Chapter 100: Making a fool of yourself in public
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Bai Caixuan looked like he had won the game and left.
The sons of the good family then waited outside the Taihe Gate for a long time, until no one who was an official came in or out with their children, and it was already noon.
The hustle and bustle of the room gradually returned to silence, and all the visitors were seated. The good families picked up their haircuts, tidied up, and prepared to go in.
"Biography, seventy-eight sons of good families are seated." The eunuch's sharp voice shouted, and the sons of the good family who were dazed by the sun suddenly lifted their spirits.
"Hurry up, don't be sluggish!" The little eunuch urged.
The sons of the good family all bowed their heads cautiously, and the little eunuch led the way in front of him with the floating dust, as if he was driving a group of beasts into the circle.
Among the dozens of good families, only Lizhan and a half raised their heads and looked around.
She had been to the palace many times in her previous life, but the palace had a total of 9,999 rooms, and she had not been anywhere. For example, in the East Palace, she was born very much.
But the distribution of buildings in the palace, most of them have laws to find, such as people with heavy positions, the residence is very particular about sitting in the north and facing south, by the mountains and rivers, and always walking towards the north, if you can see a palace backed by a rockery, facing the abyss pond, it must be Gu Yueze's residence.
And Gu Yueze has always liked to hide valuable things in the side hall of the courtyard, he wants to see it, he can see it at any time, he wants to touch it, and he can touch it at any time. It's like in the court, you always have to keep the most important power in your own hands to rest assured.
Lizhan couldn't help but look north, but in front of him was a huge temple, obscuring all vision.
The top of this temple is the top of the heavy eaves rest, the inner and outer eaves are the golden dragon and the seal talent, ten zhang high, more than 400 zhang wide, the whole eighty seats are accommodated in it is not crowded at all.
Gu Yueze sat under the six ceiling beam paintings, which was naturally the highest seat. On the right, there is the emperor's favorite princess, Princess Jiyue, and on the left, the position is empty.
Further down on the left, there are King Duan and King Xu and a group of princes who have reached adulthood but have not yet been crowned kings, and the princesses and county lords on the side are all sitting on the right.
The sons of the good family were not familiar with the atmosphere in the palace, and they fell to the last seat tremblingly, only to raise their eyes to see, and then they found that the last seat was farther than they imagined, and they had to rivet their eyes to see a bright yellow shadow the size of a palm fixed on the upper seat.
The bright yellow figure waved his sleeves, and the eunuch shouted in a loud voice, "Pass the food." β
The palace maids came in with dishes, however, different seats, and different dishes.
The emperor's relatives gave thirty-six dishes, the ministers gave twenty-eight dishes, and the good families could only get twelve dishes.
But this is much better than the emperor's selection, at least you can eat a hot meal. The emperor's selection of concubines is more than piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the selection is layer-by-layer, the eunuch picks, the queen picks, the queen picks, and the emperor picks again.
Sifting back and forth, very cumbersome, if you don't have a selection of the East Palace today, it's just a meal, whether you can choose it depends on whether the prince will look at you a few more times.
At first glance, it was a romantic act of love at first sight, but only Gu Yueze and Bai Caixuan knew that what the East Palace selection was was just a formality, and simplifying the complex was just trying to save time and effort.
The old eunuch looked at the vacant seat on Gu Yueze's left with a sad face, and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, do you want to wait?" β
Gu Yueze was also a little difficult, looking at the black and oppressive seat, it was steamed to the point that it was about to smoke, and the good families were just waiting, Princess Jiyue was also waiting, and the ministers were also waiting, which was a little inappropriate.
"Don't wait, go get some ice from the cellar and come to town."
"Yes."
Gu Yueze raised his glass to toast and announced the official start of the feast, the sound of silk and bamboo started, and the singer sang in a low voice, and the aftermath was endless. Gu Yueze's gaze politely slid over the candidates one by one, and in an instant, it was like a flame running into the dry haystack, and the rows of women were red-faced.
The woman who was close to the upper seat tried her best to talk to Gu Yueze, and the good family at the last seat had no choice but to rely on offering treasures to attract attention.
"Yu Cheng, the daughter of the Yu family, presents a double box of rosewood inlaid with boxwood, cloud bats, and hooked lotus."
The eunuch chanted, and the palace maid handed the delicate box to Gu Yueze.
The box is a good box, and usually the rich and noble can't afford to use such a box to hold things, but it's still too shabby to dedicate it to the prince, those dignitaries snickered, Gu Yueze glanced at it lightly, and waved his hand: "Put it in the warehouse." β
Lizhan knew it in his heart, sure enough, his habits had not changed, in Gu Yueze's eyes, the treasury was a firewood room, and those things that were half worth nothing were just left in it, and he didn't necessarily have to take a look at them for a few years.
"Li Xuzhi, the daughter of the Li family, offered a yellow thick sticker with a butterfly picture, a red eye, carved handle, and a fan."
"Warehouse."
Another woman dimmed under his bland gaze.
As a result, the good families who had prepared gifts in advance and were eager to try them were a little afraid to do so.
