Glory all the way

Chapter 314 Glory
After sitting down in the banquet hall, Bai Yingluo looked at Sun Yantong with jokes and blessings.

Sun Yantong's strange behavior, she herself said it was nothing to worry about, but Mrs. Zhou Guogong's son and wife who entered the palace together seemed to be in a hurry. After a while, Mrs. Zhou rushed over to ask what was going on.

It can be seen that Sun Yantong is very popular in Zhou Guogong's mansion, whether her parents-in-law or sister-in-law, they all take good care of her.

Although Sun Yantong said that the lunchtime meal was greasy, but Bai Yingluo always felt that something was wrong. Mrs. Zhou was also afraid that she would not feel well, and if she persisted, she would become seriously ill. .

In just a cup of tea, the news that Sun Yantong was pregnant spread in the side halls of the Taihe Hall.

The wives who entered the palace for the banquet congratulated Mrs. Zhou one after another, while the younger ones gathered around Sun Yantong, either congratulating her or reminding her of what she needed to pay attention to. The originally reserved crowd gradually warmed up.

At the beginning of the banquet, Sun Yantong sat obediently beside her mother-in-law, her eyes were as bright as the stars, she occasionally raised her head to look at Bai Yingluo, and then she lowered her head in embarrassment, which made Bai Yingluo even more uncontrollable.

At this moment, she is probably in a hurry to return home, and wants to tell Zhou Yunqing the good news, right?
Bai Yingluo thought to herself.

There was a sudden silence around her, and Bai Yingluo was busy sitting upright, and the next moment, she heard the eunuch's voice coming from outside the gate of Baohe Palace: "The emperor is here, the empress, His Royal Highness, and Lin side concubine are here..."

Concubine Lin...

For such an important palace banquet like the New Year's Eve banquet, the prince is not accompanied by the princess, but Lin Zhimei. Is this another meaning of the royal transmission?

Many people in the hall were stunned for a moment, and their faces were gloomy. Naturally, they were the grandfather of the Crown Princess, Prime Minister Dou, and her father, Lord Dou.

Emperor Jiayuan was walking in front of him in bright yellow casual clothes, the queen in red palace clothes was a step behind on the left, and the prince was on the right, and next to the prince was Lin Zhimei, who had been dressed up.

At this time, Lin Zhimei seemed to be grand in appearing in front of everyone for the first time.

The water-red palace attire, the snow-white fox fur on her body, the towering cloud temples, and the gorgeous but not excessive jewelry all showed the honor and favor she received in the Eastern Palace.

They followed the prince's side step by step, and the two of them looked at each other occasionally, but they also smiled affectionately, even outsiders could tell at a glance that it was from the bottom of their hearts.

The people in the hall looked at each other, and they probably knew it in their hearts.

Bai Yingluo turned her head to look at Uncle Beining and Mrs. Beining, and saw that their faces were calm, with a bit of sincerity and fear, without any complacency.

This kind of Beining Bofu, such a performance, will make Emperor Jiayuan and the crown prince feel more comfortable, right?

Guessing secretly, Bai Yingluo raised her eyes again, and saw Lin Zhimei's kind smile when she looked at her, and Bai Yingluo smiled at her with a smile on her face.

At the beginning of the banquet, Emperor Jiayuan reviewed the achievements of the Song Dynasty this year, and looked forward to a bright future. Next, it was the awards to the civil and military officials.

Years ago, in the evaluation of hundreds of officials, whether the officials were praised or demoted, the final conclusion was announced at the court meeting as early as the day of the seal on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. Some people were happy and some were worried.

The most eye-catching one is naturally Du Xuan.

In April last year, he was named on the gold list. In a year and a half, he was promoted to three ranks in a row from the six-rank Hanlin Academy. Now, he is already a fifth-rank Hubu doctor. Who else can match his promotion? speed?

What's more, anyone with a discerning eye can now see that Emperor Jiayuan planned to cultivate Du Xuan in order to hone Du Xuan into a talent and leave it to the prince in the future.

As soon as he was born, he was valued by the emperors of the old and the young. Such a person is rare in a hundred years. Now, Du Xuan has become such an anomaly, how can he not be envied and envied?
I just felt a bunch of cold eyes staring at him in front of him. Du Xuan raised his head to look, and saw the seventh son-in-law You Yiheng staring at him obliquely ahead, although his eyes were full of smiles, but It looks incomparably infiltrating.

Du Xuan didn't care, raised the wine glass in front of him, and nodded at him.

As if he didn't expect Du Xuan to be so generous, You Yiheng was stunned for a moment, picked up the wine glass and drank it down in one gulp.

It started at the hour of Xu and ended at the hour of Hai. The palace banquet on New Year’s Eve ended with a gorgeous and bright firework watched in the open space in front of the Palace of Preserving Harmony. Walking in the long corridor, listening to the soft voices of those around you, Xuan and Bai Yingluo looked at each other helplessly and smiled.

For those people, at today's night banquet, Du Xuan was the one who stole the limelight in the outer court, and Lin Zhimei in the inner palace deserved it.

In Lin Zhimei's heart, tonight must be full of sighs and emotions, but for Du Xuan, this may not be what he wants.

Bai Yingluo even remembered that when Du Xuan received a letter of appointment from the Ministry of Officials after getting married last year, and asked him to report to the Imperial Academy, Du Xuan said happily that this was a good start for his happy life.

