si-mexico Chapter 352 You're Going to Marry Me Today
Chapter 352 You're Going to Marry Me Today
Shen Changgong walked behind her. The empress today was a little different from usual.
On weekdays, the empress wears light makeup and casual clothes. She usually wears a small imperial crown on her head. Occasionally, she will let her hair down and wear a simple, loose red dragon robe.
But today's empress was wearing heavy makeup, a complicated phoenix crown on her head, and a bridal robe on her body, not a phoenix, but a five-clawed golden dragon.
The clothes Shen Changgong wore today were also red, embroidered with dragon patterns and pythons. This was his royal robe. The royal robe was originally black, but today was his wedding, so the Shangyi Bureau specially made it red.
Shen Changgong looked at the stunningly beautiful empress in the mirror, hugged her from behind, and said sincerely,
"Your Majesty, you look so beautiful today."
The Empress had a smug and condescending smile on her face and said,
"Oh? So you mean, I wasn't beautiful yesterday?"
“Your beauty today is a little more than yesterday and a little less than tomorrow.”
The empress chuckled, and Gongsun Wan'er behind her made a disgusted face and stuck out her tongue.
The empress stood up, and the two palace maids behind her hurriedly pulled up the long hem of her dress.
"Let's go, it's time to offer sacrifices to the heavens and ancestors. There are so many rules and regulations, I'm afraid we'll be busy until evening."
"Have you eaten yet? Aren't you hungry if you don't eat?"
Shen Changgong asked.
"I've had breakfast. There's nothing I can do. I just have to endure this kind of thing."
"Then let's bring some dry food and eat it secretly when we get there."
"Eat on the sly?"
Yan Fuyao opened her eyes wide in surprise, looking a little cute.
"Otherwise, I would be embarrassed to eat the offerings to our ancestors."
"You still want to eat the sacrifice?"
"Hahaha."
Shen Changgong said to Gongsun Wan'er,
"Dowry maid, go and secretly bring some snacks. We can eat them secretly when we are hungry. We can't let my precious daughter-in-law starve."
"Bah, who is your wife? She hasn't even married you yet."
Yan Fuyao rolled her eyes at him, her eyes full of coquettishness and charm.
"Bah, who is your dowry maid?"
Gongsun Wan'er glared at him fiercely.
Shen Changgong pulled Yan Fuyao onto the dragon chariot. The carriage started slowly and headed towards the south gate. They were going to walk to the south gate of the front palace, and then walk to the Taimiao on the east side to show respect to the ancestors of heaven and earth.
Shen Changgong sat beside the empress, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said,
"You are marrying me today."
"correct."
"very nice."
"Silly."
Yan Fuyao smiled, glanced at the man beside her, and then leaned on his shoulder.
Shen Changgong felt it was quite strange.
It was obvious that the Empress was his first woman and the first woman he had a confirmed relationship with, but it took him so long before he actually married her.
At the beginning, the two of them did not have any deep feelings for each other, they just used each other and were wary of each other.
The relationship between the two is more like a partnership than a husband-wife relationship.
The empress used him to cure the country's chronic illnesses, seize power, and revitalize the country, but she was also wary of his attempts to seize power and usurp the throne, fearing that his influence would become too great.
Shen Changgong also used the empress to gain power for himself. Step by step, he rose from a small captain to the King of Lanling. He expanded his military power step by step and tried his best to seize military power in order to intimidate the empress so that she would not abandon him.
As they got along and cooperated with each other time and time again, they gradually understood each other, knew what was in each other's mind, and knew what was in their hearts. In the repeated hardships, they cultivated feelings for each other, and their feelings became deeper and deeper.
They had suspected each other and trusted each other. It was during these tacit collaborations that the two equally ambitious and capable men and women fell in love with each other.
Shen Changgong and the empress had a very long relationship, from acquaintance to understanding, from love to marriage.
They became a legal couple and the closest people to each other.
Every woman that Shen Changgong has had has her own characteristics, but no woman has ever been so compatible with him spiritually. In his heart, the empress is the most important one.
He knew her pressure, and she knew his difficulties.
Neither of them said much. They had already understood each other so well that they knew what the other was thinking with just a glance.
The dragon chariot arrived at the front palace square. Many officials were waiting along the way, and some officials and generals had already gone to the Taimiao early.
Lao Fengchang, who was in charge of royal family ceremonies, presided over the ceremony personally.
The old Fengchang muttered a lot of polite nonsense, and it took a full quarter of an hour before Shen Changgong pulled the empress and walked forward.
The palace is big, really big.
It took them a full hour and a half to walk from Nangong to Taimiao, with their slow pace, followed closely by many officials behind them, and they finally arrived at noon.
"Is this road so long? Are you tired?"
Shen Changgong asked His Majesty in a low voice.
Yan Fuyao smiled and said,
"It's already long. We have to walk back again when we come back. Others are holding ceremonial objects and carrying things without complaining about being tired. We are just walking, so why should we complain about being tired?"
When we arrived in front of the Taimiao, we were greeted by a tall altar. I don’t know whether the Kun people built it to show off their national strength or for some other reason, but the altar was built so high. Although the steps were not steep, they were very long.
Shen Changgong really didn't want to leave and wished an escalator could be installed immediately.
Along the way, officials and generals along the way bowed to the empress and Shen Changgong and expressed their congratulations.
Some commanders and generals from the border also came, but the King of the South did not come.
The absence of the Southern King made the Empress feel bad, a little lost and disappointed.
The empress's maternal family was the Yan royal family, and her paternal family was the Ma family.
Needless to say, almost all of my maternal family died, leaving only three relatively sensible princes, but their bloodline was also distant.
The Ma family has only two sons. The old man and his wife have passed away long ago, and Yan Fuyao's parents have also passed away. Her only close relative is her uncle, King Nan Ma Ling.
These are her only remaining elders and relatives.
It's a pity that he didn't come.
Shen Changgong understood Ma Ling's thoughts. He had never liked places like the capital, whether it was Yanjing or Shengjing.
Although he had the Southern Palace in Shengjing, he directly brought his wife and children to the city on the southern border.
He was a pure soldier who was only willing to guard the border and was unwilling to participate in politics. He stayed away from the capital and the political whirlpool.
He also never allowed his wife and children to stay in the capital to avoid being threatened.
He is a smart man.
He was devoted to the country, but he was also wary of the emperor.
Shen Changgong took Yan Fuyao's hand and walked up the steps in front of the Taimiao altar step by step.
I don’t know if it was because she was worried or because she was too tired from walking all the way, but the empress sprained her ankle after taking just a few steps. If Shen Changgong hadn’t been by her side, she would have almost fallen.