in the sound of swallows

Chapter 137
The envoys of the state really did save face, applauding all the way from the beginning to the end, their voices were almost hoarse.The concubines are not here for him, they are all staring at the top of the dragon seat, but today Gu Chaobei and Shen Guiyan competed hard, and they just stared at Shen Guiyan without even watching the performance until they could see She blushed until she was blushing.

The carefully prepared singing and dancing caught His Majesty's eyes, and all the concubines complained.Concubine Hua, who went into the back palace to change clothes and was about to take a seat, chuckled lightly, lowered her eyes and said:
"That's why even if you are blooming everywhere, there is only one spring in people's eyes."

Concubine Xi tutted twice: "Sister Baihe, you are so sour today."

She also came on stage, and she didn't get the emperor's sideways glance, and she wasn't happy, but if she wasn't happy, just say she wasn't happy.

Concubine Hua glared at her. Ever since she became a concubine, no one dared to call her by her previous stage name, which represented Zuihuayin and the past.Concubine Xi's mouth is so annoying, people don't like to hear what she said.

Concubine Shen laughed at the other end: "Sisters, those of us concubines still have to attend the banquet, so don't waste time arguing here."

Concubine Hua waved her sleeves, changed her clothes and went out first.Concubine Xi frowned, feeling that Concubine Hua was acting weird, since she entered the palace she was not the same as before, and felt uncomfortable, so she simply left.

Shen Hanlu followed behind, raised her eyebrows and smiled.

Three chairs were added to Shen Guiyan's right hand side, and the three concubines changed their clothes and came back. The rest of the concubines all left the stage and did not return, and returned to the palace separately.

The envoy with the two mustaches was still bowing his head and said: "I have seen the beauties of the Celestial Dynasty, but I don't know if the emperor has seen the girls from our country?"

When Gu Chaobei wanted to turn his head around, his neck was already stiff: "...the ambassador brought a girl?"

"I heard that the emperor has a heart for beauty, so I specially presented the most beautiful woman in our country." The envoy cupped his hands and looked up to laugh, but saw that the emperor was still staring at a lady beside him.

He noticed from the beginning of the song and dance performance that the emperor didn't seem to look at anyone much, and kept turning his head to look at the empress in purple palace dress on his right.The empress was wearing a veil, so she couldn't see her face clearly, but the emperor kept looking at her like this, was it too much?
Feeling slightly displeased, the envoy still moved aside first, and asked people from their state to present the beauties.

What love of beauty is lust.Shen Guiyan raised her eyes and looked down, and there were twelve dancing girls who stepped forward, waved their sleeves left and right one by one and retreated, and finally a girl covered in gold veil and half-hidden face came up in the middle.

The woman's eyes were blue, and one couldn't look away.Shen Guiyan couldn't help but let out a low cry, and gently tugged on Gu Chaobei's sleeve: "Look!"

What are you looking at? Look, his neck is stiff, and he can't turn around at all right now.Hearing the sound of breathing around, Gu Chaobei wanted to see it too, but in order to prevent him from twisting his neck later, the emperor still looked at Shen Guiyan affectionately and said, "There is nothing more beautiful than Aifei."

The envoy's face couldn't hold back anymore, the emperor didn't even look at them when the most beautiful woman in the country came to congratulate her?
"Emperor?" Knowing son Mo Ruomu, the Empress Dowager Nian felt that something was wrong when she saw Gu Chaobei like this, so she raised her eyebrows and shouted.

Gu Chaobei stiffened his neck and couldn't turn his head: "Queen Mother, I want to see Yan'er more. If you have anything to say, I'll talk about it later when I go back."

Concubine Hua and concubine Shen were all surprised and inexplicably looked at the emperor's face.

He has always been romantic and unrestrained, if now he said that Yan Er could not turn his neck back, how shameful would that be?Gu Chaobei took a deep breath, and continued to smile at Shen Guiyan, "Aifei..."

Shen Guiyan shivered, frowned and said: "Your majesty, you are so impolite, the envoy has been watching you for a long time."

"I have something to tell you, can we leave first?" Gu Chaobei laughed dryly.

"Do you think it's possible?" Shen Guiyan said sternly: "Although Fanbang is a small country, it can't compete with our dynasty, but it is a subordinate country after all. It is really rude for the emperor to leave the state banquet halfway."

Gu Chaobei was about to cry, and he didn't know if this was the retribution for the awkwardness of the past few days, but this time it was really awkward.

"Then I don't care, the weak water is three thousand, I only like to take this scoop from you to drink." Gu Chaobei began to play a rogue: "No matter how beautiful a person is, I don't want to see it, I don't want to see it!"

The envoy's face turned blue, and Prime Minister Gu beside him also frowned: "Your Majesty."

Everyone knew that he doted on Shen Guiyan, so there was no problem.But too much nonsense, and it's out of style.

Shen Guiyan looked at Gu Chaobei for a while, and finally saw that something was wrong with him, and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Forgive me for my poor eyesight, I wonder who this lady is?" the envoy said with a sullen face.

Shen Guiyan turned her head, nodded politely, and the treasure fan next to her helped to register her name: "This is Concubine Yan of Yonghe Palace."

"It turns out that it is the imperial concubine, the empress must be beautiful, so that the emperor pays such attention to her."

