There are five days left, June 28, the crown prince's birthday. On the first birthday after the wedding, the old emperor and Su Yan paid special attention to it and prepared early.

As the hostess of the East Palace, the prince's birthday will inevitably have a banquet in the Jiuqu Palace, and all kinds of trivial affairs have taken up all of Su Yan's time recently. Seeing that the day was approaching, she was making one last confirmation with the female officials of the East Palace.

In the Shicui Pavilion in the Jiuqu Palace, the female officials are lined up on the left and right, all wearing uniform palace clothes, with low eyebrows and respectful and abnormal.

"How's the preparation going?" Nowadays, whether there is a banquet in the palace or in the palace, the musicians and maiko are the most important part of it.

"Back to the crown princess, the new dances and new songs have been practiced proficiently." The lady in charge of the music room stepped forward and replied respectfully, "The lady can inspect it at any time." ”

Su Yan thought about it, and there was nothing wrong with the rest, so he said, "This afternoon." ”

"Yes." The female official in charge of the music workshop is very confident, and the music room in the East Palace has always been full of talents, which is not inferior to the musicians of Taichang Temple. What's more, this is the first time that the lady has held a banquet since she entered the East Palace, and the female officials in charge of the palace are not holding their breath, waiting to show themselves in front of the lady.

After sitting for a long time, and finally going through all the affairs, Su Yan raised his hand and rubbed his neck tiredly, "These days are all good snacks, and after His Highness's birthday, everyone will be rewarded." Now, let's disperse. ”

During this time, the fatigue of the body is secondary, and the key is mental tiredness. Su Yan was far from being as calm and calm as she appeared, and she was so nervous in her heart. After all, this is the first time she has set up a banquet as the hostess of the East Palace, and all aspects must be taken into account, for fear that a negligence will reveal something and make something wrong with the banquet, and the face will be embarrassed.

She has been checking the details of the preparations for the banquet in her dreams for the past few days, from the placement of the guests' vehicles, to the wine and food, to the palace people serving the banquet, the dance music at the banquet, and even the guest house where she temporarily rests after being drunk, etc., thinking about it over and over again.

The prince comforted her when he saw it, "Qingqing doesn't have to be nervous, come to the East Palace for a banquet, who would dare to be picky." This is extremely overbearing, and if you think about it, it is a great honor to be invited. Not to mention coming to the banquet, just sitting in the main hall and drinking a glass of white water is enough to make people boast.

It's okay that the prince is not comforted, the more he says this, the more worried Su Yan becomes.

"Lady, it's time for lunch." Zifang came over and asked, "Do you want to put it in the Shicui Pavilion?" ”

Su Yan pinched his eyebrows and waved his hand, "Put it in the Hanguang Palace, it's almost here." ”

The crown prince was recently arrested by the emperor, and he went to Changle Palace early every day to report, and went home in starlight at night. Three meals a day, except for breakfast, the rest are in Changle Palace, accompanied by the old emperor.

In the absence of her husband, Su Yan's meal is very simple. At noon, there is no more than a bowl of rouge rice, a dish of steamed fish, two vegetarian fried vegetables, and a dish of softly fried begonias. They are all served in small white porcelain plates, and the amount is not much, just enough for her to use them all.

After lunch, take a short break and take people to the music square.

The music workshop is located in a remote palace in the northeast corner of the back garden of the Jiuqu Palace, and before it is close, the sound of silk and bamboo can be heard from a distance.

The female official in charge of the music square and the chief eunuch greeted each other at the door early, and when they saw Su Yan coming, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Because of the jealous His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the eunuchs in the East Palace tried to minimize the number of times they appeared in front of the Crown Princess. As it is today, it must appear, and they all hang their heads, and their eyes will always fall on the crown princess's crested shoes adorned with pearls.

"I've seen the crown princess." is different from Su Yan's marriage and the palace people who serve closely in Hanguang Palace, she is often called a lady, which is particularly affectionate. The rest of the people in the East Palace still call her the crown princess in a regular manner.

