Chapter 43: The Palace Banquet (1st Watch)
An Huajin slept full of energy, and felt that his whole body was light, so even if he entered the palace to participate in the boring palace banquet, he felt that he was in a good mood.
Chu Siyan looked at An Huajin angrily, "Xiao An'er, do you know how long the two of us have been waiting for you?" She held out two fingers, "Two hours." On such a grand day, you even had a good night's sleep? You're so inhuman. ”
It's not tight to sleep back in the cage, tell them to say yes, and they will sleep together too.
An Huajin stretched out his hand and pinched Chu Siyan's angry face, "Didn't I let you go back to Prince Shan's mansion yesterday?" In the days of family reunion, what are you still doing in my old house? Who knew you didn't go back? Blame me for making you wait? ”
Chu Siyan choked.
An Huajin said to Chu Xiyun again, "And you, didn't I let you go back to the palace yesterday?" How to be disobedient? In the past, you didn't want to learn the palace rules and palace rituals to be lazy in the old house, but now it's the Mid-Autumn Festival, and you haven't returned to the palace? ”
Chu Xiyun coughed, "I plan to go back today." ”
Staying outside the palace for so long and not going back, it is indeed impossible to say.
An Huajin nodded and asked Chu Siyan, "What about you?" ”
Chu Siyan choked, "I'll go back today." ”
An Huajin asked, "Your things were packed up and sent back?" ”
"Not yet, don't rush to clean up." Chu Siyan plans to spend today's Mid-Autumn Festival, and she still wants to go back to the old house to continue living.
"These days, your mother has sent people to urge you many times, right? After all, the old mansion of the An family is not the mansion of Prince Shan, and you have lived with me for so many days when you return to Beijing, you are enough, after you go back today, you will stay at home honestly, don't come again. An Huajin could see at a glance what the two of them were paying attention to, and said unceremoniously, "Both of you, one goes back to the palace, the other goes back to the house, I won't take you two in, come back from the palace banquet, and I'll have people send your things back tonight." ”
Chu Siyan's eyes widened, "Xiao An'er, you don't want me anymore?" Drive me away? ”
An Huajin glared at her angrily and with a smile, "A daughter's family, she doesn't go back to her home, she always lives outside, what is it like?" Especially if there are no elders in the An family in the capital, I don't care about you, look at you these days, play all day long, if you continue to live with me like this, you will be even more lawless, and you will not be able to marry in the future. ”
"I'm not afraid I won't be able to get married." Chu Siyan was really not afraid.
The little county lord of the Good Prince's Mansion, are you still worried about getting married? No way!
Chu Xiyun blinked, she was naturally not afraid. The third princess, the queen's concubine, naturally does not worry about getting married.
An Huajin glared, "You are not afraid, but I will let you go down again, not to mention my aunt, Your Majesty should be dissatisfied, good princess, although she was arrogant and arrogant before, but it is not without rules, a good Changning county lord, the skin in front is also thin, and the heart is also safe, now, not to mention the thick skin, come back with me on a trip to Nanyang, and the heart is also wild." If you continue like this, Your Majesty and Prince Heshan should trouble me. ”
Chu Siyan and Chu Xiyun choked together.
"Give me all back, don't talk nonsense!" An Huajin finished speaking, and the final word was made.
Chu Siyan whispered and complained, "Xiao An'er, it's only been a long time, you dislike me, a few days ago, the two of us helped you settle the trouble caused by Su Han, and made a big effort, have you forgotten?" He even crossed the river and demolished the bridge. ”
An Huajin smiled angrily, "It is precisely because you two helped me that I have kept you until now." Do your own calculations, how long has it been since I came to Beijing on Qixi Festival? It's been more than a month, and the two of you have been living in the old house for more than a month. Still not satisfied? ”
Chu Siyan obediently shut up.
Chu Xiyun smiled embarrassedly.
The carriage came to the palace, the time was not early, there was a long queue of horses and vehicles at the palace gate, the three of them got off the carriage and handed the palace card, Fengqi Palace was very popular with the queen's little eunuch who was running errands outside had been waiting for a long time, and stepped forward to salute, "An Xiaojun Lord, the third princess, Changning County Lord Jin An!" The queen has been waiting for a long time, and you are finally here, the little princess. ”
An Huajin smiled, "Hasn't the palace banquet started yet?" My aunt sent someone to urge me to enter the palace, what happened? ”
The little eunuch whispered, "If you don't enter the palace, the third princess won't enter the palace, many young talents have come to the banquet today, and the queen wants to take this opportunity to let you take the third princess and take a look." ”
An Huajin suddenly said, "Aunt is really, if I had sent someone to send me a message in advance yesterday, I wouldn't have delayed it for so long today." ”
The little eunuch whispered, "The queen mother was not in this mood for a long time, she met the ladies and ladies who came to the palace banquet early this morning, and she wanted to choose someone for His Royal Highness the Seventh, but she remembered that the third princess was also about to reach the marriageable age, so she had the idea of letting the three princesses look at people together." ”
An Huajin nodded, tilting his head and glancing at Chu Xiyun funny.
