Chapter 291: Meeting Two Princes
Diancui was looking for it in front of him, and the second prince and his subordinates followed behind unhurriedly to see the excitement. Gui Chuying still followed behind secretly, but she never thought about what kind of characters the second prince was around, her behavior had already been seen in the eyes, but the second prince thought it was interesting and pretended not to let her follow.
Dian Cui knew that the second prince was behind him, so he simply borrowed his power and boldly looked for people.
"Is it taboo that you are looking for your daughter in this palace?" The second prince couldn't help but ask.
Diancui didn't look back, and said in a muffled voice: "What is the guilt of the courtiers willing to bear it, but the daughters of the courtiers can't wait." ”
If you are not a mother, no one can understand the determination of a mother to find her child.
The second prince was noncommittal, and continued to follow her, not saying to help, but also not to stop it.
"If the child is playful, the most he should go to is the royal garden in the back, and Madame should go there to have a look." A guard with a knife beside the second prince was very kind-hearted and reminded.
"Liu Nanchen, when did you become so nosy." The second prince frowned and scolded impatiently.
This Liu Nanchen is called his guard with a knife, but in fact there is another layer of relationship, that is, his brother-in-law, the son of the Qing noble Liu family in Beijing.
Therefore, Liu Nanchen was not like the other guards, and he didn't dare to say much in front of him.
"Thank you for the reminder." Diancui said gratefully.
"You're welcome, ma'am." Liu Nanchen's polite manners and light appearance reminded Dian Cui of what Qingyun looked like when he was still Yunqing, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.
Diancui was taken to the imperial garden by a palace person, although it was past noon at this time, the sun was still very sunny, and there were not many nobles who enjoyed the garden at this time. In addition, Diancui was very cautious and unassuming, and he didn't collide with anyone.
"There's someone in the lake!"
"Who is it, go and save it!"
"No, my lord, if the one who fell into the water was an assassin......"
In the distance, Diancui heard someone talking again on the edge of Koi Lake.
"Looks like a kid......"
When Dian Cui heard this, she almost fainted, but she remembered that her daughter knew water, so she forcibly suppressed the fear and anxiety in her heart, and Dian Cui ran to the lake.
"It's King Gong." Liu Nanchen whispered.
"Brother Huang? Why is he here. "King Gong has been deposed since he was deposed on the crown prince's throne, and he has lived in a simple house in the house, and today he actually entered the palace, isn't it kind enough to congratulate his mother on her birthday.
Seeing the child floating on the surface of the lake, revealing a corner of the tender rhombic red Hangzhou silk clothes, Diancui's head buzzed, and his legs were weak.
King Gong only brought a small servant with him, and the little servant still hesitated and did not dare not save him, for fear of causing trouble to His Royal Highness. Now that His Highness is in a difficult situation, they all have to be cautious.
"Don't you listen to me, the lake looks like a child, what can a child be an assassin! It's not ...... soon."
Before King Gong finished speaking, Diancui jumped into the lake.
Seeing this, King Gong also jumped in.
"Dog minion, didn't you see my imperial brother jumping into the lake, why don't you go and save people!" The second prince scolded.
The palace guards who were hiding to watch the excitement appeared and jumped into the lake to save people.
"You don't know how to water, do you? Anyone who can't jump into the water. The second prince looked at the dot cui that had been salvaged, and thought that this woman was really funny.
Diancui sucked in the water, and was coughing desperately at this time, almost coughing up all the water in her internal organs. wiped the water from his eyes, snatched the child in King Gong's arms, and shook and slapped vigorously.
"Mother's ......" Sister Ci slowly woke up, and saw that she had finally woken up, and her tears were like beads with broken threads.
It turned out that Sister Ci'er was holding her breath and fainting, she saw that someone knocked Xiao Yezi and Luo Diandian unconscious and threw them into the lake, so she held her breath before the person knocked her unconscious with his palm......
