It's getting dark.

Li Yu opened his eyes and woke up.

She saw Zu'er and Di'er, who were still asleep on the side, who stayed up for too long last night, and they still haven't woken up.

There is also Chu Tianxiu, who is lying on the head of the bed and sleeping fragrantly. He smacked his mouth, grinning from time to time, and didn't know what kind of sweet dreams he was dreaming.

Li Yu was stunned for a moment.

She and Chu Tianxiu have not yet made a big salute.

Last night, Xiao Duhou obviously agreed to leave after the New Year, but he didn't go to the study, and actually slept in her boudoir for the night... Even if you don't go to bed, this is already a transgression.

However, when she saw Chu Tianxiu's handsome face, she couldn't help but soften her beautiful eyes, and she was reluctant to blame Chu Tianxiu.

Li Yu suddenly thought of an extremely important matter, and when he saw that the sky was already bright, he panicked.

She hurriedly urged the three of them to get up, "Husband, Di'er, Zu'er." Get up and get dressed up and get ready to go, or it's going to be too late! ”

"What's wrong?"

Chu Tianxiu was pushed to wake up, and quickly wiped the saliva from his mouth.

Zu'er also woke up, still drowsy.

She was still thinking about the story told by her uncle during the New Year's vigil last night, and shouted that she would continue to listen, "Uncle, Lin Daiyu entered the Rongguo Mansion last night, what happened later?" ”

"Lin Daiyu... Of course, she began to live a life without shame with her brother Baoyu! ”

Chu Tianxiu blinked and smiled.

Li Yu immediately interrupted him and said: "Husband, on the first day of the first lunar month today, the palace will feast on the ministers, the emperor and hundreds of officials will have fun, the officials and women of more than 2,000 stone in Jinling City will go, and the little marquis and the county lord with titles will also go."

We're going too, so let's change into our new crown clothes and get ready to go! ”

She is the county lord who has been entitled, and Chu Tianxiu is the hereditary little marquis, of course, she is qualified to participate in the palace banquet.

"A palace feast? Do you have to go? ”

Chu Tianxiu scratched his head.

He remembered that the "Little Dull Marquis" hadn't been to the palace banquet for several years.

It's not that I'm not qualified, it's that I don't go.

There are too many rules for the feast in the palace, and the banquet is full of a group of princes and ministers who are pressing their heads. He couldn't jump up at all.

As the head of the four great gentlemen of Jinling, he has always been a negative example of being warned by the princes and princes of the imperial city to "take it as a warning", and he was angry when he went to the banquet.

"Of course I want to go, this is the first year that my husband and Yu'er have been married, although I haven't made a big gift yet, but this year's palace banquet is a must!"

Li Yu was full of pride.

She has to be a little dusk marquis, and she doesn't go to show off among the princesses, county lords, and county lord sisters, isn't this a brocade night walk, and this marriage is in vain.

The royal family of Jinling City, the county lords of various princes, like to show off their husbands who is more powerful.

She doesn't love vanity, and she can't compare with anything else, but in the matter of her husband, she must compare it well, so that the little sisters know that the son-in-law of the Ping Wangfu is the strongest.

Zu'er couldn't help but stick out her little tongue, and didn't pestering Chu Tianxiu to tell the story anymore, "Uncle, the county master has changed his clothes, let's go to the study to change new clothes first." ”

Zu'er pushed Chu Tianxiu out of the boudoir.

Di Er hurriedly dressed Li Yu and changed into a county lord's costume.

Chu Tianxiu took Zu'er to the study, and quickly changed into a new crown dress that Li Yu had prepared for him a long time ago, and was ready to go.

After waiting for a long time, Li Yu and Di Er came out of the boudoir.

Chu Tianxiu's eyes lit up.

But I saw that Li Yu, who was dressed in full costume, was dressed in an atmospheric coat and xiaxia, wearing a Zhai crown and a hairpin, a little cinnabar in the center of his eyebrows, and gold-embroidered red xia boots under his feet.

She is as beautiful as the autumn moon, white and flawless, and even more captivating, and her temperament is so noble that it is suffocating.

