Chapter 124
Imperial concubine?
As soon as Zhao Sansi spoke, everyone in the hall looked stunned. They looked at each other, and no one dared to speak. They all bowed their heads and held their breath even more silently.
After a while, a soft voice like coquettishness came from under the red veil, "Your Majesty, what are you calling me?"
Hearing Gu Xizhao's voice, Zhao Sansi suddenly came to his senses. Only then did he notice the swaying candlelight in the room and the female officials and palace maids waiting on one side with Xipan. He became nervous and excited again, and could not remember what he had said unconsciously. He pursed his dry lips and blinked his eyes: "Queen?"
Gu Xizhao chuckled, "Yes, I am now the emperor's queen."
It's not your royal concubine.
"Queen, my." Zhao Sansi repeated it dazed, and his mind was stunned by excitement and nervousness. He quickly stood up and looked at the female official waiting beside him, "What are you still standing there?"
As soon as she opened her mouth, the female official quickly led the palace servant forward and smiled and said a few auspicious words of blessing. Then she took the joy plate from the palace maid behind her and looked towards Zhao Sansi. Fu Shi gave a half salute, and raised the joy plate in her hand to her forehead, "Please lift the veil for the queen, and from now on the emperor and empress will be together and everything will be satisfactory."
Zhao Sansi looked at the joy plate, and the exquisite joy plate was placed on the joy plate covered with a layer of bright red satin. She clenched her hand, calmed her emotions, then reached out to take the joy plate, and slowly turned around to look at Gu Xizhao.
The face under the red veil was clearly unforgettable, but she was as nervous as the groom who had never seen the bride. Xiying stayed in the air for a long time before she took a deep breath, hooked a section of Xiying's veil around a corner, and then picked it up with a little force.
Uneasy, Zhao Sansi still remembered what the official of the ritual once told her that the rule of removing the red veil three times when she lifted the red veil. As soon as she tried, the red veil slid down. A face she was thinking about this day and night suddenly came into her eyes.
Under her dress, her originally outstanding facial features looked even better. Zhao Sansi couldn't help but feel confused. She had despised her talent and knowledge as she was now, because she found that she could not find a suitable word or sentence to describe the beauty of her queen.
After racking her brains, she remembered a sentence she saw from somewhere - her eyebrows competed for green with willows, and her face competed for red with peaches.
She didn't come back to her senses for a long time. Gu Xizhao raised her head slightly and smiled gently at her, "Do I look good? Is it a matter of the emperor's love?"
"It looks good, it looks good." Zhao Sansi blinked and nodded quickly. As soon as he opened his mouth, his face instantly turned red to the base of his neck. "I like it, I like it very much."
Gu Xizhao lowered her eyes and smiled. It was probably because of the atmosphere. After hearing so many sweet words from the little fool, she became shy at this moment. "It's good that the emperor likes it."
The female official beside him looked at the intimacy of the emperor and empress as if no one else was around, and didn't know how to get in and interrupted. In panic, she looked at Zhao Sansi put Xixi back on the Xi plate and hurriedly said a few auspicious words. After getting up, she hurriedly brought the grandson buns prepared by the harem people in the harem to Gu Xizhao, "Please take the Queen."
There was only one bun in the jade plate on the Xi plate, and a pair of jade chopsticks were placed next to it. Gu Xizhao raised her hand and picked up the jade chopsticks and picked up the bun. The palace maid next to her immediately stood on the side with a tray.
Gu Xizhao took a light bite on the bun, her lips squirted a few times. While the female official was waiting nervously, she chewed her lightly twice. She lowered her head and spitted the bun that she had just bitten into the porcelain bowl on the tray in the hand of the palace maid.
Under Zhao Sansi's confusion, the female official breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the queen was a polite person and did not really eat this grandchildren's cake.
As the name suggests, this sprouted bun is for the bride to eat, which means praying that it can bring prosperity to the husband's family and bring prosperity to many children.
If it is among the people, the descendants’ cakes served here are raw. When the bride eats, the wedding girl next to her will smile and ask the bride, "Will you have a baby?"
The bride will naturally reply: "Life."
However, when facing the Queen, no one dared to use the real child-generated buns for people to eat, and the female official dared not say such jokes. Only the Queen, the bride, could remember these etiquettes and not take it seriously to eat the child-generated buns.
After the palace maid removed the grandson's bun, the female official stood up and said something good to have a noble son early to Zhao Sansi and Gu Xizhao again.
After eating the grandchildren's cake, there is a last etiquette behind it. At this time, most of the palace maids waiting in the hall will retreat, and only the female officials and two other people holding wine cups are waiting in the hall.
After another auspicious remark, the female official poured half a glass of wine into each of the two wine cups and delivered it to Zhao Sansi and Gu Xizhao. This time, she would not mention how they used it. The female official would take three steps back and kneel down and say respectfully, "I wish the emperor and the queen will always be united and have a deep love."
After not seeing Zhao Sansi make a sound, Gu Xizhao had no choice but to speak helplessly, "Go down and receive the reward."
"Thank you, Empress," the female official stood up and retreated with the two palace maids behind her.
After everyone retreated, the hall suddenly became much empty.
Gu Xizhao's expression that had been tense also relaxed. She turned her head to look at Zhao Sansi, who was still stupid and stupid. Now there was no need to worry. Her empty hand directly rubbed her face, "Your Majesty is so happy?"
Zhao Sansi shook his head, paused, nodded again, with a serious expression, "The imperial concubine is so beautiful, but I am also happy... Well, I'm so happy, we're married."
Gu Xizhao pursed her lips and looked at Zhao Sansi's dry petal lips. He took the initiative to use his hand holding the wine cup to hold her. After holding it, he leaned over a little, "After drinking this glass of wine, our marriage today will be completely polite."
