Fun?

Gu Zi'an said with interest: "Oh? A sentence.

"Are you so sure that she can wear the bright moon pearl and shake it in front of all the guests?"

Meng Yining raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a smile: "When I come back, I'll tell you more!" “

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It was getting late, and the horse's hooves gradually drove into the palace by the light of the candle flame.

Congratulatory gifts were brought in one after another. Before entering the mansion, I heard the sound of the silk and bamboo orchestra and the sound of greetings in the mansion.

It seems to be spring.

The guards were guarding their side, Zhang Jiu helped Jing Chi get out of the car, and Meng Yining himself jumped down.

Meng Yining looked at the layers of flower curtains and festive decorations that led the way in front. The special incense also gives the solemn cold a deep meaning.

Meng Yining also celebrated Gu Zi'an and Jing Chi's birthdays, but when she saw the appearance of Jing Zheng's mansion and the guests, she felt a little awkward. After thinking about it, I finally found that none of the guests brought their families.

In the past, on Jingchi's birthday, many ministers brought their children and daughters to attend the banquet, and the horizontal and vertical ones also took the opportunity to get closer to each family, and the children often shuttled under the wine table. Once, a three-year-old doll got under Meng Yining's skirt. They are all the sons and grandsons of dignitaries, Meng Yining didn't dare to act rashly, so she had to beg the grandmother next to her with a red face.

It is impossible for Mama to lift her skirt and let the child come out. In the end, it was the child's mother who carried him out. The embarrassed look made Jing Chi laugh for a long time.

Meng Yining thought for a while, leaned over and asked, "Why are there no women?" ”

Zhang Jiu opened his mouth and came: "Where is it?" There's a lot of dancing in there! ”

"Be quiet!"

She scolded him and asked in a low voice, "That's it, why aren't these people's wives there?" It turned out that on His Highness's birthday, I remember that everyone brought their families. ”

Meng Yining said, pointing to a few women who were chatting scatteredly.

Zhang Jiu smiled: "You don't know this, King Lian is the representative of our Great Xia tough guy and prince, and there will be hundreds of singing and dancing women on his birthday." He will also let his concubines show off their beauty, who will dominate the field at this time?

Jing Chi has good ears, of course he knows what the two are talking about in the back.

smiled and scolded Zhang Jiu, don't fool around.

Zhang Jiu immediately nodded and promised not to say a word to Meng Yining again.

There was an endless stream of people in the palace, and there were two women who were particularly eye-catching.

One was wearing a long pink and green dress, wearing a magnolia hairpin, his face was as if he was drunk, a pair of fawn eyes, a small mouth, and he looked like he was only eighteen or nineteen years old.

Next to her stood a woman in purple clothes embroidered with gold flowers, a pair of willow leaf hanging eyebrows, slightly raised eyes, fragrant cheeks with red, all kinds of amorous, enchanting and colorful.

The homely words they talked about penetrated into Meng Yining's ears.

Meng Yining not only never forgets, but her ears are also extremely good, she is naturally sensitive, and she listens to the wind and discerns the direction. When she was a child, she and her eldest sister often went to the small river in the suburbs to play on the summer solstice. Her brothers like fishing, but she doesn't, she just likes to pick up some white pebbles and throw them into the river, watching them sink to the bottom of the river "poof" and "poof".

The eldest sister didn't like fishing either, so she sat by the river with Meng Yining and threw stones.

Once the eldest sister asked Meng Yining to carry it and let her guess how far the stone was thrown.

Meng Yining felt that he couldn't hear it at first, but he didn't expect that there would be eight times out of ten. She listened to the sound of the stone falling into the water, turned her head and picked up a piece and threw it away, which was actually the place where the eldest sister's stone fell just now.

Meng Yining has always known that her ears are sensitive, but since then, she has begun to pay attention to training herself.

When she came to Daxia, it was impossible to go out to play around, so sometimes Gu Zi'an wanted to train her. He would blindfold her with a black cloth, and he would take a brush upside down and knock it around the room, so that she could guess what it was.

At first she couldn't tell the difference, but as time went on, she wrote down the sounds of each item.

Meng Yining listened to the familiar conversation between the two and smiled, it turned out that it was not the first time she had seen these two. I met Gu Zi'an and Zhang Ji by chance in the restaurant some time ago.

Turning his head and asking Zhang Jiu in a low voice, "Who is the girl in purple in front?" ”

"Don't you dare to call the girl, that's King Lian's eldest wife, Xia Qing."

Meng Yining took a look, it turned out that Xia Qing was her.

I've never seen it, but I've heard it countless times, and it's not much different from reality, regardless of what I've imagined in my head.

There are several contradictions in the title of Mrs. Bifang, but it is because although Xia Qing is a concubine, King Jingzheng of Lian has not officially married a wife. This one was just admitted to the palace at the beginning of last year, and now she is the master of the palace alone, and she is very favored.

