"That's right. It's getting late." Gu Yunzhen looked at the sky and said seriously.

Gu Yanfei was a little dazed, isn't this just the beginning, why is it getting late.

The palace lady pushed An Le's wheelchair to the palace room, Gu Yunzhen took Gu Yanfei's arm and walked quickly, almost half dragging and half pushing.

Everyone's face is filled with too bright smile.

Gu Yanfei looked back and forth at the crowd, always feeling that something happened that she didn't know about, and subconsciously pinched her fingers quickly to make a guess.

The hexagram of great auspiciousness.

Then since it comes, let it be safe.

Gu Yanfei followed them through several curtains and came to an elegant bedroom with a dressing table, screen, hangers, tables and chairs, etc., and a yellow rosewood coat hanger on the east wall was hung with embroidered clothes. There is the silver-red robe of the phoenix.

"Sister, sit down quickly." An Le happily urged, and ordered the maid to push Gu Yanfei to the dressing table.

On the dressing table, there are all kinds of exquisite and complicated head and face jewelry, ranging from hairpins, hairpins, hairpin crowns, gold necklaces, earrings, jade pendants, gold rings, etc., and the big rubies embedded in the jewelry are shining brightly. shine.

Gu Yanfei looked at An Le reflected in the mercury mirror, and asked in bewilderment: "The Hundred Flowers Banquet is about to start?"

"It's not a Hundred Flowers Feast." Gu Yunzhen covered his mouth and smiled lightly.

An Le laughed happily, and with a bit of mystery, she said, "Today is my sister's wedding banquet. The emperor said that I will personally give my sister a wedding ceremony."

"..." Gu Yanfei was startled again, his little face was a little dazed.

It has been two hundred years, and Gu Yanfei is a little vague about the birthday of this life.

However, she vaguely remembered that it wasn't on National Day.

Gu Yunzhen saw Gu Yanfei's confusion, and took the initiative to explain it to her: "Yanfei, today is your birthday."

today? Gu Yanfei was even more puzzled. Isn't her birthday on the second day of March?

Gu Yunzhen hurriedly explained: "Brother asked from Su Niang."

The second day of March is actually Gu Yunxie's birthday, and Gu Yanfei is a few days older than Gu Yunxie.

"So my birthday is February 27th." Gu Yanfei said almost to himself, with a strange expression on his face.

So, she is fifteen years old today, and she is old enough.

Gu Yunzhen looked at Gu Yanfei in the mirror, and said again: "Yanfei, I originally wanted to give you a wedding ceremony in the mansion, but my elder brother told me not to prepare..."

An Le said cheerfully from the side: "Sister Yanfei, the Supervisor of Rites has been preparing for your ceremony for more than a month."

"I also helped. Today's Qinghui Hall was decorated by me."

An Le took out a silver pocket watch from his sleeve, looked at the time, and hurriedly urged: "It's almost time, hurry up, sister Yanfei, you have to dress up quickly."

An Le beamed with joy and directed the maids to dress up Gu Yanfei.

almost time? Hearing these somewhat familiar words, Gu Yanfei couldn't help being taken aback, and looked at the pocket watch in An Le's hand. This silver scroll pocket watch is exactly the same as Chu Yi's.

Is that what he meant by what he just said?

Gentle ripples appeared in Gu Yanfei's eyes, and the corners of her lips also curled up.

The court lady deftly combed Gu Yanfei into an upside-down crescent moon bun, and cleverly braided some small braids into the bun, and wrapped a colorful tassel thread around the bun.

While Gu Yanfei was combing her hair here, Gu Yunzhen went to the clothes hanger and carefully looked at the new clothes hanging on the yellow rosewood hanger.

The silver-red dress with large sleeves was neatly hung on it, the brand-new material was not wrinkled at all, and a large piece of hibiscus flowers were embroidered on the skirt, bright red, pink, peach red, water red, hundreds of hibiscus flowers The flowers were in full bloom on the long skirt, and there were some golden threads sandwiched in the fabric, giving off a dreamlike and radiant brilliance.

After looking at it for a while, Gu Yunzhen asked with certainty: "Is this Phoenix Brocade?"

"Sister, you really have vision!" An Leling pushed the wheelchair over and stopped beside Gu Yunzhen.

Gu Yanfei, who had just combed her hair in a bun, also came over and asked casually, "What Phoenix Brocade?"

Gu Yunzhen picked up the corner of the skirt with one hand, and looked at the material in the sun, "I heard that Phoenix Brocade is a new material from the Yue Kingdom. Peacock feathers are woven into the material to give it such a beautiful luster. .”

An Le nodded repeatedly.

This material was brought back to Beijing from the country of Yue by the emperor's brother, and he almost missed it.

An Le pursed her lips, temporarily swallowed this little secret, and introduced the dress with a smile:

"Sister Yunzhen, sister Yanfei, look, the embroidery on it was embroidered by the best embroiderer in the Needle Palace Bureau, and the hibiscus flower pattern on it was drawn by Brother Huang himself. Isn't it beautiful?"

