On April 12, the second quarter of the first lunar month, the villagers woke up one after another. The village chief asked people from Fuhua Building to prepare buckets for bathing and boil water first.
Everyone went to the hut and came back to brush their teeth and eat porridge, small cakes, pickles, and tea eggs.
After the meal, the bath water was boiled. Everyone took a bath, changed into new clothes and shoes, and brushed their teeth again.
At the beginning of the month, the main reason is that long hair dries slowly, so use a few hand towels to rub it.
Look at the sky, it's going to be bright soon. It gets bright early in summer.
The shopkeeper of Fuhua Tower woke up and asked, "What are you going to do? The street is closed outside, and His Highness the Crown Prince is having a concubine today."
"That's right! It's on the west side of the street in front of our restaurant, Chang Mansion. We'll wait outside the restaurant. His Royal Highness's team will come over and we'll follow behind."
The head of the village nodded, yes, and we live right next to each other, on the opposite side of the west side of the road, Changfu faces north and south.
The twenty guards responsible for protection have left, and another soldier will enter Fuhua Building and occupy the position opposite the window to the street.
"How are you leaving? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has accepted the concubine, do you still want to watch the ceremony..." the shopkeeper said and stopped.
He thought carefully about the other party's dealings with the palace, and then looked at the festive new clothes and another set of jewelry that the other party put on today, it seemed...
"We are here to watch the ceremony. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invited us here. We have to stay for a few days and wait for the banquet. Zhu Taiyi, are you here?"
The head told the shopkeeper very honestly. When he looked up, he saw Zhu Taiyi and other four people arriving. The four people also put on new clothes and held signs in their hands.
They came to bring people from Xiaqiu Village into the team. At this time, the entire road was heavily guarded.
This was called Changfu Street at the time of Zhu Wentian. Across the bridge to the east was the Xihua Gate, and to the west was the Dayuan Xing Yongshou Palace that we strolled to the day before yesterday.
The location of Fuhua Building is the most suitable. If you prepare hundreds of kilograms of nitroglycerin in advance, when the prince's team arrives nearby...
"Shopkeeper, let's leave first. We'd better have soup when we come back for dinner in the evening." The headman said hello and followed Zhu Taiyi and four others out.
The shopkeeper was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses. He patted his forehead and said, "Oh! Why is it so big? Thank you for taking good care of me."
He was afraid for a while. The prince had a fixed team and he could add more people if he could.
Zhu Taiyi, four people, and thirty-two people first clarified the identity issue, and then they went back to the yard to find stools for the village elders to sit on.
His Royal Highness will not arrive for a long time, and there are still ceremonies being held over there.
People in the village must go out first and let the guards know each other, and then they cannot leave their sight again. What if someone changes and they want to assassinate?
They waited for an hour. The team arrived and it was very lively. When the people in front passed by, people from the village joined the team and went to Changfu together.
The princess got dressed and waited outside her attic. No one stopped her from getting married.
The process continued, the prince went over, followed another set of etiquette, and talked to the mother of the princess.
This set was completed, and after another hour, the kiss was received, and the team went back. They went back to work again, and it was already past noon.
However, when the people from Xiaqiu Village entered the imperial city, they followed the team in without anyone stopping them.
All the way to the Prince's Mansion, the Prince bowed, invited the Crown Princess in, and performed the wedding ceremony. This ceremony was also complicated. This ceremony was the same as that used by the Queen and the Emperor.
Next, they changed into regular clothes, and both parties gave each other cooked food to eat. Yes, they had eaten.
The people in Xiaqiu Village were hungry now. They didn't go in to watch people change clothes or eat. They just stood outside Chunhe Palace.
"Everyone, come with us." Zhu Taiyi greeted.
The team walked back, and as they walked, they entered a large hall with the words "Wuying Hall" on it.
"Wuying Hall? Is this the place where His Majesty usually meets with ministers to handle affairs?"
After the little girl raised her head to read the words, she remembered the situation introduced by Brother Hanhan.
"Don't make a sound." The chief turned around to remind.
Everyone went in without being searched. There was a man standing in front with his hands behind his back and looking at everyone with a smile.
"Your Majesty!" Zhu Taiyi and the four others immediately knelt down.
Puff puff puff...
Thirty-two people from Xiaqiu Village also knelt down and shouted one after another: "Your Majesty."
After the shouting was over, everyone got in order and shouted together: "Heaven is virtuous, Haiyu is Xianning, and the Holy Bow is blessed."
Mixed with 'hey hey hey...'
"Okay, okay, get up quickly, is this our fool? Hehehehe!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the young man with a naive look on his face and said "hey" three times, he knew who it was. He was the village guard of Xiaqiu Village, so naive!
"Well, Hanhan, I, hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian continued.
"Yes, you are well fed! Come and take a seat, we know you are hungry, so we will eat here."
A palace maid nearby brought basins, hand towels and soap for everyone to wash their hands and cleanse their faces.
There are thirty-three tables for eating, separated, with a stool behind each.
Zhu Yuanzhang sat down first, then everyone sat down, and the maids served the dishes.
"I don't know what you like to eat. The doctor from the Imperial Hospital said that you should drink soup first if you are hungry for a long time, so I made duck carrot soup.
In addition, the elder of our village is old, so he prepared a cup of medicinal wine made from deer antlers and ginseng.
The rest are also recipes given by our Xiaqiu Village, I think everyone is willing to eat them. "
Zhu Yuanzhang spoke with a smile on his face and seemed very kind and approachable to the people.
As he talked, he observed the thirty-two people carefully, first looking at the people inside and then passing by Hanhan.
Others were fifteen or sixteen years old, as well as younger children, village elders, and village elders.
The village elder took a closer look and didn't see anything. He was so worried!
"Your Majesty gave us a banquet, but you actually thought about our tastes and habits. The common people are very grateful." The chief stood up and replied.
"Sit down, don't get up to talk." Zhu Yuanzhang pressed his hands down.
"Yes!" The chief then sat down again. Etiquette said that if you meet His Majesty and His Majesty asks you, you should bow when you are standing. When you are sitting, you must stand up and bow again when answering His Majesty's words.
At this time, musicians came in to join in the music, the sound was not loud, and there were others dancing in the middle of the hall.
In order not to be silent, otherwise when dining with the emperor, the emperor remained silent and everyone did not dare to speak. When the emperor spoke, everyone else stopped.
There are people playing and dancing, you can talk quietly to others, and you can eat by yourself when the emperor doesn't ask questions about you.
Everyone is watching the dancers, who will watch whether you are eating or not?
"Drink the soup and then the medicinal wine." Zhu Yuanzhang told several village elders that he would drink the soup first.
The village elders were nervous, "Oh my God, this is not bad at all. I am really thirsty after drinking the soup. If I hadn't secretly included rock sugar, I would have fainted from thirst."
After taking a few sips of the soup, they felt much better. They drank up the medicinal wine and then drank the soup.
The children also observed etiquette, refrained from grabbing, and kept their mouths shut when eating and chewing. Usually no one cares about them, but today they tried hard to control them.
Each one of them also put on light makeup, which was festive, and Zhu Wentian put some powder on his face.
Zhu Yuanzhang was happy, these are the people from the Ming Dynasty village. How great it would be if all villages in the Ming Dynasty were like this!
"Yichang, how are the rice and jute plantings in Xiaqiu Village going?" Zhu Yuanzhang waited for everyone to take a few bites before speaking to the village chief.
