Chapter 176: Enter the palace for a banquet
Knowing that Shen Jiahe took the guests to the dark room again, Pei Yuan first called Liuyu and gave a simple order after changing his regular clothes, "Let the kitchen send some snacks and chilled fresh lychees." Then I went to the dark room.
Shi Xiangyuan and Lu Jiuzhi saw Pei Yuan coming in, and hurriedly got up to salute, and after Pei Yuan nodded and said a few words, Liuyu also came in with the people from the kitchen.
Pei Yuan looked at the food that was put on the table, and greeted the two with a smile: "This lychee was just delivered, you two taste it first, and I'll say a word to Jiahe." ”
Regardless of the two of them covering their mouths and snickering on the side, they only moved Shen Jiahe into the compartment of the dark room with the futon, put her behind the soft collapse, and then pressed her and asked: "You said that you would have another child when you came back at the border, have you thought about it, when will your stomach move?" ”
As he spoke, he also attached himself to Shen Jiahe's stomach and kissed it, and his voice also carried some emotion: "Give me a quasi-letter, otherwise my heart will be like a cat's claw." ”
When Pei Yuan didn't have it, he didn't want to have children so much, but after experiencing it and losing it, he suddenly wanted to have a child with Shen Jiahe.
Shen Jiahe stretched out his hand and pushed him, seeing that he couldn't afford it, he had to resign himself to kissing him on his stomach: "Wait until this hot day is completely over, I heard that pregnant women are very afraid of heat, and it will be even more difficult for me to endure it when the time comes." ”
Pei Yuan raised his head and smiled with satisfaction, it was also very fast, this hot day was over, he got up and helped Shen Jiahe up, remembering what he had talked about with Xiang Yuan before, Shen Jiahe asked: "How to prepare for the Queen Mother's birthday gift, and I have to discuss it with you." ”
The things given to the royal family can neither be too luxurious nor too poor, and there needs to be a good scale in this, Shen Jiahe has never experienced this kind of thing before, so he naturally has to ask.
Who would have thought that Pei Yuan had already prepared all this, "You don't have to worry about this, from now on, your main task is to take good care of your body, and strive to conceive a child as soon as the weather is cool." ”
Well, the conversation has turned back to it! Pei Yuan probed Shen Jiahe's lips and grinded them carefully, tasting them carefully, but both of them remembered that there were still guests outside, what would happen in the end.
Liuyu didn't ask the two girls outside when she had something to say, so she recklessly broke in, but Pei Yuan and Shen Jiahe had already separated, and they were just sorting out each other's clothes, but such a picture was even more reverie.
Liuyu was stunned for a while and didn't speak, and hurriedly retreated again, Shi Xiangyuan saw his embarrassed look and smiled: "I shouted and shouted that you went in, what's the matter?" Did you bump into something good? ”
"Nothing, the two girls don't dare to talk nonsense!" Liuyu hurriedly pleaded, in fact, he did not see anything.
Lu Jiuzhi also laughed out loud: "I haven't seen anything, why are you blushing?" ”
This lewd girl really felt that her face was burning, and she didn't care about the two girls who were still laughing, she hurriedly escaped from the dark room, Bai Ying came in with something from outside, and was bumped into by him: "What's the matter, someone is chasing you behind?" ”
Liuyu didn't pause and ran out regardless of it, making Bai Ying confused, and when she entered the dark room, she smiled and fell back and forth, and asked strangely, "What happened?" The wanderer ran more quickly than the rabbit. ”
Shi Xiangyuan and Lu Jiuzhi heard that there was another burst of laughter, which made Bai Ying even more confused.
Soon it was the day of the Queen Mother's birthday, and Pei Yuan's preparation of longevity was very heavy, and he brought Shen Jiahe into the palace early in the morning to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday.
Shen Jiahe sat in the carriage and looked at the gift list in his hand and asked Pei Yuan: "These are too many, I thought I only needed to pick one thing." ”
Pei Yuan put away the gift list and put it in the box: "That's the Queen Mother, is it an ordinary old lady's birthday, that's all, I hope I won't be picked on by that time." ”
The queen mother's birthday, hundreds of officials also give gifts, before the banquet begins, the master of ceremonies according to the gift list sent by each family, just read the gift list It took a lot of time.
