It is also the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the way of living in the palace is naturally different from that of ordinary people outside the palace, but there is always something in common, which is to admire the moon and guess lantern riddles. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Some of the lantern riddles outside the palace are classics of previous years, some are specially invited by the organizers, and some are left by visitors who solve lantern riddles, the most typical ones are the seven left by Su Jin. However, the lantern riddles in the palace are prepared and presented by the Ministry of Rites, and they vary from year to year, and the difficulty is also upper, middle and lower.

Of course, the reason why the imperial court attaches so much importance to these details is mainly because in the Mid-Autumn Festival in previous years, the senior members of the imperial court above the fifth rank and the concubines above the fourth rank of the harem were required to attend, and the officials could even bring one or two of their own family members to attend together, which was spent by the monarch and the ministers.

And those anagrams, of course, are also for everyone to guess, but they are generally distributed in this way, the harem concubines and the ladies outside the palace basically guess inferior and medium, and the princes and officials guess basically all medium and superior. Guess the middle is generally still a general, if you really don't even know the middle, then simply don't guess, in short, basically no officials are willing to go to the inferior.

Of course, the inferior ones are much simpler and easier to guess, but they think that it is very disrespectful, very shameless, and even feels that it is a shame.

However, the biggest change this year is that the monarch banquet has been canceled and replaced with an ordinary family banquet, which is still divided into three puzzles.

But except for one or two concubines who are not very clever and do the simplest lantern riddles honestly chosen, almost all the rest of the concubines choose medium puzzles, and even some have conceited talents to choose the best puzzles, but there are always those who are too conceited, and the puzzles are chosen, but they can't guess it, and they are embarrassed, so they have to return to their positions.

People are like this, they would rather let their backs not be happy than let the front look bad.

The end result is both logical and unexpected.

Qi Qingyan, the concubine Chen, who had never won the first place, did not participate directly, and the first and second were Ning Qin'er, who had just been promoted to Concubine Ning, and Ruan Ruan, who was promoted to concubine, respectively, which was reasonable; Concubine Ning Qin'er chose a total of ten top-grade puzzles and solved nine of them correctly, which was a full five more than the second-ranked concubine Ruan Ruan! This was unexpected.

Since Emperor Chen succeeded to the throne, for more than ten years, the concubines in the harem have no birth background, and there has never been one;

has never been pregnant with the emperor's heir after half a year in the palace;

The concubine was sealed in half a year, and there has never been one;

There has never been a holy grace of the emperor's heir, but it has not diminished in the slightest;

It was at this Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet that showed her talent and overpowered the crowd, and she was the only concubine Chen before.

It was as if from the moment she appeared, just to welcome the supreme glory of all that belonged to her.

Such a Ning Qin'er is really difficult not to be jealous.

Qi Qingyan's position is the top on the right, second only to Queen Gao Xianyi, and her position is naturally unsurpassed, at least for now, and maybe in the future.

In the past, Ning Qin'er was the lowest median of the six concubines, but now Ning Qin'er's position has directly surpassed Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Yin, second only to Concubine Qi Qingyan and Concubine Xu Miaoxin, and Concubine Jin's position is on the same level, Concubine Jin sits under Qi Qingyan, and the highest remaining positions are Xu Miaoxin and Ning Qin'er, there is no doubt that the top two positions on the right side of the banquet belong to the two of them.

According to the rank, Ning Qin'er should be under Xu Miaoxin; According to the level of honor, it seems that Ning Qin'er should be in the position closest to Emperor Chen. But in the end, who sits on the top and who sits next, the queen who organized the banquet did not give clear regulations, Emperor Chen did not say anything, and even Qi Qingyan unexpectedly did not give a "proposal" in a timely manner, that is to say, how to sit in this position depends on Ning Qin'er and Xu Miaoxin themselves.

Who doesn't know how incompatible Ning Qin'er and Xu Miaoxin were when she entered the palace as a concubine in the early days.

Some people thought with a secret smile, thinking that there should be a good show!

But the result is always full of disappointment.

To everyone's surprise, Ning Qin'er and Xu Miaoxin not only did not have any disagreements and disputes, but also excused each other for a position, politely and humbly, and finally Ning Qin'er took the lead in occupying the second position.

So from this unexpected beginning, everything that follows seems to have completely deviated from the track that everyone expected.

Recently, such as guessing lantern riddles, Ning Qin'er actually surpassed everyone and was far ahead of the second-place Ruan Ruan Ruan's five questions, such a talent has to be said to be really amazing, and the same woman, while being jealous, she also has to admire.

Of course, Ning Qin'er herself is very calm, and in fact, if everyone knows who she actually taught by, they won't feel anything unusual.

