Chapter VIII

With the sound of silk and bamboo, several beautiful people dressed in colorful clothes stepped into the middle of the banquet with small steps, Su Xiu waved and danced with the music, the men's table was already pushing the cup and changing the lamp, and the women's table was also drinking fruit wine in twos and threes and chatting.

Zhou Yunxue glanced at Zhou Yunxia, who was toasting to Zhao Qinghua, the concubine of the Marquis of Yongping, but people just didn't see it, turned their heads and chatted with other concubines, Zhou Yunxia had to smile stiffly and withdraw her hand.

The county lord of Zhaoyang just saw this scene with her gaze, and sneered, "Look at your sister-in-law, if it wasn't for you in the past, other concubines wouldn't have paid attention to her, and they wouldn't have looked at their own identities." ”

Zhou Yunxue retracted her gaze, took a sip of fruit wine, and said, "It won't be long before she will be the young lady of the Wu family." ”

Zhaoyang said disdainfully, "So what, a Taishi Mansion with no real power, if it weren't for the fact that Wu Taishi was the emperor's teacher when he was not yet on the throne, the Wu family would have been defeated by now." ”

Zhou Yunxue smiled and didn't say much, the Wu family's current situation may not be caused by the emperor, the emperor loves the queen but the queen only has Princess Anping, and although the prince is from Lin Guifei, he has been raised by the queen's side since he was a child, the Lin family and the Dingguo Mansion are good, the so-called love house and the position of the prince of Wu are stable, and Wu Guifei is from the Wu family and gave birth to three princes, the emperor himself snatched the throne from the seven brothers, so he naturally has to plan for his favorite son, she died too early in her previous life, and the news is too closed, It's a pity that I didn't see this seizure with my own eyes, and I didn't see the fate of the Wu family.

"Why do you hate the Wu family so much?" Zhou Yunxue asked

Zhaoyang glanced at her and said, "I'm not here for you." ”

"I used to think that you always went against me because you liked Wu Gongzi."

"Sick, I'll like him? The person I like has to be a big hero, look at him like a weak chicken, he will only use that face to seduce a boudoir lady like you who has never seen the world. ”

"Tsk." Zhou Yunxue squinted at her and said, "It's as if you've left Kyoto." ”

Zhaoyang said nonchalantly, "Hmph, in the future, the lord of this county will definitely be able to travel all over the Great Zhou Dynasty." ”

As soon as Zhaoyang's voice fell, a sharp voice sounded outside the garden, and said, "The emperor has arrived, the queen has arrived, the concubine has arrived, and Princess Anping has arrived..."

As the voice sounded, the emperor's guard of honor had arrived in front of them, and everyone left their seats and knelt down to shout Long live the emperor, long live the mother, wait for them to sit down

After the high position, the emperor waved his hand and said, "Flat." ”

The father-in-law who was waiting for the emperor's side raised his voice and shouted, "Flat." ”

Only then did the crowd shout "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Then they got up one after another.

The emperor sat down and encouraged everyone, Tianyan could not look directly, everyone bowed their heads respectfully and listened, and when the words were finished, the queen said to the public behind her, "Let's start." ”

At this time, the four empty seats on the field have been seated on people, the first from the left is the highest attainment Gu Fuzi on the Zaiqin of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the second is Wei Fuzi, who is known as the national player, he once challenged 100 people at the same time, these 100 people are masters in chess, but they are still worshiped to him, the third is the current university scholar Dr. Sun, his calligraphy can not be surpassed, the self-created Sun Xingcao is sought after by countless people, the last one is Mrs. Kong, Mrs. Kong's paintings are hard to find, Since Mrs. Kong married the Jiangnan Lu family, she has sealed the pen.

