Husband is extremely regent

Chapter 91: Xuer Hasn't Come in, Are You Shy?

The night is coming.

In the center of Kyoto, it was as bright as day.

Lidu, the full name is Lihuo Capital.

The ubiquitous Lihuo is the biggest feature of this city.

Lihuo can burn everything in the world, but after hundreds of years, it has become a symbol of Nanli Country, and people have learned to get along with them, so there are Lihuo figures near the palace tonight.

Naturally, there will be Lihuo at the state banquet to add to the fun.

From the palace gate to the state banquet hall, along the way, blue flames danced on the special container like ghosts.

"Lu Xu, do you only have one suit of clothes?"

As soon as Lu Xu got off the carriage, he heard Yan Yufei's sarcastic voice:
"You wear it all day during the day, and you wear it to a feast at night, you don't think it's shabby."

"Look, even Mrs. Zhang said that about you, asking you to clean up and dress yourself up, and you still think your father is long-winded."

Lu Yi just came out of the carriage, and joined Yan Yufei to complain about his daughter: "Let's not talk about it, just say your two cousins, they dress themselves differently every day, it's like you haven't changed for several years If you look too good, you will lose interest if you look at it too much.”

Regarding the matter of his daughter's makeup, as a father, he couldn't help but shake his head.

When other people participate in such a grand banquet, they always dress up carefully early in the day, and attend with full makeup, for fear that they will not be eye-catching enough at the banquet.

His daughter is what she is at home and what she is when she goes out. Even for such an important occasion as a state banquet, she still wears whatever she usually wears. She wants to turn herself into a transparent person, but she doesn't know that a flower hides herself. A good way is to put yourself in the flowers.

"Meet Lu Xiang."

Yan Yufei didn't expect Lu Yi to be there, so he hurriedly saluted and said hello to him.

Lu Yi said "Exemption from courtesy", and said to Yan Yufei: "You persuade her well, people who don't know the truth, think that our Lu family is so poor that we need a dignified minister's family to save money and save money to overcome difficulties."

"You still have the nerve to talk about your daughter." Faced with the complaints from his own father, Lu Xu also complained: "It was agreed that no one would know that my daughter attended the state banquet, but now everyone knows about it with a big fanfare."

"My daughter just goes out like this, and there are accidents like this, and she goes out after dressing up carefully. Isn't it going to tear down the capital?"

"With me by your side, what accident can happen?"

Yan Yufei heard Lu Yi's words, and said in his heart: "How much influence does your daughter have, don't you have any idea about being a father?"

Lu Xu was also very strange, usually his father would not care about whether she knew how to dress up, but today he repeatedly dismissed her for not dressing himself up, and kept encouraging her to dress up well.

"Say you don't understand now, but you will understand when you enter the palace."

Lu Yi said calmly, "Father goes in first, you young people continue to chat, remember to ask the empress for help if you need help."

Sending Lu Yiyan away, Yu Fei immediately said: "You have made meritorious service today, and you should attend the state banquet. Why do you sneak around so that no one will know?"

"Why am I sneaking around? Don't you understand?" Lu Xu said angrily, "I don't want to block the way for ladies and wives to enter the palace. Fortunately, my father let me go out in his carriage today. Where is it stuck?"

"Where's Mr. Fan?" Yan Yufei joked, "You've been inseparable recently, why don't you see him now?"

"What is inseparable?" When mentioning Fanxing, Lu Xu thought of his warning before leaving: "Mr. Fan has something to deal with, so he may not attend the state banquet."

"No wonder." Yan Yufei.

"No wonder why?" Lu Xu asked puzzled.

"I mean, you don't need to wear rouge and gouache, and you can wear a few less jewelry, but you have to change into a new one for the clothes. Don't you think it smells after wearing it all day?"

"This is the new one." Lu Xu opened his sleeves and said, "It was only made two days ago, and it was replaced before going out. The empress is going to organize a palace banquet for the first time, so she must not embarrass her."

"new???"

"If you didn't tell me, I thought you only had one suit of clothes."

Yan Yufei looked at Lu Xu's white clothes embroidered with gold patterns: "When I see you always wear clothes like this, how much do you like this style?"

"I'm sacrificing my life for benevolence, to give you a way to survive." Lu Xu sighed, "In case you go out without clothes and curse me behind your back, blaming me for not wearing the clothes from the garment workshop outside, you won't dare to wear them even if you want to." purchase."

