036 Smell Youxi

The Empress Dowager's birthday was jubilant all over the palace.

On this day, a banquet was set up in the hall of Changxin Palace where the empress dowager was located to entertain the members of Beijing and the royal family. There are thousands of lights hanging around, which makes the whole square as bright as day.

Murong Xueyan entered the court with Nangong Yi, and she was nervous. She only participated in such an occasion for the second time. In the middle of the banquet, there is a spacious passageway paved with a red carpet. Above the passage are layers of steps, and the seats of the Empress Dowager and the emperor are located at the top of the steps. After the maid sang, the emperor arrived with the three existing concubines in the harem. After that, the empress dowager Luan came and everyone sat down.

"Emperor, what gift do you have for the birthday of the mourning family?" The Empress Dowager asked with a smile.

Beitanghao bowed and smiled: "My son is so stupid that he can't even choose a gift. It seems that he will disappoint his mother today."

"The emperor of my family is so stingy." The empress dowager swayed to be weird.

Beitanghao smiled and accompanied Fang Youde to present a gift. They are 100 pieces of high-quality satin, a thousand taels of silver, 500 strings of pearls, a pair of jade, a hundred strings of coral beads, and a thousand-handed Guanyin carved by half-human-tall white jade. Its appearance is kind and dignified, and the overlapping arms are all exquisitely carved.

After presenting his gift, Bei Tanghao smiled at the concubines again: "What gifts do you want to give?"

"The emperor's gift is so precious that I'm afraid I dare not take out my hand." Concubine Yun Hao Ran smiled and ordered the maid to take out a threaded book.

"This is the Fahua Sutra that my concubine took half a month to copy in person. My concubine knew that the Empress believed in Buddhism, so I personally copied a scripture book to borrow flowers to present the Buddha." Concubine Yun bowed and presented the book in person.

"It's hard for you to worry about this when you are pregnant. You are sorry for your family." The Empress Dowager said in a flat voice, "Go down."

"Yes." Concubine Yun smiled and returned to her seat.

Then Du Lanruo approached and presented the word "Shou" embroidered by herself. Wen Yan said, "This is the word "Shou" embroidered by my concubine. I am not good at craftsmanship. I hope the Empress Dowager will not laugh."

"It's good that you have this heart. There is everything here." The Empress Dowager smiled. As soon as her eyes touched Du Lanruo's fingers, she was shocked, "Lanfei, your fingers..."

"I'm a concubine... I've never been used to pointing needles at female workers since I was a child. These... are needles when I embroider." Tulan Ruo blushed and lowered her head, which was very embarrassed.

"I've been born to you. Go down." A wisp of emotion flashed in the eyes of the Empress Dowager.

Yunfei bit her lip hatefully, and a bright face couldn't help twitching. This change in expression did not escape the capture of Murong Xueyan, who had been paying attention to her.

This woman is really a cruel role... With Du Lanruo's frankness, she is afraid that she is her opponent. After the concubine's gift was presented, the dance concubine presented a pair of South Vietnamese specialties - the South China Sea Night Pearl, followed by the brothers of the same surname of Beitanghao - the princes and princesses of the State of Qi, who have always presented their gifts to the empress dowager one by one, which are nothing more than Buddha beads, golden Buddha, or other jade antiques. After all the gifts made by Wang with the same surname, it was time for Nangongyi, the only king with the same surname, and the princess to present gifts together. Before entering the palace, they made an appointment. Today, they appeared in front of the empress dowager. Be sure to stage a "harmonious" drama, which can neither make the empress dowager suspicious, nor Murong Rui, a father, worry about his daughter.

Twenty-two-year-old Jing Wang Nangong Yi and fifteen-year-old princess Murong Xueyan both came forward, attracting a look of praise and envy around him - Nangong Yiying's anger, Murong Xueyan's snow-skinned beauty, a real pair of natural and earth-made people.

"I, my concubine, pay a visit to the Empress Dowager's Empress Dowager, and I wish the Empress Dowager a thousand years old." Nangong Yi and Murong Xueyan bowed together and said with one voice.

"Get up and let the mourning family take a good look at you." The Empress Dowager looked at Murong Xueyan with concern, "After getting married, it seems to be more beautiful than before. Xueyan, tell my family, what does King Jing do to you?"

"He..." If you tell the world that they are still a fake couple, and they have never had any substantial development, I'm afraid no one will be willing to believe it. With the eager eyes of Concubine Yun, Murong Xueyan said with a smile, "In the words of the Empress Dowager, King Jing is very good to treat my concubines, which can be said to be a case. Respect each other as guests.

"In this way, my family will feel at ease." The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "King Jing, when are you going to have a little son?"

"The Empress Dowager! ..." Murong Xueyan pinched it just right, and looked down with a smile, which was very shy. Then he deliberately glanced at Yunfei - Yunfei's originally brilliant face, which was carefully decorated, was frustlingly pale at this time, as if all the blood had been taken away! I sighed in my heart, when did I become so arrogant? In fact, if you think about it carefully, the color is already cheap enough for Yunfei. She wants to kill herself again and again!

