"His Majesty is here!"
The people in the hall came to their respective cases and knelt down: "See Father Emperor!"
"Don't bow down, Wu'er quickly help Princess Qionghua, she is still pregnant."
"Yes, Father."
Nangong Sunu supported her bulging belly with one hand, and gave a shallow salute: "Thank you, Father, for your sympathy."
"All take your seats."
"Yes."
Nangong Rang looked at the eldest daughter, and said with emotion: "I haven't seen a prime girl for three years, and I'm already a mother. I feel very relieved."
"Even though my son is far away in Youzhou, he always thinks about his father and emperor, and only hopes that his father can be healthy and healthy, and protect me and the people of Wei."
Nangong Rang stroked his beard and said with relief, "I will spend more time with your mother-in-law when you return to Beijing this time. As for the place to stay... Your mother-in-law's palace promises you to come and go freely. Your second sister's mansion will be completed soon. Live there first with your concubine."
Princess Qionghua and his wife replied in unison, "Thank you, Father and Emperor."
"I want to go back to Yongzhou to worship the ancestors in Qingming, and I have ordered Wei'er to supervise the country. You also stay in the capital, and let the concubine go for you."
"My son, thank the father and the emperor for being sympathetic."
"Um."
"Forty-nine."
"The slave is here."
Nangong Rang handed over a volume of Ming Huang's imperial decree to Si Jiu: "Recite for me."
"According to the order."
Si Jiu came to the imperial court with the imperial edict and shook it away. Nangong Rang said again: "You all sit and listen, I have withdrawn from the speaker, and there is no need for such a ceremony at the family banquet."
"Thank you, Father."
Si Jiu said aloud: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict said: I am grateful to the nine sons and three daughters under my knees for their filial piety, loyalty, filial piety and joy; on this New Year's Eve, the palace banquet will be specially rewarded and rewarded. There are 100 royal horses, 300 strong cattle, 500 fat sheep, 50 brocades, and 100 taels of gold. In addition, each will be given Qionghua, Zhuohua, Zhenzhen; two pairs of cloisonne bracelets for the three princesses, golden steps Twelve hairpins, fifty pieces of Shu brocade, and a pair of jade Ruyi. I hope you and others will guard against arrogance and impatience, and abide by your duties. On the New Year's Eve of the ninth year of Jingjia, this is honored."
Everyone got up and knelt down to thank them: "Thank you, Father and Emperor."
"Retire without courtesy."
"Yes."
Nangong let him ponder for a moment and said, "Lie Er, Jing Nu is out."
The hall became quiet for a moment, Nangong Jingnv looked at Qi Yan subconsciously, and saw the gentle relief in the other party's eyes, her heart settled down.
Nangong Rang's eyes wandered between the two, and he said slowly, "My beloved daughter, my biological mother passed away early. I am saddened and sympathetic to raise it under my knees. My heart is inevitably negligent, and what makes me gratified is that even without the guidance of my biological mother, my son is still sensible, understands the general situation, attaches great importance to filial piety, and is hands-on. Therefore, I especially appreciate Princess Zhenzhen, a bottle of Shiyi Qianhu and Gorgonan. , A Pearl of the East China Sea."
Nangong Jingnu kowtowed to thank her: "Thank you, Father and Emperor."
Qi Yan looked at the Nangong brothers and sisters in the hall calmly. Nangong made such a generous reward not only to tell Nangong Jingnu: he knew she was wronged. It is also a warning to Nangong Lie: Nangong Jingnu is not a role he can bully and handle.
Others also have a number, but they are inevitably a little dissatisfied, especially the princes.
What Qi Yan didn't know was that the princess of Wei State had no fief, so from the moment she was born, she had a thousand households of food to provide for her daily food and clothing.
However, Nangong Jingnu had 3,000 households in food towns at birth. In the year when the title was given, a thousand households were rewarded, and another 500 households were added to the gift, and another 500 households were added when she got married...
You must know that a nominal "eldest son" such as Nangong Wei has five thousand households. The rest of the adult princes are all 3,000 households, and like Nangong Ping, Nangong is only 1,000 households away from these two unloved princes!
Both are princesses, Nangong Sunu is the eldest daughter, and her husband's family is a monarch and there are only 2,500 households. Get married on the same day...
The princess is different from the prince, and the husband's surname must be followed when he gives birth to an heir in the future.
To put it bluntly, these food towns are cheap for "outsiders", so there is an unwritten rule in all dynasties: the rewards to the princess are mostly gold and silver, and such high food towns will not be given.
Fortunately, Nangong Jingnu was a daughter, otherwise she would have been suspicious of several imperial brothers.
In addition, since the birth of Nangong Jingnu, all kinds of "arrogant" rewards have been given almost once or twice every few years, and she is the only direct daughter, so the people in the field are not surprised. .
Including this time, her food city is on par with the second prince Nangong Wei, who also dares to be angry and dare not speak. Only secretly cursed: Qi Yan, an odd-eyed child, was cheap.
Nangong Jingnv didn't feel anything wrong with the reward, this honor accompanied her growth. A person who was born and raised in a honeypot has a natural taste that is not sweet.
But she could feel that her father was "breathing out" for her, as Qi Yan said.
Nangong Rang waved his hand: "Take a seat."
"Thank you, Father."
Nangong let him silently stare at the lonely Nangong Lie in the center of the hall, taking a few breaths. The latter bowed his head and kept silent, looking terrified.
The other princes, who were not used to seeing Nangong Lie, gloated a little: Whose bad luck is it bad to touch? I want to pick the heart of my father!
