Since ancient times, the story of swords giving to heroes, talented people and beautiful women complementing each other has been deeply loved by the people.

In Tanglin Tianqi, what can make the local people talk about the most is the good story of the princess and the general of the royal family and the Meng family, which will be there in almost every generation.

The Meng family is the most famous family of military generals in Tianqi, loyal and good for generations, and holds half of the military power of the entire Tianqi, and has single-handedly cultivated the world-famous Mengjia army, and is the most powerful supporter of the royal family, and it is also a family that every generation of the royal family will try to woo.

And when it comes to the courtship of the royal family, it is nothing more than rewards and marriages.

Let's talk about rewards, people are one of the best in the world, and the rewards that have been piled up over the past are innumerable, and many treasures of the royal family are still tributed by people who have fought wars, how many good things can be that people have not seen?

Then there is only one way to marry.

But this is very strange. Although it is understandable that the descendants of the military generals have followed the road of the army, the Meng family is not because they are a military generals, let alone because they have such a nondescript narrow concept as patriarchy, it is really too rare to be a daughter in the descendants.

In the past 100 years, there have only been two young ladies in the Meng family's lineage, all of whom have been pampered by their own parents and brothers.

To sum up, the royal family can only let the princess surrender to the Meng family to achieve the purpose of entrapment.

The most recent one was the surrender of Princess Huijia, who was favored under the knee of the thirty-sixth emperor (1) to Meng Yao, the youngest son of the Meng family and the younger brother of Meng Hui, who is now the general of Zhenguo.

The description of the grand occasion when Feng Yuan, who came out of the palace to marry the princess, and the convoy of the Meng family to welcome the relatives gathered together, still exists in the best-selling small book of Tianqi folk "The Secret History of the Thirty-six Princesses of Tianqi" for everyone's infinite reverie.

For example, in this best-selling book "The Secret History of Thirty-six Generations of Princesses", it is also written: "Princess Huijia and her husband were very ashamed of the inconvenience and loss caused to the common people by their marriage, and specially distributed the gold and silver treasures that the emperor rewarded them for marriage to the people who came to watch the ceremony.......

Although Tianqi's style of governing the country is strict and disciplined, it also governs the people's livelihood very properly. While the people live a rich and happy life, they are naturally very curious about the story of such a happy ending. No matter which is true or false, after all, a windfall falls from the sky, and fools don't want it, and everyone is well fed and warmly dressed, so they are naturally happy to watch such a lively show.

For example, as soon as Gu Yu arrived today, Meng Yan, a major general of the Meng family dressed in military uniform and riding a tall horse, walked in front of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, entered from the main gate of Tianqi Wangcheng, and went to Mengfu. Although his masked appearance was mostly covered by the helmet, his extraordinary bearing around him did not know how many girls along the way secretly blushed, and they secretly fantasized about how he would marry such a young heroic and proud Langjun in the future.

It didn't take long for the palace to be rewarded to the Mongolian Mansion. In order to celebrate the triumphant return of General Meng Shao today, His Majesty the Emperor will hold a celebration banquet in the Qionghua Palace, and there will also be a forbidden army at the entrance of Tianyi Street to distribute the silk and silver coins given in the palace to the people, so as to show that His Majesty loves the people like a son.

Tianqi has always been simple and simple, and the people who heard about it applauded this move one after another, and ran among relatives and friends in the neighborhood to tell each other, as if everyone didn't know about this matter and would let them receive one less reward.

And every now and then, the people will secretly wonder if something big is going to happen. There are many opinions on the streets and alleys, and there are all kinds of speculations - after all, the people and things in the magnificent palace are just one story among the tens of millions of beings in the world.

And it turns out that the imagination of the broad masses of the population is limitless. One of the most recognized is a gossip that has been widely circulated in the streets and alleys - General Meng Shao will marry the princess at tonight's night banquet in Qionghua Palace.

