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"I ...... Who says I don't want to? Lu Mengyu was panicked by her, and subconsciously took a step back, but the soles of her feet slipped, and the whole person fell backwards, fortunately, Cheng Qingluan quickly reached out to help, which saved her from falling to the ground, and laughed at the generous ending. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Then thank you, Sister Yafei." Cheng Qingluan smiled, let go of the hand holding Lu Mengyu and walked to the seat, lifted the hem of her skirt lightly, and sat down generously.
In terms of position, Cheng Qingluan is a little higher than Concubine Ya, so she sits at the top, and Lu Mengyu gritted her teeth, no matter how unconvinced, she could only be wronged.
This little episode passed, everyone watched the excitement, and the queen's Qianqiu banquet resumed its original singing and dancing. A series of exquisite dishes were sent like flowing water, and the Queen Mother gave wine and delicacies during the banquet, and for a time the imperial garden was staggered and lively.
Until the painted palace lights on both sides of the banquet went out and changed, Lu Mengyu suddenly stood up, her beautiful eyes flashed, and she smiled towards Yuwenxuan, and Jiaoqiao suggested: "Your Majesty, the concubine has heard that Concubine Ning's sister has unparalleled piano skills, why don't you let your sister play a song for everyone today, and the concubine will be accompanied by dance to celebrate for everyone?" ”
Yu Wenxuan put down the wine glass, raised his eyes and glanced at Cheng Qingluan deeply, seeing that she nodded slightly, he responded lightly, and waved his hand to let people go down to prepare a guqin.
As far as he knew, the real Cheng Qingluan was indeed good at piano skills, so Lu Mengyu's proposal was also unavoidable.
Soon, the palace people brought a green leaning qin, Cheng Qingluan was not pretentious, got up and walked to the guqin and sat down slowly, the slender and white jade fingers brushed the strings, and suddenly a string of cold music sounds, and slightly tuned the string timbre, and the movements looked very skillful.
At this time, Lu Mengyu had already changed into a gorgeous dance dress and went on the stage, the red like a flame made her even more charming and pretty, a dahlia flower on her hair bun attracted everyone's attention, and her skirt was decorated with a few silver bells.
Although she uses dance as Cheng Qingluan's companion, she doesn't know how good the piano sound is, how can it compare to the visual impact of the beautiful dance on everyone?
Lu Mengyu's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, dancing lightly, for a while like a dragon frightened and arrogant, and at the same time like a weak willow fluttering soft and light, the posture is graceful, and the movements like clouds and water make people look at it intently.
At first, the sound of the piano really became sonorous and powerful in order to match the dance, and it turned a thousand times. But soon, with Lu Mengyu's successive movements, although it was only a breathing time, this mistake immediately gave Cheng Qingluan a chance to fight back, and the jade fingers slowed down, and the sound of the piano suddenly flowed into the sea like a stream, from sharp to slow.
Lu Mengyu was originally full of confidence that she would win in this performance, but at this time, she heard that the sound of the piano had changed, and the dance steps under her feet had also changed, but when she kept up with the sound of the piano again, the music that was as cold as a stream and spring water suddenly took another sharp turn, like a drizzle in spring, falling into the pool and rippling a little bit, fresh and natural.
Lu Mengyu didn't have time to think about it and hurriedly changed her dance posture, but the sound of the piano seemed to be constantly seducing and teasing her, and every time she kept up with the music, the sound of the piano would change immediately, making her unable to snatch the initiative back into her hands.
When she was busy dancing to the sound of the piano again, Cheng Qingluan swiped the surface of the piano with her slender hand, and suddenly aroused a burst of high-pitched music, like the dawn of the morning, the thousands of rays of sunlight penetrating the clouds, the rain passed the sky, and finally came to an abrupt end.
After dancing, Lu Mengyu almost ran out of breath, and the whole person fell to the ground tired. Her dance clothes are suitable for flamboyant and high-spirited dance music, which seems out of place for this fresh and refined music.
