Chapter 40: Birthday
The Guogong Mansion is very busy these days, and the old lady's birthday is approaching, and on that day, there will be a cloud of guests. In order to prevent mistakes, the next generation is very busy these days.
The birthday gift prepared by Allure can also be completed.
"Sister Yun'er, tomorrow is my grandmother's birthday, you can sleep with me tonight." Tomorrow she has a big surprise for her grandmother.
She plans to make a cake for her grandmother to prolong the life of the pine crane and celebrate the birthday of the peach. Not only can you please your grandmother, but you can also open up the market for her birthday cake, which is a considerable wealth.
"Okay...... "Tomorrow she won't be that rhyme, she will rhyme with the righteous daughter of the Guogong Mansion - jade." Yun'er smiled happily, here, she lived very happily.
It's only three watches, the people in the house began to perform their duties, the lights outside are bright, the voices are boiling, the steward, the grandmother commands them to dress up all parts of the house, the kitchen is also busy early, chickens, ducks, fish, rabbits, pigeons, in short, flying in the sky, walking on the ground, swimming in the water, and the delicacies that can cook are all being handled by the masters......
On the fourth watch, Allure forced himself to get up. "Sister, sister......" shook the person awake, "Sister accompanies me to the kitchen, and we make a birthday gift for my grandmother." Allure was the first to get out of bed, casually put on a suit of luggage, and tied his hair high......
Prepare eggs, sugar, caster sugar, milk, cream, ......
Yun'er also walked into the kitchen sleepy-eyed, and she could only do it. Watch Allure skillfully make circles, put milk, flour, and stir. Prepare a homemade oven and let the rough lady burn the fire, she has started to prepare fruits, cream, different vegetable juices, and different colors......
Considering that there are more people, Allure made a six-layer, the lower three layers are beasts, and then the pine crane prolongs the year, Allure made two layers, and the last finale is a peach worship. The workmanship is more cumbersome, and it begins to be busy around the fourth watch, and it is not completed until the hour. Take the opportunity to make some children's pastries, which are cute and pleasing.
This is Yun'er's first time to see Allure make a meal, she also made it in Tianyi Pavilion before, but this pastry takes a lot of thought, and standing in the kitchen by herself is just a little help, and it is basically done by Allure alone. Secretly swore that he must learn this trick, doesn't it all say that to capture a person's heart, you must first grab his stomach? That time, it was Gu Xiuyuan's appearance that he liked to eat very much.
After finishing his work, Allure was already tired and almost collapsed, and it was really very troublesome.
Soaking in the bathtub, Allure didn't want to get up. Close your eyes lightly and put your arms open on the edge of the tub......
"Miss, Madame has urged you, and the third and fourth ladies (Yun'er) have already passed." Mo Mei saw that Allure was so tired, and she was distressed to get old from the bathtub.
Today, those princes and princesses will come over, and according to the rules, they will wear brocade robes that symbolize the status of the prince. According to her understanding, Wan Qiyu will probably wear a dark-colored robe.
Dressed in an aqua blue waist-length skirt, the outer robe is a gradient brocade robe. Braided princess braids, wearing only blue flower beads, smart and cute. A little powder, and after a while, a beautiful woman in the city came out.
Mo Mei and Mo Lan, who were used to seeing the Allure City, couldn't help but be surprised. I always knew that Miss was beautiful, but I didn't think that today is even more aura.
I've been wearing a full-breasted skirt, and I returned it today, so I'm a little unaccustomed to it. I don't know if I don't see this, this figure is also well developed.
The owners of the big room and the second room first went to Zhenghui Hall to say goodbye, and then the eldest lady and the second lady went to the front yard to receive guests.
At that time, a group of princes and princesses came together. No matter how tense it was in the past, today, I am smiling and greeting the old lady.
Speaking of the old lady Wan Qiluo, it was really to accompany the first emperor to go south and north. Killing all sides, the first emperor is such a sister, and she is naturally loved by the heart. After laying down the country, the women of the first emperor gradually increased, and the body was hollowed out before middle age.
The first emperor had a total of four sons, and it stands to reason that no one will be the current majesty. Emperor Kangping's biological mother was a rough maid, but she had a bit of a posture and was included in the harem by the first emperor. But the old lady, as the eldest princess of the country, tried her best to give the ten-year-old Emperor Kangping to the throne. The hundred officials thought that the eldest prince was going to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but they didn't expect that the eldest princess didn't have that mind.
She just found a high-reputation pavilion elder to deal with Emperor Kangping's way of dealing with the monarch and the strategy of governing the country. Let his son be the companion of Emperor Kangping, and when he was eighteen years old, he handed over the military power in his hands, and was willing to let his son go to Qingzhou to join the government. This is not something that ordinary people can do. Therefore, Emperor Kangping admired this imperial aunt. Naturally, those princes would not make a fuss on the old lady's birthday.
"Grandnephew, grandnephew and daughter-in-law respectfully invite the imperial aunt and grandmother Jin An," a total of eight rows, eight princes and their families stood at the bottom. One by one, they said auspicious words.
Emperor Kang Ping originally wanted to come over to congratulate the old lady on her birthday in person, but he was afraid that he would move too much and let those ambitious people break the idea of captivating the city, so he only sent Su Sheng over to announce the decree.
