Chunman Palace

Chapter 23

On the emperor's birthday, lanterns and festoons were displayed, officials presented gifts, and officials of all levels came to congratulate them in python robes. For a while, the royal hall was full of people, and various brocade boxes and wooden boxes were presented in a riot of colors, and words of congratulations overflowed the hall.

Xuan Yin looked very interested.

The orange lights were low, illuminating the red glow at the banquet, and the concubines and princes and ministers sat on both sides of the hall in front of the hall, drinking wine and wine, and it was very lively.

In front of everyone, there are ring cakes, jujube towers, and various fruits arranged on gold plates and silverware, a wine pot inlaid with rubies and golden flowers, and steamed meat and eggplant steaks are all available.

Under the busy palace banquet, Li Wei took care of the books read out at the entrance ceremony, and led the officials and princes to sit on the seats. After waiting for the number of people to match the list, he ordered the song and dance program to start.

Empress Liu Xunyan was dressed in auspicious clothes, with emerald crowns adorned on her head, and the golden phoenix embroidered Dan was dazzling and noble. Seeing Xuan Yin in a good mood, she raised a glass and offered wine at this moment.

"The concubine wishes the emperor forever and ever, long live Changan."

"Okay." Xuan Yin smiled lightly and raised his glass to drink together.

First of all, there is music in the hall to add to the fun. The music is like a hundred birds singing in harmony.

According to the old routine every year, before the banquet, the band will be invited to play a piece of dragon and phoenix harmony, followed by performances of dozens of songs and dances prepared in advance, and it will not stop until the banquet is over.

After many women in pink shirts came up to the hall, King Rongning called Li Wei and whispered something in his ear.

After the reply, Xuan Yin stopped the singing and dancing in the music hall first, and asked King Rong Ning: "What suggestion does the emperor have?"

"Brother Huang, the dance music in the band is roughly the same every year. Is it going to be different this year?"

The Liguo envoy nodded and said, "This song is the same as in previous years, it's really boring. Since the Holy Spirit is celebrating a new year, it's natural to listen to some new songs and watch some new dance music."

King Rongning got close to the envoy from the country.

Xuan Yin gave an inaudible "hmm", and then said with no joy on his face, "Sure."

The envoys from the country clapped their hands, and a woman in red outside the hall stepped forward slowly. The dress was on her body, but her arms and navel were exposed, which caused an uproar. A total of ten golden bells were tied on the woman's braided hair. With one step, a clear and crisp sound resounded from the whole body, which was very strange.

Chang Xiuru looked disgusted, covered her lips and said: "Sister Mu, look! Who is this, she should show some face."

"Maybe it's an exotic style." Mu Pingting had seen this kind of accessories and clothing in the book, but it was the first time she saw it with her own eyes, and she still couldn't believe it.

"Wearing or not wearing those clothes makes no difference, I'm really not ashamed!" All the concubines also criticized one after another.

"Concubine Min, do you think—" A concubine looked at Concubine Min fawningly.

Concubine Min stared at the woman in the hall with a gloomy expression, without saying a word.

It was a woman from her clan.

It has only been here for a few years, and the clan is so impatient to present newcomers, is it possible that she needs to help these newcomers and wait for her position to be replaced?He's really greedy in what he does.

She would never allow her own people to enter the palace to compete with her for favor.

Concubine Min thought angrily, picked up the cup and drank it down.

The envoy from the country introduced: "Your Majesty, this girl's name is Xi Lanxi..."

Before she could finish speaking, Xuan Yin waved her hand on the high seat to let the foreign woman step aside first.

"It's so intentional, I know it, it's just that such a wonderful dance music should be suppressed, so that it can show its wonder." After finishing speaking, Xuan Yin winked at Li Wei.

Li Wei led the order to go out, and then brought in a woman wearing a colorful satin dress and powder gauze.

King Rong Ning looked at the woman from head to toe, frowned thoughtfully, and faced the envoy from the country.

"Your Majesty, this is a dance music specially contributed by the owner of the Listening Music Workshop. Please enjoy it, Your Majesty."

Xuan Yin straightened his body and said: "Yes."

The music started.

The woman lifts her steps and dances around, with a crisp sound, her hands are gradually raised upwards, and during the dance, her hands are staggered to caress the flowing light around her body, and the colorful clothes change colors in the light, revealing a lotus pink woven silver shirt, like butterfly wings and small wings. Flying and dancing, the brilliance is overflowing.

Everyone has never seen such a strange dance, and they are gradually obsessed.

At this time, the woman suddenly untied the colorful dress on her body, and saw that she was wearing a goose-yellow gilt dance skirt with tulle covering both sides of the sleeves, which was similar to that of Xi Lanxi before.

Seeing this, Concubine Min frowned slightly.

The music is getting faster and faster, and the woman's dancing posture also changes accordingly. She picks up the waist ribbon with her slender hands and waves it in the air, stands up with her feet and slightly bends her waist, and then jumps up suddenly.

The woman jumped up again and again, the exposed skin on the wrist and neck presented a stunning scene, shining a faint golden light under the light, and the dancing body whirled like a flash of light for a moment.

After the dance was over, the woman slowly closed her posture.

Xuan Yin was overjoyed, clapped his palms and said: "Okay. Before this dance, it was like a butterfly dancing, and after it, it was like a bird frightened by the sky. That's right. What do you want?"

The woman in the hall saluted generously and said: "This concubine is fortunate to be pleased by the emperor, and I have nothing else to ask for."

Xuan Yin was startled when he heard this, raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? I don't know which concubine it is?"

"Back to the emperor, my concubine is..." The woman put her hand on her earlobe and lifted the veil.

Why is this voice so familiar?Xuan Yin took a careful look at the woman, her eyebrows and eyes were very familiar, like the person who caught Liuying with him that night.

"Wait." Xuan Yin immediately stopped the person from moving, and said to the Master's puzzled eyes, "I remember you covered your face with a fan the first time you saw me, and you covered your face with a dance today, it's mysterious... you don't have to Take off your veil and come to me."

In fact, Xuan Yin was worried.

Although Lin Qingyu's dance clothes are not revealing, the veil on the arms and abdomen is very thick, and only the skin on the wrists and neck are exposed, but if she wants to show her true face in public, it may make people secretly remember and leave a lot of trouble.

Lin Qingyu responded, walked to Xuan Yin and sat down to pour wine.

He raised his eyes to look at Li Zhen, and Li Yuan immediately said knowingly: "The girl from the country please come forward and perform the dance."

The foreign woman named Xi Lanxi had a troubled expression on her face, and she did not come to the palace for a long time.

King Rong Ning looked a little unhappy, and asked in a low voice: "What are you waiting for, why don't you go up?!"

Xi Lanxi stretched out her hand and shied away: "This, no."

Xuan Yin had already seen the appearance of the two of them from the seat, and thought that the girl was timid and did not dare to come forward to perform the dance, so she said: "Didn't I just agree to let the girl dance again later, why, do you not want to dance anymore?" ?”

"Your Majesty, it's not that I don't want to dance, it's just that the streamer dance I'm about to dance has already been danced by the concubine next to you. I really don't dare to overestimate my capabilities." Xi Lanxi spoke with a little self-effacing meaning.

In fact, if she wanted to dance, she would not be inferior, but she didn't want to make the same dance music.

What's more, this streamer dance can only be learned by Wang Gui from her clan.

The envoy from the country couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, I wonder how your concubine learned our dance?"

(End of this chapter)