Beibei saw his brother looking at him with admiration, and blinked at him. Yin'er immediately understood: "Your son greets the emperor."
The babyish tone was really adorable. The emperor immediately thought his son was very adorable and held Yin'er in his arms: "Yin'er, are you also interested in this palace market?"
When it comes to the palace market, Yin Er feels like he has endless things to say, and immediately starts chatting with the emperor. The emperor is very surprised to hear this, he didn't know that his son actually has such ideas
The father and son talked more and more, so they waited until the palace maid came up to announce that it was time for dinner, and then they all went to the Queen Mother to have dinner.
The Queen Mother and the others also put away the mahjong table. Looking at this group of people, they were surprised that it was the father who brought the baby in. "You are all so concerned about the baby now."
The emperor smiled and said, "That's right. After all, our Yin'er is very cute."
Huh? The Queen Mother and the Empress were stunned. Aren’t you always a strict father? The Emperor seemed to have not noticed their expressions and sat down at the table with Yin’er in his arms: “It’s time to eat. Why are you looking at me?”
The Queen Mother and the Empress looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time: "Nothing, let's eat."
When a group of people get together, happy days are always short-lived. The palace was bustling with activity for several days, and finally it was New Year's Eve, the day when the palace market opened.
The positions in each palace and royal palace have been allocated, and the items to be sold have already begun to be delivered to their stalls.
Nannanbeibei got up early in the morning. He was so excited about preparing in the palace last night that he didn't even go back to the palace. He came to find Yin'er early in the morning: "Yin'er, are you up? Let's go, the palace market has started."
This was the first time that the palace held a palace market. The emperor dispatched a large number of guards to protect the safety of the palace and ensure that nothing would happen today. The ministers also knew that the palace was going to hold a palace market, so they entered the palace early in the morning. After all, everyone was very curious about the palace market.
There were all kinds of things for sale on the stalls at the entrance of the palace. Some concubines were selling paintings. These were the paintings they had painted before, and they finally had the chance to exchange them for some silver. The queen said that all the money they earned belonged to them.
They were not allowed to leave the palace all year round, so this was the only chance for them to earn some money. Those who were good at calligraphy were selling calligraphy, and those who were good at embroidery were selling embroidery. It must be said that this palace market really helped to discover many talents in the palace.
At this time Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao were also walking around inside, and then they found that these people were selling not only paintings, calligraphy and other things, but also gold, silver and jewelry, but no one was selling food.
“Why don’t these people sell food?”
Mu Yexiao looked at Qian Jiujiu and said, "Maybe there is one ahead! Let's go over and take a look. I have to say, these people's craftsmanship is really good."
In fact, the ministers' families still have quite a lot of these things, but the families of each concubine can take this opportunity to subsidize their daughters who marry into the palace. After all, in the palace, you can't take a single step without money.
After walking around for a while, I finally saw a food stall at the front. This stall belonged to none other than the eldest prince Yin'er. Beside the eldest prince, there were several chefs from the imperial kitchen who were busy preparing food.
Yin Er was hawking on the side, and for a moment it really had that flavor. Next to the eldest prince's stall was the stall of the royal palace, and the things sold on the stall of the royal palace were more messy. Most of them were children's toys and so on.
Yes, today, these ministers came to the palace with their favored or valued children! So toys are also very popular.
Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao took a quick look and then headed for the palace gate. Of course, they were going to accompany the Queen Mother, who was naturally happy to see Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao coming.
The Queen Mother was already here with them in the Queen Mother's Palace. Since they couldn't go out shopping, it was good to be able to look around at the palace gate. Soon, the group walked towards the palace market. As soon as they entered the palace market, they smelled a fragrance.
The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment: "This smell is so familiar, let's go and take a look."
Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao looked at each other. When they came here just now, there was nothing there. How come there is one so soon? Was it just taken out
Smelling the fragrance along the way, the Queen Mother and her group soon stopped in front of a stall. The person standing in front of the stall was none other than the Imperial Concubine Yan who was originally under house arrest. It was only because of a day like today that she was able to make an exception and come out to participate in the palace market.
Concubine Yan is wearing very simple clothes today, and looks like a young lady selling things. However, this kind of outfit looks very pleasing to the eye when worn on her.
"Greetings to the Empress Dowager, His Majesty the Emperor, and His Majesty the Empress."
After a round of greetings, the Queen Mother frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"
Imperial Concubine Yan smiled and began to introduce: "Your Majesty, this is a sesame cake. Today, my stall is selling sesame cakes. Your Majesty, please try it. I will just treat it as you helping me taste it. I won't charge you any money."
