Daiyu of the Red Chamber

Chapter 270 Princes

Mo Xuan hurried and hurried, and finally arrived in the capital the night before Wanyu's wedding.But before entering the city, the emperor sent someone to stop him and go to the palace.

Looking at the dusty Mo Xuan, the emperor first nodded and said: "It looks a bit masculine, very good!" After talking about something, he glanced at Mo Xuan with a half-smile and said: "It's just that the return is faster than expected. It's late."

Not to mention that Mo Xuan was puzzled, even the eldest prince Chengde looked at the emperor with a puzzled expression on his face, but the emperor was not in charge of explaining the confusion, instead he changed the subject and asked about the trip to the northwest.After all, the battle report is just a battle report, and many specific details still need to be described by people.

Speaking of the Western Expedition, Mo Xuan was still very excited, blushing slightly, and told the story of the Western Expedition little by little.Hearing this, His Royal Highness the First Prince also became excited and shouted: "Next time there is such a good thing, I can't miss it!"

The emperor gave the eldest prince Chengde a noncommittal look, and then said to Mo Xuan: "Okay, it's getting late, I went to see your aunt and went to Xiefang Hall to freshen up and rest. Tomorrow, I will go with Chengde to send Wanyu off." That girl!"

After the emperor finished speaking, he waved his hand and ignored the two of them.Chengde glanced at Mo Xuan and said with a smile: "Let's go, I'll accompany brother Xuan to visit the queen mother." He said and walked out first.

When she came to the queen's palace, the queen looked at Mo Xuan who hadn't seen her for half a year, she seemed to have grown a lot taller, she smiled and asked about the trip to the Northwest, Mo Xuan said it again nicely, but this time, Mo Xuan He didn't mention the tragic situation when they first met, but only picked exciting stories to tell the empress, and the empress also beamed with joy.He kept praising Mo Xuan for growing up.

The queen saw that Mo Xuan was covered in dust and hadn't had time to clean up, so she didn't want to keep him, so she let him go back.But what Mo Xuan didn't expect was that he originally thought that the first prince Chengde said that he would accompany him to see the empress, but he didn't expect that His Royal Highness not only accompanied him to see the empress, but also followed him when he came out of the empress's palace , and said that he would send it back to Xiefang Hall.

Mo Xuan couldn't help but looked at the eldest prince Chengde in surprise, and asked uncertainly: "Cousin, did you have something to do with me?" Mo Xuan used "cousin" here instead of "Eldest Prince" or "Your Highness." ".Chengde raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "If you know that I am your brother, don't ask questions. Hurry up, let's go to Xiefang Hall first, tidy you up and then talk about other things."

After Chengde finished speaking, he walked towards Xiefang Hall first. Mo Xuan stood there and looked at Chengde's back, shook his head helplessly, and finally followed.After returning to Xiefang Hall, Chengde arranged for the little eunuch to bring hot water for bathing, and at the same time ordered him to bring food and wine, euphemistically saying: "Mo Xuan must be hungry!"

Mo Xuan pulled Chengde's arm with a helpless wry smile and said: "If Your Highness has any orders, Mo Xuan dare not refuse!" Chengde was stunned for a long time before he patted Mo Xuan's arm and smiled: "What is there? Order! Hurry up and wash it off, and go back and have a good drink with brother." Seeing this, Mo Xuan had no choice but to stop asking.

When Mo Xuan came out of the shower and changed clothes, Chengde had already drunk it while reclining on the Arhat bed. There were not many three or five small dishes, two cups and a jug of wine on the kang table.

Seeing Mo Xuan coming out, Chengde immediately waved and said, "Come and have a drink with brother." After speaking, he filled a glass for Mo Xuan himself.Mo Xuan didn't ask any other questions, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started eating by himself.

