Chapter 150
After hearing this, King Li looked at the Emperor incredulously, hesitating to make a move.
“What?” The emperor’s face already showed dissatisfaction.
King Li and the Empress looked at each other, and only then did they understand, why the Emperor made an exception to let him go out of his house to enter the palace, he was there to appease the Yulong family!
Rong Xiangmian sat there quietly, she had heard Zhou Xian Yang say that she knew about this, so she wasn’t half surprised.
She had heard Zhou Xian Yang say this, so she wasn’t surprised. As she watched the wolf-like couple walk towards her, she felt her heart sink, even though it had been nearly twenty years since they had met.
Because of them, she lost Yun’er forever. Even though she has the love of Zhou Xian Yang now, and may have a child of theirs in the future, she will never see Yun’er again.
After all these years, she thought she had seen the light, but her tears still fell unconsciously.
Zhou Xianyang couldn’t bear to see her tears, so he hastily took out her handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped her tears, “I’m sorry.”
Xiangmian pressed his hand: “Silly, what are you saying sorry for?”
She tidies up her emotions and waits until King Li and his wife apologize with a toast in front of the case, and Rong Xiangmian chokes up and says: “Thank you, Father, for taking the lead for the Yuhuang Mansion. The Yuhang Mansion doesn’t cause trouble, but it’s not afraid of trouble either. I hope that His Majesty King Li will put aside his preconceived notions after this incident, and will not bring us any more unjustified disputes.”
Her voice was not loud, but because the hall was silent, this voice echoed in the hall and everyone heard it clearly.
Although people outside the palace knew very little about that night’s events, these ministers had heard about some of the inner workings, and had heard about Consort Yü’s style and admired it.
Mr. and Mrs. Li lost their face in public, and after the toast, they wanted to leave as soon as possible, but Zhou Xian Yang said: “What? Drink a cup of wine even to make amends?”
King Li turned back, “What? Do you want me to kneel down for your princess?”
Zhou Xian Yang laughed, “I wouldn’t dare! Your brother’s knees can only kneel to the Empress Dowager, Father and Mother, but I don’t need to say anything about the etiquette of making amends, do I?”
King Li took a deep breath, as if he was suffering from a strange shame, he folded his hands together, bowed and performed a standard salute: “That day, this king acted improperly, causing Consort Yüeh to be aggrieved, please forgive me.”
Rong Xiangshi nodded his head, considered to have received a salutation of apology. The emperor immediately rounded off the scene: “Well, this matter is over, in the future are not allowed to mention it again.”
After the banquet, according to the usual practice, all the people together out of the Daming Palace, to the North Security Gate.
Zhou Xian Yang did not know what to do, and quietly asked Xiangmian: “Where to go?”
“To Sunset Terrace, to set off fireworks.” Rong Xiangmian laughed, “His Majesty likes it, and it’s set off every year on his holy birthday.”
“Oh.” Zhou Xian Yang didn’t say anything, this was a new habit he didn’t know about.
Selected in the sunset platform, is to avoid sparks triggered by the danger of water, fireworks outside the palace, and the sunset platform has the best view, but also allows the people in the capital to look forward to, and celebrate the long-lived birthday together.
Just after arriving at the Sunset Terrace, Rong Xiangmian realized that Zhou Xianyang was a bit nervous.
She was in the corner of the crowd, holding his hand. He gave her an unnatural look and quickly collected his unease.
Only a loud thumping sound was heard, and Zhou Xian Yang was shaken, his eyes closed tightly and he looked pained.
The crowd was too busy looking at the sparkling patterns of the fireworks that filled the sky to notice his abnormality for a moment.
Rong Xiangxian couldn’t care less about how pretty the fireworks were, and stared at Zhou Xianyang’s face, stroking it with his hand, “What’s wrong with you?”
He shook his head and laughed, “Nothing, I drank too much.”
As soon as he said that, an even bigger firework bloomed in the sky, accompanied by an even more booming ringing sound that seemed to explode in his ears.
Zhou Xian Yang trembled even more.
