Volume 1: Chapter 67: The Palace Banquet

It turned out that today was the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet, and all courtiers and their relatives could enter the palace to participate in the palace banquet to welcome Chinese New Year's Eve.

Song Jiayao and Song Jiaqi attended in full costume, Song Jiayao and Song Jiaqi are from the General's Mansion after all, and they must always have some scenery to attend this kind of grand banquet, although they can't steal the limelight of palace ladies like Song Jiarou, but they also have to stand out in a group of little girls.

In this regard, Song Jiaqi is particularly good, because she is dressed like a pink peacock, covered in pink and covered with expensive jewelry, like a peacock with an open screen, proud and complacent, and the place she passes must be the most eye-catching.

Although Song Jiayao, as the concubine of the General's Mansion, did not want to dress herself up like Song Jiaqi, she felt that as a concubine, she would dress up a little more solemnly, and she would not be prominent in this banquet but it would not be rude.

Song Jiarou, as a concubine, obviously prepared for this banquet, she was born as white as snow, what green and yellow clothes other people wear, I am afraid that it will only look very yellow and black, but Song Jiarou is not afraid of such troubles, so she did not hesitate to wear a light green dress at the banquet, among many women, she set off her picturesque, white skin and beauty.

"This year's Chinese New Year's Eve Palace Banquet is really lively, much more lively than in previous years!"

Song Jiarou went to her two sisters before the palace banquet started and said to them.

Song Jiayao nodded lightly after hearing the words and said softly: "I think so too, this year's Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet seems to be more grand than before, and there are a lot more girls and brothers, and it is more lively than before." ”

Song Jiaqi didn't answer, but just made a breath sound from her nose, snorted and went to the place surrounded by other girls to attract the attention of others.

Of course, it is impossible for Nangong Jin not to attend such a grand Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet, but he has long been tired of participating in the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet year after year, so this year he just randomly found a decent dress to make do with the palace banquet.

But because his own appearance is not weak, and the "decent clothes" on his body, he made his whole person a little more handsome, and as soon as he appeared, he attracted the attention of many little girls.

"Look, look, that's peace!"

In the center of the palace banquet, a group of girls saw Nangong Jin's figure, and they couldn't help but pull their friends beside them and said.

The friend also saw Nangong Jin, the hands of the two were clasped tightly, and they whispered in unison.

"He's really handsome."

After speaking, he felt that he was so unreserved, so he had to retract his gaze in a hurry, and forcibly changed the topic with a blushing heartbeat.

Nangong Jin didn't pay much attention to these gazes injected into him, as long as he appeared at a palace banquet of this nature, there would always be people who kept looking at him, as if he was a rare monkey, he was used to it.

Soon, the palace banquet was about to begin, and everyone returned to their seats, waiting for the emperor to speak above.

The emperor sat in a high position, looked at the group of people below with satisfaction, touched his little beard and thought: It seems that it is estimated that there will be several more pairs of good people this year.

In fact, the general reason for holding a Chinese New Year's Eve banquet every year and asking courtiers to bring their families is to make those girls and sons into a pair, after all, usually these girls do not go out of the door, and it is usually impossible to take the initiative to talk to men, let alone in pairs.

So later, simply in the name of Chinese New Year's Eve, let these courtiers bring over the girls and sons in their families to see if there are any eyes, I have to say that after Chinese New Year's Eve every year, there are indeed several more couples in pairs, and those couples soon got married.

Therefore, everyone tacitly regarded the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet as a place where you could meet the major princes and find suitable husbands.

But after all, it is the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet, so the opening words that should be taken are as indispensable as the singing and dancing talents, and the emperor first said a lot of words himself, and then said after toasting the audience with a few glasses of wine.

"Then the palace banquet will officially begin!"

As soon as the emperor's words fell, those dancers who had already prepared went to the center of the stage in an orderly manner, and after saluting the emperor, they began their performance, and the songs and dances of the palace banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve were naturally very exciting.

I only heard the emperor praise again and again: "Good! Good! Rewards! ”

After the dancers went down to receive the reward, the stage seemed a little empty, and the emperor didn't want to release them yet, so he said to everyone present.

"In this way, I see that the sons and daughters of the courtiers are both literate and talented, why don't I hold a talent award temporarily, what do you think of Aiqing?"

What the emperor said, the courtiers naturally absolutely agreed.

"The emperor is clever, and the ministers think this idea is very good."

After hearing this, the emperor couldn't help but say: "Then let's start, who is the girl?" ”

Because it was the first one, no one dared to go up and occupy the limelight first, in case the performance was smashed, it would be over, but there were also those who were bold and wanted to give the emperor a good impression with the first performance.

I have to say that the woman who came to the stage really thought well, the emperor's eyes lit up when he saw someone performing his talent on stage, who told him that he was really not happy watching singing and dancing just now!

