Chapter 4 4

The emperor awoke from a dream early in the morning and thought of his precious daughter, Princess Bedinu Budolu as soon as he opened his eyes, and decided to go immediately to see if she was back to normal.So he dispelled his drowsiness, got out of bed immediately, tidied up his clothes, hurried to the door of the princess's bridal chamber, and called her. The prime minister's son had a hard night and was terribly cold.As soon as he was sent to the room, he heard a call, so he had to struggle to get out of bed, before the emperor entered the new room, he went back to Xiangfu with his servants.

The emperor lifted up the tapestry of the new house, went to the bed, greeted his lying daughter, kissed her forehead affectionately, and asked how she was doing.In the end, she saw her frowning, staring at him angrily without saying a word, showing a pitiful and terrifying expression. Seeing the scene, the emperor couldn't restrain the anger in his heart. He suspected that something bad had happened, and finally drew out his waist knife angrily, and said sharply, "What happened? If you don't tell me, I will kill you. I have good intentions." Talk to you, but you ignore it. Is this behavior a sign of respect for me? Is it the return I expect?"

Seeing the gleaming waist knife in the emperor's hand and his very angry situation, Princess Bertinu Budolu understood that her father was angry because of a misunderstanding, and this anger was almost out of control.So she resolutely got rid of timidity, shame, and fear, and decided to tell the whole situation, so she said: "Dear father, please don't be angry with me, and don't be emotional. My father will know about me, and I will have room to excuse and forgive me." Everything I heard, I explained it in detail from the beginning, and finally said: "Father, if you don't believe me, then please ask my husband, he will tell you everything.

As to where he himself was taken and how he was treated, I have no idea. " Hearing the princess's words, the emperor was angry and sad, so angry that he shed tears, he had to insert the waist knife into the sheath, kissed the princess and said, "Daughter! Why don't you tell me what happened the night before? If You said earlier that I can completely protect you, so that you will not be frightened and abused again. But there will be no accidents in the future. Now you get up, put aside distracting thoughts, and don't worry about this matter anymore. Tonight, I will send someone Watch the night to protect you and prevent disaster from befalling you again."

After the emperor ordered, he left the princess's bridal chamber, hurried back to the bedroom, immediately called the prime minister into the palace, and asked impatiently: "Ai Qing, maybe your son has told you about the accident he had with the princess? What do you think of this incident?" "Your Majesty, I haven't seen my son since yesterday!" The emperor had no choice but to recount the unexpected encounter of the princess from the beginning, and then said: "You should go and find out the actual situation of your son in this incident. Maybe the sufferings suffered by the princess in this incident are different from what your son suffered. .But I believe what the princess said is true."

The prime minister left immediately and hurried back to the prime minister's mansion. He immediately sent someone to call his son to him, told him what the emperor had said, and then asked whether it was true or not. Under the prime minister's questioning, his son didn't dare to hide any more, so he had to honestly say: "Father, Princess Bertinu Budolu didn't lie, what she said was all the truth. In the past two nights, we should The joy of the wedding night, which was enjoyed, was spoiled by the unexpected disaster. My own experience was particularly miserable. Not only was I not able to share the bride's bed, but I was confined in a dark, horrible, and smelly place, and I was scared and froze all night long. I almost lost my life." At last he said: "Dear father, I implore you to go to the emperor and beg him to give me back my freedom and dissolve my engagement with the princess. Originally, you can marry the emperor's daughter as a wife. Ma, this is indeed a most honorable thing, especially I love the princess to such an extent that I would not hesitate to sacrifice for her. But now I am exhausted, and the days of suffering like the day before yesterday and last night can no longer be endured."

