Chapter 270 Birthday Ceremony

The emperor's chariot vanguarded out from the corner of the alley, and the energetic brocade-clothed guards rode on their horses, walking slowly in pairs to the main gate of the Runan Palace, jumping off the horse with neat movements, leading the horse, holding their heads high, and standing motionless along both sides of the street.

Immediately behind is a pair of attendants holding handkerchiefs, fruit bowls and other things, and then behind, is the emperor's car, and the concubine's car is closely behind the emperor's car.

King Runan lifted his toes slightly, anxiously looked at the back of the hall, and at the corner of the hall, Li Xiaonuan helped the old lady get off the sedan chair, and walked to the front of the hall without hurrying or slow.

King Runan breathed a long sigh of relief, raised his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly ran to the old lady to greet him, Li Xiaonuan saw the prince running over, let go of the old lady, bent his knees slightly, took a few steps back, and waited in the back flower hall.

The prince supported the old lady in vain, and Mama Bai followed closely behind, and the group of three walked to the front of the crowd standing in front of the main hall.

At the gate, the emperor's car had stopped, and the waiter helped the emperor and got down from the car, the emperor paused slightly, waited for Cheng Guifei to get out of the car, and slowly walked into the gate of Runan Palace.

King Runan was next to the old concubine, and he had already knelt on the ground, and the emperor took two steps, stepped forward to help the old concubine, and said with a smile on his face:

"Ancestor, please get up, you are a person respected by the emperor, and you are old, I am here to congratulate you on your birthday."

The king of Runan was the head, led the hundred officials and ministers who knelt in the courtyard to bow two times and bowed six times, got up respectfully, and led the emperor and Cheng Guifei, who was following behind with low eyebrows, to the main hall.

The emperor let the old lady take the first half a step and entered the main hall together, the emperor sat on the left side of the head, and let the old lady on the first chair on the left, the old lady replied with a smile:

"This is the emperor's holy virtue, but the ceremony cannot be abolished."

Saying that, I sat down, and sat on the first chair on the right, Cheng Guifei stood behind the emperor with her hands down, her eyes were wrong and looked at her mother, who was full of silver hair and was in excellent spirits, and only felt that the bottom of her heart and eyes were extremely sour, when was the last time she saw her mother? It's been twenty-two years ago, since my mother avoided Ruizitang...... Mother is old......

The emperor looked back at Cheng Guifei, who was stunned, not knowing whether to be happy or sad, and motioned to the female officials and chamberlains standing next to him, and gently commanded:

"You can give your ancestors a birthday."

The female officer gently pushed Cheng Guifei and signaled to her, Cheng Guifei only looked at the old lady in her eyes, walked half a step forward, bent her knees and made a blessing,

"Congratulations to the ancestors on their birthday! Mother ......"

The old lady hurriedly stood up, helped Cheng Guifei to take half a step back, and said in a slightly hoarse voice:

"The concubine is very polite, old woman...... Appreciate...... knows the heart of the concubine. ”

Cheng Guifei hurriedly pressed her eyes with a handkerchief and kept surging with tears, nodded, but couldn't speak, the emperor looked at Cheng Guifei with pity, the female official hurriedly stepped forward to help Cheng Guifei, and Mama Bai helped the old lady to sit back on the chair again, the emperor raised his finger, stood behind the side, and the inner attendant holding a delicately carved dragon head crutch hurriedly took two steps forward, and held the crutch in his hand in front of the old lady, the emperor looked at the old lady and said with a smile:

"This dragon's head crutch is made of agarwood, just as my birthday gift, in the future, if the ancestor sees the unfilial person, it will be easier to use than the Buddha beads or something."

Cheng Guifei turned her head, covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled, King Runan looked at the crutches, with a wry smile on his face, this crutches were clearly prepared for him, the old lady reached out and picked up the crutches, checked them, and thanked with a smile:

"The emperor is still thoughtful, this crutch is just right, and it is very good."

The emperor twisted his beard, laughed heartily, turned his head, saw Zhou Jingran standing next to King Runan, beckoned him over and asked:

"The ancestors have a birthday, you can't be contemptuous! What birthday gift did you give to your ancestors? ”

Zhou Jingran took two steps forward, bowed to the end, and replied respectfully:

"When I returned to the emperor, I gave a box of various Buddhist beads and two rare Buddhist scriptures."

The emperor raised his eyebrows, looked at Zhou Jingran with a smile, turned his head to look at the old concubine, and said with a smile:

"In the end, it is a child of the younger generation, and I don't know the temperament of my ancestors."

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Zhou Jingran and commanded:

"Kowtow to the Ancestor."

Zhou Jingran agreed with a smile on his face, turned around, lifted his robe, and was about to kneel, the old lady hurriedly stood up and stretched out her hand to support Zhou Jingran, Zhou Jingran struggled twice, and couldn't kneel down for half a minute, the emperor raised his eyebrows high, and laughed, the old lady held Zhou Jingran steadily, looked him up and down, and suddenly asked:

"You haven't practiced this kung fu?"

Zhou Jingran's face was flushed, and he sneered:

"Ancestor, I learned from literature and learned literature......"

"Ancestor, this head, you can afford it, let him do his filial piety."

The emperor was busy relieving Zhou Jingran, the old lady let go of her hand, Zhou Jingran was busy kneeling on the ground, kowtowing heavily,

"May the ancestors live as long as Nanshan and be as blessed as the East China Sea!"

