Chapter 95: Chaos at the Banquet
This banquet was organized by the princess herself, so of course she knew what the program was.
I bring it up now just to change the subject.
The girls who had been unable to say anything and had been serving as a background suddenly became alert, their eyes brighter than each other.
King Zhao nodded casually: "Let's take a look."
The concubine Wang has quietly gone down to make preparations.
The previous dress was just a prelude to the present, and it will naturally be more grand when it actually takes place on stage.
She had prepared a dance, and was accompanied by eight other dancers with identical makeup and clothes.
Standing on the venue specially cleared for the performance, Concubine Wang took a deep breath.
This time, she will definitely be able to do it!
When she was about to go on stage, a dancer suddenly pointed at the hem of her skirt and said, "Master, your skirt..."
Concubine Wang had a bad feeling, so she quickly turned around and pulled the hem of her skirt, only to see that a big hole had been torn on it at some point.
It's too late to change time now.
Who wants to harm her?
Concubine Wang didn't know, she forced herself to calm down, thinking that it was okay and no one would see it.
Don't panic.
Besides, she wasn't the only one who made a fool of herself in public today.
With her long sleeves swung up and her waist flexible, the beauty in the venue kept changing her movements, and the strings of pearls flying on her dance skirt made her appearance even more outstanding.
When she saw that the prince was indeed looking over here, the concubine was delighted.
When the concubine finished dancing, King Zhao praised her: "Excellent! Reward!"
The concubine was a little out of breath, and her cheeks were slightly red due to the intense exercise, but when King Zhao said "very good", she felt as if she had taken a tonic pill, and her arms and legs became strong.
Next came Concubine Gao, Concubine Zhou, Concubine Qian... Concubine Zhao, who performed on stage one by one.
But they are just concubines. Two of the three concubines are not convenient to move, and they are also proud of their status, let alone concubines.
As for the maids in the front yard, firstly, they were not considered the masters, and secondly, without the princess's arrangement, they had no way of appearing here.
Among them, Concubine Gao's pipa was broken and she had to replace it temporarily, Concubine Zhou's dress had obvious stains, and Concubine Qian was tripped by a small stone that appeared from nowhere when she went on stage.
It's obvious that everyone has always spared no effort in ruining other people's performances.
King Zhao watched every show with great interest, and rated them all as “excellent” and gave rewards to all of them.
Concubine Wang went from being secretly delighted at the beginning to feeling as if she was on the edge of an icy cave later on, staring at the people on the field with a distracted look.
If the prince agrees to every one of them, then wouldn’t all her efforts be in vain?
After everyone finished their performances, Concubine Wen smiled and said, "Cousin, why do you say every one of them is excellent? Isn't there any best one?"
Zhao Wang Duanshui Master: "If you do well, you will be rewarded. If everyone does well, everyone will be rewarded."
After a few performances, the scene became much more lively, and some people bravely went to toast the prince.
The king's concubine was still wearing her beautiful dance dress, holding up a wine glass and walking towards him.
Coincidentally, Concubine Qian and Concubine Gao also came forward hand in hand and spoke to Concubine Xu Shu.
Seeing this, Concubine Zhao also hurried forward.
Some time ago, her aunt secretly passed a message to her, asking her to find a backer, and Concubine Li was a good choice.
Not only did she have a little grandson, but she was also pregnant with another.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, she wanted to go forward and establish a good relationship.
Without paying attention, Concubine Gao took a step back and bumped into Concubine Zhao who was walking towards her. Her body fell backwards uncontrollably and she tried to grab something in a panic.
I just felt like I was grabbing a few strings of beads, beads...
How could the beads withstand such force? They instantly scattered and fell to the ground.
The situation suddenly got out of control.
Many of the maids who were serving wine, dishes, tea and water slipped and fell to the ground.
It happened that a little maidservant stumbled and fell heavily onto a table filled with food and wine.
Behind the table was the pregnant Concubine Lou. The table hit her abdomen hard, causing her unbearable pain in an instant.
Concubine Li, who was very close, was not spared either.
"what!!!"
With the screams, the scene became extremely chaotic for a while. Concubine Lou was hit by the table and soup, and her abdomen immediately began to hurt.
Concubine Li was holding her stomach in pain. Most of the soup was on her body and she looked miserable. There were a lot of broken porcelain on the ground. These things had just hit her abdomen and it was obvious that she was in great pain.
The maidservant beside her shouted in panic, "Concubine, Concubine!"
The princess sitting at the top saw the chaos and shouted, "Stop, don't move!"
The originally happy Mid-Autumn Festival banquet has now turned into a mess.
Looking at the appearances of the two concubines, she couldn't help but feel fortunate that she didn't ask Concubine Jian to come over today, otherwise, with her big belly, something bad might happen.
King Zhao immediately stood up and ordered in a cold voice: "Come, call the imperial physician."
He walked over to Concubine Lou, who looked the most seriously ill, and carried her to the next side room.
When they returned, before Concubine Li was helped up by the maids, her son had already run to her side, calling "Mom, Mom" non-stop.
When King Zhao carried the person to the side room, the princess had already begun to give instructions in an orderly manner.
Let’s ask someone to send the three children away first. In this situation, the three children must be very scared.
The little prince didn't want to leave because he was worried about his mother, but the princess still gave the order to take him away.
When she saw King Zhao, the princess immediately said, "Your Majesty, I am here. Please go and see my two sisters first."
King Zhao nodded and said, "Lock up those involved in this matter first."
The princess was shocked and said, "Yes"
Could it be that the prince guessed that this was deliberately designed by someone?
At this time, a maid ran over and said, "My Lord, my concubine is about to give birth!"
At the same time, another maid also looked panicked: "My Lord, my mistress is about to give birth."
Upon hearing this, the princess hurriedly said, "The midwives are already in the mansion, waiting to deliver the baby at any time. Invite them over immediately."
Both of them were born prematurely, but Concubine Lou was only half a month premature, while Concubine Li was one and a half months premature.
But speaking of it, this was Concubine Lou's first child, while Concubine Li had already given birth once.
At this time, the two of them could no longer take care of the delivery room that had been prepared in their own yard, and could only ask someone to set it up here hurriedly.
King Zhao even took one of them to another room.
Originally, he wanted to save trouble and carried both of them to the nearest room.
Everyone wants to have a baby now, and it seems obvious that there is not enough space.
In this situation, no one was concerned with trying to seduce the prince to win his favor, and everyone began to speculate about the gender of the unborn child.
The two adjacent rooms were filled with servants carrying basins of blood. After a long time, everyone's feet were sore from standing, and there was no sound of a child crying.
Many people prayed in their hearts that it must be a girl, it must be a girl. If it was a girl, it would mean that the prince would definitely continue to try to have children, and they would have a chance.
The emperor in the palace and the prince's mother could not possibly bear to see the prince having only one boy.
Of course, some people prayed in their hearts that a boy would be born. The prince only had one son, and the palace might personally give him a girl.