The Emperor's Favorite: The Beauty Disturbs the World

Chapter 158 Jin Feng

This kind of dress made everyone's eyes bright, Li Longji smiled and said: "My cousin's dress today is really good, she is very thoughtful!"

Chang Xi accepted a blessing with a smile, and the white jasmine petals on her head trembled and swayed with her movements. Matched with Chang Xi's peerless appearance, everyone was mesmerized.

"Why did Wu Zhaoyi come so late? Don't you know that today is a grand event to bid farewell to the flower god?" Concubine Li was very annoyed when she saw that Chang Xi's dress had stolen her limelight, and she asked incredulously.

Hearing Chang Xi's jade teeth lightly opened, she said with a smile: "The concubine has finished grooming long ago, but on the way, I met two younger sisters from the family of Minister Sui, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and they were chatting happily together, so I missed the hour, please forgive me crime!"

"It's okay! I haven't seen you for a long time, so it's better to let it go!" Li Longji also subconsciously glanced at Xiao Yu, and when he saw him talking and laughing with Yuzhen, he felt relieved.

Everyone in the room didn't notice such a quick turn of eyes, except for the quiet and blushing Xiao Shi who noticed it and was puzzled.

Seeing that Chang Xi was so outstanding, the queen was also slightly dissatisfied, and hurriedly skipped His Majesty's words of praise, and continued: "Your Majesty, standing behind Wu Zhaoyi are the two daughters of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, don't you want to see her!" Before Li Longji could agree, Xiao Luzi, the prince in charge of the empress, reported, "Shangguan Mengyao, the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, has an audience!"

A woman in a pink palace dress and plum blossom makeup stepped forward to collect her clothes as a gift, and said with a smile: "Meng Yao sees Your Majesty!"

Seeing that the pink palace dress she was wearing was not embroidered with ordinary flowers, but an unnamed bird, Li Longji asked curiously, "What kind of bird is embroidered on you? It's so beautiful!"

"Back to Your Majesty, it's Qingluan!" Mengyao lowered her head slightly, her cheeks turned pink as if dyed with rouge, she was really cute.

Yu Zhaorong said with a slight smile: "The implication is auspicious!"

"Embroidery skills are also very unique!" Guo Shunyi continued.

Li Longji nodded, "What will happen?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Mengyao is good at playing the guqin." With her petite face and gentle voice, she is really evenly compared to the ladies in the palace.

"Very good!" Seeing Li Longji smiling and not saying a word, the queen obviously valued it very much, so she gave her a seat beside her.

Xiao Luzi saw that the audience with this girl was over, so he hurriedly shouted again, "Wei Er, the concubine daughter of Shangguan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, has an audience!"

Wei Er was very embarrassed by the word "concubine daughter" that was announced out loud!With a blushing face, he stepped forward under the burning eyes of everyone, saluted, and said in a trembling voice: "See Your Majesty, Your Majesty. May Your Majesty, Your Majesty, be forever happy and young!"

"Pfft!" Before the words finished, Liu Meiren laughed out loud, and Li Longji also had a smile on his lips, but the queen's face was rather ugly, and she forbeared not to attack.

Wei'er didn't know what she said was wrong, she stood there in a daze, like a frightened little animal.

Liu Meiren said casually: "You wish the empress to stay young forever, does that mean that the empress is already old?"

Wei'er was so frightened that she knelt down on the ground and quickly explained: "Your servant has no such intentions!"

"Then why keep youth forever?" Liu Meiren asked aggressively.

"No... the court lady means... yes!" Wei Er knelt on the ground and shook her head again and again, a strand of black hair fell from her complicated bun, which was very embarrassing on her chest.

Seeing this, her elder sister Mengyao hurriedly stood up from her seat, knelt down and said: "My sister is a concubine from a high family, she has never seen the world, please forgive me, Your Majesty and Empress!"

"When did this palace say she was guilty!" The queen uttered a sentence lightly, without the slightest emotion in her tone, which made Wei'er tremble.

Seeing that she was embarrassed because of such a trivial matter, Chang Xi felt very sympathetic, so she interjected: "I think sister Wei'er is eternally young, which means that the empress is like a young woman in her twenties, and she should remain talented forever." Yes, where does it mean that the empress is old! Like Chang Xi, I am afraid that she will not even be able to stay young forever!"

After the queen said something, the clouds cleared away, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. Seeing that Chang Xi had solved her difficult problem, Wei'er gave her a grateful look.

Yu Zhaorong saw that these three girls were the only ones sent by foreign ministers this year, so he said, "Your Majesty, these three younger sisters are all daughters of officials and eunuchs. Your Majesty will give them titles during this festival!"

"Alright!" After hearing this, Li Longji looked at the three women present, and the three women were extremely apprehensive, wondering if they could bring glory to the family.

"The concubine daughter of the Shangguan family is named Jieyu of the third rank, and the Xiao family is a beauty of the fourth rank. As for the concubine daughter of the Shangguan family...the concubine of the Shangguan family is a talent of the fifth rank!" Li Longji read out the titles of the three daughters in one breath, and dreamed happily. Yao knelt down and shouted long live, Wei'er returned the salute with red eyes, but Xiao Shi didn't seem to care about her status.

Seeing her calm and breezy appearance, Chang Xi couldn't help feeling fond of her, resembling her late adoptive mother Liu Lezheng.

Seeing that everything was over, the queen said: "Your Majesty, let's go, don't miss the time to preserve the flowers!"

