Chapter Twenty-Four: The Winter Solstice King's City Banquet 2
"Concubines, concubines, go now, the king is afraid that he has a cold." Yi Jiang should accept it, and told Shan Yu again, "The decoction is waiting for the king to drink." Yi Jiang arranged for Shan Yu to take good care of King Wu of Zhou, and retreated silently.
The queen felt like a thousand knives in her heart, held back her tears, and led the order to go to the shrine.
Aunt Shan Yu is a person like ice and snow, Yi Jiang only explained a few words, she knew it, and tried her best to serve the king.
The fragrant and sweet red bean soup and roasted lamb leg replaced the dinner party. After the dinner, everyone should go back to their homes to rest. Wu Yi was determined to be in the chaos and followed two people closely, one was Wu Genglu's father, and the other was Wu Geng Yu Yin. She was going to run to say a few words to her two brothers, even if it was one, it would be good.
Wu Yiding saw from afar that after the two elder brothers said goodbye to the prince, they walked around the road from the Zhengyuan Palace, she was fast, and she was about to catch up with them, but unexpectedly, a voice sounded behind her.
"A female concubine who has lost her country, but she is also blessed to come to my palace to participate in the state banquet, what kind of limelight does she have?" Princess Sakura scolded loudly, and every word in her voice was provocative.
"In Xiawu, meet Princess Sakura." Wu Yiding turned around and found that this loud scolding of himself was none other than Princess Ying'er, and in a hurry, he bowed to her. The clever Wu Yiding knew that the most important thing at this time was to meet his two royal brothers, and naturally he didn't want to have any entanglement with Princess Sakura.
"Yo! How can you be so polite today, isn't it? Haha, I see, sneaky, which brother Wang wants to me? Princess Ying'er opened her eyes and looked around, but she didn't find anything, she approached Wu Yiding, and didn't let her get up, but she was aggressive, "What's the limelight?" Don't look at it, whose royal city is this? Today, I must teach you a lesson. ”
Princess Ying'er only took two personal maids, looking around at no one, and stretched out her hand to fight Wu.
Wu Yiding will not let Princess Ying'er beat herself, although she bowed her eyebrows and bowed to her, just listening to the wind, she knew where her hand was, just stretched out her hand, and held Princess Ying'er's wrist, and said: "Today I came to the palace, it can be regarded as an invitation to come, please Princess Ying'er Don't hurt people with your mouth, don't lose the dignity of your princess of the royal family, and hit people, it is even more unreasonable."
Wu Yiding knew that Princess Ying'er was very jealous of herself, and blamed her for saving Xiaogou that day, and Xiaogou was grateful to herself, but she was blamed by Princess Ruiduo. Princess Sakura is narrow-minded and selfish, she can't tolerate her, not to mention that Wu Yiding won the first place in the debate, stealing her limelight, this time the state banquet in the palace, the Rite School Pavilion ranked her in front of Sakura, this Princess Sakura is more temperamental, so she followed Wu Yiding, and she had to teach her a lesson.
But Princess Sakura only knows one thing, not the other. Wu Yiding not only learned etiquette at the age of three, but also learned swords at the age of six, and her strength is incomparable.
Princess Ying'er was captured by Wu Yiding with one hand, and she couldn't move, and she was even more annoyed in her heart, so she scolded loudly: "You slave and maid who lost your country, your own country was destroyed by us, but what you are still doing here is nothing more than a shame." Hmph, he'll let my father kill you, you all. ”
Princess Ying'er was so angry that she didn't choose what to say, and in her anger, she poked at the most painful place in Wuyiding. At today's congratulatory ceremony, Wu Yiding heard the barbarians talk about his brother Wang, and he had already held back his anger in his heart, and at this time, Princess Ying'er sprinkled salt on her wound again, scolding Wu Yiding as "the daughter of the dead country", and asked King Wu of Zhou to kill Wu Yiding and them. Wu Yiding listened, the anger in her heart was unbearable, she threw her hand, where is Princess Ying'er her opponent, under this throw, she has been thrown a meter away and fell to the ground.
"Ahh Kill, slave, slave! ”
Princess Ying'er had suffered such a grievance, Wu Yiding dared to treat her like this, it was really unexpected for her, after she fell in pain, she simply lay on the ground, crying and screaming, the two maids were frightened, and hurried to help her.
"Sakura, Sakura, what's wrong with you?" At this moment, around the corner, two chariots came over, and seeing this situation, the chariots had already stopped, and a gorgeously dressed woman hurriedly walked down the chariots and shouted in a lost voice.
