Chapter 553: The banquet begins
Then, Yun Ruoyue, Chu Xuanchen, the queen mother and the eldest princess came to the Hall of Supreme Harmony again, preparing to participate in the palace banquet.
After entering the hall, they discovered that Emperor Hongyuan and the empress, as well as envoys from various countries had already arrived.
The people who were in the main hall before saw that the emperor was coming, and one by one stood up and saluted the emperor.
"See the emperor, long live the emperor long live long live long live."
"Let's be flat. Today is the Chinese New Year. You don't have to be too restrictive, just feel free to do it." Hong Yuan said with a smile.
After speaking, he quickly walked over to the Queen Mother, "Mother, your body is better, I will be happy, Xuan Chen, Ruo Yue, quickly help the Queen Mother to take her seat."
"Yes, the emperor." After Yun Ruoyue and Chu Xuanchen finished answering, they sent the queen mother to the top position.
The Queen Mother happily glanced at everyone, "Today is the Chinese New Year, we have a good time, you are about to stop being formal, all sit down and drink tea."
The illness had tortured her for a long time, and she had not attended such a banquet for several years.
Now that her condition is very good, she can also come and have fun with the juniors, not to mention how happy she is.
After Emperor Hongyuan and the empress sat down, he saw that Chu Xuanchen, Yun Ruoyue, and the princess were still standing next to the queen mother. He glanced at the princes and ministers below, and smiled lovingly at the three: "Xuan Chen, Ruo Yue, Jie Yu, my good nephew, my good niece, my good niece, you guys have to sit down too."
In the presence of the emperor's relatives and foreign envoys, Emperor Hongyuan showed great love to Chu Xuanchen's family.
He has done this kind of surface engineering for many years, and he has already done it handily and very skillfully.
"Uncle Xie is in love." After Chu Xuanchen arched his hand to Emperor Hongyuan, he took the two of them to the carved seat on the right side of Emperor Hongyuan.
In order to reflect his care for the first emperor's children, Emperor Hongyuan always likes to arrange the position of Chu Xuanchen's sister and brother next to him to show his preferential treatment and care.
Therefore, the position of the three Chu Xuanchen sitting is only one level lower than the empress dowager, emperor and empress, and higher than anyone here, this is to satisfy the emperor's face project.
The emperor was afraid that others would say that he was mean to the first emperor's child, so he liked to show his grace to Chu Xuanchen's sister and brother at various banquets.
He arranged the position of Chu Xuanchen's sister and brother closest to him, in order to tell everyone that he had always treated Xiandi's children very preferentially, even his own children did not have such preferential treatment.
In this way, everyone will praise him for being a good emperor.
Since Emperor Hongyuan liked to pretend, Chu Xuanchen also let him pretend, never opening him.
Since he had arranged such a high position for him, he sat down comfortably, holding a white porcelain wine glass in his hand, and calmly glanced at the people below.
The princes and princes sitting in the lower left and right rows saw that Chu Xuanchen and his wife and the eldest princess could sit beside the emperor and the queen mother to enjoy the grace, and they were all jealous.
Especially King Jin, he and Su Changxiao sat coldly in the middle of the lower head, looking at the Li Wang and his wife who were admired by everyone, a blazing fire of jealousy ignited in their eyes.
They were sitting on the left side below, and could not even sit in the frontmost position, because that was the position of some elderly emperors and imperial concubines. Although the king of Jin was the queen’s eldest son, he could only sit in the crowd. In the corner, this made him very unwilling.
The others dared to sit down after seeing the emperor and others sitting down.