Chapter 123: Preparation for the Summer Feast

"Don't dare to write? Afraid that I will hurt Nange? ”

"That's not it," he hastily denied, "I just think that even if I wrote it, my brother wouldn't necessarily believe it." ”

"I trust you, there will be a way to make him believe."

"Okay, okay." He picked up his pen and wrote, and said as he wrote: "Pavilion Master, you promised me to help me save the South Pavilion, but you can't forget it." ”

"No, don't worry."

"Qingqiu believes in you, and I believe in you too!"

Lou Wange smiled, what a beautiful thing it is to be trusted by others!

The imperial capital, which has no Lou Wange, is more deserted, and many things that are being investigated have ended without a problem because of her departure. For a while, everyone was idle. And the seemingly peaceful imperial capital has secretly poured into a more mysterious and powerful force.

Beichen, Bei Duqing, Bei Liuyun, Bei Jin, and Bei Duqing all gathered in the palace Fengyue Hall under the orders of the emperor. Such gatherings are rare, and it is a little more embarrassing to meet each other, coupled with the delay in the emperor's appearance, the atmosphere between several people is even more strange and quiet to the extreme, and even the air is stagnant.

"Ahem." After about a few incense sticks, the emperor finally appeared from behind the screen of the black dragon soaring.

"Erchen (Weichen) see Father Emperor (Emperor), Father Emperor (Emperor) Long live!" Everyone stood up and saluted in a proper manner, and said in unison.

"We're all family, so there's no need to be formal. Take a seat. The Emperor glanced at them one by one, his voice full of majesty.

"Emperor Xie (Emperor)."

"I summoned you to the palace today to talk about the summer banquet in half a month, this Beijin will go to the north to Qingyaguan in the north to do the imperial guard in a month, and in the future, between your brothers and uncles and nephews, there will be fewer opportunities to meet, this summer festival is the last festival that Beijin has spent with us, you all have to pay attention to it."

Everyone looked at Bei Jin, Bei Jin smiled bitterly, he had already lost his position, and now he has become vicissitudes, his eyes have become cloudy, and he is no longer in his prime.

"Thank you for your father's love." He gave up his hand, deliberately accentuated the word love, now he has nothing, and there is nothing to fight for, although he has seen some, but there is always some resentment in his heart.

"In the past, the banquet was prepared by the concubine and the celebrant of the harem, and this banquet is very meaningful, so I will leave it to a few of you, if you have any questions, ask Lord Sili, as for the arrangement of the palace, these ,——" The emperor looked at them and thought about who would arrange them.

"Fourth, sixth, Rong Guifei has been unwell recently, so don't bother her, your two mothers have also been concubines before, and she has a lot of contact with such banquets, so I specially allow you to meet your concubine during the preparation period to discuss. If this feast goes well, I will consider lifting her grounding. When the emperor mentioned Beichen's mother, his voice involuntarily softened. What a gentle and virtuous person their mother was, so that the emperor treated her differently than the other concubines.

"Yes." Beichen and Beiduqing answered the road. But their hearts have long been turbulent, their mother is the scale of their body, no one can touch and hurt it, if they are others, they will not let it go, but on the contrary, it is the Ninety-Five Honor, their father, who hurts their mother.

Their mother was born in the Shu family of Jiangnan scholars, named Shu Ya, the descendants of the Shu family are all officials in the court and the official position is not low, coupled with the inheritance of the scholarly atmosphere, Shu Ya is really as good as her name, Shu Jing is elegant, gentle and virtuous, in addition, poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, all fine. Later, he was able to stand out in the big draft, and her well-behaved and intelligent personality was also quite liked by the emperor, and he often talked with her in depth and spent the moon before and after. Her position was also rapidly promoted, and soon, she was appointed as the concubine of Jin, and was given the title of Wen, which was on a par with Beiliuyun's mother at that time, because there was no queen, they were in charge of harem affairs together. Later, Concubine Shu had an accident, Shu Ya took power alone and was favored, and more than ten years passed, but a few years ago, Shu Ya was stripped of her title and banned from the deep palace because she killed Concubine De at that time, and she was not allowed to go out without being summoned.

Beichen and Bei Duqing didn't believe that their mother had killed someone, and begged the emperor so hard that they couldn't even kneel outside the main hall, but the emperor didn't investigate the matter again. This directly led to their separation from the emperor, and the relationship between father and son became weaker, the emperor did not care about them during the favor of their mother and concubine, and after that incident, they lost all the affection between father and son for the emperor.

"Except for the summer feast-" The emperor's voice started again, and several people raised their heads and waited for the emperor's order: "I heard that something happened in the Wenguan recently, and the national teacher left the imperial capital without a successful investigation, so the next investigation will be handed over to a few of you." This matter should also be investigated, this literary examination is related to Sikong Mansion, and by the way, some miscellaneous pieces in the martial arts hall of the literary hall will be removed, so as not to cause me a headache in three or two days. As he spoke, the Emperor rubbed his temples.

"Yes."

