45. Chapter 45
When Cangwu Jingyuan returned to Chaoyang Palace, he found that in addition to Shen Chen in the inner courtyard, the prince of Beiyuan was also in the palace.
I saw that he was sitting leisurely on the soft chair outside the courtyard of Chaoyang Palace at this time, boredly playing with the small jade bottle on the table, the breeze blowing, raising a few strands of ink hair on his cheeks, with his face with a bit of demonic potential, it looks a little more charming than a woman.
seemed to notice that there was someone at the gate of the courtyard, and the prince of Beiyuan turned his head to see Cangwu Jingkite standing at the gate of the courtyard, a pair of phoenix eyes flashed with a touch of joy, got up and arched his hand towards Cangwu Jingkite, and smiled warmly, "Fourth princess, you finally appeared." ”
Because of a previous contact, Cangwu Jingyuan knew a little about this neighboring prince, and nodded at him, "Why did the prince of Beiyuan come to our Chaoyang Palace today?" ”
The prince of Beiyuan chuckled when he heard this: "The fourth princess doesn't know, I have come to this Chaoyang Palace several times since you came out of prison, but every time I was rejected because you were sick, I am really sad!"
Cangwu Jing Kite looked at the strange expressions of Guijun and Prince Beiyuan, and felt puzzled in his heart, but he didn't think much about it, so he had to find an excuse to prevaricate in the past: "Jing Kite is here to thank the prince for his concern, it's just that I have been sick in the past few days, and I feel much better today, so I came out to shop, and I asked the prince not to blame." ”
"It's okay, as long as I can see you, I'll be relieved, if you get into trouble because of welcoming us, I won't be able to go!"
Scene kite? Cangwu Jingkite touched her nose, is she so familiar with this prince of the Northern Plains? Although he felt that it was very inappropriate for him to be called this affectionate name, Cangwu Jingyuan did not show it on his face, and smiled lightly and arched his hand at the prince of Beiyuan, "The mastermind of the murder of the prince has now been investigated, so the prince doesn't have to care about this matter." ”
When the prince of Beiyuan heard this, he didn't continue the topic anymore, looked at Cangwu Jing Kite, and said with a bit of expectation on his face: "Since Jing Kite has recovered from his illness today, I want to ask you to take me to walk outside the palace, I wonder if Jing Kite appreciates his face?"
As soon as he heard this, Shen Chen coughed lightly and said: "It's better to change the day, prince, Jing Kite has just recovered from a serious illness, and the imperial doctor has explained that she needs to lie down and cultivate more today, I am afraid it will be inconvenient to go out, it is better for the prince to wait a few more days for Jing Kite to be well and neatly and then travel together."
The prince of Beiyuan thought for a moment, and found that he was indeed too anxious, he didn't expect that Cangwu Jing Kite had just recovered from his illness, so he stood up and rolled up his sleeves and said a little embarrassed: "It's me who is abrupt, I even forgot about Jing Kite just recovered from illness, it's okay, I'll come to the fourth princess to travel in a few days!"
After that, the prince of Beiyuan told Cangwu Jingkite to have a good rest, and before leaving, he said with a smile: "Don't forget our agreement." ”
"What agreement do you have with him?" Waiting for the prince of Beiyuan to walk away, Shen Chen took a sip of the tea on the table and raised his eyebrows and asked.
"I don't know." Cangwu Jingyuan really couldn't remember when he had an agreement with the prince of Beiyuan, and thought for a moment and said: "Maybe at the beginning of the dust washing banquet, I promised to take them to some interesting places in Cangwu to have time." ”
"This prince of the northern plains is not a simple character, you have to be careful yourself and try to have as little contact with him as possible."
"The royal man, which one is a simple person?" Cangwu Jingkite hooked the spring horn, and when she saw Shen Chen's worried face, she said, "I will be careful myself." ”
After saying that, he remembered something, Cangwu Jingyuan looked at Shen Chen and asked, "Guijun, what did you all talk about before I came back, why do I think you two don't seem to be talking happily with each other, but have a feeling of tension?"
Shen Chen lowered his eyes and drank tea, and said lightly: "It's because you see the difference." After that, he didn't seem to want Cangwu Jingkite to ask too much, and raised his eyebrows and said, "You haven't been practicing swords since you pretended to be sick recently!" Go to the house and get the sword. ”
Seeing Guijun's expression that didn't seem to be fake, Cangwu Jingkite wailed and entered the house to get his sword.
In the next few days, seeing that the bodies of Cangwu Jingyi and Cangwu Jinxiu were slowly healing, the empress took this opportunity to set up a banquet to entertain everyone, first, to promote peace, and secondly, the prince of Beiyuan had hinted in the past few days that he intended to marry Cangwu, if it could really promote the marriage, it would be beneficial to Cangwu Kingdom.
On the day of the palace banquet, the palace has a long time without appearing festive, the palace lights are bright, the palace flowers are splendid, the palace people who come and go keep presenting wine and delicacies, the palace is also a prosperous scene, the queen this time the emperor authorized the ministers to bring their families into the palace banquet, for a time the brocade is like a cloud, the sound of the warbler swallows.
Cangwu Jingkite was with Shen Chen to the banquet, what she was wearing today was a set of light purple green lotus long skirts, her face was also drawn under the strong construction of green lotus, her lips were thinly coated with a layer of lipstick, and her jet-black black hair was pulled up one by one on the top of her head.
