Chapter Seventy-Three: The Queen's Birthday Banquet
() The cuttlefish subconsciously touched the earlobe, and the coral earrings on it also swayed twice, this earring was rewarded to her by the emperor, and she didn't think it was so red and glamorous at the time, the emperor also said that it was extremely good-looking, worthy of a beauty, why was it ridiculed today.
She raised her head, facing the emperor's blazing eyes, her heart trembled, although she was reluctant, she still replied, "The concubine made a mistake, and accidentally miscalculated the time, so it was late." ”
The emperor laughed dryly twice and continued to quip, "You reminded me of the Spring Banquet, when you were still sick, but you didn't have such a good look now, let alone this beautiful dress." ”
As soon as the emperor said this, everyone present inevitably looked at the long skirt on the cuttlefish, the fabric was good, the style was atmospheric, and the details were exquisite, which was really good-looking. The cuttlefish felt the envious and jealous gazes around her, and suddenly became uncomfortable, she glared at the emperor angrily, and quickly lowered her head.
In order to go to the banquet, the cuttlefish specially dressed up carefully, but I never thought that this outfit that took a lot of thought would be ridiculed by the emperor, one moment it was earrings, and the other time it was clothes, which was really annoying.
The queen on the seat looked at the emperor with her head sideways, and saw that he said a lot of words, so she knew that he was in a good mood, and couldn't help laughing, and the queen said softly to the cuttlefish, "The time hasn't come yet, and you're not late, but everyone came early, so it seems that you are a little behind, get up and sit down quickly." ”
The queen is as gentle as ever, and she deserves the words virtuous and virtuous.
If the cuttlefish received amnesty, she saluted again, and went to a vacant seat on the left and sat down, Lan Guiren sat on her left, and Li Changzai sat on her right, and their faces were not good.
A few cold words from the emperor just now seem to be reproachful at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, it is not, there are many unfavored women in the palace, how many can have a chance to be ridiculed by the emperor? Everyone is used to seeing the cold emperor, and many people have seen his poisonous tongue for the first time.
All of you here are harem concubines. Because the queen didn't want to make a big deal, she only invited these people to come, and even the prince and princesses were not invited, and the queen's eyes swept around. Seeing that all the people who should have come had already arrived, he ordered Hui Hibiscus to serve the main course.
It was past noon, and everyone's stomachs were a little hungry, and the queen mother was full of smiles and raised the cup in her hand. said, "Today is the birthday of the palace, the emperor and the sisters come to celebrate the birthday, although this is only a small family banquet, but it will also make everyone eat well, don't be polite for a while, although you can pick something delicious." ”
Everyone raised their glasses and said in unison, "I wish the queen a long life and good health, a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old." ”
The cuttlefish will talk along with everyone. Then she raised her head slightly, drank the fruit wine in the cup, and the corner of her eyes fell on Gu Changzai opposite, and soon she shifted her target and looked at Concubine Xi twice. Whether Concubine Xi is an enemy or not is still inseparable, and the cuttlefish intends to continue to maintain a superficially harmonious relationship with her.
Before the cup in his hand fell, several palace maids with delicacies walked in outside the door, they were neatly dressed and looked well-trained, worthy of the palace people of Yongshou Palace. It's not ordinary. Come in and go out in twos and threes, and the feast will soon be ready, and in front of everyone there are plates or plates of different sizes, which contain delicious food.
The cuttlefish looked down. On the table, there are braised unicorn noodles, pipa prawns, diced black chicken, pearl tofu, anchovy shark fin and other imperial dishes, as well as two soups. In addition, there are many styles of desserts and pasta, such as jade gourd, bean flour dumpling, jujube mud cake, water chestnut crispy cake and lily celery cake and other cakes, she is dazzled to see, these are all first-class dishes with color and flavor!
In the middle of the table is also a large portion of longevity dragon beard noodles and beautiful Baishou peaches.
Even if she goes back and tells Xiao Yuezi in detail, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Xiao Yuezi to make these good foods.
While everyone was concentrating on eating flawlessly and taking care of her, the cuttlefish hurriedly feasted on the rice bowl, as if she had been hungry for several days, she didn't pay attention to the delicious food, and the one on the seat cast an affectionate look at her from time to time, which also had a doting look that could not be concealed.
After the banquet was over, Wang promised to beckon the cuttlefish to go back with him, but the cuttlefish hesitated a little, and finally responded with a smile. She was still struggling with whether to talk to the emperor or not, but when she saw Gu Chang twisting her body and leaning towards the emperor, she couldn't help but feel disgusted, and immediately decided to promise Wang to go back now.
Before leaving, the cuttlefish glanced at the emperor nostalgically, and there was a moment of looking at each other.
Sometimes, a look can make people know the other party's mind, and the cuttlefish can understand that the emperor still has her in his heart.
Returning to Xianfu Palace, the cuttlefish took off the ornaments on his body, and did not forget to ask Xiang Ruyi, "Will the earrings I wear today be a little conspicuous, a little deliberately ostentatious?" ”
She still can't let go of this stubble, it's just a joke from the emperor, but she is worried about it, for fear that she is not dressed up correctly.
"Where, the slave and maid look very good, there is nothing wrong with it." Ruyi told the truth, and there was some comfort.
Hearing this, the cuttlefish was willing to put his mind at ease and no longer mind.
At this time, a sound of dragging footsteps gradually sounded, and the cuttlefish and Ruyi turned their heads at the same time, only to see that it was Chunxiang who lifted the curtain and walked in, her face was slow, and then she said cautiously, "Master, Sister Ruyi, you are finally back, but tell me what interesting things happened." ”
The cuttlefish was too lazy to take care of Chunxiang, and after changing his clothes, he half-lay on the couch and closed his eyes to recuperate, listening to the conversation between Ruyi and Chunxiang while thinking about his thoughts.
Chunxiang first asked two nonsense sentences, and then brought up the scriptures, which was nothing more than asking the queen if she had read this book and whether she was satisfied or not. Ruyi ambiguously coped with her a few words, and praised her for her good handwriting and good copying.
After hearing this, the expression on Chunxiang's face gradually changed from timidity to doubt, she was completely confused, secretly confused, shouldn't this queen be furious, how could she be so calm, isn't it that she hasn't discovered the problem in the hand-copied scripture book yet.
The cuttlefish noticed the change in Chunxiang's expression, and didn't want to look at her anymore, so he hummed, "Go out Chunxiang, I'm tired after a tiring day, you all go out, I'll sleep alone for a while, don't bother me again." ”
"Yes." Ruyi Chunxiang said in unison.
Chunxiang clenched her fist in annoyance, turned around and retreated, she had carefully planned a good plan, but in the end, she didn't even see a single gain, how could this be!
I thought that the cuttlefish would be punished more or less, but the queen didn't even say anything, and it was in vain for her to scheming.
The more she thought about it, the more unwilling she became, so after dark, she went to Yongshou Palace alone, and she was going to expose the cuttlefish to the queen! And the consequences of this impulsiveness, she didn't think about it. (To be continued.) )