However, it is still exciting to discover a new edible crop, and the leaves, stems, and tubers of this sweet potato can be eaten. It can be said that three new foods were discovered at once, and Kangxi still asked for his forehead. Tu smiled and said:
"Okay, Aiqing is interested. I will send these sweet potatoes to the Imperial Manor for people to plant and try them out. You can step back first."
Hearing this, Suo'etu felt a little depressed. He wondered why the emperor's reaction was so much lower than what he expected.
However, knowing that the emperor would know how good this crop was when he saw the yield of these sweet potatoes with his own eyes, and it would not take much time to wait, he bowed down respectfully and obediently stepped back to his original position. alright.
After the lively three-day Wanshou Festival, everyone from the housekeeper to the palace maids and eunuchs began to be busy again.
In the second major canonization, there were too many high-ranking concubines in the harem. The head of the Internal Affairs Office ordered the palace people to start according to the order of the canonization list from lowest to highest sent by Liang Jiugong, the eunuch in charge of the Qianqing Palace, and the auspicious day selected by the Qintian Supervisor. Let’s detail the canonization ceremony of each of the ladies in charge.
On March 26, with a gentle spring breeze, Concubine Xuan Borjigit and Concubine Tong Tong Jia, dressed in fragrant concubine auspicious clothes, held the concubine canonization ceremony together.
On the eighth day of April, the sky above our heads was clear and cloudless.
Concubine An's Li family, Huifei's Nala family, Yifei's Guoluoluo family, and Rongfei's Ma Jia family all wore golden auspicious clothes to attend the concubine's canonization ceremony.
After the canonization ceremony of the fourth concubine was over, another ten days passed, and the weather gradually began to get hotter, and early summer entered the Forbidden City.
On April 15th, Xiaoniu Hulu got up at the beginning of the month and started dressing up. She asked the palace maids to give herself a bright and moving make-up, and she was dressed in a luxurious brocade with a golden round collar, a big lapel and a narrow right gusset. After wearing the horse-hoof sleeve imperial concubine's auspicious dress on her body, she looked at the rounded Dongzhu that was one size smaller on the crown of the auspicious dress above her head, and couldn't help but think that the Dongzhu would look better one size larger.
But when she arrived at the ceremony and found out that she could go through the process from beginning to end alone, she felt a sense of vanity and joy in her heart. Compared with the four concubines Hui, Yi and Rong, at least she is the only one to participate in this year's concubine canonization ceremony. No one else can share this honor with her.
The moment she held her imperial concubine's treasures in her hands and watched the palace people kneel and bow three times to her, the "tiger" named power in her heart wanted to stretch out its claws. , got out of the cage and took a look.
A sigh that no one else could hear came from Xiao Niu Hulu's heart silently. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. She felt that if she were Amma's second daughter and her sister was the third daughter, the golden auspicious clothes she was wearing now would be replaced by that. Wearing a dazzling bright yellow wind robe is really the best thing!
The ambition in the heart of Imperial Concubine Niu Hulu is as vigorous and vigorous as the grass after the rain. Living outsiders don't know it, and her dead sister doesn't know it either. In the eyes of everyone who came to watch the ceremony, they just think that little Niu Hulu
The power of the Lu family is getting higher and higher day by day, and her presence in the harem is becoming more and more obvious. It seems that Concubine Wen, who used to hide in the Yongshou Palace in a low profile all day long, has never appeared in this deep palace.
More than average...
When the days finally came to the end of the month, the canonization ceremony of the imperial concubine that the entire Forbidden City was looking forward to finally came.
Because this is the first double-named imperial concubine since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and the time of the canonization happened to be on the birthday of the imperial concubine and Si Age, it can be said to be three blessings. The scale of this canonization ceremony should be
How big is it? How should the middle process be carried out? There is no precedent to follow.
This is really a big problem for the Minister of Rites and the Director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The former cannot design a complete set of procedures, and the latter cannot prepare the things used in the ceremony. Watching the auspicious day selected by the Qintian Supervisor change day by day.
