The Journey to the East Mountain Chapter 30 Entering the Palace (6) - Grapes
"The emperor's grace is vast, take the three rounds of leaders and give each of the August magnolia a to marry the same sex!"
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
After the emperor's verbal promise, it had to be summarized by the ceremonial officials very officially, and then they would also summarize the scores of the noble ladies and princes.
Not much to say, serve the food~
Haha, after the ceremonial officer finished singing, before the official opening, there was a song and dance performance, which was completed on a makeshift stage.
And the accompaniment is not the court lady, let alone the musician.
It is the young lady on both sides, who takes her strengths and accompanies Princess Lou Ge who dances in the middle.
Legend has it that Princess Lou Ge is the youngest daughter of the emperor, and the city was broken in the previous dynasty, so she was included in the harem by the current emperor.
Her status in the harem can be imagined. What man would allow his woman to go out and dance? Not to mention the emperor.
I also heard that the mother of this princess Lou Ge, in fact, coincides with the fate of Lou Ge, her mother is a princess of a small country, and she was included in the harem by the old emperor of the previous dynasty.
After listening to Hu Ji's introduction, Shen Ying sighed in her heart, the princess of the previous dynasty?!
I'll go! Isn't her predecessor the stepmother of this beauty!!
Things are getting bigger and bigger, and Shen Ying's brain is buzzing, is the fear of falling from the clouds all at once, can you know?
It's a sense of weightlessness that swells up from the bottom of my heart.
"Hehe, since you are the princess of the previous dynasty, you must know this princess Lou Ge best."
Hu Ji's face was full of gossip, and even Yu Ji tilted her ears slightly, a princess full of tragic stories is indeed very attractive.
Her identity, her experience, is really a fatal attraction to the nature of women's gossip!
"She? Since she is a princess of the previous dynasty, it is inconvenient for the concubine to know her. ”
After speaking, she pretended to frown and looked in the direction of Huo Qiu, she had already seen Huo Qiu, but she didn't dare to use a telescope to look at it, she was afraid that her small movements would be seen...
But now, I can only make up an excuse to fool Hu Ji and Yu Ji first, and don't attract the attention of others.
Yu Ji and Hu Ji really didn't disappoint her, but whenever it came to Huo Qiu, but whenever it came to the General's Mansion, they would pay extra attention.
"What I'm saying is that it's normal that you don't know a palace maid."
Hu Ji took the initiative to give Shen Ying a step down, and also diverted the topic, no longer talking about this "sad fate", the princess of the former dynasty.
"From the bright moon, according to the building, the concubine raises a glass of wine, and invites the king to dance and get drunk."
"Jun said that the concubine is intentional, and the concubine is uncomfortable and difficult to be coquettish, why not start here?"
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Even the singer has a special beauty, dressed but much more plain, without the luxury she should have, but like a palace maid.
"A small border country is a small border country, and the boudoir lady raised is also a small family and can't be on the stage."
Although Hu Ji was only hinted at by Shen Ying, she just stopped pulling Shen Ying and the previous dynasty together, and she couldn't run away from any of the gossip that should be complained!
Who makes the father of the family have some skills? As an official of salt transportation, he holds the lifeblood of the economy.
As long as her father is not taken down, maybe Huo Qiu may not have her money.
After all, most of the things that Huo Qiu has are imperial gifts, and if they are put on the table and bumped into it, they usually put those things in the warehouse to "eat ashes".
"Sister Orchid, have a cup of tea."
Yu Ji also reminded Hu Ji a few times, but the backstage was harder than her, and when she began to listen to her, it was still for the sake of the general's face, and as many times she said it, Hu Ji didn't buy it directly.
"Okay."
The tea is to take a sip, but people, she still has to taste it.
"Obscene words and songs, grandstanding."
It is a love song tune from the land of barbarians, centered on the lingering and sympathetic feelings of men and women, in the eyes of these people, even if the story is very good, but if it is still sung in public, it is not ashamed!
"How nice it sounds, Sister Orchid, young people's hobby is to understand and understand more."
As a young person in the new era, Shen Ying listened to some of the lyrics of the songs and didn't feel it, but she didn't see it at all when she wrote it.
Especially the frontier foreigners, if they were to listen to their songs, would they be annoyed and angry?
"Hmph."
Shen Ying's words are not poisonous, as long as she doesn't talk about the two beauties at the beginning, she can gossip later, she is panicking now.
If Orchid is too direct and eye-catching, she will attract others, and she may split her head!
Between small life and offending Orchid, she chose the former without hesitation.
The unbearable prelude finally ended in a lingering and sympathetic ending, and the beautiful Lou Ge that Shen Ying saw from the telescope also put on her sleeves and saluted and stepped down with Huang Shang.
The reason why she didn't salute the two Li Ji Niangniang, Shen Ying thought, they should not be considered the middle palace niangniang, otherwise how could they sit at the same height?
Shen Ying's thoughts are very close to the truth, but there are still some discrepancies...