If it wasn't for his mother-in-law and the Empress Yuan from the same clan, I'm afraid that he would end up like a eldest prince! Fortunately, this boy can't support the wall with mud, otherwise, with the deep affection of the father and emperor for the Yuan queen Ma, I am afraid that he will love the house and Wu...
"Lie'er."
"Yes! My son is here."
"Do you know why I just called you out?"
"My son... I don't know."
Nangong Rang snorted coldly: "The nine sons of Longsheng are all different. You are usually self-deprecating, lingering in Fengyue places, drunk and buying Fangchun... I, I should have lost sight of it. However, did you leave the house in disguise last month? , molesting a good woman on the street?"
With a "boom", Nangonglie knelt on the ground: "My son has been wronged!"
Nangong Rang took the court case: "Injustice? Now... Are you going to deceive the king?"
Nangong Lie kowtowed again and again: "Father, please forgive me, son, son, I don't remember."
"That's because there's too much of this kind of unconscionable thing done!"
"Father, forgive me!" Nangong Lie was crawling on the ground, not daring to move.
Nangong let out a heavy sigh: "Since ancient times, the fame of a girl's family has been more important than her life. Did you know that the girl you were frivolous committed suicide when she returned home? The old father's blood lawsuit was brought to Yingtian Mansion. It's not that you happened to be bumped into by the officials of the DPRK and China, your animal behavior is afraid that it will become an unsolved case!"
"Damn it, Erchen! Erchen... Erchen was drunk that day, and he made an unintentional loss."
Nangong let the order stop, and then said again: "Fortunately, you are traveling in disguise, but that old couple has only one daughter. In the future, all their expenses in their later years will be paid from your food court!"
"Yes, yes, thank you, Father!"
"After the palace banquet is over, you should go back to the mansion immediately, and copy the filial piety three hundred times. If you can't finish writing it, you are not allowed to step out of the mansion gate."
"According to the order."
Qi Yan retracted her gaze: although the old thief Nangong is full of evil, to Nangong Jingnu: he is a rare good father. In order to protect her daughter from saying nothing about the day, she told everyone that Nangong Jingnu had his backing in this way.
It's just that Nangong Rang didn't think that this eye-popping favor was suspected of being "killed". If he was gone one day, where would Nangong Jingnu go
Thinking of this, Qi Yan not only secretly laughed at her troublesome.
The old thief Nangong will definitely die at his own hands. When that day comes, isn't it him who killed Nangong Jingwo
At the beginning of the palace banquet, Qi Yan was silent, and Nangong Jingnv, who "had a great revenge", didn't seem to be too happy.
Half an hour later, Nangong Rang left the palace banquet ahead of schedule.
Qi Yan poured a glass of wine for Nangong Jingnu and asked, "Why is Your Majesty gone? But you are not feeling well?"
Nangong Jingnu picked up the glass and drank it: "This is the first time you have attended a palace banquet, and you don't know the joints. Every year on New Year's Eve, the father and the emperor will sit for a while and then leave. First, they have to go to the harem. Turn, come second; the honor of the father and the ninety-five, our brothers and sisters are very cautious when he is present, and he will leave early to let us have a good time."
Qi Yan looked around, and the atmosphere in the hall was indeed alive: "So it is."
Although Nangong Jingnu likes to drink, her alcohol intake is very light, but after eating three or five glasses, two blushes appeared on her fair cheeks, and her watery eyes showed a hint of drunkenness.
Qi Yanxu held down Nangong Jingnu's hand holding the pot: "Your Highness is drunk, don't be greedy for the cup."
"The New Year's Eve banquet, this palace is happy. Why are you in charge of more than the royal father?"
Qi Yan's hand trembled, and she said terribly, "Your Highness does not dare to compare with His Majesty, His Highness is serious."
Nangong Jingnu chuckled softly, as if resentful: "Coward."
"Little sister, brother-in-law!"
Qi Yan looked up and saw Nangong Lie standing in front of the two with two wine bottles.
Qi Yan got up quickly, but Nangong Lie waved his hand, lifted his hem and sat cross-legged directly opposite the two of them: "Brother-in-law, sit down."
"Yes."
Nangong Jingnu held her chin in one hand and the wine cup in the other, with a flushed face, and looked at Nangong Lie without speaking.
Nangong Lie picked up the wine bottle: "Bengong was drunk during the day and lost his temper, so I came here to make amends for my brother-in-law. Come to Bengong to give my brother-in-law a drink."
As he spoke, he pressed one of the square bottles full of wine in front of Qi Yan: "Come on!"
The wine swayed, reflecting a yellowish blue light.
"Sir..."
A fair and small slender hand suddenly appeared in his sight, holding the wine bottle in his hand: "Bengong's concubine can't drink a drop of wine, and Bengong accompanies Sixth Brother to have a drink."
Nangong Lie was stunned, then laughed loudly: "Okay, refreshing!"
With a "ding", the two bronze wine bottles had collided. Nangong Lie drank it all in one go. Nangong Jingnu raised her sleeves to cover her face and drank with her head held high.
What Nangong Lie brought was the fine wine provided by the palace banquet, which was much stronger than the pot of wine on Nangong Jingnu's table, and this boxy wine bottle could hold at least five or six cups.
Sitting from Qi Yan's angle, you can clearly see the state of Nangong Jingnu while drinking: I saw her brows furrowed, the yellow wine overflowing from the corners of her mouth from time to time, and she drank it very slowly, as if she had never tasted such a thing before. Strong wine, every sip is difficult to swallow.