Chapter 118: Entering the Palace
With the help of Li Yi, Chen Qi successfully entered the palace, and in the past few days after entering the palace, Emperor Li Yi's interest in banquets, music and dance and play was far higher than that of national affairs, and his enthusiasm for the court was obviously not as good as drinking and having fun.
In the palace, a small banquet every day, a big banquet on three days, a large banquet in the palace every month always have to be a big banquet more than a dozen times, rare treasures, many patterns. In addition to drinking, he also watched the performances of musicians, and he couldn't go without listening to music for a day, even if he went out to travel around, he would also bring these people.
There are as many as 500 musicians in the palace, and when he is happy, he will reward them greatly, and it is thousands of dollars at every turn. He was tired of being in the palace, so he went to the palace annex on the outskirts of Chang'an at any time. Since he came and went, the officials in charge of the reception of the palace had to prepare food and lodging at all times, and music was naturally indispensable. Princes who needed to accompany them on their journeys also often had to have their mounts ready.
Therefore, Chen Qi was busy as soon as he came in, and the emperor was not only indulged in lust, but also paid special attention to music and dancers.
Before, he could drink anytime and anywhere, but now he is more about watching the emperor drink, and even because he entered the palace not long ago, he didn't even have the qualifications to play the piano, so he could only do the work of tuning the piano and cleaning the stool for the musicians, so what he hopes most now is to get the appreciation of the master, hoping to have the opportunity to really play a song in front of the emperor, he believes in his own strength, what he lacks is just an opportunity.
On this day, Chen Qi was busy all day, lying in bed and looking at the moonlight outside the window. At this time, in order to facilitate the performance at any time, the orchestra and the servants live in the palace, so many musicians do not have a separate room, only the conductor and the musicians can have a private room to rest, Chen Qi has just entered the palace, these musicians are also hated and afraid of him, hated Chen Qi is entrusted to enter the palace, many of them have been in the workshop for more than ten years or even decades, full of hatred for Chen Qi, a hairy boy, afraid that they have heard that Chen Qi is superb, if he really gets the emperor's appreciation, maybe his seat will be sat by him.
Therefore, these musicians decided to suppress Chen Qi without communicating with each other. He was placed in the room of the oldest group of musicians, these old musicians were old, had a bad temper, and had very poor living habits, and they were fine in front of the emperor, and when they returned to the workshop, they called Chen Qi at will, and when Chen Qi was ready to rest, these musicians began to grind their teeth and fart and snore, which can really be described as "day and night sheng song".
Chen Qi looked at the moon, blown by the autumn wind, he couldn't help but feel a little cold, he pulled his clothes over the quilt, which was a little warmer.
"Wait, sooner or later, one day, I, Chen Yan, will become the most favored pianist in the entire palace, become a musician, all those who have called me and bullied me, I will definitely make you regret it, and when the time comes, I will find my life experience myself, and Su Zilin, I will definitely hit you with these two slaps." Chen Qi clenched his fists as he spoke, his temper has been getting bigger and bigger recently, as if he was influenced by the people around him, but he hid all this anger in his heart, in his opinion, only forbearance can continue to move forward and achieve his goals.
But as a consequence, his temperament became darker and darker, and sometimes he even found his thoughts terrible.