Chapter 20 Kunlun Jade Bell
Concubine An suffered a loss because she entered the palace too late, there was the strong pressure of Queen Chengxiang, and the jealousy of the concubines of Queen Chengxiang's background, and she did not give birth to a princess and prince, but the first emperor imposed a high status on the concubines.
Suddenly, I felt a tightness in my chest, and casually took out a fan from my arms and carefully fanned it against the fence.
Pushing others to oneself is associated with Concubine An, and I can't help but feel sad. Although Song Yusui came from a humble background, he can be regarded as a famous family, but after Song Yusui was born, there has never been a figure in the family who is equal to Song Yuqiu, so Song Yusui has always been regarded as a mediocre person. If from the perspective of family background, I do not have the behind-the-scenes support of a wealthy family, and his father's retirement for many years, the Shanglin Academy, which is full of peach and plums, is of course also a lot of capital. But even Song Yuqiu's entry into the palace, his father was powerless to return to heaven, and Song Yusui didn't expect that the identity of the daughter of the Yuexi monk of Shanglin Academy could say how much confidence Song Yusui had.
In front of the Guogong monk and Miss Shangshu, Song Yuxuan first had to be shorter. - "A Plum Fragrance" Chapter 5. In this world, Song Yuqiu is an ordinary person, and Song Yuqiu's name is Kong Shangren. - "Water Margin: The Biography of Song Jiang". Kong Shang? Let's talk about my appearance, my birthmark, don't mention it, not to mention that there is a peerless beauty like Mrs. Mingzhen.
The only ones who can afford to put it down are Song Yuqiu's Wencai and Danqing, but they have never heard of a favored concubine taking advantage of this to fix their favor. Qi Shao is a very good actor, she played the heroine in "Huanzhu Gege", and Song Yuqiu played the leading role in "Qi Tianzi Dynasty", both of which starred her. At this moment, Qi Shao treats Song Yusui too intimately, not like an emperor, but like a common person, and he is intent on getting close to Song Yuqiu, but Song Yusui still doesn't dare to believe in that kind of ethereal feelings. Song Yusui doesn't believe in the example of a talented and beautiful woman falling in love at first sight in the play, the fate between Song Yusui and him is just a scene in the library for more than a month, and he is so rash to make a conclusion, he wants to play with Song Yusui for a lifetime, I am afraid that after a long time, I will find that Song Yusui has many shortcomings, and when he regrets it, he will be miserable.
Seeing that Song Yusui liked to listen, Biru continued: "Concubine An thinks that the name of the clog corridor is not good and unlucky, so she changed it to a Linglong corridor, and I heard that Concubine An is still decorated with a string of green and yellow Kunlun jade bells every five steps in the corridor. When the wind blows, it is immediately pleasant to the ear. ”
"Did she make a wish on her daughter's day, bell, she still has a lot of wishes?" Song Yuxuan thought in her heart. "What is her wish?" Song Yusui couldn't help but ask. "It's the voice of a golden bird!" Takachi Qing said proudly. When Song Yuxuan heard this, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Song Yuqiu's mouth was smiling, but her heart was overflowing with sympathy. Concubine An, who was overwhelmed by the cold in the heights, must have been extremely lonely when she was a golden bird, and she only needed those jade bells as companions.
Or Concubine An has accumulated so many bells with just one wish that is difficult to achieve. Ninje's Day is one of the oldest traditional festivals in China. It has a fixed festival time – around the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month every year. On Daughter's Day, the bell made a wish, hoping that the wish would come true, so she hung the bell in the window and hung it until the wish came true, so that she could step the bell under the tree or throw it into the lake, thanking the flower goddess for saving her life. Unfortunately, the golden bell that was hung before could not be received.
"Emperor Wen gave Concubine An Shuangyun brocade shoes, and the red cloud brocade shoes were embroidered with five-color silk threads and gold threads to embroider pieces of tangled branch peonies; The crawler is in the pattern of twill silk balls and roses; Hepu pearls are circled along the perimeter; The head is decorated with two lychee pearls of the South China Sea; "There are many legends in the palace, but many of them are dyed with ghosts.