"Small leaves, small leaves...... It's a little bit ......" Sister Ci pointed to the lake in fear and whispered in her mother's ear.
"There are still people in the lake!" Diancui hurriedly said.
"Why don't you look for it!" King Gong ordered, and the guards in the palace deliberately hid, and now that he came out, of course he didn't dare to disobey his orders.
The guards jumped into the lake again to look for someone, and Diancui hugged the wilting sister Ci'er and saluted King Gong:
"King Xie Gong saved the little girl's life."
King Gong didn't know what Dian Cui's identity was, but she jumped into the lake without hesitation, which startled him. Hearing her say that the child who fell into the water was her daughter, she guessed that she should be the wife who came to celebrate the birthday of Emperor Xu. 510 Literature
"Madam, please get up ......" King Gong turned his face sideways, he was only the age of a weak crown, and now Diancui was soaked, and his figure was undoubtedly revealed.
"Hey, you're pregnant." The second prince pointed to the bulging abdomen of Diancui in surprise.
"Your Highness!" Liu Nanchen was a little displeased, the second prince was used to wandering on weekdays, and he didn't care about it, but the wife in front of him was Lord Yuan, and he didn't know how to restrain himself.
King Gong took off his cloak and handed it to her. Diancui didn't shirk it, and hurriedly put it on herself and Sister Ci'er.
"Your Highness!" The little guy next to King Gong frowned, His Royal Highness is so soft-hearted, who knows whose family the bewitching woman in front of him is, and if she dares to trespass in the imperial garden, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and His Royal Highness should not be contaminated with such a disaster.
"Fourth sister, what are you doing here!"
At this moment, Gui Chuying, who had been hiding behind for a long time, appeared, with a hint of sneer in her eyes, and looked at the man's clothes on her body as if she had nothing.
"The courtiers have seen King Gong and the second prince." Gui Chu Ying Ying Ying knelt down and said:
"The courtiers are here to present a birthday gift to the imperial concubine, and when they saw the fourth sister leaving the hall during the banquet, they thought about coming up and taking a look. But I didn't expect that it was Sister Ci who broke into the lake in the palace, and the fourth sister lost her body in order to save her daughter, and asked the two highnesses to atone for their sins. ”
Diancui gritted her teeth, Sister Ci sneezed in her arms, and Diancui hugged her into her arms.
King Gong and the second prince, who are used to fighting between women in the palace, feel quite bored, this idiot has followed him all the way, just for this? In order to frame this impulsive and reckless Mrs. Yuan.
"Take this lady to the nearest Lijingxuan Jiang Concubine to change her clothes." King Gong instructed his entourage.
Concubine Jiang has an indifferent temperament and never competes with others for favor, and she is the first in the palace. King Gong asked someone to take Dian Cui to her to change clothes, and it was expected that she would not say much.
Gui Chuying was left to dry, and looked at Diancui being taken to Lijingxuan to change his clothes in embarrassment, blessed the two princes, turned around and returned to Wan'an Palace.
"If the royal brother still wants to take a stroll in this imperial garden, please take care of yourself, and the foolish brother will not accompany him." The second prince leaned over with his hands behind his back, and then walked away.
King Gong frowned and looked at the guards who were salvaging people in the lake, and it seemed that they had found nothing.
At sunset, the entire Wan'an Palace was lit up, and the monks in the courtyard finished the last prayer ceremony. Emperor Xu, surrounded by all the concubines and concubines, walked out of Wan'an Palace and went to the imperial garden.
"Why did you go to the Imperial Garden?" A lady was puzzled and asked in a low voice.
"You don't know," the first concubine raised her voice and smiled: "The emperor wants to hold a banquet for the imperial concubine in the imperial garden to celebrate her birthday!" ”
Everyone heard her voice, and Emperor Xu Guifei smiled and did not squint. She enjoys a lot of such a favor in Su Ri, so that in this palace, everyone only knows Xu Niangniang but does not know the queen Niangniang.
