Chapter 20: Lady Creek's Canonization Banquet
In order to celebrate Ying Zheng getting the "Nirvana Phoenix Girl" and being named his wife, Ying Zheng held a family banquet, and the outer hall invited the important ministers to reward wine and food. I was at the mercy of the inner sanctum, sitting and eating and drinking, and from time to time to deal with a few polite compliments.
The war between Qin and the Xiongnu temporarily stopped, and Ying Zheng was very happy, and he kept accepting the flattery of the princesses, drinking cup after cup.
I saw most of the princesses of Yingzheng, except for Mrs. Jing, Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Jean, only Mrs. Mi did not come due to a long-term illness, but sent a hand-sewn dragon and phoenix sachet as a gift.
When I received the congratulatory gift, I glanced at Ying Zheng and wanted to follow his arrangement to dispose of the sachet, but Ying Zheng didn't set his sights on the sachet again after listening to the report. I looked at the others in embarrassment, and they also expected that Ying Zheng would not pay attention to the sachet and stopped mentioning it, so they shifted their interest to the things that Ying Zheng was interested in.
Pick up the sachet and look left and right, the embroidery is really exquisite, the dragon and the phoenix are lifelike, I can't put it down.
"Princess?" Luo Leng quietly reminded me that Ying Zheng was squinting at my actions.
"Put it away." I handed it to her and whispered.
A handsome young man stood on the seat outside the banquet, he raised his glass and spoke to Yingzheng: "Father, since the gift of the mother concubine is liked by the father and the concubine Xi, then the king also dances the sword to cheer up the father, congratulations to the father on his new marriage." β
In this way, this should be Mrs. Mi's only son.
I have heard for a long time that Gongzi Gao is extremely self-disciplined and filial, and when I saw it today, he was really courteous and thoughtful, and his words and deeds revealed his respect and love for Yingzheng.
Ying Zheng nodded. "Gao TiyΓ¬ is good, then your brothers will show their recent strengths one by one to the widow. Fusu, you are the eldest brother, you come first. β
Obviously, Yingzheng favored Fusu.
Everyone turned their attention to Fusu.
Only then did I realize that Fusu's interest did not seem to be high, and his spirit was far from the high-spirited he I saw outside the imperial study that night.
Hearing that his name was called, Fusu raised his head, looked at Yingzheng, and he got up and came to the center of the main hall.
"Wish, wish my father, Xi Mu... The concubine has been together for a hundred years, and her longevity is boundless! Fusu straightened up heavily, and said, "Wang Er has been studying the art of war recently..."
Fusu raised his head as he spoke, and for a moment when he looked at me, he suddenly stopped speaking.
This situation was obviously unexpected by everyone, and they were all waiting for Fusu's next sentence in the same confusion as I did, but Fusu obviously didn't plan to say what he meant.
"Bengong suddenly remembered, Bengong felt that her sister had a good face, as if she had seen it somewhere, and she couldn't remember it, and she realized it at this time." Mrs. Jing suddenly spoke, and said with a smile as if she had realized something: "Didn't my sister see the palace in the back garden?" β
Anyone can hear that Mrs. Jing is playing a round for her son, otherwise who will reveal her humiliating past and bury herself.
In any case, I don't want the miasma of the banquet I participated in to evolve, which is very detrimental to my self-cultivation and staying away from right and wrong.
"Madame has a good memory, and it is the honor of a slave concubine." I'll help her round this scene, so let's end this oolong article quickly.
"Eh, it's all family. Fusu, toast to Mrs. Creek. β
When Fusu heard her mother's words, she stopped looking at me, bowed heavily, and drank the wine in her glass in one gulp. "Mother Xi, please!"
was called "mother concubine" continuously, and I felt awkward. In front of everyone's eyes, it was not good not to acquiesce, so I had to drink it along.
I noticed that there was a different gaze that kept staring at me, saying that it was different because it was quite depressing. I looked around the hall with my conscious eyes in the space when I put the wine glass, and just in time I saw Zhao Gao's bright little eyes flowing between me and Fusu. Seeing me looking at him, he hurriedly bowed his head and laughed at Yingzheng.
