Chapter 6: Thousands of Households (3)
At this time, the nurse brought the princess to ask for peace, and Emperor Jingyuan had only one princess under his knees, Du Yueyan, who was born by the queen, and had not yet been titled because she was not yet ten years old.
The princess was reaching the age of changing her teeth, and her speech was leaky, and the coquettishness of "father's room, brother" made everyone in the room laugh, and she was embarrassed to hide in the queen's arms and refused to come out.
Xue Huairan held the princess and looked up at Emperor Jingyuan and smiled, his heart was warm, he sat in the seat of the lord of the harem, since he was selected as the queen by Emperor Jingyuan, she knew how difficult it was to get a true feeling in the harem step by step, her husband is the emperor of the Ninety-Five, and ordinary men still want three wives and four concubines, not to mention him who owns the world, as the queen, it is not only as simple as motherhood in the world, but to be open-minded enough to tolerate her husband who has three thousand beauties may only be able to give himself one-third of the mind.
Unexpectedly, married into the palace for 12 years, she and His Majesty have a heart-to-heart connection, although His Majesty also has four concubines and nine concubines, but most of them are here on weekdays, but also gentle and considerate, deep affection, she has not been a person who loves to fight since she was a child, she can get such a relationship and be satisfied, she gave birth to Emperor Jingyuan's first son, the first daughter, and now she is pregnant again, which is enough to prove His Majesty's grace to her.
A moment later, Xiao Ming, the great eunuch beside Emperor Jingyuan, reported outside: "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness the Empress, the auspicious time has arrived, and it is time to move to the Showa Palace." ”
Emperor Jing Yuan stood up: "In this way, let's go." ”
The lights in the Showa Hall are brilliant, and all officials above the fifth rank are among the palace banquets, and the first and second rank officials can bring their families to go.
Although Du Weizhen was a prince, he could not appear with the emperor and queen due to etiquette, so he first bid farewell to his father and queen mother, and then took the princess to the main hall led by the palace maid.
Entering the palace first handed over his sister to the nurse to take away, before he sat down, he saw the hussar general Qi Yu walking towards him, he hurriedly greeted him, General Qi is the founding hero, and is the right-hand man of his father, is a confidant, and his own swordsmanship, but also to get closer to "General Qi is well!" Qi Yu patted him on the shoulder, Du Weizhen is considered to have been taught by him since he was a child, and his temperament and temperament are like his father's emperor, "His Royal Highness King Qi seems to be stronger again after half a month, can he practice swordsmanship diligently?" ”
"Yi'er practices swords for two hours a day, and when I grow up, I will follow the general to the battlefield!"
"Haha, it's really your father's child, okay! After the New Year, I will test your kung fu well! ”
"Okay, it's a deal!"
The two talked very happily, and Qi Yu's wife Xue Ruohua came over when he heard the voice, Xue Ruohua is the cousin of the current queen Xue Huairan, and often visits the palace.
"His Royal Highness King Qi Jin An!" Xue Ruohuafu saluted, and Du Weizhen hurriedly held up, "The general's wife doesn't have to be polite!" ”
Xue Ruohua said to Qi Yu with false disgust: "This meeting is going to make an appointment for a martial arts competition, this Chinese New Year's Eve, it's good to talk about family things or something, it's not enough to teach your daughter the art of war at home all day long, a good girl's family lets you teach not to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting seriously, and shouts every day to practice martial arts......"
Qi Yu and his wife have always had a good relationship, and even if they fell into the name of "fear of guilt" in the court, they didn't care. At this time, he was even more smiling, and gently held Xue Ruohua's arm and said, "Madam said yes!" That's right! When I went back, I watched my daughter let her practice the piano well, and then practice martial arts after practicing. Bian quietly glanced at Du Weizhen.
Du Weizhen said, "The palace banquet is about to start, general, please sit down quickly." ”
The two of them also returned to their seats, still whispering, "What are you practicing martial arts after practicing the piano!" I can't practice martial arts anymore! "Okay, then I'll teach her to ride a horse." "Qi Yu! Are you honest with me......"