Hearing this, the Queen Mother couldn't help but laugh: "I don't lack that little money. How can I eat without paying? Well, I won't say anything else. Let's have one first."
Concubine Yan quickly wrapped a sesame cake with paper and put it in the empress dowager's hand. The empress dowager took a bite and fell silent.
The emperor was a little surprised and was about to question Imperial Concubine Yan when he heard the Queen Mother say, "This is the taste. Imperial Concubine Yan is thoughtful. Since you were able to get this sesame cake, I'm afraid you have something to ask for. What do you want?"
Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao looked at each other. It seemed that there were some stories in this sesame cake that they didn't know about.
Imperial Concubine Yan was silent for a moment, then suddenly knelt down and looked at the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, I want to beg you to let my brother go. My brother is still young..."
Just when she was about to say something, Mu Yexiao suddenly spoke up: "I'm afraid it's too late to speak up, Concubine Yan, you may not know that your Wang family has been executed. It's just that you are a daughter who is married off, so you are not implicated."
"You are actually wasting your time trying to please the Queen Mother and exonerate your brother. You are simply dreaming."
When Concubine Yan heard the news, her pupils widened instantly and she looked at the emperor: "Your Majesty, is what the prince said true? Are you really going to kill all nine clans of our Wang family?"
The emperor nodded and said, "Originally, I was planning to tell you about this matter after the New Year."
Imperial Concubine Yan looked at the Emperor stupidly, then suddenly turned to look at the Empress Dowager: "Empress Dowager, please, persuade the Emperor to spare our Wang family. We didn't rebel, how can you execute all nine clans?"
The Queen Mother didn't really understand what was going on. She looked at the Emperor and said, "Your Majesty, what is going on?"
As for Concubine Yan's misconduct, the Queen Mother did not blame her too much. After all, no matter who it is, it would be impossible to remain calm when hearing that his or her entire family was executed.
The Emperor looked at the Queen Mother and said, "Mother, this is a matter of the court, and now is not the time to discuss these matters. Since Imperial Concubine Yan does not want to participate in the palace market, she should go back and rest. Ran'er, take her back."
At the beginning, the maids around Concubine Yan were all selected by the emperor himself, which means that these maids were all the emperor's people, and Concubine Yan was under the emperor's supervision from beginning to end.
Ran Er reluctantly stepped forward to support Concubine Yan: "Let's go, Concubine."
Concubine Yan refused to do so, but Ran'er quickly knocked her out. After bowing to the Emperor and others and taking their leave, he helped the unconscious Concubine Yan out of the palace.
The ladies in the next stall were all startled, and then chose to remain silent. They decided to just have fun in the palace market. There were some things they could not participate in.
The Queen Mother looked at the pancake in front of her and said, "Go and find out who made this pancake? And who did Imperial Concubine Yan meet?"
Qian Jiujiu looked at the Queen Mother with some curiosity: "Mother, is there something wrong with this sesame cake?"
The Queen Mother sighed, "There's nothing wrong with it. It's absolutely right. I don't like eating sesame cakes, but the late emperor and sister Qing do. It is said that they got to know each other because of sesame cakes. They met each other while fighting for a sesame cake, and then traveled the world together, which led to the story that followed."
Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao both knew the subsequent story. This was a true love story between three people. Qian Jiujiu was a little confused. The emperor and Concubine Qing were in love, but the queen mother didn't know whether she loved the emperor or Concubine Qing.
After all, most of what they knew was that the Queen was protecting Concubine Qing. Shaking her head, Qian Jiujiu felt that she couldn't think about it anymore: "Since the Queen Mother likes this pancake, why not find out who made it, keep the person, and make it for the Queen Mother every day? But will the Queen Mother be unhappy?"
According to the Empress Dowager, the sesame cake can be considered as a token of love between my father and my mother, the Imperial Concubine Qing. It would be strange to eat someone else's token of love every day.
The Queen Mother shook her head: "No need, just eat it occasionally and remember it. What you should care about is how Concubine Yan found out such secret information, and whether she has any problems? And whether we should keep her or not."
Qian Jiujiu thought for a moment and looked at the emperor: "This is a question that my brother needs to consider. Mother, let's go eat the spicy hot pot at the Nannanbeibei stall to show our support to the little ones."
Most of the gifts here are from families that buy things from concubines, and she is worried that these little guys will be sad because they can’t sell anything!
Who knew that after they got there, Qian Jiujiu realized that she had completely overthought, there was actually no place for them here.