Four identical pianos have been placed in the banquet, two two side by side, the first to go down is Princess Anping, she played a Wing Chun tune, which is the opening, the peach blossom banquet is a banquet specially designed for the piano and chess, calligraphy and painting, in the banquet, the ladies of each family are not divided into men and women, regardless of dignity and inferiority, so when Princess Anping starts from the qin, then from the beginning of the piano, the people on the field have to accept the challenge of the young ladies of the provinces, the first person to play the piano together, there will be someone to come forward to join the qin, and if the person who joins the qin is higher than the first person, then you can make it difficult to make the piano skills difficultIf the first person loses, then the third person will challenge the second person, and so on, if the two are on par with each other after a song, then Gu Fuzi will make the question, if one of them plays the fork or has never seen the score, it will be regarded as his loss.

Because it is a mix of men and women, there will often be a son at the banquet to see that his favorite lady is going to lose and will go on the field to help, so there will be four pianos side by side, the young lady who is helped can only go down, but the face will be much better, it is said that the peach blossom banquet in the past few years has achieved a lot of good fate because of this piano fight, but the premise is that the report must be the same project to help.

Of course, a person can only report one of the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, this is the post of the peach blossom banquet to be confirmed to the ladies of the provinces, if you don't sign up for the banquet at that time, you want to end or change it, it's not okay, but there are also people who just go to join in the fun and don't participate, such as Zhou Yunxue and Zhaoyang.

The sound of the piano in the field is sometimes like a soothing flowing spring and sometimes like a rushing waterfall, everyone has closed their eyes to listen, the emperor also raised his hand to beat lightly, the original Miss Li's excited piano sound was pulled back by the new Miss Du's slow piano sound, he knew that he had lost, and gradually withdrew his piano sound, got up and smiled and gave a salute to Miss Du who was playing the piano and got off the field.

No one played for a while, and when the song was a short time away, Zhou Yunxia got up and walked up, and Zhou Yunxue and Zhaoyang, who were still bored and drew circles with pen and ink, suddenly raised their eyebrows.

Zhou Yunxue knows that Aunt Jing's piano skills are excellent, Zhou Yunxia is her daughter has been cultivated since she was a child and completely inherited her piano skills, looking at her sitting in front of the piano with her hands lightly, with Miss Du's melodious piano sound is nothing special, the song has come to an end, everyone is puzzled, but suddenly heard a sound like a mountain spring, and then the sound of the piano that should have been getting lighter, it is already another song, but the connection is just right, people can't help but light up, with the sound of the piano Miss Du's piano sound is slightly messy, Everyone knew that Miss Du was not very familiar with this song, and just wanted to stop and admit defeat, but there was a son sitting next to him, it was Yan Chengjun, the third son of the Yan family, one of the four sons of Kyoto, Yan Chengjun smiled at Miss Du Jia, and then raised his hand to stroke the piano, Miss Du, who was still slightly embarrassed, turned crimson, and hurriedly stopped and got up to get off the field, and now only Yan Chengjun and Zhou Yunxia are left on the field.

Zhaoyang turned to Zhou Yunxia slightly, lowered his voice and gloated, "Xue'er, I'm afraid your sister is going to be taken down." ”

Zhou Yunxue nodded, although Zhou Yunxia's piano skills are excellent, but who is Yan Chengjun, he is Gu Fuzi's introductory disciple, and his piano skills can be compared except what Gu Fuzi is doing?

Zhou Yunxia froze when she saw the smile on Yan Chengjun's face, originally she thought that with her piano skills, very few people could surpass her, so this year's piano leader must be her, with this name, it is better to look at the face of the nobles, and she also wants Wu Changjun to know that except for not being a concubine, she is better than Zhou Yunxue, which Cheng wants to calculate that she actually didn't calculate that Yan Chengjun would play for Miss Du's thin face.

Playing the piano is a state of mind, since Yan Chengjun came on the stage, Zhou Yunxia's heart is no longer the same as just now, and the jumping fingertips are a little messy because of the sudden rise of the piano.

Zhou Yunxia's face turned pale, and she looked at Wu Changjun with her eyes asking for help, but she didn't even look at her, just chatting with the people on the side.

Wang Gongzi beside Wu Changjun just saw him, so he pulled him and said, "Brother Changjun, the girl seems to be asking you for help again that week." ”

"Ziyang said with a smile, I'm not proficient in piano skills, I'm afraid you're mistaken."

