Concubine's Handbook of Good Life in Ancient Times

Chapter 153

"I can't tell the emperor for the time being, if I talk about the surprise, it will be gone."

Shuning shook her head, no matter how much the emperor coaxed her, she would not say anything.

"Okay, I get it."

The emperor was in a different situation, Concubine Jia's mouth was unusually tight.

"Giggle..."

Shu Ning turned around and snickered, seeing the emperor's helpless face was quite interesting, let alone that.

longevity festival

The birthday of the emperor is called the Longevity Festival, which means longevity without boundaries, and it is a national festival.Celebrating the emperor's birthday is an important ceremony in the Great Xia Dynasty.

On this day, the emperor's royal palace accepts congratulations and gifts from princes and officials.Slaughtering is prohibited during the Longevity Festival, and criminal names are ignored for several days before and after, and civil and military officials are required to wear boa robes as required.On this day, artisans in the capital use colorful paintings, cloth, etc. to decorate the main streets in colorful ways, singing and dancing everywhere.Civil and military officials from all over the country set up incense tables and saluted in the direction of the capital.

Therefore, Wanshou Festival was a very important festival in ancient times, and it was called the three major festivals together with New Year's Day and Winter Solstice.

The night before the Longevity Festival, the emperor lived here in Shuning.So early in the morning, Shuning got up to pay respects to the emperor for his birthday.

"Although everyone will pay homage to the emperor at the banquet, but this is my concubine's wish, so please don't refuse the emperor."

Shu Ning knelt down and kowtowed, and was pulled up by the emperor immediately after the worship.

"I appreciate my concubine's love, Su Maocai, bring the gold-studded ruby ​​hairpin with a peacock spread out to your master concubine Jia."

If the emperor likes someone, he will send things to show it. Besides the empress dowager and empress in the harem, the one who gets the most things from the emperor is Shuning.In the past, the emperor favored him a little bit. If he wanted to take out good things and give them away, it would be even more difficult than climbing to the sky. Occasionally, rewards would not be as generous as rewarding Concubine Jia.

"My concubine thanked the emperor."

Shu Ning planned to wear it directly at night after it was delivered.

It just matched my evening clothes.

When the emperor was receiving congratulations and gifts from civil and military officials in the palace, Shu Ning also went to the Queen's Qifeng Palace, and later they would congratulate the emperor together under the leadership of the queen.

After the emperor accepted the congratulations from all the officials, he held a big banquet in the imperial garden. Today not only all the officials were present, but even the family members came.The emperor did not deliberately divide the seats between men and women, but set up seats on a family basis.The harem concubines sat behind the emperor, and in front of them was a set up stage, on which various dramas, songs and dances were performed in turn, which was very lively.

"May the emperor's blessings last forever, and may the country be peaceful and the people safe in the great summer."

After congratulating the empress and concubine, the first toast was made to the emperor, and everyone stood up.

"May the emperor's blessings last forever, and may the country be peaceful and the people safe in the great summer."

"Good good."

Three times in a row, the emperor drank the queen's glass of wine.

Everyone also drank together, even Shuning also drank.Fortunately, the queen knew that she was not strong enough to drink, and arranged for her fruit wine that even children could eat.

The sweet fruit wine had only a slight taste of wine, Shu Ning couldn't help but drank another cup.

"Your Majesty, don't drink too much."

Mei Dong reminded that their master had never drunk alcohol, even if he drank too much fruit wine, he would be intoxicated.

"understood."

Shuning put down her wine glass.

The singing and dancing on the stage is not bad, but it is not good if it is changed to a drama, Shu Ning can't understand it at all.However, seeing that the people around her looked very excited, she could only lower her head to pick up the fruits on the table and eat them.The fruit was peeled into small pieces so that those who attended the banquet could taste it.It's really hard to imagine, on such an elegant occasion, a person holding a big fruit and eating it.

After singing and dancing, today's highlight came.

The gifts of the officials were exhausted early, but the gifts of the clansmen, concubines, princes and grandchildren were left at the end.

The first batch were the clan members. Those whose gifts satisfied the emperor were all rewarded by the emperor later on. Although the rewards were definitely not worth as much as the gifts they gave, it represented the emperor’s intentions. The clan members were very satisfied. Don't care about losing yourself.

After the clansmen finished sending them off, it was the turn of the eldest prince, eldest princess and second princess.

The Eldest Prince and Eldest Princess jointly sent a picture of a hundred years of life. Although the writing skills are immature, everyone can see that the Eldest Prince and Eldest Princess wrote very seriously, and the strokes are extremely neat. This point alone can be ignored Insufficient writing style.

The emperor asked someone to pick it up and hang it up in his imperial study.It can be seen that the emperor was very satisfied with the gift from the Eldest Princess and the Eldest Prince, and when they heard that it was going to be hung in the imperial study, they all happily ran back to Concubine De to cling to her.

Then there was the second princess. She embroidered a purse for the emperor. Although there were only simple grass and red flowers on it, the emperor still sent it to him and carried it with him.Seeing this, the second princess grinned and returned to Qin Shunyi's side.

From the behavior of the emperor these two times, it can be seen that he actually worked hard to make himself a good father.

Then the queen led the concubines to present gifts.

The queen gave a pair of Wu Daozi's paintings, which were very rare, and the emperor admired them on the spot.It took a long time before he reluctantly closed his eyes and sent someone to the Tai Chi Hall.

The empress gave it, and the next one was Concubine De. Everyone was very curious about what gift this concubine De, who was only one of the four concubines under the empress's name for the time being, would give.

Concubine De stepped forward generously, holding a suit of clothes in her hands.

(End of this chapter)