Chapter 232

Enjoy the plum storm

"Come here, I'll wipe it for you."

Qi Wanxi got up with a smile and stepped forward, took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped it on Chu Ruohua's face.

Seeing this, the maid on the side hurriedly stepped forward, lowered her head and whispered, "Your Highness, it's cold or a slave." ”

"Let Xiaocui come, sister-in-law, you are very expensive now, I don't dare to let you wipe me."

Chu Ruohua laughed, raised his hand to hold Qi Wanxi's hand, and said jokingly.

Qi Wanxi glanced at Chu Ruohua, glanced at the maid standing aside, and nodded slowly.

The other maids also gave handkerchiefs to Song Li and Xu Jiaojiao.

Song Li has never been hit, except for the snow that fell on his body, there was basically nothing else, Xu Jiaojiao and Chu Ruohua were miserable.

It's almost like a snowman, with snow all over his head and face.

After wiping up, a few people returned to the house, Chu Ruohua remembered the task he came to today, and hurriedly took out two invitations from his arms and put them on the table, "I almost forgot the big thing, my mother and concubine held a plum banquet in the royal courtyard the day after tomorrow, and invited all the women of marriageable age in Beijing, I heard that it seems to be to choose a princess for the four imperial brothers." ”

Chu Ruohua has two older sisters, but they both died young, although they are ranked third, their actual age is much younger than Chu Tianyu.

Chu Tianyu had actually reached the age when he should marry a wife, but because he was not favored, his mother was so low that even the servants in the palace dared to step on it, and no one helped him Zhang Luo, so it was delayed.

The queen saw that Chu Tianyu was not small, and proposed to Emperor Tianxuan to help him choose a good family, if it wasn't for the queen to mention it, Emperor Tianxuan couldn't remember that there was such an unmarried son, but the queen mentioned it, and he didn't continue to ignore it, and with a wave of his hand, he let the queen pick with his heart.

Chu Tianyu is the crown prince's person, and he is the queen who grew up, and he is an arm of Chu Tianfeng, so she will naturally pick a force for Chu Tianyu to help Chu Tianfeng.

Song Li put the invitation card in the palm of his hand and rubbed it gently, his eyes narrowing unconsciously.

If Chu Ruohua hadn't mentioned it, she would have almost forgotten about Chu Tianyu.

She had reminded Chu Tianfeng before, beware of Chu Tianfeng, and she didn't know if he had taken it to heart.

"Xiao Ion, what are you thinking, thinking so distractedly, you didn't hear a few shouts from you."

Chu Ruohua suddenly raised his hand and pushed her, pulling her back from her distraction.

"What's wrong?"

She quickly gathered her thoughts, put down the invitation card in her hand, turned her eyes to look at Chu Ruohua and asked curiously.

Chu Ruohua's head shook like a rattle, "It's okay, I just ask if you will go the day after tomorrow." ”

"Of course!"

Song Li nodded and said as a matter of course.

She hasn't gone out much during this time, and when she goes out, it's either the Prince's Mansion or the Prince's Mansion, and it's long been stuffy, why don't you go to a party?

Maybe you can see a group of noble girls fighting to be the four princesses.

Thinking about her strength, it's interesting to watch the little girl talk about it.

Looking at the excitement that flashed in her eyes, Qi Wanxi shook her head amusedly.

After several people finalized the departure time, Chu Ruohua and Xu Jiaojiao left after lunch.

In a blink of an eye, on the day of the plum banquet, Song Li, who got up early, freshened up and changed clothes, and Qi Wanxi was ready when she went out.

The two sat in the courtyard for a while, and not only Chu Ruohua but even Chu Rong also came to the prince's mansion, ready to go with them.

After Chu Tianfeng was ready, Song Li climbed into Chu Rong's carriage and went to the royal garden in a leisurely manner.

The royal garden is located on the outskirts of the northern part of the capital, and it takes half an hour to take a horse-drawn carriage ride.

When they arrived, the queen and a group of harem concubines also arrived.

There is also a group of richly dressed noblewomen.

Seeing Song Li get down from Chu Rong's carriage, many people showed surprise, and some of them behaved very calmly, as if they were used to seeing each other.

"Attend the Queen's Mother."

Song Li ignored the expressions of several people, saluted the queen, and said loudly.

"Excuse me."

The queen smiled and helped Song Li, and took her hand and stepped into the garden.

The royal garden is worthy of being a royal garden, and it looks magnificent and luxurious.

Nine-song corridor, rockery pavilions have everything.

The heavy snow covered the red bricks and green tiles with a white quilt.

At the end of the corridor is the red plum full of gardens, red and white compete, white in red, red in red, white in red, forming a colorful picture scroll, people can't take their eyes off it.

The faint fragrance hit the people's hearts, and silently dispelled the fatigue of their carriage all the way.

This banquet invited not only the nobles of Beijing, but also a number of courtiers.

The queen took the concubine to greet the women, and they enjoyed the flowers and scenery in the courtyard.

"Did you say that this Song Li was favored by the emperor and wanted to marry His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as a side concubine?"

Suddenly, a small voice reached her ears, shattering the amazement that the beauty had given her.

When I turned my head to look, I saw a group of little girls gathering together and talking quietly.

