Chapter 174: Preparing for the Palace Banquet
When Chu Nian heard from a secret guard who was sent to spy on the Shen family that the Wang family was going to marry Shen Ruan, Chu Nian felt that the Wang family was a smart person to some extent.
She knew from beginning to end that she loved the wrong person, but she never admitted that she loved the wrong person.
And now, she has come up with such a rescue method to help her husband remedy it, indeed, now the court Shen Dui can't help it, but those people in the martial arts who pretend to be high may be able to deceive.
But now it's Shen Ruan...... Chu Nian hit him in the face when he started that day, and it is estimated that now his originally beautiful appearance has been ruined, Chu Nian does not feel that he is vicious at all, on the contrary, Shen Ruan, who caused Mu Qing to not wake up until now, is really vicious.
With the heart of a villain, Shen Ruan's innocence and appearance are ruined, all of which she brought on herself.
However, Chu Nian was a little curious, with Shen Ruan's appearance, what kind of family could the Wang family find for her? But it's not a good family, as far as Shen Ruan is concerned, not to mention who to please her, if the Wang family proposes to marry her to a slightly more suitable family, it will be harming others.
When Chu Nian sneered out loud when he thought of these things, Ming Xiu had already landed, Chu Nian turned his eyes to look at the figure in the shadows, and raised his eyebrows without a trace.
"Your Highness, now you don't have to pretend to be stupid, why do you have to sneak here?"
Ming Xiu saw the smile on the corner of her mouth and knew that she was in a good mood, so he walked out from under the green plane tree, and his long and narrow eyes bent slightly with a beautiful arc.
"What is seen is not sneaky."
Hearing this, Chu Nian looked up with feeling, and saw Dark Four's eyes covered by masks, looking at Chu Nian and Ming Xiu thoughtfully.
Dark Four has been staying in Xiao Chen's courtyard these days, and now that he suddenly came over, he must have something to say.
Chu Nian beckoned to the dark four, and saw the dark four fall to the ground, and immediately knelt down on one knee in front of Ming Xiu: "Your Highness, lady." ”
Ming Xiu nodded: "I've worked hard for you these days." ”
Dark Si didn't speak, he raised his eyes to look at Chu Nian and said: "Lady, Xiao Chen's family seems to be a little restless these days, Chu Yuan and Chu Er have been in and out of the courtyard twice, they talked twice, I couldn't hear it, it seems that the whole space is guarded by a master and doesn't tell me to listen." ”
Chu Nian understood what Dark Three meant, and at this time, someone deliberately blocked Dark Three's surveillance? After glancing at Ming Xiu, Chu Nian turned his eyes to look at Dark San: "You don't have to monitor her in the near future, it's okay to rest." ”
Dark Si replied and disappeared in place, while Chu Nian frowned and looked at the corner of the courtyard, thoughtful.
Ming Xiu moved a little closer, and the wind blew his clothes, "What do you want to do?" ”
Chu Nian lowered his eyes: "Some things should be put on the table to talk about, so as not to be stabbed in the back again." ”
As she spoke, she raised her head again, with a soft smile in her watery eyes: "Your Highness, about Chu Yuan and Chu Er, is there any good candidate for Your Highness?" ”
Ming Xiu glanced at her thoughtfully, "Now Chu Yuan Chu Er's position is unclear, their mother is obviously your enemy, if you marry them to my people, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." ”
I'm afraid that Chu Yuan and Chu Er won't know how to be grateful at that time, but will take advantage of loopholes to dig into the corners, and then the gains will outweigh the losses.
Chu Nian nodded, turned around and walked towards the house, "Then it's not in a hurry, it's a long-term plan." ”
Ming Xiu raised his legs to follow, and the two of them both walked towards the water pavilion, as if they knew that Ming Xiu was coming, Chu Nian prepared a pot of medicinal tea in the water pavilion early, Ming Xiu was originally dissatisfied when he saw this bitter medicinal tea, but Chu Nian was full of words: "Your injury has not healed yet, and the medicinal tea can help your wound heal quickly." ”
So seeing Chu Nian's eyes full of expectation, Ming Xiu had no choice but to compromise.
Waiting for a mouthful of bitter medicinal tea, Ming Xiu took a bamboo flute from his waist and sent it to Chu Nian.
There is a beautiful warm jade hanging on this bamboo flute, and the waves are flowing under the moonlight.
Chu Nian looked down at the bamboo flute on the table in front of him, and looked at Ming Xiu strangely: "Your Highness, what is this doing?" ”
Ming Xiu stroked his sleeves: "I personally went to the mountains to find Mr. Wendi and asked him to customize it for my sweetheart." ”
Mr. Wendi is the most famous musician in the whole Daliang, he was slightly injured a few years ago, retreated into the mountains, and has been hiding from the world.
I didn't expect Ming Xiu to ask Mr. Wendi to make a musical instrument himself, even if it was a small bamboo flute, it could make Chu Nian shocked.
Completely ignoring the second half of Ming Xiu's sentence, Chu Nian stretched out his hand to caress the body of the flute, the body of the flute was smooth, it was obviously carefully polished, and it was carefully rubbed with a layer of wax oil, and the holes of the flute were round, and the bamboo flute could be done to this extent, and only Mr. Wendi was the only one.
Chu Nian's love for the flute, from the first birthday gift given to Su Nian by Su's father - it was a jade flute, which looked very fragile, but when Su Nian's green jade fingers pressed on the jade flute, the whole person and the flute seemed to have turned into a landscape.
The first time he played the flute in front of people, it was the jade flute given by Su's father, Su Nian always loved to play with it, until the Su family was lonely, and the jade flute was also taken when the house was raided.
