Wu Youji greeted outside the gate of the mansion, Yang Fan saw that it was a horse out to greet him, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised, but Wu Youji's expression was as usual, Yang Fan was not moved, one of the guests and the host was the nominal husband of Taiping, and the other was a de facto man of Taiping.

The shadows of the trees swayed, and the cicadas chirped like rain.

Under the corridor, the palace maids shuttled like weaving, holding various colored utensils of gold and silver in their hands, containing all kinds of fresh fruits and wines, water and land eight treasures, and saw that the master of the horse accompanied a handsome guest in his twenties, calm and condensed like a mountain, strolling over, and avoiding the road one after another.

There was nothing to say all the way, Wu Youji led Yang Fan straight to the "Haoyue Pavilion" in the back house, and when he arrived near the "Maoyue Pavilion", he saw a group of female porridge and porridge outside the pavilion, all of which were women dressed as daughters, Yang Fan was suddenly startled: "Why are these escorts all women today?" ”

In fact, this is really wronged Taiping, Taiping's gratitude to Yang Fan on behalf of his brother this time can be regarded as a family banquet of the Li family, and the people who came are all from the Li family.

The people who went to the banquet today, the Luling Palace, was represented by the prince Li Chongrun, in addition, the seven county lords came together, as for the other three princes, it is said that the Luling King has not recovered from his illness, and they have all stayed in the palace as filial sons.

On the side of Li Dan, the prime minister who still bears the title of the crown prince, is represented by the imperial grandson Li Chengqi, and the rest are also married or unmarried princesses.

Emperor Li Zhi has men in these two houses, and even if there are men alive in the other Li royal families, they are also suffering in Lingnan, and as far as the eye can see, there are naturally only four generations of Tang princesses led by the princess of Qianjin, and the Li family is now a serious yin and yang decline.

In addition to Li Zhi's two surviving sons and Wu Horses. If there is no man at the scene, it is not true, at least there is still one, this person looks mighty and majestic, even if he sits there lazily, there is also a kind of bloody masculinity, which is far from being comparable to Li Chengqi and Li Chongrun, who are as gentle as jade. This person's name is Li Qianli, and he is the general who put down the rebellion of Feng Junheng, the father of Gaolishi, in Lingnan.

Li Qianli, formerly known as Li Ren, was the eldest son of Li Ke, the king of Wu, the son of Li Shimin. Li Ke was framed and killed by the eldest grandson Wuji in the battle for the throne, and Wu Zetian did not have this ability at that time, and waited until Wu Zetian was in power. Li Ke's four sons have already been assigned to Lingnan.

Li Ren is as cunning as his father Li Ke, he is used to pretending to be crazy and stupid, and he deliberately puts on a stunned appearance before and after everyone, except for finding some auspicious Ruijin to present to Wu Zetian from time to time, he doesn't care about anything. He assassinated the history in any state in Lingnan, and entrusted the political affairs to the long history sent by Wu Zetian. He spends his days touring the mountains and rivers. Ignore government affairs at all.

Many imperial histories in the DPRK and China have engraved him for neglecting government affairs, but he is still the same and ignores him. In this way, his life was really saved, and if Wu Zetian wanted to ascend the throne, he must first remove the obstacles and kill the Li Tang clan. Only Li Ren was not moved, not only did he not touch him, but he also specially sent someone to comfort him and gave him six words: "Er." My family's thousand-mile horse! ”

Li Ren, who has always pretended to be stupid, became smart this time, and immediately changed his name: Li Qianli.

Li Qianli had been wandering in the south, but now because Wu Zetian had decided to pass on his son, he would no longer suppress the Li Tang clan too much, and the political environment tended to ease, so he was able to be transferred back to Beijing. As Li Ke's eldest son, he has not yet restored his father's former prince, and now he is a general in Jinwuwei, following the pig riding general Wu Yizong.

Today is a family banquet, regardless of the official grade, Li Qianli is Li Ke's son, and Li Ke and Li Zhi are brothers. Li Chengqi and Li Chongrun are both Li Zhi's grandsons, and Li Qianli is the emperor's uncle, who has the highest rank among the male guests, so he sat on the top.

Li Qianli, who sat at the top, couldn't hide his burly and strong physique, but he never showed his calmness, dignification, wisdom and practice. Even in front of the Li Tang clan, he still looked like a man of few words, I don't know if he was not at ease with his family, or if he was used to pretending to be stupid for too long.

Seeing Yang Fan coming in, the movement was calm, and the abyss stopped at Yuezhi, Li Qianli's eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly, and then his demeanor was as usual, and he first picked up a bowl of wine and drank it all.

When he was in Lingnan, he led troops to suppress the rebellion of the Feng family. Although this rebellion was not forced by him to rebel, and the punishment after the rebellion was not decided by him, he was tantamount to standing on the opposite side of the Feng family after all. At that time, Yang Fan was serving as the governor of the six provinces of southern Xinjiang, and the strategy he adopted against Feng was to care, and he and Yang Fan were very different from each other.

He also heard that Feng Tingshi had a son who entered the palace under Yang Fan's care. Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, no eunuch has been able to be authoritative and authoritative, far from being comparable to those eunuchs in the late Han Dynasty, he doesn't think that a little eunuch entering the palace can pose any threat to him, but Yang Fan did this, after all, there was a taste of doing something with him, so he felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Yang Fan.