After hearing his son's narration, the prime minister was greatly disappointed, worried and distressed to the extreme. The purpose of his marriage with the emperor was to make his son a vassal, make him rise steadily, and eventually become the lord of a country.Now, after hearing what happened to my son, I am deeply confused and don't know what to do.To him, the annulment of the engagement was indeed a painful thing.Because his son had just begun to enjoy the highest honor, he was unwilling to give it up, so he said to his son: "Son! Just bear with us for a while, and we'll see what happens tonight. We'll send a night watchman to protect you. You know, you're the only one who has won this status and honor. How many people envy you , I admire you! Don’t abandon it so easily.”

After the prime minister gave some instructions, he hurried to the palace and reported the facts to the emperor, explaining that what Princess Baibaidinu Budulu said was true. "Since this is the case, there should be no further delay." The emperor said categorically to the prime minister, and immediately announced the dissolution of the engagement, and ordered to stop all activities celebrating the wedding ceremony. Things come so suddenly, people are baffled.The embarrassment and pitifulness of the prime minister and his son surprised people, and there was a lot of discussion, asking each other: "What is the reason for the sudden announcement that the princess's marriage is invalid?" No one will know except Princess Dolu's Aladdin, so only Aladdin is secretly laughing.

The emperor single-handedly dissolved the engagement between the princess and the prime minister's son, but he had long forgotten the promise he made to Aladdin's mother.Aladdin could only wait patiently for the expiration of the period set by the emperor before he formally proposed to marry Princess Berdino Budolu. On the day when the three-month period expired, Aladdin urged his mother to go to the emperor early in the morning, begging to fulfill the promise. As expected, his mother acted according to the plan, and went to the palace with a frank heart, waiting to see the emperor.When the emperor came to the reception hall, when he saw Aladdin's mother standing outside the hall, he remembered the promise he had made to her. Then he looked back at the prime minister beside him and said, "My love, this is the old woman who gave me treasures. We once made a promise to her: when the three-month period expires, we will invite her into the palace to jointly arrange the marriage between the princess and her son. Now that the period has expired, I think it is better to bring her in first."

After hearing the emperor's words, the prime minister took Aladdin's mother into the reception hall and had an audience with the emperor. Aladdin's mother knelt down to greet the emperor, and wished him prosperity and wealth, and a long life. The emperor was happy for a while and asked her what she came to ask for. Aladdin's mother took the opportunity to say: "Report to the emperor, the three months you stipulated have expired, and now it's time for my son Aladdin to marry Princess Berdino Budolu." The emperor was shocked and embarrassed by Aladdin's mother's request, and fell into a state of confusion for a while. He really didn't like the poor and humble appearance of Aladdin's mother, but the gift she brought last time, But it is very precious, and its value is so high that it is far beyond his ability to repay.So he asked the prime minister for advice:

