At the end of the ninth year of Zhenyuan, Xu Huiniang successfully gave birth to a son, and the prince gave him the name Yun.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the Daming Palace gave a banquet as usual, and the prince took Wang Liangdi and Li Chundu to the Linde Hall for the banquet, and Nian Yun stayed in the East Palace due to physical inconvenience, and took care of the trivial matters of the family banquet in the East Palace on the Yuan Ri.

Nianyun slept late and had to set up a meal early in the morning, so he carefully checked the menu and the list of rewards to make sure that it was correct before arranging it, and ordered Luluo to add a few more braziers in the house and go to the couch to rest.

There is no curfew in the city on Chinese New Year's Eve, the streets are very lively, and the crowd of people who drive people has not dispersed until late at night, so when the prince and Li Chun returned to the East Palace, they did not go to Jianfu Gate, but directly passed through the West Inner Garden and returned to the back door of the East Palace, Xuande Gate.

Li Chun returned to Yiqiu Palace until the fourth watch, Nianyun didn't sleep deeply, and when he heard the movement, he got up.

Li Chun said: "Don't be busy, you can sleep more, someone will arrange it." ”

Nianyun was busy putting on his clothes, and said: "Why aren't you busy, I'm always a little worried, it's not good to ask my father and mother to find shortcomings during the New Year." ”

Luluo brought her a new mink coat, Nianyun thought about it, and said, "I remember that there is another lambskin one, let's change that one." ”

She has been thrifty for a long time, and the New Year's clothes made for everyone are simpler than the embroidery of previous years.

The pothos had no choice but to take a sheepskin dress for her to wear, and put a silk cloth on the outside, and dressed up properly.

Li Chun was about to get up, Nianyun held him down and said, "I've been tired in the palace for a long time, you can rest for a while, and I'll call you when I go to see His Highness." ”

When I got out, the people had already taken a lot of bamboo poles in the courtyard to burn firecrackers, making a crackling sound, and the courtyard had already hung a long-life flag, fluttering in the wind.

went to the inner palace to inspect it, and heard that the breakfast in the Cheng'en Hall had been set, Nianyun Fang ordered Yuzhu to go and call Li Chun to get up first, and go to the Cheng'en Hall with him to meet His Royal Highness the Prince.

I met the prince and Wang Liangdi, and all the side concubines and concubines also arrived separately, only Hui Niang was missing and was not yet out of the moon, so she couldn't see anyone.

Everyone saw the salute one by one, Nianyun hurriedly beckoned them to sit down, and saw that Tusu wine and pepper and cypress wine were served, she read according to the rules: "The little one gets the year, the wine is congratulated first, and the old man loses the age, so he and the wine." ”

The crowd laughed. Because there are no old people in the East Palace, Wang Liangdi is already the oldest among them, but she is just lively and lively according to the rules. Someone laughed and said: "Mrs. County is polite, speaking of which, we are all old men!" ”

Ning'er was the youngest, so Nianyun personally brought the wine to the little bun, and symbolically dipped a drop of chopsticks in it and licked it, it was bitter and spicy, and the little bun opened his mouth and cried, and Fennel and Du Liushi hurriedly laughed and coaxed him.

Everyone took turns to drink the New Year's wine, and there were glue tooth dumplings and dumplings served.

The pothos presented the gifts on trays and distributed them to the children in the house. Most of the girls are bracelets, gold collars, bracelets and other things, and the boys are unicorns, jade pendants, jade locks, etc.

Fennel has a list of red paper in her hand, on which is the New Year's reward given by the prince to everyone, which is naturally arranged by Nianyun. When he read someone, Yuzhu took the things from the tray prepared in advance and said "Fu Yan New Day, Celebrate Longevity Without Borders" or "Fu Qing New Year, Shoulu Extended".

Li Chun's younger siblings are all young, except for Chang'er, who has already reached Lu, there is only one second brother named Li Yuan, who is thirteen years old, and Li Yu has another mansion for him to live in.

When Li Yuan's name was read, Fennel paused for some reason, and made a color to Nianyun, and actually read the name of the youngest brother first. Nian Yun was very vigilant, and quickly leaned next to her to take a look, only to see that the gift to Li Yuan written on the paper was "Hetian jade inlaid with gold longevity lock, a pair of red gold collars".

Nian Yun only felt that the blood was rising to the top of his head, such a New Year's gift was clearly for young children, Li Yuan was already thirteen years old, and he lived outside the house alone, how could he give him this, wouldn't it be plain for him to be made fun of!

I think it was the wrong year when the next person wrote the list, and it was written as three years old. At this time, I made this mistake in front of everyone, and I don't know who made the demon moth.

Nianyun hurriedly called the pothos and whispered a few words in her ear, and the pothos whispered a few words in Yuzhu's ear, so Yuzhu's action slowed down, and he said many more auspicious words, delaying time.

Reading it all the way backwards, seeing that the New Year's gift for the peers was about to be over, Yuzhu also began to get anxious, and his forehead was sweating urgently on a cold day.

Fortunately, Yiqiu Palace is not far away, and the pothos has come back in time, and when Fennel saw the thing in her hand, she read under Li Yuan's name: "A set of four treasures of the imperial study, a pair of Burmese jade lion paperweights." ”

A young man stood up and saluted and thanked him, the young man was wearing a royal blue robe, his appearance was not very similar to Li Chun, he was more delicate, with a little shyness, "Thank you father, thank you sister-in-law, I wish my father all the best, I wish my sister-in-law and my brother raise their eyebrows together, and their children will prosper." ”

Nian Yun saw that although Li Yuan was young, he behaved very decently, and he was also a good young man with a good demeanor, and he had a good impression in his heart.