"Are you tired of being alive, you dare to say this kind of thing!"

Another woman in green cautiously raised her hand and pulled the sleeve of the woman who spoke, and scolded in fear and a little blame.

"I'm telling the truth, you see, the emperor has ordered her to live in the Prince's Mansion, which is unprecedented! Besides, did you just see the queen's attitude towards her? I just love it! ”

The woman didn't pay attention to the green woman's words, and continued to murmur boldly.

The woman on the side nodded in agreement and joined in, "Yes, I think so too, otherwise how could the emperor let her stay in the Prince's Mansion, she is not big." ”

The green man ignored the two of them, twisted his head away, and began to enjoy the view.

Who is Song Li?

The concubines of the Zhenguo Mansion, the emperor's own Rongzhao Township, how can they comment at will, even if the emperor really has that meaning, it is not their turn to point fingers.

Besides, it's no secret that Song Li beats people, many people have planted a heel in her hands, so she still stays away from these idiots, so as not to be implicated.

Seeing that the woman in green was leaving, the woman hurriedly caught up and said puzzledly: "Sister Xueqin, where are you going?" ”

Listening to the woman's words, Song Li remembered that the woman was Xie Chongguang's sister-in-law, Xie Xueqin.

Qi Wanxi didn't have the internal strength, so she naturally didn't hear the talk of that group of people, and she didn't know anything about it.

Seeing that Song Li was looking over there, he followed curiously, "What are you looking at?" ”

Song Li glanced back at Qi Wanxi, shook his head slightly, and slowly retracted his gaze, "It's okay, listen to their broken mouths." ”

Qi Wanxi nodded, these women have nothing to do on weekdays, and when they get together, they like to compare and show off their broken mouths, she is used to it.

"I just heard my mother say that there will be a competition in a while, and I voluntarily sign up for it, do you have any intentions?"

Song Li was slightly stunned, the game? She hadn't heard of it.

Looking at Song Li's appearance, Qi Wanxi showed a smile on her face, "The queen mother just told me, and it hasn't been announced yet." ”

Song Li nodded in realization, "I'm not too interested." She shook her head and pulled Qi Wanxi to the stone bench under the plum tree and sat down.

After Chu Ruohua found Xu Jiaojiao in a group of noble girls, she couldn't wait to pull Xu Jiaojiao all over the courtyard to find Song Li and Qi Wanxi.

At this time, a subordinate invited them to the front yard.

In the main hall, the queen and Shen Yinchai were sitting on the Taishi chair, announcing the competition.

Song Li and Qi Wanxi had already announced it when they arrived.

Chu Ruohua whispered to them about the process of the game, and saw Song Li shaking his head lightly to indicate that he was not interested.

The competition is to paint a poem with plum blossoms in the courtyard, which is selected by everyone, and the top three can be rewarded by the palace.

This is a great opportunity for up-and-coming talents, and many noble ladies are eager to sign up to make a familiar impression on themselves in front of the queen.

The number of servants by the queen's side was counted, and then everyone moved to the plum garden.

Although Song Li is not interested in the game, he is still quite interested in watching the game.

Entries will be entered in order of ranking.

In a group of five, there are Bai Yuyan and Zhou Ranran in the first group.

The rest of the people in the group with them were annoyed that they signed up too quickly, and they were actually in a group with Bai Yuyan, who was known as the first talented woman in Tianxuan.

The maidservant soon distributed pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to several people, and everything was ready, and the queen gave an order, and several people began to write and draw on the paper.

Song Li did not squeeze in the back row, but sat in the pavilion behind the crowd with Qi Wanxi and Shen Yinchai, who came to find them.

The people who were with them were all their own people, and Shen Yinchai did not shy away from whispering to Song Li about what happened after entering the palace.

As Song Li said, after she entered the palace, she was favored by Emperor Tianxuan.

The rank has also changed from a noble person at the beginning to a concubine who is now a favorite harem.

She even joined forces with the queen to suppress Bai Guifei and Concubine Wan.

While they were talking, the first group of competitions came to an end, and after some comments, Bai Yuyan undoubtedly became the champion of the first group.

The second group continues.

Just as the second group began, light snow fell in the sky again.

The second group won was Xie Chongguang's sister Xie Xiaolin.

In one morning, the game was only halfway through.

At lunchtime, everyone had lunch and rested for a while, and the game continued.

"Song Li, do you want to make a face?"

After lunch, Qi Wanxi was a little sleepy and went to the wing room for a lunch break.

Song Li followed Chu Ruohua and Xu Jiaojiao to play with the sieve in the pavilion.

At this time, a girl dressed in a pink pony walked into the courtyard with a group of women, glared at Song Li with a disgusted face and scolded loudly.

Her loud voice immediately attracted the attention of many people.

"Qi Wanjin, what do you mean?"

Seeing that Song Li was scolded for no reason, Chu Ruohua angrily slapped the table and pointed at the girl and scolded viciously.

"Third princess, stay away from this black-hearted and black-livered person!"

Qi Wanjin glared at Song Li viciously, saluted Chu Ruohua, and kindly reminded.

Her reminder did not make Chu Ruohua grateful, but disgusted her even more.