The First Empress - Chapter 109

Chapter 109 Measure For Measure
Hui Ye nodded his head in agreement, but his words were as firm as iron, striking Huiqi’s chest one by one. “Since Royal Brother knows that virtue resides in it, I think he should understand that the world is not a world of one person, but a world of one person, isn’t it?”

Huiqi sneered, “Of course. Otherwise, why would there be Rou Ran, Xi Rong, and those small countries that have fought year after year, causing my people to suffer unspeakably. Now, their lives have become even more miserable. I really want to destroy all these inhumane small countries in one fell swoop.”

“Royal Brother’s cold air dries up. This subject is beyond my reach.” Hui Ye drank a mouthful of wine as he spoke, “This Rika White is pretty good. If Royal Brother drank less Rika White in the palace and the silver in the treasury forged more cold weapons, he wouldn’t worry that Rou Ran and Xi Rong wouldn’t be in his hands.” Hui Ye said as he decisively pushed away Rika Bai’s wine jug, “It’s better not to drink anymore.”

Hui Qi wasn’t angry, he just sneered, “The Seven Kings are very frugal.”

“Brother Chen has been frugal since childhood. I’m sure it’s not the first day Brother Huang knows me, is it?” Hui Ye took credit for it. Linglong sneered. The furnishings he saw at the Seventh Prince’s Mansion in Hui Ye last time were so complicated and exquisite that they were unparalleled in the world. To speak of frugality, it was simply a joke.

Linglong couldn’t help but scoff.

At this time, new questions arose. Ji Zhuhua saw the Shu brocade on Linglong’s body. Only he and Linglong had Shu brocade. Even Concubine De and Lan Shuyu were just kesi. There was an imbalance in their hearts.

“When it comes to frugality, I think that the harem should be upright. However, from what I see today, everyone is a little too extravagant. This is not good. This palace is a good example for the six palaces. From tomorrow onwards, I will be a little frugal.” As he spoke, he frowned slightly, as if he had just discovered that Linglong’s entire body was gorgeous. “Sister Jieyu’s Shu brocade is very compatible with the color of this palace, don’t you know?”

When Linglong saw that the topic had come to her again, she could only smile coldly, “The Empress doesn’t know anything about it. This dress is useful. I’ll find out later.”

Ji Zhuhua pretended to know and clapped his hands repeatedly, “I know. You’re the one who’s going to do the Golden Lotus Dance and the Hong Jing Dance later, aren’t you?”

De Fei pinched a cold sweat for Ling Long and said that Jinghong Wu could barely look alike, but when it came to Golden Lotus Dance, it was necessary to perform on a small golden plate. If the two dances merged together, it would be impossible.

Linglong had expected this, but she didn’t expect that she would be so embarrassed. She could only nod her head and say, “Your Highness is a prophet. This concubine has coincidentally learned both of the dances. This concubine has also mastered the Yu Pingxiao into the dance. She will naturally come on stage to show her embarrassment later.”

Hui Ye sneered, “If it isn’t true, then it will make the Fang Clan laugh.”

Hui Qi said, “The Seven Kings just stay here and watch. Guan Qi doesn’t say anything. Could it be that the Seven Kings still don’t understand this logic?”

Linglong nodded her head and said, “It’s just a miraculous skill. It’s nothing. When I was young, I saw a child perform ventriloquism, Allegro, Huqin, dancing, playing flute, flute, beating drums, knocking on gongs and so on. This concubine is only three times busy. It’s not difficult.”

Hui Qi smiled and said, “I have never seen this before. You can perform on stage later. Originally, you were not allowed to perform on stage today, but I will still allow you to do so. The main reason is that there is nothing in the harem that is better than you. You must perform properly, understand?”

Linglong smiled. The smile at the corner of her mouth was as faint as a willow breeze. “This concubine naturally understands.”

The Empress said aggressively, “When it comes to acting, it was originally for fun. Since the Emperor told you to perform, why don’t you perform on stage? What do you think?”

