Chapter Twenty-Six: Freezing to Death is Not Surprising
It wasn't just a few of their brothers and sisters who changed their faces, but all the people in the hall had their faces changed.
The officials here today are either Li Tai's henchmen or Li Chengqian's enemies.
In fact, if Li Chengqian didn't come, he would have known who they were coming, Li Chengqian's methods, Zhao Jie's manpower, Qiu Shenji's leadership, and the East Palace Intelligence Organization Group are definitely first-class in the world today.
Li Chengqian stepped out of the car at the gate of Furong Garden, watched the group of people standing in the snow and saluting him, and looked up to see that the sky was still snowing heavily.
Walking towards the crutches little by little, until he walked in front of everyone, he said lightly: "Let's all be flat." ”
Li Chengqian suddenly felt very embarrassed, the first few were Li Tai, the king of Wei, Li Ke, the king of Wu, Li Yuanchang, the king of Han, and Li Su, the king of Shu, but in addition to being able to recognize the big fat man as Li Tai, he couldn't tell who was who the other people.
But it doesn't matter, as long as you know Li Tai, so he gave the other three people a smile except for Li Tai, and then turned his head and said with a cold face: "King Wei, will you let King Gu stand in this snow?"
Li Tai had an expression of eating on his face, and stepped forward and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, please come in!" ”
"With such heavy snow, there is still a way to go inside, or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will sit on a chariot!" Li Yuanchang, the king of Han, said with a flattering smile.
"Yes, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has bad legs and feet, so let's sit on the chariot!" Li Tai said with a thorn in his words.
"Li Tai, the lonely king has always said that you don't grow, you really don't grow, you know that the lonely king's legs and feet are not good, what about the chariot you prepared?
As soon as he opened his mouth, he said that the legs and feet of the lonely king are not good, everyone in the world knows that the legs and feet of the lonely king are not good, so you need to say it? Can you still find someone to go to Feng Song Shu and say that the Lone King has bad legs and feet, and ask my father to abolish the position of the crown prince of the Lone King?" Li Chengqian directly provoked his sinister intentions, and everyone present was frightened.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is angry, King Wei is just a gaffe, and I ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not to care." Wu Wang Li Ke was the first to react.
"How long will this chariot drive the lonely king wait for?" Li Chengqian ignored him and directly changed the topic.
Li Ke: ......
Li Tai: ......
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Li Chengqian sat on the chariot carried by the four people, looking at the dejected appearance of the group of people below, and his heart was very happy.
When he came to the main hall, Li Chengqian saw three palace beauties saluting him at the door, and knew that they were all princesses, so he smiled and said: "They are all their own families, so there is no need to be polite." ”
Princess Changle and Princess Xincheng walked forward and supported Li Chengqian one left and one right: "It's snowing outside, big brother is freezing all the way, hurry up and drink a glass of wine inside to warm up." ”
Li Chengqian smiled, let them help him and sighed: "It's better to be a sister, I know that I feel sorry for my eldest brother." ”
Because Li Tai invited both the clan and the foreign ministers today, it stands to reason that the three princesses should set up another table, but he wanted to create a happy scene of brothers and sisters as a family, so he hung a pearl curtain in the main hall, inside the curtain were the seats of several princesses and princes, and outside the curtain were the seats of the ministers.
In the middle of the main hall are five three-legged gilt braziers, which are burned with silver smokeless charcoal, which makes the hall warm in the spring of March.
There are two large butter candles hanging on the head, and the main hall is illuminated from front to back.
Outside the curtain, cups, plates, bowls, chopsticks, wine jugs and other utensils are carved pure silver, and inside the curtain is pure gold.
The three of them walked to the main seat, Li Chengqian saw that it was a white fox skin cushion and a small table, immediately put his face down, turned to look at Li Tai and said, "Li Tai, what's the matter with you?"
Li Tai was stunned when he was asked, and said with an innocent face: "Please make it clear to His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”
"The lonely king has bad legs and feet, you are all on the lips, why don't you know how to prepare an arhat bed for the lonely king?" Li Chengqian looked like a matter of course.
