Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 77 New Year's Eve Family Banquet
During the day, the emperor and the princes and princes of foreign vassals feasted in the Qianqing Palace, and the family banquet in the evening was moved to the Palace of Preserving Harmony.

The Empress Dowager only had the emperor bring a group of concubines to pay New Year's greetings to her old man at the beginning of the banquet.The Empress Dowager led everyone to toast and drank a glass of wine together, and then said that she was old and weak and had to go back to the palace to rest first.

Naturally, the Empress Dowager did not forget to give lucky money to her great-grandchildren, even the concubines.

The emperor received the New Year's money from the empress dowager, and the expression on his face was like that of a child.Although it passed by in a flash, Chen Wenxin still knew that the emperor was very happy.

Although the Empress Dowager is old, she seems to be in good spirits. I don't know why she always puts off her old age and infirmity and refuses to come out.

Presumably her old man is considerate of young people, and doesn't want to disturb everyone's interest.

The prince and princess paid New Year's greetings to the Empress Dowager early, and they paid New Year's greetings to the Emperor when the Empress Dowager left.

The eldest elder brother knelt in front, followed by the second and third elder brothers, and finally the fourth elder brother and fifth princess.

The emperor also rewarded the princes and princesses with New Year's money. The fourth elder brother hadn't left the Yonghe Palace for a long time. When Chen Wenxin saw him this time, he felt that he had grown taller.

After the new year, everyone is one year older, and the fourth elder brother should be considered six years old.

The emperor is delighted to see cute babies in one place. Manchus pay attention to having more children and more blessings. He is only in his 20s and already has four elder brothers.There is another man and woman in Yipin's belly, and he is already a competent emperor just because of his heirs.

He thought of Depin's Seventh Princess, who died young, and asked Depin, "Is your body all right? Don't be too sad."

The cause of Debi's illness is not a serious problem, and the emperor's greetings made her feel happy.

She thought that after asking the emperor whether he wanted to make the fourth elder brother the crown prince, the emperor completely rejected her.Now it seems that the emperor didn't take that matter to heart any more.

The emperor looked at Yipin again, her belly was already seven months old, and she had gained a lot of weight.

She was dressed in a silver-red palace dress, with emerald hair, and she looked very conspicuous.

Seeing this, the emperor frowned, "How can a person with a body still wear such heavy makeup?"

Concubine Yi's silver-red body was a bit of a taboo, if she was not doing well in normal times, and no one was popular at tonight's family banquet, Concubine Yi would become the target of public criticism.

Silver and red are one color, which is woven with silver thread twisted on a red background. It looks like the two colors are in harmony, so it is called silver red.

After hearing what the emperor said, everyone realized that the makeup on Yipin's face was indeed very heavy.

It's not just the concubine Yi, which of the concubines here can't see the emperor without makeup?I'm afraid there is only one concubine Qin.

Everyone looked at Chen Wenxin, she swept her eyebrows lightly and tapped her red lips as always.There is not even a trace of fat or powder, and the icy muscles and bones are natural.

She was wearing a black palace gown with large sleeves embroidered with golden roses, which made her snow-white skin so white that it was almost transparent.

She just sat quietly on her seat, savoring the dishes with great interest, not caring about the eyes of others at all.

The emperor is also wearing black embroidered golden dragon casual clothes tonight. Is this a coincidence, or did the two discuss it privately?

Chen Wenxin was completely unaware of everyone's suspicion, she was all focused on the dishes.

This fresh shellfish is so rare that people want to swallow it with their tongues...

She hurriedly greeted the next Zhang Changzai, "Take a look at this, this is really delicious..."

Zhang Changzai was originally her ally of the foodie alliance, and when she heard this, she quickly looked at her bowl, "Which one is this bigger one, isn't it?"

The dumplings for Chinese New Year are similar to the dumplings in Chen Wenxin's previous life, they have the same dough on the outside, but the stuffing inside is different.

There were many kinds of pastries on the table in front of Zhang Chang, and she didn't know which one Chen Wenxin was talking about.

Seeing her and the two whispering here, the emperor coughed and said, "What partial eclipse do you eat, and you don't want everyone to know?"

Concubine Rong was sitting on top of her, hearing what she said, couldn't help laughing.

This concubine was still too busy eating during the family dinner on New Year's Eve, but there was a chapter that was as delicious as hers, which was really unrefined.

Without waiting for Chen Wenxin to reply, Concubine Rong rushed to say: "Your Majesty, the two of them are talking about pastries."

There was contempt in her words, and Concubine Tong smiled after hearing this: "The two younger sisters are young, and it is normal for them to be greedy. Don't take offense, Your Majesty."

What's the matter, is it possible to eat a pastry?

Chen Wenxin silently rolled her eyes in her heart, and smiled lightly on her face, "Didn't the emperor say when the banquet was held that everyone should enjoy the feast to the fullest and not be restrained?"

