Chapter 014: Sword Dance
Li Xuan'er, who was standing outside the door of the main hall and waiting, heard what was happening inside clearly.
She took advantage of the guards outside the door to enter, and when she stood in a row along the wall, she also entered the main hall and stood inside the door. Here, the people in the hall, she has a clear view.
When she greeted her in the apse today, Lu Min greeted her, but she didn't get up to salute back.
Although he has let go in this life, he has no grudges against her. But thinking of her previous life, she had sow discord in front of Zheng Hao's parents, and instigated Zheng Hao's younger brother to harm herself, and was taught a lesson by her father.
Thinking of her pestering Zheng Hao, she even had to follow him to Luoyang to take up a post, so she didn't get angry.
Now, she is inexplicably in the main hall, provoking the contradiction between the scholars and the generals, and she is really a talent.
The people in the hall stood up halfway, and what made Li Xuan'er strange was that Zheng Hao, who was sitting in the back row, not only didn't stand up, but also pressed his father who wanted to stand up.
Isn't this the little lady you're going to marry? Why did someone snatch a kiss, and you still sit so steady?
Zheng Hao's eyes inadvertently swept to the princess standing by the door, and the two of them were each thieves, and they pretended not to see it.
The saint on the dragon chair was sitting on pins and needles at this time, and what he was most proud of was that he had the means to make all forces safe and sound, so it would be difficult for him to draw his sword and face each other, if he had to be superior to one another.
Li Xuan'er whispered a few words to a little eunuch, and soon, she heard the beating of the drums, and the saint was about to get angry: The field is going to fight, who is not afraid of too much, and gives the war dance music?
I saw the princess holding the sword, floating in broken steps, and said with the beating drum in her mouth:
"Look at the smoke everywhere and the tension...... Why? β
In front of her father and grandmother, she gave a salute: "My daughter offered a sword dance and wished my father a long life." This dance is called "Hu No Return", please ask your father to laugh. β
The sword dance of the Celestial Dynasty has been around for a long time, but when the women dance, they are mostly soft, so the princess opens with a move "Phoenix Dance Nine Days" fluttering and flickering, wandering between the left and right seats.
As the dance music began, the dancer was the princess of Wanshou again, and everyone standing in the hall sat back.
The rhythm of the order, on the majestic hall of the Lin De Palace, made people hold their breath, and everyone's eyes were focused on the princess alone.
Lu Min, who was about to exit the palace, stopped, she looked back at the princess, and her eyes stayed on He Quanhao again. I saw that he just grinned and watched the princess dance the sword, as if he had completely forgotten that he had just said that he wanted to marry himself.
The He family is the emperor of the six counties of Weibo, and he is too old, today, she wants to ask Zheng Hao face to face, if he is not willing to marry him, it is better to marry this prince of the soil.
Lu Min made up his mind, took the opportunity to glance at Zheng Hao, who was sitting in the back row, and saw that he almost didn't stick his eyes to the princess, and with a "hum" in his nose, he turned around and left the hall.
Suddenly, the order came to an abrupt end, the princess raised the sword in her hand, the murderous aura was fierce, and the sword wind danced into a silver barrier.
The music started again, and the princess flew up, no longer a soft phoenix, but a vigorous dragon.
Everyone in the palace seemed to have forgotten the previous unhappiness and were all amazed.
It was also the first time for the saint to see his daughter dancing the sword dance, and the appearance of swallowing mountains and rivers was not like that of a naΓ―ve boudoir woman. What's even better is that the imminent crisis just now was quietly resolved by the princess.
After the princess danced, the drums rushed again, and four dancers came in outside the palace gate.
The princess danced in front of General He Shao, and with a twist of the sword, she stabbed at his seat, and He Quanhao was so frightened that she jumped backwards and knocked over the tables behind her, but the dance music did not stop, and the four dancers danced as usual.
The princess handed the sword to He Quanhao and said with a smile:
"I have heard that General He is brave and mighty, why is he afraid of even a sword without a blade in the little woman's hand?"
