5, birthday party

The Empress Dowager's good mood was destroyed by the emperor's indiscrimination with Yuanjia. She said sullenly, "It's really not the right time to come. It's rare for the family to be so happy. It's all disturbed by him."

Seeing this, Cheng Yuanjia took a few steps forward, grabbed the corner of the Empress Dowager's clothes and shook it gently: "Auntie, do you still invite me to lunch? Yuanjia's stomach is already cooing with hunger.

The empress dowager was amused by the pitiful appearance of Cheng Yuanjia. All the depression disappeared. She took her niece's hand and said with a smile, "It's my family's negligence. I'm hungry for our little Yuanjia. Come and have lunch together. What's the difference between eating in the palace and outside?"

The level of the imperial chef in the palace is not high. A table of lunch is much richer than the family banquet in the Qian Palace. Cheng Yuanjia deliberately pleases the empress dowager. He cleverly accompanies the empress dowager to laugh, making the empress dowager eat happily and smiling, and just pulls Yuanjia to stay in the palace for a few more days.

"In half a month, it will be the 63rd birthday of the mourning family. It's not a birthday. I'm not going to do it. I just hold a family banquet with the concubines and princes. Then you can also come over and take Yuanjia back when you go back. Let Yuanjia talk in the palace with the mourning family in the past half a month. The Empress Dowager said in an unnegotiable tone.

Cheng Yuhang could only accept it. After sitting for a while, he left.

The Empress Dowager took Cheng Yuanjia to visit her royal garden with great interest, and placed snacks and fruits in the pavilion in the garden, tasting tea and chatting. The palace is the best place in the world where materials are highly concentrated. You can get any good tea. Yuanjia easily got several kinds of Shanghaogong tea that she had never heard of, and sent people to get the best spring water from outside the city and cook it in her special way.

The Empress Dowager looked at her niece's elegant movements when making tea with a smile, and felt that even if she didn't drink tea, just looking at her movements was a kind of enjoyment. In the royal family, she hasn't eaten anything good. Even if Yuanjia is going to go to these cans of tribute tea, she has already drunk it many times, but she has never seen the tea brewed in such a complicated way.

Cheng Yuanjia carefully observed the empress dowager. Although the old man is extremely concerned about the maintenance of her figure, it is always inevitable that the body function will deteriorate after years, so he added some elixirs powder to nourish the body to the tea when making tea. Although it is only a little bit, it is no less than a magic elixir for the empress dowager.

"Auntie, you can try the tea brewed in Yuanjia, which is guaranteed to be better than those that only need to be brewed with boiling water." Cheng Yuanjia picked up a cup of brewed tea and handed it to the empress dowager.

The empress dowager prefers to call her her aunt in private, so as long as it is not high-sounding, Yuanjia will call her aunt obediently, which will make the old empress dowager very comforted. In the palace, there are respect and inferiority, fighting, and the eternal theme - competition for favor, but there is a lack of family and human feelings, so every time Yuanjia calls her aunt, the old empress dowager feels particularly kind.

Drinking the tea carefully brewed by her niece, the Empress Dowager was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth. Not to mention that the tea was indeed much better than she had drunk before. Even a glass of boiled water, she would feel very sweet.

Under Cheng Yuanjia's deliberate welcome, the empress dowager felt that the days with Yuan Jia's company were the happiest days she had had in the years. Even the maid of honor who always made her angry was much more pleasing to her, and even her body was much better than before. Some of the diseases that originally troubled her would not bother her these days.

Of course, she attributed all this together to Yuanjia, an explanation flower accompanying her to relieve her boredom, which made her cheerful and naturally healthy.

The emperor still comes to the empress dowager every day to ask the empress dowager. Because of this day, as long as the emperor comes, Yuanjia will avoid it. And the empress dowager also reassures her. As long as she is still alive, she will definitely find a good marriage for her beloved niece and will never let the emperor take advantage of it.

