The palace banquet was supposed to be a festive moment of singing and dancing to praise the virtues of the emperor.

But after three rounds of drinking, after peeking at Heliansheng a few times, he gritted his teeth and slapped the table, and actually took out a pile of paper from his sleeve to impeach several important officials in the court and the central government at the banquet.

Mo said that the emperor was angry, that is, the officials and family members who went to the banquet, as well as the members of the royal family, were also made in a cold sweat by the imperial history.

The imperial historian loudly listed the crimes committed by the officials to be impeached, and knelt there straight, waiting for the emperor's will, but no one knew that the clothes on his back had been soaked through sweat.

The prince didn't hear the name of an official, and his eyelids jumped with fright, these impeached officials were all his people, and it was obvious that someone wanted to harm him!

"Bold, you dare to disturb your father's interest at the palace banquet, Zhang Yushi, you still don't admit your guilt!" The prince knew that these crimes were true, especially the amount of greedy ink, most of which went into the prince's mansion.

I didn't have time to think about who was going to harm him, the prince just wanted to suppress the matter and think about how to deal with it.

Where are the other princes willing to miss such a good opportunity, those who intend to compete for the position of the prince will take the opportunity to fall into the ground, and they don't have to wait for the emperor to review it, so they will dispose of these officials.

A good palace banquet, under the drunken impeachment of Zhang Yushi, became a battlefield for many princes, so frightened that the officials' families hung their heads, and the family did not hear anything.

As for those impeached officials, they didn't even dare to shout injustice, but they knew in their hearts that they were finished, and their families were even more panicked, afraid that they would not even be able to get out of the palace gate, so they would be thrown into prison.

The emperor watched his sons quarrel angrily, and angrily slammed the wine glass, which made everyone quiet.

"You rebels, do you want to be angry?" The emperor slapped the table, his chest rising and falling violently, and he hated to blast everyone out, so as not to lose face.

Except for the Queen Mother and the Duanyu Imperial Concubine, only Helian Sheng was still sitting in place, and everyone else hurriedly got up and knelt down to ask the emperor to calm his anger.

Helian Sheng sneered, carried the wine jug and poured a glass of wine, and the sound of the wine falling into the wine glass was particularly clear in the main hall.

The emperor was angry, but Helian Sheng drank slowly, not caring whether he was angry or not.

Without waiting for the emperor to vent his anger, a concubine who was quite favored in the past slowly got up and came to the center of the main hall to kowtow to the emperor.

"Concubine Chu Zhaoyi knocked on the emperor, and asked the emperor to make the decision for the concubine, and the early emperor was fair." Chu Zhaoyi kowtowed heavily, and her voice resounded throughout the hall, and her hoarse voice made people even more unable to ignore it.

If it weren't for Chu Zhaoyi standing up at this time, I am afraid that the people in the harem would almost forget, and there is such a Chu Zhaoyi, who was once very favored by the emperor, but after losing the dragon son, he was bent on revenge, but because of those unsightly reasons in the harem, he has since lost the emperor's heart.

Chu Zhaoyi's makeup is plain, and her figure is even more slender, but she is in her early twenties, but her face is gone.

"Chu Zhaoyi, if you have any grievances, this palace will definitely make decisions for you, don't step down quickly!" Seeing Chu Zhaoyi standing up at this time, the queen secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly scolded her.

Chu Zhaoyi raised her head, and a pair of eyes full of hatred shot at the queen, and the queen who was watching was panicked.

However, Chu Zhaoyi did not reply to the queen, but pointed to Concubine De and asked loudly: "Concubine De Niangniang, when she first entered the palace, the concubine was placed in the palace of Concubine De who was still Jieyu, and the concubine asked herself if she had ever been disrespectful to Concubine De, even when she was pregnant with a dragon child, she would also fight for Concubine De's favor, why did Concubine De Niangniang ruthlessly kill the concubine's child?" At midnight, isn't Concubine De afraid that the concubine's children will come to you for your life? ”

"Bold Chu Zhaoyi, don't talk nonsense, this palace remembers the pain of your loss of a child, don't care about your next offense, if you are disrespectful to this palace, this palace has to ask the emperor and the queen to be the master." Concubine De's eyes flickered, but her tone was very hard, as if she had really been wronged.