In fact, Gao Xianyi was also a well-known talented woman before she came out of the cabinet, but after marrying Emperor Chen, her mind was all on the palace battles and calculations, and it was difficult to even have time to calm down and read a book, and where would she have the time to take care of what talented women are not talented women.

Qi Qingyan raised his glass and toasted Ning Qin'er with a smile, "Sister Qin'er is so talented, of course this palace is ashamed of herself, even Xiao Zhiwei was still alive back then, and her sister is not necessarily inferior!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Ning Qin'er's face changed abruptly, and the hand that had just picked up the wine glass containing the tea suddenly trembled, and the tea spilled out.

Fortunately, it was shocking that it was not just Ning Qin'er, but everyone present.

Someone opened his mouth and forgot what he was going to say, someone shook the dish back to the plate, someone forgot to chew the food in their mouth, someone picked up the pastry and rolled it to the ground, someone knocked over the cup full of wine.......

Sandwiched in the middle, Ning Qin'er's reaction didn't seem to be too radical.

Chen Huang held the white jade wine glass tightly in his right hand, his knuckles were red and white, almost the same color as the jade cup, and his complexion was difficult to see the extreme.

Empress Dowager Xian glanced sideways at her son, then at Qi Qingyan who was lower, and coughed lowly.

Gao Xianyi was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses, glanced at Emperor Chen's extremely ugly face on her side, looked at Qi Qingyan and said with slight dissatisfaction, "Should you pay attention to what the concubine says, what you can say and what you can't say, with the intelligence of the concubine's sister, you shouldn't need to be taught by this palace!" ”

Qi Qingyan put down the wine glass in his hand, raised his hand to hide his face and smiled lightly, and replied lightly, "Oh? What the queen mother meant, could it be that Qingyan just said something wrong? But Qingyan praised the talent of Qin'er's sister wrongly, or did he compare it to Xiao Zhiwei, the legendary talent of the year? ”

Gao Xianyi's face changed, "Concubine, you ......"

Qi Qingyan shook his head with regret and sighed, "It's a pity that the life of the beautiful woman is short, and she has fallen at an age that can be worthy of Xuan!" ”

"Bang!" Chen Huang slammed the jade cup on the table, looked at Qi Qingyan, and said with a gloomy face, "Qingyan, do you have to provoke me to anger you to be satisfied?!" ”

Qi Qingyan's expression was still faint, "But Qingyan doesn't think that Qingyan said anything wrong, and I don't understand where the word 'provoke' that Your Majesty refers to comes from!" ”

"Qi Qingyan!!" Chen Huang said angrily.

Qi Qingyan Huo Ran stood up and said expressionlessly, "Since Your Majesty doesn't like Qingyan, then Qingyan can go!" After speaking, without waiting for Emperor Chen to say anything more, Qi Qingyan smiled lightly, and then turned around and walked away directly with Xiyun unceremoniously.

Everything happened too suddenly, after Qi Qingyan left the table, everyone was silent, and for a long time, the entire hall was in a state of extreme low pressure.

After that, the Queen Mother, who had been silent and almost speechless, opened her mouth lightly, "Emperor, Qingyan's girl is just an unintentional word, there is nothing to be angry about, today's Mid-Autumn Festival, why spoil the atmosphere of the festival for a word!" ”

Emperor Chen took the first look of the head, turned sideways and nodded respectfully to the Empress Dowager Xian and said, "The queen mother is right!" ”

Empress Dowager Xian smiled faintly, nodded, and said, "Then go on!" But Qin'er's talent really amazed the mourning family! ”

Ning Qin'er got up and bowed to Empress Dowager Xian, who was sitting on the right side of Emperor Chen and above Xu Miaoxin, "Empress Xie praised her, Qin'er only knew a little about the scriptures, it was luck that these puzzles could be solved, and I was really ashamed to be amazed!" ”

Emperor Chen's expression recovered a little, looked at Ning Qin'er and said, "Qin'er doesn't have to be modest, you can afford the word given to you by the queen mother!" ”

Empress Dowager Xian smiled and nodded, "You are now a person who has an imperial heir, remember that everything is important to the imperial heir, and those gifts and other gifts should be waived in the future, and when the child in your womb is born, that is your greatest merit to my royal family!" ”

Ning Qin'er bowed her head, "Queen Xie teaches the concubines, remember!" ”

Empress Dowager Xian looked at Xu Miaoxin, who was closest to her, and said, "Miaoxin, this is not only Qin'er, but also you, the child in your womb has been more than six months, and it should be born in more than three months. ”

Of course, Xu Miaoxin didn't need to get up, so she bowed sideways to the Empress Dowager Xian, and replied respectfully with a smile, "Thank you for your mother's concern, Miaoxin remembers!" ”

Empress Dowager Xian nodded and did not speak again.

