Chapter 168: The Feast of Flowers
"Niangniang, let's drink a bowl of sour plum soup. "www.biquge.info Qingyin wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and put the cold sour plum soup on the stone table.
Tang Jinxuan was lying under the tree, holding a medical book in her hand, and when she heard Qingyin's words, she raised her head and nodded lightly and said, "Well, where to put it." ”
Qingyin looked at the scorching sun in the afternoon, kept wiping her sweat with a handkerchief, and complained in her mouth: "What's going on these days, it's really hot, it's already July, why is it still so hot?" ”
"There is a fire in July, clothes are given in September, and now the weather is so abnormal, I'm afraid something will happen." Tang Jinxuan took a sip of the sour plum soup on the side, and said unhurriedly.
"Things? What's the matter, what does the mother know? Qingyin asked with some curiosity.
"What can I know, do you think I can pinch it?" Tang Jinxuan glanced at Qingyin lightly, and then continued to look down at her book.
Qingyin pouted and said, "What the lady just said seems to be true, which makes me curious." ”
Tang Jinxuan looked at her appearance and smiled and said, "You, when will you be as steady as snow." ”
"If I had been like her, I would have suffocated myself to death." After Qingyin finished speaking, she grimaced at Ning Xue who was standing on the side.
"Okay, don't laugh, I asked you to prepare a birthday gift for Concubine De, but it's ready?" Tang Jinxuan straightened her face and asked.
Qingyin nodded and said, "The slave went to the warehouse and got a hundred-year-old red ginseng, what does the mother think?" ”
Tang Jinxuan shook her head and said: "Don't take those things at the entrance, if you are not careful, it will be easy to be beaten upside down, just pick up a big night pearl and put it up, and it won't be ugly to send it up." ”
"The slave and maid understand." Qingyin nodded and said.
"Let Ning Xue do this, you go and call Jian Yun over, I have something to tell her." Tang Jinxuan said to Qingyin.
Qingyin nodded, and after a while, Jian Yun who was wearing a white dress, combing colored silk buns, and a cardamom flower on his head walked over.
"Mother, what's the matter?" Jian Yun asked with a wink.
"Jian Yun, you go to the Shen Mansion, tell your brother Jian Mo, and ask him to find a way to let the third imperial concubine see me." Tang Jinxuan said.
Jian Yun nodded and said, "Okay." ”
After a while, Jian Yun looked at Tang Jinxuan again and said, "Niangniang, why do you have to let my brother do this matter, I can do it too." ”
"I know you can, but you're going to stay and help me with other things." Tang Jinxuan said with a smile.
"Oh." Jian Yun nodded, and then left.
Watching Jian Yun leave, Tang Jinxuan looked up at Qingyin and said, "What time is it?" ”
"It's not a minute." Qingyin spoke.
Tang Jinxuan raised her hand and yawned, threw down the book in her hand, stood up and said, "It's all this time, it's time to go, pack your things and enter the palace." ”
The two of them got into the carriage, Tang Jinxuan sat there bored, and couldn't help but say: "The emperor just held an inner court banquet after his sixtieth birthday, and Concubine De also celebrated her birthday, held a hundred flowers banquet, and held a thousand autumn banquets on the birthday of the queen mother in a few days. ”
"Niang Niang doesn't like to go to banquets?" Qingyin asked.
Tang Jinxuan shook her head and said: "I don't like it, there are many people at this banquet, and there are many people who are right and wrong, you look at the previous emperor's birthday, didn't the third prince have an accident." ”
"What does Niangniang mean ..... there will be an accident at today's Hundred Flowers Banquet?" Qingyin said with some surprise.
"Who knows." Tang Jinxuan said intentionally or unintentionally.
………..
"The crown princess has arrived."
As soon as Tang Jinxuan and Qingyin arrived in the back garden, the eunuch on the side screamed that the banquet was already full of people at this time, except for the queen, it can be said that she was the latest.
"The concubine sees Concubine De Niangniang, I wish Niangniang eternal youth." Tang Jinxuan knelt on the ground, her voice as crisp as a silver bell, and Qingyin, who was kneeling behind her, handed the box that had been prepared to the maid on the side.
Today's Concubine De is wearing a pleated butterfly gold silk skirt, with an eight-tailed phoenix hairpin on her head, and her exquisite makeup makes her look very young.
"Get up and take your seats." Concubine De looked at Tang Jinxuan and said with a smile, and the subtle wrinkles in the corners of her eyes quietly crept up.
Tang Jinxuan stood up, then took a seat, looked at Concubine De and said with a smile: "Xie Niangniang." ”
The two were talking, when they suddenly heard the announcement of the shrill voice of the eunuch outside: "The queen mother has arrived." ”
Concubine De hurriedly walked down the steps to the middle, knelt down steadily, and said: "The concubine sees the queen's mother, and the mother is blessed with gold." ”
Immediately, Tang Jinxuan and the others also knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Welcome to the queen, the mother is blessed with Jin'an." ”
"Today is my sister's birthday, there are not so many courtesies, hurry up." Empress Qi was wearing a golden phoenix robe, and she personally helped Concubine De, who was kneeling on the ground, and said softly.
"Thank you, Queen Mother." Concubine De stood up and said with a smile.
Empress Qi then looked at the people who were still kneeling on the ground, and said, "You all get up, today is Concubine De's birthday, and the palace is just to have a good time." ”
"Xie Niangniang."
Tang Jinxuan returned to her seat again and rubbed her knees, since she crossed over, she can be said to kneel when she sees people, and now her knees are about to grow calluses.
Queen Qi sat in the first place, and the position next to her was Concubine De's, this Su Ning originally followed the queen, but now that this seat is full, it is impossible for her to sit on it, and she is a little embarrassed for a while.
Tang Jinxuan looked at Su Ning, who was standing beside Queen Qi, her expression flashed slightly, it seems that she still hasn't given up Nangong Fusu, and she is still holding the queen now.
"Xuan'er." Empress Qi looked at Tang Jinxuan and suddenly shouted.
"What does the queen mother command?" Tang Jinxuan hurriedly asked.
Empress Qi glanced at Su Ning behind her, and then said, "Now that there is no place on this table, you can make some room for you and let Ning Er sit there." ”
The corners of Tang Jinxuan's mouth twitched suddenly, and she sneered in her heart, what does this Queen Qi mean, Nangong Fusu is gone, and she can't wait to rectify her.
Let Su Ning sit next to her, not to mention that Su Ning did not marry Nangong Fusu, even if she married in and became a side concubine, she was not qualified to sit at the same table with her.
"Queen Mother, Miss Su is not married yet, this is the same table as the concubine, I'm afraid there is a lot of inappropriateness." Tang Jinxuan declined.
Queen Qi didn't expect Tang Jinxuan to refuse, and her face suddenly became a little unpleasant, and her voice was a little unhappy: "What's wrong, both of you are women, what impact can it have." ”
Tang Jinxuan glanced at Su Ning, who was standing behind and had not spoken, and said again: "Anyway, it is really inappropriate for the concubine to sit with Miss Su when she is married, and when the prince comes back, he will say that the concubine is not sensible." ”
"If the queen mother is really worried that Miss Su has no place, then the concubine will give up this position, and the concubine and the second imperial concubine will sit together." Tang Jinxuan said, and was about to stand up.
Queen Qi only felt that her face was blue and red, this Tang Jinxuan really dared, sitting with the second imperial concubine, what was going on.