Please, marry a white snake wife. It’s super cool.

Gu Ziyue looked at Lu Yuan rolling up his sleeves and asked, "What? Are you going to show off?"

Su Liyan smiled and explained, "Brother, I recently learned a technique of divination and can calculate an auspicious date for your wedding."

Gu Ziyue half-believed and half-doubted, "Now? How can it be calculated in broad daylight? The people at the Imperial Observatory said that the fog is very thick at night recently, so it is not easy to observe the sky at night, let alone now."

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "Just watch, you!"

Lu Yuan's divination and calculation techniques are very different from those of the Imperial Observatory.

Lu Yuan can see the boundless starry sky in his mind, and can make calculations based on the orbits of the planets.

The Imperial Astronomical Observatory needed to observe the night stars and was more dependent on whether God was favorable.

After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he began to meditate, and a star map began to appear in his mind.

With repeated practice, the speed of divination became faster and faster.

Su Liyan and Gu Ziyue sat on either side, not daring to make a sound for fear of disturbing Lu Yuan.

After a while, the faint light on Lu Yuan's body faded away.

Gu Ziyue came close to Lu Yuan, her heart pounding like the last few seconds before the college entrance examination results were released.

Gu Ziyue asked cautiously: "Yuan~When is a good day to get married?"

Lu Yuan frowned, which made Gu Ziyue's heart skip a beat. She thought that there wouldn't be so much suffering between the two of them.

Good things take time, but it can't be all hardship, right? Could it be that our horoscopes are incompatible?
Lu Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Thirteen days from now will be the auspicious day for the wedding."

"Ah?" Gu Ziyue was extremely surprised when she heard it, "Isn't it too hasty?"

When a princess of the current dynasty gets married, the etiquette is very complicated.

In addition to the usual marriage procedures like those of wealthy families, such as making crowns and wedding clothes, hanging colorful lanterns, and inviting guests to dinner, the princess of the current dynasty also needs to hold a ceremony to confer the title.

After the enthronement ceremony, they have to walk around the palace, first paying eight respects to the emperor, then eight respects to the empress. The crown prince, imperial concubine, princes, etc. also have to walk around the palace.

Later, there are the ceremony of the princess receiving the precepts, the ceremony of the prince consort receiving the precepts, the ceremony of the prince consort welcoming the bride, and the ceremony of visiting the ancestral hall.
These are what Gu Ziyue said. This was the process for previous princesses to get married.

I don’t know if I need to do this too. After all, I’m not getting married. Whether I follow this process depends on the opinion of the Ministry of Rites of the imperial court.

Su Liyan felt overwhelmed after hearing this. This was much more complicated than holding a wedding banquet in the countryside.

When I married Lu Yuan, all I did was add a few more tables for the banquet.

At that time, they set up several banquet tables and loaded several carts with whole pork legs, the specifications of which were not seen anywhere else in the surrounding area.

Life is much better now than before. Good days are earned, not given by God.

Now, compared with Gu Ziyue, getting married is a luxury for rich people.

However, Su Liyan was not jealous of these things. The most important thing was for the couple to live a down-to-earth life.

(Today is May 5st. I wish the singles find their love soon and the couples happiness and contentment!)
Su Liyan also felt that time was a bit tight, so she asked, "Brother, what about other suitable times?"

Lu Yuan continued, "It's indeed a bit hasty. Except for the auspicious day thirteen days later, there is no such day this year. We have to wait until the second half of next year."

When she heard that she had to wait until the second half of next year, Gu Ziyue was definitely unhappy.

Gu Ziyue stood up and said excitedly: "Why rush? I think it's great. I'll marry you in thirteen days!"

"Sister, what do you think?" Gu Ziyue blinked and looked at Su Liyan again.

Su Liyan paused for a moment and said, "I have no objection. If Yue'er says it's feasible, then it will definitely work."

Lu Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "But, wife, we don't seem to have prepared anything!"

Su Liyan responded: "That's true."

Hearing this, Gu Ziyue pinched her waist and said, "What are you preparing for? I'll go back to the imperial capital to talk to my father. As for the ceremony, the Ministry of Rites will take care of it."

Gu Ziyue was about to leave after saying this.

Su Liyan advised: "Yuer, you have just sat down for a while, why don't you sit for a while?"

"No, sister, time is short and the task is heavy. Let's go back now and let dad handle it." Gu Ziyue picked up her coat and said, "Yuan~"

Gu Ziyue wanted to say something, but the words were on the tip of her tongue and she held them back.

Lu Yuan stood up, took Gu Ziyue's coat, put it on her, and said, "Then Yue'er, it's windy outside, put on your coat, don't catch a cold."

"Yeah!" Gu Ziyue nodded, and then said goodbye to Lu Yuan and Su Liyan.