"If the concubine has no evidence, how dare she identify Concubine De in front of the emperor?" Chu Zhaoyi looked at Concubine De with hatred, hated that she couldn't kill this vicious woman who murdered her son with her own hands, but Concubine De was the executioner, but the real mastermind wanted to get away with it, Chu Zhaoyi couldn't solve the hatred in her heart, so she could only resist the urge to do it herself, and kowtowed to the emperor again: "The concubine has a low status, and it is difficult to have the opportunity to see the holy face, so she can only lose her honor, the evidence is in the hands of the concubine, and I hope that the emperor can make the decision for the concubine, so that the emperor can look down." ”

The emperor was so angry that he couldn't speak, and his son and wife and concubine all came to slap him in the face, this Mid-Autumn Festival is really unforgettable.

Helian Sheng saw that the emperor was about to explode with anger, so he said slowly: "The younger brother has always ignored the affairs of the court, but most of the officials impeached by the imperial history are in important positions, which are related to the society of the Great Zhou State. The younger brother believes that the imperial brother will handle this matter properly, and if the imperial brother needs the younger brother to ask for money, just send someone to pass it on. For so many years, the younger brother is rarely in the capital, if the father and the emperor are so lazy, watching these moths eat away at the court, but refusing to help the imperial brother, he will definitely scold the younger brother in his dream for being unfilial. ”

Helian Sheng said that he was involved in this matter, but he used gold to oppress people, indicating that the emperor did not 'handle it impartially', so he used the power given by the previous emperor to clean up the Qing Dynasty well.

The corners of the emperor's mouth twitched, but he had to arch his hand in the direction of the western sky: "Brother Nine Emperor said that it was funny, this kind of thing is not enough to ask for a golden gong, let alone disturb the spirit of my father and emperor, I will handle it properly." ”

After speaking, the emperor glanced in the direction of the crown prince, and his son's small movements, if he didn't say anything, he would at least have mastered eight points, otherwise this dragon chair would have been replaced a long time ago.

The prince knelt on the ground like a frosty eggplant, his eyes full of fear.

The imperial sister-in-law said to her mother that the royal blood is important, and the younger brother agreed with this sentence very much. Although Chu Zhaoyi lost her honor, she had a meritorious role in giving birth to an heir for the imperial brother, and now she said that there was evidence to prove who killed the prince, and asked the imperial brother to investigate the matter thoroughly! The younger brother should not interfere in the affairs of the harem, but to kill the dragon heir is to disturb the rest of his father's heroic soul, and the younger brother will use the golden mace in his hand to kill such a snake and scorpion heart, so as to warn the people of the world that the power of the royal family is inviolable! Helian Sheng's voice turned and shouted sharply.

The emperor was angry and sat on the chair, Helian Sheng was obviously scolding him for being incompetent, and accusing him of being unfilial!

Without giving the emperor a chance to speak, Helian Sheng looked at the queen again and said: "Brother Remember, this Concubine De is the cousin of the imperial sister-in-law, and it is better for the imperial sister-in-law to avoid this matter, so as not to be misunderstood that you are harboring Concubine De and causing the harem concubines to be angry." ”

"What the emperor said is very true." Concubine Duangui took over the conversation and said: "Since the death of the first emperor, the mourning family is unwilling to manage the affairs of the harem anymore, and they have lived in the Ruiwang Mansion for too long, which makes people forget the power of the phoenix seal in the hands of the mourning family. ”

"How dare you, that is the will of the first emperor, the concubine has the right to seal and abolish the six palaces, even the mourning family and the queen must not be disturbed, if anyone dares to disrespect the will of the first emperor, the mourning family will not spare him!" It is rare for the Queen Mother to say a cruel word, obviously because she understands the intention of the concubine, so she said so.

"You and my sisters may not have jointly controlled the harem for a long time, and there is such a thing as murdering the emperor's heir, in the end, the queen is young!" Duanyu Guifei sighed.

