Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Lantern Festival Dinner

At the beginning of the day, the night is slowly falling, and the stars are dotted. All kinds of exquisite lanterns were lit in the palace, illuminating the roads, and all kinds of subordinates, palace maids, eunuchs, and concubines walked back and forth on the road.

There are more people, Concubine Yu and the emperor have discussed, and the dinner will be held in Shoukang Palace, Shoukang Palace is the closest to the Yangxin Palace, and it is more convenient to go back and forth.

Soon, almost all the people in the palace arrived.

The seats of the emperor and the empress dowager are placed at the top, the one on the right is Concubine Yu herself, followed by Concubine Shu, and then Yan Zhaoyi, Concubine Rong, Mrs. Shu, Mrs. Shangguan and some other concubines because they have not been favored recently, and their positions are relatively lower and lower.

And on the left side is the first prince Helian Yan, and then the prince of Wuzhu Helian Yi, in the past, Helian was the person behind the back, and now he is also arranged in the position of Helian Yi parallel, because of his young age, Helian Yu received the border express, and rushed back to the border a few days ago.

Xiao Liangyu found that the prince didn't bring Xiao Yu over, but brought another side concubine, this other side concubine she is also familiar with, it seems to be the daughter of the four-grade imperial envoy's family, Qian Chuxue, after all, she is a prince's side concubine, and she is the first person to marry in the Ming media, how can she not compare to the daughter of a fourth-grade official? Could it be that Xiao Yu is not favored in the womb?

Xiao Liangyun and He Lianye sat side by side overnight, and He Lianye didn't care what others ate during the whole scene, they were all watching whether she ate well and whether there was any problem with the meal.

The Lantern Festival dinner is an opportunity for the annual harem concubines to show off, each concubine is trying her best to please the emperor and the queen mother, some are dancing, some are calligraphy and painting, some are rare treasures, some are guqin playing, the old and decrepit concubines are through how good their children are, to show their majesty and noble status.

Although Concubine Yu is considered to be the eldest concubine in the palace, she seems to be a girl in her early twenties, and her appearance is the same as that of a frozen age, and her dress is the most luxurious today, and the Queen Mother has always disliked her such a pompous posture, only glanced at her, and frowned to express discomfort and disgust.

"Qingluan, you come and serve me." On the high stage, Helian Qian's words pointed everyone's attention directly at this new favorite concubine Mrs. Shu.

"Hmph, slut, I don't know where I learned some fox tricks, coaxed the emperor to a lot, obviously the concubine Niangniang is the first, and she actually let her sit directly next to the emperor by the third level!"

"The concubine heard that this lady herself was born as a medical woman, and later served in the Queen Mother's mansion, but Her Majesty was fascinated by her as soon as she saw her, and this fascination is just that, what kind of person does she pour into Your Majesty all day long, what kind of literati is she pretending to be? What are you pretending to be? ”

"Cut, it's just that I have a bit of a look, plus I get the love of the Queen Mother."

。。。

Xiao Liangyun noticed that something was wrong with He Lianye, her whole body stiffened, and even the hand holding her was still trembling a little, she followed his eyes and found that he was staring at the emperor's new favorite concubine, "Are you okay?" ”

Helian came to his senses overnight, "Huh? Ah, it's okay, I'm okay. Hu'er, I have some things, go out first and come back immediately. ”

"Qiluo." After seeing him leave, Xiao Liangyu called Qiluo, and Qiluo knelt forward and knelt beside her, "Help me check the details of this lady, oh also, go check Helianye's biological mother, Queen Fu." ”

"Yes, but Miss, if I go now, there will be no one around Miss, can Miss be alone?"

"It's okay, I'll take care of it myself." She held the cup in her right hand, poured some of the fruit tea she usually drinks, and looked at the meat and meat dishes on the table, and suddenly felt a little sick to her stomach. Seeing this, Qiluo hurriedly understood, "Miss, when I go out, I will ask the palace maid who delivers the dishes to change some light vegetarian dishes and soup for you, you can wait a while." ”

"Okay, thank you."

After a while, I only heard Concubine Yu say on it, "Your Majesty, the concubine has prepared some novel things for Your Majesty today." ”

"Oh? What's that? ”

"This is the lottery bucket prepared by the concubines, there are different names in the buckets, the names are written on the sisters in each palace and everyone present today, Your Majesty and the Queen Mother draw lots, whoever draws, who will perform a show, if Your Majesty wins the Queen Mother, then Your Majesty can get the best red coral that the concubine got some time ago. If the Queen Mother defeats Your Majesty, then Your Majesty will have to play a flute for us, how about it? ”

"It's a good and interesting idea, so let's get started."

The concubine walked to the stage with the lottery bucket, cleared her throat, and pulled out one.

"It was originally Concubine Rong's sister's Jiahe Palace." Concubine Rong, who was dressed in rose-red clothes, got up with a smile, "I'm afraid that Niang Niang deliberately targeted the concubine and let the concubine's three-legged cat's kung fu come out to show ugliness." ”

"Hahaha, why talk about this, everyone in the palace knows that my sister's voice is as crisp and moving as a tactful lark, how could I deliberately tease you."

"Then let the concubine go to the side hall to change her clothes, and she will be back in a moment."

After a while, Concubine Rong finished dressing up in the opera, and the musicians in the palace also sat down, cleared their throats and started singing. The babbling is indeed a unique charm.

Everyone else enjoyed it extremely much, but Xiao Liangyun didn't pay attention to Qu'er, it was the concubine who had just made He uncomfortable all night, she stared at her for a long time, so what she didn't notice was that Concubine Shu at this time was also smiling and staring at Xiao Liangyun, Feng Wanshu saw her eyes sharp, with a clear expression, and slowly took a sip of tea.

Her purpose has also been achieved.