"Your Majesty, since today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is inevitable to admire the moon and the scenery." A smile appeared on Si Ningchi's lips, and he looked at Zhao Zongheng seriously and said: "It's a pity that it is cloudy tonight, covering the moonlight." "I thought of a way and ordered Si Yuefang to compile a dance to invite the moon." Si Ningchi looked at Zhao Zongheng with a smile and said: "How about the emperor accompany me to enjoy the dance outside the palace~" p>
The queen's preference for singing and dancing is not a new thing in this palace. Now that the queen said that singing and dancing must have been arranged, Zhao Zongheng lowered his eyes and agreed with her: "Since it is singing and dancing, why should we go out of the palace to enjoy dancing?
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Si Ningchi took Zhao Zongheng's hand and said, "How can you appreciate the moon without leaving the palace?"
Zhao Zongheng raised his eyebrows and looked at the excited look in Si Ningchi's eyes, as if he was taking him to see something extremely interesting. The happy smile on his face was so joyful and moving.
"Okay." Zhao Zongheng stood up immediately: "In this case, all your lords, please come with me to see how the Queen invites the moon with her dance."
"Yes." The ministers in the palace were also a little curious, and they all got up and followed the emperor out of the palace.
"Can the queen push away the dark clouds in the sky?" Empress Dowager Cui said with a cold smile: "The Ai family would like to see what kind of ability the queen has to make the clouds open and see the moon."
"Then the Queen Mother must watch carefully." Si Ningchi turned his head with a smile and showed an extremely bright smile to Queen Mother Cui. The smile hidden in his eyes is thought-provoking.
There were many people walking in the open space outside the palace. The emperor and the queen stood at the front. Those standing next to them said that Queen Mother Cui was following closely. As everyone came out of the palace and stood still, the sound of silk and bamboo sounded next to them.
The sound of drums was heard from small to large, and the dancing girls filing in holding fire rings in their hands were so clearly visible in this night.
The flaming fire ring approached, and the frightened ministers could not help but exclaim. They looked at the dancers who were extremely flexible in waving the fire ring, as if they were afraid that their clothes would be set on fire.
With a heavy drum beat, a brazier suddenly rose up on the left with a bang, and the flames soared into the sky, and then the brazier on the right also started to burn.
Dozens of men holding torches and wearing dancing costumes filed in. The torches passed in front of them. Everyone felt as if they were surrounded by fire, and layers of heat waves hit their faces.
, I have to say that these dancers are dexterous, and under the firelight, their twisting waists are really eye-catching.
Just when everyone was staring at the dancer who was leading the dance, the dancer stepped closer and suddenly waved the fire ring in her hand, and it passed in front of Queen Mother Cui. Everyone's eyes were frightened.
Look at the trajectory of the fire circle.
Just, the next second——
"Ah!" A cry of surprise suddenly came from the crowd. The palace maid who came from nowhere looked at Queen Mother Cui in fear, and pointed at the phoenix crown on her head with a trembling hand, and was so frightened that she lost her voice.
"Why is there blood on the Queen Mother's phoenix crown!?" One after another exclamations sounded, causing everyone to look sideways.
Empress Dowager Cui didn't know why, and her heart trembled when she heard the exclamations. She turned around to ask what was wrong, but saw everyone standing beside her taking a step back involuntarily.
Queen Mother Cui was about to speak when she suddenly felt something dripping from the top of her head onto her cheek. It was a little hot but solidified little by little when she touched it. This was...
Red candle wax oil?
The red orbs originally inlaid on the phoenix crown melted and dripped down one by one. The temperature of the fire pot next to it was so hot that the red candle wax flowed down the phoenix crown. From a distance, it looked like the phoenix crown was stained with blood. It was weird and terrifying. .
"Look, the moon has appeared." Si Ningchi smiled and raised his chin, staring at the fine rubies on the phoenix crown melting and falling. The top of the phoenix crown was originally inlaid with fine rubies to look like a phoenix. Now, now Those gems fell and turned into a weeping blood moon.
Everyone around looked at this scene and gasped. Si Ningchi waved, took the torch from Shen Ting, and held it in front of the Queen Mother, as if to melt the red candle more thoroughly.
The red candle wax flowed down the phoenix crown. Under the firelight, Queen Mother Cui's face turned white inch by inch. She looked up at Si Ningchi with strong resentment in her eyes: "It's you!"
Si Ningchi raised his lips and smiled: "So what?"
She got a little closer, lowered her voice, looked at Queen Mother Cui with a bright smile, and said in a low voice: "If you have the ability, let the emperor destroy me~"
"Bitch!" Empress Dowager Cui was so angry that she suddenly raised her hand to hit Si Ningchi.
"What's wrong with the Queen Mother?" How could Si Ningchi not be on guard?
When Queen Mother Cui made this move, she had already taken two steps back and said with an innocent and pitiful face: "I just want to reward you with the moon, why is the Queen Mother still angry?"
Si Ningchi returned the torch in his hand to Shen Ting, with a bright and dazzling smile. He looked at the phoenix crown on the Queen Mother's head with such joy and said with a smile: "Look, the blood moon is so beautiful."
Queen Mother Cui almost had a heart attack. After a while, she suddenly turned her head to look at Zhao Zongheng and said, "Your Majesty! Does Your Majesty intend to sit idly by and ignore the Queen's evil behavior?"
Zhao Zongheng: "..."
He watched this scene with deep eyes, and looked sideways at Si Ningchi, but saw that she had an interesting look on her face, as if she was having a lot of fun, admiring the phoenix crown on Queen Mother Cui's head, as if she was praising her own masterpiece.
"The queen is too naughty." Zhao Zongheng lowered his eyes slightly and whispered: "But..."
"The Queen Mother wore the wrong hair crown, so she should remember it."
"I've watched the dance, and I've admired the moon." Zhao Zongheng waved his hand calmly: "It's all gone."
"Come here, help the Queen Mother go down and change clothes."
Seeing the emperor's protective attitude, Empress Dowager Cui screamed angrily: "Your Majesty! The empress humiliated the Ai family in this way, and the emperor exposed it so easily!?"
"Ai Jia is the Queen Mother of Tianqing Kingdom!" Queen Mother Cui screamed, with such a ferocious expression and the phoenix crown full of red candle wax, it looked weird and scary.
"What?" Zhao Zongheng turned his head, looked at Empress Dowager Cui fixedly and said, "Is it necessary for me to put the empress's phoenix crown on top of your head?"
"Ms. Cui, do you want to wear a phoenix crown today, a phoenix robe tomorrow, and be my queen the next day?"
"The Queen Mother is the Queen Mother, and the Queen is the Queen. You are wearing the wrong phoenix crown."
Zhao Zongheng looked cold and turned around and said: "Come here, take off the phoenix crown and send the Queen Mother back to Ci'an Palace!"
Zhao Zongheng's resounding words shocked the faces of everyone present, even though it was already known to everyone that the emperor and the queen mother were not getting along over the years.