banquet
The little eunuch opened the tray and saw a blue square handkerchief embroidered with mandarin ducks and lotus flowers lying in it. The double-sided embroidery and gold thread used are also extremely exquisite.
"It's a change of trick." She took the handkerchief and wanted to laugh. But there are still such people, who send them there in the open, but secretly they can't do it, all kinds of hints and connotations, but they want to save face, pretending to be deep and serious.
Gu Zhuoyu pulled the attendant and asked with a gritted face, "Did she receive the things?" ”
The attendant trembled: "I received the son, and the emperor did accept it." ”
"Then why didn't she come to me?" Gu Gongzi was even more angry: "Let me go as a man...... To talk about such a shameful thing, am I still a human being? ”
The attendants did not dare to talk.
"If it weren't for my father saying that the firstborn child would have the surname Gu, I would still be working hard here!" He was so angry that some of the things that should have been said and what should not have been said were shaken out.
"Childe is cautious!" The attendant hurriedly knelt down, nodded his head to the ground, and said hurriedly: "The wall has ears!" ”
"Hmph." He said, "I don't care, if it's still like this in a few days, I might as well find a knife and stab myself to death." ”
The attendant was frightened by him, and said vigorously: "Childe think twice, Childe think twice!" "Head banged on the ground.
In the hall of sorrow, Su someone, who was about to wash and rest, heard the news and squeezed out a sneer from his throat: "Did he really say that? ”
"That's true. Gu Gongzi not only acted recklessly, but also had no doorknob on his lips, and said everything. The Dark Guard knelt down on one knee and said.
"That's interesting. The old fox of the Gu family, who was such a chicken thief, actually sent a fool into the palace. I want to see what kind of medicine Gu Dequan sells in the gourd. She waved her hand. The Dark Guard received the order, turned around, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
On the second day, an uninvited guest broke into the palace. A woman dressed in red pushed away the guards and ran into the study.
"Su Yaocang, give me Pei Jue!" Su Changning, the county lord of Chuxiu, spoke quickly and didn't give her a chance to react at all.
"Bold!" The father-in-law Gao on the side of the attendant said angrily: "How dare you be so rude to the emperor!" ”
She held her forehead and hurriedly handed Su Changning a look. Chang Ning suddenly understood, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "The emperor forgives the sin, Chang Ning is straightforward for a while, and if he breaks the rules, he really deserves to be punished!" ”
Secretly, she was annoyed that it was not Gonggong Li who was present today, otherwise she wouldn't have to kneel down for this eldest sister.
"Get up." Yao Cang said lightly. "But Pei Xiang is the pillar of Chenguo, the county lord wants it, but I can't be the master."
She got up and said hurriedly: "But I just want to ......"
"Chang Ning!" Yao Cang's voice was accentuated: "Don't make trouble." ”
The county lord of Chuxiu knows Yaocang's temper, and in this way, there is really no room for reversal. She turned around angrily, and thought that Gonggong Gao was also present, so she returned and gave a salute, and rushed out again in a hurry.
Yao Cang was helpless. With one look and one action, she knew that what she was holding back next was not a good fart. At the moment, it seems that for Pei Jue, this girl is really unwilling. It's just that she doesn't have any skills, but she has a lot of ghost ideas. When encountering a master who does not play cards according to common sense, how smart Ren Peijue is, he must have suffered a little loss.
After thinking about it, she retreated from everyone and summoned the secret guard Qin Xiao: "Send two people out of the palace, one to the county lord's mansion, and one to follow Pei Xiang." ”
The news coming in the past few days is really shocking. First, the county lord pretended to be a singer and infiltrated the workshop to try to seduce Pei Xiang but was rejected, and then the county lord climbed the wall of Pei Xiang's house and was scared by the vicious dog to cry his father and call his mother, and then followed the Pei family's sedan chair all over the street, Chang Ning really didn't have the slightest royal look.
Gonggong Li wiped his cold sweat, and seeing the emperor's constantly gloomy face, he understood that this little county lord must have done something immoral. Growing up with these two masters, the trouble caused by the county lord of Chuxiu is endless for three days and three nights.
Gonggong Li stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the county lord is young and his mind is not yet mature, how naughty this is, you can save it." Don't worry too much about these trivial matters. "Automatically ignore the fact that Yao Cang is only seventeen this year.
