As the birthday of the Son of Heaven, the birthday of the Son of Heaven is a three-day holiday before and after the rules, and the celebration of the day is even more lively. In an important sense, it is ranked before the Holy Birthday Festival of the Queen Mother's birthday and the Qianqiu Festival of the Queen's birthday.

However, the emperor of this dynasty has been furnishings for a long time, and he doesn't like to show his head more and more, and the Wanshou Festival happens to be a summer vacation in Dizi Mountain, and the scale of the palace is not as good as the palace city in Beijing, and many pomps and circumstance can't be opened. Therefore, every year the emperor will issue a will of "compassion", saying that it is okay to pass it casually.

Of course...... He didn't count.

Not to mention that this year happens to be the 40th birthday of the Son of Heaven, and it is impossible for the emperor to be "compassionate" to catch up with the topic of the prince.

Everyone knows that King Qi and King Yan have been preparing for their birthdays since a long time ago - how can the atmosphere of celebration not keep up with this moment of filial piety?

So this Halloween Festival is so powerful that the previous few times combined can't compare!

Only out of the Fangfei Pavilion, the mountain wind blows, and the thick jasmine. Li. The scent of flowers came to me.

Waiting for the palace is more like stepping into the sea of flowers, in addition to countless seasonal flowers, rich utensils, royal special ceremonial guards, ornaments are also dazzling - if there is no palace person in front to guide the way, this palace will be like a maze for people who can walk here casually with their eyes closed in the past.

Princess Yang led everyone into the main hall of today's banquet, and many people had already arrived first.

Because it is to enter the palace to celebrate, all of them are gorgeously dressed and bright, and they are colorful and beautiful!

After sitting down, Qiu Yulan looked around, and immediately noticed several very unfriendly glances - it was Princess Shou'an and the others. She shrugged her shoulders and waited, waited, waited...... Princess Yang had already greeted several noble ladies nearby, but she didn't see the Gu family coming to look for trouble, and then look, Gu Qianna and they were already talking to themselves.

After a little thought, it is clear that the other party definitely does not want to come over to stir up trouble, and ten out of ten is afraid of Queen Jiang.

"Backing the mountain is worry-free!" Qiu Yulan secretly sighed, she understood where Jiang Yadan's careless confidence came from when she talked eloquently in the court.

When I thought of Jiang Yadan, I saw Jiang Qizheng walking towards this side with a woman in green, and Princess Yang hurriedly reminded her: "The one wearing green is Tao Qianbin, the eighth young lady of the Jiang family, they should be here to find you." ”

This is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Jiang family's fourth room, Qiu Yulan will not slack off, and when they arrived not far away, they confirmed that they were looking for themselves, and hurriedly got up to greet them: "Is Your Highness here to find me?" Who is this? ”

"This is our eighth sister-in-law." Jiang Qizheng smiled, "She hasn't seen you yet, so when there is no heir from the fourth aunt, she called me to accompany her to come and take a look!" ”

Qiu Yulan bowed her head slightly to show her shyness, she remembered Qiu Jinglan's advice to Ruan Ciyi, and she didn't change her mouth before she passed the door, she only smiled and shouted "Sister Tao", invited them to sit, and poured tea and snacks with a well-behaved face - this appearance made Xiao Tao a little surprised, and thought: "Didn't you say that she was so powerful that even eighteen was so angry that she jumped to her feet?" Why doesn't it look like it now? ”

Princess Yang scolded secretly: "Little cheap. People can pretend! But he had to say that the atmosphere was lively, "I haven't seen Mrs. Eight Young for some days, Mrs. Eight Young looks good recently?" ”

Xiao Tao smiled gently: "Princess Lao is worried that the mung bean and lily soup made by the chef recently is very appetizing, perhaps because she often drinks this." ”

"It's true, mung beans and lilies have the effect of clearing heat and calming the nerves, and drinking this in the middle of summer is the most nourishing ......"

