Time flickered, to the June Lantern Festival, the palace began to prepare the required supplies a month in advance, to the day of the Lantern Festival, everywhere lanterns are colorful, with all kinds of lamps of different shapes, the palace up to the Queen Mother, down to the palace maids have brought some joy.

Wu Ya followed Hua Nuoyu into the palace with a loveless face, Hua Nuoyu chattered along the way, and always explained to her over and over again, if it weren't for Hua Nuoyu's high status and being in the same camp as her, she would have yelled at him a long time ago, a big man grinding and chirping, I really don't worry about you going on yourself.

When they arrived at the palace, Wu Ya and Hua Nuoyu separated, Hua Nuoyu went to Xingqing Palace, which was the meeting place before the banquet began, and Wu Ya followed the eunuchs in the palace to the Decoration Hall of Mingzhe Palace, which was the place to prepare for the performance, and now it is the backstage or dressing room. The decoration hall is divided into more than 20 small rooms of different sizes with screens and drapes. Each room has a small sign with the name of the program or person to which the room belongs.

When Wu Ya arrived, there were already many people in the hall, and the palace maid outside the hall recognized Wu Ya and led her to the exclusive room, where the clothes and headdresses had already been placed inside, and there were two women who were not dressed in palace clothes.

"Miss, you're here, we've been waiting for you for a long time, come on, we'll help you clean up your makeup, don't miss the hour." As soon as they saw Wu Ya open the curtain and come in, the two hurriedly greeted them.

Wu Ya sat there with empty eyes and let them do it, this almost a month of practice is for today, in order to win the emperor's love. During this time, she had also met the emperor a few times, but the emperor was not fake to her and had never said anything to her, so Hua Nuoyu and the others planned to let her regain the emperor's love this time...... She actually has a lot of opinions about this, she doesn't want to be a concubine, why should she dance to please the emperor, and Hua Nuoyu also asked her to pay more attention to the five princes.

At the beginning of the unitary hour, the banquet began, the ministers entered the table one after another, this banquet was attended by officials who served in the capital above the five grades, and the banquet was very harmonious, even the emperor who was not in a good mood for several days seemed to be in a very good mood, all kinds of delicacies were served on the table in turn, dazzling, fragrant, but the attention of these ministers was not on these mouth-watering delicacies, socializing and watching performances were what they cared about, the seat level was not very obvious on this occasion, sometimes luck was better, There may be a high-ranking official sitting next to him who can't usually catch up, and at this time take advantage of this opportunity to chat a few words, if you are lucky enough to be appreciated by high-ranking officials, and there will be an intersection in the future, it will definitely be of great benefit to your career. And those high-ranking officials don't have to climb others, but the basic social still wants, although the performance has not seen much, but in the palace to see the feeling is different, sometimes around the same camp friends, drinking and chatting feel very comfortable, if it is the enemy of the opposing camp, arguing with each other, a table down is quite refreshing, occasionally a little reluctant to end the banquet, and if it is irrelevant petty officials, watching them make all kinds of tricks in order to catch themselves, this is also very interesting.

After an hour of the banquet, it was finally Wu Ya's turn to show, she was so hungry that she was about to protest at this time, she also had a post about this banquet, but she had no choice but to prepare the show and couldn't get into the table, and in order not to destroy her makeup, she couldn't eat before the performance, she regretted it very much, regretted that she didn't eat something in Ning Wang's Mansion and came back, and Hua Nuoyu must have known about this procedure, but she didn't remind her at all. At this time, all she wanted was to finish quickly and then go to eat.

Because this dance is a little different, it takes some time to lay out some props, this waiting time is filled by a Xiao Se performance, the layout of the banquet is like a rectangle that does not close, the top is the emperor, the queen mother and the queen, the left and right are relatively lined up, two columns on each side, two rows of tables are placed in a staggered position, considering the viewing experience of the back row, the front row of tables and chairs is specially designed to be shorter than the back row, the bottom table is not placed, this empty position in the middle is the place of the performance, the eunuchs moved a large bundle of bamboo wrapped in nearly white yarn, with the unfolding, It has become a bottomless cuboid with thin bamboo erected on all sides, nearly white yarn on all sides, and a bottomless cuboid with a length, width and height of one meter eight, after all unfolding, a total of eight cubes, each adjacent half a meter, the adjacent bamboo side is tied up with a rope, after the fixed arrangement, four lamps were put into each cube, the eunuchs were quick with their hands and feet, and it didn't take a few minutes to arrange everything, and the palace maids who had been prepared covered the lamps next to them with wooden closed wooden boxes or black cloths, covering the light, and the hall gradually darkened, To the last light covered, the hall was dark, the white veil of the place where the performance was left alone appeared clear, the ministers looked at each other, for a while they were full of questions, the voice of the chat gradually became silent, everyone's eyes were firmly fixed on the screen of the performance place, the flute sounded slowly, the cube lit up one after another in an orderly manner, the black shadow on the white gauze was clearly reflected, a ball in the lower part of the cube, at this time the sound of the piano was added, and the black shadow danced upwards with the melody and stretched out two slender shadows, which were the shadows of the handsDancing like a growing branch, everyone's eyes were attracted by the bend and stretch, indulging in the rhythm of life, they never thought that the shadow of the hand was so beautiful, when the instrument increased to five, the shadow had completely stood up, there was an indescribable charm between the hands and feet, there were no wide sleeves or other superfluous covering, the shadow had thin arms and narrow waist, the lines were extremely beautiful, the dance was elegant but with some reverie, the shadows on each cube were extremely synchronized, there was not much difference between tall and short, fat and thin, as if it was the same personThe music gradually weakened, but there was a bit of an ethereal rhyme, the light in the cube slowly weakened, the original clear black image slowly faded and became blurred, and then in the last plucked strings, the eight cubes all lost their light, and the hall suddenly became darker, and at the same time everyone heard a "pop", like a landing sound, followed by a "whoosh", like a dragging sound, and then the strings were plucked again, and the notes jumped out one by one, and the hall suddenly returned to brightness, from black to bright in less than a minute, The sudden light was a little uncomfortable, the melody in the ears turned slowly and cheerfully, and the eyes quickly adapted to the light, only to see that the cubes on the performance venue did not know where to go, only eight women wearing cardigan skirts left, everyone was in a trance, their heads were a little confused, six of the women were wearing bean green grass green skirts, one wearing apricot yellow skirts and orange skirts, one wearing blue and white duck yellow skirts, each with a light bandeau and a shawl of the same color as the skirt. The dance is more powerful and neat than before, and it feels very different from before, but it is also eye-catching, and then there are drums added to make the dance quite imposing. Towards the end, six women of the same color encircled the other two in the middle, and the musical components were reduced, until in the end only the sound of the flute, a long note, the six women danced and slowly squatted down and hugged their knees, and the middle two set the end posture at the sound falling. After a few seconds of silence in the hall, there were bursts of applause and full of discussions.