Ye Chang naturally heard Xu Yunchu's words from the little eunuch, and his face was not very good-looking, thinking of the same sentence as Su Fengnuan.
The emperor is really full.
Madam Su saw that the faces of the two were not good, and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
Su Fengnuan lowered his head and told Mrs. Su what Xu Yunchu had said.
Although Mrs. Su didn't know that Xu Lingyi poisoned Ye Chang that day, she knew that Xu Lingyi liked Ye Chang and was almost obsessed with it. She glanced at Ye Chang and said, "Today is the emperor's banquet. Ms. Xu shouldn't be causing any trouble on such a day? Otherwise, she will risk her reputation. The Guozhang's Mansion will not allow her to corrupt the lintel of the Guozhang's Mansion. You should deal with it when the time comes."
Su Fengnuan nodded indifferently.
The head of the state was sitting at the table, and the emperor asked Xu Yunchu to ask questions. When he came back, he sent someone to send a message to Su Fengnuan. He lowered his voice and asked, "Yunchu, what did the emperor ask you to ask? It's about the Su family." girl?"
Xu Yunchu bowed his head and told about the emperor asking Xu Lingyi and Su Fengnuan to compete in a game of chess.
The head of the state was speechless for a while after hearing the words. Xu Lingyi's drugging Ye Chang really disgraced the head of the state. Xu Yunchu sold Ye Chang a favor and kept this matter private. In the past few days, Xu Lingyi They were all punished in the ancestral hall, but the emperor was very interested in letting her participate in the banquet, and even competed with Su Fengnuan in chess.
But regardless of Su Fengnuan's chess skills, Xu Lingyi was thinking about Ye Chang, and now Ye Chang is not sitting at the table in Rong An's mansion, but at the table in Su's mansion. If Xu Lingyi comes and sees it, She wasn't sure what would happen.
How would it end then
Although the head of the state doesn't like Su Fengnuan's behavior, but after he stepped down from the court, he has thought about it carefully recently, and now he understands a lot of things that he couldn't understand before. But Su Fengnuan killed Concubine Yuegui by himself, and she has more superb medical skills than Mengtai Physician of Taiyuan Hospital. She has more abilities than ordinary daughters. Maybe he was wrong before.
Looking at Su Fengnuan now, she is lazy and casual. Among the daughters in the palace and boudoir, although she does not sit well, she is very pleasing to the eye and unique. Sitting with Ye Chang, even he felt matched.
The head of the state was speechless for a while, and said to Xu Yunchu, "Since it's the emperor's intention, that's the only way to go, but you also send someone back to the mansion to warn her, if something happens to her again today, no one can protect her. As the daughter of the Guozhang's Mansion, if you continue to mess around and disgrace the Guozhang's Mansion, you will be expelled from the Guozhang's Mansion."
Just as Xu Yunchu had this intention, he hurriedly called a man and gave instructions, and the man left immediately.
After a song and dance, the emperor signaled to the waiters in the Ministry of Rites to start performing arts for the ladies of various houses.
A waiter said a few words appropriate to the occasion, and then reported the list. Except for Su Fengnuan, the names of all the boudoir girls in Beijing are on it. This is the list that was made before the Hundred Flowers Banquet. Xu Lingyi's name Nature is on it too.
The emperor smiled and raised his voice, "Miss Xu and Miss Su have a chess competition, and add this." After finishing speaking, he looked at Su Fengnuan who was drinking, "Su girl, do you have any objections? You are good at chess, everyone The ladies of the mansion are all involved, how can you just eat and drink?"
Everyone was silent when they heard the words.
Holding the wine glass, Su Fengnuan said with a smile, "Your Majesty, what kind of chess skills do I have? Playing chess with you is all random. I heard that Ms. Xu from the Governor's Mansion is unparalleled in chess. You asked me to play chess with her. It's not intentional." Step down on me? My reputation is already bad, so please forgive me!"
Everyone became quieter after hearing the words.
The emperor smiled and said, "You little girl, your chess skills can beat me at random, don't pretend to me. In my opinion, your chess skills are probably not inferior to Miss Xu. What do you mean I deliberately stepped down on you? You also Having said that, your reputation is already bad, and you have to recover some points."
Everyone was surprised.
Su Fengnuan laughed, "That's a blind cat meeting a dead mouse. It's good luck." After saying that, she smiled and said, "Is there any way to restore my reputation? Your majesty, you praise me too much."
The emperor laughed angrily, "Stop talking nonsense, you are not allowed to break the chain for me later, play hard, it's settled like this."
Su Fengnuan was speechless, thinking that the emperor has been sitting in a high position for a long time, is he used to saying what he says
At this time, the queen suddenly smiled and said, "I heard that Ms. Sun of the Prime Minister's Mansion played the piano, and Ms. Su sword danced. Take a look?"
The emperor smiled and said, "I have seen her sword dance before, it is really exquisite, but that day, the palace musicians played the piano music, and I have never seen Miss Sun play the piano Su Yatou sword dance. You can also watch it today."
Su Fengnuan was speechless again, her mother was right, she had to stop today.
The queen first asked Sun Qingxue, "Miss Sun, what do you think?"
