14. The Queen Mother's birthday
Since ancient times, filial piety has always been emphasized for a country and even a nation.
The Ming Dynasty has always advocated the rule of the world with filial piety, and it is because of the birthday banquet of the emperor's mother, who is the supreme ruler, Emperor Ming Jing even took out his own private treasury, and Su Zhiwan also arranged the birthday banquet scene to be extremely powerful.
At the same time, the palace banquet was opened.
The kings, dukes, and ministers inside and outside the country waited for the court clothes to gather at the Taihe Gate, and the civil and military officials gathered at the Noon Gate.
Before the throne of the Imperial Banquet is set up, the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of the Interior, the Ministry of Rites, and the Governor of the Imperial Domain are seated once according to their ranks.
His Majesty Dan opened the yellow mantle on the top, Chen Jinqi under it, and opened the green mantle after the halogen, and set up all the seats. The officials of Honglu Temple led hundreds of officials to enter, and the officials of the Li Fan Yuan led the princes of foreign domains to enter.
Emperor Ming Jing and the Empress Dowager arrived at the Jiaotai Palace, and the court musicians played Zhonghe Shao music, which is a kind of court music, extremely noble, showing the royal prestige.
The king's ministers are in the palace, and the officials above the third rank and the second rank of the martial arts are on His Majesty, and the rest are under the green mantle, all of them kowtow, and then give them to sit.
Tea is given, "Dan Majesty is happy", and the king will sit and kneel twice, and knock again.
After Emperor Mingjing and the Queen Mother finished drinking tea, the guards gave tea to the king's ministers, and the Guanglu officials gave the ministers tea, and then sat down and knocked. Finish drinking. Another knock, happy to stop.
Exhibition seat power, the master of ceremonies is divided into pots, jue, and gold, great music, and the ministers rise.
The official in charge of ceremonies held a pot of wine to the knighted minister, and the minister who entered the knighthood tended to kneel, and they all knelt. The official in charge of ceremonies conferred the title of minister, and the minister even from the middle majesty, knelt before the royal wine.
Xing, descending from the right majesty, reset, a knock, all the ministers knock. The minister Xing, reinstated from the right majesty, kneeling to accept the knighthood, reinstated, kneeling. The official in charge of ceremonies was retired, and he held up the wine, and promised to give the minister wine. The king stands up, the master of ceremonies and the official sets up the award, the minister kneels and receives the knight, a knock, the drink is finished, and the one who receives the knight retreats, and the one who receives the knight retreats, and the second knock, Xing, sits, and the ministers all sit.
Happy, Emperor Ming Jing wrote. "Neutralization and Qingle" is made, and each feast is given food, and wine is given to each one, such as a tea ceremony. Stop, Daming music and singing.
Bi, the minister enters, and the dance is full of longevity. Dance is more advanced, and music and song are harmonious. Qiang Wu danced, with Qiang Wu national music song and it, the team dance is more advanced, said, "Buddha heart is eternal, longevity is long, life expectancy, Laicai Chenghuan, Kangle Yi Nian gives Yao Ling, Shou Bi Song Ling, Shou Fu Kangning, Xinghui Nanhui, Qiying Wangzhong, Beitang Xuanmao, Cizhu Fenghe, Xinghui Baowu, Xuanting Jiqing, Pan Tao Song, Xuange Changchun, Meishou Yantang, Xuanhua Tingxiu, Wusu Tenghui, Jiuru Song, pine and cypress evergreen, Nanshan Song, Sun and Moon Changming, wish immeasurable longevity, crane longevity, Fengqi Shangshou, Haiwu Tianshou, pine forest years, Qingyan Jichou, The spring breeze of Pengdao, the longevity of the city is open, the heavens are pure and false, the Jin Jue is prospered, and the ...... is called the "
For a long time, "Great Music" was made, the whip was sounded, and "Shao Music" was made, and Emperor Mingjing and the Queen Mother drove back to the palace.
When Shen, the two corridors of the Jiaotai Palace played the music of Shao and the Ming Jing Emperor's palace. On the music, the queen mother and the concubine were seated, and the family banquet began.