Li Yuan got the jade paperweight, and after a little more glance, he knew that it was a rare good thing, and his eyes were very surprised.

Nian Yun naturally knew that Yiqiu Palace had always been thrifty, and the green pothos couldn't find anything that could be a gift in a hurry, so she had to take her beloved things.

Nianyun said with a smile: "This pair of jade paperweights was paid tribute by the Burmese State in the early years, and the first emperor polished it into a pair of paperweights, and later gave it to his mother to marry, and now he has followed me to the East Palace." I heard that the second uncle is very smart and smart, and he has read the four books and five classics, and the saint is also full of praise, thinking that he can only be with you, so as not to insult good things. ”

Li Yuan hurriedly excused himself and said: "Since it is a marriage for my sister-in-law, how can I take the beauty of the source......

Nianyun said with a smile: "I'm a woman, but I called Mingzhu secretly cast." You take it, you and my uncle and sister-in-law have hardly met, so it should be a meeting gift. ”

Li Yuan was about to excuse himself, and the side concubines on the side coaxed: "Erlang take it, what is it worth, your sister-in-law married in with a dowry of more than 500 lifts, and there are good things!" Slowly, it's a pair of paperweights, it's ten pairs of hundreds, and it's not a problem! ”

Li Yuan had no choice but to thank his sister-in-law and accept it.

After the first day passed, Nian Yun was empty and quietly told the green pothos to pay attention to who drew up the gift list that day.

Lu Pothos said: "I have checked, this matter is in charge of the master of ceremonies, and the day is arranged to be a gift from a young female Shi Xuan who has only been here for more than a month." ”

Nian Yun thought for a while and said, "Tell that female history to talk back." ”

After a while, the female history came, but a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in a blue cloth gown in a decent manner, and her hair was also decently knotted into a double mustache.

This female historian already knew the fork of the Yuan Sunrise, and when she saw the lady of the county calling her, she was very worried, and she fell to the ground and trembled.

Nianyun sighed in her heart, she was just a little girl, and she didn't know who she was used as a gunman.

She lowered her tone to a softer tone, and asked the female historian to raise her head, seeing that there was no inappropriate fat powder on her face, the whole person looked very honest and honest, so she asked: "What is your name, why did you enter the East Palace to be a female historian?" ”

The female Shi said: "The master of ceremonies' aunt gave the slave maid the name Danzhu. The slave maid was originally from Lintong, her parents died early, and she lived with her stepmother and brother and sister-in-law. Now the slave's sister and niece have promised a good family, but they have no money to raise a dowry, and the slave and maid are willing to sell themselves. ”

Nianyun nodded: "In this way, he is also a child of a poor family, and it is rare to be literate and do female history." After thinking about it, he asked the topic: "Then the gift of the first day was drawn up by you?" ”

Danzhu was a little frightened, and hurriedly kowtowed: "The slave knows her mistake!" The slave didn't recognize Yuan Gongzi, just because the slave and maid got the list of gifts that needed to be given, Yuan Gongzi's age was three years old, and the slave and maid specially checked it several times! When I went back to check the list, I didn't know who had replaced it......"

Nianyun frowned: "What you said is true?" ”

Danzhu kowtowed heavily, raised his right hand and swore: "Madame believes in slaves!" What the slave said is true, if there is half a lie, the sky will thunder! ”

Nianyun looked at her in silence for a moment, then waved her back down.

This side called the green pothos to find out whose hand the list passed through that day, she knew that this huge East Palace must be careful at all times, at least know that she knows the other side, and she can survive.

The pothos hasn't come back yet, but an uninvited guest came to Yiqiu Palace, and it was Niu Zhaoxun again.

Nian Yun knew that she had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, so he asked her what was going on. Niu Zhaoxun didn't sell Guan Zi either, smiled and took out two pieces of paper from his sleeve and put them in front of Nian Yun: "Is Mrs. Jun looking for this?" ”

Nian Yun fixed his eyes and saw that it was the two lists, which seemed to be exactly the same, the only difference was that one looked slightly newer, and the edge of the other paper was slightly fluffy, under Li Yuan's name, the new one was written in the thirteenth year, and although the cross was written small, it could be seen clearly. The older one is missing the little cross.

Nian Yun raised his head and was about to ask a question, when Niu Zhaoxun said: "This one is written incorrectly, it was stolen from Si Shan Liu's pillow, but I can't tell you exactly how it was stolen." ”

Nianyun was silent for a moment, and Niu Zhao said: "If the county lady has a bigger heart, I am afraid that she will not pursue it at all, and it is nothing more than a punishment for the female history who chose to give gifts." However, when she is out of the moon, Mrs. County is the most inconvenient time for her body, so she has to seize some power and compete for favor! ”

The gift is not a big thing, but it is inappropriate to sit on the cloud of truth, and catch up with her to give birth, so you can take the opportunity to share her power.

Nian Yun knew that Liu Sishan and Hui Niang were relatives, and asked rhetorically: "What do you mean by telling me about this?" ”

Niu Zhaoxun smiled: "I have always been unaccustomed to some people and certain things. Niu Zhaoxun paused, and suddenly mysteriously leaned into her ear: "I heard that women give birth to the most dangerous, three or four out of ten people who accidentally slip the fetus, three or four out of ten who have a difficult birth and still have a bad birth, and three or four out of ten who have a heavy postpartum hemorrhage, so to speak, there are only two or three ...... of natural birth."

Nian Yun shuddered. Although Hui Niang said that there were a lot of small actions, in the end they were all small tricks to compete for favor in the house, and there was no dead hand. Now that she is pregnant with a child herself, she must not do such a thing that damages yin morality.

Niu Zhaoxun didn't persuade her, and got up lightly to leave: "Don't regret it, Mrs. County." ”