When the empress dies, the people must stay mourned for a hundred days, and they are not allowed to marry or have banquets during this period.

There are fewer marriages, fewer banquets, fewer female guests go to the embroidery shop to buy silk flowers, and fewer colorful clothes. This is probably the most direct and obvious impact of Queen Xie's death on Gillian. Even if there is anything that may involve the undercurrents of the Zhao family, Gillian cannot feel it.

Fortunately, the Zhao family now has a house and land, and Zhao Yanping can save most of his monthly salary. The shop business is still deserted for a while, and A Jiao can still bear it and will not worry about having a headache or worry about the lack of money to earn money.

The mother of a country died, and some people commemorate her, but most people just abide by the mourning rules set by the court and have no sadness in their hearts. After all, although the queen is the mother of the country, she has not really cared about every household. Who would be sad for the people she never knew?

In addition to some inconvenience caused by national mourning, ordinary people should live up to how they continue to live up to their lives.

The north wind whistled, and the cold winter in the capital was dripping ice. Although Gillian took care of her daughter carefully, Xiao Chujin was still sick, coughed slightly, and couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night, so she had to hold her to her to sleep comfortably. Gillian and Zhao Yanping both felt sorry for the little guy, and took turns to take care of her at night and asked the doctor to see it. After careful care of her for five days, Xiao Chujin finally had a good meal and slept again, but her chubby face became thinner, making her look bigger, which made people feel sad.

I heard that Shuozhou is as cold as it is. When Liu wrote a letter to Shen Ying, he told his daughter to take good care of her little grandson. He should go out for a walk or a walk every day. The more he is stuck in the house, the more likely he catches a cold.

Liu wrote several pages in a scattered manner, and Shen Ying replied to two pages, thinking that her mother was nagging. Then Shen Ying also sent someone to give her a box of her newly prepared lilac facial fat, which was moist and elegant on her face. There were fifteen boxes in a box. In addition to the use of Gillian and Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, there were many gifts for others.

Gillian gave two boxes to her aunt, cousin Xue Ning and Mei. She also thought about Miss Xiangyun who was in Prince Xuan's Mansion. Unfortunately, she didn't dare to give it to her. If the rules of the Prince's Mansion were broken, it would cause trouble for Miss Xiangyun.

Every time I think of Miss Xiangyun, Ajiao feels sorry for her mother-in-law and Miss Xiangyun. Fortunately, when they first met, Wang Xuan ordered Miss Xiangyun to live in Lion Lane for 19 days. Otherwise, the whole family would be in the capital, but they would not meet for many years. I thought about it day and night, how uncomfortable it would be?

Outsiders only envy the Zhao family for having the royal family in-laws, King Xuan. Only the Zhao family can understand the taste.

Empress Xie was in the twelfth day of September. It was exactly 100 days on the 21st of the 12th day of the 12th month. On the 22nd of the 12th day of the 12th month, the national mourning was officially lifted.

The people who had been in a state of silence have resumed banquets, and in order to buy New Year's goods, the business of shops in the capital is extremely prosperous.

Gillian's embroidery shop and Shen Ying's rouge shop are no exception.

Just when Gillian was happy about his business, Emperor Chunqing also announced an order before the court's grand break, to grant the third prince, Prince Xuan as the crown prince, and Princess Xuan as the crown prince's concubine, to move into the East Palace today, and to hold the auspicious day after the New Year to hold the crown prince's enthronement ceremony. The other concubines and concubines of Prince Xuan will wait for the crown prince to ask for their title separately in the future.

In any case, this order was good news for the Zhao family. For a time, more and more officials wanted to make friends with Zhao Yanping. Because it was inconvenient to find Zhao Yanping, he said he wanted to make friends with him. These officials asked his wife to post to Liu, Ajiao, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and also gave various gifts.

Zhao Yanping asked Gillian to refuse one by one. Except for the fact that he had been with me before, this year, the Zhao family will not accept any tribute from other officials' homes during the New Year.

