Chapter 42: The Thirteen Hairpins
The county lord of Lingxi is still the same as when Xianchen first saw her that day, and the other women are all wearing light gauze and wide-sleeved fairy skirts, and they are dressed as beautiful as fairies, only her, with long hair tied up, dressed as a man in a white brocade robe, but it is like a little pseudo-green among thousands of flowers, which is different and particularly eye-catching.
"Come, Jacaranda, but I'm waiting for you!" The county lord of Leyun got up and greeted Ran Huaying and the others.
When he came to the small pavilion, Xian Chen counted the women in the small pavilion, except for himself, the eighth princess and the lord of Lingxi, the remaining women and the jacaranda were a total of thirteen people.
Thirteen people, thirteen hairpins, I think these women should be the famous thirteen hairpins in Ji Kingdom, right?
According to legend, King Li Guoxiang ascended the throne, and the ten kingdoms of the Great Zhou Dynasty all sent envoys to congratulate, and the envoys sent by Ji Guo at that time were Emperor Ji Wu in the Qianlong period, when Emperor Ji Wu was just a prince, and Concubine Yun was just a nameless little girl who followed Emperor Ji Wu.
On the day of the enthronement ceremony, she used a song that moved the world to "tread the snow and find plums" to reward the envoys of various countries who came to congratulate, and also let the envoys of various countries feast their eyes.
Li and Ji border border, ten friction and delicate relationship, open and secret fighting has not stopped, the military strength of the two countries is equal, however, the economic strength of Ji is inferior to the country.
When Ji Guo was still trying to improve the wheat harvest per acre of field, Li Guo's handicraft industry had already reached the point of fine processing.
Li Guo's hoes, sickles, axes and other agricultural tools are of good quality, not easy to rust, and have a long service life, which is deeply loved by the ten kingdoms of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The export of agricultural tools to other countries in the Great Zhou Dynasty has become an important economic source for the country, but the agricultural tools of the country of Li are not sold to the country.
The official does not sell does not mean that the people do not sell in private, the border between the two countries, the smuggling of agricultural tools has become the hottest topic on the border between the two countries, the agricultural tools here are often traded with ten times higher prices than the country, and the huge difference in interests is enough for people to take risks and ignore the official dead letter.
A blacksmith in Ji Guo is a caring person, he melted the farm tools bought from Li Guo at a high price, and looked for the difference between the agricultural tools of the two countries in the molten iron and iron blocks, and later he found that the reason why Li Guo's farm tools are of good quality is first of all because their iron ore is different from Ji Guo's iron ore.
One is pure iron ore and the other is crude iron ore.
The refined iron ore of Liguo contains less impurities and high iron purity; The iron ore of Jiguo is crude iron ore, which contains high impurities and low iron purity.
In order to make Ji Guo's agricultural tools reach the quality of Li Guo's agricultural tools, it must be constantly forged and purified.
The second is that their farm tools are designed to be exquisite and reasonable, and people can use them easily when they get them.
So, the blacksmith spent three years refining and forging steel, and according to the people's own preferences, he forged a batch of agricultural tools with better quality than Li Guo and more suitable for the use of Ji Guo people, thus ending the era when Ji Guo did not have good farm tools.
Concubine An walked in front of Emperor Ji Wu, who was still the prince at the time, with slightly raised phoenix eyes, condescending, and looked at Emperor Ji Wu who was sitting cross-legged at the guest banquet table with disdain, and said contemptuously: "I heard that the people of Ji Guo like to imitate my Li Guo, and the women of my Li Kingdom like to point a cinnabar mole at the center of their eyebrows, and the women of your Ji Kingdom are also vying to follow suit, but your Ji Guo's cinnabar is not good, as soon as you sweat, the cinnabar mole on the women's eyebrows is very ugly, it is really Dong Shi Xiaofeng." ”
Concubine An's words came out.
Hahaha...... There was an uproar.
Everyone knows what Concubine An's words mean.
The old emperor of Ji Guo saw that the blacksmith of Ji Guo could use Ji Guo's own iron ore to forge high-quality farm tools, and the old emperor who was eager to win in the case of forging technology was not yet mature, he ordered to build a batch of farm tools, and then took them to participate in the Ten Kingdoms Agricultural Tools Exhibition.
Emperor Ji Wu of the Qianlong Period blushed from ridicule, and Concubine An was even more proud when she saw his crimson face, "I also heard that the women of Ji Kingdom like to emulate the dances of my Li Kingdom, so I wonder if their dances are also Dong Shi imitations?" ”
Hahaha...... There was another uproar.
"Concubine An's words are wrong." Following Concubine Yun, who was beside Emperor Ji Wu and had no name at the time, the woman was neither humble nor arrogant, and her voice was sonorous and powerful, which made everyone's uproar and laughter come to an abrupt end.
Concubine Yun gave a salute to Concubine An and continued: "Our Ji Guo woman's eyebrows are not cinnabar moles, it is called plum blossom makeup, a plum blossom blooming at the center of the eyebrows is beautiful, the dance is inherited and innovated on the basis of the predecessors, not to mention imitation, Niangniang's song "Treading the snow to find plums" dances the world, but my Ji Guo women dance casually, and the dance that does not stick to the form is also a hundred and charming step by step. The woman's voice was as clear as a pearl, so that everyone could hear it clearly.