Both of them are senior noblewomen, and they are extremely skilled in the conversation on the scene, and they will be lively in a moment.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Qizheng pulled Qiu Yulan aside: "Aren't you asking who has beautiful flowers these days, and how many are you going to plant them in the Green Snow Villa?" Today's Halloween, there are all kinds of flowers in the palace! After everyone walked around at will during the banquet for a while, you recognize the dream peach in front of me, and ask her to take you to choose two pots, and when you leave the palace, you will directly put them in the carriage! ”

Qiu Yulan was stunned and said: "Can you still do this?!" ”

"Anyway, if you don't take it back, you'll have to move it out." Jiang Qizheng said disapprerovingly, "With so many flowers every day, it's inconvenient to walk!" Don't worry, this matter was crossed in front of the fourth aunt, and you are not the only one to take it, it is not easy to move so many flowers down the mountain, and it is common to bump into and damage some of them. ”

It's just a few pots of flowers, only a few dollars, there's no need to dig this corner......

Qiu Yulan had the heart to refuse, but looked at Jiang Qizheng with a face, "Look at how much I care about your affairs and take care of you more", hesitated for a while, and nodded knowingly: "Thank you, Your Highness!" ”

"It's just a small thing." After Jiang Qizheng finished speaking, he returned to Xiao Tao's side, and seeing this, Xiao Tao casually said a few words and ended the conversation with Princess Yang, and then left.

Princess Yang and the others looked at Qiu Yulan - the Jiang family's sister-in-law obviously came here to talk to her in private, what did she say, everyone was curious, just think about Qiu Yulan's temper...... Seeing that she didn't mean what she said, everyone had to be silent.

It didn't take long for someone from the palace to come in and tell everyone that the Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the Empress were coming soon, and everyone was busy checking each other's appearance, stopped chatting, and prepared to welcome them.

After a while, the chamberlain stretched out his tone to inform the emperor that the queen had arrived in the car of the queen mother—everyone hurriedly left their seats and bowed down, and bowed in unison to the queen mother, the emperor, and the queen. After all three of them went to the hall and took their seats, the emperor ordered them to be flat, and everyone got up and knelt down again - this time it was a birthday gift, a total of thirty-three bows, and Qiu Yulan was depressed.

It can be regarded as hearing that the emperor spoke out again, and the prime minister Xue Chang praised the palace on behalf of the ministers, wishing His Majesty the emperor a long life, and the emperor gave tea soup...... After these ceremonies are completed, the people can return to their seats.

At this time, Qiu Yulan noticed that in fact, there were not only the emperor and queen mother in the palace today, but also several concubines attending together.

But not much, the first woman in Chinese clothes under the phoenix seat looks like the older Shou'an princess Gu Jingna, you don't need to ask to know that it must be the Gu family's concubine - Princess Shou'an can be called a beauty, this Gu Guifei has a good appearance, and has been in the palace for many years, cultivating a graceful and luxurious bearing, although Queen Jiang's aura is strong and suppresses the whole palace, but she lives quietly and dignified under the queen, but she also does not lose the grace of the concubine.

It's just that this Gu Guifei has a touch of resentment between her eyebrows, which inevitably seems a little disobedient on an occasion like today.

"I don't know if I was bullied by Queen Jiang again recently?" Empress Dowager Gu can't take Queen Jiang, not to mention the harem concubines, all of them are as well-behaved as little white rabbits in front of the queen, Qiu Yulan thought of the soon-to-be-unveiled battle for the prince, and speculated, "The queen can't clean up the supporter of King Yan, Queen Mother Gu, so she will first take King Yan's biological mother Gu Guifei out of anger......"

Next to Gu Guifei is a woman who is only sixteen or seventeen years old, but she has already combed her palace bun, with a goose egg face, a new cheek, and eyes like autumn water.

This Qiu Yulan also knew that it was the concubine of the new book - that's right, the previous concubine was the one who asked the cowardly emperor to beg the queen for four months, because of her affair with Jiang Yadan, although the queen helped her nephew after the incident, but the queen mother knew it in her heart...... So it "died violently" two years ago.

Because of this, the emperor was sad for a long time, and finally Empress Jiang was impatient, so she asked people to find the current Yin family, and sure enough, the Yin family, whose beauty was not under the concubine, quickly comforted the emperor, and in less than two years, he was promoted to the position of the fourth concubine.

