Concubine Wen Xi who traveled through time

On the day of the Qianqiu Festival, foreign ministers, wives, and concubines offered their birthdays. It was a grand occasion.The Ci Ning Garden outside the Ci Ning Palace is full of banquets. The freshly emerald osmanthus trees are hung with bright silk ribbons, and the floor is covered with brocade, which is incomparably luxurious.

The emperor's birthday is called the Longevity Festival, while the birthdays of the empress, empress dowager, and empress dowager are the Qianqiu Festival, which is celebrated by the whole country, not to mention Xiaozhuang's 70th birthday this year!It has been rare since ancient times for people to reach their 70s, and if they die after [-] years old, it is considered a "happy funeral".

Ling Pu, the new head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, held the gift list in his hand, and personally recited the 70-year-old Qianqiu gift that Kangxi gave to the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang: "One piece of three-foot sapphire carving Fushou Songshan, and one piece of red jadeite carving Fushan Shouhai! Emerald carving landscape A pavilion ornament! A jasper Fushou Yonglu ornament! A topaz old birthday star ornament! ???? "

"A pair of Penglai fairyland bonsai with malachite inlaid jewels, a pair of gold peach tree prolonging life bonsai, a pair of golden iron tree Fushou Ankang bonsai, a pair of gem-inlaid ninefold spring bonsai, a pair of silver-gilt emerald-inlaid gemstone Phoenix peony bonsai, coral gemstones A pair of rich and noble bonsai, a pair of cloisonné enamel bonsai with hundreds of treasures! Two pairs of wall vases with red inlaid jade carvings and lotus patterns, one pair of white jade bowls with eight auspicious patterns, two pairs of gold-bodied enamel bowls with colorful longevity patterns!??????

"???? A pair of sandalwood-inlaid Shoushan stone carvings, the first pair of filigree gold enamel Fushou Ruyi, a pair of Wufu holding Shouruyi??? Sixteen plates of coral beads, ten strings of clam bracelets?? Jasper pine A pair of Changqing cranes, and a pair of auspicious clouds and phoenix peach jade ???? "

Just listening to Ling Pu's birthday gift list, Wen Xi listened to it for half an hour!The Qianqiu Festival dedicated to Xiaozhuang by Kangxi this year is undoubtedly more than double that of previous years.Wen Xi knew that Kangxi had asked the Manufacturing Office to purchase it as early as the end of last year.It took so long, countless jades from Lantian and Hetian, and jewels from all over the world, and finally formed a huge gift!

Even Xiaozhuang couldn't help but said: "The emperor is too expensive."

After the emperor presented the gift, he bowed to Xiaozhuang according to his status and said some auspicious words for his birthday. The person who presided over the birthday ceremony of the Qianqiu Festival was Zhang Ying, who had made great contributions to disaster relief in Shandong just last year, and looked quite young. With a straight voice and a sonorous voice, he shouted: "The emperor and all the concubines congratulate the Empress Dowager on her birthday—"

Naturally, Kangxi took the lead, followed by his concubines.Kneeling three times and knocking nine times, "Grandson wishes the emperor Mama a long life, good fortune and prosperity!"

"Concubines (concubines, concubines, concubines) wish the Empress Dowager a thousand years of happiness and happiness forever!" Kneeling behind Kangxi are Wen Xi and Concubine Tong, the third row is Concubine Rong, Concubine Hui, and Concubine Yi, and the fourth row is Concubine Rong. All concubines.In the end, there are two rows of nobles. Those below the nobles are not worthy to come to celebrate their birthdays.The words of birthday congratulations were all in perfect order, it was because Kangxi called him to rehearse in advance.The emperor only needs to kowtow once, and the concubines have to kowtow a second time, according to the master of ceremonies shouting: "Concubine Wen Xi, Concubine Tong, kowtow to the Empress Dowager!" The concubines bowed together.Then there are concubines together, and finally concubines together.There is no need for nobles with lower status.

