The palace maids in dancing costumes were dancing in the main hall in an orderly manner, but there were always some restless dancers who kept giving flirtatious glances to the officials and young masters, and the three most handsome girls in the Taiji Hall were of course no exception.
Shang Wuxin looked at the dancers who were flirting with him with a smile on their faces, but no one knew what she was smiling at. It didn't seem like the prince had fallen in love with the dancers. Everyone felt that the prince's thoughts were probably more difficult to guess than the emperor's.
Leng Yufeng didn't even look at the dancers, he just drank the wine on the table. To him, those women were not as painful as the wine. If this wasn't the emperor's birthday banquet, he would have thrown these coquettish women out long ago.
Huan Moche looked at the scenery in the palace with a gentle look, but did not look at the dancers. He simply ignored the dancers' eyes. Huan Moche suddenly felt that no matter how beautiful these women were, they could not be as beautiful as the prince, which was simply an eyesore.
The dancers' dance made the atmosphere in the hall much more harmonious. The birthday banquet, which had just been deserted because of Concubine Xin, became lively again. After all, today was the emperor's birthday, and everyone had a happy expression.
"Father, your son wishes you a long life and good health!" The eldest prince Shang Chengzhao came forward with a landscape painting he had drawn and knelt respectfully in the Taiji Hall. Although the painting was not stunning, it was better because it was made by his own hands.
"Well, the eldest prince is thoughtful!" Emperor Shang asked Eunuch Xu to put the painting away, and he was quite satisfied with the painting. Emperor Shang never called his children by their names, and many ministers knew that the emperor treated all the princes equally, which also caused several forces in the court, and the eldest emperor also had some forces.
"Father, your son wishes you good health and good luck!" The second prince Shang Lanhai, dressed in a green brocade robe inlaid with gold thread, said respectfully as he stood in the hall. As he spoke, he presented a lotus that he had worked hard to collect. The lotus was a mixture of purple and blue, and looked both rare and beautiful.
The second prince is the son of Concubine Ning. Concubine Ning has always been a non-competitive concubine in the palace. She has always been a very stable person, so there are not many concubines in the palace who have any hatred towards Concubine Ning. In addition, Concubine Ning likes to worship Buddha and usually likes to stay in the Buddhist temple in her bedroom. Concubine Ning has two children, one is the second prince, Shang Nanhai, and the other is the third princess, Shang Weekend.
Emperor Shang looked at this unique lotus and nodded with satisfaction. Everyone also knew that the emperor seemed to be most satisfied with the Second Prince today.
"Father, I wish you a long life and happiness!" The third prince Shang Chengying congratulated him. The birthday gift he presented was a piece of fine jade, and its value was obvious from its color. He had originally thought that he would be able to please his father today, but after his mother's interference, he was afraid that no matter what birthday gift he gave, his father would not look at him differently.
Including the fake prince Shang Wuxin, Emperor Shang had a total of five princes and four princesses, and Shang Wuxin was the youngest. Nine children in total were indeed pitifully few in the royal family. It was also because the emperor never touched those women again after Empress Qiu entered the palace, which led to the thin royal offspring. After all, with so few royal offspring, it might not be possible to have more than a few after all calculations, but Emperor Shang didn't care about these.
After that, every prince and princess had presented their birthday gifts, but Shang Wuxin was the only one who sat there and kept tasting the food on the table. If she found something good, she would take a few bites, and if she found something she didn't like, she would frown and not touch it anymore. Others might not have noticed Shang Wuxin's little behavior, but Huan Moche and Leng Yufeng, who were sitting next to her, saw it clearly. They both thought that the prince's greedy look was indeed very cute, so cute that they wanted to treasure such a scene.
(End of this chapter)