Chapter 121: "Teaching Fees"
Great people can't be achieved in a day, so Yi Xiangxiang is not in a hurry, she decided to start from the so-called duty.
Now that she is the queen, her duty is naturally to manage the harem. That's not a problem, anyway, with those four grandmothers, she doesn't have anything to worry about.
So what's the most important thing right in front of you?
Naturally, it's a palace banquet!
This time, the palace banquet Ye Dynasty and Sanssouci Island will come, Yi Xiangxiang not only wants to make the palace banquet smooth and smooth, but also to hold a great country style.
The process has been fixed, and Yi Xiangxiang only spent some effort on eating. She wrote a few new menus for the imperial dining room, made a few special dishes, and invited the concubines of the harem to taste them.
The tasting results are naturally praised, after all, they are all recipes copied from modern times, and there is no pollution in this ancient dynasty, and the ingredients are all of the highest quality, and the things made are naturally not bad.
But in order to ensure that the concubines did not sell her face and talk nonsense, she also sent two copies to Cining Palace and Ci'an Palace. After getting all the praise, she was really relieved.
And since Yi Xiangxiang punished Concubine Lin Guifei in the Imperial Garden, the palace concubines have also restrained a lot, and everyone knows that this queen is not easy to mess with, so they don't easily mess with her again. So calmly, time came to the Chinese New Year's Eve Palace banquet in a blink of an eye.
The time of the banquet in the Li Dynasty Palace was still noon on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the hundreds of civil and military officials and the major hairpin families gathered in the Fengtian Hall.
This is the first time that Yi Xiangxiang and Zhao Ziqian have walked into Fengtian Hall hand in hand since their marriage. It was also the first time she appeared at the palace banquet as a queen after she became the queen.
In the splendid palace, the emperor and queen are both dressed in crowns. Zhao Ziqian and Yi Xiangxiang walked hand in hand and walked to the dragon and phoenix chairs on the high platform in the ceremony.
As the most honorable couple in the Li Dynasty, it is natural to accept the worship of everyone under the high platform.
Yi Xiangxiang used to think that respect and humility were not so important, but when everyone has to prostrate under your feet, that sense of vanity does exist. She sighed slightly, feeling a little emotional about her gradual "following the customs", but also a little helpless.
Zhao Ziqian took Yi Xiangxiang and sat down, and then let the ministers sit down.
The ministers seated naturally also had mixed feelings, and many people secretly looked in the direction of the Yi family. After all, today's Yi family is not as simple as the celebrities in front of the saint, and now they are serious royal relatives.
Who would have thought that this Yixi Lake, who was originally a seven-grade petty official, would actually become a national ruler!
It's really the ancestral tomb is smoking, the ancestral tomb is smoking!
However, the Yi family of "green smoke from the ancestral grave" is more low-key, although they know that many people are secretly paying attention to themselves, but they sit upright and do not talk left and right, which is really not public.
After Yi Xiangxiang sat down, she looked down, and saw her father and mother sitting like sculptures with her brothers and sisters, and she felt a little funny in her heart. She looked at Yi Ruofu who was sitting in Sheng's house again, and she was also very well-behaved.
"Fifth Sister's pretentious kung fu is even more amazing!" Yi Xiangxiang said this to Qing Xuan.
Hearing this, Qing Xuan looked at Yi Ruofu, bowed slightly and replied with a smile: "Didn't you learn it from Niangniang?" What is this called, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger? ”
"Come on, those who pretend to be pigs and eat tigers are smart people. Where is she smart? It's just posturing. Yi Xiangxiang complained.
Yi Ruofu's rules are the same as her, they are all rules in front of people, and lazy in the back.
Xu was sensitive, and after Yi Ruofu shook her head, she found that Yi Xiangxiang was looking at her. She observed, and while no one was paying attention around, Chong Yixiang stuck out her tongue mischievously.
"See? In this case, can I cure her of disrespect? Yi Xiangxiang smiled treacherously.
Yi Ruofu got along with Yi Xiangxiang when she was young, and she read the meaning of her lips, rolled her eyes and straightened her body and continued to pretend.
