Chapter 22
Not long after, the emperor and queen also entered the table, and the banquet officially began.
The Empress Dowager looked at the direction of Chu Beili and said, "Li'er, the mourning family heard about the lady in your house, but it's amazing. ”
"The Imperial Grandmother has won the prize!" Chu Beili replied with both hands.
"I heard that the cheongsam that has been popular in Zhaojing City recently is from her hand, come, come forward and let the mourning family take a closer look." The Queen Mother beckoned to Zhen Xi.
Zhen Xi got up slowly, followed the appearance of the woman in the costume drama, slowly stepped forward, put his hands together, put them between his foreheads, and knelt down to salute.
"Look up." The Queen Mother said.
Zhen Xi raised his head when he heard the sound, and the corners of his mouth were smiling.
"It's a sign of the people."
The Queen Mother's tone was calm, and Zhen Xi couldn't hear whether she was praising or deprecating what she said, so she didn't answer, lest she make too many mistakes.
"When you're free, make some interesting clothes for the mourners." The Queen Mother took out a bracelet from her hand, handed it to the maid beside her, and continued: "The mourning family doesn't have any good gifts to give, this jade bracelet is made of good jade, and it will be given to you today, go down." ”
Zhen Xi took the reward, thanked him and retreated.
This queen mother is in the deep palace all the year round, she is very bored, and she is naturally interested in those new things, so she was specially asked to enter the palace to participate in the banquet, probably so that Zhen Xi could make clothes for her!
"Imperial grandmother, my son has a proposal." Sun Jialan, the eldest princess who was sitting next to Chu Beiting, paused and continued: "It's rare for everyone to get together to admire the moon today, why don't you let these sisters here chant poems and sing the moon, stroke the qin and dance, how about it?" ”
To put it bluntly, it's a show! Didn't this eldest grandson Jialan think that she, a woman in the rivers and lakes, would not know all those talents except for martial arts, and deliberately came up with this idea to make her ugly in public, right? And maybe from these famous and noble girls, Princess Li can be selected to come out and kill her!
"The mourning family also feels that these programs are too old-fashioned and boring, and the princess's proposal is very good, so ...... It's up to you to preside over it. ”
"Yes! Imperial Grandmother! The eldest grandson Jialan smiled and took the order.
"Then let's start with Erchen!" After saying that, he ordered someone to carry the guzheng and put it in the center.
She was slightly blessed and sat down gracefully. The jade fingers are lightly raised, revealing the slender and white jade fingers, touching the surface of the piano, contemplating and pondering, the sound of the piano sounded in vain on the field, euphemistic but resolute, trickling in, like mountains and flowing water, bubbling charm......
Everyone listened attentively, and when she finished playing the song, her jade fingers were lightly raised, and when she got up, she was still unsatisfied!
"Good!" The crowd applauded without hesitation.
"This princess is not the first talented woman in Zhaojing, she can play a good piano, and after the song is finished, she is still surrounded by lingering sounds, and her ears are full of joy, good! Reward! The Queen Mother couldn't help but applaud.
Next, all the ladies performed in turn, some chanted poems, and some danced gracefully, which was wonderful.
Look at the center of the hall, Li Yu'er, the daughter of Scholar Li, is dancing, like a butterfly flying among the flowers, and like a swallow flying lightly, which makes people can't take their eyes off it! After the dance, there was another round of applause.
"Such a fairy and beautiful, she is worthy of being the daughter of Scholar Li! Ok, good, good! Reward! "The Queen Mother is in a good mood.
Now there is only one left who has not appeared, and that is Zhen Xi.
Although Zhen Xi is the person next to King Li, she is only a concubine, and her grade is the lowest, so she falls last.
Zhen Xi got up, stood on the main hall, and pleaded: "The concubine has a reluctant request." ”
"You say." The Queen Mother was in a very good mood at this time, and she was able to comply with her general requests.
"The concubine wants to change her clothes, you nobles wait for a while, I hope all the nobles here will understand!" Zhen Xi Road.
"Go, Mourning agreed!" The Queen Mother waved her hand.
"Sister, isn't she nervous, if you can't do it, then forget it, and this palace won't embarrass you." The eldest grandson Jialan pretended to be considerate.
"Back to the crown princess, the dance is needed, the concubine is just going to change into a set of suitable clothes, and she will come in a moment." After speaking, he bowed to everyone and said, "Ladies and gentlemen." ”
Just kidding, she was a dancer in her previous life, and if she couldn't even do a dance, wouldn't it be a joke!
Zhen Xi asked the eunuch to take her to the dancing girl's resting place, and asked them for a set of water-sleeved dance clothes to change into.
Not long after, on the square outside the Chuhe Palace, a woman wearing a water-blue gradient water-sleeved dance dress appeared, her three thousand waist-length green silk was pulled into a simple bun, and the remaining ink silk hung down on the slender waist, and the slender and slender body burst out with shocking soft curves.
Everyone here was amazed!
"When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky, I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace, what year is it tonight..."
Her singing voice is the legendary heavenly sound, right? Like a kingfisher playing water, like a yellow warbler singing, warm, flowing into the heart.
She bent her waist smartly, looked back and smiled, and danced lightly, like a fairy, as if she came from a dream, and her complexion was like snow looming between her feet. A full moon in the sky is shy, and the woman under the moon sometimes raises her wrists and lowers her eyebrows, sometimes she gently relaxes her hands, and her jade sleeves are windy, elegant and vigorous.
The singing voice is clear in the ears, the flowing water is like a dragon flying, like a phoenix dancing, sometimes throwing sleeves and sometimes receiving.
This graceful dance stunned everyone.
Chu Beiting's eyes were about to pop out, he didn't expect that Chu Beili's eyes were really good, and the eldest grandson Jialan on the side was so angry that his saliva was about to flow out when he saw his husband staring at Zhen Xi! And when she thought that all this was the stage she set up for Zhen Xi, she was even more annoyed!
Chu Beili looked at Zhen Xi, who was dancing and singing like a fairy, and was also amazed! He had never seen such a Zhenxi!
Zhen Xi, how many treasures do you still have on you, which this king has not discovered? Chu Beili thought in his heart.
After singing the song, the dance ended, Zhen Xi was a little out of breath, fine beads of sweat were on her forehead, she blessed her body and sat back beside Chu Beili.
Chu Beili reached over with one hand to hold Zhen Xi's hands, and held a handkerchief in the other hand to help Zhen Xi wipe the beads of sweat, as if he was declaring sovereignty to those who had bad thoughts.
"What to do? It's time for this king to get caught up in it! Chu Beili said softly.
Zhen Xi glanced at him and said, "I'm not the only woman who can't extricate yourself, right?" "To look at him is to see a big carrot with a heart that loves one.
"The mourning family really can't be described in words, this woman is really extraordinary. Reward! Reward! The Queen Mother may have been shocked by this heart-warming singing and dancing!
"Yes, Queen Mother, no wonder that kid Li Er is obsessed with her, and she is indeed a talented woman! I was impressed! The emperor also sighed.
And Scholar Li, who disdained to look at Zhen Xi before, also looked at Zhen Xi, not because of Zhen Xi's exquisite singing and dancing, but because the words sung in that song are rich in connotation, leading people up and not low! That's a good word! What kind of woman can be in such a situation?
As everyone knows, that word was not written by Zhen Xi, but by Su Shi!