Chapter Forty-Eight: A Dance to Fame
Xiahou Guan Jing was also at the table, and he saw everything between the three of them clearly. She called the palace maid who was waiting beside her, and after she tapped Fu Zichen's direction and asked, she knew that it was the son of the Fu family. asked about the relationship between the prince of the Fu family and Princess Cheng, and seeing the palace maid's puzzled face, she raised her hand and asked the palace maid to retreat.
The palace banquet is indispensable for another comparison. The ladies came out to show their talents, playing the piano, singing, painting and dancing, but anyone who could come out and show their faces, even if it was a small poem, many people were vying to read it.
Haitang sat quietly in the seat, except for the glass of wine with Fu Zichen at the beginning, she never raised her head, and she didn't forget her original intention of coming to this palace banquet. Yin Ze beside him seems to have something on his mind, drinking wine alone, and he doesn't care about other things at all.
But some people don't think it's lively enough, and they talked about Xiahou Guan Jing's amazing dance at the last palace banquet, and then said that someone mentioned the dance when Xiahou Guan Jing invited the princess to the small palace banquet.
The fifth prince sat on the table, raised his glass to Xiahou Guan Jing and said, "My Mid-Autumn Festival of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, is the princess still satisfied?"
Xiahou Guan Jing nodded to himself, "It's very lively." ”
The fifth prince sighed, "The princess has been sitting at the table today, and she is not ready to open your eyes again?" After all, the princess's dance that day was really exciting. Princess Cheng is also here today, why don't princesses and princesses dance again, how about it? ”
Xiahou Guan Jing seemed to have been waiting for this sentence all morning, she glanced at Yin Ze twice, and only after getting no response did she look at the begonia next to him. "But last time Guan Jing invited the princess a few times before she reluctantly agreed, it seems that Guan Jing doesn't understand the rules and is fooling around, many young ladies have danced today, presumably everyone should have seen enough, Guan Jing is still not ugly and embarrassed."
"The princess is too modest, who doesn't know that the princess's dancing is exquisite in the world, and today's young ladies' dancing can be compared with it. Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, it's good to dance as a princess. ”
Last time, many young ladies watched Xiahou Guan Jing's dance, which was really wonderful and even more enviable. Now listening to what the fifth prince said, the official ladies who had just performed sat up straight, and looked straight at Xiahou Guan Jing with their eyes. There are also gossipy officials and wives peeking at Princess Cheng, who has been silent, to see how she will react.
Xiahou Guan stared at the begonias quietly, quite embarrassed, "But Princess Cheng ......"
Fu Zichen was in an unhappy mood when he saw Haitang's expression, and he couldn't help but refuse. Yin Ze drank the wine silently, but Yu Guang took in the expressions of everyone at the banquet, and before Fu Zichen could speak, he just put down the wine glass.
When he put down his glass, Begonia also happened to stand up.
Yin Ze frowned lightly, and was about to raise his hand to pull her down, but Begonia seemed to unintentionally raise his hand to straighten her clothes, avoiding him without a trace.
"The last time the princess was invited, I was afraid that winning the princess would make the princess unhappy, so I didn't dare to agree, but I didn't expect someone to say that I was hypocritical. Okay, I'll answer more simply today. ”
For a moment, all the people at the banquet were staring at them.
The emperor was in a good mood today, and seemed to be looking forward to this dance. When Qian Guifei saw him like this, she couldn't speak, and her eyes could only look back and forth on Lao Cheng Wang Ye and Begonia Yin Ze.
Haitang looked at Xiahou Guan Jing, "How is the princess going to dance today?" Will you go first, or will you go first, or will we both go together? ”
As soon as she finished speaking, someone at the banquet whispered and snickered, and a few small discussions flew directly into Haitang's ears.
"What's on me, it's all the identity of the princess, how can you say such vulgar words, it's really that kind of person."
"It's not a small tone to listen to. This princess is a must for dancing, and the last palace banquet was even more famous, she accepted the princess's self-confidence, and she was not afraid of being embarrassed. ”
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Xiahou Guan Jing also heard these discussions, she raised her arrogant chin and looked at her with disdain. "Whatever you like."
Begonia bowed, "Then I'll come first." ”
She walked out and owed to the emperor, "Rong Haitang went to change her dance clothes, if the princess of Yiguo can't wait, she can also dance first." ”
After getting the permission, Haitang retreated, and when she passed Xiahou Guanjing's seat, she stopped and said, "Either the princess should dance first, after all, if I dance first, the princess won't be able to dance." ”
Xiahou Guan Jinghun didn't care, after all, she had seen the dance of Begonia with her own eyes, and her movements were stiff and simple, so she was not qualified to compare with her at all.
After Haitang left, Xiahou Guan Jing also went down to change her dance clothes, and after the two left, several young ladies came out to perform.
The queen saw that Fu Zichen had been looking outside the banquet, thinking that he was the younger sister who was worried about leaving the palace. She has always intended to get in touch with the Fu family, and at this time she said: "I heard that the son of the Fu family is also a talent, and he can do everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting." Today, all the young ladies are talented and good-looking, Fu Gongzi can be satisfied, why don't you pick one and play it together or pair the poems? ”
When the ladies at the banquet heard this, they all looked forward to it. Where is the queen here, she is just ordering the mandarin duck spectrum!
