Chapter 12: The Palace Banquet
During the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, relatives gather together, and the lights inside and outside the capital are colorful, and people's faces are full of smiles. On such days, the rich and noble have already booked the best moon-watching restaurant, eating moon cakes and drinking osmanthus stuffed, and admiring the moon and appealing to their hearts.
The literati and artists will gather together to invite the moon and recite poems, and they will leave many popular masterpieces that will be passed down through the ages.
At night, people will also put sky lanterns or lightboats together, praying that the whole family will be reunited in the coming year, and the light in the sky and on the earth will be as bright as day.
The palace is even more lively, and this year it is the queen who specially arranged a state banquet to invite the relatives of the emperor to share the family. Several major families in the capital entered the palace on that day, and the Taihe Hall was crowded, and there would be a steward father-in-law to guide the position for the masters after entering the palace.
From the arrangement of seats, you can know the status of this person in Daliang, and the position of Sioux City is parallel to the two princes. Although he is regarded as a concubine and the emperor's brother-in-law, the splendid princess and the saint are not the same mother, and her biological mother is also a beauty in the palace. Sioux City's position today is all due to his twenty years of exploits.
Also at the guest of honor were Yang Zongbo, the national uncle, and Yang Jingqin, the national uncle. Then there are the seats of the princes and princes of the major countries, the seats of the sons of the families, and the sons and daughters of the vassal kings who stayed in the capital to be protons, and they sat farther away.
And the woman's seat is relatively casual, although Su Man does not have any title, but because of Su Cheng, he sits in the public chair with Princess Jinxiu.
The first half of "The Queen of the Concubines" was written about the house fight of Pei's Mansion, and Su Man naturally had no way to participate. But the second half is more exciting, and it's written about Gong Dou. A few years ago, what Yanxi strategy did the TV station have, such as Yi Chuan, Miyue was so popular, didn't the big guys see it like Gong Dou.
After sitting down, Su Man glanced at everyone present, and the excitement in his heart was a large gathering of palace fighting personnel. This palace full of people is all related to each other in the end. The face is peaceful, but who knows what he thinks in his heart.
However, when a dynasty is stabilized, marriage may be the most convenient and trouble-free way to control the forces of all parties. It's just that in ancient times, men could have three wives and four concubines, and the happiness of a married woman's life depended entirely on luck. Thinking of this, Su Man pursed his mouth and looked at the splendid princess beside him with some sympathy, she was actually just a victim.
Feeling Su Man's eyes, Princess Jinxiu glanced back at her and said lukewarmly, "The palace is not a general's mansion, pay attention to your manners"
“……”
The mother and daughter have just experienced life and death, and the princess is too indifferent as a mother at this time. If it weren't for the fact that he heard the princess muttering "Aman run" in the carriage back just now, Su Man really felt that this ice-faced princess didn't care about the life or death of the original owner.
Su Manlai has been here for more than a month, and to be honest, she really can't understand this princess. She remembered that the princess in the novel was not close to the original owner, probably because her marriage was forced, and she didn't like her daughter.
Although Su Man didn't spend much time with this princess, she could always feel something different from this mother's eyes every time they got along. Under the cover of indifference, it seemed to be fear, an inexplicable emotion, Su Man couldn't tell, and there was a feeling in that complicated look that she couldn't understand.
Moreover, the princess's spirit in recent days is far less than before, and a lot of fat powder has been used for her delicate face, but it can't hide the dark blue under her eyes. When they first rode in the carriage together, the princess seemed to deliberately keep a distance from her, which was very inexplicable. A lot of the strokes in the novel are brought to real life, and there are a lot of questions.
"Ling'er, today made you and Xiaoman frightened" The queen was very intimate and asked the maid to give Princess Jinxiu's mother and daughter a soothing tea ceremony, "but it hurts"
"Xie Huang sister-in-law, the splendid mother and daughter are not injured" Princess Splendid immediately pulled Su Man and saluted again.
Forehead...... From entering the palace to now, Su Man has done a lot of courtesy, his back hurts, his hands and feet cramps, this palace fight is still a physical work.
