At the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet this year, there was a lot less excitement.
Because the imperial concubine was old, she never came to the palace banquet, but stayed obediently in the palace to raise her baby.
This kind of palace banquet is prone to accidents, so it is not easy for pregnant women to join in the fun. But anyone who doesn't take children seriously will try their best to avoid dangerous places.
The previous dynasty was very inconsiderate of concubines in this regard, and concubines were not allowed to be absent from many important palace banquets. On the first day of the new year, concubines are required to worship their ancestors according to the ritual system, and even pregnant concubines have to kneel down for several hours.
Dayan didn't have so many problems, even pregnant concubines could not come to the New Year's banquet, and there was no worship on the first day of the new year. The worship in spring requires concubines to show their faces, but pregnant women don't have to kneel down to worship, and can rest at a distance.
Apart from Concubine Shen, Yu Zhaoyi, the former Concubine Yu who is still under confinement, is obviously not there. With the absence of Concubine De and Madam Wan, there are fewer and fewer high-ranking concubines in the palace.
The empress sat on the top and listened to other people's flattery, she glanced down and saw that it was rare for Concubine Mi to eat her own food honestly and not choke with others. Concubine Xi and Mrs. Shu were fighting against each other, but there were still the two of them, which seemed very monotonous. Since Concubine Fu had just been deprived of her title, she has been more at ease recently.
Of the remaining Liu Zhaoyi and Wei Jieyu, one didn't know what to think and was silent;
It's true that there is no excitement anymore, Fu Qiushui misses Concubine Shen a little bit.
At this moment, the imperial concubine is afraid that she is teasing the cat, and she is waiting for her daughter-in-law to come back by the way.
Qingxi had already disappeared in a flash, and after a while, she sneaked up to Qin's side and dragged Shen Liyi away. The two children followed Dong Xiao to the side hall to play, followed by another group of carrot heads.
Without the noisy little doll, the palace banquet was even more deserted.
The empress dowager was a little tired, so she simply left the table early. The empress looked at it enviously, and she also wanted to leave early.
Shengsheng stayed until Haishi, and the empress was finally able to leave. As soon as she returned to the palace, she just stepped back and got ready to take a bath, but when she took off her clothes, she was hugged by someone.
"Dengtuzi." The Empress said lazily.
Concubine Shen's hands suddenly became irregular: "It's a disciple, how about it?"
Empress Fu slapped her paw away: "Don't make trouble, I'm tired."
"I'll press it for you." The imperial concubine said viciously.
Then I pressed it into the bathtub, then pressed it on the bed, and finally pressed it for most of the night, and finally fell asleep hugging each other. Early the next morning, the two of them were exercising in the house.
Concubine Shen Guifei did not break her promise to teach Empress Fu to exercise. She planned to ask someone to take a leave of absence for the empress, and she would not come to attend the greetings in the future. After all, she had a "big belly" and it was inconvenient.
In this way, she can openly hide on the empress's side, without having to go back and forth.
Empress Fu didn't point out her little thoughts, and even indulged her. The two people taught the exercise movements hand in hand, and their bodies were tightly pressed together.
The Empress suspected that Concubine Shen Gui was taking advantage of the opportunity.
The noble concubine's face was righteous and awe-inspiring: "You think too much."
"yes?"
"That's natural, only dirty minds think dirty things," she said.
"..." She really didn't think about any dirty things, but felt that the post was too tight.
So, Shen Guifei, are you thinking about something dirty
The imperial concubine refused to answer and pretended to be silent and unable to extricate herself from the teaching. When she saw the queen, she still wanted to ask the bottom line. She assumed the posture of a strict teacher and justly accused her of not being serious. The empress's mouth twitched, she was not as knowledgeable as her.
In short, the morning teaching time passed happily.
The exercise method taught by the imperial concubine is similar to sword dance, the posture is beautiful, the dance is not very tiring, and the movements are not difficult to remember. Empress Fu is so smart, she naturally learned it quickly. She danced once to show Concubine Shen, and got the astonishing expression on Concubine Shen's face.
Very satisfied.
Then they both timed out.
