Chapter 496: The Lady of the Show Palace
The draft was in full swing for a whole month, and Zhu Xinghe's belly was getting bigger and bigger.
However, even Zhu Xinghe had to admit that Aunt Ping had the means. And after these nobles in Beijing entered the palace, they obviously knew more about etiquette than the women from other places, and there were very few troubles.
After everyone arrived in the palace, Zhu Xinghe did not participate in the first round of selection. It was the queen mother and a few concubines, who brought Lin Guifei and several concubines from Zhuo Anxun, and looked at three hundred show girls one by one, and finally set aside sixty people to enter the next choice.
It's getting colder, and it's almost the end of the New Year. The matter of this draft was put on hold.
This is the first annual festival after Zhuo Anxun ascended the throne, and naturally everyone attaches great importance to it.
However, Zhu Xinghe didn't expect that the Emperor Taishang, Ling Guifei and Ning Guifei were very happy to play outside. It was the New Year's Day, and they planned to stay in the land south of the Yangtze River and not return to Beijing. Just over there for the New Year's Festival, with Ling Guifei and Ning Guifei taking care of the emperor, they don't need to worry about anything.
The capital in the New Year festival is lively, and the palace of Prince Han is even more lively.
This year is different from previous years, and now Zhu Xinghe is pregnant and is almost in July. Although there are doctors who diagnose Zhu Xinghe's pulse every day, and always say that the child is well-behaved and obedient without any problems, Ling Tianhan simply put down all the affairs before the New Year's Festival, and stayed at home with Zhu Xinghe.
Now everyone in Beijing says that Zhu Xinghe doesn't know how to do it, and he can "train" Prince Han, who has always been cold and cold, into a good husband who doesn't even have a room.
The women in Beijing envy Zhu Xinghe, they can't finish a basket!
Zhu Xinghe didn't have so many thoughts, he only knew that when his body was getting heavier and heavier, he began to look forward to the birth of this child more and more.
This festival in the first year of the dragon hunt is the grandest festival since the opening of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty. After Zhuo Anxun became the emperor, he didn't seem to hide his thoughts at all.
He is diligent in political affairs, but he is not ambiguous in terms of enjoyment.
In this year's festival, he couldn't wait to invite the fireworks masters of the entire Eastern Yuan Dynasty to set off the most magnificent fireworks since the opening of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty.
He feasted his ministers and had fun until late at night.
Zhu Xinghe went home with Ling Tianhan early, but when he got up early the next day, he heard that the emperor had pampered a dancing girl last night, and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he sealed the dancing girl as a promise.
In this regard, Zhu Xinghe was actually a little dissatisfied: "There are still sixty show girls in the palace waiting for the New Year to enter the palace as concubines, he has just ascended the throne, is it too presumptuous?" How can I see that he is faintly addicted to wine? ”
In fact, when he was still looking for the king and the prince, he couldn't see that he was such a person at all. Zhu Xinghe even thought for a while that Zhuo Anxun was not close to women.
But Ling Tianhan just shrugged his shoulders about this: "He just suppressed it for too long." What's more, he is not young anymore, and he is in a hurry to spread the branches of the royal family, which is also the intention of his father. As long as he doesn't mess up in business, let him do the rest. He is now the emperor, and if we manage too much, we are afraid that it will make him disgusted, which will not be good. ”
This is true, at this moment, Zhu Xinghe feels that Zhuo Anxun does not look like a brother, and Ling Tianhan connived at Zhuo Anxun's nonsense like a brother, but in principle, he will never back down.
It is also strange to say that when the Emperor Taishang was in power, something always happened in the court every year.
But now that Zhuo Anxun has ascended the throne, the whole New Year has passed peacefully. It is rare that this year is a year of snow and snow, and there are no snow disasters and no displaced people.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when the dynasty opened, there were several good news: first, the Hu tribe had annexed many other tribes, and now there is still a faint tendency to dominate the Hu tribe. However, they were willing to marry with the Eastern Yuan Dynasty forever, and wanted to sign a trade agreement with the Eastern Yuan Dynasty and open a trade route between the Hu people and the Eastern Yuan, which was a very good thing for the people of the two countries.
Second, the queen mother Jiang Xinyu is pregnant!
From the emperor's accession to the throne to the queen's entry into the palace and then to the New Year's Festival, it was only a month and a half. No one expected that Jiang Xinyu would be so competitive, and she was already a month pregnant!
In fact, it stands to reason that it is inconvenient to make public the queen's pregnancy before it is stable for three months.
But this is the biggest happy event in the entire palace, and even in Beijing and the court. Zhuo Anxun was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut all day, and now there are not so many ill-intentioned people in the harem, so he happily made this news public, and he can also have fun with the people.
Zhu Xinghe believes that this is Zhuo Anxun's first child, and it is also Zhuo Anxun's child born by a clean woman like Jiang Xinyu. In any case, Zhuo Anxun will not let anyone hurt Jiang Xinyu and the child, this child will definitely be born safely!
Thinking of this, Zhu Xinghe couldn't help but caress his lower abdomen on the way to the palace, and silently thought in his heart: Little guy, in two months, my mother will be able to see you! You must also be born in peace and come to us! Whether it's your father or your mother, you're looking forward to your arrival, and you're going to come safely!
Today's Zhu Xinghe has a seven-month-old belly, and he has to enter the palace to find the last batch of show girls for Zhuo An after the New Year's Festival.
And Ling Tianhan didn't need to say anything, he had to follow Zhu Xinghe into the palace. Now he is almost connected with Zhu Xinghe, as long as Zhu Xinghe is there, Ling Tianhan must be there! Even Zhuo Anxun turned a blind eye to this matter, knowing that before the child was born, it was impossible for anyone to separate Ling Tianhan and Zhu Xinghe.
And now that he has someone to protect, he naturally has more and more unwillingness to enter the palace.
Among the remaining sixty show girls, Zhu Xinghe and Lin Guifei, as well as the queen and several Mrs. Fate, will select thirty people to send to Zhuo Anxun, so that Zhuo Anxun can make the final selection.
As for these thirty people, a few of them can enter Zhuo Anxun's eyes, and they all look up to Zhuo Anxun himself. Even if he wanted to leave these thirty people in the harem, others would not say anything.
These show girls are leaving home for the first time and spending the New Year in the palace, although it is an extraordinary New Year for them, but it is also a New Year that is destined to miss their families.
However, after such a long time of training by Aunt Ping, these show girls have also understood the rules one by one, and they are much better than when they first entered the palace.
Now seeing Zhu Xinghe and them, the show girls are all well-behaved, Zhu Xinghe took a look, not all of these show girls left behind are the nobles in Beijing, but the number of people in other places is more, and only three of the nobles in Beijing stay.