Chapter 41: The Banquet and the Marriage
"Your Majesty, it's not interesting to chant poetry at this banquet, why don't you just chant poetry and play games this year? These children are young, they are playing, and they all agree to it. The queen smiled and groaned, and at the same time elegantly filled the tea for the emperor.
The emperor nodded, and his gaze drifted over Rong Hua, "What the queen said is very true, then follow the queen." β
After the emperor finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and beckoned the eunuch behind him, the eunuch bent down and the emperor whispered in his ear, and after the emperor finished speaking, he saw the eunuch leave in a hurry, and after a while, he took a small and delicate drum and a peony flower whose workmanship can be comparable to a real flower.
"Great, I like this game." Princess Song Qian's eyes lit up, and she cheered happily.
Rong Hua frowned lightly, she knew about this game of beating drums and passing flowers, and she used her spare eyes to lightly skim the person next to her, who was wrong, but he was sitting next to her..... The banquet was so big and there were so many empty seats, he obviously did it on purpose.
"You might as well look at me openly." How could a small movement escape his eyes, looking at her with a look of disgust, could it be that she was disgusting him? "Hmph"
"Whoever wants to see you, I'm looking at the flower in the emperor's hand, who let you sit here." If Rong Hua looked at the emperor, wouldn't he turn his head in the direction of Li Junmo? It's just that she really looked at him, and she was really a little weak in the face of what he asked.
"Father, there are naturally winners and losers in making games, and you haven't said yet, what punishment is there for those who lose? If there is no punishment, it will be too boring. Song Qian asked in a loud voice.
"You see Song Qian, this girl is really acute, not like you." The emperor tilted his head to the queen, his tone was slightly accusatory, and his expression was diametrically opposite, and anyone who looked at the favor on his face was about to overflow "This person who loses is naturally punished, just, punish a glass of wine, and show one." β
"Okay, let's get started!" She couldn't wait.
In addition to the emperor and the queen, Song Qian and others, those people Rong Hua has never seen, the emperor and queen naturally do not participate in the game, they only watched with relish, the drumming was handed over to the eunuch next to the emperor, I saw him turn his back to beat the drum lightly, Song Qian led by the person quickly passed the flower to the next person, the drum beat faster and faster, seeing that this was about to reach himself, Rong Hua only felt that his heart was beating fast, and his eyes were also staring at the peony flower, as the peony flower got closer and closer, It was passed to Li Xuanzhi's hand, and Rong Hua was about to take it, but he didn't want the drum to stop abruptly.
"The flower is in the hands of Li Xuanzhi, and he lost." It was a round-faced man next to Li Xuanzhi who spoke.
Li Xuanzhi was used to it, he threw the flower to the round-faced man next to him unhappily, and just wanted to open his mouth to deny it, but suddenly remembered that his ice-faced brother was also here, so he coughed and said, "If you lose, you will lose, won't you be punished with a glass of wine?" Admit punishment, admit punishment. β
"You're not going to have to admit punishment." Song Qian rolled her eyes: "Could it be that I still want to play tricks in front of my father." β
The voice was not small, Li Xuanzhi naturally heard it, and he was too lazy to take care of it.
The waiter held the tray and put the wine glass on it, and brought it to Li Xuanzhi, Li Xuanzhi picked up the wine glass and drank it all, "Just a glass of wine, how can I be embarrassed." Put the wine glass back and look at Rong Huadao, "If you lose for a while, I will block it for you." β
Li Xuanzhi was referring to the wine, a dark light crossed Li Junmo's eyes, and he said in his heart that the emperor's major affairs with his father could not be stopped, thinking about his marriage again, he couldn't help but envy his younger brother, who had never been angry.
"Huh? Li Xuanzhi: You haven't performed yet. β
As soon as Li Xuanzhi wanted to get by, the round-faced man reminded him at the right time.
"Ahem" glared at the man secretly, Li Xuanzhi stood up and was generous, "In this way, I will chant a poem, today is a flower banquet, then I will chant a poem about flowers." The dust is very tired, and the rope head is tightly done. Without a cold bone, how to get the plum blossom fragrance. "The voice is subdued, but it's quite like that.
