Chapter 41: The Birthday Banquet

In her eyes, she stared at the golden luan hairpin, only by wearing the golden luan hairpin can King Ning's gaze stay longer, at least he will take a serious look at himself, anyway, he is wearing it in his own house, why not, Zou Rui said that many ladies have such pearl hairpins, but they don't wear them easily.

On the day of the birthday banquet, the civil and military officials of the capital really gave face, and many officials above the third grade were present, and for a time the Guogong Mansion was very lively, as Wei expected, there were many official daughters who came with their daughters who had not left the cabinet, all dressed up shy and beautiful.

Wei's non-stop greeting guests, as the old birthday star, Feng's rare to be so radiant is sitting on the main seat of the welcome hall of the Guogong Mansion, Huaguo Gong Zou Yuan and the household department Shangshu Zou Luan are also busy, although there are fewer male guests than female guests, but they are also gathered together, and sit in the main hall of the welcome.

The young junior was in the lower seat, Zou Rui's eyes flashed, she saw that Zou Xue'er was not only dressed brightly today, with thicker powder, but also wearing the golden hairpin on her head, Zou Rui smiled secretly in her heart.

The people of the Guogong Mansion knew that this time it was nothing more than that many people came to participate in it for the sake of King Ning's face. But after three searches for tea and greetings, the most anticipated King Ning did not appear for a long time, which couldn't help but make people frown.

Zou waited next to his mother, and was quickly recognized, this is the eldest lady of the Guogong Mansion Zou Minlan, there are many movements between the nobles in the capital, Zou and those people met when they were young, some are still friends, and the two times and three times can't help but recall the past.

The originally hospitable Wei was surrounded by a circle of noble ladies and was proud, but unexpectedly, the limelight on the Zou side was even better, and Wei was unwilling, thinking that with her current situation, another part of the people could come forward, which was really strange.

The feast was delayed, and I saw noon,

"King Ning has arrived." With a high-pitched announcement. In the eyes of everyone, King Ning entered people's sight with vigorous steps, and for a moment everyone seemed to see the heroic appearance of the god of the year.

To say that King Ning is just a prince, why does he have the ability to make people rush to him? This has to start from five years ago, at that time King Ning was handsome and chic, hot-blooded, heroic, the emperor has high hopes for him, if there is no special reason, the crown prince is owned by King Ning, at that time King Ning was in the limelight in the capital, everyone thought he was the future prince.

But it backfired, in the first battle of Yanguo, Ye Shengfeng, the king of Ning, went around and around for a year and finally annihilated them, but after the annihilation, he automatically asked to go to a distant place to be a vassal king, and he also rejected the emperor's crown prince seal.

This move caused a national uproar, and everyone was dumbfounded and thought that King Ning was crazy. However, some people familiar with the matter vaguely knew the reason for King Ning's move. But the matter of the royal family, everyone can only keep silent and dare not discuss it, but rumors are slowly spreading, saying that King Ning originally admired a woman in Yanguo, and the new favorite concubine of the harem is also from Yanguo, I don't know if the two are the same person, if it is Yingying and a daughter, father and son fight, it is indeed enough for the majority of civilians to talk about it.

According to this rumor, King Ning's ending should be to anger the emperor, lose his favor, be a prince for life, and have no hope of coming out, but why is King Ning so popular now, it is because the current prince is his younger brother, and the two have a very good relationship, and the emperor did not snub King Ning, and he was extremely tolerant of him, and let him have military power and free access to the capital, and his 100,000 Long Biao army under his command is enough for anyone to think that if King Ning wants to be the prince one day, the current prince Ye Ye Shengqiong will immediately give way to him, Today, the emperor will also raise his hands in favor.

"I've seen King Ning." A group of people waited for King Ning to see the salute, King Ning came directly to the welcome hall, at this time a kind of female dependents were saluting King Ning, and the female dependents really sent Qiu Bo to King Ning with affection, but King Ning did not pay attention to everyone, just walked to Feng's mother and daughter and helped them up.

"Old lady, today is your birthday, this king doesn't know the old lady's preferences, and it's not easy to prepare any gifts."

"Your Highness can come, it is the greatest glory of the old body, and you dare to ask for more."

"Where, the old lady has a big birthday, and this king can't come empty-handed, so he specially prepared a heart, and asked the old lady to smile." As he spoke, he glanced in the direction of the Zou family, "This should be Mrs. Jiang, right?" Your daughter Hua Guogong's eldest lady back then? ”

Zou hurriedly saluted: "I have seen His Royal Highness King Ning." ”

"There is no need to be polite, today's gift is also related to Madame, it is a holy decree." After speaking, he nodded and motioned for Xiao Gonggong to step forward, Xiao Gonggong really held a volume of holy decree in his hand, and was about to open it to read it, but he glanced around and slowly spoke: "The old lady heard that the old lady was seriously ill for a long time ago, and then I heard that it was Mrs. Jiang and Miss Jiang who served in person after they arrived at the house, and your illness got better under their care, and this matter reached the ears of the emperor, and the emperor remembered that the old Huaguo Gong had countless military exploits, but he died young, and the old lady of the country was the widow of a meritorious hero, and she should have been rewarded a long time ago, but it was delayed due to the complicated affairs of the court. Today, on the occasion of the old lady's birthday, I hereby decree to reward the old lady and Mrs. Jiang and her daughter Jiang Yu who have done their filial piety to make the old lady recover in time, Mrs. Jiang is here, where is Jiang Yu, the old slave? ”