Li Dan, Shen Mengxi, Wu Youji, and Wu Chengsi were all passed to Emperor Wu by the inner servants, and several people knelt down at the front of the case. The banquet hall fell silent.

"Taiping, you said, how did you offend the King of Wei!" As soon as Emperor Wu spoke, his tone was stern, making it impossible to distinguish emotions.

Shen Mengxi's face was wine-colored, and he spoke: "Your Majesty, at that time, Taiping was talking to the fourth brother, talking about the newly made lanterns, I don't know when, King Wei came behind Erchen, and the wine spilled on King Wei in a startle, uh, Taiping already knew that he was wrong and apologized to him, but he... Refusing to forgive the peace. After Shen Mengxi finished speaking, he seemed to realize something, and suddenly made a look of lust, "Auntie!" Yue'er apologized, and asked the colt to wipe the wine stains on him personally! But he still lost his temper! In the end, it was already a fox and a fake tiger, and Wu Youji nodded in agreement on the side.

Wu Chenghe's face was purple and swollen with anger, but because Emperor Wu didn't let him speak, he could only stare dryly and endure it.

"Is that so? Dan'er! Emperor Wu asked Li Dan again.

Li Dan raised his head suddenly, Emperor Wu has not called his name for many years, since Emperor Wu called the emperor, he has become the heir of the emperor from the emperor, although he lives in the East Palace, all etiquette and treatment are compared to the crown prince, but there is no trace of power, the concubine died two inexplicably, and he did not dare to make a noise, in recent years, because of the dispute over the identity of the emperor's heir, Wu Chengsi is even more difficult with him everywhere, but Emperor Wu has never interfered, which has made Wu Chenghe's courage bigger and bigger, and today he is in front of the public, openly stepping on his toes to show insult.

A title, so that Li Dan didn't hold back his tears all of a sudden, his mother didn't treat him as a son, but he always remembered that the person in the high position was the mother who gave birth to him. So, he simply bowed his head to prevent people from seeing tears, and said angrily: "Back to Your Majesty, everything is as Taiping said." ”

Emperor Wu had seen his youngest son's tears and heard his choking. I have mixed feelings in my heart, and I am pitiful for a while, and I hate his cowardice even more.

"What did King Wei say?" Just don't look at him, Emperor Wu turned to ask Wu Chenghe.

Wu Chengsi looked up at Emperor Wu's majestic and unpredictable expression, and all the anger just now was suddenly discharged, he sensitively sensed something from the order and title of Emperor Wu's questioning, and then, he suddenly discovered a long-neglected fact: he is a nephew who is one layer worse, and no matter how bad he is, he is also his own child.

So he prostrated himself to the ground, "Your Majesty! Today is the minister's excessive drinking, and he didn't recognize Her Royal Highness the princess for a while! Offended His Highness! The sin deserves death! It wasn't until I saw Your Majesty that it was like a thunderbolt, Huo Ran was awake, Your Majesty is really the reincarnation of the Buddha, which can benefit all the people, and you can be empowered by Xiaodai! Your Majesty is willing to apologize to the princess! ”

A sensible flattery, Wu Chenghei came easily.

"Since it's a misunderstanding, so be it! Today is Shangyuan Festival, don't ruin the fun! ”

"Whoa!" Wu Chengsi responded loudly, turned his head and apologized to Shen Mengxi: "Cousin, brother and sister, Her Royal Highness the princess!" The subordinate lost his temper after drinking, and here I apologize to the princess! After speaking, he actually bowed.

"Humph!" Shen Mengxi flicked his sleeves arrogantly, "Auntie! This year, Yue'er's bookstore is profitable, and Yue'er gave A-Niang the most peculiar lantern! ”

Wu Chengsi raised his head, knelt on the spot, and awkwardly tidied up his head, and everyone looked away, pretending not to see it. Over there, Shen Mengxi helped Emperor Wu to walk towards the apse, "Fourth brother! It's still grinding! Come on! Shen Mengxi turned around and scolded.

