When I returned to the banquet along the way, I saw Wan Zhaoyi and Chen Ji sitting down, and their faces were replaced by faint smiles, as if nothing had happened.

Because the concubine excused herself from illness, the task of preparing the birthday banquet for the queen fell on Wang Guifei and Yan Shuyuan, the wine, food, fruits, utensils and decorations used in the banquet were all organized by the two, according to the queen's "should not be publicized, act frugally" principle, the two spent a lot of effort to make this birthday banquet simple and royal style.

When I was tasting the delicacies, I heard Liu Zhaohua's delicate and fluttering voice, "The queen is lenient and benevolent, and she doesn't want to spend a lot of time in the palace to hold her birthday, so she is all thrifty." It stands to reason that the queen mother has a rare birthday, and she should be lively and happy, but now there is neither sheng song nor dance music, which is a little dull. ”

Looking at the queen's usual smile and silence, Liu Zhaohua continued: "The concubine is willing to do her best to show her singing voice to cheer up the queen and the sisters. ”

The queen smiled lightly: "That's fine, I haven't heard my sister's song for a long time, and this palace also wants to hear it." ”

Liu Zhaohua said with a smile: "The concubine sings with the piano, can you allow the concubine to invite a sister to play the piano?" ”

"Why not, exactly." The queen nodded in agreement.

Liu Zhaohua swept his eyebrows, looked around at the sisters, his eyes were fixed on Wan Zhaoyi, and he said with a smile: "Up and down the palace, Sister Wan is the best at music and rhythm, and she hears the sound of the piano, such as hearing fairy music, and she surrounds the beam for three days without stopping." Is my sister willing to help my sister and do her best for the queen? ”

The queen was brought out, and Wan Zhaoyi was not disappointed, so she responded with a smile: "Since my sister has asked for this, how can my sister not be reasonable." Immediately, he instructed the palace maid beside him to take the piano.

Soon, a red carpet was thrown in the center of the banquet, a piano case and an incense table were placed, and Wan Zhaoyi Yingying sat in the carpet, facing the emperor and queen. There is a lyre on the piano table, and there is a wrong Jinbo mountain furnace on the incense table in front of it, the incense is curling, the smoke is rising, the fragrance is elegant, sweet and pleasant.

The ancients paid attention to "burning incense and playing the piano", and every time the piano was touched, incense must be burned, so as to add interest and poetry, Wan Zhaoyi tuned the sound of the piano, and then nodded to Liu Zhaohua, you can start.

Because my position is placed in the middle of the right, facing the side of Wan Zhaoyi, which is close to it, I can see it more clearly, Wan Zhaoyi sits quietly and gracefully in front of the piano case, her eyebrows are elegant and dusty, and she sits motionless, and it is as beautiful as a painting.

Liu Zhaohua had a tooth and sang in a man's voice: "The beauty is idle and idle, picking mulberry and divergent roads." The soft strips are rising, and the fallen leaves are fluttering. Sleeves to see plain hands, Hao wrist about gold ring. The head is golden, and the waist is cuilang. The pearl is handed over to the jade body, and the wood is difficult among the corals. Luo Yi is fluttering, and the light coat is returned with the wind. Looking forward to the brilliance, the long howl is like an orchid. The apprentices use the rest to drive, and the rest forgets to eat. and by asking her to dwell in peace, at the southern end of the city. Qinglou Linda Road, Gaomen Heavy Pass (2) ......"

Wan Zhaoyi stroked the piano with the sound, the singing voice was clear, like the breeze blowing the air and the clouds stretched, the bamboo dew dripping sounded, the smoke willows were gentle and gentle, the bass was tactful and soft, like the lotus of Wuxiu slowly breaking the waves, the treble was bright and smooth, like fireworks bursting in the night sky. Wan Zhaoyi's ten fingers pick the piano, it is also like a pearl like jade, Langlang correspondingly, beautiful and bright, the piano and song are harmonious, wonderful like an apricot blossom rain, fine and dense on the human body, indescribable cool and numb, body and mind are comfortable and comfortable.

When everyone listened fascinated, my nose was keenly smelling a strange smell, in the Boshan furnace in front of the piano stand, the curling aroma mixed with a pungent smell, impacting my nasal membranes, the smell, like ...... Sulfur and saltpeter mixed with the smell of burning.

No, there is a problem with the incense burner, and I didn't have time to think about it for a while, so I yelled at Wan Zhaoyi, "Avoid that incense burner, it's dangerous!" ”

The piano and singing came to an abrupt halt, and Wan Zhaoyi couldn't react for a while, looking at me in confusion for some reason. I saw that the Boshan furnace was already trembling violently, and there seemed to be something breaking through. I was so anxious that I skipped the dining table, rushed to Wan Zhaoyi's side in a hurry, and pulled her away. The moment I heard the explosion of "jumping", I quickly lay down, held Wan Zhaoyi with one hand, pressed her head with half of my body, faced the stone bricks, and covered my face with my head in my hands and lay on the ground.

With the violent explosion sounding, the sound of desks, piano stands, and incense sticks flying around sounded, and a group of concubines were so frightened that they lost their faces, screamed in shock, and ran away in panic, and the scene was chaotic.

The incense burner was blown apart, and I felt a hot smell on my back, and I knew that the clothes on my back were on fire, so I hurriedly took off my shirt and threw it aside, and fell to the ground with the red charcoal fire that flew from the incense burner to my clothes. But between my legs, the hot sesame oil and charcoal from the incense burner splashed up, and it was already burned to the flesh and skin, and I didn't have to think about what my legs would be ruined if I burned like this again!

"!"

