dragon pen

Another four days passed, and the day of the second selection of the opening singer of Long Live God's birthday came.

The sun was about to set this day, and it was the time when the sun was set to rest, but the Palace of Prince Rui seemed to be bustling. They scrambled into the small kitchen to prepare a light and delicious dinner for the master. The singers also went back to the room early to wash and dress up, take a shower and comb their hair, and then put on the most expensive and gorgeous outfits, ready to wait for the singing under the moon in a while .

Later, on the branches of the moon.

The lanterns of the Wangfu were lit with candles, and the silent Wangfu suddenly had the exclusive vitality of the night. The entire front yard was shrouded in silver frost by the bright moonlight. Fine wine and exquisite snacks were carefully arranged in front of the table. Wang Louhen sat firmly behind the table, having a good time with his friends from official circles who invited him to watch the moon and be a judge.

Laughter and laughter spread far and wide through the courtyards.

Xue Wu was dressed neatly, sitting in front of the bronze mirror and looking carefully, she heard the laughter of the adults coming into the room from a distance, the expression on her face couldn't help changing, her soft waist, which was slightly tired from grooming and dressing, straightened slightly ——Today, she is wearing a bright red and golden peony embroidered gown, with side slits at the hem reaching to the base of her thighs. With the same color Zhu Kou on her lips and exquisitely painted flowers between her eyebrows, her whole person is like a peony blooming in the night, extremely glamorous.

If there is anyone who thinks it is so vulgar and monotonous, then the crown of golden emerald feathers on her head will completely leave the discerning people speechless. In addition to the elegant demeanor, ordinary people would not dare to do such a bold color matching.

At this time, she raised her hand and gently supported the emerald green feather crown on her head. The two small and delicate golden bells at the tip of the ornament made a pleasant sound. The beauty in the mirror pursed her lips and smiled, as if she was very satisfied with her outfit today.

"The girl is so beautiful tonight." The little girl beside Xue Wu said, "There is still a while before leaving the banquet, but the girl is thirsty or hungry, what should I use to fill my stomach?"

"I still have to sing a song in a while, and the oily smell will ruin my energy," Xue Wu said, "You can ask someone to bring you a plate of dry-roasted ginkgo nuts, just sprinkle some salt on it."

The little girl agreed, turned her head and went out, leaving Xue Wu alone in the room to adjust the hair accessories, and brushed her fingertips over the emerald green feather hair crown, leaving a slightly deeper mark, and after lightly fiddled with it, the trace Disappeared.Xue Wu let out a sigh of satisfaction, looked left and right, at this moment, only heard a commotion outside the house.

She was taken aback for a moment, stood up, walked outside, and saw the girl who had just gone out to fetch food for her standing outside the room, arguing with others.

"My lady wants to eat roasted gingko, why don't you give in? There are so many ingredients in the kitchen, you just have to ask for this, isn't it just making things difficult for us?"

"No, no, but half of my sweet soup is stewed, and I have chosen these ginkgo fruits..."

The one who stammered was a short girl, Xue Wu only glanced at it, and recognized that it was the Su Tuanyuan picked up by Zihu outside a few days ago, she didn't like this little girl of unknown origin very much, now With a twitch in the corner of her eyes, she stepped out of the threshold: "What's the matter?"

"Girl, you came just in time, and you taught this ignorant child a lesson. Just now when the servant went to the kitchen, I happened to see the cleaned ginkgo fruit on the table. I thought that the girl would use it for the banquet later, but it turned out that the girl had just baked it. So I came here to find trouble, insisting that this ginkgo is hers to use to stew sweet soup..." Xue Wu's girl is very powerful, she can't stop talking, but the tray in her hand is protecting a plate of baked goods Bai Guo, at the end, did not forget Bai Su's reunion glance, "He followed me eagerly and insisted on going back, who is it? Really!"

Su Tuanyuan blushed, her eyes were watery, and her face pouted: "No, I washed the ginkgo fruit and put it there... Speaking of hungry, isn't my Zihu girl also hungry? Waiting for the reunion stewed sweet soup to be served..."

Zihu Zihu.

Xue Wu felt annoyed when she heard the name, she snatched the tray from the girl's hand without even thinking about it, and threw it at Su Tuanyuan, "Don't be so embarrassed on a great day, just take it if you want, a plate of gingko is so embarrassing Like."

The tray fell to the ground with a bang, and the porcelain plate containing the ginkgo fruit hit Su Tuanyuan's forehead with a muffled sound, and the white porcelain plate was also smashed when the ginkgo fruit splashed, and Su Tuanyuan said "ah" like a frightened bird , jumped back suddenly!

"Xue Wu, didn't you send your temper to me?" An indifferent voice sounded behind Su Tuanyuan.

