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There are countless rules in the palace. Song Ye, the founding emperor of Daliang, not only set the rule of sleeping every three days, but also set a flower banquet.The Flower Banquet refers to the monthly gathering in the harem.

Because of this rule, Liu Erya, who is now on the harem list, is also forced to attend the harem party with the emperor's concubines.Thinking that there were only women in the party, Liu Erya couldn't help being a little embarrassed.

Eunuch Yuchi said: "The gathering in the harem is just a simple interview, just talking, don't be too nervous."

Song Ye actually had his reasons for setting this rule.Back then, Song Ye had a romantic life and had more than a thousand concubines in the harem.There are many people and mixed populations, and interpersonal relationships are more complicated.In order to reduce the occurrence of fights and frame-ups in the harem, Song Ye specially asked the queen to call all the concubines together to hold a small family meeting once a month, named it Flower Banquet, hoping to ease and enhance the relationship between the concubines.It's just that he didn't expect that although the beautiful and beautiful concubines in the flower banquet seemed to be chatting happily on the surface, they were secretly fighting fiercely like ferocious beasts.Even so, Song Ye still insisted on this rule and passed it down from generation to generation.

Yuze Palace is the palace where Empress Zhou lived. Purple daisies bloomed all over the courtyard, and several court ladies carefully cut the excess branches and leaves.The carved door in Yuze Hall was open on all sides, and countless eyes with knives looked out from the room, looking like balls of flames on the young man with a beautiful face in an indigo blue robe, staring at Liu Erya even more. It's uneasy.

It is rare for the emperor's concubines to have a common enemy.

The scale of Yuze Hall is similar to that of Fuze Hall, but it is much smaller than Fuze Hall because it is full of flowers and plants, and there are many court ladies.

Stepping into the hall, the hall is already full and there are no extra chairs.In the hostile atmosphere, Liu Erya saluted and stood aside.Fortunately, the current emperor is not as romantic as his ancestor Song Ye, and there are only seven concubines in the harem. After joining Liu Erya, there are only eight concubines in total.

Concubine Wei was still angry with the emperor, she extended the confinement period for ten days, and even her father kept her outside the door when she came to visit, so naturally she would not come to today's gathering.

The six beauties in the seat were not surprised to see a trace of dissatisfaction on Liu Erya's face.Empress Zhou sat on the throne in a dark red robe, and the cherry blossom gold inlaid jade steps above her head shone dazzlingly in the sunlight.The concubines below were all dressed in dim attire, and Concubine Du Shu's magenta was particularly prominent among them.The vermilion butterfly hairpin was faintly shining, and she was delicate, but she was not afraid of offending Queen Zhou.

Empress Zhou took a sip of her tea, and gracefully put down the bronze teacup, as if she had never seen Liu Erya.She waved her hand, and the maids standing one step behind the concubines handed over a small and narrow wooden box to the slender hands of the concubines.Open the wooden box, and on top of the red brocade is a golden cherry blossom hairpin.The concubines thanked you again and again, Empress Zhou smiled slightly, and said to everyone present: "I sent someone to build this when I went back to my hometown to visit relatives a few days ago. It is not very valuable. You sisters laughed at me."

A concubine in a dark blue dress said: "Don't dare, dare not. This is made by my sister herself. It is unique in this world. My sister likes it very much."

Another concubine in a black robe said: "Sakura is the national flower of Daliang, and it is also His Majesty's favorite flower. The queen sister really has a heart."

Concubine Du Shu replied: "Yes, yes. It's not like someone who just arrived and didn't bring a gift. He made us wait for so long, it's really shameless."

Liu Erya knew that Concubine Du Shu was still angry about the drinking that day, and understood that she was talking about herself, but Eunuch Yuchi said that the flower banquet would not start until noon, and he would arrive at noon tomorrow. Although he was the last one, he did not He didn't deliberately keep them waiting.

Eunuch Liang beside him had worked in the palace for many years, so he could see that these concubines had colluded with each other to start the flower feast ahead of time.The purpose is to deliberately embarrass Liu Erya.

Fortunately, Eunuch Yuchi prepared a meeting ceremony for Liu Erya.Eunuch Liang lifted the dark red box by the door, and Erya Liu handed out small square ebony boxes one by one.The concubines opened it and saw that there was a delicate and transparent glass cup inside.Clear and noble, like the temperament of a noble son.

Concubine Du Shu put the cup on the tea table aside in disgust, and winked at the beauty in red sandalwood clothes on the opposite side.The beauty immediately said knowingly: "This teacup is pretty good, but the cup is for drinking tea, how can it be empty."

Concubine Du Shu replied: "Yes, yes. I don't know how to serve tea, I really don't understand the rules."

