Chapter 212: Celebration Banquet
On the tenth day of April in the seventeenth year of Dawei Hongde, the zodiac Qinglong was buried in the taboo, and the rest were auspicious.
On this day, the Son of Heaven officially issued an edict in Zhongshu Province, and feasted on the meritorious people who resisted the invasion of Chu in the "Jiying Palace", and rewarded them for their meritorious deeds.
For this celebration banquet, those who were invited in advance were, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, Bai Liba, the general of the Junshui battalion, and five generals of the Junshui battalion, including Li Qi, Cao Jue, Gong Yuan, Yu Chun, and Wu Ben.
There are also Sima An, the general of the Dangshan battalion, Xu Yin, the general of Fenchengsai, and Pei Zhan, the former commander of Yanling County, Chen Shi, the former commander of the Yanling military and the current commander of the 10,000 Yanling Army, and the deputy generals Wang Shu and Ma Zhang.
In addition, many officials led by Meng Kui, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, also fought with the army.
Even, even Qu Cheng, Yan Mo and other meritorious generals of the Chu State were also invited.
In addition, there are still princes led by the prince of the East Palace, Hongli, as well as officials above the official rank of the six ministers of the court.
Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that this banquet in the Jiying Palace is believed to be the largest banquet in the Great Wei Dynasty in recent years, and there are as many as 300 people invited up and down, and even according to the grapevine, the palace attendants and eunuchs have assigned a full 500 palace maids and a full 800 eunuchs to serve the banquet, and there are more than 100 musicians, musicians, and dancers, which can be described as grand.
And on this day, Zhao Hongrun was called up early by his imperial sister Princess Yulong, and tried on clothes one after another in Wenzhao Pavilion.
Although Zhao Hongrun doesn't care about his clothes, but Princess Yulong doesn't think so, in her opinion, her younger brother Hongrun is the most eye-catching protagonist in today's banquet, I don't know how many pairs of eyes will be staring, how can it be so-so?
"How's this going?"
Princess Yulong took out a dark green brocade dress that was close to light gray from the wardrobe and let Shen Yu and Lu Mu spread it out. While speculating, he asked the other three women in the hall, Mi Jiang, Mi Rui, and Yang Tongue Apricot.
It may be that she has lived in the deep palace for a long time, Princess Yulong is not as hostile to the Chu people as some Wei people, so after learning about the origin of Mi Jiang and others, she did not have any resistance, on the contrary. Because the four girls are all of the same age, they all played together soon, especially the stupid girl Mi Rui, who had no heart and lungs, and a few plates of exquisite pastries in the palace coaxed Mi Rui to call Princess Yulong her sister repeatedly, so that her real sister Mi Jiang shook her head secretly.
"It's too dark." Far away, Mi Jiang said lightly while holding the teacup and sipping the tea slowly.
As soon as the words fell, the well-behaved little girl Yang Yu Xing also suggested euphemistically: "Sister Yulong, I think Your Highness may be better dressed today......
Only the heartless little witch Mi Rui was sitting next to her sister Mi Jiang. Throwing the fruit shop on the plate in his hand into his mouth, the appearance of eating is simply difficult to look at.
"Hmm......" After listening to the suggestions of Mi Jiang and Yangyu Xing, Princess Yulong walked around the hall with her cheeks in her hand, and thought: "Then the two sisters think that what kind of clothes can better set off Hongrun?" ”
"Crimson."
"Crimson." Mi Jiang and Yang Tongue Xing replied in unison.
Maybe he didn't expect the other party to have the same idea as himself, Mi Jiang turned his head to look at the sheep tongue apricot in a little surprise, but saw the sheep tongue apricot blushing slightly. Shy and bowed his head.
Think about it, when Zhao Hongrun was staying at the Yangyu family's house. The one he was wearing was a crimson brocade suit, which left a deep impression on the sheep's tongue apricot.
And the reason why Mi Jiang can mention crimson is also because when Zhao Hongrun carried her on her back and trekked in the barren mountains and snow, the clothes on her body were also crimson.
"Crimson ......" Princess Yulong thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Mu Qing." Gao Kuo, you put these away, Shen Yu, Lu Mu, take out all the crimson clothes in the cabinet. ”
The guards looked at each other. sighed silently and honestly followed the orders of Her Royal Highness the princess.
After a short time, all the crimson brocade clothes in the cabinet have been taken out, and there are eleven pieces in total with similar patterns and styles removed.
So, each of the ten Zongwei dragged a set and lined up in front of the women, even Zhao Hongrun was not spared this time, holding the brocade dress speechlessly, standing among the Zongwei.
may have seen Zhao Hongrun's stiff expression, although Qi Jiang didn't say anything on his face, he felt a little funny in his heart.
She vaguely felt that the small circle around Zhao Hongrun did not seem to be quite the same as the nobles she knew, and of course, it was very different from the nobles of their Chu State.
It seems to have a very warm feeling.
After picking for a long time, the three girls reached an agreement and chose one for Zhao Hongrun, only to see that the brocade robe, with crimson as the background color, was embroidered with dark ink silk thread on a Rui beast unicorn with auspicious clouds, which was both blessed and majestic.
After Zhao Hongrun finished bathing and changed the brocade clothes, Princess Yulong personally combed his hair and tied his hair with a crimson hairband, but because Zhao Hongrun had not yet weakened the crown and wore the crown, he could only hastily fix the hair bundle with a dark ink-colored hosta.
Later, Zhao Hongrun tied the jade belt with gold patterns on the ink background and put on a purple brocade coat, not to mention, not only Princess Yulong and Yangyu Xing saw a pair of beautiful eyes, but even Mi Jiang also showed a rare look of surprise.