It's no wonder that Luo Cong inquired that the palace people privately called him "Zhao Eunuch", Zhao Gaoren had fat eyes and small eyes, and his eyes turned a little bit, and he looked like a person of right and wrong.
Quietly retracting my gaze, I saw another stout young man standing in the center of the hall, raising his hand to pour a glass of wine and waiting to accompany him.
"Wang Er, congratulations to my father and the phoenix girl who is happy to win the sky, my Great Qin will be high in morale and invincible! May my father be unified as soon as possible and stabilize the world! β
Gongzi will Lu said with great pride, and Yingzheng and his mother Mrs. Zhao who listened were overjoyed.
"The master said that Jiang Lu has been making rapid progress recently, and now my father can hear it, and it is true. Zhao Gao, bounty bottle wine! β
Yingzheng, who was a little depressed by Fusu's abnormality, laughed at the "haha" said by the general, Zhao Gaowei served the golden bottle to the general, Yingzheng looked at me, I understood, and drank together.
More than a dozen princes toasted one after another, but fortunately, my wine strength is good, and the degree of the wine is quite low, so it's okay.
Suddenly, I was a little glad that the status of men and women in this era is different, otherwise if seven or eight princesses also come to pay respects one by one, then I will really die here.
"Who's next?" Ying Zheng drank on Xing's head, looked at his son who was toasting and said, "Isn't it Hu Hai, the torturer?" Playing hide-and-seek with his father again or drinking down first? Hu Hai. What about people? β
Hu Hai? Isn't that the youngest son of Yingzheng, Qin II, who brought disaster to the country and the people?
I was startled, and I followed the searching eyes of everyone.
Zhao Gao ran around the hall, and then his little eyes were certain, and his body suddenly ran out of the door.
"Eighteen princes, the king called you." Zhao Gao's shouting was met by the laughter of the young children, and then Zhao Gao's urgent urging.
Yingzheng is interested. "This punishment must have been played by himself." He raised his hand and made a gesture of "please get up" to me, and he got up and walked to the door of the temple to look.
I propped up my cumbersome brocade robe and followed.
The banquet is all sitting on the ground, taking off the shoes when entering the table, and putting them on when going out, and the shoes that have been taken off are placed outside the door, so a large number of shoes of the master and the servants are placed outside the main hall.
Hu Hai was probably on the wine, and because of the joy of the banquet, he was very excited, and at this moment he stepped on the shoes that were attracting attention outside the hall one by one, and he was having a lot of fun.
Mrs. Wu was shocked, and it was not good to scold him in public, so she had to shout softly in a panic: "Hu Hai, your father told you to eat and drink, look at your naughty and didn't hear it, quickly ask your father for guilt." β
Hu Hai's feet jumped and landed on my wedding shoes and grimaced at my mother, who called him.
"Hahaha, the monkey is back in the air, and it's very nasty." Ying Zheng laughed and reprimanded, and then said to me: "Madam, don't blame, this child is still young and unreasonable, if you care, change to a new pair of shoes." β
I squeezed out a smile and didn't speak.
"Hu Hai, my father has just called you more than three times, and you have to restrain yourself when you have fun, and go to the main hall to toast." As the eldest brother, Fusu taught to summon Hu Hai.
"Don't do it, what's so fun about toasting, I'm full, I want to have fun." Hu Hai's words fell, and a leap fell into Yingzheng's dragon embroidered boots, and he walked and was obediently excited.
The princes shook their heads and sighed, and many of them turned their faces away and retreated to the main hall, ignoring them no more, because Yingzheng did not return to the table, they stood on the central road and waited.
"Madame, don't be surprised, you will know about this child in the future." Ying Zheng took the lead in returning to the main hall, shouting as he walked: "Hu Hai is really temperamental, just play with him." β
When Mrs. Wu turned around, she glanced at me arrogantly, and followed Mrs. Zhao back to the banquet with a swagger.
I knew she was showing off, showing off her son's exclusive favor, showing off her privileges.