But in just over a year, so many things happened, even though he thought he was indifferent, his heart still couldn't be the same as before.

Outside the palace gate, the carriage of Du Mansion was waiting far away, Du Xuan greeted several close colleagues around him, led Bai Yingluo forward quickly, and got into the carriage.

The carriage galloped back to Jing'anhou's Mansion, in Qing'an Hall, Old Master Bai and Old Madam Bai shared the second and fourth bedrooms, drinking tea, chatting and laughing happily, Jing'anhou and Mrs. Xue, who came back first, changed their clothes. When rushing over, Du Xuan and Bai Yingluo came into the house.

"What are you thinking in your heart, the old man and I know in our hearts. Let's talk about these things in detail after the new year is over. Today, the family is reunited to celebrate the new year. Don't even think about messy things. Have a good New Year, huh?"

With a chuckle, Jing'an Hou said to Du Xuan.

"Yes, my son-in-law has written it down."

Du Xuan saluted, turned around and took Brother Yan from the nurse's arms who had been reaching out to him.

The second master still had a look of pride and pride, as if Du Xuan was appreciated and he was also proud, but the second lady beside him was not feeling well at all.

Seeing Du Xuan's poor look at that time, she was secretly happy, and she just waited for Bai Yingluo to marry, and the two of them were struggling to live, so that she could breathe a sigh of relief.

But who would have thought that Du Xuan was a man of official luck.

Today, Su Wenyuan, who was awarded a Jinshi one class earlier than him, is still a little-known Dianbo in the Imperial Academy. In this way, he may still be wandering at home all day long.

Two people who are obviously different, now, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground, and the one on the ground may not be able to catch up with the one in the sky even if they flatter their horses.

Seeing Du Xuanfeng's handsome face again, with a smile on his face, respectful and filial to the old master Bai and the old lady Bai, and full of tenderness when looking at Bai Yingluo, I don't know how many times stronger than Su Wenyuan, the second lady's heart is getting more and more sour .

In Zhuangyuan's Mansion, Bai Yingluo is the only hostess behind closed doors, so what is it, why did such a good marriage fall on her head?

Poor sister Yun...

The second lady sighed inwardly.

Bai Yingyun gave birth to a daughter in mid-September. Although Mrs. Su didn't say anything, she was as sympathetic to Bai Yingyun as always. Naturally, the status in the Su Mansion cannot be compared, so the Second Madam has nowhere to vent the suffocation that was pent up in her heart before, so she can only continue to suffocate it.

Su Wenyuan named his daughter Su Manting. After Sister Ting's full moon, Mrs. Su took the maid that Bai Yingyun had given to Su Wenyuan a few months ago to lift up her aunt. With a face, now, Su Wenyuan has a wife and a concubine, and two concubines.

Because of this, the second wife and Bai Yingyun shed a lot of tears in secret, but Mrs. Su justified her argument that it was for the children of the Su family. If Bai Yingyun could win Su Wenyuan's heart and keep him from going to the concubine's house, there would be a legitimate son after all.

What Madam Su said was of course reasonable, but the Second Madam almost gritted her teeth.

With Bai Yingyun's temperament, a person who would be rude when she couldn't agree with each other, how could she lower her figure like those concubines and coax Su Wenyuan tenderly?
Even so, the second wife still ran to the Su residence every three days, softly coaxing Bai Yingyun to change her temper, give birth to a son-in-law as soon as possible, and send those concubines to relieve her anger when the time comes.

After all, people often say that the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change. Bai Yingyun's temperament has been manipulated for more than ten years, how can it be changed in a few days and months?
It has been more than two months since Su Wenyuan went into Bai Yingyun's room ten times, and nine times they would break up unhappy. Every time, Su Wenyuan went out with his head in his arms and his sleeves, and Bai Yingyun smashed things.

Up to these days, Su Wenyuan no longer entered Bai Yingyun's house, and went back from outside every day to greet Mrs. Su, and then nestled in the two common rooms, writing poems and painting, enjoying himself very much.

Mrs. Su even put down her words, no matter who gets pregnant first, she will be raised as an aunt immediately, and a separate yard will be set up for her to live in.

Now, those three people are trying their best to conceive, and their threats to Bai Yingyun are even more inappropriate.

Thinking of this, the second lady's heart twitched intermittently. Looking at the happy and happy scene in front of her, it seemed like she was watching a play, which made her even more uncomfortable.

When the second lady came back to her senses, she saw Old Madam Bai smiling at Du Xuan and said, "Du Xuan, Sister Luo said, today is your birthday, I told you The kitchen made birthday noodles for you, let’s take a bite, huh?”

On the side, Mother Zhao held the tray and brought it in front of Du Xuan.

A bowl of steaming silver noodles.

The white noodles, red radishes, green shallots, and the aroma of the chicken soup all flow into people's noses along with the steaming heat, making people salivate.

Du Xuan was moved in his heart, looked up at old master Bai and old lady Bai, and thanked: "My grandparents love and care, my grandson-in-law will remember everything in my heart, and I will definitely treat Mother Luo and the children well, and honor my grandparents."

The old master Bai and the old lady Bai smiled with kindness on their faces.

Su Wenyuan has been to Jing'an Hou's Mansion so many times, how have he ever seen old master Bai and old lady Bai treat him so kindly?

Comparing people to people, it is really maddening.

The second lady felt that the root of her tooth was so painful that she lost consciousness.

(End of this chapter)