Qing Xuan smiled: "If you add Miss Five...... Mrs. Sheng Shao's white eyes behind her, Niangniang can indeed cure her of disrespect. ”
When the master and servant secretly poked and poked the connotation, the two sisters and brothers Yi Huanhuan and Yi Lele found out about the eyebrows and eyes of their sister and the fifth sister, and secretly followed Yi Xiangxiang to make a look.
So when Yi Xiangxiang turned around, she saw the younger brothers and sisters below squeezing her eyebrows at her, and she couldn't hold back her laughter for a while.
"How can the queen be so happy? Did you find something interesting? It was Pei Yuyan who asked.
Yi Xiangxiang pretended to be dignified and straightened the hairpin ring, and coughed secretly: "It's nothing, it's just a happy thing." ”
When Pei Yuyan was about to ask what the joy was, the little eunuch outside the hall sang a message, so everyone got up again.
The person who can appear later than the emperor and queen is not used as he thinks, but the two queen queens of Cining Palace and Ci'an Palace.
The Li Dynasty values filial piety, even if Zhao Ziqiangui is the emperor, he will get up with his daughter-in-law Yi Xiangxiang to greet him at this time. Yi Xiangxiang was actually too lazy to move, but she also stood up with Qing Xuan's false support. She looked at the queen mother of the two palaces who wanted to bring her outside the palace as if she were sisters, and she was full of praise in her heart.
Outsiders don't know, Yi Xiangxiang is clear. Since Zhao Ziqian ascended the throne, the two queen mothers, Xiaoduan and Xiao'an, can not be seen. And they don't want to see each other very much, and now they can pretend to be sisters, which is really hard work.
The movements of the two queen mothers are not different from the picture of the emperor and queen just now, they walked up to the high platform together and sat down in the kneeling of the ministers.
Then, with the sound of Jiang Hai "the palace banquet begins", the atmosphere of Fengtian Hall became lively.
The steps are still the same step, so that when the ministers meet, except for the people of Xiaodongguo, they are also peaceful.
Xiao Dongguo came to pay tribute this time to the crown prince Dongyu, so why is he embarrassed? It's not because An Jinquan asked him to marry the daughter of the Yi family, let alone him, but An Jinquan himself didn't expect that he really stepped on the tiger's tail to pass the danger.
How could they have thought that this girl of the Yi family would become the queen of the Li Dynasty, and she was really almost dead!
Of course, no one paid attention to the embarrassment of Prince Dongyu. After all, the biggest highlight of this palace banquet is not his small affiliated country.
The most eye-catching thing about this palace banquet in the Li Dynasty is naturally the Ye Dynasty Prince Yesheng, and the young island lord Nangong Ge of Sanssouci Island.
Halfway through the banquet, everyone drank until they were half-drunk, and Yi Xiangxiang was able to blatantly look at these two key figures.
First of all, there is Ye Sheng sitting on the left side of the hall, he wears a moonlight python robe with a cold and noble atmosphere, the leader of the python robe is inlaid with embroidered silver silk edge cloud pattern piping, the waist is tied with a wide belt of moon white auspicious cloud pattern, hanging white jade exquisite waist wear, black hair tied up with a gilt crown fixed.
His facial features are sharp and his eyebrows and eyes are like sharp edges, his temperament is like the snow of the mountains, and he seems to have a pure plum fragrance, which makes people want to savor it and want to put it on the shelf.
It looks good, but it's colder. Yi Xiangxiang thought so.
Yesheng's coldness is not the same as Zhao Ziqian's unsmiling, how can it be compared? If Zhao Ziqian is the fire in the night, Yesheng is the ice in the night.
There is a warm anger in Zhao Ziqian's coldness, and there is a freezing sharpness in Yesheng's coldness.
After Yi Xiangxiang admired it, she looked at Nangong Song on the right.
Nangong Ge was wearing a red python robe, tied his hair with a hollow carved gold crown, and tied a gold silk spider belt of the same color around his waist. The point is that his eyebrows and eyes are actually seven points charming, and a pair of peach blossom eyes are very pretty, and he looks like a country and a city.
