It was noon when I arrived at the Qianqing Palace, and I saw that the emperor throne was in the middle of the imperial feast, and the queen's throne was set up behind the left of the imperial feast, and the left and right concubines, concubines, and concubines feasted, east and west, facing north.

According to the rules, the emperor will not enter the table before the concubines, only when the concubines are waiting for the prime minister, the emperor will come belatedly, enter the middle of the throne and sit down, and then the queen will lead the imperial concubines and the following people to wear auspicious clothes and enter the banquet in order, and then invite the emperor to ascend to the throne and play music.

There are not many concubines in Yinzhen, and now in the palace, in addition to the old people in the palace, there are only two new low-level Changzai, adding up to a total of nine people, among which the Song family has not arrived due to illness, and the eight people present stand in the center of the huge Qianqing Palace, and the pomp and circumstance seem a little thin, and the scene of dozens of concubines and concubines at the banquet of Emperor Kangxi saluting together is really incomparable.

After the ceremony, the queen took her seat, and the concubines bowed to the queen before taking their seats in their corresponding positions, and the concubines with children had seats for their children behind them. I was still sitting at the bottom of the Qian family, and at my bottom sat the newly promoted Guo Changzai, and An Changzai was arranged next to Ning Concubine Wu on the opposite side. Everyone bowed their heads slightly, looked at their noses, and watched without saying or moving, waiting for the person on the throne to speak first.

Yin Zhen on the throne, dressed in a winter-style bright yellow fur trim embroidered with a five-clawed dragon pattern, with a black vender hat on his head, the top of the hat is a gold silk hollow gold cloud dragon inlaid with the top of the east jewel, just a glance at the momentum is compelling. Even at the Chinese New Year's Eve family banquet on the Chinese New Year's Eve, Yin Chen still had that rigid and unsmiling expression, and his slightly constricted eyes just covered his true thoughts, and he could not see the slightest emotion from his face alone, and he really responded to the sentence "joy and anger are invisible", adding the four words "the heart of the monarch is unpredictable" to the prestige of the son of heaven.

This tall man is no longer the handsome young man he was when he first met, and he will also show all kinds of emotions when he is inadvertent, especially when he encounters things, although it is not as unfathomable as it is now, but it makes people feel high-spirited and a touch of humanity. But these years of bloody and bloody battles have sharpened his heart more and more cold, and now he has long passed and is getting old, he sits high in the hall, exuding an aura that cannot be looked at directly, but he is no longer the person who can make me feel at ease, he has completely become an emperor who reigns over the world, a son of heaven, and an existence that mortals like me cannot look up to.

After the palace concubine finished the ceremony, it was the turn of the prince who had not yet left the palace to congratulate him. Concubine Qi's only surviving son, Hongshi, is now nineteen years old, and has already married and had children, although he still lives in the palace and does not live separately, but as an adult prince, he is naturally not suitable to attend today's occasion, so only Hongli and Hongday, the two princes, lead three girls who are born but do princess makeup and clothing to bow in the palace.

Quietly looking at the three girls who had been following the queen Wulanala clan in the Yongshou Palace before, thinking about their family history and the reason for entering the palace, secretly thinking that Yinzhen had four daughters before, three of whom died soon after birth, and only Princess Heshuo Huaike, who was born by Concubine Qi, lived to adulthood and married. It's a pity that this Gege died in the fifty-sixth year of Kangxi. Therefore, there are so many three princesses in the palace who have never seen the princess before, let alone heard the Wulanala clan mention half a sentence, and they can't help but be a little curious and confused. After the three girls said that the sons and the two princes saluted together, they sat down in the children's seats behind the queen in turn, behaving in a dignified manner, thinking that the birth must not be low, because it was inconvenient to ask more questions at this time, they simply remembered the appearance of the three carefully, and planned to wait for the end of the banquet to distinguish.

After the number of ceremonies, the meal began to be served, and at this time, it was just before the second quarter of the first month, and the heat began to be transmitted. This is the first New Year's banquet since entering the palace, although Yinzhen is very frugal in diet on weekdays, but at this time he should not be stingy. The tableware on the table of the golden dragon banquet used by the emperor is gold plates and bowls, and eight meals are placed from the inside to the outside. In the middle of the first road, there are four pine canopy fruit covers, with green apples inside, and a vase with flowers on each side; on the second road, there are nine high-foot bowls, which hold candied fruits; on the third road, there are nine waist bowls, which are filled with Manchurian paradoxical dim sum; on the fourth road, there are two pairs of red carved lacquer fruit boxes, which contain 10 fruit cups; on the fifth to eighth roads, there are 40 kinds of cold food, hot food, and group meals, mainly dishes made of Kanto goose, wild boar, venison, mutton, fish, pheasant, roe deer, etc. In the center of the emperor's banquet table, near the seats, there are eating utensils such as gold spoons, gold-inlaid ivory chopsticks, and small gold cloth plates. On the left side of the tableware are milk cakes, milk skins and wet and dry snacks, and on the right side are side dishes such as sauce side dishes, water vegetables, funeral cabbage, green sauce and other condiments. On the horizon, the left side of the emperor's golden dragon banquet table is set up with the queen's seat in the east and west with a high table, and the table is placed with a gold plate, a bowl or a yellow and yellow dark cloud dragon plate and bowl to place 32 items of cold, hot and group meals, 16 meat dishes and 16 fruits. Under the horizon, the banquet tables of imperial concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, and nobles are placed in the east and west directions. According to the rank, the imperial concubine and the concubine are one table, and the concubine, concubine, and noble person are one table for two or three people at a table. The banquet table of the concubines is divided into cold, hot, and 15 group meals, 7 meat dishes, and 8 fruits with corresponding bowls. The position bowl is a sign of identity, that is, different identities use different colors of tableware: the emperor and queen use gold tableware and yellow yellow face dark cloud dragon tableware, the imperial concubine, the concubine, and the concubine use the yellow ground green cloud dragon tableware, the concubine uses the blue ground yellow cloud dragon bowl, and the nobles use the green purple cloud dragon bowl.

Looking at the dishes that are much more sumptuous and extravagant than usual, Rao is accustomed to seeing all kinds of banquets in his previous life, and I and Concubine Qian, who sat together, couldn't help but be a little staggered. However, on such an occasion at this time, no matter how secretly amazed, the two of them just smiled and exchanged a knowing look at each other, and then calmly began to toast and eat in accordance with the rules.

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors. Most of the people also put down their chopsticks and began to toast each other, and the atmosphere was lively. There are so many topics among the women in the palace, and the topic of heirs is very sensitive, so naturally it is impossible to mention more. So what can be said is nothing more than complimenting each other's makeup and jewelry, and then comparing talents and knowledge with the emperor in front of him. As he spoke, An Changzai, who was sitting opposite, heard that my status in the palace was not ordinary, and felt that I was a good-tempered person, so he praised the beautiful cloisonné enamel hairpin on my head, and by the way, she also showed off her knowledge of the hairpin making process.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Concubine Qi Li suddenly opened her mouth in a strange manner: "The emperor and the queen mother love Sister Yu the most on weekdays, and the hairpin style on the head of Sister Concubine Yu today is indeed good, but it is a little old, and it looks a little familiar." It seems like...... I used to see the Holy Grandfather's Concubine Yi Niangniang wear it. After that, he also deliberately sighed with self-pity: "Sister Yu Concubine not only pleases the emperor and queen, but also takes care of the Holy Grandfather's Concubine Yi after entering the palace, but she is not like us people, who are not pleasing in any way." ”