Ye Youlan's daily life of traveling through time

Chapter 175 Telling you a joke

The Queen Mother smiled and raised her hand to signal. The palace attendant announced loudly: "Award a jade bracelet to Wang Yueru, the daughter of Wang Junlin, the Minister of Rites."

Wang Yueru thanked the Queen Mother.

When the other women saw that the Queen Mother’s reward was so generous, they all raised their hands to indicate that they wanted to perform.

So Ye Youlan watched the dance and listened to the piano, then listened to the singing, and after the singing, she danced again. The empress dowager gave her rewards one after another.

Ye Youlan muttered to herself that the empress dowager was such a spendthrift. She looked ahead and saw that most of the women present had finished their performances. She thought the remaining ones should be the five golden flowers of the capital.

As expected, the Queen Mother looked in Qin Yurou's direction. Qin Yurou stood up and said that she was not feeling well, so she played a piece of music on the piano. Chen Xiaoling raised her hand and said, "Queen Mother, I am also pregnant. Madam Qin and I will play a piece of music together to entertain everyone."

As soon as Shuangli started singing, everyone knew whether she had the talent or not. As expected, the song amazed everyone and everyone couldn't help but applaud.

The Queen Mother awarded each of them an oriental pearl.

Ruoyun and Miaoyu looked at each other and decided it was their turn. It would be unreasonable not to perform. So Ruoyun danced while Miaoyu painted. When the dance ended, Miaoyu's painting of the most beautiful peony in China was also finished.

"The five golden flowers of the capital city are truly amazingly talented. Reward them." The Queen Mother looked at Ye Youlan, "I remember that you, Youlan, are one of the golden flowers. Shouldn't you also perform a show?"

Ye Youlan remained calm, thinking to herself that you are plotting against me. I really don't have any talent, and it's not appropriate for me to dance square dance for you.

"Just now everyone was either dancing or playing the piano and singing, so I'll tell you a joke to make you laugh."

Everyone looked at Ye Youlan, waiting to hear a joke, wondering what interesting jokes you could tell?

"Tell me, there's a girl at the beach. The wind is blowing, but her hair isn't messy. Why?"

Ye Youlan thought this was the most classic joke she had ever heard from her favorite star, Yang Zi.

Everyone, look at me and I'll look at you.

Chen Xiaoling raised her hand: "She was wearing a hat."

"No, keep guessing."

"Why is that? I can't guess."

One girl was very anxious. She raised her hand and said, "Oh, Princess, please tell me the answer quickly!"

Ye Youlan smiled and stretched out a finger, saying, "Because she only has one hair!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, wondering what the answer was. But when they thought about it carefully, it was very reasonable. Then they thought about the image of the woman on the beach with only one hair, and everyone burst out laughing.

Someone was drinking tea when the tea spilled out. She hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe it, but was afraid of being seen. When she saw that the other women were smiling happily and didn't notice, she felt relieved.

Chen Xiaoling laughed so hard that her stomach hurt. She pointed at Ye Youlan, but realizing that they were in the palace, she quickly withdrew her finger and asked Tao Ye to help her go down to rest.

The Queen Mother smacked her lips and couldn't help laughing. The Queen also laughed, and their faces turned red.

The laughter of the female guests could be heard across the hall. The male guests outside were curious and couldn't help but stop to listen carefully, but they could only hear faint laughter.

Soon, Ye Youlan's joke spread out and everyone burst into laughter.

The Seventh Prince couldn't help laughing. What kind of weird things were going on in Ye Youlan's head?

Prime Minister Ye and a few old guys were sitting in a side hall drinking tea, and the jokes Ye Youlan told also reached them.

Minister Li laughed, "The princess is really humorous."

Minister Chen said enviously, "I was wondering how Old Ye could look so young. He has such a lovely daughter at home who smiles all the time."

Prime Minister Ye smiled and pointed at the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes: "You are not young anymore, and now your little girl has been kidnapped."

Lord Jin's chubby face was full of smiles: "Wasn't your little cotton-padded jacket kidnapped? Didn't I help you kidnap a capable son-in-law? Last time, thanks to the Seventh Prince and the Princess, my Jin Bao was cleared of suspicion."

Minister Chen glanced at everyone and said, "Your family is looking for a son-in-law, and your son-in-law lives at home. Your son-in-law comes back to see you every few days, but my son-in-law is nowhere to be seen."

Prime Minister Ye comforted him, "Just be happy. You're going to be both a father and a grandfather soon. You don't know how much we envy you."

Minister Chen was delighted when he heard this: "That's true."

This year's successful Jinshi scholars gathered together to chat. When Song Wen saw Chen Su, he smiled and waved to greet her. Qiao Luochuan, who was standing next to Chen Su, saw a tall and handsome man standing next to her, who was particularly eye-catching among the crowd. He smiled and asked Song Wen.

"Brother Song, who is that person in the dark blue brocade robe? He looks familiar to me."

Song Wen looked at him and said with a smile: "He is the Seventh Prince, the emperor's younger brother. You have only been in the capital for a few days, how do you know him?"

Qiao Luochuan asked, "Brother Song, can you introduce me to someone?"

Song Wen looked up at him and said, "How can I be qualified to speak to His Majesty? I only know Chen Su, the Minister of Works, who is standing next to him. We used to discuss calligraphy and painting together. Now he is not an ordinary person either. He married the daughter of the Minister of Personnel. On top of that, he is the future heir of the Yong'an Palace."

Li Zong was wearing a crimson brocade robe and had a face as beautiful as jade. He came to the side of the Jinshi scholars and everyone saluted him, which pleased him very much. He looked towards the Seventh Prince and sneered in his heart, "Sooner or later, I will deal with all of you."

He looked at Qiao Luochuan, who was looking at the Seventh Prince. He walked over with some displeasure and said, "What are you looking at, Qiao Tanhua? Do you know the Seventh Prince?"

Qiao Luochuan bowed and said, "I don't know him, he just looks familiar."

"He's the Seventh Prince, and he looks very ordinary, so it's normal that he looks familiar."

Qiao Luochuan and Song Wen were both stunned and could only smile without saying anything.

"I'll invite you to a chat at Full Moon Tower some other day. Please come then."

Li Zong thought Qin Yurou was right. If he wanted to move up and keep his position, he had to cultivate his own confidants.

The two nodded and said they would definitely go.

After Li Zong left, Song Wen began to fill Qiao Luochuan in on the relevant knowledge about Li Zong. Qiao Luochuan's expression kept changing, and his expression was quite rich. This Li Zong was really a story.

Song Wen concluded: "Now you understand clearly, right?"

Qiao Luochuan nodded. He had a lot to learn about being an official.

There was still an hour before the dinner started, so the queen went back to rest. She took Ye Youlan's hand and asked her to accompany her and talk.

Ye Youlan helped the Queen to stand up and prepare to leave. The Queen Mother coughed softly and looked at the Queen and said, "There are so many female guests here. Does the Queen want me to stay here and endure it?"

The Queen paused there awkwardly, and the Queen Mother sighed slightly and said, "You go back and rest first, Youlan stay."

Ye Youlan had no choice but to tell the Queen: "I will talk to the Empress when I have time."

The queen glanced at the queen mother, turned around and walked away with a cold expression.

Ye Youlan had no choice but to sit down obediently. The Queen Mother showed a smug look on her face: "Youlan, tell us another joke."