Chapter 296 Troubled Times 16
Wushuang looked at Yuan Zhongjian, who was sitting in the imperial concubine's palace with a golden sword, looking at her up and down unscrupulously, and complained in her heart.
It's neither sooner nor later. An adult prince lingers in the palace of his adoptive mother who is not his biological mother. Are all the people in this palace blind? No one suspects anything is wrong.
Or the Imperial Concubine is too powerful, no one dares to say a word about the affairs in the Imperial Concubine's palace.
Perhaps this is the reason. The imperial concubine has a cruel temperament and has killed many people. It is normal that she cherishes her life and dares not to talk too much about the affairs in the imperial concubine's palace.
He was complaining in his heart, but he saluted Yuan Zhongjian and the imperial concubine seriously: "I have met the empress, and met the third prince."
The imperial concubine came over and said, "No need to give me any gifts. This time I called my wife here because the emperor's birthday is coming soon. I want to perform a dance for His Majesty. Please come and help me make a dance costume."
It is said that the emperor is celebrating his birthday, but in fact it is still half a year away, but all officials must prepare gifts in advance, and the gifts must be valuable.
The emperor enjoys himself a lot, but if you don't give birthday gifts well, you will be punished. The former prime minister was beaten to death by the emperor for being disrespectful because the birthday gifts he gave to the emperor were not generous enough.
As the emperor's sweetheart, the imperial concubine naturally does not need to prepare any expensive gifts, but if you think that the imperial concubine can easily spend the emperor's birthday like this, you are thinking too much.
The imperial concubine does not need to break the bank, but she must give a birthday gift that makes the emperor think that she is sincere and has put enough thought into it.
Moreover, she would go to great lengths to choreograph a new dance to celebrate the emperor's birthday every year. In a sense, this birthday gift for the imperial concubine was the most labor-intensive and tiring thing she gave every year.
The dance that the imperial concubine arranged this year was not to her liking. She mainly rehearsed new dances every year. To show her sincerity, the imperial concubine would rehearse and rehearse each time over and over again.
No matter how good she is at dancing, after so many years, she still has trouble arranging it. After all, the dance for the emperor doesn't just have to be excellent, it also has to be innovative enough.
The Imperial Concubine has been innovating for so many years, but this year she really can’t innovate anymore, so she wanted to see if she could make some changes in her dance clothes. If the clothes are good-looking, they will also increase the charm of the dance a lot.
Wushuang had long thought that the imperial concubine needed dance clothes, so she prepared in advance and brought them into the palace together today. Unexpectedly, they just met the imperial concubine's request.
Wushuang immediately said: "This is not a coincidence. I heard that your Majesty is good at flying dance, so I just made a flying dance dress for your Majesty in the past two days. I am satisfied with it after seeing it."
Wushuang brought some servants today to pick up clothes and jewelry. As soon as Wushuang waved his hand, several servants stepped forward in unison and opened the clothes and headgear that Wushuang had brought.
This Feitianwu dance costume is colorful, elegant and fairy-like, full of exotic customs, and has three styles: fairy, gorgeous and exotic. It is very stunning.
The imperial concubine liked it very much at first sight, and even Yuan Zhongjian was very surprised and said: "Mother, concubine, this dance costume sent by the general's wife is so beautiful.
If the mother-in-law wears it, even the fairies in the sky will be inferior to the mother-in-law."
The imperial concubine looked at the Feitian dance clothes in front of her, and a lot of inspiration came out in her mind. She circled the clothes lovingly, and said to Wushuang: "Every piece of clothes made by Madam is so in line with my heart.
The palace is very satisfied."
Wushuang smiled slightly and said, "It is my greatest honor to be satisfied with you."
The imperial concubine pulled Wushuang into the palace and asked Wushuang to sit on the cave with her. She also admonished Yuan Zhong with disgust: "Go out and play on your own quickly. Don't get in the way here."
Yuan Zhongjian sat casually on the chair next to him and said to the imperial concubine in a cheeky manner: "No, I have nowhere to go when I go out. It's very boring to be alone. Concubine, please let me stay here for a while."
Although the imperial concubine does not pay attention to rules, she also knows that she has Wushuang, the general's wife, here, and it is not appropriate for an adult prince to stay.
So the imperial concubine didn't pay attention to Yuan Zhongjian's cheating. She glared at Yuan Zhongjian and said, "You can go wherever you want. If you can't, go find Zhongli to play."
Yuan Zhongjian said casually: "Fourth brother has finally found two good opera singers recently. He is busy training them and giving them to his father as gifts. How can he have time to pay attention to me?"
Before the imperial concubine could continue to chase people away, Yuan Zhongjian looked at Wushuang and said: "My mother-in-law is very bored in the harem every day.
Madam came to see my mother and concubine today. In addition to clothes and hair, what other interesting things did she prepare for my mother and concubine? Take it out so that I, the prince, can open her eyes."
Seeing Yuan Zhongjian change the topic to himself, Wushuang took the opportunity to take out the script he had prepared.
He said to the imperial concubine: "I recently read a story book and found it very interesting. I thought it would be good to show it to my queen to relieve my boredom."
As soon as she heard that it was a storybook, the imperial concubine immediately let out a disappointed sound, and her body that had been sitting up straight in anticipation also softened.
She leaned on the armrest, forked a piece of watermelon with a fork, took a bite, and said coldly: "It turns out it's just a storybook, it's boring.
Those literati who write storybooks like to show off their literary talents. They are obviously doing it for fun, but they want to write in a literary and elegant way.
The simple sentence "Yunshan Wuluo" is hard for people to understand. I'm afraid I won't have fun reading it, and I'll be angry just reading it. I'm always impatient to read this."
Wushuang: "..."
It was a mistake. She was originally worried that her own novel writing would not conform to the habits of people of this era in writing novels, so she specially made an outline and found a talented scholar to write it.
Unexpectedly, the imperial concubine was semi-literate and could not read many Chinese characters. Naturally, she could not understand the obscure classical Chinese scripts.
On the other hand, Yuan Zhongjian picked up the notebook that Wushuang had placed on the table, opened it and glanced at it twice. His attention was attracted, and he flipped through the pages.
Seeing that the imperial concubine's dialogue book was very cold, Wu Shuang thought about it and said: "The empress dislikes the story book being boring because the person who wrote the story book made the language obscure and it seems uninteresting.
But the story in this storybook is very interesting. It would be a pity if your Majesty doesn’t read it. Why don’t you let me polish this storybook and tell it to you as a storyteller? What do you think?”
Although the imperial concubine is impatient to read storybooks, she still prefers to listen to stories and watch plays. However, there are only those that come and go in the playbooks, and watching even the best plays every day is boring.
When she heard Wu Shuang say that she wanted to give her a speech book, the imperial concubine immediately became interested, sat up straight and looked at Wu Shuang.
Over there, Yuan Zhongjian was still immersed in the storybook and couldn't extricate himself. He didn't hear what was said here at all, and he had no intention of giving the storybook in his hand to Wushuang.
Fortunately, Wushuang has already read it in advance, so he knows all the stories in the storybook, and all the plots can be understood immediately.
Chapter completed!