Princess [rebirth]

The New Year's Eve banquet in the palace was held on the night of the New Year's Eve in accordance with the usual practice in previous years.

And as early as the early morning of the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, Dou Chun had already sealed his pen and seal, and he would not "open the pen" and "open the seal" until the grand ceremony on the first day of the first lunar month, but it would not be until the 26th day of the first lunar month. The early morning court will be held. It can be said that from the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month to the [-]th of the first lunar month, the lunar palace is filled with the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year. It is also rare for Dou Chun to have nearly a month of rest and no need to get up early every day to go to the morning court.

However, because he knew that Mu Xuan was going to make trouble at the palace banquet, even though he had already sealed the pen, Dou Chun was not able to relax. In order to ensure that the plan went smoothly, he and Zhuo Jingfan kept deliberating and rehearsing for the past few days. , I am afraid that if there is a mistake in any link, I will not be able to win Mu Xuan in one fell swoop.

According to the news they learned, Mu Xuan arranged the assassin to be assassinated in the inner teaching workshop and pretended to be a musician. It is impossible to thoroughly investigate the identity and background of each musician, so some performances that can enter the hall and have the opportunity to approach the saint have to be deleted.

In addition, Dou Chun also dispatched a private soldier to wait outside the hall. Whenever there is any movement in the hall, the private soldier can surround the entire palace and prevent anyone from entering or leaving.In addition, he also arranged many people to secretly protect Zhuo Jingfan. Mu Xuan wanted to assassinate Zhuo Jingfan during the palace banquet, and he wanted Mu Xuan to come and go! ...

In this way, the time came to the New Year's Eve, at the beginning of noon on this day, Dou Chun came to the Lizheng Hall, Zhuo Jingfan was changing clothes at that time, Dou Chun looked at Zhuo Jingfan wearing the tin hairpin dress that the queen had when meeting the guests , because Zhuo Jingfan is a gentleman, so there are some changes in clothing, and there is no gold emerald flower on the hair bun like a lady. The number of tins on the hairpin originally represents the grade, but Zhuo Jingfan can't match it. Dai Tianchai, so the embroidery patterns on his clothes are extraordinarily exquisite and gorgeous, in order to show his grade status.

Dou Chun looked fascinatedly at Zhuo Jingfan, who was rarely dressed up. Zhuo Jingfan always showed off his casual clothes with wide sleeves on weekdays. It's different with the Tin Chai dress, the improved dress makes Zhuo Jingfan look aura, and it is also very suitable for his current status as a queen.

Seeing Dou Chun's obsessed expression, Zhuo Jingfan couldn't help but smile in his heart. Seeing his sweetheart fascinated by him, he naturally had a sense of accomplishment, but Dou Chun's hot eyes made him feel a little bit He was ashamed, so he gave Dou Chun a sideways look, implying that the other party restrained himself a little.

Unexpectedly, Dou Chun was angered by him, so a big smile appeared on his face. He approached with a smile, and said flatteringly, "Fanfan, you look so good today."

Zhuo Jingfan was amused by his deliberately exaggerated tone, he burst into laughter, and at the same time stretched out his hand to push away Dou Chun's big face that was about to stick to his face, "Go, don't be clingy I, go and see Dou Chen."

"See what he's doing? That kid is very clever, even if he stays alone, he can enjoy himself. Now that I've passed, I might still be disgusted by him." Dou Chun waved his hands, not wanting to leave Zhuo Jingfan's side at all.

"Look at what you said, no matter how clever Dou Chen is, he's still not yet one year old, you, Aye, are cruel enough to leave him alone." Zhuo Jingfan said with disapproval.

Dou Chun couldn't help but muttered in his heart, if he could, he wouldn't want to be Dou Chen's brother. He is obviously a brother, but Dou Chen's identity is not well known. After all, Dou Chen is the son of Bletilla striata, but Bletilla striata is in the eyes of everyone But she died suddenly, how could she still give birth to a prince?Even if she really gave birth to a prince, who can guarantee that the child is really the late emperor's?At the beginning, Dou Chun knew that Baiji was pregnant, so he would keep her alive. He also took pains to arrange a new identity for Dou Chen, making Dou Chen his eldest son.