"I announce, the flower viewing feast has officially begun!"
"Didn't it already open at noon? Princess Yu also introduced the dishes to everyone. ”
Shen Ying asked Hu Ji with a blushing face.
"It's just a meal at noon, how can those meals be considered a banquet?"
Hu Ji looked at Shen Ying suspiciously, she thought that Shen Ying's brain was really hurt, so she asked herself not to go to court in advance, or maybe she couldn't remember it at all.
"Iniquity."
Orchid looked at Yu Ji with an uncertain look, which made Yu Ji inexplicable.
"The banquet is about to officially begin, so you can honestly watch it for a while."
Yu Ji has no way to take Orchid, in terms of identity, Jade Ji can't compare at all, Orchid listens to her, but she just thinks that the general will read her cheap sister's affection, but in fact.
"Yes, Sister Yuji, I won't disturb Sister Hu Ji's appreciation of the junior's demeanor."
Orchid said sarcastically, and then held up his small binoculars again, and looked into the distance, not knowing what he was looking at.
"Look! Sure enough, butterflies! ”
This time, except for the orchid who was very surprised, the others were not much better.
Occasionally, a few butterflies that have been caught in autumn are also dying, and there is no beauty, and the palace maid presents a whole tank of butterflies.
The butterflies flutter and frolic in the transparent pale yellow glass cover, which is very pleasing to the eye just by looking at it.
"In the first game, in the name of butterfly love flowers, to pair pairs."
Halfway through the singer, he looked up and smiled at the little nobles of the two boats, and then slowly explained the rest of the rules.
"Li Ji doesn't intend to embarrass everyone, so the first level will reduce the difficulty, first by the sons to make poems with butterfly characters, and the ladies, wait until the top five best uplink, and then make one of the downlink, also take the top five."
The ancients were really heartbroken for the happiness of their descendants, and in this era of great defense for men and women, they were able to come up with such a rule, and Li Ji is really a wonderful person!
"Of course, if there are fewer sentences written, the time will be shorter, so this sundial will be the boundary, and after two quarters, it will end."
After the official finished talking about the rules, he turned around and asked the emperor in a proper manner.
"Your Majesty, are you already?"
"Exactly."
It's full of ritual again.
When it was over, the dancing and singing beauty didn't even look at her, and she looked happy again.
In her own words, it is to take 10,000 steps back, and if she is finished in the next second, she will earn by watching more interesting things.
How much else do you think about it?!
"Is the sundial accurate?"
Shen Ying's question was directly skipped by Hu Ji, she didn't care about a person with a brain problem!
Shen Ying, who couldn't get an answer, was bored, everyone's attention was on those boys' paintings, and there was nothing lively to see.
She couldn't participate in the fight between the young people, so she raised her binoculars and glanced around.
Anyway, through the mirror, who knows who they are looking at?
Huh! Yes! Others don't know who they're looking at, so if she says it like this, wouldn't she be able to see what Huo Qiu's kid is doing?
Now everyone's attention is focused on the ship, the time and place are favorable, and this time does not look at when!
"Huh."
Huo Qiu is also one of the boring ones, although he was also a good player in dance and ink back then, but when that happened, he completely lost interest in this matter.
His biggest literary pastime now is to read military books and practice calligraphy...
It was such a coincidence, the two of them saw each other looking at themselves one after another, Huo Qiu couldn't help but smile slightly.
Fortunately, the smile was light, and the hearts of the people around him were not on him, so except for the palace maid who dressed him, no one else saw it.
"Go, give this plate of grapes to the Yingmei in my house."
The palace maids in the palace can have nothing else, just look at the identity of the person.
Huo Qiu was still afraid that she would make a mistake, so he pointed to Shen Ying's location slightly.
The palace maid's heart moved, and it was rumored in the palace that their wise and martial general doted on a concubine, not only making her pregnant with her first child, but also keeping her by her side every day.
As long as you have heard of it, there is no one who is not envious, but there are also many palace maids who do not believe it.
This time she was serving Huo Qiu, but after today, she was afraid that she would join another camp...
"Noble, please use it."
A bunch of crystal clear grapes, still the kind that were picked and washed one by one, were placed in front of Shen Ying so abruptly.
"Beauty, that's what the general meant."
After conveying the news, the palace maid hurried back to Huo Qiu's side.
After she finishes her work, of course she has to ask for a reward, if she doesn't get the reward, and the errand of serving the general is also snatched away, it will be a chicken and egg fight.
So after a long back and forth, the palace maid simply shortened the time for a short and a half, and then returned to the opposite side.
"Well done."
Huo Qiu casually took out a few silver beads from the brocade bag and put them in the hands of the palace maid, and she tacitly put them away.
I simply ran errands, those ladies saw it, and they couldn't do anything with her, just running back and forth to earn half a month's worth of money, she couldn't wait to come a few more times!
Shen Ying, the "God of Wealth", was still eating grapes with a confused face.