Riding the Pheonix Chapter 549: Birthday gift

After the beginning of winter, the weather becomes cold.

On the day of Concubine Pei’s birthday party, it snowed for the first time.

The snow is not heavy, there are little stars that turn into water droplets before they hit the ground.

Mingwei entered the palace and found that there were not as many people as expected.

Princess An whispered to her: "This year, even the Longevity Festival will be simple, so the imperial concubine refused to make it grand, so your majesty had no choice but to agree."

Ming Wei understood. Concubine Pei has always disliked unnecessary limelight. The Crown Prince and King Xin have only been deposed for a long time. Even though it was the emperor's will for her to act so recklessly, in the end the reputation still fell on her.

The former imperial concubine did not care about reputation. Now that I have hope in my heart, I think differently.

However, the so-called no grand event means that the pomp is not that grand. Everyone knows that the imperial concubine is favored, but it is not clear from the outside, but they all know in their hearts that the reason why the two princes were deposed was because they bumped into the imperial concubine Pei. Who dares to make her unhappy?

The imperial concubine’s face is the emperor’s face. Whoever is qualified would not dare to come? The birthday gifts are all extremely valuable and novel.

Among them, the birthday gift of Prince Yue's Mansion is the most amazing. The coral, which is as tall as a person, is actually of seven colors.

Yang Shu said: "This is collected from a merchant in the south. Such colorful corals can only be found in the shoals of the South China Sea. And they are so big and in perfect condition that you can't find many even in the south. ”

The emperor pointed his finger at him and said: "You are quite proud. The news was spread a few days ago, and the merchants in the entire capital were stirred up by you. I heard that you made the market price rise by 30%. You kid , can’t you do something good?”

This sounded like an accusation, but the emperor had a smile on his face and it was obvious that he was in a good mood, so everyone laughed together.

Concubine Hui, who was sitting under Concubine Pei, smiled and said, "The King of Yue is also very filial."

Concubine Hui is also dressed up today, but she still looks haggard.

Ever since the second prince was deposed, Concubine Hui has become ill.

She is from Qiandi, about the same age as the emperor, and is about to turn fifty. Due to this disease, the whole person looks much older, almost like two generations from Concubine Pei.

Speaking of Concubine Hui, there were times when she was pampered in her early years. At the beginning, the emperor was still King Zhao. Because he could not get along with Princess Zhao, he preferred several concubines.

Concubine Hui had a gentle temperament and was always by her side, so she gave birth to a second son as soon as King Zhao's legitimate son came out.

However, the love around the emperor did not last long. When King Zhao ascended the throne and Concubine Pei entered the palace, Concubine Hui took a back seat.

As I get older, my appearance fades and my grace becomes less and less.

However, the emperor still missed her. Nothing would be missing from her, even if the second prince dethroned the prince, he would only reprimand her.

After she finished laughing, she said: "Your Majesty, I have a birthday gift here. It may not be very expensive, but it is better than ingenuity, but I don't know if it can make the imperial concubine smile."

Concubine Pei said: "Sister, you are so determined. You have to recover from your illness. How can you work hard?"

Concubine Hui said with a smile: "It's not me who is doing the hard work, it's my niece." She smiled and patted the wrist of the girl next to her. "Thanks to Xiuyi these days, I heard that I was preparing a birthday gift for the imperial concubine. She I thought hard day and night before I came up with this idea."

Everyone looked over and saw a delicate and frail girl. He is sixteen or seventeen years old, with fair skin and handsome facial features.

She has good looks, but she is too dull. The women in the palace are much more beautiful, and even the maids there are many pretty and lovely ones, so just now they thought this was a maid serving Concubine Hui, but it turned out to be her niece.

The girl was watched by everyone, and she smiled sheepishly, and whispered softly: "My aunt is ill, and the imperial concubine always orders people to visit her. I am grateful for the kindness of the empress, but I am afraid that I will not be able to repay the concubine in case anything happens. ."

Concubine Pei's eyes were gentle: "Miss Wen is too polite, I am just doing my duty."

The emperor said: "But I don't know what the birthday gift is? Concubine Hui said this, it seems a bit strange."

Concubine Hui signaled with her eyes.

Wen Xiuyi stood up and saluted the emperor: "Your Majesty, wait a moment, I will show you now."

Two palace ladies came up from behind Concubine Hui, holding a scroll in their hands.

They opened the scroll in front of the court, but it was a picture of hundreds of flowers.

But in the picture, you can see the colorful flowers, the various colors layered on top of each other, and the different shades. It is so beautiful that it seems as if in the blink of an eye, the flowers inside become real.

Everyone took a closer look and found that this was not a painting, but an embroidery.

The emperor looked at it for a while and said with a smile: "Miss Wen is really skillful. She has such skills at such an age. If I didn't look carefully, I would have thought it was a painting. The embroidery is like a painting. With this Waiting for Shen Yun is really amazing."

Concubine Pei also praised: "If I hadn't told you, I would have thought it was embroidered by an embroiderer who has been working for decades."

Yang Shu looked at the painting, then at Concubine Hui, and said, "This picture of hundreds of flowers is beautifully embroidered, but when it comes to ingenuity, where do we start?"

His look was provocative, a bit like "You dare to compare yourself to me."

Wen Xiuyi half lowered her head and replied: "His Royal Highness the King of Yue, wait a moment, the embroidery of the court lady is actually only half a piece, and it is still a bit short."

"Oh?"

Wen Xiuyi whispered: "With hundreds of flowers, how can there be no bees and butterflies?"

The emperor smiled and said: "I thought ~IndoMTL.com~ you were a little careless because you were young. Could it be that you have some other tricks?"

Wen Xiuyi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, please allow me to use my needle and thread in front of you."

The emperor nodded: "I agree."

Wen Xiuyi took the needle and thread handed over by the palace maid and began to decorate the stamens of the flowers in front of everyone.

But I saw her doing a few embroidery stitches, then she put away the needlework and asked the palace maid to take it to the entrance of the palace.

"Your Majesty and the Queen, please wait a moment."

Everyone became curious about her posture.

Not long after, I suddenly heard a buzzing sound in my ears.

Everyone looked up and saw several bees and butterflies flying from outside and landing on the heart of the flower!

Shocked.

They say lifelike flowers will attract bees and butterflies if they look too real.

But it’s winter now! It's still snowing outside, but it's so mysterious. Where did the bees and butterflies come from?

Wen Xiuyi was very happy to be seen. She blushed slightly and offered her birthday wishes to Concubine Pei: "Your Majesty's birthday is in early winter. Although there was auspicious snow to celebrate, it was lost in the end. Xiuyi was bold and used a picture of hundreds of flowers to attract bees and butterflies. , congratulate the empress on her birthday."

It took Concubine Pei a while to come back to her senses, but the emperor was already stroking his hands and laughing: "Interesting, it is indeed an ingenuity! Ayan, this gift is indeed much better than you, are you convinced?"

Yang Shu looked unwilling, but was suppressed and had nothing to say.

In the corner, Mingwei looked at Wen Xiuyi with a serious expression.

How can there be such a thing in this world that is so lifelike that it attracts bees and butterflies? She could see clearly that there was a kind of medicinal powder hidden in the embroidery thread just now. When Wen Xiuyi embroidered the heart, she clearly used her magic power to transmit the breath of the medicinal powder.

Who is this Miss Wen?

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