Chengde didn't bother, he quietly waited for Mo Xuan to finish eating, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and then smiled and said: "Have you eaten?" Seeing Mo Xuan nodded, Fang approached and lowered his voice: "Tell me what's interesting this time Son?" Mo Xuan was taken aback, could it be that His Royal Highness the Great Prince did this just to hear some anecdotes?Didn't you say it yourself?
Mo Xuan thought about it for a while, apart from almost getting into a fight with Zhao Bing back then, it would be more fun to sneak attack on the Beiman garrison, but he had already talked about the sneak attack before the emperor and before the queen. again.

After much deliberation, Mo Xuan had to tell the story of leading the troops to the battle, but almost fell into the hands of the northern barbarian cavalry, and the story of meeting Zhao Bing in the woods.

Unexpectedly, Chengde became interested in Zhao Bing, and hurriedly asked: "Is he back with you?" Mo Xuan just stuffed a large piece of beef into his mouth, but he couldn't swallow it, and it was inappropriate to spit it out, so he had to speak vaguely nod.

Now Chengde became even more happy, and quickly said: "In this case, let's go out of the palace tomorrow, you go and bring him over and I will see him." Mo Xuan stared at Chengde for a long time before he realized it, swallowed the beef and said: "Zhao Bing didn't come back with me, I heard that Sister Wanyu got married, so I came back first by riding a horse, they might have to wait for the Seventh Prince to enter the city before they can come back."

As soon as Mo Xuan finished speaking, Chengde couldn't help showing a look of disappointment on his face. After thinking for a while, he nodded and said, "Remember this. If you see someone, leave him behind. I'll go out to meet him later. .” Chengde took a sip of his wine before continuing: “According to what you said, this man is pretty good at kung fu.”

For this, Mo Xuan also agrees very much, Zhao Bing's kung fu is not only the best that Mo Xuan has ever seen, but it is also among the top three.Especially in the mountains and forests, Mo Xuan thought that he was very agile in the mountains and forests, even if his kung fu was better than him, he might not be able to surpass him.But Mo Xuan found that Zhao Bing was a bit more agile than him, and Mo Xuan couldn't help but admire him.

Mo Xuan did not refuse Chengde's request.Mo Xuan knew even more in his heart that Chengde was about to start cultivating direct descendants.Although it will more or less cause the emperor's dislike, but for Chengde who has two adult younger brothers, this is also necessary.

The next morning, as soon as the palace gate opened, Chengde came to Xiefang Palace and dragged Mo Xuan out of the palace.Unexpectedly, just two steps away, he ran into one of his adult younger brothers and an underage younger brother, the fourth prince Cheng Hui and the fifth prince Cheng Li.

The birth mother of the fourth prince was an old man who lived in the hidden mansion of the Holy One, and was later named Concubine Qi.It is one of the lords of the Six Houses.Now there is no imperial concubine, and the main concubine is in the harem, so it can be regarded as one person under one person and above ten thousand people, her status is very honorable.

I saw that the fourth prince Chenghui first brought the fifth prince Chengli to salute the eldest prince Chengde, and then said with a smile: "Brother, where are you going? But Wu County Prince's Mansion? Why don't we brothers go together and bring the little one with you?" How about going out to get some fresh air?"

The fifth prince inherits that he is only six or seven years old now, which is exactly the age of powder carving and jade carving, round and round.However, because of his mother's concubine's early death, it was rather embarrassing in the palace, and few people were willing to take him with him.

In particular, the fifth prince inherited the older brothers, the eldest prince Chengde was already in his twenties and had been married for many years, not counting the death of the second brother, and the third brother was also married and even opened a mansion outside the palace.Brother Sihuang is also seventeen or eighteen years old, more than ten years older than him, and he is all in contact with government affairs and busy with errands, who can take care of him?

But for some reason, the fourth brother came to his courtyard early this morning and said that he would take him out of the palace to play.Chengli didn't think much about it at the beginning, but now seeing Brother Dahuang and his cousin Mo Xuan, he knew that Brother Sihuang was going to use himself as a shield, so he didn't say anything, it's good to be able to go out and play, but he is more I don't want to offend big brother brother because of this.