"Xiaoman" Queen said with a kind face, "Don't be restrained, have fun later"
After that, the queen was also very sympathetic to the Splendid Princess, the mother and daughter, Tianshan Snow Lotus, two hundred-year-old blood ginseng, two qi supplements, and most importantly, two seven-star soul rejuvenation pills.
Su Mangang was just thinking about what the Seven Star Soul Returning Pill was when he heard the cannon fodder narration coming from somewhere around him.
"The Seven Star Soul Rejuvenation Pill is the one that can be refined with seventy-seven forty-nine precious medicinal materials for eighty-one days to produce one. Its preciousness is precious, there are two flavors in it, the material is rare, one is the Tianshan Ice and Snow Grass, which is easy to find, but it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to store it on the day of alchemy. The second is the fire lotus fruit in the Western Regions, and thousands of people in the desert will be able to find one. ”
"This elixir is said to have the effect of resurrecting the dead, and one is worth a fortune."
"It should be well preserved, maybe it can be used as a family heirloom"
IQ tax, it's back from the dead, heirloom...... Do you know that medicines have an expiration date? Moreover, the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine is a long stream, and a medicine will eliminate the disease, what you are talking about is not an elixir. There is really an elixir, please take it first to cure your brain-dead disease.
"This queen really values the splendid mother and daughter"
"It's not that Su Cheng has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, where does Jinxiu have that face, and where does the palace have her status."
But she was also lucky, she thought that she had married a reckless man and only gave birth to such a straw bale daughter. Eighty percent of Sucheng will take concubines, but I haven't seen any newcomers in their mansion for so many years."
"You know that there are no newcomers again, and Sioux City has only been in Beijing for a few days a year. Maybe it's going to be kept outside, hehehehe."
Then I heard the "whispering" of those cannon fodder narrators turn into a burst of laughter. What are they and what are they, this palace wants to give you a piece of red.
Su Man secretly observed the expressions of everyone present, those ladies and princesses, princesses and concubines all smiled toothlessly, dignified and virtuous. When they saw Su Man looking at them, they all nodded appropriately.
Hypocrisy! Eight Po!
And the other side of the hall also saw the situation here, and Uncle Yang Jingqin drank wine and said to Su Cheng, "General Su, in this battle of Yinzhou, I heard that you killed two Maoren generals with the power of one person, cut off their heads and skinned them and hung them outside the city wall to deter other Maoren soldiers."
"Huh," Prince Rong immediately poured himself a glass of wine and said, "I said Jingqin, can you not talk about these things during the meal, and lose your appetite." ”
"Say what's wrong," Yang Jingqin drank another large glass of wine and said, "General Su is still the one who did this, why don't you lose your appetite?"
"Shut up" Yang Guozhang looked at his brainless and impulsive son coldly, and then smiled at Su Cheng and said, "This is all General Su's merits, the security of the frontier depends on General Su's guard, and it is our great luck to have a brave general like General Su."
"Yang Shoufu has won the award" Su Cheng smiled and said, "It was the saint who gave Su Cheng the opportunity, I was originally a grass people, and I was able to make contributions thanks to the saint's insight, if there is no saint, there will be no Su Cheng today."
Hearing this, Yang Guozhang just smiled meaningfully and said, "That is, General Su must not forget his roots"
Ji Yechen, who was not far away, had a full view of the interaction between the two here, and Bai Qirui, the proton of the King of Dingxi on the side, shook his golden silk soft fan and said, "This kind of drama staged in the palace banquet is much more exciting than in the pear orchard."
"Indeed" Ji Yechen lazily picked up the luminous cup in his hand and drank all the wine in the cup, graceful.
Princess Changping at the women's seat was a little drunk, she rolled her eyes, and suddenly said, "Sister Su Man, you see that you have received so many rewards from your mother, and today is the full moon festival, should you go on stage to show your talents?"
As soon as he said this, everyone cast their eyes on Su Man, most of them with the mentality of watching a good show.