Chapter 28: The Chrysanthemum Banquet (II)

He Changan felt that the voice was familiar, and looked at the voice, and it was really He Ping'an who spoke, and the Miss Bai in her words was Bai Hui, who had just been praised by the queen.

In fact, He Ping'an was able to sit at the first table because her biological mother was the eldest princess of Zhaoxing, just like Shi Qi, like He Ping'an, they were all girls from the Hou Mansion, but the first table was almost full, and Shi Qi's mother was not as good as the eldest princess of Zhaoxing, so she naturally had to go to the second table.

But Bai Hui is a serious daughter of the Guogong Mansion, in terms of identity, only the eldest princess Lu Keyi and the lord of Zhurun County, Lu Mianmian, can compete with her at the first table, and they are right.

But even so, Bai Hui's relationship with the emperor's relatives is far away, the most recent relationship is just that the second prince can be regarded as her cousin, He Ping'an's identity is slightly worse, but the eldest princess of Zhaoxing is a real princess, He Ping'an wants to vent his dissatisfaction, and he doesn't dare to offend the eldest princess and the lord of Zhurun, so he can only pick a soft pinch of persimmon.

An unnatural look appeared on Bai Hui's face, after all, she was a little younger than He Chang'an, and she was a little overwhelmed by the fact that such a young lady of the Hou Mansion who was a few years older than her was in trouble.

The county lord of Zhurun and Bai Hui are cousins, and when they heard He Ping'an's words, they frowned unconsciously: "Why don't I remember that my cousin is good at guqin? I don't know where Sister He heard it?" ”

was asked by the lord of Zhurun like this, He Changan understood a little, Bai Hui should not be good at playing the guqin, but He Ping'an is very good at these qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and today he pulled Bai Hui to play together, which is nothing more than to lower Bai Hui in front of everyone, thus raising himself.

He Ping'an was not stunned at all, but opened his mouth to the county lord of Zhurun with a smile: "The queen mother also said just now, and it doesn't hurt if Jing is not proficient, so where did I hear this, and why should the county lord pursue it? The key is that this chrysanthemum banquet is made by the queen mother, and I pulled Miss Bai to present a song for the queen mother, which also shows our gratitude to the queen mother, isn't it?"

He Chang'an understood at once, this is He Ping'an's last move, if He Ping'an said everything to this point, Bai Hui still repeatedly excused it, it is not a question of whether she is not good at the guqin, but whether she, as the daughter of the Guogong Mansion, is willing to do her filial piety for the queen. If these words are caught by someone with a heart and spread out, maybe it can evolve into the version of the Liang Guogong Mansion resenting the imperial court.

The Duke of Liang is the maiden home of the biological mother of the second prince, and it has affected the Duke of Liang, so the one who is most directly affected is the second prince, the second prince has already recruited something and was sent to Tanzhou, called the reward sergeant, which is really a distribution, if there are such rumors again, it will be very unfavorable to him.

He Chang calmed down and thought about it for a while, He Ping'an and Liang Guogong's Mansion should have been innocent and innocent, but today such a show was staged, it didn't seem to be unprepared at all, but the traces of being prepared were more obvious, and there was a plan over there.

Such a move is completely used to trap the second prince, if He Ping'an wants to be the second princess, it is to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot.

But even He Jiaqing is speculating that He Ping'an, the eldest princess of Zhaoxing, and even Yi Chunhou have already set their targets on the eldest prince, and others He Changan don't understand, but the person she knows best should be the eldest prince Lu Yuan.

The eldest prince Lu Yuan has never liked to do things that he is not sure of, and what he is best at using is to kill two birds with one stone, such as Li Xuan, the eldest daughter of the eldest princess of Zhaohe, who was ignorant, was seen by Lu Yuan The weakness of his personality was used to fight the second prince, in fact, when he was designing this matter, Lu Yuan thought about it far more than just hitting the second prince Lu Cheng.

The biological mother of the eldest prince, Concubine Qing, whose surname is Li, is the niece of the Queen Mother, but she is a concubine born to an aunt, if it weren't for the fact that there is no suitable age for a concubine in this life, and Concubine Qing is indeed an outstanding and delicate person, the opportunity that could be pointed to when she was still the prince at the time of the draft could not fall on her.

