Shou Sheng's Day, the birthday of Emperor Yu Wenhong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Generally speaking, the royal celebration of such a birthday is not really to celebrate the emperor's birthday, but the political meaning is greater than the celebration significance. What's more, it just happened yesterday that the queen mother cried in the Fengxian Hall to complain that the emperors and princes were disrespectful to her, which also cast a shadow on this festival.

Jiang Yu didn't know how big the shadow area was in Yu Wenhong's heart, but on the surface, it seemed that he had not been impressed by yesterday's events, and his mood seemed to be good, which was very in line with the happy image of a person who was celebrating his birthday.

From the inside of the Yong'e Building, an extremely gorgeous scene is spread out, a hundred flowers compete for beauty, ten thousand Hubei compete for brilliance, and all kinds of precious flowers are scattered and opened, as if competing to open to celebrate the emperor's birthday.

The civil and military officials, vassal kings, clansmen and envoys of various countries gathered together in the Wan'e Building, and it was a scene of prosperity and prosperity and joy of all the people. Even if Jiang Yu just overshadowed Jiang Yu yesterday

But in fact, there is nothing special about the Shousheng Festival, every program is carried out step by step, first the civil and military officials, vassal kings and relatives kneel down to worship the emperor, congratulate the emperor on his long life, the Great Zhou Dynasty and thousands of generations or something, and then the emperor made some speeches, what is blessed by God, assisted by good ministers, and may the Aiqing and I encourage you to create a prosperous world and so on.

Then there are singing and dancing, planning exchanges, civil and military officials, clan envoys toast to Yuwenhong, Yuwenhong and so on......

Halfway through the feast, everything was calm at the birthday feast, almost making people think that today's banquet should be so noisy but passed peacefully...... But, of course, this is not possible.

Regardless of whether it is a civil and military official or a vassal king's clansman, it is determined that something must happen today, and it feels abnormal if nothing does not happen.

And sure enough, after the wine was too half-drunk, the Empress Dowager Cui, who had been quiet, began to speak, starting with a glass of wine to the emperor, and then began to speak: "Looking at the harmony of the harem today, the emperor and the hundred officials and ministers get along, the Great Zhou is peaceful and prosperous under the governance of the emperor, and the mourning family is very relieved. As he spoke, he sighed again, and said: "Today is the emperor's happy day, and the mourning family should not sweep the emperor's prosperity." But the mourning family looked at the emperor with many concubines today, but they remembered King Qi who was still alone. When the first emperor died, the king of Qi was still young, but he respectfully obeyed the last words of the first emperor and left the mourning family to go to the vassal alone. But now that King Qi has grown up, his marriage has not yet been settled, and it has not become a matter of concern in the hearts of the mourning family. Today, taking advantage of the presence of the civil and military officials and the clan relatives of the vassal kings, the mourning family wants to ask the emperor for a marriage grace for the king of Qi, so that the mourning family can watch the king of Qi marry a wife and have children while he is alive, which can be regarded as understanding the wish of the mourning family. ”

Yu Wenhong was not surprised that Empress Dowager Cui would bring up this topic, put down the wine glass with a smile, said "oh", and said: "The fifth brother is indeed at the age when he should worry about marriage, not only the queen mother remembers, but I have also been remembering it for the fifth brother." ”

said again: "Since the Queen Mother mentioned it today, the candidate who wants to align the princess already has a favorite candidate, I don't know which famous lady has the queen mother's blue eyes?"

Empress Dowager Cui said: "Zhou Bi, the general of Zuo Wuhou, has a thousand gold, has both good looks, is virtuous and virtuous, and is very suitable for the eyes of the mourning family. Miss Qia Zhou and King Qi are of the same age, and they have never been married, which is a match made in heaven. Why don't the emperor decree the marriage today, and choose this family affair between Miss Zhou and your fifth brother?"

Empress Dowager Cui naturally once probed Zhou Bi's tone, and wanted to set Miss Zhou as the princess for King Qi, and the two formed an alliance by marriage. It's just that Zhou Bi is very cunning, and he has been perfunctory, making it clear that he doesn't want to marry her.

