Qingchuan History

Chapter 285
The New Year's Thanksgiving banquet was held at three quarters of the unitary hour that night.There is a sacrifice before the banquet.

The monarch and the core members of the royal family will bow three times and kowtow nine times in front of the Mingluan Hall to pray for the coming year; they will also light incense and lamps, pour wine for three rounds, and burn ingots and silk to worship the ancestors.

Such a rule has been passed down from Qingchuan to the present. Although there are differences in the details in various countries, the basic steps are generally the same.After the sacrifice, a New Year's banquet was held in Ningfengzhai.Although it was a palace banquet, everyone present was from the Gu family, it's just that the etiquette system was more grand than ordinary family banquets.

Except for King Ning, King Xin and King Yong brought their families into the palace.Ji Ping was naturally there too.After drinking for two rounds, Shao Le stopped for a while, and the female family members in the venue were all a little happy, but Gu Chunyue's expression was as usual, she didn't look like she had drunk wine at all.

"Why is elder sister so proud today, she didn't respond after drinking two cups?" Gu Chunyue is not a person who is good at drinking, Chunfeng looked around and looked at her face, and couldn't help being amazed.

Gu Chunyue pursed her lips and smiled: "My sister didn't drink any alcohol today, and she drank tea both times." She turned to Gu Xinglang at the Zhengbei table, "Chunyue used tea instead of wine without your permission. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

Gu Xinglang showed his face with great interest, "There is a reason for it, otherwise my sister would not act like this."

It can almost be called a palace banquet as a family banquet, and the title is more casual.Seeing Chunyue smiling but not answering, he was even more curious, and turned to Ji Ping who was also beaming, "It's a good thing."

"My lord," Ji Ping smiled even more intensely, and stood up to bow, "The princess is happy, and the pulse was confirmed last month, but according to the ancestors, it is best not to say that it is less than three months. The next time I returned to the mansion, I was also kept in the dark. I failed to report it in time, and please forgive me for the crime of deception."

This remark made everyone happy, King Ning stroked his palm, and Chunfeng slapped his thigh:
"I'm going to be an aunt!" Then she turned to A Yi, "Should I be called an aunt?"

A Yi pursed her lips and nodded repeatedly.

"It's such a happy event," Gu Xinglang said happily, "Why should I punish you?" Then he looked at Chunyue, "It's not wrong for my sister to offer three prostrations and nine kowtows just now. Confession."

"It's so delicate." Chunyue also smiled, with a bright face, "It's been three months, and the doctor said that everything is safe. You don't need to be too nervous when you sit up and move around on weekdays, which is not conducive to the growth of the child."

"Are you sure? It's still under the care of the imperial doctor, and I go back to the Xiangguo Mansion every few days? It's more convenient to use Dr. Cui."

Chunyue smiled and shook her head, "Your Majesty remembers, Chunyue is grateful. It's just that giving birth and raising children is a woman's bounden duty. If you follow the doctor's instructions, you should pay attention to it, and it will be fine. Please relax, Your Majesty."

"Ninth brother is not a father and has no experience, so he is just worrying about it." Chunfeng said, and drank half a cup, laughing and laughing.

Although it looks like a family banquet, it is a palace banquet after all.The audience is full of "Your Majesty", only Chunfeng has no rules.Gu Chunyue glanced at her, and the latter immediately understood, but she didn't restrain herself, and continued to misbehave.

"Now the palace is lively, and the four wives are all the best in appearance. Chunyue is also happy to see it." Guan Chunfeng couldn't help it, she was too lazy to pester, and then turned to Gu Xinglang, "After tonight, it will be a scene." In the seventh year of the Hong Dynasty, there was no baby cry in the palace for a long time, and the real joy will be when the king's princes and princesses are born one after another."

Gu Chunyue's good words are nothing new.The same sentence, when spoken from her mouth, is always full of kindness without half-bad words.This is very similar to Ji Wanling.And the former is more clever.

For some reason, this sentence at this moment, no matter how you hear it, is a sincere wish, as a sister, a family member, and even a wish of the elder sister as a mother.

The atmosphere in the room was suddenly delicate.

Mrs. Pei's great favor and even special favor, not to mention Qi's royal family, have been widely spread throughout most of Ji.From the second day after the lamp was lit, Gu Xinglang made an order to strictly prohibit excessive discussion and exaggeration.