Chu Nian looked at Ming Xiu with slightly sideways eyes: "Thank you Your Highness for this great gift." ”
Ming Xiu smiled and said nothing, at this stall, Mei Xiang walked in from outside the door, holding two balls of clothes in her hands, one was indifferent sky blue, and the other was bright red, "Lady, which one are these two, which one to wear?" ”
Chu Nian raised his eyes and glanced at her, frowned and said, "What about my plain white?" ”
"This ......" Mei Xiang said with some embarrassment: "Lady, you wear that plain white all day long, you can't see the vitality of young people at all, since it's a summer festival, why do you have to wear something pleasing to the eye in summer, isn't it?" ”
Tomorrow is the summer festival, there will be a dinner party in the palace during the summer festival, Chu Nian heard that this dinner is also held by the queen mother in order to make the concubine return, compared with several other dinners of the spring, autumn and winter sacrifices, this summer festival dinner is particularly grand.
There was already an edict in the palace, and Chu Nian had to enter the palace, but as soon as she entered the palace, she had to dress appropriately, so as not to let others gossip about her, Mei Xiang began to prepare Chu Nian's outfit early in the morning.
But Chu Nian doesn't like too flamboyant colors, and he always feels that those colors only look good on Mu Qing, if he wears them on himself, how can he feel awkward when he looks at them.
At this time, Ming Xiu on the side frowned and said with a serious face: "That big red dress, can you wear it for me?" ”
Mei Xiang had long been accustomed to the fact that the prince didn't have any shelves when he was in the Chu family, so she didn't even have to salute when she entered the house, she only looked at Chu Nian fixedly with two pieces of clothing, and there was a vague expectation in her eyes.
Although the lady is quiet and introverted, Mei Xiang has seen a lot of Chu Nian wearing that plain white, and no matter what, she wants to see how she will describe her wearing this flamboyant red.
Chu Nian frowned and just wanted to refuse, but he heard Ming Xiu smile lightly: "It's okay if you just try to show me and Mei Xiang, it's a big deal, it's really not good-looking, tomorrow you can wear something else." ”
Seeing Ming Xiu say this, Chu Nian couldn't refuse, so he had to look at Ming Xiu with disgust, and then looked at Mei Xiang: "Then it's okay to try it first." ”
Saying that, she picked up the red long dress, and walked towards the back of the screen, hearing that her wish was realized, Mei Xiang also followed beautifully, through the faint candle flame behind the screen, Chu Nian's slender figure was faintly visible.
Ming Xiu sat on top of the water pavilion, his eyes moved away from the slender figure, his face was a little red, he seemed to take a sip of medicinal tea indifferently, and forcibly suppressed the fire in his heart.
The time to change clothes was not long, but when Chu Nian and Mei Xiang came out, they seemed to be different people.
Ming Xiu's eyes lit up.
I saw that the person in front of me was loosely tied behind her with three thousand silver threads, and a small cluster of disobedient ones fell on her fragrant shoulders at will, blocking a small piece of white neck;
The flaming red dress was only wrapped around the chest, and the delicate collarbone loomed in the white gauze short;
The fiery red fabric dragged on the ground, the cuffs of the white gauze dragged casually on both sides of the red dress, and a fiery red belt was tightly tied around her waist, she moved slowly, and her soothing eyebrows were a fiery red plum blossom.
The red lips pursed slightly, Chu Nian's eyes glanced at Ming Xiu unnaturally, and at this moment, Ming Xiu's eyes were tightly locked on Chu Nian's body, and a pair of narrow eyes did not blink for a moment, as if he was afraid that if he blinked, the person in front of him would disappear.
Mei Xiang looked at her work triumphantly: "How about it, lady, the slave maid said that you are not bad in red, right?" Look, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is stunned! ”
Ming Xiu exclaimed very cooperatively: "Sure enough, whatever a fairy wears is a fairy." ”
This is true, on weekdays, Chu Nian's tall and white white makes people think that she looks like a mortal immortal, but it is white and dusty; But now she is dressed in a flamboyant red, but her noble temperament is more prominent, like a pearl stained with earthly fireworks, so that people can't help but want to hold it in the palm of their hands, but they also have a trace of inexplicable complicated feelings in their hearts, obviously want to keep it for themselves, but they are reluctant to pick the most beautiful flower in the world with their own hands.
Ming Xiu looked at her little face that was slightly red under the red dress, and his face was very satisfied: "You will wear it like this tomorrow, isn't it much better than your plain white?" ”
Chu Nian glanced at Mei Xiang with some annoyance, this girl only said to try it on, but she changed this dress, and the stinky girl actually started to comb her hair and makeup inch by inch, but accidentally, she became like this.
This flamboyant Zhenghong went to participate in the summer festival, and he must not be regarded as a thorn in the side?
Chu Nian pursed his red lips that were painted bright red by Mei Xiang, turned around and walked towards the back of the screen: "I'll go and change this body." ”
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At the dinner on the second day, no matter how Chu Nian resisted, she couldn't resist Mei Xiang's "change of clothes", she still reluctantly wore that red outfit and went out.
Since Chu Nian returned home, it was the first time that the busy Chu Yuanlang had spent so much time with his sister, and when the two sisters and brothers were in the same carriage, Chu Yuanlang's eyes had not taken their eyes off Chu Nian.
It wasn't until Chu Nian was stared at by Chu Yuanlang's gaze that he opened his mouth and said, "What, haven't you seen it?" ”
Chu Yuanlang shook his head honestly: "The third sister is so beautiful today. ”
Chu Nian smiled helplessly and said, "Do you think your third sister is not beautiful on weekdays?" ”