Empress Zhou, who was on the throne, kept silent, watching Liu Erya come in with a bronze teapot, and poured tea for the concubines present one by one.After serving the tea, some people were still dissatisfied and said: "Serving tea is different from pouring tea. I have never seen anyone standing while serving tea."

Liu Erya knew that these people were deliberately embarrassing herself.The emperor neglected the harem because of him, and it is normal for the concubines to have resentment in their hearts.Taking a step forward, Eunuch Liang wanted to dissuade him, but he smiled and said it was okay.

Liu Erya first picked up the glazed teacup, knelt in front of Queen Zhou and offered tea to Queen Zhou, and then offered tea to all the concubines one by one, and the last one was Concubine Du Shu who was sitting at the end.

Liu Erya knelt down and brought the glass cup to Concubine Du Shu. Concubine Du Shu stretched out her hand to take it, but she couldn't hold it firmly. "Oops" the tea was overturned, and the glass cup fell to the ground with a bang. On the back of Liu Erya's left hand appeared A red mark scalded by tea.Concubine Du Shu looked panic-stricken and ashamed, but she didn't know how happy she was.

Concubine Du Shu pretended to help Liu Erya up, but her right hand pinched Liu Erya's hot left hand intentionally or unintentionally.Liu Erya gritted her teeth and endured the pain, with a smile still on her face.Concubine Du Shu couldn't see a trace of pain on his face, so she pinched harder.

At this moment, a green figure came in from outside the door, saluted respectfully, and said, "The Empress, ladies and gentlemen, Wan An."

Eunuch Liang thought, Eunuch Yuchi came at the right time.

Eunuch Yuchi reported to the concubines that the emperor summoned Liu Erya for something, so he took Liu Erya out of Yuze Palace.

A luxurious carriage stopped at the gate of Yuze Palace, and Eunuch Yuchi signaled Liu Erya to get on the carriage.After staying in the palace for a long time, this was the first time Liu Erya saw a carriage in the palace, and she asked curiously, "Is this... going out of the palace?"

Liu Erya has never seen anyone using a carriage to travel in the palace, even if there are delicate concubines going out, they just sit in a sedan chair and let others carry them.Eunuch Yuchi said: "Your Majesty hastened to call, take the carriage faster."

Fuze Hall and Yuze Hall are actually only separated by a high wall.The carriage moved slowly, and Liu Erya felt that if the emperor was in a hurry to see him, wouldn't it be faster to run over.And Eunuch Yuchi said: "Your Majesty is not in Fuze Hall."

Eunuch Liang was smearing ointment on Liu Erya's burned hands in the carriage, and Eunuch Yuchi who was on the side suddenly felt that it was a wise decision for the emperor to leave the palace behind in the name of being greedy for male sex.

The carriage walked for a long time, exited the north gate, and was about to leave the palace, Liu Erya wanted to ask something, but the carriage stopped at the entrance of a large hall not far from the north gate.At this time, Liu Erya finally knew why she had to take the carriage.Because this road is really far away, as far away as if you are leaving the palace, but you are still in the palace.

After getting off the carriage, there is a grand and majestic Jubilee Palace in front of you, with a lifelike stone dragon in the center of the steps.This is the place where the emperor used to hold birthday banquets for the empress dowager. Now that the empress dowager has passed away, I don't know what kind of activities will be held in the Jubilee and Shou Hall today.

Climbing up the 39 stone steps, Eunuch Yuchi stopped and panted secretly.He thought that human beings really like to make trouble for themselves, and the palace would not be flooded, so he didn't understand why human beings built their houses on such a high place.

The two people behind him naturally didn't know what he was thinking at the moment, they just felt that Yuchi's father-in-law was 27 years old, so he was considered old... Even if he didn't count his age, his physical strength was still inferior to that of teenagers.It is also appropriate to let him rest.

The sound of playing music was faintly heard in the Jubilee Hall with its doors and windows closed, and the chime bells were beeping, playing a beautiful and melodious melody.There are many small rooms beside the aisle behind the Jubilee and Shou Hall, which are places for musicians and dancers to rest and change clothes.Under the leadership of Eunuch Yuchi, Liu Erya and Eunuch Liang entered one of the small rooms.

There were six eunuchs in the room who were sent by the emperor to take care of Liu Erya's bathing, dressing and dressing.Eunuch Yuchi and Eunuch Liang waited at the side, and it was already three quarters of the unitary hour when Liu Erya came out from the small gate.Eunuch Yuchi was standing by the door almost falling asleep, thinking that these six eunuchs were really annoying.When Liu Erya appeared in front of him in a gorgeous attire, Eunuch Yuchi felt that the eunuch's grumbling made sense.