I don't know if it's the relationship between going to the battlefield, it's all because of the foil of that brocade suit, so that Zhao Hongrun, who is only fifteen years old, looks very heroic and extraordinary.
It's just that several women are satisfied, but Zhao Hongrun himself is not very satisfied. Especially that coat, to be honest, he hates this kind of flashy ornament very much, except for the good looks, it is simply useless, it will scrape something at every turn, no matter what you do, it is inconvenient.
However, for the sake of Princess Yulong's very happy sake, Zhao Hongrun endured it.
After finally putting on the boots, Princess Yulong personally hung a jade hook on the jade belt for Zhao Hongrun, and then hung a jade pendant with a scribe's tassel on the jade hook, and King Su's outfit finally came to an end.
And after that, Princess Yulong began to be busy choosing clothes for herself and for Mi Jiang, Mi Rui, Yang Tongue Xing and others, and after the selection, she had to pick for Shen Yu and other guards, looking at her full interest, she didn't seem to feel tired at all.
And while Princess Yulong went to the dormitory to change her clothes by herself, Mi Jiang put down the teacup in her hand, sat down next to the place where Zhao Hongrun was sitting, and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure you want to take me and my sister to the banquet?" ”
As if seeing through her thoughts, Zhao Hongrun chuckled and said, "Just leave you two sisters alone in Wenzhao Pavilion, don't you think you will be lonely?" …… It doesn't matter, this feast is quite grand, and it is nothing to bring a few family members. But ......"
"Family?"
Mi Jiang blushed slightly, and asked puzzledly, "But what?" ”
I saw Zhao Hongrun glance at Mi Rui, who was right, and said in a low voice: "You must show me that stupid girl!" ”
『……』
Mi Jiang glanced at Zhao Hongrun wordlessly, and said lightly: "Got it." ”
Just as they were talking in a low voice, a palace maid hurriedly walked out of the dormitory at the back of the palace and called respectfully: "Miss Jiang, Miss Rui, the princess is urging the two of you." ”
"That'...... I'll come when I go. Glancing at Zhao Hongrun, Mi Jiang dropped a sentence a little unnaturally, stood up, walked to his sister Mi Rui's side, reached out and gently knocked on his sister's head, and said angrily: "Don't eat, go and change your clothes." ”
"Oh." It may have been heard that there will be many delicious dishes in the banquet to be held, and the gluttonous girl seemed very interested, and ran to the apse.
After waiting for an hour, when the women appeared again, not to mention that the sect guards were dumbfounded, even Zhao Hongrun was slightly distracted.
I saw that the most eye-catching of the four girls should be Princess Yulong, wearing a pale carmine dress with a white gauze coat, which made Zhao Hongrun feel as if he had seen the frost and plum in the ice and snow, noble and elegant.
However, what surprised Zhao Hongrun even more was Mi Jiang.
I don't know what the intention is, Princess Yulong picked out a neon dress with red inside and purple outside, which is exactly with the brocade dress on Zhao Hongrun's body, and it is undeniable that when she saw Mi Jiang in women's clothes for the first time, she couldn't help but be shocked by the beauty of this woman from the Chu Kingdom.
"That's not what I meant......" I don't know why, Mi Jiang explained to Zhao Hongrun with a slightly red face.
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Princess Yulong, who was smiling, thought for a while and praised: "It's very flattering to you." ”
A hint of joy flashed in Mi Jiang's eyes when she heard this, after all, the witch is also a woman, so she naturally likes bright clothes, but Princess Yulong "ill-intentionedly" picked out a neon dress similar to Zhao Hongrun's clothes, which made her a little difficult to adapt.
Having said that, the dress of the sheep's tongue apricot and Mi Rui is also quite good, the former is mainly based on emerald green clothes, lined with white coats, which looks very pure and lively, sweet and lovely; The latter is an inner dress with a carmine white background color of spotted plum blossoms, lined with a red pink gauze coat, which also looks pure and beautiful.
At this time, the sky was already approaching the second quarter of the Shen hour, and seeing that the time was almost the same, Zhao Hongrun did not delay much, and took Princess Yulong, Mi Jiang, Mi Rui, and Yang Tongue Xing, as well as Shen Yu, Lu Mu, Wei Jiao and other ten Zongwei, left Wenzhao Pavilion and went to Jiying Palace, the venue of the palace banquet.
Today's celebration banquet is set between the three quarters of Shen Shi and the unitary hour, and when Zhao Hongrun and his party arrived at Jiying Palace, the hall was already full of banquet guests.
Zhao Hongrun stood outside the threshold of the main hall of Jiying Hall and took a cursory look inside, and saw many familiar faces, such as his brothers, such as the generals of the Junshui Army, as well as Qu Cheng, Yan Mo and others of the Shang Water Army and the Yan Water Army, and so on.
"His Royal Highness King Su Jirun has arrived!"
As the little eunuch waiting outside the hall signed up for the whole song with a sharp voice, I saw that the banquet guests in the hall who were still talking and laughing loudly and whispering suddenly closed their mouths, and invariably turned their heads to look at the entrance of the main hall, so that the Jiying Palace, which was still noisy just now, became silent.
"Hoo ......"
Zhao Hongrun exhaled slightly and took the lead in walking into the hall.
I have to say that although there were only two or three hundred banquet guests in the hall at this time, the pressure brought to him by those staring eyes was no less than when he said that he would surrender the 50,000 Chu soldiers. (To be continued.) )