By the time the empress wiped her sweat slowly, changed into fresh clothes and went to entertain the concubines, she had already been waiting for half an hour.
In the past, if the empress could not come on time, they simply let them not have to greet her. But today I don't know what's wrong, and I don't say no, so I let them sit and wait.
The concubines thought to themselves, could it be that the empress is in a bad mood today and deliberately gave them a blow
"It must be that the visit to the relatives yesterday made the empress unhappy. She wanted to let us know who is the head of the harem. But it is a pity that the concubine did not come today..." Mrs. Shu Before the words were finished, the Empress Empress came in.
She closed her mouth in embarrassment, not knowing how much the queen had heard.
As soon as the empress came, before she could say a few words to entertain the concubines, Miss Manxing begged to see her outside the door, and the timing was well timed.
It's not that she is so powerful that she can figure out when the empress will come to entertain the concubines. She found out that her own mother didn't come back in the morning, so she knew that she might not go to pay her respects today. That being the case, she had nothing to do, so she simply wandered to Fengyi Palace, pretending to serve the imperial concubine, but actually came to chat with Dong Xiao.
When the empress went to change clothes, the noble concubine summoned her and asked her to take a leave of absence in front of all the concubines, and then drove Man Xing back to play with Dong Xiao.
Dong Xiao is a reliable little partner. After the Empress Empress came out, she came to inform her, so she was able to meet with the Empress.
"My maidservant pays respects to the empress." Man Xing saluted respectfully.
"You came just in time." The empress held up the teacup, "I see that the imperial concubine Ming has not arrived, but what happened?"
Man Xing replied sternly: "Back to your mother, my mother is uncomfortable when she wakes up, and because of her big belly, she has difficulty moving, so I asked my servant to come and ask my mother for leave."
"Concubine Ming is getting older, so it's really inconvenient. How about this, I don't have to pay my respects to the palace from tomorrow, so I can have a baby." The empress's face remained unchanged, as if she was talking about something that should be taken for granted, but her tone was a little colder than usual Some, everyone secretly gloated.
The empress is angry!
That's right, according to Mrs. Shu's statement, today the Empress originally wanted to give Concubine Ming a bad reputation, but she didn't expect Concubine Ming not to come. I don't know if it was a coincidence or I learned the news in advance, so I didn't come at all.
From their point of view, it is also possible that Concubine Ming became arrogant because of visiting relatives yesterday, so she deliberately did not greet the empress today.
No matter what, Ming Guifei's move must have annoyed the queen. The queen has never personally attacked anyone, I wonder if she can hold back her anger this time
Man Xing's face was calm and calm, as if he didn't notice that the empress was angry. She thanked her and took her leave.
After the goal is achieved, there is really no need to stay.
This disappoints those who want to watch the queen teach Man Xing.
At the back of the hall, Concubine Shen was leisurely sitting on a soft chair eating snacks, listening to the movements of the concubines ahead.
"... Your Majesty, the concubine concubine conceived a dragon heir for His Majesty, and she went back to visit her relatives yesterday. It was really hard work. Since you spared her from paying her respects, why don't you also spare her from paying her respects to the Empress Dowager?" It's what Mrs. Shu said
Mrs. Shu stretched out her paws to Shen Yuqing just after she was released, and then she was chopped clean, so she couldn't help shrinking her neck obediently for a while. But in the end, I can't get enough of my anger, and I have to take some eye drops when I get the chance.
She thought that the empress might not listen to the matter of pregnancy and visiting relatives, so she brought this up on purpose.
Empress Fu didn't answer the question, she only said that it was up to the queen mother to decide how to please the queen mother, so she exposed it.
Mrs. Shu didn't care, anyway, she just stabbed a few words casually.
The concubines are always like this, there is nothing serious to discuss, and they are always talking nonsense.
The empress frowned and interrupted their useless confrontation: "Mid-September is Shen Guifei's birthday, and early October is the Empress Dowager's birthday. If you have time to bicker here, why don't you think carefully about what gifts to buy."