After speaking, he raised his hand and poured a glass of wine for Wang Gongzi, and said, "Come, a glass of respect for Ziyang." ”

Wang Ziyang saw that Wu Changjun didn't care about his fiancée, what did he care about as an outsider, so he also raised his glass and said, "It should be Ziyang Jing Changjun's brother." ”

Zhou Yunxia reluctantly withdrew her gaze and stopped her hand, and bowed to Yan Chengjun and retreated.

After Zhou Yunxia exited, no one played, and Qin Kui deservedly fell on Yan Chengjun's head, followed by chess.

The emperor left the scene not long after the start of the piano fight, how could anyone who had a lot of opportunities have time to spend time here with them, and the prince also retired after the end of the piano fight, helping the pregnant princess to leave.

The piano fight has ended, the chessboard is placed in the field, a total of fifteen tables, the people who participate in the chess fight are the opponents who are determined by lot, chess is a project to think about for a long time, so when the lottery is over, the queen will say to everyone, "Everyone can come forward to watch the chess, but the considerable but unspeakable, can not help, if there is a violator, the rod will be punished thirty." ”

Everyone said yes, and the chess fight began, and for a while, everyone in the field went to the fifteen chess tables, and the queen looked at Liu Guifei and Wu Guifei under the seat, and said, "The two sisters should also go and have a look." ”

"Yes!"

The two of them took the hand of the personal palace maid and stepped down from a high position, since they were choosing a concubine for their son, when they were in the palace, they all chose the candidates for the main concubine and the side concubine.

Zhou Yunxue and Zhaoyang also wanted to get up and take a walk, but just as the queen sent someone to invite them, the two of them held hands and walked towards the queen.

Zhou Yunxue said, "Meet my aunt." ”

Zhaoyang said, "Meet my aunt." ”

The queen held one person in one hand, and said with a slight puzzle, "Why are you two so good today?" ”

Usually whether they meet in the palace or outside the palace, the two of them are like enemies, but today they are so intimate that they sit together and hold hands, is there something that happened recently that she doesn't know, so that both of them have changed their personalities.

"The two of us were supposed to be fine." Zhaoyang smiled and took Zhou Yunxue's hand

"Naughty." The queen nodded the tip of Zhaoyang's nose, looked Zhou Yunxue up and down, and said, "Xue'er hasn't changed a lot in a few days, and my aunt almost didn't recognize it just now." ”

Zhou Yunxue chuckled and said, "Auntie, Xue'er was ignorant before, so I will take care of you." After speaking, he knelt in front of the queen and kowtowed solemnly.

"Hurry up, you kid." The queen hurriedly stretched out her hand to pull her up, frowned and scolded, "You are Su Mei's daughter, she is still in the palace, and the palace really loves you, so naturally you have to take care of it, you are a solid-eyed child, do such a big gift, look at the forehead is red." ”

After speaking, he instructed the palace maid on the side to take the plaster and gently apply a layer to her.

Zhou Yunxue looked at the queen with tears in her eyes, the queen had been very good to her from beginning to end in her previous life, but she couldn't even take a look at her when she was seriously ill.

"Hey, what are you crying about, you're crying, your makeup is spent."

The queen, who had just wiped the medicine, hurriedly pulled the handkerchief, wiped her and said, "I know that your family affair was robbed by your sister-in-law, but you heard from your aunt that this family affair does not look as good as it seems, and it is not a bad thing to retreat." ”

Zhou Yunxue slowed down for a while, and then said, "Xue'er knows, the relationship between the eldest sister and the Wu family was facilitated by Xue'er. ”

"What?"

The queen only raised her eyebrows when she heard it, but Zhaoyang, who was holding Princess Anping to block everyone's sight with her, was surprised and said, "When did you grow your brain." ”

Zhou Yunxue glared at her with red eyes and said, "It's always been long." ”

Zhaoyang turned his head and sighed.