Chapter 138

Directly opposite the Dragon seat, at the end of their table, is a set-up stage for tonight's performance. Behind it is the palace, several of which are used as lounges. The ladies are in the back lounge. After the performance, they can go back to their home and have dinner with everyone.

Because there are many young ladies in Beijing, but the talent of the performance is similar, it will inevitably produce effect fatigue. So the more in front, the better the effect.

Du Xiaoli looked and saw that the officials present had basically arrived. In addition to the emperor, they didn't come. There were still several empty tables between the throne and them. The tables are separate, so it doesn't seem to be the position of any prince or nobleman.

"Those tables are for brother Luo Qi and them." Du Xiuheng said when he saw Du Xiaoli's puzzled look.

"Brother Luo Qi? Yes, he will come to the banquet tonight. But isn't the emperor coming? Why haven't they arrived yet?" Du Xiaoli asked.

Du Xiuheng put down the teacup in his hand and said, "you forget, brother Luo Qi, they are the guests invited tonight, and Jianghu people don't belong to the imperial court, so they won't come so early."

"How does brother know?" Du Xiaoli looked at Du Xiuheng suspiciously.

"I heard what they said before." Du Xiuheng answered faintly, then took Du Xiaoli to stand up and said, "the emperor is coming."

"Long live the emperor, long live the empress dowager, and long live the queen." all the people in the yard got up and saluted the Empress Dowager who walked to the Dragon chair from the side.

"No gifts, please sit down at your house." the emperor shook his right sleeve, sat down on the Dragon chair and said, "today is the Mid Autumn Festival. I set up this banquet for everyone to have fun together. Don't be so formal."

"Thank you, Emperor."

Everyone sat down again, but the atmosphere was not as active as before. After all, the emperor was here. Everyone should show it well.

At this time, the sound of notification came from outside the palace.

"The three princesses of Dongli country arrive -"

As the announcement fell, a beautiful woman in a red dress with an agate pendant came in, followed by only a servant girl. This should be Lu Junqi, the first beauty in Dongli country.

"See the emperor, Empress and Empress Dowager of Fengming country." Lu Junqi bowed slightly to Han Mingze and the Empress Dowager.

"No gift. It's also a kind of fate that the three princesses can come to the Mid Autumn Festival banquet in Fengming country today." Han Mingze said with a smile, and then took a deep look at Han Mingyi below. "Three princesses, please take a seat."

"Thank you, Emperor."

Lu Junqi followed the maid of honor to sit down on her work, and then her eyes fell on Han Mingyi who was diagonally opposite her, but Han Mingyi just lowered his head to drink tea and ignored her eyes.

"Master Luo Qi of Sihai mountain villa, master Feng of Yujian Pavilion, Shuiyue cave and Shuiqing Fairy -"

The announcement came again. Luo Qi drank the main wind of Yujian Pavilion, such as Han, and a woman with fairy temperament came slowly from the outside. When Du Xiaoli passed them, Du Xiaoli blinked at Luo Qi who inadvertently glanced over.

"See the emperor."

"Ha ha, you three are here too. No gift. Please sit down." Han Mingze said with a laugh.

"Thank you, Emperor."

Luo Qi and Feng Ruhan sat on the left, and Shuiqing fairy sat next to Lu Junqi.

Father-in-law Shan, standing next to the emperor, bent over and asked, "emperor, can you announce the beginning of the banquet?"

"Well, let's start." Han Mingze nodded when he saw that everyone who should come came.

"Servant, take orders." father-in-law Shan straightened up and was about to announce the beginning of the banquet. He saw the coming empress dowager with sharp eyes, which surprised him. He secretly said how could she also leave the Forbidden Palace this year? However, his words became: "the Empress Dowager arrived -"

With father-in-law Shan's voice, everyone stood up from their seats and saluted the Empress Dowager who slowly entered the banquet venue.

"See the Empress Dowager -"

"No," said the Empress Dowager lightly.

"Thank the Empress Dowager."

Han Mingze just slightly bent over and got up. Later, he went to the empress dowager, helped her to go to her seat, smiled and asked, "grandma Huang is coming today. I won't tell her grandson. I'll make arrangements."

"Well, I also changed my mind temporarily." the Empress Dowager said, "the two people who broke into the Forbidden Palace this afternoon suddenly made me want to see tonight's banquet. Because they changed their mind temporarily, I didn't have time to tell you. I heard that they specially asked those young ladies to prepare a talent show this year?"

"Yes, grandma Huang," said Han Mingze.

"OK, don't be in front of the mourning family. Go to your place. Menggu will take care of me." after the Empress Dowager sat down, North and South Korea Mingze waved.

"Yes."

Han Mingze returned to his dragon seat and nodded to father-in-law Shan. Father-in-law Shan took a step forward and said, "the banquet begins --"

After father-in-law Shan finished, he returned to Han Mingze. Han Mingze picked up his glass, stood up and said: "Today's party is for everyone to celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival together. In addition, it has another goal, that is to celebrate our meritorious heroes and thank our brave soldiers for guarding our homeland for us, so that we can get together and live a peaceful life at this time! Thank our senior general, Ding Wang and all the people in the army. Now let's propose a toast and chat Thank you! "

"Thanks to all the soldiers!" I have to say that Han Mingze is still very talkative. Such a few words will arouse the atmosphere of the scene. Everyone stood up and drank the wine from their glasses. After the emperor sat down, everyone sat down. Because the reward has been given before, we will not seal the reward this time and start the talent part tonight. However, the first warm-up is not the young lady, but a drama team. After the show of the drama team is over, it is the young ladies' performance. In other words, this performance also has the meaning of blind date, because the whole upper class aristocrats have basically arrived, and those who look at each other can further develop in the future. Because this has little to do with herself, Du Xiaoli, who has seen many concerts and activities in her previous life, turned her attention to the food in front of her. I've seen the Spring Festival gala for decades. No matter how good the talent show is, it can't catch up with it, can it? I didn't expect that the first lady to perform would be Chen Yue. The order of tonight's performance program is determined by lot. She doesn't know whether her luck is good or bad. Chen Yue performed a dance. Du Xiaoli glanced at it and said, "I can't catch up with half of sister Jiang Zhuo's skill." then she focused on the food.