The standard male and female appearance, but it is not abrupt, and the charm is natural with a graceful and suave nature, which is very eye-catching.
It was a fiery man, as dazzling as the wild red. Such a person, although he always looks like a hippie smiling face in the world, but the arrogance in his body is definitely not inferior to the nobility of Yesheng.
Yi Xiangxiang was suddenly a little depressed, in the "VIP seat" of the Fengtian Palace, she was the most ordinary.
But she has always been open-minded, although she is Yan Kong, but most of the control is others. After all, she doesn't see herself much except when she looks in the mirror.
She asked Qing Xuan to refill a glass of wine for herself, and when she held it up, she was held down by Zhao Ziqian.
"You've drunk a lot today, you shouldn't drink again." Zhao Ziqian said to her.
It's not that he doesn't believe in Yi Xiangxiang's drinking, it's just that he finds that every time she finishes drinking, she is more unscrupulous, and he still has to be close to her at the palace banquet.
"Oh well! By the way, I heard that Ye Sheng entered the palace early this morning? What did you talk about? Don't let you drink, Yi Xiangxiang, who was so idle, naturally chatted with Zhao Ziqian.
After all, on such an occasion, it was not good for her to pull Qing Xuan, who was standing behind, to talk about four or six.
Zhao Ziqian didn't mind discussing state affairs with Yi Xiangxiang, he said: "I didn't say anything, what I said was nothing more than a hint that I hoped that we would not interfere in the battle between Ye Dynasty and Sanssouci Island. ”
Yi Xiangxiang couldn't imagine how Yesheng looked at such a cold person, and how to play.
"You promised?" Yi Xiangxiang asked.
"No, he didn't make it clear what to take in exchange, I can't easily agree." Zhao Ziqian smiled.
His smile made Yi Xiangxiang shake her head, even if she had known Zhao Ziqian for so long, even to the point of sharing a bed, she still rarely saw him smile.
However, Zhao Ziqian is really good-looking when he laughs! She thought so.
What did she think in her heart, Yi Xiangxiang naturally wouldn't say it, but she also smiled and said: "Profiteer, profiteer!" But there is really no need to rush to agree, after all, I haven't seen what the conditions of this Sanssouci Island are. ”
The two looked at each other and smiled, and everything was silent.
Although it was a staggered plan, the people below had already seen the two emperors and queens whispering.
Of course, no one has to put a beak on it. It's normal for two husbands and wives to whisper. Even if someone feels uncomfortable in their hearts, it will not be put on their faces.
For example, the palace concubines who pinched the veil tightly still looked smiling on their faces.
Lin Zhimeng looked at the emperor and queen sitting on the high platform, and her heart was also mixed. She asked Qiao Sui to add a glass of wine to herself, and Qiao Sui originally wanted to persuade her, but she felt that it was not easy to speak, so she wanted to speak and stopped there.
And at this time, Nangong Ge, the young island master of Sanssouci Island, spoke.
"Holy Lord, this lord has heard that the Rite Dynasty is a country of rites and pleasures, but now it seems that it is not true."
Yi Xiangxiang was originally discussing with Zhao Ziqian what to blackmail, but when she heard these similar provocative words, her attention was naturally pulled away.
Not only her, everyone turned their attention to Nangong Ge.
Zhao Ziqian wanted to ask what to say, but Yi Xiangxiang didn't want to give Nangong Ge this face, she reached out to hold Zhao Ziqian's hand and motioned him not to speak.
The big boss has to have the posture of the big boss, and if you raise the posture, the other party must look up at you.
For example, on a small occasion like this, there is naturally no need for the chairman to speak, otherwise what would the general manager hire for?
Besides, the general manager wants to take this opportunity to rise.
So, under Yi Xiangxiang's hint, "Chairman" Zhao Ziqian gave the right to speak to "General Manager" Yi Xiangxiang very face-saving.
"Oh? Why did the young island owner say this? Is there anything wrong with the main palace? Please also make it clear to the young island owner! Yi Xiangxiang asked Nangong Ge with a smile.
Although she asked if there was any inconsiderate hospitality, her tone and actions were neither humble nor arrogant.
