The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 20
Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was July [-]th, Qixi Festival.

On the day of Qixi Festival, the capital is lively, and many girls go to offer incense and beg for cleverness in groups, hoping that they will become more and more ingenious, and also hope that they can find a good husband as soon as possible.

This is a new atmosphere of a new dynasty, everything is so casual and so natural.

Of course, in addition to this, there are more spider sellers everywhere in the capital, and if there are spider sellers, naturally there is no shortage of foolish women like Lvyi who just go to buy them.

Liu Wei left the mansion early this morning to go to the Liu Family Winery, and hurried back to the mansion after some arrangements.

When she arrived at the mansion, Princess Ruyi ordered Xiaoyu to send a sachet. The sachet was bright in color, rich in fragrance, and extremely exquisite in workmanship. Liu Wei knew that the ancients liked to wear the sachet, so she took it away.

Seeing Liu Weipei on her body, Xiaoyu quickly smiled and said, "My son-in-law, the princess started embroidering this sachet this morning, especially for my son-in-law."

Liu Wei felt a little warmth in his heart, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect the princess to be in the emperor's house, but the female celebrity is so good. Thank you to the princess for me."

Xiaoyu smiled slyly: "Since the son-in-law wants to thank you, why do you need a servant to do it for you? Wouldn't it be more sincere for you to go in person?"

Liu Wei was stunned, then smiled and said, "That's good too!"

When Liu Wei came to Princess Ruyi's boudoir, Princess Ruyi was reading a book in the house. The weather today was not very good, gloomy, Princess Ruyi's reading style was quite temperamental, it was the kind that men took a look at. , it will look crazy.

Princess Ruyi didn't seem to expect Liu Wei to come, she was a little surprised, and said, "Is the son-in-law back from the winery?"

Liu Wei nodded and said: "I'm back, thank you for the sachet embroidered by the princess."

Princess Ruyi looked down and saw the sachet Liu Wei wore on her body, and smiled lightly: "It's just for practice, just to beg for needlework tonight, so why does the son-in-law make a special trip for this?"

Hearing this, Liu Wei was even more stunned. Ever since he was stimulated by Lvyi last night, he has inquired from Lvyi about the customs of celebrating the Qixi Festival in this era. He knows what Princess Ruyi said about begging for luck .

On the day of Qixi Festival, a program often played in the palace is threading a needle to beg for cleverness. Five-color thread is passed through a nine-hole needle, and the first one to pass through is the winner.

Liu Wei thought that the princess gave her a sachet because she had a good impression of herself, but she didn't expect that the sachet was just something for Princess Ruyi to practice.

Princess Ruyi also noticed Liu Wei's disappointed look, but he didn't express anything. The sachet was indeed embroidered by himself, but he also wanted to keep Liu Wei safe, but this latter meaning, his own It is impossible to utter the mouth.

Since the two have misunderstood for a long time, why bother to explain, let's go on wrong.
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In the evening, the capital became more lively, and Qiqiao City was even more difficult to travel by car and horse. It was heard that on Qixi Festival, that place was open and lively all night until dawn.

However, the excitement there had nothing to do with Liu Wei and the others, because at this time, Liu Wei, Princess Ruyi, Xiaoyu, Lvyi and the others drove directly to the palace in a carriage.

There was a lot of traffic and hustle and bustle along the way, but Liu Wei felt that maybe only such excitement was worthy of the Song Dynasty when the country was first founded?
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were extremely chaotic, and the people were displaced. Today, the Holy King was born, swept away the kingdoms, and finally became unified. After ten years of recuperation, the Great Song Dynasty should be so lively.

The carriage walked through several streets and turned around a few more times before finally arriving at the gate of the palace.

The imperial palace of the Song Dynasty was not comparable to the Forbidden City of the later generations, but standing in front of the imperial palace and looking at the guards standing in a row still gave people a sense of majesty.

At this time, other princess consorts had already arrived in front of the palace, and some of them entered the palace after they arrived, while others waited aside, as if they were waiting for the sisters who were close to each other to go together.

Liu Wei and Princess Ruyi got off the carriage and saw Princess Xingping and Cao Jue waiting for someone at the door. Liu Wei knew they were waiting for him at a glance. Since Princess Xingping agreed to transfer the 2 taels After Yinzi came to invest in the shares, the relationship between Princess Xingping and them has taken another step, not to mention Cao Jue.

After the two sides met, Cao Jue hurriedly greeted him: "Brother Liu, why did you come? We have been waiting for a long time."

Liu Wei slightly apologized, and said, "I'm really sorry for making Brother Cao wait so long."

"Okay, okay, what are you and I doing so politely, let me ask you, is the gift for the emperor ready?"

Liu Wei smiled lightly: "Thanks to Brother Cao's reminder, it's ready."

In fact, the night before the night before Princess Ruyi told Liu Wei that Liu Wei was going to the palace for a banquet, on the second day, that is, on July [-]th, Liu Wei met Cao Jue, and the two talked about the banquet in the palace. Those princesses and princesses are begging for cleverness, and their sons-in-law want to give gifts to the emperor, but the emperor is thrifty now, so he doesn't like expensive gifts, as long as the gifts show his heart, or make him happy.