Lan Sou Yu sneered, “This is a bit hard to deal with. This concubine only danced with a whirlwind back then, and it’s even harder to deal with it. It wouldn’t be good if Empress Jie Yu didn’t self-defeat her.”

Concubine De was also faintly worried. Anyway, Linglong did not really harm herself. He even wanted to get along with himself, Now that she had to come to the rescue, De Fei coughed and said, “Jie Yu’s younger sister is talking about a child on the screen. How could there be such a child in this world? It’s just that being three-time is already a miracle. I beg the emperor to excuse me if Jie Yu’s performance is not good. After all, it’s a bit too difficult.”

Hui Qi only looked at Concubine De and said, “I still have some sense in my heart. I definitely won’t be wronged Jie Yu.”

He looked at Linglong and said, “Can you do it now?”

Originally, Linglong did not have much confidence, but thinking of this, she had to fight for breath. Otherwise, she would have suffered so much fragmentary energy for nothing today, and her heart was filled with disgust towards the Empress. Ji Zhuhua was truly going too far.

Seeing Xi Ning’s smile at the corner of Ji Zhuhua’s mouth, Linglong also smiled. “This concubine will definitely complete this mission.”

The stage is ready, Because she already knew that Linglong was going to dance the Golden Lotus Dance, Ji Zhuhua had already instructed that it was impossible to find a golden plate larger than three inches on the stage. “This is really difficult. The Golden Lotus Dance was originally dancing on the plate. If she left the plate, it would be meaningless, but where would there be such a suitable golden plate here?”

Linglong knew that Ji Zhuhua was already prepared to make things difficult for her, so she wasn’t angry. She picked up a golden plate in front of her. This golden plate was only three inches in size. Her feet on the plate were filled, but there was nothing she could do about it, except for this.

Linglong placed all the things on the table. Hui Qi stared at Linglong. He knew that Linglong would not agree to anything hastily without full confidence. Thus, he ignored it and just looked at it in a leisurely manner.

Ji Zhuhua was slightly shocked, but in her heart, she sneered. With her three to five days of practice, not to mention the Jing Hong Dance and the Golden Lotus Dance, even ordinary dancing styles wouldn’t be able to be learned by two points.

Chen Chongyi clenched her teeth and looked at Linglong in front of her. Linglong nodded heavily and walked onto the stage.

The golden plate was firmly placed on the ground. Linglong Pianhong landed on the golden plate as if she was shocked. The golden plate was relatively small, It was naturally impossible to put two pairs of feet in, Linglong unexpectedly stood on tiptoe, so the entire golden plate was more than enough. In a while, Linglong took out the jade flute from her waist. She had already convinced everyone with a start. The Empress could be considered knowledgeable, but this was the first time she had seen such a difficult dance.

Ji Zhuhua said, “Let’s begin.”

Linglong nodded to the musician. The musician began to beat on the tune of “Settling the Wave of the Storm”, Linglong used the jade flute to match this music. Suddenly, she slowly lifted one of her feet up and raised it above her head. After a while, she switched to another foot. This kind of movement was simply the ultimate flexibility of the human body. Everyone was shocked, almost unable to move their eyes away.

Isn’t this the best, Linglong looked at the small golden plate. With a slight force, the tip of his foot had already pushed the golden plate up. Then, he waved his sleeve and the golden plate landed on his sleeve. With a slight force, the tip of his foot lightly touched the golden plate and it was raised to the top of his head. However, his body was still in harmony. He did not stagger because of these movements. Instead, it gave off a weak posture.

The pair of cage smoke eyebrows knitted together as they looked at the crowd. Both of their hands held onto the jade-like flute. A moment later, the beautiful music like beads of jade floated out from the flute.

The golden plate circled in the sky for a moment. landed on the ground, Linglong fell into the golden plate again. and began to spin inside, When Linglong spun to a certain extent, Suddenly, she turned into a patch of color, It was like a rainbow. Only the color was spinning. It was completely invisible. However, the sound of the flute could be heard in an orderly manner. Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air. This movement was from the Golden Lotus Dance. Not only was it orderly, it was also extremely beautiful. Everyone was almost dazzled.

