novelhk Chapter 191 Tea Art Competition (1)
Chapter 191 Tea Art Competition (1)
"Huh, is Miss Yue here?" The eldest princess grew up in the palace, a place where people eat each other. How dare they play such little tricks under her nose?
"Your Highness, when I arrived, my elder sister was still dressing up in the room. She said that she wanted to... outshine all the other girls..." Yue Jinghong "kindly" explained for Yue Jinghao again.
"Your Highness, the eldest lady acted like that because she values this winter banquet... It is my fault for failing to discipline her well, please forgive me, Your Highness." Aunt Su also started to show off.
"Who are you?" the eldest princess asked with a frown.
"Your Highness, this is my aunt." Yue Jinghong said.
"Humph, I didn't know this little concubine dared to discipline the legitimate daughter?" The eldest princess looked at Concubine Su with contempt, and her words were also merciless. "It seems that Yue Hanwen has become confused as he gets older. A lowly concubine dares to speak ill of the legitimate daughter!"
Aunt Su was so frightened that she kowtowed and begged for mercy.
"Your Highness, don't let these people ruin your good mood for no reason. Don't you want to see my secrets?" Yue Jinghao leaned close to the eldest princess' ear and whispered.
"Hahaha, you are so kind!" The princess' sudden laughter made everyone more curious about the woman beside her. "Go down, don't get in my way."
Several people quickly retreated to a corner, fearing that they would be punished by the eldest princess.
After one stick of incense, the old emperor, empress, crown prince, and other princes also arrived.
The old emperor and the empress sat on the dragon throne and phoenix throne. There was an empty seat on the lower left. Everyone knew that the seat was reserved for the Ninth Thousand Years Old.
The eldest princess sat at the lower right, together with the other concubines. The crown prince and the other princes sat down in order.
Yue Jinghong secretly glanced at the prince and found that his eyes were fixed on the woman. Yue Jinghong's heart was alarmed. No, she must win the tea art performance! Let the prince know that she is the best!
The so-called winter banquet is nothing more than various competitions, such as tea art, dancing, horse riding...
"Winter Banquet begins ~ First round, tea art competition ~"
The four arts of tea art generally refer to brewing tea, burning incense, hanging paintings, and arranging flowers, which are also part of the pursuit of elegant life by ancient literati. Moreover, the exquisite tea art mainly has "four" conditions, generally referring to fine tea, real water, live fire, and wonderful utensils, none of which can be missing.
A maid brought over a glass bowl with paper balls with numbers written on them. The performers would then perform in the order of the numbers to ensure fairness.
There were a total of twenty-five noble ladies participating in the competition, and Yue Jinghong was drawn to be the twenty-fifth. Yue Jinghong was extremely happy, because the last one was the grand finale!
Aunt Su was secretly glad that God really favored her daughter...
Gu Ziwei drew number six, which made her nervous all of a sudden.
"Sister Yue, I want to exchange numbers with you. I'm really nervous about this number..."
"Sister Gu, it's not that I won't change it for you. The princess is angry just now. If she knew that we exchanged numbers privately, she would punish us severely!" Yue Jinghong looked sad and scared. But she snorted in her heart, wishful thinking!
Gu Ziwei thought so too and stopped talking.
The last number left was Yue Jinghao's. The eldest princess curiously leaned over to take a look, then burst into laughter: "Sure enough, you are my nemesis!"
"Your Highness~" Yue Jinghao said coquettishly.
The prince's throat tightened when he heard Yue Jinghao's voice...
Wei Zilin also stared at her, but then he thought, what if the girl is beautiful? She has to be useful to him! Although the eldest princess is not bad, how can she compare to the nine thousand years old?
At this moment, "The Nine Thousand Year Old Man has arrived~"
Everyone was shocked and quickly stood up to greet them. The eldest princess was also stunned. Yan Liyuan never participated in these banquets and poetry gatherings. Why did he come today?
Yue Jinghao knelt down and complained in her heart, how could the Ninth Prince, who was busy with government affairs, have nothing to do and actually come to this boring banquet? She was so angry when she saw him! Although he thought it was very cool! Humph!
"It's really rare! The Ninth Thousand Year Old Man can come today!" the old emperor joked.
"I have nothing to do today, so I came to see you." Yan Liyuan saw Yue Jinghao today as soon as he entered the door, and saw the way everyone looked at her, he was very unhappy! So his words were even colder.
"Okay, okay, please take a seat quickly!" The old emperor was very pleased that Jiu Qiansui came. He hadn't had a drink with Jiu Qiansui for many years!
In order to compete, the noble ladies brought their treasured tea sets and preserved snow water... just to win the praise of the nobles.
The first noble lady was so nervous because she was the first to appear that she even broke the tea set she brought with her. She was so scared that she immediately knelt down and begged for mercy. The old emperor didn't say anything, but waved his hand and let her leave.
Lady No. 2 managed to make it through just fine.
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It was the sixth Gu Ziwei. Gu Ziwei was using a set of purple clay tea sets. Her movements were very smooth and she was feeling proud of herself when she accidentally knocked over the teapot. The boiling water in the teapot splashed all over her. She wore very thin clothes today to look good. This not only burned the skin on her chest, but also soaked her clothes. You could vaguely see the pink bellyband embroidered with lotus patterns inside...
Yue Jinghao quietly withdrew her hand that was throwing the ice needle and sat quietly beside the eldest princess.
Yan Liyuan glanced at her, then raised his head and drank a glass of wine.
The young masters of the noble families were all staring with wide eyes, but it was Madam Gu who reacted first and covered Gu Ziwei with her cloak.
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I was temporarily restrained..." Gu Ziwei knelt down and begged for mercy.
"Someone, take Miss Gu to the back hall to change clothes..." The queen was very generous today and didn't care too much.
Gu Ziwei and Madam Gu kowtowed to express their gratitude and went to the backyard.
But the young masters of the noble families were still whispering, talking about Gu Ziwei's breasts...
When they arrived at the back hall, Gu Ziwei lay in Madam Gu's arms and sobbed, "Mother, I don't know what pierced my arm, which caused me to lose my hand!"
As she spoke, she raised her arm for Madam Zheng to see, but Madam Gu looked at it and couldn't see anything wrong. She thought that her daughter might be afraid of being blamed, so she lied. Her daughter was embarrassed enough today, so she didn't say anything more...