The two of them were so anxious that they became angry. Not only did they suffer from mouth ulcers, but there were also several big blisters on their mouths. Taking a sip of hot water made them feel so hot that their flesh hurt!
After the two of them and their officials worked all night long for less than half a month, they changed nine versions of the ceremony process and scale, but without exception, they were all mercilessly rejected by the emperor.
On April 27, with only two days left before the ceremony, the Minister of Rites and the Director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs took the tenth edition of the excerpt and nervously ran to the Imperial Study Room to present it to the emperor.
Kangxi sat on an armchair on the third step, frowning at the blue-sealed book in his hand. The two officials standing underground did not even dare to take a breath, because they already knew that the tenth edition was all they could think of.
The revision limit has been reached. If the emperor vetoes it again, they can only change the first version again...
Just as the two people were sitting side by side, thinking in their minds, they heard the emperor sitting at the top say with some disgust:
"I see that you are getting worse and worse with your revisions. The first version still feels a bit new. Forget it. I won't embarrass you anymore. Just prepare it according to the first version."
When the two of them heard this, their eyes almost went dark, their legs and feet became weak. They spat out a mouthful of old blood in front of the emperor and fell heavily to the ground. They really wanted to angrily anger "Party A", but this was not an ordinary Party A.
"Party A" who was not happy that the black gauze hats and heads were removed from their heads could only compliment and apologize with an aggrieved smile:
"The emperor has a really good memory."
The implication is that ten editions have been revised. If it weren’t for the black and white paper at the bottom, they would never be able to remember what the original first edition was...
Two days later, on April 29th, Qingyan's 23rd birthday came, and it was also Xiaosi's fifth birthday.
At the beginning of the morning, the sky was still bright black and blue, and Qingyan, who was sleeping soundly in bed, was woken up by Bailu pushing her.
Without leaving her much time to stay awake in bed, Bai Lu pulled her master out of bed, called the maids to serve her, and after washing, she stuffed a fresh big peach into Qingyan's hand, like
Like an old mother who was about to send her daughter off for marriage, she pressed Qingyan on the embroidery stool and let the maids stroke her eyebrows and apply makeup.
According to the rules, on the prince's birthday, there is no need to go to Nansansuo or the Chancellor's Study Room to study.
It was a rare day for Xiao Si to wait for a rest day, and he also knew what today meant to his mother, so he dressed up early in the morning and ran excitedly from the west side hall where he lived to the inner room of the main hall.
Standing next to his mother, he served as Chu Xiugong's small makeup consultant, using his naturally high score in beauty to make reliable suggestions on the makeup on his mother's face from time to time.
Ever since the fourth elder brother unexpectedly grabbed a rouge box during the Zhou ceremony, the dressing ladies in the Chuxiu Palace all knew that their fourth elder brother definitely had some aesthetic talent, and they all listened to Xiao Si's opinions.
They are determined to use their housekeeping skills today to dress up their master as a concubine and fairy who only exists in heaven.
When the maids finally said that the makeup was done, more than an hour had passed. Qingyan felt that her body was almost stiff. When she reached out to rub her sore neck, she didn't notice that the people standing next to her were breathing.
It became slower.
When she got up from the embroidery stool and stood in front of the full-length mirror, she couldn't help but feel in a trance when she saw the bright-eyed woman in it.
The woman in the mirror looks majestic and noble, like a graceful and luxurious peony in full bloom, and like a gorgeous thorny red rose with a few dewdrops on its leaves in the morning.
The top of the auspicious crown on her head is inlaid with a white pearl, which is larger than the one on her concubine's auspicious crown.
The hem of the bright yellow Jifu is embroidered with a large pattern of surging auspicious clouds using blue silk thread and silver silk thread. Eight colorful phoenixes with wings spread freely, flying and chirping are vividly embroidered on the bright yellow brocade surface by the skillful embroiderer.
She was a little afraid to recognize whether the person inside was herself.
"Eniang looks so good today. I will look for Fu Jin who is as good-looking as Eniang in the future."
