Shixi has lived for a long time to think about the Dragon Boat Festival, and watched the hair machine in front of the pavilion building.

When the mole agitated, the thunder was faint, and the snow was faint at the head of the beast.

The rushing waves highlight the crowd, and the leaping waves compete to be the first to retreat.

Xiang Dao is Long Gang didn't believe it, and he really won the championship.

- "Racing Poem"

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the day of Duanyang, the most lively is the dragon boat race.

At that time, people were good at festival entertainment, and the imperial court government also vigorously advocated that dragon boat racing, a rather carnival activity, also evolved into a majestic competition.

Today, the empress feasted the ministers in Qujiang Furong Garden, and invited women and nobles to attend, and the highlight was naturally the dragon boat race.

Just when the minister of civil and military affairs and the noble lady were singing and dancing in the Ziyun Building, the queen's dragon chair on the square under the Ziyun Tower, the case seats of the princes of the pro-kingdom and the important civil and military ministers had been arranged one by one, and the long case was full of delicious wine and food, and colorful flags were planted all over the two sides of the curved water outside the square, and more than a dozen dragon boats with pennants and giant drums on the bow were ready, and they stopped on the curved water, just waiting for the giant drum on the square to sound, it was a dragon fight.

And the participants in today's next game are either Wang Sun Guigongzi, or the young and promising Praetorian Guards such as Qianniuwei and Jin Wuwei, which can be said to be dragons and phoenixes among people.

Yes, without waiting for the dragon boat race to officially start, the women and nobles in the side hall of Ziyunlou have already come together in twos and threes, and no matter how hot the afternoon sun is, they first found a good position on the waterfront on this side of the square, waiting to watch the shouts, and I don't know whether to look at their sons or brothers, or to see their husbands or their favorite people, or to see each other, the women and nobles are all excited.

When the people are good and lustful and gorgeous clothes, the women and nobles of Chang'an are the fashion standards of clothing, they are not carefully dressed up today, wearing red and green, wearing hairpins and flowers on their heads, and between the colorful flags on the bank of the station, there is a cluster of flowers, and people are not lively.

This is not counting the more than 200 civil and military ministers, most of them are fourth- and fifth-grade officials, wearing different shades of crimson official uniforms, plus a small number of bigwigs wearing purple official uniforms above the third grade, and a few people like Liu Wensu who have low official ranks, but have great authority and wear cyan official uniforms.

With these nobles, there are also indispensable palace people and the Praetorian Guard.

Yes, for a while, the square under Ziyun was really purple and red, and the audience was blocked.

Liu Chenxing accompanied the eldest princess to finish lunch in the main hall of the front yard, and then walked with the eldest princess to the Ziyun Tower.

Seeing so many civil and military ministers and women and nobles crowded together at once, this is probably the most powerful wave of people in Chang'an City, but there are so many people crowded together, no wonder the people of Chang'an say that one hundred and eight squares in Chang'an can stop a person casually, and nine out of ten have some background.

Isn't it?

There are so many dignitaries and nobles and noblewomen, she can't see the crowds, and then counting their relatives and friends, the number of people doesn't know how many times has expanded, since nine out of ten in Chang'an City have a background.

Liu Chenxing looked at the spectacular scene in front of him and smiled, thinking that his thoughts were very correct.

At that time, the empress had already come to the square by foot and took a seat on the dragon chair in the square.

Of course, although the sun is scorching, it will not let the empress bask in the sun, there is a huge bright yellow royal shade above the dragon chair, and there are huge ice cubes on the side to cool off, and the delicate palace maids are indispensable to fan them non-stop.

On the left and right of the imperial case, there are rows of important ministers' seats, and there are ten seats placed on each side, and as for the other civil and military generals, they naturally only have to stand.

The eldest princess has a noble status, and she is the most noble woman in the entire empire except for the empress, and she naturally has a seat next to the throne.

also because of the eldest princess walking in front, Rao is crowd of people, as well as the three layers of the Praetorian Guard guarding the empress and ten powerful princes and ministers sitting on the left and right, they are still in a no-man's land.

Everywhere they passed, whether it was officials, women and noblewomen, or the Praetorian Guards guarding the walls like iron walls, they all gave way.

The palace maid's dress is uniform, although Liu Chenxing is dressed plainly, he is also dressed in palace clothes, and he also holds a silk fan in his hand, obviously not a palace maid, as soon as the eldest princess walks in from the crowd on the periphery, there are eyes from all directions.

Especially between the women and nobles, everyone knows each other more or less, and when they saw a little lady with a face following the eldest princess, they couldn't help but be curious.

"Huh? Who is the little lady next to the eldest princess? ”

"The people who can come to Furong Garden today are not ordinary women, but if it is a noble girl, why don't you have any impression?"

"Yes! This little lady was born not ordinary, her appearance is comparable to Xiao Sisi of the Guogong Mansion, I am afraid that I will not forget it if I see it once! ”

"That's right! I know that the eldest princess cherishes King Wei the most, and I heard that King Wei's uncle brought his wife and daughter to Beijing, will this little lady be King Wei's cousin, so the eldest princess took this daughter with her. ”

"That's not right! King Wei's cousin and cousin are the fourth mothers of the Li family, I heard that they are all twenty girls, and the little lady next to the eldest princess looks at most fifteen, and her eyebrows and eyes are still a little childish! ”

"She's definitely not Li Siniang, I saw Li Siniang and her aunt Mrs. Zhang just now."

Ancient and modern are still different, marriage since ancient times is a good two surnames, after the woman marries, she still retains her mother's surname, so she has always been called a married woman, in addition to calling it a certain name, also called a certain lady, and a certain is her maiden surname.

Therefore, Shen Zhongyi's uncle Li Yuanping's stepfamily, Li Siniang's biological mother Zhang, is known as Mrs. Zhang, not Mrs. Li.

It's all three women in one play, and there are so many women in the square, so there is no shortage of gossip.

Liu Chenxing didn't care about the glances cast around, he was used to seeing it for a long time, but listening to the words of the four discussions, it was even the future aunt Li Siniang who was involved, so he had to take advantage of the fact that he was about to enter the core seat of the Praetorian Guard, and bowed his head to the eldest princess and said: "Eldest princess, I am about to go to the sage's banquet, and the lower official will follow you again, it is not appropriate, please allow the lower official to leave first." ”

As long as the imperial examination is passed, they can become an official after four years of election, and then slowly rise and fall in the officialdom, but the future of the female lifter is the empress alone.

Walking with him, but it is a great opportunity to show his face by the empress's side, not only that, but knowing that he has this relationship will be of great benefit to his connections and reputation.

Hearing that Liu Chenxing was going to give up such a great opportunity to leave, the eldest princess couldn't help but be surprised, "You don't want to be with me?" ”