Chapter 127: Spring Gift on the First Day of the Lunar New Year
It's New Year's Day in the blink of an eye. On the first day www.biquge.info of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Yuan accepted the worship of hundreds of officials and foreign envoys in the Linhua Hall in the morning, and in the afternoon, he sat in the Xuande Hall to accept the queen and the concubines to say new joy and deliver Ruyi.
After the queen bowed six times and bowed three times, she knelt down and handed over a gold-inlaid jade nine-turn Ganoderma lucidum pattern Ruyi, which means "Lingzhi Ruyi".
After accepting the queen's congratulatory gift, Zhao Yuan spread out the gold coral wax paper on the imperial case, and lifted the red sandalwood tube carved lacquer mink pen to write some auspicious words to the queen and concubines, which is called New Year's Day pen.
The auspicious words that Ke Coincidentally gave to Concubine Ji were "Juan Jie Jing Shou", Yun Yang took it and looked at the handwriting on it, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly. Although he didn't speak, there was a look of disapproval on his face.
How could this escape Zhao Yuan's eyes, he glanced at Yun Yang deeply, and secretly gritted his teeth in his heart: "Okay, you little girl, you dare to laugh at my imperial pen, just see how I clean you up tonight......"
Sure enough, in the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Yuan woke up from Qiao Palace.
When he woke up, Yoon-yang was already sitting at the dresser and getting dressed.
Zhao Yuan was not in a hurry to get up, so he leaned on the coral-red double peach Ruyi pattern bright satin cushion and looked at Yunyang's back.
Yun Yang first used a plain jasper comb to pick up the broken hair that fell between her sideburns, took off the hairpin ornament at night, and put a new hairpin on her head with a gold-inlaid agate folding technique peony five treasures.
Then he covered the face with a thin layer of butterfly powder, and then put three kinds of rouge in the palm, such as strong drunken wine, red cloud oblique and peach blossom ice, and gently extended it with the index finger to blend a new color, and then slowly dipped it in some and put it lightly on the cheeks.
Zhao Yuan has been watching Yunyang makeup intently, and there is an indescribable comfort in his heart. He always thought that women's makeup was time-consuming and laborious, so he never had the patience to accompany his concubines to dress up.
But for Yunyang, it's different. Zhao Yuan watched her hands busily pick out the hairpin ring, one turn to this side, the other to that side, no matter how you look at it, it is very interesting.
What's more, Zhao Yuan found that her figure was already slightly different from before, and she was a little plumper. The back of the neck and shoulders can already appear in a rounded arc. When she backhanded the hairpin behind her head, a cute little nest appeared on her snow-white wrist.
These changes were discovered by Zhao Yuan's eyes, and his palms were also discovered...... He still looked at Yunyang intently and didn't say anything, but there was a triumphant smile on the corner of his mouth.
Yun Yang saw Zhao Yuan's incomprehensible smile from the rhombic mirror, a little strange, and turned around and said, "What is the emperor laughing at?" ”
Zhao Yuan didn't answer either.
Yunyang raised his hand and stroked the hairpin ring on his head, but he didn't notice that Dai was crooked, so his heart became more and more strange.
At this moment, Sui Su walked in from outside, knelt down and replied: "The spring gift of the queen and the other mothers has been delivered, please take a look." ”
Yun Yang applied rouge and said softly, "Bring it to me." ”
Soon, Concubine Chen's gift was the first to come in, and Yunyang opened it to see that it was a copy of the Heart Sutra copied in musk ink. "Concubine Chen is really attentive, it will take a lot of thought and time to copy such a volume of "Heart Sutra".
The queen's gift was also placed on the table - it turned out to be a rosewood hanging screen, and Yunyang saw clearly the story of "King Jiang taking off the hairpin" engraved on it.
King Xuan of Zhou's queen was Jiang, the daughter of the Marquis of Qi. At the beginning of King Xuan of Zhou's accession to the throne, with the support of Zhaogong and others, he was diligent in political affairs. But after a long time, he couldn't help but be a little slack, not only going to bed early and getting up late, but also often staying in the harem and reluctant to leave, delaying the court to listen to the government.
Seeing that King Xuan was so obsessed with women, the virtuous Empress Jiang was very worried. She thought: King Xuan, as the Son of Heaven, shoulders the heavy responsibility of benefiting the world, and cannot devote himself to the people of the world.
Thinking of this, Empress Jiang took off the ornaments on her head, such as hairpins and earrings that symbolized the queen, and changed into ordinary women's clothes. Then he told King Xuan: "It is the concubines who have no virtue and no talent, and breed the heart of lewdness and pleasure, so that the king is burdened, and often rude in the late dynasty, giving people the impression that the king is lustful and forgetful." ”
Once you are obsessed with women, you will definitely be poor and extravagant, and neglect the government, so that the princes will rebel, the people will complain, and social turmoil will be caused. The root cause of the potential turmoil in the country today is the concubines, so I ask the king to punish me. ”
Empress Jiang's behavior made King Xuan wake up like a dream and be ashamed. Since then, he has never been late in life, working hard to be more diligent and attentive to political affairs, returning early and late every day, and finally achieving a career.
This story was originally one of the "Biography of the Daughters", and the queen sent the screen engraved with this story to the palace lord of Qiao at this time.
The implication is that the emperor has lingered in Qiao Palace for too long and neglected political affairs, and Yunyang is the red face that leads the emperor to make mistakes.
Yunyang looked at this hanging screen, and the look on his face was no longer good-looking.
At this time, Concubine Min's gift was also sent in, and she did even better, not only preparing one for Yunyang, but also preparing one for Zhao Yuan, and at the same time letting the person who sent it pass the word: "I guess that the emperor must also be in Qiao Palace, so I also prepared a New Year gift for the emperor." ”
When Zhao Yuan heard this, he said curiously: "I get up and take a look, what gift Concubine Min has prepared for me!" ”
Yun Yang ordered Drink Green to open the two brocade boxes sent by Concubine Min, giving Yun Yang a box of pearl powder that cools his blood, and giving Zhao Yuan a box of dried seahorses.
Yunyang looked at it, his face was already red with embarrassment, but he couldn't have a seizure, so he had to say to Yinlu: "Take these down quickly." ”
It turned out that such a thing sent by Concubine Min had a deep meaning. What was given to Yunyang was a cold-blooded holy product - pearl powder, which meant that she was asked to restrain her fiery heart, let the hot blood cool down, and not pester the emperor every day, so that he could not leave. As we all know, dried seahorse is sweet and salty and warm, good at entering the kidney meridian, warm and aphrodisiac, and is often used to treat kidney yang deficiency.
Concubine Min sent these two things at the same time, which was nothing more than humiliating Yunyang, implying that she was overwhelmed, which made the emperor's body weak, and she could only use medicine to make up for it, otherwise the dragon body would be difficult to be safe.
Concubine Min just used the gift, so she didn't need to say a word to ridicule Yunyang. She was misbehaved, behaved unmanneredly, and used bewitching means to retain Zhao Yuan's red face.
After receiving such an inexplicable accusation, Yun Yang's face turned pale with anger, and Zhao Yuan immediately came over and grabbed his shoulders and said, "Concubine Ai doesn't know, Concubine Min's gift is a good sign!" ”