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The sound of gongs and drums sounded to inform everyone that the empress dowager, the emperor, the empress and a group of Royal relatives had arrived

the emperor took the Empress Dowager's hand and walked slowly to the high platform, so that the Empress Dowager could sit beside him.

After the three people sat down, the invited courtiers and their families knelt down to greet the empress dowager, the emperor and the emperor, and the emperor No gift.

The left minister led the others to kowtow to the Empress Dowager and congratulated her on her birthday. "I wish the Empress Dowager happiness like Donghai and longevity compared to Nanshan.

The Empress looked at the courtiers below and nodded to the emperor with satisfaction.

The emperor waved his hand, "all get up. Today is the sixty-five birthday of the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager is tolerant. Everyone is at will. There is no need to be rigid."

Then he murmured with the eunuch nearby, and the eunuch announced the beginning. After another burst of thanks, they got up and went back to their seats.

Then the eunuch sang the ritual list, and the people took turns to present the birthday ceremony. The Birthday Ceremony prepared by everyone is to get rid of the old and bring forth new ideas, which is to win the Empress Dowager's eyes and favor.

A few princes, like offering treasure, played a set of boxing, which made the Empress Dowager laugh. At the moment, they also gave them some things. The mother and concubine of those princes were very happy.

Shen Jingli is not interested in this at all, but for the sake of his head, he still sneaks to the room arranged by Jingwang to see the finished product finished by Li Qi.

"Where are you going?" Zhan tielan followed him, "why don't you go to celebrate the Empress Dowager's birthday.

"I don't want to see some people's faces." Zhan tielan frowned, as if thinking of something, showing the expression of eating a fly, unbearable.

"Who is it?" Zhan tielan died of her mother when she was young. When she was ten years old, she lived with her father in the dagger barracks in Northeast China. When she was 16, she went to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Now she is 27 years old. No one dares to marry or offend the Dayan Dynasty.

My second uncle's family. "She almost expected that it was her second uncle's handwriting when she returned to Beijing this time, and she didn't know what they were for. Anyway, it was not a good thing.

Just for the money of the general's office, they never turned a blind eye to her niece. This evening, she heard someone looking for her. It was ridiculous.

Shen Jingli can't help but think of the Shen family. Wonderful flowers are everywhere. When they came to the house, they found that the eunuch at the door fell on the ground. Shen Jingli rushed in. Zhan tielan also felt that something was wrong with him and went in with Shen Jingli.

Li Qi fell to the ground, as if he had been lost in the past, but the cake they had prepared was missing Shen Jingli squats on the ground and shakes Li Qi. He has been very hard, but Li Qi is still like a dead pig, which makes him angry.

"He is infatuated with MI Xiang and may not wake up for a while and a half." Zhan tielan reminded him that he didn't expect that someone would dare to do something in the palace. He was not timid.

Shen Jingli reluctantly gives up and drags Li Qi to bed with Zhan tielan, and covers him with a quilt. This autumn is cold. He has been lying on the ground and will catch cold.

As for the two eunuchs outside the door, Shen Jingli was not so kind as to take care of them, but he covered them with a blanket.

What's going on? What gift did you prepare for the Empress Dowager? "Zhan tielan is also a person who has experienced big waves. He can see what is going on.

A peach cake. " Shen Jingli frowned. He had expected someone to do something wrong, but he thought that the man would poison, but he didn't expect to steal his cake. It's shameless.

"Cake? What is that? " I have never heard of something. I don't know why. Zhan tielan is salivating.

"It's a special dessert." Shen Jingli sighed. Fortunately, he had been prepared. Otherwise, he would have been killed by the shameless one.

Let's go back and see what's going on. " The man took the cake, perhaps to steal the limelight.

That unique snack of Dayan Dynasty, he and Li Qi have spent ten days and tried countless times to let him find out who it is. He will certainly not let go of that guy.

Zhan tielan nodded. She also wanted to see who was so shameless that she robbed other people's things in the palace. When they went back to the Yuhua hall, the eunuch's singing ceremony came to an end. At this time, Zeng Waner's congratulatory gift was just sung. It was a birthday peach cake.

When the Empress Dowager was born every year, the gifts prepared by the ministers every year changed. But in fact, the same thing happened. Either jade or jewelry, the Empress Dowager was tired of it. However, it was no wonder that these ministers did not dare to present ugly and unique things and could not easily think of them. They could only be opportunistic.

Cake?

The people in the Yuhua hall are all at a loss. They know that Shoutao But what is this cake?

Even Zeng Wan'er is confused. When did her gift become a cake? Besides, what is this cake? Don't let her lose face in public.

Mu Yu quietly tugged at her and asked, "what gift have you prepared?She prepared a white jade statue of Avalokitesvara, but I don't know why it turned into a cake. She really didn't know anything?