"How can you deal with this situation? I did say that I promised her son to marry the princess, so her request is justified. However, how can I ask my daughter to marry such a poor and humble family?" The prime minister was already very distressed because of the setback of his son's marriage, and he had always been jealous and hated Aladdin, so he thought to himself: "My son has lost his status as a horse, how can you let a family like you How can a person get this position as he wishes?" So he whispered to the emperor with malice in his heart: "Your Majesty, it is not difficult for you to get rid of this villain, because an ordinary subject like him with no skill and low status, His Majesty should not Consider marrying the noble princess to him." "But what should we do now?" The emperor didn't understand what the prime minister meant. "At the beginning, I made a promise to this old woman, and what I said to the people is equivalent to the contract made between each other. How can I break my promise and refuse this marriage?" "My lord, this matter is very simple. You only need to raise the conditions for asking for the dowry, and you can refuse this marriage without breaking your promise. For example: ask him to use forty pure gold platters, filled with statues The kind of precious gems given to His Majesty last time were carried by forty white-skinned maidservants, and delivered to the palace by forty dark-skinned eunuchs as a dowry gift for marrying the princess. Under such conditions, he It can't be done. I don't think there will be anything wrong with refusing him then." The emperor was very happy when he heard the prime minister's idea, and said, "Ai Qing, your suggestion seems to be the best way to solve the problem. When he can't meet the conditions we put forward, the initiative will be in our hands. " The emperor and the prime minister had a secret discussion, and then said to Aladdin's mother: "Go and tell your son, I mean what I say to people, and I will never break my promise, but there is one additional condition, that is, the dowry will cost four dollars. Ten pure gold plates, filled with forty plates of precious gems like the one presented to me last time, were held by forty fair-skinned beauties, and forty black-skinned eunuchs were sent to the palace together. , as a gift for marrying the princess. If your son can do this, I will marry my daughter to him as a wife." The emperor's request disappointed Aladdin's mother.On the way home, she kept shaking her head and sighing, and said to herself: "My poor child, where can I get such plates and gems? Let him go to that devil's cave-like underground treasure to get it, which is in any case Impossible. Even if the gems he brought back can be used to top up, where can we find those white maids and black eunuchs?" When she got home, she saw Aladdin waiting, and she said, "Son! With your ability, I don't think you can achieve your wish of marrying Princess Berdino Budolu, so I advise you to make up your mind to abandon your unworthy princess." It’s a realistic fantasy. Because we can’t meet the harsh conditions put forward by the emperor.” "Tell me about the new situation, what are the conditions?" Aladdin urged his mother. "Son! The emperor still showed respect when he met me this time. It seems that he has a merciful attitude towards us. It's just that annoying prime minister. It can be seen that he is your enemy. Because when I asked the emperor to perform When making a promise, the emperor asked the chancellor's opinion face to face, and he whispered to the emperor. After they muttered for a while, the emperor replied to me." So she repeated the conditions proposed by the emperor, and then said: "My son! The emperor is waiting Answer him quickly, but it seems to me that we can't answer him!" Aladdin couldn't help laughing, and said: "Mother, you think this is too difficult, and you conclude that we can't do it, but it's not. These conditions are nothing, mother, just rest assured, don't worry, I have my own way Deal with it. Let’s eat something first to fill our stomachs. You will be satisfied when the time comes. The reason why the emperor put forward such harsh conditions and asked for a dowry gift is to make it difficult for me, so that I can retreat in order to refuse I am married to his daughter. I think the amount of the dowry is not that big, much less than I imagined. Well, you don't have to worry, you can go to the palace to answer after I am fully prepared." Aladdin hurried back to the bedroom while his mother was shopping, took out the magic lamp and wiped it, and the lamp god appeared in front of him and said, "Please command, my master! What do you want me to do?" "I want to marry the emperor's daughter, Princess Bedinu Budolu, and I need to prepare the following dowry gifts according to his requirements, which are: Forty plates of pure gold, weighing ten pounds each, filled with precious stones, of the type designated for us to obtain from underground treasures, were carried by forty fair-skinned beauties, in the Forty dark-skinned eunuchs were escorted into the palace together.Can you furnish all this I need as soon as possible? " "No problem, my master, you just need to rest assured." The lamp god agreed and quietly retreated. After about an hour, the Genie reappeared and prepared all the necessary things as required.He came to Aladdin and said: "Everything is done, what else do you need?" Aladdin looked very happy and said, "I don't need anything now." After a while, Aladdin's mother came home from the vegetable market and saw black eunuchs and white girls as soon as she