The fierce stepmother of the farm family, brought her cubs to get rich

Chapter 98 How do you want to compete?

The imperial palace is huge, and Gu Manxiu didn't know how many identical high walls she saw, and she didn't know how many identical stone paths she walked before she got into the main hall.

That's it, Jiang Yichen walks freely, as if he knows every road.

"so big"

Gu Manxiu looked at the resplendent hall and sighed, it really is the royal family, even the cups on the guest table are glass cups.

Not to mention the golden dragon carved on the big pillar, and the exquisite patterns painted in different colors on the top, there is no part that does not tell the majesty and beauty of this palace.

A lot of people came, and even more people came to say hello to Jiang Yichen. When Jiang Yichen was talking with others, Gu Manxiu obediently followed by, smiling decently, and didn't step forward to disturb him.

When those people came to talk to Jiang Yichen, they always looked at her from time to time, but they didn't say anything else, maybe they didn't dare to ask more.

After an hour, Gu Manxiu only felt that her face was going to freeze from laughing.

Although he was dealing with others all the time, Jiang Yichen always lowered his head slightly from time to time to talk to Gu Manxiu, handing her tea or pastries.

After a group of people passed by, Jiang Yichen finally relaxed for a short time, looked at the woman beside him who was a bit spirited and smiled and said, "Are you bored?"

Gu Manxiu nodded: "There are a lot of people who come to talk to you."

"After all, I'm not in the capital on weekdays, and it's hard for them to find me in the mansion."

"I have to take advantage of this time to find more words with me and build a relationship."

Taking advantage of people not paying attention, Jiang Yichen walked out of the hall with the pretty woman beside him, wandered around, and did not bring people back until the banquet was about to start.

After the banquet started, it was still very interesting. Gu Manxiu couldn't take his eyes off the beauties dancing in the center of the hall for a while.

Contrary to Gu Manxiu's imagination, the emperor is a majestic but gentle person, and his words are full of warmth for his children, family and country.

Princess Tai'an was beautiful and beautiful. When she came out, she glanced at the two of them intentionally or unintentionally, and then sat down beside the emperor with a smile.

The position next to the emperor is other than the queen.For a long time, the empress dowager or the prince did it, but Princess Tai'an walked towards that position calmly, which shows the importance of her position in the emperor's heart.

After the main dishes were served, Gu Manxiu felt that his trip was not in vain. He was the royal chef in the palace, and the dishes he cooked were really exquisite!
"Jiang Yichen!" Gu Manxiu whispered in shock, "This is delicious! Try it!"

There seemed to be light in the woman's eyes, but Jiang Yichen just smiled, lacking interest in it, perhaps because he was used to using his own chopsticks at home, Jiang Yichen didn't deliberately change the chopsticks when serving the woman.

"The food is not as delicious as your cooking." Jiang Yichen said leisurely: "The food in this palace has always been the same taste, not even the slightest bit compared to Miss Gu's."

Gu Manxiu blushed when she was told, the level of the dishes in the palace was obviously not up to her!

"You, don't talk nonsense!"

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the hall, which drew the attention of both of them.

The dancing girl in the center of the hall had already stepped back, and a small woman came up instead, and two maids carried Guqin in their hands.

"What is this?" Gu Manxiu asked curiously.

There are still solo shows?

"Every year, the officials' children will present some of their talents at the banquet." Jiang Yichen said: "If they are good, they will be rewarded by the emperor."

A compliment from the emperor is more straightforward than anything else, and the officials can also leave a different impression in the emperor's heart because of this.

With the sound of a piano, the hall fell silent.

This woman's hands are like human beings, slender and small, but the sound of the piano played is indeed as powerful as a drum!It's shocking to hear.

"No wonder." Gu Manxiu sighed after listening to a song: "I can play it for the emperor."

As if thinking of something suddenly, Gu Manxiu turned around and asked with a smile, "Can you play the piano?"

"Know a thing or two."

As soon as Jiang Yichen finished speaking, the man sitting in the high hall opened his mouth.

"That's right, which family are you the daughter of? You must have put in a lot of effort to play the piano so well!"

The woman did not panic, and after saluting, she said: "The little girl's name is An Ran, and my father is An Peiqing. Thank you, Your Majesty, for your appreciation."

"Okay, women from the An family are no weaker than men! Reward!"

An Ran's gestures were decent and generous: "Thank you, Your Majesty, An Ran."

After An Qianjin, many housekeeper disciples went up to perform, but Gu Manxiu found that most of them were women.

And during the performance, there will be contacts who propose contestants, so wonderful that Gu Manxiu didn't notice whether he was drinking tea or wine for a while.

After watching for a while, a familiar figure came up in the sight of the two.

"Miss Su Yao?" Gu Manxiu became interested: "What is she going to perform?"

Just after Gu Manxiu finished speaking, Su Yao in the center took the bow and arrow from her personal maid Qiu He.

archery?

This is new, and it was done by a woman.

Holding a bow and arrow in her hand, Su Yao opened her mouth slightly and said, "Little girl Su Yao, I have something to ask."

"Miss from the Su family." The emperor's eyes were full of interest and said: "Just say it."

Today's Holy Majesty loves archery very much, so he goes hunting almost every two months. At this time, he saw a woman who wanted to perform archery, so he was naturally interested.

"I heard that Ms. Gu's archery skills are extremely high. My daughter has never seen it before. I want to take this opportunity to compete with Ms. Gu."

Everyone was a little puzzled for a while.

"The Gu family? Isn't there only two young masters in the Gu family?"

"In addition to that Gu family, there is another Gu family in the capital?"

"I don't know."

Gu Manxiu was also confused at this time: there is actually a girl surnamed Gu.

Su Yao's words fell for a while, but no one came forward to agree.

Jiang Yichen frowned slightly, and looked coldly at Su Yao who was standing in the center of the hall.

The woman turned her head slowly, and smiled at the two of them: "Sister Gu Manxiu, would you like to fight?"

Gu Manxiu: ".???"

what? !

Miss Gu is calling me? !

Everyone's eyes were on Gu Manxiu for an instant, and she had no choice but to bite the bullet and stand up.

Jiang Yichen also stood up when she stood up, and said in a low voice: "You don't need to go forward, I will take care of you."

"Nothing." Gu Manxiu smiled at the people: "Master Jiang believes that I am."

Although he didn't know if Gu Manxiu could handle it, Jiang Yichen was still calmed by this smile.

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, he's just worried that the woman will get hurt.
Gu Manxiu stepped forward generously, saluted the emperor and everyone, got up and looked at Su Yao and said, "How does Sister Su Yao want to compete?"

Since you call me sister, I will naturally answer.

(End of this chapter)