Dongyuan has no inheritance, and the little prince can look forward to it, and Fu Zichen!
If Fu Zichen was still interested in the past, but today......
He got up, and when he was about to speak, Haitang and Xiahou Guan Jing both returned.
Xiahou Guan Jing changed into a dance dress, which was gorgeous and gorgeous. Two small bells were tied to his hands, and the bells rang.
And the begonia dance dress is just a light white narrow sleeve legging, the place that should be close is close, and the loose place is just right, looking light and graceful. Her hair bun has not changed, but she has removed her jewelry, added a red moon, and has a pair of pure white embroidered shoes embroidered with Hong Mei on her feet, and she can vaguely see beautiful ankles when walking, which is very beautiful.
Obviously, she couldn't compare to Xiahou Guan Jing's gorgeous interracial dance clothes, but she used this simple dance dress to attract the attention of everyone at the banquet.
Yin Ze's fingers holding the wine glass suddenly tightened, and his eyes burned.
Fu Zichen's heart tightened, and he couldn't take his eyes off it at all.
Begonia walked up to the musician and whispered something. Fu Zichen was sober, he retracted his gaze, couldn't hide the smile on his lips, and asked to play: "It's better to inherit the princess's song, and Fu will play it." ”
Yin Ze's face suddenly turned cold.
"Okay, then it's going to trouble Master Fu."
Haitang didn't care about Yin Ze's face and responded with a smile. Xiahou Guan Jing had been looking at Yin Ze's face all the time, and when he saw him like this, he said at the right time: "Last time I invited the little prince, the little prince also rejected me, and today the little prince can't refuse me anymore, right?" ”
Yin Ze raised his eyes and smiled lightly at Xiahou Guan Jing for the first time. "Naturally."
Haitang's heart was suffocated, and she couldn't see any emotion on her face. She walked straight up to Fu Zichen and told him the tune she wanted to dance. Yin Ze's face was even more ugly, and there was already a slight cracking sound in the wine glass in his hand.
It's not that everyone can't see that it's boring, and they sigh in private for a while.
Fu Zichen borrowed a piano, and as soon as he adjusted the timbre, Begonia had already jumped up. Obviously there is no music yet, but her every movement seems to be her own music. Fu Zichen didn't panic, plucked the strings lightly, and the pleasant sound matched her dance steps, sometimes flowing like water, sometimes soft as a cloud, sometimes playful, sometimes quiet.
It's absolutely stunning.
The sound of the piano gradually decreased, and her prostrate movement became lower and lower. When everyone was regretting that this dance was about to end like this, Fu Zichen's piano sound suddenly rose high, and Begonia suddenly got up and danced. She already has a foundation in martial arts, and she is lighter than ordinary dancers with light functions, and she is almost in mid-air. During the action, she took down the moon in the hair room, crushed the petals in the palm of her hand, and then gently blew them away.
When the white red plum embroidered shoes hit the ground, the music ended, and her delicate palm caught the last petal.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, until someone broke out in exclamation, and everyone came back to their senses and applauded.
Fu Zichen's mood was rippling, and although he stopped playing, his fingertips were still trembling slightly. He looked at Begonia's burning gaze unabashedly, and he didn't care what the occasion was.
Because since she met Begonia, she can always give Fu Zichen too many surprises.
Haitang didn't look at him at all, let alone look at Yin Ze. In front of everyone, she threw the petal in her palm into her mouth, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.
Fu Zichen couldn't help but chuckle, looking a little abrupt at the quiet palace banquet.
At the banquet, there was a sudden happy laughter, and everyone looked for prestige, and when they saw the emperor laughing happily, they couldn't help but laugh more.
"Princess Cheng's dance is really good. But I remember that the last time you danced was far less good than this one. Why is that? ”
The old prince Cheng, who had been silent, suddenly opened his mouth and said: "The daughter-in-law of the old minister is used to surpriseing people. ”
That is to say, the last time I competed with the princess of a country, it was Begonia who was clumsy? Then the words that came out later about Begonia losing face were someone deliberately splashing water?
Qian Guifei added at the right time, "Princess Cheng's dance is really exciting, and the concubines don't want to watch anything else." ”
The emperor nodded appreciatively, even the empress.
At the banquet, who would have thought that there would be a princess waiting to dance at the back.
This humiliation made Xiahou Guan Jing feel as if she had been slapped in the face, her face was pale, and the two fists under her dancing sleeves were clenched tightly.
"Yikes! Inherit your hand! ”
The palace maid who was waiting beside Yin Ze suddenly exclaimed, and everyone saw that Yin Ze had smashed the wine glass and punctured the palm.
Looking at the blood in his palm, Begonia was suffocated, and subconsciously wanted to walk over. Xiahou Guan Jing was one step ahead of her, and she was distressed and anxious and asked the palace maid to ask for a doctor.
Haitang's eyes dimmed instantly, and she used the excuse of going back to change her clothes, owed her body and left.
Yin Ze threw the broken wine glass in his palm and followed.
The queen suddenly remembered something, "The dance that just took the princess, wasn't it the dance that the wife of the prime minister danced back then?" ”