Chapter 47 What a pity
He Qiumao smiled faintly, shook his head, and said, "I heard from the people in the Ye Mansion that Ye Lanzhou was not born of a legitimate wife. When he was born, Old Master Ye passed away, and the south experienced three days of heavy snow, which was unprecedented. Therefore, he was called an ominous person. As a result, Ye Lanzhou did not have a decent name when he grew up. Later, when he married into the imperial palace in place of his legitimate sister, he was fostered under the name of Madam Ye."
He continued, "A woman born out of wedlock and of ill omen, is it possible for the Ye family to keep her?"
That night, Xie Xun's birthday banquet was held in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The glazed palace lanterns were lit, and the cold wind of early winter was whistling outside. Twelve delicacies were placed on the long table made of golden nanmu wood. The palace maids from the Shangshi Bureau were carrying silver poison-testing cards and moving around the Fengtian Hall in an orderly manner.
On the Emperor's birthday, Ye Lanzhou, as the nobleman, was naturally not an important person.
The previous emperor's generation had few children, with only one prince, Xie Xun. According to the rules established by the founding emperor of Dayin, upon the eldest son's ascension to the throne, the other brothers, unless otherwise required, were required to leave the capital and become vassal princes. But the current His Majesty had no brothers, not even sisters, so his vassal princes remained the same as before.
Prince Ning, who collaborated with the Southern Barbarians, is the most famous and is considered a criminal of the Dayin Kingdom. Prince Ning was the only one who missed the throne simply because his mother was an unknown palace maid. After he came of age, he was sent to the southern border to be a vassal.
Prince Heng was the second son and not a legitimate child. When he was young, he liked to ride horses and steal flowers in the capital. He was a disobedient child. Seeing his enthusiasm, Emperor Yin Jing sent him to Mobei to be a vassal. The soldiers of the Northern Barbarians' Iron Cavalry were brave and good at fighting, and they needed a wild temperament like Prince Heng to suppress them.
The late emperor's third son was born to the empress and was made the crown prince at birth.
Xie Chengyan was the fourth child of the empress, but he was not the eldest son. He should have succeeded Prince Ning and been enfeoffed in southern Xinjiang after he came of age, but because of a document from Emperor Yin Jing, he was left in Shangjing to recuperate.
No one dared to question His Majesty's decision. Though it was a rule established by the founding emperor, who could guarantee its continued existence? While the idea of a vassal prince seemed reasonable, on closer inspection, it wasn't. Sending princes to different locations would inevitably create estrangement between brothers. The ministers also felt that the abolition of the vassal prince system was inevitable, so no one dared to speak to Xie Chengyan, who remained in Beijing.
But someone had to guard the southern border, so Emperor Yin Jing sent the military general Lu Qianshan to the southern border, and trained the fifth prince, Xie Chengyuan, in Shangjing. He would wait until Xie Chengyuan came of age after the new year and then send him to garrison in the southern border.
The royal family had few descendants, and the princes were all serving in other places, so on the emperor's birthday, there were far more outsiders than Xie's family in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Although the Ye family is a medical family, Ye Qingshang, as the eldest daughter, has never learned medicine. Instead, she has learned a good dancing skill. Naturally, she will use this good skill to participate in the palace banquet this time.
A piece of dance of ethnic minorities, "Huihui Dance", stood out from a crowd of Han dances. Before the war, Dayin was a big country that included ethnic minorities from all directions. In order to show the style of a big family, many ethnic minorities performed dances at the banquet, which was the style of a big country.
After the war, things changed. The Han Chinese often regarded themselves as the orthodox, and they resisted the invasion of minority cultures. Although Ye Qingshang's piece is a Huihui dance, it has been adapted to have a unique beauty. "Huihui Dance" has a lively rhythm, and Ye Qingshang's skirts fluttered as she spun, accompanied by the drums of the Western Regions, which immediately stunned the audience.
Ye Lanzhou sat in a not very conspicuous corner of the hall. She had never liked Ye Qingshang, but she was also shocked by this dance. Back then, Madam Ye had urged Ye Zhixing to let her daughter specialize in dancing, and now it seemed that the result had come true.
As she was watching, the maid in the palace added a cup of tea to the jade teacup in front of her. She lowered her eyes and suddenly realized that she had been busy for so long and had not had a sip of water yet, so she picked up the teacup and took a sip.
But his eyes never left Ye Qingshang in the center of the hall.
It’s a pity that my eldest sister’s dancing skills have been lost over the years.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
