Traitor Concubine Growth Manual

Chapter 55

In the late spring of the 27th year of the Xuan Dynasty, the crown prince married the Zhao family's daughter-in-law. At this time, it was the second month after the end of the war in Xijiang.

The entire capital city was decorated with lights and festoons, and red lanterns were hung up. The prince's wedding is a major event in the country, so it's natural how grand it is.

According to the rules, the procedure of the prince's wedding is no different from the six rituals of common people's marriage, but the ceremony is more grand and elaborate.

When the imperial decree and bride price arrived at Duke Dingguo’s mansion, Zhao Wu, who had just recovered from a serious illness, brought all the members of the Zhao family to kneel down to receive the decree. She lost a lot of weight and looked much older.

The betrothal gifts included a million taels of gold, horses and silk, just like in the old scriptures, there were hundreds of eunuchs who just came to give the betrothal gifts, and they surrounded Zhao's mansion in a mighty way.

Zhao Wu took the decree and thanked the emperor for his kindness. When he saw the scene in front of him, he suddenly burst into tears.

How many years has he been looking forward to today.

He used to hope day and night that Chu Yan would be able to live up to his expectations and set foot on the position of princess concubine as soon as possible to make up for the bleak situation of the Zhao family with no successors. Suddenly depressed.

I don't know if Lian Po is old, can he still eat?
The six rituals went on for half a month, and finally ushered in the big wedding day.

Before dawn, Chu Yan was pulled up and sat sleepily in front of the dressing table.

Eight senior aunts and 24 well-dressed maids came to Shangyi Bureau. The aunts made arrangements everywhere, and those court ladies were busy doing their own tasks, holding jewelry and waiting for arrangements in the warehouse. Some stayed in Curry all the time, and many more circled around Chu Yan.

Chu Yan never thought that the original wedding ceremony would be even worse than a modern wedding.

In the past, the emperor's concubines were all conferred after a night of spring festival, or they were selected through a draft, so the order was changed, canonized first and then favored.

But now that she is married into the palace as a princess, the first wife and concubine are naturally completely different.

She had been pulled up and fiddled with in the middle of the night, and at dawn, Chu Yan was fully armed and ready.

The phoenix crown and xiapei, the feet are embroidered shoes, the waist is inlaid with gold and brocade fringe ribbons, and she is wearing gold and silver silk phoenix embroidered court clothes. The person in the mirror is luxurious and graceful.

Even if the extravagance and extreme desire of feudal rule did not appear on the surface because of the appearance of a wise king, it still existed in the old system.

After thinking for a long time, Chu Yan was suddenly shocked by herself: it must be because she was too nervous, so the teacher's instinct to reappear in the rivers and lakes...

The red sun rises slowly from the east, and the clouds are all dyed red by the rising sun, which looks very magnificent.

Chu Yan's mood was also affected by such a magnificent scene. When she stepped out of the side hall with the help of the maid, her eyes were full of such a magnificent scene, and her heart suddenly felt bewildered and nervous.

It has been nearly ten years since I came to this place, step by step from a six-year-old girl to today.

She is finally going to become the princess that everyone looks up to.

She should feel a wave of heartfelt joy, although even she herself didn't know whether it was joy for the Zhao family or for herself.

In the eyes of everyone, Wei Meng, who does not seek to make progress and does nothing, has finally become an existence no longer insignificant in this era.

She took a completely different path, although those who once looked down on her can no longer see her.

The Si Yan of the Shang Palace Bureau stood by the door and said in a flat voice, "His Royal Highness, please go to the ancestral temple to perform the sacrificial ceremony."

Chu Yan then wore a grand and heavy dress, and walked to the ancestral temple relying on these legs alone.

Worshiping ancestors depends on sincerity, so walking must be used instead of carts, which has always been the ancestral system.

After the sacrifice, Chu Yan had to go to the Empress Dowager and the Empress to invite tea, and finally passed the palace road where the officials lined up on both sides in front of the Huayan Hall, stepped on the stone steps in front of the eyes of thousands of people, and stood side by side with the prince.

This day was really tedious and frustrating, too much etiquette tortured Chu Yan's legs as if they had been filled with lead, and she could hardly walk.

But Si Yan on the side kept a flat face, and his voice kept on reading the next itinerary without any ups and downs.

"The sacrificial ceremony has begun, and His Royal Highness, the Crown Princess, is invited to bow and salute."

