Resourceful beauty

Chapter 325 The Night Banquet
Whether you are full of exhaustion or helpless, this year's New Year's Eve is still here.

In the early court on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, King Yao, who had not appeared for a few days, commended the achievements of various places in the year, and all civil and military officials also had their own rewards. After that, he was sealed and retired from the court.

Coming out of Yiyuan Hall, King Yao waved to Chu Yuan, and the father and son went to the imperial study.

What King Yao said, God knows what he knows, Chu Yuan knows, it is the Queen of Zhou, who tried her best to find out, but on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, King Yao's guard of honor departed and headed for the palace.

The matter was urgent, and the only ones who accompanied King Yao to the palace were Concubine Fang and Ming Guiren, and even the Empress Dowager Lou asked about it, and King Yao only said that he wanted to go to the palace to recuperate for a while.

However, without King Yao, how would the palace banquet on New Year's Eve be organized?
Everyone had doubts in their minds, but no one dared to ask them out. They just watched the convoy gradually go away.

A few days later, at the palace, Zhao Zhong, who had recently served King Yao personally, returned to the palace and picked up the nobleman Yu and nobleman Rou. For a while, there were endless speculations in the harem.

Inside the Hall of Xuanyi, Fang Ruxuan looked at Concubine Han Guifei who had a gloomy expression, and asked cautiously: "Mother, Concubine, tell me, what exactly is Father thinking about going?"

This year, although all parts of Yao Kingdom were peaceful and peaceful, many incidents, big and small, happened in Shangyang City and the palace. What's more, although King Yao fainted, although the palace covered it up in every possible way, no one knew about it. But there are not a few of them. In this case, the appearance of King Yao at the New Year's Eve banquet is very important.

However, King Yao did the opposite and avoided the palace instead. Not only Queen Zhou couldn't guess what King Yao did, but no one could guess it.

Therefore, what the Riyao King said to Chu Yuan that day was particularly important.

These days, quite a few people came to Fang Ruxuan to inquire about news, but Fang Ruxuan didn't know what news he could tell them.

And from the beginning to the end, Concubine Han did not ask any questions.

Listening to Fang Ruxuan asking herself, Concubine Han Guifei replied with a wry smile: "Who can guess what the king is thinking? Just because the crown prince didn't reveal anything to you, you know that the king didn't say anything important that day. , and what he did was playing tricks.”

Seeing Concubine Han say so about King Yao, Fang Ruxuan was a little astonished, while Concubine Han continued to say: "Your Majesty has been on the throne for 30 years, what have you not experienced in these years? Although this year is a bit absurd, my palace But I feel that no matter how ridiculous, he must be clear in his heart, if someone thinks he is really confused, I am afraid that in the end, it will be useless to fetch water from a bamboo basket."

Fang Ruxuan was a little confused when she heard Concubine Han's words, but she didn't rush to ask questions, she just kept these words in her heart and planned to digest them slowly in the future.

After seeing Concubine Han Gui away, Fang Ruxuan took Brother Ming to the imperial study.

Although it has been sealed, there are still several thick stacks of memorials piled up on the desk in the imperial study room. With Chu Yuan's temperament, he will never delay the approval until the next year. Therefore, these days, every afternoon, he I will take a time or two to come over and read the booklet to ensure that everything is going smoothly after the year.

When Fang Ruxuan entered the door, she saw Chu Yuan frowning, staring deeply at the memorial on the table.

Looking at the paper of the memorial, it didn't look like it was handed over by the courtiers. Fang Ruxuan knew it well, turned her head and made a gesture of silence to brother Ming, and the mother and son walked lightly into the warm pavilion.

After a while, Li Sheng brought two maids in the palace and brought them fragrant tea and snacks.

"Eunuch Li..."

Knowing that Li Sheng had something to say to herself, Fang Ruxuan glanced at Mulberry, and asked her to bring Li Sheng a soft stool.

"The old slave dare not..."

Dodging in panic, Li Sheng waved his hands at the two maidservants, and waited for the two to leave before he said: "This old servant has served the king since childhood, and I have become used to it for so many years. The king ordered the old servant The slave came to serve His Royal Highness, the old slave did not dare to disobey, but these days, the old slave could not sleep."

Before Li Sheng finished speaking, Fang Ruxuan already understood what he meant, "Eunuch Li, do you want to go to the palace and continue to serve your father?"

Nodding his head, Li Sheng showed a bit of embarrassment, "I don't want to tell His Highness the Crown Prince, but I hope that the Crown Princess can mention a word to His Highness, and grant the old slave's wish."

"It's easy to do, I will tell His Highness in a while, Eunuch Li, wait for my news."

Fang Ruxuan readily agreed.

Kneeling and kowtowing, Li Sheng got up and went out.

After a while, Chu Yuan finished approving the papers, went into the Nuan Pavilion, hugged Brother Ming who rushed over, and said apologetically to Fang Ruxuan, "I've finished approving, starting tomorrow, I will stay with you in Xuanyi Palace."

Fang Ruxuan handed him the tea bowl with a smile, and brought up Li Sheng's reason for coming.

Chu Yuan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Now, it's not the right time yet. Let's live in a few more days..."

"why?"

Fang Ruxuan blurted out, but seeing Chu Yuan pursed his lips, he didn't say anything in the end.