Nangong Ge was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the other party to give him such a dismissal, obviously it was Zhao Ziqian who he wanted to talk to, but it was Yi Xiangxiang who answered, which made it clear that he didn't give face!
But he wasn't annoyed, after all, he was the one who provoked first. And he also discovered that the rumored queen mother of the Li Dynasty, who had no talent and no virtue, seemed to have a lot of power to speak in front of Zhao Ziqian.
"Ahem, it's not that the number of courtesies is insufficient, it's just a musical word. This song and dance is good, but this zither music is too ordinary. Nangong Ge was also smiling, looking like "I am very simple and honest".
"Don't hide it from the island owner, this palace also thinks that they don't play well!" Yi Xiangxiang waved her hand to stop the music as she spoke, and said to Nangong Ge: "Why don't you ...... A little island owner to give a pointer? ”
Yi Xiangxiang set up the stage, wanting to see what kind of drama this Nangong was singing.
"I don't dare to say it, but this master teaches his apprentices, and he always has to charge some tuition. I don't know if the queen is willing to pay this tuition? Nangong Ge's peach blossom eyes jumped, and he looked very clever and smiling.
Yi Xiangxiang pulled the corners of her mouth slightly and thought, it turns out that she is waiting for me here!
No wonder everyone Yesheng entered the palace early in the morning, but this Nangong Song was not in a hurry.
Nangong Ge asked about this tuition, naturally it was not a question of whether Yi Xiangxiang could give it. So although his words were Yi Xiangxiang who asked, his eyes were looking at Zhao Ziqian.
It's a pity that the latter didn't pay attention to him, but drank tea by himself.
The people present were all like mirrors, and everyone could understand what Nangong Ge said. Half of them thought that the queen would not take on this challenge, and the other half looked at Lin Zhimeng expectantly.
The concubine is known as the first talented woman in Kyoto, and if she is to discuss music, I don't know who gave whom teaching money.
However, Lin Zhimeng didn't want to talk to her, she had always been tolerant and generous, and she suddenly wanted to see Yi Xiangxiang embarrassed.
Yi Xiangxiang naturally didn't expect Lin Zhimeng to stand up and say anything, a while ago she punished Lin Zhimeng for beating Xiangqiao, and the two of them were settled. If Lin Zhimeng stood up at this time, she would feel that the other party was a temperless person.
Lin Zhimeng didn't speak, so half of the people began to think that the queen would not take on this challenge.
Of course, among these people, Zhao Ziqian and the Yi family are definitely not included.
Because with their understanding of Yi Xiangxiang, the latter will never retreat without a fight.
Sure enough, Yi Xiangxiang opened her mouth.
"Why not? If the young island master can really let the palace learn something, it's just a little tuition, and the palace can still afford it. ”
It doesn't matter if you can win or not, you can't lose in momentum.
Although Yi Xiangxiang thinks so, others don't. So the people below whispered, and some even secretly blamed Yi Xiangxiang for being too impulsive.
"This young island master wants me to send troops to the Ye Dynasty, right? How could the queen be so impulsive! Minister A said.
"Not really! It was clear that a pit had been dug, and the queen jumped into it stupidly! If you don't say that you come out of a small family, you really don't pay attention to the overall situation! Chancellor B said.
"You can't say that, the Holy One didn't say anything! Isn't it too early for you to grow the morale of others to extinguish your own breeze? Chancellor C said.
Because of this discussion, many people hinted that the emperor should stop it. There are even people who strangled the queen mother of the two palaces and withdrew early, otherwise they would have been able to stop the queen's presumptuousness.
Halfway through the banquet, the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan of Cining Palace withdrew from the banquet on the grounds of "not disturbing you young people". The excuse that the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan made was very inadequate, she said so, and the Empress Dowager Xiao'an of Ci'an Palace naturally didn't want to lick her face and sit down to disturb the young people, so the two "old sisters" left together.
Nangong Ge smiled, he didn't know where Yi Xiangxiang got the confidence, but although it was not Zhao Ziqian who responded to this, Yi Xiangxiang, as the queen, should say this, and it would also work for him.
He waved behind him, and a woman dressed as a luthier standing behind him stepped forward.