"Yesterday, the Prince's Palace said that he would not come, so he was not prepared, so the younger brother went to arrange it." Li Tai is neither humble nor arrogant.
"Excuse me, won't you arrange it when you go to pick up the driver just now? If you had arranged it before you went out, would it have been a bad change?" Li Chengqian is unforgiving.
"It's the minister's brother who is not doing things well, so the minister's brother will arrange it!" Li Tai still bowed his head.
"No need!" Li Chengqian stopped, and then said to the guards who followed him: "Go and bring the lonely king's reclining chair and Xiao Gaoji." ”
After a while, the guards in the East Palace moved in a Taishi chair, and the old ghost spread a big tiger skin on the Taishi chair, and a small coffee table was placed next to it, and the others put on the four appetizers and a pot of wine brought out from the East Palace.
Li Chengqian sat down with a golden sword, and then said to the crowd: "You all sit down!" Li Chengqian picked up the wine glass and took a sip leisurely.
Everyone looked at Li Chengqian, who was high up, and their hearts were mixed, and they felt that today's Li Chengqian was very strange, and he was like the gentle, kind and cowardly Li Chengqian in the past.
Li Chengqian saw that everyone was kneeling and sat down, and said with a smile: "Give everyone the dishes we brought and give them a taste." ”
The little eunuch who came with Donggong hurriedly opened the food box that had been moved in, and inside was the same dish as Li Chengqian's small table, a stir-fried sprout cabbage, a spiced broad bean, a scrambled egg with garlic, and a fried chicken. These were all prepared by the crown princess Su, she heard that Li Chengqian was going to Furong Garden for a banquet, and she was afraid that Li Tai would poison Li Chengqian, so she hurriedly asked the Catering Bureau to bring the prepared lunch to Li Chengqian.
The little eunuch of the East Palace put all the dishes on the table of everyone, and the difference came out, the utensils used in the East Palace were all white porcelain, and the utensils of the Wei Wangfu were not gold but silver.
Li Chengqian smiled at Changle and Princess Xincheng and said, "These are all made by the new cooking methods that Donggong came up with, and you can still eat them if you taste them." Although Li Chengqian couldn't tell who they were, he also knew that the only people who were so close to him were Princess Changle and Princess Xincheng.
The two princesses smiled when they heard this, and slightly reserved picked up a little fried sprouts, and put them in their mouths to chew the taste was really different.
The younger princess of Xincheng was pleasantly surprised: "How did you make it so delicious?"
Princess Changle's face turned red when she heard this, and she looked at her with disgust and said, "Little sister, be quiet, there are so many ministers outside?"
The princess of Xincheng blushed with shame when she knew that she was speechless, and she lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian kept looking at her with a smile, but in his heart he had already guessed their specific identities from their conversations.
He said with a smile: "What is delicious is delicious, I will also bring you some bean sprouts, send someone to the East Palace to learn how to do it, and you will have to eat it every day after you want to eat it." ”
"Big brother just spoil her!" Princess Changle smiled when she heard this
"Let's eat it while it's hot, these dishes are only delicious if they're hot." Li Chengqian said to all the people in the hall.
Everyone was busy saying, "His Royal Highness Prince Xie." ”
Just as everyone was eating, a discordant voice rang out.
"There are so many green vegetables, I'm afraid that only the East Palace, which is not forbidden with the inner treasury silver, can afford to eat it!" Lu Chengqing had long wanted to embarrass Li Chengqian, and only then did he seize the opportunity.
If it was Li Chengqian in the past, he would definitely say, 'The fault of the lonely king is also.' But now Li Chengqian would not be used to him, and directly said with a cold face: "If you don't want to eat, just put it there!" ”
Lu Chengqing's face suddenly turned the color of pork liver, and then another harsh voice sounded.
"That's it, such a delicious dish for you to eat, and you still talk nonsense." Li Su, the king of Shu, couldn't stop eating the vegetables brought by Li Chengqian, and there were very few green vegetables in the winter during the Tang Dynasty, and they couldn't eat them in other places at all.
Li Chengqian not only opposed the customer, but also did not give face at all, which made Li Tai and his comrades look very ugly.