So halfway through the dance music, everyone's eyes had shifted from her to Cheng Qingluan's green leaning piano.
She played this song really well, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the aftermath lingered for three days.
She played indifferently, even Tong Chuhan, who had been sitting in the back position and drinking by herself, couldn't help but put down the wine glass and looked at her quietly, with a hint of appreciation in her eyes.
Yu Wenxuan was fascinated by what he heard, and praised him again and again. Although the queen is not angry, her husband sings and follows her wife, so she can only cater to the holy will and praise her with some beautiful words.
Only the Queen Mother looked at Cheng Qingluan condescendingly, the corners of her lips slightly hooked, thoughtful.
Cheng Qingluan became famous as soon as he was a song, and everyone present had to put on a smiling face to welcome people, even if they were unwilling. But there was a person who stared at Cheng Qingluan with a frightened face, and the hand holding the tea cup kept trembling, obviously it had been handed to his lips, but he couldn't drink it.
The man was at the beginning of the banquet, pretending to be chatting with a colleague but secretly looking at her officials. And he is no one else, it is precisely Qingluan's biological father - Cheng Yifan, the prime minister.
As we all know, Prime Minister Cheng's 2,000 gold won the favor of the emperor, and even if he lost his memory in the lake, he was still called into the palace as Concubine Ning by exception. But in fact, it was not the real Cheng Qingluan who entered the palace, but someone else, but the matter was secret, except for Yu Wenxuan and Cheng Yifan, not many people knew the inside story.
But now, things have changed.
According to rumors, Cheng Qingluan's piano is not the Central Plains guqin, but their horse-head qin in the Western Regions.
For the guqin in the Central Plains, the real Cheng Qingluan actually doesn't know anything!
Cheng Yifan took a sip of tea tremblingly, settled down, and secretly glanced at the person on the high seat out of the corner of his eye, but saw the Queen Mother smiling meaningfully at him, and suddenly frightened his face pale, and he didn't even know that he had dropped the teacup.
When I came back to my senses, I peeked at the Queen Mother again, and I saw that she lovingly rewarded Qingluan with a pair of jade heads, and there was not a single doubt on her face.
Cheng Yifan's actions fell into the eyes of the Queen Mother, and the smile deepened a little, and let people take the head of the vice hibiscus stone and reward it to Lu Mengyu.
Lu Mengyu respectfully accepted the queen mother's reward, glared at Cheng Qingluan fiercely, and when she turned around, she secretly exchanged glances with another concubine.
The concubine understood, got up and rushed to the emperor, kowtowed heavily, and raised her voice: "Your Majesty, the concubine has something to report." ”
Yu Wenxuan glanced at the concubine unhappily, and said coldly: "Mu Guifei, today is the queen's Qianqiu banquet, what do you have to report later." ”
"Nope! The emperor, the matter that the concubine wants to denounce is just related to the queen. Mu Guifei refused reluctantly.
When the queen heard that this matter was related to her, she was also puzzled for a while, and Wen Yan persuaded: "Your Majesty, Mu Guifei never has a grudge with anyone on weekdays, so it is better to listen to what Mu Guifei said first." This is a decent remark, and people can't find fault with it, but the vicious color that flies quickly under her eyes has not escaped Qingluan's eyes.
Although he didn't know what Mu Guifei had accused, Yu Wenxuan faintly felt that it was inappropriate, and had no choice but to hinder the queen's feelings, so he finally agreed.
Mu Guifei said "thank you", turned her head and smiled fiercely, pointed at Cheng Qingluan with her jade finger, and said: "The concubine wants to accuse Concubine Ning of transgressing the ancestral system, pampering and arrogance, and privately using the nine-tailed phoenix pattern that can only be used by the queen......"
Before she finished speaking, suddenly a wine glass fell towards Mu Guifei's head, and several pieces of fragments splashed on the jade cup on the ground, and one of them happened to fly across Mu Guifei's face, which immediately frightened her to the point that she forgot all the words she had ever connected.