Empress Dowager Cui mentioned it at this time, naturally she deliberately meant to force Yu Wenhong in front of the civil and military officials.

And Yu Wenjiong also came out of his seat at this time very well, raised his head and arched his hand to Yu Wenhong, kowtowed, and then got up and said: "Brother Huang, after the younger brother returned to Beijing, he happened to see Miss Zhou a few times, fell in love with her at first sight, admired it very much, and made up his mind that he would not marry Miss Zhou in this life, and hoped that the imperial brother would fulfill the infatuation of the younger brother and give Miss Zhou to marry the younger brother." ”

The mother and son sang and harmonized, Empress Dowager Cui was a good match, Yu Wenjiong fell in love at first sight, and it happened that Miss Zhou was never married, if Yu Wenhong didn't agree, it was a little like making people feel that Yu Wenhong couldn't see Yu Wenjiong's good and mean brothers.

At this time, Zhou Bi, who was sitting in the first row of the courtiers, scolded a mother, and the Empress Dowager Cui did not greet him in advance when she said these words. He didn't mean to marry his daughter to the king of Qi, and the scene at this time made it a little difficult for him to ride a tiger.

Yu Wenhong naturally would not let King Qi marry Miss Zhou, so that Yu Wenjiong might form an alliance with the Zhou family, and said with a smile at this time: "I didn't know that the fifth brother was still an infatuated person, and he could make up his mind not to marry." It's just that you fell in love with Miss Zhou at first sight, I wonder if Miss Zhou has the same thoughts about you? Since you are married, it is naturally good for you to be happy. If it's just the fifth brother's unrequited love, I'm afraid that the fifth brother will be wronged after marrying Miss Zhou. ”

Empress Dowager Cui raised her eyebrows and said, "Boudoir women, who know etiquette and etiquette, naturally obey the orders of their parents and concubines for their marriages. As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Zhou Bi, his eyes were quite sharp, but he said with a smile on his face: "It is the blessing of the Zhou family to be able to marry the royal family, and presumably General Zhou will not refuse this family affair made in heaven." Isn't it, General Zhou?"

The civil and military officials looked at each other at this time, and they were very silent in this strange atmosphere at this time. On the other side, Wang Yuwenxuan glanced at the Queen Mother and Yuwenhong above, snorted softly, and then took a sip of wine from his wine glass. But King Ning seemed to have an attitude of not caring about himself, hanging his head and staring at the wine glass on the table, as if there was something interesting on it. On the other side, the king of Qinghe County pulled King Lin's sleeve, leaned over his head and bit his ear with King Lin, and said: "It seems that the Queen Mother wants to force Zhou Bi, do you think Zhou Bi will finally agree to this family business?"

Yu Wenxuan asked him with a smile: "Does the fourth brother want Zhou Bi to agree or not?"

King Qinghe let go of his sleeves, sat up straight again, and collected the expression on his face. He naturally didn't want Zhou Bi to agree, not to mention that he had a grudge with the Cui family for hurting his legs, even if he was surnamed Yuwen, he was very unaccustomed to the Cui family and the Empress Dowager Cui.

Zhou Bi lowered his eyebrows and was silent for a while, he naturally knew that Empress Dowager Cui was not only persecuting the emperor by saying these words, but also forcing him to choose between Empress Dowager Cui and King Qi and the emperor. At this time, if the Queen Mother is vetoed, it will completely tear up the face with the Queen Mother Cui, the Cui family and the King of Qi, and completely offend them. And if he agrees to the Empress Dowager Cui, he will need to be an enemy of the emperor.

But Zhou Bi didn't hesitate for too long, and then he bowed his hand to the Empress Dowager Cui, and said: "The Empress Dowager forgives her sins, the little girl is dull and stubborn, has no talent and no virtue, and is really not worthy of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and asks the Empress Dowager to find another good fate for His Royal Highness the King of Qi." ”

Empress Dowager Cui listened to her eyes becoming more and more aggressive, her gaze tilted upward, and her voice was slightly cold: "In this way, General Zhou looks down on King Qi and does not want to let his daughter be allowed." The mourning family wants to ask, the general can't even look down on the king of Qi, who else can get into your eyes and be worthy of being your son-in-law. ”