Looking at this day, it should be the beginning of the unitary time, Ye Wanqiu should have eaten at this moment, I don't know what the situation in the general's mansion is now, whether everything is as usual, and whether Ye Wanqiu is safe and sound.

As soon as Mo Lin thought of the women and children in the general's mansion, he had no intention of admiring the clouds rolled up like marshmallows, and at this moment he actually had no intention of going to the banquet, he just hoped that the banquet would end early, so that he could go back to the general's mansion to visit Ye Wanqiu.

When the civil and military officials arrived at the Taihe Palace, the sky slowly darkened, the candles in the palace lamps in the palace have been lit by the palace maids, every meter away from the beams of the main hall, the fine wood is inlaid with silk yarn and glass for the skeleton, and the painted palace lamps with various patterns are painted outside, illuminating a bright and warm color, making the whole hall more and more graceful and luxurious, full of palace style.

The civil and military officials walked into the Taihe Palace, and the entourage around them stayed outside the hall to wait, and the Qinglong and the Red Tiger were not allowed to enter, so they could only wait for General Mo Lin outside the Taihe Palace.

The banquet has been arranged by the little eunuchs, and the banquet has been spread to the Taihe Palace, and is connected to the east and west sides of the Taihe Palace. The civil and military officials formed a feast according to two people and sat on the ground.

When the civil and military officials found the right position according to their official positions and just sat down, Tang Taizong came with the queen and many maidens, the emperor lifted the dragon robe and sat on the dragon chair, the queen and many maidens sat on its side, Zhang Gonggong saw this, and hurriedly made a look to the praiser.

The person who praised the salute received the signal from Gonggong Zhang, and he stood on top of His Majesty in the Taihe Palace, and began to sing praises to the civil and military officials below: "Kneel." The civil and military officials attending the banquet stood up, and then knelt down to the emperor: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

"Zhong Aiqing is flat." Tang Taizong looked at the many civil and military officials kneeling in front of him, raised his hand, and motioned for them to get up.

"Your Majesty." The civil and military officials stood up, then sat back in their seats and sat cross-legged.

"Today, the country is peaceful and peaceful, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the generals and civil and military officials have made great contributions to the imperial court, today I specially give a banquet on the Xia Yuan Festival, and the Aiqing can drink to their heart's content and share this feast of bliss." Tang Taizong saw that everyone was sitting down, and said to them again.

"Feast, music and dance." With a sharp voice, Gonggong Zhang instructed His Royal Highness to wait for a long time as the chief manager of the imperial dining room to announce the start of today's feast of bliss in the palace.

On the desk in front of General Mo Lin, there was only a pot of sake, and as the palace maids and eunuchs served tea and food, busy figures walked around, and after a while, the desk in front of each official and staff was filled with all kinds of delicacies one after another.

The first thing that was served was the fragrant Hu Cake, presumably freshly baked, the Hu Cake was still steaming, sprinkled with sesame seeds on the outside, taste it, and the inside was a fragrant meat filling, crispy and fragrant, the meat filling and sesame seeds were natural, wandering between the lips and teeth.

Immediately after the river fresh sashimi on the table, in the afternoon Taihu Lake freshly caught fish cut into sashimi, sprinkled with a little orange shreds, and then sprinkled with a little green onion shreds, orange onion shreds to remove the fishy, fish fillets because each slice cut only one millimeter thick, clamp a piece of almost transparent fish fillet, dip it in a small plate on the adjusted dipping sauce, taste polarized in the mouth, fresh and tender.

The technique of this fish is just like Du Fu's poetry: "Silently falling snow and breaking snow, bones have chopped spring onions." It can be seen that the knife skills of the imperial chef in the imperial dining room have reached perfection.

Then put on the table is two different mutton, one is the mutton in the water basin, the mutton in the water basin is based on the lamb belly, the secret of boiling mutton soup is "lamb as a belly, placed in the casserole, in addition to the green onion pepper there is a secret method, only with a few almonds, boiled in live water, until the bones are also erosive. "The key to the mutton in the water basin is to simmer slowly, so the soup is rich, mellow and delicious, and the flavor is incomparable.

There is also a plate of delicate "cold repair sheep", the hind legs of the sheep are sliced, cooked in water with green onions, ginger, tangerine peel and other seasonings, and then flattened on the plate after being removed, and then the marinade is poured into the plate, and it can be eaten at any time after it has cooled.

Immediately after that, the palace maids served delicious wontons, white rice dumplings, cherry made of "cherry Biluo", roasted donkey mane hump (the hump is cut into thin slices, and various spicy seasonings are added, fresh and spicy and delicious. and other delicacies, which filled the previously empty table.

At this time, coupled with the unique turbid wine of the Tang Dynasty and the wine from the Western Regions, the civil and military officials waited in the side hall from the morning to the present, waiting for many hours, at this time, these delicacies were sent to the mouth one after another, their hungry stomachs were greatly satisfied, and the sense of happiness appeared on the red faces of the civil and military officials who were a little drunk.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty admired the graceful and graceful dancing of the dancers in front of them, the lively and popular banquet was carried out, the sound of silk and bamboo was endless, the banquet was staggered, the words were happy, and they were happy.

