Wang Junlin took Shen Guoer and Changsun Sheng, Pei Shiju and other familiar ministers to greet each other for a while, the door of the palace slowly opened, and the guests poured into the three halls from all directions, because there were thousands of guests, a hall could not sit down, so it was divided into three halls, according to the official position and title, from the first hall to the two secondary halls.

Wang Junlin is not only in the first hall, but also only second only to the princes, generals and the chief officials of the three provinces and six departments from the emperor.

The momentum in the hall is magnificent, a giant wood supports a wide dome, the giant wood is painted into vermilion, the dragon is carved and the phoenix is painted, it is exquisitely abnormal, in the middle of the hall is a walking zone about five zhang wide, for singing and dancing and a hundred opera performances, both sides are full of single seats, from ancient times to the present, the banquet is to use the meal system, each person has a tableware, only after the Tang Dynasty, the high-footed seat appears, and then gradually begins to appear in the food system.

In the main hall, a team of palace maids shuttled back and forth between the couches with food plates, dozens of eunuchs were leading the way to the seats for the ministers, the seats were seated according to the number, generally the male guests were on the left, the female guests were on the right, at this time the ministers who found the position sat down to rest, many ministers waited outside for nearly half an hour, waiting for dry mouths, sore legs, as soon as they sat down, they poured themselves a cup of tea, and drank dry in one breath.

Wang Junlin also found his place and sat down, Shen Guo'er stood behind him, Pei Shiju on his left, Chen Sansi on his right, Han Baohu, Changsun Sheng and backer Wang Yang Lin were unwell and did not come to participate.

There are five or six pieces of tableware on the table, silver chopsticks carved with patterns, a silver plate with a double fish pattern, a high-quality Yue kiln celadon and begonia bowl and a Changsha kiln yellow and green brown color bird pattern bowl, as well as a slender neck and long belly silver wine pot and two Xingyao white porcelain wine cups brought by merchants from the Western Regions.

Although the tableware is exquisite, what Wang Junlin is thinking about at this moment is that he is so angry with Yang Jun today, although it is the result of the other party's intention to humiliate him first and his counterattack, but in fact, he has already planned.

Recently, Yang Jun was instructed by the woman in the palace to be more clever, and he acted more and more cautiously, and even learned to win over the minister, which is not what Wang Junlin wants to see, so he deliberately provoked him to lose his square inch, in order to retaliate against him

Something stupid, and finally stupid yourself to death. The reason why this is so is because Wang Junlin doesn't want to have such an enemy in secret, whether it is the previous Yu family, Yang Su, or Yang Liang and Gao Ying, it can be seen that he doesn't like to take precautions, but likes to take the initiative to attack and destroy the enemy who threatens his life and death in advance.

At this time, an attendant stepped forward and bowed to Wang Junlin and said, "Grandpa, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is invited." ”

This chamberlain Wang Junlin knew, it was the person next to the crown prince Yang Zhao, named Zhou Qingsong, he nodded, then got up and followed Zhou Qingsong and walked quickly, out of the main hall, several halls seem to be next to each other, but in fact the distance is very far, and it is not a straight road, the middle is winding, and the courtyard is heavy.

They walked for about half a stick of incense, and then they went around to the other end of the second hall on the left and walked into a gate, which was a place for the emperor's relatives to rest, but it was generally in the main hall, just because Yang Zhao's reception of Wang Junlin was a secret matter, so it was placed in the second hall.

Wang Junlin followed Zhou Qingsong to the front of a room, there were several eunuchs standing at the door, and after a while, a eunuch came out and said to Wang Junlin, "Grandpa, please, Your Highness is waiting for Grandpa inside!" ”

Wang Junlin walked into the room, only to see Yang Zhao leaning on a couch, his complexion was not very good, and his spirit was relatively sluggish, obviously his health has not been very good recently.

"The ministers and kings are here, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Wang Junlin spoke, bowed, Yang Zhao waved his hand and said, "What is polite to me, come and sit down!" ”

Wang Junlin was indeed not polite, and after sitting down, he asked with concern, "Your Highness's complexion doesn't look very good, could it be that your body is itchy." ”

Yang Zhao smiled bitterly and said, "My body has never been good, let's not talk about this first." Let's talk about you first, you had a conflict with King Qi in front of the palace gate before, His Majesty learned about him and reprimanded him, and King Qi went to the queen mother to cry, I don't know what to say, now I get the news, the queen mother is extremely annoyed with you. ”

When Wang Junlin heard this, his brows furrowed, but he didn't think of this before, and Yang Guang's favor for Empress Xiao can be seen from the number of concubines in the harem and the number of her princes and princesses

Come in big trouble. Since ancient times, the effect of pillow ear wind is still obvious.

This can't be blamed on Wang Junlin, he didn't think about it carefully, thinking that Yang Jun is also twenty years old, as a prince, he went to his mother to cry when he suffered a loss, this is obviously a child's trick or not.

Thinking of this, Wang Junlin smiled bitterly and said, "Who would have thought that His Royal Highness King Qi would go to the queen mother like a child to cry." ”

Yang Zhao also sighed, and said to Wang Junlin with some worry, "You don't know my younger brother, he has been unscrupulous since he was a child. If it weren't for your great powers, he would have tried his best to kill you. Now he has no way to take you, go to the queen mother and cry with his character, this is nothing, the most important thing is that the father and the emperor have always respected the queen mother, you must not be careless. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the reminder, the minister will definitely be careful."

In fact, Wang Junlin also had a headache at this time, he was not afraid of any open guns and hidden arrows from Yang Jun, but Queen Xiao was Yang Jun's mother and Yang Zhao's biological mother, although he liked to strike first, but there was still a bottom line and principles for doing anything, not to mention that Queen Xiao was in the harem, there were countless masters in the palace, the palace was heavily defended, and Queen Xiao was not so active, let alone moved Queen Xiao, Yang Guang's crazy anger was enough to burn the whole world.

Yang Zhao looked at Wang Junlin's frowning brows and said, "You don't have to worry too much, I'll look for an opportunity to explain to the queen mother to help you, the queen mother shouldn't say bad things about you in front of your father for this matter!" ”

There was not much confidence in Yang Zhao's words, obviously he also knew that the queen mother had always doted on Yang Xuan, and Wang Junlin knew that no matter how virtuous and sensible a woman is, but when it comes to her own children, that kind of calf protection psychology will only make him completely biased towards his son, presumably now Wang Junlin is already a despicable villain in Queen Xiao's heart.

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Wang Junlin still got up to express his gratitude to Yang Zhao, and at this time, a eunuch at the door reported, "Your Highness, the queen mother sent someone over and asked Qin Angong to meet her." ”

Yang Zhao smiled bitterly, Wang Junlin's face remained unchanged, but he sneered again and again in his heart, thinking that the queen couldn't wait so much, she wanted to stand up for her son.

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