Because the Fu family received the invitation of the concubine, they arrived at the palace earlier than the women and their daughters who came to congratulate the queen mother on her birthday, and there were already eunuchs waiting.

In Yanning Palace, Concubine Xie Guifei officially met with Fu Lao Fengjun and Xie Shi, and Fu Rushuang and Fu Xuechen met together.

"This is Fu Yuchen's twin sister Fu Xuechen!" Xie Guifei looked fond of it, let Fu Xuechen come closer, and reached out to hold Fu Xuechen's pair of softness.

"Yes, Concubine Meng is wrong to love, and Xuechen is afraid." Fu Xuechen was humble in a weak voice, and curiously took the opportunity to peek at Concubine Xie several times, and finally knew why Yu Zuo was so handsome, most of that guy inherited his mother's appearance characteristics! Like a concubine more than like an emperor.

Concubine Xie Guifei took Fu Xuechen's little hand and looked at her again and again, and she had a feeling that the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, and even asked Gong'e next to her to send her a beaded chain with a white mutton fat jade pendant, and made a meeting gift for Fu Xuechen, and by the way, she also rewarded Fu Rushuang with a pearl chain.

Mrs. Fu and Xie Shi excused themselves and thanked each other, and Concubine Xie smiled gently: "Your family Yuchen has been doing everything with her heart and soul since she was reading my family Zuo'er, and even the birthday gift that made the palace quite worried about this Holy Birthday Festival was also solved by receiving the suggestion of Yuchen's child, and it is inconvenient for the palace to see a foreign man, so I can only meet you, this meeting gift is nothing, it is all your Yuchen's child deserves." ”

Concubine Xie was even considerate of Fu Xuechen's inconvenience of "unhealed leg injury", even if the two sides didn't have much time to meet and chat, she also gave Fu Xuechen an embroidered pier and sat behind Xie.

Fu Xuechen followed Fu Rushuang, only silently listened to the conversation of adults, but this time I found that Mrs. Fu didn't talk much, and she only had respect and politeness to Concubine Xie, but the Xie family was able to talk about the ancestors of the two because she was of the same clan as Concubine Xie, and she was able to recognize a distant cousin, which brought the relationship a lot closer.

During the period, Xie Guifei really talked about wanting to form a mahjong game in the palace and invited Fu Lao Fengjun and Xie to play in the palace together.

The focus of Concubine Xie's invitation was originally the sister Xie of the same clan, so she smiled and respected Mrs. Fu's choice, but made an appointment with Xie in a few words to enter the palace to open a mahjong game next time.

Fortunately, Yu Zuo is not in Yanning Palace at the moment, probably still in the prince's office, Fu Xuechen was bored and thought, before he came, he was worried about meeting Yu Zuo here with Xie Guifei, and he didn't know if he could deceive the other party's eyes!

There is a high probability that it can, because Fu Xuechen of women's clothing and Fu Xuechen of men's clothing have different makeup on their facial features.

chatted peacefully and happily for a while, and after looking at the time, Concubine Xie Guifei also asked the four members of the Fu family to lead the four members of the Fu family out of Yanning Palace and return to Renshou Palace, where the Queen Mother was located.

The front hall of Renshou Palace is already full of tables and chairs, the palace belongs to the harem concubines and royal ladies, and the outside of the hall is sorted according to the rank of the princes, and belongs to the banquet place for the court's feudal wives and juniors.

The hour was approaching, and almost all the female guests who should have come had arrived, and the four members of the Fu family also found their own seats under the guidance of the little eunuch.

Here is not a small distance from the front hall of Renshou Palace, can not see the movement in the palace clearly, can only listen to the eunuchs at the entrance of the palace one by one, first the queen mother came, everyone shouted together "courtiers and other knocks to see the queen mother, congratulations to the queen mother such as the East China Sea, longevity than the South Mountain".

This is all the birthday celebration process that has been learned in advance, and everyone follows the celebrant to salute together.

Followed by starting from the queen, the harem concubines, princesses, eldest princesses and other royal ladies celebrated their birthdays in order and offered congratulatory gifts, while many feudal women outside the palace could only respectfully watch the ceremony outside, listening to the eunuchs at the entrance of the palace report who gave the queen mother a birthday, and what congratulatory gifts were given.

Only the princes and family members who are close to the palace gate can see the movement in the palace more clearly, and the four members of the Fu family are a little far away, so they can't see it clearly, as for the congratulatory gifts they sent, they are not qualified to let the queen mother look at them one by one, so they can only be handed over to the chief eunuch in charge of Renshou Palace, who is responsible for receiving gifts, and let the queen mother take a look after registering them.

The weather is still a little cool in April, and after the sun sets, it will cool down several degrees, but fortunately, everyone has experience, and they are all dressed relatively thick, even if they stand in the open ground in front of the temple, it is not easy to catch a cold, not to mention that the vast courtyard in front of the whole hall is brightly lit everywhere, and the heat of the candle flame is invisibly conveyed.

The birthday celebration process in the hall was finally completed, and as the eunuch at the entrance of the hall announced loudly: "After the ceremony--give the banquet-" The eunuchs who had been waiting around for a long time took action one after another, and began to send all kinds of steaming drinks and dishes to the tables everywhere.

Fu Xuechen feels that the culture is really the same, even if the time and space are changed, and the specific performance of some etiquette is so different, but the festive birthday banquet atmosphere is still too similar!

The table of the birthday banquet is quite large, a table can accommodate about eight to twelve people, and the four members of the Fu family gathered around the table with the rest of the two families who were also marquis-level feudal wives.

And Mrs. Fu and the old Fengjun of the Guan and Zhang families, and the wives of the Xie family and the Guan and Zhang families are also quite familiar with each other, and they have obviously been arranged to gather at the same table for a drink more than once, and the chat is quite hot.

Mrs. Guan took two concubines in the family, one fifteen and one fourteen, and her sister-in-law Guan Enming was obviously not the same mother and brother, and Fu Xuechen was not familiar with them, but Fu Rushuang knew these two, and quietly chatted with each other.

Mrs. Zhang is Zhang Chuyang's sister-in-law, who is sixteen this year, and because of the age gap, she is also not familiar with Fu Xuechen, who has just been brought out by her mother to see the world a few times, and she is not close to Fu Rushuang.

Fu Xuechen found that he didn't have a friend who could get close to chatting, and when he was depressed, he could only compete with the food in front of him, focusing on eating and drinking, but fortunately, the dishes in the palace were not as bad as he imagined, on the contrary, because of the high-quality ingredients and the ability of the imperial chef, it tasted quite delicious when the heat was better maintained.

She concentrated on eating and drinking, and inevitably ate and drank before everyone else, and finally could only put down her chopsticks and only drank the hot soup little by little, while the rest of the people at the same table, the fastest was not even halfway through it.

At this moment, a small figure suddenly walked quickly from the side, standing behind Fu Xuechen, suddenly spoke, and asked hesitantly and in surprise: "You, are you the Xue Chen sister of the Fu family?" ”