Concubine An couldn't hold it on her face, and then her face darkened, and she snorted coldly with disdain: "Hmph, can that girl be able to bloom step by step?" If not, wouldn't it be empty and white-toothed talking? ”
Everyone looked at the woman in silence, some admired the woman's humility and arrogance, and some felt that the woman was grandstanding.
The woman was not afraid to throw her hands and hugged her fists and said: "The little woman is not talented, she knows a little bit about dance, but she will follow her heart, and she will learn eight or nine times out of ten, and every time she dances the dance, the same dance will not be danced a second time, if you want to see it, the little woman can also improvise an ugly dance for everyone." ”
Hahaha...... The laughter sounded, who doesn't know that Concubine An of the Li Kingdom is the leader of the dance of the Ten Kingdoms of the Great Zhou? The woman dancing in front of Concubine An was a hatchet and humiliated herself.
When the woman who changed into a dance dress, put on plum blossom makeup, a plum blossom bloomed in the center of her eyebrows, the beauty of the king, incomprehensible, she stood there is a landscape, and instantly entered the eyes of everyone.
The woman borrowed a ribbon and danced on it, sometimes slowly like a butterfly; sometimes spinning gracefully like a petrel; Sometimes like a fairy, it exhibits all kinds of graceful dances on the ribbon; In the end, like a fairy, she descended from the sky and was extraordinary, touching everyone's hearts.
The women's dance amazed the ten countries, let the moon close and make the flowers ashamed, so that the people who have seen the women's dance are all haunted by their dreams, and they can't extricate themselves from the graceful dance for a long time.
Concubine Li Guoan has always been famous for her outstanding dancing skills in the Ten Kingdoms of the Great Zhou, but she didn't expect to be stolen from the limelight by a little-known woman in Ji Guo, and her face suddenly lost color, and her evil spirit was buried in her heart.
A few years later, the prince had already become the king of Ji State, and the little-known woman also became famous, and finally became Emperor Jiwu's concubine.
Concubine An of the former Li Country is now Concubine An, last to the National Ceremony, banquet for the Ten Kingdoms, Concubine An came with the envoys, to challenge Concubine Yun to dance again, want to be ashamed of the snow, never expected Concubine Yun to say, "The dance of the year was my casual dance, I also said that I only danced once, if you really want to compare, then let the juniors compare." ”
An Guifei had no choice but to invite the best dance troupe of Li Guo overnight to compete with the women of Ji Guo, the world knows that the women in the Li Guo Dance Troupe are all women who can sing and dance, most of them have been practicing dancing since they were three years old, looking at the entire Ten Kingdoms of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there is no country whose dance troupe strength can compare with the women in the Li Guo Dance Troupe, let alone the best dance troupe in the Li Kingdom.
What's even more unexpected is that Concubine Yun dances casually and does things more casually, so she casually handed over the dance to Ran Huaying, and said, "It doesn't matter if you win or lose." And he asked no more.
Where do you dance? Even if you can dance, it can't be compared with the women in those dance troupes, so Ran Huaying thought of the sword and went sideways.
She summoned twelve women with some kung fu knowledge among the nobles of Ji Guo and began to practice sword dance with her, using the sword as a dance, integrating sword practice and dance.
There is femininity in the women's sword dance, and there are women in the femininity who do not let the eyebrows be shaved, which opened the eyes of the envoys of all countries, and the women's troupe brought by Li Guoan Guifei, although the dance skills are good, there is no novelty in the same, and everyone is aesthetically fatigued, just like that, the sword dance of the women of Ji Guo won the best dance women's group in Li Country.
Emperor Ji Wu's dragon face was happy, and he said shamefully before the snow: "The plum blossom makeup of my Ji country woman is famous all over the world, but it is not a cinnabar mole. "The implication is that the current agricultural tools of my Ji Kingdom are also well-known in the Ten Kingdoms of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which are no worse than the agricultural tools of your Li Kingdom.
Then Emperor Ji Wu laughed and said: "My Ji country women are different, women do not let ordinary women compare with women, win glory for the country and do not lose to men, reward, each give a pair of gold hairpins to show praise." ”
Since then, the thirteen women have had the name of Kyoto's thirteen hairpins, and they often play together led by Ranhuaying, and they have also become Ranhua's sisters.
The women in the thirteen hairpins in Kyoto are all from a lot of backgrounds, except for the lord of Leyun, the fathers of other women have official positions above the fourth grade.
This gathering was proposed by Ran Huaying and organized by the lord of Leyun County.
Leaving the palace to play Le Yun politely mentioned it to the eighth princess, she didn't expect the eighth princess to come, and she didn't expect the eighth princess to bring the county lord of Lingxi as well, Le Yun didn't like the county lord of Lingxi, she looked down on Situ Lingxi, the county lord who had nothing to do with the royal family.
There is no love for no reason in this world, and naturally there is no hate for no reason, and the so-called contempt is just jealousy.
Le Yun seems to hate Lord Lingxi for no reason, but in fact, it is because she is jealous that Lord Lingxi has an excellent father.
Situ Leng, the father of the county lord of Lingxi, was once the famous general king of the northwest of Ji State, and he was the prince with a different surname who was personally appointed by Emperor Ji Wu, and the title could be hereditary.
Everyone in the court of Ji Guo knows that Emperor Ji Wu attaches great importance to this prince with a different surname, don't look at Situ Leng now but ask the government to be idle at home, even so, his words may change Emperor Ji Wu's decision in the court.
And what about the father of the Lord of Leyun?