Your Highness, you stole my heart

The Empress Dowager's birthday ceremony is a state banquet, especially in today's filial piety, so it will not be simple.

Officials from the first rank to the fourth rank had to bring their family members into the palace to pay homage to their birthdays. Fa Yi was a widow, so he entered the palace alone with his birthday gifts.

The big families and upstarts in Jingzhou all have their own circles. The families of the Hou Ye and the families of the father-in-laws and uncles naturally come and go frequently, and those who have just taken root in the official ranks of Jingzhou naturally have good friends with the same upstarts.

Not to mention that he was born in a merchant family, his parents died and he is still unmarried, so there is no exception for such a person to come to pay birthday wishes alone.

The surroundings were filled with chatting and laughing, and Fa Yi sat alone in his seat, feeling quite at ease.

Before giving these officials much time to chat and laugh, they heard a sharp "The Empress Dowager is here, the Emperor is here", and everyone immediately returned to the table and fell silent.

When the empress dowager and the emperor in black and yellow dragon robes appeared with all the concubines and princes and daughters, all the officials bowed down and bowed.Fa Yi also knelt down respectfully, shouting along with the crowd: "See the Empress Dowager, see the Emperor."

When the empress dowager was seated, she said "flat body", and the emperor, princes and daughters also took their seats one by one.

Jin Chengdi has been the emperor for 21 years. Although he is over 40, ignoring the long beard, he is clearly a handsome man, completely different from the prime minister who put on weight early, with a well-proportioned body, no different from his five handsome sons.

Today is the 58th birthday of the Empress Dowager, but her hands don't look like those of an old woman, only faint wrinkles can be seen on her fair skin, and only a trace of aging can be seen in her no longer bright eyes.

The first person to present the birthday present was the emperor. What he presented was the picture of Shoubi Nanshan painted by himself, but the empress dowager only took a look at the picture, and then asked the old women around her to accept it. I am satisfied with that painting, or because of other things.

The old ministers present were not surprised, only those who had just entered the officialdom were curious.Although the queen mother is the mother, she is the emperor. No matter what, she can't lose face to her son outside like this.

But regarding royal matters, I only dare to ask questions in my heart, and no one dares to show any strangeness on the face.

"Ye'er hasn't returned to the palace this year?" The queen mother asked the emperor slowly.

The first emperor was a well-known devoted man, and there was only one empress in the harem, who is the current empress dowager, so the heirs were only twins, one son and one daughter. The eldest princess Dugu Ye stayed in the northwest all year round and had not returned for many years. Jingzhou.

"Mother, my sister wrote a letter a month ago. Now the northwest is not peaceful, and I can't leave to go back to Beijing. I also sent my sister's birthday gift." The emperor replied with a smile, and signaled the eunuch to bring the things.

The eldest princess, Dugu Ye, was given the title of Princess Xifeng by the late emperor, and granted the three Northwest states as fiefdoms.

The empress dowager didn't even look at the birthday gift, and directly signaled the old mother to accept it. Anyone could see the dissatisfaction of the empress dowager.

There was silence in the banquet palace, and just when everyone didn't know how to quieten their breathing, a soft female voice sounded, "Grandmother has finished receiving the birthday gifts from father and aunt, it's time to take care of her face!" .”

Peng Ji got up from her princess seat, stepped forward to hold the Empress Dowager's arm, leaned her head towards the Empress Dowager, coquettishly.

The Empress Dowager's complexion improved, and she patted Peng Ji's hand with a smile, "Yan'er is still filial, but Yan'er needs to recruit a son-in-law as soon as possible, so that I can let go of my family's heart."

Only then did the ministers put their hearts back into their stomachs, and the banquet could finally proceed.

"The imperial grandmother is really biased. Could it be that Yan'er has a son-in-law, so the imperial grandmother only needs a son-in-law? Besides, it took Yan'er a long time to learn this hundred sons and thousand grandchildren dance this time as a birthday gift for the imperial grandmother."

Peng Ji's voice sounded like a junior trying to please the elders, and the emperor felt a lot more at ease when he heard it. Sure enough, it would be better to have a daughter. Thinking of this, the emperor raised his head and gave those useless sons a look.

The princes said in their hearts: ...why are you looking at us?Isn't the queen mother not too satisfied with you?

"Xiao Liu, what kind of dance is this Hundred Sons and Thousands of Grandchildren Dance? How come I've never heard of it?" the emperor said bluntly.

Peng Ji still hugged the Queen Mother's arm, "I would like to report to my father, this hundred sons and thousand grandsons dance is a dance developed by my daughter and the dance director for several months."

The emperor nodded with satisfaction, "Xiao Liu has put his heart into it. Since that's the case, let's put your dance on the first program. You go to prepare first, and it will start after all the ministers' birthday presents are delivered."

Peng Ji greeted the empress dowager with blessings, then walked outside the banquet palace with her head held high. When passing by the ministers, she accepted everyone's attention and salute as usual.

"Feng Dequan, let's start."

The eunuch standing next to him stood at the bottom and shouted, "The birthday ceremony has officially begun, playing music..."

After speaking, the entire palace of the banquet resounded with various piano sounds that matched each other.

Concubine Luo Guifei, the biological mother of King Ji, took the lead in presenting birthday gifts. Today, there are three thousand beauties in the harem, and the empress is no longer there. Concubine Luo Guifei, who has followed the emperor since the palace, is the woman who holds the power in the harem.

