Chapter 394: A Birthday Gift for the Emperor
Imperial Concubine Zhou's face was a little ugly, but she didn't expect the queen to not save face for her in public, so that she would lose such a big person. In front of the civil and military officials, she is like a clown.
She wrote down this account first, and he returned it to the queen with interest every day.
"My sister is really sad when she talks like this. My sister doesn't mean this, my sister shouldn't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Zhou also replied politely.
"Enough, the concubine doesn't say a few words, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are watching, don't embarrass me. The queen also wants to know what birthday gift you have prepared? Don't sell the queen. Take it out and show it to me. The emperor looked at the queen with a soft gaze.
"The concubine didn't sell the guanzi, if it weren't for the concubine's sister who said such a few words. The birthday gift of the concubine has long been presented to the emperor. The queen also glanced back at the emperor.
"Haha, it's not the queen's fault, it's all the concubine's fault." The emperor replied dotingly.
When the imperial concubine saw the scene of the emperor defending the queen like this, she was so angry that her back molars almost didn't bite the blood.
The concubines at the bottom are happy to watch the excitement, they have a mirror in their hearts, and the emperor values the queen the most. In front of the queen, the concubine is not enough.
What about the beauty of the matchless? It's not like it's not like the queen.
Kapok sat next to the third master, and after a while, she watched a palace fight drama and ate melons on the spot.
The queen ordered to go down and ask the palace maid to present her birthday gift, and everyone looked forward to seeing the queen's birthday gift.
I saw five or six palace people carrying something I don't know what it was slowly entering the hall, it looked like a painting, and it was quite mysterious when covered with red cloth.
In the audience, except for the queen, who knew what was covered behind the red cloth, only Kapok knew.
Kapok sat there calmly, knowing everything.
The ministers on the field began to exchange ears and speculate. "The old man guessed that the queen gave a famous painting, which was from everyone's collector's edition."
All the ministers knew that the emperor loved to collect famous paintings. The queen sent the emperor's famous paintings in the past.
"Unveil the red silk." The queen sat on a high seat and gave an order.
The palace maid beside the queen ripped off the red silk in the past, and a huge embroidery was reflected in the eyes of the ministers.
The position of the ministers is a landscape painting, the embroidery is exquisite, and no flaws can be found. All of them are embroidered with gold thread, and the atmosphere is gorgeous.
Although the embroidery is exquisite, it is usually sent to the saint in the past. It's just that this occasion is sent, and it is inevitable that some people can't take it.
However, because of the identity of the queen, I dare not belittle it. All the ministers were silent, and there was no way to say any praise. It will seem fake.
The embroidery that the emperor can see is the birthday picture of the eight immortals crossing the sea. The eight immortals are brightly colored, and each face is smiling, which is very realistic. Holding the fairy peach in his hand, it really looks like a fairy came down to congratulate the emperor on his birthday.
The emperor was overjoyed, as long as it was given by the queen, even if it was a stone, he liked it. What's more, it's such a good birthday picture for embroiderers?
"The queen has a heart, and this embroidery looks like it was embroidered by the queen herself. It can be seen that the queen's intentions are relieved. The emperor's words came from the bottom of his heart.
The imperial concubine sitting below glanced at the queen's embroidery, and had to say that the embroidery was indeed exquisite. It's too shabby, an ordinary embroidery, and the queen can also take it on such an occasion?
The imperial concubine couldn't help but laugh out loud in public, and the ministers in the entire hall could hear the loud laughter. No one dared to squeak.
The concubines sat on a small bench and prepared to watch the play.
Listening to the imperial concubine Zhou's previous gloomy color, she said with a slight mockery, "Sister, this embroidery is not a precious thing, and I am embarrassed to take it out as a birthday gift for the emperor on the day of Wanshou Day." I'm afraid that even the embroidery given by a seven-grade sesame official is worth more than the embroidery given by my sister, the queen.
Sister, the master of the harem in the world, is it possible that she is short of silver? If my sister had told my sister earlier. The younger sister borrowed some money from the elder sister. ”
"My sister is such a vase with empty beauty and no knowledge. How do you understand the hidden mystery of this embroidery? The queen was not angry, but was full of confidence and did not care about the concubine's words.
The concubine couldn't laugh for a while.
The imperial concubine is still immersed in the joy of the queen's disgrace, no matter what the queen says, I am afraid that after today, she will become the laughing stock of the ministers after dinner.
The daughters of these ministers are all gossipy, and they don't dare to laugh at the queen in person, so they don't know how to bury them behind their backs. would say that the queen is the mother of a country so stingy. Even the emperor's birthday gift was reluctant to give it expensive.
The emperor's face sank, and the imperial concubine dared to mock the queen like this in front of him, the emperor, when he, the emperor, was dead?
"I see that the concubine's face is not very good, so it is better to go back to the dormitory to rest early. Don't be here for any useless stuff. The emperor glanced at the concubine with a cold face and no temperature.
The imperial concubine was frightened, and no concubine was not afraid of the emperor. is even more reluctant to please the emperor, the emperor can send the concubines into the cold palace with a word.
The harem concubines live on the emperor's face, and all they have to do is how to please the emperor.
"The emperor's concubine is wrong. Can't the concubine not speak? The emperor should not take his concubines away. The birthday gift that the concubine had carefully prepared for more than half a month had not yet been presented to the emperor. The imperial concubine's tone was so soft that she could pinch out the water, which made people feel numb when they heard it.
Kapok was drinking tea, and was almost uncomfortably squirted out by the sound of the clip deliberately pretended by the concubine.
That's too contrived, isn't it? The emperor will like this set.
Kapok glanced curiously at the emperor sitting on the dragon chair, but fortunately, the emperor was also frowning, obviously not very fond of it. She was relieved.
It's still the imperial sister-in-law's temperament that makes people comfortable, but you can't ask the concubine, a scheming girl with a white lotus, to take away the emperor's favor.
Chu Huaijin didn't know that his princess had been thinking a lot in his head for a while.
He just saw the princess's eyes looking towards the royal brother, and immediately became alert, and his tall body blocked the princess's sight.
"Cotton cotton." Chu Huaijin gently called the princess's name and shifted her attention to herself.
"yes, yes." Kapok's eyes fell on the handsome face of the third master, and he replied in a daze.
I don't know what the third master did when he called her?
The imperial concubine has a few reprimands from the emperor, and the queen is not coming forward to do anything.
The emperor can defend her in front of all the ministers, and she is ironed in her heart.
"Someone turned the embroidery over." The queen's majestic voice sounded in the hall.
The eyes of all the ministers in the palace fell on the embroidery, and their eyes stared at the embroidery without moving.
Could it be that this embroidery is really as the queen said?
But they can't figure out where the mystery lies even if they want to break their heads?
The imperial concubine also waited to see, but she was disdainful in her heart, it was just an embroidery, what tricks could she make. She didn't believe it anyway.
Just in the midst of everyone's attention, the embroidery was flipped to the back, and the emperor and queen, and the queen mother sat in a high position. You can see the embroidery on the back, which is actually a picture of the great rivers and mountains of the Chu State.