Chapter 270: Palace Banquet
Concubine Ji ordered to a few little palace maids: "Clean it up." ”
The little palace maid immediately stepped forward and cleaned up the broken porcelain tea stains on the ground.
"Still reluctant to come out?" Concubine Ji smiled at the brocade screen and said authentically.
After Jinping, he chuckled, and slowly walked out of a person, with ape arms and bee waist, brocade clothes, wearing a golden crown, and a majestic instrument.
It was Yu Jingyun.
"How does my sister look? Is this little girl satisfied? ”
Concubine Ji said lukewarmly: "I don't know how to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I don't know poetry and songs, what's the good?" I really don't understand, what did you fall in love with her? So much so that she was fascinated, not to mention the risk of bullying the king for her, and also rejected Luo Bing's infatuation. ”
"Don't mention those cowardly daughters, Luo Bing, this girl is arrogant and domineering, what's the good? It's not as interesting as one-tenth of this little girl. Yu Jingyun sat aside with a big grin and said praisedly.
Concubine Ji nodded: "To be honest, this girl is not greedy for power, she is also alert and calm, and her temperament is really good." ”
Yu Jingyun's eyebrows suddenly fluttered: "That's nature." What my brother and sister said, you must help me. ”
Concubine Ji shook her head: "I have to think about it again." ”
"Now that you have met and are satisfied, what else is there to worry about?"
Concubine Ji waved her hand, withdrew the three palace people, and said earnestly: "Don't talk about our parents about your marriage, even the emperor has been paying attention to it, and it can't be hasty." The candidate for the concubine in this world must not only be smart enough and have a good character, but more importantly, the family background, you know this. ”
"I only marry the woman I like, if I am bored, it is useless for you to be satisfied with a hundred. It is I, not you, who take a wife. ”
Concubine Ji's face sank: "My sister has always spoiled you, but it doesn't mean that she indulges you." After all, this is not your own business, it is intertwined and involves a lot. You can be willful about other things, but this one, you have to listen to your sister and mother's opinions. ”
"You know what Mother thinks, don't you feel the same way? Brother doesn't ask you for marriage, he just wants you to come forward to help solve Ling Luobing's trouble. ”
"You can rest assured at this point, if the emperor intends to match the Lingwang Mansion and the Dingguo Marquis Mansion, he would have issued a decree to give marriage a long time ago, why wait until now?"
Yu Jingyun bowed: "I know that now that my Dingguo Marquis Mansion has been favored by the emperor too much, the background of the concubine in this world is not easy to be too deep." That's why I said that it was impossible for me to be with Ling Luobing. Or Xia Ansheng is a little simpler. ”
"If only you knew. This Xia Ansheng's father is an official of the household department, and the uncle is the Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and it is said that the lintel is not too high, but it is also suitable, so my mother is there, I will help you say something good. But what you said, let me make a statement to the emperor, this matter will be put on hold for the time being, I can't act recklessly, I still have to knock on the side, figure out the emperor's thoughts before making a decision. ”
Yu Jingyun frowned and said: "I'm just worried that Ling Luobing will be arrogant, and it will be difficult for her to live again, thinking that if the emperor can personally decree to give her a marriage, it will also break her mind." ”
"You also know Luo Bing's temperament, if you recklessly mention this matter at the night banquet tonight, Ling Luobing will definitely not agree, maybe he will take the opportunity to ask the emperor to give you a marriage? When the time comes, in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, how can you let the emperor refuse? Isn't it a slap in the face of King Rui? This matter is absolutely inappropriate, so let's wait until the right time comes. Concubine Concubine replied categorically.
"Do you want to wait? What if Luo Bing is in trouble? ”
Although Yu Jingyun knew that Leng Nanxian's words of advice to him were selfish, he also understood better that his concerns were very reasonable.
Concubine Ji frowned slightly: "If this girl can't even bear this, then she is not qualified to be the princess of my Dingguo Mansion." Even if you convince your sister, you can't convince your grandmother and mother.
If you want Mother to change her original intention, the only way is for Xia Ansheng to show her own skills to conquer us, instead of relying on your cover. After all, the princess of the Hou Mansion will support the entire Hou Mansion in the future, even if she doesn't have the ability to stand up to the sky, she must be reinforced and iron-clad! ”
Yu Jingyun stood up "poofed": "Sister doesn't help, I'll think of other ways myself." Xia An gave birth to her as my Yu Jingyun woman, and I have the responsibility to protect her, and no one is allowed to touch a finger of her! ”
Concubine Ji shook her head helplessly: "You don't listen to your sister's advice." But today you must not be reckless, let the emperor ride the tiger difficult, do you remember? ”
Yu Jingyun said impatiently: "I naturally understand these big truths, and my sister doesn't need to remind me." ”
"The night feast has begun, let's hurry over." Concubine Ji got up, straightened the hairpin ring on her head, and urged Yu Jingyun.
It is said that it is a Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, but in fact, it also begins at the end of the afternoon. The emperor and the concubines rewarded the civil and military officials in the Qianqing Palace, and the whole dynasty had fun.