The Empress Dowager was looking this way and asked, “Where is Xian Yang?”
As the crowd looked around, Sun Mingyue suddenly pointed to the corner of a corner building and laughed, “Look at our King Yu and Consort Yu, they are really like fish in water, envious of others!”
The crowd looks in her direction, only to see the Yü Wang couple holding their hands over each other’s ears, snuggling tightly together, looking at each other, treating the sky’s fireworks as if they were nothing.
Yun Wang is busy holding Sun Mingyue’s shoulder: “How does the princess also want me to cover your ears?”
Sun Mingyue dodged away, “I’m not afraid! I have been in the palace for so many years, and every year I look forward to the fireworks at Father’s birthday festival. See each other also really, before never afraid of fireworks, now have a husband, even pretentious up!”
“People with a husband will know the birdie, who is like you, or such a nature, not at all like a married.” Noble Consort Hui laughed and joked from the side.
King Yun was busy protecting his wife, “I like her like this.”
Hearing this, Consort Qing covered her ears and exclaimed, “In the end, it’s the newlyweds who are more pretentious than the pair. Like me, I only deserve to cover them myself.”
King Qing stretched his hands towards her, “Come, come, come, I’ll cover it for you.”
King Li stared at the scene of Rong Xiangmian and King Yu’s affectionate scene with a grudge that was hard to hide. Li Wangfei looked at her husband’s expression, and for a moment, her heart was mixed, envious, and thankful.
Fortunately, the British House did not agree to Rong Xiangmei into the Li Wang House as a side consort. She married into the royal family for two years so far no children, now the side consort has already given birth to a child, but the good thing is that the King of Li can not say that he likes, and now there is a new person, on her are not a threat. If Rong Xiangmian see such a foxy child into the house, it is not good to say.
The empress dowager looked at the children and grandchildren and happy love good, haha straight smile, straight to see that fireworks released for a quarter of an hour before enjoying themselves.
In the end, countless fireworks went up in the air, lighting up the night of Jinling, and the clamor of the people outside the palace also reached its peak.
Through the eyes of the princess, Zhou Xianyang saw the fireworks bloom and end, and realized that there was no limit to their brilliance, but there was peace.
When all was silent, Sun Mingyue laughed and said, “The fireworks have stopped, so you two should stop.”
Rong Xiangyang immediately drew her hand back, realizing that the crowd was watching them, and backed away a few steps, smiling awkwardly.
Zhou Xian Yang took her hand and looked as if no one else was watching.
The Empress Dowager said to the Emperor, “You were so right when you secured this match.”
The Emperor smiled, “That’s natural, my son has always been very accurate.”
Late at night, the empress dowager first back to the palace to rest, the empress interest is general, the emperor called the harem also went back, leaving the imperial sons: “you young with me stay up all night, people have never been so flush.”
The people sat down on the corner, and the mid-autumn festival is different, this time the moon has been missing, but still very bright.
There are palace people resettled tea snacks.
All the people were curious, do they really have to stay up until dawn?
At this time, the Seventh Imperial Uncle smiled and came forward to salute: “Imperial brother, my younger brother’s gift finally dares to be offered.”
Rong Xiangshi and Zhou Xianyang glanced at each other, both remembering that dancing girl.
He actually did get someone to come to the palace.
The emperor laughed, “Well, if you didn’t say anything, I thought you were going to renege this year.”
The Seventh Imperial Uncle clapped his hands three times, and sure enough, it was the same few programs that he had seen in the Jin Wang Mansion last time, and the last to go on stage was that group of dancing girls.
The difference is that after a dance, the dancing girls seemed to be under orders, no longer as before, like butterflies fluttering all over the field. Only around the emperor, accompanied by faster and faster drum beats, show off the graceful dance, look charming naive and spirited, dance steps rotating faster and faster, even shoes are jumping off.
Accompanied by the last drum beat, the woman suddenly stretched foot, a foot on the emperor’s knee, face away from the emperor is only a stone’s throw away, boldly looking directly into the emperor’s eyes.
