On the birthday of the young emperor, officials of the fifth rank and above in the court attended the palace banquet with their families.
After everyone in the banquet hall arrived, Yun Chu came with his three children.
After entering the twelfth lunar month, Brother Jue was already one and a half years old, and he began to speak slowly, but he only spat out two or three words, and what he said was very unclear.
When the little guy saw so many people, he clapped his hands excitedly. Yunchu asked the wet nurse and the palace maid to follow closely to prevent the little guy from causing trouble in the west.
This little guy is the youngest prince in the history of the Jin Dynasty. No one in the palace dares to slack off. He is surrounded by seven or eight maids and maids, guarding him carefully.
The banquet officially began. Prince Regent Chu Rui stood up first and led hundreds of officials to toast the young emperor: "I wish the emperor a long life, long live my emperor!"
Chu Hongyu also stood up. He raised the cup with tea and said loudly: "Thank you all, dear friends. Come, I will drink with you."
Everyone drank together, and then started to eat. At the same time, people kept offering birthday gifts.
First, some of the honorable nobles sent mostly formal congratulatory gifts such as pens, ink, paper and inkstones.
Only the Marquis of Pingjin, in order to thank him for retaining his title last time, spent a lot of effort to buy a luminous pearl and presented it to the young emperor.
Chu Hongyu's eyes lit up when she saw the night pearl. If it were made into a hairpin and inserted into Chang Sheng's hair, she didn't know how beautiful it would be.
He immediately smiled and said: "The Marquis of Pingjin is interested, I like it very much."
Chu Rui, who was sitting next to him, suddenly lost his mind when he saw the night pearl.
He remembered that this night pearl was Su Ziyue's most expensive dowry. In order to win over the Boyuanhou Mansion for him, he gave this pearl to Mrs. Boyuanhou.
But he didn't expect that Boyuanhou's mansion would collapse just like that because Boyuanhou was a woman.
This luminous pearl must have been pawned by the Boyuan Hou Mansion, and then fell into the hands of Pingjin Hou, who gave it to the young emperor as a birthday gift.
Thinking of Su Ziyue, and then the fetus in her belly, Chu Rui looked gloomy for a long time.
The courtiers presented congratulatory gifts one by one.
Finally, Chu Rui stood up and said: "In this cold winter month, there are no flowers to enjoy except plum blossoms. I specially ordered hundreds of pots of flowers to be brought from the south as birthday gifts and placed in the Nuan Pavilion in the Imperial Garden. Your Majesty, Why not go and take a look?”
There is a warm pavilion in the palace, which is specially used to maintain some delicate flowers.
A group of people had nothing to do while sitting in the banquet hall, and they also wanted to see what the flowers brought from the south looked like.
Chu Hongyu obeyed everyone's wishes and stood up: "Okay, then all my dear friends, please come with me to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers."
The main hall where the birthday banquet is held is not far from the Imperial Garden. It can be reached by walking through a palace road.
The plum blossoms in the Royal Garden are all in bloom, and the white snow falls on the red plums. It is particularly beautiful and makes people stop and watch.
Walking into the Nuan Pavilion, a scent of aroma hits your face.
Yunchu saw flowers of various colors. These flowers were well protected, and the petals were not damaged at all. From this, one can imagine how much manpower, material and financial resources were spent on transporting them from the south to the north.
Some ladies and daughters were shocked.
"It's so beautiful. They are flowers I have never seen in the capital."
"The regent is really thoughtful, and we are all in for a treat."
“……”
The women were admiring the flowers in the Nuan Pavilion, while the men began to recite poems and poems to the white snow and red plum blossoms. The atmosphere was very good.
At this moment, someone exclaimed.
"Look what's over there?"
Everyone looked in the direction of the man's finger.
There is the Zhaiyue Pavilion, the highest palace in the palace, which is nine stories high. You can see the Zhaiyue Pavilion no matter where you stand in the palace.
At this moment, there was a person sitting on the window sill on the ninth floor of Zhaiyue Pavilion. The person was sitting on the railing, and his figure was dangling back and forth, which made people jump with fear.
"Whoever is there, it's really too dangerous. If you fall, I'm afraid..."
"Looking at his clothes, it looks like he is Master Nie. Why did Master Nie climb up to Zhaiyue Pavilion?"
"From the beginning of the birthday banquet to now, I really haven't seen Mr. Nie. Maybe Mr. Nie has gone to the wrong place."
"I seem to see Mr. Nie holding a bottle of wine in his hand and drinking. Maybe he drank too much at the banquet and went to the wrong place."
“……”
Hearing the discussion outside, Yun Chu immediately walked out of Nuan Pavilion.
From the angle of the Imperial Garden, we could clearly see the window sill of Zhaiyue Pavilion. There was indeed a person sitting on the railing. Judging from his clothing and figure, he was indeed Nie Zhou.
However, yesterday, Nie Zhou came to the palace to apologize, saying that his old mother was suddenly critically ill, and he needed to stay by her bedside to see her off for the last time. Therefore, he was absent from the birthday party today, and asked her and the emperor to forgive her. Of course she wouldn't blame Nie Zhou. She respected him as a man who put filial piety first and his old mother first. She also specially arranged for two imperial doctors to go together for diagnosis and treatment.
Something is wrong.
She immediately told Qiu Tong: "Go to Zhaiyue Pavilion and see what's going on."
Qiutong nodded, turned around and left quickly.
Yun Chu stared at Nie Zhou closely. She saw Nie Zhou suddenly pick up the wine bottle in his hand, lift it up and pour wine into his mouth.
Immediately afterwards, Nie Zhou's body tilted, but fortunately he did not fall outwards, but fell under the window sill. The bottom was covered by the wall, so the specific situation could not be seen.
But fortunately, Yun Chu finally breathed a sigh of relief as he did not continue to sit high up.
However, at this moment.
The man who had just fallen suddenly stood up, jumped over the railing, and fell from the ninth floor.
Although they were far away and could not hear the thud of landing, the ladies and ladies present could not help but scream in fear.
"Oh my god..."
"Master Nie...he, he actually jumped down."
"If you fall from such a height, you will definitely die."
"Why is this happening..."
Yunchu's mind went blank for a moment.
Immediately, she reacted immediately and walked quickly towards Zhaiyue Pavilion.
She walked very fast, almost trotting, holding up her skirt, not caring about her manners, and not daring to waste a moment.
The officials and female relatives who had watched the whole process also followed Yunchu towards Zhaiyue Pavilion.
Although Zhaiyue Pavilion can be clearly seen from the Royal Garden, in fact, there is a long distance between the two buildings, and it takes a quarter of an hour to walk quickly to get there.
The entrance to Zhaiyue Pavilion has been controlled by Qiu Tong, and no one is allowed to enter.
Seeing Yun Chu and the young emperor bringing people, she stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, and when my subordinates first arrived, Lord Nie happened to fall from the building, and it was really too late... My subordinates have checked, Lord Nie He has lost his breath."
Her voice was full of annoyance. If she had come just a moment earlier, she would have saved Lord Nie...
The Minister of Dali Temple stepped forward and said, "Let me see what's going on at the scene."
Yun Chu stretched out his hand to stop the Dali Temple Minister: "No need, Aijia will go and have a look."
She knew very well that the Minister of Dali Temple was promoted by Chu Rui himself, and no one could trust the Minister of Dali Temple.
She walked in first.
Step by step, he walked towards the person lying on the ground.
