female concubine

Chapter 289

January and a half ago

——Funning Hall——

After the emperor fell ill, he moved out of the Funing Hall, and summoned Princess Le'an to stay in Da Nei to attend to his illness. The Hanlin medical officer made Sun Hongda twice a day for inspections in the morning and evening.

"Officials, the Minister of Guanglu Temple and the Minister of the Ministry of Rites are asking to see each other."

Princess Le'an, who was lying in front of the couch, got up and helped the emperor up from the couch, and said straight to the side of the palace: "Chang'an, go and get an official cloak."

Dian Zhi, whose head was wrapped in soap and soft towel and tied with a gold belt, bowed to Princess Le'an and the emperor and said, "Yes."

Princess Le'an took over the plush cloak that Zhichang took off from the hanger and put it on for the emperor, and helped the emperor to sit on the throne in the main hall, "Slow down, Weng."

"It's really wronging you to let you accompany me, an old man, every day."

Princess Le'an rubbed her nose with the back of her hand sadly, then squatted down and prostrated herself in front of the emperor's knee, "Weng Weng loves his grandson so much, now seeing Weng Weng suffering from illness but being powerless, my grandson just feels sad."

"Good boy." The emperor raised his hand and touched her head.

The activity officer of Neidongmensi led the two ministers waiting outside Neidongmen into the inner court to Funing Hall.

"I wish Your Majesty all blessings." The two ministers stepped forward with their sleeves folded and bowed.

"What's the matter, gentlemen?"

The two courtiers looked at Princess Le'an, who was beside the emperor, and seemed to hesitate after looking at each other.

"Say something."

The Ministry of Rites submitted a book, "It is about the Zhengdan court meeting next year. According to the old system, if there are national funerals, princes' weddings, and winter solstice sacrifices, the court meeting will not be held that year. So next year's Zhengdan court meeting, please give your majesty a hint."

"Let's do it. I looked at the expenses of offering sacrifices to the heavens in the household department yesterday. It has been nearly 30 years since I took the throne, and I haven't done it a few times in total. The rest of the time..."

"Weng Weng," Princess Le'an grabbed the emperor's sleeve, "Weng Weng is going to attend his grandson's birthday ceremony."

The emperor turned his head and looked at his granddaughter with loving eyes, "Okay." Then he looked at the two nobles, "I also want to see the scene of Wanbang coming to court a few more times."

The two ministers trembled when they heard this, and immediately bowed their heads and knelt down, "Your servants are honored to obey the imperial decree."

In November of the 28th year of Qianyuan, Dujinzuoyuan published the Mansion Newspaper to promulgate the will of the emperor.

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On December 28th, the 24th year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, every rich and noble family in the capital invited monks to chant scriptures. .

——Cao House——

"The painting is finished." Cao Shuyao picked up a portrait, "Does it look like it?"

The maid picked up the painting and compared it with the one she bought from the market, "The girl's painting is even more beautiful than the ones on the Taofu market outside. This is the Kitchen God."

"Okay, hurry up and post it, the real people will finish their chanting later, remember to get some wine troughs."

"Yes." The female envoys in Cao's house took a portrait of the Kitchen God to the kitchen and pasted it on the stove with rice paste, and smeared a little wine tank on the stove door.

It was night, the female envoy extinguished the candles in the study and came out with a lighting lantern. Just as she stepped out of the room, a sudden gust of cold wind blew out several stone pillar lamps in the yard.

Cao Shuyao opened the door and went in, and sat down in front of the charcoal basin in the room. The wind swept in along with the crack of the door, and a small flame blew up in the charcoal basin, making several subtle—da—da—sounds, and the woman in the room Light a lamp and place it under the bed in the boudoir, "Girl."

"Thank you for your hard work. It's the coldest time recently. Remember to add more bedding at night. If you don't have any, go to the master to get it. He said it was my intention."

The envoy backed away, and Ah Ci, who followed her inside, put out the lantern, "Girl, the sudden strong wind blowing outside is really bitterly cold."

Cao Shuyao looked at the darkness of the closed windows, "It may snow tomorrow."

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In the middle of the night, snowflakes suddenly fell in the windy Tokyo city, and the ground was covered with white snow before dawn the next day.

The servant got up, wrapped his clothes, went to the window and gently opened the window. Seeing the white snow all over the floor, he propped up the window with a bamboo pole. After washing, he went to Princess Yiguo's bedroom, "You all go down."

The night watchman woke up from his doze, and immediately stepped back with his arms crossed, "Yes."

When the bell at Chen Shi came from the inner room, the servant just pushed open the outer door of the dormitory, stood in front of the second door, raised his hand and knocked on the door and said, "Princess, it's time to get up." Seeing that there was no response in the room, the servant Waving to a few palace servants who were waiting for the grooming, "I'm sure I haven't woken up yet, so be gentle when you wake up."

"Yes."

In the courtyard of the princess house, a house attendant in her 40s who worked as a servant of the princess house was very mature and prudent, and arranged for the small house servants to clean up the snow.

"Leave the snow in the east courtyard, where is it clean? After the princess gets up, she must pile up snow, so don't sweep it away."

"Yes."

"The aisles in the other yards must be swept carefully. It is easy to slip when the snow is compacted. The aisles in the alley of the gate must also be swept. If there are cars and horses in front of the gate, it will be unlucky this year."

