Since Xu Fanxi's miscarriage was punished and grounded, the harem has been calm for a while. The harem concubines who were yelling in Yikun Palace on the day of Concubine Rou's grounding all knew about it, just when everyone thought that Shen Xuanxin would go over to visit Concubine Rou, Concubine Rou stopped shouting.

Xu Fanxi is too, he used to run to the Imperial Garden, and he has never been out of Yuhua Pavilion since he gave birth, so he knows how to take care of his body.

Xu Fanxi became famous in the palace because of a fall, and a noble man successfully worshiped Concubine Rou, I am afraid that everyone will have to look at her differently in the future.

The Queen Mother's birthday is coming soon, and the Queen Mother has a son of Shen Xuanxin, and Shen Xuanxin is a filial piety, and he will hold a birthday banquet for the Queen Mother every year.

The Queen Mother, an old man who believes in Buddhism, advocates that Jane does not like waste, and she has been a vegetarian since the emperor ascended the throne. It just so happened that Shen Xuanxin didn't like to waste the same mind as his mother, and in order to please the emperor and the queen mother, the queen asked the imperial dining room to make all vegetarian food on the queen mother's birthday.

The queen also invited a troupe from outside the palace to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday, and the Queen Mother and her old man have not been out of the Yongshou Palace for a long time, and she is still very happy to watch the play in her own life.

Cui Jinxi finally saw the Queen Mother, and at the age of almost fifty, he couldn't see that he was fifty years old. may be the reason why the Queen Mother looks like she is forty years old, and the dress she wears is also elegant, and she looks approachable.

There were fruit bowls and pastries in front of everyone, and Cui Jinxi ate the fruit and looked at the Magu birthday who was singing on the stage. She doesn't like to watch the play, and she feels that the singing is singing slowly and leisurely, and she is babbling to death with a long note.

Everyone is looking at her, she can't lower her head or twist her head away, if Shen Xuanxin sees it, she can't twist her neck. This is disrespectful to the Queen Mother, I don't like to look at it and pretend to watch it, who asked her to pretend to be it.

After a while, Cui Jinxi finished eating the plate of fruit in front of her, and she saw that everyone still had more on the plate, and she was the only one who was different.

Everyone is a beautiful girl, and you should pay attention to your image when eating, and you can't eat too much in front of people. Cui Jinxi is a concubine, unlike them, who have no worries about food and clothing since childhood, she eats whenever she wants.

The queen saw that the emperor was in a good mood, so she took the opportunity to mention Concubine Rou: "Your Majesty, today is the birthday of the Queen Mother, only Concubine Rou is alone in the palace, and the concubine wants to intercede for Concubine Rou, let her also come out to have a family banquet with everyone."

It would be a month since Concubine Rou was grounded, and Shen Xuanxin agreed: "Let her come out."

"Your Majesty."

"You always think about others, come and eat an orange." Shen Xuanxin said to the queen in the tone of an old husband and wife.

The queen smiled and took the orange handed by Shen Xuanxin, peeled it and handed it to Shen Xuanxin's mouth, Shen Xuanxin opened his mouth and ate it. Cui Jinxi looked at this scene, why did he feel so sour. The large number of people in the hall are deeply affectionate between husband and wife, and Shen Xuanxin's other little wives are only envious.

Shen Xuanxin turned his head and saw Cui Jinxi, Cui Jinxi hurriedly glanced at him and lowered his head and stopped looking, the picture was too beautiful for her to see. Shen Xuanxin looked at her thief and smiled, the queen thought that the emperor was happy to eat the oranges she fed.

Just when the play was about to end, Concubine Rou came over, she was not as graceful and gorgeous as before, but today she looks more beautiful. Concubine Rou seems to have lost a lot of weight, and her face looks a little sharper.

Concubine Rou knelt down to greet the Queen Mother and sat down, and she sat next to Concubine Shu. Concubine Shu smiled and greeted Concubine Rou: "Look at how good the emperor is to his sister, the queen mother's birthday is afraid that you will be alone in the palace."

Concubine Rou didn't believe Concubine Shu's nonsense, and if the emperor was good to her, he wouldn't let her ground, and he wouldn't even look at her. Even if the emperor sent someone to greet her, she was willing to believe that the emperor favored her, but the emperor didn't. Now that others say anything like the emperor favoring her and being good to her, she can't be happy.

"The emperor is the same to the sisters in the palace."

"What's wrong with Concubine Rou, she doesn't seem to be in a good mood."

"I'm not used to it when I first came out."

Concubine Shu nodded.

After watching the play, it's time for dinner. The emperor took everyone to the main hall of Yongshou Palace and sat down.

Cui Jinxi looked at the food in front of him and was happy at first, but the more he went on, the less interested he became. This dish is all vegetarian, and there is not a single meat to be seen.

Cui Jinxi is a new person in the palace this year, she didn't know that the Queen Mother was only a vegetarian, and she didn't know that the Queen Mother was like this every birthday, and everyone was vegetarian together. At first, she thought that the emperor was deliberately making her a vegetarian, but after seeing that others were the same, she gave up this idea.

I thought it wouldn't be because the palace was financially tight, this plate was all vegetarian, and the funds in the palace were too tight, but don't go bankrupt, she still wants to make a fortune in the palace. What should I do if I have to be a vegetarian in the future, she took a mouthful of vegetables and put it in her mouth with a bitter face.

Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, Cui Jinxi pulled La Anchun's clothes: "Why are they all vegetarian?"

"The Queen Mother is a vegetarian all year round."

