Drawing lots is a game that daughters' families love, first prepare two bamboo tubes, one with the names of the ladies attending the banquet, and the other with bamboo sticks with different performance items.

First, the queen will draw the name lot, and the girl who is drawn will come to draw the performance lot, which one of the sticks must be according to the performance program written on the stick, and it cannot be refused.

This is a good time for the ladies to show their talents, and although General Leng is gone, these three princes are still at the table, if they can perform well, let the three princes refresh their eyes and leave some impressions, what an honor it would be.

At this time, it is the time when Qin Yunxiang is the most proud, her poems, books, rituals, music, piano, chess, calligraphy and paintings are all inherited from everyone, there is no one who is not proficient, and she can be amazed by any draw.

Even under the veil, Qin Yunuan could clearly see the smugness and expectation at the corner of Qin Yun's makeup, and she smiled faintly, responding to Qin Yun's extremely inflated vanity.

On the occasion of the banquet, the palace people have already brought a few cases, and there are still a lot of tricks and things on it, all of which are related to the items to be performed on the flower sticks that will be drawn, and the ladies are eager to try, Queen Chen looked around for a long time, thinking that the time has come, and was about to speak, but she heard a delicate voice coming suddenly, "Yo, the queen's sister has begun to draw lots, it seems that my sister is really late." ”

Before anyone heard its voice, accompanied by a burst of jade pendants, a richly dressed, bright red woman wrapped in lotus green bucket pattern crane strolling under the palace people, with a gorgeous phoenix lotus painted on her forehead, it was the palace that had been favored for twenty years.

Empress Chen looked at the phoenix lotus flower in Yun Guifei's forehead, Yun Guifei was in her thirties and six, she was clever and good-natured, and she could always think of some new things to make the emperor happy, thinking that the day before yesterday, the emperor also specially named this Yun Guifei's ingenious makeup, and ordered Yun Guifei to draw it to him every day, Queen Chen's heart was inevitably a little unhappy, but in front of her, she still praised Yun Guifei well.

"It's not too late," Empress Chen said with a smile, "I heard that my sister had a cold the day before yesterday, how are you getting better?" ”

"It's much better," Concubine Yun covered her mouth slightly with a handkerchief, and sat down under Queen Chen's head, "It's just that the emperor is still worried, and he comes to visit every day, alas, it's really hard for the emperor to work national affairs, and when he returns to the harem, he has to worry about his sister's sick body, how dare my sister let the emperor remember it so much, naturally it is to recuperate a lot, and get better quickly." After that, he bowed his head and said, "So my sister has not been able to go to Ciren Palace to ask for peace in the past few days, and I also ask my sister to forgive her sins." ”

Concubine Yun is secretly showing off and arrogant everywhere, and Queen Chen has always been holding a dignified and virtuous shelf, smiling.

Qin Yunuan was really tired and fell into a depression when she watched these two people go back and forth, but she heard the two girls next to her whispering something, and one of them gasped in surprise, and she was calculating something. Originally, I didn't want to care about it, but I heard the two of them pull Fang Ziying on their left and say, "Sister Fang, this flower bag is so beautiful, what is in it?" ”

"It's Lily." Fang Ziying said bluntly, and then brushed the goose yellow flower sac in her hand, "It smells quite fragrant." ”

"Oh, I heard that Sister Fang's favorite is osmanthus, it just so happens that my sister's purple flower sac is osmanthus, and it just so happens that my sister's favorite is the lily forehead, or Sister Fang, my sister will exchange it with you." The girl who asked the question cleverly picked her eyebrows and eyes, and no matter what she had in mind, she couldn't escape Qin Yunuan's eyes.

"That's right." Fang Ziying didn't think much about it, before she untied the flower sac on her waist and was about to hand it over, but her wrist was pressed down by a slender hand, and when she glanced at it, she was greeted by Qin Yu's warm and gentle smile, "Sister Fang, have you forgotten?" During the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner last year, Sister Fang only had a rash on the second day because she ate a piece of osmanthus cake, and she recuperated for half a month. After speaking, he smiled and said, "Sister Fang, don't forget the lessons of the past.

The girl who tried to change the flower sac was stunned, and Fang Ziying also reacted for a while, at the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner last year, she really ate a lot of osmanthus cakes, and then she also had a rash, but her rash was completely after returning home, and she played more with the flower cat raised by her sister, and the osmanthus cake had nothing to do with it.

Fang Ziying was puzzled, but in the afterglow, she saw that the girl Shang who was going to exchange flower sacs with herself had uneasiness in her eyes, and her little hands moved around, with some dodging and fear, and she knew that there must be something greasy here, and said along Qin Yunuan's words, "Oh, I really forgot about this, thanks to Sister Qin's reminder." After speaking, it was the reassuring smile at Qin Yunuan, and he also winked back.

This Shang girl still wanted to argue, but she heard Queen Chen call her name, Queen Chen looked at this Shang girl with a majestic smile, but this Shang girl was in a cold sweat, she was not afraid of the queen who was solemn but still reasonable, what she was afraid of was this belly honey sword, eating people without spitting out bones. What's more, she only learned that Concubine Yun hated purple the most, no, it was disgust, so there was not a trace of purple in Concubine Yun's huge Fuxi Palace.

Helplessly, this girl still had to attend the salute, after all, the queen's face could not be refuted.

