29. Celebration of Sacred Birthday (5)

This day is very enjoyable, and very brisk, not dusk, has already dispersed the feast to go out of the palace without mentioning, the next day and go to the West Garden to play, in short, these days are very lively, the celebration has lasted until October 15, the Empress Dowager Cixi who has been a little tired of drumming can finally be relieved.

"Finally, there are not so many people in front of me," the Empress Dowager Cixi sat on the kang, bathing in the sun in a daze, "I have been dizzy for the past few days, and today I am finally clean." ”

Anqian came in with a plate of Chuzhou white pears and put them on the kang table, "Niangniang is used to being lazy, don't you want to go to Qin'an Palace to incense today?" ”

"It's over when I enter the incense and let them go, yesterday I listened to the Qin dialect, and I had a headache when I sang, and today I just had a quiet moment."

"I'm just afraid that there is no quiet," Anqian said with a smile: "Qifujin is going to enter the palace today." ”

"My own family, it's not a gong and a drum, what does it matter." Cixi smiled, "I didn't talk to Wanzhen well when I gave a banquet a few days ago, but I want to have a good chat today." Did she bring anyone in? ”

"I brought the second elder brother."

The first son of King Fujin was born in the fourth year of Tongzhi, but died early at the age of two.

Wanzhen wore court clothes, according to the big makeup, led a three-year-old child into the east room, and saluted to the queen mother who was sitting cross-legged on the kang, the child was ignorant and knelt down with his mother, the Empress Dowager Cixi hurriedly called them up, "It's all my own family, and it's not in a big scene, what kind of salute, get up quickly." ”

Chunwang Fujin smiled and said yes, hugged the child and stood up, and the Empress Dowager Cixi called Anqian to "Wait for Fujin to change clothes, and it's not a court meeting, what are you doing in such a neat dress." But he leaned down and looked at the child. Zai Yan looked small, a little frail, watching the woman on the kang with beaded hair approaching him, he shrank back in fear, and the nurse hurriedly stopped, "This is the Queen Mother." ”

The queen waved towards Zai Xiang with a kind smile. "You come," Zai Yan was a little scared, but he was pushed forward by the nurse, and his mouth was about to cry.

"Don't cry, don't cry," the Empress Dowager Cixi picked up Zaiyan, put him in her arms on the kang, and took a white pear for Zai Xiang to play with, the white pear was not big, and it looked like jade. There was also a faint aroma, so Zai Yan stopped crying, holding the white pear, and the Empress Dowager Cixi asked the palace maid Xue'er to peel the pear, cut it into pieces with a knife, and feed it to the second elder brother. When Zai Yan saw that there was something to eat, he naturally let down his guard, and took a fancy to the cyan opal red gold armor of the Empress Dowager Cixi. The Queen Mother took off the opal armor, "This thing is pointy." Be careful not to poke it. ”

King Fujin came out in a good clothes, and when he saw Zai Yan playing in front of the Queen Mother, he smiled and said, "This child is close to the Queen Mother." ”

Zai Xiang laughed and threw his armor on the table, making a peeling sound, and the Empress Dowager Cixi said, "Take him into the palace more in the future." He and the emperor are cousins and cousins, so they should be closer and closer, I am in the palace, and there are few people outside. It doesn't hurt you to come. He also instructed Tang Wufu, "Clean up the side hall and let Qifu Jin live for a few days." ”

Chunwang Fujin sat down, and the two of them said some family words on the kang, and the queen mother asked, "How is the health of my parents?" ”

"Mother is fine, but father is not too good, the arrow wound in the south in the old days always has to attack often in winter," Wanzhen said worriedly, "plus I am getting older......

"Hey, then we can only let the imperial doctor go and see it from time to time," the Empress Dowager Cixi sighed, "If it is not a year old, let Ama retreat, and he will not need to be on any errands, but the festival is a little busy, and I will tell him when the emperor comes." ”

Then he said of the king of the Alcohol Counties, "He came back from the north, and now he is all right?" ”

"I went to Beihai to see the market, and I was very excited to come back," King Fujin said with a smile, "Many of the princes who went to the north to accompany him went to Beihai, went out of the country, and followed the army in a circle, saying that this can be regarded as seeing the real scene, and I don't want the emperor's errand in the future, put him in the soldiers' pile, and be satisfied with the conquest of foreign countries, he is a high-minded and arrogant, and he is determined to pick up these things again." ”

"It's not simple, let him be in charge of the Shenji Camp before, didn't he take a fancy to him?" Empress Dowager Cixi said with a smile, "He is the emperor's imperial uncle, it is naturally good to help him, his sixth uncle is in the court, and his seventh uncle is in the army, one scholar and one martial artist, this is the best." ”

King Chun Fujin said with a smile, "He can work for the emperor on an errand, this is the best." ”

"He's up north, but what's new?" The nanny hugged Zai Yan, the opal armor was held by Zai Yan and refused to let go, the Queen Mother picked up the bowl and skimmed the tea, "I'm in the palace, thinking about the north, it's really lively, when will we go and take a look." ”

"I heard that the grassland and snow mountains in the land of Beihai are very beautiful, but the scenery is better than that of Uriya Sutai, but it is still on the front line, and the war is raging, otherwise the big guys say that they will build a house there, and they can go to escape the summer in the future," King Fujin said with a smile, "The ice in Beihai is all blue, very dazzling, and King Yu also brought a lot of it back and hid it in the cellar, but it was a joke from our family, saying that this thing will melt in the summer, and what to do when it is transported back thousands of miles." ”

"Many princes have gone to Beihai?"

"Yes, Prince Yu, several county kings and the princes of the country all went to Beihai and walked around the seaside," King Chun Fujin said, "I heard that it was the Yu Dynasty that asked the emperor to lead the troops out to fight a war with Russia, the emperor was very happy, and let a few princes go out with the soldiers to go shopping, I heard that they also conquered a small market town, which is considered to have seen blood, I am frightened in my heart, but the king of alcohol is excited, and when he comes back to tell him, the emperor is also very happy, saying that the children of the Eight Banners should be so brave." ”

The Queen Mother said with a smile, "If these princes and princes of the county who are tens of thousands of taels of silver a year come out to serve the emperor, we don't have to worry about anything, now I heard that those Eight Banners are still willing to go out to be soldiers, and they are good at doing foreign affairs and building factories, which is not right, what I want is that everyone is willing to be a soldier and go to the martial arts hall to study." ”

While the two of them were talking, the emperor arrived again, King Chun Fujin hurriedly got up, the emperor strode in, saw King Fu Jin saluting, and said with a smile: "Aunt Seven is here." ”

"Your seventh aunt took your second brother into the palace, and I asked them to stay with me for a few more days," the Empress Dowager Cixi said, "You should also take your second brother around." (To be continued.) )