After Gu Ziyue left, Su Liyan looked at Lu Yuan and said in the same tone as Lu Yuan just now: "Brother, it's windy outside, put on your coat~"

Lu Yuan laughed and said, "Wife, why are you making fun of me again?"

"I don't care!" Su Liyan muttered.

Lu Yuan grabbed Su Liyan's arm with both hands and said, "Wife, you have to believe me. In my heart, you are the most important!"

Lu Yuan hugged Su Liyan in his arms again. Su Liyan leaned against him happily and said, "Brother, is this the only auspicious day this year?"

"Of course not!" Lu Yuan said with a smile.

"Okay, brother, you are just in a hurry to marry me!" Su Liyan leaned in Lu Yuan's arms, pinching the flesh on Lu Yuan's abdomen and said.

"Anyway, we just need to do what we need to do within these thirteen days."

In the imperial capital, after dinner, Gu Ziyue went to look for her father.

After dinner, no matter how busy the emperor was, he would stay in the queen's bedroom for a while so that the old couple could have a heart-to-heart talk.

Home is a place of love, but it should also be a place of reason, right?
Emperor Gu Yuanzhang would naturally not ignore his first wife because of state affairs.

As expected, Gu Ziyue blocked her father in the Queen's bedroom.

Gu Ziyue shook her father's arm and said coquettishly, "Dad Yuan said that the auspicious day will be in thirteen days, otherwise we have to wait for a year."

The emperor smiled, touched his daughter's head, and said, "This Lu Yuan actually used the tricks he used to trick little girls to trick our precious daughter."

The emperor liked Lu Yuan very much. Apart from letting his daughter become a concubine, he was very satisfied with other aspects.

If Lu Yuan wasn't capable, he would never have been the one to have the most beloved daughter!

Emperor Gu Yuanzhang recruited sons-in-law for each of his daughters without strictly limiting their identities. He gave everyone a fair chance to compete and only the most capable ones were given the position.

Especially for those poor children, if they can marry a princess, it would be like a chicken turning into a phoenix. Although Lu Yuan was born in a humble family, he had advantages that others could not catch up with.

After listening to this, Gu Ziyue pouted and said, "Dad, you can't say that about our man. He didn't deceive us."

The emperor and the empress were used to their daughter's carefree behavior, and now they couldn't say anything about it. To be more precise, they couldn't say anything about her man.

The queen joked, "Daughter, you haven't even entered the house yet, and you're already trying to protect your husband's family's reputation?"

"Mom, Dad was wrong~" Gu Ziyue raised her head, looking proud and unconvinced.

While the family of three was chatting about family matters, an old eunuch was already waiting outside the door.

The emperor glanced at the old eunuch standing outside the door, waved his hand, and shouted, "Come in."

If nothing happened, this personal eunuch would be standing outside the door. But now he is standing right in the middle of the door waiting, which means something is wrong!
The old eunuch then bent over, took small steps, and walked in step by step.

"This old servant pays homage to His Majesty, the Empress, and Her Royal Highness the Princess. Your Majesty, this is a report sent by the Imperial Observatory." The old eunuch handed it over with both hands.

After the emperor took it, he said, "You can leave first."

"Yes, sir." The old eunuch said and stepped back.

The emperor held up the report and said, "Look, this report contains the auspicious date for our daughter's wedding. I will now see if Lu Yuan is kidding you."

The Queen did not speak. Gu Ziyue came closer, stretched her neck, and said, "Dad, open it and take a look!"

When the emperor unfolded it, he saw Gu Ziyue's birth date and the auspicious days for her to get married (October 10 and November 28).

When the emperor saw this, he laughed and said, "What am I talking about? This kid is just trying to fool you.

What you're saying is that this is the only chance this year, otherwise you won't have the chance to get married this year, it's really ridiculous."

"That's impossible. How could Yuan lie to us?" Gu Ziyue snatched the report from the emperor and took a look at it in disbelief.

"October 10th, isn't that thirteen days later?" the Queen reminded.

When the emperor heard this, he calculated the date in his mind and said, "That's right. When I saw that there were two auspicious dates for marriage this year, I forgot that October 10th would be thirteen days later."

After hearing this, Gu Ziyue felt like she had turned the tables and said, "I said it was far away. It's impossible to fool us. Look, this is not thirteen days later, but what's the matter with November 11th?"

The Queen favored Lu Yuan, but would not say it out loud. She just said, "Could someone have made a mistake in the calculation? The calculation for October 10th was quite accurate, but I wonder if November 18th is feasible?"

The emperor was so smart that he naturally understood what the queen meant. He took the report back from his daughter and said, "I will ask the Imperial Observatory to take a closer look at it these nights and verify it again."

