Chapter 417: virtuous king

Chapter 417 The Worthy King

"The Empress is pregnant. I will help Zhang Luo for today's flower show. Ladies, move on. Let's sit in the Qianqiu Pavilion for a while, drink tea, and chat. If any girl is interested, Let's have some fun, let's judge each other, it's the best, the empress has even prepared the prizes."

The concubine is also a concubine, and the royal family respects the rules. Even if it is Concubine Yun who is the main one today, the prizes for posting posts are all given by the empress, which is also a respect for these noble ladies.

Chengrui Pavilion and Qianqiu Pavilion face each other. On the Qianqiu Pavilion, the partitions on all sides are opened, and you can see the princes in the opposite Chengrui Pavilion, and the princes are naturally aware of the movement here.

Huihe was still glaring at Xie Zhiwei, before Concubine Yun said to start, a court lady came up and whispered in Concubine Yun's ear, Concubine Yun immediately smiled, and hurriedly said, "Please!"

After a while, Zheng Jingshuang and a woman in a bright yellow dress came over. The woman had an oval face, willow-leaf eyebrows, and a pair of apricot eyes that were extraordinarily bright, like black crystals embedded in white mercury. After the two saluted, Concubine Yun gave up her seat.

Zheng Jingshuang explained, "I was going to pick up Sister Jiang. On the way, I met Beiqi's envoys who came to Beijing and blocked the Imperial Street. I had to make a detour, which was a bit late."

Concubine Yun said with a smile, "It's okay, this flower show has just begun, since you two came late, let's start with you, we said we want to show off our talents!"

The noble ladies are going to show their talents, naturally they will not sing and dance like those girls in the yard.

Zheng Jingshuang smiled and stood up, "Then let me show you a set of sword skills, and everyone should not be disgusted."

She said it very humbly. After accepting a flower branch handed over by the waiter, the gesture was very extraordinary. After dancing a set of swordsmanship, the clothes were seamless, and the water could not be splashed, but it was also extraordinary.

"good!"

On the other hand, Chengruiting applauded first, Zheng Jingshuang glanced there, blushing with embarrassment, she just came, not knowing that there was actually someone sitting at Chengruiting, and handed the flower branch to The servant, walked up to Xie Zhiwei and sat down, and asked in a low voice, "What's going on today?"

Xie Zhi smiled and said, "You don't know anything, why did you come here?"

Zheng Jingshuang is the only daughter of the eldest princess of Dagon, a compatriot of the same mother as the puppet emperor. She has never had a good face towards the current emperor. She only gets closer to Concubine Yun Gui, so naturally she will not marry her daughter into the palace.

"You'll find out later." Xie Zhiwei shook her hand. Next to her, Zhang Qinghan saw it, felt a little sad, lowered her eyes for a while, and forced away the sore feeling in her eyes, and then looked at the piano playing in the field again. woman.

Zheng Jingshuang introduced this woman to Xie Zhiwei, "It's Jiang Yijun, the daughter of Jiang Yuelun, the newly appointed Minister of War."

Speaking of which, when Concubine Yun Gui asked her to enter the palace today, she specially went to bring Jiang Yijun into the palace, for fear that Jiang Yijun would feel strange and uneasy on this occasion.

Jiang Yijun, Xie Zhiwei had never heard of it, but when she saw the way Concubine Yun looked at Jiang Yijun, she understood that this was Concubine Yun's favorite daughter-in-law.

Sure enough, after Jiang Yijun finished playing the song, Concubine Yun Gui took off the jade pei from her waist and gave it to Jiang Yijun, "My good boy, I finally brought you to Beijing. After the settlement is settled, when you have free time, go to the palace with your mother to see me."

All the girls are not stupid, seeing Concubine Yun's behavior, they understand what's going on, and they look at Jiang Yijun with a look of displeasure, but Jiang Yijun is very handsome, saluting calmly, neither humble nor overbearing, neither impatient nor impatient , took Yu Pei, and returned to his seat with a leisurely demeanor.

Xie Zhiwei also said hello in his heart!

Next, Concubine Zheng Rong’s niece, Zheng Anya, stood up and looked at Xie Zhiwei provocatively, “Miss Xie, can I ask Miss Xie to talk with me?”

Xie Zhi was taken aback for a moment, she smiled slightly, and looked into Zheng Anya's eyes, "Miss Zheng, I'm sorry, the princess doesn't want to talk with you today."