Zhao Sansi blushed and went to see her, "Getting up with wine is not the final gift, but... there is also a bridal chamber."
Gu Xizhao couldn't help but laughed out loud. Seeing that Zhao Sansi's expression became more and more embarrassed, she stopped laughing and raised her eyebrows and said, "Because there is no bridal chamber yet, does the emperor still refuse to admit the queen of me?"
Zhao Sansi pouted, "I don't like to hear this."
Gu Xizhao was calm and unhurried, "But the emperor clearly called me a concubine."
Zhao Sansi blinked, looked at Gu Xizhao blankly, thought about it carefully, and then explained dryly: "I... I must be not used to it."
Gu Xizhao was very generous, "Then the emperor should get used to it quickly, otherwise he would call me like this, and I would be angry and would be a little bitch if others saw a joke..."
"Empress, Empress, Empress..." Zhao Sansi shouted several times, took a breath before saying solemnly: "What makes the Queen angry is a big deal."
Although this is very tyrannical, it is very beautiful if you listen to love words.
Gu Xizhao was very happy, but she didn't want Zhao Sansi to find out that she was such a woman who was easily bewitched by sweet words. She still held her face and shook the wine cup in her hand, "When will the emperor prepare to drink this glass of wine with me?"
Zhao Sansi immediately put the wine cup to his lips and drank it all in one gulp, and Gu Xizhao also drank it.
After drinking the wine, they completed this sacred ceremony. It seemed that something had changed. The two of them looked at each other, but they didn't know when they thought of each other, and suddenly they laughed.
"Queen."
"Um."
"Queen."
"Um."
"Queen."
"Um."
"I'm so happy."
"Um?"
"You are my queen now, mine."
"Well. It's your queen."
"Queen."
"Um."
"Are you happy?"
"Um?"
"Are you happy to be my queen?"
"happy."
“How happy are you?”
"Just as happy as the emperor."
"Then I am so happy, and is the queen so happy?"
"Yes, I'm so happy too..."
Gu Xizhao didn't dislike Zhao Sansi's thoughts. She asked a question over and over again, but still answered her patiently.
Zhao Sansi opened up and talked a lot. Yu Guang noticed the phoenix crown on Gu Xizhao's head, and the smile on his face faded. He reached out to rub the back of Gu Xizhao's neck, "Thank you for your hard work, the queen."
Gu Xizhao grabbed her hand, put it on her lips and kissed her, "It's only the emperor who will work hard to marry me."
Going all the hard work.
Zhao Sansi curled his fingers a little by her movements, retracted his hand, and stood up to help Gu Xizhao take the phoenix crown on his head, "I don't have to work hard. There are too many rules for this wedding, which is annoying."
After putting down the phoenix crown, she turned around and took some pastries placed on the outer table, "Is that cake not delicious just now? I see you vomited after taking a bite, or is it too hard today, and the queen is so tired that she has no appetite?"
Gu Xizhao took a piece of pastry and took it, then swallowed it before reaching out to poke Zhao Sansi's forehead, "Has the etiquette officer taught you these etiquettes that the descendants cannot eat?"
"Son-sun cake?" Zhao Sansi thought for a moment, remembering that something happened, and looked embarrassed, "I forgot this... Then you must be hungry, I'll let the kitchen warm you up."
The etiquette of a wedding is complicated and exquisite. The traditions accumulated over the years are very sacred in the eyes of the world. On such a ritual-like day, both participants and bystanders are very cautious, fearing that the mistakes will hit all kinds of immortals.
Whether in the folk or in the royal family, on the day of marriage, the married bride can only get up and use some things in the morning. As long as you understand some rules, you cannot eat casually, because the bride's makeup and dresses that day are complicated, and it is inconvenient to be respectful, and she is afraid of being tainted by foul air and ruining the auspicious time.
Generally speaking, the more you care about something, the more you are more likely to be worried about gains and losses, and are even more treacherous. Even Gu Xizhao, who is not particular about the details, is very concerned about every rule today and dare not violate it.
I was immersed in the joy of the wedding before, but I didn’t feel hungry. Now, after Zhao Sansi repeatedly reminded me, I really felt a little hungry. "The emperor isn’t afraid that people will laugh at your queen as a greedy person?"
"Food is the most important thing for the people, why is the queen greedy?" Zhao Sansi said, and was about to go out.
Gu Xizhao quickly grabbed her, "The wedding night is worth a thousand gold at a moment. Is the emperor really wasting this? Or... or is the emperor shy and deliberately delaying time?"
Zhao Sansi looked confused at first, then blushed, "No, I don't..."
Gu Xizhao looked at her nervous look and felt it was fun. She took another piece of pastry and put it in her mouth, bit it half, and stuffed the other half into Zhao Sansi's mouth, "Look at your nervous look, I'm just a joke."
Zhao Sansi chewed unconsciously, stuffed the pastry into his mouth, and slurped it around before swallowing it. "The queen didn't use much stuff for a day, I just worried that you would be hungry."
Gu Xizhao licked the pastry crumbs on the corner of her mouth, stretched out her little finger and wiped the corner of Zhao Sansi's lips, "I know I can't use it today, so I used it some when I got up in the morning. On the way, Princess Mingzhao secretly gave me a few pieces of fudge. She was not so hungry. She felt full again after eating two pieces of pastries."
Zhao Sansi didn't know whether what she said was true or not, so he poured her another glass of water, "Then let the kitchen prepare it. If you are hungry, don't worry."
Gu Xizhao picked up Liu Ye's eyes and went to see her, "Do you know what we are going to do tonight?"
Of course I know...but just thinking about it is so shameful.
Zhao Sansi didn't dare to see Gu Xizhao anymore, but he still said truthfully: "Yes."
Chapter completed!