Legend of the Orchid

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, during the Lantern Festival, there is a banquet to celebrate in the palace as usual. This year, because the big bone of the Southern Tang Dynasty was gnawed, the war in the Song Dynasty was much easier. Compared with previous years, only the harem celebrated the festive season. Song Emperor Zhao Kuangyin decided to stay in the palace this year. A grand banquet is to be held, and all officials and family members can participate to show the prosperity and prosperity of the country.

The ministers had heard the news a long time ago, so they made every effort to search for rare treasures.Song had just founded the country and had fought for many years. The treasury was weak. Although there were treasures, they were not worth mentioning. It was not as exciting as the news of Xiao Zhou's entry into the palace.

On the night of the Shangyuan Festival, Li Yu entered the palace with his beloved wife and two sons. Xiao Zhouhou was dressed in green clothes, her almond eyes drooped slightly, and a simple ivory comb was inserted behind her forehead, but she wore a tall snake bun. Embellished with a little garnet bead flower, it looks like a scarlet snake's eyes, shining brightly in the dark night not to be outdone.

"Heh..." All the ministers sighed secretly during the banquet, and almost couldn't help shaking their heads. It's really beautiful. This Li Yu will really enjoy the blessings of everyone!

But soon, everyone's eyes fell on Li Zhonglan behind Li Yu.

Li Zhonglan, who took off his official uniform, simply tied up his waist-length blue silk with a purple-red ribbon, and also wore a purple-red robe. Compared with his three plain-colored family members, he was simply a coquettish alien, not in court. On the ground, his head finally lifted up. This time, like a bead shining brightly, everyone discovered that the second prince of the Southern Tang Dynasty was such a handsome man.

The bright candlelight cast a layer of light yellow velvet light on his mutton fat skin, making his actually thin face look pink, with a texture of water from a pinch, his lips are also fleshy pink, and the tip of his nose is slightly pink. It is tilted up, as if the astringency has not faded away, but the peach blossom eyes under the willow eyebrows are full of indifference and alienation, like ice blades in the winter, which will break at any time and penetrate into people's hearts.

As a result, everyone's eyes turned around Li Zhonglan's face, and then returned to his lips.

It's a pity it's a man!Someone secretly sighed.

An upright minister found himself looking at a man lost his mind, he couldn't help feeling very embarrassed, he hurriedly picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine, but he drank too quickly and coughed in embarrassment. Coughing sounded one after another.

Li Zhongyu cast a reproachful glance at Li Zhonglan next to him. He originally felt guilty towards Li Zhonglan, but over the past year, after seeing her bewitching his father and mother more and more like a monster, he gradually became dissatisfied, and his relationship with him has also become estranged a lot .

Li Zhonglan didn't look sideways, until she got close to Zhao Tingjie's seat, she blocked her throat with one breath, and couldn't hold back anymore.

He saw Zhao Tingjie's concubine, Mrs. Chen, who wore a low bun and looked pleasing to the eye with low eyebrows. Even the vulgar beaded gold hairpins could not conceal her pettiness, but she There is actually a well-behaved boy sitting beside him. The banquet in the palace is very solemn, and children usually do not attend. It can be seen that this child is quite loved by Zhao Kuangyin, so maybe Zhao Tingjie will also dote on the child's birth mother, after all, mothers are more expensive than children. Don't do too much.

But Zhao Tingjie didn't look at the concubine and the child, he was staring at Li Zhonglan again, under the arrogant sword eyebrows, the cold star eyes started to fly knives again, as if he was going to cut Li Zhonglan into pieces.

He hates me that much?Li Zhonglan was so angry that her jaw trembled unconsciously, no matter what, it was she who should express her disgust!

Just when he was angry, a ray of playful eyes floated from the left again, Li Zhonglan suppressed his anger so as not to let his eyebrows twitch into a ball.

He hated that Zhao Guangyi always looked at himself with the same eyes as admiring prey, as if he would become a fish on the chopping board in the next second, as if he was going to be slaughtered by the other party.

After all, Li Zhonglan couldn't hold back, and cast a fierce glance at Zhao Guangyi, but was shocked to find that the other party looked like a white-faced scholar after taking off his official uniform. He created a calm and steady breath.

Right now, King Zhao Guangyi of Jin was waving a tortoiseshell fan, squinting a pair of phoenix eyes, and smiling at Li Zhonglan with relish.

Shaking the fan in winter is not afraid of freezing to death.Li Zhonglan thought angrily.

Different from Zhao Tingjie's sharpness and Zhao Guangyi's banter, there is a man with a round face and happy eyebrows sitting on the VIP seat on the right. He is Zhao Kuangyin's third brother Zhao Guangmei.