"Empress dowager, I have prepared a few small gifts. I wish the empress dowager's birthday. I hope the empress dowager will not dislike it." Murong Xueyan took a step forward, and Nangong Yi was happy to hand over the two gifts placed on the ground when she just knelt down.

"What kind of gift is it? What you have prepared is naturally good. The Empress Dowager looked at Murong Xueyan with expectation.

She lowered her eyebrows and smiled. She first opened the round box and presented its content in the eyes of the empress dowager. She explained with a smile, "Empress dowager, this is a pastry cooked by my concubine herself. The white part at the bottom is baked with flour, egg white and fresh milk, and the red part is juiced with watermelon. Apply it evenly. I'm not talented. I can't do too complicated tricks. I can only make a 'shou' word to express my heart.

"I didn't expect that red and white were so beautiful. I can't wait to have a taste. The Empress Dowager smiled and stood next to the Lu Gong Guild. She quickly passed on the silver chopsticks. She tasted a small sip first, then nodded and handed over the cake to the empress dowager.

The Empress Dowager put a small sound into her mouth and chewed it, but she felt sweet but not greasy. Her mouth was crispy and slippery, which was very different from the current snacks. She couldn't help praising, "Xueyan, your craftsmanship is really good. It seems that King Jing married you and you are his blessing."

"The Empress Dowager's false praise, Xue Yan is ashamed and dares not stand it." Murong Xueyan quickly leaned down to thank him.

"Get up, you are so clever, how can you not be worthy of a compliment?"

"Thank you, Empress Dowager." Murong Xueyan got up again, opened the box of the other side in front of the empress dowager, and said, "Empress dowager, this is the jade Buddha that King Jing accompanied my concubine to buy together. Maitreya Buddha often laughs, and I wish the empress dowager a long life and often smile."

"It's hard for you to be unique. You can still speak so well with a clever mouth." The Empress Dowager smiled sweetly and said, "Go."

"Empress Dowager!" Yunfei's voice sounded before Nangong Yi and Murong Xueyan returned to her seat, with the most obvious provocation, "Princess Jing has always been good at singing and dancing. Why didn't she perform on her mother's birthday this time?"

"Yunfei!" The emperor stopped harshly, with a warning in his tone.

Murong Xueyan glanced over Nangong Yi, and there was an indifferent look in his eyes. At Concubine Yun again, Concubine Yun responded to give her a smile full of spring breeze, and by the way, she straightened her slightly raised stomach forward.

Song and dance, her original plan was taken into account, but recently, she had to work in Mingcuifangpo and prepare cakes in the afternoon, so she didn't have time to spend time on singing and dancing. After discussing with Nangong Yi, they decided to cancel this "gift". Unexpectedly, Concubine Yun made things difficult in front of the emperor.

Sure enough, it's different to have goods in your stomach... With this chip, you can drag it like this. Murong Xueyan was indignant and had a plan - just angry with this woman - "Go back to the emperor, go back to the empress dowager, the concubine originally wanted to perform, but," after a moment, Murong Xueyan smiled shyly, "I'm a concubine has been a little uncomfortable recently..." He deliberately said the word "uncomfort" ambiguously, that's right. She deliberately made a misunderstanding in front of everyone.

"Oh? Xueyan, are you happy? If there is any discomfort, why don't you call a doctor to have a look?" The Empress Dowager was very happy and continued happily, "The three sons of the poor three sons of General Nangong died on the battlefield, leaving only the unique seed of King Jing, Xueyan. You have to work hard for the incense of the Nangong family."

"Thank you, Empress Dowager. Xue Yan must do her job well and strive to pass on the family to the Nangong family. Murong Xueyan bowed her head and thanked without hesitation. When she got up again, she smiled charmingly and proudly at Concubine Yun.

Yunfei's delicate face stiffened for a moment and changed color in vain. Murong Xueyan withdrew her eyes with satisfaction and looked at Nangong Yi. I guess this guy has never tried to eat. If it hadn't been for so many outsiders, he would have explained it desperately. Now, he only has to stare.

Nangong Yi left with Murong Xueyan and returned to his seat.

The officials of this banquet had presented gifts to the Empress Dowager as early as the morning or afternoon of the same day. After the return of King Jing and his wife, the banquet was officially opened, and only Beitang Hao said: "Open--"

After the "opening of the banquet", the palace salute played auspicious joy. The maids of honor, who were responsible for cooking and wine, shuttled between the banquet. Because it was the birthday of the Empress Dowager, they changed their usual blue cloth shirts and put on red shirts. At a glance, they were bright and dazzling.

In the banquet, the enemies were intertwined, the etiquette and music were high, and everyone's faces were full of smiles. Although Murong Xueyan also smiled, she had nothing else to think of but to bless the old Empress Dowager. Before the banquet was halfway through, she couldn't sit still and was eager to find an excuse to run away. Unexpectedly, before she got up, Nangong Yi slipped out first on the grounds that she couldn't drink. Murong Xueyan noticed that Du Lanruo's table and found that the Yunfei was indeed missing.

Murong Xueyan explained to everyone that she wanted to see her prince. Everyone only said that they were deeply in love and ignored them. How could they know that there were many articles in it?