This year, when the prince was seventeen years old, it was time for a big wedding. The emperor's three palaces and six courtyards gave birth to such a single seedling in total, and the marriage of the prince naturally became the top priority in the emperor's heart.
That night, the emperor had a dream, dreaming of a white-bearded immortal descending from the sky, and said in a loud voice like a bell: "Your princess must be born in the qi tian dafu family, and when she was born, she brought her own golden rice bowl, and when she appeared, the sky rained flowers and rained, riding a dragon and hugging a phoenix." Remember! ”
This dream is too real, after waking up, the appearance of the immortals is still vividly remembered, the emperor is very excited, thinking, his own imperial blessings are deep, ah, he can alarm the immortals to point out the marriage, this is good, according to the immortals said a few to choose the princess!
The emperor got up with great interest, squinted his eyes and touched the words of the immortals, but this touch did not matter, the more he touched the more panicked he became, how? It turned out that none of the immortals could realize these few things.
The immortals said that the princess was going to be born in the "Qi Tian Dafu Family", who didn't know that only his royal family in the world was the Qi Tian Dafu family, and the royal family could not marry his own family, right?
The second one that the immortals said, "When you are born, you bring your own golden rice bowl", which is impossible, I have never heard of any family having children, and even giving birth to a golden bowl.
The two in the back are even less relevant, when the princess appears, she wants to "rain flowers from the sky, ride the dragon and hold the phoenix", since Pangu opened the heavens and the earth, who has seen the rain of flowers in the sky? That dragon and phoenix are even more divine beasts, how can people ride one and hold one?
The emperor shrugged his head, and was unhappy, the eunuch came to report, and the first assistant Chen Zhen begged to see. The emperor's mind was moved: Chen Zhen was the elder of the Three Dynasties, and he had a lot of knowledge, so it was better to tell him about his dreams, so he immediately issued a decree and announced Chen Zhen's visit.
When Chen Zhen saw the ceremony, the emperor said to him about last night's dream like this. After hearing this, Chen Zhen cleared his throat and pretended to be surprised: "My emperor is very happy!" According to the view of the minister, this dream is indeed an auspicious omen. ”
The emperor's eyes lit up: "How to say?" ”
Chen Zhen shook his spirits, and then he ripped it open: "The so-called Heavenly Descending Jiren, the Vision of The Earth Birth, the Crown Princess is absolutely extraordinary, and the vision will appear when she appears." Since the immortals have pointed out clearly, they only need to follow this search, thinking that I am a big country, why worry about not being able to find it? ”
The emperor thought, yes! I am rich all over the world, and I am worried that I can't find a daughter-in-law! So KaiJinkou lowered his order: "What Qing said is very true, so I will send Qing to find the Crown Princess!" ”
Chen Zhen listened, almost cried, regretting that he should not talk nonsense, now this cloud of sorrow has drifted to his head, how is it good? His heart was flustered, his legs were weak, and he couldn't help but fall to his knees.
When the emperor saw Chen Zhen's face excited, he knelt down and was very touched in his heart, and he was busy supporting him with both hands and said emotionally: "Qing Will certainly be able to live up to his mission, and within a year, he will find the crown princess!" ”
Up to now, no matter how unwilling Chen Zhen was, he had to take his order.
Folk search
Returning from the palace, Chen Zhen couldn't eat or sleep, and he thought hard about the few words that the immortals said, not to mention, a few days later, it was really a bit boring.
He thought that none of the four immortals said sounded possible at first glance, but it was not difficult to implement it if they were flexible. You see the first one, "Born in the Qi Tian Dafu Family", who is the family that can give birth to the Princess Princess? It is the emperor's family, as the saying goes, "relatives are like a family", and the emperor is like a family, naturally it is the home of Qi Tian Dafu.
The second one, "when the child is born, he brings his own golden rice bowl", when the child is born, relatives and friends will send the "birth gift", presumably when the princess is born, there is a golden rice bowl in the "birth ceremony", that is not what she brought!
