Concubine De smiled at her, pointed to Nian's and said to Yinzhen and the others: "Look at that monkey mouth, the palace hasn't said a word, she just came to talk a lot first, this is forcing the palace not to dislike her etiquette." Come on, you can give whatever you want, this is all right. ”

"Okay, Su Yan, don't sell it, your birthday gift is a full two carriages, even I don't know what Lu Dao is, take it out quickly." Yinzhen is in a rare good mood.

"The concubine obeys." Nian smiled and bent his knees to order someone to carry the birthday gift, only to see two eunuchs carrying a mahogany screen into the hall, just when Concubine De thought that this was the birthday gift given by Nian and wanted to speak, two more eunuchs carried a similar screen, and so on, after carrying six frames before stopping.

After the eunuch put the screen in order and retreated, Nian Fang smiled and said with a smile: "Eniang's birthday, Erchen has nothing good, only this set of mahogany carved silk silk painted screen can barely be handled, I hope Eniang will not dislike it." ”

Each of these screens is nearly one zhang high, more than four feet wide, carved with mahogany, and surrounded by a large number of inlaid precious materials such as Xiangfei bamboo and sour sandalwood; And each screen is inlaid with two silk flowers in the middle, a total of 12 pieces, and each piece of silk is embroidered with continuous longevity around it. The so-called one inch of silk and one inch of gold, only these twelve silk flowers are no less than ten thousand gold, plus the precious Xiangfei bamboo, sour branch sandalwood, mahogany, etc., the value is immeasurable. It's a shame that the main hall of Changchun Gong is big enough, otherwise it may not be possible to put down these screens.

Changchun Gong also has many screens, the window of the main hall is placed on a piece of less than a foot high red sandalwood carved dragon interstitial, but none of them can be as amazing as the set in front of them, not only the preciousness of the material, but also because of the delicacy of the carving; Even if there is a skilled craftsman, it will take a long time to complete the work.

Concubine De hid her heart and said to the Nian family: "You are very happy to have this heart, as for this gift, it is too precious, you better take it back." ”

Nian pretended to be sad and said to Yinzhen: "Lord Belle, you see, Eniang really dislikes the gift given by the concubine is too vulgar, not as sincere and filial as you, the Thirteenth Master and your sister. ”

Yin Zhen pouted with a smile on her lips and said lightly: "You know that Eniang doesn't mean that." His eyes swept over the set of mahogany carved silk painted screens and said to Concubine De: "E-Niang, since Su Yan has this filial piety, you can accept it, it doesn't matter whether it is valuable or not, not to mention that E-Niang is one of the four concubines and deserves this birthday gift." ”

Seeing that Yinzhen also said this, Concubine De had to nod and said: "Okay, this palace has accepted it, but it is not allowed to give such a valuable gift in the future, long live Lord has said many times that you must avoid arrogance and luxury, and you can't be greedy for enjoyment." ”

"Erchen has learned the truth." Nian agreed softly and sat down again, his eyes swept over the silent Nala with a wordless smugness.

Later, Li also presented his own congratulatory gift, which is a jade pine crane prolonging the mountain, both sides of the mountain are carved with ornaments, one side is the wild fun in the mountains, there are pines, stone cranes, deer, etc., meaning "pine and crane prolonging the year", "crane and deer in the same spring"; On the other side, two birthday stars, medicine pickers, the background is the tower hall, and the top of the mountain has the reddish-brown emerald skin that spreads from the other side, creating a scene of the rising sun and the glow of the sun, which is very chic and interesting.

Concubine De happily accepted it and asked her a few words about the fetus in her womb, and after she answered that everything was fine, she told her to recuperate well, and she accidentally moved the fetal gas.

Although the Ye family also has a child, and it is a few months older than the Li family, Concubine De undoubtedly values the Li family more, the mother is expensive by the son, and the son is also expensive by the mother.

"Good, good!" Concubine De said three good words in a row, obviously in a very good mood, "You are all very hearty, this palace likes it very much, you stay in the palace to accompany the palace for lunch, and then go to Changyin Pavilion to listen to the play?"

