This year, the Imperial City was in a season of great joy, starting with five new members added to the royal lineage, followed by the birthday of the Empress Dowager, then the celebratory parade of the top scorer, and finally the wedding of the Fifth Princess. The people certainly had their fill of spectacles to watch!
At a season when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, the wedding of the Fifth Princess proceeded as scheduled.
The evening before the Fifth Princess' grand wedding, Xiao'er and Shangguan Xuanyi had already brought their four children into the palace.
They first paid their respects to the Empress Dowager in the Cining Palace.
Seeing that Xiao'er and Shangguan Xuanyi each had one child in their arms and two maids following them with a child in their hands, and just as the two of them were about to pay respects, the Empress Dowager hurriedly said, "It's inconvenient to perform such formalities with the children in your arms. What if you accidentally drop them!"