Chapter 35: Self-inflicted bad luck
Accompanying Chai Hulu to Zangyunfang is not going to get along with the princess, and today it is changed to accompanying the princess that is not going to get along with himself. Liu Yu finally understood why the princess couldn't bear to worry about him at today's banquet, so she originally prepared this play.
"Let's go, sons, what are you waiting for?"
Su Bi greeted and found that none of them moved. Only Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu didn't know what happened yesterday, but Qi Fang knew how to observe words and feelings, and he also understood that going to Zangyunfang with the princess had no good results, so he didn't say anything.
Zhang Wuzhu grinned and said, "Liu Shenzuo, Brother Li, Brother Sui, the princess is invited, let's leave quickly." ”
One sentence made Liu Yu feel like he was exposed, Zhang Wuzhu was a big and three-thick man, as soon as he opened his mouth "Liu Shenzuo", the fourth princess was not a fool, Liu Yu only said in the morning that he didn't go to the front line together, this title is not equivalent to self-recruitment?
Su Bi glanced at Liu Yu with a smile, and said: "Let me introduce to you, the person who is traveling with this palace is the son of heaven, and today is also the palace to invite the prince of heaven to the east banquet, since you are going to Zangyunfang, the palace wants to go together, everyone is close to each other." ”
Everyone greeted the "Heavenly Prince" again, in fact, it was obvious that in addition to Zhang Wuzhu's straight temperament, anyone else who had a little vision could tell that the "Heavenly Prince" was actually a "Heavenly Girl". Liu Yu pondered in his heart, there are hundreds of family surnames with the surname "Tian"?
The princess has said that on this, people are the host and guest, can these guests still go? With a bitter face, the group walked outside the chess building, and several sedan chairs were waiting again.
Looking for an opportunity, Liu Yu asked Chai Jindao: "I said gourd, who is that heavenly son?" ”
Chai Jin looked at the princess not far in front of him, turned around and said, "Neizi said, if Liu Gongzi or others ask about the identity of Tiangongzi, let me not say it." ”
Liu Yu was very helpless, and the chai gourd sold the guanzi for the second time. Who told his mother-in-law to give a gag order!
Along the way, Liu Yu also estimated the identity of the "Heavenly Prince", and the first thing he thought of was whether it would be Chai Hulu's sister-in-law, that is, other princesses.
"Tiangongzi" is about the same age as Su Bi, twenty years old. This is the basis of analysis.
Liu Yu has some research on the royal genealogy, after all, it is the "ruling class", and he can't be too close-minded. The emperor gave birth to many daughters, but most of them were born to concubines after becoming emperors, and they were not very old. Originally, the five princesses were similar in age, but they died of illness a year ago, the sixth princess was only sixteen years old, the seventh princess was even younger, and the third princess married to another place, and now she is twenty-six or seventeen.
Isn't it a princess, is it a county lord?
Except for the lord of Min County who entered Beijing on behalf of his father, I haven't heard of any county lord who also came. After all, this is not a temple fair, it is normal to bring the son of the world, and no feudal king is willing to drag his family to join in the fun.
As for which prince and minister's daughter it is, it is impossible to guess, unless the household registration of the big families in the capital is transferred out and studied one by one.
Who could it be? Liu Yu was carried to the door of Zangyunfang with questions, and each got off the sedan chair, and consciously got together. Su Bi did not shy away from being a daughter, and walked into the gate of Zangyunfang in a big way.
Zangyunfang was caught by the fourth princess yesterday, and many people already recognized her, seeing that the group of people entered the door under the guidance of the fourth princess yesterday, they quickly notified the bustard's mother. The bustard's mother didn't want to cause trouble, even if she didn't do business, she had to greet them well, and invited them into the largest hall upstairs, which was actually the hall where Xu Rong and them feasted yesterday, and found seven or eight young ladies from Zangyunfang, together with fifteen or sixteen maids, and stood for a while in the parade.
After the last, Li Sha'er also walked into the door with a maid and a little twisted.
Revisiting the old place, Liu Yu was a little emotional, and said in his heart why didn't Xu Rong come today, and the ridiculous face with hatred could resist the fourth princess for a while. Sometimes people can't stand the chatter, Liu Yu just thought, the door was pushed open again, and a voice came from the crack in the door, "What important guests occupy our hall?" "Poking in, it's Xu Rong. When he saw the fourth princess, he immediately retracted his head.
Xu Rong wanted to be a turtle with a shrunken head, but the fourth princess didn't want to give him a chance.
