Across the Red Mansion: Jia Amnesty's original partner

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Because it was a New Year banquet, the Empress had too many things to do, so Zhang Jianing and Shi Fangfang did not go to the Empress Kunning Palace, but went directly to Ci Ning'an where the Empress Dowager lived.

Shi Fangfang was a little nervous on the way, the time she traveled through was shorter than that of Zhang Jianing, Zhang Jianing had already been here once, and it was the first time for Shi Fangfang to enter the palace.

Although Zhang Jianing knew the reason, she couldn't say it clearly, she couldn't say it, don't be afraid that the empress dowager and empress are kind people and won't do anything to you.

You must know that Jia Shishi is the master who enters the palace every year, and I don't know if Shi Fangfang has Jia Shishi's memory, if not, it is really a problem.

But after Zhang Jianing turned around and saw that the person supporting Shi Fangfang was Glass, he didn't worry anymore. About the special gossip around Jia Shishi, Glass Zhang Jianing, who claimed to know everything about the big family in the capital, still knew about it.

With the gossip about glass, Jia Shifangfang doesn't need her to care here, she should care about the triplets.

Especially Jia Lian and Jia Xuan, the two children with ADHD, originally Zhang Jianing brought several maids to hold them, but now they are all twisting and turning on the maids, and they insist on getting down and walking by themselves.

How could Zhang Jianing fulfill their wish? One must know that this is the Empress Dowager's Palace of Compassion and Ning, and all the colorful flowers here are the result of Jin Zeyong's order to cultivate the flower shop in the palace to please the Empress Dowager.

If this is ruined by Jia Lian and Jia Xuan, it will be terrible. Do you think she will pay or not.

I can't afford to pay for it. These are all rare varieties, especially for the Empress Dowager. Let's flatter them, they are priceless treasures, because they represent the emperor's filial piety.

So the final result can only be Zhang Jianing to make amends, although the queen mother is unlikely to blame her for this.

But blaming it is not a trivial matter. If a bad impression is left in the heart of this woman who even has scruples about the emperor, if someone wants to make her feel uncomfortable, it is really just a word.

Another one is that Zhang Jianing understands the behavior of the triplets with ruthless flowers. When Jia Lian and Jia Xuan saw beautiful flowers, they tore them off and stuffed them into their mouths.

As for Jia Yao, at such a young age, she has already shown the ultimate beauty talent. She is different from Jia Lian and Jia Xuan. Jia Yao picks off beautiful flowers and puts them on her head when she sees them, or puts them in a vase in her room. inside.

In short, it would be tears to say too much, Rao Zhang Jianing has spiritual spring water that can make the flowers in the garden of Rongguo Mansion bloom better and faster, but it can't match the speed of the disaster of triplets at all.

So at this moment, how could Zhang Jianing let them come down and walk by themselves? If the triplets harmed one or two, or even ten or eight, I believe the Queen Mother would not do anything to them.

But if the whole scourge turned into a broken flower and a willow, I believe that the queen mother who loves flowers and becomes crazy will definitely want to crush her to ashes.

The only thing that made Zhang Jianing feel gratified was that compared to Jia Lian and Jia Xuan, Jia Yao was more obedient, and she was staying quietly in Zhang Jianing's arms right now.

Seeing that the mother-in-law couldn't hold Jia Lian and Jia Xuan anymore, Zhang Jianing put Jia Yao into Shi Fangfang's hands who felt a little nervous and said, "Mother, give me a hug for Yao'er."

Without waiting for Shi Fangfang to reply, she asked the women to put Jia Lian and Jia Xuan down again, didn't they want to go by themselves?Okay, Zhang Jianing grabs one with each hand and let me walk honestly.

Who is Zhang Jianing? He is a martial arts practitioner, someone who can even use the palace as his own garden. Jia Lian Jia Xuan who was caught in Zhang Jianing's hands really could only walk obediently.

Along the way, Zhang Jianing suppressed them, and no monsters could get out. Jia Lian and Jia Xuan could only walk to the Empress Dowager step by step with their chubby legs.

"Hey, these triplets are just different. They're not even one year old, right? They can walk now." Said Concubine Qi who was sitting next to the Queen Mother.

She is the niece of the Empress Dowager's natal family. The aunt and nephew have always been close, and she is also one of the harem concubines who like triplets the most.

During the last Mid-Autumn Festival state banquet, Concubine Qi kept holding on to the triplets because of the Queen Mother's love. Needless to say, Zhang Jianing could guess the reason. Isn't it because she just wanted to be happy so that she could have good news.