In short, the Zhao family’s New Year is as ordinary as in previous years. The only difference is that the family is richer and there is an extra lady at home.

After the New Year, Gillian and Mei resumed their movements and heard some royal news from Mei.

It turned out that Emperor Chunqing was not in a hurry to be appointed as the new crown prince. He was strong in a strong body. Although the ministers were anxious to make a crown prince, Emperor Chunqing repeatedly expressed his inability to be in a hurry, so the ministers endured it. However, Emperor Chunqing was only three years older than Empress Xie. This time, when Empress Xie left, the ministers had to recognize a reality again, that is, Emperor Chunqing had reached this age. If Emperor Chunqing left suddenly one day and there was no crown prince in the court, wouldn’t it be a chaos?

In order to stabilize the country, even though he knew that Emperor Chunqing did not like to listen, the ministers still wrote letters to appoint the crown prince, and even asked Emperor Chunqing to be the queen again. Among them, the second prince, Prince Huai, was the most popular, so he wanted to ask his mother to be the queen while Empress Xie was leaving. Then he became the legitimate queen son. Unlike King Xuan, he was just recorded in the name of Empress Xie.

The ministers were bothering Emperor Chunqing, and the concubines also blew hard to blow the wind beside the pillow in Emperor Chunqing's ear. Emperor Chunqing was blown to the headache. Then suddenly, King Xuan was appointed as the crown prince at the court meeting, completely suppressing the demonic winds in the harem of the previous dynasty.

When talking about the royal family, Mei also promoted the position of the prince's wife and concubine to Ah Gillian. The first class is naturally the Crown Prince's concubine, the unique wife, the second class is the Crown Prince Concubine, with a total of two quotas, and the third class is the Crown Prince Jieyu, four quotas. The rest are the Crown Prince Zhaoyi, who has no fixed quotas, and the maids who can't even rank for the status.

"Now your official position is in the fifth rank. If the prince is willing to grant Miss Zhao a good position, the prince's concubine should be able to be."

Because of her deep personal relationship, Mei also told Gillian her guesses.

The significance of these titles in the East Palace is that when the prince ascends the throne in the future and wants to be granted the queen and consort, he will also be promoted according to the position of the female relative in the East Palace.

Gillian began to pay attention to the news in the East Palace.

February 20th is an auspicious day. The palace held a hall of crown prince enthronement for the prince. Lady of the fifth rank and above is also qualified to enter the palace to watch the ceremony.

Gillian and her mother-in-law Liu left again.

The spring is chilly. Although it is a nice and clear day, the wind is extremely strong, making the flags set up everywhere in the ceremony sound.

Gillian knelt on the back of her mother-in-law, raised her head slightly like other destiny women, and looked at the prince and princess who were walking side by side towards the official title.

From her position, we can only see the couple's dresses flying in the wind, and the prince's calm and firm figure. Compared with the prince, the princess' figure is too slender and thin, and the wind is so strong that it makes people worry if she will be blown away by the strong wind.

When the ceremony finally ended, Gillian's knees hurt. When she followed the crowd, Gillian also caught a glimpse of a lady who quickly took out a handkerchief from her cuff and touched her nose, and then quickly stuffed the handkerchief back. Gillian glanced at the lady's red nose and took back her eyes in time to avoid embarrassment.

After watching the fun, in early March, Gillian got the news that the prince asked Miss Xiangyun to be the crown prince's concubine, and Emperor Chunqing was approved. At this point, although Miss Xiangyun was deprived of her concubine's title, she now became the crown prince's concubine, who was second only to the crown prince's concubine in the Eastern Palace, just like Zhang, the former concubine of Prince Xuan.

When Liu found out, his eyes turned red.

If the prince can continue to pamper his daughter so much, when the prince ascends the throne and becomes a concubine one day, will she have the opportunity to enter the palace to pay her respects to her daughter?

