Chapter 237: Qujiang Banquet

Li Dongsheng bowed and retired.

The next theme time is still to celebrate, and Li Dongsheng also knows why his father has to set up a flowing water seat after being rewarded, and he can't be busy without a flowing water seat. There are too many people who come to congratulate, and those who don't know each other come to say goodbye, and you can't turn them away, so you will be said to be a villain, and there is no way to follow the trend, Shangshu Mansion also set up a flowing water seat at the door, but the number of people in this Chang'an City is not comparable with the small county town of Lantian, and the silver money is spent like flowing water, and I originally wanted to do it for ten days, but then decided to put it for only five days.

Li Jing's status is in this place, and his nephew has won the Jinshi, so the entertainment is also indispensable. This prince, that Shangshu, and any family all sent people to give gifts, and Zhang Chuchen couldn't raise his head when he was busy, and he greeted various family members in the backyard every day, all to inquire about Li Dongsheng's marriage matching, and heard that Li Dongsheng was married to the daughter of a small businessman, and they all volunteered to let the woman withdraw from the marriage, and never let Li Dongsheng's reputation be lost a little.

Li Dongsheng also has a big headache, he is the protagonist and can't go anywhere, since he can't resist, then enjoy it. Every day is drunk and dreams to death, and they were picked up by Cheng Chumo and thrown into the pool, saying that Li Dongsheng deceived them into not doing well in the exam, and the brothers who harmed them were very sad for a few days, and not doing this was not enough to make the brothers angry.

In the midst of the disturbances, the palace issued a will, and three days later, a Qujiang banquet was held in Xinghuayuan, and the emperor personally attended. For a while, everyone in Chang'an City was eye-catching, and all the people who had relationships were active, and this was also a gathering of Chang'an nobles, which was a good time for a blind date.

Li Dejian has prepared a new set of clothes, a new set of clothes, black gauze soft head, blue pattern round neck shirt, white jade belt, leather boots on his feet, a jade pendant hanging on the belt, holding a folding fan in his hand, dangling in front of Li Dongsheng, and asking with confidence: "Dongsheng, what do you think of my set?" Can you get Wei Jia's attention? ”

Looking at Li Dejian's handsome face, Li Dongsheng said sourly: "Not only can you attract her attention, but the whole woman will be attracted to you." ”

"Then I'll be relieved." Li Dejian said excitedly.

"Just because you get her attention doesn't mean she's going to like you." It was Li De Award who spoke. "If it were me, I would definitely like those talented jinshi. You are like this, and you are ruined on the outside. Oh... Brother, you hit me again... ”

"What's wrong with me beating you, did you say that your brother was a straw bale!"

After the Tang Dynasty, the place where the banquet was held was generally set up in the pavilion on the bank of the Qujiang River in the apricot garden, so it was also called the "apricot garden banquet"; Later, it gradually evolved into a "poetry meeting" where poets recited poems, according to the custom of the ancients to "qu shui liu", put the wine glass in the flowing water, and punish whoever drank to make poems in front of the flow, and the poems were evaluated by everyone, which was called "Qujiang flowing drink".

The Long Causeway Street around the whole Qujiang River is more than ten miles long, the endless water surface is rippling with blue waves, the water birds are fluttering, the surrounding trees are lush and green, the palace pavilion is reflected in the water, the scenery is beautiful.

On the entire embankment, today is full of traffic, on both sides of the road are small merchants and hawkers gathering places, all kinds of goods are placed everywhere, very rural market look.

At this time, I heard someone shouting: "The Northern Ya Forbidden Army is ordered to protect the emperor, and all the idle people are avoided." Then he saw the end of the road, and the smoke and dust were rising, and the sound of horses' hooves rumbled. The long lift was full of deafening mountain shouts, and the forbidden army walked to the long lift in advance, standing murderously on both sides of the road, the brigade honor guard flew with flags, riding a tall horse through the crowd, when Li Shimin walked out of the carriage. All those who were on the long lift fell to the ground one after another, and did not dare to raise their heads.

Li Shimin seemed to be in a good mood today, turned around and helped out the eldest grandson queen in the carriage, and then climbed the small pavilion on the top of the mountain surrounded by major important ministers and chamberlains, and said as he walked: "Xuan this year's flower explorer." ”

During the banquet in Qujiang, two young and handsome Jinshi should be selected as the flower explorer, so that the two of them traveled all over the famous garden, picking all kinds of famous flowers to decorate the banquet, this year's flower exploration envoy has already been decided, one is Li Dongsheng, the youngest, the best grades, and the other is Zheng Heng, who is from the Zheng family in Xingyang. After the two were summoned by the emperor, they said goodbye to their peers and prepared to walk up the mountain together.

That Zheng Heng is four or five years older than Li Dongsheng, although he is also young and promising, but he was inferior to Li Dongsheng, and he was not less ridiculed by the eldest grandson in the party, so he was also very unconvinced by Li Dongsheng, and today in front of so many people, he has made up his mind to kill Li Dongsheng's face.

He was not as tall as Li Dongsheng, but he had to go ahead of Li Dongsheng, looking at Zheng Heng's provocative gaze, Li Dongsheng smiled slightly, and made a gesture that you invite first, and Zheng Heng swaggered in front of him unceremoniously. It's a pity that he didn't take two steps, and a small official from the Ministry of Rites came out to stop him: "Li Dongsheng is the youngest, and he is the first in this Jinshi exam, so he should go ahead." ”

Zheng Heng's face slowed down, Li Dongsheng walked up leisurely, if his eyes were hot, then Li Dongsheng's back was estimated to be scalded by Zheng Heng with two transparent holes.

At this time, some little eunuchs shouted one after another: "Xuantan Flower Envoy to meet you." ”

At this time, the lively people rushed to tell each other, "Tanhua has come out!" ”

The crowd immediately boiled, on the small hill on the side of the road, many high-ranking ladies opened the curtains, hoping to see the new Tanhua envoy, they had heard many people talk about Li Dongsheng, but there were really not many people who had seen it!

They were not disappointed, and the one who walked in front of them wore a purple head and was dressed in snow-white satin. A jade belt is tied around his waist, his eyebrows are long and into his sideburns, his eyes are slender and gentle, and his nose is straight, but his skin is a little dark, which is the sequelae of the Turkic wind and sun. There was a scream from the hills. Li Shimin, who was not far away, was taken aback: "What happened?" ”

When Wang De told Li Shimin the reason for the scream, Li Shimin smiled at Empress Changsun and said, "This stinky boy really has the ability to attract bees and butterflies." ”

Zheng Ling was also in the crowd at the top of the mountain, looking at Li Dongsheng who was walking up the mountain in a daze, a few months have passed, this person has soared into the sky. Wei Jia was also on the mountain and saw Li Dongsheng: "Hey, isn't this guy the person I saw when I went out that day?" It's still a Jinshi? ”

"I really want to marry him." A little lady next to her said with stars in her eyes.

The person next to her didn't know if it was her mother or aunt and said angrily: "You are not the only one who wants to marry Li Dongsheng in Chang'an City, there are still seventy or eighty people in the queue in front, you just wait slowly." ”

"Well, it's my father's fault."

"What's the matter with your father?"

"If he had worked hard to become a bigger official, then I wouldn't be at the back of the queue today."