Chapter 215: New Year's Banquet
Regarding Yu Zheng's childhood anecdotes, Jiang Shu and Zhuang Yun listened to them with relish.
When the two wanted to hear more, Yu Zheng couldn't sit still.
"Yun'er, how are you doing your homework this year? Uncle will test you. ”
Zhuang Yun couldn't laugh for a moment when he heard this, and said with a pout: "Uncle, it's the New Year." ”
Receiving Zhuang Yun's eyes asking for help, Yu Lan said: "No, it's the New Year, you will be disgusted like this." In the future, when your own child is born, you can't do that. ”
Hearing 'his own child', Yu Zheng glanced at Jiang Shu, and his ink eyes softened.
"Come here, my uncle will teach you how to play chess." Yu Zheng changed his words.
"Uncle is so nice." Zhuang Yun sat next to Yu Zheng with a smile.
Yu Zheng is busy on weekdays, Zhuang Yun also has to go to school and study, and it is difficult for the two to get together to play chess, so Zhuang Yun is very rare.
The palace maid quickly brought the chess sets and set them up, Yu Zheng taught while playing, and Zhuang Yun learned very seriously.
It was still early before lunch, and Concubine Yu knew that Jiang Shu didn't have so much to say to her, so she asked someone to bring a leaf play and gossip with Jiang Shu Yulan while playing.
In the past, in the Jing'an Hou Mansion, Mrs. Shen and Shen's mother often asked Jiang Shu to play leaf opera when they had nothing to do, but they played a little big, and they only felt happy when Jiang Shu lost to them.
After a long time, Jiang Shu became a little disgusted with leaf play.
But Concubine Yu and Yu Lan were both in high spirits, and Jiang Shu was not good at spoiling the fun, so he had to play with them.
At first, Jiang Shu was a little nervous, trying his best to figure out how to lose to them.
After a few rounds, Yu Guifei and Yu Lan noticed the clue, and said a little speechlessly: "This is a game, and it's not interesting to release water." ”
Yu Lan also said: "We are all our own family, we don't need to play the favor card, just let go and play." ”
Jiang Shu blushed and nodded, took a deep breath and became serious.
After playing a few more games, the three of them won or lost, and Yu Guifei smiled: "That's right, that's interesting." ”
"That's what the mother said." Jiang Shu also bent the corners of his lips, and his expression relaxed.
"Come again, come again." It's rare for Yu Guifei to play with them once, and she is very interested.
Although the emperor was not there, with Jiang Shu and them by his side, Concubine Yu was also very happy.
Yu Zheng, who was playing chess with Zhuang Yun, glanced at Jiang Shu from time to time, and saw that they were playing harmoniously and harmoniously, and his heart was happy.
The royal family affection is the most cool, and it is really good that their family can do this.
The sky outside the hall was gloomy, like a wind and snow were coming. Laughter and laughter in the hall, mother and son are filial.
Because it was the New Year, warm wine was prepared for lunch. Jiang Shu Zhuangyun couldn't drink alcohol, so he prepared fruit and goat milk for them.
Concubine Yu was very happy, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, she looked at Yu Zheng and Jiang Shu and said, "When your child is born, there will be one more person at next year's reunion banquet, and it will be even more lively." ”
Zhuang Yun licked off the goat's milk from his mouth, and asked expectantly, "Is my aunt pregnant with a younger brother or a younger sister?"
Although he is precocious, he has never been exposed to many things, and he still retains his innocence.
Concubine Yu asked him with a smile: "Does Yun'er want a younger brother or a younger sister?" ”
Zhuang Yun said: "First I want my brother, then I want my sister." ”
"Oh? Why? Several adults looked at Zhuang Yun curiously.
Zhuang Yun said with a serious face: "First I want a younger brother to play with me, and then I want a younger sister, my younger brother and I can protect my sister together." ”
"Yo, our Yun'er is really thoughtful." Concubine Yu smiled.
Yu Lan and the others were also amused by Zhuang Yun's children's words, and added goat's milk to Zhuang Yun and said, "Yun'er will definitely be a good brother." ”
Compared with the harmony in Zhongling Palace, Yongning Palace is dull and depressing.
