Chapter 1: The Royal Feast
In the seventeenth year of Bac Ninh's filial piety and auspicious virtue, Bac Ninh was rich and rich, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
As relatives of the emperor, Baili Lan and Qiu Ziyao are naturally invited, and under the decoration of their respective maidservants, the two are dressed in gorgeous clothes, with exquisite makeup, and their hands and feet are all amorous. Surrounded by subordinates, the two appeared in the inner hall of the palace, and as soon as they entered the palace, they attracted countless eyes.
I saw two beauties, one big and one small, holding hands, slowly moving forward gracefully and luxuriously, and everywhere they went, they attracted the attention of all people. Women's gaze is jealous, men's is greedy, and this kind of beauty that is so delicate that it is unreal will indeed drive everyone crazy.
Seeing the two of them getting closer and closer, Xiaobao was extremely proud.
Baili Lan, it's her sister, you can see how beautiful her sister is by looking at everyone's eyes, as for the chick next to her, it's not bad to clean up today, although it's not as good as the eldest sister, but it's barely eye-catching.
Xiaobao was triumphant here, and the harem women next to him could breathe fire in both eyes.
Long before Baili Lan returned to Beijing, there was news that this Bai Li Lan didn't know what method he used, even if he was far away, it made the emperor miss him, and he was not afraid of Bai Li Lan's identity as a daughter-in-law, and he had to try his best to grab it around. It is even rumored that Princess Chen and Prince Chen had a deep relationship with each other, and they never thought of separating, but it was the Emperor of Beining who made a stumbling block and broke up a pair of mandarin ducks, so that the two beloved Lao Yan flew apart, and it was difficult to see each other so far. If this Baili Lan is an ordinary beautiful woman, it will not let the harem women hold on to her former identity, what worries them the most is Bai Li Lan's smart scheming. If there is such a powerful character in the harem, I am afraid it will be very disadvantageous to myself. With such an idea, the women sitting behind the emperor couldn't wait to shoot knives out of their eyes and kill her cleanly!
Shrinking her neck, Qiu Ziyao didn't know why, and felt a little creepy. She approached Baili Lan, shook her arm gently, and whispered, "Sister, Ziyao is a little cold!"
Hanging her head and looking at Qiu Ziyao, Bai Lilan smiled faintly and said, "Don't be afraid, but they are all fools in brocade clothes, and they can't hurt us!" ”
It was Bai Lilan's faint smile that made the viewer hold their breath, and their eyes were wrong, for fear of tarnishing the beauty.
Looking at Baili Lan passing in front of him, Shu Yichen poured a sip of spirits, staring at her with gloomy eyes, as if there were thousands of insects gnawing in his heart, they were frantically looking for an exit, but found that they had entered a dead end, and there was no other way than to bite their hearts into a blur of flesh and blood.
Seeing Su Yichen's embarrassed appearance, the queen was even more convinced of the guess in her heart, and her beautiful eyes were more calculating when she looked at Baililan.
"Courtiers Baili Lan, Qiu Ziyao, I have seen my emperor!" The two beauties bowed to the emperor Yingying, with a beautiful posture and a light body, and anyone who saw it would praise the proper etiquette of these two women.
Looking at the two of them with a smile, Emperor Beining waved his hand and said, "Hurry up." It's all about getting together as a family, and you don't have to have so much etiquette. Then pointing to the seat opposite Shu Yichen, Emperor Beining said, "Don't go that far, just sit on the seat of the clan and get closer to me." ”
As soon as the emperor's words came out, everyone was secretly surprised in their hearts, thinking that the emperor was already so blatant, did he want to give Baili Lan the title today? However, his son sat down and sat opposite Baili Lan, so where would the future king of a country settle down?
In the midst of all the surrounding eyes, Bai Lilan took Qiu Ziyao to sit quietly. As soon as they sat down, eunuchs and palace maids came to wait, and Dongxue and the others could only retreat to the back and stand with their heads bowed.
Qiu Ziyao rarely attends this kind of large-scale dinner, and even if she does, she sits in a very remote position, so that everyone can't see herself. But today, sitting next to the emperor, everyone looked at themselves more, which made Qiu Ziyao very uncomfortable. She leaned closer to Bai Lilan's side, and said with a weak smile, "Sister, why are these people a little fierce when they are looking at us?" ”
Don't look at Qiu Ziyao's young age, but her ability to observe words and emotions is very good. As long as you look around, you can see what kind of attitude people have towards you.
Holding Qiu Ziyao's cold little hand, Bai Lilan said soothingly, "They are jealous, we can get a different kind of attention from the emperor." Ignore them, those people are like that, whoever is better will be red-eyed. Let's just do our part, don't worry about anything else. And with me, no one will do anything to you, good girl! After saying this, Baili Lan raised her head and looked in Xiaobao's direction.
