"The second prince is interested. Today's palace banquet is just a private banquet. The Ai family is very happy that you can come." Although Empress Min was angry in her heart, her face still looked kind.
Empress Min looks 50% similar to Prince Li Cheng. She has an ordinary appearance, but her temperament is pretty good. She was obviously influenced by years of palace life.
Empress Min was able to stand firm in the harem for many years, which was even more outstanding than Empress Li of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
She looked at the two distinguished guests from Dihong City again, and grabbed Xuan Meimei with a kind face, looking up and down: "You are just Meimei, you are indeed as your name suggests. With this appearance and figure, compared to your mother,
, more outstanding.”
Empress Min was very thoughtful and had already guessed what Prince Li Cheng meant.
Earlier, Empress Min would have looked down on Xuan Meimei's background. After all, Xuan Meimei was not born into the royal family, and her identity was always not on the table.
But now that Xuan Wuji is dead, Mrs. Bi's downfall is inevitable, and Xuan Meimei's identity is different.
Empress Min had an acquaintance with Mrs. Rou, and she knew that although Mrs. Rou was not the royal wife, she was more dignified than the jealous Mrs. Bi. I thought that a daughter raised by such a woman would not be any worse.
go.
Xuan Meimei didn't like Prince Li Cheng, and she didn't like Empress Min either. She responded lukewarmly.
Seeing the indifference on Xuan Meimei's face, Empress Min seemed to have guessed something. She didn't blame Xuan Meimei. She looked at the men sitting nearby.
Prince Li Cheng's status is the most noble, but standing together with Yuan Bupo and Li Shao, he is inconspicuous.
"The Ai family has been vegetarian for many years, and the dishes they prepare are all vegetarian. If they are not suitable for the taste of young people like you, please don't be offended," Queen Min ordered the palace maid to prepare the dishes.
The dishes prepared by Queen Min were very exquisite, and the wine she prepared was also a high-quality Tangyang wine. It tasted like nectar and was very mellow. Even Xuan Meimei, who never drank alcohol, could not help but drink her cheeks red.
Li Shao was good at talking, and while talking and laughing, he told many interesting stories about Tang Yuan's country, making Xuan Meimei laugh non-stop.
In comparison, Prince Li Cheng was very dull and didn't say a few words to him.
Yuan Bupo still had an absent-minded look on his face, and without moving a few chopsticks, he started drinking wine.
Empress Min watched from the side, secretly anxious for her son. If this continued, Xuan Meimei's thoughts would be taken away by Li Shao.
Just at this time, the second prince Li Shao mentioned a happy thing, which made Xuan Meimei burst out laughing.
"Cheng'er," Empress Min frowned and glanced at her son, "Didn't you learn piano skills a while ago? I heard that Meimei is quite accomplished in piano skills. Why don't you let Meimei teach you?"
Prince Li Cheng also saw that the second prince Li Shao and Xuan Meimei were having a good discussion, and he was feeling annoyed.
After Empress Min reminded her, the second prince and Xuan Meimei both looked at Li Cheng, and even Yuan Bupo stopped drinking.
"Oh, His Majesty the Prince can also play the piano?" Xuan Meimei's beautiful eyes looked even more alluring under the illumination of the palace lanterns.
Li Cheng swallowed his saliva, thinking of showing off his skills in front of Xuan Meimei. He stood up hurriedly, "I have only been in elementary school for a few years. Since my mother said so, I will be embarrassed."
He ordered the palace maid to bring the harp and place the incense burner.
Prince Li Cheng is very different from Li Shao in terms of magician cultivation. Li Shao is a student in the mainland magic elite camp, while Li Cheng is only a magic master at the age of twenty.
But he was fond of playing music when he was young. He became a teacher of a famous court musician and studied the piano for fifteen years. Empress Min said that this was his first time getting involved in the art of piano, which was quite modest.
Dihong City is famous for its ancient war songs. Xuan Meimei and Yuan Bupo are both proficient in music. They didn't like Li Cheng at first, but they heard that he was good at playing the piano and their eyes softened slightly when they looked at him.
How could Li Cheng not know that this was an opportunity for his mother to give him a performance? He took out his qin, which was a jade qin that was completely white.
The green smoke in the incense burner curled up, making the piano look even more beautiful.
"Hey, this is the famous magic piano, Snow Song?" Xuan Meimei's expression changed slightly when she saw Prince Li Cheng taking out the piano.
There are several very famous harps on the mainland, the most famous of which is undoubtedly the Xuanyuan Nine Dragons harp used by the first Lord of Dihong City. That harp was the legendary sacred harp and has long since passed away.
There are several other famous harps, including the "Snow Song". The special thing about this harp is that its body is not made using traditional techniques.
Ordinary pianos are made of wood or monster bones, and special ones are made of jade or metal, but "Snow Song" is made of a piece of thousand-year-old ice thousands of meters under the glacier sea.
make.
After Han Bing was accidentally salvaged by a local fisherman, he was transferred to Tang Yuan.
Tang Yuan's magicians spent three years and tried various methods but could not melt or carve out this piece of thousand-year-old ice.
In the end, a female magician from the Kingdom of Xianju used a special weapon refining method to refine the piano.
Later, "Snow Song" was bought at a high price, and it was unknown how many owners it changed. Until more than 300 years ago, a magician who was proficient in music theory used "Snow Song" to play on June Day.
It's snowing all over the sky.
"Snow Song" is also named after this.
"I never thought there really is such a harp in the world? Prince, you play it, and I want to see if it can bring about the snow falling all over the sky like in the legend?" Xuan Meimei is a woman, and women regard these hearsays as if they are mythical legends.
, the most superstitious.
It's only the end of September now, and it would be really weird if it snowed suddenly.
When Li Cheng heard this, he screamed inwardly. This "Snow Song" was something he had recently acquired. His original intention was to show off in front of Xuan Meimei, but he didn't know that it was actually self-defeating.
Whether "Snow Song" can produce flying snow is still unknown.
Anyway, after the prince got the piano, he played it three or four times, but there was nothing special about it.
With his piano skills, let alone the flying snow in June, he would not be able to produce even a single snowflake.
But if he couldn't play it, wouldn't it mean that the beauty's heart would be broken by then, and his efforts to please Xuan Meimei would be in vain.
Li Shao could see the prince's troubled appearance.
His eldest brother, to put it bluntly, is just a idiot.
"Brother Emperor, then you should have a good talk and don't offend Miss Xuan's good intentions," Li Shao's brows were full of ridicule. Li Cheng gritted his teeth with hatred, and Empress Min beside her also looked helpless.
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Yuan Bupo saw the two people's overt and covert fighting in front of his eyes, and shook his head in his heart. It was a pity that it was ruined by this group of people who didn't know how to have fun.
Yuan Bupo saw all the prince's attempts to please. He had no interest in the fights between these royal families, but when he thought that this attack was probably instigated by Li Shao, he became angry for a while.
"If the prince doesn't dislike it, I would like to play the flute and qin with the prince. I wonder what the prince thinks?" Yuan Bupo's suggestion made the prince sigh in relief.