The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

However, the two seafood dishes are both dry products, so the taste is naturally not as delicious as the fresh ones. Fortunately, the cooking skills of the Imperial Kitchen Room are online, so the dishes are not unpalatable.

The atmosphere at the annual banquet was quite lively, and the hall was full of people drinking and drinking. It didn’t take long for singing and dancing to add to the fun. Those dancers have graceful figures, and they practice hard every day just to make others smile today, so everyone performs with full energy.

It was the first time that Mo Yan witnessed ancient singing and dancing in person, and he was more focused than others. In her opinion, these dancers' dancing postures are indeed excellent. Each of them has a delicate and soft body, and is so charming that it makes people pity them just to look at them.

Seeing Mo Yan's concentration, he couldn't help but nod his head while watching. Xiao Ruiyuan, who had no interest in these songs and dances at first, shifted his attention to the dancing girls. After just a few glances, he felt they were boring.

Just as Xiao Ruiyuan turned his attention to Mo Yan again, a teasing voice sounded in the hall: "It's rare that General Xiao can also appreciate singing and dancing, but which dancer has he chosen? Haha, if that's the case, why not General Xiao? Ask the Holy Spirit for grace to take him back?"

The man's voice was neither too loud nor too soft, and it just covered the sound of people drinking wine, drinking tea, and playing silk and bamboo in the hall. Everyone looked at Xiao Ruiyuan in unison, and saw that he was really looking at the dancer dancing in the center of the hall. Apart from a little surprise, they all showed tacit understanding. smile.

Men, no matter how unfeminine they are, will always need relief. What's more, there is something special about these dancers, so it's natural that General Xiao's heart will be moved.

Xiao Ruiyuan's face darkened, and he was about to have an attack, when he heard Emperor Hui'an laughing loudly: "Oh? Who does Xiao Aiqing like? You are already a grown man, and you should have a caring person by your side. If you like someone, it doesn't matter. When the annual banquet is over, you can take it back."

As soon as Emperor Hui'an spoke, the entire hall fell into silence, and even the graceful dance steps of the more than 20 dancers in the field became messy.

These dancers came from the palace orchestra. Although they were said to have a higher status than the folk dancers, they were of low status and their status was worse than that of palace maids. The best ones are those who are valued by the monarch and stay with the king for a while, and from then on they turn into phoenixes. The ones who are less successful are those who are given by the monarch to meritorious ministers as concubines and give birth to a son and a half daughters. They can be relied upon for half of their lives; for those who are even worse, they can become a teaching nun in the orchestra when they are older, and their whole life will pass like this; the worst thing is that they are released from the palace as soon as they reach the age.

However, these dancers have been in the palace since childhood and have been trapped in the palace for many years. Everything outside is unfamiliar to them. Moreover, it is already difficult for women who have passed their flowering period to get married, let alone dancers like them who are despised by the world? It is even more difficult for a woman to marry into a well-off family and become a good wife. It is easier to marry into a poor family, but they cannot bear the hardship at all, and their only ability to survive is singing and dancing. Once they are released, they can only Those who can make a living by singing and dancing usually end up working in brothels and teaching geishas how to sing and dance.

Although they were in the palace orchestra where news was closed, they had heard of Xiao Ruiyuan's name. They also heard that he was not married and that there was no one waiting in the room. Now, when they heard that Emperor Hui'an was going to give them to General Xiao, who had great military achievements and a bright future, even if they were just to be a small concubine, it would be a great thing, how could they not be excited?

Xiao Ruiyuan glanced at Mo Yan quickly, fearing that she would be angry, but he didn't want everyone's attention to be on the group of dancers, and they didn't look at him at all.

There was an indescribable feeling of depression in his heart, and the temperature around Mr. Xiao dropped sharply. He stood up with a cold face and shot a few cold eyes at the talkative minister, and then said to Emperor Hui'an: "Thank you very much. The Holy One has great love, but among these dancers, there is no one who is favored by the minister, so he has failed the Holy One's good intentions, and I hope that the Holy One will punish you."