Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Gift Storm
On the birthday of the royal family, from the emperor and the queen mother, to the prince and princess, in addition to the usual singing, dancing and singing, the most interesting thing is the gift! Good etiquette is a heavy reward, bad etiquette will be punished, and the last person to be punished, but by the best gift to punish the question, this unique rule is out of the hands of the unscrupulous Xuan King!
What's even more interesting is that the means of punishment are really strange!
In previous years, there were countless noble ladies who folded in this gift drama!
The inscription of the dance is not worth mentioning, it is not strange to make a poem in seven steps and eight steps to make a song, but to dance alone in front of the most famous Liumei Garden Qinglou in the imperial capital, I am afraid that only Cheng Xiaowang has tried that taste in this world, which can be described as a dance to move the whole city!
The county lord of Qiling was forced to pretend to be a man, carrying more than ten gold bars to swagger through the market, and plead guilty to Xuanwu Yicheng! There is also Xie Bofu Xie Xiaogongzi, who was punished to cook porridge for the monks of Jiuliquan Temple outside the city for three days, and the six ladies of the Wang family were punished to find 7749 Nanzhu in the snow of the plum garden on the outskirts of the city.
Among these nobles, it's just a frolicking and some fun, but at the very least, it is like Wang Liuniang's wife to suffer some hardships, but if it is placed in the palace seriously, I am afraid that it is not so simple!
"Mo Guifei, today's gift starts with you." Emperor Rende smiled and spoke.
Last time on the emperor's birthday, Mo Guifei won the first place with the song "Love Words Pear Garden", according to the rules, this time it was started by her.
"Yes, the concubine is grateful to the emperor for his grace." Mo Guifei replied as sweet and soft as a yellow oriole, today, she is wearing a water-green flowered ink pear waist low-cut long skirt, and her jade breasts are half exposed during the ceremony, which is noble and clear and gorgeous and attractive.
The emperor's eyes became more and more satisfied, completely ignoring the fierceness that flashed in the corners of the queen's eyes beside him.
"The concubine presented a picture of longevity." Concubine Mo stepped forward with a gift and knelt down in front of the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother let out a light "um", not salty or light, the leader eunuch Kang Fuquan behind her hurriedly took it, and two little eunuchs had already stepped forward and slowly unfolded.
On the golden dense cloud royal brocade, large and small, the red longevity characters of different shapes are all over it, and the largest longevity characters in the middle are embroidered by the dragon and phoenix, which is more critical...... This turned out to be the handwriting of the Queen Mother!
The royal nobles were amazed!
"Sister, doesn't the Queen Mother dislike us the most to find out about her whereabouts? Why ......" asked the poet concubine, who had been in the palace for less than three years after the hero.
"The Queen Mother just didn't like to deliberately probe, but she didn't say no, don't you know that a few days ago, this Mo Guifei went to the Buddha Incense Hall every day to burn the "Diamond Sutra" copied by her old man for the Queen Mother? Why is it difficult to find one or two longevity characters from such a thick scripture? It was Concubine Qiong who replied, the head of the four concubines and the biological mother of the sixth prince Murong Qi.
"It's a smart and clever one, you know it."
As soon as these words came out, Mo Guifei smiled more and more brightly, "It is the blessing of the concubine that the queen mother does not dislike it." ”
"Yikes! Why are there so many longevity characters in the back? A delicate and sweet voice came, it turned out to be the county lord of Qiling, the daughter of the late eldest princess.
This sound, neither light nor heavy, happened to fall into the ears of the people present, so they looked over one after another, and even Xuanwu Yicheng, which was next to the Queen Mother, followed suit.
Then, the inhalation continued one after another.
The Queen Mother became more and more curious, "Qi'er, tell the mourning family, what is going on?" ”
The county lord of Qiling happily ran to the hall, "Why don't you turn the brocade upside down and show it to the imperial grandmother." ”
The little eunuch hurriedly turned around.
"Ah, I didn't expect the reverse to be exactly the same!" Concubine Qiong lowered her voice, "Ancestor, look, Sister Mo is trying her best!" ”
The words were soft and soft, but the words "hard work" were slightly extended, and the queen smiled knowingly, and then said,
"Sister Mo Guifei has always been ingenious, the song "Love Words Pear Garden" sung on His Majesty's birthday last time, I heard that I learned it from the Southern Music Workshop, Wu Nong's soft words, no wonder Your Majesty is very happy."
When the words fell, the scene couldn't help but get a little colder, and Mo Guifei, who was still kneeling respectfully, turned pale.
"Longevity Fujin, the front and back are exactly the same, this time I have embroidered two identical ones, and then fit them together without traces, ancestors, look at it, how rare it is!"
Now, even the queen color has sunk a little.
"The emperor's aunt's words are wrong!" Xuanwu Yicheng staggered to his feet with the corner of the table, still holding the jade gold wine jug in his left hand.
Concubine Mo was shocked, why did King Xuan intervene at this time?
"What do you think?" The Queen Mother asked cordially, and Emperor Rende also looked at it.
"Qi Ling, take a closer look, this blessing brocade is double-layered?"
The county lord of Qiling was already curious about this, so he hurriedly answered "yes", grabbed the longevity and fortune brocade and pondered it seriously.
"Imperial grandmother, imperial grandmother, this blessed brocade has only one layer, if Qi Ling is not mistaken, the brocade should be the new Shouxianglin brocade made by the Imperial Brocade Fang." The county lord happily ran to the queen mother, and at the end of the day, he asked Mo Guifei, "Isn't it, Aunt Guifei?" ”
"The county lord has excellent eyesight, it is Shouxiang Linjin." Mo Guifei's voice was gentle, and her face was as pale as water.
"Single-layered, how can it be?" Concubine Qiong muttered in a low voice, no, the people from Molian Palace found out that it was obviously made of double-layer embroidery, why did it become a single-layer again?
The queen's eyes swept over, and her face became even more gloomy after heavy makeup.
"It's really amazing that a single layer of brocade embroiders the same picture on the front and back, Mo Guifei, you can talk about it, where did you learn such a novelty?" The queen continued to ask with a smile.
No matter how good and rare the birthday gift is, if you hide from the emperor and the queen mother to learn some foreign thaumaturgy, you Wang Molian will not die well!
It turned out that this Rende Emperor boasted that the Great Yue Kingdom of Middle-earth was strong and the people were rich, and he despised foreign thaumaturgical objects such as the Northern Yi and the Southern Barbarians, and all the royal nobles avoided these, even among the people of the Great Yue Dynasty.
However, the much-loved Xuanwu Yicheng is an exception, last year's birthday of the Queen Mother, he gave the Beiyi Red Fox Cloak, the emperor didn't say a word no, and the Queen Mother also liked it.
Mo Guifei smiled lightly, and was about to answer, but Xuanwu Yicheng, who didn't want to be half-drunk, rushed to shout out.
"Uncle Huang doesn't know this? This is a double-sided embroidery, and now it is very popular with nobles in the south of Da Yue Kingdom. He took a sip of wine, "If Xuan'er remembers correctly, the southern Cen Zhou is produced by the Yujinfang branch of Mo Guifei's mother's family." ”
"Cen Zhou...... Yujinfang? Emperor Rende held the hand of the marigold tightly, "Xuan'er, but the Cenzhou Imperial Jinfang?" ”
The people present listened attentively, and the queen gritted her teeth, what did Xuanwu Yicheng mention about Cen Zhou!
Mo Guifei heard this, but she became more and more relieved, no matter what Xuanwu Yicheng thought today, in short, with this Cen Zhou Yujin Fang, she Wang Molian would definitely not lose!