The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also the birthday of Empress Dahan. The arrangement of the Shangyuan Festival is similar to the process of the Mid-Autumn Festival, first the emperor feasted the princes and ministers in the Chengguang Palace. Due to the lively night market in the folk Shangyuan Festival, many officials will visit the night market with their families, in order not to hinder the family reunion of the courtiers, so today's banquet starts early at the time of Shen and ends at the time of You. After that, the emperor moved to the Qianqiu Palace, and the harem gathered together to eat the Lantern Festival, guess the lantern riddles, enjoy the song and dance, which is not only to celebrate the festival but also to celebrate the queen's birthday, and finally the emperor and all the concubines will go to the Taiye Pool to put the river lantern together to pray for blessings and make wishes.

The fifteenth day of the first month of the previous year was when Li Jingxi entered the palace, and the limelight at the queen's birthday banquet was robbed by her. Duan Yulin already loves her concubine, how could he bear to refuse her request? So I happily agreed. Li Jingxi went to Fengwu Palace early to congratulate the queen on her birthday, and then returned to the Li Mansion before Shen Shi with Liuli and Zimo.

The Qianqiu Hall officially opened the banquet, the emperor and the concubines gave Feng Wu a birthday, and the concubines presented the birthday gifts prepared for the queen one by one, but they were dwarfed by the big gifts sent by the emperor. Duan Yulin gave Feng Wu an ice silk gold thread emperor butterfly splendid peony screen, the ice silk used in the bottom screen of the screen is as thin as cicada wings, and the patterns on it are woven with valuable gold and silver threads, and the scales on the butterfly's wings and the stamens of the peony are inlaid with genuine colored gemstones. However, the most rare thing is the vigorous handwriting of Yulin on the top of the screen:

He Chunzhi, Reunion Festival, Wang Xie Tang returned to Xinyan in front of him;

Yu Ning'an, have to be idle, the mountains and rivers are steaming to bid farewell to the old year;

The wife is healthy, the society is complete, and the wind and rain are smooth and resting;

The phoenix seeks the phoenix, the butterfly loves the flower, and the winged bird soars in the sunny sky;

Dancing and singing, grand exhibitions, lights and sleepless nights.

This is a hidden poem, the first word of each sentence is connected together is "He Yu's wife Feng Wu", the concubines present are all amazed and envious of the emperor's intentions to the queen, Duan Yulin is even more affectionately holding Feng Wu to look at the screen, in the eyes of others, the emperor and queen husband and wife are deeply in love, only Feng Wu sighed in his heart, Duan Yulin This is to push Taoguang to the forefront of her obscurity.

"Congratulations to the queen on her birthday, to get this treasure and get the emperor's royal pen, it is really a great blessing, it really makes my sisters envious." Concubine De, the eldest of the concubines, congratulated her sincerely, and also taught Princess Lingyu to say a lot of auspicious words to Feng Wu for her birthday. Looking at the smart and clever performance of her adopted daughter, Ji Yeguang couldn't close her mouth with a smile, she loved her daughter like her life and was well-known in the whole palace. Ji Yeguang married Duan Yulin in June of the second year of Huai Jiakang, and now it has been almost seventeen years, and she is the oldest concubine in the palace today. She is respectful and generous, and never competes for favor, which is why she is the only one who can get along with the jealous queen of the waste. It's a pity that God doesn't have mercy on people, Ji Yeguang gave birth to a daughter in the second year of marriage, named Qianqian, shallow and frail, died before a year old, and she has never been able to conceive a child since then. Therefore, when Zheng Jiye handed over Lingyu to her to raise, Ji Yeguang was grateful and pinned all his love and hope on Lingyu.

"But isn't it, the concubine is also envious!" Shao Feixu looked at the jeweled screen stupidly.

"If the sisters are envious, they will ask the emperor to write a word on their birthday." Xu Ying joked with everyone, but she was very jealous in her heart, the golden screen shook her dizzy, and she couldn't wait to poke a few holes in it with scissors. Of course, Xu Ying is not the only one who is jealous, Shen Xiaoxiang is also very jealous, but she can't be compared with the queen, so she can only take the opportunity to tease Shao Feixu: "Concubine Xian's words are wrong, Your Majesty's Mobao is not available to everyone, and it depends on whether there are such qualifications and blessings, such as concubine, do you say yes?" ”

Shao Feixu understood that Shen Xiaoxiang was laughing at her wishful thinking and laughing at her for being unworthy, Shen Xiaoxiang was so bad at her, she naturally couldn't swallow her anger, so she pretended to regret and said: "What Xiang Guifei said is that concubines are naturally inferior to the queen's mother. But if you follow the example of the Hunan noble concubine back then, obsessed with His Majesty and begging for a portrait, I believe that His Majesty will not be stingy. The words ridiculed Shen Xiaoxiang shamelessly and took the initiative to ask the emperor for Danqing.

"You!" Shen Xiaoxiang was angry, and he didn't dare to be presumptuous at the queen's birthday banquet, so he could only endure it for the time being and wait for the autumn queen to settle accounts.