After listening to Cao Jue's words, Liu Wei prepared a gift that day. The gift is now placed in the box and held by the green clothes. Cao Jue wanted to see it several times, but was stopped by Liu Wei. .

A group of people walked through the slightly mottled palace wall, and finally entered the back garden of the palace, and the banquet tonight will be held in the back garden.

There are still many flowers blooming in the back garden at this time, and they are also very elegant. There are many rockeries, small bridges, flowing water, pavilions, and water pavilions. Among the thousands of flowers, there are four or five tables of banquets. The meals on the tables are not counted. It is very rich, but it is said that this is already considered very good in the palace.

In front of the banquet, there was a brocade silk about [-] feet long. Nine needles were inserted at intervals on the brocade silk.

Not long after the few people arrived, other princess consorts and princes also came one after another. Speaking of which, it was more like a family banquet.

Liu Wei, Princess Ruyi, Cao Jue, Princess Xingping, Pan Weide, and Princess Zhaoqing sat together. It was the first time Liu Wei saw Princess Zhaoqing. Princess Zhaoqing was not very old. Around 20 years old, with a slightly plump figure, but it is difficult to hide its beauty.

At first, Liu Wei thought that Pan Weide was acting like a fool outside, and that he wanted Qin Yun to be with him that night, so he should be very imposing in front of Princess Zhaoqing, but looking at it now, it is not the case. This handsome Pan The son-in-law is like a docile kitten in front of the eldest princess.

Seeing this, Liu Wei smiled secretly, is it because Pan Weide is too depressed at home, that's why he spends a little time outside?

While thinking this way, a voice suddenly came: "The emperor and queen are here!"

When the sound came, everyone stood up and shouted long live the emperor. After shouting like this, they slowly got up and sat down again until the emperor said a word to calm down.

After Liu Wei sat down like this, he dared to look up at the current emperor Zhao Kuangyin. He saw that Zhao Kuangyin was tall and tall. Although he had been emperor for ten years, he couldn't hide his arrogance. , went to battle to kill the enemy, thinking of this, Liu Wei thought to himself, thinking that he might have chosen the right gift.

After everyone sat down, Zhao Kuangyin also sat down at a banquet and said: "Today's Qixi Festival, all the relatives of the emperor and the country are here. This banquet can also be regarded as a family banquet. You don't have to stick to the red tape of the past. Ordinary people like this Tianshang can reunite with his family, and we are no exception!"

After Zhao Kuangyin said this, Empress Xiaoming Wang stood up and said: "After all, Qixi Festival is still a festival for our women's family. Qixi Festival begs for cleverness, one begs for ingenuity, and the other begs for a happy family. You have already seen the next one. Let’s talk about brocade silk. There are rows of nine-hole needles every three feet on this brocade silk. We’ll see who is the most ingenious among us royal daughters later. Ai’s family has obtained the emperor’s consent this year. The three who completed it will be rewarded with a hundred pieces of Jiangnan embroidered satin."

Hundreds of Jiangnan embroidered satin are not very expensive, but if it is not a royal gift, other people would not dare to use it even if they bought it, and these people don't care about the hundred embroidered satin. The four characters of ingenuity and ingenuity.

After Empress Xiaoming said this, the female family members present stood up and saluted one after another, and then stood beside the brocade silk in order of seniority, and after Empress Xiaoming gave an order, they picked up the multicolored silk thread and threaded the nine-hole needle.

The moonlight tonight is not very good, and it sometimes appears and sometimes hides under the clouds, but fortunately, there are palace lanterns around, although it is not as bright as day, it is still quite eye-catching.

Those princesses and concubines were threading needles and threads next to the brocade silk, and these concubines were chatting aside, and occasionally glanced over there. Liu Wei found that Princess Ruyi was very powerful at the beginning, and she wore it faster than other princesses and princesses. , but when it was about to end, the speed suddenly slowed down. Seeing this situation, Liu Wei frowned slightly, but soon understood.

Among these people, most of them have never experienced the hard times, only Princess Ruyi has experienced it. In terms of female celebrities, they are not opponents of Princess Ruyi at all, but among these people, Princess Ruyi is not the most distinguished Yes, there are the two princesses of the emperor in front of her, plus a few concubines. Among the many princesses, because of the early death of Cao Wang, although she is a little older among the many princesses, she does not have the support of her father. How noble can she be?
Princess Ruyi has a delicate heart, even if she can get the first place, in order to avoid unnecessary jealousy and disputes, even if she wins [-]%, she will never have any grudges with these princesses and princesses.

After Liu Wei understood this, she no longer wanted to look at it again. Although she felt that Princess Ruyi thought and handled things smoothly, if many things were not disputed, I am afraid that she would never be able to have them. Being able to argue with them is nothing but idealistic remarks, and many things still need to be contested.

(End of this chapter)