Drinking Green, who was raised by the old palace people since she was a child, heard a lot of strange old news about the palace, and when she talked about these, she suddenly became interested, and interjected: "The most gold and precious thing is the sole, which is made of a whole piece of hibiscus jade contributed by the country of Pi, and these shoes are walking in the exquisite corridor, which can be regarded as complementing each other!"
Hearing this, Song Yuqiu was slightly startled, how bold this Concubine An was. Let's not talk about the luxury of this embroidered shoe, if there is really a jade version as the bottom, it is not a brocade shoe, and it is called a shoe. Zhai suitor, forget about the wood-bottom brocade, right? Concubine An is wearing such clothes, isn't it boring to herself? Besides, what reason did she have to make her body so delicate? Concubine An, who dared to put on the coat of jade brocade in a grand manner, thought that it was common sense for the Queen Mother not to allow Concubine An, and it was really a pretext for fear of dying of violent illness.
"I wonder if Concubine An Niangniang danced in the Linglong Corridor back then?" Lu Zhaorong asked with a smile, "How do you say she has such a high appearance?" "That's what Song Yuxuan said......" Lu Zhaorong smiled a little shyly, and seemed to be a little shy. Drinking green cheeks vision: "Concubine An regretted not seeing each other when she danced in the city, but Lu Zhaorong was in Yunshao Courtyard and learned to wear neon clothes and feathers with musicians, or he would be five or six distracted."
Hearing this, Song Yusui froze and smiled helplessly. In the first year of the reign of Emperor Zonggan of the Tang Dynasty (759), Wu Zetian was proclaimed emperor and held a grand ceremony in the palace to celebrate his achievements in the past 50 years of his rule. At that time, a beautiful woman named Lu Zhaorong attended the ceremony. When Concubine An was favored, the appearance of neon clothes and feathers was indispensable, and Lu Zhaorong was also valued by Song Yingche with the neon clothes and feather dances, and Tang Yang Guifei's means of competing for favor are still used today, which shows that it is still very important for women to know some songs and dances.
In the art of quyi, except for a few pieces of Kunqu opera, Song Yuqiu studied the pipa even less, and still learned the horizontal hugging pipa of the ancient timbre method rather than the improvement of the vertical hugging pipa that has been passed down to the present day.
In the past, his mother knew the pipa and was famous as the emperor, and his father still learned from his mother the ancient method of playing the pipa, and the timbre of the ancient method was similar to that of the guqin. My father once said: "The piano must have a solid foundation to cope with it, otherwise it will become water without a source and a tree without roots." There is a lot of truth in that. And I am a woman, who is cold and learns the sonorous ancient method, and now the popular person who holds the pipa with soft sound quality is a lot more remote with me.
Listening to old news is also a good way to pass the time. Biru is going to give her daughter Bilu a lesson, and Song Yuxuan decides to take her with her. The weather was fine that day, with snowflakes in the sky and a faint fragrance in the air. Song Yuxuan pulled her out the door. Song Yusui put away the fan, and while it was still early, Biru continued to take Song Yusui around Lan Ruotang, and roughly introduced Song Yuqiu to some of Lan Ruotang's previous situation along the way.
The twelve halls where the concubines of the harem live in the orthodox regulation are no less than the Zhaoyang Palace, but the etiquette is the concubine after all, so it is called the palace.
Lanruo Hall is located behind the Yuanzhen Hall, not far from the main sleeping hall of the Zhenguan Palace, facing the Xile Hall, backed by Yanhe Hall, adjacent to Yichun Garden, all of them are four courtyards, in the harem has been quite large-scale, the geographical conditions are better, the favored concubines of the past dynasties live, but the furnishings in the hall are quite gorgeous, but not public, the furnishings are made of high-quality rosewood.