For this reason, Yuanjia added a little spiritual spring water to the drinking water of the Empress Dowager. This spiritual spring water is condensed into water after the concentration of aura is too high. The large spiritual vein refined into the nine-star ring of the universe not only has a large number of spiritual grass, but also a spiritual spring, and even a precious spiritual tree beside the spring. The reason why the elixir is precious is not only that some herbs have disappeared in the world of cultivation, and there is only a small amount of survival in the secular world, but also an important reason is that one of the medicines is the fruit of the spiritual tree. The spiritual tree is rare, and it is even more difficult to get the fruit of the spiritual tree, so even in the whole world of cultivation, there are few existing crossing elixir.

Ordinary people can add a drop of spiritual spring water to the drinking water, which can cure all kinds of diseases. In the half month around the empress dowager, Yuanjia gave her at least three drops, so that the empress dowager is getting healthier and younger.

Cheng Yuanjia has her own plan to help the empress dowager like this. Now if she wants to find him smoothly, she must have someone to fully support her, and this person can only be the emperor or the empress dowager, not even Prince Qian. Since the emperor has no idea, she can't be her supporter, so she can only firmly grasp the empress dowager.

Half a month passed quickly, and the sixty-three-year-old birthday of the Empress Dowager came to her eyes.

Early in the morning, the maid of honor in Yongning Palace began to work. Under the command of Ying Yue, the highest-ranking female official beside the empress dowager, she prepared in an orderly manner. The empress dowager said that there is no need to be too extravagant, but after all, it is the birthday of the empress dowager, and it can't be too shabby, so what should be hung and what should be posted can't be saved at all.

From dawn, someone has sent birthday gifts to the empress dowager one after another. Even if they don't entertain the ministers, those who are diligent in the franchise know that it is almost good to be courteous at this time, which can be remembered by the Empress Dowager, and the benefits in the future will definitely be indispensable. Of course, the women who came forward to give gifts were the women of the officials. The ordinary ladies who were above the top were very well-behaved at this time. They tried their best to praise their men in front of the empress dowager, as if there was no good official except their men. However, the Empress Dowager can sit in today's position, and she is not a fool. After the gift from her quiet subordinates, she said that she was a little tired and let the officials and ladies take care of themselves.

Yuanjia has been accompanying the empress dowager, and under the introduction of the empress dowager, she had a preliminary contact with the most prominent women in the court. In terms of grade, most of them are higher than her, but in any case, Yuanjia is an imperial relative who has a title in the court, so there is no need to make a big salute when you see them. You just need to salute them at the same level. Those husbands had already inquired about it secretly. The prominent identity of the seemingly young girl in front of them, coupled with the celebrity around the empress dowager, naturally did not dare to show her face. Several wives with similar sons even affectionately invited Yuan Jia to visit their house when she was free.

Although their grades are not low, today they are destined not to be the protagonists and are not even qualified to stay for dinner. After a few words of birthday greetings, they leave one after another.

In the evening, the guests of the birthday banquet came one after another. First, several concubines who gave birth to the prince came with their sons and sat down in the corner of the seat. Several princes sat next to their mother, and the two princes, who seemed to be in their early ten, looked at Yuanjia, who was sitting next to the empress dowager from time to time.

The emperor's imperial concubines also came one after another. Two imperial concubines took their children, and the other two imperial concubines were empty.

"Concubine Hui (De/Xian/Sook) celebrated her birthday to the Empress Dowager. I wish the Empress Dowager a happy life in the East China Sea and Nanshan." The four concubines seemed to have achieved the rehearsal, but they actually spoke with one voice.

"Grandchildren celebrate the birthday of the emperor's grandmother, and wish the emperor's grandmother a long life." The three princes who came with Concubine Hui and Concubine Shu also celebrated their birthday to the Empress Dowager at the same time.

"Okay, take your seat quickly." The emperor smiled and looked at the four noble concubines.