Raiders of peasant girls

Chapter 401
After Miaojiang, it is the filial piety of a small tribe, nothing surprising, but some screens and ornaments with ethnic characteristics, or some jade ruyis and some precious woods.

After all the small tribes had presented gifts, it was the turn of the princes, princesses and concubines, and after the princes, the ministers who came from high to low contributed.

Helian Fenghua had the highest ranking among the princes, because there was no prince at this time, so he came first, but he was low-key, and the things he gave were not particularly outstanding, but he could see his intentions.It is a version of the Heart Sutra made of jade, and it has the same meaning as the Jade Buddha in Xiliang.

As for the other princes, they will be given whatever is expensive and what is outstanding.

Naturally, it was the turn of the ministers to do the same, and there were those who thoughtfully gave away their daughters, but with the beauty of Miao Jiang in front of them, it seemed that the adult's daughter was not outstanding.

When they arrived at Xilingbo Mansion, Jingyao was the one who came out to present gifts, and everyone wanted to see what kind of flowers the famous Princess Pingnan could send.

But when the ministers saw what Jingyao was holding out, there was an instant booing.

It's not just a piece of jade cabbage. With the previous Jade Buddha and Prince Ning's Jade Heart Sutra, the gift of jade is really not good.

But what surprised the ministers was that when the emperor saw the gift list, he immediately recruited the little eunuch to hold the jade cabbage to him and watch it carefully.

Afterwards, Emperor Yun Zhao gave a hearty laugh.

"Princess Pingnan has a heart."

"This is what a courtier should do."

"Your Majesty, I don't know what Princess Pingnan offered to make you so happy." Empress Liu was a little curious, it wasn't just a piece of jade cabbage.

"Go, show it to the queen."

The little eunuch obediently held the things in front of Empress Liu. Empress Liu took a look and found that the cabbage was hollow in the middle, and there were several sheets inside.

Empress Liu took out the list from inside and looked at it, her expression changed immediately.

Then I thought, it seems that Princess Pingnan is really comparable to the richest man in the capital, and a banquet gave 50 taels of silver. Give filial piety to Emperor Yun Zhao himself.

Another piece of courage was to donate dozens of boxes of medicinal materials from all walks of life, and the last list was to donate a hundred catties of various scented teas to the emperor, saying that it was for the emperor, but in the end it was not for the concubines in the harem.

Princess Pingnan's gift is too big.

Although the birthday gift did not openly send money, but people put it in jade cabbage, even if it was tacky, it would not look tacky after being covered up by jade cabbage.On the contrary, it was more affordable and useful than the things sent by other people. Once the emperor's birthday passed, it would be autumn and then winter.And the major armies will start to buy more clothes, rice and food. In the past, at this time every year, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Finance would fight a lot of wars. Less burden.

Even the emperor's private treasury has been enriched a lot, and the emperor's private treasury will be enriched, and the female family members of the harem will be treated more preferentially.

Thinking of this, Empress Liu actually felt that Princess Pingnan was more pleasing to the eye.However, such an exquisite girl is that bastard princess.

It's no wonder that the eldest prince wanted to step in even before, hmph, such a girl should belong to her son.

She doesn't care about that, she must get this woman for her son, even if she can't be the main concubine or a side concubine, then her so much property won't be her son's?Don't think that if Feng Er said that the property is all his, she would believe it.No one is a fool, this property must belong to Princess Pingnan himself, but she didn't want to hand it over to the court so she made such a play, in her opinion, it must be Princess Pingnan's own property, but it was just hanging on the wind. under the name only.

Thinking of this, Empress Liu's eyes have changed several times.

"Queen, how about Princess Pingnan's cabbage?"

"Okay, very good, girl Jingyao really cares about the emperor all the time, and cares about us Dayue."

The more she talked, the more satisfied Empress Liu looked at Jingyao.

This made Helian Fenghua a little curious.

"What did you give him? Why do you look so weird in your eyes?"

Not to mention that Helian Fenghua was curious, even the ministers were also curious, but Emperor Yun Zhao didn't intend to announce it.Because once it is announced, what will happen if all the gifts are given to him in the future?
When it was spread outside, people still didn't say that he was a corrupt emperor.

"I'll tell you when I get out of the palace. Anyway, it's good for us."

Jing Yao quietly said something to Helian Fenghua.In her opinion, it is indeed beneficial. Although the gift was given in the name of her and the Xilingbo Mansion, the items on it came from those shops of hers. It was written on the list, and this shop used to have Helian Fenghua shares, so this is also equivalent to Helian Fenghua giving away.

In fact, she chose to give money at this time, because Emperor Yun Zhao must be able to guess it. It is precisely because of the tricky relationship between her and those shops that she will properly take out part of it at this time to reverse Emperor Yun Zhao's unhappiness. heart of.

"it is good!"

Helian Fenghua knew that no matter what Jingyao did, he would not harm him, so he didn't mind if he knew sooner or later.

It was already half an hour after everyone had finished presenting their gifts. At this time, Emperor Yunzhao announced the opening of the banquet, and the maids in the palace filed in with various food dishes.

Naturally, the banquets in the palace cannot be without singing and dancing, and after the singing and dancing, performances by the rich ladies are indispensable, which has almost become a common practice.

It was inevitable that it was Jingyao's turn, so she could only go up and sing a little song or something.It's not a problem for her, it's special to play any one of so many good songs in the previous life.

So this made some people who wanted to see her make a fool of themselves very angry.

"It's strange, Lingnan and that place are really better than Kyoto, how can she know everything?"

"Who knows, maybe I learned it when I came to the capital, but it's just a song, just like an actor, so it's not difficult to learn."

The two talking were a concubine from the Shen family who had gone to the Xilingbo mansion to attend the dinner, and the other was also.

Naturally, they are not compatible with Jingyao. They were waiting to see each other make a fool of themselves when performing arts, but they did not expect to be avoided by her.

"Should we think of something else to deal with her?"

"Do you have any good ideas? I'm tired of looking at her face."

"It's better than..."

The old Mrs. Shen who sat in front listened to the words of the two concubine granddaughters completely, but thinking of the embarrassment of the Shen family at the last banquet, if it is not done well this time, I am afraid that the embarrassment will be thrown on other people. went towards.

Therefore, Mrs. Shen turned around and sternly instructed the two granddaughters not to allow them to mess around at the banquet.

(End of this chapter)