Chapter 64: The Celestial Festival
Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the emperor's birthday has been set as the Tianchang Festival, which means that the life span is longer than the sky, the thousand autumns are indefinite, the peaceful and prosperous times, and the whole world celebrates.
Hundreds of officials enter the palace 'Shangshou', and the women of the third grade or above have to enter the palace before dawn to wait, and the Queen of Wei, who is the mother of a country, is also very busy, and she has to cheer up from morning to night to meet the women who come to congratulate one after another.
Because of the queen's love, Baozhi was fortunate to meet Chu Yao's mother, the eldest princess of Roufu, who had been known for a long time, and was really as good as her name, the eldest princess spoke gently, and her every move showed a grace.
All the official wives are not vegetarians, and they didn't show surprise when they saw Baozhi's entourage beside Empress Wei, after all, Kyoto is so big, and everyone is staring at the movements in the palace.
After sitting upright for a morning, Yongning was already tired, and Concubine Xian asked Queen Wei to ask Yongning to go down, and Queen Wei looked at Baozhi standing beside her, and there were beads of sweat on her forehead, so she asked both of them to go down and rest.
Walking out of the main hall, Baozhi felt that his eyes were dark, and his legs were weak, if it weren't for Midsummer's quick eyes, he would probably fall to the ground.
Yongning looked at Baozhi's white face, and was so frightened that he hurriedly wanted to call Pearl Xuantai, but Midsummer stopped him and helped Baozhi back to the side hospital.
"What's going on? Why don't you call Xuan Taiyi? Yongning was just in the courtyard because of the large number of people in the main hall, suppressing the anger, this time the son entered the house, pointed to Midsummer and asked.
"Your Highness, you forgot, today is the Tianchang Festival, how can you be the Imperial Doctor here. Otherwise, Miss Bao wouldn't have endured it all the time. Midsummer asked the little palace maid to fetch honey and pour it in hot water, and feed it to Baozhi.
After drinking honey water, and lying on the couch for a cup of tea, Baozhi felt that his head had regained his clarity, but he was still a little weak, and when he opened his eyes, an anxious little face was close at hand, and when he saw her eyes open, he was happy or something, and turned his head and shouted: "Wake up, wake up, pearl quickly, get some honey water!" ”
"I didn't faint, I'm just a little dizzy, don't worry, I'm fine." Bao Zhiban sat up, and Midsummer hurriedly stuffed a few large pillows behind her, comforting Yongning with weak energy.
"You're scared to death, I can't declare the imperial doctor today, I want to find the fourth brother and them, Pearl said that they are also very busy today, fortunately, Midsummer knows some medical science and gives you honey,...... If you drink some more, your head won't hurt. "I took the cup from the pearl and wanted to feed it myself.
Midsummer hurriedly took the cup and fed it to Baozhi in small sips, Yongning's eyes were sharp, and he exclaimed: "Baozhi, you, why is there blood in your dress?!" ”
Bao realized it later, no wonder she felt uncomfortable today, the first time she came to Yuexin in her previous life, she thought she was going to die, so she was so frightened that she hid in Zhao's arms and cried, but she didn't expect that she was in the palace in this life.
Midsummer was older than them, and after some tossing, Baozhi was helped back to the couch, Yongning blushed and looked at Baozhi twistedly: "I'm sorry Baozhi, I don't know..."
She was apologizing for her yelling just now, and the princess actually apologized to herself, and the friendship between Bao Xin and Yongning was a little worse.
"You're not feeling well, let's cancel the performance later, I think my father will understand us."
Although his head is still a little dizzy, Baozhi already feels much better, and he will be sitting on the piano later, so he should be fine.
"I'm much better, we've been preparing for so long, how can we cancel it."
The queen met the foreign women, and the hundreds of officials outside presented gifts to the emperor, and after lunch, the celebration officially began, and a group of hundreds of officials, and the foreign women were brought to the Taihe Palace.
Empress Wei sent the winter solstice to ask about the situation of Baozhi, and the winter solstice saw that Baozhi was already very good, and she could perform with Yongning, so she was very relieved, and passed a message for Empress Wei, telling her to see that the time was almost over again, so as not to be too messy and uncomfortable.
Bao Zhi thanked her, and let Midsummer redress her, since she has decided to play the piano, she is bound to make some limelight in the crowd today, so she must dress up well.
When Baozhi arrived at the Taihe Palace, there were a team of ten children performing sword dance on the platform, the movements were crisp and powerful, soft and strong, very beautiful.
After Baozhi sat down next to Yongning, he searched for Tang Wan's figure left and right, and it stands to reason that she should come today.
Yongning asked Baozhi quietly: "Are you looking for Tang Wan?" I've sent someone to call her, and she'll be next to us later. After speaking, he looked at Baozhi proudly.
Bao Zhi smiled and flattered her to clip a piece of candied fruit, and Yongning was satisfied and twisted it and put it in his mouth.
Then he smiled and introduced to Baozhi that there are more than 200 young children who perform on stage, which will be there every year, but although it is once a year, the performance will change, and it will not get tired of watching, after they perform, some talented ladies will go up to perform, Tang Wan, Xie Yun, Wei Mingyue, these famous daughters will go.
After all, this is an opportunity to show his face, the current prince and the two princes have not yet been married, and if they are lucky to get the blue eyes of the nobles, they will fly on the branches, even if they do not say that they are married in the future, they will be worth doubled.
The reason for Bao is that he is with Yongning, and the two of them are either the first to perform, or the finale, Yongning doesn't want to start the performance, and he is robbed of the limelight, so he decides to be the last.
Since the princess did not want to be the first to play, the manager arranged to play according to the order of rank of the ladies in the family.
There were many concubines and concubines of the first emperor, and there were many heirs, but at the end, there were nine kings to seize the heirs, the death of the death, the trap of the ban, the twelve princes should be the only three brothers left of the current emperor and King Qing and King Yu.
The two princes acted in a low-key manner, and the county lord of the family did not participate in these lively things, and the eldest princess of Roufu was Chu Yao's only son, so the first one to play fell to Tang Wan.
She is the first talented woman in Da Zhou, and the first one can be called the expectation of everyone, with the farce of the previous piano trial banquet, Tang Wan is reluctant to play the piano.
The palace people put on the white silk that was prepared to hang on the shelf in advance, and then Tang Wan started work on the white silk with his left and right hands at the same time, and wrote two big longevity words, with a beautiful posture and a powerful pen, which made people look very pleasing to the eye, and after the two words were written, everyone appreciated them.
"The courtiers wish the emperor a long life, holy body Kangtai!" Tang Wan knelt and kowtowed.
The emperor glanced at the two words in front of the eunuch, nodded with satisfaction, and whispered: "Reward!" ”
Tang Wan bowed her head in thanks.
Next is Empress Wei's mother's family, Wei Mingyue of Qingchang Houfu, with Tang Wan learning words in front, she performed the flute, her talent was mediocre, and the emperor raised his hand at will after the performance and gave a reward.
She is the queen's niece, and it may be inappropriate not to perform, but today she is just here to make up the number, and it is good that she didn't blow a fork.