Chapter 45: Enter the palace for a banquet
The Queen Mother's birthday.
Not only did the concubines in the palace get up early to prepare, but even the women who attended the dinner were also prepared early.
Qin Mansion, only the old lady, the Suihua County Lord and the fourth lady went to the palace banquet tonight.
Although the second and third ladies have a fate, their husbands are not in Beijing and cannot participate in this palace banquet, and neither can they.
On the Suihua County Lord's side, although Qin Yunsong has not yet returned to Beijing, she not only has the rank of the edict that Qin Yunsong earned for her, but also the identity of the county lord, so even if Qin Yunsong is not there, she can still participate in the palace banquet.
Because the second lady and the third lady didn't go, Qin Xiangning and Qin Nanning got the order of the palace again and had to enter the palace.
This made the second lady and the third lady inevitably a little worried, afraid that Qin Xiangning and Qin Nanning would be rude in the palace.
That's the Imperial Palace!
If you go to another mansion for a banquet, if you lose your manners or something, you will lose face if you go up to the sky, and with the power of the Qin Mansion in Beijing, the people next to you don't dare to laugh at it.
But if this is rude in the palace, it will be difficult to say.
In that place, if you are not careful, you will offend the noble, and outside, no matter how noble your identity is, it will not be enough to see it when you enter there.
"Xiangning, after entering the palace, you have to follow your grandmother and them, don't look around."
The second lady admonished uneasily.
Qin Xiangning responded with a smile, "Mother, I know!" ”
The third lady was also telling Qin Nanning, and Qin Nanning responded obediently on her face, but what she thought in her heart was that she had to follow Qin Zining if she wanted to.
"Okay, you don't have to worry too much, although it is a palace banquet, all the children in our family are polite, and there is nothing for others to find faults."
After the old lady finished smiling, she looked at the Suihua County Lord and asked, "It doesn't matter what is on the side, this congratulatory gift must be carefully checked before entering the palace, don't make a mistake." ”
"Yes, daughter-in-law, I'll go check it out again."
The affairs of the Qin family's current inner house are all taken care of by the second lady, because the lord of Suihua County has been at the border in the past few years and has not been in the mansion.
After the Suihua County Lord returned home, the second lady wanted the old lady to hand over the matter of the inner house to the Suihua County Lord.
The old lady is a fine person, so she doesn't participate in this matter, and only lets the second lady go to the Suihua County Lord by herself and say it, as long as the Suihua County Lord is willing to take over.
Let the second lady find the lord of Suihua and say. The results speak for themselves.
In the families next to the house, there are many brothers in the back house, and there will basically be a situation where the ladies compete for the right to stewardship.
But on the Qin family's side, it is not about fighting for the right to be a steward, it is pushing forward.
The lord of Suihua County is really too lazy to take care of these things, and the second lady takes care of it well, and there is an order everywhere, so she directly pushed it on the grounds that she has not been in Beijing for many years and is not familiar with the gifts of all parties.
The second lady knew that she was a pretext, but she had no choice, so she had to ask the county lord of Suihua to help with ideas in major matters, but she couldn't be lazy.
The lord of Suihua County has responded!
No, when it came to giving a birthday gift to the Queen Mother, the second lady went directly to her.
The lord of Suihua didn't shirk it, she came out of the palace anyway, and she had seen the queen mother a few times before, and she knew where to pay attention to when giving birthday gifts to the queen mother, so she took this matter down.
For these matters between the daughters-in-law, the old lady watched from the wall the whole time.
After a family is prosperous, the elders must know how to let go, so that the family will live in harmony.
After lunch, the old man Qin and the fourth master Qin on duty also returned to the house, bathed and changed clothes, and then brought the ladies into the palace to participate in the palace banquet.
At the gate of the palace, there was a long queue of carriages, and a lantern had been hung on each carriage frame, and each lantern had the logo of each province.
The ladies of each province were all dressed up extremely exquisitely, and step by step they got out of the carriage and came to the palace gate to be inspected before entering the palace.
The guards guarding the palace gate and the grandmothers in charge of the inspection are all human spirits, and when they meet people of the same grade in line, they will come first and come first.
Seeing that the grade is much higher, it is natural to follow them first.
This is not!
As soon as the ladies of the Qin family got off the carriage, the grandmothers immediately walked over from the front of the team and greeted them into the palace, and the inspection was a formality.
The guards also greeted Old Man Qin and Fourth Master Qin into the palace gate.
After entering the palace gate, Old Man Qin and Fourth Master Qin had to be separated from Old Madam Qin.
They had to go to the Holy Throne first, and Old Madam Qin had to go to the Empress Dowager's palace to salute first, and then go to the palace banquet.
When she went to the Empress Dowager's palace, Qin Zining secretly paid attention to the route she took along the way, and found that it was the same as the route she took when she followed Jun Yi into the palace after her newlywed in her previous life, and there was a slight wave in her heart.
was about to see the Queen Mother in advance, Qin Zining couldn't help but feel a little nervous in her heart.
I don't know, without the heavy identity of Junyi's bride, when I see the Queen Mother today, will the Queen Mother still be satisfied with her?
In her previous life, she was a female general who could fight on the battlefield, but in this life, she is a sick man with an old illness who may go one day.
With such a big contrast, will the Queen Mother still like herself?
Qin Zining followed her grandmother and others to the Cining Palace with apprehension, and followed them to salute the Queen Mother with some reluctance.
It wasn't until after the salute that she was called to her by the Queen Mother, and the moment her hand was held by the Queen Mother, her heart returned to its place.
"Good boy, look at your little hands are cold, I heard that you are weak, and you are easy to get cold when you walk around inside and outside this house, and I have a newly made fox fur cloak here, and you can also protect yourself from the cold when you wear it."
The Queen Mother glanced at the grandmother beside her as she spoke, and the grandmother hurriedly took the tray from the palace maid beside her and walked in front of Qin Zining, "Miss Qin San, the slave maid will put it on for you!" ”
Qin Zining glanced at the cloak, and his heart moved slightly.
The style of this cloak can be seen at a glance that it is used by a young woman, and this cloak has been held by the maid just now, so it can be seen that it has been prepared in advance.
"Zi Ning thanks the Queen Mother for her favor!"
Qin Zining gave a slight salute, and Mama shook off the cloak and tied it to Qin Zining with a gentle movement.
There were other women and ladies from various provinces sitting in Cining Palace, and when they saw that Qin Zining had won the reward, they all knew in their hearts that this was a message that the Queen Mother was sending to them, that is, the Queen Mother was very satisfied with Qin Zining, the future princess of Nanxian.
Zheng Yanyan stood below, looking at Qin Zining showing her face like this, she was very unhappy.
When she was a child, when Qin Zining had not left the capital, she went to the banquets of various mansions with the lord of Suihua, and she was often surrounded by people.
Zheng Yanyan was very envious and jealous of Qin Zining when she was left out in the cold at that time, when she grew up, Qin Zining went to the border pass with the lord of Suihua, and it was rumored that she was in the army at the border pass, and the ladies and ladies of various mansions were discussing this matter in private, and they were all laughing at Qin Zining.
Zheng Yanyan was happy when she heard those words, but she didn't be happy for long, but Qin Zining became a female general praised by everyone again.
(End of chapter)