Xiaosi was very satisfied with E Niang's dress today. He watched E Niang standing in front of the full-length mirror admiring the "beauty works" he pointed out. Then he happily put his arms around Qingyan's waist and shouted loudly.
He was so shy that he wanted to find the beautiful Fujin, which made all the maids present laugh. Qingyan couldn't help but burst out laughing, and the tail of the eight-tailed phoenix hairpin stuck diagonally on the crown of Jifu followed.
Her movements trembled slightly.
The grand canonization ceremony didn't end until the end of Shen Shi. Today, Qingyan wore bright yellow peony-patterned flower pot-soled shoes with high heels according to the rules. She was concerned that the layers of the Jifu were difficult to take off, so she had to wear them in order to avoid stomach discomfort during the process.
Most of the concubines who attended the canonization ceremony did not eat anything on this day.
Qingyan was fed a big peach by Bailu as an exception, but she was still very hungry at the end of the day.
When she was finally done with her work, she just wanted to go back to the Chuxiu Palace, kick off her flowerpot-soled shoes, and then ask Bai Yuchu to cook her a table of delicious dishes to reward her stomach after a long day.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she crossed the threshold and returned to her residence, she saw Chu Xiugong who had changed greatly, and she was stunned on the spot.
Obviously, when she came out of Chuxiu Palace at four o'clock in the morning, everything was as usual.
But when she came back near dusk, the front yard had been hung with countless red silks. It was like a wedding between an emperor and an empress in the Forbidden City, or a wedding among ordinary people. It was eye-catching everywhere.
The gorgeous red silk also glows with a beautiful light golden light under the golden light of the setting sun.
The trunks of the various fruit trees planted in the front yard were also wrapped in layers of red silk, and many wind chimes were hung at random heights on the branches.
The warm evening breeze of early summer blew by, and the wind chimes made crisp sounds.
Seeing such a strange Chu Xiugong, Qingyan turned her head in confusion and wanted to ask Bai Lu who was standing behind her. Unexpectedly, she turned her head away, and Bai Lu's round face turned into Kangxi's handsome face. She saw
He turned his head, and Kangxi raised his eyebrows at her quite complacently.
Qingyan raised her eyebrows reflexively, and then took Kangxi's hand and strode towards the main hall.
Then everything got out of control. Qingyan also sat at the dinner table and ate something, but all the food was spiked with wine. She also drank her favorite peach blossom wine, but her posture was like a glass of wine.
Finally, when the sky outside the window turned completely dark, the two
Under the bright yellow auspicious clothes of the same color were small pieces of clothing, which spread messily from the door of the inner room to the footboard of the mahogany canopy bed. The flames of the red dragon and phoenix candles placed on the copper lotus candlesticks swayed.
All night, until dawn, thick red candle tears fell on the candlestick.
Xiao Si opened his eyes according to his usual biological clock, and was about to get up from the bed to wash up, eat, and go to Nansan Elementary School for school. Unexpectedly, he sat up from the bed and saw the unfamiliar ornaments around him. It was clear that the prince was the prince yesterday evening.
My brother and Dawa's brother said they would wake him up after he had slept for half an hour and take him back to Chuxiu Palace.
Why was he still in Yuqing Palace when he opened his eyes this morning?
He Zhuer, who heard the noise in the inner room, ran in from outside. When he saw Brother Si, with his head full of messy black curls, yawning in confusion, he suppressed his smile and walked forward and said:
"Brother Si, you're awake."
"I have already brought your dog backpack and completed homework. I will help you wash up now, okay?"
"Where are Brother Prince and Brother Dawa?" Xiaosi saw three pillows on the bed, and three thin brocade quilts. It was obvious that the three brothers slept together last night!
"Fourth elder brother, His Highness and the eldest elder brother woke up two quarters of an hour earlier than you. Now they have finished washing and are sitting at the dining table waiting for you to have breakfast together."
Xiaosi couldn't help but raise his hands and cover his face with a "pop". He shook his head and sighed in an old-fashioned way in his heart. If he said that when he woke up today, he found that he was "passive" and stayed up all night at a young age.