The old Chinese New Year's Eve banquet was still installed in the Yaoguang Hall by the Taiye Pool, because this year the imperial concubine and phoenix body were crowned with a sleeve, Kangxi was particularly rewarded, and all the slaves in the palace on Chinese New Year's Eve, together with the dancing Ji qinist, were given double rewards.

Because of the real benefits, the minions naturally worked hard, and all the flowers and plants in the Yaoguang Hall were trimmed elegantly, competing with each other.

Kangxi's dragon and phoenix Luanyu slowly fell in front of the hall, and immediately hulala knelt down the stairs, and the mountain shouted long live a thousand years.

Kangxi exempted everyone's courtesy, walked into the red carpet of the hall with his sleeves, looked at the past from afar, and saw that in front of the eight-sided large screen of the Nine Dragons playing with pearls in the center, a pair of golden dragon banquet tables were merged in one place, and the dragons and phoenixes tied with 10,000-year-old green branches and peony flowers on both sides were auspicious, and the bright and brilliant were gathered around the banquet.

"This Fengyi is a symbol of the queen, and it is not appropriate for the concubine to sit over......" The sleeve walking on Kangxi's side saw this battle from a distance, and whispered, and his feet were half a step late.

Kangxi grabbed the hand of his sleeve, put it on the crook of his arm, and said in a low voice: "What is the difference between your status in this palace and the queen of the East Palace?" But sooner or later, it's just a matter of canonization! As he spoke, he sat down behind the Golden Dragon Banquet table with his sleeves in his arms.

The concubines saw that Kangxi sat down, and then they sat down one after another, after Kangxi first toasted three glasses of wine, the dancing girl and the pianist began to perform, and the palace concubines came to toast before driving.

Concubine Hui raised her glass, and the first one walked slowly to Kangxi and Huai Sleeve, bowed down and smiled: "The concubine will first salute the first cup!" As he spoke, his eyes also looked at his sleeves: "The imperial concubine Niangniang has a phoenix body and pearls this year, long live the dragon's heart, it is really the blessing of the palace, and the concubine wishes long live this year to have another smart Lin'er!" After speaking, he first covered the wine glass with a handkerchief, slowly raised his head, and drank all the wine in the cup.

Kangxi also drank a full cup first, and then said with a smile: "Borrowing the concubine's auspiciousness, Huai'er can't drink wine at the moment, so I will give her a glass in return!" As he spoke, he ordered the eunuch to pour wine, and whispered in his sleeve: "Long live the dragon body......

Kangxi tapped the back of her hand and said with a smile: "I'm happy today!" It doesn't hurt to have an extra drink or two! ”

Huai Sleeve couldn't persuade him, so he had to lay out a few dishes for Kangxi with his own hands.

Concubine Hui got up, and then all the concubines came to congratulate, and she accompanied Kangxi to deal with it for a while, and gradually felt a little tired, and quietly said goodbye to Kangxi, and retreated to the ear room specially set up for her in the apse to rest.

Yin Ling'er was afraid of the cold wind under the verandah of the hall, so he wrapped the thick lynx Qiu Dayu in his sleeves, and the sleeves only felt that his hands were empty, and as soon as he stepped out of the hall, he remembered that Tang Pozi fell on the banquet, and Yin Ling'er turned back to get it.

"There's no wind tonight, let's go for a walk in the back, and by the way, I see that the palace lamps hanging on the riverbank over here are very beautiful!" When he spoke, he was surrounded by several palace people, bypassing the rockery piled up with stones in Taihu Lake, and walking towards the edge of the Taiye Pool.

As soon as I bypassed the rockery, I heard someone whispering behind the rocks, like a woman crying softly, but another whispered beside her.

Zhang Baozheng wanted to step forward, but when he saw Huai Sleeve raise his hand slightly, he immediately lowered his head and stood behind Huai Sleeve.

