The Palace of Peach and Plum

Chapter 95:

Although the courtiers let His Majesty the Emperor be thrifty and frugal every day, but this time His Majesty said that he wanted to celebrate his birthday, they had no objection.

This birthday is originally a major event, and you can handle it with the Minister of the Central Government. Why can’t the emperor do it? The emperor has worked hard for so many years, and now the world has risen to peace, it’s time for joy.

As for the entertainment of colorful clothes… It was at a private small gathering within the royal family. What do they do with their family members, can you outsiders control it?

At this time, Ling Wei very much hoped that someone would come out to speak up and let His Majesty be more honest.

But no one stood up at this time, everyone said that His Majesty the Emperor needed a lively birthday.

Ling Wei expressed his disappointment.

Now they are forming a circle, sitting in the courtyard sighing together.

“Then, does anyone have an idea?” The eldest prince Li Shi’s face was particularly ugly.

He doesn’t have a good relationship with everyone present, and now he has to play some show with them, and entertaining his relatives in colorful clothes, it couldn’t be more embarrassing.

He couldn’t help complaining a little about his father, which was really nonsense. It’s shameful that they are dignified and princes who want to be like actor.

When Li Shi was so small or small, Li frowned.

This historical age is about the same as him. He and Li Shi grew up together, and they should have been closer together. But because Concubine Xie, who was still a side concubine at the time, protected Li Shi as if she had a delusion of persecution. She was afraid that the prince would harm her son and that the prince would rob her son. Therefore, Li Shi was influenced by his mother. Treat him like an enemy.

However, even though he was not in good health at the time, he had always been fierce. When Li Shi provoked repeatedly, he beat the boy crying for his father and his mother. Every time he was beaten, he would be beaten again by his eldest brother. Over time, Li Shi learned to behave and walked around him.

Empress Liu saw that Concubine Xie was persecuted with delusions every day, and she was too lazy to care about Li Shi, and directly raised Li as a son.

Li Li was also very embarrassed at that time, let alone Li Shi.

Perhaps Li Shi has been crooked since then.

Anyhow, he is a nephew. Although Li Ying doesn’t have much affection for Li Shi, he feels a little bit sorrowful when he thinks that Li Shi is doomed-even though he is still dreaming.

Li Shi looked at Li Yin’s expression, thinking that Li Yin was looking down on him, looking for fault, immediately crossed his eyebrows and met him coldly.

Li Yin silently turned his head to the side.

Stare, ignore you.

Ling Wei watched the interaction between the two people and sighed, “His Royal Highness Han has any good suggestions?”

Li Shi snorted coldly. What advice can he have?

“Jintang, I can sing.” Ankang tugged at Ling Wei’s sleeve, “Shall we sing?”

Ling Wei immediately came to mind. Everyone stood in a row, folded their hands on their chests, and sang “Happy Birthday to You” together. They were suddenly confused by himself.

“If you really can’t think of it, it’s not impossible.” Ling Wei really can’t think of it anymore. Is the chorus also a show? Anyway, he is not afraid of embarrassment.

“Why don’t you just sing?” The prince was also worried. If they were allowed to perform the show one by one, it would be as simple as a lion dance or a sword dance. But it feels so difficult to get everyone together.

They have men and women, old (where are the old?) and young, how do they fit together?

“Too perfunctory, will my father be unhappy?” Li Chun said.

Everyone bowed their heads again.

Is it really possible? The father finally decided to have a big birthday, and they didn’t want to disappoint the father.

“Jintang?” The prince looked at Ling Wei pitifully.

Ling Wei trembled.

“Jintang…” Li Hu also looked over.

what are you doing!

“Jintang.” Li Jun and Li Chun also looked at Ling Wei together.

“Jintang! Jintang! Jintang!” Jin Que rushed forward and rolled in Ling Wei’s arms, “You must have a way, right? Think of a way!”

Why must I have a way? !

