Chapter 70 Cold Food

Han Yi's poetry and clouds, spring city is full of flowers, cold food, east wind and willows. At dusk, candles spread in the Han Palace, and light smoke spread into the Wuhou's house.

One hundred and five days after the winter solstice is cold food, smoking is prohibited, only eating cold food, every family folds the willows and inserts the door, every household lifts incense to offer sacrifices, and the court etiquette is more cumbersome. After returning to the palace, as usual, a swing is erected in the palace to make the palace concubines compete high and prepare banquets. This is the scene known as the semi-immortal drama in the Tianbao period. Xianzong, the former emperor, was happy to kick the ball. When Emperor Fengchun was the crown prince, he often performed in person. Therefore, after Fengchun ascended the throne, the custom of the previous dynasty of summoning Wuchen Xun and Qi's children to play ball was retained.

This year, because of the rumor in the palace to look at the son-in-law for the princesses of Dongping, Yuanxiu and Yunzhou, the ball at this moment is particularly reminiscent.

Yuan Xiu and other princesses who were still in the palace followed the queen Wang in a heavy princess dress to the Sanqing Hall early in the morning. They returned to the Pearl Mirror Hall and couldn't wait to take off their dresses, took off their hairpin rings, fell asleep on the bed. Unexpectedly, they were awakened soon. She opened her eyes and saw that her private room in the bedroom was almost the same. They were all spread out and said in surprise, "What is this?"

"Today, Qiu Goro ordered the harem to watch it. How can Jiu Niang not dress up well?" Xue, Cailan and others have been dressed up. Xue's stone-bottomed sleeves are dark embroidered chest of narrow-sleeved spring shirts, and the bottom is a Tibetan blue hidden flower skirt, with a rolled bun on his head, silver combs inserted in front of his temples, decorated with several Sichuan color beads on the bun, and two white jade plum blossom hairpins inserted in the back, with clusters of flowers on the center of his eyebrows, slightly applying fat powder, which appeared Rejuvenated, Cailan and others are all wearing lilac-colored shorts, with tooth-colored skirts, light blue silk ribbons around their waists, Fengsheng buns on their heads, light cinnabar, thinly rubbed rouge, and looked at Yuanxiu with their fists and palms. They couldn't wait to dress up for her.

Yuanxiu was urged to take a bath and sat in front of the bronze mirror. Xue personally took a handkerchief to dry her long hair up to her waist little by little, picked green and pinched a fine ivory grate and combed her long hair. Yuanxiu happened very well, dark and thick, as soft as silk. The grate crossed from the center of the head, divided the long hair into two halves, first twisted out the shape of a bun, then folded it, and tied it with a gold ring in the middle, which is the drooping bun often combed by unmarried women at this time.

Xue picked out another pair of green dragonflies and shook them, changed the embedded gold earrings, and then picked blue into the water and dripped a drop of dragon saliva. After raccooning the face again, he lightly fluttered a layer of tooth powder, picked green to open the rouge, but hesitated for a moment and looked at Xue: "Madam, the family is young, and the skin is white and red. Does this rouge seem to be superfluous? Xue looked at Yuanxiu carefully and nodded, "You don't have to use the oblique red goose yellow... Just make a look after drawing your eyebrows." Cailu answered, took a charcoal pen and carefully traced the distant mountain eyebrows, and took the rouge and said to Yuan Xiu, "A Jia smiled."

Yuan Xiu raised the corners of his mouth, and a pair of shallow pear vortex suddenly appeared on his cheeks. He picked green and dipped rouge on the pear vortex, and his face was beautiful. Cai Lan took out the flowers from the gold box of the golden mythical beast: "Dam, please look, what kind should the A family choose?"