The female official in charge of the music fang is surnamed Chen, in her forties, with fair skin, trim eyebrows and handsome eyes, a slender figure, and often a gentle smile on her face, "Please invite the princess into the palace to watch the dance." ”

Su Yan nodded, and after entering the main hall, he sat down on the chair in the center and said lightly, "Let's start." ”

Female official Chen accompanied her, and the eunuch in charge retreated to the door of the main hall, raised his hand and tapped it three times, and the sound of pipa sounded under the corridor, and three girls in emerald green dance skirts appeared lightly.

The three girls are only sixteen or seventeen years old, with a slender waist and a green waist dance, dancing lightly and softly, and getting the essence of the green waist.

Su Yan smiled shallowly, "Good jump." "Since Su Rong changed the green waist to a group dance that year, from the palace to the family, when the maiko dances the green waist again, there are at least six people.

The Donggong Orchestra originally had eighteen green waist dances, but after the rehearsal, they were performed to Su Yan excitedly, which made Miss Su frown. After dancing at the beginning, she stopped and commented unceremoniously: "Where is this green-waisted dance, it is obviously a group of demons dancing." ”

For a group dance to be good-looking, it is necessary to combine several people to act as one. The green-waisted dance itself has very high requirements for the maiko, eighteen people, all of whom dance differently, and they will look good to have ghosts.

After the eighteen people were beaten back by the crown princess, the original female official in charge of the music fang also changed people. The new one is this female official Chen, after she took office, she carefully selected three girls who looked and were about the same size, and specialized in the dance of the green waist, and after two months of special training, she finally got a praise from the crown princess, and the eyes of the female official Chen were a little red.

After the three girls retreated, the soft and mellow, distant and elegant voice belonging to Dong Xiao sounded.

Su Yan's eyebrows moved slightly, "It's Xiao Shiyi." ”

Female Official Chen hurriedly smiled and said, "The crown princess has good ears, it is Xiao Shiyi." ”

Su Yan smiled slightly, Dong Xiao has always been as sensitive and sharp as the bamboo flute, and when it comes to Xiao Yin, everyone can think of "such as resentment, such as crying, such as complaining, lingering, endless." Xiao Yin, who is partial to Xiao Eleven, always reveals a kind of unwillingness and ambition, which makes Su Yan know that it is her when she hears it.

"This is the three lanes of plum blossoms." Su Yan smiled, and sure enough, it was her plum blossom three lanes that were pleasant to hear.

What Xiao Shiyi's skills are, Su Yan knows best, she asked the emperor to come because she liked her Xiao that day. After arriving at the Su family, she also planned to give her a naturalization and choose a lover for her, but Xiao Shiyi himself was unwilling. Later, she married into the East Palace, and most of the musicians given by the emperor and the crown prince followed her to the East Palace and entered the music workshop. After Xiao Shiyi entered the music workshop, he specially asked Su Yan to change the green calyx back to its original name.

It is precisely because Xiao Shiyi is Su Yan's dowry, in the East Palace Music Workshop, whether it is the female officials and eunuchs in charge, or the Maiko and Leko in the same workshop, they dare not offend her.

"Eleven Niang Xiao Yi is extraordinary, not to mention in our music workshop, even Taichang Temple is also one and two." Lady Chen smiled attentively, she looked at Su Yan's expression carefully, and said tentatively: "Many little girls in our music workshop want to worship her as a teacher." "Xiao Shiyi is old, and his complexion is very ordinary, and he doesn't know how many years he will be popular. It's better to teach a few apprentices early, and relying on the crown princess, she can be a female official in the palace in the future, which is not much better than her being a musician.

Su Yan smiled, "It's not easy to learn from her, just take someone to show her." "She has the same thoughts as Female Official Chen, thinking that she wants Xiao Shiyi to take a few apprentices, and then become a female official in Le Fang, and slowly raise her grade, maybe Le Fang can be handed over to her in the future.