"Mother! Woo woo, she! This slut, she beat me and insulted my daughter. Princess Ying'er was pouring herself, and found that her mother, Mrs. Qiu, and Mrs. Wang Gui, were coming to this side, and she cried loudly, pointing at Wu Yiding, and a wicked person came to sue first.
"Oh?" While helping Princess Ying'er up, Mrs. Huagui stretched out her hand and slapped each of the two servants, saying, "Useless minions!" After beating the servants, Mrs. Huagui stared at Wu Yiding.
"Who are you?" Madame Huagui asked coldly.
At this time, Mrs. Wang Gui Yao Yufeng also got off the sedan chair, and the temple people around her erected sons, and the servants and maids followed them, not to mention that there were fifteen or sixteen people. When she saw Princess Sakura fall to the ground, she couldn't help but be secretly amused in her heart. This uneducated Princess Sakura, who did she meet today, and she actually let her fall to the ground and be taught a lesson, she really deserved it! But Mrs. Wang Gui has always been quite deep in the city, and on the surface, she is silent, pretending to look at Princess Ying'er's "injury" on the side, and also staring at Wu Yiding.
Wu Yiding's clenched fists slowly loosened, her two Wang brothers had already walked away, at this time, she had no thought of chasing Wang brother, she must never see her again, just think about it.
It's just that this Sakura princess is really hateful, just now, I really hated to kill her with one palm. But, forget it!
The two ladies that Wu Yi saw in Dingding, one of them was holding Princess Ying'er with a caring look, and the other must be her mother, the noble lady, who was undoubtedly the concubine. The other, the other was even more gorgeous, and the eyes that stared at him were as cold as ice, as deep as the starry sky, and a pair of beautiful eyes, like, yes! It's like a throat sealing sword, it can kill.
"Dingding, Wuding, you, why did you come here?" At this time, Wu Mu Nu chased after her from nowhere, she shouted, while running, just ran here, seeing this situation, Wu Mu Nu turned around, and obediently and skillfully bowed to the two ladies, kowtowed, "Wu Mu Nu meets the two Niangniang, Niang Niang Jin'an!" ”
"Get up!" Mrs. Huagui saw that there was another girl, and was thinking about how to deal with the person who "beats" Princess Ying'er, but when she saw the girl worshipping herself, she was upset, and before Mrs. Wang Gui could speak, Qiu Ji waved her hand and let Wumu Nu get up.
"You, what's wrong with you?" Wu Mu Nu saw that Wu Yiding was stunned there, and stepped forward to ask.
"You, you two slaves of the dead country, still dare to bully this princess? You, you ......" Princess Ying'er saw that Wu Mu Nu was also coming, and she was even more angry, and choked up and scolded together.
"Oh? Who is my Tao? It turns out that you two are the Wu sisters who just went to the congratulatory table hall and lay on the ground like dogs to pay tribute to my king? Hahahaha! It's ridiculous, the dog of the dead country, how dare to beat the princess of the dynasty? "Mrs. Huagui was still hesitant, since the last time there was a fuss on Phoenix Terrace, she already knew that the battle between the palace and the palace was fierce, and since then she has relented slightly. When I saw a little girl today, I dared to push the princess, and at first I was worried that this little girl might have any background behind it, and she might have a big background, so she didn't dare to deal with it arrogantly. When she listened to the introduction of Wu Mu Nu, she already knew in her heart that this girl was the orphan of the King of Xu, sneered a few times, and said, "Presumably my family is too good to dare to be so presumptuous, little dog, what are you still doing here?" Why don't you bring her over for me? Mrs. Huagui then shouted to the temple man with her.
Wu Yiding did not make any resistance, and was escorted to Mrs. Hua by two tall temple people.
"Say, who gave you the guts to hurt my princess?" Mrs. Huagui gritted her teeth, pinched Wu Yiding's little face with her hand, and popped out a few words from between her teeth.
Wu Mu Nu was already so frightened that she knelt on the side, not daring to speak.
"Palm!" Seeing that Wu Yiding was silent, Mrs. Huagui only stared at herself, and her heart rose angrily, letting the two temple people on the side slap their mouths.
At this time, Wu Yinding, if it was changed to the night dark, even ten temple people would not be able to help her, but at this time, she had to endure it. She remembered every word Aunt Yuxi said: "Living in someone else's royal city, save your life first, and only then will you have a chance." ”
The two temple people slapped each other, and in the blink of an eye, they had slapped more than 20 times, Wu Yiding gritted his teeth, blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth, and he just didn't speak.