"Not bad." The emperor raised his hand and motioned for him to sit down.
"It's obviously spring, and I say plum blossoms." Song Qian mocked, Li Xuanzhi glared at her fiercely, thinking that he would definitely taunt her if he found an opportunity.
In the second round, everyone was unexpected, the drum only sounded twice, and the flowers in Song Qian's hand had not yet been sent.
Song Qian was not afraid to raise her head and drink the glass of wine, danced a dance, and won the applause of the audience, Song Qian looked at Li Junmo, but that person didn't give her a look, and she was so angry that she wanted to step on him a few times.
Everyone played happily, only Ronghua and Li Junmo were different, Li Junmo has always liked to dance with knives and guns, and he couldn't stand the things of these young ladies and young masters in the capital, Ronghua was preoccupied, seeing that the beautiful peony flower was getting closer and closer, she had to reach out and take it, and handed it to Li Junmo beside her as fast as she could, never thinking that he was just looking at the flower, and didn't plan to reach out to take it.
"What are you doing? Take it quickly. Rong Hua was anxious, for fear that the drum would stop in the next moment.
As soon as the voice in Rong Hua's heart fell, the drum stopped, and Rong Hua looked at the peony flower in his hand, and his palms were soaked with sweat.
"Your Majesty, she lost this time." Li Junmo said.
The wine glass, which was the same as before, was getting closer and closer to Rong Hua, Li Xuanzhi stood up and wanted to block it for Rong Hua, but he heard Li Junmo say lightly, "Go back." The sharp eyes instantly scared Li Xuanzhi away.
After a glass of wine, Rong Hua felt that in addition to the taste was a little strange, it was okay, "Your Majesty, the little girl has no talent, so it is better to recite a poem." β
"Exactly."
"Jin Yingcui's calyx has a spring cold, how many are there in the yellow flowers? With the gentleman's language to the tourists, don't be a cranberry eye. β
"The spring flowers bloomed before the cold receded, the little poetry is deep and meaningful, and it can be seen that the people who do things are very fond of the spring flowers, but Miss Rong did it herself?" The emperor made a rare comment, and instantly guided the eyes of everyone at the banquet to Rong Hua.
Being looked at by so many people, Rong Hua's ears blushed, and he stood more and more straight and stiff, "I didn't write it, it's a teacher, and I like the poems he wrote very much." β
"Oh?" The emperor became interested, and leaned forward slightly, "Do you carry anything else?" Recite another one to me. β
Rong Hua thought for a while, and Zhang Dao: "Lonely Mountain Temple, north of Jia Tingxi, the water surface is flat at the beginning, and the clouds are low.
Several early warblers compete for warm trees, and whose new swallows peck the spring mud.
The flowers are gradually charming to the eye, and the asakusa can have no horseshoe.
The favorite lake is not enough to go east, and the white sand embankment in the green poplar shade. β
"Very good, your teacher must be a talented and learned person, and you are definitely not bad if you are his student, it is better for me to marry you today, and come to someone."
The voice fell, and everyone was shocked.
The eunuch behind her moved quickly, and the emperor didn't have time to give Rong Hua a chance to react with a big stroke of his pen, she stood in a daze, only feeling that her head was buzzing. I vaguely heard the emperor continue, "You and Li Junmo originally had a marriage contract, and I was just icing on the cake." β
"The icing on the cake, the icing on the cake, I don't need it at all." Rong Hua muttered quietly.
The holy decree written by the emperor himself was announced on the spot, not giving Rong Hua time to resist. She and Li Junmo are strangers, so she didn't believe that her grandfather had set him a fiancΓ©.
The sour congratulatory voices around her made her more and more uncomfortable, but Li Junmo accepted it calmly.
Song Qian stood on the opposite side and looked at this side in a daze, without saying a word, but there was shock, sadness, and disbelief on her face.
Rong Hua looked around, but there was still no figure of Jing Zhan, and even the eunuch who had just entered the palace and followed behind him disappeared without a trace.