236 Dance
I stayed in the side hall for a long time, and when I went out, I had reached the last dance, which we called the victory dance, and it was the music and dance for the army to march to Qizhou. This is Cui Mingde's idea, she said that the queen mother called the system, the Quartet is uneven, one is to show people to power, so that the world is frightened, do not dare to act rashly, the other is to show that the queen mother is the orthodoxy of the country, highlighting the rebels are really out of selfish desires, the mother deliberately despised Xu Jingye in the palace, but in fact, she transferred 300,000 soldiers and horses, and specially took the clan Li Xiaoyi as the commander of the army to attack it, it is for this reason, so we must do this big dance, not only to remember the hardships of the founding of the previous emperors, but also to show the prosperity of our country's martial arts, Wang Shi is invincible everywhere he goes, and when the time comes, this dance will spread all over the world, which can make the rebellion of the Quartet frightened and dare not make trouble. I know that her most fundamental thoughts, in fact, still have to change the way to praise her "close friend" Dugu Shao Dugu Sixteen Little Lady, but she is also happy to flatter her mother with this, so she added this dance as a treasure of the town and added it to the party.
This dance uses the old song of breaking the formation of the year, slightly adapted, Cui Mingde composed four new words, compiled into it, is four sections, the martial arts of the founding of the country, the martial arts of Taizong, the martial arts of Gaozong, and the martial arts of the dynasty; counting the use of 24 dancers, staggered bending and stretching, head and tail back and forth, back and forth, to stab back and forth, in the shape of a battle array; dance fan three formations, a section changed three times, counted as 12 formations, all from the formation of the army; 10 music workers, with the Tang Dynasty military drum mixed with the music of the turtle, excited.
When I entered, it was already the fourth section, in addition to the twenty-four male dancers, there were two leading dancers - but a man and a woman, the man was wearing gold armor, wearing a red robe, holding a golden knife, holding a golden shield, and the woman was wearing silver armor, wearing a white robe, and holding a silver gunβ‘β‘. Suddenly left and right, dancing impermeable, the male dancer waved the knife in one hand heartily, chopping and chopping, the momentum was amazing, and the other hand raised the shield to dodge, and the shield was also activated and agile with the knife, not losing a cent.
I don't like it very much, and I don't know much about these martial arts, but I also see it with relish, the dinner meal was originally in charge of the Taiguan Temple, but we specially prepared a lot of snacks from the palace imperial dining office, which were specially used to eat while watching the party, many of which I thought of, and applied with my mother, so I was allowed to worship in this time: salt-fried cold melon seeds, fried coriander, fried carrots, fried cake balls, fried chestnuts, mustard grilled chicken wings, rock sugar gourd, with a cup of thick sweetened orange juice.
In the previous life, these foods were ordinary civilian snacks, but in this era, they are all treasured by rich and noble families: the cold melon seeds are fried by the seeds of the cold melon that I have eaten on the same day, although all of them are contributed this time, but they are only enough for more than three products and a small dish for one person; Craft honey and coarse white sugar are all luxury goods, which are transferred from the royal treasury; the chestnuts are made of large chestnuts from the local Tugong, but they are similar to those that can be seen everywhere on the streets in the previous life, and they are almost the same as those of ten yuan a pack; the chicken wings should be caught and cut by someone now, and a total of thousands of chickens have been killed. Carrots and doughs were nothing, but I had not eaten potato chips for a long time, and I was so hungry that I urged the imperial diet to fry the carrots according to the method of potato chips, and mixed sugar and tea soup into the dough to make a pepper carrot slice shaped like potato chips and a fake fried matcha cake, which are now also valuable luxuries, not to mention rock sugar gourds, which consumed hundreds of pounds of sugar just to ask the cooks to practice how to melt the sugar juice.
Fortunately, my ideas seem to be very popular, and even many important ministers who have always eaten reservedly at the banquet have eaten the small ones in front of them cleanly, I watched carefully, and saw that what they liked the most was the rock sugar gourd, and even my mother had eaten a bunch, and specially sent palace people to pass the word:" The Queen Mother said: You little thing, the party is good, the food is especially good, many ministers are cheeky to ask for food, I think it is your idea, when it is up to you to decide, then ask them to come to you, these days you prepare yourself, lest there are too many people at the door, and the threshold is broken - but the rock sugar gourd is not allowed to tell others, keep it in the palace for your own use. β
I hurriedly got up and thanked me, relying on my mother's happiness, and begged for a reward: "Go back to Your Majesty A-Niang for me, since it looks good, isn't there a reward?"