"Shut up!" Li Ke already regretted that he came with Li Su today.
Li Chengqian has not yet made it clear who these princes are, and when he saw that Li Su, the king of Shu, spoke for him, he thought it was Li Yuanchang, the former comrade of Li Chengqian's party, the king of Han?
So he looked at Wu Wang Li Ke seriously and said, "He is also your elder anyway, and you won't let him speak?"
Unexpectedly, the audience was shocked when this remark came out, and it took a long time to hear Princess Gao Yang say: "His Royal Highness the Prince, don't you know them?"
When Li Chengqian heard this, he hurriedly turned around to look at the old ghost, and the old ghost hurriedly said in a low voice: "That's the King of Shu, who said that he was the King of Wu, and that there was the King of Han." Although the old ghost's voice was low, the few people in the bead curtain heard it clearly.
When Li Chengqian was embarrassed, he saw the princess of Xincheng put the chopsticks on the small table with a "snap", and said angrily: "The eldest brother is all confused by him." ”
"The snow outside is so big that people's eyes are dazzling, and if you drink some wine, where can you see who is who!" Princess Changle also smiled and played a round game.
"That's it, come to the sixth child for a drink!" Li Chengqian borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, raised his wine glass and invited Li Su, the king of Shu, to drink.
Li Ke, the king of Shu, hurriedly raised his wine glass, and Li Ke, the king of Wu, reprimanded in a low voice: "I don't respect His Royal Highness the Prince." ”
"The third brother, we are brothers, don't come to this set and drink the wine."
"Okay."
The three of them drank the wine in the cup together to solve this embarrassment.
Li Tai listened to Li Chengqian and Li Ke call Li Ke a brother, more uncomfortable than eating, seeing them put down the wine glass, he got up with the wine glass, walked to the middle of the hall, and said loudly: "Yesterday, Chang'an City was full of snow, thinking of the harvest of grains in the coming year, the lonely king was overjoyed, and this first snow poetry meeting was specially held.
It is a great honor to have His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Uncle Han, Brother Wu and the sixth brother of the three princesses and the sixth brother to come here. "Then drain the wine from the glass.
"Lord Wei is elegant and elegant, hold this elegant collection in Furong Garden, how can we not come to win together, the wine is enough, and the prince should be asked to write poems." All the Wei parties stood up and said modestly.
Li Tai waved his hand reservedly and said: "Xiao Wang is not a gentleman, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave Xiao Wang an excellent poem a few days ago, I am afraid that no one here can compare."
Today, the Prince's Palace should first ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to give a Ruixue poem. ”
"Yes, please write a poem to His Royal Highness the Prince!" Many people in the hall had been channeled in advance, and they all followed the coax at this time.
Li Chengqian watched Li Tai's performance, sneered again and again, and when Li Tai mentioned asking him to compose a poem, he slowly got up and walked out of the bead curtain, looked at everyone with a squint, and said lightly: "If you want to say that you are composing a poem, King Gu really made a poem, I'm afraid that you will not be happy to hear it." ”
Everyone thought he was afraid, and they all hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must have written good poems, how can I be unhappy?"
"Please also ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to sing!"
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Li Chengqian saw them coaxing, and wanted to see himself make a fool of himself, so he raised his hand and pressed it: "Okay, then the lonely king will make a song first, you listen."
The snow presses the winter clouds and white flocculents, and the flowers are scarce for a while. After reading these two sentences, Li Chengqian took two steps forward before continuing to read: "The sky is rolling cold, and the earth is slightly warm.
Then he raised his head and raised his voice: "There are unique heroes who drive tigers and leopards, and there are no heroes who are afraid of bears." Thinking of this, Li Chengqian glanced at everyone, and saw that everyone had been shaken by his poem and did not react, and there was only the sound of heavy breathing in the hall. Only then did he smile and continued: "Plum blossoms are happy with snow" took two steps back and waved his hand: "It's not strange to freeze flies to death"
After listening to the last sentence, everyone's eyes fell to the ground, they felt that it was too vulgar, and they wanted to find out the fault and refute it......