There was a stage in the imperial garden, and Emperor Xu said with a smile that she would wait for the emperor to come and order a play.
Dian Cui took Sister Ci and sat at the end, and Gui Chuying looked at the two of them with a smile.
The emperor and queen came at the same time.
Emperor Xu took the lead in bowing, and finally got up and said with a smile that the emperor asked the concubine to wait, it turned out that she came with the queen's mother, and today's concubine's birthday, the queen's mother came in person, and the concubine was afraid.
"What are you afraid of, she is the queen, you are the imperial concubine, and on your birthday, the queen should come to congratulate her." The emperor patted Emperor Xu's hand and took her to the throne.
The queen is the emperor's wife, the emperor has passed the sixtieth birthday, and she is also in her fifties, but Diancui secretly looked at her, but saw that she was slender, generous and generous, and quite phoenixy.
"The emperor gave a pair of thousand-year-old Ruyi jade cups, longevity Fulu fan ten complete, eight immortals jade colored glass bowl a pair, nine such as a pair of furnaces, Guanyin colorful bottles, peach silver crystal water, gold silk sea beast grape pattern satin box, Qinghe nine top furnace each pair, cloisonne red coral earrings ten boxes, red jade earrings ten boxes, gold silk inlaid ruby double luan point cuibu shake four, Chaoyang five phoenix hanging beads hairpin pair, red gold plate Yingluo ten strings, Changchun silk jacket seven colors each one, immortal birthday lead hand back mattress...... Congratulations to the emperor and concubine on her birthday. ”
The rewards were offered one after another, and the eyebrows of Emperor Xu and Concubine Xu were endlessly joyful, and the queen mother was no sorrow or joy.
After the emperor's reward, King Gong and the second prince led a hundred officials to congratulate the birthday, the mountain called a thousand years old, and the concubines and officials knelt down here to worship and sing the emperor's concubine Niangniang's longevity.
Such a scene is really full of flowers, and the fire is boiling oil.
The emperor is old, prefers to be lively, and after everyone kneels to congratulate him on his birthday, he opens Chrysostom and specially crowns the second prince as the king of Qi.
As soon as the holy decree came out, it raised huge waves in the hearts of all the courtiers, thinking that the eldest prince was demoted from the crown prince to King Gong, and the second prince was naturally the next prince, but he didn't expect to be crowned the prince.
The second prince knelt down to thank his father for his grace, but Emperor Xu and Concubine Xu secretly frowned.
did not seal the crown prince, but directly sealed the king of Qi, the emperor's thoughts are really more and more difficult to guess.
After sealing the king of Qi, the emperor rewarded the ministers, among which the Jiangnan weaving Cui Youliang Cui was promoted to Beijing, the waiter of the Ministry of Worship, and the left senator of the General Political Division.
In the past, when Lord Cui did Jiangnan weaving, although he also won the trust of the emperor, but the official position was only equivalent to the local political envoy, and now it can be said that he has stepped into the sky to become the cabinet of the decision-making body of our dynasty, and he has held an important position in the Department of General Administration. Cui Youliang brought his family to Beijing this time to congratulate Emperor Xu on the birthday of Concubine Xu, but he didn't expect that such a great gift could come to his head.
At the moment, kowtowing like thunder, the excitement was indescribable, only the mountain called out to thank His Majesty Longen, thank the imperial concubine for her grace.
His excitement was out of shape, and others were also staring. This Cui Youliang is the most able to tie up with Emperor Xu's concubine in the day, and today's congratulatory gift alone is enough for 10,000 taels of silver. His small Jiangnan weaving is only twenty-six taels per month, which is equivalent to 17 taels of silver! He can easily take out 10,000 taels of silver, and if he is not greedy, the world will inevitably murmur in his heart. But the reason why people did it so blatantly was because of the favor of Emperor Xu, and secondly, he had long threatened that his wife and daughter were capable, and the grange fruit forest he ran made a lot of money, and the silver on hand was naturally abundant.