Enjoying the plum banquet, the song of the warbler, the fragrance of the fat, the dull and solemn palace on weekdays because of the arrival of many young ladies and a few more enchanting and festive. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the beginning of the Shen period, although it was still early, the atmosphere at the flower-viewing banquet was already very lively. Poetry, calligraphy, music, dance, and chess will be held in the preliminary competition in the afternoon to select three people to compete for the top of the five arts at tonight's flower viewing banquet. Whether you can enter the finals means whether you can be seen by the real "nobles" today, so although the competition for places in the preliminary round is not as exciting and exciting as the finals, there are also a lot of intrigues.

In the imperial garden, on the periphery of the competition venue, the eldest princess was cooking tea and enjoying the snow in the attic, and when she heard the maid's return, she smiled: "Call her." ”

After a while, Xue Ying came in with some twists: "Shun Rou pays a visit to the eldest princess." ”

"What's polite, quickly excuse me. The eldest princess inherited the queen's good temper, and always smiled, "The other girls and ladies are all participating in the plum banquet, why did you sneak out?

Her statement is actually an exaggeration, according to the regulations, as long as the people participating in the plum banquet do not go out of the imperial garden, her actions are unrestricted, but Xue Ying is indeed a little too far away from the center of the plum banquet at this time, so it is not too wronged to be teased by the eldest princess.

Xue Ying covered her face and said with some embarrassment: "I don't understand anything, and it's embarrassing to go." ”

"What are you talking about? The Empress Dowager thought that the girls' family usually had too many rules and suppressed their nature, so she specially held a plum banquet. Choosing what is the leader of each art is secondary, and the main purpose is to let everyone loosen their restraints and have a good time. What do you need to know to participate in the plum banquet, just find some girls who have fallen in love and chat and laugh. ”

Having said that, Xue Ying still hesitated, staring at her toes: "I'm afraid of scaring people." ”

The eldest princess was stunned for a moment, her brows furrowed slightly: "What, does anyone say something about your appearance?"

"No, no, no. Xue Ying hurriedly shook her head.

The eldest princess smiled coldly: "Of course they don't dare, the words of the imperial grandmother are still in front of them." However, if those people don't say it, I'm afraid they won't give you a good face. These daughters of official families, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are more exquisite than one, but they are too small, short-sighted, and always staring at other people's appearances to say things. ”

Xue Ying didn't dare to say this. The eldest princess looks like the emperor, with a high nose bridge and long eyes, wheat-colored skin, and a taller body than ordinary women, and her appearance does not meet the mainstream aesthetic standards of Dagu, so she is particularly sensitive to the topic of appearance.

After all, the eldest princess is a person with a gentle personality, and soon after this stubble, she beckoned Xue Ying to come forward and touched her hand: "Look at you, you don't look for a warm place to stay, your face is purple from the cold." ”

Xue Ying smiled innocently.

Seeing her stupidity, the eldest princess began to worry again: "It's not okay to be like you, the time spent in Anjing City is short, and you are always so avoidant of people, how lonely you are if you can't make friends." After thinking about it, "In this way, I will take you to the plum banquet and introduce you to a few girls with good temperaments and temperaments." ”

The eldest princess's idea is very simple, Xue Ying will soon marry into the Luo family and become a woman, if she can't get married before she gets married, many things will be inconvenient after marrying into the Luo family. When the time comes, I will ignore any banquet like this, it will be too bleak, and it will be too damaging to the face of the Luo family. When the time comes, it will be her who will be the matchmaker who will be embarrassed.

If you want to do it, the eldest princess couldn't help but say that she took Xue Ying to the venue of the plum banquet. The first to arrive was the "Book" venue. The "book" venue is arranged in a corridor, with curtains hanging on both sides to block the cold wind, and there are stoves under the seats on both sides. And everyone's works are hung on one side of the cloister for easy viewing and appreciation.

At the end of the cloister is a gazebo, surrounded by thick curtains, leaving only a "door" to enter and exit, this is the "book" venue of the court, after the preliminary selection, the works of ten people have been included in the finalists, and now the three judges are in the final discussion to determine the final selection.

Because the game was nearing its end, and now it was only a matter of waiting for the final result, most of the people in the cloister had already left, scattered all over the garden, smiling on the surface, but with a little nervousness in their hearts.

The eldest princess traveled in a low-key manner and brought not many people, but her appearance still caused a slight riot. Because she is usually approachable, everyone is not restrained, and they chatter around her for a while.

was lively, and I didn't know who in the crowd said: "Since the eldest princess is here, why don't you work hard as a referee and cut off the finals of today's 'book' venue, how about it?"

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately won everyone's enthusiastic support. The calligraphy master of the eldest princess inherited Master Luo Yunshan Jingliu, which is unique, known as "the soul of plum branches, the rhyme of the stream", and was also invited to teach calligraphy classes in Guozijian, which was quite praised. In recent years, she has always been one of the chief judges in the selection of "calligraphy" at the plum banquet.

"This is absolutely unacceptable," the eldest princess refused with a smile, "I was originally the referee of the finals, if I even interfered in the preliminary round, wouldn't it be unfair?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was not good at what to say. The eldest princess has a gentle personality, but there is one thing that is, she attaches great importance to the word "fairness", it can be said that these two words are her reverse scales, and they must not be touched.

"However," the eldest princess couldn't bear to see everyone disappointed, and added, "I really want to know the results of the preliminary round as soon as possible." If you don't have any opinions, can you let me go to the tribunal and watch the preliminary round adjudication?"

Of course, everyone will not have an opinion, and hurriedly get out of the way.

The eldest princess turned around and asked Xue Ying, "Are you going?"

Xue Ying shook her head: "I'll just take a look outside." ”

The eldest princess just wanted her to have a good chat with these people outside, gave her an encouraging look, and entered the courtroom.

Without the eldest princess, the others didn't know how to talk to Xue Ying, so they scattered in the garden again, returning to their previous state. Xue Ying didn't mind, and entered the cloister and began to look at the works hanging on it one by one.

The eldest princess came out, swept around and didn't find her, shook her head helplessly after asking the maid, and also walked to the corridor: "Why are you hiding again?"

"I'm looking at these works. Their handwriting is so beautiful. ”

The eldest princess couldn't help laughing: "When others appreciate calligraphy works, even if they don't understand anything, they have to say a few words like a word that is heartfelt and vivid, and you only have the words 'really good-looking', and nothing else?"

"They're really good-looking. Xue Ying weakly retorted, "At least, I feel that the people who write these words are very attentive." ”

"Just be careful, after all, it's a work from the plum banquet. But the heart is also divided into strange and positive, some people, too strong to be "strange" and forget "positive", the heart is biased. The eldest princess seemed to be pointing.