At the beginning of the year, King Lian had a bucket of pearls Naxia Qing, and people wanted to see this woman's beauty.

Xia Qing used to be a singer and met Jing Zheng in the small town of Biansai with yellow sand. According to legend, on that day, he rode by and saw Xia Qing leaning on a vermilion pillar under the slanting sun.

Crush.

He looked at her green silk with the wind, and her eyes were like the splendid mountain flowers all over the mountains and fields in the wilderness, which was a scenery that Chengping had never seen before. She wore a pomegranate red dress and depicted a flock of birds flying down, shaking a fan, and looking at him with a light smile.

A month later, when she returned to Chengping, Jing Zheng also brought her back.

Concubine Fu Zhou Wan persuaded King Lian, the singer, to be embarrassed by the entrance of the singer, but she really couldn't do it.

But I don't know what's going on, King Lian likes her. Although she is not a wife, she is the only lady in the palace.

Xia Qing, who was not recognized by the Zhou family, often prepared expensive gifts during the New Year's holidays and wanted to go to the palace to meet Concubine Fu Zhou Wan and get closer to each other, but she never saw her once. I had to make friends with Zhou Wan's grandmother, hoping to give myself a few more kind words in front of Zhou Wan.

Jing Zheng welcomes guests.

There was no wife in the house, and Xia Qing greeted her like a hostess. The guests also enjoyed drinking and joking with her.

The famous troupe on the stage has several good performances in a row, which makes people applaud.

Zhang Jiu and Meng Yining sat not far from Jingchi, each stacking a handful of square-horned peanuts in their hands and talking slowly. raised his eyes and saw Gao Yi, the chief housekeeper in the palace of Minister Zhang Zhong, and greeted them together.

Between grapes and wine, singing and dancing and fireworks, Meng Yining was a little dizzy.

Jing Zheng was talking during the banquet, and Xia Qing changed into a lake blue dress and stood in the middle of the hall. The smile is more charming than any woman on the field.

She danced like a fairy.

White as jade, crystal skin, a smile and a smile, charming and charming.

Meng Yining's eyes flashed over her dancing figure, and when she saw the gilded delicate ball on her body, she smiled secretly.

"It smells so good."

"It's coming from that golden ball around her waist."

"Hey, she's dancing, why can't the spices be spilled?"

It was a delicate ball made by Meng Yining overnight. In the middle of the ball are two concentric rings with shafts inside, which hold a small bowl containing spices, which rotates with the mouth facing upwards. On the delicate ball, there is also a sparkling bright moon pearl, like the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The unique flavor of red vinegar snow chestnut and frost fir in the ball is particularly evident in the taste of a piece of rouge gouache.

A group of women were discussing what spices she was wearing.

Looking at Xia Qing's lotus dance. Meng Yining was deeply attracted by her figure and dance, and Xia Qing smiled, like a small pink flower blooming all over the mountains and fields in the spring valley.

After three rounds of drinking, Jing Chi and Jing Zheng in the distance talked for a long time.

It seems that it has been a long time since the brothers have sat down to chat. Yingge sat next to Jing Zheng and waited obediently, really like using a yellow bird, laughing brightly and with a good voice.

The bright moon hung high, and I drank too much wine.

Meng Yining was about to sneak out quietly, breathing, but her head was still glancing at Xia Qing's charming dance.

"Smack."

Suddenly, a white porcelain soup can fell to the ground.

The singing and dancing was silent instantly, and everyone looked at Meng Yining, who had not yet reacted.

The maid knelt on the ground in a panic and kowtowed, trembling and saying that she was not careful.

Meng Yining wanted to help her up and tell her that it was okay, but she felt that her identity was really difficult to speak, so she had to stand there stupidly, looking at Jingchi as if asking for help.

glanced at Jing Zheng, but neither Jing Chi nor Jing Zheng spoke, but Xia Qing spoke first.

"It's fine."

She glanced at the trembling maid, "Go down." A few of the men hurriedly packed up.

Xia Qing straightened her waist and stood aside, and greeted generously: "Yingge, come." ”

Jing Zheng glanced at Xia Qing, turned sideways and commanded Yingge in a low voice, Yingge blessed her body and walked towards Meng Yining.

"The subordinate was careless just now, your clothes are all wet, go, I'll take you to change it." Yingge smiled sweetly and pulled Meng Yi's cold hand.

She nodded and followed.

The moment she stepped out of the vermilion gate, I don't know if she was wrong or what, Meng Yining felt someone's sharp gaze looking at her.

Follow Yingge through the bright rooms in the palace. Yingge waved and dismissed several subordinates and led her to her house.

Yingge's warm yellow step Yao Sui flickered in front of Meng Yining's eyes.

Suddenly, Meng Yining felt that something was wrong, as if there was a figure in the darkness. She looked back at the inky sky and took two steps back, looking at the tall shadows of the trees swaying in the wind.

No one.

Odd.