The woman who only listened to the crying behind the stone sobbed and said: "Now that the one in Kunning Palace has a face, she can't be angry, and she will practice with us all day long, and she has the ability to please Long Live Lord!" ”

Another persuaded him: "You know her temperament, Suo Xiang told her to train her grandson as if she had to count them, not to mention us!"

Moreover, she slapped her face again that day, and went to show off her new clothes, but she didn't want to live the whole palace to the imperial concubine Niangniang, and I heard that she thought the pool she used was dirty, so she chiseled and rebuilt it. Hum! She's lost enough people, but she's not looking for a place to be angry! ”

"Humph! The lack of virtue she did, others don't know, but I know it clearly, and when I was in a hurry, the old lady simply tore her face and stabbed her out, so that the one who knew ......"

"Oops! Don't talk nonsense! There is no basis for what you said, if people hear it, go quickly, in case someone is called in the room, we will go back late, and there will be famine! ”

Immediately, there was a sound of stumbling footsteps behind the stones, and he turned around and glanced at Zhang Bao, who immediately understood, bypassed the path behind him, and trotted away.

Huai Sleeve stood in place and waited for Yin Ling'er to fetch Tang Pozi, and when he saw Yin Ling'er gasping for a long time, he asked, "Why did you go for so long?" What's going on over there? ”

Yin Ling'er carefully held the arm of her sleeve, and replied as she walked: "It's not that there is something wrong with the long live lord, it's the concubine Niangniang, I don't know what I was pregnant, I vomited for a while, I only said that my chest was stuffy and panicked, and I hurriedly went back to the palace." ”

Huai Sleeve raised his eyebrows and asked, "Can you pass on the imperial doctor?" ”

Yin Ling'er nodded: "It's passed, but the noble concubine insists on returning to the palace, and the long live lord will let her go back first, and order the imperial doctor to go to Yanqing Palace for follow-up." ”

Huai Sleeve didn't ask any more questions, and at this time there was a little wind, so he said: "Since that's the case, I won't be able to stay in it for long, so I'll send someone back to Long Live Lord, let's go back first." ”

Yin Ling'er immediately sent someone back to the Yaoguang Palace, and ordered someone to carry Luan to this place, and Huai Sleeve went back to Kunning Palace first.

When I returned to the palace, I took off my makeup with my sleeves, and listened to a few girls in the dormitory talk about the interesting things of the New Year in my childhood, and waited for Kangxi to return to Luan by the way, but until the ugly time, the sound of firecrackers in the distance stopped and did not wait for Kangxi to return to the palace.

It was not until the beginning of the Yin hour that Li Dequan sent the little eunuch back and forth in a hurry, saying that after Kangxi had appreciated the imperial wine to the people in front of the noon gate, he went to the Yanqing Palace, saying that the Chinese New Year's Eve was tired of keeping the New Year, and that he would keep the New Year in the Yanqing Palace this year, so that Huai Sleeve would rest earlier.

A few people waited for the sleeves to go to bed, and Yinling'er listened to the sleeves in the warm tent turn back and forth, as if she couldn't sleep, so she asked lightly: "Why don't you go to the hot springs, or sleep late tonight, so toss until tomorrow morning, and the spirit is not good." ”

After Yin Ling'er finished speaking, she heard a lazy voice from the warm tent after a while: "Don't go, I'll fall asleep tonight, tomorrow morning, Qiu'er will come to kowtow to me early in the morning, if I go to Wentang Palace, I'm afraid I will miss him." ”

When Yinling'er heard this, she didn't say anything more, and it wasn't until Yin Shi that she heard the snort in the tent gradually stabilize.

In the early morning of the next day, he got up when the sleeves were still bright, and opened the palace door just after the hour.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the princes first asked their respective mothers to say goodbye, and then they gathered in front of the Zhonghe Palace, and followed Kangxi to the Taimiao to bow to the ancestors and ancestors.

He waited for Qiu'er to come with joy in his arms, but he didn't expect that what was waiting was not Qiu'er, but the fourth elder brother Yinren.

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