Chapter Seventy-Four: Who Cares Much?
In the blink of an eye, the Chinese Valentine's Day has arrived. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Whether it is in the folk or in the harem, Qixi is undoubtedly highly valued, folk girls can go to see their favorite lovers, and young men can also go to meet their favorite women; As for the harem...... Oh, the women of the harem can finally meet their husbands, how happy they are!
Yes, for the vast majority of women in the harem, even if they know that their husbands are there, it is really not easy to meet their husbands.
Because that's not her husband alone, it's the husband of many people, and even, he can be the husband of women in the world.
This seems very unfair, but there is no fairness in this world, only those who have the ability have a place, and those who do not have the ability can only be the bottom of the mud.
As in previous years, this year's family banquet is still presided over by the queen, and the banquet is set up in the Fengyi Palace, and the concubines in the harem can sit down regardless of their grade, but the order of the seats is of course from high to low, the more favored and the higher the status, the closer the position is to Emperor Chen, on the contrary, they are in the same seat, but the distance is insurmountable 108,000 miles.
Ning Qin'er wore a formal palace dress with a light blue lark pattern today, since it is called formal, of course, it is completely different from the various palace clothes that show their own merits and flowers on weekdays, such palace clothes cover up the charm and delicateness, and are more dignified and generous.
Such a regulation naturally has its purpose, that is, to avoid the concubines from blindly caring about fighting for beauty to please the sacred heart, and losing the original intention of family banquet reunion. Not only Ning Qin'er, but of course the other concubines are the same, they can only wear formal palace clothes that are prescribed and have grades.
But how many people can really follow the original intention of this regulation, and they can't work their clothes, so their minds will naturally go down to other things, up to what hair accessories to wear on their heads, what makeup to paint on their faces, and what shoes to wear on their feet, all of which have been selected and adjusted in a thousand ways, and the purpose is naturally to be able to show their beauty in front of Emperor Chen, and win Emperor Chen's favor and praise at a glance, of course, they won't mind getting more.
But this kind of idea is just a casual thought, even if they may still be young, wherever they are placed outside the palace wall, they will be beauties that can attract countless people's reverie, but this is not outside the palace wall after all, what about the beauty, has there ever been a lack of beauty here? Where is it not a beauty? Anyway, it's basically their turn to go to bed. If you don't have hope, you won't be disappointed, otherwise, you will only end up bringing ridicule and despair to yourself.
Since it is a family banquet, how can there be no current queen mother?
Empress Dowager Xian is wearing a dark purple phoenix-patterned palace dress today, dignified and elegant, although she is already close to the age of six, and her charm is still there, she looks like a woman in her forties at most, who can guess that she has passed her fifty-sixth birthday this year. But here's the problem...... Everyone moved their eyes to Qi Qingyan, the concubine Chen who had just sat down in a dark purple palace dress who had just stepped in and had just taken a seat.
Yes, at tonight's family banquet, Concubine Chen and the Queen Mother collided perfectly! In addition to the different image and temperament set off, each has its own merits, not only the color, the fabric is exactly the same, but even the pattern on it is exactly the same, the forehead is ....... It can only be said that there is such a coincidence in the world!
Everyone got up to salute, Gao Xianyi hurriedly stepped forward to help, glanced at Qi Qingyan next to him, and said with a smile intentionally or unintentionally, "Oh! The palace dress of the concubine's sister is quite similar to what the queen mother is wearing! ”
How heartfelt is this, no matter how high the status of the women in the harem is, is it higher than the queen mother? It's not high! No matter how noble the status is, can you honor the queen mother? I can't respect it!
Even the dignity of the queen is not qualified to wear the same clothes as the queen mother, you are still a concubine......
But where is Qi Qingyan so easy to be handled, Gao Xianyi's voice fell, Qi Qingyan smiled very calmly, and then stepped forward and grabbed the arm of the Empress Dowager Xian from the other side and said with a smile, "The queen mother is the most noble woman in the world of my great Chen, being able to wear similar clothes with the queen mother, stained with some of the queen mother's light, Qingyan is of course proud and glorious in his heart!" ”
"That being said, there is always a distinction between high and low levels in the palace, and the concubine's sister wears the same as the queen mother, which is ...... It's still not quite right! Gao Xianyi looked at Qi Qingyan and smiled.
Qi Qingyan smiled lightly, "Sister Queen, I'm afraid you're dazzled, although Qingyan's palace dress is indeed extremely similar to the queen mother, but after all, it's just similar, the queen mother's clothes are tattooed with a nine-tailed phoenix, but Qingyan's clothes are tattooed with eight tails, didn't the queen's sister find out?" ”
Gao Xianyi's expression stiffened slightly, then she covered it up and said with a smile, "That's really the carelessness of the palace, and I didn't even notice it." ”
Qi Qingyan smiled lightly, "Then the queen's eyes will be brighter in the future, Qingyan is nothing, but it is not appropriate to compare the most noble queen mother with Qingyan, after all!" ”
Empress Dowager Xian glanced at Qi Qingyan and Gao Xianyi with a smile, and said, "What is the least noble!" The mourning family is now old, and it won't be many years later, and this most honorable woman is not you? ”
She's talking about you, not you, and not her! As we all know, Empress Dowager Xian has the same attitude towards all the concubines in the harem, whether they are favored or unfavored, whether they have children or no heirs, there will be nothing special, neither favoring anyone nor excluding anyone.
