title, and took Li Xiuning's hand to sit down by the bed, and opened her veil. The candle was charming, and the shyness and anxiety of being a bride hidden in her eyes. She watched Chen Ying lift the veil down. Li Xiuning sat by the bed and didn't know what to do or what to say.

Chen Ying waved his hand, Luzhu and Hongxiu knew how to slowly exit the bedroom.

Chen Ying excitedly held Li Xiuning's hand and said, "Thank God, I finally got what I wish and I can push the princess upright!"

"Put down?" Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying in confusion and said, "What to push down?"

Chen Ying pressed Li Xiuning on the bed with a little force with both hands and pounced on him: "This is pushing down..."

Li Xiuning blushed and said angrily: "Get up, don't neglect the guests!"

"Guest, what kind of guest is now big, and there is no wife the biggest!" Chen Ying was shameless and intimate with Li Xiuning before walking out of the bedroom.

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

"Ah!" I don't know what Xu Erniang was thinking, but was shocked by Chen Ying's sudden appearance. It must be a lie to say that Xu Erniang is not disappointed at this moment. After all, she is just a concubine, and she is far away from Chen Ying.

Xu Erniang seemed to have hundreds of thousands of words, wanting to tell Chen Ying, but when she said something, she didn't know what to say.

Chen Ying said embarrassedly: "Sanniang may be bored in the room, go and talk to her!"

Originally, this was Wuxin's words, but when he heard Xu Erniang's ears, Chen Ying asked her to greet Li Xiuning, which was equivalent to admitting her identity as a side room.

Xu Erniang made a promise and bowed, "I understand!"

When Chen Ying was married, people with status attended the banquet in Chen's mansion in Chang'an. Like the craftsmen, servants, and idle men in the Chen's mansion, as well as the people in the Qinglin, Chen Ying's tenants and employees, they gathered in the Qinglin to attend the banquet. Chen Ying was not worried about supporting him. Even if he was a homeless man on the street, he could just say auspicious words such as "Congratulations to the prince consort and be happy with the prince consort" to the Chen's mansion manager, he could also attend the water banquet held in the Qinglin.

Although the scale of the Shuaiju Banquet is not high, it adheres to Chen Ying's consistent tradition, with enough wine and dishes, all kinds of wine and dishes.

When Chen Ying was about to change his career, Xu Jingzong quietly said to Chen Ying: "Master, Lingzhou... the Lord of the County Lord of Baicheng gave you a big gift!"

"What kind of gift?" Chen Ying asked with a little guilty conscience.

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

"Open!" Chen Ying said subconsciously without thinking too much.

Guo Luo stepped forward and opened the big box at once. Chen Ying only took a look and found that it was a thick set of bright light armor, and the shape was very exquisite. Even an ordinary blade of armor was engraved with inscriptions and tiger patterns.

Chen Ying originally wanted to try it on, but Xu Jingzong said, "The Lord should go to entertain guests, there is no hurry to do this!"

Chen Ying thought about it again, so was it.

Chen Ying actually didn't know that this set of armor weighing more than 100 kilograms was not worn by Chen Ying at all, nor was it 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 anything. As a result, Chen Ying entered the banquet hall and toasted the guests one by one. With great guilt towards Li Daozhen, Chen Ying became a little too big while drinking. It was not until late at night that Chen Ying was drunk and helped Zhou Qing back to the bridal chamber.

Although Chen Ying was still a little clear at this time, when he entered the room, he found that the flowers in the bridal chamber had been burning for more than half, and Li Xiuning was already lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.

The red candle was broken and the fire was shaking. Li Xiuning was tilted in neat clothes and fell asleep against the brocade quilt. Chen Ying gently hugged Li Xiuning, moved her head to the red pillow, and quietly took off her coat. In June, it was hot, and Li Xiuning wore a short and light gauze-like middle clothes in her wedding dress, which was also a red wedding dress, but it exposed a lot of delicate skin, and the tentacles were soft and smooth, making people's hearts and souls move.

Just as Chen Ying took off Li Xiuning's coat, Li Xiuning's eyelashes moved slightly, and she was obviously awake. It was just that the woman's face was a little thin, so she deliberately pretended to be asleep.

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

People who drink too much can easily fall asleep. Chen Ying is like this. Seeing that Chen Ying was asleep, Li Xiuning observed for a while and repeatedly confirmed that Chen Ying was asleep, he couldn't help but feel a little angry.

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

Now, my eyes were facing each other and I couldn't hold it anymore.

Li Xiuning's breathing was a little rapid.

Chen Ying is getting closer and closer to her.

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

"Bridal chamber!" Chen Ying waved his sleeves and darkness fell into the new house.
Chapter completed!