The queen mother, the queen, and the concubine sat in turn.
The queen wore a bright yellow phoenix robe and sat on the right hand side of the queen mother with a six- or seven-month-old belly, which made people tremble.
"How is the queen doing these days?" Emperor Ming Jing cared. After all, it was his own child, and it was impossible for Emperor Ming Jing not to really care.
Since returning to the palace in the spring hunt, the queen has been grounded in the Chengqian Palace, at this time, when she heard the words of Emperor Ming Jing, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she bowed her head and said, "Emperor Xie cares, and the concubines and the emperor are all good." ”
Emperor Ming Jing looked at the queen with a touched face, and only said, "The queen has worked hard." ”
Su Zhiwan sat on the left hand of Emperor Mingjing, and when she heard Emperor Mingjing's words, she hooked her lips, "Niangniang has to take care of her body, and the concubines are still waiting for Niangniang to rule the six palaces again after giving birth to the little prince." ”
The words are all not in love with power.
She is not rare in the palace power, and she even wants to throw it out as soon as possible.
Now is not the best time to take over the palace power, so she will have to return this palace power to the queen sooner or later.
Emperor Ming Jing smiled helplessly when he heard it, in his heart Su Zhiwan has always been a frank and upright person, not in love with power, not greedy for power, and sometimes, he is willing to take care of one or two.
was about to speak, but the Queen Mother said lightly, "The concubine has a heart." In this case, when the queen gives birth, hand over the palace power! ”
"The concubine is provincial."
Since the queen mother said so, Emperor Mingjing didn't say anything, but in his heart, the queen was no longer a person worthy of palace power.
He didn't need a queen who had her own thoughts.
At the beginning, Emperor Mingjing asked Qi Rongyue to be the queen because she was more peaceful and did not make trouble.
I didn't expect that it was really a dog that could bite people so that it didn't bark.
The concubines of the palace began to sing lyrics for their birthdays, and the first one was naturally the queen.
"The concubine wishes for the queen mother, Fuhai Shoushan, and the heavenly mother will live forever." The queen was about to kneel down with difficulty.
How could the queen mother let the queen who was pregnant with her golden grandson suffer such a burden?
While letting the grandmother next to her step forward to help the queen up, she said, "The queen doesn't have to be polite, don't be tired of herself." ”
"Thank you, Mother." The queen said with a smile in her eyebrows.
The queen mother's move at least saved some of the face that Emperor Mingjing had lost just now.
At least the Queen Mother still cares about the child in her belly.
The queen gave a very heavy gift, and the gift list was sung for a long time. This is normal, Qi Rongyue still has to rely on the Queen Mother for mercy now.
The second is the concubine, Su Zhiwan just sent the Buddhas with immeasurable longevity in a decent manner, but it is not rude to have a high monk who has opened the light.
Concubine Zhen has gradually fallen silent recently, and the smell of gunpowder for the queen is not so strong.
In the past, there was a meaning of competing with the queen on the gift list, but this year, I only symbolically sent a few copies of the Golden Book Mystic Lotus Sutra, saying that I copied it myself.
With Concubine Zhen's temperament, it is rare to be able to calm down and copy Buddhist scriptures.
The gifts given by Li Zhaoyi and the remaining noble concubines were only decent, after all, they didn't need the protection of the Queen Mother very much. Concubine Hui has a heart, but it's a pity that the Queen Mother can't look down on her identity.
And the noble concubine is not qualified to give gifts alone, unless the queen mother personally names them.
At this time, Concubine Xian, who had never spoken from the beginning, said, "Concubine Chen, she is only a shallow learner, and now she has to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, and I hope that the Queen Mother will not dislike it." ”
Judging from the things sent by the ladies of each palace, we know that the Queen Mother is a person who worships Buddha.
In fact, since Emperor Ming Jing ascended the throne and respected the Wang family as the queen mother, the queen mother directly built a small Buddha hall in Cining Palace, kneeling down to worship the Buddha all day long, picking up Buddha beans or something, maybe there is really something to understand, the queen mother has been looking at it in recent years, and she really has a little bit of kindness, living Buddha in the world, and no quarrel with the world.