“Jintang, just talk about it if you have any suggestions.” Li Yin sighed, “Anyway, it’s all in colorful clothes for entertaining relatives, even if it’s singing, it’s okay.”

Why are you here too?

“This time this king will listen to you.” Li Shi said with a black face.

Wait for your Royal Highness Han, you don’t have to listen to me!

“Let the subordinates think about it.” Ling Wei frowned, Yaoshou, your Majesty, can you be better? Is it really okay to toss the sons so much?

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Ling Wei was really worried for a long time this time.

Although there are a lot of things in his memory, emperors of different generations also have colored clothes to entertain their relatives, but it is just a lion dance. If they are all grown-up princes, lion dance is also fine, but there are also little princes and princesses who can’t dance.

How about dressing up the little princes and princesses as fairies and let them sing and present their birthday peaches.

The adult prince danced a lion in front, and then got some smoke out. The fairies came out of the smoke with a bouquet of birthday peaches, and sang as they walked. The lion dance walked around and jumped around the fairies.

Although it’s silly, but at any rate it’s… together.

Ling Wei bit the bullet and told Li Ying of the proposal, and Li Ying thought it was pretty good.

“Lion dance is better than singing.” Anyway, covering his head will not be embarrassing. Li Yin thought.

The other princes together, it seems that the lion dance is really good. They also feel that it is better to cover your head than to show your head, so that it is not embarrassing.

The little princes are also very happy to pretend to be a fairy boy and sing. Children are always not shy, like to show off and like to be lively.

But then they discussed it and replaced the lion with the dragon dance.

After all, six lions have to choreograph six dance styles, and dragon dance choreographs one dance style. Although the dragon dance couldn’t hide his face, he was a little unhappy.

Ling Wei originally wanted to join the dragon dance. As a result, he was kicked out to sing with the little princes.

“Without Jintang taking them, I’m worried that they will be messy.” Li Yin explained.

Ling Wei was frustrated and accepted this reason.

So as an adult, he would stand among a group of little fairies, sing together, and offer birthday peaches and flowers together.

(*/ω╲*) What a shame, the emperor will be happy to see it for a long time. This is a lifetime of black history.

After the program was finalized, the contact began in full swing.

Although the relationship between Li Shi and the other brothers is not very good, he will not be dragged down at this juncture.

When determining the position, Li Shi still wanted to compete for the top spot. However, Ling Wei was sorted by height, Li Ying held the dragon’s head, and the prince flicked the dragon’s tail.

The position of the dragon’s head and tail seemed to be meaningless, and Li Shi didn’t have the motivation to fight.

Li Shi also exerted his energy during practice, and Ling Wei still admired this kind of unwillingness to admit defeat.

He was also worried that if Li Shi was passively sabotaged, there would be no way he could do it.

After the soundtrack and movements were arranged, the dragon dance practice was left to Li Ying. Li Ying is an elder anyway, and it is appropriate for him to lead the princes to practice.

Ling Wei got together with the little princes and practiced singing.

Ling Wei’s singing voice is still good, and he won unanimous praise from the little majesty.

But there is an extremely discordant note in it-Jin Que is actually a super loud voice idiot.

When he sang, he couldn’t find the tune. Not only couldn’t find the tune, but it was also extremely lethal, and could not find the tune with everyone nearby.

Ling Wei looked at Jin Que speechlessly.

Jin Que looked at Ling Wei innocently.

“How can your kid sing so left? All the left are flying into the sky.” Ling Wei grabbed Jin Que into his arms and rubbed his head fiercely, “Who is this studying? Your majesty? ?”

“Where did I know.” Jin Que hummed, holding his head, “I just can’t sing well anyway.”

“How can you sing badly!” Ling Wei said, “Let’s take it apart and practice sentence by sentence! I’ll accompany you to practice alone!”

“Don’t practice alone, we can work together.” Ankang said, and the other little princes also agreed.

“Let’s go together.”

“If there is a piano tones, it shouldn’t be taken away.”

“You can listen to the sound of the piano!”

Ling Wei nodded: “I can still play this simple tone.”