Yao Cang's face darkened and he was about to say two angry words, but suddenly looked at Gonggong Li's head wrapped into a ball, and he didn't know whether to be angry or laugh for a while. After thinking about it for a long time, he sighed lightly: "I, the imperial sister, have nothing that she can't get since she was a child. It's just that there are no rules, I'm afraid that she will be confused and do something she shouldn't do. ”
Gonggong Li snorted, and was about to answer, but he heard Yao Cang say: "In a few days, it will be mangseed." These days there is a lot of rain, the crops are growing well, and the harvest banquet held a few years ago can be prepared. ”
Heshuo is a unique festival in Chenguo, generally in the last ten days of mango planting. After the mango planting, the rain is abundant, the summer grain of the farmer's farmland has been harvested, and the autumn grain planting has begun or is in progress. In order to celebrate that everything is going in a good direction, and at the same time pray to the god of Heshen for a good harvest in autumn, there is the custom of "Heshuo Feast".
Gonggong Li responded. Thinking of something, he asked, "I don't know if this is a family banquet or a state banquet?" ”
"State banquet." She didn't raise her head, and wrote a comment on the fold. "The emperor has very few relatives in the country, and the past few years have been deserted. This year, all the ministers will be called, and they can bring their families and have a lively time. ”
"Whoa." Gonggong Li said he understood.
The so-called relatives of the emperor and the country, the left are just Su Changning, the lord of Chuxiu, Su Changyi, the king of Ding, who is on an expedition, and Su Ye, the emperor's little uncle today. For some reason, the Su family is a royal family, but the heirs are very rare. Most of the princesses of the previous dynasty were close to each other, living in other countries all the year round, and others who were stained with the name of the royal family were dead and wounded, and they didn't move around often. Plus the chaos years ago...... Gonggong Li was taken aback, and realized that he was thinking too deeply, so he quickly stopped, and didn't dare to think about it anymore.
The fold was changed, and it was changed and it was the night of the Heshuo feast. The hall was full of guests, and it was really lively. Prince Xiao Su Ye was weak, and he couldn't refuse, as always, so there were only Chang Ning Yaocang and two people left in the seat. Chang Ning came dressed up today, dressed in pink, which made her extremely pretty. The eyebrows have been painted, and the tail wing has always been long and warped in the past, but today it is faintly bent, which looks quite well-behaved and cute.
"Welcome to the Emperor!" Hundreds of officials salute. Yao Cang hugged the white nine-tails, walked from behind the stage step by step, and sat on the highest position.
"Flat!"
"Emperor Xie!" Baiguan got up and stood still.
"Today is the Heshuo feast, celebrating the abundance of summer grain for the people of my Chen country, and may the god of He continue to bless my Dachen, ensure a bumper harvest of grains in autumn, and fill the family with a full home." Yao Cang raised his glass and drank it all: "You are all the pillars of my Chen country, and the Chen country can have today, all by being here." And today's talents will be here, which is really the luck of Chenguo. You don't have to be formal, just raise your glass and drink today, don't talk about state affairs, just enjoy peace. After that, he looked at Gonggong Li. Gong Li agreed, and announced in a sharp voice: "The Heshuo feast begins!" ”
Yaocang followed Gonggong Li to clean his hands, tend to avoid evil spirits, and sincerely burn incense and pray. After worshipping the god of He, everyone took their seats, sheng songs sounded, and dancers entered one after another. Dressed in a glittering dance costume and holding a silver plate, it represents the blessing of the god of Chenghe and enjoys the joy of harvest. Then there is free time, eating or chatting, listening to everything.
In the middle of the feast, everyone was drunk. Yaocang looked at it from afar, and the posture of the ministers was at a glance, or flattering or treacherous, or welcoming or flattering, after all, everyone had their own unbearableness. Pei Xiang stood in a green shirt during the period, neither humble nor arrogant, not kitsch and not high, and really had a feeling of standing out from the crowd.
Drink alcohol.
Although the wine in the palace is good, it is not as good as half of Han Qing's wine, and after drinking it for a long time, it is like drinking water, and there is no drunkenness. Gonggong Li's eyes were sharp, and he gently reminded Yaocang: "Your Majesty, this Pei Xiang ......"
Yao Cang, who was still laughing in the aftertaste, reacted at this time, and when he looked up, he saw the black-clothed cloak walking farther and farther away with the touch of cyan, and gradually disappeared into the night.
She glanced to the side with a fierce expression: "What about Chang Ning?" ”
"Back to the emperor, the county lord of Chuxiu just greeted you, so it's convenient to go." Gonggong Li held his forehead, and the lord was in a daze just now, and he didn't hear anything.
"......" is not the point! Why did these two people disappear all of a sudden? Bad!
She grabbed the fox and walked behind the curtain. After a while, looking at Yao Cang, who came back, with a weird smile on his face, Gonggong Li was frightened and hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, who are you?" ”
The emperor smiled again, with a little excitement in his eyes, and replied: "Don't be afraid, father-in-law, I just ...... I went out and threw a fox. ”
Gonggong Li didn't dare to ask more, he chose intermittent tinnitus and deafness, looking at his nose and nose, and only silently reciting "God bless, all evils retreat" over and over again in his heart, looking like he had seen a ghost.