"The Crown Prince and all the princes congratulate the Empress Dowager on her birthday—" This sentence is a general one, and there will be points after the general one. Basically, everyone who congratulates the birthday must read it, so it takes extra trouble, "Prince , eldest brother, third elder brother????? (read until eighth elder brother) kowtow to the empress dowager!" More details are needed, read "one kneel, kowtow, then kowtow three times".Then "get up! Kneel twice, kowtow, then kowtow three times". "Get up! Kneel three times, kowtow, kowtow again, and kowtow three times!" Kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times is the end of the birthday ceremony, just like shouting one two one while running, making people move more consistently.In short, the master of ceremonies is a hard job that is very hard on people's throats, but it is very honorable. I don't know how many people have broken their heads!The master of ceremonies must not only be handsome and handsome, but also look worthy of the audience, and also have a good voice, not with a local accent, let alone someone who is eloquent.

The prince's elder brother celebrates his birthday, with the crown prince as the head, Yinfeng, the eldest elder brother Yinxuan, the third elder brother Yinzhi, the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, and the fifth elder brother Yinqi, followed by the sixth elder brother Yinzuo and the seventh elder brother Yinyou The eighth elder brother Yinhu was hugged by the wet nurse and kowtowed to celebrate his birthday.After the prince is naturally the princess, Concubine Rong's second princess, Zhao Jia's third princess Shu Shu, and Guo Guiren's fourth princess Shu Lan in the arms of the wet nurse.

"The Aixinjueluo Clan—Prince, County King, Baylor, and Beizi congratulate the Empress Dowager—"

The men of Aixinjueluo naturally take the emperor's brothers, Prince Yu Fuquan and Prince Gong Changning first, followed by the iron hat kings: Prince Jane, Prince Zheng, etc., other princes, county kings, Baylor??? According to their status Arranged, all of them knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, and said auspicious words to celebrate their birthdays: "The ancestors have unparalleled blessings and longevity, and they will live happily ever after!"

"Clan Fujin and Gege congratulate the Empress Dowager on her birthday—" followed by the wives and daughters of these men, the Fujin of the clan, Heshuo Gege, Doro Gege, and Gushan Gege came forward in order of status Kowtow to wish birthday.Wen Xi took a closer look inside, and sure enough, there was the new Prince Gong, Fujin Nichu'er, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and Prince An's successor, Fujin, and Prince An's friends and gentlemen. Among them, Guo Luoluo Liuhua's Erniang must be among them, but it was Prince An. There are too many daughters, and Wen Xi doesn't know which one.

"The madam of the foreign court congratulates the Empress Dowager on her birthday—" The wives of so and so have to read out one by one, calling out according to batches, shouting one, two, and one kowtow, which is really hard. Not messy.

After the imperial family, it was the turn of the imperial wives of the foreign ministers. The last ones were the most numerous. The wives of the peripheral Aixinjueluo clan, such as Guo Gong, Fu Guo Gong, General Zhen Guo, General Fu Guo, etc., and the wives of the first-class, second-class, and third-class princes are also among them, and Ye Bilong That is, first-class Cheng Engong, Shu Shujue Luo's first-rank wife was granted the title by Xiaozhuang, who was the empress dowager, when Shunzhi was there, and Ye Bilong was not the Duke of the state at that time.Therefore, when it comes to Shu Shujue Luo's identity, it is natural to say that he is a first-class public wife and a first-class imperial wife.

Aunt Shu Mulu's family is in the third wave of birthday celebrations, who said that the third uncle is only a second-class marquis?Although Hou Ye is also a high-ranking official, but in today's birthday celebration team, he is not enough to look at at all!

Fortunately, it was only the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet. If it was Kangxi's Longevity Day, there would be an extra kowtow to celebrate the birthday by the courtiers and foreign ministers. I'm afraid it would take more time.Even so, it was already noon when so many people celebrated their birthday, and Wen Xi was already very hungry.Fortunately, the concubines kowtow early, kneel three times and kowtow nine times (once for noblemen) and then they can sit down and wait.

