Chapter 78: The First Chess Game (2)
Although Ah Jing was vicious, she still invited several young ladies from the family in Lingxiao City to be guests in Yinque Palace according to Qing Ling's request.
She originally thought that Qingling was just idle and bored, and wanted to find a few people to chat casually to pass the time, who knew that when leading the female guests and the palace maids who led the way stepped into the side hall of the Yinque Palace, she saw that the hall was covered with bead curtains and embroidered screens, and a few short-footed short couches paved with hibiscus were placed in the center, and the backrests and pillows of brocade and feather satin were readily available, and the lilies in the carved dragon pattern copper tripod were fragrant, and all kinds of furnishings were valuable and elegant.
The doors and windows facing east are wide open, and the jasper-chiseled floor tiles are connected all the way to the water pavilion outside the hall. Looking out from the inside, you can see the flowers and clear streams in the courtyard.
Qing Ling wore a azure long dress today, her hair was curled in a popular falling moon bun, and she was decorated with a set of red gold and colorful gemstone headdresses that Emperor Hao rewarded when she first entered the palace.
Among the female guests who came, except for Ajing's close friend Mo Nan Shiyin, who was already known by Qingling, the rest of them were all meeting for the first time.
Ah Jing has always valued her identity, and has a high standard in choosing friends, and those who are not noble enough, concubines, or pure-blooded are not considered.
Qingling once joked to Ah Jing, "On weekdays, my eyes are above the top, but the person I like is a half-demon, which is simply retribution!" ”
Ah Jing blushed and defended: "How can it be the same? The Jiuqiu Luo clan is a royal family, a royal family! And my father said that they should be traced back carefully, their ancestors are also gods, and they are also related to the ancient emperor. ”
Qingling had already guessed that the identities of the friends invited by Ah Jing this time were not simple, in addition to the young ladies of the Mo Nan clan and the Fang Shan clan, there were also Xi Ying, the daughter of the great general Xi Yang, and Mu Linglu, the daughter of Yu Shi Cheng Mu Duan. The young lady of the Mu family was weak and thin-faced, so she invited an elderly and unmarried aunt in the family to accompany her.
Counting down, plus Qingling and A Jing, there are a total of seven people.
Everyone sat down in turn, and the accompanying maids and palace maids were in the back. Qing Ling raised his hand and made a gesture, and silk and bamboo music sounded in the water pavilion outside the hall, lingering in the faint mist of water and drifting in.
She smiled at the women and said, "Thank you for coming to visit and talk today. I am now confined to the dormitory, and I can't move around, thinking that my words and deeds are wrong and provoke my father's anger, so I simply take this opportunity to get close to the most famous lady in Beijing. ”
Ah Jing introduced the people present one by one, and Qing Ling praised the words and patted the sycophants one by one with the advantages of each person. This one is bright and dignified, the other one is full of manners, in short, he has used all the words he has known all his life to describe the beauty of women......
For flattery, she can be said to be familiar with it since she was a child. When I was in Chongwu, I didn't play tricks on my thighs in front of my master, but unfortunately it had little effect. Now that her identity has changed, the object of the horse is different from the past, and the effect is naturally very different.
You must know that this bottom-up overture is called flattery and patting the horse in the wind, while the top-down overture is approachable and open-minded. Seeing the dignified Emperor Yan, with the aura of a descendant of the Emperor of Heaven, all the female guests dared to look directly at their own weaknesses, and compared with her sister Mu Jing, there was no frame at all, and they couldn't help but have a great impression of Qingling.
Mo Nan Shiyin saw Qingling talking and laughing, swept away the sadness of the previous meeting, and secretly wondered in her heart. She took the tea handed by the maid, and said with a soft smile: "Your Highness, don't be presumptuous. His Royal Highness is a teacher who worships my holy monarch, and his attainments in piano and chess must be the most top-notch, even if he talks about spiritual cultivation alone, we must also be willing to bow down. ”
Miss Xi Ying of the Xi family next to her was born in Jiangmen, and she also witnessed the demeanor of Chongwu's disciples at the Ganyuan Conference that day, and echoed when she heard the words: "What Sister Shiyin said is very true. Chongwu Holy Monarch is the number one master of the Protoss, and no matter how many people want to worship him, they don't have a chance! If I am lucky enough to be able to enter Chongwu to cultivate for a few years, I will definitely make those brothers in my family envy to death! ”
Qing Ling thought to herself, it turned out that the image of the master was so tall, she could catch a few admirers wherever she went. It seems that in the future, when you mix in major circles, you will inevitably have to act under the banner of the master and act conveniently......
Ah Jing leaned on the couch and shook the silk fan, "What do you want such a high cultivation for?" Fighting, killing, and killing are men's business, what is the girl's family blindly mixed with? ”
Fang Shanxia is Ah Jing's cousin, she knows her temperament very well, and knows that she is not happy to be stolen by Qingling, so she said in a round game: "That's the same." However, we Protoss women, improving our cultivation more is also beneficial to maintaining appearance and delaying aging. Just like my aunt, who has just passed her 800th birthday, she has given birth to twins, but her appearance and body shape are still like girls, which makes me envious. ”
Ah Jing heard her cousin praise her mother, and couldn't help but become proud, and quipped: "Cousin Xia's marriage date with Chun Yu's eldest son is near, right?" I'm already worried about having children and body shape. ”
Fang Shanxia's cheeks flushed, and she glanced at Ah Jing with shame and anger. The surrounding women laughed and inquired funny, and the atmosphere suddenly became warm.
Qing Ling lowered his eyes and rubbed his fingertips, his bright eyes turned lightly, summoned the nearby servant Ru Xiang, and whispered a few words.