These days, Chu Yuan seems to have something to hide from her. Fang Ruxuan is suspicious, but she also knows that he must have some difficulties. Therefore, seeing Chu Yuan's expression at this moment, Fang Ruxuan smiled and did not ask further, "Okay, then I'll send someone to go back to Eunuch Li and ask him to wait."

Chu Yuan nodded.

Fang Ruxuan turned her head and glanced at Sangsan, who turned and went out.

From the second day on, Chu Yuan finally relaxed. He got up early every day and slept late. Before he woke up, he was woken up by Ming Geer's cold little hand stretching into the bed with a smile.

The father and son frolicked on the bed for a long time, then got up to wash and wash, it was almost lunch time, when he was in a good mood, Chu Yuan would even send someone to Qixia Palace to call Hu Moyan over.

Three adults, plus Ming Geer and a child, a meal can always be eaten full of fun.

In the afternoon, Hu Moyan took a few lively maidservants to kick shuttlecocks in the yard, Chu Yuan took Ming Geer to fly a kite or a spinning top, Fang Ruxuan sat on a chair under the eaves and watched silently, feeling that even the sun The light is extraordinarily warm and pleasant.

A few days of wandering and wandering passed, and soon, it was the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month.

King Yao is not here, Queen Zhou seems to be angry, and all her thoughts are spent on the New Year's Eve banquet. These days, the House of Internal Affairs is so busy that her feet don't touch the ground. In the Hall of Yiyuan, the lights are already brightly lit before it gets dark. .

The courtiers and wives who were invited to enter the palace had already been counted before Xu time. When Queen Zhou arrived with the Queen Mother Lou, the palace was already overcrowded.

However, because of King Yao's absence, the atmosphere in the hall was a bit quiet, not as lively as in previous years.

The banquet started, and the Empress Dowager Lou said, "Your Majesty left the palace, one reason is to stay away from the turmoil and take care of his body, and the other reason is because the prince will take care of the political affairs this year, so the king wants to pave the way for the prince. Don't misinterpret the meaning of the king."

Looking across everyone's faces, seeing some people dodging away, the Empress Dowager Lou's heart sank, but she didn't show it on her face, she always had a kind smile on her face.

On the side, Queen Zhou and Concubine Han were trying to smooth things over, and after a while, the hall became lively.

The Empress Dowager Lou only sat for half an hour before leaving, and the Queen Zhou and Chu Yuan sat in the town, and the atmosphere was quite happy.

When the time of Hai was approaching, Zhao Zhong sent King Yao's congratulatory speech and a few blessings written by his imperial pen on the other side of the palace.

The aristocratic family who got the reward stood up to thank the thank you, and if they didn't get it, they didn't disappoint at all, but the eyes they looked at those blessing words were a little deep.

Among them, King Yong is the most important.

When King Yao started taking Wushisan, King Yong knew best. Although he knew that day would come sooner or later, when the news came that King Yao passed out, King Yong was more flustered than excited.

That night, standing in front of the couch, looking at King Yao who had a sallow complexion and fell asleep, King Yong's heart was beating rapidly, and he even felt that he might get what he had been looking forward to very soon.

However, when he turned his head and saw the calm and composed Chu Yuan, King Yong felt a little uncertain again.

These days, King Yao's everything was as usual, and the palace was calm, but King Yong felt that his heart was frying in a frying pan, and he was indescribably anxious.

Especially after Concubine Yong was taken back to Yunfu, King Yong felt that he was getting more and more hopeless.

I heard that after the seal, King Yao and Chu Yuan had spies for more than half an hour. Immediately afterwards, King Yao went out of the palace to the palace, but after they couldn't find out what the two said, King Yong discovered that his entire body My heart is in a mess.

In previous years, King Yao would also write blessings to his courtiers, but this year seems to be different. King Yong thought about it, but felt that he had no idea at all.

"Your Highness..."

There was a whisper in his ear, King Yong turned his head to look, and saw the side concubine of King Yong looking at him with a smile, and handed over the wine glass in her hand, "You should go and toast the prince."

Nodding his head, King Yong stood up like a puppet, took the wine glass and walked towards Chu Yuan.

The hall was peaceful, Fang Ruxuan looked at her face pretending to be calm, but Queen Zhou, who had been holding her hands in the armholes since entering the hall, looked at King Yong who had been silent all the time, and kept drinking with the visitors King Rui seemed to understand something in his heart.

"mother……"

The son's call brought back Fang Ruxuan's wandering thoughts, and when she turned her head, she saw Brother Ming in the arms of the nurse, rubbing his eyes with his fists clenched, with a sleepy look on his face, but he refused go to bed.

Knowing that the banquet here would not end until midnight, Fang Ruxuan herself felt that she couldn't hold on any longer, so she greeted Queen Zhou and Concubine Han, got up and took Brother Ming back to the East Palace.

After returning to Xuanyi Hall and coaxing brother Ming to sleep, Fang Ruxuan returned to the inner hall and sat for a while before Chu Yuan came back.

Near midnight, bright colorful fireworks exploded in the night sky outside, marking the 31st year of Yongqian.

This year, there have been joys, uneasiness, and so many worries. Even though so many changes have taken place, their hearts for each other have never changed.

That way, it's fine.

In the sky full of fireworks, Chu Yuan and Fang Ruxuan stared at each other with affection in their eyes.

(End of this chapter)