At the New Year banquet, the harem gathered together and everyone saw Shen Jiang's cloak. Huipin said, "Sister Depin is so creative. One moment she has gloves, the next moment she has a cloak."

Shen Jiang corrected her: "This is not a cloak, it's a cape."

Huipin blushed and turned to look at the eldest prince: "Baoqing, stop running around, you might bump into someone."

Concubine Yi had no time to take care of this side. She was visiting the Empress Dowager to see the Fifth Prince. Although the Fifth Prince was older than the Sixth Prince, he was not as smart as the Sixth Prince and he had not learned to speak at the age of one.

The Fourth Prince followed Shen Jiang quietly. The Empress Dowager waved at them, and they went over to chat with her. After a while, Kangxi came with the Crown Prince.

Kangxi was very pleased to see that there were more children attending the banquet this year.

He is still young and will definitely have more children in the future.

At this time, he didn't know that having too many sons was a debt, and he would regret having so many in the future.

I ate some mediocre food and wine, watched some singing and dancing, and knelt down to toast. Finally, I made it to the end.

Then, she braved the cold wind and got on the sedan chair to go back to the palace. As soon as she entered the room, Shen Jiang said, "Quick, bring me the mutton vermicelli soup I ordered."

Shi Liu held back her laughter and brought out a large pot of mutton vermicelli soup. Shen Jiang and the Fourth Prince each ate a bowl, but the Sixth Prince had nothing to eat and could only drink milk.

As soon as they put the bowls on the table, Kangxi arrived and said, "I knew you would cook for me when you came back."

Shen Jiang was sweating from the spicy mutton vermicelli soup with hot sauce, and didn't care about anything else. He said in a sullen voice: "Give the master a bowl too."

Kangxi waved his hand and said, "Add more spicy food!"

The mutton vermicelli soup was served with the crispy and tender baked pancakes. No one in the family spoke a word until they were full.

After eating the mutton soup, Shen Jiang had some dried plums to remove the taste in his mouth and also expressed his opinions on the dishes for the banquet.

"It's so bad every year, can't we let these cooks make something better?"

Kangxi took a sip of tea and said, "It's always like this for big banquets. There are so many people that we don't have time to cook. Besides, the kitchen is full of people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it has been passed down from our ancestors for several generations. By the way, you, Mafa, used to be the head of the kitchen. Is it because your father didn't have a talent for cooking, so he passed it on to you, Eqike?"

Shen Jiang said seriously: "Because my father is too handsome to be a cook."

Kangxi burst out laughing and said, "What does it take to be a cook? Just because you are handsome, you can't be a cook. What a fallacy!"

Shen Jiang said: "He has a big head and a thick neck. He is either a rich man or a cook."

"Puff--" Kangxi and the Fourth Prince both sprayed out their tea and couldn't even hold their tea bowls.

The advisor came forward quickly to help Kangxi undress, and the wet nurse also carried the Fourth Prince downstairs.

Kangxi stared at Shen Jiang and said with gritted teeth: "I will ask you tomorrow to see if you have a big head and a thick neck."

Shen Jiang stuck out her tongue. How could she know what the original owner's uncle looked like now!

Fortunately, Kangxi was very busy afterwards and did not mention this matter, but he had a good memory. After he was done with this, he suddenly asked, "Where is Yue Se?"

The Manchus only addressed people by their first names, not their last names. There was more than one person named Yue Se, so when the people below heard it, they didn't know who the emperor was calling.

Fortunately, he had an advisor on hand, so he was prepared in case the emperor mentioned it, so he said, "Yue Se is the official in charge of the imperial court. I will ask someone to invite him right away."

Kangxi nodded, and when Yue Se came in fear and trepidation, Kangxi saw that he was not big-headed and thick-necked. He coughed lightly, asked about his family situation, and said that his father was the head of the kitchen, so he promoted him to be a manager in the kitchen.

Yue Se was promoted in a daze. His feet were still shaking when he walked out of the Qianqing Palace. He couldn't understand how he caught the emperor's eye.

As for Kangxi, he promoted Yue Se on a whim, but then he thought it was not right, because Yue Se was Ma Lun's uncle, but who was Ma Lun's biological father?

I asked the consultant, Weiwu is still a third-class guard, so I'll give him a promotion! It doesn't need to be too much, just a second-class guard will do.

If two people from the Wuya family were promoted at once, would others be jealous? Well, let's mention them all! So I mentioned the Yipin family and the Rongpin family, so that they wouldn't be too conspicuous.

Then I thought, there is only one imperial concubine in the palace, and the others are concubines, why not promote those who have contributed to the birth of children to concubines! But this matter is not urgent, I will talk about it in the second half of the year.

Kangxi had made plans in his mind. Shen Jiang also got the news that his father and Eqike had both been promoted. It was inexplicable and very mysterious.

Coincidentally, Kangxi turned over Shen Jiang's card today.

Shen Jiang planned to thank him, but the first thing Kangxi said to her was, "I saw Yue Se, and she was not like what you said."

Shen Jiang was dumbfounded. Kangxi found her stunned look funny and pointed at her and said with a smile: "You lied to me, I will punish you."

Shen Jiang rubbed against him and said delicately, "I will accept whatever punishment you want."

The consultant's waist was almost bent like a shrimp. He made a gesture and the eunuchs in the room retreated one after another.

As for how the punishment was given, no one knew, and no one dared to know.

The advisor had already heard through the door and window that Master Depin asked the emperor: "I lied to the emperor, is the emperor happy?"

Kangxi gasped and said, "I am happy! Lie to me again, I am very happy!"

As a eunuch, he couldn't understand why he was so happy. He lied to the emperor, wasn't that deceiving the emperor?

Soon it was the Sixth Prince’s first birthday. This time, Shen Jiang did not prepare any gifts, but just made a cake as a gift.

As a result, Old Kang refused to behave himself and asked the Imperial Household Department to take out the tricycle, saying it was a birthday gift for the Sixth Prince.

Shen Jiang: Do you have cat biscuits?

The Sixth Prince was very considerate and stood on Shen Jiang's side - he didn't know how to ride a tricycle!

The Sixth Prince could only sit in the car, pat the front of the car, scream, and drool.

"Was it possible that I gave birth to a fool?"

"No way?" The system was not very sure.

Shen Jiang rubbed her forehead and asked the wet nurse to put away the tricycle. She never wanted to see this broken thing again in her life!

During the one-year-old ceremony, the Sixth Prince grabbed a small golden abacus and a small golden helmet. Both items were golden, with beautiful beads on the abacus and a big red tassel on the helmet.

Shen Jiang felt that the child grabbed these two things purely for their looks.

Kangxi was very happy. The abacus and the general's helmet meant that the Sixth Prince would grow up to be a great general who could plan strategies and fight battles thousands of miles away!

Seeing the Sixth Prince's one-year-old celebration, Kangxi couldn't help but think of the Fifth Prince. When the Fifth Prince was holding his one-year-old celebration, he didn't want the things on the ground and insisted on grabbing the Empress Dowager's boots. When he was not given the boots, he started crying.

Although the purpose of the Zhou-Zhua ceremony is to seek good luck, this is too outrageous.

Kangxi didn't understand how Concubine Yi, who was so smart, could give birth to such a fool like the Fifth Prince!

"Ma Lun, the children you gave birth to are the best." Kangxi sighed.

Shen Jiang was embarrassed to say that a child is actually a blank sheet of paper when he is born, and it depends on how he is educated. She is not very sure that she can educate the child well, and her philosophy is: not to become a talent, but to become an adult.

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