The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1342: so fast
Chapter 1342 So Fast
She guessed that her grandmother dressed her up like this today so that people could see her, so she had to plan early, otherwise she would have to get married in a muddle.
Old Lady Dong saw Huang Jia’s Arong from afar with her chin raised and a proud look on her face. She couldn’t help but chuckle and liked this chivalrous girl even more.
“Mother, did you see anything interesting?” Dong asked in a low voice, shaking the ivory fan in her hand and moving closer to her mother.
Old Madam Dong covered her lips with a handkerchief and laughed, pointing to Huang Jia’s Arong and showing her to Mrs. Dong.
Huang Arong’s grandmother naturally noticed what Old Lady Dong was doing. She followed Old Lady Dong’s line of sight and her face turned pale. Huang Arong, who was standing with the Third Miss Zhen, actually did a horse stance without hesitation. The Third Miss Zhen also did a horse stance without wanting to be outdone…
How could these two fools get together? Huang Arong’s grandmother felt dizzy and was almost choking with anger.
Soon, Mrs. Dong asked someone to call Huang Arong over and asked her some questions. She felt that this little girl was really innocent and cute, so she put the bracelet on Huang Arong’s wrist and said, “Look, this bracelet is worn on the wrist of a young girl. It really complements each other!”
Huang Arong didn’t understand what Old Lady Dong meant. She just thought that Old Lady Dong was asking her grandmother to take her pulse a while ago as a thank you. After refusing several times, she accepted it with a smile when she saw that Old Lady Dong insisted.
After watching Huang Arong bow and leave, Mrs. Dong smiled and said to her mother, “She is such an honest child!”
The flower appreciation was almost over, and Li had people serve iced sour plum soup and various snacks made with fresh flowers to the court officials and the ladies of each family. After the snacks were served, they prepared to start the lunch banquet, and everyone was invited back to the Pinxiang Hall.
It was already getting hot in the capital in May. Li and Wang had thought it through carefully. They had placed half-high three-legged double-eared tripods with auspicious beasts on each adjacent desk in the main hall, on which was placed an iceberg. People sitting behind the desks did not feel the heat at all.
Xiao Rongyan, wearing a sky-blue robe and a wide jade belt, sat below Bai Qingyan this time, leaning against a hidden table. He looked a bit careless and lazy, causing the noble ladies to talk in low voices while shielding their faces with their round fans.
Soon, the eunuch announced that Bai Qingyan had arrived…
Everyone in the hall quickly stood up and knelt to greet them. Xiao Rongyan also stood up with the envoys from the State of Yan.
Bai Qingyan had changed out of the intricately embroidered court robes she wore when attending court and put on a sky-blue casual long skirt. The intricately crafted imperial buckle on the white jade belt made Bai Qingyan look even taller and slenderer.
She had a white jade hairpin on her hair, and when she moved, an imperial green bracelet with excellent water content could be vaguely seen on her fair wrist. The bracelet had a faint red tint. Although the bracelet did not match Bai Qingyan’s outfit today, fortunately she paid close attention and did not notice it.
The ministers saw that their Majesty was wearing a sky-blue long dress, and then looked at Xiao Rongyan on the high platform who was also wearing a sky-blue suit. They thought to themselves that if the Ninth Prince of Yan knew his limits, he should have used the excuse of changing his clothes to change into this set of clothes.
But the corners of Xiao Rongyan’s lips curled up slightly under the mask. Whether it was the goose hairpin on Bai Qingyan’s head, the bracelet on her wrist that could not be seen unless you looked carefully, or Bai Qingyan’s clothes, which were the same sky blue as his, they all made him feel as if he had eaten honey and was in a very good mood.
Bai Qingyan sat down in the main seat with a faint smile on his face, asked everyone to stand up, and tried his best to restrain his gaze from drifting towards Xiao Rongyan.
Before Bai Qingyan came, Mrs. Dong rewarded the girls with flowers. To express their gratitude, some girls had already put the flowers on their heads.
The young man who intends to compete for the position of the emperor’s husband after “Xiao Rongyan” deliberately imitated the dress of Xiao Rongyan when he was still alive. Bai Qingyan sensed something in it at a glance, lowered his eyes and smiled without saying a word. He didn’t know what the real owner felt when he sat here with a mask on and looked at this scene.
As Bai Qingyan arrived, drums suddenly sounded, and the dancers, wearing the armor of the Great Zhou army, holding wooden swords and shields, walked in with small steps.
The sound of the drum perked up the people in the hall.
There has been no banquet for a long time since Bai Qingyan ascended the throne, and the dancers have had no place to use their skills.
This time, a flower banquet is finally being held, and these dancers also want to win Bai Qingyan’s favor at today’s banquet, so… this dance and music is “General Bai’s Marching Song”.
After the dancers entered the hall and lined up, the sound of rain hitting a pipa slowly grew louder and louder. The dancers shouted and waved their wooden swords in unison, just like soldiers about to fight in the battlefield.
Bai Qingyan sat on the high platform, watching the dancers’ dance moves that combined strength and grace, and he thought of the poem…
Meeting distinguished guests on a boat on Ying Lake, but only hearing the sound of the pipa but not seeing the people.
The music of stringed instruments and fine wine was playing in harmony, when suddenly the sound changed to thunderous music.
The clanging of heavy strings can destroy the five mountains, while the surging of light strings can cut off the flow of the river.
Thunder and clouds gather at your fingertips, and there are clanging sounds of golden swords in your ears.
At the end of the song, my blood rushed to the sky, and the general had already taken over Qingxi Mountain.
If she remembered correctly, the talented man named Yin Baiyi who wrote this poem was also among the top two in the palace examination.
This “General Bai’s Marching Song” has long been popular in the capital city, and many music houses have choreographed dances to this tune. Most of these young men have seen it before, and they feel that they have seen and heard it so many times that they no longer have the end of their blood boiling. On the contrary, the girls, who are usually confined at home by their elders, watch the dance with great gusto.
Especially the girls from military families, they straightened their backs, their eyes were red, and they wished they could pick up swords and go to the front line.
“‘General Bai’s Marching Song’ is indeed a great song!” Xiao Rongyan looked at the silver-armored woman leading the dance in the middle and felt that her dance was too artificial and too different from the Bai Qingyan who had really fought on the battlefield. He was not satisfied with this dance.
“I heard that the two countries discussed the gambling issue yesterday, and it seems that the discussion did not go well?” Bai Qingyan smiled and turned to look at Xiao Rongyan, “I heard that your country’s Minister of Finance seemed to have injured his wrist?”
Xiao Rongyan was not annoyed, and just said: “Your Majesty, now our two countries are discussing gambling and negotiating. Since ancient times, peace talks have always been about going back and forth, accompanied by quarrels, which is common.”
Bai Qingyan nodded. News of yesterday’s peace talks kept coming to Bai Qingyan’s desk. Fan Yugan was such a joker that he almost cursed at the Minister of Revenue of Yan State. When he slammed the table, he hit his wrist. It was said that he was so painful that his face turned pale. But Fan Yugan was unreasonable and kept slamming the table and laughing wildly. He also deliberately dragged out his tone and gloated, “God has eyes. Retribution comes so quickly! Alas… it comes so quickly!”