Because of her slightly lower status, Concubine Qing was only the prince Liangdi when she entered the prince's mansion, but later gave birth to her eldest son earlier than the princess Bai's family, and after entering the palace, the other Liangdi in the prince's mansion were all nobles, but Concubine Qing was named Qing Concubine, and then gave birth to the second princess, and after the death of Queen Herui, she was awarded the title of Concubine Qing.

But although Concubine Qing's surname is Li, she has been in the Li family for so many years and has been squeezed out a lot because she is a concubine. Now Concubine Qing has a strong holy family, but her eldest brother, that is, the concubine of the eldest princess Zhaohe, has always had a stiff relationship with her, and whenever Concubine Qing thinks of it, she feels that she has lost face!

What's the matter, she is also the favorite concubine who assists in taking care of the harem, and the elder brother is still holding the broken shelf, who is she going to see?

But I forgot one thing, she is indeed the favorite concubine in power, and she also has a bit of weight in the eyes of the saint, but as the concubine of Zhaohe and the eldest princess of Chengwuhou, that is the serious Li family out of the long house, and there is a princess as a wife, and the identity is not necessarily worse than her.

Lu Yuan is playing such an abacus, through the draft, he can hit the second prince and make the eldest daughter of the Chengwu Hou family lose her reputation, so that he will not touch the root of the Li family, and he will not be treated by the saint because he touches the root of the Li family, but he can stab the heart of the Chengwu Hou and the eldest princess Zhaohe.

The eldest princess and his wife are not stupid, and if they think about it a little, they can figure out who is the initiator behind this matter, but the prince is doing this kind of thing secretly, even if they can guess it, they may not be able to find real evidence, but the purpose of Concubine Qing's deterrence is to achieve it solidly.

For example, this provocation at the chrysanthemum banquet now, no matter whether the most practical goal can be achieved in the end, He Ping'an's piano skills should be far higher than Bai Hui's, and He Ping'an is the girl to be drafted in the next draft, so it can be said that she is not out of the limelight.

Such a dazzling girl, and the eldest princess's own daughter, wants to point to the prince to be the princess, it's not difficult to think about it, right?

Therefore, let He Ping'an come forward to provoke Bai Hui, this matter really has Lu Yuan's style, maybe Lu Yuan has already colluded with the eldest princess Zhaoxing to arrange the plan, but He Ping'an is like this, although he can hit the Bai family very well, but it also makes the He family rush to the forefront.

Sure enough, Empress Chen frowned, but she didn't speak, but the girl next to Empress Chen attached herself to Empress Chen's ear and said something in a low voice, and Empress Chen's brows stretched out again.

Then, Empress Chen turned around again and whispered a few words to the eunuch standing beside her.

The eunuch got the will, and said loudly: "Pass on the queen's mother's message, please wait for Yichun to wait for the eldest lady of the He family, He Ping'an, and the fourth lady of the Bai family, Bai Hui, to compete on the same stage." Today is the queen's banquet, inviting the two young ladies to play on stage, it was not originally for the sake of fighting for the advantages and disadvantages, no matter who loses or wins, there are lottery heads. The queen also said that if she won the one, the queen would reward her with a full set of head faces with Dongzhu left by the queen of Joan of Arc. ”

Queen Joan of Arc's golden chamber Nanyang jade carving Luoyang peony with a full set of head noodles, everyone heard this colorful head, they all gasped, this is really a priceless treasure!

I think that when the Tai/Zu/Huang/Emperor started at the end of Wei, Empress Joan of Arc followed him to fight in the north and south when she was young, and did not live a few days of good life, and later after the Tai/Zu/Emperor/Emperor won the world, in order to compensate for so many years of willing to follow behind her Empress Joan of Arc, she summoned the world's skilled craftsmen to make four sets of head jewelry, and the set in the queen's mouth was one of them.

But He Chang'an's attention fell on the favored maid beside the queen, although I don't know what she just said to the queen, but if there were no those words, Queen Chen might not have let the celebrant open such a high lottery, and said that there will be rewards no matter whether you win or lose, and what the celebrant said is tantamount to saving Bai Hui.

