Chapter 237 Sword Dance

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, out of the need to stabilize people's hearts, although it can only be held in the palace, it is more grand and grand than in Miyagi.

Even Yun Fenghuang didn't come over alone. After all, Concubine Shu had already accompanied King Song to become a feudal vassal, and she had to go to a high position under her command, so she had to temporarily promote Concubine Jing to help her, which involved some errands outside the palace. It is necessary to let Jiang Shi help to watch it.

The number of guests invited by the court this time is also much more than in the past.

In the past, it was only because of the emperor's heirs that they began to come of age, but now the vassal kings everywhere generally have a mediocre relationship with the emperor.

Therefore, although the annual Mid-Autumn Festival banquet implies reunion, in fact, it is the emperor's family and Beijing officials having fun together, at most the Yiwang brothers.

But at this moment, Zhou Wang and other feudal lords have not yet returned, but they have to attend just like the Longevity Banquet.

If these vassal kings followed their own minds, they would definitely wish to return to the fief for a while.

However, the matter of King Mao became serious, and it was difficult for them to leave.

The imperial court would not let them go because they were afraid that King Mao would go mad, and if they were assassinated on the way back, it would be too dangerous.

In fact, this is certainly a reason for worry. To prevent King Mao from assassinating the vassals and framing the court, the most important thing is to fear that their hearts will be loyal to King Mao. After returning to the fief, they will immediately raise troops to respond and join the rebellion.

This is not unfounded worry. During this period of time, there have been several heirs or heirs of vassal kings who are ready to move, and even directly announced that the vassal kings and princes on the court side are all fakes. , to join King Mao.

Therefore, these vassal kings could not leave at all.

Chunjia forcibly detains the people, and then uses their name to suppress his fiefdom, so naturally he has to be generous.

Therefore, Yun Fenghuang was told in advance that the banquet standard should be higher, so there is no need to worry about the cost.

Yun Fenghuang then gathered all his subordinates to make the palace banquet extremely rich and prosperous, and even ordered Concubine Jing to personally supervise the rehearsal of singing and dancing.

Since the blow that year, Concubine Jing has been reluctant to stand out.

Especially since she has a daughter again, she wants to take care of the child all day long, and doesn't want to be troublesome at all.

At first, he was not happy when he heard the errand: "My lady, I am dull, I'm afraid it may not be..."

"Concubine Jing." Just before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by the queen, Yun Fenghuang gave her an indifferent look, "I am not discussing with you, but giving you instructions, do you understand?"

Concubine Jing was stunned for a moment, subconsciously a little angry.

It was because she remembered that she, Meng Youyi, and Ouyang Fulu were noble daughters of the imperial capital back then. After entering the palace, they suffered repeatedly at the hands of the queen. Not only is there no one in the palace that the latter enters, who can touch the phoenix seat, even the only one who is still alive is himself.

At that time, Yun Fenghuang was also like this, arrogant, strong, and unquestionable.

Even though Concubine Jing is not young anymore, when I think back to that time, I still feel the blood pouring into my brain!

She took a deep breath: "Yes, the concubine understands, and the concubine obeys the mother's will!"

The queen sneered, she had been working on this Concubine Jing for many years, and she didn't pay attention to it at all, not to mention Concubine Jing also had a biological imperial daughter, and Concubine Jing didn't dare to do anything wrong for this daughter.

Yun Fenghuang put down the teacup, and said softly: "You are a noble lady, you are well-informed, this year's banquet is different from the past, many clansmen are here, there is no need to make a fool of those things that are not new, no You have to lose the dignity of the royal family. Therefore, you have to work hard to rehearse, and you have to let all the officials and feudal vassals know that everything in the royal family has been better than before in the past two years."

"...I obey." Concubine Jing lowered her head holding back her anger.

Although she was not reconciled, she was afraid of the queen, so she used all her skills to let the courtiers rehearse a few fresh songs and dances in a short period of time.

