The king of Sulu was naturally grateful to Dai De, got on the train, and asked the head of the guard to take a black wooden box and personally handed it to the king of Fujun, "The prince has pity on his subordinates, and he has given thousands of bags of ashes, and the ministers have nothing to reciprocate, this is a special product of Sulu, and it is for the prince's pastime." ￡∝，”

King Fujun naturally refused, Sulu repeatedly pushed, then Shi Shiran accepted, King Fujun opened the black wooden box a little, and shot out a lot of dazzling light, King Fujun originally didn't care, saw that the light was a little strange, then surprised to open, only to see a box full of small thumb-sized pale cyan pearls, shining all over the body, those pearls are of average size, round, even if King Fujun Tianhuang is noble, accustomed to seeing the treasures of the world, he can't help but be slightly surprised, "King, this gift is too valuable, I dare not accept it, I also asked the king to accept it and present it to the queen mother. ”

"This was originally a native product of the Sulu country, although the production was very large in the past, but it was all controlled by the Spaniards, and I could not get much, but as soon as the sailors of the Celestial Empire came, the Spaniards were invincible, and the subordinates were equal to the restoration of the country," Dong Tailai said sincerely, "So this is just a little bit of the minister's heart for the Celestial Empire and the prince, it is really nothing, besides, the treasures presented to the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven have also been prepared, and I also ask the prince to accept it with peace of mind, and enter the capital. I can only beg the prince to take care of one or two. ”

When the king of Fujun heard this, he had to accept it, and secretly marveled at the generosity of the king of Sulu, but he didn't know that the king of Sulu had almost hollowed out all the pearls of the Sulu Islands for this northward pilgrimage, and the size and color of the box of pearls of the king of Fujun were the same, and it was excellent to make the head and face and wear it into a necklace or make a phoenix crown. With the company of the prince of the near branch, the queen mother deliberately wanted to praise the Sulu country as a vassal example, Qinghai naturally did not dare to slack off, handed over the formalities, and personally escorted Dong Tailai to stay in the Sifang Pavilion, and at the same time played, Qin Tian supervised the auspicious day, on December 19, this day is auspicious, the queen mother emperor Linqianqing Palace summoned the king of Sulu and the prince of the king, originally the queen mother insisted on summoning in the Taihe Palace, was blocked back by Wen Xiang, the meaning of the military aircraft was originally to be summoned in the Yangxin Palace, the queen mother was not formal enough, so she compromised, It happened to be winter, and the Queen Mother and the Emperor had already returned to the Forbidden City, so they summoned the King of Sulu, the princes and ministers, the Seven Ministries and the Nine Secretaries, and Zhan Shikedao in the Qianqing Palace.

On the day of December 19th, Yinshi, Chuxiu Palace, this day is the earliest day of the Queen Mother these days, the Palace of Yangxin and the Military Aircraft Department have to be in the afternoon, the morning is the time to approve the folds, and often in the Old Summer Palace, there is no need to go to the Great Court Meeting, the Queen Mother hangs the curtain to listen to the government, and it is not very imaginable to go to the Great Dynasty to accept the kneeling of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military officials, so since the first year of Tongzhi, in addition to the Zhengdan Longevity Festival, the civil and military officials do not need to look at Shuo, no matter the wind, rain, snow and hail, they must kneel outside the Qianqing Gate to worship and congratulate, It is really the benevolent government of the Queen Mother.

So on this day, the Queen Mother yawned and got up to be served by the eunuchs and palace maids, Beijing in Layue was already the coldest time when the water was dripping into ice, but the Chuxiu Palace was as warm as spring, and the Queen Mother put on a sable court dress and hat, but her mouth was muttering, "The horizontal and vertical are behind the curtain, and there is no one who wears it so neatly." ”

A little palace maid pursed her lips and stole fun, Anqian hurriedly knelt down and put on shoes for the queen mother, Tang Wufu had already prepared breakfast, four kinds of porridge, three kinds of steamed buns, one product of milk tea, five kinds of meat and vegetables such as venison mutton and white meat, three kinds of soup, the queen mother likes fruits, there are two kinds of fruits such as winter dates and tangerines. What kind of appetite does the Queen Mother have, of course, whoever just got up has no appetite, reluctantly used a small half bowl of longan brown sugar porridge, ate a few mouthfuls of silver silk rolls, and put down the chopsticks, Tang Wufu asked the Queen Mother to use some more, "I'm afraid I'm going to blow a cold wind there for some time today." The Queen Mother then picked a few pieces of beef and ate them, and the flowers sent purple ginger, the Queen Mother chewed it, and sent tea to rinse her mouth, at this time An Dehai walked in, "Long live the Lord is here." ”

Emperor Tongzhi lived in Zhongcui Palace a few years ago, to Tongzhi six years, this moved to the Yangxin Palace to live alone, very close to Chuxiu Palace, as soon as the emperor came in, the Queen Mother saw the emperor full of heroic face, starry eyes and sword eyebrows, flying figure, as the saying goes, "women want to be pretty, a body of filial piety, men want to be pretty, a body of soap", Emperor Tongzhi wore a dark color of auspicious clothes, more and more set off the eyebrows like jade, the Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction, the emperor's appearance is still very good, "It is comparable to Jia Baoyu in the Dream of Red Mansions." The emperor said a few words, went out of the Chuxiu Palace, waited for the sedan chair, the sky was sprinkled with snowflakes, and the six years of Tongzhi finally arrived. (To be continued......)