Stop acting, Your Majesty, the queen knows you're faking it

Chapter 26
In the early morning of the next day, Qingyun followed Chi Xinian's wishes and led the invitations to the various palaces.

The empress and concubines naturally dare not neglect the invitation of the empress.

Just after the beginning of the year, a group of beauties gathered in Fengqi Palace.

Even Lin Jieyu and Zhou Guiren arrived two quarters earlier.

"We're all here, I don't know the Empress...?" Guessing that no one else was coming, Meiren Chen took the courage to step forward and asked in a low voice.

"The empress is still practicing swords in the backyard at the moment." Xin Yi answered readily, and at the same time, made a gesture of "please" to the crowd, "The empress said, if you come too early and can't sit still, you may You can go to the backyard to have a look. I don’t know, are you going to go?”

"Practice sword...?"

Hearing such a thing at first, everyone present couldn't help but startled.

They are all women pampered in the deep palace, and they come into contact with not only the collection of poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting every day, but also occasionally show flowers and raise birds.This sword practice, let alone seeing it, even listening to it, was the first time I heard it.

This time, although they came here with a purpose in mind, they were all eighteen or nineteen-year-old girls after all, and they were still very curious about this new thing that they had never seen before.

They also wanted to see what the empress, who once led an army to defend her home and country, looked like when she raised her sword.
Is it really, as rude as the rumors say?
With such thoughts in mind, the whole group followed Xinyi to the backyard in unison.

The backyard of Fengqi Palace was already spacious, but after Chi Xinian specially tidied it up, the area behind the flowers was an empty space, just like a small martial arts arena.

The beauties in the backyard glanced over the half-person-high flowers, and easily saw Chi Xinian's chic and moving figure.

At this moment, she took off her palace attire, tied up her big sleeves, and simply tied three thousand black hair into a neat ponytail. With a flick of her porcelain-white wrist bones, the fluttering hair and the hem of her clothes merged with the sword flowers. A beautiful picture scroll.

"Did the empress look like this when she practiced sword?"

"I didn't expect that women's sword dancing can be more clean and agile than men's..."

"The empress is so pretty..."

Words of praise came from several mouths, and none of them were insincere.

They all sincerely praised Chi Xinian's swordsmanship, and some even whispered: "Who said that the Empress is a rude woman who wandered around in the military camp? In my opinion, she is obviously beautiful and heroic, and she is unmatched by other women." !"

At the end, she silently added a sentence in her heart: Such a woman who can't even be compared to many men is more likable than those delicate young ladies.

Of course, there are also people who subconsciously feel that swordsmanship is good-looking, but they don't want to admit it.

For example, Zhou Guiren.

As soon as she collected her thoughts, she immediately cast a cold glance at Concubine Qing beside her: "You are from the Qingliu family in vain, and your taste is nothing more than that.

"The rude thing of holding a sword and making gestures, can be boasted by you.

"In my opinion, you want to please the queen and you are crazy!"

"You——!" Concubine Qing immediately became furious after being evaluated in this way.

She thinks of herself as noble and talented, and has always looked down on Zhou Guiren who has not read many books and only shows off his dancing posture.

Now, being questioned about her vision by such a person she doesn't like, her complexion immediately turned black.

However, before she could say anything, Chi Xinian in the distance put away his sword and came over: "Although martial arts is not elegant, it can't be called rude, right?"

　Yan Chujing: (alert) They want to rob my wife!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)