Only his love for Dou Chen can never be like that of a real father and son, but Zhuo Jingfan loves Dou Chen very much. From Dou Chun's point of view, Zhuo Jingfan seems to bet all his father's love on Dou Chen up.Dou Chun guessed right, Zhuo Jingfan really loved Dou Chen as his own son, after all, since he nodded and agreed to be with Dou Chun, he knew that he would not have any heirs in this life, so the appearance of Dou Chen was to make up for it. In addition to his shortcomings, Dou Chen is Dou Chun's younger brother, and the two are quite similar in some aspects, so he treats Dou Chen as his and Dou Chun's children.

Dou Chun could more or less guess what Zhuo Jingfan was thinking, so although he complained in his heart that Dou Chen stole Zhuo Jingfan's attention, at most it was just complaining, and it would not really stop Zhuo Jingfan and Dou Chen is close, after all, he feels regret in his heart, and at the same time, he is also a little ashamed of Zhuo Jingfan. Because of him, neither of them will have any children of their own in this life, so Fanfan wants to love Dou Chen. I will not object.

"Fanfan, every time you have Dou Chen, you won't be able to see me." Dou Chun pursed his mouth on purpose, showing a pitiful expression. Zhuo Jingfan was annoyed and funny when he saw it, "How old are you?" Are you ashamed to compete with Dou Chen for favor every time?"

"We haven't been close for a long time for the sake of acting. After finishing that annoying Mu Xuan tonight, you have to promise me that you will stay with me for the next few days, but you can't bring Dou Chen back." Chun took Zhuo Jingfan's hand and took the opportunity to make a request. The maid who was serving at the side had already left the dormitory under Fuling's signal, leaving the two of them a space to be alone.

"I don't worry about Dou Chen and Dou Yuan staying in the Palace of Ten Thousand Springs. After Mu Xuan's assassination plan fails tonight, I'm afraid he will extend his poisonous hands to the two children. You have the heart to leave them in the Palace of Ten Thousand Springs ?" Zhuo Jingfan stretched out his hand and pinched Dou Chun's arm, with a bit of accusation in his expression.

"Mu Xuan is really annoying. I must take his influence tonight. I have almost cleaned up his contacts in the court these days. If I can catch his henchmen tonight, I am not afraid. I can't find out the whereabouts of his den of thieves and other dregs hidden outside the palace, but I want to see how tough these loyal ministers who supported the orphans of the Great Wu Dynasty can be at the critical moment of life and death!" Dou Chun curled his lips angrily. Mu Xuan is like a fishbone stuck in his throat, he can't eat well, and he can't sleep well. He must get back from Mu Xuan for the aggrieved period of time.

Zhuo Jingfan patted him on the shoulder and gave him silent encouragement and support. In Zhuo Jingfan's heart, he wanted to catch his ancestors more than Dou Chun. Whenever he thought of what he did tonight, his heart would feel surging The founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty was about to fall into his hands, and history was about to be rewritten. His heart was filled with inexplicable excitement, and at the same time, there was a faint hesitation.

It's just that the hesitation was too faint and fleeting, so Zhuo Jingfan didn't notice it at all. ...

The palace banquet on New Year's Eve is a tradition in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Guanglu Temple Minister in charge of the palace banquet led the four departments of the Taiguan Department, the Rare Shame Department, the Fine Brew Department, and the Palm Wine Department to issue orders, and the Shangshi Bureau's Shangshi and Si Shan, Si Yun and other female officials are preparing for the palace banquet together.

