I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 255 Bestowing a Marriage

On the fifth day of the first lunar month in the 26th year of Taihe, the palace hosted a banquet for officials of the third rank and above, and ordered his wife and their children to enter the palace to celebrate the New Year.

Chang Xinyue came accompanied by her daughter, Princess Changle. The concubines, princes and princesses who had been waiting in the main hall for more than half an hour, greeted them with salutes. There were more than twenty high-ranking concubines, five princes and three princesses, There are also two princes and concubines and three little grandchildren, and even the deposed Qi Yuzhang is allowed to come, but the position is quite far behind.

After a while, the Taihe Emperor came, and Empress Chang led the crowd to stand up and salute to welcome the holy car.

Qi Tianyin, who was dressed in a dragon robe, walked in slowly, surrounded by several servants and more than ten imperial guards.

Today, Emperor Taihe still has an imposing man beside him.

Everyone was not surprised by this person, it was Yuan Yanxi who was favored by him.

Qi Tianyin and the members of the royal family entered the main hall last, and the palace banquet began soon, with a steady stream of delicacies presented.

Of course, Yuan Yanxi was the protagonist of today's palace banquet. Under everyone's intentional or unintentional inquiring eyes, he behaved calmly, and his etiquette was very thorough, without any mistakes.

It turned out that the officials of the prince's faction were full of resentment since Qi Yuzhang was abolished as the prince. Yuan Yanxi's current position can be said to make them extremely jealous and dissatisfied, and there were many sarcastic remarks during the meeting.But they were all blocked back by Yuan Yanxi's two or three thousand catties.

Chang Chonghu was unexpectedly quiet and peaceful during the entire palace banquet, without any sense of falling out of favor, and on the surface he was very harmonious with everyone.

Qi Tianyin was also happy to drink a lot of wine, the palace banquet was very complete.

During the palace banquet, the emperor also took advantage of his joy and issued two imperial edicts:

Firstly, it is because Yuan Yanxi quelled the chaos at the Jingzhou border and made great contributions to protecting the country. He won my heart. He rewarded a hundred acres of fertile land, 5000 taels of silver, a pair of jade Ruyi, two night pearls, and 66 pieces of brocade; and the Lu family has a daughter, Lu Xizhi. Smart, gentle, virtuous, knowledgeable about books and rituals, and has made great contributions in investigating corruption.Marriage is specially given for two people;
Second, the Li County of Xinna was plagued by bandits, and Xiao Hongcai, the county guard, was sent to lead the court to quell the bandits with [-] elite soldiers.

After the imperial decree was promulgated, Chang Chonghu and Chang Xinyue pretended not to look at each other, but quickly avoided eye contact, and each took a sip of tea.

Three days after the palace banquet

In the Lu residence, just after dawn, the servants outside rushed to the hospital to report, saying that someone from the palace had come.

Lu Zhonglian and Li Wenjun stood up quickly, and Lu Ziyi also stood up and said, "Father, mother, the person who announced the decree should be here."

Lu Xizhi's heart was beating non-stop, Lu Ziyi saw that she was still in a daze, so he walked up to her and pressed heavily on her shoulder, his expression reassuring her.Then he pulled her along with the whole family, hurriedly arranged the clothes and hair crowns, and went to the door hand in hand. When they got to the door, there were already people watching from afar.

The chubby and mellow Eunuch Lu Shun and his godson, the eunuch, were standing at the door peacefully, talking cordially with the old Wang who was guarding the gate. Seeing Lu Zhonglian and others coming, Eunuch Lu Shun smiled more sincerely: "Oh! , Master Lu, Mrs. Lu, are you all at home?"

This is nonsense, just because Eunuch Lu Shun came out to announce the decree, he deliberately chose to come at this time when these two were also at home, in order to sell it to the Lu family.

Lu Zhonglian took the lead, and the two sides greeted each other naturally.

When the incense altar was set up at the Lu family, Lu Shun straightened his waist, raised his voice, and shouted, "Please accept the imperial edict from the Lu family!"

The eunuch's characteristic high-pitched voice was particularly penetrating, and the people who were secretly watching outside the mansion heard it clearly, and were immediately shocked: Hey!What a good thing happened to the Lu family's house, it was His Majesty's imperial decree!
Here, Lu Zhonglian has already led the whole family to kneel down.

The little eunuch next to Lu Shun hurriedly bowed his waist, buried his head and turned sideways to avoid it, leaving only Lu Shun standing straight in front with his head upright, opened the imperial decree of the bright yellow embroidered golden dragon, and read aloud: "By heaven, the emperor's decree said: Here is Lu's It is a pity that I am clever, resourceful, filial and fraternal, with good character and good looks; I have Yuan Yanxi, a minister with both ability and virtue..."

Although the content of the marriage decree is simple, there are several words to praise Lu Xizhi straightforwardly, which is enough to express the emperor's love for Lu Xizhi.

"Thank you Lord Long En!" Lu Zhonglian thanked loudly.

After receiving the decree, the Lu family tried to retain the two people in the palace, and the two parties happily declined politely.

"Miss Lu, congratulations!"

"Thank you, Eunuch Lu!"

Lu Xizhi handed over the reward that had been prepared to Lu Shun, but Lu Shun did not accept it.

"The imperial decree has been announced, Master Lu and Mrs. Lu must take care of their health!" Finally, Lu Shun hurried back to the palace to report to His Majesty, Lu Zhonglian and his wife stepped forward together, and personally escorted them into the carriage and left.

Neighbors who had already heard the news appeared one after another and came forward to congratulate.

Among them, there were those who sincerely congratulated, and there were also those who said sour words. The Lu family filtered all the people who came to congratulate them one after another, so dinner was later than usual.

Although Yuan Yanxi had already made an official visit to "apologize" before, but when the imperial decree came down, Lu Zhonglian, as a father and court official, still couldn't let go of his worries for a long time.

He frowned and thought for a moment, then said leisurely: "My Lu family, He De, and how I was able to get a marriage from the emperor, all depend on the current favor of Lord Yuan Xiaohou."

"The royal family is not harmonious, there is too much hatred for each other, and it is only because of some small things in the early years that they wish to kill each other, which is more than a hundred times more tragic than the fights in the common people's family? It is inconvenient for me to tell you in detail as a father. I only want to say that between the prince and the prince, in the past, there were people who had torn their skins in order to compete for favor. As an enemy, in order to find a helper, you also know that each of you formed a clique."

"I'm only worried that the position of the crown prince is empty now. In order to seize the position, they are vying to win over your future husband, and drag you into it."

"Brothers of the same mother will turn against each other, and people who have nothing to do with us are intimate. Every time you are a relative today, you will kill you tomorrow if you turn around tomorrow. In short, you have to remember that there is no such thing as a family of heaven since ancient times. There is nothing but family affection, from now on the Lu family and the Marquis of Zhenyuan are like grasshoppers on the same rope, we need to be cautious in everything we say."

After hearing what his father said, Lu Xizhi suddenly felt a deep sense of responsibility in his heart.Originally, they just thought that this was an ordinary love and marriage, but after all, they couldn't escape the vigorous and eye-catching crises.

"Father, it's all... all my fault." She was a little uncomfortable.

Li Wenjun pressed her hand and gave her strength: "Silly boy, you and Yanxi really love each other. There is no blame for the happy event between you and Yanxi. Mother just asks you: But you are willing?"

Lu Xizhi looked at her gratefully and nodded heavily.

Lu Zhonglian also let out a long sigh of relief: "Then there is no need to worry about being a father. The Lu family is united as one and is not afraid of wind and rain."

(End of this chapter)