With a delicate smile, the rough guy bows down for the beauty

Chapter 101
"Oh? Why did you suddenly think of this? It sounds fresh." Emperor Jianning said with a smile.

Empress Xu put on a virtuous look and spoke in a gentle voice.

"Speaking of it, it's not because of King Jin and the Seventh Prince's matter. The concubine looks at the two brothers who have no one who knows the cold and the hot around them. If they take this opportunity to see outstanding ladies, it will be a good marriage. That's right, and the emperor didn't intend to bestow a marriage for the great princess under King Yu's knees, so it won't happen, let's choose slowly when the princess arrives in Bianjing, the princess is also 16 years old."

This reason is very good. Jin Wang has lost his wife for more than two years, and he has not renewed his marriage. The seventh prince has also reached the age to talk about marriage, and the Princess Yu, who is about to be brought to Bianjing, is indeed the right age. .

In this way, it seems that Empress Xu cares about her children very much and is virtuous.

After hearing this, Emperor Jianning took Empress Xu's hand and patted it lightly.

"The empress has always been virtuous, and it is the good fortune of me and the people of the world. Then today, I will follow what the empress said, and I will also see how outstanding young men and women in Bianjing are!"

"Speaking of which, Miss Xu Jiasan, the empress's niece, is a well-known talented woman. She presented a song on the Mid-Autumn Festival before and won the Guqin rewarded by the emperor. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, I am afraid that she will meet her opponent in piano skills."

Concubine De, the biological mother of the Fourth Prince, added a sentence at this time with a smile.

As for who this chess opponent is, everyone basically knows in their hearts.

So for a while, many eyes gathered on Su Junning.

Su Junning secretly complained that Concubine De was as disgusting as her son, the fourth prince, and at the same time became vigilant in her heart, fearing that something might go wrong at the palace banquet today.

After all, she offended Xu Sini to death, and her plan to reward Xu Sini with the Queen's Lotus Banquet last time was cut in half by her. I'm afraid that even the Queen was offended, so we can't take it lightly today.

"Well, last time I listened to the song High Mountain and Flowing Water by the fourth girl of the Su family, I thought it was quite emotional, but I still want to listen to it again, where is the fourth girl of the Su family?" Emperor Jianning suddenly became interested.

In the crowd, Su Junning stood up generously and saluted respectfully.

"My daughter Su Junning, please greet the emperor."

"Excuse me." Emperor Jianning smiled and waved his hand, "I heard that you composed the score for your song "High Mountain and Flowing Water", I wonder if you can give a copy of this score to the musicians in the palace, I can also listen to it from time to time. "

"It's my daughter's honor that the emperor likes this piece of music. My daughter can write down the score right now and present it to the emperor." Su Junning said calmly.

After hearing this, Emperor Jianning winked to the side.

Wang Lianyi, who was waiting on the side, quickly ordered someone to fetch pens, ink, paper and inkstone.

In front of all the guests, Su Junning calmly rolled up her sleeves, picked up a pen and dipped in ink, and wrote the score of the high mountains and flowing waters.

After finishing writing, Wang Lianyi presented it to Emperor Jianning.

The latter is another appreciation after reading it.

"Wonderful, wonderful, this piece of music can be called the swan song of the ages. I really didn't expect it to come from the hands of a little girl like you. The writing is also good, with rounded lines, strong and powerful strokes, coherent and smooth strokes, and vivid charm. Daughter of the family!"

Listening to Emperor Jianning's sincere appreciation, everyone present looked at Su Junning with envy or admiration.

And there is no lack of jealousy and resentment or disdain in it.

Such as Xu Ruofu, Li Lingxi, and Xu Sini, as well as the Xie family and even the queen.

Concubine De shook the round fan, seeing the empress's face turned a little cold, she felt very happy.

She deliberately wanted to pull Su Junning out to anger Empress Xu, after all Empress Xu often spoke ill of the Fourth Prince in front of Emperor Jianning.

For this reason, the fourth prince has been married for many years and has children, but he has never had any serious errands to do, and he is still a bald prince, not even a county king.

However, Empress Xu's means of the city are naturally more than that superficial, and she quickly adjusted her mood, drawing Emperor Jianning's attention to the method she just proposed to add to the fun.

"The Su family is a scholarly family, and so is the Cui family. The daughter she gave birth to is naturally a talented woman. The emperor is so interested. I think you will have more good works when you young ladies and gentlemen discuss each other later. .”

"Well, the empress's method is very good, so how about a competition method?" Emperor Jianning put down the score and asked with a smile.

Empress Xu smiled, "The method of courtiers and concubines is simple. There are three types of competitions, calligraphy, painting, and poetry. All the princes and ladies present don't have to compete separately. They will be in one place and the emperor will choose the best one." For the top three works, the person who wins the first name will be rewarded, if someone can win the three crowns, then he will be rewarded generously, what does the emperor think?"

The words fell, and before Emperor Jianning could speak, Concubine De interrupted again.

"Hey, how can there be no comparison between the two pianos and chess? It stands to reason that Miss Xu San and Miss Su Fourth both have excellent piano skills. If they are not compared to the piano, wouldn't it be a little less interesting?"

"That's a bad word."

Concubine Xian, the birth mother of King Jin who had been silent for a long time, spoke.

Interrupting Concubine De's words without haste, said softly.

"Comparing piano and chess takes too long, and we can't have everyone together, so it's unavoidably boring. And just as Sister Defei said, Ms. Xu and Ms. Su have excellent piano skills, and it's a bit bullying to compare them. It's better to throw it away, otherwise who would dare to compare."

Concubine Xian was born in an ordinary family, but the third prince Jin Wang was born was excellent, but because of his son's excellence, Concubine Xian always acted as if she was attached to the queen, and King Jin also treated the prince in the same way.

Otherwise, Empress Xu and the prince might not be able to accommodate their mother and son.

So when Concubine Zi Xian spoke up, she naturally spoke to the queen.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Emperor Jianning was too lazy to watch the verbal dispute between the concubines, so he immediately stopped the debate.

"The queen's way of adding to the fun is good, and what the concubine Xian said is also reasonable, so let's do it this way. Those who win the second or third place will be rewarded by me, and the one who wins the first place can say what they want. How about that?"

"The emperor's idea is naturally good." Queen Xu smiled softly.

The young masters and ladies below all immediately started whispering.

There are no more than two kinds, one is not wanting to participate, and the other is wanting to stand out and stand out.

The ladies are also okay, mainly the young masters, they don't want to lose.

After all, this time it was a competition between men and women, if they were not compared by the girls, wouldn't it be embarrassing, and winning the top spot could show their face in front of the emperor, which would be of great help to their official career.

So the field is still very lively.

Among the crowd, Su Junning breathed a sigh of relief.

She has already seen that the Queen's move should be to praise Xu Sini, not to target her on purpose.

That's good, she really doesn't want to be a target.

After a while, just write and draw casually, and just perfunctory it, so I don't have half the thought of winning the lottery.

Let the scroll kings fight it out, Su Xiaosi just wants to lie flat.

Not long after, the queen ordered someone to bring up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Many tables were set up in the middle of the main hall for the princes and ladies to come up and write, and then Emperor Jianning read it.

(End of this chapter)