The next two are better to say, when the princess appears, she must "rain in the sky, ride the dragon and hold the phoenix", and then as long as you observe which woman has this vision when she appears, that woman is the princess!
The thinking was clear, Chen Zhen was also calm and relaxed, he thought carefully, the common people's families give birth to children, will only receive porcelain bowls, wooden chopsticks and other birth gifts, there will be no such valuable gifts as golden rice bowls, it seems that the princess is mostly born in the family of the official eunuchs.
Chen Zhen decided to take a shortcut, and he ordered the officials with women of the right age in the Middle Kingdom and selected them one by one. As a result, many women who received golden rice bowls at birth did not have a vision during the interview. Chen Zhen was in a hurry, it seemed that the crown princess was not in the official eunuch's house, and she had to hurry to the people to find it!
So Chen Zhen personally led the team and left Beijing to go to the provinces. In the blink of an eye, thirteen provinces in the country have been sieved like twelve, and finally only a place called Taohua Village in Guizhou Province is left.
Chen Zhen came to Taohua Village, took the roster of women of the right age on the case, saw a total of thirty-one people above, he nodded, and asked according to the custom: "Are these women's families willing?" ”
The captain who was accompanying him replied busily, "I am very willing." These days, the peach blossom village family is busy boiling lard and buying tofu..."
"What? Boil lard, buy tofu? Chen Zhen did not understand. The mayor quickly explained that Peach Blossom Village has always produced beautiful women, and everyone in the village has worked the beauty of their daughters, and there is a popular saying in the village: If the daughter wants to have good skin, apply lard on the outside and take tofu inside. ”
External lard is to boil the lard to cool, immerse in a large ball of cotton, and then use this cotton to wipe the whole body of the daughter, and after a long time, the skin is moist and white and shiny, just like silk. And "internal tofu" is to make tofu for her daughter every day to eat, so that the delicate tofu can cultivate delicate skin.
Chen Zhen listened and asked curiously, "This external lard is just enough, but you have to eat tofu every day, don't you make people feel bad?" ”
Li Changlian waved his hand and said, "Adults don't know, peach blossom village has a must, snack 'Qi Tian tofu', even if you eat it in a lifetime, you will not get tired..."
Just after saying this, the women to be selected came, and the captain quickly stopped talking. Chen Zhen ordered someone to bring in a woman, and when he looked up, the woman's skin was fair and delicate, and Chen Zhen nodded. But when the woman came in, there was no vision, and then the second one who entered the house did not... Until the thirty women had finished their sightings, there was not a single vision.
"It's over!" Chen Zhen grabbed his long hair in his hand and sighed desperately, "The old man is going to be ashamed of his trust in the emperor!" He inadvertently glanced at the roster on the case, and suddenly felt that something was wrong: there were obviously thirty-one women of the right age on the book, but only thirty had just come, and finally the woman named Yuzhu did not come.
Could it be that the marriage was done against the will? Chen Zhen couldn't help but clap his hands in anger: "I dare to resist the will!" He said and threw the roster in front of the captain.
Frightened, Li Chang hurriedly prostrated his head and said, "Lord, Yuzhu is mentally deficient, so he cannot summon it." ”
"Mental deficiency?" Chen Zhen sneered, "I'm afraid it's just a pretext!" Which woman is she? Come quickly from the truth. ”
Li Chang prostrated his head like a pound of garlic and hurriedly replied, "She is the daughter of the Qi Tian Dafu family." ”
"Qi Tian Dafu House!" Chen Zhen's heart jumped, and he jumped up from his seat violently, wasn't this the first thing the immortals said?
The long voice explained, "It's... It is the east end of the village, the Qi Tian Dafu family that does the Big Blessing. ”
Chen Zhen understood that the accent of the people in Taohua Village said "tofu" as "Dafu", and "Qitian Tofu Family" made them say "Qitian Dafu Family".
