Chapter 53: Birthday Ceremony
Finally, ten days before Concubine Linfan's birthday, the coral arrived, followed by several truckloads of seawater and several colorful tailfish.
I hurriedly ran to see, and said in my heart, Lao Tzu has saved his private money for many years, if the coral is not big enough and not beautiful enough, Lao Tzu will run to the place where his father is going down to the court and wait, and ridicule him in front of his colleagues for not being reliable! Thinking about it, I accelerated my pace more and more, but when I ran over the threshold, I accidentally fell straight to the ground, and when I was ashamed and angry to get up, I suddenly saw a huge stone box, which was as tall as me! The dark brown craggy stone surface had just been sprinkled with water, and a burst of coolness came to my face.
I was so overjoyed that I didn't care about the pain, patted my skirt and asked the servants to move around, and excitedly stepped on it to look into the stone box, only to see that the stone box was full of lotus, flames, antlers, and fans, mixed with all kinds of colors, and clusters were still fluttering slightly, and there were several colorful tailfish wandering in it with their big tails several times larger than their bodies, which were extremely gorgeous and dazzling! I had never seen such a beautiful thing, holding the thick rock wall of the stone box, ahhh
At this time, my father came to the side with a smile, and also leaned over to look, and couldn't help but be amazed, "It's not in vain that I have to work so hard to get it, it's really rare time!"
I tilted my head and thought for a while, and said, "Wouldn't it be a waste if you could only lean out from the top down to admire, why don't you polish the stone wall gradually, leaving only a fence-like base, and then inlay a transparent ice crystal surface around it, wouldn't it be more beautiful to look at!"
The father pondered for a while, and praised: "Okay! There happen to be several large ice crystal plates in the house, and it is just right to use them to inlay them!", and then looked into the box with his hand, and said slowly with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "It's just that those ice crystals are also extremely valuable treasures...... Gave it to you for nothing?"
I let out a long "ah" and said with a bitter face: "My father hasn't seen me for a long time, and I don't even shop on the street anymore, where do I still have private money!"
The father shook his head and smiled, "Then there is no way...... Anyway, those ice crystals were originally going to be set on the study window, so my father went and ordered them to be inlaid with ......," he said, turning around and leaving.
I weakly climbed down from the stepping table, and returned to the room without saying a word, and before long, I took out a smaller jewelry box, and was about to cry and said, "It's really the last private money!"
The father took it with a smile, opened it and glanced at it, closed it with a smile, and instructed the housekeeper: "Go find a craftsman with good craftsmanship, and do what the young lady wants." Then he took the box and walked away with a smile.
I really wanted to cry without tears this time, and I took out all my belongings with a birthday gift, and it seems that I can only shrink my hands and feet to live in the future......
On the day of Concubine Fan's birthday, I went to the palace with my mother, and the Huilan Courtyard where the concubine lived was full of guests since early in the morning. I saw the concubine, stretched out her voice and coquettishly called "Fan Niangniang......", the concubine immediately smiled when she heard the voice, and hurriedly beckoned me over, I commanded several sturdy guards to put the huge box covered with red silk cloth in the center of the main hall, and then trotted all the way into the concubine's arms, causing the concubine to laugh.
Nestled in the arms of the concubine and sprinkled hard, then he piled up a smile on his face and formally bowed down to wish her birthday, the concubine became more and more cheerful, and hurriedly helped me up herself, and said gently: "Fu'er hasn't come to me for a long time, let the palace take a look, well, it's a lot fat......"
I immediately made a bitter face, and Fu Huaben stood respectfully on the side, listening to what the mother concubine said, the corners of his mouth twitched, don't turn his face.
The concubine pinched my face, as if pinching gummies, I hurriedly pulled down her hand that was raging on my face, and I couldn't suppress my excitement, "Guess what birthday gift Fu'er has prepared for you?"
Fan Guifei looked at the behemoth in the center of the hall, and finally looked at it for a long time: "It's boxy, I can't guess what it is."
I took the concubine's hand and walked down the chair, walked to the object, raised a smile full of pride, and said, "Niangniang pulled down the silk cloth herself and took a look!"
Seeing my expression like this, the concubine smiled and said, "Good ......" As she spoke, she pulled down the red silk covering the box.
As the red silk fell, an exclamation suddenly sounded in the main hall, followed by a noisy sound of praise and praise. Fan Guifei, who has always been dignified and steady, will cover her mouth and exclaim, and hurriedly walk in to see. The stone box now only has a wavy base like a low fence, and the corals of various colors in the transparent ice crystals inlaid on all sides float rhythmically with the slight movement of the water waves, as if they are still in the sea, reflecting colorful and dazzling colors, and colorful tailfish sometimes swim through it, cool and comfortable.
Everyone stepped forward to take a closer look, and there was another burst of admiration. Fan Guifei's eyes flashed with unbelievable joy, and she looked back and asked, "I have only seen such beautiful coral in the picture scroll, where did you get Fu'er?"
I held my hands up, tilted my head and smiled, "Niang Niang only said that I like it or not?"
The concubine pulled me into her arms and nodded again and again, "I like it, this is the best birthday gift this palace has received!"
Fuhua was also so shocked that his jaw almost dropped, I nestled in the arms of the concubine, raised my eyebrows at him, Fuhua was stunned, and then pursed his lips and smiled, I also smiled, and secretly said in my heart, it was not in vain that Lao Tzu dedicated all his belongings, and this suspicion was finally resolved......