Under the leadership of Mama Lu, An Sheng went straight to the Qianqing Palace, and was still secretly guessing the real intention of Concubine Du to summon herself into the palace this time.
Regarding what Concubine Niangniang said about entering the palace to accompany the king, An Sheng wondered whether it was a temptation for herself, or if she wanted to beat herself, she did not agree with her acceptance of Yu Jingyun's feelings?
The latter, she thinks, may be more likely.
In anyone's opinion, he is not qualified to be worthy of Yu Jingyun.
She was apprehensive all the way, and when she stepped into the Qianqing Palace, she was greeted by a wave of warmth, steaming with the fragrance of wine.
A greenhouse was set up outside the Qianqing Palace, and a charcoal pot was born, which was also a harmonious spring.
In the main hall, the banquet is divided into two sides, the left is respectful and the right is humble, the princes and generals, the civil and military officials and the lady with the title, and the children of the royal family have already sat according to the rank, greeting each other, and they are harmonious.
In the greenhouse, there are mostly the families of some officials, the screens are separated, the clothes are fragrant and the temples are shadowed, and they are dazzling.
Mama Lu paused, turned around and asked An Sheng: "My noble family told me to ask Miss An Sheng to wait here, and I still have important things to say to you." Are you sitting at the same table as Mrs. Xunxia? ”
An Sheng glanced down at his outfit, which was naturally incompatible with the solemnity of the ladies in the hall.
She really didn't want to participate in this Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, with a group of high-ranking female relatives and snakes. But the will of the concubine is naturally disobeyed.
She glanced left and right, and saw that there was still a vacant seat in the corner, so she stretched out her hand and pointed: "I'll wait there for the summons of the mother." ”
After Mama Lu settled her, she turned around and went back to the Pujia Palace to resume her life.
The people who sat at the same table with An Sheng were naturally some official women who were not very high-status, and they couldn't get on those big tables, so they could only consciously sit at the bottom of the table. Seeing An Sheng, although he was dressed in shabby clothes, he was led by an errand in the palace, and he couldn't figure out what her identity was, so he just smiled at her.
An Sheng had no intention of chatting with them, and after bowing politely, he sat down without saying a word.
Xue and Xia Ziwu were sitting in the adjacent aisle, chatting with her enthusiastically, like a fish in water, and did not notice An Sheng.
Someone at the same table took the initiative to talk: "Which house is this little sister from?" Why did you come alone? ”
An Sheng pursed his lips and said casually: "Mother is gossiping with others." ”
When the man saw that An Sheng was cold and not warm, he turned his face and went to talk to the others.
The small talk is nothing more than a short greeting from some parents, or interesting anecdotes that have happened in the capital these days.
The one who occupied the most topics turned out to be Yu Jingyun.
From his choice of the princess to lingering in the flower streets and willow alleys, I don't know where I heard the gossip, and several people talked about it.
It is not difficult for An Sheng to see from their vigorous looks and eager eyes that he admires Yu Jingyun's fanaticism.
She didn't know that Yu Jingyun had made such a big move in the capital.
And these boudoir daughters who stay at home are so well-informed about these market rumors, and there are many things that Ansheng often walks in the market, and he has never heard of them.
I listened to it with relish for a while.
was chattering lively, and I don't know who said: "Yu Shizi is here!" ”
Everyone paused, craned their necks, and looked out through the gap in the screen.
An Sheng couldn't help it, and with shyness, he turned his face and looked at it.
It was just a glimpse, and I really saw Yu Jingyun wearing a purple fox fur, and swaggered in from outside the hall in high spirits.
Hundreds of officials in the hall bowed to the ground.
Yu Jingyun's eyebrows and eyes were flying, and he looked even more majestic and extraordinary.
The girl beside her couldn't help but let out a cheer from the tip of her throat: "It's really better to see than to hear!" Yu Shizi is really a dragon and phoenix among people, and the jade tree is in the wind. ”
The girl next to her reluctantly looked at Yu Jingyun's disappearing figure, only then did she turn around and smack her mouth, her face still unfinished.
"Don't look at it, so as not to worry. How can Yu Shizi be able to climb high? ”
The other girl also had a resentful face: "This is true, I still have to do my duty, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble." ”
"What do you mean by that?" Someone immediately asked in the middle of the banquet.
"Needless to say? Yu Shizi is already a famous flower. ”
An Sheng's heart suddenly lifted and glanced at the person who spoke.
"Yu Shizi chose the princess some time ago, didn't there be no result? How to become famous? ”
Everyone asked in a gossipy manner, and the girl from before leaned down and said mysteriously: "The county lord of Luo Bing of the Lingrui Mansion has publicly declared war, don't you all know?" ”
"A declaration of war? What do you mean? ”
"You don't know, Yu Shizi actually chose a good candidate, I heard that there is Miss Kexin of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Xia Ziwu of the Shilang Mansion, the one who made a lot of trouble in the capital some time ago, and his hands and feet are not clean."
An Sheng immediately stood up and listened.