CHAPTER XLVII

"Congratulations to me on the unparalleled demeanor of the young monarch, congratulations to me on the great Chu for thousands of generations, and I congratulate the Western Regions and the Chu State for eternal reconciliation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Feast! Little Yellow Door shouted in a shrill voice.

Hearing his voice, without waiting for the official prompt of the celebrant, the musicians pulled the silk bamboo orchestra one after another.

The sound of bells and drums rose leisurely, and several graceful dancers entered and danced in the center of the main hall.

Silk and bamboo, the people in the hall also whispered one after another, and each laughed.

The officials looked at Princess Xia Qi from the Western Regions curiously, and some observed Yijiang, Li Cheng and Lin Yao with unfamiliar faces.

Xia Qi's face was covered with a light veil, and only the deep outline of her facial features could be seen. She didn't seem to like Chu Guo's kneeling way very much, so she sat down sideways instead. But Qi Chi behind her knelt solemnly and motionless.

Lin Yao nodded with satisfaction at the banquet, and looked in the direction of Yijiang after a simple greeting. "Just now outside the White Tiger Palace, I seemed to see you chatting with Lin Hu very happily, I don't know what you were talking about?"

Lin Hu really had a relationship with Lin Yao.

Yijiang smiled, picked up the wine glass and took a sip. "It's nothing, Captain Lin seems to want to talk to the general about a thing or two."

I don't know where Lin Yao saw that he and Lin Hu 'had a good conversation'.

"Him?" Lin Yao scolded with a smile, looking at Lin Hu a little helpless, and waved his hand to let him return to his seat. "He's a reckless man, except for brute force, what else can he take out to ask people for advice."

Lin Hu glared at Yijiang unwillingly, and sat back.

"General, this is General Yi who made miraculous achievements a few days ago?"

Hearing Lin Yao's conversation, Xiang Chang also turned his neck curiously.

"Why is the emperor so forgetful, he was personally appointed by you as a general." Lin Yao laughed.

"When you are in the palace, you are wearing armor, and you can't really see it." Xiang Chang smiled at Yijiang. "I heard that the general also had many strange tricks in the Zhaoshui Tower, even better than Yang Jing, but is it true?"

He hadn't paid attention to Yijiang's appearance when he was in the palace before, until he heard the description of the little yellow door next to him, and he knew that the other party was just a person about his age.

It is admirable that only by virtue of the age of fifteen years old can preemptively strike everywhere, so that a palace turmoil can be eliminated invisibly.

"It's just a strange technique, why should Your Majesty mention it?" will also face Xiang Chang, and it is also the first time that he has the opportunity to take a serious look at this new emperor.

At the age of twelve, there is still immaturity written on his face with baby fat, but unfortunately humiliation has been engraved in his eyes, and it also contains the fear and forbearance of Lin Yao, as well as the hope of looking at himself and Li Cheng. Complicated feelings are contained in the aura and majesty that he has worked so hard to hold, and he is as cute as a child who steals adult clothes.

Yijiang shook his head in his heart, such a child, if there is no strong loyal minister by his side, I am afraid that the country of Chu will soon change hands.

Li Cheng saw Yijiang's expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and he was also as curious as Xiang Chang.

"I've heard about the events of that day. I heard that the virtuous brother used only one hair to cut open a wine glass so that the wine would not be spilled, and then restored the glass again. But the real thing? ”

"The eldest prince laughed, how can the hair cut the cup, how can the cup not be sprinkled when the cup is cracked, and how can the cut cup be restored?" He was also amused and took a sip of his wine glass. "It's just hearsay."

When he wanted to put the wine glass back on the table, he accidentally missed, and the wine glass slipped out of his hand, and with a crisp sound of 'ping' on the ground, it fell into the size of five or six points.

"It's rude." Yisho's expression did not change.

He bent down, and because it was a formal palace banquet, he wore a robe with wide cuffs, and just brushed the ground slightly, and then collected the fragments.

He raised his head, turned his wrist, and put the unbroken cup back on the table.

"This?" Before Xiang Chang could react, he saw that the torn cup had returned to its original state. He blinked, reaching out and touching the cup.

Didn't you just break the cup?

Or Chen Ping beside him was the first to react.

When he saw the glass on the table, he reached out and tried to touch his glass and pour a sip of wine, but he didn't expect the glass on his table to disappear.

Astute, he thought of the joints at once, and scolded with a smile. "You kid, you hands are so fast. When did you take my cup away, I didn't even find out. ”

If you look closely, sure enough, the one on the table is still stained with the stain he accidentally touched just now.

"Because my cup was accidentally broken, I can only borrow yours." He will also turn his sleeve over, and four or five pieces will fall out of the sleeve.

This is the cup that was shattered.

"Your Majesty, have you taken a closer look?" He also took a sip of wine from Chen Ping's cup, raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiang Chang with a smile and asked.

Xiang Chang shook his head.

Before he could react, it all happened. Without preparation, how can he see clearly?

"Actually, that's what trickery is." He also ran his fingertips across the rim of the cup, and the corners of his lips drew a confident arc in a loud voice. "The trickster, like a soldier, is to show the truth with falsehood, show truth with truth, and obscure people's eyes and ears between truth and falsehood. The mystery of it, if it is broken, it will not be interesting. ”

Looking at Xiang Chang's expression that seemed to understand or not, he spread his hands and laughed in a low voice.

"So...... Your Majesty should concentrate on the show instead of being interested in me. I don't have the beauty of a dancing girl. ”

"I don't know the general's flipping chess game......" Li Cheng opened his mouth and wanted to ask.

"The money for the broken cup today will be deducted from your money." Chen Ping said quietly, waved his hand and summoned the palace maid to fetch another cup.

……

"Is it expensive?" There will also be a sudden bad feeling.

Anyway, it's a state banquet now, right? Could it be that this cup belongs to the kind that once one is broken, one set cannot be used?

"Not much." Wang Yi didn't know when he sat down next to Chen Ping, and smiled at Yijiang and said comfortingly. "It's just a trivial matter for your second-rank general."

"That's good." He was also relieved.

"Probably you can pay off if you maintain your original standard of living for another half a year." Li Cheng also silently answered.

The second rank general's Yulu is 300 yuan of Yuegu, which is about 90,000 yuan, and half a year is 500,000 yuan, that is, between 500 taels and 700 taels.

A cup of seven hundred taels of silver......

"Isn't the treasury empty in the state of Chu......" The corners of Yijiang's mouth twitched, and he rushed at the cup of seven hundred taels, it was really difficult for him to look directly at the nonsense of 'the treasury is empty'.