"It's not just us cursing you, the people in the garment workshop will also curse you."

Yan Yufei suddenly understood the reason why Lu Xu always wore the same style of clothes and did not change his attire.

Lu Xu is the kind who looks good even in a piece of cloth, and has a deceptive face. No one would be foolish enough to bring shame on themselves and wear the same clothes as her.

No matter how beautiful the clothes she was wearing or the jewelry she used, no one would dare to buy them, for fear of being compared with Lu Xu, who would be embarrassed by whoever was ugly, and in order not to incur more resentment, Lu Xu had only been around for a few years. All wear the same style of clothes.

"Let's go, first go see the empress."

Yan Yufei took her to the central palace, and the women's family members entered the palace for a banquet. Most of them would visit the queen before the banquet started.

When they were approaching the Kunhe Palace, suddenly several court ladies blocked their way, and said mysteriously: "Miss Lu Xu, don't talk, the master wants to see you, come with us."

"you……"

Yan Yufei just opened his mouth and put a dagger on her neck, the words stuck in his throat instantly.

Lu Xu was afraid that the other party would hurt Yan Yufei, so he didn't care who wanted to see him, so he hurriedly said, "Don't hurt anyone, let her go, I'll go with you."

"Lu Xu..."

"It's okay, you go to see the empress first."

A few court girls were afraid that she would talk too much, and they didn't allow her to talk too much, so they dragged her away from the scene in a hurry.

The man who held Yan Yufei back with a dagger retreated quietly after Lu Xu and the others had finished walking. Yan Yufei took a while to recover, and hurried to the central palace.

Lu Xu didn't know where the other party was going to take her, so he sneaked all the way in relatively dark places, and had to hide when encountering guards patrolling, so he stopped and stopped like this and finally came to a secluded wall.

The sound of the mechanism starting came from the ear, and a small door appeared on the wall.

"Go in."

Several court ladies pushed Lu Xu through the door.

Lu Xu originally thought it would be a small space inside, but after entering, he realized that there was something strange inside.

Although the light is a bit dark, it can be vaguely seen that it is a magnificent garden, and the layout is quite exquisite, with mountains and rivers, pavilions, cross bridges across the water, orchids and jade trees.

The two maids carried her around the rockery, crossed the pavilion, crossed the small bridge, passed through a small forest, and came to an exquisite palace. Through the window, she could faintly see countless veils flying inside.

"Master is inside, go in."

The maid pushed Lu Xu into the door, and Lu Xu staggered and almost fell.

After stabilizing his body, the maid had already locked the door and checked that the windows were also locked, so Lu Xu had no choice but to go inside.

Following the direction of the light, passing through the red veils, step by step, you come to a very luxurious place. There are famous works on the wall, peerless treasures on the shelves, and the Baojing, Shengsheng doubled the space.

The treasure tripod is burning with precious spices, and the intoxicating but elegant fragrance that fills the room makes people confused and do not know where they are and when it is today and night.

Suddenly the door at the other end opened, and two rows of maids came in one after another carrying incense burners, followed by several Cai'e, surrounded by a beautiful and dignified lady, who was wrapped in a slender figure with slightly fragrant shoulders. Inside the luxurious palace dress

In a daze, Lu Xu felt that he had known him before, but he didn't remember where he met him. .

After the lady came in, she sat in front of the mirror and waved to Lu Xu: "Xu'er, come here, let me take a good look at you."

The heavy veils were suddenly withdrawn, and a blaze of light hit, Lu Xu closed his eyes instinctively, feeling someone supporting her to move forward again, when her eyes got used to it, a hand in gorgeous armor gently stroked her face and said :

"Your face belongs to me today."

Lu Xu's heart felt cold, and he shuddered. Is this person planning to take her face off?

Suddenly, her eyes went dark, and something hot covered her face. She was so frightened that Lu Xu could no longer keep calm, and let out a terrified scream:

what……

*****
In Kunhe Palace, the queen is receiving the female relatives of various families.

An eunuch walked in from the door and whispered something in the ear of Aunt Zhen, the empress' dowry maid.

After hearing this, Aunt Zhen came to the Queen's side and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, Mrs. Yan, the young wife of Zhang Shoubei's family, said that Miss Lu Xu was forcibly taken away by some strange maids on the way to Kunhe Palace."

"It doesn't make sense."

All the women's relatives suddenly saw the empress angry, and they didn't know what happened, so they knelt on the ground in fright.