After the four of them were ready, they left Yu Garden.

Outside the palace, Li Rong, the king of Ping, and his second wife, Xie Liyuan, were already dressed up and ready under the service of all the maidservants, waiting for Li Yu and Chu Tianxiu to go to the palace together.

"Let's go! Go to the Royal Palace! ”

Two luxurious five-seater carriages, under the escort of the guards of the Pingwang Mansion, slowly headed for the Jinling Palace.

...

In the Jinling Imperial Palace, there is an endless stream of three carriages for scholars, four carriages for ministers, and five carriages for princes, arriving outside the Sima Gate of the Imperial Palace.

Although the palace feast did not start until noon, the flowing water feast was held until after the dinner.

However, most of the people who attended the banquet would enter the palace early in the morning, and they would have the opportunity to communicate with other princes and ministers.

"King Ping is here!"

"Master Kong also came early!"

The princes and ministers met outside the palace gate, chatting and laughing politely, and the ladies and ladies invited each other to enter the palace together.

The palace feast on the first day of the first lunar month can be called the top and grandest feast of the Great Chu Dynasty every year.

It is a symbol of the pinnacle of power.

Only the top handful of princes, ministers, wives, and heirs of titles closest to the imperial power are eligible to be invited to the palace for a feast.

The magnates and wealthy families of the entire Great Chu have only envy, and they have sharpened their heads and want to squeeze into this feast in order to make friends with a small number of powerful people standing at the top of the Great Chu Dynasty.

However, the level of this palace banquet is too high, and the high-ranking officials above 2,000 stone are unattainable for the vast majority of officials.

Commoners, except for their relatives, can't enter the palace at all!

...

Cheung Lok Street.

Shen Mansion.

There are no officials or lords in the Shen Mansion, but the Shen father and son are also among the palace banquets, which is naturally because Shen Dafu is the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Shen and the most honored imperial relatives of Dachu today.

Shen Wanbao got up early in the morning and stood in front of the window of a pavilion in his house.

He was dressed in brocade clothes and looked like a boy, holding a snow-white paper book in his hand, and chanted: "Ah! Guarding the window, how can I be born alone in the dark! ”

As the eldest prince of the Shen Mansion, of course, he used faint paper, and it was impossible to use yellowed hemp paper, otherwise he would not be a price drop when he went out to walk with the scholars.

In this book, only a new poem was written, which was the popular "Looking for Seeking" in Jinling City.

Since returning from the last Hongmen Inn Hall trial banquet, he witnessed Xiao Duhou giving a poem in public, which shook the Jinling City Palace.

He didn't say anything, but his heart was extremely envious.

The four great gentlemen of Jinling have always been dissatisfied with each other, and they are not willing to be compared.

Although he Shen Wanbao is longer than Xiao Duhou, he is slightly inferior so... A little bit.

But it doesn't matter!

What Shen Mansion has is silver, much more than Xiao Duhou, and the more silver a man has, the more handsome he is. Therefore, in terms of appearance, he has absolute confidence to compete with Xiao Duhou.

However, the literary style is completely bad, and he Shen Wanbao doesn't know poetry at all.

He didn't expect that Xiao Duhou would actually create a new word for Dumhou.

Shen Wanbao learned from the pain and decided to follow the trend, and also wanted to give a new word that swept Jinling City.

Xiao Duhou can write, and this Shen Dagongzi can also write!

However, before he could write it, he had to figure out what was written in the word Little Dum.

"Guarding the window, how can you be born alone in the dark!"

"What does this mean? ...... Guarding in front of the window, I wondered, why was my life so dark? ”

Shen Wanbao shook his head and touched his face involuntarily.

“..... Xiao Duhou's face is not black, could it be that he is saying that his heart is black? Tsk, the little dusk marquis is too self-aware. At this point, I, Shen Wanbao, am ashamed of myself. ”

"Smack"!

Suddenly, a slap fell from the sky and hit Shen Wanbao on the head.

Shen Wanbao was furious, who dared to break his literary path and interfere with his comprehension of new words!