The palace people began to arrange banquets in the untimely period. The banquet was held in the Longevity Hall. The palace people placed the golden dragon banquet table for saints in the south to the north in the middle of the hall. The main banquet tables of the inner court are lined up on the side. Since the saint today has no other concubines except Meiren Xu, the seat of Meiren Xu is arranged on the right side of the saint, while the row of banquet tables at the bottom is reserved for the concubines in Kyoto. imperial clan.

On big days like New Year's Eve, the princes, county kings and other clan members in Kyoto will bring their relatives into the palace to participate in the palace banquet.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhonghe Shaoyue was played under the two corridors of the Wanshou Hall. The saint was seated in the Wanshou Hall, followed by the empress and concubine, and then the banquet began.After the banquet begins, the hot meal is first, except for the dried fruit and candied fruit that are already on the table. The hot meal includes pickles, appetizers, soup and imperial dishes.Then came the fragrant tea, the empress led Xu Meiren to offer tea to the sage, after the sage drank, he gave the tea to the head of the inner court, and then served the wine and food.

Not long after the banquet started, the music performers in Neijiaofang began to prepare for the performance. At the beginning, it was Libu performers standing in the square outside the hall. There were as many as 80 dancers in the Libu performers. The scene was magnificent and luxurious. Actors wear magnificent dance clothes of uniform colors, and dance lightly to the accompaniment of gong drums. The scale is grand and the dance is mighty, which looks majestic.

After the dance of "An Le", followed by "Tai Ping Le" and "Broken Array Music", the atmosphere of the banquet was also pushed to the highest point.There were originally a total of eight performances of Libuki, but there are too many maikos to be mobilized and it takes too long, so it is not possible to perform all the programs every time, and the banquet tonight is no exception. Jiaofang got the order of the sage and deleted five programs, leaving only three.

The performance of Libuki is followed by Zabuki. The musicians of Zabuki sit in the hall. Each time there are three to 12 performers, the required skills are more difficult than Libuki.There are six repertoires of Zabuji, and each performance is hand-picked by the sage. Long before today, Dou Chun had already selected several of them.

After the performance of Zuobu Ji started, the wine and food also came in. When the silk and bamboo fine music came to an end, Zhuo Jingfan raised his wine cup and congratulated and toasted the saint loudly in the direction of Dou Chun.Dou Chun laughed happily when he heard it, and raised the wine cup slightly in the direction of Zhuo Jingfan, then raised his head and drank the wine in the cup in one gulp.

Xu Meiren saw her at the side, so she hurriedly raised the wine cup, and when she was about to imitate the Queen's toast to the saint, she heard the Queen say indifferently: "Wait a minute, beauty, you are pregnant now, so you have to be more careful. Come, serve some tea."

Xu Meiren's movements paused, her smile was a little stiff, but she quickly came to her senses and said softly: "What the empress reminded me, thank you for your care." Bi Yu stroked her slightly protruding belly with one hand, and threw it at the empress. To a smug look.

Seeing Xu Meiren's flamboyant expression, Zhuo Jingfan laughed in his heart. When Mu Xuan was dealt with, let's see how proud she was. If she knew that Dou Chun had never touched her before, the expression on her face would be different. How wonderful?Now let her be proud for a while, after today's banquet is over, Xu Meiren may not be able to laugh again.

Therefore, he didn't bother with Xu Meiren, and looked away calmly, as if he hadn't seen Xu Meiren's provocation. She couldn't help showing a bit of resentment, at this moment, she caught a glimpse of the saint looking at her, she quickly restrained her expression, and put on her original weak and well-behaved appearance.

Dou Chun had seen Xu Meiren's provocative face a long time ago, and he was very responsive in his heart. If it wasn't for the sake of the overall situation, he really wanted to yell at Xu Meiren and tell her to go back to Zichen Palace.

He suppressed the displeasure in his heart, and said slowly: "What the queen said is that the beauty now has my flesh and blood in her stomach, so she must be very careful. If she hurts my flesh and blood, the beauty will die." It's to blame."