Clever enough to take a pot of flowers from the temple and sprinkle the earth on my legs, the fire was extinguished. But underneath it was a scorching sting, and it hurt so much that my tears rolled out.

"Wanxi!" Chen Qian and Chen Qian ran over as soon as possible, Chen Qian helped Wan Zhaoyi, who was in shock, and said anxiously and worriedly, "How are you?" ”

Wan Zhaoyi was silent and shook her head, Chen Qian looked at it carefully, and made sure that she was not burned before putting down her heart, and then thought of me, and saw that I was half-supported by Li Fei, and there was a large piece of blood and sludge under my legs, and asked me in some horror, "Are you seriously injured?" ”

Saying that, I wanted to reach out and wipe the mud off it to check the injury, but I quickly knocked his hand off and said angrily, "Don't move! ”

This movement caused the burn on my leg, the pain intensified, and my tears couldn't help but fall again. Chen Qian probably saw me shed tears for the first time, so she comforted me in a panic, "Okay, okay, I don't move, I don't move." ”

The pain was unbearable, and Chen Qian yelled at the palace people with some anxiety and irritability: "What about the imperial doctor, pass on the imperial doctor!" ”

The palace people were so frightened that they hurriedly ran to ask for a doctor, and after the panic, the concubines also calmed down, and at this time they all came over to comfort me, and I had no intention of distinguishing between true feelings and false intentions. I was tormented by the burning pain under my legs, and I only gritted my teeth and endured it, and I had no time to care.

Chen Qian picked me up, rushed to the side hall like a wind, put me on a soft couch, held one of my hands tightly with his thick hand, and said a little nervously: "Qing'er, if you bear with me, the imperial doctor will come soon." ”

When the imperial doctor came, after seeing my bloody legs, he sighed helplessly and said: "Fortunately, the fire was extinguished in time and did not hurt the muscles and bones, but the burns on the legs of the mother are more serious, and it will ...... in the future." I'm afraid I'll leave a scar. ”

Chen Qian frowned, and glared at the Imperial Doctor with a cold face, "I don't want to hear you say this, I want you to do everything you can to heal Hua Zhaorong's injuries no matter what, and you can't leave a trace and recover as before." Otherwise, I'm the only one who asks. ”

"Yes, yes, the minister will do his best to heal Niangniang's leg injury." The Imperial Physician hurriedly nodded in reassurance.

"How is Sister Zhaorong's injuries?" Wang Guifei lifted the bead curtain, and followed by a group of palace concubines walked in.

"You still have the face to ask!" Chen Qian swept over Wang Guifei and Yan Shuyuan with anger, "How could the good incense burner burst open, what kind of birthday banquet did you prepare, just one time there was such a fork!" ”

The emperor was angry, and Wang Guifei and Yan Shuyuan had no choice but to plead guilty: "It's all the fault of the concubines, the concubines don't take good care of them, and the concubines are guilty." ”

Chen Qian snorted coldly, stopped looking at them, and instead instructed the queen, "It's up to you to find out that the incense burner burst for no reason, and the queen will do things, I am more at ease." ”

"Yes, the concubine is ordered." The queen said solemnly.

After some bandaging and treatment, I was sent back to Yilan Palace, lying on the bed, Chen Qian was lying on the side, looking at me with deep eyes, the emotions in his eyes were a little complicated, and he slowly spoke, "Thank you for saving Wanxi." ”

Such an arrogant Chen Qian would actually thank me? It's really strange, Wan Zhaoyi's charm is really great. I pouted and said, "I saved Wan Zhaoyi because she helped me, came forward to clarify my suspicions, and returned her favor." What's more, Wan Zhaoyi is such a woman who is icy and jade, anyone will come to the rescue. As for the word 'thanks', His Majesty's gratitude Qingqiang can't afford it. ”

"Don't be angry with me." Chen Qian suddenly sighed faintly, "I know that you are a woman with temperament, and you don't want to show weakness to others, and you have always repaid virtue with virtue and grievances, so you will want to find me to avenge that arrow." But when you took me to that ship, I had never suffered such humiliation, and how could I be the king of a country...... Humiliated by a little woman, I am really angry that I will keep thinking about rectifying you...... I admit that in the past, it was I who was wrong first, and this is the end of your grievances with me. Let the past grievances pass, let's let go of the past and stop hating each other, how about it? ”

Bing released the previous suspicion, he said it so lightly, he once wanted to put me to death, an arrow of revenge, punishment and kneeling, designed to let Kong Guifei beat me half to death, Fubi Pavilion fell into the lake...... The piles and piles are all his masterpieces, didn't that make me tortured, and almost lost my life, and now he actually told me to release his suspicions? What a thick skin!

I thought so in my heart, but I didn't show it, after all, I don't have the strength to fight against him now, and my life is in his hands, so it is not appropriate to clash with him head-on, so I can only suppress the hatred for the time being. I asked, "Then will Your Majesty let me out of the palace?" ”

"Nope." Chen Qian vetoed it as soon as he opened his mouth, "It's a matter of national interests, and I can't let you go." ”

My face immediately turned cold, "This is what Your Majesty said about 'Ice Release Suspicion'?" ”

Chen Qian also seemed to feel weak-hearted, and avoided my gaze and said: "Anyway, Qing'er, you just stay in the palace, I won't treat you badly." ”

Exegesis:

(1) From Tao Yuanming's "Nine Songs of Quasi-Ancient Times" by Tao Yuanming of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, "The upper string is shocked to say goodbye to the crane, and the lower string is solitary." ”

(2) From Cao Zhi's "Beauty Chapter" of the Three Kingdoms