Chapter 62: The Flower Viewing Feast
At the beginning of summer, a cherry blossom viewing banquet was held in the palace.
Whenever there were princes and princesses of marriageable age in the palace, a flower-viewing banquet was held in the palace, and young men and women from the nobility were invited to participate.
Girls will show their talents, saying that they are showing, but in fact they are competing, and the more talented and beautiful the girls, the easier it is to be elected to the royal family and become a royal family.
The young people are competing in literary and martial arts, and the outstanding young people are naturally candidates for the horses.
Those who regret losing the election may also be favored by the family and become the daughter-in-law of the family or the son-in-law of Liuqing or something.
If the emperor falls in love with a few girls on a whim, it is also possible to pick a few concubines on the spot to be included in the harem.
In short, this is a fun party for matchmaking.
This year's flower-viewing banquet was postponed because of the prince's affairs, and the prince was grounded and absent from the flower-viewing banquet with the crown princess. Xia Guifei was snubbed for the first time because of the prince's affairs, it is said that in addition to the newly favored concubines, the emperor went to the palace of Concubine Jing the most, and Concubine Jing's status rose with the tide.
Xia Guifei was not welcomed, in order to please the emperor, she didn't dare to publicize it anymore, so she simply handed over all the things of the flower viewing banquet to Concubine Jing to organize, and she said she was sick.
Concubine Jing is very active about the flower viewing banquet, because this year Shen Qi wants to choose a concubine. Although there were two concubines to help her, Concubine Jing still felt that it was not enough, and others couldn't believe it, so she suddenly remembered Chenguang, Chenguang's external identity was the princess, and she was close to Concubine Jing, so it was most suitable to help.
So Chenguang entered the palace every three or five to help Concubine Jing come up with ideas.
Naturally, Chenguang was allowed to participate in the cherry blossom viewing feast.
Because she went in and out of the palace and aristocratic circles too often as Princess Rong, most people forgot that she and Shen Run did not have a wedding, and every time they saw her, the first thing that came to mind was that Princess Chenguang was Princess Rong.
The flower-viewing feast took place in the palace garden, and the sky was as blue as it was that day.
The girls were beaming with joy, and the young people were in high spirits, greeting each other under the leadership of the elders, and their expressions were more lively than the flowers in the garden.
Morning Light sat in the corner, lazily looking at the crowd. Fifteen is approaching, she has not slept well lately and her body is weak, she feels tired just by entering and leaving the palace, and it is clear that not long after she got up, she began to feel sleepy again, and yawned quietly.
Shen Qingyi suddenly walked over, sat beside her, looked solemn, suddenly leaned into her ear, and asked in a low voice:
"Second sister-in-law, have you heard that Concubine Jing plans to choose who to be Princess Jing?"
Chenguang glanced at her and replied, "Luo Bifan." ”
"Sure enough!" Shen Qingyi exclaimed, and found that she had attracted the attention of the people around her, so she sat down again, twisted her eyebrows and said, "Second sister-in-law, the person Miss Luo likes is the Fourth Emperor Brother!" ”
Everyone can see this.
"But the Luo family takes a fancy to His Royal Highness King Jing, and Concubine Jing is also very satisfied with Miss Luo, you know, Concubine Jing's maiden family has a good relationship with the Luo family, I heard that this marriage was mentioned by Mrs. Wei, and the Luo family is very willing."
"But......" After listening to her, Shen Qingyi understood, but she still felt panicked, frowned, wanted to speak but didn't know what to say, held back for a long time, and muttered quietly, "What about the fourth emperor brother?" ”
"It depends on what His Royal Highness King Yu wants to do."
"Fourth Emperor Brother he, do you know?"
Chenguang shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.
Shen Qingyi became sad: "The fourth emperor brother is only good if he is injured, how can this be!" ”
After a pause, she said again: "Recently, the third sister is also strange, always ignoring me, I asked her what was wrong, she didn't say, she suddenly got angry that day, and told me that she would not marry Xiong if she died, second sister-in-law, who wants to force the third sister to marry Xiong, or is the third sister dreaming?" ”
Chenguang wanted to laugh, but shook his head with a flat face: "Qingran, not with you?" ”
"She hadn't gotten up when I went to look for her, so I should have come with Concubine Xia later." Shen Qingyi was not in a high mood, holding her cheeks with her hands, and said sullenly.
At this moment, a touch of red appeared in front of the two, the morning light raised its head, and the white condensation of the flaming red lips came into view, the gorgeous red dress, the gorgeous makeup, and the clear and flawless skin, like the red lotus on the snowy mountain, bloomed proudly, attracting the attention of many admirers.
Compared with the dignified and beautiful of the past, today's Bai Wanning is extraordinarily charming.
"Four princesses, ten thousand blessings." She saluted Shen Qingyi.
Shen Qingyi snorted, since Bai Wanning left her and ran away by herself during the last assassination, she hated her even more, although she was the one who shook off the other party's hand first.
Bai Wanning sat beside Chenguang.
One red and one white, one bright as a rose, one elegant as a narcissus, the same flower and moon appearance, the national color is fragrant, and the scenery is more beautiful than the peony forest in the imperial garden, which attracted the attention of all the men. The well-dressed girls all stared at Bai Wanning with resentful eyes, eager to bite her to death.
The reason why I didn't resent Chenguang was because although Princess Chenguang was born beautiful, she was dressed plainly today, with a white dress and hosta, and she didn't mean to be in the limelight at all. But Bai Wanning already had a beautiful face, but she was dressed up so enchantingly, she was simply pulling hatred.
Bai Wanning didn't care, for her, the jealous gaze was an appreciation for her beauty, and she was very proud.
She stubbornly thinks that she is more beautiful than Chenguang, and Chenguang is ashamed to say that she is more beautiful because she is shameless, and she glances contemptuously at Chenguang, only to find that Chenguang is yawning lazily.
Bai Wanning's face was gloomy.
Shen Qingyi felt that she was a bit of a loss sitting next to them, her beauty was completely compared, but she was not at ease when she left, she was worried that the soft second sister-in-law would not be able to fight Bai Wanning with a heart.
At this moment, the eunuch at the entrance shouted:
"Princess Celestia has arrived! The big colt has arrived! ”
It immediately attracted the attention of the audience.
This is the first appearance of the big horse since she was beaten, Shen Qingxuan walked in front, Lin Chao followed her dejectedly, the husband and wife were still in a cold war, although they ignored each other, but in the eyes of outsiders, the noble eldest princess pressed the horse master, and the big horse followed behind the eldest princess like a dog that had done something wrong and fell out of favor, and the dignity of the man was lost, which attracted a lot of sympathy and ridicule.
"Hey, the swelling on his face has disappeared, it's really cheap for him!" Shen Qingyi sneered.
"The fourth princess, don't say that, the big horse is also pitiful, it was a very small thing, but the eldest princess made such a fuss, everyone knew it, and was ridiculed, and was ordered by His Majesty to suspend it for reflection, I heard that His Majesty was very angry with the big horse because of this matter, and the future of the big horse was ruined." Bai Wanning opened her mouth and said softly.
"Don't do bad things if you're afraid of ruining your future, and it's reasonable to hide from your wife and raise a child outside?"
"Men are like children, it's normal to make some mistakes, husband and wife are the same, the big horse ruins the future, what's the benefit of the eldest princess?" Bai Wan said quietly.
Chenguang laughed, laughing on the table, she looked at Bai Wanning, who had a melancholy atmosphere, and exclaimed:
"White girl, have you come to your senses?"
Bai Wanning's face turned green.