"Your Highness, please raise your glass and pay respects to the past emperors of the Xuan Dynasty to show your sincerity and filial piety."

After about half an hour passed, Si Yan finally said, "After the sacrificial ceremony, please move to Shouyan Palace, Your Highness the Crown Princess."

Chu Yan: ...

She has already begun to regret her decision to be a princess.

Meeting the queen mother is much more complicated than meeting the queen, because the queen has been shutting herself out and ignoring world affairs for a long time, and the originally gentle and kind-hearted person is now full of the tranquility and peace after the Buddhist practice.

But the queen mother is different. Although she looks gentle and kind, her eyes reveal a shrewdness that is definitely not a thing in the pool.

Chu Yan knelt down to serve her tea, and she patted Chu Yan's hand with a smile, "Good boy, thank you for your hard work."

Chu Yan said with a smile, "It's not hard work. Today is the blessing of Chu Yan III's cultivation. It's too late to be happy. How dare you say it's hard work?"

Today, she paid special attention to her words, because the Queen Mother did not come from the position of queen, but from concubine to concubine, and finally stepped on Queen Dou, so she did not go through the ceremony of big wedding.

The imperial palace is like this, no matter how much you are favored by the emperor, even the imperial concubine, if you are not in the main palace, you will not be able to pass the wedding ceremony.

Chu Yansheng was afraid that his words would offend the Queen Mother and make her unhappy, so he could talk as little as possible, and she would answer whatever the Queen Mother said.

In short, say less and make less mistakes.

The Empress Dowager was secretly surprised, this daughter of the Zhao family was impeccable in her speech, she was so smooth that she didn't leave any excuses, and judging by her figure and temperament, she might really be a character in the future.

Then I thought that if the Zhao family rose again in the palace because of this, and if Zhao Ronghua really became the queen mother after the prince ascended the throne, with her temperament, then she would really have a hard time as the queen mother.

I already have calculations in my heart.

"The crown prince has been alone all these years, and the emperor is not around. Now that I have you, the Ai family can feel more at ease." The queen mother took the cup of tea, took a breath, took a sip, and handed it back to Chu Yan. After the maid beside her took away the tray, she helped Chu Yan who was kneeling up, "From now on, if you want to serve the crown prince well, you'd better open up branches and leaves for the Gu family as soon as possible, and let the Ai family have the opportunity to see the Ai family in their lifetime." Good grandson of the family."

Chu Yan didn't know why her heart skipped a beat. Although she still nodded shyly with a smile on the surface, she thought of Gu Qi in her heart, and thought of so many children in the palace that she had seen in history books.

It's not easy living under the fence, even though the queen mother is smiling and saying that she wants to take care of her grandson, but Chu Yan has made up her mind that if she has a child, she will never give it to others, not even the queen mother!
Even for this, she will definitely go on in this palace well, because as long as she sits in the position of princess concubine for a day, she is the main wife and the legitimate wife of the prince.Even if the prince ascends the throne in the future, the queen's position will still belong to her. Only in this way can she have the absolute power to protect the people she wants to protect, such as her aunt, such as... her child who may come in the future.

Having experienced the experience of losing her parents, Chu Yan swore that she would never let her children experience what she had suffered before.

The empress lived in Jingshang Palace. When Chu Yan stepped into the palace, she almost thought that she was outside the palace, because it was so clean and beautiful, it was like an inch of pure land left alone in the palace.

All kinds of flowers are planted in the yard, the winter jasmine is climbing on the fence, and the plum and peach trees are also full of flowers.

The queen was dressed in plain clothes, her hair was only loosely tied into a bun, and she was simply fastened with a mica hairpin. At this moment, she was watering the peony bushes.

Chu Yan stood there stunned, because this scene would not make people think it was the queen's palace anyway.

In her impression, if it was a woman in the palace who was recuperating behind closed doors, she would look like a nun in those TV dramas, lifeless and hopeless because she was tired of reality.

But the queen in front of her looks like she is only in her early forties, she is elegant and elegant without makeup, full of tranquility and beauty.

A court lady went up to her and whispered something to her, the queen turned her head and saw Chu Yan, accompanied by all the court ladies, who came to serve tea.

She handed the bucket to the maid, then walked out of the flowers, and said to Chu Yan with an apologetic expression, "Someone came to inform me a few days ago that the Crown Princess would come to serve tea today, but I never asked outside matters. That's why I forgot about it, but these court ladies are also lazy by me, and they don't have a long memory with me. It's too late to change clothes right now, so I've really neglected the Crown Princess."