Female official Chen hurriedly smiled and said, "The slave will go to Eleven Niang tomorrow to discuss." ”

I have to say that the music is very painstaking this time, the dance music is very novel, and the musicians who interpret the music are also very skilled. Among them, Su Yan liked the woman who played the crested gonghou the most, and specially recruited people to see her, and rewarded her with a phoenix hairpin.

In the afternoon, Su Yan was very satisfied. When she returned to Hanguang Palace, Lady Lu had already taken a long list and was waiting for her. "Lady, it's better for you and Your Highness to write these please posts in person."

Su Yan took the list and couldn't help but wrinkle his face, "So many." ”

"This needs to be written by the lady and His Royal Highness, and the rest of the ministers have already been completed." Lu Nuguan said.

Well, for the first time at the banquet, some of the invitations were written by her herself, which seemed to be more sincere.

The night was quiet, and the prince was clothed in moonlight and stepped into the Jiuqu Palace. Looking at the brightly lit Hanguang Hall from afar, he unconsciously showed a gentle smile, and his steps became faster.

"Your Highness."

"Your Highness."

Walking into the Hanguang Palace, rows of palace maids knelt on the ground to salute, the prince walked like flying, and the corners of his robes flew in front of the palace maids.

"Qingqing, I'm back." Before anyone arrived, the prince strode into the palace, but found that his wife who greeted him with a smile in the past was not there today. "What about the crown princess?"

"The lady is in the study." The waiting palace maid replied respectfully.

The prince turned around and went straight to the study. Turning around the Eight Treasure Pavilion, I saw Su Yan lying on the bookcase, holding a pen in both hands, writing something.

"Qingqing, what are you writing?" The prince leaned over curiously and asked.

When Su Yan saw the prince coming back, she exhaled with relief, took a wolf directly from the pen mountain, stuffed it into her husband's hand, and patted him with a list, and said succinctly: "Please post these people's stickers to you." ”

The prince was confused, what belongs to me. He lowered his eyes and looked at the content on the paper, and said with a dark face: "Do you still need to write this ourselves, just ask Lu Siwei to deal with it." ”

Su Yanliu raised her eyebrows lightly, "No, this is the first time I have married into the East Palace to hold a banquet, and it is Qilang's birthday, of course I have to be solemn." ”

The prince could only nod obediently and accept the task assigned by his wife, and he had to follow Su Yan to work overtime www.biquge.info the lamp and boil the oil.

Fortunately, Su Yan still feels very sorry for her husband, and there are not many things that the prince needs to write in person. She held the pen in both hands, opened the bow left and right, and happened to write all the invitations before going to bed.

After the two of them washed up and went to bed, Su Yan thought of something again, "Where is the father, I want Qilang to invite him personally." ”

The prince shook his head and said a little disappointed: "On June 28, Daddy said that he would not come. "In previous years, birthdays were spent by father and son together, but this year, suddenly his father didn't come, and the prince was very disappointed.

Su Yan smiled: "On the twenty-seventh day, we just invite my father." "What's so difficult about this, the emperor doesn't want to rob his son of his scenery on his son's birthday, can we get together a day in advance."

The prince's eyes lit up, "That's right." He hugged his beloved wife, kissed her the lips, and praised: "Qingqing is so smart." ”

The emperor said that he would not go to the prince's birthday banquet, and he was also very disappointed at that time. Since the prince was young, every year the father and son celebrate their birthdays together, and this year they suddenly separated, and the emperor felt a little depressed.

After the prince left in the evening, the emperor was not in the mood to hug his little wife, and sat alone on the wide throne, sighing for a long time.

"Jia Xi, didn't you look sad when Qilang left just now?" The emperor asked Jia Xi.

Jia Xi hurriedly said: "No, His Highness is a little listless." He said nonsense, no matter how tired His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is during the day, when he goes out from the Taiji Palace, he is full of energy, and today is no exception. However, this cannot be said in the presence of saints. If he dared to tell the saint, the prince would be happy when he left. Hehe, the saint doesn't believe it, and he has to wonder who he was bought by to separate their father and son.

