(Two in One Chapter)
"Yes, Boss!"
In front of the Yunshan Villa, after hearing Pang Feiji's order, the guards cupped their fists and answered. Then they drove the carriage down the hill.
"Help … Help!"
Suddenly, a hurried cry for help came from the carriage. The person who called for help did not speak standard Chinese. It was only three words, but it seemed very difficult and awkward for her to say them. Pang Feiji's hearing was excellent. How could he not hear it? He was about to stop her, but the two soldiers driving the carriage were faster than him. They jumped down from the front of the carriage.
"Boss! Boss! There's someone in the carriage! "
At first, when they heard the king say that there were gifts in the carriage, they subconsciously believed him. However, when they heard a woman's voice coming from the carriage, they were immediately frightened.
Pang Feiji was puzzled. His first thought was that the king had hidden an assassin in the carriage. When Li Zexuan opened the carriage and checked the "gifts," the assassin would take the opportunity to attack. However, after thinking about it carefully, Pang Feiji felt that something was wrong. Assassinating Li Zexuan would not benefit the Wo Nation's ambassador at all! Besides, the person in the carriage was a woman. How could the Wo Nation's ambassador send a female assassin?
"Who's playing tricks on the carriage? Why don't you come down quickly? "
Pang Feiji put his right hand on the hilt of his sword and shouted into the carriage.
"General … General, please spare my life. I … I am the Wo Nation's princess sent by Her Majesty to marry Marquis Yong 'an!"
The curtain of the carriage was lifted. A petite, bright-eyed woman wearing a bright red robe with a row of butterfly buttons in the middle and an orange-red pleated skirt walked out of the carriage.
Looking at her attire, her style was very similar to that of women in the Central Plains. However, this kind of pleated upper robe style was quite rare!
In fact, this was related to the time when Prince Shengde sent the Sui Dynasty's ambassador to the Sui Dynasty to learn Han culture and introduced it to the country. At that time, not only was there the Sui Dynasty's Confucianism, Buddhism, and official system, there was also the Han people's style of dress!
In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, after the Wo rulers sent a large number of "envoys to the Tang Dynasty", Japan actively introduced the Tang Dynasty Han style clothing. The so-called "Tang style" clothing also became popular among the Japanese people. In modern Japan, the "kimono" was formed on the basis of the Tang Dynasty clothing. The kimono was an imitation or remake of traditional Han clothing. It completely inherited the main characteristics of traditional Han clothing with wide sleeves and no buttons.
Judging from the woman's face alone, she was very beautiful. All the guards were dumbfounded at first, but Pang Feiji reacted quickly. His expression changed and he said sternly, "Did you just say that you are the princess sent by the Japanese Empress to marry Marquis?"
Pang Feiji's words woke everyone up. These soldiers reacted one after another and quickly shifted their gazes elsewhere.
The Wo woman who came out of the carriage frowned when she heard Pang Feiji's words. It seemed that she was trying her best to understand the meaning of Pang Feiji's words. After a while, she said in her non-standard Han accent, "I am Princess Mingde of the Wo Nation. I am here to marry the Marquis of Yong 'an! General, please go in and help me pass the message. Let me see the Marquis of Yong 'an! "
"Princess of the Wo Nation!"
Pang Feiji's expression changed greatly. This matter was not going to end well. Since the other party was the princess of the Wo Nation, she represented the royal family of the Wo Nation. Even if Li Zexuan did not want to see the Wo Nation's people, he could not directly refuse to see the Wo Nation's princess! After all, this involved the diplomatic relations between the two countries!
"You guys look after her. I will go and inform Marquis!"
Pang Feiji glanced at the Wo woman in front of the carriage and ordered, then turned and walked into the courtyard.
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"Princess of the Wo Nation? Marriage? "
In the study, after Li Zexuan heard Pang Feiji's report, he could not help but frown. He really did not expect that his brother on the mountain back would send him a woman. Moreover, it was a princess. This made things difficult for him!
"Let's go and have a look!"
Since she was the princess of the Wo Nation, she represented the royal family of the Wo Nation. Although the Wo Nation was now a subordinate of the Tang Empire, if he casually trampled on the dignity of the Wo Nation's royal family, the Wo Nation's royal family could not do anything to Li Zexuan. However, many civil officials in the imperial court would accuse him of deliberately provoking the dispute between the two countries and losing the dignity of a great country!
This era was so magical!
"Husband, this concubine heard a commotion outside. Did something happen?"
When Li Zexuan passed by the main hall with Pang Feiji, Han Yuxi happened to come down from upstairs. The husband and wife bumped into each other. Han Yuxi looked at Li Zexuan and asked.
