There are more relatives and friends, and there are more socials, twelve months a year, and there are a few birthday people every month. It's almost impossible for one person to memorize all these messy birthdays without anyone to help them mention.

There is a booklet in Guiyuan, which was copied from Yingluo, the palace maid of Yilan Palace, and what is written on it is trivial things such as weddings, funerals, birthdays, birthdays, and birthdays. Don't look at the trivial, but if you really forget, it's still troublesome.

People close to Liu Yan can remember. For example, the father and queen mother, sisters and brothers, the family's birthday will naturally not be forgotten. In addition, like her aunt and uncle, she also remembered several close cousins and cousins.

As for the others......

He can't even remember the birthdays of King Qin and King Xuan, although they are his uncle's father and uncle, but Liu Yan doesn't like them at all, she sometimes goes when these two people are on their birthdays, sometimes she doesn't go, and some other relatives' old birthdays are all mixed together, and she can't remember them clearly.

As for the people who are farther away, then there is no need to remember, first, the relationship is estranged, and secondly, the status of those people is lower.

The emperor doesn't love his birthday, and he hasn't done anything about it in the past few years since he ascended the throne, so it can be said that it is so simple that people feel that this is very incompatible with his identity as an emperor.

I heard that there was an emperor in the previous dynasty, and the birthday was almost several months in advance, and it was possible to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on a birthday, and the subordinates also had to give the emperor a birthday gift. As for the kind of poor people who can't afford to send it, they have to rack their brains to deal with it. The emperor received a lot of things that were not eaten and drunk and stuffed into the warehouse, nine out of nine of which he would not even look at it, of course, the ceremony was not in vain, and the emperor also gave rewards to his subordinates.

Why bother? In addition to filling the emperor's face, there is no benefit at all, so what is wrong with saving all this money and energy to do something?

Even with the queen, it's only a birthday - the couple's birthdays are very close, both in winter, almost a month apart. However, speaking of which, the emperor was born at the beginning of the year, and Empress Cao was born at the end of the year. It is often said that people born in winter are not blessed, but there are not many people who say this in this dynasty.

The emperor and the queen were both born in the extremely cold time of the year, but can people be unblessed people?

The emperor has already decreed that he will not do anything on this year's birthday, and he will not receive any congratulatory gifts. At most, the courtiers had an extra excerpt with some auspicious words written on it.

However, my family still got together once.

This family member is Liu Yan's brother and sisters, of course, there are sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nephews, and nieces...... Hey, I didn't really notice it, but now they have a lot of family.

The eldest prince brought his newly married stepfamily, Xiao Zhu, and they came very early. Although Xiao Zhu is young, but people are indeed very stable, from the time she entered the door to the present, there have been no bad rumors, although Liu Wen and Liu Qi sisters and brothers live in the palace, she has also fulfilled the responsibility of a stepmother, and let people come into the palace every once in a while to send something and say goodbye. She also made clothes, shoes and socks for her sisters and brothers, whether they were made by themselves does not need to be carefully studied, and it doesn't matter whether it is done well or not, the important thing is her attitude, virtuous and considerate. Liu Yan had heard of one thing, but he didn't know whether it was true or not. It seems to be the meaning of the eldest prince, saying that he wants Xiao Zhu to get closer to the two children first, and then let Xiao Zhu have his own children in a few years, so as not to have harmony in the family in the future, and the gap between the original children and the continuation is too large.

Empress Cao also mentioned this matter in front of Liu Yan. Xiao Zhu seems to be doing a good job of this stepmother at the moment, and she can't find anything wrong. But the time is still short, and we can't judge right now. As long as you are not a fool, before you have children, you will not show much hostility to the original child. As the saying goes, we must see people's hearts over time, and we must see clearly a person's true personality and heart, and ten or eight years is not enough.

Liu Wen and Liu Qi met their father and stepmother and sat behind them.

Liu Yan looked at the appearance of their family, and his heart was full of awkwardness.

I always feel ...... It's too raw, not like a family.

They are not familiar with their stepmother Xiao Zhu, and besides, it is not surprising that few children in this world like stepmothers. But the two children and their biological father had nothing to say, especially Liu Wen, who sat there with her back straight, and the whole person looked very stiff and uncomfortable.

Maybe it's because I've lived in the palace for a long time, and I haven't seen my father for too long, so I'm so angry.

Empress Cao brought their siblings to the palace out of a loving heart, feeling that they had no mother, and was afraid that they would have no one to take care of them. But these two children have been living in the palace, and they have not seen their biological father, and now they sit together, and they feel like strangers.

Liu Fang thought differently from Liu Yan.

She is also the mother who died early, and her father married her stepmother early, no one can understand the feelings of Liu Wen and their sister and brother better than her.

The mother's place is occupied by another woman, and the home where they were once born and raised suddenly becomes someone else's place, and it is no longer their home, everything that originally belonged to them becomes someone else's thing, and the good memories of the past have all changed their taste...... As for the father, he seems to have become a different person, no longer belonging to them, never again loving and caring for them as before, like a stranger, nay, more terrible than a stranger.

Thinking of this, Liu Fang felt very distressed about this sister and brother.

When the eldest prince has other children in the future, their relationship with their father will become more and more estranged, and they can only maintain a superficial politeness, which is not rude.

is obviously a close relative, but he has become a stranger, and they can't say or complain about this feeling and torture, because the eldest prince is their father, and a filial piety is bigger than the sky, how can they resist, how can they be disobedient?

Even now, Liu Fang's ears have never been quiet, there are people from time to time, I don't know for what purpose they are whispering in her ear, saying that King Qin is her biological father after all, she shouldn't be so cold and ruthless to King Qin, how can there be biological fathers and daughters in this world who have become enemies? Living so close, but not getting along with each other, isn't like words. When she has children in the future, she will know how difficult it is to be a parent, how can children hate their parents?

These people simply stand and talk without backache.

Even if she gives birth to ten or twenty children in the future, she will not have any understanding of King Qin, and it will be impossible in this life.

Tiger poison does not eat children, but many times people are much more vicious and terrible than jackals and tigers.