Chapter 15: The Birthday Banquet Gets in the Limelight
Su Wanyan grabbed her hand back and said calmly, "Go and inquire what's going on." ”
"Okay." Lingxiu turned around and hurried to do something.
Later, Lingxiu went back to report to her, and she told her about Huo Qingqing's entry into the palace, and Su Wanyan had basically guessed how Huo Qingqing persuaded the queen.
She sneered in her heart, now you are proud for the time being, see what skills you have to support the prince in the future. The prince is a decent person on the surface, but she already knows very well what kind of goods he is, and he is definitely not willing to be persecuted.
The prince is lustful, as long as she teases a little, see if he will still be interested in Su Yuxian.
On the birthday of the Queen Mother, a banquet was held in the Changtai Hall in the palace, and hundreds of civil and military officials and their families entered the palace to celebrate her birthday.
Su Yuxian's hard practice for a period of time was not in vain, and a neon dress dance amazed the four seats, which won the favor of the queen mother and the emperor, and praised it.
At this time, more than a month has passed since the Bihu incident, and it is about to be forgotten in people's hearts, and Huo Qingqing has already skillfully revealed the wind, and privately said that the marriage between Su Yuxian and the prince has been decided, and everyone dare not mention the scandal again.
Her wonderful performance this time completely focused people's attention on her talent, her name as the first beauty and the first talented woman in Kyoto is back, and she has jumped from the mud pit to a noble lady above the high hall.
She changed her new dress and returned to her seat, and glanced at Su Wanyan, who was like an old monk, proudly, and felt angry for a while.
Everyone praises me and scolds me, why do you Su Wanyan still look down on me, slut, look at how I clean you up.
Thinking like this, she stood up gracefully, bowed down to the Queen Mother, and said: "The Queen Mother, the courtier's sister Wanyan inherited the mantle of the court, and her sword dance skills are very good. Today's feast, you can't let the courtiers have the scenery alone, and the courtiers want to recommend their sister to dance the sword for the queen mother. ”
After hearing this, the Queen Mother smiled and said: "Okay, I didn't expect the daughter of the Su family to be so versatile, but it is very rare to see a woman dancing a sword, and the mourning family agreed." ”
Su Yuxian stood up and smiled sinisterly at Su Wanyan, turned around and turned back to her elegant and virtuous appearance, walked to the seat and sat down.
She didn't see it, Su Sui, who was sitting in front, had a gloomy face, and she couldn't wait for an eye knife to come and hack her to death.
Su Wanyan hadn't even touched the sword at all, how could she dance with a sword, didn't she deliberately want to make her make a fool of herself, and kill him by the way?
He didn't know that his daughter had changed her core, and she happened to be really good at sword dancing.
But Su Wanyan didn't want to be in the limelight, so she got up and saluted the nobles above, "The Queen Mother, the emperor, the courtiers' skills are shallow, I'm afraid of disturbing everyone's interest, let's let the master who specializes in sword dance perform for everyone." ”
Su Yuxian didn't want to let her go, got up and said: "Sister, why are you so humble, today is the birthday of the Queen Mother, so that her old man is happy and happy, and everyone is happy." ”
I really want to kill her!
If she doesn't perform, she won't give face to the Queen Mother's old man, and it will also disappoint everyone's fun, if she performs, but she doesn't perform well but loses her own face.
Su Wanyan made a decision in her heart, it seems that today's limelight is decided. There were good people who coaxed her, and the queen mother also said that she was not to blame for her bad dancing, so she agreed.
Su Wanyan calmly picked up the gorgeous long sword for dancing swords presented by the palace attendants.
Seeing that she was skillful with that sword, she looked like someone who had never practiced a sword, and Su Sui was still sweating for her in the distance, but she was stunned at this time, and all kinds of speculations were surging in her heart.
Su Yuxian was a complete layman, and she hadn't seen the problem yet, thinking that Su Wanyan was just pretending to be calm, and the gloating smile on her face was almost unbearable.