Xu Meiren's heart skipped a beat when she heard the words, she always felt that the sage had something to say, and seemed to mean something, but she carefully discerned what the sage said, but there was nothing wrong with it, she knew how much the sage valued his offspring, The eldest son of the emperor Dou Chen is the best proof.Dou Chen's biological mother was just Jieyu, but because of her meritorious service in giving birth to the prince, she should have been promoted to the concubine by a saint, but Li Jieyu was so unlucky that she just passed away after a cold.

After Li Jieyu left, the saint didn't mention the concubine anymore, but she once probed the saint's words, if the eldest son of the emperor is established as the crown prince in the future, the saint will chase after Li Jieyu to increase the dignity of the eldest son , Therefore, Xu Mei's heart always wants to give birth to a prince.

Just as Xu Meiren was in a trance, a cup of tea was already placed on the food table in front of her. Xu Meiren came back to her senses, quickly raised the teacup, and said to the saint: "The saint is benevolent, and this concubine uses tea instead of wine." , I wish the sage good health, the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe in the coming year, and the weather will be smooth."

"Well, the beauty has a heart." Dou Chun raised the wine cup and said lightly, which made the rest of the clan disciples feel a little puzzled. Didn't they hear that the sage favored Beauty Xu recently?Why look at it now, the saint's attitude towards Xu Meiren is very cold.

King Jin and Princess Jin also exchanged glances. It seems that the rumors earlier were wrong. Regardless of whether the saint really neglected the queen, at least the saint didn't seem to favor Xu Meiren as much as the rumors said.

Zhuo Jingfan sat on the top and had a panoramic view of the expressions of the people below. He raised the wine cup to hide the ironic smile on his lips. Seeing Dou Chun's indifferent attitude towards Xu Meiren, some people became anxious. It seems that They put Bao on Xu Meiren's side.

On the other hand, King Jin and several clans who have always been very low-key, their attitude has always been neither humble nor overbearing. Obviously, whether Xu Meiren is favored or not has nothing to do with them at all. Enter the palace to curry favor.Zhuo Jingfan thought, these are the real smart people, and those who want to seduce Dou Chun through Xu Meiren are all short-sighted and confused about the situation.

When the late emperor was in power, he had tried his best to prevent officials from making contributions, and he also disliked the nepotism of officials. How could these clans think that Dou Chun was different from the late emperor?How could they think that Dou Chun would listen to Xu Meiren's slander and reuse Xu Meiren's recommendation?

He sat on the empress's seat and looked coldly at those restless clans. Some of them were Dou Chun's uncles, and some were Dou Chun's uncles. Too mixed into the saint's harem; but among the uncles and grandparents, many uncles and grandmothers used to enter the palace to point fingers at him because of their status as elders. What they said meant that as a queen, he should For the sake of the royal heirs.

And after Xu Meiren became pregnant, those uncles and grandparents began to secretly recommend the little lady in their family, or the candidate they were optimistic about. In short, it was all for the purpose of filling Dou Chun's harem.

Dou Chun's uncles and grandfathers used this trick a lot in the beginning. They spoke in front of Dou Chun's imperial grandfather, and many people's families even occupied a place in the court because of offering their wives.Later, when Dou Yuan was the first emperor, even though Dou Yuan prohibited officials from offering gifts, he couldn't always refuse the wishes of his uncles, so he accepted some ladies recommended by his aunts, especially Empress Fu. , he looked for a lady who fit his heart among the concubines in the palace.

It is also because of this that those uncles did not take Dou Chun's refusal seriously. To them, which gentleman is not lustful?The reason why the sage refuses now is that he hasn’t met anyone he likes. When the sage meets a lady someday, no one else will be able to stop him. The sage will definitely take her into the palace. Yes, and all they need to do is to try to find a woman who can make the saint look right.

Zhuo Jingfan and Dou Chun didn't know what the clans were thinking, if they knew, Dou Chun would just laugh out loud, wanting to find a lady who suits him?I'm afraid it will be difficult, because he already has a person who is most suitable for him, and he is also connected with him, no matter how good the person or the most beautiful woman is, he cannot catch his eyes.