Yun Fenghuang personally looked at it and thought it was good, but he praised it a few times and gave some rewards.

Maybe it was because she was afraid of the Queen's criticism, Concubine Jing really put her mind into it, and even arranged a sword dance, which was specially prepared for the generals of the Dingbei Army who were present.

The Dingbei Army was ordered to serve the King, and the vanguard had already arrived in Gyeonggi, and they repelled the coalition forces of King Mao and others as soon as they arrived. Although it was only a small victory, it at least saved the face of the successively troubled court.

For this reason, the imperial court boasted a lot, as if the King Mao's faction was about to fall and the monkeys would disperse.

For this reason, although the rank of the soldiers who came to aid was not high, the royal family made an exception and allowed some of them to participate in the banquet as a show of favor.

Yun Fenghuang hadn't considered taking special care of this group of people at first, but since Concubine Jing thought about it, she would not dismiss it, and said some words of encouragement, so she settled down.

In this way, when the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was held, there was a scene of singing and dancing, and the monarch and his ministers were having fun together. Between drinking and drinking, it seemed that Mao Wang and others were not afraid of mange, and the whole banquet was full of laughter and laughter without any haze.

After drinking for three rounds and singing and dancing, a group of kabuki actors with high hair on their temples and beaded emeralds, wearing soft armor on colorful skirts, wearing fast boots and holding long swords, came to the stage with the high-spirited steps that are quite different from ordinary kabuki actors. .

The monarchs and ministers were quite surprised when they saw this, and Yun Fenghuang smiled and introduced: "This is the intention of Concubine Jing, and it is specially rehearsed for the Dingbei Army who came from afar to show off their military merits."

The emperor immediately gave the vanguard of the Dingbei Army a cup of imperial wine.

The vanguard got up to thank him, Yun Fenghuang looked after him, only to realize that the other party was actually Qi Jiuzhang.

Her smile remained unchanged, but she was somewhat moved in her heart.

When she was a teenager, she was no stranger to Qi Jiuzhang, who was Qi Jiulu's half-brother.

Although the Chen family doesn't like concubine children very much, because the two generations of the Qi family have few offspring, the relationship between Qi Jiulu and Qi Jiuzhang is not bad.

After all, Qi Jiulu is both a concubine and an elder, with outstanding talents. He is the undisputed candidate for the eldest son. The concubine's younger brothers have no capital to compete with him, and he never thinks that half-brothers will be enemies.

Later, when the matter of Xie Fenghuan came out, Qi Jiulu was obsessed with Yunfenghuang, and did many things that disappointed his family. In a fit of anger, the Patriarch of the Qi family promoted Qi Jiuzhang to beat the eldest son who had high hopes.

However, neither Yun Fenghuang nor Qi Jiulu took the threat of Patriarch Qi seriously.

One is that he knows that the Qi family has cultivated Qi Jiulu for many years, and he will never give up Qi Jiulu unless it is absolutely necessary; Except for his direct brother, who is always overwhelmed by him, he is not very obedient to his biological father, the Patriarch of the Qi family. Seriously considering the candidate for the future head of the family, there is a high probability that the senior Qi will not choose him.

In short, Yun Fenghuang didn't have much ill feeling towards Qi Jiuzhang. She still remembered that when Qi Jiulu was dying and Chao was running around, Qi Jiuzhang also stood by his brother.

It's just that Qi Jiuzhang in her impression was a slightly pale and weak young man with a silent expression and stubborn eyes.

Qi Jiuzhang in front of him, although he changed his robes specially for the banquet, but he is tall and big, with a stern face, and there are old wounds on the corners of his eyes and cheeks, and his temperament is quite sharp, if it is not for his eyebrows, he can vaguely distinguish the past Nian Ying, and the internal waiter's roll call just now, Yun Fenghuang couldn't recognize the family friend who timidly called her "Sister Huang" in the past.