Under the warm light, Liu Erya is dressed in a noble and beautiful white robe. Although there is no dragon and phoenix on the robe, there is a peacock with its tail embroidered with gold thread.The blue silk like splashed ink is bundled up high, and it is fastened with a silver crown shaped like willow leaves.Liu Erya's beautiful appearance really made the eunuch holding rouge reluctant to do it, as if Liu Erya should be fresh and natural, and does not need to be decorated with makeup and rouge.

But this would make the make-up eunuch very useless. In order not to make himself look useless, the make-up eunuch had to draw a red flower on Liu Erya's snow-white forehead.The safflower is delicate and bright, like a bright red cherry blossom blooming between the eyebrows. Against the background of the safflower and the fine clothes, Liu Erya's pretty face is fresh and refined, like a mortal.

The robe behind her dragged the sandalwood floor, and Liu Erya walked awkwardly, and the painting of a flower on her forehead made him even more awkward.He wanted to raise his hand to wipe it off, but he thought how sad he would be if he wiped it off after the makeup eunuch painted it for a long time.

Besides, the banquet for a while is quite grand, and the emperor asked him to represent the harem, so it was naturally more solemn.It's just that Liu Erya couldn't figure out why the emperor didn't invite the empress who commanded the harem to come to the banquet, but instead invited the soft-spoken himself.

The little eunuch who waited on Liu Erya to change clothes said that a neighboring country had sent a princess to marry her, and that the banquet tonight was for the Xun country's mission.

It's fine to meet the concubines in the harem, but also to meet the Xun Kingdom's envoys. Liu Erya has mixed feelings in her heart. She really doesn't know how the news of the emperor's sleeve cutting will make the Xun Kingdom people think.

Seeing Liu Erya's embarrassment, Eunuch Yuchi said from the side: "Your Majesty, don't worry. Your Majesty has said that you don't need to say anything, you don't need to do anything, just show your face at the banquet. There's no need to be nervous."

Liu Erya is not worried about whether to speak or not, he is thinking that the national prestige established by Daliang for a hundred years will be destroyed overnight?

The lights in front of the north gate are brightly lit, and the banquet in the Palace of Jubilee and Longevity begins at the moment when the zither sounds.The emperor sat on the dragon chair on the maroon high platform in a golden robe, and the officials and nobles below sat in front of the table, and there were court ladies serving food and wine by the floor lantern.

The officials tasted the food carefully, and there were basically no other sounds in the hall except for the music played by 65 bronze chimes.

The emperor ate a few mouthfuls casually, and the eunuch walked up the steps to refill his wine. The sound of putting down the copper chopsticks was particularly clear in the low-pitched music.Seeing the emperor put down the bowls and chopsticks, the people below also stopped their movements.

Sitting on the left side of the front row, the delegation from the Xun Kingdom ate with great relish. They were a little surprised at the behavior of the people in the hall who stopped after just a few mouthfuls. Although they wanted to continue eating, after all, they were in a foreign country and it was necessary to do as the Romans did. I had no choice but to resist the temptation of delicious food on the low table and put down my chopsticks.

The leading diplomatic envoy of the Xun Kingdom Mission stood up and walked to the high platform to salute, briefly praised the strength, prosperity and greatness of Daliang several times, and then read a few words from the Xun Kingdom King.A woman sitting in front of the mission, wearing a bright red dress, with a gorgeous appearance and a bright red eyebrow pendant, got up and walked to the side of the messenger, who was introduced and praised over and over again like a poem by the messenger. .

The maids with food trays stopped outside the side doors on both sides of the main hall, and waited for the messengers to praise the women in red and retreated to their seats before entering the hall neatly side by side to replace the people on the table with new dishes.

The musicians played music behind the curtain, and the dancers surrounded the woman in red, dancing to the sound of the piano.The woman in red has a graceful figure, a sexy dancing posture, and charming eyebrows and eyes. Under the background of the dancer, she is like a blooming peony. Those who are greedy for beauty can't help but sigh that the emperor is really lucky.

The beauty in red who performed the dance was a princess sent by Xun Kingdom to marry her. Her name was Xie Yao. She was the ninth and youngest daughter of the king of Xun Kingdom.

After the song was played, the dancer stepped back, and the envoy came forward to praise Princess Xie Yao endlessly, saying that the princess is not only good at singing and dancing, but also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.In short, I want Emperor Liang to feel that the princess of Xun Kingdom is perfect and rare in the world, and I want to persuade the cold emperor so that he can set the date of marriage early.

But he didn't want Emperor Liang to be an iceberg, the envoy spoke so dryly that the emperor still refused to nod his head.

At this time, Liu Erya, who was waiting behind the Jubilee Hall, became more and more nervous when she heard the faint music coming from the hall, and her palms were so cold that she was sweating.Just as he was about to go out for a walk to get some air, there was a knock on the door.

Eunuch Yuchi said outside the house: "Your Majesty, His Majesty summoned you."