Chapter 294 Borrowing a Dress

The Qingning Pavilion of the noble concubine.

"The empress dowager personally decreed the marriage, and the wedding banquet will be held three days later, do you know which family's woman it is?" the noble concubine asked Ah Fu.

Ah Fu replied: "No one knows, I'm afraid not even the Empress Dowager knows."

"No, the Ai family thinks she knows." The concubine Gui thought for a while, but she couldn't think of which family the empress dowager would fall in love with, and even went out of the mountain to give her a marriage.

This made her feel threatened.

Ah Fu said: "No matter who it is, it's better than Xia Zi'an."

The noble concubine said: "That's right, it is indeed better than Xia Zi'an. Now that Xia Zi'an is popular, the people almost regard her as a Bodhisattva. If she is not dead, it will be very bad for us if she comes back to marry Murong Jie."

Ah Fu nodded and said: "Yes, if Xia Zi'an comes back, it will not be good for the concubine or King Nanhuai. This time the marriage is so hasty, and it only takes three days to prepare. Even if the letter is sent to King Nanhuai now, the prince will not come back in time. Why don't you go into the palace and discuss with the Empress Dowager to see if the wedding date can be postponed so that King Nanhuai can come back and have a cup of brother's wedding wine, isn't that an exaggeration?"

The Concubine Gui waved her hand, "It's very difficult. The Empress Dowager did this, and Aijia suspected that she wanted to complete the marriage quickly and prevent the eighth child from coming back."

"However, isn't the prince keeping filial piety? Can you use this reason to tell the empress dowager, and let the empress dowager say no to the empress dowager? You can't get married during the filial piety, right?" Ah Fu said.

The noble concubine said: "Si Zhu has been dead for less than a hundred days. If you get married within a hundred days, it is an excuse for filial piety. The empress dowager is taking advantage of this loophole, so this reason is not valid."

When the biological parents die, the filial piety should be observed for twenty-seven months or three years. It is the custom of Dazhou to observe filial piety for one year when adoptive parents die.

There is another situation, that is, getting married within a hundred days of the parents' death is an excuse for filial piety.

There is such a practice among the people, and it is also stated in the etiquette law that if there are unavoidable reasons, it can go against the law of filial piety.

However, wealthy families and even royal aristocrats seldom do this, because these people pay attention to the word taboo. After the funeral, they will hold the wedding, which is somewhat of a bad luck. To do this, I would rather wait a year or three years.

Moreover, filial piety is not so strict nowadays, and many people keep filial piety for one year.

A hundred days and a year are almost the same. No matter how high-level nobles hold a wedding, they have to prepare for a few months, and even if they want to hold it in a grand place, they need to prepare for more than a year.

Ah Fu regretted this opportunity very much, "It would be great if the prince could return to Beijing at this time."

The imperial concubine also thought about it, but obviously this time, there is no way to get Lao Ba back in this marriage.

However, the word filial piety reminded her.

If you don't come for a happy event, do you come for a funeral?

"By the way, is the old lady of Xiangfu really gone?" asked the noble concubine.

Ah Fu said: "He died in the epidemic area and was beaten to death by the people. It was miserable, and his face was blurred. General Li packed up the body, but the people robbed her again, saying that they wanted her to have no bones left."

The noble concubine recalled her method, "It's a pity."

If it can be used by her, this old lady is also a fierce general of hers.

"Prime Minister Xia is still in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, do you want the concubine?" Ah Fu asked tentatively.

The Concubine Gui sneered, "What's the use of Prime Minister Xia without the old lady?"

It took three days to prepare for a grand wedding, which really made it difficult for the Ministry of Rites and the Inner Palace.

They all tried their best, first arranged the palace, and then prepared various matters for the wedding.

However, it also saves a lot of trouble because you don't know who the woman is, so you don't need to pay big gifts or engagements, and you don't need to consider preparations such as dowry gifts.

But holding a grand wedding in three days is indeed enough.

In order to save time, the internal affairs found Hu Huanxi from Dingfeng and asked her to host the banquet. There was a large-scale banquet, and this time the Empress Dowager ordered that the officials of the early court should attend that day, which meant that there were a lot of guests.

What bothered the inner court the most was the bridegroom's wedding dress, so what should we do? There are only three days, even if the embroiderers rush to work overnight, there is no way to make it.

Because, the prince's wedding clothes are very complicated to embroider, and it takes half a year to make finer ones, and even if they are not too particular, it takes at least a month.

In the past three days, where did you go to tinker with a prince's favorite clothes?

The internal affairs were blown up, and as a last resort, the head of the inner palace went to the empress dowager, the empress dowager thought for a while, and said: "It's too late to rush, how about it, when Prince Li got married that day, the happy clothes were ordered by the Ai family himself If you are in a hurry, Aijia will ask him to borrow it."

The head of the inner palace smiled wryly, "Ask Prince Li to borrow something, isn't it more difficult than rushing to make it?"

Prince Li is not stingy or stingy, he just thinks that some things are exclusive to him and cannot be lent to others.

The empress dowager smiled, "Of course the Ai family has a way to cure him."

After the head of internal affairs left, the empress dowager ordered Eunuch Sun to make an arrangement, and then passed the ceremony to the prince to enter the palace.

Sure enough, when Prince Li heard the Empress Dowager asking him to borrow a wedding dress, he pulled his face and said unhappily: "This can't be borrowed, how can it be borrowed? You can borrow this, even the underpants."

"Third son, isn't this a last resort?" The empress dowager persuaded.

"You can also borrow it from other people. Why do you have to ask me?" Prince Li said.

"Ajie is the regent. Among all the princes, your dress is the most exquisite."

Prince Li complained: "It's not a big deal to be married, do you have to be so particular about it? Can't you just wear one? You can use his pro-dynasty clothes, and the regency dynasty clothes are also fine."

"Okay, Aijia won't ask you anymore. I remember you told Aijia before that your wedding dress is also very important. You may marry again in the future. You can keep it so that you don't have to make another one in the future." " said the Empress Dowager.

Prince Li was taken aback, and mumbled, "Isn't this a joke before?"

When they got married that day, they especially didn't like the concubine, she was not pretty, but also very fierce, so when they entered the palace to pay their respects, everyone mentioned this matter and said that his wife was fierce, so he said that he would marry another one in the future.

These were all arrogant words at the time, such a joke has been made in this life.

"It doesn't matter if it's a joke or it's true. The Ai family has heard many times that you said something wrong with your wife. Now that I think about it, it's good to keep this wedding dress. I don't know when the Ai family will have to change to a sister-in-law." gone."

Prince Li's eyes widened, "Nonsense, when did this king say anything wrong with her?"

"You said she was fierce, didn't you?"

Prince Li thought for a while, "I said so."

"You said she was rude?"

Prince Li nodded, "I seem to have said that too."

"You said she was not good-looking?"

Prince Li swallowed his saliva, "This, does it look good, it's fine if you like it."

"Hey, the dignified Princess Bei'an married you, and you called her rude, fierce and unattractive. How wronged is that?" The Empress Dowager sighed.