Chapter 22 The children have grown up
"The queen mother is lazy, the queen mother can still think about the concubines in her busy schedule, and specially held a peach blossom banquet, which moved the concubines." The lady in a light blue life dress said flatteringly.
"What Mrs. Zheng said is that the concubine also thinks like this, let's really think of a piece." The lady, who was also dressed in a light blue life woman suit, followed closely.
"Cheng'er, these two ladies are the wife of the cabinet attendant, the bachelor's wife of the Hanlin Academy, the cabinet attendant and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy are from the four-rank official positions, and they are both idle positions, so as long as they seize the opportunity, they will be in the palace, Cheng'er, you can listen to it." Princess Xiaoyao has been paying attention to the movements in the hall, and quietly introduced the ladies in the hall to Ye Tingcheng.
"Hey, by the way, Mrs. Zheng, I remember your eldest lady, is the second lady about to be married." Mrs. Li, a scholar in the cabinet, asked Mrs. Zheng, a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, as if she remembered something.
"Please Mrs. Li remember my family's children, my eldest daughter will be in Lanqiu this year (Lanqiu is now July) and Lu, and the second daughter will only be in time next year." Mrs. Zheng, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, immediately spoke, and her voice was specially raised, intending to let everyone in the hall hear it.
"Is that a promise?" Mrs. Li, a cabinet attendant, asked, thinking that her eldest son had also reached the age of marrying a wife, and her own family and the Hanlin Academy's bachelor's house were also a good match, and if they could get married, it would be a good family affair.
Although Mrs. Li, a bachelor in the cabinet, thinks so, Mrs. Zheng, a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, does not think so, Mrs. Zheng thinks that her eldest daughter is also very good-looking, and she is also considered a first-class appearance in the capital, although she can't choose the main concubine of the eldest prince, the side concubine can also fight, and then take a step back, it is okay to be a noble concubine, the queen is the eldest prince, and it is the eldest son of the current saint, if nothing else, it will be the prince and the emperor in the future. Don't look at it now as just a noble concubine, but when the eldest prince ascends the throne, it will be the mother of the palace, and your own family can also be blessed in the future, Mrs. Zheng, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, thought like this, looking at the affection of Mrs. Li, the cabinet attendant, and disagreed, but her face did not show it at all: "There is no Xu family, my daughter is filial, every time I ask about this, she shouts to accompany me for a few more years, I am both moved and angry." ”
"That's right, my daughters are all intimate little padded jackets, they are all like this, but when I reach the age of Jilu, it's time to marry others, and I can't always refuse others, Mrs. Zheng, don't you say?" Mrs. Li, a scholar in the cabinet, understood the meaning of Mrs. Zheng, a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, but she still said without giving up, thinking about facilitating this family matter.
"Who says it's not, I say the same about them, but whenever I watch them coquettish me, I feel 10,000 reluctant in my heart, so I want to stay." Mrs. Zheng, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, said without understanding the meaning of the words of Mrs. Li, the attendant of the cabinet.
"Mrs. Zheng's daughter is really filial." Mrs. Li, a cabinet attendant, knew that Mrs. Zheng, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, did not want to marry her family, but wanted to make her daughter the princess, Mrs. Li, a cabinet attendant, sneered in her heart, she didn't want to think about what kind of official her husband was, and she still wanted to eat swan meat, how could the queen fall in love with her daughter.
"What Mrs. Li said is that my daughters are filial, and I am happy from the bottom of my heart." Mrs. Zheng, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, seemed to be the cabinet attendant, Mrs. Li, who sincerely praised her daughter, and did not hear the ridicule of the cabinet attendant, Mrs. Li.
"What are Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Li whispering?" The queen was originally talking to Princess Xuan and Prime Minister Zuo's wife, but when she saw the movement here without comment, she asked.
"Back to the queen's words, the concubine is talking to Mrs. Zheng about her daughters." Mrs. Li, a cabinet attendant, preemptively replied before Mrs. Zheng, a scholar at the Hanlin Academy.
"Time flies so fast, no, the children have grown up, and they have reached the age when they should get married." The queen finally said the main purpose of today's banquet through the words of Madame Li, a scholar in the cabinet.
"What the queen mother said is that in the blink of an eye, the children are all older, and the concubines are also very worried about their marriage." Mrs. Sun of the Ministry of Industry is under the guise of letting her daughter become the concubine of the eldest prince, the concubine must not have her own family's share, and the concubine still has the power to compete.
"Speaking of which, the children are still enjoying the flowers in the Imperial Garden, and we are chatting happily here but forget to enjoy the flowers." The queen also wanted to set a concubine and a side concubine for her son as soon as possible.
"Thank you for the reminder, everyone said, if it weren't for the queen mother's reminder, would we all forget that the children are still waiting in the imperial garden, and the concubine is here, thank you to the queen mother." As she spoke, Mrs. Shangshu Sun of the Ministry of Industry got up and saluted the queen to thank her.
"Mrs. Sun is right, in the end, it is the queen's mother, if we have one-thousandth of the queen's mother, I will wake up with a smile in my dream." Mrs. Zheng, a scholar at the Hanlin Academy, finally waited for the opportunity to flatter the queen, and she couldn't wait to hold the queen to the sky.
