Chapter 90: The Banquet
With a sharp cry from the eunuch, the emperor carried the queen mother into the Changqing Palace, and Shen Qing knelt down with everyone: "To participate in the emperor, see the queen mother." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Flat, sit."
The voice of the superior came from above the hall.
After thanking him, Shen Qing helped Shen Yushi to sit down. Unexpectedly, she received a burning gaze, and she only sat quietly in the room, as if she were unconscious.
The established process of the palace banquet begins, the wine and water are all together, the ministers sing the toast, and then the ritual music is used to help the fun.
Then eight beautifully dressed palace maids carried a golden tray the size of a roof in a sedan chair to the hall, and the eight women parked the sedan chair in the center of the hall, led by two women in yellow who carried the gold cover on the tray to uncover it.
The white light poured out in a flash, only to see a huge moon cake lying on the plate, golden yellow, full of flavor, the moon cake was carved with the pattern of Chang'e making the moon, and the pearl the size of an egg was quietly located in the arms of the fairy Chang'e, so unmoving.
One of the women in yellow said respectfully: "This is the palace cake made by the imperial dining room overnight for this autumn, with the rhombic flower as the edge, the gold frost as the bottom, and the fairy making the moon on the top, implying the emperor's posture of heaven and man, leading Chang'e to congratulate, I am Jinyao Eight Blessings for the surplus, and the four seas are peaceful." ”
Lian Che praised him after hearing this, Ling Lingshan saw that he was happy, and said: "Today is the night of the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, if the emperor starts to write the question, please sing poems and lyrics to live up to this full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”
Lian Che nodded approvingly: "The queen's method is very good." ”
Ling Lingshan smiled: "What if anyone can't do it?" ”
"If anyone can't do it, they should be punished with a glass of wine."
Ling Lingshan shook her head with a smile and said disapprovingly: "This old way of playing, I think everyone here must have been tired of it for a long time. ”
When Lian Che heard this, he asked with interest, "What does the queen mean?" ”
Ling Lingshan's smile deepened: "The concubine has an idea, if anyone can't do it, the former will designate a talent to perform, so that everyone can not only appreciate the poetry, but also find an alternative happiness." ”
Lian Che thought about it, this method is feasible, and nodded in agreement after a few words of appreciation.
"What if this person doesn't know how to be talented?"
It was a woman dressed in a rose-red peony skirt at Ling Lingshan's head who spoke, her apricot eyes and peach cheeks, and her birth was extremely gorgeous.
Everyone was shocked, all the people present were royal relatives and nobles, if there was no talent, wouldn't it be ridiculous and generous.
Ling Lingshan smiled dignifiedly, and didn't care about her recklessness, "If someone really doesn't know anything, then punish him for drinking my strongest liquor in Jin Yao, and punish him for three glasses, what does the emperor think?" ”
Lian Che laughed and said with high interest: "The queen's method is very wonderful. ”
After receiving Lian Che's praise, Ling Lingshan's pretty face turned red, revealing a little shyness.
Shen Qing smiled coldly in his heart, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, there is no good banquet." "Poetry and lyrics, performing talents, purely to see her jokes.
Even if she could, she didn't want to use it to please her on such an occasion. Just to win a few applause.
"In this case, please ask the emperor to come first." Seeing that Lian Che was quite interested, some courtiers began to coax.
Lian Che thought for a while, "Then I'll start with a poem about the moon." ”
The sky will be tonight and the moon, and it will be washed over and over again.
The summer retreats and the sky is clear, and the autumn is clear.
The stars make brilliance, and the wind dews and crystalline.
can change the world, and it is Yujing.
"Good!"
"It's really a good poem!"
"The emperor's literary brilliance is really extraordinary, and the ministers are ashamed."
Lian Che was naturally very happy when he received the flattery of the ministers, he looked for it, his eyes paused on Shen Qing, and after a while, he turned away, and then said: "Next, let Ziqian come." ”
Lian Mo still had an expressionless face, he seemed to glance at Shen Qing's direction with deep meaning, and said, "That minister also wrote a poem related to the moonlit night." ”
Shen Qing glanced at a woman wearing a green-bottomed Hundred Flowers Hunan skirt beside him, only to see that her cheeks were red, and her eyes were full of fascination looking at Lian Mo who was contemplative. Another woman who was bewitched by the man's appearance.
Thinking quietly on the river building alone, the moonlight is like water and water is like the sky.
Come back to play the moon people, the scenery is vaguely like last year.
His eyes locked Shen Qing tightly, and the words with deep meaning in the poem penetrated into his heart, and Shen Qing's eyes flashed with annoyance, this Lian Mo, under the public, what kind of spring.
Everyone naturally heard the meaning of his poem, and one by one they traveled between Lian Mo and Shen Qing with ambiguous eyes, and they all guessed in their hearts what kind of story there was between the unrivaled prince of the Jin Yao Dynasty and the most beautiful widow.
Helplessly, the woman beside Shen Qing was staring at her with a resentful expression, as if she had robbed her of her most beloved thing.
Seeing that Lian Mo was still staring at her, Shen Qing had no choice but to look away, and his face was solemnized unconsciously.
Lian Che obviously didn't want to see such a scene, he casually praised the beautiful artistic conception and hurriedly urged Lian Mo to designate the next player.
I listened to it for a long time, as expected, it was some literati, and when the aristocratic lady tried her best to show her talent, Shen Qing listened directly.
It wasn't until the woman in the Baihua Hunan skirt next to her pointed her fingers straight in her direction that she reacted. "Miss Shen, it's your turn."
Seeing her somewhat provocative gaze, Shen Qing couldn't help but smile slightly, retracted his thoughts, and looked at everyone in the hall in turn.
Shen Yushi's conniving eyes beside him, Ling Lingshan's smile with a noble mask, Lian Che's expectant gaze and Lian Mo's somewhat cool smile.
Shen Qing slowly spoke, "I won't." ”
The woman in green pretended to be surprised and raised her voice: "What, Miss Shen can't compose poetry?" ”
Shen Qing nodded and said, "No." ”
"Ahh......h Sorry, Miss Shen, I don't know, I didn't mean to. ”
The woman's apologetic voice spoke intermittently, but there was a hint of schadenfreude in her tone.
Seeing Shen Qing's refusal, Ling Lingshan said worriedly: "Miss Shen, think about it quickly, if you can't do it, you will be punished." ”
Shen Qing replied respectfully: "Back to the queen's mother, the concubine has not understood poetry since she was a child, and she only knows some simple words. ”
The queen sighed regretfully, "Then Miss Zhang will come up with another question." ”
The woman in green who was sitting not far from Shen Qing was Zhang Yan and said nervously: "Then can I ask Miss Shen to play the piano?" ”
A compulsory course for a noble lady in a family of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Zhang Yan chose the simplest piano skills, but she was just showing her gentleness and kindness.
Shen Qing still shook his head: "I'm sorry, I won't either." ”
Zhang Yan's face showed a hint of embarrassment at the right time, but a trace of mockery appeared in her eyes.
It's not that she deliberately makes things difficult, she doesn't even know the most basic piano skills, and this eldest lady of the Shen family is just empty.
"This ....." Ling Lingshan glanced at Lian Che with some embarrassment.
I saw that the smile on Lian Che's face had decreased a little, and he looked at Shen Qing and said, "I don't know what kind of skills Miss Shen is good at, it's okay to perform at will." ”
Seeing that Lian Che was so obvious to excuse her, a trace of pain flashed in Ling Lingshan's eyes, and she was instantly covered up again. (To be continued.) )