There are many famous paintings hanging in the room as embellishments, the author finally Xiaoxiao why does he feel that Lan Ruotang is quiet, Tang Zhangxuan's "Mrs. Qiuguo's Spring Tour", Tang Hanhuang's "Wenyuan Picture", Xu Xi's "Snow Bamboo Picture" of the Five Dynasties, and Cui Bai's "Double Happiness Picture" of the Northern Song Dynasty. Although the style of painting is completely different, because the owner hangs in different buildings according to the style of painting, it is not disorganized, and a real piece of royal collection jumps on the paper, which is really a gluttonous feast for the author.
If you deduce from these paintings, it is not that the favorite concubines did not learn when they lived in Lan Ruotang, and they must have studied calligraphy and painting very much.
Song Yuqiu placed a screen around the rosewood gilt handle inlaid with the Helu Tongchun painting board, and when she strode into the hand-copying verandah, she found that the flowers carved in the cornices and verandah were not ordinary flowers and leaves, but Qingyi pine and bamboo.
Retreat to the second place to stroll in the courtyard, pear blossoms are the main color in the courtyard, in addition to the dense planting hosta, cherry blossoms, apricot blossoms these flowers with light pigments, between the flowers with three or two tender green maple trees separated, so as not to be confused by the flowers.
In addition, there is nothing special about it, that is, walking along the nine-curved covered bridge in the east, a two-story small building leading to the center of the lake is the ink pavilion. On that floor was the only woman in the building, named Biruer. She is a very talented woman, although she can't be said to be talented, but she also has a bit of charm, and she is quite famous among Jiangnan women. The door of the building was tightened, but even Biru didn't know what was locked, she just remembered that she was on duty in Lan Ruotang, and this was the case here.
In the blink of an eye, when the twilight is vast and dark, it is already the time to hold the lamp, the pear blossoms in a yard are bleak, and the crescent moon is looming in the middle of the day, Biru is waiting for Song Yusui to eat in the side hall Qianya Ju, holding four dishes and one soup, the dishes are very delicate and delicious, and Song Yusui has no appetite at all. "Miss, what do you want to eat?" "Let's eat hibiscus jade soup!" Hibiscus jade soup is known for its fresh fragrance and refreshing taste, and the tip of Song Yuxuan's tongue was attracted by this fragrance, and couldn't help but want to swallow it in one bite. Gently scooped up the clear hibiscus jade soup with a porcelain spoon, and inexplicably remembered the scene where more than a dozen people in the pharmacy used to eat around the table, and suddenly ate alone in the cold, and felt out of place.
"It seems that the jade hibiscus soup in the imperial dining room is not very appetizing to you, and this egg flower is almost made by you."
There was no need to raise his eyes, and Song Yusui knew that it was Xie Chang'an, so Song Yusui smiled and said, "Isn't Song Yusui just waiting for Sister Ning and Song Yusui to hurry up and eat!" Xie Changan smiled and said, "Yes, look! She pointed to the bowls, chopsticks, and plates on the table. What's that? Song Yuxuan asked curiously. What do you want to eat? recruited Biru more and set up the dishes and chopsticks.
Xie Changan leaned against the door in a burgundy dogwood embroidered gold gauze skirt, walked into the room between words, untied the crimson smoke and the yarn grew to his knees, handed it over to drink, and said angrily while drinking: "Just your poor mouth!" "Song Yuxuan is not a poor mouth?" Song Yu asked puzzled. She laughed and said, "It's your little secret." "She said, are you Song Yuxuan's little secret?" No! Your big secret, of course! Xie Changan walked around and sat down next to Song Yuqiu, sent two maidservants, and then took Song Yuqiu's hand.
Her palms were a little cold, but she saw that her cheeks were red, and that red was redder than the three pink rhododendrons in her flowing bun. Qi Shao stood up and said to Song Yuqiu with a smile, "Is Xie Changan here?" Of course! Look your face is red!" Song Yuxuan smiled and beckoned to her. But she didn't say a word to Song Yuqiu, she just smiled and hung the corners of her mouth, her eyes were gentle like a breeze, sending out a burst of sandalwood and elegant, which made people happy, when she looked at Qi Shao before, Song Yusui always avoided in fear, but Xie Changan made Song Yusui unable to take her eyes off it, and was deeply attached to the kindness inside, just like a relative.