Chapter 367: The Palace Flower Banquet
After the Dragon Boat Festival, Fu Zhixing and Yan Tongzhu took three hundred imperial forest troops, as well as retinues and personal guards, and went out of the city to investigate the emperors.
Fu Zhixing went out to have little impact on Yan Hao's daily life, every morning he had breakfast with his children, and after sending them to the princess's mansion, he went to deal with the housework for an hour, and at noon, the children came over, had lunch, and went back to the yard to take a nap. The afternoon is Yan Hao's free time, and she will occasionally be found by the Han family to accompany her and the eldest princess of Chengyang to play cards.
On the evening of the 16th, King Su's family of four returned to Yandu after a few years of absence. The next day, the couple took their two sons into the palace to greet Sheng Shang and Empress Shen. Guo Baochan gave birth to their second son, Tang Luan, for King Su on the ninth day of the sixth month of the tenth year of Changning.
Two days later, Guo Baochan packed up the things she brought back, ordered someone to send them to Yan Hao, Yu Qingqing and other good friends, and sent an invitation to invite everyone to come to the flower viewing banquet.
On the day of the flower-viewing banquet, Yan Hagi went early in the morning, friends reunited after a long absence, and joked with each other, Yan Hagi said Guo Baochan, "Heroic." ”
Guo Baochan reached out and hooked her chin, "Not as graceful as you." ”
Yan Hagi slapped her hand away, "What about your two sons?" ”
"Come over in a moment, are you ready for a greeting gift?" Guo Baochan asked with a smile.
"You're welcome." Yan Hagi smiled.
"Is it necessary to be polite to you?" Guo Baochan glanced at her, "Why didn't you bring your daughter?" It's good for me to see if I look like you, or if I look like Fu Wuyi. ”
"She and her great-grandfather and great-grandmother went out of the city to Zhuangzi to escape the heat, and the weather was too hot, and she loved to sweat, and she was covered with prickly heat." Yan Hagi explained.
"It's quite hot, I've only been back for a few days, and I have a lot of prickly heat on my neck." Guo Baochan slapped the fan a few times.
"But not enough ice? I'll have someone bring you some. Yan Hagi asked with a frown.
"That's a good idea, thank you." Guo Baochan smiled, "Thank you, thank you." "There is ice in the royal ice cellar, but there is also a share, Guo Baochan doesn't want to ruin her reputation because of this little thing.
Yan Hagi smacked her lightly, "I said just now that there was no need to be polite to me, but this time I will be polite again." ”
While talking, Tang Yi and Tang Luan came over, and Guo Baochan smiled and said, "Please say hello to your aunt of the Yan family." ”
The brother was about to salute, Guo Baochan said again: "No, I should call you aunt." ”
"Whatever, whatever you want." Yan Hagi smiled nonchalantly.
Guo Baochan thought for a while, "Then let's call it aunt." ”
The brothers saluted and said, "Say hello to my aunt." ”
Yan Hao hugged Tang Luan up and asked the maid to give a meeting gift, "I think Yi'er and Luan'er are very well-behaved, so naughty as you wrote in your letter." ”
"They are pretending to be obedient, when they are in southern Xinjiang, they fight with people every day, just like their Lao Tzu, either playing with knives or sticks, I hate to stuff them back into their stomachs." Guo Baochan grinds her teeth.
Yan Hagi scoffed, "Says like you don't like dancing knives and guns." ”
"Hey, hey, aren't you a good sister? Or not a good sister? Guo Baochan pushed her.
"It's just a good sister, so I can tell the truth, if it's not a good sister, I should say, oops, Princess Su is really generous, virtuous and virtuous." Yan Hagi smiled.
"Oops, goosebumps are coming out." Guo Baochan rubbed her arms numbly.
Tang Yi and Tang Luan grinned.
