Volume 1 ❀ When I was young, all kinds of things were like sweet dreams Chapter 011 Palace Banquet
When the disaster is over, the government and the opposition will also be greatly rectified. coincided with the Dragon Boat Festival, and the palace had never held a large-scale palace banquet in order to reduce expenses in recent years, and finally got through the difficult days. The emperor also took advantage of this to wash away all the bad luck before and ordered to vigorously operate.
The palace has prepared countless singing and dancing programs to please the emperor. Even Ye Yufu has carefully prepared the dance she is good at.
On the day of the palace banquet, not only the concubines and princesses in the palace were all present. There were also many courtiers who were highly valued by the emperor, as well as one or two family members who were allowed to carry them. Hundreds of people sat in the huge banquet hall, and the scene was really spectacular.
In the middle of the Qianjin Palace, the emperor's golden dragon banquet table is placed from south to north, the queen's golden dragon banquet table is placed in the east on the left side, and the first table in the west is the concubine. The remaining tables are for a few favored concubines on weekdays. Then the prince and princess were at the front of the banquet tables on both sides, and to the back were the ministers and their families in order of official rank.
When the time came, the banquet officially began, and more than a dozen women in exotic gauze skirts slowly entered from both sides.
Then the melodious sound of instrumental music and silk and bamboo sounded. The ministers stood up one after another to toast, and the first to stand up was Liu Shang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Shang was about fifty years old, and he looked dignified, and he was the cousin of the current queen and queen's mother, who had been an official for decades. Today, I came with my wife Cao and my ten-year-old daughter-in-law Liu Xiaorou. Now the emperor is the most favored in front of him.
Besides, the most favored military general is the current general Yu Xu. He is only in his thirties, but he has already made great achievements, which is really legendary, and I heard that after his husband passed away a few years ago, he has never married a concubine by his side. There are only two sons and one daughter under his knees, and today he only brought Yu Baiyi, the eldest son born to his deceased wife, to come.
Although Yu Baiyi is only fourteen, he is already a well-known young talent in Beijing. The article he wrote is not inferior to today's champion, but he yearns for the battlefield, and now that he has entered the army, it is easy to come back today.
After the ministers congratulated, the dance music ended, and Ye Yufu also prepared the long-sleeved dance that she was good at.
Ye Duanli was shocked to see that it was his daughter who came to power. Then he looked at Concubine Shu, who was in a trance, for some reason, and Concubine Shu eased up and whispered a few words in the emperor's ear. Ye Duanli laughed and said to the courtiers in the audience: "All Aiqing, my beloved daughter has specially prepared a long-sleeved dance for you today. If you don't dance well, you have to look at my face and praise it. ”
Ye Yufu was dressed in a sky blue tunic that wrapped the girl's slender and soft body. With the sound of instrumental music, the long-sleeved dance is like a snake, which is different from the graceful charm of adults, but it looks dignified and generous, and a smile is full of nobility, although it is only barely a girl, but it is the first time to see the charm of a woman.
Yu Baiyi stared closely at the dancing girl in front of him at this time, feeling that his heart was pounding, and he couldn't take his eyes off it. asked Yu Shu beside him: "Father, which princess was born so noble and beautiful?" ”
Yu Xu looked at his son's ruddy face and quipped: "This is the eldest princess, the most favored child of the emperor today, she has been educated by etiquette since she was a child, and she is not enough to describe it as a talented girl, don't you have a crush on other people's princesses?" ”
Yu Baiyi's face turned even redder, but he didn't speak, but he wrote down Ye Yufu in his heart, thinking that he must talk to her when he has the opportunity in the future.
At the end of the dance, Ye Yufu's face was slightly red, and she knelt on the ground and said to Ye Duan: "Dragon Boat Festival, I hope my father is in good health, and I wish the country prosperity." ”
"Good! Good! My heart is now happy. The decree is to reward the eldest princess with the title of virtuous and suitable to be promoted to the supreme princess of Zhenguo! ”
At this point, the entire banquet hall began to whisper. This princess of Zhenguo is of a very high grade. Usually canonized only when a certain political achievement has been achieved or when he marries a foreign country. But this virtuous princess won this honor before she was fourteen, and she was really favored. In the future, if the son of a family can marry this eldest princess, he will definitely be able to rise to the top in front of the emperor. So from this time on, the ministers present began to have in their hearts the idea of letting their relatives of the same age ask to marry the eldest princess in the future.
At the end of the prince's seat here, Ye Yugui sat quietly alone. The eyes did not leave for a moment, and as soon as he sat down at this moment, Ye Yufu, who attracted several female relatives to congratulate. I haven't seen her for four years, and she is still the same noble emperor as before, and she is loved by everyone.
And although he escaped, he was still a down-and-out prince who no one cared about. Although this disaster fight is his own idea, who will know who the little-known Seven Princes are, and even the queen just asked.
Power is like a black hole, you know that the closer it gets, the more it will be doomed, but it still continues to strongly attract you and tempt you, Ye Yugui once thought that as long as he could come out, it would be fine. But now the huge gap between himself and the imperial sister has made him have a strong inferiority complex.
His dark eyes were staring at Ye Duanli who was drinking slightly on the dragon chair like a wolf at the moment, and his hands were clenched tightly.
The palace feast lasted for three hours, and the moon was already in the sky. The emperor arranged a place to live, and ordered everyone to stay tonight and leave early tomorrow morning. Concubine Shu drank a lot of alcohol today for some reason, and she walked a little vainly. Ye Yufu asked Yan'er and a few other palace maids to wait, saying that the princess's mansion was close to her, and she could go back.
The evening breeze was slow, and when the moon was empty, Ye Yufu saw that there was no one around, so she sat by an ornamental pool outside her palace with her skirt and took off her foot bag and shoes. Showing her round and smooth little feet, she put them into the cool pool water, and she still held goldfish bait in her hands.
Suddenly, someone gently patted Ye Yufu's shoulder, she trembled with fright, and most of the bait in her hand was scattered, and when she turned around, it was Ye Yugui. There was no light in the night, and she could only open her eyes in the soft moonlight to see the person clearly.
Before Ye Yufu could speak, Ye Yugui opened his mouth first: "Sister Huang, congratulations on your promotion." ”
Ye Yufu frowned, pulled Ye Yugui's sleeve and pulled him to sit beside him, looked at him with blood on his cheek with one hand and said, "Brother Huang, we haven't seen you say this as soon as you open your mouth for so many years." Really rigid. ”
"I'm being promoted, and to put it bluntly, I'm a woman who has to get married sooner or later, so what's the difference between high and low status. Noble and elegant things are made for outsiders to see, and I can only be so carefree in front of you or the second emperor brother now. ”
"You are the emperor's favorite child, and your future husband must be the dragon and phoenix among people, but I'm afraid I won't see you for more than four years." After speaking, Ye Yugui lowered his head and looked sad, which was really distressing.
Ye Yufu stuck out her tongue and smiled: "Then I will never marry and will always be by your side." Anyway, the second emperor brother will definitely be able to support me for a lifetime. Instead, I will help you get a good girl to be the Seventh Imperial Concubine for you, and then I will be your elder when you get married. ”
Ye Yugui also laughed when he heard this. With this bright moonlight, the two chatted for a long time like sisters and brothers of ordinary people. It was as if the gap between the four years had been bridged overnight.
When the two were chatting happily, Cai'er, the palace maid in the palace of the concubine, hurriedly came. After seeing Ye Yufu, she whispered in her ear: "Princess, Niangniang drank too much tonight and called you over." The slaves and maidservants really can't help it. ”