Queen Sun

Chapter 15 New Year's Eve

On the New Year's Eve of the second year of Zhenguan, the entire imperial palace was full of joyful scenes. The emperor stood at the gate of the Ganlu Hall, as if looking into the distance.

"What time is it?" Li Shimin asked lightly.

Zheng Ji replied in a low voice: "Go back to Your Majesty, it's time to apply."

The emperor nodded, and looked at the waiter expressionlessly: "Changing clothes for me."

Zheng Ji breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly gestured to a few court ladies beside him, and followed him.

New Year's Day, Winter Solstice and the Emperor's Birthday are the three most important festivals in the palace, but this year's Winter Solstice was not organized in the palace because of the sacrifice to heaven.Therefore, on the New Year's Eve of the second year of Zhenguan, the emperor chose to entertain his courtiers in the Taiji Hall.

Li Shimin's change of clothes tonight was quite complicated, but it was slightly different from the Daqiu Mian suit at the ceremony.

The twelve-chapter Mianfu worn by the emperor today is the Dagon Mianfu, which is the clothing of Jianzuo, Xiangmiao, Requisition, Sending Generals, Drinking, Canadian Yuanfu, Nahou, Yuanri Receives Court Congratulations, and Linxuan Book Worshiping the Prince and also.It is one chi two inches wide and two chi four inches long. It is decorated with gold jade hairpins, twelve white beads hanging down, and the red silk ribbon is tasseled, and the color is like a ribbon.There are twelve chapters on deep green clothes and clothes, namely, eight chapters on sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, Chinese insects, fire, and Zongyi;Clothes painting, clothing embroidery, to resemble the color of heaven and earth.From the mountain and the dragon down, each chapter has one act, etc., and each line has twelve.The clothes, skirts, and collars are painted with rising dragons, white gauze singles, fur collars, green skirts, skirts, and skirts, three chapters of dragon, mountain, and fire embroidered on the skirts, and gold decorations on the skirts.

After finishing dressing, the emperor took the crown presented by Zheng Ji on his knees, stood in front of the bronze mirror, and put the crown on his hair.

Zheng Ji waited at the side, glanced at the door again and again, but there was still no movement, but His Majesty's gaze was getting colder and colder, like severe winter, and he couldn't help trembling slightly.

An hour passed, and seeing that the time could not be delayed any longer, Zheng Ji sighed in his heart, and helplessly wanted to remind the emperor that it was time to go to the Tai Chi Hall, but the emperor's figure suddenly turned around, and he also turned around and looked over. Immediately stunned in place.

The empress wore the robes worn during the grand ceremony, with her hands folded in the sleeves and folded in front of the robes, she stood quietly at the door, staring straight at the emperor with indifferent eyes, the empress's white jade-like face was more prominent Noble, but compared to before, the original graceful charm seems to have added a bit of moonlight-like coolness and solemnity.

Zheng Ji marveled inwardly: "The clothes are made of deep green weaving, painted with 翚, red, five colors, twelve and so on."Plain gauze with a single collar, Zhu Luoxuan and 襈, covering the knees and matching the color of the dress, with the collar as the predestined relationship and Zhai as the seal, the third class.Tsing Yi, leather belt, large belt according to the color of the clothes, pei, New York, Pei, and ribbons are like the emperor, and the blue and black are decorated with gold.You know, even on the New Year's Eve of the first year of Zhenguan, the queen was only wearing tin hairpins and bare clothes.

Li Shimin walked towards his queen step by step. That face seemed younger than two years ago, without the indifferent and peaceful smile that was restrained in the past, but just looking at him silently, more like The she she was when they first met as a newlywed was extremely indifferent, resigned and independent.

Ruoshui's mood at this moment is like a pool of water, calm and calm. For some reason, the more she walked into the palace, her heart became more and more peaceful. Not far away, the emperor of the world walked slowly, and finally He stopped half a step away from her and reached out to himself.

She involuntarily raised her sleeve, and then, the hand in the sleeve was accurately held, and the hands of the two were hidden in the wide sleeve.

At Xu time, the celebration officially began.

Undoubtedly, the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty was far less magnificent than what later generations imagined. Even the most important hall in the imperial palace, the Taiji Hall, its color is also dark. Cyan and black are the two most common colors, but It still made Ruoshui feel a magnificent momentum and restrained and profound implication.

When the emperor and the empress walked into the hall side by side, everyone could clearly feel the shock for a moment, but when the two of them knelt and sat in the front seat, the shock naturally turned into surprise and relief, empress All right!

