peasant girl allure

Chapter 233
Counting from tomorrow, it will be the first day of the Lunar New Year in three days.

Officials will have a holiday starting tomorrow, and they will not go to court until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

Mrs. Liu and Xiao'er reconciled the accounts together in the house. Mrs. Liu checked the family's expenses and the receipt and delivery of the New Year's Gifts to check if there were any omissions. There are also many more people who send out and ask for gifts in return.

Xiaoer reconciled the accounts of the shop and Zhuangzi. Xiaoer reconciled the accounts very quickly. She had finished reconciling the baskets of account books in front of her, and Liu Shi had only finished reconciling the accounts she wanted to correct.

"I used to feel that it was very tiring to go to the fields and farm every day. I envied those who are wives and young ladies who don't have to face the loess and turn their backs to the sky. I never thought that there are more things to learn to be wives and young ladies, and it is even more tiring to work here!" Liu said He pointed to his head with his finger.

After hearing this, Xiao'er stood up and walked behind Mrs. Liu to help Mrs. Liu massage her head.

"If mother feels tired, it's the same to leave it to me." Mental labor and physical labor are equally tiring, but one is more mentally tiring and the other is physically tiring.

"You have a lot of things to do every day, and my mother is still busy with this matter. By the way, I haven't prepared the clothes for entering the palace tomorrow!" Liu Shi remembered that she almost forgot such an important matter, She was so frightened that she hurriedly pulled Xiao'er's hand, stood up and was about to check if there were any mistakes in those sets of clothes.

Tomorrow, the emperor will invite officials of rank four and above to have dinner, and after the meal, the annual holiday will be officially held.

Shen Chengyao is a marquis and an in-law, such a meritorious official is naturally also invited.

"Didn't you let Nanny Rong go to see it before dinner? There's nothing wrong with it. Mother should go to bed early tonight, and get up early tomorrow to get dressed." Seeing that Mrs. Liu was in a hurry, Xiao'er urged her to go to bed.

Liu Shi also felt that she should go to sleep, and urged Xiao'er to go back to sleep.

Early the next morning, the whole family dressed up to attend the palace banquet.

The weather was extremely cold, and there was a long queue at Donghua Gate to enter the palace.

Xiao Fuzi was still waiting outside the gate of the palace. When he saw the carriage of the Marquis of Shengping appearing, he stepped forward, took them with him, and led them in with the token.

There are really not many officials who can be treated like this, except for Shengpinghou's Mansion, which is the Queen's natal Zhongyonghou's Mansion.

The others entered the palace in order of rank.

Xiao'er had to lament that it was easy to do things whenever there was a relationship.

If she stood in this icy and snowy environment for half a day at the coldest time of the day, she would not be able to freeze into ice bars.

Besides, even if you enter the palace, you still have to walk a long way to reach the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Thinking about it, I feel that this meal is suffering!
Xiao Fuzi led them to the outside of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and then a court lady stepped forward to lead the family members of Mrs. Liu to the inner hall, while Shen Chengyao, his father and son were led by Xiao Fuzi to the main hall.

Mrs. Liu held Xiao Xi'er, Xiao'er held Yun'er, as soon as the four of them entered the hall, the heat rushed over their faces, and they felt much more comfortable.

After saluting according to the etiquette rules, the queen immediately asked them to sit on her lower right hand.

Sitting on the lower left side of the queen are the old lady of Zhongyonghou's mansion and the general's wife, Mrs. Lu, as well as Di Shaowei's cousin Di Junya and her mother, Mrs. Ma.

This kind of arrangement shows the closeness and distance immediately.

Forget about Zhongyonghou's Mansion, Shengpinghou's Mansion...

The face of the lady present changed slightly, and then she stood up as if nothing had happened.

The smile on the prime minister's wife's face was a bit unstoppable, now that the right prime minister has dismounted, and my husband is the only left prime minister, it must be said that one person is under ten thousand people, but that's how no matter how she pleases her in front of the queen, the queen treats her Also lukewarm.

She glanced at her daughter, heartbroken.

Ever since the daughter found out that the emperor had appointed County Lord Rui'an to marry the sixth prince, she was listless all day long, and lost her mind in everything she did.

"I haven't seen Xiao'er for more than a month, and she has lost a lot of weight. Her face is pointy. You must have been exhausted before!" The queen held Xiao'er's hand, her tone caring and affectionate.

"Really thin? I used to think that I was too fat and not beautiful enough, and I was thinking about how to lose weight. Now I don't have to lose weight. It's great. Empress, do you think I have become more beautiful?" Xiao'er He touched his pointy face and said smugly.

But it's not that she is smug, it's that even she herself feels that she is getting more and more beautiful.

"You girl is still thinking about losing weight, and you won't be beautiful if you lose weight." The queen deliberately threatened.

The son's eyesight is good, and this girl has really come out better and better.

Concubine Yang Gui was cut off because of her fancy daughter-in-law. Watching the two perform the circus of "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law" loving each other here, she felt extremely aggrieved, and couldn't help but sarcastically said: "How can you seduce people if you don't lose weight and become beautiful?" , shameless at such a young age, and a bunch of..."

"Enough!" The queen's face darkened, and she sternly reprimanded.

"Concubine Yang Gui is beautiful, but you can do it yourself, don't think that everyone else is like you!"

No one of the wives present knew that when the emperor was only a prince, Concubine Yang Guifei designed to drug the emperor back then, and then conceived the dragon seed, so that she has the position of imperial concubine today.

The so-called exposing people without revealing their shortcomings, beating people without slapping their faces, this is the first time that the empress empress has not shown Yang Guifei's face in this way, and satirized the events of the year in front of so many ministers' families.

The wives present all hurriedly lowered their heads and pretended not to hear anything.

But everyone secretly wondered what Concubine Yang meant by that.

Concubine Yang's face flushed instantly, regretting her impulsiveness in her heart, but also secretly hated the queen and Xiao'er's family.

Seeing that she didn't dare to speak out, the queen glanced at the wives again, why didn't she understand what these wives were thinking.

So the queen smiled and said to Xiao'er: "A while ago, I really thank you for discovering the conspiracy of the Japanese people, and followed the past regardless of the danger of your life, otherwise the entire imperial capital would be infected with smallpox."

"Thank you for not being the queen, because the empress has me in her heart, and she called me over to talk, otherwise I would not have heard the words of the Japanese envoy on the way to Kunning Palace. In fact, it is the empress's credit." Xiao Xiao The child replied with a smile.

"You girl has a sweet mouth. I don't dare to take credit for this. If I summon other people, they won't be able to find out. No one in this imperial capital understands Japanese. You are the only one who is so knowledgeable. Besides, Yi'er and Wa Kingdom The envoy was injured during the fight, and later he contracted smallpox. You helped him take care of him. Although the emperor issued a secret decree a long time ago to marry you to Yi Er, you are no longer an outsider, but I am the queen mother. I still want to say thank you."

All the people present understood Yang Guifei's words just now, but it turned out that the emperor had already appointed the two of them to marry, but they didn't know it.

But the queen brought this up on purpose, because she didn't want gossip about County Lord Rui'an to spread.

(End of this chapter)