Chapter Seventy-Two: The Birthday Banquet
At the beginning of twilight, the lanterns are on, the colorful lanterns are hung everywhere in Jiankang City, the people have poured into the market to enjoy the lanterns to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother, the grand palace banquet in the palace has also been put down, the palace gate of Zhaoming Palace has been opened one after another, and the carriages of the tall and gorgeous family magnates have entered the palace gate one after another, heading towards the Qionghua Palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The crisp silver bells all the way, the sound of horses' hooves gradually stopped, Wang Yan opened the curtain, looked up at the brightly lit Qionghua Hall carelessly, and asked the attendants in the car: "Go and ask Cui Sanlang and Xie Wulang if they are here?" If you don't come, you won't rush in, and it's not fun to sit with those people. ā
The carriage behind was driving over, Xie Xuan opened the curtain and looked at Wang Yan's carriage with a smile: "Yanlang's carriage...... How did it become like this? ā
Wang Yan triumphantly pointed to the hollow silver bells hanging at the four corners of the carriage: "This is a good thing I just got it, it is filled with turnip incense, but it can not be sprinkled no matter how it is shaken, and there can be a bell, what do you think?" ā
Xie Xuan shook his head helplessly, Wang Yan was uninhibited, and he refused to act in a low-key manner in the palace, he smiled gently: "It's hard for you to find these strange objects every time." ā
The Cui family's carriage stopped silently beside them, and Cui Ting's cold handsome face emerged from behind the curtain, looking at them without saying a word.
"San Lang came just in time, take a look at my sachet, is it new and interesting?" Wang Yan was even more proud, "It's called elegance when hung on the carriage like this!" ā
Cui Tingjun's face was still cold, and he just spit out two words from his mouth: "Sao Bao." ā
Seeing Wang Yan's smug smile instantly purple, Xie Xuan laughed and said, "Let's go, I'm afraid that there will be a banquet inside." ā
The three of them walked towards the Qionghua Hall on the jade steps like a pine cloth with the wind, Wang Yan's handsome and uninhibited, Xie Xuan's handsome and elegant and Cui Ting's handsome and cold like the people in the painting, attracted the palace maids standing on both sides to look sideways frequently, and couldn't help blushing with admiration in their eyes.
Wang Yan approached Cui Ting as he walked: "I heard that two days ago, Lu Axian went to your mansion and came out with red eyes. His smile was full of urgency, "San Lang still doesn't know how to pity the beautiful woman." ā
Xie Xuan couldn't bear to hear it, and said in a low voice: "Why are you bothered, it's not that you have already decided on a family matter, after all, you want to get married, don't hurt the relationship between the two families too much." ā
Cui Ting glanced at them deeply, bowed his head slightly, but did not speak, and strode towards the palace gate first, Wang Yan and Xie Xuan had to follow him and walk away quickly.
There are already many couches in the main hall, many powerful royal families in the Southern Jin Dynasty and envoys from the Western Qin and Northern Wei dynasties have also already sat down, and they frequently raise their glasses and laugh and drink, even the people of the Lu family, the Li family, the Yu family and the Lu family of Wu County are already on the couch, but they rarely talk to the powerful royal family, even if many people smile every time, they only occasionally answer two sentences, and they have a noble state.
Seeing the three of them coming together, everyone either raised their glasses or bowed: "It turned out that the three Lang Jun came." "Whether it is the powerful or the royal family, they are full of smiles and respect, just because the three families of Wang Xie Cui are well-deserved heads of the family, and these three are the best descendants of the three families.
On the couch of the family, the children of the Lu family and the Li family of the Yu family all got up to greet Cui Ting, their families have always been good at the family, and they can be regarded as in-laws, so they are naturally very close, Lu Jin also got up and said a few words to them with a smile, and Lu Xiu stood behind him shyly. Only the Xian Niang of the third room of the Lu family kept hanging her head and didn't look at them much, but she was wearing a lake-green big-sleeved flying silk sara skirt, and her black heart bun was swaying with jasper, hanging on her white jade-like cheeks, lining the sorrow between her eyebrows.
Wang Yan couldn't help but smile and whispered: "It seems that it really hurts the hearts of beauties, so it will be like this." ā
Xie Xuan frowned: "Let's go." Although he admired Lu Xianniang a little and felt that he was not as knowledgeable as other sisters-in-law, he still felt that Cui Ting had his own reasons and didn't want to ask more.
Cui Ting didn't look at Lu Xianniang's place, just walked to his couch and sat down, and coldly watched the long sleeves of the Maiko in the hall fluttering and dancing.
The crown prince sitting at the upper table had an extremely gloomy face, he looked at the princes and kings at the table coldly, but he never saw the one he was looking for, Lan Ji sitting behind him, while pouring wine for him, he said softly: "Your Royal Highness is relieved, King Langya will definitely not dare to disobey the edict, and he will definitely come." ā
The prince's gaze turned to Concubine Xie who was sitting in the top seat, although she was nearly middle-aged, she was still full of charm, and she had the noble bearing of a family, sitting next to the emperor, her majestic appearance was not inferior to that of Queen Xu, only such a prince born would be favored by his father. He couldn't help but hate it even more, he was already a prince, but he still had to live his life so carefully, when would such days come to an end!
Princess Xunyang, who was sitting next to him, deliberately dressed up today, but no longer wore red and green as before, she heard that Wang Yan admired Gu Yuan's bearing, and deliberately wore a plain dough flower large-sleeved robe, with a flowing belt around her waist, but the bun was still tied with a fallen horse bun, and a white jade hairpin was inserted, and she learned Gu Yuan's usual dress, and sat on the couch quietly with shame and timidity, but her eyes had already looked at Wang Yan's seat, and all her thoughts were not concealed.
When the song and dance were leveled, the eunuch said loudly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come to offer a congratulatory gift." ā
For a while, everyone in the hall couldn't help but stop laughing, turned their heads to look at the door of the palace, the prince raised his head high, glanced at the next seat, and then looked at that place, which he had carefully prepared, and had already ordered people to prepare it, even if King Langya came and brought a valuable gift, it would definitely not be comparable.
Feng Wenyi, who was dressed in bright silver scale armor and showed that the jade tree was in the wind, strode into the hall and bowed down to the upper seat in the hall: "Minister Feng Wenyi gives His Majesty and the Queen Mother a salute, and I wish the Queen Mother a long and happy future." Lu Xiu's eyes lit up, full of surprise, he actually came to Jiankang!
Behind him were eight soldiers dressed in armor carrying a huge object covered with brocade, and the soldiers with big shoulders and round waists were panting and their faces were flushed, and they were obviously very struggling, and slowly placed the object in the temple.
The emperor didn't look at the birthday ceremony, but looked at Feng Wenyi, who was clasping his fists and bowing below, and nodded: "This general has a good demeanor, where does he serve?" ā
The crown prince didn't give Feng Wenyi a chance to speak, and replied with a smile: "Father, he is from the son of the minister, and now Wu County is stationed, and it was the son of the minister who asked him to send a birthday gift from Wu County to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday." As he spoke, he glanced at the birthday gift from time to time, and couldn't wait to see the appearance of being amazed by thousands of people when he opened the brocade.
The emperor's gaze tightened, the smile on his face faded a lot, and he stopped talking.
Although the Queen Mother is nearly fifty years old, she is in good spirits, and her smile is kind and kind: "The prince has a heart, and he specially prepared this birthday gift, but I don't know what it is." ā
The prince was very proud at this time, and was about to order someone to uncover the brocade, but he heard the eunuch come in and bow: "His Royal Highness King Langya came to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday." ā