Everyone agreed, Concubine De nodded and was about to speak, when she suddenly saw Li get up and said, "Eniang, there is still one person who has not congratulated you on your birthday." ”

"Who is it?" In Concubine De's incomprehensible gaze, Ling Ruo stepped forward a little nervously and curtsied: "Slave Niu Hulu Ling Ruo to Concubine De Niangniang to say goodbye, Niangniang Wanblessed." ”

This surname reminded Concubine De of what happened in Kangxi's forty-third year in the Tiyuan Palace, Kangxi's anger was still in front of her that day, she had never seen Kangxi so angry for many years after entering the palace, and she had always had a trace of curiosity about Niu Hulu Lingruo, and said at the moment: "Raise your head and let the palace see." ”

When that face was clearly presented in front of her, Concubine De was the same as Concubine Rong at that time, gasping, that face was very much like the dead Empress Xiaochengren, and more like the woman in Kangxi's painting hanging in the study, no wonder Concubine Rong wanted to depose her before the draft, if she changed her face day and night, I am afraid that she will also have trouble sleeping. People who have not experienced that period of time cannot understand Kangxi's deep affection for Empress Xiaochengren.

As for the painting in the study, although it looks very much like Empress Xiaochengren, there is still a clear difference between the aura and rhyme. She had seen Kangxi look at the painting more than once, and as for the identity of the woman in the painting, Kangxi never mentioned it, only said that it was an old man.

Seeing that Concubine De's face was strange and she didn't say a word, Nala thought that she was dissatisfied with Ling Ruo's entry into the palace, so she hurriedly got up and asked for guilt: "Erchen saw that Ling Gege was filial, and thought that Eniang had asked, so he took this opportunity to take her into the palace to congratulate Eniang on her birthday in person, but Erchen was not thoughtful, please ...... Eniang"

"It's none of your business." Concubine De raised her hand to stop the Nala clan from continuing, her eyes always fell on the nervous Ling Ruo, and after a long time, she smiled and said with a little gentleness: "Get up, Jing Guiren has mentioned you to this palace, if she knows that you have entered the palace, she will be very happy." ”

"How is Jing Guiren?" Ling Ruo asked boldly.

"Naturally, it's excellent." Concubine De smiled and said: "It's rare for you to enter the palace, and later the palace will let someone accompany you to Chengqian Palace to meet the Jing noble, and she also remembers you." ”

Ling Ruo was overjoyed, hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him, and then took out the "Eight Immortals Birthday Picture" embroidered overnight and presented it with both hands, and said respectfully: "The concubine wishes the mother to be as constant as the sun and rise as the moon." Such as the longevity of Nanshan, it does not collapse. Such as the pine and cypress of the luxuriant, there is no lack or inheritance. ”

Concubine De was very satisfied with her birthday words, took the palace maid to hand over the embroidery to unfold, although she had seen a lot of unique birthday gifts before, but when she saw this "Eight Immortals Birthday Picture", her eyes were still sluggish, only to see that this embroidery was extremely delicate, among which the eight immortals looked natural, lifelike, delicate, the most rare thing is to be able to embroider that kind of ethereal fairy spirit, so that the eight immortals look like they want to return with the wind.

"Hey, why is there a peony flower on it?" Concubine De saw that there was a red flower on Lu Dongbin's body, thinking that it had accidentally fallen on it, so she brushed it casually but couldn't get rid of it, and when she looked closely, she found that it was actually embroidered on the picture.

Concubine De stroked the delicate and delicate peony flower and sighed: "What a delicate embroiderer, a few more delicate than the embroidery in the palace, is this embroidered by you alone?" And why does Lu Dongbin have a peony flower on his body? "Don't look at the length and width of this embroidery picture are no more than a foot, in order to be realistic, each of the embroidery threads used is as thin as a hair, layered on top of each other, extremely labor-intensive.

"Back to Concubine De's words, it was embroidered by the concubine and Sister Wen, she asked the concubine to congratulate the mother on her birthday, wishing the mother a long life and a long life. As for the peony flower......" Ling Ruo knew that Concubine De would ask about this, so she had already thought of her words, and said with a slight smile: "I wonder if Niangniang has ever heard of the story of Lu Dongbin's three plays of white peony?" Seeing Concubine De nodding, she said again: "There is a folk legend that the white peony is unwilling to be separated from Lu Dongbin after being measured, but it is hindered by the immortal rules, so he is willing to give up the immortal book and turn into the peony flower on Lu Dongbin's clothes, and accompany Lu Dongbin for a long time." ”

[Author's digression]: I was asked by a book friend before, I don't know what I can't reply to in the book review area, saying that I want to speak harmoniously, so I can only put it here back, I hope you can see: about the name of the year, in general history, only the surname of the woman will be recorded, and the name is rarely recorded, so what is the name of the year, I'm afraid no one can know the way, whether it is Shilan or Suyan, it is made up by later generations, and there is no need to take it seriously.