The Queen Mother naturally noticed Bai Lilan's worried and concerned gaze, so she made the decision, patted Xiaobao on the shoulder and said a few words in his ear, and then Xiaobao smiled and got up and left the seat. It didn't take long for Xiaobao to stand beside Baili Lan, rubbed inside, and said, "Eldest sister, hehe, the Queen Mother promised me to sit next to you!" ”
Xiaobao was happy to be able to sit next to Baililan, but Qiu Ziyao was not very happy. This poisonous guy has to hurt himself a few words every time they meet. At the beginning, he would take it seriously and explain honestly, but later Bai Lilan told some things about Xiaobao, and Qiu Ziyao realized that he was teasing himself. So now, even if she sees Xiaobao, Qiu Ziyao will not take the initiative to deal with him.
Letting go of the side, Bai Lilan said in a cold voice, "The Queen Mother loves you, as long as you can plead out loud, I can let you sit down, this is a normal thing." ”
A smile froze on his face, Xiaobao caught a glimpse of Qiu Ziyao's smiling expression, and couldn't help but approach Baili Lan with some embarrassment, and said secretly, "Sister, Ziyao is still beside me, don't talk about me yet!" ”
"Why don't you talk about you? If you do a good job, I won't say it. Bai Li Lan didn't care about the loud and small voices, and Xiaobao analyzed them on a case-by-case basis.
The two children beside him, one covered his mouth and snickered, the other hung his head down, and Bai Lilan, who was sitting in the middle, raised their faces to them, constituting an unreal picture of beauty, and such a picture was inexplicably heartache in Shu Yichen's eyes.
I bowed my head and had another glass of wine, and when I just wanted to pour a glass, I was held down by a pair of soft wattles. His eyes looked over in a daze, it was his crown princess, Ou Zhilan.
"Don't drink any more, do you want to be the laughing stock at today's dinner?"
"Hmph, don't they laugh at Hongu if they don't drink it?" Shu Yichen shook his head and said dizzily, "My father didn't think about my feelings at all, didn't he know that Bai Lilan was once her daughter-in-law?" After he waits for me to ascend the throne, people in the world will use this matter to say that I will live my whole life, no matter how many merits I have done, when future generations mention me, they will only remember one thing, that is, my princess, married my father, hehe, what a ridiculous thing to think about! Su Yichen's voice became louder and louder, so frightened that Ou Zhilan hurriedly covered his lips, and when he saw that no one was looking here, he relaxed a little, but the beads of sweat on his palms still did not fade.
"Prince, you can just talk to your concubines about these things, if you let others hear it, let alone that he will ascend the throne one day, it is difficult to say whether he can even keep his current position! Don't you know, because of the minister's plea, the emperor has relented and plans to let Su Yiling return to Beijing! ”
The blood-red eyes suddenly widened, and Su Yichen clenched the wine glass, muttering in his mouth, "No, I can't allow this to happen, I can't!" ”
"Yes, since you don't want Shu Yiling to come back, you can't leave a handle for others, otherwise you will definitely seize the opportunity to die if you are a person!"
Reason seemed to be returning little by little, and Su Yichen looked at the amazingly beautiful Baili Lan again, and his heart gradually became clearer.
Just as everyone was falling into their own contemplation, the dinner party officially began. The beautiful dancing girl who entered the fish, shaking her soft waist, was charming and amorous, attracting everyone's attention. It's just that although their eyes are fixed on Maihime's body, their thoughts are turning over separately.
After the dance was over, the hundred officials also began to raise their glasses to the Emperor of Beining, all kinds of words of flattery and flattery, so that the Emperor of Beining was very useful, and after a few glasses of wine, his cheeks were already red.
Although his mind was dizzy, the Emperor of Bac Ninh still knew that there was something to announce in public today. He stood up slowly, looked at the civil and military officials, and said in a thick voice, "There is one thing that has bothered me for a long time, and I just took this opportunity today to ask all Aiqing." ”
Hearing what the emperor said, the queen hurriedly preemptively said, "The concubine seems to know what the emperor wants to say." ”
Seeing that the queen was so caring, the emperor couldn't help laughing, stroked his beard, and said, "The queen has always been smart, and I thought that I can't hide this matter from you, so tell me, what are my plans?" ”
The queen laughed at first, but did not say the answer directly, she got up and stood beside the emperor, and said, "Recently, the harem has been much cleaner, first Li Guifei died of illness, and then Chen Meiren went crazy, and the people in the harem are withering more and more." The concubine thought, should I add more sisters to the harem? The emperor is now in good health, and he should add some young sisters to serve the emperor, I wonder if the emperor has the idea of a new concubine? ”
The queen originally thought that since the emperor wanted Baili Lan to enter the palace, no matter what she did, she couldn't stop the emperor's thoughts, so it was better to pretend to be generous and let Bai Lilan enter the palace first, and then find a way to clean her up little by little! Concubine Jin didn't suffer under her own hands back then, so she didn't believe that she had been in the harem for many years, and she could still let this yellow-haired girl calculate the past!