Xue Wu raised her head in a daze, and from a distance she saw Zihu standing in the corridor, dressed in plain clothes but just finished her make-up. Seeing everyone's eyes on her, she rolled up her sleeves and walked slowly, blocking her little girl without a trace. Before him, neither humble nor overbearing looked at Xue Wu.

Xue Wu was terrified by that cold gaze at first, and choked suddenly. After a moment of reaction, she felt more disgusted with Zihu in her heart, but she said with a smile on the surface: "Where is it, what did my sister say?" , It's just two lowly girls having a dispute, and it doesn't need to rise to the point of destroying our sister's relationship..."

Xue Wu couldn't finish her words, because at this moment, Zihu had already turned his back to her, bent down slightly and reached out to lift Su Tuanyuan's forehead and temples, and looked carefully to see that it was only red but not traumatized, so he said lightly Ask: "Does it hurt?"

The little girl's face was so red that she could drip blood, she bit her red lower lip fiercely, shook her head fiercely, her tongue was as if bitten by a cat, and she couldn't speak a word.

"Just touch it lightly, what can I do, do you want me to apologize to a girl?"

Xue Wu frowned, as if she was complaining that Zihu made a big fuss and made herself unable to get off the stage... Zihu heard the words, seemed to have heard something extremely absurd, turned around and was about to make trouble again, at this moment——

"Yo, what's the matter?"

Jokes sounded from behind Zihu.

The two standing in the courtyard seemed to have a feeling, turned their heads at the same time, and then saw Fang Fei who was also dressed in black gold and wearing a green crown not far away, walking slowly. The three of them looked at each other from a distance, all in The other party's eyes felt the probe, but they didn't point it out, they just looked at each other and smiled.

"Xue Wu is really beautiful tonight." Fang Fei spoke first.

"Elder sister is not bad either. This black robe seems to be of great value. I have never seen such a craft before." Xue Wu leaned forward and held Fang Fei's hand intimately, "The selection has not yet started. I always feel that my sister has already taken the lead, and I am afraid that I will do a back-up tonight, envious of my sister who won the first place, and will show off her singing voice in the imperial city in the future..."

"Sister, what are you talking about?" Fang Fei giggled, her eyes narrowed slightly, "It's still unknown what will happen tonight, such words make me very nervous, not to mention that there is a famous imperial city like my sister." Ji is here, it is Zihu..."

Fang Fei stopped on purpose, and glanced at Zihu next to her, who looked indifferent.

Xue Wu's eyeballs twirled around in the sockets, and she found a chance to let out a sigh of relief. She quickly set up the stage with Fang Fei and laughed back and forth: "Sister Zihu sings well."

"Although she's getting older, she's still well maintained." Fang Fei said with a smile, as if she didn't deliberately say something bad, "I heard that it was because I had a bad temper when I was young. Being given something that can support the current scene, I have been a singer for more than ten years, and I have not had a decent emerald crown, ah, sister Zihu, don’t be unhappy... Today is a big day, sister like this Is it inappropriate to dress too?"

"Sister Fangfei was joking, maybe sister Xu Zihu just doesn't like these gaudy things, she has nothing to do with the world." Xue Wu answered with a smile.

Zihu looked coldly at the two laughing happily with cynicism, lowered her eyes, and glanced at the Chinese clothes on the two of them in a neutral manner, with fleeting disdain in her eyes. After a while, she smiled slightly: "Of course it can't be like this." It’s just that I just received a gift from a nobleman today, and I’m about to change into my clothes. It’s getting late, so Zihu should go back to his room first and tidy up. The two younger sisters, please do as you please.”

After saying that, he glanced at the little girl who shrank aside, and the latter responded, and followed Zihu's ass eagerly to flee the scene.

After Zihu left, Xue Wu and Fang Fei were silent for a moment. After a long time, Fang Fei looked at the lonely back who left and sneered: "Gift from the nobleman?"

"Slap your swollen face to make yourself fat. I want to see what good things she can come up with, Zihu, who is indifferent to the world?"

"No competition with the world? Then she shouldn't have appeared in the first place."

Fang Fei lowered her voice, and the two turned around and walked slowly towards the courtyard where the banquet was held. After entering the courtyard, the two beauties in costumes walked side by side, which naturally attracted enough attention. Even the officials around King Rui stopped Talk and turn to look this way.Xue Wu and Fang Fei naturally looked bright, but because they had long been accustomed to being bathed in such admiring eyes, they were calm and composed. They greeted the owner of the compound, King Rui, and saluted respectfully, before taking their seats gracefully.

