Years of drama and become a concubine

Chapter 89 The family banquet is too difficult!
At the last family banquet, she was just an opera singer, but this time it was different. It was a bit more difficult to pretend to be a family member than to act in an opera.It takes a lot of thought to dress, too bright or too simple.

"How about this one?" Lan'er took a moon-white palace robe and asked, holding it up.

"It's too plain, too plain." Qing Ge waved his hand, "I can imagine that old hag Nalan Rong will definitely say, 'Is she here to cry when she's dressed like this'!"

"Then what about this one?" Lan'er turned out another apricot red double-breasted feather gauze skirt and asked.

"No way, this color is too bright, if you steal Qiu Zhenzhen's limelight, I don't know how to make me look good!"

Lan'er broke down a little, she spread her hands and said with a mournful face: "It's too difficult! Don't wear it!"

Sima Yu's chuckle came from the door, Lan'er immediately froze her face in fright, while Qing Ge had a helpless expression of "Why don't you come early or late, why come at this time".

Sima Yu walked in, looked at the clothes on the bed, looked like the scene of an escape, carefully studied for a moment, and picked out a taupe-colored Suzhou embroidered Yuehua brocade shirt from it: "This king thinks this one is very good."

Qing Ge took it over and took a look, then doubted again: "Really?"

"Really." Sima Yu nodded, "However, you can wear whatever you want, and you can't tolerate others' comments." He turned to Lan'er and said, "Go back and get some new cloth, and cut some new clothes for Qing Ge , save yourself so much trouble next time."

"Yes."

Here Qing Ge has changed into a brocade shirt behind the screen, under which she put on a floral cloud satin skirt, put on a bun, and inserted a silver magpie bead flower, looking very fresh and lively, both happy and light, Make people look comfortable.Sima Yu sized it up for a moment, then said with a smile, "One look at Qingren City, and then look at Qingren Country."

Qing Ge smiled, took his arm and walked out the door affectionately: "No, no, the city is your city, the country is your country, I don't dare to mess it up."

When the two appeared in the imperial garden, Qiu Zhenzhen, Shen Xi and Lou Mingyue had already arrived.Sure enough, Qiu Zhenzhen was wearing a concubine-colored skirt with long sleeves and a phoenix tail, paired with an auspicious wishful hairpin.Shen and Lou seemed to have discussed it, and they both chose an extremely light color, but Shen also ingeniously matched a pair of soft smoke with blue clouds and clouds, which matched her thin melon-seeded face, which seemed to be very bright. He was very refined, and immediately opened up a big gap with Lou's, which can be said to be quite scheming.

The three of them were chatting one after another, and when they saw the two of them, they all stood up and saluted, Qing Ge quickly let go of Sima Yu, and returned the salutes one by one.Lou Mingyue was still smiling, while Qiu Zhenzhen and Shen Xi's expressions were somewhat unnatural.Sima Yu nodded, shook Qing Ge's hand, and then sat down in his seat.Qing Ge sat next to Shen Xi, the two had a deep rift before, and they didn't want to talk to each other.

"The emperor and empress are here!"

Superintendent Fulin led the emperor and empress to come in and sit down. The lights in the distance were lit one by one, and the music was played. Everyone put on a beaming expression and saluted in unison.

"Zhen'er looks very good today, she really looks even better." The queen praised.

"A woman is the one who pleases herself. It must be with Yu'er who sings in harmony and raises eyebrows. Yu'er has no heirs under her knees. If she can give me a grandson this year, that would be great." The emperor stroked his beard and smiled.

"Auspicious words from father and mother." Qiu Zhenzhen lowered her eyes and frowned slightly. It seemed shy to outsiders, but her heart was filled with resentment. How could she have a child by herself? !She didn't even dare to tell her father that she was still a baby until now!She quietly raised her eyes to look at Sima Yu, thinking that her beauty tonight might get him a glance, but Sima Yu just lowered his head to drink tea, as if what the emperor said had nothing to do with him.

"The main reason for the banquet today is to get something good." The emperor lightly clapped his hands, and a row of maids came up one by one from the side, and placed a small food basket in front of each person's table one by one, "The new crabs in Yangcheng Lake, I heard they are very delicious." Fat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward." Everyone responded in unison.

Qing Ge reached out and opened the food cage, and there was a small blue and white dish inside, which contained a bright red eight-legged crab. It was a bit difficult for her, she never liked to eat these delicate and labor-intensive foods, and she was frowning when she saw Shen opened the second layer of the food cage, and took out a bunch of tweezers, small hammers, small axes, and wooden sticks.She drew gourds in the same way, and also took out these things from her food cage, put them together and counted them, and suddenly realized that they were eight crab-eating tool crabs.

