Phoenix Reborn: The Peerless Fourth Lady

Chapter 139: Longmen Banquet (IV)

The so-called Longmen Banquet takes the meaning of "Fish Leaping Longmen". It can also be said that this is a banquet prepared for Su Yun. This Longmen Banquet is held every year, but because Su Yun never returned to Beijing in three years, this year’s This Longmen banquet seems to be more grandiose than ever.

This is also one of the performances of Emperor Hongjia's fancy to Su Yun. Su Yun can be said to be the only general in Donghe Country who enjoys this honor. Even the Luo family, who is also the founding general of the country, has never enjoyed such treatment.

However, since Luo Guancheng ended his half-life military career in the Luo family, Luo's family house and second house chose the civil service, and only his eldest daughter Luo Bing inherited Luo Guancheng's military power.

Therefore, Luo Bing is also a well-known female general in the capital.

The sky was getting dark, and all the red festive lanterns in the palace had been lighted up. Qingyan looked at the chessboard in front of her. The chess pieces on the chessboard couldn't tell who won, but Qingyan was still tight. Staring at the chessboard closely, he didn't want to let it go.

It wasn't until the shrill voice sounded that Qingyan's thoughts were disturbed. In the eunuch's voice, "Long live the master, the queen empress, the prince..." Everyone got up and bowed down to Emperor Hongjia and today's Queen and Prince.

After waiting for them to take their seats, Emperor Hongjia made a sonorous and powerful voice, "All love is flat."

Longmen banquets are no different from other banquets, or they are not essentially different from Yanjuehui, and they are all occasions to fight for the royal family, or hope that a certain concubine will show his daughter.

And this Longmen Banquet was nominally for Su Yun to catch the dust, but the female family members had the idea to become a master.

Qingyan glanced at the empress empress who was sitting next to Emperor Hongjia. She was indeed exactly the same as Murong Jingxuan described. She was a gentle and virtuous woman. It should be said that such a woman who is indisputable is indeed a person of the world.

As for Concubine Yi, when Qingyan cast her gaze, she saw Concubine Yi looking inquiringly towards her. After the two people’s eyes met in the air for a while, Qingyan seemed not to care about Concubine Yi’s probing eyes. Just withdraw his sight.

Concubine Yi is indeed a difficult woman to deal with. This woman has been in the concubine position since giving birth to the second prince. It seems that she has never committed any sins, so even if Emperor Hongjia does not have her in his heart, this is also The reason why she can stay in the concubine for more than ten years.

This concubine Yi was more interesting than she had imagined. It seemed that the second prince had a good mother, otherwise he could easily be led by someone like Su Qingming.

But at least it proves that if Concubine Yi is no longer a concubine, then Xuanyuan Yufan will be a person without any support.

Qingyan didn't see Qi Lian Yuran at the banquet. She knew that Qi Lian Yuran still didn't like this kind of occasion. She probably always thought of Qi Lian Qingyan on such occasions.

But so what, the former Qi Lian Qingyan is no longer there.

Before the banquet began, all special performances were arranged by specific people. After the performance, Emperor Hong Jia started to eat. Su Qingyan knew that this time was the essence of the Longmen Banquet, because according to the performance of everyone, they would definitely mention it. Someone came out asking for a volunteer performance, and this performance was nothing more than another way to please Emperor Hongjia.

Qingyan looked at the exquisite dishes in front of her and looked dull. It was still the same as before. She always felt that there was a gaze following her, but when she looked at it, she found that there was only a tall tree behind her.

Qingyan picked up the fruit in the fruit plate and slowly tasted it. She thought to her heart that maybe it was because today's dyeing action put her in a state of high tension, so she has always had this idea.

"Sister, I want to eat that." Su Qingcong stretched out his small hand to the red fruit in front of Qingyan, but his arms were too short to reach.

Red fruit is a specialty of Toga country. Its name is raspberry. However, because of the high price of raspberry, it is not a fruit that ordinary people can eat.

Even a person like Qingyan does not often eat raspberries, because raspberries are fruits that always want to pay tribute to the palace.

"Okay." Qingyan said with a smile and pushed all the raspberries in front of Su Qingcong in front of Su Qingcong, "If Cong'er likes it, then eat all of sister's share." She said and rubbed it. Rubbed Su Qingcong's little head.

Su Qingcong looked at the raspberries in front of him and only took a few, and then shared the raspberries in his hand with Su Qingxue, who was sitting quietly eating fruit.

Su Qingxue smiled and took the raspberry that Su Qingcong handed over, but put it on the plate in front of Su Qingcong. She looked at Su Qingcong and smiled and said, "Sister doesn’t eat it, just eat it. ."

Qingyan likes to see such scenes very much, because she knows that only when the siblings help each other can solve some problems, even if these are trivial to them.

But at this moment, I heard the voice of Xuanyuan Yuzhe, the son of the three princes, saying, "Father, the meal is now halfway through. Since today's Longmen Banquet is more grand than ever, it’s better to let each family have a show. , So that it won’t be monotonous at this Longmen Banquet."

After listening to Xuanyuan Yuzhe's words, Emperor Hongjia thought for a while, and felt that what he said was quite reasonable. He glanced at the queen next to him and smiled, "How does the queen feel?"

The queen looked at Emperor Hongjia and said with a smile, "The concubine also thinks this idea is very good, so do all my sisters think so."

Listening to the Queen’s words, everyone naturally agreed, and naturally thought that this idea was a good idea, not to mention that none of their sons had ever been married. If they could find a daughter-in-law on an occasion like today, naturally it would be great. of.

"Who is willing to volunteer to perform first? If the performance is good, then I will definitely have a reward." Emperor Hong Jia looked at the crowd below and said with a smile.

And he knew that the girls underneath were already eager to try. When he thought of this, he turned his eyes to Su Qingyan who was sitting on the side. Her face was calm and without waves, as if everything happened. Everything has nothing to do with him.

Thinking of what Su Yun had said, thinking of the events at the Longmen Banquet three years ago, Emperor Hong Jia couldn't help frowning, he was still a child after all.

Since she is a child, she has the right to be forgiven by everyone, not to mention that she has become Ning'er's lifesaver today.

Qingyan felt the gaze of Emperor Hongjia, but she still sat there unmoved, because he knew what the investigation was for Emperor Hongjia, but it didn’t matter, as long as no one came to look for her tonight. , She will certainly not volunteer for performance.

But I'm afraid that some people with bad intentions are unwilling to make her happy.

Qingyan's gaze quietly scanned the expressions on the faces of every girl at the banquet. At this moment, she heard a familiar voice, "Back, the emperor's courtier is willing to volunteer to come and play first."