Inside the Taihe Palace.

Fang Yi stepped in, the line of sight was attracted by the glazed palace lamp, delicate and elegant, there are colorful satin on it along the palace lamp drooping, with the breeze gently floating, there are eight dragon pillars supporting the entire Taihe Palace, the carving is lifelike, because it is the deep winter season, the ground is laid with a thick silver velvet carpet, very warm and pleasant. In the corner of each lamppost, there is a fire warm, adding all kinds of spices, so that the hall is not only pleasantly warm, but also fragrant.

The emperor's dragon chair was placed in the center of the hall, with the queen on one side, and on the other side, there was a bird cage with an emerald parrot, and the emerald parrot was in it, but the parrot was very quiet, although it shook its head in the cage, but it did not make any sound.

Princess Ning whispered in Shen Fengxu's ear: "Can you see that parrot? It is something that the emperor values very much, so he even has to take it with him at such a palace banquet." ”

"Why does the emperor value parrots all the time?" Hearing this, Shen Fengxu couldn't help asking, a little curious in his heart.

"I heard others say that this parrot was given to the emperor a few years ago, but this parrot is not good at words, so the emperor invited the people in the palace to domesticate parrots, but this parrot will not say a word, and even the chirping of some birds will not happen to this parrot, and over time, the emperor will leave this parrot behind. "Princess Ning will tell the story of the past," Only later, an assassin sneaked into the palace, pretending to be a maid in the palace, and wanted to assassinate the emperor, the emperor did not find out at first, but the parrot that could not speak suddenly shouted loudly, saying that there was an assassin, and shouted two or three times in a row, the emperor was prepared, and he captured all the assassins who came to assassinate him, if not, the emperor would definitely be injured, but because of the parrot, not only did not suffer any injuries, but also uprooted the person who assassinated him, the emperor had palpitations, and he was grateful to the parrot, and the parrot was given an official position, and it was strange to say, since that day, the parrot was as usual, and no one can speakNo matter how the trainer taught, the parrot couldn't say a word anymore, and others said that this parrot was given by the gods in the sky to bless the emperor. ”

Gave the parrot an official position?

Shen Fengxu felt a little funny for a while, but when he looked up, he found that there was really a sign hanging on the parrot's neck, probably writing the parrot's official position, but Shen Fengxu was a little far away from the parrot, and he couldn't see the handwriting on it.

But listening to Princess Ning's story, Shen Fengxu also understood the reason why this parrot was valued by Ming Jin.

Therefore, since then, no matter where the emperor goes, he will take this parrot with him, firstly, in the hope that if there is any danger in the future, this parrot can warn in advance, and secondly, he will regard this parrot as a symbol of auspiciousness. ”

Shen Fengxu nodded.

Ming Jin is a person who attaches great importance to red tape, and is very superstitious, and he is even more convinced of some rumors, so he has always reused Qin Tianjian, which can be relaxed in other aspects, but only others are not allowed to break the rules of the palace.

Under the emperor Mingjin and the empress, there are the rest of the favored concubines, Rou Concubine, Xian Concubine, Shufei, etc. are all present, and there are some concubines who are not very favored, but they have reached the concubine position above, so they are also at the banquet at this moment.

Below, there are two rows of guest seats, the male guest seat has the position of the prince's clan and the officials of the court, and the same is true for the female guest seat, because it is a palace banquet, so it is not a random arrangement on those banquets in the past, all of them are arranged in order according to the grade, and Shen Fengxu, as a four-grade county monarch, is particularly outstanding among the nobles in Beijing.

Among the daughters of the current clan in this dynasty, only the lord of Qingning has not yet left the cabinet, and now he is far away from Pingzhou, so now the position of the daughter of the clan is only Shen Fengxu, and next to Shen Fengxu is the sixth princess Minglan and the ninth princess Mingsi.

At this time, a palace maid stepped forward and whispered a few words in Ming Jin's ear, and Ming Jin showed a faint smile on his face, nodded, and waved his hand to let the palace maid retreat.

The Ninth Princess quietly glanced at Shen Fengxu.

For a period of time, she has been with Shen Yulou, Shen Yulou as her companion, although she is much older than her, but she is gentle and graceful, and the two get along very well, but for some reason, the ninth princess always feels a little strange.

Shen Yulou......

It is indeed as brilliant as it is rumored, but it does not stop there.

"Are you Minhejun?" Mingsi called in a low voice.

If it were in the past, the Ninth Princess probably wouldn't have spoken a word to Shen Fengxu, but now Shen Fengxu is the monarch of Minhe County, and as the daughter of the clan of this dynasty, she is naturally qualified to talk to her.