Whether it is a win or a loss, Xie Zhiwei's reputation in Go today is helping Zheng Anya, a little-known character, to increase her popularity. Zheng Anya knows it, and Xie Zhiwei also sees Zheng Anya's intentions.

Concubine Zheng Rong was very upset, she never expected that Xie Zhiwei would be so rampant in front of her, daring to embarrass her Zheng family.

"That's really a pity, I still want to ask Miss Xie a thing or two."

Xie Zhiwei thought for a while, and said, "Who did Miss Zheng learn her chess skills from?"

"Of course it's my father!" Mentioning father, Guozijian offered sacrifices to Zheng Tonghe, Zheng Anya and You Rongyan, with expressions of pride that couldn't be concealed.

Xie Zhiwei said "Oh", "If my princess remembers correctly, your father learned from my grandfather, and my chess skills were also enlightened by my grandfather."

All the girls were in an uproar, so, what is Zheng Anya's idea? Zheng Anya's complexion turned into a pig liver color in an instant, she glanced at Xie Zhiwei with hatred in her eyes, and sat back in her seat.

Concubine Yun Gui was surprised. Seeing Concubine Zheng Rong's complexion was very bad, she smiled and raised her hand to signal to continue.

Two more women came up to perform calligraphy and painting, presumably because they didn't care much about the princes, they were quite well-behaved, and there was nothing outstanding about them.

Concubine Yun is naturally indifferent, she has already taken a fancy to her daughter-in-law anyway, no matter what these girls think, it has nothing to do with her, she just sits and drinks tea with peace of mind.

Concubine Zheng Rong and Concubine Jing, however, couldn't help but glance over at the girls, everyone seemed to be happy, yet everyone was dissatisfied.

Following the sequence, it was Cui Nanjia's turn. She didn't want to be married to the royal family, and she didn't intend to flatter her, so she just wrote the word "Spring". Free and easy, everyone couldn't help but applaud.

"Sure enough, it is the origin of the Cui family's family studies. This word not only has the character of Shen Zhi, but also the connotation of Mr. Cui Shu, Mr. Cui. It is really extraordinary!"

Concubine Zheng Rong glanced at her son, a little dissatisfied, but she naturally wouldn't shame him in front of so many people, and couldn't help but smile, "This handwriting is comparable to those Hanlin scholars."

As he spoke, he took off a red gold filigree bracelet on his wrist and gave it to Cui Nanjia.

Cui Nanjia didn't want it, but she had to, and she had to thank you happily.

Xiao Xun looked at the third prince with dissatisfaction. Xiao Xun, the brother of the third emperor, knew him very well. He seemed to be devoted to reading, and recently he was working as the editor-in-chief of "Lv Li Da Ji", as if he had no ambition for the throne. It looks like he does not form a party or seek personal interests, but in fact, his behavior has enjoyed a high reputation among literati and students, and he has won the title of "Wise King".

If Xiao Changye were allowed to join the Cui Xie family, with the prestige of the Cui Xie family among scholars, then Xiao Changye would be like a tiger with wings added.

Xiao Changxuan naturally saw this too, but he was not in a hurry, and kept his eyes on Xue Wanqing. He told Qing'er that if Qing'er behaved well today, he would go to the empress to ask the queen to give Qing'er to him When the concubine.

As long as Qing'er becomes his main concubine, is he afraid that he won't be able to overwhelm Xiao Xun's main concubine? In the future, if Qing'er goes to Xie's house again, who would dare to show her face?

It was Xue Wanqing's turn. Seeing her standing up, all the girls were incredulous. Didn't they say today that only girls with a grade four or above are eligible to attend? The Xue family lost even their titles, and Xue Shipeng is still imprisoned in the Imperial Prison, how could Xue Wanqing get in?

Everyone's eyes are not kind, Xue Wanqing naturally felt it. However, she also looked down on these women in her heart. She usually looks dignified and gentle, but when it comes to fighting for her husband, she is like a tigress, without any shame.

Xue Wanqing saluted generously, "I will perform a set of sword dance for everyone, big cousin, your piano is the best, can you please accompany me?"

After Xue Wanqing finished speaking, she looked at Xie Zhiwei provocatively. As a big cousin, she likes to pretend to be noble on weekdays. Today, she was sitting on the side purely as if she was watching a show. Xue Wanqing deliberately named Xie Zhiwei to see if Xie Zhiwei dared to Don't dare to answer?

Huihe looked at Xie Zhiwei with great interest, and said loudly, "Don't you know that among the noble girls in the capital, no one can compare with our Princess Duanxian when it comes to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

(end of this chapter)