Pang Feiji secretly felt that something was wrong. The Wo Nation's ambassador sent a woman to Marquis. How could Marquis's wife bump into them? Wouldn't this cause a dispute in the backyard?
Although it was common for men to have three wives and four concubines in this era, those families with three wives and four concubines were generally full of all kinds of open and secret struggles. After all, no woman would want her husband to have a concubine! Pang Feiji secretly prayed in his heart that the two people in front of him would not quarrel. Otherwise, the house would not be peaceful. As subordinates, they would definitely not have a good life in the future!
"Oh! Wife! It seems that the Wo Nation's ambassador sent a woman over. I will go and send her away! "
Li Zexuan's expression remained the same as he smiled at Han Yuxi before he spoke.
Brother Chicken couldn't help but secretly sweat for Li Zexuan. Shouldn't this kind of thing be done secretly? Who would be like Li Zexuan to say it directly in front of his wife?
This guy didn't know that Li Zexuan was not interested in the so-called Wo Nation's princess at all. After all, in Li Zexuan's plan, destroying Wo Nation was something that would happen sooner or later. So, he didn't want to have anything to do with Wo Nation at this time!
Besides, in his impression, weren't the ancient Wo Nation's women very ugly?
"Ah?"
When Han Yuxi heard this, she suddenly felt a little flustered in her heart. However, after seeing Li Zexuan's face with a clear conscience, her anxious heart immediately calmed down.
"Husband, I will go with you!"
Han Yuxi mustered up her courage and said to Li Zexuan.
"Hehe! Why? Wife, are you worried about your husband? "
Li Zexuan couldn't help but laugh.
"No … of course not. Husband, don't misunderstand …"
Han Yuxi quickly explained, but was interrupted by Li Zexuan, "Hehe! Wife, you don't have to explain! Let's go out and have a look! "
After saying that, he took Han Yuxi's hand and walked out of the house. Pang Feiji, who was behind them, saw this and breathed a sigh of relief. Then, he quickly followed them out.
When they arrived outside the courtyard, Li Zexuan and Han Yuxi finally saw the Wo Nation's princess that Pang Feiji had mentioned. They saw that the woman's beautiful hair was tied up high on both sides, revealing her white and delicate neck. Her eyelashes fluttered outwards, like a young girl slowly opening an umbrella in Jiangnan's Rain Town, arching into a moving arc. Her face was lightly powdered, maintaining her natural beauty, but adding a touch of charm to it. She wore a red robe and an orange pleated skirt, which added a bit of charm to the woman!
Li Zexuan couldn't help but frown because the woman in front of him was dressed differently from what he had seen in Japanese period dramas in his previous life! Didn't they say that the ancient Wo Nation's women liked to use a thick layer of powder to make their faces look like ghosts? But the Wo Nation's woman in front of him was clearly dressed like the Tang Empire's women!
In fact, Li Zexuan's impression of the pale-white clothing did exist in Wo Nation's history, but it didn't exist in the current Era of Flying Birds. It only began to appear in the later Heian Era.
Our people had developed all kinds of powders as early as the Shang Dynasty. In ancient times, there were mainly two types of powders used by women. One was the natural powder that was made by soaking rice and repeatedly grinding it, precipitating and filtering it. The other was the poisonous and harmful metal lead powder. However, it was said that lead powder was clearer than natural white powder. So, in order to be beautiful, the ancient women walked the path of self-destruction without hesitation.
The production of lead powder was very complicated. It needed to be placed in a wooden bucket and placed on a magnetic pot filled with diluted acetic acid. Then, it needed to be slowly heated with charcoal so that the lead would be affected by the acetic acid vapor and undergo various chemical changes to become lead powder. Therefore, Japan, which was technologically backward at that time, had never been able to develop lead powder for makeup and could only rely on imports.
It wasn't until 692 AD that Daurai Monk Guan Cheng successfully produced lead powder in Japan. This scientific research achievement was greatly praised by the Empress and the Emperor. As a result, Wo Nation's women gradually became popular with a new kind of clothing. They would shave all their eyebrows, paint their teeth black, and cover their faces with white powder. It sounded a bit like a dead person's clothing, but Japanese men liked this style!
"You must be the Marquis of Yong 'an! Wo Nation's Princess Mingde Suwo, Xiamu, greets the Marquis of Yong 'an! From now on, you are Xiamu's husband! "
The Wo Nation's woman saw that although Li Zexuan was dressed in ordinary clothes, his dignified aura showed that he had been in a high position for a long time. So, she quickly walked over and bowed.