"It has nothing to do with you, get up." After the empress finished speaking, she patted the armrest of the phoenix chair and said: "The people I want to meet dare to intercept, you should go and investigate immediately, who dares to be in the eyelids of this palace?" Take people away."

The imperial palace took people away, and the wives were shocked when they heard the news. It must be that something big happened.

The empress ignored everyone's concerns, and said angrily, "I haven't seen Xu Er for more than three years. It's hard for her to enter the palace once, but someone dares to snatch her from me."

Knowing that it was Lu Xu who was snatched away, all the female relatives were speechless for a moment.

Speaking of his preference for Lu Xu, no one can compare to the empresses in the palace, especially the empress.

Because I always wanted a princess but couldn't, the empress and several concubines always treated Lu Xu like a daughter, so the emperor almost made her a princess, so she could go to the palace to accompany them from time to time.

It is said that the queen and several empresses often quarreled over who should dress up Lu Xu.

There are still rumors in the market that for the sake of the peace of the East Palace, the emperor who is still the crown prince has no choice but to inform Lu Yi to take his daughter away as soon as possible.

Back then when the father and daughter of the Lu family were demoted to Liangzhou, the empress, who was still the crown princess, was sad for a long time, and the empresses never paid attention to the emperor.

After returning from Liangzhou, due to his status, Lu Xu couldn't enter the palace casually, and finally waited for the opportunity to meet, but was accidentally intercepted and taken Lu Xu away, no wonder the empress was furious.

Although the female relatives were a bit appetizing, but Lu Xu's conditions were placed, and he couldn't blame the queen and the empresses for their preference, so they could only eat melons in silence.

Concubine Xian looked at the people present, suddenly smiled and said: "Why didn't I see Sister Guifei, she always likes to be lively, it's strange that she didn't come to Zhonggong tonight."

The concubine de concubine also agreed after hearing this: "Sister Xianfei is right. I heard that Xu'er was going to enter the palace earlier, and the elder concubine started to rummage through boxes and cabinets to find things. After finally entering the palace, the elder sister was hiding in her own palace. Come out, it's not like her personality."

"Speaking of rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find things, why did I hear that De Fei's younger sister was also looking for a pair of walkers that she wore when she was young?"

"Sister Concubine Shu is also looking for that brocade and warm satin dress that I have never had the chance to wear." The empress Defei immediately retorted: "You and I don't talk about each other, don't you just think about it, who doesn't?" what."

Seeing several empresses arguing about Lu Xu, all the female relatives sat beside them and ate melons silently

"Okay, you all stop arguing."

The queen interrupted the two empresses and said: "Zhen'er, go to Fuming Palace to see what's going on."

Aunt Zhen should leave in a hurry, the Empress supported her forehead and said: "The banquet will start soon, everyone please go ahead, I will arrive later."

All the female relatives immediately got up and knelt down, and after the female relatives left, the empress got up immediately and said, "Little Fuzi, take the things I asked you to find yesterday, and we will go to Fuming Palace immediately, and the imperial concubine cannot let the imperial concubine monopolize the order."

"Sister Queen, my sisters are here to help you out."

"Let's go."

The queen specially arranged a full guard of honor to travel.

Arriving outside the gate of Fuming Palace, before the eunuch guarding the palace gate was notified, he announced loudly:

"The Empress is here!"

"Concubine Shu, Concubine De, Concubine Liang, Concubine Xian are here."

The noble concubine in the main hall heard the announcement and said disapprovingly: "Close the door, and they are not allowed to come in to grab the order. She belongs to the palace tonight."

The announcement was made, but it was too late to see the imperial concubine bringing someone out to pick him up, and he heard the door slamming shut, Concubine Shu immediately said: "It's not good, sister imperial concubine closed the door, you rush to knock the door open, what's the matter?" You don't have to worry about it."

The accompanying eunuchs glanced at the queen, who immediately nodded, and a dozen eunuchs rushed over and slammed on the door.

Lu Xu carefully glanced at the imperial concubine who was drawing pictures on her face, she was so speechless that she didn't know what to say, didn't she just want to dress her up, and even sent a maid to kidnap her halfway, and secretly brought her into Fuming Palace.

When she said those words, she was so frightened that she thought it was the queen mother who was going to kill her, but it was only after washing that she found out that it was the imperial concubine who was going to dress her up.

The people inside quickly couldn't resist, and the door was pushed open suddenly.

