food queen

Chapter 22

When she was busy, Zhou sighed to the people around her: "If you are entrusted to be a woman again in your next life, you will never be the eldest daughter-in-law again."

These words were heard by Han Jianyuan who came in, and he waved his hands to let the maids back out. He sat down beside her and said with a low smile, "Why, after working so hard for the past few days, I feel unhappy?"

Zhou Shi never expected her complaint to be heard by her husband, so she got up and poured tea for Han Jianyuan, and said with a sneer, "How dare you, it's just that this backache hurts, and there is no one to discuss things, I mean hurry up Let the second master marry Miss Feng into the family, so that he can share some of the burden for me."

Han Jianyuan was naturally uncomfortable when he heard the Zhou family complaining to his servants, but he felt a little relieved when he heard this. His mother has stopped intervening in the general affairs of the mansion in the past few years. The matters on both sides fell on Zhou's shoulders alone. She was really hard, so she held her hand and said with a smile: "This matter is not easy? You should hurry up and take care of it for them. This matter will also be resolved before the end of the year." That’s it. It will be more lively during the Chinese New Year.”

Zhou said with a smile: "That's exactly what I think, but Qin Tianjian hasn't sent the auspicious day post yet. Master will ask someone to remind you?"

"Okay." Han Jianyuan nodded, and asked again, "How is Jun'er these days?"

Mrs. Zhou hurriedly said: "He ate indiscriminately with the third child and the others in the garden that day, and he has been complaining about stomach discomfort for the past few days, so I didn't let him go to school."

"What can be uncomfortable? Boys don't look too coddled, otherwise it will be difficult to be a big responsibility in the future." Han Jianyuan said, lying sideways on the couch.

"Understood." Zhou rushed forward and rubbed his shoulders, "I'll ask him to study in the school tomorrow."

Han Jianyuan narrowed his eyes and nodded.

On the day of Concubine Kang's birthday, Han Qian was carried out of bed by the nanny early in the morning, squinting her eyes and kneeling in front of the dressing table, while three maids combed her hair - one combed her hair, and the other two waited on her to eat and drink.

Before putting on clothes, I was fed half a cup of warm water, and after two quarters of an hour, I was given red dates and japonica rice porridge and vegetarian dumplings.She just squinted her eyes half asleep and half awake, opened her mouth and let the maid feed the food into her mouth, then chewed and swallowed.

It was after Chen's hour that she finished her dressing and just regained her energy, so she was surrounded by nurses and maidservants and went to the eldest princess' room.

Concubine Kang's birthday banquet was held in the Prince's Mansion, which really meant killing two birds with one stone.

Yun Shuo has kept a low profile since he was established as the prince. Originally, he didn't have much contact with the ministers in the court in the few days after he came back from the military camp, so no one held any celebration for him.Taking advantage of Concubine Kang's birthday banquet today, many ministers who usually did not get along with the Zhou family and the third prince surrendered one after another, and prepared generous gifts to celebrate Concubine Kang's birthday at the Prince's Mansion.

The emperor, who was lingering on the sick bed, was the icing on the cake. He issued an imperial decree to confer the title of Concubine Kang, and also bestowed the title "Zhuang Yi".

In this way, Concubine Zhuang Yi and the Crown Prince's limelight was the same in the imperial capital for a while.

On the birthday day, even the imperial concubine invited the imperial decree to come out of the palace and come to the prince's mansion to beg for a cup of birthday wine.

When the imperial concubine leaves the palace, King Shou (the third prince) naturally wants to come with her.Although King Shou is not the imperial concubine's biological son, it is true that she has single-handedly raised the prince under the name of the imperial concubine.

Regardless of birth or age, Shouwang Yunxian is more qualified to be the crown prince than Yunshuo.However, the emperor didn't know what the idea was, but insisted on going his own way and even resisted all opinions, and made Yun Shuo the heir apparent.

Therefore, today, the birthday banquet held in the Prince's Mansion was indeed full of turmoil.

The eldest princess's carriage stopped at the gate of the Prince's Mansion, and someone came up to greet her immediately, and then Yun Shuo hurried over to greet her.

Before getting out of the car, the eldest princess pulled Han Qian and told her in a low voice: "Qian'er, today you only follow mother, don't run around, you understand?"

"Got it." Han Qian obediently agreed.She had just suffered a lot in the past few days, so she still has a bit of memory.

Satisfied, the eldest princess took her daughter's hand and got out of the car, and was personally welcomed by Yun Shuo into the Prince's Mansion, and went directly to the main hall to pay respects to Concubine Zhuang Yi for her birthday.

Concubine Zhuang Yi can't say she has deep friendship with the eldest princess, but because the prince now needs the support of the Zhongyi Houfu and Han Qian, she is much more polite to the eldest princess.

Next to Mrs. Zhen Guogong, Mrs. Hu Guogong, Mrs. Yongyihou, Mrs. Anyihou, Mrs. Jinghaihou and more than a dozen first-rank ladies sat beside them. Everyone said something about the parents that Han Qian could not understand at all, and Zhuang Concubine Yi and the eldest princess, the sister-in-law, both turned eighteen corners when talking. Han Qian who was next to her was annoyed after hearing a few words. When she was bored and wanted to sleep, she suddenly heard a sweet voice outside. Question: "I saw the eldest princess's carriage, I wonder if the little princess is here?"

"Xiyue!" Han Qian immediately jumped up from the eldest princess.

"Just now I saw that the child was about to fall asleep, now it's all right! Finally here is my playmate." Concubine Zhuang Yi said in a small way.

Mrs. Zhen Guogong sneered indifferently, glanced at Han Qian, and said nothing.

Han Rui brought Wei Xiyue into the door, and first paid respects to Concubine Zhuang Yi's birthday, and the housekeeper behind her presented the birthday gift list, and then greeted the eldest princess before coming to his mother to say hello.

Mrs. Zhen Guogong's wife was very reluctant in her heart, but she didn't feel good about it on the face. She just responded and said with a faint smile: "You are a bit late. If you are late, you will not be able to get your mother's birthday wine."

Han Rui hurriedly smiled and said: "Yes, we are a bit late, please don't blame your mother."

Concubine Zhuang Yi hurriedly smiled and said: "What's the matter, there are people who are later than you. Please sit down."

Although Han Rui was the wife of the eldest son of the Ninghou Mansion and came here in the name of the clan wife of the Ninghou Mansion (Mrs. Yao would definitely not come back for such a thing), but she was a junior after all, so she had to turn around and take another seat.

Concubine Zhuang Yi hurriedly stopped her: "Mrs. Fuguo must not be free, so you can sit here for her."

After Han Rui thanked him for taking his seat, Fang took his seat at the last table.Han Qian immediately waved to Wei Xiyue with a smile, and Concubine Zhuang Yi smiled and said, "Let the two children play together, so as not to be more restrained here."

"Mother?" Han Qian wanted to play very much, so he looked at the eldest princess beggingly.

The eldest princess sighed helplessly: "It's okay to go to play, don't be naughty, don't make trouble. There are more people here than in the past, you know?"

"Ask the nanny to follow, what can be the matter?" Mrs. Feng has always disliked the way the eldest princess doted on her daughter.

Concubine Zhuang Yi turned her head and told the nanny behind her: "Follow, you must take care of these two children."

The eldest princess couldn't say anything more, so she had to call the nanny to tell her again and again: "Come back immediately after going out to play for a while, don't run around, and I will toast to the empress later."

(End of this chapter)