Han Yuxi's expression changed. Li Zexuan squeezed his wife's hand, then looked at Su Wo Xiamu and asked, "You are Su Wo Xiamu? Or the Wo Nation's Royal Princess? What does Su Wo Xiayi have to do with you? "
When Li Xiaogong was fighting with Wo Nation, Li Zexuan also took the opportunity to learn about the current situation in Wo Nation. He knew that the Su Wo Family was the top family in Wo Nation, and now only the top families in Wo Nation had surnames. Ordinary people generally only had names, not surnames. So, when he heard the woman in front of him called Su Wo Xiamu, Li Zexuan thought of Su Wo Xiayi, who had been killed by Li Xiaogong!
A trace of fear flashed in Su Wo Xiamu's eyes. After a while, she replied, "Su Wo Xiayi is my brother! Marquis Yong 'an, do you know him? "
Sure enough! The Su Wo Family's people could be said to have the blood of the Wo Nation's royal family flowing in their veins. With the power of Su Wo Xiayi in the Wo Nation's imperial court, wouldn't it be easy for the Empress to make her daughter a princess?
Li Zexuan nodded and said, "Your brother died in the hands of the Tang Empire's army. Don't you hate the Tangs?"
"No, no, no!"
I, Xiamu, quickly shook my head and said, "My elder brother is a devil. He deserved to die. Xiamu will not hate anyone!"
When everyone heard this, a wave of doubt arose in their hearts.
Li Zexuan didn't bother to pay attention to the complicated relationship within the Su Wo Family. He looked at Su Wo Xiamu and asked, "Your Highness, since the Wo Nation's Empress wants to marry you, please submit a letter of credence to the Tang Empire first. Only with His Majesty's permission can the marriage be arranged! Besides, I'm not a member of the royal family. Even if the Wo Nation's Empress wants to marry the Tang Empire, she shouldn't look for me. So, Princess Mingde, please go back! I'll send someone to send you back to the post house! "
Su Wo Xiamu was not ugly. On the contrary, she was very beautiful. This really surprised Li Zexuan, but he wasn't the kind of hothead who would be hot-blooded and reckless when he saw a beautiful woman. There was no free lunch in the world. The Mountain Back Elder Brother sent the Wo Nation's Princess to him, so he must have a request. If he accepted this woman, he wouldn't be able to refuse the next time the Mountain Back Elder Brother made a request!
Besides, he was a Marquis outside the royal family. If he married a foreign princess without permission, wouldn't he be tired of living? As long as he dared to accept Su Wo Xiamu, there would be a lot of memorials to impeach him in the imperial court in a few days!
Hearing this, Su Wo Xiamu's face turned as pale as paper. She knelt in front of Li Zexuan and said with tears in her eyes,
"Your Excellency Duke Yong 'an, please accept me! Actually, Xiamu is a princess who has just been deposed. This time, she was ordered by our country's Crown Prince to wander thousands of miles on the sea and narrowly escaped death to come to the Tang Empire. If I can't marry you, after returning to Wo Nation, Xiamu will be sent to the army by the Empress. Xiamu will live a life worse than death! Your Excellency Duke Yong 'an, please accept Xiamu! "
It turned out that she was a has-been Wo Nation's Princess!
Needless to say, her weeping and pitiful appearance really moved many people. Even though Li Zexuan had a firm mind, he couldn't help but feel a little touched in his heart. However, he didn't intend to change his decision!
"Husband, she … she's quite pitiful. Why don't we take her in?"
Just as Li Zexuan was about to refuse, Han Yuxi begged for mercy. This girl was kind by nature. After hearing Su Wo Xiamu's complaints, her heart immediately softened!
Because if she was sent to the army, she would basically be a military prostitute!
Li Zexuan heard this and looked at his wife speechlessly. He thought to himself, Wife, are you mistaken? This girl in front of you is trying to snatch your husband! If you take her in, aren't you inviting a 'wolf' into your house?
"Madam Marquis, you're Madam Marquis, right? You're beautiful and kind. Please accept Xiamu. Xiamu won't compete with you for favor. Xiamu can do any kind of hard work. Please don't let Duke Yong 'an send Xiamu back! "
Seeing Han Yuxi pleading with Li Zexuan, Su Wo Xiamu immediately grasped this slim chance of survival and quickly kowtowed to Han Yuxi to beg.
Hearing Su Wo Xiamu's pitiful words, Han Yuxi's heart softened. She tugged at Li Zexuan's arm, her eyes filled with pity. Li Zexuan waved his hand and said, "Wife, you don't have to persuade me anymore. Your husband has his own plans!"
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