Chapter 258: Night Banquet
The people who enter the palace have been taught thousands of etiquette methods, and everything requires a ceremony, so no matter how big or small the palace is, they love to hold banquets to celebrate.
The origin of this banquet seems to be varied, but in fact, the content is the same, but it is to pick a place with a good view or a heroic field, put some golden bowls and ivory chopsticks, and add the same dishes and fashionable food, accompanied by the usual people, this banquet is complete.
After a pleasantry, chrysanthemum wine osmanthus stuffed peach melol was presented, push the cup and change the cup to drink a circle, there are always some versatile concubines to prepare, eat enough to sing a few times and dance a few times to write a few hymns, lucky to get a reward, bad luck in vain, and then began to talk about the east and west family affairs messy to find a conversation to talk about for a while, a set of processes to go down, the banquet should be dispersed.
To sum up, the so-called grand banquet is that people rely on these names to get together to eat, drink and have fun, and then talk and laugh. However, the footsteps are trapped in the walls of the square palace, and the concubines who can't expect the king to come, count the days day by day with their fingers, looking forward to the arrival of various festivals and celebrations to pass the loneliness.
And the king enjoys the reverence of the people of the world, so he has to care about the hardships of the people of the world, and often can't spare time to enjoy the scenery of the four seasons of flowers, and often has the opportunity to join in these lively, only the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Banquet such as the symbol of reunion can not be shirked.
Come to think of it, no matter what, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, no matter how unapproachable the emperor is, he always has to take out a day or two to make a center for the beauties of this huge harem, so that those who have carefully prepared good songs and dances can have a little motivation to stir up the atmosphere.
The Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet is in full bloom, the fragrance of wine is permeated, the silk and bamboo are melodious, and the eyes are full of graceful and elegant neon clothes, that Sun Fangyi's dance style in the palm is wonderful, the orchid finger lightly entangles the candlelight, and the waist is twisted more smoothly than the water snake, this performance is really not inferior to the ancestor of this dance, Zhao Feiyan.
The song fell and danced, Sun Fangyi tactfully accepted Fan, and immediately won applause from all sides, taking advantage of the divergence of everyone's attention, Yu Zhao retracted his gaze, tilted his head slightly, and looked at the upper seat.
Unexpectedly, Yu Zhao happened to collide with Chu Zikai's sight, Yu Zhao hurriedly dodged and retracted, and felt that this move wanted to cover up, there was no silver three hundred taels here, and when he returned after the banquet, he would inevitably be teased by her, so he simply let go of his cheeks, turned his head and looked at him openly.
"It seems that this world-famous palm dance is outdated in this dynasty, so it can't attract your attention, just watch me,"
Successfully grabbed the bag, Chu Zikai smiled proudly, and generously stretched out his hand to Yu Zhao, and invited: "It's okay, you can watch whatever you like, but how tired you have to turn your head all the time, why don't you sit down."
How strange it is, Chu Zikai, who has always shown himself with a serious appearance, actually made such a move in front of everyone, Yu Zhao was stunned, slightly shocked, and the concubines were even more surprised, the dance that Sun Fangyi had carefully prepared for a few months, compared with Chu Zikai's move, it immediately became boring.
The field was silent, and the concubines were only thinking to see how Yu Zhao reacted, and Zhao Guiren, who was still performing in the hall, opened his mouth and sang a soft little song that couldn't bear to mess up the rhythm, and he really didn't know who to sing it to, so he wasn't embarrassed.
Seeing that Yu Zhao hesitated for a moment, he really got up and went to Chu Zikai's side, the concubines gritted their teeth with hatred, and had mixed tastes in their hearts, wanting to take a cup of wine to drown their sorrows, but found that the sweet taste was completely untasteable, as if they had been mixed with aged vinegar, and almost flashed their tongues and teeth.
Huancui Linlang, who is full of symbols of honor and favor, and the gorgeous clothes on his body are too restrictive, Yu Zhao has not dressed up like this for a long time, and he is still a little unaccustomed to controlling the balance, supported by the palace maids, slowly walked to the top position, handed his hand to Chu Zikai steadily, and when he bent down and sat down next to him, he took the opportunity to whisper. "Your Majesty, do you think the palm dance is beautiful? Ironically mocking you Emperor Han Cheng! ”
"Unless you change your name," Chu Zikai couldn't feel the sour vinegar of the concubines, and the little sourness in Yu Zhao's words made him feel happy, so he leaned into Yu Zhao's ear and responded with a suppressed voice: "It's called Yu Feiyan or Yu Hede, so that I can be such a faint king!" ”
In the public, Yu Zhao couldn't refute Chu Zikai's mouth, Meimu glanced at him angrily, and no longer answered, Chu Zikai slowly helped her to sit down beside her, stretched out his chopsticks and sandwiched a piece of sweet and sour fish for her, put it on the plate in front of her, and couldn't help but snicker:
"Hurry up and eat, if you eat it later, this sweet and sour fish, I'm afraid you can only taste the vinegar fish."
Yu Zhao didn't feel sour in his mouth as he said, eating fish tasted good, the concubines present looked at him with a smile and bit their ears, their hearts were not a taste, they only felt that none of the delicacies on the table could go to the chopsticks, and they felt that they were vinegary when they looked at any dish.
Coincidentally, everyone also put the sweet and sour fish in their mouths, and the right to treat this dish as Chu Zikai Yulu was rewarded by the six palaces instead of her Yu Zhao alone, and the sourness in everyone's hearts eased a little.
In the middle of the banquet, I went to sing and dance, and the usual toasting came again, as usual, led by Liu Zhaorong, the woman in the wine field, the concubines stood up one by one with their cups and cups, and said the good words they had collected to Chu Zikai.
At the end of the year, I can seize the opportunity to talk to Chu Zikai at these times, picking out brilliant words one by one, and the tone is full of affection, and it took so much effort that I could see his eyes stay for a second longer, and after a round, no one could get his wish.
Only one person stood out, Concubine Ling, who had always been generous and dignified, smiled very kindly, and did not see the slightest hostility towards Yu Zhao, and generously divided the blessing into two parts, got up with a conspicuous big belly, and raised a glass and said: "The concubine replaces the wine with tea, and wishes Your Majesty and Concubine Yi's sister a long love, and the affection is like a long stream of water, and it will always be as beautiful and complete as today's month." ”
Yu Zhao, who was out of the way, was startled, put down his chopsticks unnaturally, and had to pick up the cup in front of him for the sake of courtesy, and returned with Chu Zikai.
After saluting the cup back to take a look, Yu Zhao was stunned, actually served the wrong cup, took a cup of wine, because the lesson of the last drunkenness made her remember deeply, after that, Yu Zhao didn't even dare to eat the yellow wine roasted fish, how dare to drink this thing again, looked at it embarrassedly, it was very rare.
"That's it, I replaced you," Chu Zikai smiled secretly, and hurriedly helped Yu Zhao out of the siege, then raised his head and helped drink, pretending to be concerned: "Last time you drank wine, you caught the wind and cold, and you have been hiding for so many days, and now you are in good shape, you still need to remember for a long time, and you need to be cautious." ”