"And look at this Ropa, it is double-sided embroidery, with parrots on one side and cats on the other."

"..."

An Le and Gu Yun talked about the truth very happily, talking non-stop until the palace maid coughed dryly twice, reminding her that the time was almost up.

An Le hurriedly looked at the time on the pocket watch, hurriedly urging Gu Yanfei to change clothes.

Today is the first time that her father and brother asked her to do such an important event, and she can't let it go wrong.

The maids pushed Gu Yanfei to go behind the screen and dressed her.

An Le then ordered the maid to go to the Qinghui Palace next door to check the situation. There was a small stone bridge between Qinghui Palace and Qinglian Pavilion where they were located, and it was on the east side of the stone bridge.

At this moment, inside the Qinghui Hall, there is a crowd of people, their clothes are fragrant and their temples are shadowed, and they are full of jewels.

Those well-dressed wives and girls have already taken their seats in the hall, and most of them are familiar with each other, chatting and laughing happily about family affairs, talking about clothes and jewellery, which family has a baby, which family is going to marry with which family, and accidentally mentions The Lu family and the Hua family almost got married, so many strange eyes turned to the female relatives of the Amber Mansion.

Mrs. Chang Anbo and Mrs. Lu both felt their faces were hot and a little embarrassed.

Mrs. Lu also thought about not coming today, but the post from the palace was sent to Chang'anbo Mansion. This is a grand event in the country, and the Bo Mansion naturally couldn't be absent.

Mrs. Lu Er pretended to drink tea, lowered her voice and said to Mrs. Chang Anbo: "Sister-in-law, isn't today's banquet a bit early?"

In previous years, after they arrived at Tianhe Garden, they would go for a walk in the garden by themselves. They could run horses, play polo, chuiwan, cuju, swim in the lake, etc. The palace banquet started in the late afternoon.

But this year is different, as soon as they arrived here today, the female relatives were brought to this Qinghui Hall.

Mrs. Chang Anbo looked at the sun outside, nodded and said: "Yes, this is the beginning of time."

Now this hour is still early for the banquet.

Mrs. Chang Anbo was about to look away, when she saw a servant leading another female relative to this side, it was Mrs. Wei Guogong and Mrs. Wei Guogong's son.

The Duke of Wei's mansion had a high status in the court, so many female relatives got up to salute and greet Mrs. Wei Guogong's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, including Mrs. Chang Anbo's sister-in-law.

Everyone talked and laughed happily, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became more lively.

After Mrs. Wei Guogong, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sat down, Mrs. Chang Anbo quietly asked Mrs. Wei Guogong: "Will the palace banquet later be hosted by the Eldest Princess?"

Mrs. Chang Amber deliberately lowered her voice, but several female relatives around heard it too, and listened curiously.

As usual, the palace banquet on National Day is hosted by the empress, but the empress died early today, and the Empress Dowager Yuan did not come to Tianhe Garden today, so the only possible candidate left is the eldest princess.

Many female relatives in the hall whispered to each other in twos and threes.

Not only Mrs. Chang Anbo, but most of the other female family members also think so. I wonder if it is because the eldest princess presides over the palace banquet for the first time, and there is no queen to teach, so the arrangement is a bit chaotic. Before the time comes, they are asked to wait in advance here.

Thinking about it, guessing and guessing, the female family members also kept pointing to the end, and didn't say too much, after all, it involved the royal family.

"no."

No, Mrs. Wei Guogong shook her head and gave a negative answer.

She didn't lower her voice, and the other female relatives also heard the prestige and looked over, with astonished expressions written on their faces: If it wasn't the eldest princess who hosted it, who else would it be?

Mrs. Wei Guogong went on to say: "It's not a palace banquet, it's a ceremony for the second girl Gu."

Her voice was neither high nor low, clearly resounding through the entire palace.

The audience was silent.

Everyone was stunned, as if they were dumb, and some even dropped the round fan in their hands.

This news was really unexpected, as it had never happened before in Tianhe Garden to hold a marriage ceremony for a courtier's daughter.

The initial shock passed quickly, and everyone's expressions became more complicated after careful consideration.

Even if Mrs. Wei Guogong didn't say it just now, everyone knows that it is definitely not the Gu family who are so bold to come here to hold the ceremony. There is no doubt that this is the intention of the emperor.

Not far away, a lady in her forties approached and whispered to another old lady who was over fifty years old: "Old lady Xiao, I heard that the eldest prince once begged the emperor to marry him in public. Is it true?"

This old Mrs. Xiao is Xiao Shoufu's wife.

That night, when the Eldest Prince begged the Emperor for a marriage in public outside the South Study Room, Xiao Shoufu was also in the palace, so Mrs. Xiao naturally knew about it.

Mrs. Xiao nodded her head, her eyes flickering slightly.

That night, the emperor did not express his position, but now the emperor actually wants to preside over the Jiji ceremony for Gu Yanfei in person, that is to say, the emperor complied.