The emperor and the empress sat on the main seat, Cao Duxue sat on the queen's side, Yu Cheng and Xie Wanruo sat on the same side, and several children sat around the head.
It was originally an auspicious reunion banquet, but there was only the slight sound of cups and spoons intertwining, and there was no laughter and chat.
A few young children, after they were full, did not dare to run around, and looked at the adults cautiously.
finally stayed up until they finished eating and putting chopsticks, Yu Cheng couldn't bear Xie Wanruo's mother and son being aggrieved and cold-eyed here, so he asked Xie Wanruo to take Yu Hao back to the East Palace on the grounds that the child was taking a nap.
"Mother, Yongning Palace is not fun at all." As soon as he returned to the East Palace, Yu Haolin began to complain.
"Didn't Lin'er want to see the emperor's grandfather?" Xie Wanruo asked.
Yu Haolin pouted: "But the emperor's grandfather looks so fierce, doesn't he like me?" ”
Xie Wanruo said softly: "I like it, but the emperor's grandfather is the emperor, and he must have the majesty of the emperor, so that he can deter the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty." ”
"Are you afraid of the emperor's grandfather?"
"Hmm."
"Grandfather Huang is so powerful."
"Yes, the imperial grandfather is very powerful."
The mother and son, who are very powerful in their mouths, are sitting on pins and needles in Yongning Palace at this time.
After playing a few games of chess with Yu Cheng, the emperor got up and said, "I'm tired, there will be a palace banquet in the evening, you should all rest for a while." ”
The queen hurriedly said: "The bedding has already been changed, and the concubines will accompany the emperor to rest." ”
The emperor knew that he couldn't leave, so he walked towards the queen's bedroom with a heavy face.
Not only today, but also in the past few days of the New Year, he has to stay in Yongning Palace.
It's an annoying rule.
The emperor and queen all rested, and Yu Cheng and Cao Duxue had no need to stay, so they took the children back to the East Palace.
Like the emperor, Yu Cheng can only stay in the Cao Dusk Snow House these days.
The father and son who have the same experience also have extremely consistent practices. I always use fatigue as an excuse to go to bed and sleep with my eyes closed.
Although the queen and Cao Duxue were depressed and unwilling, they were helpless.
They are all the masters of the main palace, and they can't be shy and beg for pleasure.
Staying overnight in the ancestral system is their last dignity.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the cold wind was howling.
Jiang Shu was used to taking a nap, and Yu Zheng accompanied her to sleep for a while in the dormitory where he lived when he was a child.
Lying on the bed that Yu Zheng slept on when he was young, Jiang Shu finally understood Yu Zheng's previous feelings.
I know that Yu Zheng has not lived here for many years, but I always feel that I can feel Yu Zheng's breath and touch his past.
"How old is my husband living here?" Jiang Shu asked while lying in Yu Zheng's arms.
Yu Zheng tucked the quilt corner for her and said, "Five years old." ”
When he officially enrolled, he moved to the Imperial Prince's Office and lived with his brothers.
Jiang Shu sighed when he heard it, it is really not easy to be a prince.
"Sleep, it's a long dinner." Yu Zheng stopped talking.
Jiang Shu yawned a little and found a comfortable position to sleep.
At the time of unitary, several people set off from Zhongling Palace to attend the banquet in Qingde Palace.
This is Jiang Shu's first time attending a palace banquet, and it is also the first time she has seen the queen.
Originally, she and Yu Zheng should have visited the queen after they got married, but the queen and Concubine Yu were not on good terms, so they stopped going back and forth a few years ago.
Although the two are in the same palace, they rarely meet except for palace banquets.
The queen was dressed in a yellow palace dress and sat magnificently beside the emperor. Although she is fifty years old, it is not difficult to see from her beautiful face that she was also a beauty when she was young.
"Concubine to Your Majesty, the Queen Mother please be safe, Your Majesty Queen Mother Wanfu Jin'an." Concubine Yu took the lead in saluting.
Yu Zheng and a few people followed: "The son gives the father and the emperor, and the queen mother asks for peace." ”
Seeing them, the emperor's solemn face softened a little, and he waved his big hand and said, "It's all your own family, you don't have to be formal, let's all take a seat." ”
"What the emperor said is that today is a reunion banquet, so it's all casual." The queen rarely smiled.