When the emperor heard this, he sighed even more. The son has been married, which means that he has grown up and can take on the heavy responsibility of the prince of the country. On his birthday, he was the prince's one-faced minister in the true sense, and he, who was a father, was not good at stealing his son's limelight in the past. But...... He also wanted to celebrate his birthday with his son, but the emperor bit the horn and was depressed.

"Sage, can you invite His Highness to have a small gathering a day in advance?" Jia Xi took the opportunity to offer advice.

The old emperor's eyes flashed with joy, and then he stiffened his face and said arrogantly: "He didn't invite me, don't go!" ”

Jia Xi: ...... When he didn't say.

The old emperor, who had been thinking about this idea all night, wanted to hint at his son when he saw the prince the next day. Who thought that the prince spoke first, "Daddy, on the day of Erchen's birthday, there were a lot of noisy people, and Daddy didn't want to go over." ”

The old emperor regretted it for a moment and wanted to say to his son: I will go. Then I saw that the prince said a little shyly: "The son and the princess have discussed, on June 27, a family banquet will be held in Jiuqu Palace, and Daddy will be invited, but I don't know if Daddy is willing to appreciate his face." ”

When the emperor heard this, he had to go. He tried his best to control the corners of his lips, and said calmly: "Okay." "At that time, it was my son who was happy in my heart, and I knew what his father was thinking.

The prince had already seen the corners of his father's upturned mouth, but his father was in a good mood, and he was also in a good mood, so by the way, he brushed his daughter-in-law's favorability in front of his father. "Yesterday, Yan Yan mentioned to his sons, saying that he was going to feast on the 26th to the brothers. Annoying Daddy, give your younger brothers a vacation. ”

This can be had. The emperor was very pleased that his son had grown up and no longer treated his brothers as if they were nothing, as he had done when he was a child. The emperor was delighted, and spoke very well, "Yes." ”

The prince originally didn't plan to invite his brothers, but Su Yan told him that he didn't know what to do about the birthday banquet, and he wanted to have a small banquet to test it first and accumulate some experience. If there are any problems, feel free to adjust them.

In order to appease his beloved wife, the prince had no choice but to agree. Then, at Su Yan's request, he came to ask for leave for his younger brother who was still studying. But seeing his father's relieved expression, he couldn't help but be touched. In the future, maybe you can get in touch with these brothers.

Just when Su Yan was working hard to prepare for the birthday banquet, a message quietly circulated among the families in Shangdu. The king of Pingjiang County, who has been childless for many years, has recently become pregnant with the princess of the county and the three concubines in the palace.

The people in Beijing who are eager to have children inquired in private, but they heard that they all used a magic medicine called Pregnancy Pill, which was said to have miraculous effects, and they became pregnant after only drinking three pairs.

Originally, everyone didn't believe it. However, it was rumored that several concubines had used medicine and were pregnant with children, many of whom had no children for many years. Now, there are more people inquiring.

Liu, the wife of the prince of the Yasukuni Mansion, also had some thoughts after listening to her sister-in-law praise the pregnant child Dan for how godly she was. Her daughter, Su Rong, has been married to King Wu's Mansion for nine months, but there has been no news from her stomach, but the concubine she brought that day was pregnant, and it has been six months now. The last time she went to Wu Wangfu, she specially let her nurse see the concubine, and the nurse said that the woman had a sharp belly, and she was a son.

When the Liu family heard this, they had to complain about their daughter secretly, even if they let the concubine serve the prince, they should use some means not to let her get pregnant.

But her daughter still smiled lightly and said that it was okay.

Liu hated so much that he poked his daughter twice on the head, "When she gives birth to the eldest son, you will know the hardship." "That being said, but this mother is worried about her daughter, so she urges her daughter to take care of her body and strive to get pregnant as soon as possible.

But this child, it is not said that she can be conceived, since the concubine was pregnant, she just urged her daughter, and from time to time she prepared tonic medicine and sent it to Su Rong. Now that six months have passed, Su Rong's stomach still hasn't moved.

