Chapter 203: Flowers and Moons
"Sixth brother, it's time to change me, you've already lost three games in a row!"
"Wait a minute, I let Jin Zhi before, and I want to show my true strength in this game!"
In Guangling Palace, after eating the pine nut lily cake made by Concubine Hui herself, everyone gathered together to play backgammon in order to pass the time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, Cheng Jinzhi and Gao Xun were facing each other, and the county lord of Lingrong and Concubine Yi were watching with relish and eager to try, wishing that Gao Xun would quickly eat the defeat in this game, so he could get up and give way, and it was his turn to play.
Gao Heng stood behind Cheng Jinzhi and watched the chess game with great interest, and sometimes used various feints to point Cheng Jinzhi while Gao Xun was not paying attention, so she could win every game so smoothly.
"Third brother, don't always stand at the golden branch, I always feel that there is something between the two of you, there must be a problem. ”
Gao Xun grabbed his hair a little depressedly because he had lost three games at this time, and both sides of his cheeks had been painted by Cheng Jinzhi with a brush, which made Concubine Yi cover her mouth and giggle.
Looking at his mother's unbearable appearance, Gao Xun couldn't help but wonder if he was born to her?
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, I am willing to lose the bet, I have won above board, don't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. ”
Cheng Jinzhi unhurriedly landed the sunspot on the chessboard, and his heart was obviously weak for a while, but on the surface, he still looked straightforward, and Gao Xun was speechless for a while, so he could only reluctantly pull the corners of his mouth, and rubbed his hands to get back a game.
"Biluo, have you sent all the osmanthus brews I made before to the palaces?"
Concubine Hui smiled happily at the lively and happy scene in front of her, and then turned her head to ask the maid beside her as if she suddenly thought of something.
"Back to Niangniang, they have all been sent over. ”
Concubine Hui bowed slightly when she heard this, but when she heard Concubine Yi, who was watching the two of them play chess, she suddenly changed color and said: "The sisters in these palaces are really blessed, and they can drink the osmanthus brewed by their sisters every year." It's just that my sister heard that every time she sent it to Zhenghe Palace, the queen never even touched it, so she directly ordered someone to pour it down. Why should my sister be thankless and suffer from this anger?"
"That's fine. Concubine Hui's eyes flickered, but she didn't care, "It's her business what the queen mother does, I just need to do my duty and have a clear conscience, and the rest, since we can't do anything, let's let it be." ”
Concubine Hui subconsciously glanced at Gao Heng opposite, only to see him standing beside Cheng Jinzhi quietly, although his face was not shocked, but there was a hint of coldness floating in his eyes.
"Sister, your mentality is really good, this clear-eyed person can see that the queen has never rubbed sand in her eyes, but over the years, even Her Majesty's newly sealed concubines have turned a blind eye, but she has turned a blind eye to you. Fortunately, you have always been tolerant and don't care, if you change to my impulsive temper, I don't know what kind of heel will be planted. ”
Concubine Yi patted her knees a little angrily as she spoke, and her face was full of grievances for Concubine Hui, which made Cheng Jinzhi suddenly feel bold and fast-talking, and her impression of her added a lot of points.
"This queen is really excessive, she let her succeed in her treacherous scheme in front of His Majesty last time, and now she has been pardoned so quickly, and she will definitely come out again to make waves and show off her might, I don't know what tricks she will play with that prince. ”
Of course, Cheng Jinzhi knew that the reason why Empress Zhao kept picking thorns on Concubine Hui was because of Gao Heng's threat to the position of the crown prince. Now when I heard Concubine Yi say this, the sinister and cunning face of Empress Zhao automatically appeared in my mind, and I didn't care about the battle situation on the chessboard for a while.
It wasn't until she heard the county lord of Lingrong exclaim very regretfully that she came back to her senses and found that she had "carelessly lost Jingzhou", and just wanted to take a little remedy, but it was already too late.
I heard Gao Xun snap and let Bai Zi intercept her Kuroko, as if she had taken revenge, she stood up from the rosewood armchair and cheered like a child.
"I won, I won, I said that I would be able to turn defeat into victory in this game, and now it will be my turn to draw. ”
"Why didn't you remind me?"
Cheng Jinzhi turned his face sideways and glared at Gao Heng, angrily squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, turned his head and saw that Gao Xun's brush had reached in front of him, thinking to himself How could his carefully dressed makeup be stained by this black ink?
So he hurriedly put his hands in front of him and pushed out the Lingrong County Lord, who had long wanted to compete with Gao Xun.
"Your Royal Highness the King of Jin, what are you proud of, the current situation is three to one, you are still two games short of me, I will now send my proud disciple Lingrong County Lord to fight for me, if you can win her, I can let you draw." Manly man, you have to let go of the girl's house, right?"
Seeing that Gao Xun pursed his lips and was about to refute, Cheng Jinzhi took advantage of the situation to take his glasses and tilted Gao Heng beside him: "Or say... Do you want your third brother to be your opponent?"
"Don't don't, I haven't won chess with my third brother since I was a child, so I don't want to humiliate myself. But... But you're so unfair, isn't it?
"Protests are ineffective. ”
Cheng Jinzhi crossed his hands with a smile and made an objection movement, and retreated to give up his seat, letting the county lord of Lingrong sit down, and stretched comfortably in the warm afternoon sun.
In the past 20 years since she was born, except for the day of her wedding to Gao Heng, I can't remember how long it has been since it has been so lively.
She used to have a family and a family, but she had never enjoyed a family reunion, and she was happy and warm.
Now in the Guangling Palace, which is surrounded by thousands of high walls, looking at the new face in front of her that Zhang Lao had just appeared in her life not long ago, it made her feel the kindness and warmth like family for the first time.
"Five sons in a row, white eats black, congratulations to His Royal Highness King Jin, you have lost again. ”
"Don't play, don't play, I'm so unlucky today, you all bully me. ”
In Gao Xun lost three games in a row and ended in a fiasco, while washing the ink on his face while complaining and sighing, it was already a blink of an eye.
So Concubine Yi and the others went back to the palace to rectify, preparing to go to the New Year banquet set up by Emperor Zhou in the Lin'an Palace.
And in the Zhenghe Palace on the west side of Guangling Palace, under the annual palace banquet like tonight, Empress Zhao, as the lord of the Six Palaces, naturally has to dress up carefully, so that she can compete with the other concubines of the Six Palaces and dominate the crowd.
But now sitting in front of the bronze mirror, she didn't have any intention of decorating, but looked at the fragrant and rippling osmanthus brew sent by Concubine Hui at hand, and a gray haze filled her eyes.