A year only after the Lantern Festival is considered to be a new year, if it is said that the year is a palace banquet, then the Lantern Festival can be regarded as a state banquet, in this day, all the four officials in the court can bring their families into the palace with the saint to enjoy the moon and watch the lantern guess the word puzzle. Because this Lantern Festival is also one of the feasts, the Inner Servant Province also does not dare to slack off, this annual Lantern Festival is the time to enjoy the Lantern Festival, and the Shangshi Bureau and the Inner Servant Province are also busy.

During the Lantern Festival every year, in order to ensure that the lanterns are not the same as in previous years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been thinking about it since a long time ago. The sky outside gradually darkened, and the palace lamps in the palace had been lit one by one, sitting in the palace to dress up, looking up at the lamps hanging outside the house, Qin Shujiu said lightly.

"It's the Lantern Festival."

"yes." While holding Qin Shujiu's hair back, he pulled up the hair and fixed it with silver hairpins, Nanzhi said while holding his hair: "I'm afraid the officials have also entered the palace." He took out the Zhu Meichai in the box and inserted it into Qin Shujiu's hair, and Nan Zhi picked up the bronze mirror on the table and asked Qin Shujiu to look at himself.

Today's Qin Shujiu is innocent, but it is inadvertently blended with this festive night, but it is as pure as the snow that is still backlogged outside the house. The only color on the whole body is afraid that there are only a few red plums on the red plum hairpin, and it is also worth paying attention to the golden hairpin that is more precious than the pearl from a distance.

Painted half a delicate plum with cinnabar between the eyebrows, Qin Shujiu got up and then said: "The officials can be regarded as all in the palace. There was a pause at this point, and after a long time, he said, "I can worship them all." When Qin Shujiu finished saying this, the curtain pushed open the door, and then saluted.

"Baolin, the sedan chair outside has been prepared, it's time for Baolin to set off."

"Got it." He nodded and signaled that he understood, and after looking at Nanzhi, Qin Shujiu left the dormitory and got into the sedan chair.

The palace is extravagant so it always seems quiet and treacherous at night, rarely like the Lantern Festival, no matter where you go to see the bright lights, with the guidance of this palace lamp, the sedan chair goes more and more steadily, and it doesn't take long to come to the Imperial Garden.

The Imperial Garden is the largest palace garden in Taiming Palace, and even in winter, when all the flowers have withered, you can see a different snowy beauty. There is a high platform in the middle of the Imperial Garden, and the Lantern Festival is held there. When Qin Shujiu arrived there, the lantern banquet was almost starting, and the important ministers above the fourth rank in the court were all on the platform, because Qin Tianhao, the secretary of the criminal department, was a third-grade civil official, so he was also on the high platform.

After passing through the corridor and walking to the concubine's seat, Qin Shujiu bowed to his parents on the bright face when he passed the civil seat, and only after worshipping did he go to the palace under the support of Nanzhi.

With such a grand lantern banquet, the concubines and concubines were dressed up beautifully, and Qin Shujiu's body was plain and white, which made Liqing's eyes light up. White as a crescent moon and soft and ethereal, especially the few wisps of red on the sideburns, not only did not add tacky, but added a touch of pretty color, but made Liqing can't help but praise.

"You are really so elegant today, I almost thought that the immortals of the He family had strayed into my lantern feast." This praise can make others envious, and it also makes Qin Shujiu a little ashamed, his cheeks are red, and Qin Shujiu said: "Your Majesty has praised it." Liqing smiled and replied, "I can never praise falsely. After speaking, he motioned to Yu Shan to bring the pure brew on his table.

Fang arrived and got Liqing's wine, since it should be a strong favor, today the civil and military officials are here, Qin Shujiu is not stingy to let the civil and military officials see it, so he took the glass of wine and drank it all, and then smiled at Liqing and returned the salute.

Today is the Lantern Festival Lantern Feast, it is a time a year for the Holy Lord and the courtiers to come to show the harmony of the monarch and the ministers. Palace dance wine, love song Luo Shaman song, this lamp banquet is indispensable. Especially the four happy balls newly made by the Shang Food Bureau, which made the civil and military courtiers sigh.