"Nonsense!" Yu Wenxuan slapped the table and shouted angrily, "If you talk nonsense to confuse the public again, I will put you to death!" ”
"The emperor is angry." The queen frowned, glaring at Mu Guifei as if she was displeased, "Mu Guifei, if you don't have real evidence, don't talk nonsense, I believe that Sister Ning is not such an unseemly person." As he spoke, he glanced at Cheng Qingluan with his peripheral vision, and when she saw that she looked like she was standing coldly without caring about herself, the queen sneered almost inaudibly, and when she saw the "evidence", she could calm down for a long time?
As if feeling the queen's gaze on him, Cheng Qingluan glanced at her lightly and looked away.
If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse, instead of crying and defending yourself, it is better to see the tricks and see what tricks they can come up with.
Seeing that the emperor was angry, Mu Guifei hurriedly recruited her personal palace maid to come over, and replied: "The concubine has evidence!" ”
The palace maid nodded towards Mu Guifei, knelt down, took out a small piece of rag from her arms, and respectfully offered it: "This is what the slave maid just searched out of Concubine Ning's Muning Palace, and the nine-tailed phoenix pattern is woven on it." ”
The queen sent someone to take the rag away first, looked at it carefully for a while, the more she looked at her eyebrows, the more she wrinkled, and finally threw the rag on Cheng Qingluan's face, and asked coldly, "Concubine Ning, what do you say?" ”
"Queen, if you want to add to the crime, why do you have no excuse?" Cheng Qingluan avoided it with a blessed body, and her face remained unchanged.
"Then how do you explain that your sleeves are shorter than those made by the palace?"
"I have to ask the queen mother, didn't this dress come from the Ministry of Internal Affairs?" Cheng Qingluan smiled slightly and asked rhetorically.
Yu Wenxuan coldly swept over the queen and Mu Guifei and others, and he could be regarded as hearing the meaning of the words, arrogating the ancestral system is a great disrespectful crime, which is enough to enter the cold palace, and he, the concubine of the harem, clearly wants to take this opportunity to get rid of Cheng Qingluan.
Seeing that Yu Wenxuan was suspicious, a eunuch in an inconspicuous place hurriedly rushed out and pointed out: "Concubine Ning, although the clothes were sent by the Internal Affairs Office, this nine-tailed phoenix pattern was secretly sewn on the cuffs by Niangniang." ”
"Oh? Is it? Father-in-law? Cheng Qingluan laughed lightly, her eyes stared straight at the eunuch who identified her, and she immediately recognized that he was Yue Tinghai who had sent clothes to Muning Palace before.
Yue Tinghai was stared at by Cheng Qingluan in a cold sweat, but he still didn't change his words and said: "Those two little eunuchs who have changed their private uniforms have already confessed their guilt and surrendered to the law, so don't quibble with Concubine Ning." ”
Be executed? Isn't that dead without proof? If there is no other evidence, then Cheng Qingluan may really be in the name of trespassing.
Everyone couldn't help but look sideways, and their eyes at Qingluan also had a bit of pity, the crime of transgressing the ancestral system and being pampered and arrogant is not small, especially in the presence of the Queen Mother, it is really difficult for her to escape punishment.
"This palace didn't do it, so why quibble?" Cheng Qingluan smiled and looked coldly at Yue Tinghai and Mu Guifei who identified her, "Mu Guifei, do you really think that this rag was cut from my clothes?" ”
"Isn't it?" Mu Guifei snorted, but she was nervous in her heart.
This rag was indeed not from Cheng Qingluan, but was prepared by her before. The purpose is that even if the nine-tailed phoenix pattern on the clothes is cut off, there will be a chance to testify against Cheng Qingluan.
So when she saw that the sleeves of the dress were shortened, Mu Guifei couldn't wait to summon the palace maid and take the rags embroidered with the nine-tailed phoenix pattern to frame Cheng Qingluan.
But what's wrong with this......
Things have come to this point, shouldn't Concubine Ning cry and explain the matter of the nine-tailed phoenix? Why is she still so calm and calm now?
Could it be ......