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"Marriage grant?!" Several surprised and shocked voices suddenly sounded in the hall of Jiulong Mansion.
"Yeah..." Chen Yutian sat on the chair, with a slightly nervous look on his face, and smiled bitterly, "Are you surprised? I didn't expect to receive such shocking news when I returned home this time, and the emperor was in the imperial edict The engagement date set by Zhong seems to be five days from now."
At this time, he had returned from Duke Dingguo's residence, but Xuan Xi did not come back with him, but returned to the palace alone. This is the requirement of Hua Yueming and the Queen Mother's intention.
Because of the relationship between the late emperor and the late emperor, except for Sima Xuanxi, today there are no other brothers and sisters. Xuanxi and Xuanye are both children of the queen mother. Now that her daughter is about to leave the palace and become a woman, the mother naturally wants to do it before that. Take a good look at your daughter. This is human nature. Even if Xuan Xi doesn't like staying in the palace anymore, he must go back now.
Everyone in Jiulong Mansion who learned about this was extremely surprised at first, but after a while, they seemed to slowly digest the shocking news, and came over to congratulate Chen Yutian. Although Chen Yutian said yes, his face was not happy at all, but full of bitterness.
"What's wrong with you? Don't you want to get engaged to Xuan Xi?" Xue Tianhan frowned slightly, looked at Chen Yutian, and asked.
Chen Yutian shook his head slightly.
Xue Tianhan said again: "If that's the case, then why do you have a sad face?"
After saying this, everyone's eyes turned to Chen Yutian who was sitting on the chair. Regarding this question, they also wanted to know why the engagement was such a happy event worth celebrating, why should they always look sad?
Chen Yutian sighed slightly, "It's nothing, I just feel... it's a little early."
Everyone in the hall laughed dumbly, and Huo Yuanji helplessly held his forehead, "Morning?"
"Yeah, I'm still young and she's still young. It's a bit too early for us to get engaged or even get married at this time." Chen Yutian nodded and said seriously, "Besides, I'm not ready yet. Woolen cloth."
Huo Yuanji smiled helplessly and said: "Brother Chen, may I ask you this year?"
"Twenty-one."
"What about Princess Xuanxi?"
"About seventeen..." Chen Yutian said uncertainly, "Why do you ask this?"
Huo Yuanji smiled and said: "In ordinary families, men can get married when they are around 16 years old, and women can leave the court after they have reached the age of hairpins. You must be much too late for these people, and you still say it's early?"
"Uh..." Chen Yutian was speechless.
What Huo Yuanji said is indeed reasonable. In the Daxuan Dynasty, where the people were not too poor, men generally had the responsibility to marry and have children to serve their parents after the adult ceremony at the age of sixteen, while women at the age of ten After the hairpin ceremony at the age of five, they are indeed capable of leaving the imperial court and raising their husbands and children. For people of the same age as Chen Yutian and Xuan Xi, among the people, even their children may have reached the age of seniority.
But knowing is one thing, being able to accept it is another.
"This kind of thing has nothing to do with age..." Chen Kun, the oldest and most experienced among the people, spoke up. He stood up, looked at Chen Yutian who looked distressed, and asked, "Yutian , I ask you, do you think you have feelings for Her Highness the Princess?"
"Of course." Chen Yutian replied almost without thinking.
Chen Kun asked again: "What about you, Your Highness the Princess?"
"Should..." Chen Yutian was about to answer, but was directly interrupted by Chen Kun, "Think about it..."
Chen Yutian was slightly silent. As he pondered his thoughts, he could not help but recall the girl's decisive and firm look in the Ghost Town dungeon when she faced Ling Bian's brazen attack. Afraid of the beautiful figure rushing forward, those words shocked his whole soul at that time.
"Don't worry, I will accompany you."
This short sentence revealed the girl's great and fearless determination, and also made him feel her thoughts for the first time. Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on Chen Yutian's lips.
Seeing this scene, Chen Kun smiled and said, "Do you understand?"
Chen Yutian looked up at him.
