Chapter 81: The Last Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner in Western Qin
Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, a family banquet was held in the palace, and the venue was set in the Queen Mother's Yong'an Palace.
The palace is also extremely festive inside and out, and all of them are replaced with fiery red palace lights. The palace, which was already resplendent with gold, was even brightly lit at the moment, as if it were daylight.
The Queen Mother, Emperor Jing, the Empress, the concubines and princesses of each palace, and a few important ministers all dressed up to attend.
The joy of the festival fluttered on everyone's face, and everyone gathered together to celebrate the whole country, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.
Emperor Jing sat facing south, and the large banquet table beside him was covered with all kinds of meat and vegetarian cold meals, hot meals, stove food, steamed buns, rice noodles and snacks, snacks and so on.
In order to show the high power of the Qin throne, he also showed that he was kind to him, the only imperial brother. The hypocritical Emperor Jing deliberately set the position of Xuanyuan Han, the king of Qin, next to him, and ate at the same table with him.
The Queen Mother, who had a kind and amiable appearance, kept nodding and smiling at everyone, and seemed to be in a very good mood.
This is all due to the safe return of her favorite imperial grandson, Prince Xuanyuan Hao, who has traveled abroad all year round, and because she thought that Xuanyuan Hao would miss this year's Chinese New Year's Eve family banquet due to smallpox, but miraculously recovered as scheduled.
Wearing a delicate dragon and phoenix crown inlaid with countless pearls and gemstones, the graceful and calm queen also sat next to the Queen Mother with a smile, and was very pleased, looking at each other and smiling with the Queen Mother from time to time.
The other palace masters are also talking about how many annual rewards they have won in the palace this year, whether it is rich or not, whether it is true or false, and there are many smiles on their faces, and they are all full of joy.
Unlike previous years, two new faces were added to this grand feast. One is the return of the crown prince Xuanyuan Hao, who can finally travel in all directions from now on, and the other is also the Qin princess Mei Xiyuan, who spent the New Year with the Xuanyuan royal family for the first time.
At this moment, she was sitting on the other side of the queen.
The family banquet officially began, the celebratory palace drum music played, accompanied by a beautiful tune, a group of beautiful women in pink dresses were slightly thin and elegant, stepping on the dance steps like a dragon to the center of the hall to dance leisurely, like a shock.
Everyone stood up and toasted together, "May the wind and rain be smooth in the coming year, and the people live and work in peace and contentment" With this ceremony, the dinner officially began.
The queen smiled and drank the wine in the cup in her hand, and looked at her children with satisfaction.
When his eyes moved to Xuanyuan Yue, a trace of sadness suddenly appeared in his heart, and the smile on his face decreased a lot.
Xuanyuan Yue was also uncomfortable at this time, she knew that she was now ready to send an arrow. When the envoy and Dongning negotiate the specific matters of harmony, he must marry away from home, and from then on, he will never have the opportunity to spend this good night with everyone here.
Thinking about it, she looked at every face in the room that she liked or didn't like.
Because this will be her last memory of this place that she has been familiar with since she was born, and she wants to try to remember everyone's smile so that she can use it for her lonely and long life......
But looking at it, her eyes couldn't help but be quietly wet with tears that she couldn't control, and she quickly lowered her head and raised the back of her hand to wipe away the tears so that no one would find out.
But they were still seen by the careful queen and the queen mother, and the smiles on their faces froze instantly.
But they didn't seem to know what to say or what to persuade, leaving only a deep sigh......
This inopportune scene was seen by Mei Xiyuan on the side. She saw that everyone present was talking to each other, each with their own activities and topics, and when she suddenly looked at the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother beside her, she happened to see their expressions on Xuanyuan Yue and the loss on Xuanyuan Yue's own face, Mei Xiyuan seemed to have guessed a few points in her heart, so she opened her mouth to break the dull atmosphere.
Mei Xiyuan picked up the cup and smiled, and said, "After Xi'er respects her mother, the imperial sister-in-law has a cup, and I wish the queen mother and the imperial sister-in-law will be healthy and everything will go as they wish in the new year."
As soon as these words came out, the three of them came to their senses.
The Queen Mother hurriedly put on a smile again and said with a smile: "Xi'er has a heart."
The queen also raised her glass and smiled at it, and as she spoke, the three of them drank the wine in their respective cups.
After a moment, the queen said with concern, "Princess Qin has no news yet?" ”
Mei Xiyuan is smart, of course she can understand what the queen is saying, and the queen mother also casts questioning eyes at her when she listens. And the concubines who were still talking about each other one by one, when they heard the queen ask such an explosive question, they all instantly closed their voices, and they were silent, waiting for how the rich Princess Dongning would answer.
After thinking about it for a while, Mei Xiyuan pretended to be a little self-reproachful and said, "The concubine is afraid, because her body has not been very good, so she dare not get pregnant at this time, in case there is a mistake during the period, then Xi'er will be guilty of ten thousand deaths."
The queen was distracted by Xuanyuan Yue's matter, and then she remembered that Mei Xiyuan had been saying that she was not in good health before, and she personally went to the palace to ask the doctor to go back. Only then did he say, "Look at the memory of this palace, I have forgotten this stubble." This is also true, fortunately, the medical girl given to the princess will enter the palace in a few days, and the princess must be well recuperated and recuperated at that time. This King of Qin is not small, and the princess should strive to open up branches for the Xuanyuan royal family as soon as possible."
As soon as the queen's voice fell, the queen mother also hurriedly comforted, "Princess Qin doesn't have to worry, and relax, Princess Qin and King Qin are both in the prime of life, let the medical girl recuperate first." Only a good field can produce good crops. Seeing that our Royal Highness King Qin's heroic fetish, noble temperament, and sowing must be excellent seeds, Princess Qin can rest assured."
As soon as the Queen Mother's words came out, the minds of the concubines immediately began to think about it. What the Queen Mother said is the cold and handsome that all women in the world like