The queen mother doesn't like extravagance, and every time she celebrates her birthday, she handles it casually and doesn't hold a banquet. The concubines in the harem didn't dare to be so slack, they carefully prepared gifts and sent them, which looked a bit like a birthday.
It was last year, each of them gave a gift, and the birthday was over. This year is probably about the same. Everyone has already started giving advice. Although there is still more than a month before the beginning of October, they are already ready.
It was Concubine Shen's birthday, because of the sudden outbreak of war last year, Concubine Shen's birthday naturally did not attract everyone's attention. This year, seeing what the Empress Dowager meant, she didn't say that there was going to be a banquet, but only asked them to give gifts, and everyone couldn't help thinking about it.
The Empress really took the opportunity to suppress Concubine Shen.
The concubines were delighted to hear it, and they were going to give Shen Guifei a good time at the birthday ceremony. You can't send something too good, it must be worthless but looks expensive.
Concubine Shen didn't care, anyway, it wasn't her birthday, it belonged to the original owner, Miss Shen. Even the empress knew that she didn't care about it, so she randomly ordered a gift list and threw it to her for her to see.
The imperial concubine took a look and found that it was really not a good thing, probably similar to what the concubines had prepared.
"That's it, it looks good to me." The imperial concubine said cheerfully, "You can send it half a month in advance. I will discuss it with the emperor. The day before 'my birthday', go to autumn hunting."
"Why the day before?" The Empress asked curiously.
"The hunting ground is too far away. I don't want to celebrate my birthday immediately after rushing there. It's too much trouble."
The queen thought about it for a while: "Alright, the emperor will naturally shoot an arrow in the head on the second day, and it will be a shame for you then."
The ceremony for the official start of the autumn hunting in the Dayan Dynasty is to shoot deer.
Take a stag that was caught in advance, wait until that day, untie the rope on the stag, and let it run. The emperor led his guards to catch up with him on horseback, which is called "chasing the deer"; then he took a bow and shot an arrow, and shot the stag before it returned to the forest, which was called "shooting the deer".
Afterwards, this deer will become the main dish at the dinner, cooked by the imperial chef, and rewarded by the emperor to the favorite concubine and important ministers. Those who can get venison are all people who are relied on by the emperor.
This kind of ceremony naturally also has a method of releasing water. If the emperor is really weak, then choose a thin young deer and starve it for a few days, so that it has no strength to run. In this way, the emperor can chase two steps casually without getting on the horse, and then shoot the arrow to kill. In short, it is enough to complete the form.
Of course Fu Yanjun is not a weak chicken, so when the time comes he will face a strong stag. It would be embarrassing if you didn't shoot it before it escaped.
Concubine Shen Gui wanted to see his jokes, but at the same time felt that this was not good for her, and she was entangled endlessly.
"Yan Jun is good at riding and shooting." Empress Fu knew what she was thinking, and said coolly, "So don't think about it."
"That's really a pity." Shen Guifei sighed pretendingly, and by the way gave up the idea of tricking the emperor behind his back.
If the daughter-in-law doesn't let her do bad things, then forget it.
"Okay, since you have no objection to the gift list, I'll let them go down and prepare it, and send it to you at the end of the month."
Birthday presents can be delivered half a month in advance, and when the concubines follow suit, it will be a slap in the face.
On the day at the end of the month, the Empress really took the lead in sending Concubine Shen Gui a bunch of flashy things. On the surface, it seems that there is no problem, these things are no problem as gifts, but in fact they are extremely inconsiderate.
This gift is not brilliant, it is not even comparable to the birthday gifts given by empresses to other concubines in the past, and the problem can be found after a comparison.
The other concubines also sent gifts that were not very good in vertical comparison. After delivery, I was very satisfied, as if I had eaten an ice bowl during the dog days.
Shen Guifei also has today.
Then they were slapped in the face happily.
On the second day, His Majesty the Emperor announced that he would go to the Royal Hunting Ground on September 16 for an autumn hunt.
It was said that we were leaving on September 16th, but it was already evening when we arrived at the place. The real autumn hunting must start on September 17th, and September 17th is Shen Guifei's birthday.