Almost all the girls in the courtiers have some research on qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the best performance at the moment is probably the qin, so the woman played a song "Return" to the emperor on the spot.

The emperor who listened to it applauded again and again, and let the girl go down to receive the reward, how could Song Jiaqi be willing to live under the people, and also wanted to please herself in front of the emperor, so she didn't say hello to Song Jiayao, and went directly to the stage to say that she was from the General's Mansion and wanted to perform a dance.

Song Jiayao saw Song Jiaqi rashly come to the stage, her brows frowned slightly, although she didn't like to show her talents, but she was the daughter of the general's mansion, this kind of thing was usually asked for her to go up, Song Jiaqi was a little out of the rules when she did this.

However, Song Jiaqi didn't know where she learned the dance, and the dance was very pleasing to the eye, and she also received the reward, which added glory in front of the emperor, so Song Jiayao didn't want to care about it.

After the talent awards, the emperor let everyone move around freely, and although Song Jiayao would not take the initiative to talk to others, because she was the concubine of the General's Mansion, there were still many girls and young ladies who came to her, wanting to please her and make friends.

Song Jiayao felt a little tired of coping, so she simply said that she was a little uncomfortable and went to the garden for a walk.

Because the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet is relatively free and can move around, Song Jiayao can see some sons and brothers everywhere singing a few poems under the moonlight, and some young ladies and girls are talking outside about what brand of rouge gouache is easy to use.

Song Jiayao was not interested in any of this, so she called away the little maid beside her, and stood on the small pavilion alone to watch the moon in the sky, because the small pavilion was far away from those sons and girls and young ladies, so except for some laughter and laughter brought by the wind sometimes, the rest of the time was all quiet.

"Niangniang, can you wait for me in the garden pavilion outside?"

Because she could move around freely, Song Jiarou also walked around at the banquet, and Song Jiaqi came up and said as soon as she saw her.

Song Jiarou turned her head and said suspiciously: "Is there anything you can't say here?" ”

Song Jiaqi smiled mysteriously and said, "Oh, there are so many people here, let's go outside and talk about it!" ”

Song Jiarou looked at Song Jiaqi with a big smile on her face, so she nodded hesitantly, and then walked slowly towards the garden.

Seeing Song Jiaqi quietly watching herself walk from behind, she couldn't help but say something.

"Won't you come with me?"

"I still have some business, you can go out and wait for me first."

After speaking, Song Jiaqi slipped away without a trace, there was no way, Song Jiarou continued to walk towards the garden.

Song Jiaqi slipped away so fast, she was going to find someone, and she was not looking for someone else, it was Nangong Jin who was waiting for Ping'an, she intended to let the two meet alone, so she simply thought of a way, first asked Song Jiarou to go to the small pavilion in the garden to wait for her, and then let Nangong Jin go over to see her by herself, in this way, the matter will be done.

It's just that she hasn't figured out how to coax Nangong Jin over, just as she is thinking, Nangong Jin is standing in front of her, her eyes are looking around, she doesn't know who she is looking for, Song Jiaqi will not let go of the good opportunity in front of her, she immediately shook it in front of Nangong Jin with a handkerchief.

"Peace?"

Nangong Jin was looking for Song Jiayao's figure in the palace banquet, but he didn't expect that suddenly there was a smell of rouge gouache and a handkerchief in front of him, he frowned and looked down, and found that it was Song Jiayao's sister, and he still had a little impression in his mind.

"What's wrong?"

A low and magnetic voice flowed out of Nangong Jin's throat, which was quite pleasing to the eye, and even Song Jiaqi felt a little blushing and heartbeat when she heard it for a while, only to see her quickly bow her head slightly and say to Nangong Jin.

"Someone outside is looking for you, saying they want to meet you alone."

Nangong Jin was stunned when she heard the words and asked.

"Who is it?"

Who knew that Song Jiaqi kept silent, just blushed and shook her head slightly, indicating that she didn't say anything.

Nangong Jin couldn't help but laugh when she saw her reaction, she could see clearly this little trick played by Song Jiaqi, it was nothing more than wanting to trap people, and she wanted to use him to trap people, it is estimated that the person waiting outside didn't know that the person she wanted to see was him!

The conversation between Nangong Jin and Song Jiaqi was heard word by word by Song Jiayao behind her, I saw her take a deep breath, sigh slightly, and think: Should I go out and call Song Jiaqi away, and then remind Nangong Jin in the words?

It turned out that when she was in the small pavilion in the garden just now, she met Song Jiarou who was waiting for Song Jiaqi, and the two talked for a while, Song Jiayao knew that Song Jiarou was waiting for Song Jiaqi, so she got up and went back to the palace banquet, after all, she was also coming to this small pavilion for no one, and she wanted to see that the three sisters were going to gather together, and of course she didn't want to stay.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned to the palace banquet, he heard the conversation between the two of them.