Chen Zhen hurriedly said to The Chief, "You will soon tell us in detail about the situation of this 'Qi Tian Dafu Family'." ”
Li Chang took a step forward and said—
Originally, there was an old man in the village with the same name tian, inheriting the ancestral business to make tofu, this person was generous and sincere, always picked the best beans, soaked in peach blossom river water, and then used the stone mill made of peach blossom stone to grind finely. The tofu he made was white and tender like a condensed egg white, cut a piece and put it there, after two or three hours, there was no soup out of the water, and as soon as he saw the heat in the pot, he immediately drifted out a refreshing fragrance. Because it is delicious, "Qi Tian Tofu" is called famous. But honest people encounter troubles, after Qi Tian married, the daughter-in-law has not been born, until the age of forty did not give birth to a girlfriend, the two sons can not take care of Lehe, just dumbfounded, how? This kid is so ugly.
What an ugly law? Since she was born, this girl has grown a layer of gray-black, wrinkled coarse skin, this hard coarse skin paste on the face, even the eyebrows can not be distinguished, can not be ugly? Speaking of hair, this child was born with a leprosy, scab, scorched yellow patch on the top of his head, and never grew a single hair. What is even more depressing is that this girl is still demented, and she will not say anything other than occasionally calling her father and calling her mother.
After the governor finished speaking, he asked tentatively: "Your Honor, the royal selection of the crown princess, such a woman..."
Chen Zhen sighed and thought to himself: After traveling all over the country, now there is only this last one left, by chance, she is actually the daughter of the "Qi Tian Dafu" family, no matter whether she is stupid or stupid, she must also take a look!
Heaven descended on the Yoshitomo
The next morning, Chen Zhen rode in a sedan car, accompanied by horseback, and after a while, he arrived near Yuzhu's house. I saw that there was a peach blossom river in front of her home, backed by a peach blossom mountain, and the mountains and rivers were densely packed with peach trees. At this time, the peach blossoms are flourishing, and the large peach blossoms are full of branches, and even the water surface of the Peach Blossom River is also floating with a layer of pink falling.
What a place to be! Chen Zhen was amazed in his heart. At this time, the captain pointed forward with his hand and said, "Lord, the one riding the dragon in front of you is the jade bead." ”
"Riding a dragon?" Chen Zhen was shocked and hurried forward to look forward, only to see that not far away there was a winding ridge, and a black and gray man was riding on the ridge with his legs crossed.
"It turned out to be such a ridge!" At this moment, a strong wind rose from the ground, blowing the peach blossoms flying in the sky, and the peach blossoms swirled several times in the sky, falling like raindrops on the jade beads riding ridges.
"Rain on flowers!" Chen Zhen was marveling, when he saw a big rooster with golden hair being startled by the strong wind, fluttering its wings and flying up, and flew to the jade bead riding on the ridge, and the jade bead smiled and held the big in her arms.
"Ride the dragon and hold the phoenix!" Chen Zhen shouted excitedly, "It's her, she's the Crown Princess!" ”
The local officials who accompanied them were all shocked: This ugly and stupid woman is the crown princess? An official couldn't help but whisper to Chen Zhen: "Your Honor, the crown princess should be of outstanding character, walking like a green cloud out of the clouds, spitting sounds like a dripping spring, this woman does not have a line of ah..."
"No, four are already three!" Chen Zhen rushed out, "Now it's almost a golden rice bowl." Thinking of this, he ordered someone to invite Qi Tian and asked, "In the year of the birth of Yuzhu, did someone send a golden rice bowl as a 'birth ceremony'?" Qi Tianlian shook his head, he said, in the year of the birth of Yuzhu, only the daughter-in-law's mother-in-law's brother sent a pot of ground tofu, and there were no other gifts.
Chen Zhen was not reconciled, and he sent someone to turn the Qi Tianjia upside down, but he did not find a single object with gold. Seeing that the one-year deadline for the search was about to expire, and it was too late to leave again, Chen Zhen gritted his teeth and commanded: "Come, prepare a car for the crown princess to change clothes, and leave for Beijing!" ”
The radiant Phoenix Crown Xia Shuai was brought from Kyori and was now worn on the jade beads. Yuzhu shed tears of joy or sadness as she watched her dull and ugly daughter sit in a palanquin and be carried away by the royal princess.