Less leaning, there are palace maids holding the vermilion lacquer painted gold box for food, kneeling in front of the low couch in front of the begonia flower carving, placed more than ten kinds of various snacks.
The women here are all from famous families and are accustomed to seeing delicious food, but they are also attracted by the food on the plate in front of them.
Qingling leaned over slightly, and introduced them one by one: "This is a delicate flower cup, the petals are made of rose powder, ice crystal pressing, so it is light and sweet, red and brittle, the most beneficial to the skin, the stamen beads in the middle, is made of nectar jelly, itself has the effect of nourishing the body and improving cultivation." This dish is the jade pestle eight treasures, which looks just more colorful than ordinary pastries, and there is actually a lot of knowledge in it......"
She took the trouble to introduce all the dim sum, following the tone of the vendor who used to set up a stall outside Chongwu Mountain to buy fake martial arts cheats, and advocated all kinds of effects of strengthening the body and nourishing the skin, and said: "Actually, I used to be in Chongwu, and I didn't learn much about serious skills, and the only thing I could talk about was to read a lot of scriptures and classics handed down from ancient times." You also know that when the Ancient Heavenly Emperor passed away, he put the treasures, artifacts, and scriptures that he valued the most in Chongwu. ”
Miss Mu Ling Lu has been weak since she was a child, and she is often distressed by this, and when she heard that Qingling knew the ancient method of self-cultivation, she couldn't help but ask. At first, he was a little shy and timid, but seeing that Di Ji answered generously, with a sincere and helpful focus, there was no hint of ridicule and contempt, and finally he gradually talked more.
Xi Ying admired Chongwu very much, so she simply got up and sat down beside Qing Ling and asked her for advice on the method of cultivation.
Everyone chatted for a while, and Ah Jing said that she had a headache and wanted to go back to the palace to rest, and the others were embarrassed to stay for a long time, so they got up and said goodbye.
Qingling didn't force him to stay, he only said some kind words such as chatting very speculatively and looking forward to meeting next time, and asked the maid to bring some jewelry from the emperor to give to everyone, and even the accompanying servants had a small gift.
Ah Jing killed a horse pistol, returned to the Yinque Palace, stared at Qing Ling and asked, "What is your idea?" said that he was looking for someone to chat with you, but it turned out to be a force to win people's hearts there! ”
Ah Jing is not a scheming person, but after all, she grew up in the royal family since she was a child, and she is very familiar with the methods of her mother and brother to buy people's hearts.
Qing Ling looked sad, "I can't help it." You see that I have angered my father and been locked up in the palace, and unlike you, who have the support of your mother and the family, others will despise me. I whispered so lowly, didn't I hope that they could often come to me to be my companion and relieve loneliness? ”
Ah Jing heard her desolate, and she also had a sense of superiority in comparison, so her anger gradually subsided, and she just said, "You don't have to put yourself in such a low position." You are the emperor, if you put on a flattering face to everyone, then you will really lose the face of our royal family! ”
Qing Ling nodded yes on his face, but he had his own ideas in his heart.
A few days later, as she thought, Mu Linglu and Xi Ying visited the palace again. In his words and deeds, he revealed his sincere love for this noble but approachable emperor.
Qingling followed the previous law, while playing Chongwu's signboard, and on the other hand, expressed his desire to make more friends at the right time. The two young ladies Mu and Xi led their friends to come, and the friends spread the word about the friends, and the Yinque Palace gradually became a foyer with visitors every day.
For ordinary ladies from families, it is naturally a very face-saving thing to be able to make friends with the emperor. Moreover, this Qingling Emperor Ji is different from her sister Mu Jing, she does not put on a show, regardless of her family, she is very cordial and friendly to everyone, and sincerely invites her. Over time, in addition to the daughters of the important ministers of the court, the daughters of the families with a slight status in Lingxiao City, but all those who are qualified to be invited in and out of the Vermilion Bird Palace have become Qingling's guests.
Even a few young ladies in Chunyu's family who loved to be lively were afraid of the scandal between Qingling and Chun Yuyan and didn't dare to get too close to her, but later they were dragged to Yinque Palace by their friends to listen to the drama for a long time, and they were reluctant to leave. In the end, the sisters simply hid from their father and often entered the palace to chat with Qingling.
All the imperial gifts that Qing Ling had accumulated before were transferred away. The elixirs sent by the emperor and queen were also mixed into her snacks and made into a miraculous "Chongwu brand" medicine cake.
When she couldn't get any new objects at hand, she rearranged the dramas and texts of those talented and beautiful women she had seen in Youxian Town before, and found a few clever palace maids who had the desire to perform, and performed a song and dance in the water pavilion outside the side hall.
These episodes of wind and snow were originally not elegant, and they were far from the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting that the ladies in Beijing had been exposed to since childhood, but Qingling added some elegant soundtracks and added some court songs and dances, but the original secular atmosphere was covered up a lot.
Although the identities of the characters in and out of the play are different, the emotions are the same. The aristocratic daughters were deeply attracted by the various scenes of love and killing each other in the play, and their eyes have been following Yashuang who is playing the male role on stage, sometimes crying and sometimes sighing. In addition, Qing Ling had half-concealed and half-concealed hints that most of these drama plots were related to the personal experience of Chongwu's disciples, which whetted the appetite of the audience.
There are more people who know each other, and Qingling is beginning to be able to learn a lot of information that he couldn't know before, including about the government and politics, and pure boudoir gossip. She sometimes laughs at herself, she has learned the art of music killing since she was a child, she is proficient in music rhythm and hearing, but now she can only use it to compose opera soundtracks and listen to the corners......