Chapter 18: Birthday

There are not so many fancy intestines, the honest Prince Yong's Yinzhen children's shoes casually pointed to a few embroidered screens of Jiangnan tribute, as well as a few sets of precious luxury, but the house was only piled up in the warehouse, and the colored glazed porcelain that was never used hooked the corners of his lips, remembering the letters that asked the people to search for asthma prescriptions, and added a bottle of black chicken and white phoenix pills, which made people take care of it properly, and sent it to the palace to make the birthday gift of Concubine De, which is quite good, at least it will not lose the face of Prince Yong's mansion.

Yonghe Palace

Today is Concubine De's birthday, the corridor through the hall is full of longevity cakes, what Ruyi, screens, Xuande furnace, as well as the golden jade Maitreya Buddha statue, Guanyin statue, Western tribute of rare objects, self-ringing bells and the like, from the floating city out of the gold-inlaid large full-length mirror, to the small to say, what calligraphy and painting, fan pendant, incense, satin, borneol tea, it can really be described as colorful, everything.

After noon, the people who came and went to worship the birthday were gone, Concubine De leaned on the big kang in the Dongnuan Pavilion, holding the fourteen Chuanbei sent to her thousands of miles away, but her eyes stared at the black chicken and white phoenix pills sent by the fourth child, and next to the smoke cage beside her, the two palace maids were doing embroidery work.

After all, she is old, and her birthday is not a trivial matter, tossing down, it is inevitable that she is a little tired, thinking of today's old four rules to congratulate her on her birthday, the gift is not worse than fourteen, the degree of prestige is not bad, others will never find out, but, between the words, it is very cold, and the clear-eyed person also knows that the fourth child is just affectionate to her......

She didn't know why, and she was vaguely depressed...... Actually, it's her 'don't want' this, it's not that she doesn't want her own mother first, but I think that Yinzhen still has the intention of remedying the mother's relationship a few years ago, but now, it is no longer a stranger.

If she took the initiative to throw away a piece of garbage and old things, she would naturally not take it to heart, but looking at the things that belonged to her, when she had not taken the initiative to discard them, she automatically and spontaneously got out of her control.

Concubine De cheered up, closed her eyes, pinched her fingernails and sighed, the fourth child is a scheming, thinking of some obscure rumors in Beijing over the years, for example, everyone thought that the cold-faced Prince Yong liked Han girls and didn't like Manchurians, but as soon as Gege of the Guerjia family entered the mansion, Prince Yong's whole person changed, which shows that he doesn't like Han girls so much, and there are faint rumors that Yinzhen is half a concubine or something.

These, it seems that every sentence has nothing to do with Concubine De, but when people who know the inside story hear it, they will think of those Han girls in the fourth inner house, all of whom are entered by Concubine De with one finger, and look at the daughters of famous families in the fourteenth inner house, and make a judgment.

Thinking about it again, it's no wonder, who let the fourth elder brother not be raised by Concubine De since he was a child, she has a preference, and it's not incomprehensible, but it's too much, it's ugly.

He is still not cautious enough, otherwise, he will be indifferent to himself now, and if he is not filial, he will ruin him...... Fourteen, fourteen, you must be angry, Eniang is counting on you, you must not underestimate this brother of yours, he is cold-faced and shrewd, not easy to deal with......

was meditating with his eyes closed, and the two little eunuchs outside came in with a table of seats, "Niangniang, this is the banquet of the Long Live Lord, Long Live and the two Tang adults have something to discuss, so I can't come, and please enjoy it yourself." ”

Concubine De hurriedly thanked her, rewarded the two little eunuchs, looked at the various delicacies on the table, and a small jar of Banzai Lord's favorite Suhexiang wine, and after a while, she sighed, put away her sorrowful expression, and began to eat.

Over the years, he has climbed to a high position step by step, and it seems that Zhong Ming is eating, and the gold bottle is expensive, but its loneliness is not something that outsiders can understand, but he knows his suffering, but after tasting a taste, he still refuses to give up, and he can't give up, because as long as he takes a step back, he will never recover.

Concubine De's birthday has passed, and it is the New Year's Day in a blink of an eye.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, King Yong's Mansion also had a banquet with the famous families in the capital, set off firecrackers, scattered copper money, stuffed thick red envelopes for children, and the people wore new clothes, took double the monthly money, and those with heads and faces also got several pieces of silver cakes, a jubilant New Year scene.

Zhiyun followed the style of her mother-in-law and gave small gifts to the brothers in the house one by one, which sent a group of women who were already so sleepy that they couldn't open their eyes to rest separately.