Mrs. Yongping hoped that King Xuan would be crowned crown prince and that the prince would ascend the throne for the glory and wealth of the family and for the glory and decency she cared about. But for Liu, she hoped for these things just to look forward to a chance to see her daughter again.

Gillian didn't know how to comfort her mother-in-law. After Zhao Yanping came back, Gillian asked Zhao Yanping to accompany her mother-in-law. After all, she was a mother and son. Zhao Yanping's comfort must be more effective than hers.

Zhao Yanping didn't know what he could say, but the only thing that could comfort his mother was that he was ruthless. Emperor Chunqing was still alive and was a wise king again. Zhao Yanping couldn't curse Emperor Chunqing to die as soon as possible in order for his family to see his sister as soon as possible so that the prince could have a seat.

He carried his daughter over with him.

Xiao Chujin is about to celebrate her year old at the end of the month. She is good-looking. Although she is only one year old, she can already leave. She is wearing a pink spring outfit and twists like a pink ball. She moves flexiblely. Xiao Chujin's mouth is also coincidental. She can call her father and grandmother "Mum". Zhao Yanping puts her daughter on the ground, and Xiao Chujin comes to her grandmother by herself and stretches out her little hand to ask her to hold her.

Seeing his cute little granddaughter, Liu turned his longing into laughter and thought to himself.

The son is promising, the daughter-in-law can manage the family, and the two daughters have their own luck. If they meet or not, they will be content with their sisters knowing that they are spoiled and cared for by their husbands!

On March 26th, the sun is shining, and the Zhao family celebrates the first year of Xiaochu.

The invitation was sent out several days in advance, and Zhao Yanping also told Cai Qi about the leave of the day in advance. On the 25th, Zhao Yanping specially worked at Dali Temple for half an hour. When dusk fell, he sorted out the table and said goodbye to a few officials in the temple who left at the same night and left.

Walking out of Dali Temple, Zhao Yanping looked up and suddenly saw a pair of masters and servants standing next to the stone lion on the left side of the yamen. The master was a handsome young man...

Seeing the young man's appearance clearly, Zhao Yanping was stunned, and then accelerated his pace and hurriedly stepped down several steps, came to the young man, and bowed, "Go to see the third master."

Xiao Lian said in shock: "Does my uncle recognize me?"

Zhao Yanping moved his long eyelashes slightly, saying for the natural familiar uncle, but he still lowered his eyes and replied respectfully: "I have seen it twice at the palace banquet."

Xiao Lian understood. It turned out that he was not only curious about what his uncle looked like, but his uncle also thought about him.

Looking at the sunset that had already sunk, Xiao Lian said regretfully: "Uncle is late today. I originally wanted to talk to you more about the past."

Only then did Zhao Yanping realize that his nephew had been waiting for him for a long time, so he quickly bowed his head to apologize.

Xiao Lian didn't like him so rude and took out a purse from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Yanping with both hands and said, "Uncle, this is my mother's first year gift for her cousin. My father will send me to you."

Zhao Yanping was worried that his nephew would cause any trouble if he came to him without permission. When he learned that the prince was also informed, he felt relieved. He took the purse and asked his nephew to convey his gratitude to the prince and the prince's concubine for him.

Xiao Lian looked at him with a straight look and thought to himself that this uncle was really boring.

But no matter how boring it is, his own uncle. Xiao Lian took off the jade pendant on his body and handed it to his uncle and said, "The father sent me to give me a gift. He didn't even say hello before. In a hurry, I didn't have time to prepare anything, so I gave this jade pendant to my cousin. The carved on it is a gourd, wishing my cousin good fortune and longevity."

Such a good jade pendant may have been given to the prince's nephew. Zhao Yanping didn't dare to ask for it, and he still waited to refuse. Xiao Lian thought he was too long-winded and ran away with the eunuch companion around him.

Looking at the young man's back as he was leaving, Zhao Yanping shook his head helplessly, but a smile appeared in his eyes.
Chapter completed!