The Emperor's Favorite: The Beauty Disturbs the World

Chapter 116 Mantis Catching Cicadas

Concubine Li frowned slightly, and reprimanded: "Gao Jieyu, don't mess around!"

"Your Majesty and the Empress didn't reprimand me, sister Li Concubine, please don't talk too much!" Gao Jieyu curled her lips, and gave Li Concubine a cold look, her face full of disdain.

Concubine Li has always been used to domineering, although the momentum is not as good as before, how can she bear this anger, peach cheeks said angrily: "Gao Jieyu made a slip of the tongue! Is this the attitude when talking to Bengong!"

Gao Jieyu let out a snort, she was very disdainful of this spoiled concubine, just about to speak, the queen laughed and said: "Shu'er is still young, sister Lifei, don't be as knowledgeable as her, come here, give Gao Jieyu is watching."

A few servants moved the bench to the empress's side, Gao Jieyu was proud to have the empress's support, she raised her face and sat on the bench.

Concubine Li was trembling with anger, Feng Lu at the side secretly tugged at her dress, signaling her not to act rashly.

Seeing that the palace banquet was full of the smell of gunpowder, Li Ye changed the subject and said, "Third brother, the concubines are talking about spiders as ingenious, so it's no fun if we just stay here, why don't we have some fun too!"

King Qi picked up a piece of crab roe from the table, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed and said, "What are you playing?"

Li Ye rolled his dark eyeballs and said, "Let's bet which concubine's spider has the densest web!"

King Ning nodded and smiled, "Interesting!"

King Qi hurriedly swallowed the crab roe, and the concubine Ji who was beside him peeled another one for him. He dipped the crab roe back and forth in the prepared juice and prepared to feast on it.

Li Longji said with a smile: "Fourth brother, don't patronize eating!"

Li Ye kicked him and shouted: "That's right, Fourth Brother is really a foodie!"

King Qi raised his head, with a piece of vinegar still sticking to the corner of his mouth, and looked at everyone stupidly.

Seeing this, the concubines covered their mouths and snickered, Li Ye patted his chest and assured him: "This year, my brother will win the bet against ordinary people!"

"Oh!" The Queen, Concubine Li and the others all stared at Li Ye who was shaking his head while drinking, not knowing why he was so sure.

Sitting under Concubine Li, Feng Lu covered her mouth with a smile and said, "How can His Royal Highness Xue be so sure that ordinary talents can win? Is it possible to be a prophet?"

Li Ye smiled and said, "It's very simple, because the spider in Chang Cairen's box was given by me!"

"That's right!" Everyone laughed.

Yu Zhaorong said calmly: "It seems that His Highness King Xue is very confident in the spider he found."

King Ning caressed his beard and said: "Pearls and jade are in front, this year this king will bet on Concubine Li to win!"

"Thank you, Your Highness Prince Ning!" Concubine Li smiled and stood up, gathered her clothes and bowed.

"It's your turn!" Li Ye elbowed King Qi, and King Qi hurriedly said, "I bet Gao Jieyu to win!"

After hearing this, Gao Jieyu stood up like a swallow and flew around, tilted her head and smiled, "Thank you King Qi!"

Xiao Qing, Zhang Jiuling and other ministers all wrote down the bets on the paper, handed them over to Gao Lishi, and Gao Lishi presented them to Li Longji.

After seeing it, Li Longji smiled at Chang Xi and said, "It seems that the support for your victory is the highest!"

Chang Xi lowered her head and smiled, "The ministers were selected as concubines because they believed in His Royal Highness Xue."

King Qi said with a smile: "That's natural, the ministers all know that the fifth younger brother is usually not doing business, but he is used to doing these strange things!"

Haha, the officials burst into laughter.

Li Ye didn't care too much, and said, "Third brother, what's the prize if the bet is agreed?"

Li Longji thought for a moment, and said loudly: "Whoever wins, I will give him Wu Daozi's "Picture of Sending the Son of Heaven" by Wu Daozi in Huae Building!"