Why does everyone have to be vegetarian because she is a vegetarian, and she sees that everyone eats so happily. Could it be that she doesn't like to eat a full table of vegetarian food? Or is everyone pretending?

has been a vegetarian for many years, my mother, if Cui Jinxi has to starve to death. The combination of meat and vegetables every day is reasonable, and if you eat vegetarian for many years, you will be malnourished, whether the Queen Mother understands it or not.

Cui Jinxi was reluctantly eating a plate of vegetarian balls on the table when he heard a bang, which seemed to be the sound of a teacup falling to the ground. She turned her head to find the source of the voice, only to see Dong Zhaorong kneeling on the ground with a slight panic on her face: "The emperor forgives the sin, and the concubine slipped the cup for a while before falling to the ground."

"Dong Zhaorong behaved disrespectfully at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, and was demoted to the fourth grade of virtue."

was downgraded several levels after dropping a teacup, and Cui Jinxi was also shocked. This harem woman has to pretend to be like a grandson when she climbs up, and she is like a dog when she is down.

Dong Defei collapsed on the ground: "The emperor forgives the sin...... The Emperor ......"

Shen Xuanxin looked at Dong Defei with a look, and she didn't dare to speak out, so she had to endure her grievances. No one pleaded for her, not even the queen, who had always been close to her, did not stand up to speak for her.

Hongye, the palace maid beside Concubine Xian, was very puzzled by the emperor's decision: "Niangniang, although this Dong Deconcubine dropped a teacup on the queen mother's birthday, it won't even be downgraded."

Concubine Xian looked at Dong Defei who was kneeling on the ground: "If it's just a teacup, of course it won't be like this, then Dong Defei's brother robbed the people's daughter outside, and he was ashamed to say that his sister was the favorite concubine in the palace."

So that's the case, the emperor is afraid that he has long wanted to send Dong Deconcubine, so he just took this opportunity to dispose of it.

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At the banquet, the palace concubines took turns to present the birthday gift for the queen mother, the queen was the first one, she knew that the queen mother ritualized the Buddha, so she copied a diamond sutra for the queen mother, and also carved a jade Buddha statue. That jade is the best mutton fat jade, crystal clear, smooth and shiny, I don't know where the queen got this treasure.

Cui Jinxi's eyes were straight, the queen was also a tyrant enough, and the queen mother looked happy.

Next are the virtuous concubines, the concubines, the concubines, and the concubines, all of whom are people with family backgrounds, and they take out one piece from the library at will, which is enough for the expenses of ordinary people for a lifetime. Concubine Xian's jade Ruyi means auspicious wishes, Concubine Rou is a string of coral bracelets, and Concubine Shu took out a bead from the Western Regions.

The concubines below are not as generous as the queen, and the things they send are all easy to see in the palace. Chen Xiuyi embroidered a big Buddha character with gold thread, and it was more painstaking to make it. This thing also won the heart of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother praised Chen Xiuyi in front of everyone: "Chen Xiuyi has a heart, this embroidery is very suitable for the mourning family."

Cui Yayue is holding a landscape painting, which is still painted by the famous Fu Zi.

As soon as she opened it, Shen Xuanxin's eyes lit up, Shen Xuanxin likes landscape paintings and loves Fu Zi's paintings. Cui Yayue gave the emperor a painting on the queen mother's birthday, how could the queen mother not know what the emperor liked, so she borrowed flowers to offer the Buddha: "Cui Jieyu's painting is a masterpiece, the emperor loves landscape paintings, and the mourning family has no opinion on transferring it to the emperor Cui Jieyu?"

"It is an honor for this painting to be loved by the emperor."

I'm afraid that the painting is going to be given to the emperor in the name of the queen mother, Ju Cui Jinxi knows that Fu Zi has been dead for a few years, and his paintings are very few left in the world. Fu Zi was also stubborn after his death, and I don't know how much effort Cui Yi put into this painting. Cui Yayue also took great pains for Shen Xuanxin.

Everyone's gifts are good, and the things prepared by Cui Jinxi are not worth mentioning. She didn't have any precious belongings originally, and thinking that everyone was fighting for money, she wouldn't take the usual path. She made a wood carving herself, which was not as fine as a carpenter's work, but it could be taken out of her hands.

Cui Jinxi carved according to the Buddha statue, and she also spent a while working hard. She presented the box with the wood carving, and saw the Queen Mother taking the wood carving and looking at it carefully: "This wood carving is very vivid, and Cui Guiren also took a lot of effort to make it."

"If you can get the queen mother to like the concubine, it's worth the effort. The concubine wishes the Queen Mother happiness as the East China Sea Shoubi Nanshan! ”

"Okay, Cui Guiren has a heart."

Shen Xuanxin also took a look at the wood carving, he probably didn't believe that this wood carving would come from her.

Cui Yayue's face turned bad after listening to the Queen Mother's words of appreciating Cui Jinxi, but she spent a lot of money to get her father to buy a painting of Fu Zi from outside the palace. thought that the emperor and the queen mother would be happy and would have different appreciation for her, but the painting she bought with a lot of money was not as good as a Buddha statue carved from broken wood.

Her younger sister is angry with her and opposes her everywhere, and since Cui Jinxi entered the palace, she has not been able to see the emperor. In the past, the emperor would go there once in a while, but now he hasn't been to her for months.

After the queen mother's birthday banquet, the emperor and the queen left together, and everyone could only go back to their respective homes to find their own mothers. Not long after Cui Jinxi returned to Xue Xuan, Mama Yi Xin, who was next to the Queen Mother, came over. Mama Yi Xin gave Cui Jinxi a box and said that the Queen Mother rewarded her.

Cui Jinxi opened it and took a look at it, and there was a step shake inside, and the butterfly-shaped step shake was very exquisite. A wood carving was replaced by a step shake, and this business made a lot of money.