Chapter 15: Red Face

It was an unintentional gaze, but he found a real beauty, and the prince, who was used to seeing court beauties, suddenly saw a beauty with a different style, and was stunned all of a sudden. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Xuanhuang, who was following the prince, heard the song and knew the meaning of the song, and secretly asked the little chamberlain to ask the palace grandmother in charge of this batch of embroidery girls about the woman's name.

After a while, the little chamberlain handed Xuan Huang a thin piece of paper with the woman's information, and Xuan Huang glanced at it and handed it to the prince.

The prince took it, just glanced at it lightly, and then quietly folded the note and put it in his sleeve. Xuan Huang was amazed in his heart, the prince has always been very cold to women, and it was the first time he saw the prince take the initiative to inquire about a woman.

The fifth princess also saw the note, and wanted to probe to pull the things hidden in the sleeves of the prince, but the prince firmly grasped her hand, she struggled for a while, and obediently sat in the prince's arms to look at the beauty, and from time to time pointed out which one was good-looking and which was not.

The prince just responded randomly, but his eyes couldn't help but follow the woman just now. Back and forth, even the woman had sensed it, and raised her eyes lightly several times, colliding with the prince's eyes, she seemed to be shy, and she didn't dare to look in the direction of the prince again. But the limited few eyes, sparkling and rippling, looked forward to a hundred lives, which made the prince even more stunned.

This woman is Fu Lingyi, she is not as tall as a northern woman, but she has a slender body, fair skin, gorgeous eyebrows, and thick facial features. It's just that she is usually very low-key, she never dares to look at people squarely, and she always pretends to be a little family who is afraid of her, and in the eyes of many people, she is sorry for her, empty and beautiful.

The performances in groups of 10 people, some are mainly singing and dancing, some are mainly poetry, some are mainly calligraphy and painting, and so on. Originally, in the performance of Fu Lingyi's group, she played an insignificant role, she didn't play the piano, she didn't pick the dance, she was just responsible for ringing the chimes there, neither need to be beautiful or outstanding. But as soon as she stood on the stage, her previous cringe-like temperament was swept away, and she also brought up a twelve-point spirit to express herself. But there are too many beauties on the field, and the prince is not a person who is in a hurry, so he rarely takes a closer look at these selected women, if it weren't for the five princesses, it is estimated that the prince would not have paid special attention to her.

But the hand of fate helped her here, Fu Lingyi is also a scheming person, she knows that her appearance can't get into the eyes of most noble ladies and even the queen mother's concubines, but the young prince is difficult to say. This time, she went straight to the prince. So after she came on the field, she adjusted herself to the best posture and paid close attention to His Royal Highness the Prince, and when she saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince paying attention to herself, she was ecstatic in her heart.

For the prince to fall in love with a woman who is not in the stream, the concubines are not afraid of the high stage when watching the play, and the queen mother and the queen rarely agree that this woman must not be allowed to enter the palace.

Thousands of miles away in the central capital, Yunzhou, August has begun to fall gloomily. In Yunzhou, only June and July are relatively hot summers, and in August, the weather will turn cooler, and snow will begin to fall in September, and it will not begin to melt until April of the following year.

After Minghua arrived in Yunzhou, he changed his name to Xingxi, and Guigu Qianli left him in Yunzhou, first familiarizing himself with the Guigu family's experience in the art of war for so many years. Guigu Qianli only claimed to the outside world that Xingxi was the widow of the distant side branch of the Guigu family, and due to the death of his parents, Guigu Qianli saw that he had good qualifications, so he asked him to take him to Yunzhou, hoping to cultivate talents and become an excellent general in the Guigu family in the future.

The Guigu family tradition stipulates that if a wife gives birth to a son, she is not allowed to take a concubine, and for so many years, the people of the Guigu family have strictly adhered to this rule. Guigu Qianli married his wife Yunzhi on the north shore.

The North Shore family is one of the nobles in the snowy region after the Guigu family, and their ancestors can be traced back to the beginning of the Zhuluo Dynasty. The North Shore family lives in Luzhou, which is closer to the snowy west. The North Shore family living in Yunzhou has two branches, one is the maiden family of Mrs. Guigu North Shore Yunzhi, and the grandfather of North Shore Yunzhi is the sister-in-law of the North Shore family.

The other side branch of the north bank is a side branch with very distant family relations, and the ancestors that can be traced back to the north bank branch during the period of Zhuluo I. The relationship between the two North Shore families in Yunzhou is very close, and even they are very familiar with the Guigu family.

Because Xingxi often follows Qianli Guigu, he was able to enter the library of the Guigu family to study, although the children of Qianli Guigu will not be jealous, but they can't stop some servants from sowing discord. After some rumors reached the ears of Guigu Qianli, he didn't say much, and directly asked those few tongue-chewing servants to be sent to the northernmost border of the snowy region to serve as soldiers.

The northernmost border of the snowy region is an extremely cold place, there are nine months of ice in a year, it is a place where no one wants to go, and those who go there to serve as soldiers, eight or nine times out of ten are people who have committed crimes, all of them are fierce and violent, these people who are usually rampant in Yunzhou, it is estimated that they will not survive many days when they go there. In this way, no one dared to say anything to Xingxi anymore.