“Let me come.” Ankang raised his hand weakly, “Jintang, you really can’t.”

Ling Wei was choked.

Well, Qinqi calligraphy and calligraphy, he is also good at the book, the painting can bluff people a little bit, the chess piece that was abused by the emperor is not left, even the little highness Qin dislikes him.

He, a world-famous talented man, is actually bluffing.

“Then please entrust Princess Ankang.” Ling Wei said dejectedly.

“Jintang rest assured.” Ankang said with a smile.

“Then please ask my sister.” Jin Que said dejectedly.

“Nine brothers don’t worry.” Ankang said with a smile.

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Jin Que’s process of learning to sing is extremely tragic. Even with the comparison of the piano tones, he can still sing strange tunes.

Jinque wanted to give up several times, but watching other brothers and sisters tirelessly accompany him to come back one by one, he was embarrassed to give up.

Ling Wei looked very pleased.

When Jin Que was finally able to sing this song well, even if there was no piano, he could not go out of tune, Ling Wei made a big fresh fruit cream sandwich cake for Jin Que Qinghe.

The cake has three layers, with a layer of jam and a layer of fruit pieces in the middle of each layer. Various creams decorate the cake very beautifully, and there are dolls painted on it with jam.

“It’s delicious.” Jin Que ate his face full of butter. Later, a group of children watched as there were groups, and they started a butter fight without a teacher.

Ling Wei had just watched the game with a smile, but in the end he became the key to greet him. As soon as this guy touched his face, he was shameless and beat a bunch of children.

When Li Ying led a group of adult princes panting over, he saw the scene of butter flying all over.

“Pop!” The prince wiped his face, a puff of cream, um, Jin Que threw it. This little demon!

“Pop!” Who is it this time!

“Sorry, the prince brother, my hand slipped.” The Ankang girl said softly.

“It’s okay…” The prince wiped his face again, “Jintang, wait for me!”

The prince angrily walked to the shattered cake, grabbed a handful of butter, and threw it towards Ling Wei. Ling Wei leaned on his side and escaped, and the lump of butter hit Li Ying’s face.

Li Ying: “…”

Prince: “…”

Prince: “That…”

Li Ying grabbed the butter cake from Ling Wei and smashed it towards the prince.

Just smashed the prince’s face.

Li Ying: “Handslip.”

Prince: “…”

Then the situation began to become chaotic. Several adult princes joined the Butter Wars in a silly way. Even Li Shi, who stood aside and looked at the crowd in the circle with contempt, was also involved, rolling up his sleeves and talking with others. Li Hu fought for 300 rounds.

After the cream war ended, Li Shi was still dizzy.

What are you doing! what a shame!

But… Li Shi shook his head. Forget it, don’t think about it, it’s useless to think too much.

He wouldn’t be so naive. He is the one who wants to ascend the position of the Ninth Five.

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Li Li has been paying attention to Ling Wei’s progress ever since he gave Ling Wei a very awkward task.

Li Li laughed from ear to ear when he heard Li Yin leading his sons to dance the dragon;

Hearing Jinque’s hard learning songs, the other younger sons and daughters were always accompanied, Li Li’s eyes blushed;

Upon hearing them fight the cream fight, Li Li sent a message to Ling Wei that Shou Tao had been cold for so long and it was not tasty, so I wanted to eat cake.

Ling Wei: “…”

Your Majesty, are you a child?

However, even though he complained in his heart, His Majesty the Emperor had already spoken, and Ling Wei naturally had to follow suit.

With the help of his own chef, he made a nine-layer cake.

Nine-five-sage, naturally nine floors.

The cake was made of eight immortals and birthday peaches with butter, and the word birthday was written with jam on all sides.

That figure is made by a cook, so he has a talent for sculpting.

The word “Shou” was written by Ling Wei. At the end of the writing, Ling Wei did not recognize the word.

Because the butter cake is easy to spoil, Ling Wei made it the day before and kept it in the ice cellar until it was used.