"Yo! Isn't this Lord Xu, why didn't you come in and say hello when you saw this palace? ”
Xu Rong pushed the door open again with a sad face, and respectfully came in to greet Su Bi. If it is replaced by other princes and ministers or princesses, Xu Rong will only greet each other in courtesy at most, and the two sides are based on the principle of not offending each other, and most of them are perfunctory. After all, he is the right minister, and even the prince has to give him face.
The four princesses are different, that temper, that tooth, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu don't give face, and the emperor is often counted down by her, and the emperor has no opinion, let alone these courtiers. His father Xu Han was often reprimanded by the four princesses in the court, and the court and the middle government have long been accustomed to it.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, Your Majesty...... This doesn't bother, Xia Guan still has guests in the hall next door. Xu Rong said respectfully.
"What? The palace banquets guests, and Lord Xu doesn't give face to the palace? ”
Su Bi's expression tightened, her eyes widened, and Xu Rong gasped. If he offended the fourth princess and didn't end well, he had already known the way, and he couldn't help but regret that he had nothing to do yesterday to provoke the man surnamed Chai, and now he reported that today's wife surnamed Chai will come to take revenge.
Xu Rong couldn't do it, so he could only sit down on the side with a bitter face, and the new science and technology scholars who invited him to make him prosperous could only be put aside first. It is only right to let the four princesses dissipate their anger first.
After everyone was seated, the fourth princess looked at the young ladies of Zangyunfang in the front row, and turned to look at today's main escort, which was Liu Yu.
"Liu Gongzi should often come to such a place of fireworks, I don't know if there is any program to introduce?"
Coming often? Program? Liu Yu screamed in his heart that he was wronged, he may understand the tricks of Fengyue Field hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as for this year, who has Xu Rongjing?
"Lord Xu, why don't you introduce me?" Liu Yu turned to look at Xu Rong.
Xu Rong glanced at Liu Yu, and probably also calculated in his heart, since he wanted to let the fourth princess relieve his anger, he would let Chai Jin show his long face in public: "It's better to shoot over." ”
"Shoot well, shoot well." Chai Jin was the first to respond.
The fourth princess shook her head with a smile and said, "Donkey, since you have played with shooting yesterday, there should be something new today." It's better to hide the hook. ”
The bustard mother immediately went to bring the props used in the play of hiding the hook, in fact, it is a small cloth bag, which contains two colors of "wooden hook", in fact, it is a small piece of wood, when playing, all the cloth bags will be distributed to the people who play the game, and each of them will take out the wooden hook, one of which is different in color from the others, to hide it in their hands and hold it tightly, and then let everyone take turns to guess whose hand the wooden hook of different colors is, and guess whether it is the left hand or the right hand.
You can only guess one hand at a time, and if you open the hand and there is nothing in it, the guesser will be punished for drinking; If it is only an ordinary wooden hook when it is opened, the wine will be drunk by the person who holds the hook; If the target is opened, everyone except the guesser will be punished for drinking, and the hook bearer will also perform in public at the request of the guesser. It's basically difficult.
"This friend of this palace, Tiangongzi, is not used to lingering in the land of fireworks, so he will not participate in this game."
Su Bi's words made Liu Yue quite puzzled, why didn't he play when he came, what tricks did he do?
Liu Yu had only heard of this game before, but he hadn't played it, and there were many details that he didn't understand, such as guessing how the hook holder still had in his hand, and then guessing the opponent's hook holder instead of drinking, but the hook holder only had one hand that was not opened.
Everyone took the cloth bag in their hands, Liu Yu opened it and looked at it, I don't know if it was luck or bad luck, the lacquered wooden hook was just in his cloth bag. Liu Yu didn't take it too seriously, after all, the hidden hook is also equivalent to Hu Meng, and he doesn't believe that others can find it in a circle.
Liu Yu casually hid the wooden hook in his left hand, clenched his fists, and stretched out his hand with everyone.
The fourth princess also stretched out her fists and said with a smile: "Since this idea was proposed by this palace, then this palace will guess first." Liu Gongzi, this palace guesses that the red wooden hook should be in your left hand, right? ”
Liu Yu seems to have been stuffed with a stick at the moment, could it be that the four princesses colluded with the bustard's mother to cheat? Or this family has the ability to pinch and calculate, yesterday's firewood gourd that shot a shot may still have traces to follow, but today's hidden hook, in addition to Meng, can only be Meng.
Liu Yu reluctantly opened his left hand, and the red wooden hook was impressive. The others also opened, just ordinary wooden hooks. Liu Yu saw Su Bi's confident smile of "playing with you", and his heart was even more puzzling.