Lizhan buried himself in eating, thinking only about how to steal medicine and how to rectify Bai Caixuan, and he didn't pay attention to these scenes at all.
But Lixiaoxiao on the side was a little restless, she bent down and took out a string of lapis lazuli pearls from her sleeve, and said with a hurried face: "Chen'er, do you think I sent someone to make this string of hanging beads?" I saw that all the things they offered were excellent, but the nobles who sat on the steps seemed to be laughing all the time. β
Li Chen shook his head resolutely: "Of course not, the cloisonnΓ© enamel incense offered by that person just now is more precious than your string of hanging beads, and His Royal Highness is just an understatement to let people enter the warehouse, and if you give it away, it will be for nothing, and let the Bai family laugh at it for nothing." β
"What then? We finally entered the palace once, and we were no worse than the daughters of those officials, seeing that the prince was at the table, and they talked and seduced, we couldn't say a word. β
Li Chen put down the chopsticks, his face was also full of melancholy, he thought of something for a while, and said secretly: "Sister, is your white jade waist pendant still there?" β
"You mean the waist pendant that my grandmother gave me to play with when I was six years old? Now, do you want to give it to Your Highness? β
Leave the morning by default.
"You're crazy! That waist pendant is very cheesy, I just wore it when I was a child, if it wasn't for my grandmother, I would have thrown it away! β
Lichen leaned into Lixiaoxiao's ear, and said with the sound of mosquito bites, while glancing at Lizhan beside him.
"I've counted you so many times, do you want to return it?"
"Yes!" Li Xiaoxiao nodded without hesitation, and then asked puzzledly: "But what does it matter......
"I have my own way, so I ask if you bring it?"
"With ...... I was embarrassed to hang it outside and tie it in my bag. β
"Fetch it for me."
Li Xiaoxiao knew that Li Chen had always had a lot of ideas, and when he heard that he could retaliate against Lizhan, he quickly took it out of the brocade silk bag.
Li Chen touched the fast and ordinary waist pendant, her eyebrows and eyes were all smiling, and she got up and respectfully handed it to the little palace maid not far away: "This white jade waist pendant, I bother you to present it to Your Highness." β
The palace maid looked down and immediately rolled her eyes, the girl who often works in the palace still doesn't know how to order goods.
"Girl, I advise you not to offer this."
"Good sister, it's rare to enter the palace once, you can do me a favor." Li Chen quietly stuffed her with a silver ingot from below.
The palace maid felt the shape of the silver, silently put it into her sleeve, and her face softened a little.
"Who is sending ......?"
"Oh, the maid who left home and offered it." Lichen lowered his voice.
The silk and bamboo curled around the beams endlessly, and no one noticed what Li Chen did or said.
The palace maid went to the table with a wooden plate and a waist pendant, and when she passed by the old eunuch, she bowed her head and whispered a few words, and the old eunuch seemed to be very unhappy, frowning and scolding her, and then let her go.
"If you leave the house, you will send a white jade waist pendant."
The voice of the eunuch resounded throughout the hall, and the people in the hall were stunned almost at the same time.
Lizhan himself raised his head violently! Obviously eating the food well, when did you send something to that thin beast?
Except for a few good families who knew who she was, everyone else was shocked without warning.
Away from the lamp? How can a good family have the same name as the prince's dead concubine!
This is to deliberately attract the attention of the prince in the name of offering things, right?
If you heard me right, this person is just a concubine!
Tsk, it's strange, there are really everyone in this world, and if you want to be the princess, you want to be crazy, and you dare to borrow the name of a dead man!
And what is the name of the thing she sends? White jade waist pendant? The thing hanging on the waist symbolizes a person's status, and no one knows that the three-eyed Tianhe stone on the waist of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a priceless treasure and is rare.
What kind of daughter is she from a big family in Zhumen, who dares to offer another waist pendant to His Royal Highness the Prince?
Gu Yueze heard this name, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, others knew that he was very fond of Li Zhan, the daughter of the rebel minister, and thought that he remembered his deceased wife, and for a while he was even more disdainful of Lizhan's opportunism, even Bai Caixuan was a little serious, and faintly gritted his back molars and looked at the dozens of two families.
"Present it to Hongu."
"Yes."
The palace maid didn't expect Gu Yueze to make an exception to take a second look, and immediately regretted it. She walked up to Gu Yueze with trembling steps, and knelt down holding the plate.
Gu Yueze took the waist pendant and played with it over and over again.
Away from the lamp, huh? used to hear about it, and I thought that King Qi liked her, so I rushed to King Qi's mansion recklessly, and asked King Qi to ask for soldiers with a selection booklet.
King Qi rejected him categorically, making him return to the East Palace and think over and over again, whether Gu Fuwei was deliberately hiding something.
But now this question finally stopped bothering him.
Unless King Qi's brain was kicked by a donkey, how could he look at such a vulgar fool!
A "whoosh" sound of wind passed between the two seats, and the white jade waist pendant flew out of his hand, throwing a long arc along the gold and jade bricks, and smashed to the ground with a "bang".