The only concubines who could participate in such a grand banquet were the three imperial concubines. After their birthday gifts were delivered, the five princes brought their families to celebrate their birthdays, and finally the ministers and wives.

Half an hour passed, and the banquet began after the birthday gifts were delivered, and the ministers could finally toast and drink.

The music of the dance director's musicians suddenly changed, and they began to cheer up.In that cheerful tone, a woman in a big red robe descends from the sky with two long red ribbons in her hands, and a ring is hung around her waist, which is full of long ribbons.Her hands are dancing the ribbon, and her waist is twisting the ring to fly the ribbon into the air. The rhythm of the musicians is getting faster and faster, and the speed of dancing the ribbon is getting faster and faster. Every dance is like a lively boy. Jumping and jumping.

The empress dowager looked cheerful, the emperor's eyes were wide open, and the princes looked at their sons and daughters beside them with smiles on their faces, MMP in their hearts.

You are the only one who pleases the imperial grandmother, right?

If the ministers could come to their senses at this time, they would definitely find that the evil spirit that everyone avoided was at this moment with piercing eyes, astonished by the woman in the center of the stage motionless.

As soon as Peng Ji finished dancing, the atmosphere of the whole banquet became hotter and hotter with the empress dowager's smile.After having the princess at the beginning, the princes are naturally not to be outdone. Those who have sons and daughters quickly let them go, recite the Analects of Confucius or dance swords casually, the children are too young to sit still and want to do something.

For example, King Ji, he has two sons, both born to concubines, and they can't even speak a word.

Without a child to please, he has to give himself a sense of existence.

"Fifth, you are fidgeting, but do you have something to say?" The one who asked was Concubine Luo, the closest to Emperor Cheng of Jin, who was also King Ji's biological mother.She knows her son best, as a mother and concubine, she can know if his eyes are squinted or something is on his mind when he moves his eyeballs.

Ji Wang Zhengchou didn't know what to say, so he quickly got up with a smile, "My son suddenly remembered that there was also our youngest number one scholar since the founding of the Tianjin Dynasty at this banquet, and this birthday poem is indispensable."

The empress dowager was interested, "Is the fifth one talking about Mr. Fa?" She had also heard of the 16-year-old Zhuangyuan Lang.

Since Peng Ji's end, she has been keeping her ears to the outside world and drinking her own way, but when she heard it, she just curled up her lips.

"Returning to the emperor's grandmother, isn't it our Lord Ting Wei?"

When all the people at the banquet looked at one place, the person concerned stopped the wine glass at hand and knelt down in the center of the stage, "Weichen Falao wine, I wish the Empress Dowager a blessing like the East China Sea and Shoubi Nanshan."

When Emperor Jin Cheng saw that his most proud courtier actually said a birthday greeting that even a three-year-old child knew, he was dissatisfied, "I'm lazy today in prison."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there are thousands of birthday wishes in this world, but only this sentence can express what I think in my heart. Ask me, what else in this world is as vast as the East China Sea and as long as Zhongnan Mountain." She turned to the Empress Dowager, "slightly I respectfully wish the Empress Dowager is as blessed as the East Sea, with a longer life than Nanshan, a son of a dragon and a grandson of a phoenix, forever and ever."

"It's been a long time, Mr. Ting Wei, please get up, this birthday speech, the Ai family accepts it."

Not to mention the officials, even the emperor was fooled. The Shoubi Nanshan painted by himself did not please his mother. This little brat got her mother's approval just by saying a word.

Could it be that she was a child who was secretly carried back from outside the palace?

Look again, why can't this little brat get up?Could it be that he didn't hear what the queen mother said just now?

At any rate, he is his beloved courtier, and one of his best son-in-law candidates, "Get up and return to your seat."

Fa Yi raised his head and looked directly at the people above him, "I still have something to say."

The emperor frowned, "Huh? If there is an introductory note, let's bring it up at the court." Could it be that the evil god wanted to talk about those bloody cases at the birthday ceremony?

"The humble minister is in prison and begs His Majesty to marry Princess Pengji."

I am most afraid of the sudden quietness of the air...

The sound of wine glasses being placed on the table was heard at the quiet banquet. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a certain princess who was being proposed was drinking wine comfortably.

The emperor came back to his senses, "What did Ai Qing say?" He was afraid that he might have misheard when he was old.

Fa Yi was still kneeling on the ground, straightened his back, looked at the people above him without any hesitation, and raised his voice, "Chen Fa is drinking, begging to marry Princess Peng Ji."

"emperor."

"The son is here."

"Ai's family is tired, so I will go back to the palace first."

The empress dowager didn't look away from the kneeling person until the moment she turned to leave.

This year's birthday ceremony is really difficult to attend.

The five sons of the emperor also had different colors on their faces.

Everyone can feel the embarrassment of this banquet, an emperor who was beaten by surprise, five princes who have their own thoughts, and a princess who has nothing to do with him, plus the evil court lieutenant who is kneeling in Taichung.

In the end, it was King Ji who came out to break the silence, "Father, you might as well listen to what Royal Sister means."

Emperor Cheng of Jin had inquired about his daughter's mind before, but at that time, he found nothing useful. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he also took advantage of the opportunity to ask: "Yan'er, in your opinion, what should I do? Should I respond or not?" Should?" Princess Pengji, whose phoenix name is Dugu Qingyan.