Shen Fengxu looked at the Ninth Princess and smiled slightly: "Yes, what is the matter with the Ninth Princess?"

The sixth princess Ming Lan's eyebrows were clear and beautiful, she glanced at the ninth princess, and said, "Now the daughter of the clan who can attend the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, except for Min and Junjun, naturally there will be no one else." ”

As she spoke, she showed a weird smile at Shen Fengxu: "I heard that Min and Junjun are the righteous daughters of Princess Ning." ”

Shen Fengxu's brows frowned slightly, but he immediately stretched out, and said with a shallow smile: "What the sixth princess said is good. ”

The smile on the face of the sixth princess became more and more strange.

She knows.

Her cousin is not a peaceful person, and he has always been casual and wanton, and Princess Ning has been worrying about his marriage for a long time, Ming Shu's age is already enough, but Ming Shu himself is unwilling to marry a wife, no matter which girl in the court or in the middle of the court is unwilling to meet.

So much so that Princess Ning once suspected that Ming Shu didn't like women.

The sixth princess also thinks so.

Previously, there were occasional rumors of Ming Shu and Shen Fengxu in Beijing, and the six princesses had vaguely heard some, but now, Shen Fengxu has become the righteous daughter of Princess Ning, and Minhejun, who was awarded the fourth grade, wants to come......

And sitting above the sixth princess is the eldest princess of Shunning, but the eldest princess of Shunning has a dull look on her face, and her eyes are blue, obviously she can't sleep peacefully at night, although her face is covered by heavy rouge watercolor, but it is still difficult to hide her haggardness.

Come to think of it, since the death of Ji Gongzi, the eldest princess of Shunning has not been able to live in peace.

At this time, the eyes of the eldest princess of Shunning fell on Ming Yan in the male guest seat opposite.

Such a gloomy and cold gaze, as if a sharp blade that had been unsheathed, was about to pierce deeply into Ming Yan's body, and Ming Yan on the opposite side obviously felt such an aura, but he just turned his head and gossiped with the third prince beside him, just as if he didn't see the eldest princess Shunning.

At this time, I heard Ming Jin, who was sitting on the dragon chair, smile and said: "Today's festival, all Aiqing gather together, so there is no need to be restrained." ”

At this time, an attendant said outside the palace gate: "Jiang Xiaoyi has arrived——"

The faces of the concubines in the palace changed suddenly.

Jiang Xiaoyi?

She is clearly only Xiaoyi, and has not reached the concubine position, how can He De attend the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet?

And after Shen Fengxu heard the words, a shallow smile appeared on his face, thinking about it, in the previous period of time, Jiang Xuanyue had already thought it through.

She not only wants to live, but also bears the enmity on her body and the fate of the entire Yi'anbo Mansion.

So Jiang Xuanyue came.

Everyone's eyes fell on Jiang Xuanyue, because Jiang Xuanyue's way of entering the palace was very novel, so as early as a few days ago, it became everyone's pastime after dinner, and no one knew Jiang Xuanyue's origin.

And now Jiang Jianyue has broken the rules to participate in the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet as Xiaoyi, which can only show two things, one is that Ming Jin must be very fond of Jiang Jianyue now, otherwise Jiang Jianyue will not have the opportunity to come, and the other is that this Jiang Jianyue in front of him is not a good stubble.

You must know that although she became the emperor's concubine, because she did not enter the palace as a show girl, everyone else thought that all this was Jiang Xiyue's own calculated bright future, so they were a little afraid of Jiang Xiyue in their hearts.

There are many young and beautiful women in the palace, but they are not favored by Ming Jin, but Jiang Xiyue broke the rules to participate in the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, which is enough to show that Jiang Jianyue is not an ordinary woman and cannot be easily provoked.

It's just that others don't know that it's not what they think.

Seeing Jiang Xiyue walking in, a gentle smile appeared on Ming Jin's face, and said, "This is Jiang Xiaoyi, the new Jiang Xiaoyi in the palace." ”

The civil and military officials on the side said one after another: "Jiang Xiaoyi is really a rare beauty." ”

"Sure enough, she is gentle and virtuous, dignified and polite. ”

“......”

Yi Anbo was naturally among the civil and military officials, but after he saw his daughter with his own eyes, his face couldn't help but be a little complicated, and he didn't say anything against his will to congratulate him, but sat in place without saying a word.

