Chapter 60: New Year's Banquet Five
Together with King Ping, he took Helian to Baohe Hall with him, and as for the imperial concubine, he had been sent by the emperor to pick him up, saying that he would go with the emperor at that time.
Because the location of the Star Palace is in the middle of the inner palace, as soon as you get out of the Star Palace, you will meet more people on the road, all of whom are princes and princesses who go to the Baohe Palace.
King Ping and Midnight have a special identity, although one is the second, but he is already the eldest son of the emperor. A first-class virtuous king who is loved by the emperor and favored by the queen mother, and is regarded as an eyeball by the Nine Emperor Uncles.
Naturally, there are many people who greet and salute on the road.
The Baohe Palace is not within the scope of the harem, as long as you don't detour, you must pass through the queen's Fengming Palace, and now is the time when the prince and the princess go to the Baohe Palace, so it is not strange to meet Helian Jiamin and Helian Jiaying at midnight.
But when he saw the same prince, he was a little puzzled. At this time, as long as there is a prince who is crowned king, which one doesn't go to the Baohe Hall early to celebrate with the courtiers?
What's more, it was the crown prince, this was the best time to get close to the relationship between him and the courtiers, how could he be willing to give up?
"I've seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
The crown prince glanced at the three of them, and then at the princes and princesses who were far away from them, "Don't be polite, they are all your own brothers and sisters." ”
King Ping smiled lightly: "Etiquette cannot be abolished. ”
The faces of the two princesses behind the prince were about to turn green, but with so many people present, they didn't dare to go too far, so they had to salute King Ping and Midnight: "I've seen the second brother, I've seen the Xian King." ”
Especially Helian Jiaying, the root of that tooth \/ Midnight estimated that she was about to bite off.
"No need to be polite." King Ping is still the same gentle and kind appearance.
But it was his way of making people feel comfortable and smiling, which made the prince and others want to break the smile on his face.
When they meet, they should go together, even if they want to kill each other.
Before the crown prince left, King Ping and Midnight followed, Helian happily and silently grabbed Midnight's left sleeve, she didn't like the two imperial sisters, she didn't like it at all.
"The nineteenth brother is the first year to enter the palace to participate in the annual banquet, why don't you know what to ask the palace at any time."
Midnight said with a slightly embarrassed face: "Let Your Highness see and smile, I have always wanted to participate in previous years, but the Nine Emperor Uncle will not let me." ”
How to arouse these people's hatred for him, he knows better than anyone else. Sure enough, not only was the two breaths in the back seriously unstable, but if it weren't for the presence of the crown prince and King Ping, I believe that the two would have come out with a bunch of slander.
Even if it was the crown prince, his face stiffened, "The Nine Emperor Uncles love the Nineteenth Brother, and this palace is very happy for you." ”
"Your Royal Highness laughed again, how can the Nine Emperor Uncles love this king, but see that this king is bullying and oppressing this king." Midnight's face was full of distress, as if the Nine Emperor Uncles had scolded him harshly.
This girl is a person who can talk to death, and in an instant, all the prince's words were choked in his throat, and he spit out a sentence after a long time, "That's the love of the Nine Emperor Uncles for you, you say this, but it will hurt the Nine Emperor Uncle's heart." ”
"Ah, does the Nine Emperor Uncles still have a heart? He can be so cruel to this king, and he is not allowed to eat this and that, and he is not allowed to go out of the house to play, how can he be so caring? Midnight seemed to be holding back for a long time, and the words suddenly blurted out.
Then he looked at the left and right in fear, and looked at the prince timidly, "Your Highness, this king didn't say anything just now, and you didn't hear anything, right?" ”
The corners of the prince's mouth tugged stiffly, "It's true that this palace hasn't heard anything." ”
The nineteenth brother said that it was okay, if it came out of other people's mouths, even if it was him, he would have to withstand the thunderous anger of the Nine Emperor Uncles.
What Jia Ying said is really good, wild seeds are wild seeds, things that are born in blessings and do not know blessings.
With such a person, how can the three people in the highest power of Yan Xi favor him?
Seemingly......
Murderous!
Can't help it?
Almost a few people in the back didn't talk much, mainly because of the skill of talking to death in the middle of the night, so that the prince wanted to make the scene a brother and a brother, and it was impossible for him to be angry to death every minute.
When he came to the Baohe Palace, the prince took advantage of the efforts of the Night King and the King of Xiang to ask for peace, and hurried away from the Midnight Servants.
In the middle of the night, under the searchlight-like gaze of everyone, he walked into the Baohe Hall with the two brothers and sisters of King Ping.
Fortunately, Yan Xi is quite enlightened, and no prince comes in, so everyone will ask for peace once, otherwise he will die awkward in the middle of the night. From the door to his seat, but through all the officials' seats.
The Baohe Hall will be opened when the banquet is held, it is very large, and there is only one banquet hall in the whole Baohe Palace, and the banquet table that is only higher than the knee is placed in the way of left and right. Yan Xi is heavy on martial arts, and the left is big, so the left is the seat of the military general, and the right is the seat of the civil official, all of which sit on the ground.
In the middle opposite the main entrance is the emperor's dragon throne and the powerful secondary positions on the left and right, and the table height is the same as the normal dining table.
The seats on the left and right sides of the dragon seat are arranged in a figure-eight pattern. At the top of the left is the seat of the Queen Mother, and then at the back is the seat of the Prince Regent. The first place on the right side is the queen's seat and the emperor's concubine's seat, which are all regulations and have not been changed for more than ten years.
Then the back becomes the front and back two tables are arranged, which is the seat for the meritorious king and the princess, the male is the front, and the female is the back.
Several old princes, almost every year, do not participate in such banquets, and the emperor will not blame, and they are really old.
The prince who is far away will not come back to participate, and will only return to Beijing to participate once in three years to show his loyalty to Yanxi. And this year is not a routine year, so the seats on the left and right sides are almost all the princes with the throne and the princesses with higher status.
Midnight is the throne of Yipin, but it is impossible to pass the crown prince, so his position is under the imperial concubine.
The princes are divided according to their age, and they will be crowned kings when they are over 20 years old. This kind of banquet is mainly about harmony and music, so the seat of the prince is divided according to his age.
On the left is the crown prince, the second king of Ping, the fifth king of Jing, the seventh of the king of Xiang, etc., and on the right is the midnight, the fourth of the night king, the ninth of the Yi king, etc.
As for the eldest prince, he died of illness before he was a minor, leaving behind a son, who seems to be six years old, and was raised in the palace. But I have never seen it in midnight, and I heard that it was raised in the Bichen Palace of the child's aunt, that is, the biological mother of King Jing, Concubine Yang.
The third prince is even more miserable, because he is still being born by Concubine Li of the cold palace, and he died of illness at the age of three. The Eighth Prince, in the same way, died of illness as soon as his fourth birthday passed.
Anyway, the princes in the palace who didn't live to adulthood all died of illness. The same is true of princesses, but princesses do not seem to be very susceptible to diseases, and the number of princesses is still two or three times that of princes.
Thinking of this in the middle of the night, I have to admire Jinshang's ability, he is the emperor who has given birth to the most children since the founding of Yanxi, not counting those who died, there are more than 30 who are still alive now, and the prince accounts for nearly ten.