Chapter 258: Palace Banquet

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"Can I go with you?"

When she said this, Xiao Pingzhang was drinking tea and couldn't help but be stunned when she heard the words, as if he hadn't heard her words, and asked again, "What did you say?" ”

"I mean, can I go into the palace with you, I haven't been to the palace banquet yet." Bai Susu had no choice but to repeat it again, and when he saw that he didn't speak, he said, "If you find it inconvenient, forget it, I'll just say it casually." ”

Xiao Pingzhang shook his head, "It's not inconvenient, I thought you didn't like this kind of banquet, it was boring, so I didn't want to take you there, since you want to go, I'll take you there at that time." ”

"So what do I have to prepare?" Leukin asked.

Xiao Pingzhang smiled, "You don't have to prepare anything, you just need to be by my side when the time comes." ”

Bai Susu nodded, and remembered one more thing, "In what capacity should I go to the palace banquet with you?" ”

"In what capacity do you want to be?" Xiao Pingzhang's face leaned in front of her, with a smile in his eyes, "What do you think of my identity as a woman?" ”

"If you're not afraid of angering the Holy One, I don't mind." Bai Susu looked at him quietly with a pair of eyes.

Not everyone can go to the palace banquet, especially on days like Emperor Cheng's birthday, there are obvious rules about who can go and who can't go. Xiao Pingzhang, even if he is the third prince, cannot just take a woman to the palace banquet, and the only one who can accompany the third prince is the princess.

Xiao Pingzhang pursed his lips and looked at her, and said helplessly, "You are really boring." ”

Bai Susu asked again, "I won't joke with you, in what capacity will I enter the palace when the time comes." ”

Xiao Pingzhang looked at her, his eyes were a little inquisitive, "Susu, you seem to want to enter the palace very much." ”

Bai Susu was stunned, lowered his head and smiled, "If you don't want to take me, forget it, why doubt me like this." She got up and gestured to leave, when her wrist was grabbed.

Xiao Pingzhang said helplessly, "You said why did you have such a big temper, I just asked casually." ”

Bai Susu pouted, "You can't tell that you're suspicious of me?" ”

"Okay, okay, count me wrong, I shouldn't doubt you." Xiao Pingzhang said with a smile.

Seeing that her face was still angry, she said again, "You will enter the palace as my guest at that time, but you have to dress up as a man, earlier you solved the two problems of the Yinan envoy in the palace, and you can be regarded as a little famous, so it is not too conspicuous." ”

The family and the royal nobles have the habit of raising guests, in order to recruit talented people to work for themselves, Xiao Pingzhanggui is the third prince and has a faint meaning of competing with the prince, and the guests under his hand are naturally countless, and the people of the time are extremely polite to the guests, if they are the guests who can indeed participate in the palace banquet.

Bai Susu thought that it was a good idea, and a smile appeared on his face, "Then thank Your Royal Highness the Third Prince." ”

"That's it, thank you?" The third prince was amused, and it happened that he had not let go of his wrist holding her, so he took advantage of the situation to pull her to his side and sit down.

Bai Susu couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when she saw his face getting closer and closer, she subconsciously stepped back but didn't notice that it was the corner of the table behind her, until there was a dull pain in her waist, and she gasped.

"You're going to me off, you can bump like this in the house." Xiao Pingzhang saw that her face turned white from pain, and he immediately became angry, and while pulling her to sit down on a chair, he shouted to the door.

The doctor was hurriedly pulled over, and he was busy taking the pulse and prescribing medicine.

According to Bai Susu's meaning, there was no need to call a doctor for this little injury, and she smiled and bruised after resting for a few days, but Xiao Pingzhang insisted on calling the doctor without worry, so she didn't say anything.

The ten days passed quickly, and early in the morning of the palace banquet, Xiao Pingzhang sent a carriage to pick her up.

Bai Susu sat in the carriage, staggering for about half an hour, she almost fell asleep in the car, and finally the car stopped again, and the guards outside reminded her that she had arrived, and she woke up.

There were already a lot of carriages parked at the gate of Chaoyang, and when Bai Susu got out of the car, she saw that Xiao Pingzhang and the third princess Xu also got off from another carriage one after another, and it seemed that Xiao Pingzhang was still looking at her from a distance.

The place where Bai Susu got off the car was surrounded by guests invited from various mansions, and a few of them looked arrogant, and when they saw Bai Susu, they snorted disdainfully and then went to the palace gate from her.

"This is Bai Gongzi, His Royal Highness the Third Prince ordered the servants to take you into the palace." When Bai Susu was a little upset about being rolled her eyes, Xiao Huangmen, who was wearing a palace dress, came to her side and said respectfully.

"Thank you father-in-law." Bai Susu thought to herself, Xiao Pingzhang was quite careful.

The other doormen were all lined up and the little yellow doors guarding the door checked their identities one by one, and Bai Susu had already swaggered past them.

When she passed by the doormen who had just rolled their eyes at her, she followed their example and walked inside with her nostrils facing the sky.

"Brother Wei, look at this kid who really has no one in his eyes, he dares to look down on us." One of the doormen looked indignant.

The other one also spoke, "I want to see what he is capable of, so that the third prince can change Brother Wei's position to him." ”

The man known as Brother Wei snorted and didn't say anything, his eyes narrowed as he looked at the emaciated figure who was following Xiao Huangmen.