Su Wanyan took off the gorgeous coat on her body, tied the long skirt around her waist and walked generously to the hall, with the sonorous music holding the sword and shaking out a beautiful sword flower, her posture was flexible and powerful, her feet were steady and flexible, sometimes flipping and fluttering in the air, and sometimes her posture was smart and beautiful......
After the dance, without waiting for the queen mother and the emperor to speak, everyone spontaneously applauded, and for a time the applause in the hall was thunderous, and it was very lively.
She stood in the hall like a bamboo, her face was calm and respectful, and she was appreciated without the slightest hint of pride.
The Queen Mother and the Emperor were even happier than Su Yuxian after the performance just now, and said a lot of beautiful words.
She bowed and sat back in her seat.
Su Sui in the distance received countless envious glances and congratulations from his colleagues, but he still didn't come back, he felt that he had missed something, he had never heard that his daughter could dance swords, but it was indeed her daughter Su Wanyan just now.
And Su Yuxian is face is pale, so angry that her silver teeth are about to crush, and her hands holding her fists are trembling, her infinite scenery was obviously suppressed just now, and now the object of everyone's praise has become Su Wanyan.
She also hadn't heard of Su Wanyan being able to dance a sword, otherwise how could she give her a chance to be in the limelight, she thought hatefully, this slut still dared to hide it, she must find a way to rectify this slut.
Duanmu Rui, who was sitting at the front, watched this scene from afar, with a soft smile on the corner of his mouth that he didn't even notice it, and Duanmu Ming couldn't sit still anymore, and came over with a wine glass under the guise of the queen mother and the emperor to praise Su Wanyan, and made Su Yuxian half dead of anger, eager to scratch Su Wanyan's face immediately.
The Queen Mother asked the attendants to take a reward to reward the Su sisters, Su Yuxian pretended to be generous, saying that she was a sister, and her skills were not as good as her sister, so she had to give her share to Su Wanyan in front of everyone, and Su Wanyan accepted it without much excuse.
In the eyes of outsiders, these two sisters really have a deep friendship, but they don't know that Su Yuxian is so jealous that she can't say anything, watching Su Wanyan win those rewards and her heart is dripping blood.
Those are all royal offerings, although they are nobles and nobles do not lack these gold, silver and jade toys and jewelry, but in the end they are from the royal family, and they are looked down upon when they wear them on their bodies and go out, and their identities are also much more noble.
All this was in the eyes of the Queen Mother, but it made her a little unhappy.
She hasn't seen anything in the harem, can she not understand her little trick?
I didn't let my sister perform the sword dance to make people ugly, and then she was pressed by someone, and she pretended to be generous to raise her reputation.
However, Su Yuxian must not know the queen mother's thoughts, and after the banquet, she and Su Wanyan pretended to be close and walked out hand in hand.
Walking out of the palace gate, Su Wanyan didn't bother to pretend with her, so she took out her hand and went down the steps alone.
"Ouch......"
As soon as she took a step, she heard Su Yuxian shouting from behind.
When I looked back, I saw her crouching over her ankles, a painful look on her face.
"My foot is broken, I can't walk, it hurts, it hurts to death."
When they entered the palace, it was impossible to bring slaves, Su Wanyan didn't know whether it was true or not, even if it was true, she didn't want to care, but she was afraid that people would see gossiping, so she pretended to be concerned and leaned over to look, but in fact whispered: "It's really fake, my sister has always been able to pretend, I won't be fooled this time." ”
Su Yuxian deliberately said loudly: "How can I pretend, I will die of pain, and now there is no servant, you still don't carry me out of the palace gate." ”
Su Wanyan glanced around, and saw that someone was attracted to look over, and she didn't see anyone passing by, although she was very reluctant, but this was in the palace, she didn't want to make a bad impression of the people above who didn't care for her sisters, and she planned to carry her out, and wait until she had the opportunity to slowly get it back later.
Just as she was about to bend down, a magnetic voice came from under the steps.
Isn't this the Su sisters? Why don't you go home? ”
Both of them looked at the man who was talking to them in surprise, Su Yuxian recognized it as Duanmu Rui at a glance, and hurriedly squatted there and made a nondescript salute, "I've seen the prince." ”
Su Wanyan also followed suit.