After a while, the four princesses came to pay their respects with their horses, and because the fifth princess was still in the middle of the month, Yun Boqian only bowed to her birthday and hurried back home.
"The mourning family is so old, I like to watch you juniors, and only the lively ones are popular." It's all here, and the old lady is sitting upright.
"What are the imperial aunts and grandmothers talking about, if you want the concubine to chat with you and pass on a word, the concubine will come to accompany the imperial aunt and grandmother, isn't it? Sisters? The eldest princess responded with a smile.
Wang Wu is sitting on pins and needles, it is the first time for her to attend such a big occasion. In the past, because she was afraid that she would make a mistake, she had always been able to hide, but now her only bargaining chip is gone, so she can only come hard, she wants everyone to know that she is the eighth princess.
Not for a while. The three of them, Jade Tilting Rhyme, Jade Tilting City, and Jade Dumping Love, came together.
"The granddaughter wishes her grandmother happiness such as the East China Sea and longevity than Nanshan." The three of them knelt down and bowed.
"Oh, grandma, help me up, it's all grandmother's heart and liver, where can grandmother give up." Where is the old lady willing to fall into the city to make this great gift.
The rest of the people whispered, didn't they all say that there were still two who had not yet come out of the cabinet, why were there three today?
"These three are the granddaughters of the mourning family. These two belong to the big room, and this one is the second room. The old lady interrupted their conversation.
"This Yun'er grew up in Qingzhou with Cheng'er, and it's normal that you haven't seen it. Today, the mourners let them come out to see the world. The old lady looked at the people below majestically.
"To Your Highnesses, please be a lady." Threesome salute.
Gu Xiuyuan's eyes didn't blink when he came out of Yu Tianyun, and the two hadn't seen each other since that Tianyi Pavilion met. He nodded gratefully at Allure, without Allure, this matter would not have gone so smoothly.
The people below have their own thoughts, and the two people in the second room were looked at by the prince, and the two people in the big room are now fragrant. Looking at it like this, the Guogong Mansion is bitter and sweet, and if it can form a family, it will be harmless.
"Grandmother, today is my grandmother's birthday, and the three of us sisters have prepared a big gift for our grandmother." Allure took the old lady's hand and lied coquettishly.
"Good, good," the old lady smiled.
Wang Wu looked at the jade city, her envy and jealousy filled her heart. Noble background, beloved family, alluring appearance, elegant posture, and most importantly, the favor of His Royal Highness, these are all things that he does not have. She saw Wan Qiyu's small movements, and when she came in, he looked at it many times, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and the corners of his mouth were hooked, these had never been done to him. The parents squeezed the Jinpa in their hands hard and forced themselves to calm down......
The servant carefully pushed the six-layer cake in.
"Grandmother, this is the pastry that the three of us thought of with our hearts, the six layers mean six six Shun, the lower three layers are the worship of beasts, the middle two layers are the pine crane prolonging the year, I wish the grandmother the pine and cypress everyday, and the top is the fairy peach to worship the birthday. Does grandmother like it? Allure took the old lady's hand, walked to the cake, and looked at the old lady happily.
Jade was distracted for a moment, she only knew that it was a pastry, anyway, it was good for her reputation, of course she would not refuse. But she didn't expect it to be like this, I'm afraid it took a lot of thought. Those beasts, pine cranes, and peaches are lifelike. She didn't know why she had to look at Jade Allure, why did she say that the three of them prepared it together?
"I like ......," the old lady's eyes moistened.
The rest of the people also came up to watch. "The people in the Imperial Aunt and Grandma's mansion are really ingenious." The crown princess felt uncomfortable, and she was about to enter the mansion to respond to herself, looking at the surprise in the prince's eyes just now, how could she be comfortable.
"It seems that Hongu's vision is very good." The prince glanced at the jade meaningfully.
And they all spoke nice things and praised them for their noble daughterhood.
Of course, Wan Qiyu knew whose work it was, but she didn't expect her to do it. In this way, I am afraid that tomorrow I will pass on the women of the national mansion to be knowledgeable, virtuous and virtuous...... It seems that she is bound to win the matter of Gu Xiuyuan and Yun'er. Sure enough......
The three of them each gave the birthday gifts they had prepared. Jade rhyme is jade Guanyin, jade love is a hand-copied Buddhist scripture.
If you want to say who is the most shocking of the three, that is, the thousand-character scriptures embroidered by Allure himself, Allure knew that the old lady fought in the Quartet when she was young, and when she was old, it was inevitable to believe in Buddhism, and she embroidered the Sutra of the Past Life. It is embroidered with a thousand different embroidery methods, and under a closer look, in the middle is the grandmother Fushou and Tianqi embroidered with ink.
As soon as this embroidered Buddhist scripture was shot, it was much more shocking than a cake. The princes have a lot of thoughts......
All the embroidery threads have been soaked in spiritual springs for a long time, which has the effect of nourishing the gods.
"A good granddaughter of a grandmother." The old lady burst into tears on the spot.
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Sure enough, in the past few days, everything that happened in the Guogong Mansion in the past few days has been rumored among the people that marrying a wife should marry the daughter of the Yu family.
Time passed quickly, and it was Chinese New Year's Eve not long after, and Emperor Kangping ordered a hundred officials to gather together. At the palace banquet, the decree of the draft was promulgated, which was the first general election in recent years......
When the draft decree is made, some people will be sad and some people will be happy.