The concubines gritted their silver teeth again.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor accompanied Concubine Shen to visit her relatives, and the Emperor Qiuhun accompanied Concubine Shen to celebrate her birthday. Isn't it just that there is one in my belly, I don't know if it is a man or a woman! Now that she is spoiled like this, how can she really have a son
Autumn hunting also needs to be prepared in advance, twenty days is enough.
The ministers didn't realize the issue of time, after all, how did they know the birthday of a concubine? It's not the empress and the queen mother. These two are birthdays, so they can hold a palace banquet in a serious manner and entertain all the officials. The rest are concubines, at most a family banquet is held on the birthday, and everyone in the palace can get together by themselves.
The ministers considered that 20 days would be just enough time to prepare in advance, and it was very appropriate to take it easy. Considering that the autumn season will be added in October, it will be impossible to go to the autumn hunt when you are busy. When the autumn season is over and the autumn is over, how about hunting a ball
September 16th is just right, the autumn hunting lasts for three days, except for the first and last two days of rushing, it happens to be from the 17th to the 19th. When I came back in my twenties, I had more than a month to arrange the follow-up work of Qiu Wei. The time card was very suitable, and everyone thought about it and felt comfortable physically and mentally.
They don't want to toss one crop after another in a hurry. It's best to take a break in the middle, and it's good to have a longer preparation time.
So the ministers rarely jumped out to sing the opposite, but agreed unanimously.
When the autumn hunting officially started and they knew what the emperor was planning, how they vomited blood in their hearts would be another story.
Anyway, the ministers are still having fun now.
Concubine Shen happily hugged the adult and rolled on the bed, that's not counting, she even curled up on the bed with the adult to "pounce the mouse", cough, pounce on the fluffy ball. In the end, the queen's good bed was messed up. One person and one cat didn't care about it, and they had more fun on the messy bed.
That is to say, Fu Qiushui's bed is big, otherwise the lord would be fine, Concubine Shen Gui would have rolled down a long time ago.
"You don't think it's childish to play with adults." The empress looked helplessly at the two of them having fun on her bed, and sighed.
Shen Guifei hugged the cat and rolled around again: "It's not childish, adults like to play like this."
In order to make the cat happy, it doesn't matter if you are childish.
The adult meowed excitedly, and regarded the two-legged beast that was jumping at the "mouse" with him as the same kind, and looked at it happily, wagging its tail like a dog.
Concubine Shen immediately got excited, and followed it meowing back and forth, as if chatting, but in fact, no one could understand what the other party was saying.
The empress covered her eyes, unable to bear to look directly.
After a while, he silently put down his hand, got up and went out. Today's palace affairs haven't been dealt with yet, so I don't have time to watch these two cats having fun.
Concubine Shen stuffed the cat ball into her big sleeve, got off the bed, put on her shoes and followed it up.
It's boring to play with cats alone, but you have to play with cats beside someone who doesn't have a sense of accomplishment.
As soon as the empress entered the door, she slammed the door shut, shutting Concubine Shen outside, and refused to let this person come in to provoke her. She was afraid that she couldn't help snatching the cat and masturbating herself.
Concubine Shen touched the kitten rolling in her sleeve, then turned to look for Dong Xiao.
Dong Xiao doesn't have a cat, and she doesn't dare to snatch her cat.
So not long after, Miss Dongxiao, who had always been able to chatter for a long time when she was caught alone, squatted resentfully not far from Concubine Shen, staring at the cat in her arms, and hardly spoke.
"What's wrong with Sister Dongxiao? You actually shut up today?" Chaqu, who came to deliver refreshments, joked with a smile and was almost beaten by Dongxiao.
Are her jokes that good-looking
Chaqu quickly ran away with the food box in her arms, not forgetting to wink at Concubine Shen Gui.
The imperial concubine and empress are teasing cats on the ground, completely indifferent to Dong Xiao's resentful gaze.
Originally, Dong Xiao was very happy to see the imperial concubine come to her at the beginning, and finally he was able to catch someone who would run away without seeing her to share gossip. As a result, she babbled for a long time by herself, Concubine Shen Gui only cared about teasing the cat and ignored her.