She raised her head and looked at Sima Yu as if asking for help, and saw Sima Yu gently split the crab shell, scraped off the crab roe one by one with a long-handled spoon, and then used a small stick to pick out the white meat in the crab claws bit by bit. The technique is ingenious and neat, just like carving a work of art.He felt the gaze, and raised his head slightly, and saw that Qing Ge hadn't moved, and was about to speak, when suddenly he heard the queen ask sharply: "Qing Ge, why don't you move? This crab doesn't suit your appetite?"

"No, no, no." Qing Ge quickly waved his hands, grabbed the crab and fiddled with it, breaking the crab's shell hard...

"what!"

Shen Xi let out a scream, stood up quickly, and wiped the crab roe juice all over her face with her sleeve.

"What's the matter with you?!" Shen Xi was about to cry, her personal maid hurriedly covered her face with a veil.

"I... I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Qing Singer was at a loss, who would have thought that she would just break the crab lightly, and the crab roe mixed with the steamed crab water would come out, and Shen Xi's face would be moistened!
"You did it on purpose!" Shen Xi said angrily, her apricot eyes were wide open and tears were streaming down her face, her whole body was in a state of distress, "I don't look well-groomed, sorry for my daughter-in-law's resignation and tidying up." She bowed and hurried to the back to clean up.

The emperor looked at this farce and couldn't bear to look at it, and reminded: "Yu'er, although she is a side concubine, she is still a member of the Eastern Palace. She can't be spoiled too much and make a joke!"

Sima Yu was about to speak, but Nalan Rong took over the words: "In the harem, such a deliberate injury happened in public. It is the fault of the concubine's ineffective discipline. His Royal Highness still has state affairs to attend to. It's reasonable not to take care of these things." These words step on the low and meet the high, deliberately belittle Qing Ge, turn unintentional into intentional, and deliberately elevate Sima Yu, catering to the Holy Majesty's love for Sima Yu.Every sentence comes from speculation.

Lou Mingyue didn't want to offend His Royal Highness and the Empress, so she didn't intend to intervene, but she couldn't bear to hear the Empress say that Qing Ge did it on purpose, and she knew that His Highness couldn't defend herself at this time, and whatever she said seemed to be protecting her shortcomings, so Intent to win His Highness's favor, he stood up and worshiped: "Mother, sister Yan made an unintentional mistake. If it is really harmful to others, why bother to do it in public?"

Qiu Zhenzhen didn't know where she was singing, but she also stood up and echoed: "Sister Yan first entered the palace, and she has been living among the people before. Where can she eat high-quality crabs? If you are less knowledgeable, the rules are naturally worse. I don't think so. on purpose."

Sima Yu frowned slightly when he heard the words, and Qing Ge was even more astonished. This is really a wonderful way to add insult to injury!Her life experience has always been the emperor's heart knot, Qiu Zhenzhen's words happened to touch the emperor's sore spot, the emperor's face became very ugly, like the black sky before the storm, it was overwhelming.Nalan Rong hurriedly got up, knelt down before the emperor's case, and said, "It's the concubine who is ineffective in managing the harem. The concubine will send someone to teach Yan's etiquette. The emperor doesn't need to worry about it."

There is also a reason why Nalan Rong has been favored for so many years. For the sake of the emperor, he can understand the holy will and solve problems at the first time, so that he has no worries about the harem. This is not something everyone can do.

Qing Ge had already done something wrong, so it would be useless to talk more at this time, so he could only admit it, and said politely, "Thank you sisters for your understanding. Thank you for your mother's teaching. I will definitely learn etiquette seriously in the future, and I will never make a fool of myself again." Royal face."

The emperor also knew that it would be too ugly at the family banquet, so he calmed down his anger and nodded slightly: "Everyone, get up."

Superintendent Fulin hurriedly hit the rails while it was hot: "Gentlemen, eat it while it's hot, cold crabs are not good for your health."

Then everyone lowered their heads and took eight pieces of crabs and began to eat the crabs. Qing Ge played with tweezers there boredly, never wanting to touch this damned crab again.Just as he was sulking, suddenly a very handsome young eunuch came over and put a plate of white and clean crab meat on Qing Ge's desk.

Qing Ge was taken aback for a moment, and cast a questioning look.The little eunuch smiled slightly, and took the end of the unpeeled crab on her case, and returned to Sima Yu's side in three steps at a time.Sima Yu quietly raised a crab claw to greet her, she couldn't hold back a chuckle, and when she looked over again, Sima Yu was already eating the crab with a sullen face.

She picked up a piece of crab meat with chopsticks, dipped it in ginger vinegar, and put it in her mouth to taste it carefully. She didn't know whether it was because the crab was really fat, or because Sima Yu peeled it for her. friend.

The small stick in Qiu Zhenzhen's hand snapped into two pieces, and her hand was pricked by a small wooden thorn, and a trace of bright red blood flowed out.She absent-mindedly lowered her head and licked her wound, staring fiercely at Yan Qingge who was enjoying the crab meat, her mouth tasted like chewing wax, and she no longer wanted to eat crab...

(End of this chapter)