Not to mention, I heard that Concubine Qi was pregnant two months ago, and if you count the days, she was conceived after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In addition to Concubine Qi, there is also a little nobleman who is also pregnant. It is said that in the past two or three months, several wives in the capital have reported that they are happy.

So now these concubines are looking at the triplets, don't mention how piercing their eyes are, everyone thinks it is the blessing brought by the triplets.

Shi Fangfang and Zhang Jianing also took advantage of the triplets and saluted the queen mother, but they were exempted from the ceremony just after they started. The queen mother even asked them to give them two seats, which were just below the queen mother.

As for the triplets?That was much more favored than Shi Fangfang and Zhang Jianing. Zhang Jianing and the others sat on hard chairs, while the triplets sat on soft human cushions.

Jia Lian and Jia Xuan were being hugged by Concubine Liu Guifei and Concubine Jing separately, and were being fed, so happy, what kind of red bean cake and bird's nest cake, let alone bring an order after eating, saying that they wanted to eat walnut cake.

Concubine Liu Gui, who hugged Jia Lian happily, smiled so much that she forgot that she was already thirty years old. This person, once he turns 30 years old, no matter how well maintained he is, his face will leave traces of time, especially if there is no skin-lifting technology of ancient society.

As the saying goes: soft hands for grabbing people, soft mouths for eating people, these women are one by one, and they almost worship the triplets as a gift to Guanyin. After eating the same offerings as they offered, they all felt that their wishes would come true.

As for Jia Yao, she is being hugged by the queen mother at the moment, eating the cloud slice cake fed by the queen mother mouthful.

Jia Yao has always loved to eat cloud cakes, and the ones at home can't compare with the cloud cakes in this palace, so now Jia Yao is eating like a little hamster with a small mouth.

"Entering the palace once, Yao'er can be regarded as enjoying a blessing. When she comes here, the empress dowager will follow her into the blessing nest. I'm afraid that the minister's wife won't be able to take her away when she goes back later." Zhang Jianing watched from the side, and said It's as if he doesn't need money for his flattery.

"That's a good thing, Ai's family doesn't lack anything, except such a smart little baby." The queen mother said with a smile, obviously she saw that she was very satisfied with Zhang Jianing's flattering skills.

"The empress dowager is not afraid that the minister's wife will rely on you when she says this. It's like crossing a layer of gold when we see you once. If we really want to stay with you for a while, we will earn more points. Empress dowager, you can't As long as the small one is not big, the three of these Lian'er are too small now, even if the three become golden men, they are not as valuable as one of me. It's better for the queen mother to keep me, such a big golden man is old It's worth it."

What Zhang Jianing said was like singing an opera, making all the concubines and wives in the palace laugh.

"I really can't see that Mrs. Ronghou is so good at talking. Didn't she drink honey on purpose when she went out this morning?" Concubine Qi burst into tears as she laughed.

"Concubine Qi, you can't wrong me. In order to eat more good food in the palace, I didn't even eat breakfast this morning, so I came here on an empty stomach." Zhang Jianing hurriedly shouted.

"How do I see that the triplets are all like you, and they have become a family of foodies. It seems that I have to go back to your mother to ask for a secret recipe. Otherwise, why do your children love food so much? The one in my family A few little ancestors, coaxing, you can’t eat much if you beg.”

One of them, Mrs. Chen, is the husband of Taichang Temple Minister, and she knew Zhang Jianing's mother, so she said so.

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe it's the grandma who followed the child, and the Duke's wife is in front of him. Let's hurry up and ask for advice like the Duke's wife in front of us."

The one who spoke was Liao Shi, the concubine of Prince Beijing, one of the kings with different surnames. Princess Beijing had always had a good relationship with Jia Shishi, so the topic was brought up to Shi Fangfang again.

"The concubine Shizi really wants to be beaten. She knows that I haven't spoken to the Duke's wife, but she still wants to show off."

It can be seen that Mrs. Chen has a good personal relationship with Princess Beijing. At this moment, Mrs. Chen was talking and gave her two light hands.

So the topic turned to the problem of children's eating. Obviously this is a topic that can resonate with everyone, and everyone discussed how to let the children eat more.

As for Zhang Jianing, the triplets are still in a state of non-stop eating, so now Zhang Jianing has become the main questioning object of the big guys.

"I really don't know much about this. Lian'er and the others are only nine months old. Although they have good teeth, they haven't started eating for long, so they don't know much."

