The Biography of Concubine Xi of Yongzheng

Chapter 609
Yanhua thumped Yinzhen lightly angrily: "Your Majesty, be more serious! The Emperor has never cared about his own body, and the concubines are very worried, so... can the Emperor go to the Old Summer Palace to relax every month in the future? ?”

Yinzhen patted her on the back and comforted her: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about it. I just thought of a way. August [-]th is the Mid-Autumn Festival. When the time comes, I will let Zhang Tingyu bring that kid into the How about the palace? When the time comes, you will ask someone to dress up Xiaoxiao, that kid will definitely be tempted when he sees how beautiful our smile is..."

"Does Zhenlang want Xiaoxiao to use beauty tricks to win Zhang Ruoai's heart? What a bad idea! If Zhang Ruoai sees that Xiaoxiao looks good, he will be willing to be a son-in-law, but I'm not willing to let Xiaoxiao marry him. That kind of seriousness People must be ungrateful and ungrateful, in the future they won't get any better with Xiaoxiao, they will meet each other and love each other." Yanhua rolled his eyes at him and pouted dissatisfiedly.

Yinzhen froze for a moment, then tugged at her cheek helplessly: "I really can't do anything about you, you are always right."

But having said that, Yanhua is still planning to let Xiaoxiao learn a commendable skill in less than two months.

In the past, she was not good at singing or playing the piano, but she was still good at equestrianism and embroidery.It's good to laugh, but I'm not good at anything, except for making troubles, I can't do anything.This matter really gave Yan Hua a headache, and it was a headache.

"When she was in the Old Summer Palace, didn't she learn anything good at it?" Yanhua sent someone to call Yilan over. She had already passed the examinations of Xiaoxiao Poetry, Fu, Qin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting, and none of them were outstanding. Even if she got the table, she really couldn't do anything about it.

"Your Majesty, princess... the princess doesn't want to learn... besides... besides...besides, I don't want to force the princess to be filial to the queen, so..." Yilan wrinkled her small face, it was really embarrassing, the princess didn't grow up in learning anything, she also It's really helpless, it's really not her fault.

She thought hard, and finally suddenly thought of something, her eyes lit up: "Your Majesty, there is one thing the princess is very good at learning!"

Yanhua was overjoyed, and hurriedly opened her eyes: "What is it?"

Yilan looked around uneasily, and said three words hesitantly.

Yanhua's face froze, and she frowned and waved her hands again and again: "How can a princess do such a thing? How decent!"

Yilan moved her mouth and lowered her head aggrievedly.She also knows that is inappropriate, but the princess really has nothing good at it, so how can she answer it: "Your Majesty...Princess...Princess is just bold and likes to play...Slaves...Slaves really don't know Princess What are you good at..."

Yanhua rubbed her forehead, only to feel a severe headache.She waved her hands, and she didn't want to look at Yilan again, so she said in a deep voice: "Go down, go down, go back and call me Xiaoxiao. You can stop going to this Shang's study recently, hey... Lingxi, hurry up Give me a cup of tea to drink, I am too angry."

When I was in the residence, the other sisters would sing songs, play the piano or dance. Although she can't do everything, she has never felt as anxious as she is now.

Xiaoxiao will come soon, and it would be great if you don't have to be bored in the Shang study.That Zhang Ruoai showed her face all day long, and she got tired of watching it.

The masters often comforted her, saying that they had never seen the emperor love other princesses so much, so they kept persuading her to study hard, and not to disappoint the emperor's expectations of her.Smile and nod in front, but forget about it later.In the past, when she read a book, she could only understand half of it. Now she can already understand half of it. She feels that she is already good enough.

"On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, your Huang Ama will host a banquet for important ministers, and there will be many princes of the right age to participate. Your Huang Ama wants you to put on a performance, singing and dancing. But mother-in-law looks at you..."

"Er Niang, my child can sing. When I was in the Old Summer Palace, Huang Er Niang often asked the opera troupe to come in and sing operas for the child. The child can also... The spring is alluring, I love flowers and the wind is like a fan, and the willow The smoke is in formation. Wherever you pass, you can't tell the purple moth..." Xiaoxiao opened his mouth and sang a section of "The Palace of Eternal Life".

Yanhua was quite surprised, and said in a daze: "You...don't you know how to sing?"

"Emperor Niang said, this is sung by opera singers, and the child is a princess, so she cannot learn to sing, and she is not allowed to tell others that she can sing. Er Niang is not an outsider, so the child can sing for Er Niang. However, the child also Only these two sentences." Xiaoxiao poked her finger, feeling sorry for herself.

Yanhua nodded, indeed.A few days ago, she asked Xiaoxiao to sing a small order, but Xiaoxiao sang completely out of tune, so she thought that Xiaoxiao was just like her, a person who couldn't understand the rhythm.

"It's true that you shouldn't sing that kind of song in front of people. What else can you perform if you think about it yourself? Er Niang will give you a reference, and it will make your Huang Ama happy..."

Hearing this with a smile, he tilted his head and thought about it seriously.Apart from dancing with all the brothers and sisters in the imperial garden, she really hasn't performed anything decently for her Huang Ama, what should she do...