Duanmu Rui glanced at her, and saw that she had a faint, no special expression towards herself, and felt a little lost in her heart for a moment.
Su Yuxian thought that Duanmu Rui was attracted by herself and stepped forward to talk to them, so she hurriedly put on a pitiful look and complained, saying that she had broken her foot and wanted Su Wanyan to carry her out, but Su Wanyan didn't care about her.
Duanmu Rui had already seen the process in his eyes, and said without hesitation: "You are your sister, how can you let your sister carry it?" ”
Su Yuxian pushed back with a mouthful, "But she has the strength, she should have seen it just now when she danced the sword in the palace, right?" ”
Duanmu Rui's face immediately sank, and he scolded: "You dare to speak against this king, it seems that you are an uneducated woman." ”
Su Yuxian remembered that Duan Mu Rui's personality was gloomy and changeable in the rumors, and when she saw that he was so fierce to herself again, she immediately pretended to be frightened and cried, wanting to win pity.
I didn't want Duanmu Rui to frown in disgust, and said to the guards who followed behind him: "Come on, take Miss Su out, anyway, she needs help if she has a broken foot." ”
"Ah, don't, don't, I'll go by myself."
How embarrassing it was to be carried out, Su Yuxian almost jumped up, and walked quickly without looking back.
Su Wanyan smiled gratefully at Duanmu Rui and blessed him, "Thank you for the siege, the courtier, the courtier, the courtier, the courtiers are going to hurry up and chase my sister." ”
Duanmu Rui was glad that she could see that she was helping to solve the siege, looking at her back as she left in a hurry, the corners of her mouth hooked up a pleasant arc.
When she returned home, two days later, she received a letter from the prince, asking her to go out to play.
"Wanyan: The feast of the day, the heroic posture of the sword dance makes me unforgettable, I wish the Qing ......"
Su Wanyan looked at this line of words, a triumphant smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, knowing that Duanmu Ming was interested in her, but she wrote a letter of rejection and sent it to him.
She just wants to hook Duanmu Ming, he is a forgetful person, if he wants to see it, I'm afraid he will get tired of it after a few times, only this method of refusing and welcoming can make him miss it for a long time.
Huo Qingqing bribed the prince's close people in the prince's mansion and told Su Yuxian about it.
Su Yuxian was so angry that she fidgeted, threw things and beat people, she finally got married to the prince, if nothing else, she will be the princess, and she will be the queen when the prince ascends the throne, how can she let others get involved in such a good future, not to mention that this person is still Su Wanyan.
She thought of Su Wanyan's amazing sword dance performance at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet that day, and her heart was suddenly full of crisis, thinking that only by getting rid of her could she never suffer in the future.
At night, she wore a black cloak and walked quietly into the deserted firewood room in the outer courtyard with a personal maid.
"The people are here."
The lantern in the maid's hand instantly illuminated a corner of the dilapidated firewood room.
The smell of dust in the room was too much, Su Yuxian waved her hand in disgust in front of her nose, and saw a young manservant in a short suit tied to the corner of the wall who was constantly struggling, he stuffed a cloth ball in his mouth and couldn't speak, he could only make a whining sound.
Su Yuxian motioned to the maid to take away the cloth ball in his mouth, pulled the hood to cover his face, and said in a changed voice: "Your family is in my hands, you must listen to me, and I will release you after doing something for me." ”
"You, who are you?" The man panicked for a moment when he heard that his family was in her hands, and his voice was crying.
"It doesn't matter who I am, you just have to do what I tell you to do, or I'll kill them."
Su Yuxian's voice was eerie and full of murderous intent, which made people shudder.
"I, you, what do you ask me to do." The man trembled with fear.
Seeing that he was so scared, Su Yuxian's face hiding under the hood showed a satisfied smile, and she instructed the maid to explain to the manservant.
"Do you understand? Give you three days, and if you can't complete the task in three days, I'll kill them all. ”
The manservant was already in a cold sweat and tears when he heard what the maid explained, and when he was asked by Su Yuxian's gloomy voice, his eyes were closed, and he nodded desperately.