entered the door.She shouted in great surprise: "Thanks to the grace of God, all this must be the credit of the lamp god." Before his mother took off her shawl, Aladdin said: "Mother, before the emperor retreats to the harem, hurry up and send these gifts and servants to the palace and dedicate them to the emperor. Let him know that whatever he asks, I Almighty. Even if you ask for more; at the same time, he will understand that he has been tricked and deceived by the prime minister. In addition, he must let the emperor and the prime minister understand that they, the monarch and his ministers, should not try to embarrass me or obstruct me, because doing so It's futile." Aladdin opened the door and let his mother lead the servants to bring the dowry into the palace. Under the leadership of Aladdin's mother, the gift-giving team marched to the palace.When passing through the busy market, passers-by stopped to watch the astonishing and miraculous scene: the maidservants were all extremely beautiful, wearing brocade dresses inlaid with gold and jade, worth a thousand dollars.Especially striking were the precious stones, which were set in golden plates and radiated intense light despite being covered with embroidered veils. When Aladdin's mother led the servants into the palace, the whole palace was immersed in envy and amazement.How can the radiant gems and the servants who are like fairies not make them stunned. The guard officer woke up like a dream and hurried to report the scene of the gift-giving team to the emperor. The emperor was very surprised when he heard this, but he was very happy, and immediately ordered the guests to come in.Aladdin's mother led the servants and guards to the reception hall, knelt down in front of the emperor, and wished him prosperity and longevity for generations.The maidservants took down the gold plates filled with precious stones on their heads and placed them at the emperor's feet in order, and uncovered the silk handkerchiefs covering the plates, and then stepped aside, standing respectfully and waiting for orders. Seeing these maidservants with slender figures and beautiful looks like fairies, the emperor was so excited that he almost went crazy.He looked at the gemstones in the gold plate, and was stunned by the dazzling light for a moment, and was stunned. Encountering such an accident, the emperor simply didn't know how to deal with it, and he couldn't say a word.After a while, he came to his senses and realized that it was extraordinary that the suitor was able to collect so many treasures in such a short period of time.This surprised him immensely. Finally, the emperor gladly accepted the dowry, and ordered the servant girl to send the gift to the harem for Princess Bedinu Budolu. Aladdin's mother took the opportunity to say respectfully to the emperor: "My lord, the small gift presented by my son Aladdin may not be commensurate with the noble and dignified status of Princess Bedinu Budolu. In terms of the value of the princess, it wouldn't be too much to multiply the prize money." After hearing the old woman's modest words, the emperor looked back at the prime minister and asked, "Aiqing, what do you think of this matter? I think that a person who can raise such a dowry in such a short period of time is fully qualified to be selected as a horse. " The prime minister was no less surprised and envious of this bride price than the emperor, but his jealousy to frame Aladdin also quickly swelled.When he saw that the emperor was satisfied with the bride price and the marriage was a foregone conclusion, he couldn't object directly, so he could only vaguely say: "Anyway, this is not appropriate." The marriage of Latin and Princess Berdino Budolu, boldly said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, even if all the treasures in the universe are collected, you can't buy a piece of the princess' nails. But Your Majesty puts too much emphasis on the dowry and despises the princess herself." After hearing this, the emperor fully understood that the prime minister's remarks were obviously out of excessive jealousy, so he ignored them.He said to Aladdin's mother: "Old man, go back and tell your son. I accept the dowry and agree to choose him as my horse, and tell him to come to the palace immediately, and let him and the princess hold a wedding ceremony tonight." Aladdin's mother was very happy, and she took her leave happily. On the way home, she walked like flying, and she was determined to congratulate her son heartily.She thought that her son's wish was about to become a reality, and she was so happy that it was indescribable. Immediately after the emperor sent Aladdin's mother away, under the guard of his attendants, he came to the boudoir of Princess Bedinu Budolu, and ordered the servants to bring the dowry to the princess to see one by one. Princess Bedinu Budolu was shocked when she saw the dowry gift, and sighed: "In my opinion, these treasures are really rare in the world!" I am very happy.She knew that these maidservants and the trays of treasures were dowry gifts from the one who loved her deeply, so she felt relaxed and happy. Although her marriage was once frustrated, and she was sad and distressed by it, but now At that time, she had completely shaken off the pain, and finally she was smiling and refreshed. Seeing this, the emperor's worries disappeared, so he said happily to the princess: "Daughter! Are these dowry gifts in line with your wishes? I dare say that the person who proposes to you today is better than the prime minister's son." fit to be your husband. Your marriage must be a happy one. "