She sighed in her heart for a while, taking advantage of the time when the emperor and Qi Jiuzhang were talking about the scene, she asked Qingren in a low voice: "This time he came? Where is his brother?"

"General Qi has to sit in the north, and it's not easy to escape." The Qing people also glanced at Qi Jiuzhang, and whispered, "Probably because of this reason, to show their loyalty, they specially sent Qi Jiuzhang as the vanguard? After all, if General Qi doesn't come, Qi Jiuzhang You have to show something. Otherwise, the court may suspect that General Qi is deliberately sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight."

After Qi Jiulu married the little Gu family back then, because the Gu family had no successors, it was logical that he inherited Gu Fangshu's legacy in the Dingbei Army. He has been promoted frequently, and now he is actually in charge of the Dingbei Army.

Regarding this point, many old people are talking about Yunfenghuang's methods behind their backs.

He felt that if she hadn't been formidable enough to win over the emperor firmly, the emperor would have been able to safely hand over the great Dingbei army to his former love rival based on the time between Qi Jiulu and Yun Fenghuang?

Of course, both the empress and Qi Jiulu are very human nowadays, and this kind of words are just a few words in private, and no one dares to really convey them.

Yun Fenghuang occasionally heard some rumors, although he was annoyed and asked someone to deal with the slave talking nonsense, but he didn't make a big fuss.

After all, everyone would lose face if there was a big trouble.

Listening now, he sighed slightly and didn't say anything.

Just when the emperor finished his words of encouragement, he ordered Qi Jiuzhang to return to his seat.

Below, bells, drums, silk and bamboos rang together, and with the sound of music, dozens of beauties in colorful skirts swung their long swords with awe-inspiring momentum, and the sword dance began.

Yun Fenghuang then restrained his mind and concentrated on appreciating it.

Generally speaking, the skills of these palace craftsmen are not as good as those of the Imperial Palace Jiaofang Division. After all, how long does the royal family only stay in the palace a year? Most of them are still in Miyagi, and the best tricksters are of course chosen to serve in the Jiaofang Division.

But those who can serve the heavenly family, no matter how bad they are, have a bottom line.

Concubine Jing didn't have many days to train them, but all of them were valiant, and the special soft sword danced coldly, like large groups of snowflakes, setting off gusts of cool wind in the hall, against the current autumn wind. The climate is quite imposing.

Yun Fenghuang has been in the palace for many years, and she is used to extravagant scenes. Although this sword dance is a bit new, she has something on her mind now, and after watching it for a while, she becomes distracted.

Just as he was thinking about the current situation, he suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the situation in front of him: while the dancers were moving forward, they were approaching the throne at an unpleasant but definitely not slow speed.

...During the rehearsal, there seemed to be no such scene?

Yun Fenghuang immediately went to see Concubine Jing, but Concubine Jing was not in the seat?

She immediately became vigilant, not knowing if this was specially arranged by Concubine Jing, or if there was something inside, she thought about it, and suddenly raised her hand to brush off the wine cup in front of Chunjia——

Now that I don't know the situation, if it is a false alarm, it will make the royal family feel ashamed if it becomes a big trouble.

In this eye bone, the royal family can't afford to lose face.

It also seemed that she, the empress, was born in a humble family, so she was not worthy of the Feng seat.

But if there is really a difference, the others will be fine, Chunjia has some troubles, what should she do?

So it's better to find an excuse for the emperor to step back immediately, so that no matter what happens, it won't be...

Who knew that just when her fingertips touched the edge of the wine cup, Chunjia noticed that Chunjia was looking towards her arm, the first two dancers danced sword flowers and suddenly separated, revealing the main dancer in the middle .

The trickster didn't know when, he suddenly pulled out a small and powerful crossbow from his sleeve, pointed at Chunjia, and buckled it again and again!

The crossbow arrows shot out in a fan shape, almost sealing off all Chunjia's dodging space!

The color of the cluster of arrows is blue, clearly poisoned, just like the eye color of that trickster, with murderous intent, awe-inspiring!