"By the way, I want to remind you, don't have any crooked ideas, and don't do some messy things behind my back, what kind of faction, rebellion and stirring up, although I am old, some things can still be seen and understood. Recently, the imperial capital has been smoky, and I can't get used to it. As he said these things, his tone became more serious, and his eyes looked at each of them as if he wanted to see through everything.

They were also taken aback by the emperor, and then they realized that the emperor called them this time to sound the alarm for them, they couldn't do anything wrong, form a party for personal gain, and nothing could escape his eyes: "Erchen (Weichen) doesn't dare." ”

"It's good if you don't dare, in recent days, there have always been some ministers who have handed me a note saying that it is time to set up a prince, I think that I am still a treasure sword, and I am not in a hurry to establish a prince, why are so many ministers proposing? You say, 'Should I really make a prince?' The Emperor leaned forward slightly and asked tentatively at them.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer the emperor. It seems that the emperor understands their thoughts, where is this temptation, it is obviously a threat!

"Forget it, I don't ask, let's talk about it if I don't set up the prince, you first do the things I gave you. Everything else, put it away. Go ahead, I'm tired. He got up, waved his sleeves at them and left, shaking his head as he walked: "All urge, who should I hand over Beiyue Jiangshan to?" ”

Several people sat still, occasionally picking up their teacups and drinking tea, without the slightest intention of leaving, and fell into the silence before the emperor came, waiting for someone to speak out to break the silence.

"Ahem," or Bei Shenye opened his mouth first, he was the highest ranking among several people, and he was their imperial uncle, and he had the most right to speak: "Since the emperor handed over the summer conference to us, we also have to prepare for the division of labor, but we can't lose my royal prestige." ”

Beiliuyun picked up a pair of slightly playful peach blossom eyes and looked at him: "Then Uncle Huang said, how should we divide it?" This division of labor is not good, and the one who will be rewarded in the end is also different! ”

"Brother Five Emperors is not right, my father handed over this banquet to us, and the terrible thing is to let several of us cooperate with each other to complete it together. Before this feast started, the royal brother was already giving the idea of rewarding? Beichen held the teacup and squinted at the North Flowing Clouds.

"Beichen, what you said is not right, when did I think of the idea of rewarding? I just care about the brothers, and the sixth brother thinks so badly of me. Beiliuyun replied, his words full of provocation.

"Alright." Bei Shenye spoke out to stop their conversation, but he was afraid that if he continued to talk about it, he would quarrel. This is the Imperial Palace, and it is not good to pass it on to the Emperor if you accidentally pass it on.

"Since it has been determined that we did it, we should unite, and since everyone is arguing, then I, as your imperial uncle and your elder, will first say what I think. Anyway, Beijin is now temporarily in charge of Sikong Mansion, so you can take care of all the accounts of this feast, and the purchase of the accounts will go through you, so you don't have to arrange anything else, and it will be easier. Bei Shenye got up again, he knew that this matter was not as simple as holding a summer feast, what the emperor wanted to see was how they dealt with it and successfully held this feast.

Bei Jin nodded, Bei Shenye had helped him a lot, including Fang Shan, who had always been by his side, and he had no reason to refuse if he arranged it like this: "Well, anyway, I don't have anything now, I have this bit of virtual power in my hand, you can arrange it at will, I can do it." ”

Bei Shenye nodded, looked at Beichen and continued: "Since the imperial brother has arranged for you and Duqing to ask about the arrangement of your mother's palace banquet, the two of you will take care of the layout and procurement in the palace. Liuyun, you are often outside the palace, and you have seen a lot, so you are responsible for singing, dancing and food, and I am responsible for all the patrol safety issues and the people invited to the banquet. What do you think? ”

The arrangement was appropriate, there were no loopholes, and several people were more energetic, and they didn't agree, nor did they refute, just drank tea quietly.

"Then let's do it first, and then we will discuss and solve the problem, so let's go here today. After that, when the feast begins, we all have to pay attention to each other at all times, after all, what we are doing is for the same goal. After Bei Shenye said this, he walked out of the hall with his sleeves brushed up.

The rest of the people glanced at each other, and they all left the main hall. What will they face after that, is it not as simple as the arrangement?

"Sister, are we really not going to be discovered?" While driving the horse, Yunluo turned his head sideways and whispered to Lou Wange next to him.

"No, don't you believe in my disguise technique?" She replied in a low voice, and looked around again: "Seeing that it is about to get dark, the caravan must be camped in front to rest, and we will try to talk as little as possible so that no one can see it." ”

"Yes." Yunluo and Danyu on the other side both nodded.

Three days after leaving the imperial capital, Lou Wange and the others arrived in Shenglin City, and after arranging everything, they smoothly blended into the caravan that went north from Shenglin. The caravan that mixed in looked like there were about one or two hundred people, and because of the long-distance wind and sand, most of them were covered with black cloth with the caravan logo, which was very easy to hide, no, after following the caravan for a while, no one had found that the caravan had three more people.