"Okay, okay, after saying these words, my mouth must have been dry, let's toast the emperor and queen with a drink!" Ji Yeguang played a round like a good man, and all the concubines raised their glasses to drink the contents of the cup without objection, Han Qianyu's sharp eyes saw that only Luo Zixiao took a sip and did not drink heavily, so he asked in front of everyone: "Why did Luo Guiren only touch his lips, today is the queen's birthday, even if he is not strong enough to drink, he should not be too cautious, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the emperor and queen." Han Qianyu, who has been pregnant for more than four months, has a bulge in her lower abdomen, and it is said that Luo Zixiao and Jiang Lianhuan are the most favored during the time when she and Fang Yushan can't sleep, so they can't wait to grab some small mistakes to knock and knock.

"Concubine Yu is serious, the concubine doesn't dare to be disrespectful to the emperor and queen, but ...... The concubine is already pregnant, so it is really not appropriate to drink too much. Luo Zixiao shyly said the truth that you can't drink under everyone's curious eyes, and as soon as the words fell, Fang Yushan almost crushed the cup in her hand.

"When?" Duan Yulin was in a good mood, and the concubines became pregnant one after another, which was Dahan's blessing.

"Back to Your Majesty, I only found out this morning, and it's been more than a month. The imperial physician also said that the physique of the concubines should not be drunk during pregnancy, and asked the emperor and queen to forgive them. Luo Zixiao smiled shyly.

"It doesn't matter! What should I reward you? Duan Yulin's fingers tapped a few times on the table, and he had an idea: "You have always been respectful and cautious, and you are also thoughtful in serving me, and you should also be promoted to your position." It's just that it is not suitable to be promoted in the first month, so I will give the name 'Ke' first, and I will be canonized as a concubine when I get out of the first month. ”

"Concubine, thank the emperor for his grace." Luo Zixiao knelt down to thank the emperor.

The entire birthday banquet was announced by Luo Zixiao that she was pregnant*, and the highlight of this year was snatched away after all, and Feng Wu only felt ridiculous. The other concubines also had their own thoughts, and they watched the singing and dancing absent-mindedly, not to mention the later guessing lantern riddles and releasing river lanterns, everyone was not interested, as if they were hurriedly completed as a task process and dispersed.

Time goes back to the time when the birthday banquet of the Qianqiu Hall is unfinished, and at this time, the night market of Suzaku Street outside the palace has been opened, gathering countless vendors and tourists, so lively! Zimo, who was difficult to get out of the palace, was already eager to try, and wanted to take this opportunity to go to the night market, anyway, she was not familiar with the Li family and it was uncomfortable to stay in the Li Mansion, so she simply asked Li Jingxi for leave. Li Jingxi not only approved the leave, but she also wanted to go out for a walk, so Li Jingxi took Zimo and Liuli, and the three of them changed into men's clothes, and several family members from the Li Mansion followed them out to visit the night market.

There are too many people who come out to play tonight, Li Jingxi and his party were scattered by the crowd just after a third of the walk, Liuli was so anxious that she looked for Li Jingxi's figure everywhere. Zimo was more comfortable on her own, she was not in a hurry to find the Li family, and she paid attention to Li Jingxi's figure while strolling around. Zimo lingered between the stalls, buying strings of rock sugar gourds for a while, buying a few boxes of rouge gouache for a while, having a lot of fun, and forgetting about the Li family to the clouds.

Zimo took a fancy to a delicate dagger encrusted with gems at a knife stall, and she played with it with one hand and held a sugar gourd and a mess of knick-knick-k-knacks in the other. Zimo was watching intently, and for a while the sugar gourd in her hand was taken away, she turned her head in surprise, only to see Xianyuan Shao was stroking her sugar gourd, and there was a big hawthorn stuffed in his mouth, he chewed and said inarticulately: "Wearing men's clothes and eating sugar gourd and buying rouge gouache, I know at a glance that it is a female baby, it is not like it!" ”

Zimo was speechless, and said in his belly: "You are also eating sugar gourd now, don't you look like a man?" And I'm also eating the sugar gourd I bought! Of course, she won't say it to her face, it's not a joke to provoke this demon king of the world. Zimo paid for the dagger neatly, and then greeted Xian Yuanshao with a smile: "Lord Xian has good eyesight, I can recognize it when I dress like this." I didn't have the opportunity to meet adults before, so Zimo now gives my adults a good old age and wishes them prosperity in the new year. Zimo learned the appearance of a man and bowed his hand to the New Year.

"Huh? Why don't you call me 'General'!? Adults, adults, how awkward, you are not my subordinate. Xian Yuanshao didn't agree to take the dagger she just bought and play with it.

"Your lord's official position can't be called 'general', if you don't like me to call me that, then I can also call you Captain Xiandu." Zimo didn't dare to snatch the dagger, he only hoped that he would return it to her after reading it quickly, and then what should he do.

"You girl, don't pretend to be respectful to me, the first time I saw me, I called myself a 'slave', and now I see me, how about 'me'. Don't call me anything, just call me by my name, anyway, you must not respect me so much. Xian Yuanshao's words were to the point, Zimo didn't regard him as a big man in his heart, although his background was very prominent, but Zimo just couldn't respect the incomparable prankster in front of him as he respected Qin Yan. Since Xian Yuan Shao didn't mind, she didn't have to pretend to be submissive, and called him bluntly: "Xian Yuan Shao, then please return my dagger to me, I'm going to find my master." ”

"You got separated from the 'No. 1 Beauty of Dahan'? I'll help you find it! I haven't been able to look at her until now, I'll see how beautiful she can be! As he spoke, he grabbed Zimo's wrist and was about to rush into the crowd.