The queen walked into the hall with all the concubines, and saw Lu Xu being pressed in front of the mirror, and the imperial concubine was drawing flowers on her forehead with a pen.

Suddenly seeing the queen and the ladies, Lu Xufang wanted to stand up and salute.

The imperial concubine pushed her down and said: "Don't move around, I will explain to them."

The noble concubine turned around and bowed her knees to the queen, saying: "Sister queen, please wait a moment, the concubine is drawing flowers for Xuer, and I will greet sister queen when I finish." , filled with large and small boxes, which are either jewelry or clothes, which are the favorite styles of young girls nowadays. It is unexpected that the imperial concubine has prepared so many things.

"Sister Guifei really prepared a lot of things, but unfortunately these are common in the market, and they don't suit Xu'er's status and temperament."

Concubine Shu pointed to the clothes in the box and said: "For example, when my younger sister greeted the empress, she saw ladies from several families wearing them. My younger sister specially found out this warm satin dress. Clash with the ladies outside."

"Sister Concubine Shu is very right." Concubine De also took out a small box and said, "My sister also specially matched this dress with a pair of step shakers."

"Pair it with my sister's pair of mutton fat jade bracelets, luxurious and generous." Concubine Liang also took out her own things and put them together with Concubine Shu and Concubine De's things: "These things are prefaced by the concubine's sister. Makeup is perfect."

"..."

Lu Xufang wanted to refuse.

The empress said: "There is still some space in the bun, so I need to match two kinds of pearl flowers."

Aunt Zhen walked over with the brocade box, and when she opened it, there were two pearl flowers made of peach blossom jade, the peach blossom color was most suitable for Lu Xu's age.

"Sister Royal Concubine."

The queen walked to Lu Xu's side and said, "I know that according to the order in which their father and daughter left Beijing, it was the younger sister who came to dress up Xu'er, but we haven't seen Xu'er for three years, so give us a chance to express our respect." It expresses how much I miss Xu'er these years." After speaking, he put two beaded flowers on Lu Xu's head without any explanation.

"Sister Noble Concubine can't treat one more favorably than another." Concubine De brought Bu Yao to Lu Xu's head, took a few steps back and said, "This Bu Yao and Empress Sister Zhuhua look like a set."

"Put on my sister's pink emerald earrings too."

Concubine Xian stepped forward to put the earrings on Lu Xu, and while putting them on, she took the opportunity to touch Lu Xu's small face.

Lu Xu was a little dumbfounded, she was like a puppet, dressed up by the empress and several empresses, and finally changed into Concubine Shu's warm satin dress.

Looking at Lu Xu who stood in the middle of the hall like a masterpiece of art, the empress and the other concubines burst into tears with excitement, God bless me, why is such a beautiful girl not their daughter.

"Empress Empress...???"

"How many ladies...???"

"Why are you crying all of a sudden? Did Xu'er hurt you?"

Seeing the empress and several empresses bursting into tears suddenly, Lu Xu was overwhelmed with fright. He turned to look in the mirror when he was interrupted by the sound of hurried footsteps outside.

The empress and several empresses also hurriedly wiped away their tears, the servant next to Emperor Heng came in and said: "Empress, the banquet ahead is about to start, the emperor asked the servants to invite the empress and several empresses."

"Xu'er, you come with us."

The queen didn't want to say anything, she took Lu Xu's hand and walked outside, as if she was afraid of being snatched away.

Lu Xu didn't have a chance to express his opinion at all, so he was surrounded by several empresses and left Fuming Palace to go to Changming Palace where the state banquet was held.

All the guests in the Changming Palace, as well as the officials and women's family members, have already taken their seats, except for the empress and all the concubines. Mo Jinli stretched his neck and looked out from time to time. According to the usual times, the emperor and the empress would have arrived long ago. Tonight is such an important event. The occasion is late, it shouldn't be!

"The emperor and empress are here!"

"The imperial concubine is here!"

"Concubine Shu is here!"

"The Empress De Concubine is here!"

"The Concubine Liang is here!"

"Concubine Xian is here!"

At the same time as the notification sounded, they all left the table and knelt down: "Long live the emperor! Welcome the empress!"

Emperor Zhan took the empress's hand and walked slowly into the hall with the five concubines Gui, Shu, De, Liang, and Xian. After sitting down, he let everyone sit down. Outside said: "Xu'er hasn't come in yet, is he shy?"

(End of this chapter)