MTL - Little Cardamom-Chapter 19

The gentle breeze in the garden is blowing, the peonies on the branches are shaking gently, and the butterfly love flowers are fluttering around. However, there is silence all around, no human voice is heard, only the sound of the clear spring of Huajian.

After a long while, the servant closed the imperial decree, bowed forward and presented it, breaking the silence: "Congratulations, Miss Fourth."

Ming Tan's mind went blank, and she couldn't even remember the etiquette rules that she had done so well. She just looked at the imperial decree, until Zhou Jingwan pulled her clothes again before she regained consciousness. Only then did he recover from the momentary numbness, he kowtowed and thanked him unnaturally, and raised his hands slightly to receive the order.

The servant secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a soft and respectful voice, "The slave will return to the palace first."

He nodded to Duke Pingguo and his wife again to express his apology. After all, the decree of the proclaimer Jing'an Hou's mansion was announced to the Duke of Pingguo's mansion, which was really a bit abrupt.

Although this matter is against the rules, but the servant didn't explain much, Ping Guogong and his wife couldn't speculate about the holy meaning, but they asked a few words about His Majesty's greetings and Queen's Empress's greetings.

It is not easy for the Pingguo government to speculate, and the rest of the people are naturally not good at speaking directly. Besides, compared to the announcement of the decree to other people's houses, what is more shocking and surprising is the content of this imperial decree.

The Ming family's A Tan was registered as the princess of Dingbei Wang!

High marriage is a common thing, not to say that the daughter of Jing'an Hou and the king of Dingbei are so disparate in status, how unworthy it is, it's just that the Ming family, A Tan, has just divorced not long ago, no matter what the reason is, most people will wait for a while to understand Negotiable relatives. What the Holy Majesty did was really unexpected, and the marriage partner was still the God of War, His Royal Highness King Dingbei, who was only known by name but rarely seen.

Everyone still remembers the fact that His Royal Highness King Bei Wang put down the face of the former Cheng Enhou's Mansion at the Shangyuan Palace Banquet.

"A Tan, A Tan!" Seeing that Ming Tan couldn't get up for a while, Bai Minmin and Zhou Jingwan couldn't help calling her in a low voice.

After all, the future Princess Dingbei who was given the marriage was still kneeling there holding the imperial decree. Except for Duke Ping and his wife, no one else dared to get up, but everyone couldn't keep kneeling.

Ming Tan came back to his senses, stood up with the support of the two, and slowly unfolded the imperial decree, staring at the words "four daughters of Jing'an Houfu" and "Princess Dingbei" for a long time.

That's right.

It really is her.

She was given a marriage.

It wasn't something that fell on me, after a while of shock, the others accepted it after getting used to it, and leaned forward to see that the imperial decree was so clearly written and covered with a shining jade seal, what else is unacceptable, What a great thing!

Prince Dingbei is a super-grade prince promoted beyond the system, and Princess Dingbei is naturally a super-grade princess, and the status and power of King Dingbei is unmatched by other princes, otherwise the Shangyuan Palace Banquet would not be so expensive The lady rushed to perform.

By the way, speaking of the prince, what did Princess Fengzhao say just now?

Her father, King Yi, and the Holy Majesty are not from the same mother, and the late Emperor was not valued when he was there. When the mansion was founded, he was sent far away to the fiefdom of Yuncheng. Although it is a fief, it has no real power, and the Holy Majesty has been the elder brother for the past two years. Brother Youdi respected him, so he was allowed to return to Beijing to open the mansion.

The daughter of an ordinary prince pointed to the nose of the powerful prince and concubine and said, I am worthy of peony and you are not worthy! It's a joke in the world! These noble girls have never seen such a rapid and violent face-slapping scene in their lives for more than ten years.

Bai Minmin was stunned by Feng Zhao's anger just now, and almost stepped forward to argue with him, but now that such an imperial decree came down from the sky, how could she let Feng Zhao go easily, and she stepped forward and said: "Princess, I don't know what do you think now? , this peony, is Atan worthy?"

"..."

Feng Zhao's face has never been so ugly.

Bai Minmin wanted to fold a peony for Ming Tan's hairpin, but Ming Tan held Bai Minmin's wrist: "Growth and trees have their own hearts, and if flowers are good, I am happy."

Although Ming Tan hadn't figured out the current situation and didn't want to act rashly, once he said this, he had a clear opinion. Princess Fengzhao's actions just now are even more barbaric and vulgar, which doesn't match her identity.

The people around didn't speak, but their eyes were dense, and they fell on Fengzhao like needles, like contempt, like laughter, intertwined one after another into an unprecedented shame and humiliation!

This Yuanzi Fengzhao couldn't stay any longer, she gave Ming Tan a vicious look, left angrily, covered her face and went straight to Prince Yi's mansion.

After returning to the mansion, Fengzhao spent half a day crying and beating and scolding in the mansion, but before he had vented enough, the queen sent someone to the mansion of Yi Wang to reprimand her, bluntly saying that she had lost her virtue and should contemplate her mistakes behind closed doors in the mansion.

Feng Zhao was dumbfounded.

In fact, it is not a big deal for her to write peony poems and fold peonies, but the key is that the object of her wildness is the future Princess Dingbei. It is a precious variety that the queen gave to her sisters to enjoy and play, and she took good care of it in the palace. Who is she Feng Zhao trying to slap in the face!