The rest of the audience was dumbfounded.
The scene was so quiet that it looked like they would be waiting for heads to fall to the ground.
However, the emperor was silent for a moment and simply drew away his leg.
The woman immediately knelt down at the emperor’s feet, her voice dainty: “A new dance, dedicated to your majesty.”
The emperor really did not get angry, but reached out and hooked the woman’s face, “What is your name?”
“The slave girl’s name is Eleven.”
“Why is it called that?”
“The slave girl and her sisters, all were sold since childhood. There is no name, do not remember the hometown, eleven is just a number given to me for convenience.”
“I will give you a name, how about Smoke Rou?”
“Smoke Rou thank you Your Majesty, from now on Smoke Rou is a person with a name.”
The woman knelt on the ground, but her expression was not the least bit humble, instead, she was like a newborn beast, full of curiosity about her new master.
The emperor was truly extremely interested in this woman.
He did not move and ordered the crowd, “All of you go down, I am also tired.”
The crowd of emperors looked at each other in dismay, but they were all unable to say anything and left together.
On the way to the Zhengyang Gate, the princes rarely unified their stance and told the palace people that they did not need to see them off.
Setting aside these ears and eyes, King Qing sighed softly in this expansive square, “The Seventh Imperial Uncle actually offered such a bewitching woman to Father.”
King Kai shook his head and said, “The way it was just now, it’s fortunate that the minister didn’t see it.”
King Kai said, “We have also offered many women to Father, all of them are three days and five nights and then thrown to the back of their minds, and thought that Father was getting older and not paying much attention to these things.”
King Kai sneered, “Those women who are as timid as cats, how can they have the flavor of this?”
King Yun asked, “How long do you think this will be in Father’s favor?”
King Diao is not optimistic: “I’ll bet on one month.”
“I bet three months.”
All of them talked to each other, but only Xian Yang didn’t open his mouth.
King Diao came over to mess with him, “Fourth brother, don’t keep quiet! We’ve all talked about Father, if you don’t say something, it’s hard to put a few of us at ease in our hearts.”
Zhou Xian Yang was amused by his youthful seventh brother, “Then I’ll bet that she’ll be exclusively favored for the rest of her life.”
“Huh?” The crowd was shocked.
King Yun was positive, “Why?”
“A wild guess. The way I see her, she looks like a fresh little leopard. If you guys had raised such a good-looking baby leopard, would you keep it for a few months and then throw it away?”
The crowd fell silent.
The consorts in the palace, a hundred flowers competing with each other, on the premise that everyone was a human being, not a rich family’s daughter, but also the daughter of an official’s family, and their behavior and manners were all within certain rules.
Even if Empress Zhang is arrogant, to the emperor is also petulant and obedient mostly.
And this woman, is the emperor has never seen that kind of wildness, maybe, really will let the emperor to fall in love.
After a long time, King Kai came with a sentence, “Being favored for a lifetime is just a woman as lowly as a livestock, and can’t make any waves.”
The people of the royal family left separately.
Only when they returned to the carriage did Xiang Xiang see that Xian Yang had knuckled down and rolled his eyes.
She was a bit helpless, if it was her own father who was like that just now, she would definitely have that same expression.
King Li was disgraced in the palace today, and after he left the palace, he left his princess behind and took his guards to a restaurant to drink alone.
Not long after he entered the elegant room, the opposite elegant room also entered the guests.
A woman in white, with a pair of coarse linen-clothed old couple, sat and drank tea, sat for an hour, to be the king of Li went out, the old couple through the window, dead staring at him, old tears.
Fei Ran for the first time to see the Li Wang’s face, and look at the old couple, more convinced, then reminded them: “I know, the child lost for so many years, now see is certainly want to immediately recognize. However, he is already the King of Li now, if you go to recognize him, on one hand, people may not believe it, and on the other hand, they may be unfavorable to you in order to preserve your identity, so you have to be more cautious in your actions.”
The old couple said with tears in their eyes, “Many thanks, Miss.”