After three rounds of wine, five flavors of banquet, singing and dancing in the field for a while, a very important part of the birthday banquet began, and the birthday gift was presented to the emperor. Originally, there was no such thing as a birthday in previous years, and this year's new Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, in order to please the emperor, specially added a program on the grounds that the emperor is 50 years old this year, and hundreds of civil and military officials presented birthday gifts to the emperor.

As soon as the idea of the Ministry of Rites came out, both the government and the opposition moved, and some people even pointed at his nose and scolded him for being flattering, he was really a traitorous minister, and asked the emperor to immediately dismiss his official, and several old gentlemen who were particularly excited rolled up their sleeves and came to beat him.

Regardless of whether the ministers of Geng Zhen like it or not, as long as the emperor likes it. The old emperor saw that the ministers were excited on the first day, and it was not easy to agree directly, so he flicked his sleeves and threw down a sentence, "We will discuss it tomorrow." "Directly retreated to the palace.

The ministers of the court and the central government are all better than monkeys, how can they not understand the emperor's intentions, not to mention that the emperor has expressed his intentions so bluntly. When the discussion was held again on the third day, except for a few stubborn conservatives, the rest of the ministers basically acquiesced. When the emperor saw it, he immediately made a decision and did so.

The stubborn minister was still going to argue, and the emperor waved his hand, and we discussed the next topic, and this was over. He is the emperor, and he is still an emperor who has been on the throne for many years, and he plans to play some new style at his birthday banquet, no one can stop him, and it is not worth fighting with the emperor for this.

After the matter was settled, the ministers of civil and military affairs remembered another thing. Offering gifts in public, this is a good opportunity to befriend the emperor and show himself. You have to think of something that everyone didn't expect, and let the emperor love it from the bottom of his heart after seeing it. There are also some ministers who are not flexible enough in their brains, and they also have their own way, so they throw money and pick up valuable gifts.

The ministers are like this, and the princes are racking their brains, just to make their birthday gifts more popular with the emperor.

As the prince of the empire, the crown prince is the first in line. He pulled Su Yan to get up with one hand, and took a wooden tube in the other hand, walked to the hall, first saluted the emperor, and then took out his gift list and presented it to the emperor with both hands.

The emperor was a little drunk, and he was very satisfied when he saw his beloved son standing in the hall like a jade in the wind, so noble and elegant, and his bearing was extraordinary.

Jia Xi read the prince's gift list aloud, and it was not much different from previous years. The Emperor smiled and nodded, looking satisfied. For him, the birthday gift given by the prince is his son's heart, and it doesn't matter how much.

The crown prince said loudly: "My father ordered me to teach my younger brothers before, and now I have made some progress. Erchen and several younger brothers prepared a small birthday gift for their father, which was made by Erchen and his younger brothers to congratulate his father on his birthday and Tianqi. ”

Hey, the crown prince brought a few little princes together to give the emperor a gift! The eyes of everyone in the hall were unconsciously staring at the maximum, especially the emperor, whose face was full of excitement, and hurriedly urged: "Jia Xi, quickly bring it to me." ”

The prince looked at Su Yan sideways and smiled, reached out to open the bamboo tube, and took out a vertical scroll, and the two of them unfolded it together, but it was a longevity character of a dragon flying and a phoenix dancing.

Everyone looked closely, but the whole longevity word was spelled together by countless longevity characters of different forms.

The prince explained briefly, then rolled the scroll, put it in the bamboo tube, and handed it to Jia Xi, who had been waiting for a long time on the side, "This is a hundred longevity diagrams, consisting of a hundred longevity characters." ”

Jia Xi carefully held it and sent it to the emperor, the emperor took it, touched it with his hands, and laughed at the prince and a few little princes kneeling in the hall: "I like this gift very much, I like it very much, I like it very much." ”

Okay, this is the first thing, the emperor is so excited to make a statement, what should the people behind do?

Several adult princes and princesses who have already married looked at the prince with a little indescribable meaning.

No matter how envious, jealous and hateful others were, the crown prince and Su Yan took the little princes to salute the emperor again before Shi Shiran returned to his seat.

Su Rong pursed her lips, and there was some unwillingness hidden in her lowered eyes, she knew that she had carefully prepared her birthday gift this time, and she was afraid that she would be pressed down again. In the previous life, when the emperor was fiftieth birthday, Su Yan, who had been married for less than a year, won the praise of the emperor and the Manchu Dynasty for King Wu and her with a screen of "Myoho-renge-kyo" written by King Wu himself and embroidered by her personally.

Now, she had inquired before, and since the crown princess married into the East Palace, she rarely used needlework. Su Rong said in her heart that since Su Yan didn't use it, she would use it, so she could earn some praise for King Wu today. Unexpectedly, although Su Yan changed her way, she could still make the emperor's heart bloom, let the civil and military officials, praise the prince for having a loving brother and a benevolent style. Su Rong has a feeling that Su Yan is simply her nemesis, and every time she confronts her, everything always goes wrong.