But where the crowd gathers is the mountains, seas, rivers and lakes. With such a grand occasion, is there any reason why it is not discussed but not rumored or intensified?There are many voices, the voices are in my ears, you come and go, in and out, in just one month, the Zhexue Palace only accepts the king's favor from inside the palace to outside the palace.

Ji knows it and Qi Dong knows it, and Qi Dong knows it but it is not far from the whole country; if the whole country knows it, it is not far from the noise all over Qingchuan.

Since ancient times, special pets have no good results.Even the common people are happy to see it, and the royal family is not happy to see it either.

Gu Chunyue was hinting at a family matter.It is also a reminder of a state matter.Remind Gu Xinglang, warn Ruan Xueyin.

The princes drank or picked up food, without much fluctuation, as if what they heard was still ordinary daily life.

Shangguan's concubine was expressionless.

Duan Xirun frowned slightly, as if she hadn't relaxed for a long time.

Ji Wanling's expression remained the same, her smile did not diminish, a certain mean lip was slightly opened and her eyes were about to speak, but she didn't say a word after all.

"It took less than a year for the wives to get used to the palace." Gu Xinglang smiled, looking around the field, naturally excluding Ji Wanling who was there last year and was born in Qi. Elder, take your time. Elder sister also said just now that it is a woman's bounden duty to have children, sooner or later, there will be."

If Gu Chun is more dangerous, he will blurt out "according to the current situation, there will be no problem for Pei's sister-in-law to give birth to a prince and princess next year".

But after all, it is no longer the old Gu Chunfeng.

The occasion is wrong, and the wording is wrong.She didn't fully understand if there was any overtones in what Eldest Sister said, but Brother Nine's answer was high-sounding and ambiguous.

And she felt something was wrong with Ruan Xueyin.

The latter seat was diagonally opposite her, with a long distance between them.A calm face, a cold expression, there was no change, but she strongly felt that something was wrong.

Dull.Ruan Xueyin thought to herself.After the conversation between Chunyue and Gu Xinglang, all the dishes before the case became dull.She suppressed her emotions and tried to drink some more, but it was difficult and she drank two more glasses of wine for the first time.

A scent of pine blossoms.Like pine mash?
She is not good at drinking, nor does she like it, but tonight she feels some benefits.After the banquet was over, everyone left, she was supported by Yun Xi to leave Ning Fengzhai, the cold wind passed by occasionally, she didn't feel cold, and she was sober——

Is this pine mash not intoxicating at all?
"Mrs. Pei." She was so lucid that a voice suddenly sounded nearby was also very clear, "Are you free right now? Let's go for a walk with Ben Gong?"

It's Gu Chunyue.

The moonlight poured down, the maple leaves fell, and the entire maple forest was bare.Ruan Xueyin had never dealt with Gu Chunyue alone, and never took it seriously, but in this night and in this situation, she was inexplicably nervous.

Is it because of the earlier conversation, or because of drinking too much wine?

"Mrs. Pei," Chunyue said, still amiable and even gentle, "I'm so favored by Mrs. Ming, even Mrs. Ming back then. I think Mrs. Ming knows this very well."

countless.Ruan Xueyin replied heartily.Even if you only talk about lighting the lamps, it will be a tie at most, but where do you start with "I'm afraid it won't be as good"?
Gu Chunyue seemed to be ready that she should not.Or maybe she didn't need to answer at all.

"Your Majesty treats Mrs. Pei deeply and uniquely, which runs counter to the tradition of the royal family, and is not what a monarch should have done for thousands of years. Taizu dotes on Mrs. Ming, but it is not because Mrs. Ming is alone and not close to all the concubines in the palace. Yu. What I said is disrespectful," she said softly, just like the moonlight in front of her, and the moonlight pulled out the long shadows of the two,
"But Mrs. Gu is the eldest son on my behalf. It is really difficult for me to ignore the current situation. Tonight, I will use Mrs. Changpei's age to take the place of my father, monarch and mother, and do what the so-called elders say. "

Lifting the identity, but also lifting the solemnity of the following content.Ruan Xueyin knew that she couldn't stay silent to the end, so she slowed down and said:

"Princess, please tell me."

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