Chapter 304: Hundred Flowers Festival
Hundred Flowers Festival: The highest is the beauty pageant held every three years in Dongzhao, in order to select the head of the girl with both ability and political integrity, give the name of the Hundred Flowers Fairy, and the famous field Zhang shows the talent of Dongzhao women. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Later, the holding of the Hundred Flowers Festival at any time slowly became a festival for selecting players to participate in the Four Nations Elite Meeting, in order to select five talented and beautiful women, and five young people with both civil and military skills, to represent Dongzhao to participate in the Four Nations Elite Meeting held a month and a half later!
On the day of the Hundred Flowers Festival, no matter whether you are a relative of the emperor or a common person, as long as you are a girl over the age of 12 and less than 18 years old, a man over 15 years old or under 25 years old, whether you are married or not, you can participate in the competition and strive for the top five rankings, you can participate in the elite meeting of the four countries to become famous all over the world.
The talents of the women's competition are: piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, martial arts, and red, a total of eight arts.
The talents of the men's competition are: piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, music, riding and archery, a total of eight arts.
Of course, it is impossible for everyone to be proficient in these eight arts, and after the competition of the eight arts, five men and five women will be selected based on the overall ranking results, and if you can get the first place in the two talents, then you can almost make it to the top five.
Because of the importance of the Hundred Flowers Festival, the Hundred Flowers Festival is held every three years by the emperor and the queen and the concubines, and the venue is also selected in the royal school.
The royal school site is located on the outskirts, covering a very vast area, there are more than 30 martial arts halls, generals, and horse camps, and there is also a large area of mountains and forests for riding and hunting.
Early this morning, the people of the whole city, even the people of the whole city, some of the merchants from all around, gathered at the royal school grounds, and only after being inspected by the guards were they allowed to enter the overcrowded school grounds.
At this time, the emperor of Dongzhao had already arrived at the school, and the emperor with a golden dragon robe, leading the queen and Shu Guifei and other concubines, arrived at the general platform early, observing the contestants, including several princes and princesses, as well as the daughters of famous ministers, but they did not see Ling Shaofeng and Zhao Xuanchen for a long time.
"Xiaoshizi, you say, why hasn't my third daughter-in-law come yet, is she trying to escape? She won't really be a country person who doesn't know anything about chess, piano, calligraphy and painting, and can only solve problems by force, as the outside world says, right? ”
Emperor Dongzhao sat leisurely on the high seat, holding fragrant tea in his hand, his words were suspicious of Ling Shaofeng, and there was no dissatisfaction with Ling Shaofeng on his gentle face.
Obviously, the emperor, who knows everything, just made a small joke casually, but someone took it seriously.
"Your Majesty, the concubine heard that this Miss Ling is indeed a person who is good for nothing but kung fu, compared to Ye Lin and Ye Bi of the Zhenguo General's Mansion, Ouyang Xiruo and Ouyang Xiyan of the Prime Minister's Mansion, it is simply the difference between heaven and earth, there is no possibility of winning, and it is normal for her not to come!"
Concubine Shu was the most favored, and she spoke in front of the queen, and the concubines were not surprised when they saw it.
The dignified and atmospheric queen mother also nodded in agreement with great difficulty.
"Indeed, as Concubine Shu said, Ling Shaofeng has been in Handan for so long, even if she doesn't attend parties, she doesn't go shopping, and no one has ever seen her do poetry and painting, I only heard that she is strong in martial arts, but I don't know what her talent is!"
"That's right, Your Majesty, it's better to let someone go to Ling Mansion to pick up the future Chen Wangfu, this retreat is not only the face of Ling Mansion and Chen Wangfu, but also the royal face!"
"That's right, Your Majesty, why don't you let the commander of the Royal Forest Army pick up King Chen?"
The concubines who sat on the high platform under the queen and Shu Guifei also began to express their opinions one by one, in short, they were one-sided in front of the queen and Shu Guifei.
"No need, here it is!"
It's really Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here!
I saw that at the entrance of the heavily guarded school field, the crowded crowd was signaled by the guards to slowly retreat to the side, making way for carriages to pass.
An ordinary carriage slowly entered from outside the school field, without hugging and escorting behind, and the people retreated everywhere they went, just because the person driving the carriage was King Chen's personal guard Wuxin, and Ling Shaofeng's groom Xiao Silou fourteen.
Next to the carriage were two horses, leisurely following the carriage.
One ride is the king of Xu in purple clothes, and sitting down is his exclusive mount, a good horse that travels thousands of miles a day.
One ride is Lingfu's maid Tielan, and she takes Mo Lan, who can't ride a horse, to ride together.
In the carriage, Zhao Xuanchen, who was dressed in ink, leaned comfortably in the soft blanket, holding a book in his hand, covered with a big red cloak, although his legs could not move, but his small mouth could still move.
"Shaofeng, can you really win! I remember ......"
Zhao Xuanchen held the book in one hand and supported his chin in the other, and looked straight at Ling Shaofeng, who was also holding the book with beautiful eyes like stars, but the content was a script.
He remembered that when he was in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Ling Yiyi, the eldest lady of the Auxiliary General's Mansion, was arrogant and domineering, and the rumors that she couldn't do anything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting spread all over the world.
He had the privilege of seeing Ling Shaofeng's posture of dancing into the lake, that movement was called a stiffness, that dance was called a terrible, if she was really asked to dance with those noble girls, it would be better to abstain directly! Lest people see jokes, and besides, she is Princess Chen, so she doesn't have to care about the challenges of those people at all.
"After the prince became stupid, he can still remember that he really went back to twenty years ago, I don't know what you're talking about?"
Ling Shaofeng sat cross-legged in the carriage, listening to the people outside the car talking about fans, most of them talked about the challenge between her and the daughters of several young ladies and important ministers of the family, as if she had opened a gambling game on the spot, among so many people, only three people bet that she would win, is she so useless?
"I asked Xiao Liuzi to take those challenge books, since I took it, I will fight, win or lose for the time being, but I can't be ashamed of the principle of being a man, since I agreed, I won't regret it, your father and the emperor are worried too early! It's not too big, if you can't win, you can lose! ”
Zhao Xuanchen wants to face it realistically, pretending to get along with her as a normal person inadvertently, and it depends on whether she agrees or not.
For Ling Shaofeng, who is extremely deceitful and annoying, as long as she thinks that Zhao Xuanchen has deceived her for so long, she actually allows herself to be kidnapped by others, and does not leave any clues, and puts herself in danger, the fire in her heart cannot be extinguished.
At this time, Lou Fourteen's familiar and cold voice came from outside the carriage, "Madam, uncle, the school has arrived!" ”
Then, the curtain of the car was lifted from the outside, so that Ling Shaofeng and Zhao Xuanchen could clearly see that the crowd was crowded outside, but they were sitting in an orderly manner, and there were heavily guarded guards, almost three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, which protected the entire school field.
And just now there was a discussion about whether to pick up Ling Shaofeng and their emperor and others, and they also happened to look this way, the casual smile on the corner of their mouth was a little empty, was it the emperor's distrust of her talent! (To be continued.) )