Queen's scheming

Chapter 52 Plum Appreciation Banquet ([-])
Because the little prince of Chuyue Kingdom has never seen a snow scene, the people of Shen Qing Yiming Palace deliberately carved out a corner of the imperial garden. The snow there has not been cleaned, and it has been snowing intermittently for three consecutive days, and the snow has accumulated a lot. At this time, when the garden was opened, some palace people swept out the bluestone brick path for walking, and snow plums were folded on both sides, and various bonsai were cut by craftsmen, and placed aside, it looked neat and clean.

Li Tianyou chatted and laughed with the little prince of Chuyue Kingdom and some courtiers, and Shen Qingyi led the harem concubines to greet everyone.

After exchanging pleasantries, the little prince of Chuyue Kingdom presented the gifts that his mother gave to the concubines in the harem.Shen Qingyi took the lead to return the gift, and gave a milky white gilt silver brocade box, opened the lid of the brocade box, and found a transparent glazed mirror, inside the mirror was filled with white snow, and only four red plums were placed at the four corners, which looked delicate and pretty. But, under the candlelight, the white snow was shining brightly, which surprised the little prince.

Concubine Duanjing presented an ivory folding fan in a regular manner. On the top of the fan was Dali's unique woven golden brocade, and on it was a Yaohuang peony in full bloom, which was very exquisite.Concubine Xue Gui sent a pair of famous pictures of fishing in the snow, which was considered a full gift.

When I arrived at Shen Qingwan's place, I saw her getting up gracefully, her faint pearl pink moonlight skirt fluttering slightly, Yingying bowed down and said, "There is really nothing special in the concubine's palace, so the concubine has prepared songs and dances for the prince, and please invite me Prince forgive me."

The little prince was a bit bored, except for the brocade box that Shen Qingyi gave to make his mother see the snow, the gifts from the other concubines were all ordinary items, which could also be obtained in Chuyue Kingdom, so the more Later, the little prince became more impatient, and now he heard that he could watch singing and dancing, so he readily agreed.

Satisfied, Shen Qingwan stepped back and went to prepare herself.

"Why has it been so long, and the people from the House of Internal Affairs haven't come yet?" Shen Qingwan said impatiently, using the lid of the tea cup that she drank alone under the moon with indigo glaze, skimming the foam from the tea leaves.

Yumei's thoughts were all on Shen Qingwan's cup of tea, she stood there in a daze, and didn't answer in time.

Seeing that no one answered her, and seeing Yumei's thoughtful expression, Shen Qingwan immediately pouted and said, "Xianglan, go and have a look."

Only then did Yumei regain her senses, and hurriedly said, "Let's go as a servant, Miss Xianglan is not familiar with the House of Internal Affairs..."

Before Yumei could finish her sentence, Shen Qingwan gave her a glare and interrupted, "She doesn't know where she is, so she just stays in Xuehua Pavilion and doesn't need to go out?" Let Xianglan go.This group of people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the most down-to-earth. Seeing that they are not favored these days, they have broken with Shen Qingyi, and there is no money to earn on weekdays. They are lazy and slack one by one, so that today they get Li Tianyou's favor. Favored, I will definitely clean up these ignorant slaves.

Yumei gave Xianglan a few pointers and told her the exact location of the House of Internal Affairs. She turned around and saw that Shen Qingwan had already drunk half a cup of tea.I don't know if it was because Shen Qingwan was too anxious, or because of some other reason, the early winter was cold, but Shen Qingwan was getting hotter and hotter, and there were thin traces of sweat all over her body. Her underclothes were soaked.

Shen Qingwan took a deep breath, and stepped forward to look at the clothes. She had prepared so carefully for so long, she must be the first one.When she saw the watery red dance dress, Shen Qingwan asked in surprise, "In the palace, isn't the empress only allowed to wear red? Why..."

"Returning to Miss Jieyu, the dancers in the palace can wear red when they perform at the banquet, and today is a banquet for the prince of Chuyue Kingdom. Disgusted, so the servants prepared red dance clothes." The little eunuch respectfully repeated what Yun Lu had just said to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Shen Qingwan frowned, and stretched out her hand to caress the gorgeous dance clothes. She liked red so much, but since entering the palace, not to mention the clothes, even a handkerchief, she couldn't use red. Today she can finally be blatant Use red.Shen Qingwan tirelessly tried on the clothes one by one, seeing the bright red ones taking off and putting on her body, she felt an inexplicable sense of excitement, which made her body even hotter.

In the end, under the impatient urging of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Shen Qingwan picked out an extremely thin water-red dance gown, and inside she wore a heart-cut collar apron with big red embroidered double-petal jasmine flowers. , the wide and large sleeves of the pipa are outlined with gold thread in the shape of peony flowers, filled with bright red silk threads, showing the state of peonies in full bloom, and the wide belt of snow-forged gold ties the slender waist tightly From it, several palace sash strings of red agate beads hang down. At the bottom of the palace sash hangs a small and delicate gilt bell, which makes a pleasant ding-dong sound as the lotus steps move lightly.

Shen Qingwan still used the ingenious method last time, the faint fragrance of jasmine slowly floated in the hall, behind the plain brocade screen, she cleverly moved her shadow, graceful like a frightened bird, graceful like a swimming dragon, dancing in the light gauze, like a shadow like a charm, Soft and boneless, with graceful posture, like plain white jasmine slowly blooming in the mountains, it is very attractive.When the sound of the music turned from melodious and soothing to fast and passionate, the screen was removed along with it, and Shen Qingwan was seen spinning rapidly, her red dance skirt bulging, as red as fresh blood, and the gold silk embroidery thread flowing like a circle of golden light A halo enveloped his body, and the golden bell tinkled, gradually emitting a strange tone as it rotated.

Concubine Xue Gui smiled slightly, and toasted Tang Zihan opposite her.

When Shen Qingwan appeared in a red dress, Shen Qingyi and Li Tianyou immediately turned their gazes to Prince Chuyue who was at the side.

Wang Ziben was still clapping his hands in response to the time, but when Shen Qingwan's beautiful figure appeared, he suddenly froze on the spot.The two guards beside him, with a slightly fairer complexion, quickly stood in front of the prince, while the other black-faced guard with a knife immediately drew his knife and pointed at Shen Qingwan.

All the concubines in the harem turned pale with fright, only Concubine Duanjing stabilized her mind, stood up and shouted, "Prince, what are you doing?" That's not bad.Mi Yurou was dressed in a lotus-colored brocade dress, and the thick snow-white fox fur at the top of the collar was trembling slightly with her breath, reflecting her pink and tender complexion, and her shiny cherry mouth was lightly pursed because of anger, her eyes glaring The little prince of Chuyue Kingdom said.

"Concubine Duanjing, don't be rude!" Shen Qingyi looked at Mi Yurou, shook her head lightly, and signaled her to calm down with her eyes.Then he walked up to the prince and said softly, "Prince, please don't blame me. It's because I didn't think carefully and didn't control the palace people well."

(End of this chapter)