Chu Xiyun naturally heard it, her face suddenly turned red, and she stomped her feet, "The queen mother is really, my brother's princess hasn't been booked yet, so I'm in a hurry to worry about my concubine, I don't want it." ”
"Cardamom age, the most positive time, look at each other, does not mean to marry immediately, if you don't see each other now, but when you really reach the age of being able to marry, the good ones are picked away, and there are crooked melons and cracked dates left." An Huajin agreed with the queen's idea very much, "I think my aunt thinks well, and it's time for you to see each other." ”
Chu Xiyun shut up.
The little eunuch took a group of three people and rushed to Fengqi Palace.
Today's Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet, the emperor held a very grand banquet, the five officials and above in the court and their families into the palace to the banquet, the first product of the order of the lady and the prince's family members can go directly to Fengqi Palace to meet the queen, the second grade and below also want to take this opportunity to be summoned by the queen, in front of the queen to brush their faces and be carried by the queen, and some people, not for the queen mother, but for the four concubines, or the four concubines' families, or the four concubines faction or the queen's door to go through other palace concubines, was scattered to the palaces of the various concubines.
In short, today's palace is very crowded and lively.
As soon as An Huajin stepped into the palace gate, he felt the excitement, the solemn and deserted Yongdao in the past, only high palace walls on both sides, and there were few people in sight, today, coming and going, are all people.
Some of them were given a sedan chair, but those who were not shameless walked on foot and hurriedly.
An Huajin belongs to the one who has to be faced, but in the past, she didn't like to sit in a sedan chair, so except for being unwell and being carried around in a sedan chair when she was unwell and entered the palace, the rest of the time, she walked by herself on the long palace road. Because today there is a third princess and a Changning county lord by his side, both of whom are squeamish, so An Huajin did not dislike it, and directly followed the two of them into the sedan chair.
swayed all the way and came to Fengqi Palace.
An Huajin was originally in spirit, and was swayed all the way by the sedan chair, and he was a little confused, and finally got it, and came to Fengqi Palace, as soon as he stepped into the palace gate, he saw that it was like the New Year, and there were people inside and out.
An Huajin is naturally not afraid of people, but he also feels that there are too many people today.
The prosperity of the capital is really not an empty word, the Chinese military officials, the family mansion, the clan relatives, and the relatives of the clan are counted in a slip of water, isn't it so lively?
The An family has been staying in Nanyang since the establishment of the dynasty by Taizu, Anhua Jin is so big, she really didn't catch up with such a lively palace banquet, three years ago she came to Beijing to celebrate her birthday, but she just went through the motions, delivered the gift, said a few good words in front of the emperor, and then sneaked out of the palace to the long-admired Eighth Avenue Red Pink Lane, and later fought with Chu Chen, and then was carried back to Nanyang.
This is the first lively palace banquet she attended, and it is also a grand scene of the top prosperity in Beijing.
Chu Siyan poked An Huajin's arm, pouted at the crowd of people in Fengqi Palace, and whispered, "It must be because the news of the queen mother's selection of the princess for Her Royal Highness Seventh Highness was released, so those who have school-age daughters in the family have brought in, although the palace banquet in previous years was also lively, but there were not so many people." ”
"Oh? Isn't it as crowded as in previous years this year? An Huajin stopped.
"Not really. It can be seen how many people are waiting to fly up the branches and become phoenixes. Chu Siyan whispered, "Even if the Seventh Highness is very boring." ”
An Huajin: "......"
Even if Chu Yan has a reputation for being dull and boring for a long time, he can't bear to be the queen's concubine, backed by the strong backing of Nanyang, and because the second prince, the third prince, and the sixth prince have fallen one after another, today's Chu Yan has not only taken on most of the affairs of the court, but also has the emperor's weight, and is also a hot candidate for the prince, and this person who came to Fengqi Palace to show his face has become so many behemoths.
That's a good thing.
But the pomp and circumstance were too good.
After all, although Chu Yan is hot, he has not yet been established, and now he is standing on the cusp, too many eyes are staring, what to do, it is inconvenient, and he has to be cautious and careful, and he can't make a mistake, once he makes a mistake, the mistake will be magnified ten times. And King Jing is also still scheming everywhere, and the other princes may not be willing to give up, and they have to do something, they are all staring at Chu Yan, and what the rest of them want to do, it is too easy.