Chapter 20: Banquets
Princess Jianning lived in the palace like this, unlike the women in the harem, she didn't have to pay attention to those intrigues, except that she didn't have a comfortable life in Jianning Palace, the rest was not bad, mainly because she was very happy to see her son, and as for the rest, she didn't care about him.
Border city, in the inn.
King Jianning analyzed for a long time, and asked Lin Feng to inquire about some things, and he felt that the assassin's matter was most likely done by the city lord, and only he came to interfere with the interests of the city lord.
It seems that the city lord already knows that he is coming, so there is no need for him to hide.
Two days later, the city lord received news that King Jianning had come to check the situation in the border city on behalf of the emperor and asked the people from the border city to come out to greet him.
Many people in the border city have never seen what the prince looks like, so on the day King Jianning arrived in the border city, many people on the street came out one after another.
"What does this prince look like, I haven't seen the prince in my life, I can see it now." Passerby A said.
"You're stupid, isn't this person all two eyes and one mouth, hehe." Passerby B gave Passerby A a blank look.
"You're still talking about me, if you're not curious, why are you standing here, huh." Passerby A turned his head.
"I'm out of respect for the prince, greet him, you haven't seen the city lord speak, of course I have to come out." Passerby B was quite satisfied with what he said, and his face showed a rather smug expression.
"Okay, okay, okay, you're justified." Passerby A relentlessly ends the conversation with Passerby B.
When King Jianning entered the city, he did not ride a horse, but sat in a sedan chair, and there were bursts of sighing from the crowd.
disappointed the people who came to watch, they didn't see King Jianning, and after they saw him, they all dispersed.
King Jianning went directly to the city lord's mansion.
In the evening, the city lord's mansion held a banquet to welcome the king of Jianning, and all forces came.
"Lord Wang, it's great that you can come, the border city has not been peaceful recently, one more person and one more help." After Ge Yan finished speaking, he raised the wine bottle and signaled to King Jianning, and drank it all.
King Jianning drank wine before he spoke: "City Lord, this king came this time to inspect the situation of this city, don't misunderstand." ”
Ge Yan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "Prince, this is very good, there are many things in this city, the prince must have many things he doesn't understand when he first arrives, and now the emperor only sends you to inspect, and the prince will save a lot of trouble." ”
King Jianning took another sip of wine, didn't say anything, and said secretly in his heart: Isn't it, the emperor is far away, and your city lord is the biggest, of course he doesn't want me to interfere in the affairs of your border city. Otherwise, how could he be so eager to attack this king.
Seeing that King Jianning didn't speak, the air was full of embarrassment, so she relieved Ge Yan: "Husband, since it is a banquet, how can it be done without singing and dancing, and the concubine will spread singing and dancing." ”
Ge Yan didn't think it was anything, but since his wife spoke, he nodded and said, "Yes." ”
The city lord's wife smiled and clapped her hands, and a group of dancers immediately poured in, and as soon as the musicians played, the dancers began to dance.
King Jianning drank wine and looked at the direction of the dancing girls, but there was no group of dancing girls in his eyes.
He has seen a lot of this kind of trick, when he was in the northwest in the past, some people wanted to win him over, that is, they used all kinds of beauties to tempt, fortunately, his princess was famous, and ordinary people did not have the courage.
In the middle of the banquet, King Jianning got up and relieved himself.
When he came back, he passed by a pond, and King Jianning unconsciously walked to the edge of the pond.
Standing by the pond and blowing the breeze, King Jianning felt very comfortable.
"Lin Feng, I didn't expect that there would be such a scenery in the City Lord's Mansion, I thought that this city was as short of water as the northwest." King Jianning didn't want to care about how much the city lord had done to the people, at this moment
He just wanted to quietly enjoy the breeze.
"Lord Wang, this city is the city of the city lord alone, but the northwest is not the northwest of the prince alone." Lin Feng came from the northwest with King Jianning, and he knew very well how those people in high positions were trying to scavenge oil and water from the people.
"Plop."
"Come on, help."
King Jianning stood for a moment, and was about to leave when he suddenly heard such a voice.
Originally, it was none of his business, after all, this was in the City Lord's Mansion, and he didn't need to worry about anything. But what he heard was the sound of falling water and cries for help, he couldn't ignore it, human life was still very important in King Jianning's heart.
King Jianning gave him a look, and Lin Feng immediately understood, he immediately jumped down and quickly fished people up.
Ge gently choked a few mouthfuls of water, only to see that it was the person in front of her who saved her, she immediately got up, bowed, and said, "Thank you for the benefactor's life-saving grace, the little woman can't repay it." ”
King Jianning saw that she was just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, so he didn't take it to heart, "It's okay." ”
Then we went back to the banquet.
After a while, a little maid secretly glanced at the city lord's wife, and the city lord's wife knew that the matter was done, and nodded slightly.
"Father, daughter unfortunately fell into the water and was rescued, begging the father to call the shots." Ge gently broke in so unexpectedly and knelt straight on the ground.
"Do you know who it is?" Ge Yan asked knowingly.
Ge gently continued: "It should be my father's banquet guest. As she spoke, she surveyed her surroundings before finally fixing her gaze on King Jianning.
Everyone instantly understood that they were saved by King Jianning, and now, there is a good show.
King Jianning understood the moment Ge came in lightly, and when she looked at him, he was even more sure that this was another beauty trick.
Hehe, this city lord has really invested in blood, and even his own daughter can use it.
"King Jianning? But so? Ge Yan seemed to want to be sure, and looked at King Jianning.
"It's my guards who saved me." King Jianning could only say that he had never approached this young lady.
"Guards. Father, I'm not alive anymore, I was touched by the guards, how can I still have the face to live. Ge suddenly burst into tears.
King Jianning didn't believe it at all, not to mention that the people of the border city were open, even if he dared to say such arrogant words in front of everyone just now, he didn't believe it, Ge Qingqing was a thin-skinned person.
"King Jianning, what do you see here?" Ge Yan naturally didn't dare to say it directly, asking Ge Qingqing to be a concubine for King Jianning.
"Even so, Miss Ge married me, the guard, and Lin Feng has not yet married a wife." King Jianning didn't think that the city lord's daughter had any status, and in his opinion, she was just barely worthy of Lin Feng.
"I don't want it, I don't want to marry a guard, how can this kind of pariah be worthy of me." Ge Qing never expected that King Jianning could say such a thing, and he immediately panicked.
The city lord and the city lord's wife didn't expect this to be the case.