Chen Kun smiled and scolded: "Don't you understand? Since you both have faith in each other, isn't this marriage from the emperor what you have dreamed of? And it is also the greatest fulfillment for you two? Such a good opportunity is You may not be able to get what you dream of, but now that you have got it, not only are you not happy about it, but you are frowning. What's the point? Young people should seize the opportunity while they are young, and don't wait until they miss it in the end to regret it. It’s too late. Especially since this opportunity is of no harm to you.”
yes!
After hearing what Chen Kun said, Chen Yutian finally figured it out. He looked at Chen Kun with a bright light in his eyes, and gently clasped his fists towards the old man, "I understand, thank you Mr. Ge for enlightening me."
Chen Kun stroked his gray beard slightly and smiled, "Now that you have figured it out, you should also know what you should do next."
"Yeah." Chen Yutian nodded, with a smile on his face.
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The news of the engagement between Dingguo Duke Chenguang's son and Princess Xuanxi quickly spread throughout Xuandu. When the people of Xuandu wished the newlyweds a happy marriage, they also paid enough attention to the marriage. After all, the two parties involved in the marriage are not ordinary people. One party is from the royal family of the emperor of the day, and the other party has a very good reputation among the people. He is also known as the son of Qingtian's living god Duan Chengong. Such a prominent status naturally aroused the people's attention. They pay keen attention. Moreover, Chen Yutian has repeatedly solved strange cases in the past year and has a very high reputation among the people. Therefore, as soon as the news spread, it almost caused a sensation in the entire Xuandu City.
Time passed slowly for three days under this commotion.
In the past three days, Chen Yutian, everyone in Jiulong Mansion, and Duke Dingguo Mansion have been extremely busy. The engagement banquet in two days is bound to be a grand event that will shock Xuandu, so they must do a good job preparation. But while the entire Kyoto was in such a state of expectation, the Daxuan Dynasty was about to welcome an uninvited guest today.
The city gate of Xuandu City has four holes, and all the people inside and outside the city were cleared away early by the city gate captain. When the approaching cavalry appeared with the crisp sound of bells, when everyone on the city gate and the city wall saw that A golden-domed carriage that was different from the Central Plains style made the fresh morning suddenly feel suffocating.
The cavalry slowly stepped into the city gate and arrived on the streets of Xuandu.
Officers and soldiers had already cleared the pedestrians on the road, and now they were lined up on both sides of the road, blocking the people who were watching the excitement from going forward.
The common people rushed to look at the horse team that entered Xuandu. The horse team was not in a hurry, but slowly moved forward on the street. The carriages behind it were loaded with exquisite boxes, which made people look at it. Looking at it, I couldn't help but stop and watch. In front of the cavalry, a large golden-domed carriage attracted most of the attention. Everyone looked at the carriage with a rather strange shape for the Central Plains, and their eyes were a little strange.
The knights on the horses in front were slightly different from the Central Plains people in terms of clothing and appearance. They rode quietly on their horses and walked forward in the not noisy but lively streets of Xuandu.
In front, a flag embroidered with a wolf-shaped totem fluttered in the wind.
Some well-informed people couldn't help but be slightly startled when they saw this flag. There were also veterans who retired and returned home. When they saw this flag, they couldn't help but recall the times when they fought on the battlefield. days. At that time, on the battlefield, they could often see such a flag embroidered with the wolf totem, which was the enemy's flag. Seeing the same flag in different circumstances now made these veterans feel quite sad.
The cavalry marched slowly towards the main axis of the palace.
In the Tai Chi Hall in the palace, Xuan Ye was sitting upright, and the civil and military ministers below also looked solemn, as if they were waiting for something.
On the main axis leading to the palace, the Wolf Picture flag fluttered in the wind and slowly appeared in the eyes of the dragon guards guarding the palace gate.
A moment later, Huang Menguan's loud voice sounded outside the Tai Chi Hall.
"Taigong Yuan, the envoy of the barbarian country in the Western Regions, came to see..."