Mrs. Wang Gui was just watching the play on the side, and she didn't speak, but she was very curious, the little girl in front of her, no matter how the temple people beat her, her body kept standing straight, her legs did not tremble, her waist did not bend, she neither asked for mercy nor pleaded, there was only hatred in her eyes. In Mrs. Wang Gui's heart, she couldn't help but feel a trace of inexplicability.
"Mother, mother, you let me find it." At this moment, another girl ran from the side of the eaves, and said loudly and cheerfully like a bird, it turned out to be Princess Ruiduo.
"Duo'er, Duo'er, the mother concubine is here." When Mrs. Wang Gui saw that it was Rui Duo, she reversed the cold expression just now, smiled and called cordially.
"You guys? Stop! Don't hit her! Princess Ruiduo ran closer, and when she saw that the temple people were fighting, she shouted loudly.
"Duo'er, let's go, it's cold here, it's fast, it's getting dark, the big tiger in the garden will come out to play in a while, and the beast exorcism game will begin!" How smart Mrs. Wang Gui is, "treating the young son of the widowed merchant" is a national policy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, how could she not know that the king treats the heirs of the king of Su preferentially, and has his own schemes. Today, this noble lady dealt with this little girl like this, but she was afraid that she had already been burned, and at this time, Rui Duo came and just left, leaving the connection.
After all, Princess Ruiduo was still young, and as soon as she heard that there was a tiger driving game, she happily left with Mrs. Wang Gui.
After Qiu Ji saw Duan Ji leave, she became more and more obscene. She saw that Wu Yiding just didn't speak, so she ordered the temple to say: "Drag it out, the snow outside is still good, let her kneel, douse her with water to wake her up, and see that this unreasonable little slave will dare to be disrespectful to his master in the future." ”
The four temple people set up Wu Yiding, went out of the corridor, and turned into the courtyard in the other direction of the Shentai, where there were few people coming and going, so they took Wu Yi Ding to kneel on the snow, and splashed his head with cold water.
Wu Mu Nu was already so frightened that her legs were weak, and she didn't dare to plead, but she knelt under the eaves of the porch, and when she saw Wu Yiding being punished, she didn't dare to make a sound, nor did she dare to escape.
Let's say that Princess Ruiduo went out, so naturally she had to see the beasts expelled from the garden at night. This is the last ritual of the winter solstice in all years, called to drive out the plague and drive out evil spirits.
Princess Wanwan and Princess Baozhu also went, Rui Duo watched the exorcism accompanied by the servants, and Mrs. Wang Gui had already returned to Yifeng Hall to rest. The beast exorcism game went on for a long time, and after looking at it, Rui Duo suddenly remembered Wu Yiding, and she said to Princess Wanwan and Princess Baozhu: "Sister Ying'er is bullying people again. At this moment, the queen's guard of honor came, and the crown prince was among them.
"Mother, mother! Sister Sakura is bullying, they are beating people. Listening to Rui Duo tell the story of Wu Yiding and Ying'er like a story, he couldn't bend his breath and said to Yi Jiang in a loud voice.
"Wanwan is making up stories again, right? Brother Prince knows you, every time you see a ghost, you think of a lot of stories, right? The crown prince said with a smile to the little princess.
On this day, everyone had a lot of fun, and everyone was infected by the atmosphere of the first winter solstice festival of the new dynasty. At this time, most of the guests had dispersed, and the prince felt very relaxed, scratched the nose of the princess, and said to the princess.
"No, Rui Duo saw it, Wu, Wu, Sister Ding, she quarreled with Princess Ying'er, and Qiu Niangniang was beating her." Princess Wanwan said seriously.
"Huh? It's true? The first to be surprised was the Queen, who asked softly.
"Yes, yes! Queen, Queen! Hurry up and save her, otherwise she will be beaten to death by Qiu Niangniang. Princess Ruiduo said in a coquettish voice.
When the quick-witted queen heard this, she knew in her heart that what Ruiduo said was true. She knows the temperament of the noble lady too well, and she knows the arrogant nature of Princess Sakura and her unscrupulous personality.
After all, the queen is the mother of a nation, and she understands the seriousness of the matter and the adverse effects of beating the heirs of the previous dynasty. When she hurried there, Wu Yiding had almost frozen into an iceman.
The queen ordered the crown prince to oversee the tiger game, and she calmed down the turmoil. On the prince's side, his mother's fate was difficult to disobey, but he was so anxious that he quietly ordered the last son to go and inspect, and at that time, Wu Yiding was frozen to the point that only half of his life was left.
The queen rebuked Madame Huagui's stupidity, and ordered the Uchiji to send a large amount of charcoal and frostbite medicine to Kakuin, and Suedenko personally escorted Wu Yinding's carriage back to Kakuin.
After the winter solstice, spring is not far away.