Chapter 14: The Spring Feast
As expected, Yan Chujing only thought about it for a moment and made a quick decision.
He bent his phoenix eyes and said happily: "It's better to do this, the queen will help me to do a good job of the spring banquet in three days, and I will treat you as 'turning the merit over', what do you think?" ”
"Spring feast?" Chi Xinian blinked, obviously not knowing much about this banquet.
"It is a small banquet that invites the courtiers to enjoy the spring scenery and taste the new atmosphere of the year at the spring equinox every year." Yan Chujing explained, while cherishing the New Year's cloth for Chi, "The theme of the banquet is just to enjoy spring, as long as you can focus on these two words, you can do whatever you want!" ”
"Spring appreciation?" Chi Xinian raised his eyebrows, "That doesn't sound like a difficult thing?" ”
It's so easy to have a feast whose theme is just to enjoy spring.
Prepare some refreshments and snacks casually, and then let everyone play some small games of chanting poems and beating drums and passing flowers with the theme of spring, and the banquet will be completed.
Even if you want to add a little more elegance, you can also use the method of "inviting everyone to boat on the lake and enjoy the spring scenery on both sides of the strait" to achieve the effect.
Even if she has been in the army for six years, she grew up in the splendid pile of Kyoto when she was young, she has eaten and played with all kinds of banquets, and the spring banquet proposed by the emperor, she can promote it casually, so...
Why did he leave this to her?
Just don't want to embarrass her? He's not such a kind person.
And he has no good intentions, and the banquet is not difficult to handle, and if there is a problem, I am afraid that the only thing is the banquet itself.
After a little thought, Chi Xinian found a strange place.
However, after knowing it in her heart, her face was still calm, and after thinking about it for a while, she even decisively agreed to Yan Chujing: "Since Your Majesty trusts the concubine, the concubine will definitely handle this banquet for you and not disappoint you." ”
"Okay, then it's hard work." Yan Chujing bent his phoenix eyes, and a trace of cunning crossed his eyes.
After the words fell, he personally sandwiched a small green vegetable for Chi Xinian.
The two of them, each with their own thoughts, finished their dinner in harmony.
As soon as the dinner ended, the chief manager Li Fusheng took the excerpts sent by the south and called Yan Chujing away. Yan Chujing looked eager, and Chi Xinian would not keep him any longer.
Moreover...
Picking up the warm tea and rinsing her mouth, her gaze also shifted from the direction Yan Chujing left to the seat where Mama Gui and Qingyun were.
Now there are three people serving by her side, among which Qingyun and Gui Mama are both old people in the palace. It's just right to ask them about this spring feast.
"Do you two know about the Spring Feast?" Chi Xinian raised his eyes and glanced at the two of them, and went straight to the point.
"The slave knows." Mama Gui and Qingyun glanced at each other.
After a while, Mama Gui bent her knees and said: "Back to Niangniang, the spring banquet is a practice handed down from the previous dynasty, and it is also a testimony of the relationship between the emperor and Concubine Xue. ”
"Oh?" Chi Xinian raised his eyebrows, and instantly became interested.
Unexpectedly, a simple banquet was actually related to the relationship between Concubine Xue and the emperor.
The first emperor didn't care about it for the time being, just said that he had something to do with Concubine Xue, and this matter was definitely not simple. Tsk, the emperor's seemingly random assignment is still included in the big article.
When Chi Xinian thought about this, Mama Gui elaborated again: "In fact, holding a banquet in spring is a tradition that has existed for a long time.
It's just that in the early years, the time of this banquet was not clear, and even who would take the lead and who would invite them was not determined.
"It wasn't until a certain spring banquet that Concubine Xue danced in all directions, which made the emperor pay attention to this banquet."