Bai Hui is still young, and when she encounters such a thing, no matter how much she is a girl raised by a big family, she can't think of so many twists and turns for a while. If Bai Hui resigned from the performance directly because she was afraid of losing the face of the Liang Guogong Mansion, it would be unwilling to show her filial piety for the queen, and in this way, Bai Hui would have to go, and if she didn't go, she had no choice, and she knew that no matter whether she won or lost, there was a reward, and the little girl's hanging heart was put down, maybe she could really play better than usual.

also happened to take advantage of He Chang'an's heart's wish, she didn't care how He Ping'an was in the limelight, but she couldn't write two congratulatory words in one stroke, and she was also surnamed He!

In the words of the celebrant supervisor, the eldest lady of the He family, those who have a heart also know that this is the queen who wants to separate the two rooms of the He family to take care of, although today's honor will not fall to Gongchangbo's mansion, but if He Ping'an really swaggers too much in the future and causes trouble, Gongchangbo's mansion will not follow with him.

In any case, at least He Ping'an's biggest purpose, by provoking Bai Hui to suppress the Bai family, and then to attack the second prince Lu Cheng's calculations, I am afraid that it will be in vain, and there is only one other purpose left, to show off his own limelight.

But if it was really He Ping'an who got such a set of head jewelry...... He Changan looked around at the two tables on the left, the ladies of the family had different expressions, and Li Yao, the cynical little daughter of the eldest princess of Zhaohe, almost crushed a mouthful of silver teeth.

The other young ladies, although their reactions were not as strong as in Li, most of the expressions that could be revealed were admiring, He Changan looked at Shi Qi again, and Shi Qi was calm.

Asked in a low voice, "What does my cousin think?"

Shi Qi smiled slightly: "If it is really Cousin Ping'an who got that set of head and face jewelry, it is also the blessing of Cousin Ping'an, I am just the granddaughter of a marquis from other places, I can come in to participate in the chrysanthemum banquet, I am already the queen's mother, as for the reward, the eldest princess also rewarded me, what else do I want? ”

He Changan looked at Shi Qi, and felt a little strange in his heart, it's only been a few days?

Shi Qi, who was bent on escaping the draft, just saw it?

However, they didn't have time to think about it so much, because several eunuchs had already carried out two identical guqins, He Ping'an and Bai Hui got up and walked to the two guqins.

He Ping'an looked at Bai Hui, who was half a head shorter than him, and waved his hand and said, "Miss Bai, please first." ”

Bai Hui took a deep breath and sat down by the piano, and the sound of the song "East Fence" sounded.

At the end of the song, everyone cheered for Bai Hui, but they also knew in their hearts that Bai Hui was only afraid that she was going to lose, and she played it smoothly, but "East Fence" was a simple tune, as long as the piano skills were not too bad, they should be played.

He Ping'an also spoke: "Miss Bai's piano sound is really smooth. ”

These words can be praised or depreciated, coupled with He Ping'an's tone, everyone also understands that it is only fluent, but it cannot be called specialized.

Then I saw He Ping'an flick his skirt and sit elegantly by the other piano, with a hook of his fingers, several elegant and lingering tunes sounded.

"The autumn night is long, the moon is clear and clear, and the layers of the city and Qi Pavilion look at each other from afar. Looking at each other from afar, the river has no beams ......"

It is actually a song "Long Autumn Night", this song He Chang'an also knows, composed with "Long Autumn Night" written by Wang Bo in the Tang Dynasty, but the words written by Wang Bo are difficult to compose, so this "Long Autumn Night" is also extremely difficult to play in the guqin.

He Ping'an finished playing the song, and Shi Shiran stood up again, and blessed her body in front of the queen: "The courtier's small skills in carving insects are not good, which makes the queen smile." ”

When Bai Hui finished playing, because of her young age, she would not go to the queen to add a sentence like He Ping'an, but she just stood aside and pinched the handkerchief at a loss, but He Ping'an had already calculated today's step by step, not to mention that the performance was excellent, and she went to the queen to humble herself, originally arrogantly looking for someone to play, but now she has become humble and polite, which does not make people feel at all that she is arrogant and arrogant, and she is deliberate.

The audience was silent, He Ping'an's "Long Autumn Night", the tone quality and difficulty, were already a lot higher than Bai Hui, and the polite style after the performance made people feel that Bai Hui was difficult to chase.

For a while, it's hard to speak!

It was Empress Chen who opened her mouth: "This song should only exist in the sky, and it is rare to hear it in the world." Miss He's piano skills can really be said to be perfect, come here, take the color head, and reward it to Miss He's family!"