During the Chinese New Year, it was still snowing heavily in Beijing, Zhiyun stood in front of the window around the neck of the snow-white jade rabbit hair, looking at the bright fireworks outside, Ouyang came over, took her hand and sat on the kang, dropped the curtain, wrapped in the quilt, and put a lot of candy and snacks on the kang table, took out a non-radiation notebook, and hugged each other to watch the gala on the floating city.

This is not the first time that the floating city has held a gala, but it is much grander than in previous years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that all the citizens of the city participated, so that the two girls in July and October could not live in peace during the New Year, and ran to the city to preside over the order.

This kind of antique, but it exudes a fresh modern atmosphere, there are cross talks, sketches and singing and dancing galas, to the point that Zhiyun and Ouyang are so amused, and they exaggerate that there are many talents in the floating city, if it weren't for the first day of tomorrow, the two of them would not be idle, and the two of them might also go to join in the fun.

The result of making trouble too late was - early the next morning, Zhiyun couldn't care that she was still pregnant with a child, and it had been seven months, and she had poured a bottle of energy potion to barely maintain her radiant image in front of people, and took Honghao, Hongday and Gengen, as well as Li and her two sons to the palace for a family banquet.

In the second year of the first month, long live the ten years of the emperor's reign, sent the emperor four Yinzhen, the emperor twelve Yintao, and Shi Hongsheng to worship Yongling, Fuling, and Zhaoling......

This is not Zhiyun's business, according to the rules, the royal daughters and daughters have to enter the palace to save safety, and she is no exception.

On this day, in the main hall of Yonghe Palace, a red carpet had already been laid out, Concubine De was dressed in a palace concubine's formal dress, applied fat powder, dressed up very luxuriously, and sat on the kang seat, beside her, it was naturally Zhiyun and Wanyan's companion.

As for the side blessings, they sit in the lower position on the left and right.

As for the reason, it is nothing more than a sickness or something, other people's family affairs, Zhiyun didn't inquire, Concubine De has always been charitable to the female dependents, everyone is not very restrained, laughing a few words from time to time, and the atmosphere of Yonghe Palace is quite harmonious.

Niu Colu glanced at Zhiyun a few times from time to time, the color in his eyes was very deep, and occasionally the color of jealousy flashed away.

In fact, it's not that Niu Colu's family is having a bad time, in fact, although she is not very favored in front of Fourteen, she has a good son, Hongli is quite liked by Kangxi and Concubine De, and she is indeed a smart and clever person, coupled with the blessing of Tuo Zhiyun's cousin, her position in the Fourteenth Mansion is very stable, and her days are quite comfortable.

It's just that it depends on who she compares with, and if she compares with Zhiyun, it is uncomfortable, but her age is the same as Zhiyun, and she is a relative, which is common when she was young, but the two of them are now sitting in the same room, how can outsiders not compare one or two, two people look at it together, that kind of huge gap, how can it make Niu Colu have no jealousy in his heart.

Of course, Zhiyun didn't take her to heart, and even if other women saw the jokes, they wouldn't bring it out on their faces, so the atmosphere in Yonghe Palace was still very harmonious.

Wanyan deserves to be Concubine De's favorite daughter-in-law, and a few homely words made Concubine De smile.

After laughing for a while, I don't know what to think of, Concubine De straightened her face, took Yan's hand, patted it, and said, "Hey, the old fourteen is not here...... Everything in the house has to be supported by you alone, which is really hard for you. ”

"What E-niang said, this is the duty of a daughter-in-law, and I dare not say that it is hard." Wanyan's face turned red, lowered his head, quite a little girl, Li saw this, and hurriedly smiled and joked: "Niangniang, the imperial court has won every year in Tibet in the past few years, and it won't be long before the fourteenth master can return to Beijing, and when the time comes, he will definitely be rewarded......."

Listening to Li's words, Concubine De's eyes showed a hint of a smile, this is said to be about Concubine De's heart knot, fourteen has been established for a long time, but it is still just a small shell, and the fourth child is his own son, but he has been crowned king for a long time, and his position is stable...... However, this time the fourteenth made a great contribution, once he returned to Beijing, at least one prince could not escape, thinking of this, Concubine De also felt a little comfortable, and did not want to snub the fourth daughter-in-law, so she took Zhiyun's hand, asked her a few words about her physical condition, and talked about parenting.

I have to say, this Concubine De is really good at talking, maybe the women in the palace are very good at talking, at least, even if Zhiyun doesn't want to see her and doesn't like her sex, she doesn't feel that it is hard to talk to her when she is so calm and has nothing else to think about.

He said a few words to Zhiyun, because Hongshi was newly married, so he recruited Dong E's family to come forward, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "It's a good one, Hongshi is blessed." ”

The ladies talked for a long time, and a eunuch came outside to report the time, saying that it was time to participate in the feast, so Concubine De sent someone to bring back all the little brothers who were playing wild outside, and went to the banquet together.