Chapter 50: Toasting and Birthday Celebrations
After her sister married into the palace, the king of Yujun was disgusted with her sister after being fresh for less than three months, and she was arbitrarily bullied her sister by those warblers and Yanyan in the mansion, not to mention, and finally in order to marry the bride, she let her favorite concubine kill her sister with her own hands.
The father and brother knew the truth from her sister's personal maid, and went to the door to seek justice for her sister, but was humiliated and hit the county king's mansion, and her father's injuries were returned home for half a year to recover, and her brother was even lame, and his future was ruined.
Whenever she thinks of these, Zhou Cairen can't wait to eat Yujun Wang alive, originally she thought that as long as she entered the palace and was favored, she would have the opportunity to seek justice for her sister and father and brother, but she was helplessly not as beautiful as her sister, and her temperament was not liked by the emperor.
After listening to Zhou Cairen's past about her sister, Lu Yuning felt sorry for Zhou Cairen's sister, but also felt that Zhou Cairen was a bit shallow to say these things to her on this occasion, a person who didn't have much friendship in the past.
Zhou Cairen may have seen what Lu Yuning was thinking, she withdrew from her past emotions, smiled, and said: "I'm sorry, these things have been in my heart for a long time, and I couldn't hold back when I was excited just now, but I was tired You listened to my grievances here for a long time." ”
Lu Yuning shook his head and said, "It's okay." ”
After that, neither of them mentioned Yujun Wang again, nor did they glance in the direction of Yujun Wang, and after Zhou Cairen chatted with Lu Yuning for a few more words, he turned his head to the other side and gossiped with Qu Cairen.
Lu Yuning carefully observed the scene of the two getting along, and found that although the two were in the same position, Zhou Cairen entered the palace a few years earlier than Qu Cairen, but when the two spoke, most of the time Zhou Cairen held Qu Cairen.
I can't complain that these two people came together, and now it seems that Zhou Cairen is optimistic about Qu Cairen and takes the initiative to lean in.
Among the several concubines who entered the palace in this batch, the highest positions were Weng Jieyu and Cui Jieyu, but now the most favored is Zheng Meiren, Qu Cairen is not the highest rank, nor the most favored, but it is the most servant except Zheng Meiren.
It's not surprising that Zhou Cairen would pick her, after all, if Zhou Cairen picks Zheng Meiren and Cui Jieyu, these two people will not necessarily take care of her, even if the two are willing to take care of her, compared with these two people, Qu Cairen is still a little better to get along with, and it has not caused many people to be jealous in the palace at present.
Come to think of it, Zhou Cairen may have given up his hope of competing for favor by doing this, and instead pinned his hopes on Qu Cairen, wanting Qu Cairen to help her avenge her sister in the future, right?
Just when Lu Yuning was thinking about it, the concubines in the harem arrived one after another, and those women who were enjoying the scenery in the imperial garden didn't know when they had returned from the imperial garden and sat down in their own places.
After Lu Yuning saw the concubine, she looked for the Lin family and the Chang family among the women, and sure enough, she saw the Lin family and the Chang family.
However, Lu Yuning also only glanced at it, and then withdrew her gaze, she didn't care about the fact that the Lin family and the Chang family entered the palace but only went to see the concubine, what she cared about was that she didn't know if the Tao family was doing well in the Hou Mansion.
But Lu Yuning knew that if she took this to ask the Lin family and the Chang family, the two of them would naturally only say yes, and it was impossible to say that Tao was uncomfortable at home, so she suppressed the urge to ask the two of them to inquire about Tao's situation.
Soon, the emperor and the queen, as well as the queen mother, appeared in Cheng'an Palace together, and everyone knelt down in time to salute.
After the queen mother and the emperor said a few words respectively, the birthday banquet officially began, the sound of Qin Xiao drum music sounded, and the various songs and dances that had been rehearsed for a long time by the Teaching Workshop Division were also presented in front of everyone.
At the end of the song and dance, the emperor picked up the wine glass, walked to the Queen Mother, and toasted the Queen Mother on her birthday.
Then there is the King of Yujun, who is the little brother-in-law of the Queen Mother and the only brother of the first emperor.
Lu Yuning only glanced at King Yujun, who stood up with a shake of the wine glass and walked to the open space in front of him, and hurriedly looked away and looked at the emperor sitting at the top.
The emperor's already heroic and extraordinary, compared with the king of Yujun, is even more eye-catching.
Fortunately, she was wise at the time and chose to enter the palace, if she chose not to enter the palace in order to meet Tao and her younger brother Lu Simo at that time, and was ruthlessly married into the Yuwang Mansion by the concubine and the Lin family, she would have no place to cry now.
Luo Chengjing sat on the top, listening to King Yujun's stammering birthday greetings, while finishing the wine glass in his hand, he casually swept the demeanor of the next head, and when his eyes fell on Lu Yuning, he couldn't help but pause.
On this occasion, the harem concubines looked at him a lot openly and secretly, but their eyes were as hot and bright as Lu Yuning.
Lu Yuning's eyes collided with Luo Chengjing's, Lu Yuning seemed to be frightened, and hurriedly lowered her head and withdrew her eyes, but after a while, she couldn't help but look up and secretly glanced in the direction of Luo Chengjing.
I don't want to be caught by Luo Chengjing again.
Lu Yuning lowered her head again, staring intently at the delicate dishes in the cups and plates in front of her, and didn't dare to look up again.
The corners of Luo Chengjing's mouth were slightly hooked, and he was not so irritable when he looked at King Yujun below.
King Yujun finally finished the long list of messy birthday greetings, and enjoyed enough of the feeling of being watched by everyone, so he slowly returned to his seat, and glanced in the direction of Lu Yuning before returning to his seat.
It's a pity to think that such a living beauty, how can she be the concubine of his emperor's nephew? If this were an ordinary person, he would say that he should be "close and close" to everything, but now he can only look at it, and he is greedy.
After King Yujun went down, it was time for the princes to toast and celebrate his birthday.
The first emperor had a total of seven sons, the eldest prince was born frail, did not live to adulthood and died, the third prince in order to compete for the throne, together with the six princes to rebel against the palace, was given death by the first emperor, and now there are only the second prince Luo Chengxian who was named the king of Qi and the fifth prince Luo Chengshao who was named the king of Ning, and the king of Mu who was born with a lame foot, the seventh prince Luo Chengyou.
There is no adult prince in this dynasty who must stay in his fiefdom, and there is no rule that he cannot enter Beijing when summoned, so although the three of them have fiefs, King Ning and King Mu basically live in the capital all year round, and only King Qi went to live in the fief before the emperor ascended the throne and rarely returned to Beijing.
If it weren't for the birthday celebration of the Queen Mother this time, I don't think he would have appeared in the capital.
(End of chapter)