Looking back, it was his father Shen Dafu.

"You're standing in the attic early in the morning, what's the hell you're yelling at for some reason? What is black or not, look at what your face has become! ”

Shen Dafu said angrily.

Shen Wanbao suddenly shrank his head and shouted unjustly: "Dad, my son is studying, do you see it?" I had a paper book in my hand, and I bought it for a few taels of silver! ”

"Ah, Daddy blames you!"

Shen Dafu couldn't help but be surprised, and found that he was wrong to blame Shen Wanbao, rubbed Shen Wanbao's head, and took out a new set of cloth clothes, "Come, we are going to enter the palace today to attend the palace banquet, hurry up and change into this new set of clothes." ”

Shen Wanbao took the new clothes in surprise, but found that it was a linen shirt, and he was stunned. Isn't this the sackcloth that only the poor wear!

In his life, Shen Wanbao, from the beginning of reincarnation, he was born with silk and satin brocade clothes and jade food.

The cloth is not on the body, and the brown rice is not in the mouth.

Dad, the richest man in Jinling, actually let him wear cloth clothes for the New Year and go to the palace for a banquet.

The Shen Mansion is so decayed that it has actually fallen to the day of wearing a cloth shirt? It's a disregard for face.

Shen Wanbao couldn't help but redden, and said bitterly: "Dad, I didn't expect that our Shen Mansion would also have a day of decay. I was wrong, I shouldn't have cheated you on your money...! ”

"Smack~!"

Shen Dafu slapped Shen Wanbao on the head and said angrily: "Phew, where is my Shen Mansion decaying." What are you still stunned about, hurry up and put it on. Your clothes are too luxurious, wear ordinary civilian clothes. ”

"Dad, this is too shabby, it seems that our Shen family has no money!"

"Hmph, you know a fart! Dad figured it out, don't show your wealth, let the court think that our Shen family is very cheap with the emperor's relatives. We have to pretend to be bitter and poor, so that the emperor and the queen mother know that our Shen family is poor and have a hard time.

Also, the feast of the palace in the first month of the year, supporting the Empress Dowager Shen, the emperor and all the princes and princesses. I will take the opportunity to sue the Hou family and get back the 100,000 taels of silver. ”

Shen Dafu snorted coldly, angry.

At the beginning, he was ridiculed by Xiao Duhou, and he was foaming at the mouth of the anger and fainted, and this stomach has not disappeared.

100,000 taels of silver, the old dusk marquis has not said that he wants to pay it back. Following Xiao Duhou to make paper, Shen's workshop ended up losing another 10,000 taels of silver, and it is still losing money.

This evil breath does not come out, and he can't even pull the Dumhou Mansion, he, a relative of the Queen Mother, what kind of face does the Shen Mansion have in Jinling City!

"But, Dad, what about the IOU? That usury IOU, we don't dare to take it out in public, we have to be scolded to death! Without an IOU, you can't get the money back at all. ”

Shen Wanbao was puzzled.

"I don't need an IOU, let's just say that we have a verbal agreement, and we generously gave the Duhou family a large amount of silver without interest, and we trust the Duhou Mansion and did not leave an IOU.

As a result, he was cheated by the old dusk marquis for 100,000 taels, and all the hard-earned belongings for decades were gone. Now our Shen Mansion is poor and can't afford to eat or wear brocade clothes, and our two poor people can only wear linen clothes.

Even if you can't get this money back, you have to tell the old faint marquis in front of the emperor and the queen mother, and flatten the little faint marquis, so that the world knows that my Shen Mansion is being bullied by the little faint marquis, not for a day or two.

Dad wants to scold their father and son in front of the princes and princes of the Manchu Dynasty, extravagant and extravagant, and pit royal relatives! In everyone's eyes, there will definitely be upright princes and princes who will stand up and uphold justice! ”

Shen Da Rich said angrily.

Shen Wanbao's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly changed a luxurious brocade robe into a linen coarse robe, "Dad, it's a good move!" gave up 100,000 taels of silver, and wanted to scold this old man and the young man for a beating. ”