20demayo Chapter 641 Covenant
Chapter 641 Covenant
Xiao Yanbao’s birthday banquet was held in the Golden Palace.
Generally, banquets are held in the Golden Throne Hall only during major festivals and state banquets.
No prince or queen's birthday has ever been held in the Golden Palace.
Moreover, the ceremony was extremely grand with a grand procession, hanging music, and a yellow curtain and altar.
Xiao Yanbao was a little surprised.
Is this my birthday? Are you sure this isn't the coronation ceremony where my father gave up his throne to one of my brothers?
Civil and military officials, princes, foreign envoys... really everyone came!
"Mother, isn't this really your coronation ceremony for the queen?" little Yan Bao asked in a low voice.
She is just a little child, how could she hold such a grand birthday party?
Queen Hui smiled and said, "My mother's coronation ceremony is nothing. Your birthday party is more important. This is your first birthday in the palace, and you almost didn't make it back in time."
Xiao Yanbao: It’s not that I almost didn’t make it back, it’s that I almost died.
But I can’t tell my mother, otherwise she will worry about me again.
After Emperor Lan Qian, Queen Hui, and little Yan Bao took their seats, the court officials began to present gifts.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites had loud voices, and the order of offerings was arranged according to the rank of the officials.
The gifts included everything from gold, silver, jade, food, drink and clothing.
Little Yanbao had never heard that his parents were going to celebrate his birthday, so how come so many people came, and the gifts were quite well prepared.
This is simply making a fortune!
Little Yanbao smiled happily, it turns out that one can make fortune by celebrating his birthday!
"Daddy, how about we celebrate our birthday every day?" said little Yanbao.
Emperor Lan Qian grinned. How could he celebrate his birthday every day? How could he not want the lives of these court officials?
Queen Hui smiled and patted her daughter's head. "Birthdays can only be celebrated once a year."
Little Yanbao said "Oh", this opportunity to make a fortune only comes once a year!
That's fine! There are delicious foods and people give gifts, not bad, not bad.
“Even if it’s once a year, it can’t be so grand every year, otherwise it will increase the burden on court officials. If their burden is too heavy, they will extort money from the people, and the people will complain.” Emperor Lan Qian said.
Xiao Yanbao didn’t think so much, he just felt that it was too easy to make money by celebrating his birthday.
"Then I won't celebrate my birthday anymore. I don't want these officials to plunder people's wealth in my name." Xiao Yanbao said.
All the merits that I have accumulated have been in vain.
Queen Hui touched her daughter's head again. Her daughter was kind-hearted and concerned about the country and the people.
"You still have to celebrate your birthday, but there's no need to make a big fuss. We can just be one family, and from now on, your mother will personally prepare a birthday banquet for you every year."
Little Yan Bao smiled and kissed his mother on the cheek, "Mom is so nice."
Emperor Lan Qian was a little jealous, "And there's my father."
Little Yanbao hesitated for a moment, then pecked his father lightly on the cheek.
Emperor Lan Qian: It seems that my daughter still blames herself in her heart for being so perfunctory.
He always suspected that he was possessed by another body, or that the body was possessed by the Sheng family.
Otherwise, why would they target Yan Bao and Concubine Hui?
The banquet reached the part that Xiao Yanbao liked most, eating and drinking.
The dishes on her table were all double portions, which was Xiao Yanbao's special order.
Today is Yan Bao’s birthday, so let alone double portion, he could have ten portions.
Of course, Xiao Yanbao’s other share is for the Heart of the Spirit World.
She agreed to eat chicken legs with the Heart of the Spirit World, but she didn't expect there would be a banquet.
Originally, Xiao Yanbao wanted to release the Heart of the Spirit World from the Ruyi Bag so that he could sit at the table and eat with her, but the Heart of the Spirit World refused because it was afraid.
I really don’t understand why the spirit world is so powerful and why they are afraid of what these mortals do.
Since the heart of the spiritual world refuses to come out, it will just eat in the Ruyi Bag.
Every time the palace servants brought up a dish, little Yanbao would put a portion into the Ruyi bag.
The Heart of the Spirit World was eating happily in the Ruyi Bag.
[Master, Master, I want to celebrate my birthday too, and every day. It’s so delicious. It turns out that there are so many delicious things in the world besides chicken legs. ]
Xiao Yanbao: Here comes another person who wants to celebrate his birthday every day.
Queen Hui discovered that little Yanbao was eating and putting food into his Ruyi bag at the same time, and she found it both funny and a little sad.
This child has been hungry since he was young. He is always afraid of having nothing to eat, so he has to keep some backup plans.
Just when Xiao Yanbao and the Heart of the Spiritual World were enjoying their meal, the envoy from the Waluo Kingdom stood up drunk.
In fact, the envoy from the Waluo Kingdom did not come to celebrate Xiao Yanbao's birthday, he came to cause trouble.
Originally, Waluo and several other countries wanted to divide up Lan together, but when Xiao Yanbao took action, Dan and Tuni were defeated, so they did not dare to attack Lan.
Originally, they were in a wait-and-see state, taking advantage of opportunities and running away when there was no advantage.
Anyway, they have an agreement between Waluo Kingdom and Lan Kingdom.
The envoy of Waluo Kingdom first said a lot of blessings, then changed the subject and took out a covenant from his arms.
"Your Majesty, do you still remember the alliance between the two countries?"
When Emperor Lan Qian saw the treaty in the hands of the envoy from the Waluo Kingdom, his eyelids jumped.
How could he not remember?
This was the alliance that the Queen Mother forced him to sign when he was suppressed by the Sheng family.
The Queen Mother said at the time that in order to establish good diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Waluo, a marriage alliance was signed.
Even the princess of Lan Kingdom would be sent to marry the royal family of Waluo Kingdom.
When Emperor Lan Qian signed the treaty, he felt that no princess of the Lan Kingdom would live past the age of three anyway, so signing the treaty was just a formality.
Not to mention princesses, there is not even a princess. The entire royal family of Lan Kingdom is like a Buddhist temple.
I don't know what kind of curse was cast upon me.
Emperor Lan Qian's brows were twisted into a knot. How did the news that Lan Kingdom had a princess spread to Waluo Kingdom?
Not to mention that his precious daughter was only four years old, even if she had reached adulthood and reached the age of marriage, she could not be sent to marry.
"Ayimu, this treaty was signed when the Queen Mother was alive. Now that she is gone, this treaty..."
"Emperor of Lan Country, you signed the treaty yourself. Don't blame a dead man. Do you want to regret it?"
The envoy from the Waluo Kingdom interrupted Emperor Lan Qian's words.
Emperor Lan Qian's expression changed.
"Your Majesty, what alliance are you so nervous about?" asked Queen Hui.
Originally, Queen Hui shouldn't have asked this question, because concubines were not allowed to interfere in government affairs.
However, Queen Hui became suspicious when she saw that the envoy from the Waluo Kingdom was always staring at Yan Bao.
Even few ministers in the court knew about this alliance, let alone Queen Hui.
"Ayimu, today is the little princess' birthday. Let's not discuss state affairs. We will discuss state affairs another day." Emperor Lan Qian said in a deep voice.
There was a hint of anger on his face.
But Ayimu refused to give in, and it was unclear whether he was drunk or did it on purpose.
"Emperor of Lan, today is the birthday of Princess Lan. Isn't it appropriate to talk about this?"