Gu Ziyue reminded: "Dad, if November 11th doesn't work, there will only be a few days until October 24th."

After hearing this, the emperor touched his daughter's head and said, "Okay, I know. Let's prepare for October 10th first, okay?"

After hearing this, Gu Ziyue jumped up with joy and shouted, "Dad, you are the best man in the world to us!"

The queen shook her head as she listened, she really had no way to deal with her own daughter.

After the emperor left the empress's bedroom, he crumpled the report into a ball and threw it into the pool, and ordered: "Within two days, the Imperial Astronomical Observatory must calculate the auspicious date for the Thirteenth Princess's wedding for us no matter what."

The personal eunuch bowed and replied.

Is the day of your daughter's wedding really that important?

Important, but not absolutely important.

What terrified the emperor the most was that Lu Yuan was actually good at divination. If it was true as Lu Yuan said, October 10th was the only auspicious day this year, then it was truly terrifying.

How can he, by himself, make divinations faster and more accurately than any other official in the Imperial Astronomical Observatory?
Lu Yuan was the future imperial consort, so it was not an insult to the imperial court.
As the king of a country, how could Gu Yuanzhang allow such a powerful person to escape from his control?

At present, the relationship between Lu Yuan and Emperor Gu Yuanzhang is like the relationship between King Ji Chang of the Western Zhou Dynasty and King Xin of the Shang Dynasty in "The Romance of the Gods".

In the novel, Ji Chang knew the art of Fuxi's Eight Trigrams. Would the King of Shang allow the existence of a minister who only pursues profit and avoids misfortune?
Once the intention of rebellion arises, this divination will destroy the country's destiny.

Does national destiny really exist? I think there is such a thing as a "national destiny balancer", so we can't blame the Chinese national football team for having smelly feet. After all, they are a real "national destiny balancer" that has blessed our country with decades of peaceful development.

"How much do we not know about this kid?" the emperor thought to himself, and suddenly remembered something he almost forgot.

As the emperor walked, he said, "Eunuch Li, you will inform the Ministry of Rites early tomorrow morning that the Thirteenth Princess will be married on October 10th. Don't hold me back!"

"Old slave, I've got this!" said the old eunuch.

"According to the highest standards for a princess' wedding!"

In recent days, the imperial capital has been decorated with lights and various preparations are in full swing.

Gu Ziyue stood in front of the bronze mirror, twisting her body, looking at herself in the mirror wearing a wedding dress, with a smile on her face.

"Sister, you are so lucky. We heard that you married a capable man." A woman a few years older than Gu Ziyue was combing her hair.

This woman is the emperor's fourth daughter, Gu Lanxin, also the fourth princess, Princess Anqing. She married a Jinshi and currently lives in the Tenth Prince's Palace.

Although Princess Anqing lives in the imperial city, she has married out and cannot enter the imperial capital without being summoned. Today, she was summoned by the Queen to enter the palace to see her sister.

Unfortunately, the elder sister who was somewhat similar to Gu Ziyue had a very different fate.

The man that the fourth princess Gu Lanxin married had evil intentions and would be executed by Emperor Gu Yuanzhang in the future. It was a pity that Gu Lanxin had no children and would have to remain a widow.

Of course, this is all a story for the past. Now they are living a good life.

When the emperor marries his daughter, he will take into account the enormous power of the nobles, which may cause turmoil in the court.

Therefore, princesses often marry people who have no power but are talented, so as to disperse power.

If the princess marries a poor man, she definitely cannot live in her mother-in-law's house. Her mother-in-law's family is extremely poor, so how can the princess marry and have to carry manure?

Therefore, the imperial court built ten princely palaces in the imperial city, which were originally intended for the princes who entered the imperial city to live in, but now have become places for married princesses to stay.

Gu Ziyue fiddled with her sleeves and said, "Sister, please don't make fun of me. My brother-in-law is a scholar who passed the imperial examination."

Princess Anqing said, "I heard that my brother-in-law is from Taining City, Qilu Province. I wonder if my sister will also live in the Ten Princes' Palace in the future."

After hearing this, Gu Ziyue stopped fiddling with her sleeves.

Gu Ziyue didn't want to go to the Ten Princes' Palace. Although there were people to serve her, the whole street in the Ten Princes' Palace was filled with her sisters living there.

In Gu Ziyue's opinion, life is very depressing.

Gu Ziyue patted her sleeves and said with a smile: "Sister, I think we have to go back to Taining City with our men. I don't know when we will meet again."

Princess Anqing Gu Lanxin said as she was dressing Gu Ziyue: "That's fine, that's fine. My sister has always loved freedom. It doesn't matter if she doesn't stay in this imperial city." (End of this chapter)