Bai Susu followed the little yellow gate into the palace, and then walked through the long corridor, and came to the imperial garden in all directions.

The palace banquet starts in the evening, and there is a talent competition in the imperial garden during the day.

Emperor Cheng has always liked to be vassal, and this time to catch up with his birthday, Emperor Cheng announced as early as a month ago that he would test all the talents on his birthday.

Bai Susu arrived relatively early, and there were not many people in this imperial garden, so Xiao Huangmen sent her to the ground to leave first.

In this season, all kinds of flowers are blooming, and there are countless rare flowers in the imperial garden, and you can't see the end at a glance.

She saw a green flower from a distance, and couldn't help but be a little curious, the color of the flowers was mostly red, pink, orange and white, like a green flower that she had never seen before.

Bai Susu thought she was dazzled, but it wasn't until she walked in that she realized that the green was indeed a flower, or a green peony.

She looked down at Hua but didn't know that someone was approaching behind her, and a cool voice sounded behind her and startled her, "This is called the Green Ripple Flower, the flower of the original Panyu land, but someone brought the seed back to Middle Earth a few years ago, and it bloomed after cultivation." ”

The man who spoke had his hair neatly combed back of his head, and he looked at Bai Susu's eyes full of disdain, "Brother Tai is really well-informed, and I admire him." I don't know the name of Brother Taigao. ”

The man snorted coldly when he heard this, and said in a cold tone, "In the Lower Wei Pavilion." ”

Bai Susu could sense that this person named Wei Ting had a lot of opinions about her, but she asked herself that she had never seen this person, so she couldn't figure out where she had offended him.

I don't think about it, she doesn't bother to think about it, there will be a lot more kung fu in the garden, and the little yellow doors led everyone to the venue of the talent competition for a while, and sat down in turn.

The banquet in the palace is arranged according to the fame and talent of the individual, and the princes and grandsons of the emperor and the ministers of the court and the central government are in the front, and the ministers and princes are the guests in the back.

Bai Susu was the most inconspicuous of these customers, so the seat was at the back. After sitting down, Bai Susu raised his eyes and looked at the people present.

Except for Emperor Cheng, the crown prince, and the three princes, all the other people have arrived, and many people who are familiar with each other will talk and laugh in one place.

Bai Susu didn't speak, so she sat in her seat and concentrated on eating pastries.

She happened to look up at Wei Ting, who was sitting in front of her, and she didn't know if it was an illusion, she always felt that this Wei Ting was always looking at her.

A shrill voice of a eunuch sounded, and Emperor Cheng arrived.

Everyone present knelt on the ground, and when Emperor Cheng walked in, the voice of Qi Hu Long Live immediately sounded.

Emperor Cheng was very happy, and he waved his hand to let everyone sit down.

The talent competition officially began after Emperor Cheng sat down, since it was said that the talent competition was naturally divided into four types: piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the first thing to bear the brunt of was to play the piano.

"Your Majesty has an order, all the talents can show their piano skills at will, and the final winner can get this heavenly fragrant phoenix tail." As soon as Xiao Huangmen's words fell, the surroundings immediately became excited.

There are gentlemen from time to time, and a phoenix tail piano makes countless people fall for it. Later generations will take the phoenix tail as a symbol of a humble gentleman, there are dozens of guests present, and everyone wants to take this opportunity to show their talents in front of Emperor Cheng. If you win the favor of Emperor Cheng, you will naturally have to be added to the knighthood.

Bai Susu also saw the phoenix tail, so she thought of Lord Lu, she remembered that Lord Lu always told her that the phoenix tail qin represented a gentleman, but it was a pity that the phoenix tail qin had been lost, and there were many regrets in her words.

She looked at Lu Zhiyuan, who was sitting on the stage, and he was looking down and the woman next to him didn't know what to say, and his eyes were gentle and dripping.

Bai Susu pursed his lips and pinned his head to the side, and at this time, someone had already gotten up and was about to stroke the piano.

"On the occasion of His Majesty's birthday, such a beautiful day, the grass man Zhao Jing wishes to stroke a song to congratulate His Majesty on a thousand years of life." He said that he got up and bowed in the direction of Emperor Cheng.

Emperor Cheng waved his hand, and soon a small yellow door moved the piano case, burning incense and arranging the piano.

Zhao Jing sat on the stool, and with a slight movement of his fingers, a pleasant and moving tune immediately flowed out, as sweet as a clear spring, and as pleasant as a yellow oriole out of the valley.

At the end of the song, everyone had not yet recovered from this tactful and melodious song, Zhao Jing got up and looked at everyone's reactions, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, obviously very satisfied with his performance.

Emperor Cheng was the first to express his appreciation, and immediately rewarded Zhao Jing with 100 silk horses and 100 taels of gold.

With Zhao Jing Zhuyu in front, the others couldn't help but hesitate, if they didn't play as good as Zhao Jing and swept the nature of the saint, it would be a big loss.

Everyone was hesitating, of course, these people did not include Bai Susu, she was looking at the newly exchanged dim sum of the palace maid on the table, stretched out her hand and just grabbed a piece, before she could put it in her mouth, she heard someone speak, "I heard that the three problems of the envoy of Yinan last time were easily solved by Brother Bai, and I really admire Brother Bai for being so talented." Today coincides with His Majesty's birthday, why don't Brother Bai play a song to congratulate His Majesty on his birthday. ”