Shen Jiahe touched his stomach, trying his best not to show an impatient expression, Pei Yuan pulled her aside and laughed in a low voice: "I asked you to use it more in the morning, but you didn't listen." ”
Shen Jiahe pouted at him: "How did I know that there were so many things before the banquet, and I thought that I would be able to start the meal when it was time." ”
Pei Yuan clenched his fist to his lips to cover his smile: "I said earlier that this is the birthday of the Queen Mother, where can ordinary people compare." ”
Shen Jiahe paid attention to the gift list read out by the master of ceremonies, so that he could forget the hunger in his belly, and only after listening carefully did he realize that the emperor's gift was not counted, and the queen herself added something extra, and the same as the queen's practice, there was also Princess Jintai, after the Ling Wangfu gave a gift,. She also added something on behalf of herself.
When the master of ceremonies finished reading the gift list, the queen glanced at Shen Jiahe and asked: "Princess Xian is participating in the Queen Mother's birthday for the first time this year, and she did not prepare a birthday ceremony for the Queen Mother, presumably the Queen Mother can also understand." ”
"Queen, what you said is not right," Concubine Ling on the side covered her mouth and smiled, and then raised her eyes to look at Princess Jintai twice before continuing to speak, "Princess Jintai is also the first time this year, not to mention that Princess Jintai is still a foreigner, and she knows how to prepare gifts, so it can be seen that Princess Xian does not have this heart." ”
Shen Jiahe looked at them in shock, there were so many things in the palace, and she was embarrassed to say that she didn't give gifts? Isn't she one with the Xianwang Mansion?
Just as she was about to refute, Pei Yuan gently pinched her palm, and took the initiative to argue for her: "The queen mother and Concubine Ling are wrong, most of the gifts presented to the queen mother today were carefully selected and sent by the princess, but I didn't want to trouble them, so I put them together, and presented a gift list. ”
Princess Jintai naturally wanted to speak for Shen Jiahe, and bowed to the Queen Mother and said with a smile: "At the beginning, King Ling and I were also going to be together, but he was sent to the palace first, so I could only bring it myself." ”
In this way, it seems that the queen has nothing to do, and the queen mother has to hurry up in order to resolve the embarrassment: "What Princess Jintai said is that the most important thing is your heart for the mourning family, and the mourning family who does not give gifts does not value it. ”
She looked at Shen Jiahe kindly and said with a smile: "King Xian and Princess Xian are so affectionate, but it makes the mourning family very happy, and the mourning family only hopes that you juniors can love and love, and let the mourning family hug their precious grandson as soon as possible, which is the best gift for the mourning family." ”
When the banquet was about to end, the palace people suddenly entered the palace to report: "Emperor Qi, Queen Mother, King Heng is asking to see you outside." ”
"King Heng has arrived? Come in, come in, come in! The emperor was overjoyed, and then looked at the queen mother and explained: "I sent a letter to King Heng early in the morning, asking him to come back to attend the birthday of the queen mother. ”
The Queen Mother patted the emperor's hand and smiled happily: "The emperor has a heart, and the mourning family has not seen King Heng for a long time, and it is indeed a matter of missing it." ”
Shen Jiahe looked at the interaction of the boss, and in a blink of an eye, he saw a young man wearing a suit of armor entering the hall, kneeling down to the queen mother and the emperor, and said: "Weichen came in a hurry, I am afraid that I will miss the time of the banquet, and I haven't even had time to change my clothes, and I hope that the queen mother and the emperor will forgive me!" ”
"Hurry up!" The Queen Mother smiled, "It's not easy for you to come from such a far away, why bother with these false courtesies, but I'm afraid it's not easy to eat when you wear this sound, so let's go down and change your body and talk to the mourning family again." ”
Taking advantage of the time when King Heng went down to change clothes, Shen Jiahe lowered his head and asked Pei Yuan: "Why haven't you heard of this King Heng before?" ”
Pei Yuan explained to her: "King Heng is the son of my imperial uncle, who is stationed in the coastal areas all the year round, and he really doesn't return to the capital much, and the queen mother loves him very much." ”
Shen Jiahe nodded clearly, the people in the army moved quickly, and after a while, they came back from the apse, and the emperor hurriedly gave him a seat: "King Heng has worked hard all the way, but you need to use more wine and food." ”
When the banquet was completely over, Jintai presented a dance to the Queen Mother, and the exotic dance pushed the atmosphere of the whole banquet to a climax.