Immediately afterwards, Gao Xianyi looked at Ruan Ruan, who was located below Concubine Jin, and said with a smile, "Ruan Ruan, didn't you tell the palace during the day that you had prepared a dance that you wanted to present?" Now that everyone has eaten about the same, are you okay to dance? ”

Raid Ruan Ruan hurriedly stood up, bowed respectfully to the first three people, and said with a smile, "Yes, Niangniang, it's just that the clothes Ruan Ruan is wearing now are inconvenient, please allow Ruan Ruan Ruan to go down and change her clothes!" ”

Gao Xianyi smiled and nodded, "Well, okay, then let's go!" ”

After a while, six royal attendants walked in with a huge lotus-shaped object, which was placed in the empty space in the center of the main hall, and then retreated, but Ruan Ruan did not come in for a long time.

When everyone was wondering, the candlelight around the hall suddenly dimmed, and it was the palace maids who extinguished most of the candles in the hall.

Emperor Chen frowned, "Empress, what are you going to do here?" ”

Gao Xianyi smiled and shook her head, "This is Ruan Ruan's request, as for why, I will know if I want to come to Your Majesty for a while!" ”

Yes, it will already be known in a moment.

Because the lotus seat in the center of the hall slowly opened, as if it was a real lotus, the petals spread out one by one, and there was a faint glimmer from it, and everyone found that the petals were actually made of paper.

As the petals open more and more, the center of the flower in the middle becomes smaller and smaller, and the shimmer emitted in the middle becomes brighter and brighter.

Until the last three petals, before you know it, the light that spreads out from the lotus flower has illuminated the whole hall, and unlike the pale yellow of the candlelight, this color is pink, and it spreads out from a center, and its beauty is far beyond the brightness and gorgeous candlelight.

Then, the last three petals also slowly opened one by one, and in the heart of the flower, there was a wonderful figure, like the huge and beautiful lotus flower under her feet, which was beautifully blooming, a beautiful picture of a flower.

I saw that at this time, Ruan Ruan had already changed into a pink semi-transparent dance dress, his feet were naked, his slender waist was looming, his head was like a waterfall and green silk was only lightly curled behind his ears with a small ribbon, his body was slightly tilted, and his long hair slipped from his shoulders in an instant. Completely speechless.

Cheer up, dance.

When Ruan Ruan's bare feet jumped up and sometimes fell on the lotus, everyone noticed the reason why the lotus seat would shine, it turned out that in the innermost circle of the lotus base, it was densely laid out with a circle of the best night pearl wrapped in a thin layer of pink paper!

Everyone knows it, no wonder!

Stepping on the sound of the bell music, sometimes urgent, sometimes slow, joy and sorrow are terrifying in the attack on Ruan Ruan, which is vividly expressed!

All the thoughts of the people were completely carried away by the dance on the rosette, and there was no other thought.

There are two exceptions, one is naturally Ning Qin'er, of course she is very sure that Ruan Ruan's dance is indeed very good, especially she herself really can't do it at all, her cousin can, but she didn't teach her, and even if she did, she definitely wouldn't learn it! Learning to dance is too demanding, and she doesn't like it; The second is that Ning Qin'er has extraordinary dancing skills on her side, and even conceit is not inferior to Xu Miaoxin who attacked Ruan Ruan, her dancing skills are indeed not inferior to Ruan Ruan, what she lost is just that she does not have such a beautiful face that even she is dim, that's all.

Some people are intoxicated with wonderful dances, and some people have their own thoughts.

The music falls, the dance closes.

The palace maids re-lit the candles in the hall, and Ruan Ruan stepped down from the lotus seat and walked to the top to toast and thanksgiving, and the royal attendant came in and carried the huge lotus seat down.

It's another circle of infinite praise of all kinds.

"Sister Ruan Ruan's dancing skills are amazing, but the sisters have opened their eyes again!" Ning Qin'er said with a smile.

Everyone instantly thought of the last dance that attacked Ruan Ruan, and their faces were different.

Ruan Ruan took a cup of tea from the maid beside her and walked to Ning Qin'er, and said with a smile, "Ruan Ruan is only good at this dancing skill, but if you really talk about talent, it is even inferior to Sister Qin'er, Ruan Ruan knows that her sister is pregnant now, of course she can't touch wine, so here I will replace wine with tea, Ruan Ruan, I salute my sister!" ”

Ning Qin'er smiled and nodded, "It's better to be respectful than to obey!" He took the tea from Ruan Ruan with both hands and drank it all.

Ruan Ruan went down to change into formal clothes and returned to the banquet.

The feast gradually ended, the Empress Dowager Xian left the table and returned to the Kunhe Palace, everyone got up to send off, Xu Miaoxin also said that her body was inconvenient and then returned to the Pavilion Tao Palace first, and the rest of the people went to the imperial garden under the leadership of the queen and Emperor Chen to prepare to put the prayer lamp. (To be continued.) )