Just as the clan members were thinking about the sage's indifference to Xu Meiren, the musicians in the Neijiaofang had already started the next round of performances.I saw a few of the maikos who were sitting on the stage suddenly stood up and threw out their water sleeves. The water sleeves drew a beautiful arc in the air. Slowly approach the hall.

At this moment, a maiko with a light veil on her face stepped out to the sound of the pipa. The maiko twisted her slender waist and danced "Green Waist" with a light and soft posture. The elegant figure of the maiko took the attention away, only Zhuo Jingfan who was sitting on it looked a little stiff.

This song "Green Waist" aroused his bad memories. Before he died in his previous life, he had heard this song "Green Waist". As if awakened with a start, Zhuo Jingfan looked towards the direction of the sound of the drum, and Zhuo Jingfan almost lost his composure and stood up.

I saw four maikos in red dance clothes standing at the entrance of the hall. The maikos held a dagger in each hand and danced rhythmically into the hall with the sound of drums.Zhuo Jingfan's pupils shrank suddenly. He had seen this scene before him before. In his previous life, before he died, he had seen this set of performances.

Even with his eyes closed, he could accurately tell the moment when a veiled maiko fell down, and the steps of the next four maikos were deeply imprinted in his mind. It was one of the maikos who took advantage of the change of formation, suddenly approached him and stabbed him with a sword.

Thinking of this, he stared closely at the four maikos in the hall. Could it be that Mu Xuan planned to use the maikos to assassinate him?But now that he is the queen, it may not be so easy for the maiko to get close to him. He is sitting on the top of the palace, and if the maiko wants to assassinate him, he has to pass through a row of clans and climb up the stairs before he can reach him corner of the clothes.

Just when he raised his vigilance and feared that the four maikos would make any changes, the performance of the maikos was coming to an end. The four maikos waved their short swords and stepped on the ground vigorously to the rhythm of the drums. Jing Fan's eyes were fixed on the performance, until the drums stopped and the maikos finished their last moves, he still hadn't recovered.

The four red-clothed maikos were lying on the ground at this time, saying praises to the saint, and then, the masked maiko walked into the hall, and she bowed to the saint, He began to sing softly, the maiko's voice was melodious and melodious, and the melodious singing echoed in the hall, Zhuo Jingfan squinted his eyes, did he guess wrong, this show was not arranged by Mu Xuan, but someone else with ulterior motives?

He watched the maiko open his mouth coldly, and when the singing subsided, the pupils on the maiko's veil cut water, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked at Dou Chun affectionately, the meaning of which could not be more obvious.

It's just that Dou Chun is not so easy to be seduced by the man. He looked at the maiko team without changing his expression, his eyes were calm, and he just said lightly: "Good singing, thank you." There was a flash of astonishment in Ji's eyes, and then he was full of grievances, as if he couldn't believe that the saint was indifferent to him.

She originally thought that with her dancing posture and beautiful singing voice, she could always attract the saint to be interested in her appearance. When the saint ordered her to take off the veil, her proud face would definitely be able to stand in front of the saint. Leave an impression in my heart and lay the foundation for future entry into the palace.

Unexpectedly, the saint's reaction was so flat, as if he was not at all fascinated by his dancing posture and singing, the maiko felt a little annoyed, she glanced at Xu Meiren who was sitting on it, Xu Meiren's appearance was considered to be above average , but compared with myself, she looks ordinary. Looking at the queen on the other side, although the queen has exquisite eyebrows and eyes, no matter how outstanding she is, it can't change the fact that the queen is a gentleman.

Maiko thought about it, if she could enter the palace, she would definitely have the best chance of winning. She could definitely replace Xu Meiren and become the saint's new favorite, so she squinted her eyes, gritted her teeth and raised her hand to release the light mask covering her face. yarn.