"Speaking of which, this is also strange to the concubines, it is rare to see the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother, and I always want to stay with the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother for a while, and be blessed." Mrs. Shang Shushi of the Ministry of Rites said.
"Mother, let's go to the Imperial Garden to see the children?" The queen asked the queen mother.
"The mourning family will not go, after staying for so long, the mourning family is also tired, you young people go." The queen mother is an elderly person, even if she wants to go again, she is a little powerless, and she instructed her personal palace maid Xianghan to say: "Help the mourning family go back." ”
Xiang Han has served the Queen Mother for so many years, and is familiar with the Queen Mother's every move, and before the Queen Mother can give orders, she has already helped the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother just took two steps, turned to the Queen and said: "Queen, I will leave it to you here, don't neglect the ladies." ”
"The daughter-in-law obeys the order, and the queen walks slowly." The queen bowed.
"Congratulations to the Queen Mother." All the ladies in the hall stood up and saluted.
"Okay, let's go to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers, I guess the children are in a hurry." As she spoke, the queen had already walked to the middle of the hall.
"Yes, Queen." Everyone followed the queen step into the imperial garden.
In the imperial garden, as the queen said, the flowers bloom extremely beautifully, the flower wall made of wisteria flowers separates men and women, and the men and women on both sides of the flower wall can't help but secretly look at the opposite side of the flower wall, and even many of the women quietly blushed.
When the queen and everyone came to the imperial garden, they saw this scene, and said with a smile: "Looking at these children, they are really the most beautiful at such an age, and the palace really envies these children." ”
"It should be these children who envy the queen's mother, the queen's mother's mother, who in the world doesn't envy you." Mrs. Shangshu Sun of the Ministry of Industry seized the opportunity to praise the queen, for fear that the queen would not know that she existed.
"Mrs. Sun, have your children entered the palace today?" The queen couldn't help but ask.
"Back to the queen's mother, the concubine's eldest son Shaohui and the little girl Xiange are here, before the concubine received the queen's post, they knew that they could enter the palace to see the queen's mother, and they couldn't sleep when they were happy." Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry said very exaggeratedly when she saw the queen asking her children.
"Later, the palace will take a good look at Mrs. Sun's children." After the queen said this, she asked Princess Xuan: "Princess Xuan, where is Ning Xin, why didn't you see it in this palace?" ”
"Back to the queen's mother, the little girl had a cold the day before yesterday, and the concubine was afraid that the little girl would infect other children when she entered the palace, so she didn't bring the little girl into the palace, and I hope the queen mother is not to blame." Princess Xuan saluted the queen, with a look of doing something wrong.
The queen originally intended to make Ning Xin's county lord to her son a concubine today, who knew that Princess Xuan did not take Ning Xin into the palace today, the queen didn't have to think about it to know that Xuan Wangfu was unwilling to marry Ning Xin to her son, hum, Xuanwangfu really didn't know how to lift, and didn't want to marry Ning Xin to his son, could it be that he still worried about helping other princes to take the throne, as long as he was in one day, other princes would not want to cross his son, since Xuanwangfu didn't look down on the heavenly blessing of the palace, then don't blame the palace for being polite, The queen is not good at embarrassing Princess Xuan in front of so many people, so as not to let these people spread rumors that are unfavorable to her, so the queen said very decently: "Princess Xuan, hurry up, Ning Xin has a cold, can be passed on to the imperial doctor to see, there is a century-old ginseng in the palace, and I will let Lianmeng take it for you and make up for Ning Xin's body." ”
"Thank you Queen Niang, a little wind and cold, how dare you drive the doctor, I invited a doctor, drank medicine, the doctor said that it would be fine in a few days, thank you for the queen's concern, when Xin'er is well windy and cold, the concubine must take Xin'er into the palace to thank the queen mother." Princess Xuan said along with the queen's words.
"Mrs. Wang, this palace remembers that your eldest daughter is a warbler this year." The queen touched the nail at Princess Xuan, and casually asked Prime Minister Zuo's wife.
"If you go back to the queen's mother, the little girl is the time of the warbler (now March, but in ancient times it was called the time of the warbler) and the flute." Mrs. Zuo Cheng replied very quickly, she knew that the queen was the princess of Ningxin County of Xuanwang's Mansion as the concubine of the eldest prince, but looking at the meaning of Princess Xuan at the moment, she was unwilling to give the Ningxin county lord to the eldest prince, so that her daughter would have a chance to become the concubine of the eldest prince, otherwise she would not have asked her daughter at this time.
"Bengong remembers that your eldest daughter is called Yuqin, I don't know if Bengong remembers wrongly?" It was as if the queen had thought about it for a long time before she remembered the name.
"Back to the queen's mother, the little girl's name is Yuqin, and the queen's mother can remember the little girl's name is the blessing of the little girl." Mrs. Zuo said flatteredly.
"The Queen Mother has arrived." The Yuan Nei attendant beside the queen sang and shouted.