Chapter 385: The Four Heavenly Kings (I)
Princess Taiping's Mansion, on the second night of Quan Ce's return to Shendu, he was summoned, and the Taiping Duke invited him to eat muddy sheep and die. γ γ γ γ γ γ said
This invitation is very insincere, and those who are familiar with him know that he is not sensitive to this kind of meat.
It is not the sheep that the sheep eats, the sheep only exists as a roasting container, and the fat goose that eats is wrapped in the belly of the sheep, and the goose belly has glutinous rice, all kinds of meat and goose eggs that have not yet grown into a hard shell, in addition, all kinds of spices have to occupy half of the country, so the goose eggs are rare, and the most easy to taste, in the aristocratic banquet, those who can eat this are the most distinguished guests.
Quan Ce is in Princess Taiping's Mansion, and the noble courtesy does not think about the second person, he looked at the oily yellow and clear glutinous rice on the table, and two goose eggs wrapped in seasonings, smelling hot, and struggled to maintain a polite smile, but he was also stubborn not to move the chopsticks, just holding the tea cup and sipping it lightly.
"Da Lang, this meal is made by my aunt's hand, and it is not an ornament, so why don't you use it if you take it to see?" Princess Taiping sat on the top and glanced at him with a strong sense of purpose.
Quan Ce went through the trip to Chang'an between the lightning and flint, and confirmed that he did not offend this fickle aunt, his face was pale, and he was righteous and stern, "Aunt Tianhuang is noble, how can she be light in the kitchen?" My aunt is born with beauty, and her slender jade fingers are particularly valuable, if there is any damage, how can I regret it? The child regrets in his heart, and has no appetite for the food on the table."
Princess Taiping propped up the table with two elbows, holding her face, so she was tidy, with a smile and appreciation on her face, "Well, I went to the Western Capital, and Da Lang has grown a lot, and then said, if you can really talk about the sky, your aunt will not let you eat."
A row of crows flew over Quan Ce's head, and he changed to a gentle and well-behaved face, "The ancients are cloudy, the young and the old are orderly, the aunt is here, the children dare not use it first, and ask the aunt to come first" As he spoke, he stepped forward, picked up the jasper spoon, filled some glutinous rice, and sent it to Princess Taiping's plump red lips.
Princess Taiping rolled her eyes, finally opened her mouth to take a bite, waved her hand, and made people remove the muddy sheep on the case of the two of them, and hummed, "The young and the old are orderly, hum, and the elders give it, don't dare to resign."
The right policy is not smiling.
"It's all here" Princess Taiping took his hand, made him sit next to him, beckoned the maid to put all the carefully prepared dishes in front of her, picked up the ivory chopstick, picked up a piece of milk stuffed fish, and sent it to Quan Ce's mouth, seeing him eating happily, he pursed his lips and smiled, but there was a little melancholy loss in his eyes, "Auntie's eldest man has grown up, and he is fighting outside the Saiwai, and he doesn't forget to sing songs to please his fiancΓ©e, and my aunt is not blessed, so I can't listen to it."
Quan Ce suddenly, Princess Taiping sacrificed the punishment of the sheep to be killed, it turned out to be for this, and the dog leg said, "If the aunt wants to listen, the child can sing at any time"
"Rare" Princess Taiping rolled her eyes, but she refused to appreciate it, and stuffed a tender white bright shrimp into his mouth, "Pang Lei's thing, you did it, right?" β
Quan Ce didn't hide it, nodded and said, "Over there in the Lintoe Palace, Xu is the king of Linzi who is in charge, and he doesn't give up, and he always wants to take me, so he has to say one or two."
"Longji is precocious, he is scheming, even if he is not in charge, he can't get rid of him" Princess Taiping smiled with her eyebrows, she was connected with the mother and daughter of the Empress Wu, and she didn't look at the two mediocre and cowardly brothers very much, but she admired this nephew who had a bit of wolf cub demeanor, "If you take this stick, will he stop?" β
Princess Taiping said that she forgot to feed, Quan Ce picked up the ivory chopsticks to eat vegetables, and his two cheeks were bulging, he didn't know, and he didn't care, Li Longji was in the deep palace, and he was not free, he always had to fake others, no matter how good the trick was, there were many traces left, and it was easy to crack, if he still wanted to involve himself, he would just see the move, and if he didn't provoke himself, then let him go.