Although Xingxi lives in Guigu's home, he is arranged to an extremely remote and quiet courtyard, which is located at the very edge of Guigu Mansion, and there is a partial door leading directly to the outside of the house, outside the door is a small alley, and there is a house at the other end of the alley.

The original expeditionary force that followed Xingxi to Yunzhou is now put into the army of the Guigu family to participate in training, and the leader of this team is called Zuo Ling, who will regularly report to Xingxi.

Xingxi learned the art of war and martial arts without distraction in the Guigu family, and the most powerful thing about the Guigu family was not these two, but unfortunately other skills and skills were only passed on to children, not outsiders, so Xingxi did not learn with their children in the Guigu family.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yunzhou, Mrs. Guigu was worried that Xingxi would be too lonely to celebrate the festival alone, so she asked him to attend the moon viewing family banquet of the Guigu family. Although Zhongdu is not close to the south, it is also deeply influenced by the south, and Xingxi is the first time to feel the pure northern banquet style.

Different from the gorgeous imperial palace in Zhongdu, Yunzhou is full of neat stone houses, which look very tough, even the mansion of the master of the snowy area, Guigu Benjia, but the stone used is better material. The garden of Guigu Mansion is also particularly rough, on the edge of the lake in the garden, a large circle of mud has been deliberately left, on which there is a wooden shelf, the sky is not dark, a roaring bonfire has been lit here, the fire illuminates the garden, and the people sitting in the garden add warmth.

A whole sheep was set up on the bonfire, and a special chef was skillfully looking at the roast sheep, and Xingxi sat next to Guigu Yanli, with all kinds of meat, fruits, and wine on the table. Adults were eating meat and drinking, while children were running around and frolicking. Xingxi used to attend banquets in the palace, all of them were in order, even when he was a child, he was very favored by his father and queen mother, and he didn't dare to speak loudly during the banquet. This snowy area is really interesting, and I can't complain that every time Uncle Guigu reports to Zhongdu, he is like an arrow. It's a place where you can feel the joy of life even more. Xingxi decided that after the prince's brother ascended the throne in the future, he would not return to the central capital, and would live in the snowy region.

Just when the second prince Minghua was suffering from gains and losses for his future in Yunzhou, in the palace of Zhongdu, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said amazingly, the afternoon banquet had ended, the Queen Mother and the Queen had each selected two girls to perform for the party, and His Royal Highness the Prince even took the initiative to suggest that Fu Lingyi from Yangzhou also perform for the party.

The Queen Mother and the Queen frowned silently, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the prince of a country after all, even if the Queen Mother and Queen Mother disagree with him, they can't refute it in person, they can only persuade slowly in private. Concubine Li gloated when she heard this, and couldn't help but cover her face with a fan and laugh secretly. When Fu Lingyi learned about it, her face turned red with joy, and she went out of the queue as usual to kneel down to thank the emperor.

The Queen Mother asked the palace grandmother who was in charge of training her a little coldly, "This Fu girl, she doesn't have any special talents, what do you say she should perform?"

The grandmother in the palace knew that the queen mother and the queen didn't like Fu Lingyi, so she quickly knelt down and answered, her mind was spinning fast, and she could only fight for Fu Lingyi for a performance that was a performance, but she didn't stand out, and she took the limelight. ā€

Concubine Li smiled at the corner of her mouth, and added oil and vinegar to the side, "This embroidery skill is high, and it is not suitable for performance at the dinner." The Queen Mother glared at Concubine Li dissatisfiedly, and then was about to speak, "Then let her embroider something on the spot." ā€

The prince on the side had already rushed to say, "I see that this Fu girl has a soft posture and a rhythmic pace, so she must be good at dancing." ā€

Fu Lingyi was shocked, she had been learning dance with the dancers specially invited by her father from Xitu since she was a child, and her dancing posture was better than any of the young ladies who performed live just now, how did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince see it?

She was sweet in her heart, and bowed her head and replied, "The folk girl has learned dance from the master. ā€

The prince nodded and said casually, "Then you can perform and dance, you are the person I recommend, you have to perform well tonight." ā€

The queen mother was blocked by the prince, she was angry, her face was elongated, and she sat next to her and refused to make a sound. Empress Jiang saw that things had developed to this point, and she couldn't refute her son's words, so she smiled and said, "I'm a little tired after sitting all afternoon." You all go down and prepare, Mingcheng, help help the Queen Mother go back to the palace to rest. ā€

The crown prince also knew that he had contradicted the imperial grandmother, so he made a gesture to carry the queen mother back to Yongshou Palace in person, where would the queen mother really get angry with him, and slapped him lightly, "You child, the older you are, the less you look." After speaking, he took the prince's hand and walked out, without looking at Fu Lingyi, who was still kneeling.

Soon the nobles sitting on the top were gone, and Concubine Li, who finally left Chaofeng Palace, deliberately walked to Fu Lingyi's side, and asked the palace maids around her to lift Fu Lingyi's face, looked at it for a long time, and said with a smile, "It's really me who sees Youpiao." And he walked away.