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Citizen A: "Really? Pity my second aunt's cousin, General Meng Shao is her dream lover! ”

Person B: "Everyone is saying, can there be a fake? It's not for me to say, even if it's not a princess, if a character like General Meng Shao wants to marry a wife, what kind of person does he want? There's really no hope for your cousin! ”

Citizen A: "That's right! Then tell me, which princess will be allowed to General Mengshao? ”

People C: "If you want me to say, it should be Princess Tang Jue, Princess Tang Jue and General Meng Shao are of the same age, so they are naturally very compatible." ”

Citizen B: "No. I think it should be Princess Li Yao. What do you think, Princess Li Yao was thirteen years old when she commanded 10,000 troops to break the enemy and 100,000 people shook the world at Refusal Pass the year before last, and General Meng Shao was also thirteen years old when he defeated Yanding's famous general Zhong Li in Zaoyi City and became famous in a battle. If it is said that the talented woman is beautiful through the ages, it is nothing more than that! ”

Citizen A: "You have a good point. ”

People C: "But Princess Liyao is not yet full of age, and she has never performed the ceremony." ”

Citizen B: "What's this?" Although our Tianqi women generally do not discuss marriage without a ceremony, if the rare story of Princess Liyao and General Meng Shao is fulfilled, these worldly visions are not enough to worry about at all! ”

People C: "But ......"

Person A: "Okay, don't talk about it, let's collect the stall early and go back to dinner." We have to go to Tianyi Street to line up earlier, and if there is news that General Meng Shao is marrying which princess, can't we know it as soon as possible? "I can even go back and brag to my relatives and friends who couldn't go to Tianyi Street in person, after all, the story of a princess and a general is also a rare beautiful conversation.

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At that time, the lights were on, and the Tianyi Street opposite the forbidden gate of the palace was already crowded. The people who came from all over the city were eager to go to the street to receive the reward from the palace - it didn't matter if it was worth it or not, the main thing was to get a little bit of the joy of General Meng's triumph, so that the girls to be married in the family could marry a wishful man like General Meng, and the men and women who already had families could also cultivate a young talent like General Meng Shao in the future.

Suddenly, Tianyi Street, which could have accommodated hundreds of cavalry side by side, was already impassable, but fortunately, there were tens of thousands of disciplined forbidden troops to maintain order, and the people of Tianqi had already developed a good habit of consciously queuing up to obey the law under the influence of Tianqi's strict laws.

It's just that the number of people is too much, and it is inevitable that they will follow each other, and the voices of people are boiling, and they usually have to use roars to communicate at a distance of only a few steps.

Compared with the boiling sky outside the palace, the Qionghua Palace, which specially holds a feast in the palace at this time, seems to be a little quiet.

On the main throne, the emperor and the queen mother are all sitting in a precarious position, on one side are the harem concubines, princesses and princesses and relatives of the emperor, and on the other side are the hundred officials and their families with orders.

The sound of silk and bamboo singing and dancing is endless, the dancing posture of the dancing queen in the hall is also regarded as Luan Hui Fengzhu, occasionally someone gets up to toast the greetings of all kinds, three or two acquaintances get together to be polite and modest to each other, but it is also a rare liveliness in the palace.

Shi Yuezhen rarely participated in such a grand occasion, and seeing that the exquisite dishes at the banquet were rare dishes that were rare or never seen before, he couldn't help but be curious, and took a piece of "glass lung" (2) from Luo Liyao's face, and took advantage of no one to pay attention to her, she took out a few silver needles from her sleeve and studied them with interest.

Luo Liyao glanced at her, and suddenly didn't want to know her.

Suddenly, the voices of the people who had been noisy just now fell silent.

I saw the man at the head of the right side of the main throne holding the bottle in both hands, and said loudly: "Chen Menghui, I wish His Majesty the Emperor long live, the Queen Mother and His Royal Highness the Empress are a thousand years old, and the Tianqi is a thousand generations, a glorious and prosperous era!" With that, he drank all the wine in the bottle and showed the empty bottle to everyone.

The head of the family congratulated, and Mrs. Meng, who was the mother, and Meng Yan and Meng, who were children, also stood up to salute, and there were continuous cheers and congratulations during the banquet.

After all, they have not forgotten who the protagonist of this feast is.

The emperor at the top of the throne, from the moment the general of Zhenguo and his wife and children got up, there was a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth.

Luo Liyao saw it in her eyes and understood in her heart: This feast has only really begun now.

Luo Zhuangxi raised his hand to signal the Meng family to be exempt, and said with a smile: "Thanks to General Meng and his wife, they have cultivated a future pillar for Tianqi." ”

General Meng Hui and Mrs. Meng, who had just sat down, immediately said "I don't dare", and seeing that the Meng family and his wife were about to get up with Meng Yan to thank the king, Zhuang Xi stopped in time: "No need to be polite. ”

"This palace remembers that General Meng Shao is still unmarried?" Chu Zhaoying smiled and looked at the emperor beside her, and set her eyes on Lady Meng.