Zhao Guangmei was born with a childlike face. Although she is a few years older than her nephew, they seem to be about the same age.When Zhao Guangmei attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty the year before last, he and Li Yu talked and chatted happily, and regarded Li Yu as a confidant in life. At this moment, he is greeting Li Yu with a smile without hesitation.

Li Yu nodded gratefully to Zhao Guangmei, then saluted Zhao Kuangyin, and said a lot of praise. The emperor listened to too many praises all night, and he was not very interested, so he just nodded slightly.

Li Yu wanted to present the gift to Zhao Kuangyin, so Li Zhonglan stepped forward and held up the golden nanmu box in his hand.

The eunuch took the wooden box, opened it to look, and said: "Li Yu, the deposed king, presents a flying glass statue."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded slightly, the eunuch was about to cover the wooden box, when a golden light suddenly radiated from the box.

In an instant, a slender beauty in a long silk dress with fluttering cuffs flew out of the golden light, and flew into the sky above the hall amidst the exclamation of the crowd.While flying, she picked up the flowers in the colorful flower basket and threw them into the air at will. Immediately, a rain of colorful flowers rained down in the hall.

Those peonies, camellias, and rhododendrons were about to hit the heads of the crowd, but they suddenly turned into golden light, and slowly disappeared, making the already bright hall even more radiant and radiant.

Only one flower really fell, and it landed on the head of the prince-to-be, Zhao Tingjie, and then slipped down to his hand.It was a white orchid.

Zhao Tingjie grabbed the orchid and slowly crushed it in his palm.

After a circle, the flying beauty landed slowly and danced. It was "Neon Clothes and Feather Dress Dance" created by the peerless concubine Yang Guifei. The color eyes are like the distant sky, holy and far away, making everyone hold their breath.

She jumped to the side of Prince Zhun, and suddenly knelt down on one knee, her eyes became full of amorous feelings, she smiled, stretched out her finger, hooked Zhao Tingjie's chin, got up quickly, and dexterously moved away.

The warm touch of his fingertips made Zhao Tingjie's heart tremble slightly. He glanced at Li Zhonglan, and saw that the latter pretended to concentrate on watching Feitian dance, the corners of his mouth could not help but raised, and his sharp face suddenly softened a lot.

After flying to the sky, he jumped up and turned into golden light and returned to the box. Everything fell silent. The scene just now was still lingering in the minds of everyone. Exclaimed, even Li Yu and others were completely surprised, only Zhao Tingjie still had a cold face, and Zhao Guangyi still looked like he was watching the show.

"Okay!" At this moment, Zhao Kuangyin laughed and clapped his hands.

The emperor Longyan was very happy, and the officials were also very excited. The applause was endless for a while. Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed and named Li Yu the Marquis of Disobedience, Xiao Zhou Hou as Mrs. Zheng Guo, Li Zhongyu as General Youqianniuwei, and finally Li Zhonglan as Cong Sanpin The casual cavalry attendant.

Li Yu and others thanked the emperor, Zhao Tingjie suddenly got up slowly, and said to Zhao Kuangyin: "Father, Zhao'er has a merciless request."

Although Zhao Kuangyin did not confer Zhao Tingjie as the crown prince, he held the prince in the highest regard and said with a smile, "Let's talk, my son."

Zhao Tingjie said solemnly: "Recently, I am very interested in Zhu You's skills, and I want to find a master to ask for advice. I beg my father to let Li Zhonglan, the son of the disobedient Marquis, be my regular servant on horseback, so that I can also learn some tricks." Come to make your father happy."

Li Zhonglan gritted her teeth when she heard this, good Zhao Tingjie, and started to make her own decisions again, he never asked for his own opinion, and he even called his ability a "trick", and still underestimated him as before.

Li Zhonglan thought about it for a while, put on a smiling face, and said to Zhao Kuangyin: "Your Majesty, such a petty minister is useless. His Royal Highness Zhao is obsessed with important tasks every day. It's really not worth wasting your mind on mere tricks, my minister." Your Highness Xie Zhao is so ashamed to love you!"

What he said, he wished to have nothing to do with the emperor, but because of his knowledge, Zhao Kuangyin laughed loudly: "Zhaoer, you don't have to go to Shannan West Road this time, stay in Beijing and do things for me, Li Aiqing Although he is my regular attendant, if you have free time, you can go to His Royal Highness Zhao to discuss and learn from each other, so that Zhao'er can increase his knowledge."

Zhao Tingjie's complexion was dark at first, but he finally recovered after hearing it. Li Zhonglan was just the opposite, and could only look coldly at Zhao Tingjie's complacent starry eyes.

Zhao Guangyi looked at the two meaningfully from the side, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. In terms of scheming, children are children after all, whether it is a country or a beauty, it is natural that the elders have the final say.