You know, although the eldest brother was not canonized as the crown prince, the third brother left the palace to build a mansion before he got married, and now the eldest sister-in-law is about to have a baby again, but the eldest brother still lives in the palace, and he is not married to him. I and others live together in Xiefang Hall.The implication is self-evident.

Hearing what Cheng Hui said, Chengde lowered his head and looked at the fifth prince Chengli, who was standing aside respectfully, who was almost the same age as his eldest daughter. : "That's fine, the fifth brother is young, he has been busy with government affairs these years, so he has been neglected."

Speaking of Chengde, he patted Chengli's head jokingly, and said with a smile, "Brother Huang will take you to a wedding today. Little Wu is not allowed to be naughty, okay?" Unexpectedly, the big emperor brother would be so kind to him, he couldn't help but blushed slightly, quickly covered it up, and said with a bright smile: "Okay! Chengli promises not to be naughty!"

The voice was crunchy, and the smile was extraordinarily sweet, Chengde couldn't help but smiled and held his little hand in his palm, looked back at Mo Xuan, saw that Mo Xuan was looking at Chengli in a daze, and secretly sighed in his heart, He smiled and said: "Then let's go quickly, don't delay the time." After speaking, Chengde led Chengli and walked towards the palace gate first.

Today is a good day for Wanyu to get married, early in the morning, not only did Chengde and Mo Xuan get together, but unexpectedly Cheng Hui Chengli also came.Even after the third watch, Daiyu got up to wash and wash, and took Sun Nanny, Tang Nanny, and Xiaoxiao Zhixuan to Wanyu's "Baicuilou".

When Daiyu and her party arrived at Baicui Building, Wanyu hadn't gotten up yet, and the girl who was closest to Daiyu smiled and explained: "The county magistrate couldn't sleep at all last night. It won't be until the second watch is over. I was confused just now. Now, I'm afraid it's not easy to scream."

Daiyu had no choice but to wait in the front hall, but she had an inexplicable feeling in her heart, she couldn't tell if she was happy, anxious, or nervous, but she didn't mean to give up anyway.For Daiyu from modern times, marriage is not a parting of life and death, so why is it hard to give up?It's not like we can't meet again.But she neglected that it's not easy to meet someone married three thousand miles away.

After a while, Daiyu saw that she was at Maochu, and she knew that there were many wedding customs in ancient times, and the rules of weddings of royal family members were even more strict, so she didn't care that Wanyu didn't sleep for a while, so she ordered Chai'er, First go prepare fragrant soup for Wanyu to bathe in, and then order that orange peel must be added to the fragrant soup!Daiyu herself went up to Baicuilou to call Wanyu to get up.

Wan Yu opened her eyes and saw that it was Dai Yu, she couldn't help but said in a daze, "I really miss Yu'er!" Wan Yu stretched out her hand to hold Dai Yu's hand after speaking, but she woke up suddenly.His eyes widened suddenly, and he asked in disbelief, "Why is Yu'er here?"

Daiyu looked at Wanyu's appearance, and said with a chuckle: "Sister, don't you think you are dreaming? Get up quickly, it's about time, and Yu'er has ordered Chai'er to prepare fragrant soup. My sister will take a bath first, and when she comes out, she will go to bed." Time to get dressed."

Hearing from Daiyu that it was almost time to die, Wanyu couldn't help becoming nervous, and her hand holding Daiyu tightened, Daiyu patted Wanyu's hand lightly, and comforted her: "Don't worry, it will be a while now." Get ready, the time is just right."

It was only at this time that Wan Yu realized that Daiyu had already dressed up, and even exuded a faint fragrance of orchids on her body, obviously she came here after taking a bath in the fragrant soup.She couldn't help but smiled with emotion in her heart: "Your hard work, sister." But Daiyu pouted and gave Wanyu a sharp look and said, "What do our sisters still need?"

While Wanyu and Daiyu looked at each other and smiled, Chai'er came up to report that the fragrant soup was ready.Daiyu stepped aside, and Chai'er and Pei'er took care of Wanyu to take a bath.

(End of this chapter)