After the kowtow is over, the birthday noodles are served, so a bowl looks like a lot, but unfortunately there is only one piece of noodles, and there is a rule not to bite off to eat, so I can only pick and pull to find one and suck it into my mouth——and then Keep one hand in front of your face, so you can't let others see your indecent appearance!very depressed~~

After the birthday noodles, there will be a series of birthday dim sum, such as birthday peaches, birthday cakes and other exquisite dim sum.It's a pity that it was completely cold. In order to prepare the birthday banquet for so many people, the dim sum that could be prepared in advance was prepared early, and it was basically just for eating, and few people really took it seriously. eat.The [-]-course Man-Han feast of the birthday banquet was served and withdrawn like flowing water. Fortunately, there were still hot dishes in the back, so we would not be hungry all the time.

A birthday banquet started at noon and lasted for two hours.During this period, the gifts from the clan and foreign ministers were continuously received by special eunuchs, and they were moved from the side of the birthday banquet to the side hall of the Compassionate Ning Palace all at once.For those people who have suffered, they can only eat a meal in the cold in the open air. From morning to evening, until the Qianqiu Banquet is over, the foreign ministers, clan, Fujin, Gege, and wives leave in order.It's just that Kangxi, concubines, and princes and princesses all stayed in the Palace of Compassion and Ning to accompany Xiaozhuang.

The gifts from concubines, princes and princesses were arranged at the end. The crown prince presented 1 birthday characters written by himself, and his mouth was so sweet that the empress dowager laughed heartily.Then the elder brother presented a blue peacock (male), which opened its tail under the comments of many concubines in the palace-this is also a normal situation, seeing so many women wearing bright clothes, peacocks love to show off , Naturally, the opening screen is one or two.Immediately, the concubines jumped out to compliment Xiao Zhuang without asking for money, and Concubine Hui's chin raised twenty degrees!Yinfeng's face was very ugly.

The Compassionate Palace is full of people. At this time, it is the time for the concubines to offer gifts to please Xiaozhuang. Concubine Tong also seized this opportunity tightly, and asked someone to present the gift, but told him to cover it with red silk, please Xiaozhuang. Zhuang uncovered it himself.

Xiao Zhuang also heard about Concubine Tong's busy schedule preparing birthday gifts these days, and he gave her some face in front of others, saying: "Concubine Tong is different from others, she wants to hang on to the appetite of Aijia." With a smile on his face, he took off the silk cover, and suddenly two pots of colorful peonies were revealed.

Concubine Hui couldn't help being surprised and said: "How can there be peonies in this season?" Once such out-of-season things come out, as long as they are comparable to big brother's peacocks!

Concubine Rong was careful, looked at it twice and said: "It should be a peony made of silk, right?"

Concubine Tong Gui was very satisfied with everyone's surprised eyes, and said with a bit of complacency: "Back to the emperor, back to the empress dowager, this flower is made of the best Suzhou cloud silk, the stamens are made of tiny rice beads, and the branches The stem is a real peony branch, the leaves are made of jasper, and the flower pot is also a good black jade pot."

Kangxi nodded slightly, Yiwan was extremely filial despite her faults, and said: "You still have the heart, although I have asked people to present a lot of bonsai, they are more than luxurious, not as good as your two pots, which can be confused with real ones. "

Xiaozhuang couldn't help reaching out and stroking the peony petals, saying: "Don't touch it with your own hands, I'm afraid it will be hard to tell if it's fake! Concubine Tong has a heart!"

"Filial piety to the Empress Dowager is the duty of a concubine!" Concubine Tong said, looking tenderly at Kangxi.Then, there was a bit of provocation on the smiling face: "I don't know what good things Sister Wen Xi has prepared, but I am still reluctant to take it out?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote Recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation.)