Chapter 35: Spicy Chickens and Horses, Don't Wait 34
Within a few days, it was the New Year's Day.
According to custom, the palace feasts the courtiers on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Zhou Yongjia was visually impaired and had just been removed from his military position, and Emperor Jing Yan specially ordered him to attend this palace banquet together in order to appease him.
Wu Wangfu, who was originally full of unwillingness, calmed down a little bit of resentment.
At the palace banquet, Lian Mian was below the queen mother and queen, and he could see the entire hall as far as his eye could see, and it was naturally easy to see Zhou Kaiji, the king of Wu, and his grandson Zhou Yongjia.
The monarchs and ministers in the palace were happy, and the ministers repeatedly raised their glasses to the emperor, saying toasts that did not make much difference, and then they toasted the emperor casually.
Although King Wu still complained in his heart that Emperor Jing Yan did not protect his inner body and severely punished Zhou Yongjia, he did not fall behind in the matter of toasting to Emperor Jing Yan, and took Zhou Yongjia to toast together.
Emperor Jing Yan also gave face and drank a cup together.
When he was about to return to his seat after the toast, King Wu glanced at the eldest princess on the side, and the eldest princess was still looking at him steadily.
King Wu thought about it for a while, and after returning to his original position, he didn't sit down, filled the wine again, and pulled Zhou Yongjia to toast the eldest princess again.
"Eldest princess, today is really rare, but I must toast you."
After King Wu finished the toast, he gave Zhou Yongjia a look.
Zhou Yongjia reluctantly retold King Wu's toast without changing a word.
During the period of lying down to recuperate, Zhou Yongjia thought a lot, and felt that he had to blame the eldest princess in front of him for this, if it weren't for her attitude, he would not have been suspected by his grandfather again and again, let alone go to Jiang Jingzong's stubble because of depression, but now his grandfather still wants him to toast her and say those beautiful greetings, Zhou Yongjia feels disgusted when he thinks about it, and while he says, his heart is full of vicious counterwords.
King Wu was so angry when he saw Zhou Yongjia so perfunctory, but he couldn't fully reveal it on his face, so he could only smile and scold Zhou Yongjia for coming to play a round.
"The eldest princess is not surprised, this child has not yet come out of the pain."
Lian Mian raised the wine cup, generously drank a glass first, and put down the wine cup and set his eyes on Zhou Yongjia's face.
Because the time is still short, the scars on Zhou Yongjia's face are still obvious, hideous on the corners of his eyes and forehead, like a prisoner exiled in the face.
Lian Mian smiled and said, "How can I be as knowledgeable as him." ”
King Wu hurriedly said that the eldest princess was generous.
But Lian Mian still had the following, and as soon as he changed his voice, he mentioned what Zhou Yongjia said when he bullied Jiang Jingzong on the street.
"I heard that when he stepped on Jiang Jingzong, he said in public that because I stepped on it, he also stepped on it?"
Lian Mian's tone was slow and leisurely, and there was a smile on his face, but King Wu couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.
Wu Wang was busy denying it, saying that Zhou Yongjia had never said such a thing, but when Zhou Yongjia said this at that time, many people heard it, and they denied it for a while.
"Is it just a joke?"
"It's really just a joke." Wu Wang emphasized.
"Really?" Lian Mian asked himself, "I don't believe it." ”
King Wu: "......"
King Wu didn't know the bottom in his heart, how could Lian Mian rush to bring up the old things again on an occasion like tonight, and he started this sentence.
Lian Mian folded his hands on his lap and sat upright, his voice was neither light nor heavy, but he was sure that Emperor Jing Yan and the officials in front of him could hear it.
She said: "I thought about it for a long time, and he said that I stepped on him and he stepped on it, but didn't he mean that he was on an equal footing with me and had the same generation? ”
King Wu was shocked, and immediately said solemnly: "How come! Yongjia has no such meaning! ”
Zhou Yongjia, who was originally standing beside King Wu with a resentful face, was also stunned when he heard this.
Lian Mian ignored King Wu's explanation at all, and continued: "If it is calculated like this, then his father, wouldn't he be one level higher than me?" Doesn't that have to be comparable to today? ”
"The eldest princess is cautious! Absolutely nothing! King Wu couldn't help but deny it loudly, his face had shown a bit of hideousness, and he had a terrible conjecture in his heart, afraid that it would be really a big rebellion if Lian Mian continued to speak.
The results showed that the terrible conjecture in King Wu's mind was true.
Lian Mian still ignored him, and finished the last few words slowly, "So Uncle Huang, can't you overtake my imperial brother and catch up with my father?" ”
"Eldest princess is cautious!" King Wu knelt down on one knee, and Zhou Yongjia beside him hurriedly knelt down with him.
The surroundings, which were originally lively, were instantly silent.
Lian Mian looked at the grandfather and grandson who were kneeling on one knee in front of him, and his expression faded a little.
"Uncle Huang, what are you doing?" Emperor Jing Yan, who was sitting high, came over at some point, looking like he didn't know anything and hadn't heard anything, and stretched out his hand to help King Wu, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone is happy." Why did the emperor perform such a courtesy? ”
King Wu looked at Emperor Jing Yan, who was full of kindness, and tried his best to put away the hideous state that was becoming more and more uncontrollable, and he didn't know what to say to remedy it for a while.
Emperor Jing Yan turned his head to look at Lian Mian, and said with a smile: "Zhishan, you are really getting more and more naughty, what day is it today, what are you doing to scare Uncle Huang." ”
Lian Mian stood up and gave King Wu a family salute, following Emperor Jing Yan's words: "It's Zhishan's words and deeds, and the emperor's uncle is not strange." ”
King Wu: Is it true that "......"? I don't believe it.
As if to appease King Wu's frightened heart, Emperor Jing Yan personally helped him back to his seat, saying as he walked that he knew that the imperial uncle and the former emperor had a deep brotherhood, and how much the imperial uncle had done for the former emperor.
When King Wu heard it in his ears, he always had the feeling that Emperor Jing Yan was beating himself, but he couldn't get it right.
It wasn't until after the New Year's Festival that Emperor Jing Yan suddenly came to King Wu's mansion, reprimanding Zhou Yongjia for his words and deeds, and the prince of Wu had no way to discipline him, and the father and son were punished together to go to the southwest Yi, and King Wu really understood that Emperor Jing Yan didn't just want to beat, he really wanted to move himself.
When the father and son of King Wu left Beijing for Southwest Yi, a team of people happened to leave Beijing together, whether it was pomp or convoy, there were more cards than the team from father and son.
King Wu Shizi was curious, and asked the people around him to check the situation, and after a while, the attendant replied, "Shiziye, that is the convoy of the eldest princess of Yongkang, and the eldest princess of Yongkang left Beijing today for the fiefdom." ”
"Huh?" King Wu was surprised.
Zhou Yongjia, who was wilting on the side, raised his head immediately when he heard this, "She was also demoted out of Beijing?" Thinking about it like this, I couldn't control my laughter for a moment.
The guard thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't look like it, there is not only a team of Imperial Forest Army in the convoy, but also a pro-army figure. ”
The Imperial Forest Army is the army that guards the palace, and the pro-army is the team that guards the capital, which are all subordinate to the emperor's army, and ordinary people have no right to move, let alone send the two armies together.
The father and son of King Wu could not get an accurate answer, and it was not until a long time later that they got the news that the eldest princess of Yongkang was not demoted from Beijing, but invited herself to the fiefdom, and this time, she also shouldered the responsibility of escorting the grain and grass carts.