He Quanhao was frightened into a cold sweat and covered up: "You attacked suddenly, and you would have been defenseless, so I was scared by you." β
The princess flicked her fingers on the sword, making a "ding" sound, and she lowered her voice and said:
"This time you are defenseless, in the future, your subordinates will be treated harshly by you, withholding military salaries and salaries, and they will be unbearable, leading to a mutiny in the military camp...... Don't be defenseless. β
Her voice was neither loud nor small, and it happened to be heard by several people in front of her, left and right.
He Quanhao was shocked, looked around and left, and saw that Shi Yi, the deputy envoy of Fengxiang Jiedu, was trying to hold back his laughter, and the king of Di next to him also cast a disdainful look at him, and he was annoyed and angry.
Didn't the saint never care about their "three towns of Heshuo"? Why is he so clear about what he is doing? If it weren't for the meaning of the saint, with her little princess, she would never say such a thing.
His eyes showed a fierce light, and he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Who gave you the guts?!" β
The princess gave him a contemptuous look, and did not bother to answer.
She pulled a sword flower, and returned to the middle of the hall without a trace to do the closing dance, the sword shadow in her hand was like the eight waters of Chang'an, the calm waves under the sunset.
The eldest prince Li Wen was sitting behind King Di, and he heard the words of his sister and He Quanhao clearly, and he happened to see his fierce gaze.
He was only seventeen years old, He Quanhao was about thirty, he was strong, and he was born in the military camp, but he still clenched his fists firmly.
After the princess's sword dance ended, Yang Gonggong announced that everyone would move to the square in front of the palace to watch the polo match.
Of course, Li Xuan'er would not delay, she glanced at her eldest brother who was frowning, and hurried to the apse.
The dance is just an interlude, and the polo match is when something happens.
"Cousin, come one?"
Li Wen was about to go to find Zheng Hao when two cousins stopped him. They took the betel nut provided by the palace in their hands, put it in their mouths and chewed it.
He waved his hand and said, "My toothache has been very bad in the past two days, and I can't chew this, so please poop." β
His sister had long reminded him not to chew betel nut, drinking at the banquet would make it easier to blush and heartbeat if he chewed betel nut again.
In particular, the peach blossom brew presented by the Xichuan Festival envoy is soaked in a lot of medicinal herbs, and it is eaten with betel nut, which is not only easy to get drunk, but also easy to control himself.
With this delay, he could no longer see Zheng Hao's shadow in the hall.
Zheng Hao, who was being looked for everywhere by the eldest prince, had just received a word that Cui Jingyun, the Hanlin medical officer, was waiting for him in the Huiqing Pavilion outside the Lin De Palace.
Cui Jingyun has been living in the medicine house behind Hanguang Hall all the year round since he became the chief medicine of the Imperial Medical Department, and the two have not seen each other for a long time.
As soon as he met Qingting, he saw a person coming over on the Huacong Road, but it was not Cui Jingyun, but Lu Min.
"Mrs. Lu? How could it be you? Zheng Hao didn't expect that Lu Min would look for him.
"Zheng Shizhi, please forgive the little woman for being abrupt. You and I are not unrelated, I wonder if you remember our childhood engagement? Speaking in this kind of place, Lu Min can only get straight to the point.
"It was just a joke of the elders, you and I were still young at the time, so naturally we didn't count. Mrs. Lu, I still have something to do, so I'm leaving. β
Zheng Hao was unwilling to delay, raised his legs and walked out of the Huiqing Pavilion and walked towards the square in front of the palace.
Lu Min was stunned, stood for a moment, and she also left the pavilion.
She has already inquired, the Queen Mother does not go to see polo, she wants to ask the Queen Mother to let the Holy Lord marry, then she can set her life's events today.
Looking at Lu Min's departing figure, a man behind the flowers smiled:
"Brother He, don't you want the Holy One to marry her? She was rejected, you go, just right! β
Another burly man snorted heavily in his nose, a mouthful of red spit, and spat on the mud ground with betel nut dregs:
"Phew! Mean woman! β