When the four happy balls were brought in and placed on the table, Qin Shujiu looked at it carefully, this was a newly made thing by the Shang Food Bureau. The balls are divided into four colors, red, white, yellow, and green are distinct, and even the taste is completely different. Scoop up one with the jade spoon and put it in your mouth, and bite the glutinous rice into your lips, and you can't help but have an aftertaste of the fragrance of your lips and teeth.

This kind of round rice is very good, Qin Shujiu likes it very much, and those officials who have only entered the palace once a year should be even more so, and they all praise this dish of four happy balls. Just ate one grain and then didn't continue, but put the bowl down and then gently wiped the lip flap with an embroidered handkerchief, and when wiping it, Qin Shujiu also looked at it by the way.

Such a soft taste should be praised by everyone, but Qin Shujiu's glance swept over, but not everyone showed praise, the hussar general Yu Wensheng and Taifu Zheng Hui looked as usual, and they never praised it. When he first paid attention to these two people, Qin Shujiu laughed with an unknown meaning, and secretly thought in his heart.

"So indifferent, I don't know if the official position is higher and the person is stable, or if he has already eaten better, the food of the Shang Food Bureau can't be seen."

If it's the former, it's okay to say, but if it's the latter, his heart has to ponder carefully, and the official's words and deeds are not only Qin Shujiu alone, even that Liqing is sitting on the throne of the palace, and the afterglow is constantly sweeping over the officials of His Royal Highness. looks, words and deeds, all kinds of expressions cannot escape the eyes of His Majesty.

A lantern banquet is harmonious on the surface, but the deep meaning hidden in the fact is that the people who are officials are afraid to understand it in their hearts. Secretly looking at the 'harmony' between the officials, Qin Shujiu paid more attention to those people. She can only fall asleep listening to the names of those people every day, and now she can see the face of Lushan, so she should have to take a closer look. When catering to the laughter and conversation of the sisters around her, Qin Shujiu also looked at it quietly, she was as angry as usual, but Nanzhi on the side couldn't hold it back, for fear that Nanzhi would do something drastic because he couldn't restrain himself, so Qin Shujiu took advantage of the embroidered handkerchief to fall to the ground when he took out the embroidered handkerchief.

Seeing that the embroidered handkerchief fell, Nanzhi squatted down and wanted to pick it up, and Qin Shujiu also bent down and whispered in Nanzhi's ear: "Don't be impulsive." ”

"But."

"Don't spoil big things on impulse." After saying this, he took the embroidered handkerchief in Nanzhi's hand, and then sat upright, apologized slightly to both sides, and then served a wine and toasted him. Qin Shujiu's admonition Nanzhi understood that although her heart was full of hatred, she still gritted her teeth, and then endured it.

Under the drink, the atmosphere under the lantern banquet was even more harmonious, because there was the idle Prince Han who ignored the law there, so the lantern banquet was also a little restrained because of the saint here, and the officials were also two or three groups chatting about the world and the major affairs of the court. Just as Su Die on the side said this, he happened to see Xu Taiwei talking to Qin Shangshu, Xu Taiwei's arrogant appearance was so arrogant that he didn't know what he was talking about, Qin Tianhao just nodded and smiled on the side, and responded with a few words from time to time, but he couldn't say anything.

Seeing this, Qin Shujiu's heart was generally a little clear, and he immediately moved his eyes to look at Xu Cairen, and sure enough, Xu Cairen was looking at himself with a sneer, his eyebrows and eyes were full of pride. raised the wine glass to make that toast, but the meaning of this lightly opened lips was a little provocative.

Even if he didn't hear what Xu Cairen said, but looking at the provocative smile on her face and Qin Shujiu from the lips, he could roughly guess that he was telling himself.

No matter how she won the Sacred Heart and was favored in front of the Holy Lord now, her father finally made her father crush her in the court, and she didn't even have room to raise her head and speak. Therefore, her favor is only a matter of a moment, and His Majesty's Sacred Heart will eventually fall to her.

Because her father is the high-ranking Xu Taiwei, a high-ranking official in the court.

