Chapter 400 Fireworks Appear
Zhao Lingmeng saw that no one had objected, so he told the two older ones to go first. "Zhao Houjing and Zhao Houming, you two go down and clean up first! I'll give the two younger ones a few more words of advice."
When Zhao Houming heard his mother say this, he immediately tugged at Zhao Houjing's clothes and pulled Zhao Houjing up to bow. "Mom, my brother and I will take our leave now. We'll have lunch with you later."
After Zhao Houming finished speaking, he saw his mother nodded, and immediately took Zhao Houjing away.
After leaving the yard, Zhao Houjing asked speechlessly: "Why are you pulling me? I didn't say I didn't want to leave."
"You want to leave? Why are you dawdling there?" Zhao Houming's face was filled with two words: 'I don't believe it'.
Zhao Houjing looked at his second brother's disbelieving eyes and had no choice but to admit, "I just wanted to give Zhao Houyang that kid some trouble."
When Zhao Houming heard his elder brother say this, he felt even more helpless. He could only pat his elder brother Zhao Houjing on the shoulder and said, "It seems that you haven't learned your lesson from this beating."
Zhao Houming turned and walked away. "That kid Zhao Houyang is quite treacherous!" "Big brother, you'll learn your lesson after a few more setbacks."
Zhao Houjing looked at his second brother who was walking away, and then looked at his mother's yard. In the end, he didn't have the courage to go back, so he took his people back to his own yard.
When Yang Chengchen saw that his eldest and second cousins had left, he asked, "Aunt, did you keep us here to discuss this weapons matter?"
Although Yang Chengchen knew that his aunt had designed a new gift for the emperor's grandfather, he and Zhao Houyang had no idea what it was. They just thought that his aunt had designed some powerful weapon to celebrate the emperor's grandfather's birthday.
Zhao Lingmeng considered it for a moment before speaking: "Yes and no!"
When Zhao Lingmeng said this, Yang Chengchen and Zhao Houyang looked at Zhao Lingmeng in surprise. This statement was quite novel.
"What we made this time is indeed a rare thing. It can also be made into a weapon, but this time it is just for viewing. It's just that the formula is quite powerful.
You can't participate in this this time. When I left the palace, I specifically asked the emperor for his opinion, and the emperor said the fewer people who know about it, the better."
Although Yang Chengchen often followed Zhao Lingmeng, he was a member of the royal family after all, and was naturally sensitive to such things. When he heard his aunt say this, he immediately put away his curiosity.
"Then just keep it, Auntie. Maybe it's a blessing that we didn't know about it."
Zhao Lingmeng nodded in agreement. "Well, Chen'er is right. Sometimes the less you know, the safer you are. Okay, you guys should go down and pack up! We'll be back to Yuanjing tomorrow."
Yang Chengchen and Zhao Houyang also bowed and took their leave. After living in the manor for so long, they did have a lot of stuff, and they had to watch the people around them collect many of it.
After Zhao Lingmeng and the others had left, she turned back to the inner room and lay down on the bed without any image. She whispered, "Please take care of the things. I'm going to sleep a little longer. I got up too early this morning."
Upon hearing this, Qiuyue first ordered someone to start collecting some of the outer chamber's things. Then she brought in an embroidery shed, sat down not far from Zhao Lingmeng, and began to embroider slowly. By the way, she would occasionally cover His Highness with a quilt.
After everything was ordered, Zhao Lingmeng and the others returned directly to Yuanjing City early the next morning. They spent the next few days screening people in the mansion.
The information Huaishu gave last time was finally found out by Qiuyue and the others to be true. In the end, the traitor was identified as one of the old men in the front yard.
Zhao Lingmeng had some free time these past few days, so she was determined to resolve this matter. She didn't want to end up in a trap. There were many secrets in her house, and if someone with ulterior motives found out about any of them, it would be fatal.
Zhao Lingmeng had been spreading several false news in the past few days, and finally found out that there was something wrong with the two elderly people in the front yard. Their whole family lived in the mansion.
Since it was confirmed, Zhao Lingmeng let Chunshui handle it directly. Zhao Lingmeng had no mercy on such matters. Even in her previous life, passing information to someone from another country would have been fatal.
But in this era, it will bring trouble to my family, and there is nothing we can do about it.
Time flies when you're busy. Soon it was the Emperor's fifty-fifth birthday. The Emperor's birthday banquet was usually held at noon.
However, this year, the Emperor had moved the luncheon to the evening to coincide with Zhao Lingmeng's gift. Although the nobles and ministers of Yuanjing were curious about the change of time, no one objected.
In the past, Zhao Lingmeng could attend such banquets without Zhao Houjing and the other two. They didn't like going to places with so many rules. But ever since Zhao Houjing and the other two had a third-class viscount, this situation became unavoidable.
However, when everyone saw Zhao Lingmeng, Zhao Houjing and the other two coming in empty-handed, the noble ministers in the hall were still surprised.
After all, it was the Emperor's birthday, and he had said he wanted to celebrate it with great fanfare. The entire Yuan capital was decorated with lanterns and colorful lights. Of course, everyone came with gifts, but those who came empty-handed like Princess Funing were rare, if not nonexistent.
However, given Princess Funing's favor, no one dared to ask her directly. It was just that everyone was inevitably preparing to see Princess Funing make a fool of herself.
Zhao Lingmeng looked at everyone's expressions and knew what everyone was thinking. She sat calmly in her seat, thinking that she would shock them later.
But the second brother Zhao Anwei came over and quietly asked, "Should he give the gift to her?"
Zhao Lingmeng could only helplessly tell her second brother Zhao Anwei that she had prepared a gift and she would just wait and see.
A grand banquet for all the ministers! The process was similar to previous ones, except that the gift-giving part was moved to the end this year. First, everyone celebrated the birthday, then ate, drank, toasted, and watched the dancing.
By the time everyone had finished eating and drinking, it was already dark. The emperor then ordered everyone to go up to the nearby tower to view the gift Princess Funing had sent. After giving his orders, he led the empress away. He had been waiting for this all night. He was incredibly curious.
After everyone stood on the tower curiously, the emperor ordered the eunuch Zhuo next to him to start.
In fact, the people of Yuanjing City had already been informed that there would be fireworks tonight, and those who were interested could go out to watch. The main purpose was to warn the people not to panic.
Then everyone heard the sound of drums, and then there were bangs, and something shot up into the sky and exploded. For a moment, the sky was so beautiful that it was no exaggeration to say it was a miracle.
Not only the nobles in the tower, but also the brave people on the street, were all staring at the sky in disbelief, afraid of missing this once-in-a-lifetime moment.
Zhao Lingmeng looked at the fireworks filling the sky and felt like she was back in her previous life. She was dazed for a moment.
After watching the fireworks for half an hour, everyone knelt down at the same time and shouted, "Long live the emperor, long live Jingguo." At this moment, everyone felt that the prosperity of Jingguo was coming.
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