The emperor’s birthday is the process of accepting pilgrimages of hundreds of officials, giving banquets to hundreds of officials, and then meeting with envoys from surrounding countries who are celebrating his birthday, listening to auspicious words, receiving gifts, and watching singing, dancing, opera and even acrobatic performances.

After all this was done, His Majesty the Emperor finally ushered in the long-awaited small internal royal gathering, and you can see the “carefully” choreographed program by Ling Wei.

His Majesty the Emperor and Empress Liu sat on the top, and the concubines and the emperors were sitting side by side.

They all knew that His Majesty asked the princes to entertain their relatives in colorful clothes, but they didn’t know what the princes would make, and they were also quite curious.

When the prince returned to the East Palace, the prince concubine asked for a long time, but the prince didn’t let go, and she would know at that time, and it itched her for a long time.

When this internal gathering started, it was a gift from the princes.

What the first prince gave was ginseng and deer antler for a thousand years, and the second prince gave a white jade ruyi red jade longevity peach…All in all, they were all auspicious things.

When the little majesty gave out the things, His Majesty, whose expression had not changed much, smiled and said, “You did this yourself?”

“We wrote it.” Jin Que pointed to himself and his brothers. “Sister and sister embroidered.”

It is a screen with the big life spelled out with Xiaoshou. The screen is quite compact, which is enough for the emperor to put it on the book case, but the emperor can’t put it down.

“This word is well written.” His Majesty the Emperor said cheerfully.

Empress Liu ‘snatched” the screen from His Majesty’s hand, and she was quite amused: “The embroidery is good. Didn’t you hurt your fingers and eyes?”

“No, I’m already preparing! Embroidery is not tired.” The little princesses said in unison.

“We also helped when Ankang and the others were embroidering.” Jin Que interrupted and asked for credit.

“What? How many stitches did you embroider?” His Majesty the Emperor couldn’t help but smile.

Jin Que shook his head: “We have cheered for them.”

“That is obviously making trouble.” Ankang muttered.

His Majesty the Emperor laughed and said that the rewards were twice as much for the daughters as the sons. The daughters are more tired from embroidering than the sons.

“Actually, it’s not too tired.” The little princess Ankang said honestly, “We just traced the words. The rewards are as much as the brothers.”

After the word for life was written, the little princesses embroidered a circle of gold thread on the edge of the word for life, as if tracing a gold border. If it is embroidering together, these little girls will be overwhelmed.

However, the black lettering is the base and the gold thread is the edge, which is more elegant and heavier than the pure gold thread embroidery.

“I will reward if I say reward.” His Majesty the Emperor said happily.

“Don’t get me involved in everything.” Ling Wei replied in a low voice after hearing His Majesty the Emperor said last time.

Liu Qi looked unbelieving.

Ling Wei touched his nose. Well, it was indeed his idea.

Ling Wei and Liu Qi, as “fashioners” and “people of foreign surnames”, naturally could not offer gifts with the prince. The birthday gifts they gave had already been taken away by the servants.

The gifts of several adult princes were crushed by the little princes and little princesses, and suddenly felt funny in their hearts.

This group of younger brothers and sisters are not as valuable as the treasures they carefully collected, but they are better than their hearts.

It’s just that they have grown up, it is impossible to prepare such birthday gifts. Treasures and so on are quite satisfactory.

If the other brothers came out on top, they would probably compare them in their hearts. But these young brothers and sisters came out on top, and they have nothing to say.

There is nothing comparable.

The birthday gift is over, and it’s finally time to perform.

When the princes and princesses went to change their clothes, everyone present widened their eyes, afraid of missing the details.

Smoke suddenly appeared on the platform, which shocked everyone.

“Is this on fire?” Empress Liu asked in surprise, “Hurry up and put out the fire!”

“This is the immortal spirit made by Master Ling.” The inmate next to him explained, “Master Ling said that when you play a fairy outside, you will make smoke.”