Along the way, Chen Zhen's heart went up and down, this jade bead, although it secretly met the three conditions of the immortals, but after all, there was still a golden rice bowl that had not landed, how would the emperor explain it if he asked?
The jade beads in the palanquin didn't care about these things, at this moment she only knew that she was uncomfortable—it was too hot! She had grown a thick skin and was afraid of the heat, and now she was covered in a car that was airtight on all sides. In the first few days, the woman who accompanied the attendant also secretly opened a slit in the car curtain to make her cool, and then it was getting closer and closer to the capital, and the woman did not dare to take care of her, and the car curtain was tightly covered. Yuzhu's face was so hot that her face was sweaty and itchy, and she didn't understand how to grasp it with her hands, this grasp didn't matter, she actually grabbed the thick coarse skin on her face, revealing a baby-like white and pink face! She felt that her body was also itching uncomfortably, so she reached into her clothes and scratched hard, three times and two scratches, and the hard and coarse skin on her body was also scratched clean.
Without the hard and coarse skin, Yuzhu felt much cooler, but the head was still too hot to be good, so she reached out again to grab the leper, and this grasp, a shelled leprosy was completely lifted down by her, revealing a head like ink green silk inside...
There was such a big movement in the palanquin, but the people outside the palanquin did not know. At this time, the palanquin arrived at the palace gate and went up to the arch bridge, according to etiquette, the palanquin should fall on the top of the arch bridge, and the crown princess had to walk down the bridge herself and enter the palace to see the emperor.
The car curtain opened, people only felt the next golden light flashing in the sun, and involuntarily looked into the car, this look, everyone was stunned: only to see the jade beads sitting in the car like Guanyin, the color is like snow, the sideburns are like Dai, and there is a golden rice bowl in the arms.
"It turns out that this golden rice bowl has always been on top of her head!" Chen Zhen was ecstatic in his heart, and seeing that people were standing there, he quickly ordered: "Quickly help the crown princess get off the car." ”
After all, Yuzhu was a fool, seeing that the car curtain was opened, his heart was happy, he raised his leg and went outside, accidentally stepped into the air, rolled from the top of the bridge to the bottom of the bridge, and a mouthful of blood spewed out.
Chen Zhen suddenly felt that the sky was spinning: falling from the top of such a high bridge, even if you don't die, you will have to be crippled... Suddenly, the jade beads under the bridge slowly got up, gently moved the lotus step to Chen Zhen, and said in a dignified manner: "The jade beads have seen Lord Chen!" ”
Chen Zhen was stunned: It turned out that Yuzhu was actually a tianpu person, and thanks to this fall, the blood of the heart brought from the fetus was shocked, just like puyu removed the skin and restored her intelligent nature.
Chen Zhen couldn't help himself, and everyone rushed forward and backward to escort Yuzhu into the palace. When the emperor saw the appearance of the jade beads, the dragon was very happy, and he ordered a feast and reward.
After the banquet, Chen Zhen returned home with beautiful scenery, and his wife had been waiting for a long time. Madame shouldered the heart of a year, at this time to see the old man returned, can not help but sigh: "God bless, I did not expect that the old man could really find the princess." Chen Zhen fluttered his chest and said to his wife, "Who is the old man?" What's not to like? ”
At this moment, he heard the eunuch say aloud outside: "The emperor has a will, and Chen Zhen, the first assistant of xuanshou, will immediately enter the palace in a golden-roofed palanquin." Chen Zhen glanced back at his wife and smiled, "Look, it must be the emperor's reward." He turned around and quietly asked the eunuch who had announced his will, "What reward does Grandpa Banzai want to give to the old minister?" ”
The eunuch shook his head like a rattle and said, "No, just now Banzai took a nap, and his old man had another dream..."