Then, Dong Xiao experienced a kind of sourness that was neglected and envy, jealousy and hatred that were not funny.
Concubine Shen doesn't care if she is tall or not, anyway, seeing her envious of having a cat to masturbate, the imperial concubine is happy.
After the imperial concubine had enjoyed enough, Shi Shiran left with the cat in her arms, and Miss Dongxiao completely became the background board.
Dong Xiao: "..."
Wait, she also wants to raise a cat, isn't it just a cat! She went to slander the empress and let the empress raise one, and then she will have a cat too!
The naive girl Dongxiao probably never thought about it. Of course, the empress raised a cat by herself, so how could she be so generous
Miss Dongxiao did it when she thought of it, and ran to the empress to slander her.
The empress put down the ledger, and asked back: "If you have an adult, why do you need another cat?"
Dong Xiao: Meow meow
Your lord is being hugged by the imperial concubine, don't let him touch you!
"But." The empress said lightly, "I can touch it."
"..."
"If Yuqing refuses to give it, then just grab it. Anyway, she dare not resist." The Empress continued.
"..."
The single dog was hit hard, goodbye manually.
"Then..." Miss Dongxiao struggled, "Bring a puppy? Maybe the eldest princess likes it."
If you can't get a cat, a dog is fine too!
"Qingxi has a rabbit." The queen's face changed.
That poor rabbit was about to be spoiled by Qingxi, it was really distressing.
Qingxi is only a little devil, so she can't be expected to love little animals. But for adults, she dotes on him very much.
Dong Xiao left discouraged.
It's a pity that she is a court lady, so she is not qualified to keep pets by herself.
Soon the time for the autumn hunt was coming, and it was rare for Concubine Shen to greet her with her eight-month-old belly. Someone asked her why she came here suddenly, and the words insinuated that Concubine Shen Gui came to show off for the upcoming autumn hunt.
The imperial concubine easily blocked her back, saying that she missed the eldest princess, so she came to take a look.
From outsiders' point of view, she really hasn't seen Qingxi for a long time, even though she actually only saw her yesterday.
After dealing with the boring concubine, she used this reason to stay after paying her respects, and blatantly spent lunch in the Queen's Palace, and even wanted to have dinner.
She was kicked out by the empress.
Then he changed his way and sneaked back, at least to have dinner.
Fu Qiushui saw her and Qingxi eating exactly the same bold and unrestrained appearance, the veins on the forehead twitched.
The mother and daughter don't know what's going on, Shen Yuqing was finally trained by her and the nanny to eat gracefully, but during this period of "cheating love", Shen Yuqing changed back to the original. Not only that, but she also brought Qingxi into ruin.
Her Royal Highness, the good ones don't imitate the bad ones, and insist on having the same appearance as the concubine mother. After trying it once, I found that eating like this is really refreshing. I drank a lot of wine and ate meat in a big bowl.
The empress endured and endured, and put down the chopsticks with a slap.
The mother and daughter were startled, obediently put down their bowls and chopsticks, and sat upright, waiting for the reprimand from the empress.
Empress Fu: "..."
Come on, these two people looked at her with innocent little eyes, what else could she say
"Be more elegant in eating, no one will compete with you." The empress said weakly, and it was considered to be raised high and gently lowered.
The mother and daughter nodded again and again, picked up the bowl and slowed down the speed of eating.
However, not long after, I forgot to pretend, and went back boldly.
"..."
The empress decided to give up and let them go.
The author has something to say: I want to raise a cat after graduation_(:з」∠)_I will live with my friends during the summer vacation. Our second and second girl raised three kittens, they are so cute!
Thanks to Landmines: Filling the Pit in the Dream, The Other Side of the Wind Trace, Splendid Huanian, Empty Dreams, Hundreds of Gems, Weiran Shengge, Baabaa, Pepper and Salt Orange, Liu Yao, Little Fan No. 13, Silent Words, Passing by in a hurry
Thanks for the nutrient solution: Jinye Weiyang+10, Mo Ruohen+10, JIE+20, straying+30, Liuyao+25, Good Dream+4, Raising a pot of grass+5