Princess Taiping frowned, glanced at him, and felt a little strange, "King Luling and Wu Sansi have the potential to converge, do you have a way to deal with it?" β
Quan Ce shook his head, poured himself a lamp of Jiannan Burning Spring, and tasted it carefully, the longer it was stored, the more mellow the taste.
King Luling and Wu Sansi are just using each other, what King Luling and Wei want to do is to stop the decline of King Luling by using the strength of Wu Sansi, Wu Sansi's idea is even more speculative, depending on the time and events, there is no intention of pulling a Luling King, currying favor with the Empress Wu, and then completely replacing the position of Wu Chenghei.
"Da Lang, you should be a weak champion, just determined, the situation is changing rapidly, and it is difficult to deal with the spirit, so lax and lazy, how can you gain a foothold?" Princess Taiping's willow eyebrows were upside down, and she scolded sharply, "Although you have a little bit of business, you are far from the point of sitting back and relaxing, how can you be arrogant and covetous?" β
Quan Ce was stunned for a while, Princess Taiping got up with her sleeves, paced around Quan Ce hurriedly, irritable, suddenly paused, bullied herself in front of him, her eyes looked down at him, her face turned red with anger, "You sent Quan Zhu to Chang'an, but do you have the intention of not making progress in the court, but trying to plot the place?" Without the power of the center, you can be so confused if you are powerful in the local area, but you are a rootless drifter, and you are in front of Duan Lun, Li Element of Bingzhou, and even Yin Jian of the Zheng clan in Xingyang, how can you be so confused? β
Seeing that Princess Taiping lowered her head and a strand of hair on her sideburns hung down, she reached out and took care of them to her ear, and said softly, "Auntie, children are born with hard work, and they sleep with one eye open, how dare they have a comfortable and contemptuous heart?" β
Quan Ce stood up, his hands behind him, "The second Li and the second martial arts of the court, there are weak and strong, now the Lintoe Hall occupies the name, the momentum occupies the upper hand, Wu Sansi and the King of Luling merge, I am happy to see it, if the King of Linzi does not stop, and then touch me, I may try to launch another ...... to cut off the arms of the Lintoe Palace."
"Why is that?" Princess Taiping frowned.
"Aunt, needless to say, the momentum of you and me, attached to the turbulence of the court, Your Majesty is in the court, cool officials, practicing Zuo, seizing the prince, step by step to make you and me stronger" Quan Ce's eyebrows are like knives, as hard as iron and stone, "Your Majesty is getting older, and the palace will be born with evil obstacles, before that, to maintain the turmoil of the court, in public and private, we must not allow the Lintoe Hall to sit firmly in the East Palace"
Princess Taiping is so smart, she quickly understood what the power policy was referring to, and the evil obstacle of the palace was Zhang Changzong, who was favored more than any of the faces in the palace, she opened her mouth, and wanted to ask, did he calculate here a long time ago, so that she could dedicate Zhang Changzong to the Empress Wu?
She didn't ask, she was born with an indescribable preciousness, she had no thoughts of good and evil, and she didn't care about gentlemen and villains, and only recognized success or failure.
She looked at the Jedi counterattack in front of her, using the world as a chessboard, and the scene of him being bleak and bloody, struggling to survive, as if it was still yesterday.
Princess Taiping pressed her chest full of turbulence, staggered forward, passed her hands under Quan Ce's ribs, and hugged him in her arms, "In this case, what are your plans in the near future?" β
Quan Ce made no secret of it, "Today's Kegongju"
Princess Taiping nodded meekly, took his hand, and went to the small Buddha hall next to her, "Follow me to worship Veda Bodhisattva"
Quan Ce has no two words, burns incense and worships.
"Does this Veda look like me?" Princess Taiping asked suddenly.
Quan Ce was stunned, "My aunt is fair-skinned and plump, although this Bodhisattva is mighty, but it is not black, how can she have half of her aunt's demeanor?" β
"Giggles" Princess Taiping laughed crisply, "Precious white wood, I remember that there is a white sandalwood Buddha statue in the Anguo Temple of Hebi Palace, which is a tribute in the past, but it is hard to find, but it can't satisfy Dalang."
Quan Ce smiled and said nothing, silently keeping this matter in his heart.
The dawn of the Tang Dynasty
The dawn of the Tang Dynasty