However, in Su Zhiwan's view, the queen mother may have done too much bad things in the early years, so she knelt down in front of the Buddha hall in her later years and begged for forgiveness from the gods and Buddhas.
Since Su Zhiwan has come to this world, she still believes in God a little bit in her heart, but she really doesn't look down on the Queen Mother.
Thinking like this, the sound of the piano suddenly sounded in the main hall.
Su Zhiwan was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it turned out that this drama had arrived.
In the original book, it is impossible for the Queen Mother to give up the queen who was originally used fairly well for no reason, even when the queen is still pregnant. It is impossible to choose Pei Yunruo for no reason.
Pei Yunruo's appearance is destined to be pampered as long as she is not stupid, which is one reason why the Queen Mother chose her, and the other reason is now.
Today is the Queen Mother's birthday, and the Queen Mother's mood is good on this day, and just at this time, Pei Yunruo dedicated a long-lost Buddhist song - "Commentary Chapter".
It is said that the sound of the piano can hear a person's temperament.
"Cultivate its purity and chastity, and use the piano to see the nature of the heart."
People sometimes directly associate the fuqin with the contemplation of one's own mind and the clarity of one's mind.
Pei Yunruo's piano music is ethereal but not empty, there is Zen and does not lose the Zen flavor, the antelope hanging horns have no trace to seek, so its subtlety is thorough and exquisite, can not be docked, such as the sound in the air, the color in the picture, the moon in the water, the image in the mirror, the words are endless and the meaning is endless.
It's really a lot of thought.
Pei Yunruo just fell into the eyes of the Queen Mother.
After the song, there was silence in the Jiaotai Palace, as if they were all intoxicated by the sound of the Buddha and could not extricate themselves.
"Wonderful! Wonderful! The Queen Mother was really overjoyed and said, "Who is Your Highness?" But what reward do you want? ”
Pei Yunruo was dressed in a cyan palace dress, only to see her raise her head, kneel down and kowtow, and said, "Concubine Zhong Cui Gong Ning is talented." Congratulations to the Queen Mother's birthday, may the Niangniang, the fairy blessing forever, longevity and health. ”
"Ning Cairen?" The Queen Mother looked at her appearance and smiled, "If you have nothing to do on weekdays, you might as well come to Cining Palace to talk to the old woman." ”
This can be regarded as a preliminary hug on the thigh of the Queen Mother.
Some low-level but able to go to the family banquet are gritting their teeth, you said that you are a little talent, since you entered the palace, you have been pampered, why did you hug the queen mother's thigh?
Still don't let them live?
Generally speaking, harem women, if they want to be in the ups and downs of the harem and not be drowned by the waves, they can only rely on four things. One is the emperor's favor, the second is a strong enough family, the third is the prince and the princess, and the fourth is the protection of the queen mother.
Today's Duanrou Guifei relies on the first two, the queen relies on the latter two, and Concubine Zhen relies on the family and the royal daughter.
And Pei Yunruo's family is not good, now the holy favor continues, and now if he has the protection of the Queen Mother, Pei Yunruo can be regarded as gaining a firm foothold.
However, the Holy Grace has always been an ethereal thing, and it is no wonder that Pei Yunruo would first make a good relationship with the Queen Mother.
"Since Ning Cairen has won the praise of the queen mother." Emperor Mingjing paused, "Jin Ning is a talented person from the five grades of Xiaoyi. ”
It was actually upgraded by two levels all at once!
From the sixth-grade talent to the fifth-grade Xiaoyi!
I don't know if it's for the sake of the Queen Mother's face, or if Pei Yunruo is favored.
When the Queen Mother heard Emperor Mingjing's words, she looked at Pei Yunruo and smiled even more.
The queen involuntarily touched her bulging belly, and her smile couldn't help but stiffen.
Pei Yunruo's appearance today was recommended by Concubine Xian!
This Pei Yunruo is not simple, he just entered the palace and caught up with Duanrou Guifei, and now this is the case, is he switching to other masters?
For a while, all the concubines present turned their attention to the high-flying Duanrou concubine!