"This..." The middle-aged woman hesitated to speak, tightly clutching the handkerchief in her hand, pursing her lips disapprovingly.

This Gu family is worse than ordinary people with a clean family background.

This second girl Gu's family was expelled from the noble family, her grandmother and uncle committed crimes, and her father's crimes have not yet been cleared. A girl like this is going to become the eldest prince and concubine, and even the future queen is very likely!

If it wasn't for the fact that the emperor had only the eldest prince as his only son, everyone would almost have thought that the eldest prince was rejected by the emperor, and that's why the emperor chose such an unbearable marriage for him.

The female relatives of many family officials felt mixed feelings in their hearts.

A luxurious lady in her thirties thought for a while, and said tactfully: "Mrs. Xiao, is the emperor going to personally preside over the wedding ceremony for Miss Gu? Is this appropriate?"

The noble lady said it quite implicitly, on the surface she was talking about whether today's Jiji ceremony is appropriate, but what she really wanted to say was that the marriage between Gu Yanfei and the eldest prince was inappropriate.

Another round-faced woman in her forties interjected, "I don't think it's appropriate."

The wives of several aristocratic families next to them all looked in the direction of Mrs. Xiao, with elegant faces on their faces, and dark tides in their hearts: They took advantage of this year's Chaohe to bring their daughters to Beijing, in order to let their daughters compete for the position of the eldest prince concubine .

I thought today's Hundred Flowers Banquet was a great opportunity to show my face in front of the emperor and the eldest prince, and there would be an open and secret fight in the Tianhe Garden.

But now, they didn't have time to do anything, they didn't have time to start anything, so why did it end?

The wives of these aristocratic families felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on their heads. They looked at each other in blank dismay, some were dumbfounded, some felt aggrieved for their daughters, and some couldn't hide their unwillingness.

When a man gets married, he pays attention to the right family and family, and marries a wife and a virtuous person.

But this second girl Gu wants to be famous but not famous, talented but not talented, and family background but not family background, so why should she be the eldest concubine? Just because she can draw talismans? !

The daughter they brought up carefully has good looks, talents, manners, and temperament, but she lost to a wild girl who grew up in the countryside!

Mrs. Xiao slowly picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. Just as she was about to say something, Mrs. Wei Guogong who was sitting opposite her said calmly: "What's wrong? Back then, Empress Taizu also helped Jingning Mu Xin, the eldest daughter of the Hou family, presided over the Jiji ceremony."

Back then, Mrs. Jingning Hou died of a blood collapse after giving birth to her youngest son, leaving behind the eldest daughter Mu Xin and the younger brother Mu Ying.

Marquis Jing Ning had a deep affection for his wife and never remarried. Empress Taizu and Mrs. Marquis Jing Ning used to be like sisters, fearing that others would say that Mu Xin was the eldest daughter of a bereaved woman, half of the time she took Mu Xin into the palace to be educated.

When Mu Xin was fifteen years old, Empress Taizu personally presided over the Jiji ceremony for Mu Xin.

Later, Mu Xin was married by the Emperor Taizu to An Qinghou at that time. Before the death of the Taizu Empress, Mu Xin went to the palace to serve the Taizu Empress herself for three months without leaving home.

This incident has also become a good story, and everyone feels that the Empress Taizu and Mu Xin are not mothers, but better than mother and daughter.

Everyone present naturally knew about these past events, and their expressions were different.

Mrs. Chang Anbo applauded Mrs. Wei Guogong in her heart, rolled her eyes slightly, and said with a smile: "The relationship between people is based on fate!"

"Empress Taizu and Madam Mu of Anning Hou are not mothers, they are better than mother and daughter. I see that the second girl Gu is also destined to be with the eldest princess, like that sister."

When she said this, everyone also remembered that Gu Yanfei had saved the life of the eldest princess in the first lunar month.

With Mu Xin's old example, it is acceptable for the eldest princess to flatter Gu Yanfei.

"That's right." Mrs. Fan added with a smile, "It's no wonder the emperor loves Wu Wu."

At first hearing these words, it seems that the emperor loves Wu and Wu for the eldest princess, but everyone knows that the emperor loves Wu and Wu for the sake of the eldest prince and treats Gu Yanfei so favorably.

The faces of Mrs. Xiao and the others sank all of a sudden.

The hall fell into an eerie silence.

After a while, a shrill voice from the servant broke the silence:

"The emperor is here! Her Royal Highness Princess Fengyang is here!"

The emperor and Feng Yang arrived amidst the greetings of the guests, followed by a group of maids.

All the female relatives got up and saluted one after another, and many of them couldn't help but glance at Fengyang, they didn't expect Fengyang to come.

A kind of speculation faintly emerged in many people's minds, ready to come out: Could it be...

At the same time, the people in charge of ceremonies also took their positions and stood by in their respective positions. The chief eunuch in charge of ceremonies arrived at the auspicious time, and immediately after that, a melodious and soothing sound of silk and bamboo rang out.

It's almost over.

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