Ruoshui calmed down, raised his head, and showed his first smile since today, solemn and peaceful, beyond reproach.

Wei Zheng raised his head and looked at the queen in front. Obviously, this woman from the eldest grandson's family has lost a lot of energy, her eyes are clearer, and her gestures are still flawless.However, it seemed that after a serious illness, the queen became a little more agile even when she was silent.At this moment, thinking about the huge changes in the prince some time ago, it is obviously not without reason.

The emperor was a little absent-minded, and the graceful dancing postures of the women in the audience seemed unable to attract the eyes of the emperor. He kept looking at the queen who was close at hand from time to time, and tightly grasped the cold hand beside him.

The monarch and his ministers were happy and harmonious, and the courtiers keenly noticed that His Majesty's face was much gentler tonight, and he was no longer in the moody mood of the past.Yuchi Jingde, who has always been straightforward, stood up from his seat, picked up his wine glass and made a toast to the queen, "I respect you, your phoenix body is in good health, and you will be a thousand years old."

As soon as the words were finished, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui stood up together and toasted the Queen.

Ruoshui was slightly surprised, although he already knew that these famous Zhenguan ministers from Prince Qin's mansion respected the eldest grandson, but in today's solemn occasion, they still showed a kind of inner joy for the empress's presence, This made me unable not to be moved.

However, what Ruoshui doesn't know is that Fang and Du, who are known as the famous ministers of Zhenguan, have a deeper connection with the eldest grandson.At the time when King Qin and the crown prince had the worst fight, they were only two staff members of King Qin's aides who were kicked out of Prince Qin's mansion by the crown prince by the hand of the Supreme Emperor. In the dark, and soon became the main planner of the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the kind of timely assistance from times of crisis is enough to make anyone feel deeply for life.

Ruoshui was just about to raise the untouched wine glass, but Li Shimin took the glass away first, and said with a smile: "The queen has not recovered yet, so I will take this glass for you." After speaking, he drank it in one gulp.

Seeing this, all the ministers were a little drunk after drinking, and the atmosphere relaxed a lot for a while, as if they had returned to the days when they were in the Literature Museum, where the monarchs and ministers laughed and cursed, and there were no taboos.Yuchi Jingde couldn't help laughing and said: "At the beginning, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty said that marrying a wife should be like Yin Lihua, but now I, Yuchi, want to say that it is Liu Xiu who has never seen our Queen of the Tang Dynasty."

In fact, these words are quite rude, but the emperor couldn't help laughing and said: "I didn't expect Jingde to have read a lot of books."

Ruoshui laughed, and raised the teacup: "Yuchi, I have no choice but to use tea instead of wine to thank you for your kind words." There was a rare sharpness in his words.

"Old Fang, look, it's the same as marrying a wife, but you are much worse. I dare not even take a look at that hot woman of yours." After several jars of wine, Yuchi Jingde hooked Fang Xuan Ling's neck, teased.

Fang Xuanling was embarrassed to hear this, only to hear the empress above said gently: "Mrs. Fang takes Mr. Fang very seriously. It's just the performance of her husband. It's Mr. Fang's luck."

Ruoshui was very surprised by this atmosphere, it turned out that in the early years of Zhenguan, these important ministers were quite genuine.Suddenly, a deep whisper came from my ear: "Then Ruoshui's virtuousness doesn't care about her husband?"

A burst of liquor mellowed over his face, Ruo Shui trembled slightly, and then said calmly: "The Queen's virtuousness is the great fortune of Your Majesty."

The emperor suddenly laughed undisguisedly, Ruoshui was startled, and hurriedly looked down, but fortunately, many people were already staggering from drinking, when her eyes passed by, a strange thought suddenly appeared in her mind, There seems to be one person missing here, who is it?A well-known minister of Zhenguan who has been passed down to later generations and is also very famous, but it may not be until Zhenguan's later years.

Li Shimin looked at his wife as if he had fallen into his own world again, and the smell of alcohol rose up. He turned sideways without warning, hugged Ruoshui suddenly, and only threw a sentence to his servants, "I and the queen will leave first." Xi" turned and walked towards the side door.

Seeing this, Changsun Wuji shook his head, sighed and dealt with Yuchi Jingde and Fang Xuanling who were staggering to toast in front of him, it seemed that Lao Fang was also drunk today.

Wang Gui looked at Wei Zheng in surprise, not knowing what to say, Wei Zheng patted him on the shoulder and said, "See, this is the queen, a person who can truly honor the world."

(End of this chapter)