Chapter 280: Tea is Problematic!
Outside the Donghua Gate, there are many carriages waiting, and officials above the fifth grade can participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet, and in addition, officials of the third grade and above can bring their families to participate.
The Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet is even grander than the Chinese New Year's Eve Banquet.
The Chinese New Year's Eve banquet is mainly for everyone to spend their own lives, and they are resting, and they are no better than coming to the palace.
The Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet, originally a Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, was also a time for kings and courtiers to enhance their relationship.
There were a lot of people queuing up at Donghua Gate, and Aunt Yang and the chief eunuch were registering the officials and female dependents who had entered the palace, and before they could raise their heads, the fragrant clothes in front of them flickered, and they became other people.
As soon as Aunt Yang was about to speak, she saw Qin Weiwei and Qin Xuning, and hurriedly registered them in the register and invited them in.
Miss Wang, the younger sister of Wang Ziyan, who was once cut by Qin Weiwei, happened to see Qin Weiwei cutting in line again, and couldn't help muttering to her brother.
"Brother, look, that woman is cutting in line again."
"Don't talk too much!" Wang Ziyan stopped his sister, Sanjia was originally an exception to attend the banquet, and he could also bring a family member, which was already a great grace.
If it weren't necessary, Wang Ziyan would never dare to offend the Qin family, not only from the Qin family's background, but also from the official department, which is not easy to provoke.
Since the night banquet is for moon viewing, of course, it is on the open-air moon night platform, which can accommodate hundreds of officials.
Qin Weiwei and Qin Xuning sat at the same table, and they sat at the second table on the left hand among the officials, and the first table was naturally Li Zhengyan.
The first table on the opposite side of the right hand was a little embarrassing for some reason, Chao Sheng and his wife sat at the first table, and the second table was Shen Tianyun's family.
There are three rows in total, followed by dozens of tables.
There are two large platforms in the center of the stage, one is the emperor and queen, and the other is the queen mother, and there are about four tables on the left and right sides of the two sides, which are the favorite concubines and princesses sitting.
In addition, there are five positions in the ministers and in between, which are the crown prince and several princes.
The hour had not yet arrived, and the emperor and concubines naturally did not arrive, only the officials were greeting each other, but they did not leave their seats.
The table was already full of delicacies, and these officials were chatting with each other, and they also brought their sons to introduce them to other families, and some of them did not dare to take the initiative to speak.
The fruits and delicacies on the table have naturally become decorations, and the emperor has not arrived, how dare they eat these things.
Qin Xuning and Li Zhengyan were chatting, Qin Weiwei was listening, and became the most special one among these people, there were grapes in front of her, and she was eating grapes.
She ate a bunch of grapes, and directly brought Li Zhengyan's table of grapes and continued to eat, and the officials on the side were quietly looking at Zuo Xiang, seeing Qin Weiwei like this, she was really startled, I heard that it was rumored that Qin Weiwei was not on good terms with His Royal Highness the Prince?
This...... Why is it still so good with Zuo Xiang?
Qin Xuning said: "I heard that you came to my house to take a bath again yesterday?" β
Li Zhengyan said very naturally: "Why, you don't allow others to go to your house to take a bath?" β
"Ahem...... That's not the way it was said. What Li Zhengyan said made him embarrassed to continue, yesterday I clearly heard that when Li Zhengyan came, the little sister was still soaking in the pool, and I don't know if the two of them met each other.
Qin Weiwei said: "Zhengyan, I want to eat the millet crisp on your table." β
Li Zhengyan brought all the millet cakes on the table to Qin Weiwei.
The eunuch waiting next to him saw it, and hurriedly served some snacks, and said, "Miss Qin, the Queen Mother specially ordered, you like to eat melon seeds, and the small kitchen has prepared watermelon seeds, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds." β
Qin Weiwei asked, "How long will it take to finish today?" β
The eunuch said, "It will take at least two hours." β
Qin Weiwei glanced at the snack with disgust, such a little thing, it is not enough to feed the cat, "For such a long time, your idea is not enough, go get some more." β
"Minions, let's go."
"You eat less, and there will be a cabaret show later." Li Zhengyan mentioned a point.
Qin Weiwei was not interested in these things, and said directly: "I eat my melon seeds, and they take care of them." β
She remembered something again, and whispered a few words in Qin Xuning's ear, Qin Xuning looked at Shen Tianyun with a strange expression, and goosebumps suddenly rose on her body.
The watch in Qin Weiwei's hand had already pointed to six o'clock, and it seemed that it was pinching, and these royal families came out together at this time, and they all stood in their respective positions.
When these people came out, all the officials and family members stood up one after another, bowed to the front and said: "Long live my emperor, long live long live, long live the queen mother, thousand years old and thousands of years old, and the queen mother thousand years old and thousands of years old." β
Li Ji nodded, raised his hand and said, "Zhongqing's family is flat, sit down." β
As soon as the words came out, the others sat down one after another.
"Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet, and it is also a time for me and the family to gather together and have a good time." Although Li Ji said nice things on his mouth, his tone was still very stern, if he didn't know, he would think that others owed him money.
By the time he chattered, a few minutes had passed, and when he finally finished speaking, He Wanqing said, "Please ask the new Oiran to perform a dance." β
Qin Weiwei remembered that the new Oiran was going to do the opening dance of the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet, and Yan Yu had been preparing for this for a long time.
From the very end, a woman holding a lotus flower slowly came up, Yan Yu was wearing a lotus skirt, like a real lotus flower, flying in the air.
Some officials were shocked when they saw it, this time the Oiran was very intentional.
Qin Weiwei swallowed melon seeds while admiring Yan Yu's lotus dance, Yan Yu also asked Qin Weiwei before this dance, Qin Weiwei didn't tell her clearly, only ordered it, saying that after all, it is all up to herself, and it is not a way to always rely on others to come up with ideas.
Yan Yu racked his brains to come up with this lotus dance, and asked other dancers to match lotus leaves for him, and the effort was really not in vain.
Whether it is the emperor, the harem concubines or the big and small officials, they all feel very interested in watching this dance, and it is very good-looking.
Qin Xuning said: "This is the woman the prince wanted last time?" β
Qin Weiwei nodded and said, "That's it." β
"Some flavor." Qin Xuning stopped at the point, he himself was not a woman, and in addition, he preferred women who could take on big responsibilities, such as his fiancΓ©e who was far away in the Qin family.
This song is the opening dance, of course, it will surprise the four, Qin Weiwei inadvertently asked, "What's next?" β
It happened that a eunuch brought tea to Li Zhengyan, and Li Zhengyan said, "You know this person." β
"I know?" Qin Weiwei was really mysterious, she looked up casually, and found that Lou Lanchun was really haggard, and she had been tortured a lot in the past few days.
It's just that Lou Lanchun's eyes have been staring at him, as if he ......
I'm watching Li Zhengyan.
Not good!
"Don't drink tea!" Qin Weiwei snorted.
Li Zhengyan was frightened by Qin Weiwei's voice, and she didn't know how to drink it, but she didn't know that Qin Weiwei's scream was just drinking it!