King Runan hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, the emperor talked to the old lady for a while, and then got up and went back to the palace, Cheng Guifei only looked at the old lady with reluctance, and before getting into the car, she finally found a vacancy, took the old lady's hand, and said in a low voice:

"Mother, take care! My daughter misses you......"

The old lady closed her eyes, nodded slightly, turned around, and didn't look at her getting into the car, Mama Bai stepped forward to help the old lady, watched Cheng Guifei turn around step by step and get into the car, and the car slowly drove back to the palace.

King Runan sent the old lady to the turn of the main hall, Li Xiaonuan took Hongfu and hurriedly came out of the back flower hall, helped the old lady, did not wait for her to speak, and arranged with a smile,

"Ancestor, let's go to the Houtou Flower Hall to listen to the play, Hongfu has to wait for a hurry, Princess Jingbei came early in the morning, remembering to give you a birthday greeting, and, I asked people to prepare a good lychee wine, add half of the rice wine, I secretly tasted it in the morning, the taste is really good, I promised Hongfu, let her drink two cups too, let's go quickly."

Li Xiaonuan said as she gestured to Mama Bai, and Mama Bai's eyes were full of smiles, and she also dragged the old lady all the way to the flower hall in the second gate.

Cheng Minying accompanied the princess, was standing at the second gate with anticipation, looking this way, and saw Hongfu rushing ahead, Li Xiaonuan and Bai Mama supporting the old lady, and a group of girls and mothers-in-law followed closely behind, all the way to this side.

The princess and Cheng Minying hurriedly greeted her, bowed their knees, and led the old lady into the flower hall in the middle.

The second room of the Cheng family, Gu ****, with her two daughters-in-law, stood in a warm pavilion far away from the central flower hall, looked at the silver-haired old lady from a distance, only felt that her heels were weak, stood for a while, turned around and walked out, the two daughters-in-law looked at each other in a daze, and hurriedly followed.

Li Xiaonuan helped the old lady into the flower hall, and the eldest princess took the lead in welcoming her, bent her knees to salute, and joked with a smile:

"In the past, I could still rely on the old and sell the old, but today when I met the old ancestor, I had to recognize the word 'small'."

The old lady paused, looked at the eldest princess's silver hair and asked:

"Your little girl, are you well?"

"Well, after taking medicine for seven or eight years, it is considered great, and now the child is seven or eight years old, and he has the same cough as when he was a child."

The eldest princess and the old lady chattered all the way, walking in side by side, the older ladies standing on both sides bent their knees and greeted each other, the old lady looked at Princess Jingbei, paused, and beckoned to her,

"Yan girl, come here."

Princess Jingbei hurriedly took two steps, stepped forward with a smile on her face and bent her knees, Li Xiaonuan let go of the old lady and took two steps back, Princess Jingbei hurriedly stepped forward to help the old lady, and the eldest princess laughed,

"Not only will I not be able to sell old, but you will be even younger in front of your ancestors!"

"This is the ancestor who loves me, to be honest, as soon as I heard the ancestor call me that, my heart was so sour, and in the blink of an eye, decades have passed."

Princess Jingbei smiled, but her eyes moistened, and she hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and helped the old lady to walk to the main seat.

Mrs. Tang Cheng, Mrs. Yan Cheng, and the eldest princess of Fuqing and others came up, and sat down at the top of the old concubine, the princess stood beside her with her hands down and waited, Li Xiaonuan stood farther away, watching the six roads take care of everywhere, and Cheng Minying stood in a farther corner, taking care of all parts of the flower hall.

Duchess Meng Guo, Duchess Yao Guo, Mrs. Weiyuan Hou, Mrs. Zhenning Hou and others stepped forward one by one to bend their knees and salute, saying auspicious words to congratulate their birthdays, some of the old ladies stopped and said a few words, and some only nodded.

After seeing the ceremony for a while, the old lady didn't pay attention to others, only pulled Princess Jingbei and talked to her carefully, Li Xiaonuan commanded the little girl to send the mixed lychee wine up, Princess Runan held the pot, and added wine to the old lady and Princess Jingbei cup by cup.

Before and after the main hall outside the second gate, the reed shed that was transparent on all sides was very lively, the king of Runan was in a good mood and laughed and persuaded the wine, Zhou Jingran stood up, found an opportunity to pull the king of Runan and asked:

"Uncle, what does the emperor mean by that? Is it inappropriate for me to give a birthday gift? ”

King Runan smiled bitterly and spread his hands and said:

"Isn't it all these things every year? What the ancestor means, you still have to find someone to ask Ke's daughter-in-law, she knows the ancestor's temperament and preferences best. ”

Zhou Jingran raised his eyebrows, stayed for a moment, turned around, and called Qingping over and ordered:

"You go to the second gate, find a companion mother named Lan Chu next to the princess, and tell her that the master will prepare a box of Buddhist beads and two rare Buddhist scriptures for the ancestor as a birthday gift, and ask her if the young lady of her family is suitable."

Qingping promised to go out, and soon came back to reply,

"Back to the master, Lan Chu went to ask the young lady, and the young lady said that the ancestor only recited the multi-heart sutra, and the scriptures next to it were collected and used to bring in the red blessing, and the Buddha beads, if they can be used as secret weapons, it is appropriate."

Zhou Jingran was stunned for a long time, and a sip of tea 'poofed' came out, and he was in love with the rare and unique Buddhist scriptures he sent every year, all of which were used as fire-starting objects for red blessings

Recently, the update time is always late, cough, the last thing I want to live is the first two months of the Spring Festival, I am so busy that I stink to death, I don't have any money, crying

Today's two shifts, the second shift, before 5 p.m.