"It's the mourning family who failed to teach the queen well, and the mourning family failed to protect the emperor and grandson, and they are ashamed of the emperor." The Queen Mother pressed the corner of her eye.

"Since the mourning family is in the palace and knows about it, they can't sit idly by. This matter, the mourning family and you will try it together, so that the queen can avoid suspicion, and it can also alert the harem, so as not to have another imperial heir assassinated, what does the queen mother think? Duan Yugui's words were to ask the Queen Mother, but her eyes were looking at the Queen Mother.

has been following behind Duanyu Guifei all her life, and the Queen Mother understood that she was not asking for her opinion, so she nodded and said: "This is very good, the mourning family also misses the time when they managed the six palaces with their sister, and our sisters haven't talked about the old days for a long time." ”

The concubine bowed her head slightly, stood up with the support of her mother, and said to the emperor: "Chu Zhaoyi's matter, the mourning family and the queen mother will investigate it clearly, and the emperor will concentrate on handling the government affairs." The country is big, and there will be a next time for this palace banquet. ”

"Yes, the sons and daughters congratulate the queen mother and the noble concubine." The emperor knew that he had no reason to refuse, so he could only put on the posture of a filial son, suppressing all his anger in his heart, and he didn't know if there would be internal injuries.

Helian Sheng stood up, saluted the two, and left the banquet without waiting for the queen mother and the two to leave.

has always been an unrestrained character, Helian Sheng participated in the palace banquet, and he didn't be able to sit until the end, so everyone was not surprised.

What's more, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are all implicated in the in-law relationship, and they are afraid that they will be sat together, who has time to see if Helian Sheng leaves first.

Unlike the palace banquet that was smashed on this side of the palace, Song Yao hosted a banquet for the three stewards and their families in the Zhuangzi, but it was very lively.

The home-cooked dishes are full of chicken, duck and fish on the table, as well as seafood shipped from the south, and good wine bought in the county, so that the three families are happy to eat, and the youngest kid thinks that today is the New Year, and shouts to the owner to pay New Year's greetings.

Song Yao gave a penny of silver as a red envelope, and Song Yuanbao was so delicious.

"The owner, a few of us came from the south, but we have also eaten some seafood, but these crabs and shrimps, where are ordinary people willing to eat, in this life, we are by the side of the owner, and we can have such a mouthful." The chief steward drank some wine and said excitedly: "The south is happy to eat these, but it is not as delicious as the owner's cooking." ”

Song Yao chuckled, peeled a shrimp for Song Yuanbao, and whispered: "I ate so many crabs at noon, just eat a few shrimp at night, be careful to turn around and have a stomachache, we can't enter the city gate to see the doctor." ”

"Mother, rest assured, Yuanbao's stomach is firm, so it won't hurt." Song Yuanbao ate seafood for the first time, and he liked it very much, touching his bulging belly and watching the crab drool.

"My mother left some for you, and I'll make it for you tomorrow." Knowing that Song Yuanbao was greedy, Song Yao smiled helplessly: "Wait for this time next year, my mother will take you to the beach for a turn, the seafood that has just been caught is really delicious, and you will be able to eat enough when the time comes." ”

"Mother has to talk!" Song Yuanbao stretched out his little hand and ticked Song Yao, his eyes full of anticipation.

"Madam, my eldest brother and a few of them are here, and they have brought a lot of things over, and they want to celebrate the festival with Madame." Qinghai happily ran to Song Yao's side, scratching his head and said.

"You knew they were coming, but now you told me that you should be punished!" Song Yao saw through Qinghai's little trick at a glance, wiped her fingers and said: "I will punish you for getting drunk today, if you dare to stay sober, I will let you eat vegetarian food for a month." ”

"Hey! Subordinates admit punishment! Qinghai said happily.

"Sister-in-law Wang, you set up a table again, there are still leftovers in the kitchen, if it's not enough, just wait for them to come over and buy it yourself." Song Yao commanded with a smile, but she was very happy in her heart.

It's a holiday, of course, there are more people and it's more lively, these people rushed over from the county, it can be seen that they regard her master as a relative in their hearts, which is what makes Song Yao the happiest.