Speaking of which, this is the first time that Cangwu Jingkite has done such a grand dress after her rebirth, how simple and how to dress before, but after all, there is a foreign mission tonight, and the empress has informed you in advance that the princesses of the right age have to prepare a show tonight, so it is naturally not as casual as usual.
As soon as Cangwu Jingkite entered the palace, she attracted the attention of many people, after all, she had recently shined at the poetry meeting, and she was personally responsible for contacting the missions of neighboring countries, and was highly praised by the other party.
But she didn't notice this, although she was sitting next to Shen Chen, her eyes were always looking for Bai Qian in the crowd.
"Are you looking for me?" Bai Qian sat down beside the cangwu jingyi, bringing a leisurely fragrance.
Hearing the familiar voice, Cangwu Jingkite raised her eyes to look at her side, only to see that Bai Qian had changed into a light green palace skirt today, which looked elegant and refined, Cangwu Jingkite chuckled: "In addition to looking for you, who else do you think I can find?" ”
Bai Qian raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look at the prince of the north yuan on the main seat of the venue, hooked his lips and said: "Then the eyes of the prince of the north plains have not left you since you entered the venue!" ”
Cangwu Jingyuan glanced at Bai Qian, and wanted to reach out and pinch her face, but at this time, after all, it was at the banquet, so many people watched, and it was not easy for him to be too intimate with her, so he could only look at her helplessly, "You will be cranky, heaven and earth can be learned, he has been in Beijing for so many days, I have met him three times." ”
Bai Qian raised his eyebrows, "This is intuition, in short, it's better for you not to be too showy today, I can't stay here any longer, so I'll go to the table first." ”
With that, Bai Qian turned around and went to the official seat to take a seat.
Soon after the banquet began, the prime minister of the neighboring country stood up with his wine glass and said to the empress: "I heard that all the princesses of Cangwu can sing and dance, and are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. ”
"The Prime Minister of Kitahara has praised it," said the Empress modestly, "they have only learned a little bit of the surface, and they can be called proficient." But since I was wrongly loved, I had to ask them all to come out to help the fun. Then the queen asked which princess would like to come out and perform first.
"Everyone, it's ugly."
In response, Cangwu Jinxiu, tonight wore a white emerald bamboo dress in a low-key manner, and danced a new dance made by the dance orchestra.
Cangwu Jingyuan has long seen the dance of Cangwu Jinxiu, before the peony poetry banquet, although Cangwu Jinxiu made a lot of jokes, but with only one dance, more or less won the favor of some people.
I saw that her sleeves were lightly stretched at this time, and her toes were light, which actually had a sense of clarity and dust, although she didn't like the splendid person, but Cangwu Jingkite had to admit that her dance was indeed very good.
"Okay." During the Cangwu Splendid performance, there was also applause during the banquet, but the prince of Beiyuan has always seemed to be lacking in interest, and he seems to have no interest in the dance of Cangwu Splendid Beauty, and until the end of the dance, he just clapped his hands as if he was entertaining.
After the end of the song, Cangwu Jinxiu bowed to everyone, looked at the prince of Beiyuan out of the corner of his eyes, but saw that he didn't know what to say to the person next to him, and his eyes didn't fall on him at all, so he returned to his seat with some grievances.
"Father, when I performed just now, what was the reaction of Prince Kitahara?" Back in her seat, Cangwu Jinxiu asked Shen He without giving up, Shen He didn't frown and didn't answer her, Cangwu Jinxiu was so angry that she clenched her silk skirt.
According to the order, after the performance of Cangwu Jinxiu, it should be the third princess Cangwu Lingxue, but after waiting for a while, I didn't see Cangwu Lingxue, just as everyone was whispering, there was a melodious flute and pipa sound outside the door, and then a group of palace maids wearing tender green dance skirts entered the door lightly.
They were arranged in the shape of plum blossoms, enclosing the middle group, and then slowly swirling and spreading along with the music, and as they unfolded, one saw a woman with a light veil hidden in the middle, with cinnabar between her eyebrows, and a pair of eyes smiling with affection. She has a slender posture and a graceful dance, and she does not lose to Cangwu Jinxiu at all, and she stunned everyone.
Is this Cangwu Lingxue? Prince Kitahara took a sip of wine and slowly turned his gaze to the woman.
I saw that the three princesses were spinning with the faster and faster dance music at the moment, and suddenly, when she turned around, she gently lifted her veil.
Everyone opened their eyes wide, but found that this person was not the third princess at all, but a woman who resembled the third princess.
Just when everyone was in doubt again, two light yarns flew in from outside the house, entangled the roof beams, and then the third princess, who was also wearing a white dress, flew in from the outside, like a fairy, everyone involuntarily raised their heads along her figure, and even the prince of Kitahara was attracted by such a brilliant performance.
Cangwu Jingyuan said with interest: "It seems that Cangwu Lingxue is working hard to steal the limelight of Cangwu Splendid this time." ”
Shen Chen took a sip of the wine glass on the table, and also bent the corners of his lips, "This is called, 'The praying mantis catches cicadas, and the yellow finch is behind.'" Cangwu Jinxiu spent a lot of effort to prepare for this contact, but it was thankless, Cangwu Lingxue didn't do anything, and danced an ingenious dance, which attracted the attention of the prince of Beiyuan. ”