Mrs. Meng naturally understood: "Yes, the courtiers have not yet looked at each other for this pair of children." ”

"The two children of the Meng family have reached marriageable age." Empress Dowager Ling Yue gently played with the delicate and small wine bottle in her hand, and her well-maintained face could still be vaguely seen in the stunningness of her prime, "The Meng family is an unusual family, and the queen can also help Mrs. Meng pay more attention to good people." ”

Hearing this, the smile on Chu Zhaoying's face deepened a little, and she said respectfully: "If you say that the husband selected for Miss Meng is not in a hurry, just draft our Tianqi's outstanding prince and grandson to let Mrs. Meng and Miss Meng look at each other one by one." It's just that this Major General Meng is young and talented, and the concubine always thinks that she must be the most outstanding girl in our Tianqi to match him. ”

"Listening to the queen's tone, but there is already a candidate?" Luo Zhuangxi's gaze moved slightly, and his gaze faintly fell on his little daughter.

Sensing the gaze cast by her father, Luo Liyao's heart moved, and she unconsciously clasped her hands, and her porcelain white skin, which was already frosty and proud, was instantly dyed with a few bright colors.

Shi Yuezhen on the side looked at her and chose to watch the show very rationally.

In her opinion, Luo Liyao's marriage with Meng Yan is almost a certainty, and she doesn't believe that the queen will be willing to marry a woman other than Luo Liyao to Meng Yan anyway. Moreover, Meng Yan is a famous young general in front of him, but he is simple and honest in the future, and with a person like Luo Liyao, who is weak in front of him and full of calculations in the back, he can be regarded as a talented woman in a sense.

On the other side, Luo Tangjue looked at her sister with some concern, and gently patted her jade hand that was pinched red by herself.

Because of the distance between the seats, Chu Zhaoying naturally didn't realize her daughter's actions, and glanced at Meng Yan's delicate face, which was already a little red, and her heart became a little more determined.

"A-Yao." Chu Zhaoying softly called Luo Liyao's name, and there was a hint of arrogance in her decent smile.

The banquet suddenly fell silent again, and the eyes of inquiry and curiosity followed the queen's gaze.

There is no need for anyone to point out that among the many people, all normal people without eye diseases can identify Princess Li Yao at a glance.

Regardless of Princess Liyao's stunning exquisite and peerless appearance, just her porcelain-white complexion without a trace of flaws like mutton fat and beautiful jade made people who only glanced at her miss and never forget.

And Luo Liyao, who was the focus of everyone's eyes at this time, was a little out of idea for the first time in her heart.

She took a deep breath, calmed down her somewhat complicated feelings, and got up and walked out.

As Luo Li Yaolian walked lightly towards the hall, everyone unconsciously gasped one after another.

What a beauty this is! The amazed crowd couldn't help but think in their hearts. She didn't have any expression at this time, and if she laughed, I was afraid that the brilliance of any jade would be dim.

Seeing everyone's reactions, the smile on the corner of Chu Zhaoying's mouth deepened.

Under the envious and amazed eyes of everyone, Luo Liyao walked to the hall, and after all the dancers retreated, she bowed slightly to the main seat: "The son is here." ”

Chu Zhaoying glanced at her daughter's generous and decent demeanor with a smile, and said, "Mrs. Meng, do you think that the only daughter of this palace and His Majesty is compatible with Major General Meng?" ”

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Related Notes:

1. [Surrender] can refer to the marriage of the emperor's daughter. Because the emperor is in the supreme, it is called surrender. There is a record in Li Zhao's "Supplement to the History of the Tang Kingdom" in the Tang Dynasty: "Princess Taihe went out and returned to the palace, and sent it to the imperial Tonghua gate, and the hundred bureaucrats set up classes outside the gate of Zhangjing Temple." ”

2. [Glass lung] A snack dish of the Yuan Dynasty. Take the lungs of the castrated ram (lamb) and release the blood to make the lobes of the lungs so-called jade-colored. Then mix the apricot puree, ginger juice, puff pastry (cream), honey, mint, cheese, wine, and cooked oil into juice, fill the lung lobes, chill and cut into cubes and serve. It is a big dish that is used to entertain VIPs. Because the lung lobes are "clear" and the mint is refreshing, it is called glaze.