When Yiwang and his wife found out about this incident, they became very angry and ordered Fengzhao not to go out to meditate on his own past. As a result, no one in Beijing saw Fengzhao again for the next six months.

Of course, this is something for later. Now that the imperial decree of bestowing marriage has come down suddenly, coupled with Feng Zhao leaving in anger, it is difficult for this poetry meeting to continue anyway.

Fortunately, Zhang Hanmiao is a person who loves to be lively and to watch the excitement. Today, she enjoyed watching this show very much, and she didn't feel worried because she was robbed of the limelight and the poetry meeting was disrupted. .

Everyone went back to their respective homes, and the news that the Ming family's A-Tan was married to His Highness the Northern King also spread as the poetry meeting ended in the middle.

When Ming Tan and his party returned to the mansion, Mrs. Pei was sending several other servants who were unfamiliar to her out of the mansion.

Seeing Ming Tan, the few servants could only squeeze out a forced and ugly smile, and left in a hurry after paying their respects.

"Mother, what is this?" Ming Tan paused in his heart, his little head, which hadn't recovered from the previous shock, was buzzing, wondering whether this was another frightening purpose. .

Pei suppressed the joy in her heart, and said calmly: "Let's go back to the house first, and then go back to the house to talk."

The news of the gift of marriage has just been sent back to the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion, and Mrs. Pei was still restless before, but she suddenly heard about the gift of marriage, what else is there that she doesn't understand! It must be that the Holy Majesty knew that the Queen Mother had sent someone to the mansion to forcefully point out the marriage, so he made an unruly move to strike first. This trick is ingenious, and what is even more ingenious is that the marriage partner, Dingbei King is comparable to those princes and princes.

Mrs. Pei walked into the Lanxin Courtyard affectionately with Ming Tan on her arm, and Ming Tingyuan also walked into the Hou's Mansion with a red face, and went straight to Pei's courtyard to find someone.

It turned out that what Emperor Chengkang said was true. He did block a decree from the Empress Dowager, but the Empress Dowager could write, speak, and seal it. If there was one decree, there would be a second decree. He left the Ming Pavilion far away to talk and lobby , the queen mother knew, and the second Yizhi was sent out directly.

After successfully lobbying and learning about this, Emperor Cheng Kang thought: It's broken, how can I explain this to Jiang Qizhi?

Fortunately, the love for Chenglong Kuai's son-in-law sparked an idea in Ming Tingyuan's mind: he knew that the Queen Mother was a person who respected rules, and there was absolutely no reason why only Pei's stepmother was in the mansion and then announced a decree to grant the marriage. The Queen Mother didn't know that Ming Tan was not here today In the mansion, the people below will definitely wait for him or wait for Ming Tan to return home before reading. So he suggested that instead of going directly to the Pingguo Mansion to announce the decree, it just so happened that ladies from all the mansions gathered today to hold a poetry meeting.

Emperor Chengkang thought it was a good idea, so he immediately sent someone there, and it was done.

After listening to Ming Tingyuan talking triumphantly for a while about the ups and downs of rushing to give marriage, Ming Tan: "..."

She, discussing a marriage, was so motivating.

She really underestimated her father, a vulgar and reckless man.

But why is it King Dingbei?

Isn't that another vulgar and reckless man?

Moreover, the king of Dingbei can give it, why not give it to the second son of Shu, isn't the right minister also a loyal fan of the sage?

Ming Tan really couldn't digest this news. She prayed sincerely in front of the Buddha for more than a month. Did the Buddha miss something? Didn't the Buddha say that he must have a talent and a good appearance?

The position of Princess Dingbei is indeed extremely high, but she still feels suffocated when she thinks of the reckless and rude and arrogant behavior of the Shangyuan Palace Banquet! After this marriage, how do the husband and wife talk about each other? And as he is so self-respecting, I am afraid that sooner or later he will lose his head with him, right? ! The most important thing is that the appearance and demeanor of such a vulgar person must be incomparable with Shu Er.

Ming Tingyuan didn't notice Ming Tan's extremely reluctant expression at all, sitting at the head, still talking about the heroic achievements of His Royal Highness King Ding Bei—

"His Royal Highness King Dingbei is truly a genius! Among the younger generation, there are not many who can really lead troops to fight! At the age of hair, 3,000 elite soldiers can stand against 30,000 barbarians in the Northern Region. It's not like the weak soldiers of the Southern Barbarians who win with fewer It’s not surprising, considering that back then when I led troops to support them, they had already invaded the hinterland and turned defeat into victory! At that scene, blood flowed like rivers, and corpses lay thousands of miles away!”

Ming Tan: "..."

His face paled a little.

"...The spy fell into his hands. Naturally, he has no human form. The blood spurs are nothing. Tsk tsk, they dare not recognize them when they are thrown back. They have been silent for more than half a year!"

Ming Tan: "..."

His complexion turned pale again.

"There are still three years of Chengkang... At such a young age, he is so decisive and ruthless. He directly hung the corpse of the eldest son of the opponent's leader on the city gate for three days, and dried it up in the sun!"

Ming Tan: "..."

You are so happy, do you want your daughter to be exposed to the sun?