Yao Jin and Lin Yuebai walked back to Guanghua Hall hand in hand, and before the two of them entered the door of the main hall, they heard the sound of drums from a distance, which was very lively. When the two of them entered the main hall, they saw that a group of concubines and officials in the hall were busy applauding and cheering, it was a juggling team in the middle of the main hall, and there was a circle of little girls standing on the top of the bowl and stepping on stilts, and there were a few big men who were spitting fire around the iron ring in the middle, and the little old man who was holding the monkey and blowing the suona had heavy makeup painted on his face, and was making various funny and ridiculous movements in the direction of the emperor and the queen mother.

"In the palace, can you also invite a juggling team?" Lin Yuebai looked at Yao Jin curiously, Yao Jin shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either. Li Yao, who was at the top, seemed to see the two of them, got up and stretched out his hand to Lin Yuebai: "Queen, come and watch the juggling with the widow, you were not here just now, and you really missed a lot." ”

Most of the concubines and ladies in the palace were born in the high-gate compound, and they rarely saw these folk jugglers, so they were naturally very happy to see them at the moment, Lin Yuebai was also a little surprised, and walked towards Li Yao, while saying: "Today, did Your Majesty also call the juggling team to perform in the palace?"

Li Yao said with a smile: "Yes, I'm afraid that you will be bored, I want you to be happy, and also make Her Royal Highness the widowed eldest princess happy." ”

When Yao Jin heard this, he raised his wine glass and got up and said, "Brother Xie Huang cares, and the courtier's sister is grateful!" The courtier's sister drinks three glasses first, and thanks the imperial brother for his care. ”

Seeing Yao Jin drink three cups in a row, Li Yao and Lin Yuebai's reactions were completely different: one was satisfied, and the other was worried. Lin Yuebai glanced at Ayuan beside her, pushed the newly served plate of mung bean cake in front of her, and said, "Even if it is a good wine, how can you do it if you don't have anything in your stomach, go, send this to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess." ”

"What's the matter? The queen is not worried about the amount of wine of the eldest princess? Mo said that these three cups are three pots in front of her, and she is not a problem. Li Yao said, his eyes looked over the bustle of the hall and towards the door, "The widow remembers that there is also a sword dancer in this juggling show, and he doesn't seem to see it." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Ah Yao has a bad appetite recently, and the imperial doctor also said that it is not suitable for spicy and strong things, and it is best not to drink wine, so the concubine is a little worried......"

Seeing Lin Yuebai get up to explain to herself, Yao Jin was just about to speak, when he suddenly heard a singing "Wow Ya Ya" at the door of the main hall , A big man with a sword walked in with very exaggerated steps, he was wearing a weird and funny clown clothes, and waved a sword with a bent tip, which seemed to be dancing the sword in a very orderly manner, and it seemed that he was just waving a breath, the antics and the mask with big and small eyes and black teeth on his face made everyone laugh, Yao Jin's eyes were gradually attracted to the past, but when she looked at the big man a few times, she seemed to have some doubts, she always felt familiar but couldn't remember where she had seen it, seeing that the big man was getting closer and closer to her seat, Yao Jin couldn't help but stand up。

"All people are full of songs and feasts. A cappella leans on the strings. Thousands of miles after the star screen is goodbye, what year is it?

Ride steadily. Embroidered clothes are fresh, and you want to face the sky. The northerners laugh, the southerners are sad, welcome the golden whip!"

The masked man walked up to Yao Jin while singing a poem, his voice went from sharp and thin to low and deep, his tone changed from playful to solemn, and his hand finally put down the curved sword and placed it firmly on his waist. And at this moment, the cup that Yao Jin had been holding in his hand also fell to the ground with a "clatter", the sound was not very loud, but it was enough to attract the attention of Lin Yuebai and Li Yao.

"You...... You ......" Yao Jin seemed a little scared and involuntarily took a step back. However, just one step later, she immediately picked up the wine glass on the ground and forced a smile, hurriedly poured a full glass with a slightly trembling hand, and raised the wine glass in front of the big man, regardless of the wine all spilled: "You performed very well, this princess is very satisfied! This wine is rewarded by this princess, since the performance is over, you can quickly retreat!"

"Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, don't you remember this poem?" The big man didn't move, and he didn't take the glass of wine, looking at Yao Jin's urgent and somewhat panicked eyes, the big man slowly reached out to his ear, as if he wanted to take off his mask.

"No! don't!" Yao Jinyi gritted his teeth, took the big man's hand and stuffed the wine glass to him, almost roaring: "Go down! You go down for me!"

His Royal Highness once said that this song was a farewell between colleagues, but Fu Jiang felt that at this time today, this song was particularly appropriate. Dahan finally put down the glass of wine and took off his mask, "Today's small southern country is desolate, but there is laughter and laughter in the northern capital, Your Highness, do you know all this!"

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the hall. I don't know when the juggling team has withdrawn, and everyone at the table is puzzled, just when everyone is looking at Yao Jin and the big man, a young man suddenly stood up from a corner, walked to the emperor with a solemn expression and knelt down. I saw that he was wearing a jade-colored robe painted with an ink-colored cloud mountain map, and a dark green ring-shaped jade pendant around his waist.

"Your Majesty! This person is Fu Jiang, the guard of Pucheng County, who wants to participate in the palace banquet without being summoned by His Majesty, and dares to sneak into the acrobatic troupe to perform in the palace without permission, which is really an unforgivable crime! I also ask Your Majesty to hand him over to the Criminal Department immediately and punish him according to the law!"

"Wei Yan, are you husband and wife here today? Where is the county lord? Why don't you two sit down with the widow when you two are hiding in the corner?" Li Yao didn't seem to see Yao Jin and Fu Jiang at all, nor did he hear what Wei Yan said, but he stretched out his hand to him kneeling at the foot of the steps with a smile on his face and said, "It's not a matter of urgency, why do you kneel down properly?" Get up and talk. ”

At this time, a woman in a blue shirt also came from the banquet, and she saluted the emperor and the queen mother one by one, and then stood behind Wei Yan, and said softly: "The courtiers failed to come to your majesty, the queen mother and the queen mother to say goodbye early, it was rude for the courtiers, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me." ”

"Jiaxi, you are the county lord of the first emperor, and you are often filial piety in front of the queen mother, the queen mother likes you, and the widow also values you and your wife, what is the crime? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. It's just that since Jiaxi is married, her husband is a woman, so she should naturally put her husband's family first. Since Jiaxi's husband is a courtier, Jiaxi is naturally a courtier. ”

"I have heard that the county lord has been raised under the knees of the eldest princess Huiling since he was a child, and he is really knowledgeable, polite, and polite, no worse than the women in the palace. Li Yao said, his eyes slowly moved to Yao Jin, who was silent and pale next to him, "Yao Jin, you are the eldest princess, and you have known Wei Yan for a long time, let's take a look at this county lord, is it suitable to match Wei Yan?"

Yao Jin's gaze slowly moved from Fu Jiang's face to the wine glass in front of him, and he lowered his eyes and said softly, "Suitable." ”

"You didn't even look at others, you know it's appropriate?" Li Yao didn't care about Lin Yuebai tugging on his sleeve incessantly, and he still didn't seem to see the Fu Jiang who had already knelt down, his smile was extremely kind, and he spoke like he was chatting with his own sisters, but with a terrifying gentleness: "Irrelevant people disturbed the family banquet, and dragged it down to deal with it, why did you still provoke the widowed eldest princess to look so bad?"