Chapter 205: Zheng's Birthday Banquet (7)
In fact, Li Yanqing also guessed one or two, this kind of thing is related to blind dates nine times out of ten, especially when the lady looked at herself, her face was full of smiles, it was clearly the expression of her mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, but Li Yanqing couldn't figure it out, the lady before she threatened herself, and in a blink of an eye, she actually wanted to recruit herself as a son-in-law, this kind of alternating change of water and fire really made Li Yanqing a little unbearable, no wonder it is said that a woman's heart, a needle under the sea, is elusive. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
But Li Yanqing doesn't want to be elusive, he doesn't have the idea of marrying a wife at all now, he himself is underage, and marrying an underage girl is what?
Marriage is still far away for him.
He just returned to the Autumn Building, but found that the Autumn Building was unusually quiet, only to see a noble lady with a good-looking girl appear in the corridor behind the Autumn Building, seemingly strolling in the courtyard, but attracting the attention of countless young men, everyone knew in their hearts that this was Mrs. Xiang choosing a husband for her granddaughter.
Everyone has seen the Zheng family's strong financial resources with their own eyes today, and the Zheng family has the background of the emperor's relatives, once he becomes the son-in-law of the Zheng family, he will have strong resources to back him up, and he will enter the official career, and even be promoted to become rich in the near future.
Everyone was sitting in a precarious position, or pretending to be chatting and laughing, and they were all trying to show their extraordinary temperament and handsome smiles.
Mrs. Xiang walked unhurriedly, all the young people's seats were arranged by her, she knew the background of each young person through the ranking, and knew their family situation, but Mrs. Xiang attached great importance to the appearance of these young people, which was not seen in ordinary times, and only through today's opportunity could she have an understanding of their appearance.
Mrs. Xiang seemed to take a casual walk, but in her mind, she quickly took a seat, constantly categorizing and eliminating them, and soon her goal was narrowed down to ten people.
The granddaughter behind her, Zhang Xuan'er, was so ashamed that her face was flushed, and she lowered her head and followed her grandmother, looking at it from Li Yanqing's angle, it was like a little hen following the old hen, which was quite interesting.
Of course, Mrs. Xiang will not recruit her grandson-in-law in one step at the birthday banquet, she is also measured, this is a birthday banquet held for the prince to buy people's hearts, and she can't take the lead.
About a quarter of an hour later, Mrs. Xiang basically completed her preliminary screening, she locked the future grandson-in-law in the range of ten people, these ten young people are all handsome, gentle and elegant, no matter which one is recruited as a son-in-law, she is very satisfied, the next step is to start the blind date.
"Juan'er, let's go!" commanded his wife, and took his granddaughter away.
With Mrs. Xiang leaving, the autumn building suddenly seemed to explode like a pot, the young guests talked about it, everyone saw with their own eyes, Mrs. Xiang's granddaughter is really good-looking, beautiful appearance, graceful figure, fair skin like jade, especially the kind of shyness that bows her head, which makes them feel pity.
But more importantly, the Zheng family is rich and powerful, has a princely background, and can invite more than 1,000 powerful guests, which shows that the family is very well-connected, and it will be easy to do anything in the future.
Li Yanqing took a lot of trouble to return to his seat, which naturally attracted a dissatisfied gaze, but there was a bit of schadenfreude in many eyes, but when the Zheng family was choosing a son-in-law, this kid walked away, losing a great opportunity in vain.
"Brother Li Xian, it's a pity!"
The men next to him all smiled regretfully: "If Brother Li Xian didn't leave just now, maybe tomorrow he will be the Zheng family's Chenglong fast son-in-law!" ”
Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "With my brother here, where can it be my turn to do such a beautiful thing?" ”
More than a dozen guests next to him laughed, "This is very self-aware, no matter how bad the Zheng family is, it will not be able to recruit a student as a son-in-law!" ”
Li Yanqing's face suddenly became gloomy, and he shot back coldly: "No matter how poor the students are, they won't be proud of eating soft rice!" ”
The surrounding brushes fell silent, everyone showed an embarrassed look on their faces, and the young official next to him was even more angry and annoyed, as if Li Yanqing's words had hit his vital point, he straightened his face and ignored Li Yanqing next to him.
At this time, a team of female prostitutes came with wine and food, the atmosphere was lively again, many young people came to Alum Tower for the first time, these female prostitutes who delivered wine and food were all beautiful and gorgeous, a pair of moving beautiful eyes were looking forward to it left and right, the delicate body was not close, the fragrant wind rushed to the face, which made countless young men feel ape, and the unhappiness just now had already been forgotten.
There are not many dishes, only six dishes in front of each person, a lamb chop grilled in pear wood, a steamed pigeon in wine, a stewed dish in oil, an assorted mountain delicacies, a plate of five hors d'oeuvres, and finally a dish of Baiwei soup from Alum Lou.
Although there are not many dishes, they are extremely exquisite and elegant, and it is unbearable to eat.
Suddenly, all the guests stood up and applauded warmly, only to see the chief guest of the Spring Building on the opposite side appeared, including today's birthday star Zheng Ming, as well as Xiangguo Cai Jing, Taiwei Tong Guan, Taishi Liang Shicheng, and the real protagonist today, Prince Zhao Huan finally appeared.