Huiqi did not expect it to be so stunning. He stroked the bright yellow five-clawed golden dragon robe with his hand, and his heart also flew up and down with Linglong. Linglong paused slightly, then jumped out of the golden plate. Everyone began to applaud at the same time, even Ning Yanliu and Ning Guta began to applaud.

Ji Zhuhua also applauded repeatedly. Originally, he wanted to make things difficult for Linglong, but once again proved the correctness of his choice of Linglong. Other than Linglong, there was absolutely no other person who could perform such a dance at the same time.

“This palace has opened its eyes wide. Jieyu is truly dancing all over the world.” Ji Zhuhua didn’t forget to applaud as he spoke.

Lan Shuyu also applauded forgetfully. She hated Linglong, but she did not hate Linglong dance steps. At the very least, this kind of dance step with elegant charm was something that could not be danced out by ordinary people.

Seeing that Linglong had finished dancing, Huiqi took the South Pearl from his hand and said, “Reward–”

Linglong smiled and took it. “Your Majesty, Qian’er has already rewarded a string of Southern Pearls.”

Huiqi smiled and said, “Not much, not much. I still want to hide your golden house!”

Linglong retreated embarrassedly. Hui Ye’s eyes widened. Just which side of this polyhedral woman was the real front. None of the Linglong he saw was real, nor was it fake. However, it was hard to figure out whether it was real or fake.

“Royal Brother, it’s truly gratifying to have this beauty.” Hui Ye raised his glass. There was another person like Linglong in his plan. “This servant brother seems to be dazzled. The servant girl in this servant brother’s mansion was fortunate enough to look like Bu Concubine Jieyu last time. Her Highness is unparalleled in the world.”

Huiqi smiled and said, “But I feel that there was only one woman I saw at the Smoke Pavilion that year. Could it be that I was dazzled at that time, or did Concubine De also have dazzled eyes at the same time?” Hui Ye smiled embarrassedly and said, “Brother Huang, this is going to add insult to injury.”

Huiqi’s cold eyes fell over and surrounded Gai Xin. “Perhaps only the person concerned knows if he wants to commit an additional crime. At that time, Seventh Brother was much younger than he is now. At that time, it was also a matter of life and death for Seventh Brother to encounter the enchanting and charming little palace maid, Heavenly Lightning, who triggered the earth fire. However, he couldn’t return at that time.”

After saying that, he asked coldly, “Is that right, Empress?”

Ji Zhuhua was afraid that Hui Qi would continue to chatter and nodded repeatedly, “Naturally, I can’t go back. Times have changed. Who knows what happened at that time?” Actually, at that time, Ji Zhuhua was both real and illusory. She still didn’t believe this person’s sincerity at all. However, her feelings when she was young were just like Hui Qi had said. It was a human affair, and it was precisely because Ji Zhuhua was more certain of Hui Ye.

“Drink.” Huiqi picked up his glass.

Everyone drank a cup of wine with the Emperor. Linglong had already retreated to Chen Chongyi’s side. Chen Chongyi helped Linglong remove the accessories one by one and said, “You are also bold. You went on stage in such a panic, causing me to pinch a cold sweat for you for no reason.”

Linglong only smiled faintly, “Big sister, do you know if little sister accidentally made a fool of herself just now, would it be a very good result?”

“Then there’s no need to think about it. Naturally, there’s no chance to turn around. So is my sister … When did she offend the Empress?” Chen Chongyi looked at Linglong in confusion. Linglong’s face was red because she had just danced, but very quickly, there was a noticeable pallor in the red. It was that kind of pallor.

“Didn’t you notice? It’s very difficult for my sister to live now.” Linglong sighed slightly and hugged the Nanmu Pearl in her arms. She only felt that the mundane things were still much better than these people. At the very least, there was no such thing as a scorching cold world.