Chapter 83: New Year's Banquet (2)
Chi Xiaoman was still grounded, whether it was worshipping the heavens or worshipping the ancestors, or the New Year's banquet afterward, none of them had any points for her appearance.
However, since the founding of Yasukuni, worshipping the heavens and worshiping ancestors have been presided over by the emperor, and all concubines, princes, and princesses must also participate, unless it is a prince who has a fief and has been named a prince, and the princess who cannot return to Beijing because the fief is too far away, or a princess who is married, can not return to the palace to worship the ancestors, otherwise those who are in the palace are beaten into the cold palace, as long as they do not die, they must also be taken to the royal ancestral hall on this day.
"Your Majesty, why don't you see Concubine Man?" Concubine Rong couldn't help but ask when she saw that the festival was about to start, but the only concubine beside the emperor was nowhere to be seen.
Yu Chimu glanced at her, knowing what she was thinking, but he still said uncontrollably: "Concubine Man was grounded by me, isn't everyone in the palace aware of this?"
"Although Concubine Man has been grounded, but today is different from weekdays, it is the concubine who has been knocked out of the cold palace, and it is indispensable to worship the heavens and worship the ancestors, is the emperor-"
"Concubine Rong, the ritual of worshiping the heavens and worshiping the ancestors cannot be abolished, but it must not be changed, the etiquette must be adapted to the times, yesterday I went to Fengyi Palace to see Xiaoman, only to know that Xiaoman was sick, how can she come to the ancestral hall, what if the queen mother and the concubines are sick?" Yu Chimu said in a deep voice.
"Is Concubine Man sick?" the Queen Mother asked with concern, "Can the emperor ask the imperial doctor to go and see him?"
"The queen mother has let Imperial Doctor Ge see it, saying that she is suffering from wind and cold, but because of her weak body, I am afraid that she will have to take care of it well in order to recover slowly. Yu Chimu said.
The Queen Mother nodded, not knowing whether to believe it or not, but Concubine Rong didn't believe it.
This recuperation will take several months, and it is not up to the emperor to have the final say. A few months later, the child was born, and the emperor had a good plan.
However, since the emperor has come up with such a reason, presumably Imperial Doctor Ge knows that Concubine Man is pregnant, even if he confirms the authenticity of this matter to Imperial Doctor Ge, Imperial Doctor Ge is the emperor's person, and he will definitely not be able to ask anything.
So Concubine Rong didn't ask more, just like she didn't know that Xiaoman was pregnant, and when she asked about Concubine Man just now, it was just a wonder why Concubine Man didn't come here.
Yu Chimu glanced at her, sneering in his heart, and the master of ceremonies had already begun to read out the ceremony of worshipping the heavens.
After worshipping the ancestors, it was almost midnight, and many officials came to the palace with their families to attend the New Year's banquet. This year, there are a lot of officials with their families, and most of the female dependents are girls in their 28s and 29s, and they are all dressed up in fancy ways.
In the past, the daughters of these official families were not very willing to enter the palace, after all, it was not a good thing for the old emperor to look at them, although they could bring glory and wealth to the family, but what about themselves? A lifetime of youth will be buried in the hands of the old emperor who is the same age as their father, and most women are still unwilling.
Now it's different, in the past, the king of Huai'an was the best couple in the hearts of many official women, and now the king of Huai'an has become the emperor, and his status is not what it used to be, so that the emperor can look up to it has become the wish of all the women, what is the sinister in the palace, can get the favor of such a handsome and intelligent emperor, even if it is good to have only one night of favor, not to mention the daughters of their big families, which have never seen the wife and concubine house fight, and the palace is not like that, and those who voluntarily enter the palace always feel that they have the ability to fight with others.
The girls in this room were dreaming, and there were also people in Fengyi Palace who started to act. (To be continued......)