"Let's draw lots." Empress Chen took a half-sip of tea, as if she was looking forward to the performances of these young students. Unexpectedly, there was a female voice next to him, "Purple." ”

Qin Yunuan took a sip of some fruit wine indifferently, looked at Concubine Yun's pair of willow eyebrows raised into a flattering arc, and then lazy, leaned on the chair railing, and added, "This palace hates purple the most." ”

The eyes of the audience were focused on the purple sachet hanging on Miss Shang's waist, and Miss Shang also stood in the center of the banquet with her hands retracted, her forehead covered with beads of sweat, only feeling that she was a monkey for ridicule, embarrassed. The girl with the purple flower sac hanging at the bottom also hurriedly pulled off her flower bag in private and threw it into the curtain under the table.

"Sister, why bother." Empress Chen opened her mouth to persuade, her face was still elegant and calm, "It's just a flower bag." ”

"Hongu doesn't like it." Concubine Yun was categorical, her face was as cold as frost, she had never been afraid to go against the queen, and this time was no exception.

Empress Chen paused, she knew very well that Concubine Yun didn't like purple, and at the banquets in the past, the emperor would always accommodate her, but now, it was at her Flower Dynasty Festival banquet, it was in her territory, Concubine Yun had occupied the dragon pet for so many years, and she had been arrogant for too long.

"Today, this is a festive day," Empress Chen said abruptly, "If my sister doesn't like it anymore, put up with it," and then nodded to Miss Shang, "Miss Shang, let's draw lots." ”

Who knew that this Shang girl's feet were weak, and she directly ignored Queen Chen, who supported herself, and knelt down and kowtowed directly to Concubine Yun, "The courtiers really don't know that the concubine doesn't like purple, this time, it's all a misunderstanding, after the courtiers return home, don't say purple, even the blue, dark blue and purple things next to each other don't need it, and ask the concubine Niangniang to forgive her sins." ”

Qin Yunuan looked at Queen Chen's somewhat deformed face below, and didn't blame this Shang girl for refuting Queen Chen's face, if she remembered correctly, this Shang girl was the daughter of Jiangmen, and her father was Yun Guifei's elder brother - a deputy general under the expeditionary general Menghua, for the survival and prosperity of the family, she also had to kowtow to Yun Guifei.

And Queen Chen on the side, the dissatisfaction in her heart could no longer be hidden, and her face turned red, but she still had a generous appearance, "Miss Shang, hurry up, this is just a sachet, presumably Concubine Yun will not blame you, why bother?" ”

Fortunately, this Shang girl admitted her mistake very hard, and Empress Chen was watching from the side, Yun Guifei just waved her hand in disgust, and only let this Shang girl embroider at home honestly, and don't appear in front of her again, so she just gave up.

Seeing that the girl Shang who was in a trance was helped out by two grandmothers with big shoulders and round waists, Qin Yunuan was a little distracted, if it wasn't for the reminder of the fat lady when she entered the palace gate, Qin Yunuan would not know Yun Guifei's preferences, if she hadn't changed her temperament, dared to argue with Shangguan Yi, and became attached to Fang Ziying, she wouldn't have bothered about this change of flower sac.

Interlocking, she was reborn, like a pebble falling into a pond, destined to roll up several ripples and change the course of some events.

The departure of the girl of the Shang family did not add much unhappiness to the banquet, and the palace people came up step by step with tall plates containing dim sum, and the fruit wine in the wine bottle was empty, and the palace maid behind her would also add it in time.

Queen Chen drew a few name sticks one after another, good luck, drawn, are some talented and illustrious girls, at the banquet, sometimes singing Manman, sometimes the sound of the piano is clear, the third prince Sima Rui appreciates every time with a smile, and it is sweet to the hearts of many daughters in the boudoir, half of the banquet is happy, and the jade pot is staggered.

It's just that Qin Yunxiang looked a little anxious, she knew that in fact, the people who performed these performances were all predetermined, according to common sense, she herself must be one of them, but I don't know why, Queen Chen didn't read her name for a long time.

Qin Yun's careful thoughts, Qin Yunuan couldn't be clearer.

"Sister, don't worry." Qin Yunuan slowly and methodically clipped a golden silk roll for Qin Yun's makeup, and said soothingly, "Isn't the best show in the past all going to be the finale?" ”

Qin Yunxiang glanced at it, "Naturally." At the end, the corners of his mouth only smiled a little tuggingly.

The conversation between the two seemed to attract the attention of Empress Chen, Qin Yunuan raised her head, and saw Empress Chen pinching a bamboo stick and smiled lightly, facing this side, "The last flower stick today is the third girl of the Qin family, Yu Nuan." ”

Qin Yun's makeup was shocked, Qin Yunuan was even more shocked than her, in her previous life, she had never been drawn.

Qin Yunuan secretly hid her puzzled expression, only revealing a flattered yearning, looking at Empress Chen's more and more meaningful smile.

"Come on, let's draw a lot." Empress Chen beckoned to Qin Yunuan.

Qin Yunuan stepped forward obediently, ignoring Sima Rui's fresh eyes and Yun Guifei's proud contempt, and stretched out his hand to draw a branch out of the bamboo tube at will, thinking in his heart that it would be good to be improvised.

"Well, this one is a clever draw," Empress Chen bent her eyebrows and said with a smile, "The topic is, blindfolded embroidery." ”