Hearing her sister-in-law say this about the god of pregnancy, Liu's mind moved, and he asked: "Is it really so godly?" ”

"Of course." Sister-in-law Liu said very surely, for fear that Liu would not believe it, she also gave an example, "You know my niece's mother, she has been married for five years, and she has not given birth to a son and a half daughter, and her mother-in-law is weird every day." Since taking that medicine, I have become pregnant in less than a month. I heard that ......" she pretended to be mysterious and leaned into Liu's ear and whispered: "With the Pregnancy Pill, 80% of them will give birth to a son." ”

If Liu only had some ideas before, now he is really moved. It's just that the medicine is not used casually, and it is my daughter who has to use it in particular, so I have to be cautious. Liu didn't say much, and had lunch at his mother's house before returning to the Yasukuni Mansion.

She thought about it a lot, but she couldn't make up her mind, "Agarwood, go to the study and take a look, the prince is not there." "Anyway, I have to discuss it with my husband.

After listening to his wife's words, the prince of Yasukuni pondered for a moment, "You can try." Then he cautiously instructed: "Don't use it for the princess first, try it on the maid." ”

Liu was also relieved to see that her husband supported her. Then, she thought of her niece who married into the East Palace. Although Su Yan became the crown princess, Liu was not very comfortable. But after all, this princess is still from the Yasukuni Mansion, and she can't write two Su characters in one stroke, and this glory is still from the Yasukuni Mansion.

Although the crown princess has only been married to the East Palace for three months, the problem of children is not better than later. The niece is a little different from her own daughter, the eldest son of the prince is a hundred times more powerful than the eldest son of the prince.

"Do you want to discuss it with your younger siblings and prepare some for the crown princess?" Liu asked her husband.

The prince of Yasukuni frowned and thought for a long time, "You can mention it to your younger brother and sister, if she doesn't want to, you don't have to force it." Of course, the prince of Yasukuni wanted the princess to give birth to the prince's son-in-law, but he still had some other thoughts in his heart, but he didn't dare to think about it deeply.

Seeing that her husband didn't seem to be so enthusiastic about the matter of the crown princess, Liu was a little puzzled, but she couldn't ask.

After sending her husband away, she instructed someone to invite Lu's family, and on the other hand, she asked someone to go to Xiangji Temple to line up to ask for a pregnancy pill.

The matter of the pregnancy pill was spread widely, and the Lu family naturally knew about it. It's just that Lu has been reading poetry and books since he was a child, and he has always scoffed at this kind of miracle medicine. After listening to Liu's words, he immediately sneered and said: "Sister-in-law, don't believe this, those monks who don't do their jobs want to deceive people." ”

Lu said so surely, Liu drew an arc in his heart, and said without giving up: "My sister-in-law's niece will be pregnant after eating the Pregnancy Pill." ”

"It's just that the fate of the child has arrived, what does it have to do with the pregnant child." Lu's Road.

Although Liu said that he was anti-landing, he was still convinced by her knowledge. As soon as she said this, Liu began to be skeptical again.

The prince of Yasukuni said impatiently to her, "It doesn't matter if it's good or not, you just have to try it." ”

Liu Shi also said angrily: "This woman's family, there are people who can't have children." Not before, but the fate of the children has not arrived. ”

The prince of Yasukuni made her dumb and flicked her sleeves, "You make up your own mind, don't ask me again." ”

Liu was angry for a while, and when Su Rong came, he complained to his daughter, "Tell me about your father, now I don't take me seriously anymore, and I don't even want to say more." ”

Su Rong had no choice but to persuade her, and when Liu mentioned the Pregnancy Pill, Su Rong was startled and hurriedly said, "Auntie, you didn't give your sister-in-law something to eat, did you?" ”

"No, your brothers have sons, do you need this? I'm worried about you! Liu glared at his daughter.

Su Rong said: "Auntie, what the fourth aunt said is right, that's all a lie." Besides, don't worry about me all the time, if I'm feeling good......" She blushed and slowly lowered her head.

Liu's face was surprised, and he took his daughter's hand: "Ah Yue, are you pregnant?" ”