However, if you really have to calculate it carefully, it seems that Empress Dowager Xian's closeness to Qi Qingyan may really be a few points more than Gao Xianyi! And although Qi Qingyan and Gao Xianyi have a positive side after all, the power in their hands is the same, Gao Xianyi is just a title, if Qi Qingyan has been out of favor for many years, then the woman on the queen's throne is really not necessarily who she is!
Qi Qingyan glanced at Gao Xian Yi with a sneer, then made a strange look, looked at Empress Dowager Xian and said, "The queen mother will naturally live a long life, how can she say such unlucky words!" ”
Gao Xianyi seemed to be commonplace, and she didn't react much, and then Qi Qingyan's words, "Yes, Queen Mother, you are still so young, and you have two excellent sons who are so filial to Your Majesty and Brother Qingwang, and there are us on our side, so don't take it out casually!" ”
In front of her, Concubine Jin and Xu Miaoxin, who had a slightly protruding lower abdomen, and other concubines also echoed, except for Ning Qin'er, who always kept smiling and bowing her head, looking extremely respectful and humble, mainly because she had nothing to say, these two or three points of sincerity and seven or eight points of hypocrisy, she was really not good at it.
When Empress Dowager Xian sat down, the concubines sat down in turn, but the banquet had not yet begun, because Emperor Chen had not yet come.
It's strange that there is no existence of Gao Xianyi's "distant sister" attacking Ruan Ruan, isn't this the time when she should appear the most?
Empress Dowager Xian sat at the top, alongside Emperor Chen, Gao Xianyi and Qi Qingyan were on her left and right, and the other concubines descended in order according to their ranks, Ning Qin'er took Zhong Ru to sit on the lower side of Xu Miaoxin, and directly opposite was Mrs. Yin, the position can be described as "excellent"!
Qi Qingyan and Gao Xianyi talked and laughed with the Empress Dowager Xian in the upper seat, and Ning Qin'er and Zhong Ru in the lower seat said that "mother and daughter" were in deep love, and Xu Miaoxin and Concubine Jin next to them discussed the skills of taking care of children, and they were also eager to be mothers...... Until the roll call of the eunuchs outside the temple gate sounded.
"Your Majesty has arrived!"
Then Emperor Chen, dressed in a dark black dragon robe, walked in with Yang Jingde's escort.
The concubines and several younger princes and princesses who were still in the palace hurriedly got up and left their seats, bowing and bowing, "The concubines (sons) see Your Majesty." ”
Emperor Chen stepped forward to greet the Empress Dowager Xian, "Sons and daughters see the queen mother!" ”
Empress Dowager Xian smiled and raised her hand, "Jing'er, hurry up and flatten yourself!" ”
When Emperor Chen sat down next to the Empress Dowager Xian, he smiled at the concubines and concubines, "Let's be flat, sit down at will, it's rare to have a few family banquets a year, this is not a court, you don't have to be restrained, you are comfortable and comfortable!" ”
Under the leadership of Gao Xianyi, everyone then sat down again in turn, and then the family banquet began, but the atmosphere was much quieter than before Emperor Chen's arrival, so the loudest one became the only little princess Zhong Ru who didn't know how to converge.
Emperor Chen's eyes naturally fell on Ning Qin'er and Zhong Ru, who were still talking not far below, and said with a smile, "Ru'er, come to my father!" ”
Zhong Ru turned his head to look at Emperor Chen, a little disbelieving, "Is my father calling me?" "You really can't blame Ru'er little girl for asking this, because although Emperor Chen used to love her very much, but the prince and princess who were called in front of Emperor Chen on such an occasion basically couldn't get her turn.
But since the change of a "mother", these favors have really increased a lot.
Emperor Chen smiled and nodded, "Why, your father asked you to come to your father's place, but you still don't want to?" ”
Hearing this, Zhong Ru smiled excitedly, and Balabala ran over, completely leaving her new "mother concubine" behind, Ning Qin'er just smiled, and naturally didn't say anything.
At this moment, everyone saw Chen Guifei, who was sitting next to Emperor Chen, suddenly stood up, Qi Qingyan, who had not said a word since Emperor Chen entered the palace gate, finally spoke, she smiled sideways and looked in the direction of Ning Qin'er, and said with a soft smile, "Sister Qin'er, otherwise, you and the palace will change places and sit!" Since Princess Ru'er has already sat here and is tired, how can you mother and daughter sit separately? Your Majesty, do you say yes? When he finished the last sentence, Qi Qingyan looked at Emperor Chen next to him.
Emperor Chen's expression changed slightly, but only slightly, and then nodded with a light smile and acquiescence.
The audience below was stunned, the smile on Gao Xian's face instantly froze, Empress Dowager Xian's expression did not have any waves, and Zhong Ru applauded happily.
(To be continued.) (To be continued.) )