The palace people soon came over and said: "The Queen Mother said: On your birthday, I don't thank you for giving birth to your mother, but I am embarrassed to ask for a gift? You will be rewarded with another piece of wood, and if the threshold is broken, you can use it to make another one. While saying that he couldn't help laughing, he was afraid that I would not be happy, and comforted me: "Don't be discouraged, the queen mother said that she was laughing, and she had promised it before the emperor, and after the year, she would be crowned Ma Guanglu Shaoqing, and she would be in charge of the country's wine and food and shame. β
The person in front of my mother has always been very strict, but this person's mouth is so broken, I can't help but think about it in my heart, I glanced at her with a smile, and was still hesitating to take out a handful of silver coins, but I saw Cui Mingde and said coldly: "The matter in front of the emperor, how can you talk too much? β
The palace man changed his face, and he bent down and begged for mercy, I saw that she was really pitiful, and I wanted to spare her, but Cui Mingde had already asked someone to fork her out, and I was about to go to my mother. I was very puzzled, paused and asked her: "Under the big festival, Erniang made such a fuss and disturbed A-Niang's mood, isn't it good?"
Cui Mingde looked at me coldly: "You see that the Empress Dowager Su Ri is here, but there is a person who leaks words like this? Why didn't you leak it, but at this time, the words came out?"
I broke out in a cold sweat and walked quickly with her to the throne, when my mother saw that we were solemn, she ordered someone to hug Li Dan away, told me to kneel beside her and pour wine for her, tilted my head and asked me, "What?"
I said in a low voice: "The palace person sent by A-Niang to deliver the message leaked the words of the emperor, and my son has asked someone to fork her down, and now I am here to report to A-Niang." β
My mother sighed, raised her glass and took a sip and asked, "What did she say?"
I told the man what he said, and my mother laughed when she heard it: "I was afraid that you would be young and tender, and you would not be happy to hear what I said, so I asked her to tell you, but it was a misunderstanding, so let her go." β
My heart became more and more cold, and I smiled and said: "That is the case, but I surprised A-Niang's messenger and begged A-Niang for forgiveness." I was about to bow down, but my mother stopped me with one hand, she put her hand on my neck, rubbed it gently, and said with a smile: "What's the big deal, it's worth it for you to be so scared? Sit down and drink with your motherβyes, you should drink less now, and tell them to bring fruit to drink." He smiled at Cui Mingde again: "In this big banquet, outside of peace, you have contributed the most, also sit down, Wan'er, pour wine." β
Cui Mingde smiled flawlessly, bowed to his mother, and thanked Wan'er, Fang took the wine, drank a full glass, at this time the palace people had been released, walked to the palace and knelt down to thank him, and his mother said: "Is it mine or not, I didn't make it clear, not only scared Taiping, but also tired you." "I also ordered someone to give her wine, the palace people thanked her unhurriedly, drank and retreated, Cui Mingde also got up and retired, leaving me alone in front of the palace, laughing is not, not laughing is not, fortunately at this moment the song is over, the dancers gather to thank you, the woman who led the dance unveiled her mask and stepped forward to receive the reward, which startled me, and naturally "Huh", opened her mouth to look ahead.
The man in the golden armor and red robe is Hu Luzhong, who is good at swordsmanship, which is not fake, but the woman in white and silver armor should not be Dugu Shao - she entered the palace with her father in mid-December to thank us, and met with us.
Seeing my surprise, my mother raised her eyebrows and said, "Why, shouldn't she be the one who danced?"
I didn't dare to hide it: "I originally asked Zhang Siniang from the teaching workshop to act, and I didn't want to change people temporarily." Turning his head to look at Cui Mingde, he saw that she also frowned, beckoned someone to ask a few words, stepped forward and whispered in front of us: "Zhang Siniang suddenly had an emergency, and the dancer was suddenly timid, Dugu Shao recommended herself, she is familiar with dance, and often fights with Hu Luzhong, the rhythm fits, and her fame is also known in the workshop, so she just took the place." β
The mother tilted her head and asked, "Isn't she hurt?"
Cui Mingde had a cold face: "Yes." β
The mother called someone to summon Dugu Shao to come forward and asked her: "You are injured, why don't you sit next to you and dance yourself?"
Dugu Shao knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "The Yuanri banquet is an important gift of the country, and the country has something to do.
The mother laughed out loud when she said this, got up slowly, looked around the left and right, and said loudly: "Dugu Shao's daughter's family, you still know how to serve the country loyally, and the princes are in high positions, can you not encourage yourself?"
Many people showed some embarrassment on their faces, only the prime ministers were calm as usual, Cui Qiao came out and said: "Dugu Shao's loyalty to the country is very commendable, please reward the queen mother to show the court's intention of seeking talents and valuing talents." β
The mother was in a good mood and immediately said, "Yes." "gave Dugu Shaowu a hundred paragraphs, and promoted her to the right general of Yifu, and still knew about Mulan's riding.
Dugu Shao won the lottery, still with a calm face, upright and grateful, without the slightest arrogance, and the ministers cleaned up their faces, worshiped the mountain, and praised the holy virtue of their mother.
Cui Mingde lowered his head and clutched the corners of his clothes tightly with both hands, obviously in a bad mood that could not be concealed. 166 Reading Network