"However, children mostly like bright and interesting things. If the colors are matched better, or if they are made into interesting patterns, I believe it will have some effect."

Zhang Jianing thought about all kinds of children's pictures in the shape of small animals in later generations, and felt that no matter whether it is ancient or modern, no child should be able to resist it?

"Make food into interesting patterns? How do you do this?" The ladies in the room who usually talked about poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting, and making soup with their hands were stumped.

"It's like making rice balls that look like small animals like rabbits, buns, and dumplings wrapped in the shapes of small animals. Carrots can be carved, and eggs can be turned into birds. Anyway, the shapes are cute and the colors are brighter."

Seeing everyone's pensive looks, Zhang Jianing couldn't help it all of a sudden, it seemed that everyone had forgotten that these things don't need to be done by oneself, just go back and order the cook to fix it. There are specialties in surgery, I believe they want to break it here. The head is not as good as the skillful hands of the cook.

"Poor thing, it seems that I don't worry less about the children's feeding problems." The queen mother looked funny and smiled abruptly.

"Isn't it? It's because of those brats in the family that half of my hair has turned gray."

The one who spoke was the wife of Niu Qing, the Duke of Zhen, who was one of the eight princes who were initially granted the same title as Jia Yuan and Jia Yan, but the Duke of Zhen was much older than the brothers of the Jia family.

Therefore, the current Mrs. Zhen Guogong is not Niu Qing's original spouse, but Niu Qing's second wife, the Jiang family.

Niu Qing's first wife's fate was not good enough. When Niu Qing accompanied the founding emperor Jin Shunran to fight the world and return to his hometown, he found out that his wife had already passed away because of childbirth and dystocia, leaving only the one who inherited his title. The eldest Niu Kang and the second son Niu Tai who were born desperately.

At that time, Niu Qing was only in his 30s, not even [-] years old, so he married Jiang Shi, who was about the same age as his eldest son. age.

"That's why I'm more worried. I didn't see that my hair is all white." Mrs. Jinxiang Bohan said while touching her all white hair.

"Not to mention, Mrs. Zhen Guo is well maintained, and she doesn't look old at all."

So the topic changed from raising children to maintenance, and everyone started talking about all kinds of rouge and gouache.

Women, if they want, can always find something to talk about.

So the time passed while the triplets were eating and drinking, and the women were chatting and laughing. Soon, eunuchs came to invite the queen mother to wait for the concubines and concubines, and the wives went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to attend the banquet.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony is where the emperor holds grand ceremonies, such as the emperor's ascension to the throne, the emperor's big wedding, the appointment of the queen, and the appointment of generals. In addition, the three major festivals of Longevity Day, New Year's Day, and Winter Solstice every year, the emperor accepts congratulations from civil and military officials here, and pays respects to the princes. The place where ministers give banquets.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony covers a large area, Zhang Jianing doesn't know how big it is, but when he came to the Hall of Supreme Harmony and saw so many tables, it was more than enough to seat hundreds of people anyway.

The entire Hall of Supreme Harmony occupies the largest area among all the palaces of the Great Jin Dynasty. According to Zhang Jianing's visual inspection, it is estimated to be one to two thousand square meters.

Separated by more than a dozen huge screens in the middle, the entire Hall of Supreme Harmony was divided into two. According to the habit of men on the left and women on the right, the ministers on one side and the female relatives on the other can hear clearly, but also worry about the defense of men and women.

The positions of Zhang Jianing and Shi Fangfang are fairly high. Apart from the royal family members, Zhang Jianing and the others belong to the front row at this table.

Also, Zhang Jianing's mother, Mrs. Zhao, did not attend this state banquet because of her unwell condition, while Zhang Jianing's elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law had another seat.

In addition to Zhang Jianing and Shi Fangfang, there are also Mrs. Jiang, Mrs. Zhen Guo who talked to Zhang Jianing just now, Mrs. Bohan of Jinxiang, Mrs. Shi Nai of Baoling Hou, Mrs. Shi Ding of Zhongjing Hou, and Mrs. Pingyuanhou.

At this time, when everyone was seated one after another, when Zhang Jianing thought that Jin Zeyong would give a speech like the opening speech like the principals of later generations.

Suddenly Jin Zeyong's chief eunuch, the chief eunuch of the Jin Dynasty Imperial Palace, came to announce Jin Zeyong's oral order, and he actually asked the triplets to meet him.