"Okay!" Li Longji led the girls into the green grass. The girls each took out a kite from the hands of the maids behind them. There are various styles of holding beauties, or flowers, and even the three new ladies in the palace also prepared exquisite kites.

Everyone took away the kite strings and set them up.

Concubine Li whispered to her personal servant, Eunuch Huang: "The taller ones for this palace must be higher than that old woman of the queen!"

Eunuch Huang made a certain gesture and ran with a few servants holding kites in their hands. Qu Feng's wings were blown by the headwind, and Yuer leaped into the sky, which was really beautiful!

Everyone looked up at the first kite that took off, and Feng Lu smiled while holding a beauty kite, "Congratulations to Concubine Li for winning the first prize!"

Seeing that Concubine Li raised the phoenix up first, the queen was so angry that she asked Youlan to send her colorful phoenix up to the sky, a Qu phoenix and a colorful phoenix fighting together, it was very fierce!
Eunuch Huang twisted left and right for fear that Concubine Li's kite would become entangled with the thread in Aunt Youlan's hand, and would fly higher than the colorful phoenix in her hand, and he was so tired that he was sweating profusely for a while.

The rest of the people's kites were flying into the sky one after another, but their eyes were still focused on these two fighting phoenixes!Xiao looked at the kites flying in the sky and sighed secretly.

"It seems that they have to fight for everything!" Chang Xi said to himself standing a few feet away from everyone.

Mei'er said, "Zhaoyi, look!"

Looking at the sky again, the queen's colorful phoenix had already been defeated, and it fell obliquely to that side, wrapping around a huge tree nearby.

"It seems that the queen's sister's colorful phoenix is ​​not flying high!" Concubine Li was wearing a gorgeous dress, covering her mouth and laughing.

The queen said indifferently: "It's just a kite, it's not a 'real phoenix'!"

Concubine Li snorted, and turned her head to look at Fenglu's beauty kite.

In the distance, Gao Jieyu came late, and said in front of Li Longji: "My concubine is late, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

"Why are you here so late? Could it be that you just woke up after sleeping in?!" Li Longji joked.

Gao Jieyu blinked her almond eyes, two dimples appeared on her cheeks, raised the thing in her hand and said, "Your Majesty, look at this!"

"There is such a small kite?" Li Longji looked at the small goldfish that was the size of a palm in Gao Jieyu's hand, and held it in his hand in surprise.The Xiao family and the two newly promoted concubines also went up to have a look, and they were all amazed.

Gao Jieyu proudly said: "How about it? This is made by my concubine!"

"Let me see!" Li Longji handed the kite of the little goldfish back to Gao Jieyu. Gao Jieyu let go of the silk thread, and the little goldfish flew into the sky briskly, as if swimming in water. What's even more rare is that the goldfish flies in mid-air, neither high nor low, and it can be seen very clearly!

Everyone's eyes turned from Concubine Li's Qu Feng to Gao Jieyu's little goldfish.

"Where did Wu Zhaoyi go?" Wei'er wanted to see Chang Xi's kite, but she disappeared.

Wei'er's sister-in-law gave her a blank look, and reprimanded her in a low voice: "Don't meddle in your own business!"

Wei'er was born of a concubine, and has always had no status in the mansion, so she had to swallow her anger and be bullied by her aunt. At this time, she didn't dare to speak back, but just lowered her head silently.

Standing beside Princess Yuzhen, Xiao Yu had already noticed that the woman was slowly walking towards the corridor, but unfortunately he could no longer look at her. Hearing the conversation between Wei'er and Mengyao, he felt melancholy.

Yuzhen didn't know what Xiao Yu was thinking, seeing that he was a little bored, she said coquettishly: "If I knew it was so fun, I would bring one to play!"

Xiao Yu looked at her dotingly, and said, "If you like it, I will accompany you to Furong Garden to fly a kite tomorrow!"

"It's a deal!" Yu Zhenjiao smiled and raised her head again, looking at the colorful kites in the sky.

"Look at it!!"

"Ah! What is that!"

"Look, it's flying from the east!"

Suddenly, all the people on the grass turned their eyes to the east, and saw a giant dragon with a length of 40 meters rising slowly from the east, soaring up to nine days against the backdrop of thousands of golden lights!
"Dragon! Dragon!" Everyone on the grass cheered and shouted, even Li Longji was stunned!
The dragon's horns are like a deer, its head is like a camel, its mouth is like a crocodile, its eyes are like a turtle, and its ears are like a cow's, which is exactly in line with the description of dragons in ancient books!
Yuzhen shook Xiao Yu's arm excitedly and pointed at the giant dragon in the sky, "Look at that dragon's body is a centipede, a centipede!!"

It was only then that everyone noticed that the dragon's body was indeed made of centipedes!
The queen wondered, "Is this a centipede or a dragon?"

Concubine Li said: "According to my palace, it's a dragon-headed centipede!"

Everyone nodded secretly when they heard what she said.

"Where is such a strange dragon?" Wei Er, a newly promoted talent, was quite surprised.

The giant dragon flew close, and everyone realized that it was a huge kite. The kite was so finely crafted, even more delicate than all craftsmen in Chang'an City! !

Li Longji praised: "Who can make such a strange kite! Even if you make a kite, how can you fly this dragon kite into the sky!"

Everyone looked towards the east, and there was a thin thread tied under the body of the giant dragon. The thread was stretched straight, and the dragon slowly swam towards everyone, and only then did the kite flyer appear.

(End of this chapter)