Xu Cairen's provocation comes from the power of her mother's family, and this power is also clearly there, but power is not so important to Qin Shujiu. After all, Xu Cairen doesn't know about Liqing's thoughts, and she has a higher advantage than this self-righteous talent in this regard.

just smiled back, returned a full glass of wine, and then stopped paying attention to her and continued to talk to Su Die. Qin Shujiu's attitude made Xu Cai's teeth tighten with anger, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, Xu Cairen sat there and gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Qin Shujiu, I want to see what ability you have to charm the Sacred Heart." The little abandoned daughter of a three-grade civil official family also dares to compete with me for favor, hmph, don't think that I don't know what you did. I'm not Ni Baolin's brainless master, you can wait for me, and I will make you disappear from my eyes in a short time. ”

Under the resentment, the words he said were also vicious, although these words were not heard, but the hatred on Xu Cai's face was real. On the top of that hall, Qin Shujiu and Xu Cairen's duet can be seen in people's eyes, at this time, the people in the palace called the palace people who accompanied her, and then whispered a few words in her ear, and the palace people also understood, and then nodded and retreated.

Although the booze on the lantern feast is said to be fun, how can there be no lantern riddles in the Lantern Festival. Don't look at the palace lamps hanging in this palace and look novel, but there are secrets hidden in each palace lamp. A palace lamp and a lantern riddle, if you guess correctly, you can take it down, and the one who guesses the most will be rewarded with the first prize.

With the reward of His Majesty's own words, this riddle should have been guessed, and after leaving from the seat, the officials and concubines searched for the riddle in the imperial garden around the high platform.

Such an interesting thing Qin Shujiu did not let go, this lamp looked over, Zhang Zhang Lantern riddle also looked over, but he didn't take off a single one for a long time. After looking like this, I also saw that I found a place with Qin Tianhao, and when I saw my father, Qin Shujiu hurriedly bowed and said, "Shujiu has seen my father." ”

"My Lady Baolin, please get up quickly, this can't be helped." After Qin Tianhao's words fell, Qin Shujiu got up, and then asked, "Mother and sister's health is good." Qin Tianhao replied: "Your body is not bad, but you also have a heart and are still concerned." The parents chatted and walked to the side where there was no one, and there were many people, and there were many ears, even father and daughter were not the place to talk. When he walked a few steps to the sparsely populated place, Qin Tianhao spoke.

"The matter of the Ministry of Works, but the daughter is working hard in the palace?" Qin Tianhao was also direct, he asked so simply, he must have wanted to see if he was a daughter, but he was quite agreeable, seeing him ask Qin Shujiu like this, of course he also answered, and after chuckling, he replied: "Didn't my father pass on the rumor, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu was always embarrassed for you a few days ago, and many of the criminal departments needed it were always delayed again and again, and they refused to do it quickly." The daughter was thinking at the time that this father was a diligent man, and if the incident dragged her father, he would definitely have trouble sleeping. Gu thought about it again, that Ni Baolin was the heart of the Ministry of Works, if she persuaded her father, she was afraid that she would be able to make the Ministry of Industry Shangshu not to embarrass his father, so he made his own decision in private, hoping that his father would not blame. ”

Obviously, he set up a trap to ask for Ni Baolin's life, but Qin Shujiu said it as if they were talking like sisters, which made Qin Tianhao feel shocked. But after being shocked, he also admired, he was a person with a heart, this kind of woman should feel that it can be useful, when even said with a smile: "No wonder the king said that my second daughter must be more intimate than the eldest daughter, I was still worried at the time, I am afraid that you have grown up in that nunnery since you were a child and you can't see through many things, but I didn't expect it to have a discerning eye." Yes, yes, your daughter understands my father's mind very well. ”

"Of course, all this is given by my father, so I naturally have to understand my father's thoughts." After saying ten thousand blessings, there is a sense of thanks. After thinking about it for a while, Qin Tianhao replied and said, "By the way, in the future, you must be careful everywhere in this palace, don't be careless?" After getting the advice, Qin Shujiu responded: "Father, don't worry, what should be done in this palace, what should be done, what should be done, the daughter has everything in her heart, and the father doesn't have to worry about it, but above the court, he has to bother his father." ”

"Since you have said so, then I will be relieved, as for the affairs of the court, you don't have to worry, I must know how." Qin Shujiu is a smart woman, and she really doesn't need to teach this smart woman anything, just let her understand what she can do and what she can't do.

The two chatted for a long time again, afraid that leaving for too long would make people think about it, so Qin Shujiu bowed and then said: "My daughter has been away from the table for too long, take a step ahead." ”

"Well, then you can go quickly." After saying goodbye, he said goodbye again, and Qin Shujiu left.