The two beauties entered the table, and the atmosphere of the whole dinner party became more lively than before. No one noticed that an unremarkable young man was sitting in an unremarkable corner while drinking and drinking.It was almost a last-class seat, almost hidden in the shadow cast by the big trees in the garden, and the table was filled with delicate delicacies and a jug of fine wine.At this time, the young man who was far away from the Sheng Xiao was sitting cross-legged, with an extremely delicate gold-plated tracing pen hanging on his left waist, and a simplified bamboo tube. When he reached for the red liquid on the table, the The pen made a crisp sound when it touched the bamboo tube.

The young man took a sip of the wine, sticking out the tip of his tongue from the heat. After a long time, he seemed to savor the sweetness of the wine, so he couldn't help but moved closer to the wine glass and sniffed it carefully.

"This is cherry wine from the north, but in the south you can't drink it because you can't grow such plants," Zhang Ziyao said, sticking out his tongue and licking the wine like a puppy, "It's a pity that Jiujiu you Can't taste it."

There was no one around, and at first glance, one thought the boy was talking to himself.

However, after a while, a calm and deep adult male voice came from the bamboo tube around his waist: "I think of the flat peach wine made at the Yaochi dinner back then. It took ten years to clean up a cup, and Ren Benjun opened it up to drink such a precious thing." , I am so full that I miss your cherry wine to coax the children to drink."

Zhang Ziyao was ridiculed, but he was not angry. He said with a good-natured smile, "A good man doesn't mention his bravery in the past", while looking over the rim of his cup, looking at the center of the banquet in a casual manner.

At this time, Xue Wu had already left the seat and came to the stage. When she stood there, the beauty overwhelmed the crowd, and the flowers in the garden were eclipsed. The fiery red clothes and emerald crown made people reluctant to take their eyes away.

Zhang Ziyao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and subconsciously touched the bamboo tube at his waist.

The bamboo tube trembled slightly, and a calm question came from: "Where are you touching?"

"Oh, sorry." Zhang Ziyao withdrew his hand, "Jiujiu, tonight's Xue Wu and Fang Fei are really beautiful."

"That's it." The dragon in the bamboo tube seemed a little disappointed, and the child really retracted his hand, looking a little absent-minded, "It's better than the first time I saw it. This woman really puts her life into dressing up." Seriously, it's as if they live for the sake of beauty... Bring the cherry wine to me to taste."

If you don't count the last sentence, it is completely righteous.

He seemed to have forgotten which dragon was hanging on the wall, jumping up and down, clamoring to follow the palace to see the beauty.

Zhang Ziyao didn't expose him, but muttered: "A painting, what kind of wine do you drink?"

"You touched me, did I let people touch me casually?"

Zhang Ziyao ignored him, just resting his chin with one hand, listening to the melodious music and Xuewu's babbling voice, singing about the love between children and the magnificent mountains and rivers of the country, which is quite festive and suitable for the occasion, It's a pity that Zhang Ziyao didn't listen to a word, and his mind was full of thoughts and worries about other things.

"Jiujiu, you said..."

"Jiulu Huanyue Yi is a fairy weapon. It is nothing comparable. You worry too much. Zihu is going to lose tonight, and he won't lose in the outfit." Zhu Jiuyin seemed to know what Zhang Ziyao was worried about.

Zhang Ziyao straightened up a little bit, as if he was a little surprised why Zhu Jiuyin knew what he was thinking, but before he could ask, Xue Wu finished the song, there was applause from the host's seat, and the housekeeper yelled to let the The girl went up to listen to the appreciation, and after a long time of excitement, she only heard the front yard suddenly quiet down for some reason.

Zhang Ziyao shook the wine glass in his hand, and a drop of bright red cherry wine splashed out and landed on the bamboo tube around his waist.

Zhang Ziyao raised his head, and saw Zihu slowly entering at the entrance of the courtyard.

The delicate makeup is not too gaudy, it sets off her already somewhat cold facial features, her waist-length black hair hangs down naturally, and is simply tied up in a bun, paired with a simple wooden hairpin. It is suitable to appear on such an important occasion, but Naihe perfectly matches the white dress she is wearing at this moment.

Everyone present was shocked by the robe on Zihu's body. It was as light and elegant as quicksand, and it floated backwards as if filled with the wind just by walking around. As if reflecting the moonlight again, spreading the moon halo all over the body, the two red dots at the end of the belt simply tied around the waist became the only eye-catching color, like a drop of blood scattered on the moon disk hanging in the sky; On the neckline, the moon-shaped decoration chiseled by gemstones falls on the chest, and the moonlight glows with a transparent and cold light, which is priceless at a glance.

It’s true that people want clothes and Buddhas want gold clothes. Under the surprised or jealous eyes of Xue Wu, Fang Fei, and even Prince Rui, Zihu, who was wearing a nine-lu-huanyue robe, came to the main seat, and shrugged slightly. Greeting his body, he really showed an unprecedented elegance and stunning color.