Chapter 265: The East Palace Melon and Fruit Banquet of the Qiqiao Festival

The candles had burned out, and the curtains had begun to turn white.

"Let's go, it's time to go to court." Hua Qiao's mouth told him to go quickly, but his head was still resting on his shoulder.

Hu Yanjin looked at her sideways and said with a smile: "Today is Qixi Festival, and it will be early to disperse." Tonight's palace banquet was hosted by the grandson, it was supposed to be Daughter's Day, but he invited many noble sons in Beijing to celebrate the festival together in the garden of the East Palace......"

"You blame him for this, this is what the concubine meant. Niangniang said that she and the emperor were worse than the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and she still couldn't reunite with the emperor on Qixi Festival, so she wanted to be happy with the young people and not let her be sad alone. ”

What she didn't know was that Niangniang also had the heart to let these girls who had not yet come out of the royal cabinet have a chance to meet the young man.

"I see, then we can meet in the garden in the evening. You sit with those county lords tonight, watch out for food, don't let that Yanping do anything. ”

Hu Yanjin is most worried about this.

"Don't worry, tonight is a melon and fruit feast, all of which are fresh melons and fruits from all over the world, can't I eat my own?"

It wasn't until Yinzheng that Hu Yanjin climbed over the wall and went out of the palace, went back to change into court clothes, and hurriedly went to the palace gate to line up to go to the court.

At this time, the buckwheat can't sleep, freshen up, and go to the palace of the crown princess to say goodbye.

Maybe it's because of the holiday, everyone is so excited that they can't sleep and get up early. When the buckwheat arrived, several county lords arrived.

The county lords asked for peace earlier, and after they left, it was the prince's concubine who came to greet the main palace.

"Sister Hua Qiao, come and see, Niang Niang gave us good things." Zhending said as she asked the maidservant to skewer a red coral for her, and a tired silk iris golden phoenix hairpin was inserted into her bun.

Beside Zhang's side, the palace maid was holding a large brocade box, and the last red coral golden hairpin was still left in it.

This is a set of eight pieces, different styles of red coral gold hairpins, which are Japan's tribute this year, with bright colors and exquisite styles.

Zhang Guifei smiled when she saw it: The prince has eight daughters, as if they were made for them.

It happened to be a style suitable for young girls to wear, and there were no young concubines in the harem, so they gave jewelry to the East Palace.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was greeting the buckwheat, the county lord of Yanping reached over and pinched the coral flowers on the golden hairpin in the box.

The gold wire of the red coral beads is soft, and she can't touch it hard when she wears it on her head.

The crown princess saw it in her eyes, but pretended not to know: If the limelight is too strong, someone always needs to come out to check and balance.

Hua Qiao glanced at the pinched hairpin, didn't ask, smiled and asked Xiao Qi to accept it, and thanked the princess. She glanced at Yanping, who was standing by the box, and said with a smile:

"It's good to give this hairpin, everyone will take it out tonight, those sons and brothers are not familiar with us, and now, I can't tell who is who."

As soon as this is said, who wants to wear it?

Jiaxing first threw the hairpin back into the box. She is the lord of the county, and according to the unwritten rules, she can pick the county horse by herself, why should she be the same as a few of them?

The crown princess secretly sneered: Where is this girl who grew up in the countryside? I really want to remind His Highness when I go back, if I marry an ambitious person, in the future, won't I cause trouble for my son?

Yanping was secretly happy: It's good if you don't wear it, I won't waste such a beautiful hairpin!

After inviting An back to the palace, Xiao Qi just brought a basin of water to let Hua Qiao wash her face, and when she looked back, she had already fallen asleep on the bed.

The dinner in the palace had been delivered in the early days, and the buckwheat did not get up to eat, and they slept until the time of the unitary before getting up to freshen up.

When she arrived at the garden of Taisun Donggong, she saw Zhang Yue standing behind the concubine at a glance.

Today, Zhang Yue didn't wear a flying fish suit, but wore a blue-colored entwined flower Ganoderma lucidum bamboo pattern collared shirt with a large sleeve, which was less murderous and more bookish, and also took away his domineering spirit of walking sideways.

Hua Qiao came over to salute Zhang Guifei, and Zhang Yue's eyes never left her.

While the concubine was not paying attention, Hua Qiao made a lip shape to him: Uncle!

Zhang Yue smiled dumbly.

In the huge garden, except for the long table in the middle, there are round tables scattered around. The long table faced an open space and was intended for the girls to perform.

There are flowers between the round tables, not far and not close, you can see it, and you have to make a detour when you walk over, which is what the princess has put into it.

In order to have such a separate table for men and women, and not to hinder the performance, she even changed a lot of plants in the garden.

The most attractive thing about the palace banquet of the begging festival is that you can see these noble ladies perform in person.

Although at the emperor's banquet, the singers and dancers of the Jiaofang Division are more professional, but where can they compare to going out to play, "The county lord played the piano for me", "Shangshu's daughter danced for me", so arrogant?

So tonight is logical, there are people with ulterior motives, people who ask for money, and people who protect their daughters-in-law.

All of them are dressed in bright and bright trolling, stickers, and there are also people like Zhang Yue, who are wearing straight robes with collars and waists. All of them are like proud roosters, seemingly waiting for hens to worship, but in fact, they are just to show off their unique existence.

Not to mention the girls, there are so many opportunities to appear a year, hiding in the boudoir every day to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and this is the time when they can perform in front of others.

Not to mention...... Among these sons, there may be their own future husbands......

"I heard that this year's new champion Zhang Hong is also here, fortunately, he already has some family background, and his father is Zhang Qi, the political envoy of Guangdong.

There are not many children of official eunuchs who can win the champion, Sister Qingdu, if you don't want a talent, your sister is welcome. ”

Qinghe was less than a year younger than Qingdu, a county lord who had just reached the end of her life, and her mother told her that if she didn't want to marry blindly, she would have this opportunity to bargain with her father.

Qingdu blushed and whispered: "Sister Hua Qiao and Sister Jiaxing are still in front of me, where is my turn." ”

Hua Qiao and Jiaxing didn't speak, but Yanping grabbed Bai and said: "The age is behind you, the opportunity is the same!" I don't believe it, Zhuangyuanlang can wait for ten years, but he can't wait for a year or two? ”

She was still young, she just ate fruit refreshments, and from time to time introduced delicious food to the buckwheat sitting next to her. I didn't eat buckwheat for dinner, I was hungry, and everything was delicious.

The county lords at the table were all sitting upright, with dignified manners, and they ate everything lightly, so they ate happily without heart and lungs, which made Jiaxing secretly roll his eyes a few times.

As soon as Hu Yanjin entered the garden, he saw the smiling and sister's buckwheat feasting, he didn't smile on his face, but he smiled in his heart:

That's it, you can only marry me.

Suddenly, his eyes stopped on a nearby gardenia road.

There are two people walking in Yongdao, the male Yushu is in the wind and polite, and the female is weak and graceful, like a pair of beautiful people.

It seemed as if the two had met by chance in the garden, greeted each other politely, and just saluted.

But in Hu Yanjin's opinion, these two people are by no means that simple.

Because, one of them is Yi Chengjin, the left attendant of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the other is the pearl girl of Shuiyue Tower!