Abandoned Concubine's Promotion

Chapter 171 Birthday Banquet

"The emperor is here! The empress dowager is here! The empress is here!" In the Yihua Palace, the eunuch's report and singing sounded, and the emperor and the empress appeared together in the Yihua Palace.

Emperor Jing's birthday is naturally considered a major event in the harem. After the emperor and empress left Longgan Palace, they went directly to the Empress Dowager's Shoukang Palace and invited her to Yihua Palace.

"My Majesty, my Majesty, my Majesty, my Empress, my Empress, my Majesty, my Majesty!" Hearing the eunuch's singing, all the concubines and ministers present immediately knelt down and saluted the most distinguished three people in the palace.

"Everyone is flat." After walking to the top, Emperor Jing's eyes slowly passed by the hall, and then he spoke.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." A neat voice sounded, and everyone stood up one after another, and only after Emperor Jing sat down did they take their seats.

"Let's start the banquet." Emperor Jing said, and the palace servants from Si Lefang came in from outside the hall, and after saluting to the three above them, they began to play music and dance.

Since it was Emperor Jing's birthday banquet, this first dance was naturally related to the birthday.

There are dances in the palace, and other palace people present food to each table for people to watch and eat at the same time.

Emperor Jing raised his wine glass, although his eyes fell on the next dancer, but in his heart, he remembered Su Qingyan who was in Tao Ranju.

Originally, he thought that someone would send some food to Tao Ranju, but now that Su Qingyan was in confinement, she couldn't eat anything, so Emperor Jing had no choice but to give up.

After one dance, there was another dance. Some ministers stood up to toast Emperor Jing, and some concubines stood up to toast Emperor Jing.

As for the toast, Emperor Jing never refused anyone who came, drinking one cup after another. He had a good capacity for alcohol, so he wasn't worried.

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"Jin Nanny, at this time, the emperor's birthday banquet must have already started?" Tao Ran was in the middle, and Su Qingyan looked at the fresh fruits placed in the room, and asked Jin Nanny.

The fruit was sent by Emperor Jing before. Although Su Qingyan could not eat the food at the birthday banquet, she could still eat some fresh fruit.

"If you go back to the master, it's time to start." After estimating the time, Nanny Jin said with a smile.

"Order someone to prepare some hangover soup, and send it to Longgan Palace after the birthday banquet is over."

Su Qingyan wasn't sure whether Emperor Jing would come, but she reckoned that Emperor Jing would definitely return to Longgan Palace, so she told Nanny Jin.

"Yes." In response, Nanny Jin stepped back, Su Qingyan sat on the bed, and looked at the concentric knot on her wrist.

Some things have already begun to change. She thought that she could keep her heart in the harem, but she didn't expect that it would not be an easy task.

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The palace banquet was still going on, Emperor Jing also drank a lot of wine, although he was a little tipsy, but his consciousness was very clear.

The queen was sitting beside Emperor Jing, and she could feel that Emperor Jing's heart was not above the birthday banquet. Suddenly, her heart was sour and unbearable, she couldn't help but picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in the glass.

The queen's body was not comparable to that of Emperor Jing, or even any of the concubines in the harem. Therefore, after taking a sip of wine, she immediately coughed violently.

Yingluo stood by the queen's side. When the queen was drinking just now, she wanted to stop her, but she didn't. Now that she saw the queen like this, Yingluo's expression became a little flustered.

Hearing the sound, Emperor Jing looked towards the queen. At this time, her face was flushed from coughing, and her body was shaking violently. Seeing that the situation was very bad.

Not only Emperor Jing, but all the people in the hall noticed the movement of the head above, and even the singing and dancing in the hall subconsciously stopped.

"Tell the imperial physician." Emperor Jing's voice came, and Kang Ninghai quickly responded, and ordered someone to go to the imperial hospital to find the imperial physician.

Concubine Rong sat on the lower seat, seeing the empress's distressed appearance, a hint of sarcasm flashed in her eyes.

In her opinion, the empress was just trying to please the public. She knew she couldn't drink alcohol, but she wanted to drink anyway. The birthday party had to be stopped now.

"Send the queen to the side hall." The queen mother's voice sounded, seeing the queen's face turned from red to blue, and now it turned pale again, she couldn't help frowning.

After hearing what the queen mother said, Emperor Jing frowned, then stood up, picked up the queen, and walked towards the side hall.

In any case, in front of all the officials, this bit of face should be given to the queen and the Xiao family.

The birthday banquet was forced to end, the queen was unwell, who else would want to have fun?
The imperial physician quickly rushed to the Yihua Palace, no matter the ministers or the concubines, they were all sitting in the palace at this time.

After arriving at the side hall, the imperial physician gave the empress's pulse before checking the queen's pulse. At this time, the queen's consciousness was a little fuzzy, close to a semi-comatose state.

The person who came to check the pulse was Tai Physician Jiang who usually took the queen's pulse. He knew the queen's body best.

"My Majesty, the empress's body is not suitable for drinking alcohol, but now because of drinking alcohol, the old disease in the body has been caused, it must be taken care of carefully, and the mind must not be exhausted, otherwise, the old disease will become more and more serious... ..."

Imperial Physician Jiang dared not say what happened next, after all, the person he was examining was the Queen.

"I see, the empress's body will be handed over to you." After hearing the imperial physician's words, Emperor Jing's eyes flashed a trace of complexity. Yingluo stood aside, and after hearing the imperial physician's words, she couldn't help biting her lips.

"Kang Ninghai, let the people in the palace disperse." Turning his head to Kang Ninghai, Emperor Jing looked at the Queen Mother with a very respectful tone.

"Mother, it's getting late, son, let Kang Ninghai take you back to the palace?"

After all, it was the queen's old illness that had relapsed. It would be too heartless for Emperor Jing to leave at this time, so he had to stay.

"Ai's family isn't old yet, so there's no need to send it off, but it's the Queen's side... just take care of it." After waving her hand, the Queen Mother glanced at the Queen on the bed, and seeing her pale face, she couldn't help but sigh.

After personally sending the Empress Dowager to the sedan chair, Emperor Jing returned to the side hall of Yihua Palace. The people in the main hall had already dispersed, and some palace people were cleaning up everything in the main hall.

Sitting on the chair, Emperor Jing looked at the sleepy queen on the bed, and couldn't help rubbing the space between his eyebrows.

"Your Majesty, Chen Zhaoyi sent someone to bring hangover soup." Kang Ninghai held a food box in his hand, walked to Emperor Jing, and said in a low voice.

Su Qingyan already knew about the Yihua Palace, so she asked someone to bring the hangover soup directly to the Yihua Palace. When Kang Ninghai came back, she brought it directly into the palace.

"Bring it." Hearing Kang Ninghai's words, Emperor Jing's expression softened a lot. He took the hangover soup from Kang Ninghai's hand, and drank it all in one gulp.

With the medicine from the imperial physician, the queen will not wake up tonight. For Emperor Jing, this is destined to be a sleepless night...

(End of this chapter)