Rebirth of the scholarly lady

Chapter 391 The Flower of the Night

If you had to wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival, the time would be too long, so Nan Surou asked the queen to find an excuse to hold a night banquet, under the guise of praying for blessings, and prepared to do something bad.

It was a night of bright full moon and little need for lanterns.

Because it was a sacrificial and blessing event, the emperor would definitely be there. Most of the concubines did not regard this event as serious, but instead regarded it as an excellent opportunity to compete for favor.

Nan Surou stood on the left side of the empress, with a downcast look on her face. She was so quiet and humble. Because of her appearance, many people would misunderstand her as a weak person.

The concubines who are not familiar with Nan Surou all regard her as an unimportant existence.

This time the sacrificial ceremony was a serious gathering. The princes, nobles, dignitaries and female relatives all came to watch the ceremony, and some noble daughters even joined the ranks of dancing to worship the sky.

The performance order of talented women and concubines is determined by the result of the lottery, and Concubine Lian got the middle number.

The appearance of the altar looks no different from other altars in the capital. The altar is round and surrounded by a ring-shaped night lotus pond.

The emperor and the empress sat together on the grandstand with the widest view, while Nan Surou stood beside the empress, silently bathing in the moonlight.

Xing Xingxiu followed the Ninth Prince Tuoba Lian into the palace to observe the ceremony, watching Nan Surou's petite figure that almost melted into the night from a distance, and fell into a ecstasy and trance.

Tuoba Lian also looked at Nan Surou, but there was a dim light in the depths of his eyes.

Suddenly, the prince's inappropriate voice sounded beside the two, "That girl..."

The prince's voice was a little gnashing of teeth, as if he had a problem with Nan Surou, and Xingxiu quickly shifted his consciousness to other objects.

The crown prince tugged on Tuoba Lian's sleeve like those backyard girls gossiping: "Ninth brother, look, the queen mother dotes on her so much that I can't even let her stand in that kind of place!"

Tuoba Lian frowned suddenly, he didn't want to talk about Nan Surou with the crown prince, so he sniffed quickly, and then changed the subject, "Brother crown prince, this fragrance..."

"It seems to be the smell of lotus." Xingxiu who was on the side responded to him.

As if to praise the brilliance of the moonlight, the faint night lotus exudes a bright air mixed with the brilliance of the moonlight.

A wonderful scene appeared.

"Wow—"

Exclamations erupted one after another from the audience.

Before the dance on the stage started, something happened in the lotus pond that night.

Because, around the altar, finely divided snow-white brilliance lit up.

And that brilliance is not a light source, but a flower.

The night lotus buds in the darkness bloomed with gorgeous petals, and the brilliance emanated from the inside of the flower, as if it was a water lily of the night that radiated its own light.

Seeing this scene, the queen glanced at Nan Surou with satisfaction.

Nan Surou smiled without a trace, this is a quack trick that Nan Surou learned from sending Song Ruoshui - to shine the flowers of the night by herself.

These are all used to scare those ignorant people. The crystals shining in the dark are just some luminous powder accompanied by afterimages of flowers, combined with the means to make flowers bloom.

The gorgeous life of magical flowers is inlaid under the altar, and the light spots describe the beautiful spiral when blooming.

Due to the dazzling brilliance one after another, everyone's trance eyes seem to have entered a dream.

Unknowingly, time was passing by, and then, the altar came to life in the dance of the woman...

With that opening scene where the sparkling flowers bloom automatically, the ordinary dance loses its original luster.

Any vulgar dance steps would tarnish this sacred scene, and everyone immediately felt that the dance on stage was boring.

Everyone watched solemnly, and the atmosphere gradually became tense until Concubine Lian appeared on the stage.

The clear music that is as seductive as the moonlight echoes in the darkness.

Concubine Lian's dancing steps are not special, what's special is that as soon as she appeared on the stage, there was a strange fragrance in the air, as if the surrounding flowers were frozen, and the dancers who danced with it were actually there. Beautifully shaped, flapping butterfly.

The spectators couldn't help but gasped in amazement.

The falling moonlight shone on Concubine Lian Yuebai's palace attire, and the light disintegrated and shattered on her body, while the butterflies with luminous powder on their wings seemed to be spirits that had condensed the moonlight. dancing.

No matter how clever a person is, he can't write down that delicate and beautiful feeling with a wonderful pen.

This is a beautiful and dreamy scene.

However, at this time, no one thought that such a beautiful scene was the prologue of a nightmare.

But for a moment, there was a terrifying sound of "buzzing buzzing" under the night sky. The sound made people's hairs stand on end, and it directly reminded them of a fierce bee swarm.

Everyone looked around nervously, looking for the source of the voice.

The moonlight was bright, and everyone witnessed with their own eyes a bunch of dark unidentified flying creatures gathered in groups, gathered from nowhere, rushing towards Concubine Lian in the center of the altar like a storm.

"what--"

With a scream, Concubine Lian seemed to be blocked by something, and her graceful movements stopped suddenly, replaced by panicked dodging movements.

And then……

"Help me—"

Some nobles who were closer to the altar stood by the water, and were scared out of their wits by the snake or something else that suddenly crawled out of the water.

Immediately, there were screams one after another, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

The emperor's face turned ashen for a moment, and he said angrily, "What's going on?"

This scene was very frightening, even though the Empress was already mentally prepared, she was also terribly frightened. She couldn't help turning her head to look at Nan Surou, but she saw that the other party was astonished, as if she was also terribly frightened Qing, if she hadn't known that all of this was planned by Nan Surou, the queen would have been deceived by her appearance.

Unexpectedly, the riot was contained after Deng Bingxian, the emperor's eunuch in charge of the case, led people to pull Concubine Lian off the altar.

Everyone was secretly guessing whether Concubine Lian did something that offended the gods, so she got retribution when she went to the altar.

Because of the dramatic opening and the magical prologue, everyone began to feel suspicious in their hearts at this moment.

Concubine Zhang De refused to perform the dance on the grounds that she was not fit to perform at the altar. Seeing Concubine Lian's distress now, she couldn't help covering her lips with her long sleeves. From a distance, she seemed to be afraid of something. She seemed to be frowning, and her fragrant shoulders were trembling. In fact, her uncontrollable smile was hidden under the sleeves.

Deng Bingxian is a very efficient person. After a short time, he "suppressed" those unknown things, and hurriedly came to the emperor to report: "Your Majesty, when the lotus concubine performed the dance, for some reason, it attracted countless poisonous insects." , the servant has already ordered people to capture those poisonous insects, and has already controlled them..."

Nan Su covered her lips softly, and the corners of her lips curled up imperceptibly.

(End of this chapter)