The fire had obviously reached her body, Shen Guiyan sat upright, and said calmly: "Women in the Celestial Dynasty value virtue and not beauty, so the appearance of this palace may not be beautiful."

"Oh?" The envoy glanced at the woman next to him, and then at Shen Guiyan: "Does the imperial concubine feel that she has outstanding virtue?"

Shen Guiyan smiled slightly: "We practice a saying here that 'a woman without talent is a virtue'. I praise myself with the word 'virtue'. Please don't be offended by the ambassador."

Fan Bang, the envoy, had already thought about it, this concubine Yan Gui dared to boast about her virtues, and he would choke her on her arrogance in the next sentence.

As a result, Shen Guiyan said that a woman is virtuous without talent, so she is virtuous.

Is this a compliment or belittle yourself?The envoy was stunned, but the concubines and ministers beside him laughed, and Princess Duanwen also said: "The imperial concubine is really humorous."

Shen Guiyan smiled without saying a word.

The envoy was embarrassed for a while, then recovered himself, as if nothing had happened just now and said: "Our women in Fanbang are good at riddles, do you know if the imperial concubine can understand?"

coming!This is it!Concubine Shen was shaken, she looked at the envoy with burning eyes and said: "Small questions like riddles, women in the Celestial Dynasty have been playing with them since they were young, there is no need for noble concubines and empresses to do it, I will do it."

The envoy was taken aback by her, and looked at her suspiciously: "Is it the woman who danced drums just now?"

"The envoys should also call her Niangniang." The Empress Dowager Nian casually said, "Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs has no record of the fate, the Shen family is also a dignified concubine."

I don't know whether the queen mother said this sentence intentionally or unintentionally, Gu Chaodong, who had been drinking down the table, suddenly raised his head and glanced up.

Shen Hanlu gritted her teeth, gave a false smile, and lowered her head not daring to look around.

She was impulsive again, she should slow down, why can't she learn it.

"Since Concubine Shen said yes, why don't you compete with my Fanbang girl to cheer up the banquet, how about it?"

Shen Hanlu glanced sideways at the emperor.

Gu Chaobei nodded almost imperceptibly.

"Okay." Shen Hanlu nodded in response.

Shen Guiyan raised her hand, and the delicious food and wine were delivered to the small table in front of everyone.Fan Bangmei and Shen Hanlu sat down in the middle of the banquet, ready to guess the riddle.

Everyone looked in the middle, and Gu Chaobei took the opportunity to grab Shen Guiyan and whispered, "Neck."

Shen Guiyan subconsciously looked at the duck neck in the bowl in front of her, and reached out to pinch it to Gu Chaobei.

Gu Chaobei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and raised his hand to cover his neck with anxious eyes.

Oh, stiff neck.Shen Guiyan understood, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, relax first, and then slowly twist back little by little."

Gu Chaobei's face darkened halfway, he gritted his teeth, and while no one was looking at him, he quickly shook his head with his hands and turned his head back little by little. The left side of his neck felt uncomfortable like a cramp, and it took him a while to recover.

As a result, when he was returning, when he saw the beauty with blue eyes, Gu Chaobei was dumbfounded.

It looks so good with a veil on, how about taking it off?

The beauty was guessing a riddle with Shen Hanlu, and she came up with the riddle first: "What animal has four knees?"

This is tantamount to cheating, because the answer is something that the Central Plains doesn't have, and ordinary Central Plains women certainly don't know it.

Fortunately, Shen Hanlu accidentally saw this question while watching TV, and immediately answered: "Elephant!"

The beauty's face changed, and she looked at Shen Hanlu in a daze.

Shen Hanlu was complacent, and turned around to throw out his own puzzle: "What can go up and down, and has never moved?"

The beauty frowned and didn't think about it for a long time.The face of the envoy over there also turned a little ugly. He came to present the treasure, and he was compared to others before he offered it, but what happened?

Just when he thought that this treasure offering was bound to fail, the emperor's voice came from above: "I can't guess, this girl should take off her veil."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and when they looked up, the emperor had returned to normal, looking at the beauty with stars in his eyes.

Shen Hanlu was stunned, didn't she just say that she only wanted to see Shen Guiyan alone, why did she ask someone to take off her veil now?

None of the women present understood what the emperor was thinking, so Shen Guiyan smiled wryly and didn't say much.

Yuwen Changqing raised his head and took a sip of wine.

Only men understand men best, there is no man who does not like beautiful women, Gu Chaobei is more curious than lustful, give him a woman with blue eyes, he will definitely have a look.

I just feel sorry for Shen Guiyan.

The emperor said so, so guess what, the beauty immediately tore off her veil.

With a face that is full of country and city, and also has some exotic customs, the envoy's heart fell to the ground, and he turned his head to look at the emperor with a smile.

beautiful right?Are you satisfied?
Unexpectedly, when he saw the whole face, Gu Chaobei lost interest, pursed his lips and said perfunctorily: "Not bad."

Shen Guiyan lowered her eyes and thought to herself, for a bastard like Gu Chaobei, someone should come and slap him to relieve his anger.

After the envoy's face was red, orange, red, green, blue, blue and purple, he gritted his teeth and said, "This woman is not married yet, does the emperor have any good candidates to recommend?"

There was a gaze that made him feel extremely uncomfortable just now, without thinking about it, Gu Chaobei pointed at him: "Him."

(End of this chapter)