"The little girl Wanyin is melancholy, and she presents a song to entertain the saint, the queen and all the nobles."
The woman's waist is like a willow, and her voice is delicate and moving, but it has a unique style.
Everyone focused on Wan Yinyu's self-introduction, admiring her dusty temperament and moving face, but Yi Xiangxiang smiled stupidly.
Zhao Ziqian wondered: "What are you laughing at?" ”
Yi Xiangxiang approached Zhao Ziqian sideways and said secretly: "Not to mention how well this woman plays, this name is very happy." ”
Wan Yin, playing yin?
Zhao Ziqian, who came back to the aftertaste, also smiled.
After Yi Xiangxiang was happy, she said to Wan Yinyu: "Please also ask Miss Wan to give advice." ”
So the palace people and the servants got on the yaoqin together and put the piano stand in the hall. After that, there were palace maids waiting for Wanyin to burn incense and clean their hands, and only after doing these things did they retreat one after another.
Wan Yin bowed to the head and sat down. Then a song "Mountains and Flowing Water" overflowed from her fingertips, and she was comfortable with deep nostalgia.
One of the famous songs of the Li Dynasty, "High Mountains and Flowing Water", is similar to "High Mountains and Flowing Water" of "Boya Drum and Piano Meets Bosom Friend", which tells the story of bosom friends and confidants. However, in the Song of the Li Dynasty, the music was played and composed by a woman, and it was her husband who listened to the music.
It is a husband and wife, and it is also a bosom friend.
This piece has been circulated for hundreds of years, and it is said in folklore that the composer and the listener were originally masters and apprentices, and later broke through the shackles and became husband and wife; It is also said that it was originally an enemy, but it was bonded because of the piano, in short, there are different opinions. And because of the long age, even dating back to before the establishment of the Qilin Dynasty, it is difficult to verify with a specific story.
However, "Mountains and Flowing Water" has been passed down and has become one of the top ten famous songs of the Li Dynasty.
It takes a lot of effort to be able to play a famous song, but also to play the song well, and even pop up the artistic conception. "Mountains and Flowing Water" under Wanyin's fingertips, if the full score is 10 points, it is rated as 8 points.
After the song stopped, everyone praised it.
While praising it, some people are worried.
Yi Xiangxiang didn't care what others were worried about, but just exclaimed: "Miss Wan is good at the piano, come here, the jewelry, jade, silk and silk are all brought to the palace, and they will be rewarded by Miss Wan!" ”
She made it clear that she was deliberate, wanting to tease Nangong Ge.
Your person played well, and I rewarded her, isn't this not tuition? Yi Xiangxiang smiled treacherously.
Playing literal games, she has always loved to exploit loopholes.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, they didn't expect the queen to play like this.
Nangong Ge didn't expect Yi Xiangxiang to be so cheating, but he was not a rule-abiding person: "The queen won't just use some vulgar gold and silver things to teach money, right?" I don't recognize the owner! ”
It's very straightforward, and it's also very tricky.
Yi Xiangxiang didn't force it: "What does the young island owner want?" ”
"The queen knows what the owner wants."
Nangong Ge smiled treacherously, with naked hints in his eyes. Of course, he also knows that the current uproar has made the weight of "tuition" lighter.
But you have to give it a try, at least to save face.
"Eh, what the young island owner wants, this palace can't give it. It's just that you said that you can teach Honggong music, but Bengong thinks that your pianist is not as good as Hongu's maid! The palace was not a teaching fee just now, but Miss Wan helped to entertain and give a reward. But if you really want to talk about tuition, I don't know who will pay whom! Yi Xiangxiang said fearlessly.
She deliberately played tricks just now, just to see what Nangong Ge would say. I didn't expect the other party to be quite direct, and he was really smart!
"The queen is a bit ashamed of this, isn't it? Yin Yu is from the Qinmen, and he is the best disciple of the Qinmen! Nangong Ge was very frank and bluntly said that Yi Xiangxiang was too "arrogant".
Although the other party's words were not very polite, Yi Xiangxiang found that she liked a straightforward person like Nangong Ge more and more.
Dressed in red, chic and uninhibited.
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