As for Yi'anbo's wife Li, she was almost in tears at the moment, but fortunately, the lady on the side gently patted Li's shoulder, and Li reacted that if there was such a move in the Taihe Palace, it would definitely be unfavorable to Jiang Xuyue and to Yi'anbo's mansion.

And Ming Jin listened to the congratulations of others on the side, and the smile on his face became more and more intense.

Although they were all flattering words, but they did sound extremely comfortable, Jiang Xiyue made a salute, her eyes always fell on Ming Jin, she didn't even glance at the sides, she bent her knees, and Ying Ying saluted: "Thank you for the emperor's mercy, and let the concubines participate in the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet." ”

Shen Yulou gently tightened his fingers and looked at Jiang Xuanyue.

Ming Jin said with a smile: "Jiang Xiaoyi is not familiar with anything when she first enters the palace, and I am not trying to break the rules, but just let Jiang Xiaoyi see you." ”

Isn't that an exception?

Concubine Rou on the side said in a soft voice: "This is the first time the concubine has seen Jiang Xiaoyi, Xiaoyi has been in the palace for so long, she can't invite the queen to serve tea, if she didn't come today, the concubine almost forgot about this person." ”

Empress Hu glanced at Concubine Rou and said lightly: "This palace has been unwell recently, so I have been exempted from the invitation of all my sisters, and Jiang Xiaoyi naturally can't come." ”

Ming Jin only turned a blind eye to the dispute between the empress and Concubine Rou beside her, and let the chamberlain bring the table and chair up again, specially adding a place for Jiang Xiaoyi, although it is still far from Ming Jin's position, but with her identity, it is already very decent to be able to attend the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet.

Prince Mingcheng stood up with a wine glass and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the father and emperor for getting a good man, today is the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the children respect the father and the emperor with a cup, may the father and emperor be healthy and healthy, and may the country of Daluo be prosperous." ”

As he spoke, he drank all the wine in his cup.

And as the crown prince Mingcheng's voice fell, the rest of the people present stood up together: "May the emperor be in good health, and may Daluo be prosperous." And when he had finished speaking, they drank together.

But at this moment, there was a sudden sound of shattering that was quite discordant.

It seems that someone has broken the wine cup.

On such occasions, it is tantamount to looking for death.

Everyone's eyes turned at the same time, to the location where the voice was coming from.

The broken glass of wine fell to the ground, and the fragments of the wine cup and the fruit wine in the cup were spilled on the ground, and after a moment of hesitation, Shen Fengxu knelt on the ground and said calmly: "Congratulations to the emperor." ”

Everyone: "......?"

Ming Jin was in a happy mood, but the sudden shattering of the wine cup made Ming Jin's heart sink.

Just now, everyone wished the dragon body health and prosperity of the country, but at this time, Shen Fengxu's wine cup was shattered, what does this mean? What does it mean?

So his expression was slightly unsightly: "He Xizhi?" On an occasion like the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Ming Jin didn't want blood to be splashed on the Taihe Hall, let alone someone to hit the ground, but if Shen Fengxi couldn't say why, he would never let it go.

At the men's table, Ming Yan smiled slightly, shook the wine cup in his hand, and drank it all again.

Shen Fengxu didn't break the wine cup on purpose, but when she stood up to toast, someone suddenly pushed her from behind her, and she had a wound on her ankle, so she naturally couldn't stand steadily, and the wine cup slipped out of her hand.

Standing behind Shen Fengxu was the palace maid.

But Shen Fengxu didn't say anything, just glanced back at the palace maid.

The first is that even if she says it, it is meaningless, no matter whether Shen Fengxu was pushed by someone or not, she did break the wine cup, which is irrefutable, and the second is that it is very likely to be beaten upside down.

So Shen Fengxu acted as if nothing had happened.

At the moment, Ming Jin asked, Shen Fengxu didn't have any different colors on his face, but said softly: "I don't know if Your Majesty has heard that when the people burn porcelain, the porcelain is not broken, but it has to be opened, leaving fine lines on the porcelain." ”

Ming Jin has been clothed and eaten since he was a child, and the porcelain used is all intact, without a trace of flaws, and he has never heard of the opening of the film, so he frowned: "You continue." ”

"When making embryos, the soaked porcelain powder is picked up, and after clarification, it is melted into mud to make embryos, and when firing, the pieces are opened on it, which resemble cracks, all in the embryos, and are exposed on the porcelain fetus. Shen Fengxu said slowly, "The reason why I want to do this is to take the meaning of peace and security, porcelain has a spirit, and the opening piece means that it can resist disasters and is auspicious, so the courtiers want to congratulate the emperor." ”

Everyone on the side immediately looked at each other.