Everyone knelt down and shouted in unison.

Emperor Xuanhua waved his hand: "Flat." ”

Empress Chen took the lead in getting up, walked to the emperor's side and asked, "Your Majesty, why is it so Yaxing today, and you also came to the Imperial Garden?"

Emperor Xuanhua is more than fifty years old, and his spirit is strong, and his eyes occasionally flash a trace of essence without anger and self-authority.

Dressed in a daily casual dress with a yellow dragon pattern, he said in a casual tone: "The queen invited the ladies of the various provinces to a banquet today, and I also came over to join in the fun, and it was the daughter of the mansion who spoke just now?"

Empress Chen smiled and said: "It is the daughter of Wang Shaoyuan's family, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and her name is Wang Shuwan." ”

Hearing the emperor and queen mention themselves, Wang Shuwan hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

The emperor glanced at Wang Shuwan and Long Yan Dayue: "I can't imagine that Wang Aiqing has such a young lady in the family, but you are a weak woman who can remember the world, it is really rare, look at it!"

Hearing this, Empress Chen said with a smile: "Wait a while to reveal today's top prize, and I will ask Your Majesty to reward it." ”

Hearing this, Emperor Xuanhua became interested and said, "I don't know what topic the queen has today?"

Empress Chen said the test question just now, and Emperor Xuanhua said: "Butterfly chooses today's top prize, and the topic of queen is a little difficult to do." ”

"It's because it's difficult to do it, so that it can better show the talents of the daughters of each government. Empress Chen said unhurriedly.

This is true. Emperor Xuanhua agreed.

Empress Chen signaled to release the butterflies, and the palace maids put the cage in front of everyone, opened the cage, and all kinds of butterflies flew one after another, flying overhead for a while, and in a blink of an eye, there was no one left.

Empress Chen said with regret: "It seems that no one can leave butterflies." ”

As he was talking, a flower *** stayed on a painting, followed by two more, standing on the painting and fanning their wings.

Empress Chen was surprised: "Go, bring that painting, this palace wants to see whose painting it is." ”

A palace maid next to her walked over and handed the painting to the queen.

Empress Chen took it and showed it to Emperor Xuanhua, painting a picture of a hundred flowers competing for beauty, the painting was decent, Zhang Yanyu was written at the end of the payment, Hong Gonggong nodded when he saw Emperor Xuanhua, and shouted: "Zhang Yanyu is here." ”

Zhang Yanyu hurriedly ran over and knelt down and said: "The courtier Zhang Yanyu knocked to see the emperor, long live the emperor, and the mother is a thousand years old." ”

"Is this painting yours?" asked Empress Chen.

Zhang Yanyu was a little panicked, the butterfly really stayed on the portrait she made, and when she heard the queen's question, she didn't dare to raise her head and replied with trepidation: "It was painted by the courtier." ”

"Whose daughter are you?" asked Emperor Xuanhua.

"My father's official worships the military department. ”

"Today is really unexpected, I didn't think that the two courtiers who eat ancient things on weekdays can teach such a ***, first Wang Aiqing, and now Zhang Aiqing. Emperor Xuanhua was in a happy mood.

"You get up, we just said that whoever the butterfly stays on in the painting will win the first place, and today's first prize is Miss Zhang. Empress Chen announced.

When all the women heard this, their hearts were full of thoughts.

Tong Yingxuan didn't feel good in her heart, she tried her best to please the queen, but she didn't expect to be easily compared by Wang Shuwan, and she didn't expect that Zhang Yanyu could win the first place.

Han Ling'er was also jealous of the fire in her eyes, she was still complacent when she guessed the topic of today's queen's mother, but she didn't expect to fall step by step in the painting art, and she never thought that it was Zhang Yanyu who came out on top, and she was very unconvinced in her heart, but she didn't dare to make a mistake in front of the emperor and queen.

When the men's guests saw Queen Chen release butterflies, they all stopped talking, waiting for whose painting would become the first prize today.

After hearing the queen's announcement, Xiao Yunfei's mouth opened wide in surprise: "I didn't expect Miss Xiahou to give such a good opportunity to others, cousin, what do you mean by her?"

Xiao Xinrong replied this time rarely: "Fame and fortune are light." ”

Xiao Yunfei shook his head and said disapprovingly: "How can she, a girl who has not yet been out of the cabinet, be indifferent to fame and fortune, shouldn't she rush to be in the limelight......?

Suddenly he paused and said, "Isn't there a banquet for Niangniang?" I will definitely find an opportunity to ask her later. ”

Xiao Xinrong was too lazy to take care of the boring behavior.

Zhang Yanyu can come out on top, Xiahou Shuang is not surprised, the method she came up with will definitely work, but she has a lot of things to do in this life, so let others do such a showy thing.

After Empress Chen announced, she smiled and said to Emperor Xuanhua: "Since Your Majesty has rewarded Miss Wang, this palace has to ask for a prize for today's top prize." ”

"Well, it should be, come on, show Miss Zhang a reward!" With the order of Emperor Xuanhua, Gonggong Hong, the chief of the inner house, walked up to Zhang Yanyu with a plate: "Miss Zhang, take the reward and thank you." ”

Zhang Yanyu hurriedly knelt down and thanked her, and then picked up the jade pendant on the plate. The jade pendant is carved with the appearance of two swimming carp, the jade is warm and delicate, and it is not ordinary at a glance.

The queen's heart moved, this jade pendant has always been rewarded by royal daughters-in-law, could it be that the emperor intends to make Zhang Yanyu his daughter-in-law?

But the emperor didn't make it clear, and Queen Chen also pretended to be confused, and rewarded some jewels according to the emperor's wishes.

All the concubines and concubines were rewarded when they saw the emperor, and they also looked at the rewards.

Zhang Yanyu was ignorant, she didn't expect that she would become the top prize, let alone that there were so many benefits in the first place, and she was overjoyed beyond words.

After the end of the flower viewing party, Empress Chen held a banquet in the Hundred Flowers Palace to entertain all the talented and beautiful women.

There are two places in the east and west, and the ladies are covered by bead curtains, which can avoid suspicion and do not hinder communication.

Empress Chen is obviously in a good mood today, and she frequently raises her glass, although it is a fruit wine with a low degree, but she is a little bit good after drinking too much.

Xiahou Shuang felt a little dazed in her head, got up and left the table and went outside to breathe.

The Hundred Flowers Palace is built on the water, and the water is curved and paved with pontoon bridges that lead to the outside.

Xiahou Shuang walked around the neighborhood at will, because there was a palace banquet, the palace maids and eunuchs were busy in the banquet, and it was a lot more deserted outside.

When he was about to go back, his body turned a little sharply and stepped on the corner of his skirt, so that he was about to fall, and his cold waist was covered by the scabbard.

Waiting for Xiahou Shuang to stabilize his figure, he looked at it and saw that it was Xiao Xinrong, the second prince.

Hurriedly saluted and said, "Thank you to the second prince for reaching out to help." ”

A cold person next to him interjected, "My cousin is helping Miss Xiahou for the second time, how can Miss Xiahou be grateful?"

You don't need to look at it to know that the owner of the voice must be Xiao Yunfei, the son of Xiao Shizi.