"Yes."

"The ice cubes in the courtyard water tank were smashed to scoop up the water. At noon, the snow on the roof melted and there was water left behind."

"Yes."

In the princess' bedroom, the palace people carefully rolled up the curtains, "Princess."

Princess Yiguo opened her sleepy eyes, "It's so white outside, is it too late?"

"It's only Chen, and it's snowing outside."

"Really?" Princess Yiguo got up from the couch, "Si Tianjian said that it will snow in the second half of this month, but it hasn't snowed until yesterday. I thought it wouldn't." Princess Yiguo put on her shoes Sitting in front of the mirror, "Give me a plum blossom makeup that suits the occasion."

"Yes."

After urging the palace staff to freshen up, Princess Yiguo stepped out of the room wearing a white fox fur and holding a hand stove, and a gust of cold wind hit her face.

Looking at the white snow in front of her eyes, Princess Yiguo's eyes were starry, "What a clean snow."

"Princess, breakfast is ready." The servant followed up and reminded.

Princess Yiguo turned around and walked backwards, "Let me guess what delicious food Yanchuan prepared for me today."

"The decoction and tea medicine must be from the most famous Wang's shop in the north of the city. Let me guess what it is today, Erchen soup for health?" Seeing the maid shaking her head lightly, Princess Yiguo rolled her eyes and stopped to move closer, " Is that my favorite grandma tea?"

In this morning tea, Princess Yiguo's favorite fried chestnut, the waiter nodded, "Yes."

"Look, I can guess right every time."

The waiter covered his hands and coughed softly and said in a low voice, "It's not that the princess is picky about food, and she doesn't like the tea next to her."

Princess Yiguo turned around, "I don't care, I guessed it right anyway."

"Yes, yes, the princess is the most intelligent princess in the Song Dynasty."

"I'm going to make the biggest snow lion after dinner, and call those younger brothers together." The younger brother that Princess Yiguo refers to is Yi Ying who serves at the princess's house.

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——Funning Hall——

Qi Liu took a thick crane cloak and followed the emperor out of the palace to put it on.

The emperor raised his hand and walked to the courtyard clutching the lapel of his cloak, and the servants sweeping the courtyard only swept the snow from the aisle as ordered.

The emperor stopped in front of the crabapple tree, one of its branches was cracked by snow, and beside it was an evergreen tree that did not shed its leaves in winter. Several branches finally fell into the snow on the ground and merged with it.

The emperor stared at the crabapple tree raptly, and Qi Liu took a deep breath, "The officials clearly think of saints in their hearts, why..."

"I'm old and won't stay awake forever." The emperor stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of crystal clear snow, "This year's first snow fell extremely hard, and the snow in Mingyuan Building and Houyuan must be a grand occasion. Call the children to come into the palace."

Qi Liu lowered his head, then bowed and crossed his hands, "Yes."

Before the snow lions were piled up, Princess Yiguo entered the palace in a car, and many descendants of the clan accompanied them to the forbidden back garden to accompany them to enjoy the snow.

A curtain hall was built in the backyard to keep out the wind, and there was a throne in the hall. Xiao Youqing supported the emperor to sit down, touched his cold hands and raised his eyebrows and said, "How long will the official be healed?"

The emperor looked at a group of children who were playing snowball fights and building snowmen, and remembered that he had spent time with his elder brother when he was young.

Xiao Youqing's heart trembled when he heard the emperor's extremely low voice, "What kind of life, the official family has the blessing of equal people and the blessing of heaven."

"The queen doesn't need to say nice words to comfort me..."

"The official family," Xiao Youqing suddenly held the emperor's wrist still, and looked at each other coldly: "Are you willing to leave?"

"The attachment and greed of the official family, don't the official family want these?"

The emperor looked at her straight from the side, looked at the old self in his eyes, and immediately turned his head without replying.

The palace servants and servants, daughters-in-law and daughters of the clan and princesses and princesses gathered together. The servants carried the tubes to collect the snow, and the children used the snow to build snowmen of different shapes. Put them into the gold basin and present them to the curtain hall one by one, and reward those who are appreciated for their exquisite carvings.

The servant carried a golden basin and walked past the tables of many long princesses, one of which was the most popular portrait.

"Who made this?" The emperor looked at the snow sculpture of Emperor Yan in the golden basin.

One of the two servants carrying the pots lowered his head and replied, "Princess Yiguo and her princess's residence supervisor made the stack together."

Princess Yiguo came forward with her servants, "Blessings, father and mother, greetings to all aunts, brothers and sisters."

"Why didn't I know that my precious daughter still has the craftsmanship of this craftsman?"

Princess Yiguo stepped forward, "Daddy, this is not done by my daughter alone, and Yan Chuan came up with the idea, and he helped my daughter complete the sculpture of the snowman." Immediately she said to the emperor Fushen: "Auspicious snow heralds a good year, Next year, the weather will be favorable and the crops will be abundant.”

Princess Yiguo's words attracted unanimous praise from many elders, and the emperor shifted his gaze to the servant behind her.

The servant standing beside Princess Yiguo lowered his head and bowed to the emperor, as if he was too nervous to look directly at Tianyan.