The eighty-fourth Chinese New Year's Eve feast Hanguang Hall
In the blink of an eye, on the evening of the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the palace still held a family banquet in the Hanguang Hall, and only those of grade in the harem concubines could attend. Even so, together with the princes, princesses, eldest princesses, and concubines who came to the banquet, the scale of this banquet is not trivial, and it is no wonder that this dining room has been preparing since several days ago, and has been busy from morning to night.
The smoke in the Hanguang Hall sends warmth, and the rings are tinkling, and there is a scene of singing and dancing and peace, and harmony and happiness.
Jiang Suoyue is in the position of concubine, so she is naturally qualified to attend, but the seat is slightly back. Today she wore a moon-white floating brocade jacket, although it was plain, but because there were a few branches embroidered on it, the petals of the plum blossom were piled up by red silk yarn, which was very delicate and small, and then embroidered with light yellow silk thread stamens, and shaved with a small brush, making the red plum blossoms look more realistic, but there was a bit of snow to find the meaning of plum, contrary to the times, under the silver-red long skirt, the two contrasted, and did not seem too plain, compared to those who wore red and green, gold and silver concubines, naturally added a bit of elegance and poetry.
Of course, the dress taste of high-ranking concubines such as Concubine Shu and Yao Zhaoyi is also good, and the jewelry they wear is even more delicate and luxurious, so the beauty on this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is already dizzying, I am afraid that just eating beautiful is enough.
Everyone at the banquet first raised their glasses to worship the emperor, and then worshiped the queen mother and queen, and then sat down to eat. I have to toast each other left and right, where do I have time to eat something seriously.
Jiang Suoyue tasted a vegetable roll, and then looked at the concubines who had sorted out their clothes from time to time, and their eyes drifted towards the emperor, and couldn't help but shake their heads, it was really in vain that the cooks carefully made the meal, and there were a few people here who had the same heart to taste as her.
But I heard the Queen Mother suddenly say in a rambling voice: "Zhu Jieyu is almost three months pregnant." ”
Zhu Jieyu was a little sleepy because of pregnancy, and suddenly heard that the Queen Mother mentioned herself, and then saw everyone on the field looking at herself because of the Queen Mother's question, and even the emperor on the throne also looked at her, she was both surprised and proud, and said ashamedly at first glance: "Yes, as the Queen Mother said, the concubine is almost three months pregnant." ”
Her smug expression and proud tone when she talked about "pregnant" couldn't cover it, and none of the concubines present were blind or blind, so they naturally saw and heard clearly, and the jealousy and anger were only afraid that they would break through the roof and reach the sky.
The Queen Mother seemed to be accustomed to this kind of scene, only looked at Shen Nuosheng, and asked in a tentative tone: "Then this ......?"
The people next to him just returned it, but the queen and the concubine heard the queen mother's words, and a fine light crossed their eyes, and they returned to invisible. They know very well in their hearts that this is the meaning of the queen mother testing the emperor, Jieyu is above the noble concubine, as a noble concubine, she can raise her children independently, but the palace concubines under the noble concubine do not have this qualification, and can only record the children under the name of the high-ranking concubine. And the queen mother, naturally, hopes that Concubine Shu will raise a prince, if the emperor does not plan to promote Zhu Jieyu, then Concubine Shu will be much more sure of getting this child.
I can't see what Concubine Shu thinks in her heart, but the queen desperately doesn't want to see this situation happen, once Concubine Shu has a prince, she can launch a more violent impact on that seat, how many waves can she block? What should she do without children? Do you also want Concubine Shu to raise other people's children under her name like this? She was extremely reluctant in her heart, how much effort did she and the Fu family spend to make her stand out from all the school-age girls and marry the sixth prince at that time, and now His Majesty, and how much effort did she take to protect the throne of this queen, how could she be willing to let a child who is not related by blood sit and enjoy it, and occupy the position that her son should have sit! How willingly she was! How could it be willing!
A sneer appeared at the corner of Shen Nuosheng's mouth, and after a while, he said to the Queen Mother unintentionally: "Naturally, I will wait for the birth of the imperial heir before being promoted." ”
"That's how it should be." Although the Queen Mother knew that there was little hope, she couldn't help but be a little disappointed in her heart. That's it, it is reasonable to be promoted to the throne after giving birth to the emperor's heir, this Zhu Jieyu's position is not low, even if it is enough to be promoted to another level, this child is afraid that he still has to start from the low-level palace concubine.
The Queen Mother glanced at Jiang Suoyue and Lu Qilan's stomachs lightly, and the disappointment on her face became a little stronger. She secretly regretted in her heart, that Lu Guiren was just right, and she was not very favored, but this Jiang Concubine was a little favored, how could she be favored many times and still not heard from her, it was really useless!
More disappointed than the Queen Mother is Zhu Jieyu, she thought that with this child, she could get the favor again, but a few days ago, she saw that this plan was about to fail, every time the emperor came to see her, she only sat for a while and left, even if she falsely claimed to have a fetal gas and called the emperor, she still couldn't keep people. The Empress Dowager Fang mentioned the matter of her position, she originally hoped that the emperor would open her Chrysostom, and she would be promoted to the next level today, but who knew that the emperor did not let go, how could this not make her regretful.
She comforted herself and said, no matter what, as long as this child is born, this person will be promoted sooner or later, and then she will be a noble concubine with a prince by her side, or even one of the nine concubines.
Thinking like this, Zhu Jieyu became happy again.
Jiang Suoyue looked at Zhu Jieyu's appearance and said secretly, she is also cautious, from the beginning of the banquet to the present, she has hardly eaten anything on the table, and she put it down after touching her lips. It's no wonder she's like this, this kind of banquet is the most crowded, if anyone sees that the piece of meat in her stomach is not pleasing to the eye, it is too easy to remove it.
However, this is none of her business, she and Zhu Jieyu are not related, so naturally she can't care about whether her child is okay, speaking of which, Zhu Jieyu has also intercepted people from her, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there has been a knot, so Jiang Suaoyue stopped looking at her and turned her eyes away.
But when he heard someone suddenly vomit discordantly, he immediately diverted everyone's attention, but he was the next one who was an extremely inconspicuous talent, this person was Xia Qiong, who entered the palace at the same time as Jiang Suaoyue, because of his humble background and little grace, he was still just a talented person.
Xia Cairen saw that the people in the audience were all looking at herself, where had she seen such a scene, she was so frightened that she couldn't possess her body, and hurriedly knelt down and asked for sin: "The emperor forgives the sin, the queen mother, the queen mother forgives the sin, the concubine ...... Somehow, the concubine suddenly ...... Suddenly feeling unwell, this is the loss of etiquette, the concubine ...... Concubine ......"
"That's it, if it's an unintentional mistake, let's expose it." The Queen Mother said, and gestured to Mama Wei behind her with her eyes.
Mama Wei nodded slightly and quietly withdrew.
Note: In this article, according to the Han Dynasty nomenclature law, the emperor's daughter is called the princess, the emperor's eldest daughter is called the princess, the sister is called the eldest princess, and the aunt is the eldest princess. Therefore, Princess Tongfu and Princess Anle in the previous text should be Princess Tongfu and Princess Anle, which are corrected here, and I hope you will forgive me.
In addition, the title of this book not only refers to the sun and moon in the palace where the heroine stays, but also refers to the day in the palace (referring to the emperor, alluding to the radical of his name, I hope everyone reads this word as cheng, which seems to sound better, but the meaning of reading sheng is better, ah ~ ~ so tangled) and January (referring to the heroine, implicitly fitting her name).