Sure enough, as Su Rong expected, with the crown prince Zhuyu in front, the rest of the princes and princesses took great pains and money to prepare the birthday gift, and the emperor just grinned, and glanced at it casually. Even the embroidered "Heart Sutra" screen specially prepared by Su Rong only made the emperor look twice. However, Su Rong noticed that the bamboo tube containing the Baishou diagram was personally collected by the emperor and looked at it strictly.

After the princes and princesses are finished, they are the royal relatives, and then to the ministers of civil and military affairs, and the gift list and part of the birthday gifts are displayed in the palace and then included in the palace treasury one by one. After a long pause in singing and dancing, it sounded again, and the emperor got up and toasted three glasses of wine to the ministers, and the birthday banquet was over.

The civil and military ministers returned home from the palace, and the princes and princesses returned to their respective mothers' palaces first. Like the prince and Huyang, Wuyang, Changle and others, the biological mother went early, and the emperor personally arranged a place for his daughters to rest, so he beckoned the prince and Su Yan, and took the two back to Taiji Palace.

The emperor was already slightly drunk, holding the prince's hand, and kept talking, from the prince was just born, to his babbling, enlightenment, studying, entering the court, etc., all counted. Thanks to the emperor's good memory, the prince endorsed for the first time, took a pen for the first time, was punished for the first time, and was sick for the first time, so I really remember it clearly.

According to the prince's temperament, he should have been impatient a long time ago. He went to sit quietly beside the emperor today, listened very seriously, and poured tea for the emperor from time to time.

Su Yan found that the emperor's eyes were a little red at the end, he pulled the prince's hand hard, and repeated the chanting, "Qilang, Daddy is old, these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains will be handed over to your shoulders sooner or later." While Daddy can still move, I have to teach you more, and I can't let you be pitted by these old foxes in the court! ”

Su Yan glanced at the prince and asked him to accompany the emperor into the inner hall to rest, while he quietly got up and walked out of the main hall under the guidance of Jia Le.

Jia Le smiled at Su Yan very enthusiastically, "The crown princess, please come with the old slave, the sage has already prepared a resting place for you and His Royal Highness the crown prince." ”

Su Yan bowed his head slightly, and said with a light smile: "There is Father-in-law Laojia." ”

The palace where Jia Le took Su Yan was the prince's permanent residence in the Taiji Palace. In every palace of the emperor, there was such a room that belonged exclusively to the crown prince.

Su Yan was looking at the familiar furnishings in the hall, and Jia Le said goodbye to her, "Crown princess, please rest, the old slave retreats first." If there is any need, just command the maid of this palace. ”

"Hmm. Father-in-law walks slowly. Su Yan turned his head sideways and called his personal palace maid, "Zifang, send it to Father-in-law Jia." ”

Zifang was sent outside, and Jia Le hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, "Lady go back and serve the crown princess, you don't have to use it again." With that, Mali turned around and walked away, walking so fast that you couldn't catch up.

Zifang didn't insist, she stood in place and watched Jia Le go out of the palace gate, before turning back to the inner room, serving Su Yan and removing makeup with Hongsang, and then lying on the bed and closing her eyes and resting.

After the prince coaxed the emperor to sleep, he came out lightly. He was accustomed to the Taiji Palace, and he didn't need a eunuch to guide the way, so he drove back to his residence with ease.

As soon as I entered the inner room, the curtain hung low, and Zifang and Hongsang were sitting and resting against the wall in the corner, and the whole room was quiet.

The prince subconsciously lightened his steps and waved his hand at Zifang and Hongsang, who had already gotten up. The two maids understood and slowly exited the inner room. The prince didn't need to be served, he untied his coat, took a warm handkerchief, wiped his face, went to bed directly, hugged his wife in his arms, and slept quietly.

The holy birthday is a feast for the ministers during the day, and a family feast at night. It is attended by the concubines of the harem, princes, and princesses. Compared to the feast of the day, the family feast in the evening is more free.

When the emperor came, he didn't even wear a dragon robe, only a casual dress, and walked over with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face.

The concubines who were dressed up in flowers and branches all stood up and saluted the emperor with the sound of warblers.

The old emperor looked at his little wives who were like flowers, and then looked at his sons and daughters from the eldest to the youngest, and his eyes narrowed into a slit with joy. Alas, the only fly in the ointment is that the third generation is a little less. Of the seven princesses who married, only three had babies, and the rest had not moved. The princes here, what can make him happy is that in addition to his granddaughter, he has finally added a grandson. Although the origin of this grandson is not very bright, and the grandson's mother is not very popular with him, he always makes a start, and the grandson will continue to be born in the future.

The emperor twisted his beard and half-squinted his eyes fantasized about the scene when he celebrated his sixtieth birthday, when the little radish heads of all ages pulled the hem of his clothes and called his grandfather, grinning silly.

The prince stabbed his father with a little black line, and said in a low voice: "Daddy, wake up, it's not time to dream." ”

The emperor was a little itchy by the crown prince, and he couldn't help but smile, and suddenly the eyes of the people in the palace gathered on him openly. The emperor was busy controlling his stupid expression, moving his feet, stepping on his son's feet hard, and glancing at the prince with his eyes.