Sun Qingxue glanced at Su Fengnuan across the table, and saw that she was speechless, she said respectfully, "Go back to Empress Empress, Qingxue has no objection, but sister Su wants to discuss chess and sword dance again, I'm afraid it will be very tiring... "
The queen laughed and said, "I heard that people who practice martial arts are more energetic than ordinary people. Miss Su should be able to do it."
Sun Qingxue could only keep silent.
Su Fengnuan didn't answer.
At this time, the queen mother smiled and said, "I heard that Ms. Su seems to be good at painting too? Today, Eunuch Yan took a painting out of the palace and asked a mounter to mount it. It is said that the mounter had seen a painting made by Ms. Su not long ago." The painting, Lian Lian praised and said it was a good painting, I wonder if it is better than Miss Shen's painting skills in Jingyang Hou Mansion? The Ai family also wants to see it."
Su Fengnuan was completely speechless, and turned to look at Ye Chang.
Ye Chang also seemed quite speechless, and his face was not very good-looking.
Su Fengnuan thought to herself that the emperor, empress, and queen mother really gave her face, so she took out the three beauties of Beijing and China to compare with her. Also think highly of her. If she agrees, will she be exhausted today? It also made everyone treat her like a monkey. She never liked to show people's eyes when it was not necessary. If not? Didn't he slap the emperor, queen mother, and empress in the face all at once
The queen mother smiled and asked, "Miss Su, what do you think? You obviously know these things, but you don't sign up. Why?"
Su Fengnuan first glanced at Sun Qingxue, saw her worried face, then glanced at Shen Zhilan, saw that she was looking at her, but her eyes were focused on Ye Chang, she raised her eyebrows slightly, this Miss Shen might be the same Lingyi is ordinary, but an idiot. She secretly scolded Ye Chang for being a scourge.
She thought that she couldn't push all three, and she had to choose one, so that people would not feel slapped in the face, and she could pass this level without causing a mess. So, he put down the wine cup and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, and Empress, you three really flatter me. I just learned more chess skills from my senior brother since I was young, so I can give it a try. As for the sword dance, today's game It's not suitable for a full hall of banquets, right? If my sword flies out of my hand and hurts someone, it's not good. If the empress wants to see it, it's not on this day. I'm used to wielding swords anyway. As for painting , this..."
The Queen Mother immediately asked, "How?"
Su Fengnuan deliberately didn't say anything, raised his hand to call a little eunuch, and whispered something to the little eunuch, the little eunuch suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise, then, blushing, ran to the queen mother, and whispered something to the queen mother, After hearing this, the queen mother looked at Su Fengnuan, speechless for a while.
Su Fengnuan still looked at the Empress Dowager with a smile, and said, "I really can't sell my paintings. Are you sure you want to let me show them in the palace?"
Naturally, it is impossible for the queen mother to let her draw erotic pictures in such a day. After a long while of silence, she waved her hand, "That's all, that's what the Ai family said. Since you can't take it out, you don't have to."
The queen also smiled at this time and said, "I forgot, the hall is full of people today, it's really inconvenient to dance swords, so let's move on to another day."
Su Fengnuan solved both of them at once, and nodded with a smile in a good mood.
The emperor saw that Su Fengnuan won the empress dowager's face, and the queen's face, but not his, he was naturally happy. Although he naturally knew that Su Fengnuan was good at painting, the scene of the military inspector's dilapidation was deeply remembered in his mind. At that time, he was very angry at the appearance of the military inspector in Nanqi, so he didn't pay attention to admiring her paintings for a while, but later Suddenly thinking about her vivid painting skills, it is indeed rare.
However, he also knew Su Fengnuan's temperament, and seeing her playing chess with Xu Lingyi today, it was very good for a century, so he didn't want to say more.
According to the order of the list, the waiters of the Ministry of Rituals called the ladies from all the prefectures to come on stage to show their talents.
The ladies from all the prefectures tried their best, some showed embroidery in the hall, double-sided embroidery and various embroidery methods, which were eye-opening; some showed flower arrangement in the hall, some showed poetry in the hall, and some played Guzheng, Pipa, Piccolo, etc...
Variety.
The ladies wanted to win the prize bestowed by the emperor today, so they naturally worked hard, especially when they skillfully avoided the skills that the three beauties in Beijing are good at. Sun Qingxue's qin, Xu Lingyi's chess, Shen Zhilan's paintings.
Halfway through the banquet, Xu Lingyi entered the hall accompanied by others.
Xu Lingyi obviously dressed up carefully. She was wearing a light pink skirt with lace trim and embroidered pink plum blossoms on the skirt. She looked delicate, beautiful, dignified and elegant.
Xu Lingyi usually doesn't like to wear pink dresses, but she did this dress today. Everyone looked at her, and they all looked at Su Fengnuan.
Mrs. Su likes pink. The clothes made by Su Fengnuan are almost all pink. There are all kinds of pink dresses. Today she is dressed brightly and beautifully, but she is not sitting properly, leaning on the table with a wine glass in her hand , with one arm supporting the leg, she really doesn't look like a lady.
In such a comparison, Xu Lingyi is a perfect lady.
Everyone thought together that the emperor strongly recommended Su Fengnuan's chess skills, and wondered if her chess skills were as impressive as her martial arts. A person with high chess skill is elegant and clean, and only a smart person can play chess well. After all, she looked like an ignorant person.