Chapter 319: A Lot of Rewards
"However, even if the emperor is willing, he will not ask grandfather to come back immediately. I am afraid it will take another year or so. This is also reasonable." If a person wants to resign, as long as you have done nothing wrong, the emperor will keep you to show that he is reluctant to let you go. This is the friendship between the monarch and his subjects.
After all, Marquis Jing'an is an old minister who served the late emperor.
Qu nodded: "Your Highness is right."
"Even if grandpa is no longer a general, he is still a marquis. He is still noble. He is old and it is time for him to enjoy his retirement." Shen Chuliu said.
In fact, she could imagine that Shen Changjing would definitely be willing to continue to be a general, regardless of whether he liked power or not. It was just that he was probably at a loss when he suddenly had nothing to do.
But for the sake of my descendants, I had to let go.
Liang remained silent, and Shen Chuliu noticed it, so she just asked someone to send her to see Shen Baolin.
Shen Chuliu just doesn't allow anyone to invite Shen Baolin. Qu and Song are not stupid, so how could they not see that?
Sighing in her heart, Qu now knew for sure that Jing Xiuyi was unwilling to let Shen Biyu enter the palace.
But the matter is done and it's too late.
I don’t know what Liang said to Shen Baolin, but when she left the palace, she didn’t ask anyone to look for her. She came here by herself, and she looked pretty good.
The New Year was approaching, and on the night of the Little New Year, Shen Chuliu dressed up and celebrated the festival in the Taiji Palace.
The newly entered palace Concubine Xin had already asked the Clothing Bureau to rush out a lot of new clothes, so naturally she no longer talked about wearing mourning clothes.
However, the Queen wore plain clothes this year and no longer wore bright red.
Qi Yixiu naturally had no objection. Although women who entered the palace could not observe mourning for their parents' home, the queen was still the queen after all, and also the biological daughter of the late emperor of Chao.
Besides, the queen has always been very disciplined. Now, just not wearing red is nothing.
Empress Dowager Li had no objection either.
Qi Yixiu was also bad this time. He had previously detained the Deer King and did not allow him to return to the capital, until the day before yesterday when he suddenly asked him to leave.
He was not allowed to celebrate the New Year in the capital.
The officials in the court also knew that the emperor was disgusted with the Deer King, so they had to stay away from him.
The Deer King lost both his wife and his soldiers during this trip to the capital. He gave away a lot of silver, but it was of little use.
New Year's Eve, everything went smoothly.
The emperor finally rested in the queen's residence.
In the past two months, Concubine Xin had been the one who slept with him the most, and a few young concubines had slept with him occasionally. As for the Queen, probably because Concubine Xin was not sensible when she first came, the Emperor compensated her by having her sleep with him more often than before.
The queen herself didn't care about this. But her attitude was calm. It was better to come than not to come. She still had a daughter.
However, seeing the rewards and treatment, the servants in the harem did not dare to neglect others.
For example, Jing Xiuyi, Ning Chongyi, Li Chongrong, as well as Concubine Wen and Jieyu Zhen.
After the Little New Year, there were two heavy snowfalls in succession and the weather was unusually cold.
I thought that was the worst, but it started snowing again before New Year's Eve.
On New Year’s Eve, we had to get up in the middle of the night to go to the Taimiao. It was snowing heavily outside, so everyone had to wear thick clothes and kowtow.
People like Shen Chuliu also suffered, but at least they were protected. The mats were hollow and had something in them, so although they couldn't warm the whole body, they wouldn't hurt their legs and knees.
Yao Baolin also benefited from this and could enjoy the same treatment.
Others who were not favored did not have such treatment. Even if they had a cushion, they still had to kneel in the Taimiao for a long time. It was impossible not to feel cold in this weather. It all depends on your physical condition.
When we finally left the Taimiao, everyone was freezing.
Everyone went back to change clothes and simply soak their feet. Some people couldn't even get hot water because there were not enough seats.
Shen Baolin was one of the group that couldn’t wait for hot water. Of course, Chen Baolin in Qingzhi Pavilion couldn’t wait either.
So they could only ask the servants to warm their knees with a hot water bottle. There was not much time left before they had to change clothes, pay their respects to various places, and then go to the Taiji Palace for the banquet.
This wasn't the case with Shen Chuliu. Her knees weren't cold anyway, so she just changed her clothes.
The Sixth Prince had not gone to the Taimiao before because it was too cold. She just told the Queen about it, and the Queen expressed her understanding. Not only did the Sixth Prince not go.
The fourth prince did not go today either. However, the fifth prince was taken away without any special order.
However, if he didn't go to the Taimiao, he couldn't not go to the banquet. After all, the Sixth Prince was exactly two years old today.
I definitely can't stay the whole time, but I have to show my face.
So, Shen Chuliu looked at her son who was dressed like a little fat boy and said with a smile: "Yan'er, be good and remember to greet you properly, okay?"
The Sixth Prince nodded. Because the clothes around his neck were too thick, it felt fun to nod, so he kept nodding.
Shen Chuliu didn't say anything to him, but put on the tiger head hat made by the nanny and said, "Ask Yuanxiao to carry you away."
The snow outside hadn't stopped yet, and it was a little difficult for the nanny to hold him.
In this weather, Shen Chuliu couldn't walk, or her feet would get wet. But the Sixth Prince still wanted to walk, and asked someone to carry him.
When we arrived at Taiji Palace, everyone was a little nervous, after all, the weather was so bad today.
After everyone had settled down in the side hall, they went to the main hall to pay their respects to everyone.
Those living in the palace are in such a state, let alone the royal family members living outside.
But at least nothing went wrong and the day went by well.
Late at night, when the fireworks were set off, the snow finally stopped.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, a state banquet was held in Longzong Hall.
In addition to the royal family, there were also officials of the third rank and above in the court, as well as families with titles and above, and their female relatives with titles and ranks were all allowed to come in.
Shen Chuliu originally thought that Shen Changjing would be back by now, but due to the heavy snow, he was delayed. So only the female members of the Shen family entered the palace.
After all, the eldest son of the Shen family has not yet climbed to the third rank. Normally, Shen Qinghe’s wife could come in and take a look, but now she is not qualified.
Shen Chuliu was wearing a long gown of imperial color today, with a plain white skirt embroidered with red plum blossoms underneath. She wore a round belt made of imperial color mixed with white, which made her look particularly eye-catching and beautiful.
She had her hair in a bun, adorned with the latest set of gold-plated jewellery inlaid with rubies.
The eyebrows were drawn high, the almond eyes were portrayed as phoenix eyes, and the tails of the eyes were elongated.
What was extremely rare was that she had a flower ornament on her forehead.
The ruby earrings on her ears swayed, echoing the tassels on the hairpins on her head, which was very beautiful.
On her neck was a new large red gold necklace, not a necklace, but a necklace, but it was inlaid with rubies and the carved patterns were very delicate, and there was also a piece of fine mutton-fat jade at the bottom.
Her eyebrows and eyes are beautiful and elegant, so she can naturally carry off such an outfit.
Everyone was used to it, as this person always liked to wear gold and silver.
It's annoying, but people like it and the emperor gives a lot of rewards.
But people can suppress it when they wear it!
(End of this chapter)
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