During the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th, important ministers such as Zhang Tingyu and Ertai were ordered to take their sons to the Old Summer Palace to celebrate the festival with the emperor.

Yinzhen asked Yanhua to hold a banquet at the Peony Terrace. Several ministers and the two princes, Hongli and Hongzhou, sat with Yinzhen on the east attic, and Yanhua and her family sat on the west attic far away. .There are long corridors on the east and west sides of the attic on both sides, which is convenient for watching the scenery outside and the movement in the middle of the yard. It is a good place for watching dances.

Because it is inconvenient to watch the singing and dancing in the middle courtyard in the main hall, no people are arranged to sit in the main hall.

A Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, the monarch and his ministers had fun together, and the conversation was very happy, very harmonious.In the middle of the banquet, Xiaoxiao who was sitting on the west attic suddenly quietly left the banquet, Lingxi and Yanhua whispered to her, telling her that the princess was going to perform.Yanhua nodded slightly, but she couldn't let go of her heart: "You went to take care of it, I'm really worried, if she falls, what should I do?"

She never thought that Xiaoxiao's dance would cause a sensation in the entire capital.

Xiaoxiao walked to the east attic in a regular manner, and gave Yinzhen a blessing in the middle of the courtyard: "Huang Ama, I want to envy you to dance, and chat to cheer up."

"Okay!" Yinzhen glanced towards the opposite side, far away, he couldn't see the expression on Yanhua's face clearly, but he was very happy in his heart, he believed that with Yanhua's ability, It must be able to train Xiaoxiao's dance very impressively.

After Xiaoxiao changed her clothes, she came out on stilts, but the hem of the skirt was very long, covering the stilts below firmly.There was one thing Yilan and Yanhua enjoyed talking and laughing well, and that was walking on stilts. At that time, Yanhua felt like swallowing a fly, feeling very weird, and didn't know what to say.

But Xiaoxiao still insisted on stepping on this thing to enter the stage, her small body stepped on the three-foot-long stilts, but she was as light as a swallow and as smooth as walking on the ground.Yanhua was really amazed when she saw it, and the wives around her and Hongli Hongzhou's daughters-in-law were also amazed, no one dared to say that the dignified princess played with such a lowly thing.

Xiaoxiao responded to Yanhua's request, and put a light veil on her nose and mouth, only a pair of bright eyes were exposed outside.

She trotted around the yard on stilts, as beautiful as flying through the clouds.

Everyone's eyes followed the little figure closely, and even Zhang Ruoai was stunned by her sudden difference.To be honest, when he just heard Xiaoxiao said that he was going to dance, he felt rather disapproving, but he didn't expect Xiaoxiao's dance to be so special, and it caught everyone's attention from the beginning.

However, one moment, Xiaoxiao was as gentle and ethereal as a celestial girl, but the next moment, she quickly got off the stilts, picked up a soft sword and danced the sword in the yard.It turned out that the dance in Xiaoxiao's mouth was a sword dance.

Although Xiaoxiao's dancing posture is not outstanding, her figure is light and soft, and the soft sword in her hand is also very suitable for her, and she never let go of it for no reason.

"Hmph, it's just mediocre." Zhang Ruoai sneered in her heart, but her eyes still couldn't help staring at the little figure.To be honest, he really didn't understand what was going on in this little girl's mind, and she kept saying that she wanted to recruit him as a son-in-law, but she never showed even the slightest liking for her.Either calling him a thief, or being a disciple, as if he was praised by everyone, he is nothing in her eyes.

"Okay!" Yinzhen took the lead in applauding, and everyone around him quickly followed suit.

Although Xiaoxiao's sword dance is not amazing, it is also remarkable. It can be seen that Xiaoxiao itself is a piece of material, it just depends on whether she is willing to learn it.If she hadn't been provoked by Yanhua and wanted to impress her Huang Ama, let Zhang Ruoai take a look at her by the way, and let him understand that he has no reason to look down on her, she would not have calmed down and learned this dance well.

Because of this dance, Xiaoxiao was passed down as a legend by several important ministers present, saying that she is a woman who does not give way to a man, and that she is a woman with a sword, a violin, and a heart.One spreads ten, ten spreads a hundred, and within a few days, the news that Yinzhen has a princess with outstanding courage and dancing skills has been widely spread.

This is for later.Besides, after Xiaoxiao danced that dance, the first thing she saw was the expressions on her Huang Ama and Er Niang's faces, they were very good, so she was very happy, not to mention how happy she was.Then, she looked at Zhang Ruo'ai. Zhang Ruo'ai's face was flat, and she didn't mean to praise, but she didn't show contempt either.

But after watching it with a smile, she was not happy, even her Huang Ama was applauding, why is Zhang Ruoai so picky!Isn't it just a weak Confucian scholar with a weak individual!She couldn't even pass the top three exams, how dare she dislike her in every possible way?Why!

I saw her rolling her eyes in a circle, then put away her soft sword, and gave Yinzhen a blessing: "Huang Ama, I haven't finished dancing this dance, but I need someone to talk to my son next." Let's cooperate. My son wants to invite Mr. Zhang's second son to come down for this cooperation, I wonder if Mr. Zhang dares?"

(End of this chapter)