"This is good!" Li Ye clapped his hands and praised.

The queen also jokingly said: "Your Majesty, the victor will be rewarded, and the last one will be punished!"

"What is the fine?" Li Longji also became interested and lowered his head in thought.

Li Ye laughed and said, "Let's punish him to go to the Taoist temple and invite sister Yuzhen back!"

"Yes!" Li Longji exclaimed, and said with a smile, "That stubborn girl Yuzhen gave me a headache when I saw it, so I punished the last person to go to Baiyun Temple and invite Yuzhen back to the palace!"

After thinking about it, everyone said that this punishment was difficult, but also fresh and interesting.

The queen smiled and said, "Your Majesty, let's start!"

Li Longji nodded, and Gao Lishi said loudly: "Shangxi Spider!"

A group of maids in uniforms of the same color filed in, forming a long queue, each holding a wooden box of a different style, exquisitely carved, and opening them one by one on the ten-foot-long wooden table.The seal of each wooden box is pasted with the title of the owner of the box.

"I'll take a look at the queen first!" Li Longji tore off the seal and gently opened the box, only to see a little gray spider weaving a web back and forth inside, the spider silk was fine and soft, entangled repeatedly, Weaving a dense net with very small intervals.

"Not bad!" Li Longji praised.

The rest of the concubines also whispered to each other and praised the empress's skillful weaving of the spider's web.

"Look at the concubine's!" Gao Jieyu jumped over Concubine Hua and Concubine Li, and raised her box to Li Longji. Concubine Hua looked at the queen helplessly, and saw that she had no intention of reprimanding Gao Jieyu at all. But Concubine Li clenched her veil tightly, if Liu Meiren didn't stop her, she would have spit on Gao Jieyu's face.

"Your is fine too! It's just...haha, this spider is as lazy as you!" Li Longji smiled and scratched Gao Jieyu's nose. Everyone looked into her box and saw a black spider. Small and medium spiders lazily lay across the web, and the distance between the two curved spider threads was extremely large.

Li Longji then said with a smile: "If this spider is released, it will definitely starve to death!"

"Your Majesty, you can tease Shu'er, Shu'er won't listen!" Gao Jieyu stomped her foot and said coquettishly.

Li Ye smiled and said: "It seems that the fourth brother must be the last!"

King Qi shook his head and said, "No, no!"

"Exactly! Who said we're doomed!" Gao Jieyu stroked a strand of long hair that fell from her hands, and said with a coquettish smile, "Your Majesty, take a closer look!"

"Huh?" Li Longji looked into the box intently.

"There seems to be words on this spider web!" Concubine Hua was surprised to find out.

"Really! Let me take a closer look!" Li Longji picked up the box and looked around. Sure enough, the prototype of a clever character was outlined with a fine net.

Chang Xi, who hadn't spoken for a long time, also praised: "Sure enough, there are words, it's a clever word!"

"How about it! Be convinced!" Gao Jieyu shook her little head triumphantly.

Li Longji smiled and said: "You little girl, you are usually weird, how come the spider you got is as weird as you?!"

Gao Jieyu stuck out her tongue, and said: "Your Majesty, is this a concubine who is praising your ministers, or is this concubine hurting your ministers!"

"Sister is ingenious, His Majesty will praise you of course!" The queen laughed.

Li Longji asked curiously: "How did this spider weave this clever word? Did you put anything?"

Gao Jieyu said: "Don't tell Your Majesty, unless you accompany my concubine to celebrate Qixi Festival tonight!"

"Okay! You girl!" Li Longji smiled dotingly.

Concubine Li said: "Your Majesty, look at Lier's!" Immediately after that, Concubine Hua, Huangfu Xianyi and other concubines opened their boxes one by one like Xianbao, and showed Li Longji all kinds of strange spider webs to enjoy.

Chang Xi knew that she had the lowest status, so she silently retreated to the end.

(End of this chapter)