However, Mo Lin could see that everyone was bored, they only greeted each other perfunctory, and the singing and dancing were not fake, but everyone had their own thoughts, and everyone also picked an official with a higher official position than him to toast, and those inferior officials who drank alone could only hide their embarrassment by singing and dancing in front of them.

When the cheese cherries (cheese poured over the freshly picked cherries and cane syrup poured at the same time) golden soufflé, crystal dragon and phoenix cake and other desserts and pastries came up, the banquet was nearing the end, and General Mo Lin also breathed a sigh of relief, and many officials came to toast.

"General Molin, since I ascended the throne, Aiqing has been fighting in the south and the north, and has been on the battlefield for a long time. I heard that Mrs. Ling Zhengsan was about to give birth, so I specially prepared a big gift, and someone came to present it. ”

The imperial guard presented a beautiful box with both hands, the guard opened the box, and Tang Taizong pulled out a long sword from the box.

I saw a full moon carved in the middle of the scabbard, around this round of the full moon is the stars in the sky, the print is realistic, the outline of the full moon and the stars is inlaid with sapphires, beautiful, sapphires are refracted to the ocean like starlight, revealing a cold edge.

I saw a flash of edge, Tang Taizong pulled out the sword from the scabbard, only to see that the sword was two feet long, the sword body was slender, the black iron was cast and thin, with a faint cold light, the sword grid was gilded, the upper end of the sword handle was embedded with a ruby crescent shape, and the two sides were embedded with turquoise to create two stars, and there were evenly distributed fine particles at the handle, which played a non-slip role.

"Pure steel is made, and it is refined for a long time; There is no blood in cutting people, and iron is like clay. This is the best swordsmith in the palace of our life to build a full 7749 days of casting, after the casting, and placed on the top of Qingcheng Mountain for 7749 days, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, this is a hundred years rare this sword. Tang Taizong reinserted the sword into the scabbard, and then put it into the sword box held by the imperial guard.

"General Molin, I will give you this sword, if the general's wife gives birth to a young general, this sword belongs to the young general, I give this sword the name of Xingyue Sword, see this sword as I see me, look forward to the future of the young general, wear the stars and the moon, the son inherits his father's business, kills the traitor and eliminates the evil, makes Han Ma contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and serves the court loyally."

"Thank you for the emperor's love, long live the emperor, long live long live." Mo Lin immediately knelt down and bowed and thanked, the Son of Heaven is the sun, this sword emperor gave the name Xingyue Sword, Xingyue Xingyue, second only to the sun, it can be seen that the emperor loves General Mo's mansion. The imperial guard walked down the main hall and handed over his sword to General Mo Lin with both hands.

Many civil and military officials looked at the star and moon sword given by the emperor to General Mo Lin, and they were all envious, and later the emperor gave others ten thousand taels of gold, pearl agate, double eye feathers, jewelry and jade, silk and satin, and rare treasures did not seem so rare and precious.

"Today's banquet is here, I am also lacking, all Aiqing should retreat." Tang Taizong yawned a few times, he was full of wine and food, and it was time for him to rest.

"The banquet is over, the music is stopped, and the emperor drives back to the palace." Gonggong Zhang said in a loud voice, the vocal music that was being played stopped instantly, the dancers put away their dancing long sleeves one after another, and retreated from the center of the hall.

"Thank you, long live the emperor, long live the emperor." The civil and military officials got up one after another, knelt down and kowtowed, and bid farewell to the emperor.

Mo Lin walked out of the Taihe Hall with the Xingyue Sword, the green dragon and the red tiger had been waiting outside the hall for a long time, the sky was already dark, and the entire palace was shrouded in a thick dark night, and the lights of the palace lamps in the distance were swaying, emitting bursts of warm yellow light.

General Mo Lin, Qinglong and Chihu sat in the carriage that had been prepared in the palace, and saw the general walking out of the palace, taking three steps into a step, his steps were hurried, and he looked anxious like an arrow, Qinglong and Chihu knew that the general must be worried about the three ladies in the palace.

The Qinglong soldier said to the little eunuch who was driving the horse: "Hurry up and whip the horse." The little eunuch raised his whip and jerked the horse's buttocks, and the horse raised its front hooves and neighed into the night air, and galloped away.

When the carriage in the palace drove to the gate of the Xuanwu Gate of Taiji Palace, Mo Lin immediately jumped out of the carriage, stepped on the horse, and rode on the sweaty BMW in the palace.

Qinglong and Chihu came to the palace with the palace and waited outside the city gate, and the soldiers grabbed the reins, stepped on their horses, "drive, drive", whipped their horses, and rushed towards the direction of the general's mansion with General Mo Lin in their arms, and went straight into the thick night.

More than a dozen horses made a loud sound of horses' hooves at the same time, and it was very noisy, and after a while, the silence was restored, and only the dark night sky remained, and the huge and gorgeous palace was left far behind the horses, while the general's palace was getting closer and closer.