She even gave up the title of "Ben Gong", and only called herself "I". Chu Yan was really surprised in her heart, but she was also extremely admired.

Looking at the harem, those who fight for everything and seem to have accumulated power for a long time are still unable to withstand the crisis of aging, but this queen does not fight for anything, but lives happily, leisurely, and looks beautiful many.

Chu Yan said with a smile, "The queen mother doesn't have to stick to these red tapes. The rules are for the worldly people. If you stand outside the worldly world, you don't have to care about these."

After receiving the tea from the maid at the side, Chu Yan was about to kneel down to serve the tea, but suddenly the queen held her arm, and then looked up at her in surprise.

The queen's smile was as gentle as today's spring breeze, and her eyes were as bright as a mirror, "You also said that the rules are for people in the world, and I may not be the only one who stands outside the world."

Chu Yan was startled, and then laughed too.

It is really an honor for her to be praised by such a woman as someone who stands outside the world.

It's a pity that she can only have such dreams occasionally. Even if she longs for such a peaceful and simple life, she still has to fight for survival, and she can't really stand outside the world.

The queen did not say some words of kindness and power like the queen mother, but said to her, "In this palace, everyone has something they want to fight for, so they will try their best to achieve their wishes. But no matter what you do in the end When you make a decision, you must ask yourself, if you do this, will you gain more than you lose.”

She looked at Chu Yan with a smile, "The princess is not an ordinary person, maybe she knows more than me, and I hope you don't mind my self-righteousness."

It is very comfortable to talk to the queen, without having to worry about so many palace rules, and without having to say some polite formulas.

Before leaving, Chu Yan suddenly turned around and asked, "If the queen mother is free in the future, can I come and have a cup of tea with the queen mother?"

The queen was startled, then smiled slightly, "If you don't think my place is boring, just come here."

Going out from Jingshang Palace, Chu Yan returned to that endless deep palace.

She finally got on the chariot and headed towards the final destination - Huayan Hall. She faced all the civil and military officials and walked step by step to the place where the prince stood shoulder to shoulder with him.

Her neck was sore, her feet were tired, the phoenix crown on her head seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and the layers of clothes on her body made her a little breathless.

The walking chariot stopped far outside the Changxin Gate. Through this gate, she would walk into the avenue leading to Huayan Hall.

The avenue is actually a large empty square outside the Huayan Hall, and the courtiers are next in line, leaving only the avenue in the middle.There, Chu Yan will accept the baptism of everyone's eyes and step on a high level.

The closer she got, the more nervous Chu Yan became. She was also a human being, and she couldn't face all challenges calmly and calmly.

She couldn't even remember whether it was Hanzhi or Dongyi who helped her get off the chariot, she only knew that she was being supported and slowly walked towards the door, the magnificent and tall vermilion arch.

And when there were still a few steps to go through, the person who supported her suddenly stopped, and Si Yan's calm and plain voice sounded again, "His Royal Highness, please meet the officials and start the canonization ceremony."

Chu Yan stared helplessly at the hundreds of civil and military officials standing in two rows behind the Changxin Gate—this was not just as many as in the morning court on weekdays, hundreds of officials from the fifth rank and above in the whole capital were all standing here, just waiting She walked through the door and walked to the steps of Huayan Hall.

She paused, curled her fingers and pinched her palm tightly, and her heartbeat was still at this moment.

On the huge square, there was no sound, she could only hear her own rapid breathing.

But this day is a day that she has passed through hundreds of years and experienced the baptism of growth again.

She closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her pupils were as bright as ever, without any hesitation.

Chu Yan stepped over the Changxin Gate and walked towards Huayan Hall step by step.

Two rows of female officials followed her neatly and gracefully, walking towards the pinnacle of power with the newly promoted princess.

The phoenix crown on her head was still heavy, and the heavy dress on her body still made her a little breathless, but her face was only calm and calm, as beautiful and demure as the clouds in the sky, neither fast nor slow.

She walked past one courtier after another, all eyes were on her alone, but she didn't look sideways, just raised her chin slightly, looking at the lonely person on the stone steps and in front of Huayan Hall.

The prince was dressed in a red gown, standing tall and straight above the crowd, looking at her calmly, as if there were only two of them standing on the square full of people at the moment.

Chu Yan suddenly had an illusion, as if he had been standing there waiting for her for a long time, and now it was finally here.

(End of this chapter)