The emperor said so, but the concubines would not do this.

It is rare for them to get together with the emperor, so they naturally want to try to attract the emperor's attention and please the emperor, who has the time to pay attention to what to eat?
Yipin said sourly: "Sister Qinpin can see and talk to the emperor every day. Naturally, she doesn't need to focus on talking to the emperor instead of eating like us."

As soon as these words came out, not only did the emperor look bad, but even Concubine Tong Guifei and Concubine Hui also looked bad.

Yipin's words were intended to stir up everyone's jealousy towards Chen Wenxin, but what she didn't expect was that this also exposed the scars of Concubine Tong and others.

They are old people who have been in the palace for many years, the emperor does not favor them, at least he respects them.What Yipin said, dragged them into the water.

They don't ask for favor, what they want is face and power.

Seeing the expressions on everyone's faces, Yipin knew that she had made a slip of the tongue, so she quickly made up for it.

"Chen Qie doesn't mean that, what Chen Qie means is..."

The emperor didn't want to make the atmosphere tense, so he interrupted her and said: "Okay, you are pregnant, so it is inevitable that you have not thought carefully."

"Let's eat something, it's the cold weather, eat to warm your body."

After the emperor said this, he was the first to pick up a piece of cake.

"This fresh shellfish is very delicious, you should try it too."

The emperor spoke, and everyone naturally followed.

They lowered their heads and searched for all kinds of pastries on the plate. Which one is the freshest pastry?
Only Zhang Changzaiyuan started looking for them earlier than them, and found it quickly.

She was about to raise her head to tell Chen Wenxin, when she saw the scene before her-
The emperor looked at Concubine Qin with a smile on his face.The concubine Qin responded to him with a smile, and the two of them seemed to only see each other among the concubines who were bowing their heads in search of love.

At that moment, she was suddenly very happy.

I am glad that I can be favored by Concubine Qin.

Since she entered the palace a year ago, she has been unable to rely on her mother's family all her life.

The emperor has no feelings for her, and she knows that she can't rely on the emperor either.

She has no son, not even a princess.

What she has to rely on in this life may be the concubine Qin in front of her...

The emperor said again: "I received the Mongolian prince during the day, and Horqin sent four beautiful women into the palace. One of them, the Borzigit family, was a relative of the empress dowager, so he was granted the title of promise. The remaining three were Let's arrange it as an official woman first, and the imperial concubine will handle this matter."

The emperor said this in public to let the concubines have a bottom line.

But everyone was still surprised when they heard it.

The palace has not added many newcomers over the years. In this year's general election, which is Chen Wenxin's term, there is only one Chen Wenxin who is famous.

The remaining four or five were bored in Chuxiu Palace, no one cared whether they were dead or alive.

Horqin is giving away four at the moment, and there is also a woman from the empress dowager's family, which makes Tong Guifei have to be shocked.

After thinking about it, she calmed down.If this Borzigit family was a noble woman from Horqin, the emperor would not just agree to her appointment.Presumably it just has the same surname as the Empress Dowager, but in fact there is not much kinship.

Even so, you can't let your guard down.

Concubine Tong stood up and responded to the emperor, "Yes." She quietly looked at the expressions of everyone in the palace.

Some are curious, some are worried, and some are unhappy.

Only Chen Wenxin remained calm.

Concubine Tong narrowed her eyes, did Concubine Qin already know about this?

Or is she really confident that the emperor will not abandon her for his new favorite?
The concubine Qin is not afraid, so what is there to be afraid of?No matter how popular the new favorite is, she will be just another concubine at worst.It would be a good thing if he could suppress Concubine Qin with the help of his new favorite...

After the day's banquet was over, the emperor went to Yikun Palace to rest, and he told about Mongolia's sending of beautiful women.

The emperor meant to prepare Chen Wenxin mentally so that she would not be jealous.

Mongolia was a great help for the Manchus to enter the customs. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, every generation of queens was a Mongolian woman.The queen of Shizu is Borzigit, who is the aunt of the present empress dowager.

When it came to the first emperor, the first consort of the first emperor was the niece of the empress dowager, or the Borzigit family.

Fortunately, with him here, the rule of the Qing Dynasty has become much more stable.The Mongolian nobles still have to win over, but they don't have to consolidate their relationship with the latter.

The Qing Dynasty had always had the custom of sending noble daughters of the royal family to Mongolia for marriage, and he could not return the beautiful daughters sent by Mongolia.

Not only for the sake of diplomatic relations, even if it is only for the face of the Empress Dowager, this is what she should do.

This is also the reason why the one named Borzigit among the show girls was granted the promise.

Chen Wenxin expressed that she understood very well, but she just invited a few beautiful girls in, and didn't necessarily want to pamper them or give them high positions.

Chen Wenxin is fine here, so the emperor is not worried.It's good for these beautiful girls to keep beating and beating Concubine Tong Gui, so that she can behave properly.

(End of this chapter)