In addition to these two, there were three other concubines in attendance, and Qiu Yulan speculated that if the queen brought people out according to their position, it should be Concubine De and Concubine Xian, as well as Mrs. Zhen.

But none of these people were able to accept the courtesy of the courtiers, and she didn't know if it was.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Gu, as the representative of the royal family, had already finished her opening remarks with Xue Chang, who was the representative of the courtiers, and entered the gift link - the things that the queen mother gave to the emperor and the emperor's birthday gift with the queen were still similar to in previous years, anyway, these two didn't need to please the emperor, just say it.

I don't know if it's the queen mother or the queen's meaning, the concubine didn't mention it, and it was directly the turn of the princes and princesses - the first one was King Qi!

The atmosphere in the hall was suddenly solemn!

Even the Empress Dowager Gu showed the meaning of listening attentively to the reading of the gift list.

"King Qi presents thirty-three crystal mirrors, thirty-three bronze mirrors, three pairs of white deer, a pair of seven-foot high coral inlaid pearl jade trees, two pairs of jade boxes, and ten pairs of red-crowned cranes......" The attendant who was responsible for reading the gift list recited aloud, at first the hall was still listening quietly, and seeing that he had been reading for a long time, there was a whisper -

"King Qi is so generous!"

"Who is the queen's fancie...... The white deer of the Rui Beast was able to make up three pairs of ......"

"This birthday gift is about His Royal Highness King Qi taking the lead!"

"Shhh, the next one is His Royal Highness King Yan, don't say it too early!"

"Yes...... It's been a long time since you've read this list, right? Don't know when you'll be able to read it? ”

"I don't know what His Royal Highness King Yan will send?"

"I'm afraid it's not under His Royal Highness King Qi, otherwise how can King Yan look dignified but carefree at this moment?"

…… In the whisper, the waiter could be regarded as having finished reading the long list, and when he read the last few things, the poor waiter's voice was obviously a little hoarse.

When it was the turn of King Yan, he had to change an attendant to come up, as expected, King Qi's birthday gift was ferocious, and King Yan was not to be outdone...... A whole bunch of things that most people don't know are also coming out.

Qiu Yulan listened to the meeting, and there were different opinions about the birthday gifts of King Qi and King Yan—she thought to herself, isn't this about the same? Otherwise, where can we fight?

The birthday gifts after these two highnesses are all decent - everyone is not stupid, this year's Halloween is like the prelude to the competition for the crown, who dares to steal the limelight of the future prince?

After the ceremony, the scene was said, the Kabuki people came in, and the feast could be regarded as the official start - with the cover of singing and dancing, the atmosphere was relaxed, and everyone spoke a little bolder.

Qiu Jinzhu asked Princess Yang in a low voice: "The congratulatory gifts of the two highnesses...... Can Your Majesty's Inner Treasury be placed? ”

"What did you say?" Princess Yang laughed and said, "With shallow eyelids, is there still a place for this thing to be collected?" ”

Qiu Yulan was not interested in congratulatory gifts, but interjected and asked: "Auntie, why are there all the concubines?" ”

"The queen doesn't like to mention them." Princess Yang's voice lowered, "On the occasion of a mother's presence, you see any concubine who treats her as a decoration, especially don't talk to her!" ”

“…… This is the Lord of the Six Palaces! The corners of Qiu Yulan's mouth twitched, "If the Jiang family wants to fail to seize the reserve, it will be strange if they will not be trampled on in the future!" "This is a concubine, it's just a concubine bought by ordinary people for a few taels of silver!

Although it is said that the Jiang family now has only one choice to go to the end, it doesn't matter if Qiu Yulan is rich, wealth and danger are sought - how can there be anything in this world that is not earned?

Princess Yang saw that she was thoughtful, and was about to seize the opportunity of her to take the initiative to ask for a good brush of feelings, but at this time, a pink-clothed maid suddenly touched her from behind, gently pulled Qiu Yulan's sleeve, and called: "County Lord!" ”

Qiu Yulan turned her head and saw that it was Jiang Qizheng's eldest maid Mengtao, and couldn't help but be stunned: "Even if it is a banquet now?" ”

She has not been to many banquets, but she also knows that at least a few dishes must be removed from the banquet to be considered good, right? Now she's just picking up her teeth!