Wu Youji took Yang Fan in, and Taiping also greeted him, and the husband and wife, as the hosts of today's banquet, introduced Yang Fan to the guests.

"This is General Li, the general of Jin Wuwei, the imperial uncle of the main palace. This is the princess of Qianjin, the ...... of the palace. Big Sister ......"

When Princess Taiping introduced Princess Qianjin, her face turned red and she was a little embarrassed.

Princess Qianjin is Li Yuan's youngest daughter, Li Shimin's sister, Wu Zetian is Li Shimin's daughter-in-law, she should have called her aunt, Princess Taiping should call her aunt, but this old man chose to recognize Wu Zetian as his mother-in-law, and as a result, he became the sister of Prince Taiping.

Taiping looked embarrassed, but the daughter looked as usual, smiled at Yang Fan and nodded, not only did she not mind the identity introduced by Taiping, but also seemed to have never invited Yang Fan into her bedroom, and wanted to seduce this young man as her guest as an old woman.

"Talent!" Yang Fan looked at the princess who looked like usual, and secretly admired it in his heart.

For a while, except for a prince of Luling, a grandson of the emperor, and a general of Jinwu, the hall was full of female guests, either princesses or county lords, each with a title, and Yang Fan was dizzy when he heard it, and he couldn't remember so much for a while. When introduced to the county lord of Anle, the county lord of Anle also raised the skirt blessing ceremony, and he was very well-behaved. It was only when he smiled at Yang Fan that there was a faint hint of a feeling in those smart eyes that only Yang Fan could taste.

"Maoyue Pavilion" has just been renovated a few years ago, the painting beams are carved, the caisson is gorgeous, the curtains are fluttering, and the breeze is slow. Several desks and chairs, lacquered and clean, Kabuki and musical, are lined up on a terrace with a radius of more than ten zhang set up by the water, and screens are temporarily added on both sides, and the musician and pianist are hidden behind, and the sound of silk and bamboo escapes.

As soon as Yang Fan arrived, the banquet officially began, because the male host here was from the Wu clan, and Princess Taiping was not good at publicly introducing Yang Fan's original intention of inviting Yang Fan, anyway, everyone present knew it, like Li Chengqi, Li Chongrun and others, they all came forward and toasted Yang Fan in person, and they would implicitly express their gratitude.

Here together with the feast, there are 12 long-sleeved dancers on the terrace, singing and dancing. These Maiko are beautiful and handsome, and their limbs are enchanting, and most of the people sitting in the banquet are all kinds of women and women.

It's a pity that these women sitting in the hall are all noble and can't stare at others, and there are only four men in the banquet except for Yang Fan, and there is no need to mention Wu Yuma, even if he is generous, he has long accepted the relationship between Yang Fan and Taiping, and he can't talk to him casually.

Li Qianli adheres to the purpose of protecting himself, and has always played the role of a martial artist who pretends to be stupid and stunned, plus he personally has a little trouble with Yang Fan, and he will not talk to Yang Fan about it, and he still understands the truth that if you talk too much, you will lose.

Yang Fan rescued the King of Luling, and the imperial grandson Li Chengqi had a poor relationship, and did not cross the reason that his cousin Li Chongrun and Yang Fan talked too much, and Li Chongrun had seen Yang Fan and Wu Sansi talking intimately in Wu Sansi's mansion, and he was already jealous of him, so he was not interested in talking about it.

On such an occasion, it is inconvenient for Princess Taiping to be too close to him, Wu Youji is her nominal husband, in this public occasion, these nominal things still need to be paid attention to, so Yang Fan has no choice but to stare at those maiko happily and happily make a look.

Once Yang Fan paid attention to these maiko, he immediately found that one of them was a little familiar, and after a closer look, it turned out to be Gao Lishi's sister Feng Min'er, Yang Fan was secretly surprised in his heart: "Could it be that this class of kabuki is not a music and dance troupe from the princess's mansion, but invited from the teaching workshop?" ”

Sure enough, after the group dance, the women retreated, doing the stars holding the moon, a woman Shanshan, out of the crowd, elegant and charming, the sandalwood mouth sang like a cherry at first break, it turned out to be the inner court to worship the master of Rumei. To be able to invite this master to appear, this banquet was a little grand.

The princesses who were talking and laughing in the Xuan just now, and those princesses who didn't care much about singing and dancing stopped talking at this time, but instead listened intently and sang like eyebrows. Reaching the level of master is to have this benefit, even those who don't understand or don't like to listen, they have to make a look of fascination, the so-called vassal elegance is also.

Seeing this scene, Yang Fan suddenly understood the meaning of today's banquet, and understood why Princess Taiping insisted on holding this thank-you banquet, she was testing and testing the emperor's mind. And Wu Zetian's agreement to convene this Li family banquet is undoubtedly also for a political purpose, and today's protagonist is not him at all, but the prince and grandson of King Luling.

Since Wu Zetian grasped the power and vigorously suppressed the Li Tang clan, the Xiangwang family was placed under house arrest in the East Palace, the Luling Wang's family was imprisoned in Fangzhou, and the Li Tang royal family was wantonly slaughtered, and there has never been such an opportunity to gather like this.

This is a signal of great political significance, as expected, today's feast and even the news that the crown prince and the king of Luling have sent their sons to attend will soon spread throughout the capital, which is to announce to the world: The Li family has re-entered the political arena, such a celebration, dare not be grand? (To be continued......)