"Use Cui Ting." Xue said, Cai Lan hurriedly returned the other flowers back to their original place, leaving only the most luxurious one. He looked at the green for a moment and took a plum-shaped emerald. Xue shook his head and said, "Since the spread of Shouyang makeup, this plum blossom is the most common. Today, although there are only the women in the palace, there is no similar one, not to mention the plum blossoms. After all, the makeup should be based on vermilion, or take the rare chick shape.

picked the green and took the chick-shaped emerald, tearing the back and took a breath. It stuck to Yuan Xiu's eyebrows. Xue looked left and right and nodded with satisfaction: "You can change clothes."

Caizui clapped his hands, and the four little maids took them into the clothes plate. Xue Shi thought for a long time before choosing a short collar for Yuan Xiu. The outer cover was full of dark green embroidered with white chrysanthemum petals on a light blue bottom, apricot yellow and silver mud skirts, and dark blue silk ribbons around her waist. This outfit is lighter and not monotonous, but it shows the beauty that Yuanxiu should be at this age. The choice is short and half-arm, but it also takes into account that watching the ball is upstairs. Although it is almost clear now, the wind in the high place is still slightly cold. If you wear a haze and so on for a long time, it will be cold.

After changing his clothes, he picked blue and returned to the gold box. This time, it was jewelry. As an emperor, Yuanxiu was not allowed to attend the ceremony today, but he could not be overestimated. Therefore, the jewelry was far more grand than usual. He hung a red gold plate phoenix circle around his neck, inlaid a red gold necklace, and a white jade bracelet with a gold-plated wrist. Three cobalt-patterned silver arms, with crystal embedded golden mandarin duck pattern sachet and a piece of mutton fat jade peacock pendant at the waist, so that they changed into cloud-headed brocade shoes, which can be regarded as a dress stop.

She didn't have much makeup. She only felt that the pearls and jade were extremely heavy. She reached out and touched the string of red gold necklaces and frowned and said, "Madam, since you are wearing a pearl necklace, you don't need this?"

This string of red gold necklaces is quite a Hufeng. The whole chain is made of 28 gold silk balls and darkly combined with 28 stars. Each ball is embedded with ten pearls with red gold buckle rings. The middle of the hook is embedded with hidden sapphires, engraved with deer. There is a square gold ornament on both sides, embedded with lapis lazuli. Below, the jewels, mainly round red agate, are inlaid with red gold. The gemstones are surrounded by finely broken pearls, and there are also diamond-shaped and ring-shaped gold ornaments on each side. Inside are inlaid with lapis lazuli beads. At the bottom, there is an oval-shaped pearl with two fingers long and one finger wide. The texture is strange, like amber. It is extremely luxurious.

"This is something given to her beloved granddaughter by the empress dowager of the previous dynasty. Later, the previous dynasty died, and this logistics has been put into the inner warehouse. Since the time of Gaozu, it has been given to the queen. The Empress Dowager Wenhua left it to Jiu Niang as the dowry when she comes out of the cabinet in the future. How can she say anything without?" Xue Shi gently scolded, "If you really think it's too heavy, you can replace the red gold plate and phoenix ring with a gold hollow peony collar."

Yuanxiu said hurriedly, "That's fine."

Cai Lan didn't wait for instructions. He quickly found the collar mentioned by Xue and changed it for Yuan Xiu.

At this time, picking oranges outside has come in and asked, "Do you want to eat some snacks when you leave?"

"No, there are food furnishings around the ball." Xue said.

Huo Wei has prepared an instrument car to wait for His Highness. Xue, Cai Lan, Cai Green and Huo Wei accompanied Yuan Xiu to board the car and drove to the Linde Hall.

The ball venue is located in an empty place in front of the Linde Hall. Linde Hall is often a place for drinking and banquets. The hall is very large, and there are many pavilions around it. Among them, there is Yuyi Building in the east and adjacent buildings in the west. Before the two floors, there are pavilions, and there are flying corridors connected to the upper floors, which can accommodate 3,000 people to watch hundreds of operas. When Yuanxiu arrived, Fengchun had not yet arrived, but the queen Wang and the concubines, as well as the two princesses of Yunzhou and Liyang, had already arrived.