Du Weizhen shook his head with a smile, and before he turned around, he heard two immature children's voices behind him: "I've seen the emperor's eldest brother!" ”
It was originally two children who almost looked exactly the same, and they were wearing the same clothes, like two white jade dolls, very cute, this is a pair of twins of Concubine Li, three years younger than him, named Du Zhengze, Du Lingjun.
Concubine De, who was following them, smiled and saluted, "Respectfully invite His Royal Highness King Qi Jin An." "Concubine De is the daughter of the current Ministry of Rites, and she is also a decent and virtuous person.
Du Weizhen nodded and took the hands of the two younger brothers and said, "The palace banquet is about to start, so I will lead the third and fourth emperor brothers to the seats." ”
Concubine De thanked again: "Thank you, Your Royal Highness King Qi, for taking care of you." He left two nurses to take care of the three children, and led the two palace maids to his place.
The three of them sat down and played quietly to untie a nine-in-a-row, Du Zhengze and Du Lingjun were also used to pestering the emperor's eldest brother on weekdays, and they were leaning on his knees one by one at this time.
After sitting for a while, another young man came over, with a hint of depression on his face, it was Du Chenliang, the second prince. Ling Jun's eyes were sharp, and he beckoned to him with a smile, "Second Emperor Brother is here!" Zhengzheng also shouted.
"Brother Huang, third brother, fourth brother." The boy said hello and walked over to them and sat down.
"The second emperor brother seems to be a little unhappy?"
Du Weizhen asked, Du Chenliang was half a year younger than him, and he was born as a concubine.
"My mother asked me to memorize the whole "Spring and Autumn" within five days, and I failed to satisfy her, which annoyed my mother."
"The content of "Spring and Autumn" is profound, the length is so long, Taifu only asked us to memorize the first two chapters, and Concubine Jing actually asked you to memorize the whole book?" Du Weizhen was puzzled.
"I only sleep two hours a day, I'm afraid I'm really stupid as my mother said." Du Chenliang said in frustration.
"How can the second emperor brother say that, if you are stupid, I am worse than stupid!"
"But the mother said that you are the eldest son and the son of the queen mother, and I must be better than you to make my father notice me."
"You ......" Du Weizhen was about to open his mouth, but heard Xiao Ming say, "Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness the Queen has arrived." He only patted Du Chenliang on the shoulder, and then knelt down with the ministers.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live, Her Royal Highness the Empress Chitose Chitose Chitose!"
On the high platform, Emperor Jingyuan and the empress stood side by side.
"Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and I congratulate all Aiqing, may God bless my Kun Dynasty, the wind and rain will be smooth, and the years will be healthy. Let's be flat! ”
"Thank you for your grace!"
Emperor Jingyuan took the queen's hand and sat on the high position together, the music of the silk and bamboo orchestra sounded, the staggered plan, and the joy of the ministers.
The two looked at each other and smiled, wishing that they would be one year old, year after year, and the world would be peaceful.
Liuyun Mountain Villa on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve is also seven or eight minutes more lively than usual, after eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, several people sat together around the fire to chat and keep the year, Mu Shengbai set off fireworks in the yard for a while, frozen neck shrunk to the senior brother to grab a hand stove to warm his hands, but after a while he was warm and sleepy, and when Aunt He came in with dumplings in the second half of the night, he saw the scene of him sleeping on Shengyun's lap.
On the first day of the new year, Mu Shengbai got up early in the morning and put on new clothes and waited for his senior brother to carry him in the house, it turned out that he fell a few days ago and sprained his ankle, which was no big problem, but he insisted on coquettishly asking the master to allow him to rest for a few more days, and when he had nothing to do, he hid in the room and slept a lot, as if he regarded himself as a seriously injured person, and if he wanted to go out of the room, he had to carry his senior brother on his back, and pretended to be pitiful and dragged his legs to the small kitchen to beg Aunt He to make more delicious food for him. A lot of people couldn't cry or laugh, but they were all willing to let him, and let him live a few days of carefree and a good life of stretching out his hands and eating to open his mouth.