The crown prince Zhao Huan can generally only attend state banquets, and is not allowed to appear at the minister's private banquet easily, and even if he wants to attend, he must have a good reason to attend after obtaining the approval of the Son of Heaven.
On this trip to the south of the Yangtze River, Zhao Kai beheaded Zhu Mian and returned a fake Shangfang Tianzi Sword to the crown prince Zhao Huan, which made Zhao Huan feel a threat.
In order to declare his existence, and as a counterattack to Zhao Kai, Zhao Huan used the Zheng family to hold this large-scale birthday banquet, and he also had a good reason to attend, the Zheng family's grandfather had a seventieth birthday, as a grandson-in-law, he should participate in it reasonably, and Zhao Ji, the son of heaven, approved him to attend this birthday banquet.
Nominally, everyone came to attend the Zheng family's birthday banquet, but in fact, they all came to show their support for the prince, and Zhao Huan believed that his father would see the birthday celebration of hundreds of officials today.
At this time, a crisp cloud board sounded, and on the high platform in the middle of the alum tower, a group of dancing girls began to dance, and the sound of silk and bamboo sounded in the alum tower, and the banquet officially began.
While enjoying the dance, the guests drank and chatted, and the autumn building was also very lively, with guests toasting each other and laughing from time to time.
Li Yanqing was left out in the cold by the guests around him, no one paid attention to him, his words of eating soft rice almost offended everyone around him, but Li Yanqing didn't care at all, he was more focused on tasting good wine, although today's dishes were average, the wine was very good.
There are two small bottles of wine on everyone's table, one bottle is sake, one bottle is wine, sake is relative to turbid wine, usually everyone drinks wine is turbid wine, most of them are brewed in one or two years, there are more impurities, and sake is at least cellared for more than ten years before it will become sake from turbid wine, which is usually difficult to drink, and wine is a treasure in fruit wine, which is not supplied in general restaurants.
Whether it is the mellow and gloomy sake or the sweetness of the wine, Li Yanqing feels that today is worth the trip.
The crown prince Zhao Huan just came to show off, he only sat for a moment and then got up and went back to the palace, without the prince's constraints, everyone drank more happily and the atmosphere was more enthusiastic.
At this time, Li Yanqing suddenly felt a commotion around him, and when he looked up, he saw that the people in front and behind him were standing up with wine glasses, he didn't know what was going on, he looked over, and saw a high-ranking official with pale skin, slender eyes, and a purple robe walking towards this side with a wine glass.
"It's Master Liang!"
I don't know who shouted, Li Yanqing only then knew that this high-ranking official in a purple robe was actually Liang Shicheng, although Liang Shicheng was a eunuch, he was so powerful that even Cai Jing and Tong Guan had to curry favor with him, and he was called a hidden phase in the imperial court.
However, Liang Shicheng rarely shows up, and it is even more unheard of to come over with a wine glass like this, no wonder everyone is nervous and surprised.
Liang Shicheng stopped in front of Li Yanqing, and someone pointed to the official next to Li Yanqing and said, "Taishi, he is the person you are looking for." ”
The young officials next door were all red in their ears, and they were at a loss for fear, what was the Taishi looking for him?
Liang Shicheng smiled softly, not loudly, but the people around him could hear it clearly, "You are Li Yanqing?" ”
Li Yanqing next to him was stunned for a moment, Liang Shicheng actually came to find him, and the officials next to him were even more stammered, unable to say a word, at this time, Zheng Sheng ran over and said repeatedly: "Wrong!" Wrong! The young man next to him was Li Yanqing. ”
Liang Shicheng was stunned, his eyes turned to Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing's mind turned, and he suddenly understood why Liang Shicheng was looking for himself, didn't he? They had already exchanged hands once in Jiangnan, and Li Yanqing stood up and saluted: "Student Li Yanqing, see Taishi Liang!" ”
Liang Shicheng looked at Li Yanqing, narrowed his slender eyes and said with a smile: "I can't see that Li Shaojun is young, but he has great courage, so that Song Jiang Fangla and others will return, no wonder Taiwei Tong values you so much, even I have to admire you." ”
"The Taishi has won the award, Li Yanqing can't afford it!"
Liang Shicheng raised his glass and said lightly: "The wine here is good, I like it very much, this glass of wine is for Li Shaojun." ”
He drank all the wine in the cup, took a deep look at Li Yanqing, turned around and left.
Li Yanqing was secretly frightened, Liang Shicheng actually knew that Tong Guan recommended him, and it was probably not a good thing for him to come to toast him, and he had to be extremely vigilant.
Li Yanqing was quickly evaluating Liang Shicheng's toast in his heart, but he didn't notice that the eyes of the people around him were already wrong, most of the guests did not recover from the shock, Taishi Liang Shicheng actually toasted a student, which was simply unheard of, which shocked everyone, and looked at Li Yanqing's eyes were obviously wrong, full of awe and shame.
After a while, everyone slowly sat down and discussed, what is the identity of this Li Yanqing? actually let Taishi Liang deign to come to toast.
At this time, the young official sitting next to Li Yanqing's face was red and white, he couldn't sit still any longer, and apologized in a low voice, "Professor Qin Hui of Xiaguan Mizhou, I was rude just now!" ”