“It really looks like it.” Li Li watched as the dragon was already tumbling with the soundtrack. Amidst the smoky haze, he really felt a bit vomiting, “Jintang has a lot of ghost ideas.”

“The kid Jintang really scared the concubine.” Empress Liu stroked her chest, “This dragon dance is pretty good. I have practiced for a long time. Puff, your Majesty, look at the dragon tail, the kid Qichen almost fell. fall.”

Li Li was also happy, looking at the prince with a grateful expression: “Has Qi Chen not noticed that so many people are looking at him? Will he be ashamed and want to go into the ground when he notices? .”

“When Qichen comes back, your Majesty, don’t make fun of Qichen, he is thin-skinned.” Empress Liu said something nice to her son.

The prince was already embarrassed and was about to sew on the ground.

I was already very proficient in the practice, but as soon as I stood on the stage and looked at so many piercing eyes off the stage, the temperature on the Prince’s face continued to rise, and the paste began to enter his head. As soon as he said nothing, he tripped his left and right feet and almost fell.

Gosh! This performance will be ruined if you plant it! The prince’s heart was almost jumping out of his chest, and he didn’t dare to distract himself.

Not only the prince, but the other princes are also uncomfortable. Does it feel good to be stared at like this?

In other words, Li Yin’s expression is normal, but he doesn’t know if he is really calm in his heart or just pure habitual facial paralysis.

After the dragon danced for a while, the smoke became thicker and thicker, and suddenly there was singing. With the singing, a line of people came out of the smoke. And the dragon ran around this group of people.

“Is this a fairy bringing a fairy boy to present a birthday gift?” Li Li said, “It really feels like a fairy descending from the clouds.”

“No, there is still dragon guarding.” Empress Liu also covered her mouth and smiled, “This is a tall cake, counted by the concubines, there are nine layers. Is this your Majesty embarrassing Jintang?”

“How can you say that I am embarrassed?” Li Li smirked, “He should do this. This cake is really good. The Eight Immortals on it are like carvings. The birthday characters should be written by Jintang?”

“This is exhausting Jintang.” Empress Liu always felt that there was a hint of gloat in her words.

Ling Wei stood in the middle of the team, pushing the big cake in the middle, and a cart with flowers dotted next to it. The cart was tied with silk and satin, and it looked very festive.

The other fairies are carrying baskets with flowers and fruits in the basket.

Everyone drew red lips and cheeks, looking a little ridiculous, but also very cute.

“This picture…” Some female family members with low smiles could not help shaking their shoulders. “It’s so cute.”

“It must be Ling Hou’s idea.”

“Just his many ideas.”

“It’s so good to sing.”

“This is the first time I have heard Jin Que’s song on the tune.” Li Li sighed, “It’s really not easy.”

Empress Liu also nodded in agreement: “The singing of Jinque, I don’t know who to follow.”

The two couples looked at each other, and then said in unison: “He must have learned from Uncle Wang.”

Hey, is it really okay for the two of you to directly push the pot to the younger brother or something? Why are you two inherited it?

Ling Wei took the little fairies and finally brought the legs of the car to the emperor’s majesty, and the gift was successful. Then the dragon-dancing princes also put the dragon down, and a group of people knelt down and shouted “Longevity.”

His Majesty the Emperor was very happy. He divided the cakes happily. Everyone present ate this strange food-is it actually food? Still sweets! They thought it was a statue!

Only the cook of Ling Wei’s family can make the cake, and His Majesty did not even ask Ling Wei to give this “unique skill” to the royal chef. He doesn’t like sweets anyway, and the other little princes will ask Ling Wei for something. So not only have other people not eaten it, they have never seen it.

They asked where they could buy it, but Ling Wei didn’t plan to go out to open a store.

He is already wealthy enough to sell tea and sugar, and make the Zhuangzi profit. This person is too lazy to move if he has a lot of money.

He has never been ambitious.

Like the emperor, begging for gold and silver is just accustomed to it. If you don’t ask for it, you feel uncomfortable.