Chapter 1206 Birthday Banquet (4)
The Empress Dowager smiled and raised her hands, saying "yes" repeatedly.
Although she and Nangong Yi and his mother were not on good terms, since the Emperor gave her this respect, she didn't care whether the Emperor was sincere or not. As long as others saw that the Emperor still respected her as the Empress Dowager, they would be courteous to her family. Therefore, even though she knew that the Emperor was using her to earn the life of benevolence and filial piety, she was happy to cooperate. They were using each other!
After Nangong Yi stood up, Caiwei personally presented the longevity noodles handed over by the eunuch to the Empress Dowager. Nangong Yi toasted with longevity wine, and the Empress Dowager symbolically used longevity noodles, which exempted everyone from kneeling.
After eating the longevity noodles, it was time to present birthday gifts. Of course, not everyone came forward to present birthday gifts in person. First, the Empress Dowager led the concubines and concubines to present gifts and celebrate the birthday, then Nangong Yi and Caiwei, followed by the princesses, Helan Xue, Princess Tuotuo, etc., and then the female relatives of the royal family, and finally the several high-ranking imperial wives from the Duke of Liguo Mansion, the General's Mansion, and the Prime Minister's Mansion.
The Emperor was obsessed with cultivation and did not come to this secular world, but he personally copied a copy of the "Tao Te Ching" for the Empress Dowager as a birthday gift. The birthday gifts presented by the Empress Dowager and the concubines and concubines were nothing more than embroidery, calligraphy and paintings, and silk. The birthday gift for Nangong Yi and Caiwei was a white jade statue of the birthday star more than one foot high. The white jade was the best white jade among jades, and the carving was exquisite and lifelike. It was known to be priceless at first sight.
It was the turn of the princesses and other princesses to present gifts. Like the queen mothers and concubines, they presented calligraphy and paintings, or embroidery and silk. Although they were all top-grade, they were not very thoughtful. Only the gift presented by Princess Chaogui attracted everyone's attention.
Especially Caiwei, when she saw Chaogui's birthday gift, her eyes almost popped out of her sockets!
Chaogui's birthday gift was a bright red embroidery. A big longevity character was embroidered on the red silk with gold thread. But if you look closely, you will find that the big longevity character is composed of many small longevity characters. Those many small longevity characters are even more unique, with different fonts and no similarities. Among them, there are regular script, official script, seal script, running script, cursive script, oracle bone script, etc.
Hundred longevity pictures!
Caiwei was stunned. This, this is something that only exists in her world!
Why does Chaogui have a hundred longevity pictures? Could it be that she was also a time traveler? But it doesn't seem like it. If she was, she would have left here with her golden finger to seek a better life. Why did she have to live in this palace on thin ice? If she wasn't careful, she would be crushed to pieces. But if not, where did this picture of a hundred longevity come from?
There is absolutely no picture of a hundred longevity in this world. Even if there is, there will never be two different Q-version deformed bodies in these longevity characters. This picture of a hundred longevity is 100% from the hands of a modern person. Who is this person? Where is he now?
Caiwei stared at him for a long time before she came to her senses and followed everyone to praise Chaogui's birthday gift for being fresh!
At that moment, Caiwei rewarded Chaogui with a pair of jade ruyi, and the Empress Dowager also rewarded her with a string of red coral beads.
Jade ruyi and coral beads are not rare for a princess, but they are awarded by the Queen and the Empress Dowager. This is a great honor. Chaogui accepted the reward and thanked them happily.
A trace of stiffness flashed across Empress Dowager Mo's face. She disliked Chao Gui very much, not only because she was the daughter of Concubine Jin and had colluded with Concubine Jin and opposed her; but also because in order to curry favor with Mu Caiwei, she revealed the conspiracy between her and her precious daughter Nangong Yu against the Emperor, which caused the Emperor to become estranged from her. Yu'er is still suffering in the temple!