Wang is wearing a dark-colored clothes, combing a phoenix bun, a cluster of three-leaf flowers with blood in his eyebrows, smiling at the corners of his mouth, and his expression is gentle and slightly majestic. Zhao, who sat on the first seat on her left, was wearing a cherry blossom palace suit, with a silver red ribbon around her waist, a lily bun, and pure pearl jewelry. Because Feng Chun's eldest son was also enlightened, he did not open a banquet for the prince alone. King Han and King Wei only set up a seat in the place slightly behind the Zhao family.

Yuanxiu saw King Han Li Luan for the first time since Empress Dowager Zi came out of the palace. He looks very much like Zhao. Although he is a man, he has a gorgeous posture between his long eyebrows and phoenix eyes. Objectively speaking, he is more beautiful than the King of Wei, but it is easier to see that he is a man. Both of them and the next king of Wei are wearing prince's robes.

The first head of King Wei is his biological mother Cao Cairen, dressed very low-key, and so is Qin Cairen.

Seeing Yuan Xiu coming in, all of them got up to salute. Yuan Xiu said no words, sat down at the first seat in Yunzhou, looked outside and said, "Haven't the ball player yet?"

"They have to go to Zichen Hall to meet everyone first, and then come with the imperial chalet." Wang Shi smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone has just come here to spread a message, saying that the imperial car is already on the way."

"Yes, Sister Jiu, Zichen Hall came here to walk on the street. Even if the imperial guard is slow, it will arrive sooner or later. The eighth sister hasn't come yet. What is Sister Jiu doing in such a hurry?" Princess Yunzhou suddenly turned her head and secretly ridiculed.

Yuanxiu heard that she was satirizing herself for looking at her son-in-law and sneered, "I just saw that there was no one outside the hall, but the fifth sister-in-law Liyang and his nephews were waiting with you. They couldn't bear it, so I asked."

"You!" Yunzhou only cared about ci yuan xiu and was eager to leave the cabinet, but he didn't expect that he was also one of the princesses to be selected as the son-in-law in the rumor, and suddenly stopped talking. After thinking about it, she felt wronged. On that day, she was sent away because of a dispute with Yuan Xiu. Later, Wang explained that she only told Dongping and Yuanxiu about this matter. After that, she sent Xing Niang to her palace to explain lightly... Yunzhou stared at the queen fiercely and turned her head to silence.

Wang was afraid that the two would quarrel again like last time. One of the princesses left angrily. Today, it was no better than at that time, but there were outsiders present. Originally, the royal princesses had lost their faces because of Pingjin. If there was any sister discord, I'm afraid Fengchun would blame her as the emperor. Later, she didn't pay attention to her aunts. She quickly changed the topic: "I haven't seen Luan Er for a long time. What have you learned with Zhang Siyu during this period?"

"After returning to my mother's words, my son is stupid and doesn't remember much." As the eldest son of Fengchun, Li Luan's identity is self-evident when the Wang family has nothing to do, and the Zhao family is second only the queen's concubine, so he is spoiled and domineering. He has no concept of respect for his direct mother. Especially during this period, Zhao was demoted, and he was accused of being strict and hates Wang even more. He said coldly.

Wang's face darkened, but Zhao didn't see it. Cao Cairen quickly pulled the king of Wei and stared at the outside of the palace with Qin Cairen as if he were looking at the imperial chalin for fear of being involved.

Princess Liyang was young and quiet. Her wet nurse blinked her eyes, and the princess looked at her nose and heart without saying a word.

Yunzhou looked at Yuanxiu and smiled and said, "Lan'er, you have been following Zhang Siye for enlightenment for almost two months. Why do you still know anything? Isn't this pearl really famous? The state's son supervises the industry, and he can't even enlighten?