"Two stinky boys, it's funny to hear your aunt squeeze your mother, isn't it?" Guo Baochan made a fierce and evil look, "Get out, get out of the martial arts training ground to play, don't disturb me here to chat with your aunt." ”
drove away the two sons, Guo Baochan and Yan Hao didn't say a few words, and the maidservant girl came in to report, "Princess, the princess is here." ”
Guo Baochan and Yan Hao got up and went out to greet the crown princess, and the princess came with the county lord of Anle and Tang Luan. After seeing each other, Tang Luan asked respectfully, "Auntie, is my sister here?" ”
Yan Hao smiled: "Yaya didn't come, Yaya went to Zhuangzi to escape the summer." ”
"When Sister Yaya comes back, I also ask my aunt to send someone to tell Luan'er that Luan'er has a gift for Sister Yaya." Tang Luan replied seriously.
"Luan'er, those good things, you can keep them and give them to others." Yan Hagi squatted down and politely refused.
"Only for my sister." Tang Luan said firmly.
"Xiaoxiao, Luan'er is a gift for Yaya, not for you, don't overstep your bounds." The crown princess helped her son.
"The crown princess." Yan Hagi shouted helplessly.
"It's so sunny, let's get into the house quickly." The crown princess walked in with a smile.
Seeing the princess come in, the ladies in the hall all got up to salute, and the princess said politely: "You don't have to be polite, please take a seat." ”
Yan Hao sat down on the chair and saw Guo Baochan's cousin Song Juan. She looked haggard, there were fine lines at the corners of her eyes, and she sighed secretly, life was not satisfactory, it was really very urging to get old.
The guests arrived one after another, Guo Baochan invited everyone to go to the garden to enjoy the flowers, since they used the reason of flower appreciation, they naturally had to enjoy the flowers; King Su and Guo Baochan are both rough people and don't love these flowers and plants, but it was Fu Zhixing who was responsible for supervising the construction of the palace.
The scenery in the palace is still quite good, the pavilions and pavilions are scattered, walk along the cobblestone path of the flower garden, bypass a pink wall, and suddenly open up in front of you, and see a mirror-like pond. There seems to be a layer of light smoke on the water, making the distant scenery hazy, like a fairyland.
"You don't have to be restrained, please feel free to do so." Guo Baochan said with a smile.
The crowd dispersed, in groups of three or five, or lingered among the flowers, or sat by the pond to fish, or sat in the pavilion and chatted. Guo Baochan grabbed Yan Hao, "Let's go, let's go play cards." ”
"I want to enjoy the flowers, not play cards." Yan Hagi's luck in playing cards has not been good all these years, and she will lose every time she gambles, so she has no interest in playing cards.
"Pretending to be a gentleman." Guo Baochan forcibly dragged Yan Hao to the small flower hall and pressed her to the side of the card table.
Yan Hagi had to play cards with them, and from the beginning to the end, he never played cards.
At the end of the banquet, the guests and hosts dispersed happily.
Back at the Anguo Mansion, Yan Hagi asked people to send two carts of ice to King Su's Mansion.
Two days later, Yan Hao went to Su Wangfu again, this time Guo Baochan set up a small banquet, and only invited Yan Hao and Yu Qingqing. Because Bao Rong's family is only a fourth-grade official, in order to avoid Yu Qingqing's embarrassment, Guo Baochan did not invite her to participate in the flower appreciation banquet.
Yu Qingqing came with her second daughter Bao Mingzhu, she gave birth to a son named Bao Yongqi for Bao Rong's family in Layue last year, who was not yet one year old and stayed at home.
"Yi'er, this is Sister Mingzhu, you take your sister to play, don't bully your sister." Guo Baochan advised.
Tang Yi was surprised and said: "You are also called Mingzhu, we know a little chubby girl in southern Xinjiang, also called Mingzhu." ”
Children are easy to befriend, Bao Mingzhu and Tang Yi brothers went out to play together, and Yan Hao and the three of them sat in a room with ice cubes, drinking sour plum soup and chatting. Of course, Guo Baochan and Yu Qingqing drank it cold, and Yan Hao drank it at room temperature.
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I deeply doubt that they have been at home for a long time, and there is something wrong with their brains, and they have been noisy and noisy, which makes people upset.