Kapitel 273: Turtle

There was no Empress today. Chu Yi's biological mother was the Emperor's first wife, but she had died of illness 10 years ago. After that, the Emperor never remarried. Now, the position of Empress was empty.

Ever since he ascended the throne, the ministers had written several times to invite him to crown a new Empress. However, they were all rejected.

Therefore, everyone originally thought that this year's banquet would be canceled. Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Yuan suddenly summoned the girls into the palace in the afternoon. Immediately after, the Emperor also ordered people to send an oral decree to various residences to summon some young masters of the right age to the palace to attend the banquet.

Gu Yanfei, Wei Jiaoniang, and Lu Qin chose the seats closest to the musician and sat down. After the musician finished playing the song, the storyteller beside her knocked on the wood and began to shake his head as he started to read.