The Queen Mother sat on the top and sighed: "The mourning family also liked to dance when they were young, but now they can't dance." ”
She suddenly looked at Shen Jiahe and said with a smile: "I heard that Princess Xian once jumped a green waist during a horse race, and it was also amazing at that time, but it is a pity that the mourning family was unable to leave the palace at that time. ”
"The Queen Mother Liao praised, the dance of the Allure City is just everyone's lift, but if the Queen Mother wants to see it, the concubine should be offered." Shen Jiahe replied with his head down.
As soon as the Queen Mother waved her hand, the musicians in the palace immediately played the song, and Shen Jiahe slowly paced the center of the main hall, showing a green waist in front of everyone.
At the end of the song, Shen Jiahe also stopped, she blessed the queen mother, and then looked at everyone and said: "Princess Jintai and I have different regional cultures and customs, and the dances we dance are also different dances, there is no comparison at the moment, I am picking up a cheap, otherwise I am afraid that I will lose to Princess Jintai today." ”
This is humble, but it is also to let these people present not compare the two of them, and when she sat next to Pei Yuan, Pei Yuan praised her in a low voice: "This latter sentence is even more exciting than this dance." ”
King Heng looked at Shen Jiahe, who was whispering to Pei Yuan, with a playful look, and then turned his head sideways to inquire with Pei Shu: "The prince once married the daughter of the Shen family back then, and this king has seen it in a hurry, how can he look the same as this princess now." ”
Pei Shu smiled bitterly: "Uncle Xiaohuang, this is the former princess of this palace, but she was suspended by this palace because of some things, and she only had the opportunity to marry into the Xianwang Mansion later." ”
King Heng was shocked: "King Xian will actually marry a woman you don't want?" ”
Pei Shu drank all the wine in his hand, looked at the smile of the woman opposite, and felt even more bitter in his heart: "Uncle Huang loves her so much, naturally he doesn't mind that she is a remarried girl, and besides, the power of the Shen family in the court, Uncle Xiao also knows." ”
King Heng looked at Shen Jiahe again, and his eyes changed from stunning to contemptuous, such a woman was taken home by Hugh, and she didn't know how to hide and live, and she was able to seduce King Xian to marry her, she was really a woman like a fox spirit, seeing Pei Shu's lonely face, she only comforted: "Don't want this kind of woman, can't you find a better girl as a prince?" ”
Before Pei Shu could speak, King Heng had already stood up and raised his glass to Shen Jiahe and said: "Princess Xian, this king heard a lot of your deeds before he came, and the dance just now is really amazing enough, no wonder he can still make King Xian take a fancy to him when he is taken home, and he really has some ability." ”
Shen Jiahe's face turned pale, Pei Yuan took her hand at the right time and didn't let her get up, suppressing the anger in his heart, Pei Yuan smiled and raised his glass to King Heng Yaoyao: "King Heng's words are still cautious, this king and the princess are childhood sweethearts, if there is not an accident in the middle, I am afraid that there are children, the princess of this king does not need to have any ability, as long as this king likes it." ”
"King Heng heard some words from somewhere, and it is really inappropriate to slander the princess of this king in this way, but this king thinks that you rushed back to celebrate the queen mother's birthday, and this king doesn't care." Pei Yuan continued.
Shen Jiahe couldn't resist his temper and then said: "This palace is really curious, King Heng said that in order to catch up with the Queen Mother's birthday, you didn't even have time to change your clothes, but you had the opportunity to listen to some market rumors, I don't know how much you can believe your words?" ”
King Heng suffered a dumb loss, he couldn't tell everyone that these words were said by the prince, that would make the prince black, so he could only endure his anger and arch his hand: "The younger brother just listened to it, and if he was offended, he invited the imperial brother and sister-in-law Haihan." ”
Pei Yuan and Shen Jiahe raised their hands and raised their glasses together, Pei Yuan saw this scene in his eyes, and only felt that the bitterness had spread all over his body.