At the banquet on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Xie Ning saw all the number one person in the harem for the first time.

She met the eldest prince for the first time.

This child should have been five years old, but he looked thin and only looked like a child of about three years old, and he couldn't even hold up the thick brocade sable fur on his body, as if he would be crushed by his clothes at any time.

The eldest prince only stayed for a while, and Princess Yuyao and the younger Princess Yujun were only brought out by the nurse to show their faces. Princess Yuyao and Princess Yujun are not very old, and it is reasonable to be carried in and out by the nurse. The eldest prince is already more than five years old and almost six years old, and he can't even walk at such an age, which is really worrying to watch.

The eldest prince's biological mother came from a humble background, and I heard that she was just a palace maid, and she was somehow favored by the emperor once, so she was pregnant once. It's a pity that her life is not good, and she died when the child was born. The eldest prince has always been in poor health, and the imperial doctor can't say why.

Xie Ning's position was at the back, Liang Meiren was still the same, sitting next to her, Liu Cairen, Zhao Cairen and Zhou Baolin were crowded in the corner. The dishes on the table were quickly cold, but fortunately, Qinghe had expected this, went out and ran two more times, brought boiling water, drank hot water, pulled the plate of pine nuts close to her, and slowly knocked the pine nuts to eat.

Liang Meiren persuaded her on the side: "You carefully split your nails, I made the pine nut shell cut your hand that time." Don't look at this small shell, the cut is quite deep, and it can barely be considered good after seven or eight. She showed her hand to Shain, and there was indeed a newly healed mark on the middle finger of her right hand.

"Let's let the palace maid peel it."

Xie Ning thanked her for her kindness: "I peeled it slowly by myself and ate it fragrantly." ”

In fact, it's not about eating, it's just about finding something to do to pass the time. The banquet dragged on for a long time, and it took effort and energy to speak, but Xie Ning was willing to find something to do. It takes a while to peel out a pine nut kernel, which will be enough to stuff between your teeth.

Liang Meiren came over to help her peel it.

Liang Meiren was wearing a willow leaf yellow palace dress, and her head was covered with a silver rat bead brocade face, which was specially made for the New Year. Liang Meiren is not favored, even if those people in the palace dare not treat her blatantly, but everything that is good and new will not easily reach her. Right now, Liang Meiren's outfit is her best set of clothes this year, and she is the only one who is willing to wear it at this time.

From now to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so many days, almost every day to see people, Liang Meiren has already found out last year's old clothes, let people iron them, and prepare to wear the old and new ones in a few days.

As soon as she saw Shainin today, she secretly looked at her clothes.

Xie Ning did wear a new dress, but he didn't wear the beaded hairpin, which was too eye-catching. If there is one hairpin like that, Shainin will definitely wear it. But now that this hairpin is the only one in the palace, why does she bother to attract more jealousy for herself?

Liang Meiren said that she was helping to peel pine nuts, but she cherished her nails, and she couldn't peel them illegally, and the pine nuts that were peeled out were all broken, not to mention that Shaining wouldn't eat this, and she herself was embarrassed to take this to Shaining and said that she was invited to eat.

Qinghe stood aside and pursed his lips and smiled. Liang Meiren can write poetry and paint, and she is one of the most talented women in the palace, but except for those things that are full of wind and snow, she can't do anything else. In Qinghe's view, poetry, painting, and things should not be eaten or worn, which is the icing on the cake, and women are not better than men, so it is better not to be so flamboyant and frivolous. What's the benefit of tinkering with this thing? Isn't Liang Meiren falling out of favor now?

Liang Meiren motioned to Xie Ning to look ahead: "Look, Concubine Xian's illness is not thorough, and she should leave the table and return to the palace after I have seen it for a short time." ”

Concubine Xian is wearing a silver-red palace dress, and Concubine Shu is wearing a begonia red, two kinds of red are as bright as possible, Concubine Shu is plump, and this begonia red is worn by her with a variety of styles. Concubine Xian is a long-term sick person, her cheeks are about to sunken, and her body is even more skinny, wearing such a new dress on her is like stealing someone else's clothes, empty as if hanging on her body.

Xie Ning's gaze didn't dare to stay on her longer, and he couldn't bear to look at it closely.

"When I entered the palace, Concubine Xian's complexion was better than now." Liang Meiren whispered: "At the palace banquet in the first year of entering the palace, Concubine Xian also played a song. In the past few years, the illness has not improved, and the spirit has become worse and worse. ”

After a few words of gossip, Qinghe went out and came back, and whispered back in Xie Ning's ear: "Gonggong Ye is here." ”

Father-in-law Xiao Ye came close to greet him, he was sent by the emperor, specifically to see Xie Meiren.

This made Xiao Ye's father-in-law unamazed. The emperor is in the Wende Palace, but most of his mind is left in the harem, thinking about Xie Meiren. I'm afraid that she will be cold, hungry, and tired, and I'm afraid that there will be too many people at the palace banquet and make her uncomfortable.

The emperor treats Xie Meiren differently. Father-in-law Xiaoye has seen a precedent before. Don't talk about the lady concubine, she is a lady concubine, naturally different from others. However, Princess Yujun's biological mother, Han Chongrong, saw it with her own eyes when she was pregnant, and the emperor did not care about her at such a time, and he cared about her meticulously.

When Father-in-law Xiao Ye stepped forward to ask An to speak, in fact, most of the people in the hall saw him, but they all pretended not to see it, and behaved as if nothing happened. As for what they feel like in their hearts, only they know.

When Xiao Ye's father-in-law left, the emperor ordered someone to come over with a dish. There are two concubines and two concubines, and these are all taken for granted. In addition to the two of her, Xie Ning also got a snack.

When the dim sum was served, it was still steaming, and the little eunuch who brought the dim sum explained: "This dim sum was brought with a steamer, and the steamer was removed when I was about to enter the hall just now." It was ordered by the emperor himself, and the dining room carefully prepared and cooked. ”

The dim sum on the plate is not a dessert candied fruit, but a plate of small steamed buns, which are larger than longan, and there are only seven or eight in one plate. Xie Ning tasted one, which was filled with ham and chicken, and the filling was fragrant and delicious. When I tried the second one, it was filled with fresh meat and shrimp.

It turns out that this dish actually made so many different patterns of buns. Xie Ning couldn't hold it back as soon as she started eating, and a plate of steamed buns entered her stomach, and she still felt unsatisfied.

In the Wende Palace, the emperor came out of the palace to take a breath by changing clothes, and heard a report that Xie Meiren liked the emperor's dim sum very much, and ate all the plates. Bai Hongqi knelt down on one knee to straighten the emperor's belt, and when he looked up, he saw the smile on the emperor's face.

The smile revealed satisfaction and relief, I heard that Xie Meiren ate all the snacks, and the emperor was even happier and relieved than he ate it.