Zeng Wan'er wanted to cry without tears. For a while, a maid of honor crept into her side and murmured in her ear for a while. Suddenly, she was full of air.

After a while, a few eunuchs carefully carried an object and put it on the low table in the center of the meeting hall The Empress Dowager wrung her eyebrows, tilted her head and looked at the object covered with yellow cloth in front of her eyes. Zeng Wan'er looks at the Empress Dowager's expression and smiles. Shi Shi ran goes forward and kneels down, "my daughter Zeng Waner wishes the Empress Dowager the sun and the moon bright and the pine and crane Changchun."

"Get up." The Empress Dowager said lightly.

Shen Jingli looked at Zeng Wan'er as the Empress Dowager introduced the cake, and looked at the people marveling at the exquisite cake. He just gave a cold smile.

"That's the gift you've prepared?" Zhan tielan has no doubt about Shen Jingli. Although she has only met for the first time, she believes that the people selected by Mu Chen will not deliberately mislead her.

"That's the gift the Empress Dowager wants." A chill flashed in Shen Jingli's eyes. Zeng Wan'er, the girl was not taught many times.

"Oh." What the Empress Dowager wants can be seen from her appearance. It seems that she doesn't know cake.

Zeng Waner's cake made the Empress Dowager very happy. It was not only exquisite and beautiful, but also very delicious. The Empress Dowager rewarded her with many things and praised her for her virtue.

It's a great honor to be praised by the Empress Dowager. The head of Dehui county is proud of you Yan. However, a group of noble women are hostile to Zeng Wan'er.

These noble women's mentality is very consistent, their own show of pride, others on the face of the show hate.

"It's a princess." Zhan tielan's voice rang up, deliberately lowered the voice with a mockery.

"She doesn't have such a good mind to do such meticulous work." Shen Jingli shakes her head. Zeng Waner's woman is so stupid that she can't do it so cleanly. There must be someone behind her to help the flames.

Zhan tielan didn't say anything, and she obviously acquiesced to Zeng Waner's stupidity. Although she was in the Northeast military camp all year round, she would occasionally return to Beijing and know about the people in the capital. It happened that Zeng Waner had an engagement with Mu Chen and had met one or two sides specially. She had a bad impression of Zeng Waner.

The eunuch had finished singing the gift list, so many courtiers left Shen Jingli did not send a gift.

Why didn't you send the gift to the emperor

"Not unprepared?" She wanted to see Mu Chen make a fool of himself. "It's said that the prince of Nanping came from the countryside and was very poor."

The emperor tightened his eyebrows as soon as he heard it. Shen Jingli is the princess he granted. What does the governor of Dehui mean by this?

Princess Fu'an secretly scolds her daughter for being stupid. How could Shen Jingli be a princess granted by the emperor? Why did she give birth to such a stupid daughter?

"Don't worry about it. The gift is on its way." Mu Chen replied.

Dehui county chief gave a cold hum, only thought that Mu Chen was bluffing, and then he was elated. Indeed, as Mu Chen said, Shen Jingli's back-up gift is on his way.

After a while, everyone at the scene smelled a special smell, which directly rushed into the nose and made them salivate.

"What is so fragrant?" "I'm hungry when I smell this

A roast whole lamb was sent up. Although the capital is located in the north, it is not far away from the south of the Yangtze River. People here don't like mutton. Shen Jingli did not see any good mutton in the capital, so he thought of making a roast whole lamb.

The appearance of the roast whole lamb is golden and oily, the external meat is brown and crisp, the internal meat is soft and tender, and the mutton tastes delicious. The Empress Dowager asked Duke Li to give her one piece each. As soon as she imported it, she was captured by the delicious roast sheep.

"You have a good way." Zhan tielan said with a smile that he and she have been guarding the Northeast all year round, and have eaten a lot of roasted whole sheep, which can be roasted to the level of Shen Jingli, which is really rare.

Shen Jingli smiles. It's just a front-end dish. His real gift is a lacquered jewelry box. It's rectangular. There are three squares in total. The surface of the box is carved with a red phoenix, while the box below is hollow.

Almost as soon as the Empress Dowager saw it, she fell in love with it. She stroked the surface of the box with her long fingertips and kept mumbling to herself: "Ai family has never seen such a wonderful jewelry box

compared with the cake that was gone after eating, this jewelry box can be treasured for a lifetime. The emperor was happy to see the empress dowager, and he was rewarded with many things by the empress dowager, and the Empress Dowager kept praising him.

Seeing that Shen Jingli was praised by the empress dowager, Zeng rouer's eyes flashed a sense of obliteration. He was just a Shuanger. It was really a great skill. However, she also complained about Zeng Wan'er, a useless fool who could not even solve a pair of problems. She had to do it.