Li Dan hurriedly got up and stumbled towards the apse.

The hall was silent.

It took a long time before I started dancing again and served new wine.

In the apse, Shen Mengxi hugged Emperor Wu's knee and cried. Didn't say anything, just cry.

"Tsk, swollen eyes! I'll be going to watch the lights later! Emperor Wu persuaded Shen Mengxi's back one by one.

"A-Niang, Yue'er doesn't go to see the lights, maybe someone jumps out to assassinate Yue'er, Yue'er is very nervous as soon as she participates in the banquet now, everyone looks like an assassin, my cousin suddenly appeared at that time, it really scared Yue'er, if Yue'er had a dagger in her hand, she would definitely stab out!"

When Emperor Wu heard this, he sighed sadly, "A-Niang understands, A-Niang understands, A-Niang's Yue'er has been wronged." ”

"Only A-Niang's knees are the safest, and Yue'er looks at everyone as if she wants to plot against her!" Shen Mengxi said coquettishly, suddenly raised his head from Emperor Wu's knees, and said heartlessly: "It's just that Yue'er can't figure it out, the fourth brother is the emperor's heir, he was framed and squeezed, Yue'er is just A-Niang's daughter, she has no power and power, why do anyone want to assassinate Yue'er!" ”

Emperor Wu was stunned.

Shen Mengxi hiccuped, sobbed twice, and continued, "Do you have to kill our brother and sister? She looked back at Li Dan, "Fourth brother!" We can't die! Whoever bullies us, we will let him die first! ”

Li Dan knelt on the edge of Luohan's bed, his head lowering more and more.

"Li Dan! You're just too timid, less timid than me! We are all dead, who will worship A-Niang's tablet in the future? Yes? Who is enshrined? Martial arts? Have you ever heard of a nephew offering an aunt's tablet? Yes? Li Dan! Did you hear that? Shen Mengxi reflexively threw himself to Li Dan's side, pushed Li Dan, and hugged him again and cried.

Li Dan finally cried out loud, whimpering, and aggrieved.

"That's it! It's a big holiday, what to cry about! ”

A sentence that was neither light nor heavy, made the brother and sister stop crying, Shen Mengxi wiped a handful of tears, "Ah Niang, it must have been Wu Chenghei who sent someone to assassinate Yue'er, he couldn't do it back then, and now he wants to kill me and the fourth brother as the emperor's heir, he wants to be the prince!" It had to be him! A-Niang, it must be him! It's better for A-Niang to simply give Yue'er and the fourth brother to death, Yue'er doesn't want to die in the hands of such a disgusting person! ”

"Hugh is nonsense!" Emperor Wu scolded loudly.

Shen Mengxi stopped aggrievedly, "It's him, now there is no proof of death, anyway, Yue'er has an intuition, it is Wu Chenghe!" ”

"Smack!" Emperor Wu patted the case. Shen Mengxi finally stopped.

******

After the palace banquet, Emperor Wu led hundreds of officials to the city wall to watch the lanterns, and the city wall was filled with lanterns sent from various countries as usual.

This year, the lantern sent by Shen Mengxi is a big marquee.

The lantern is called the eight-sided exquisite lamp, the lamp is one zhang high, the inlaid treasure is inlaid with jade, the flowers are clustered, the lantern is divided into eight sides, wrapped in a thin light yarn, the lamp hangs down with strips of tassel silk, fluttering with the wind.

Dozens of oil lamps in the lanterns are lit, the lights are sheng, it is really exquisite, each reflects a picture of Guanyin, which is exactly the same as the folk New Year painting. Suddenly, the lantern began to rotate slowly, gradually speeding up, the musicians on the side of the float began to play music, the Guanyin on the lantern was lifelike, moving, only to see that Guanyin raised his eyelids slightly, seemed to smile but not laugh, looked at all beings, gently shook the willow branch in his hand, and seemed to really sway out of the water droplets, even Emperor Wu sighed.

The lantern changes, the music also changes, the silhouette of two warriors appears on the lantern, one makes a knife and one makes a gun, fast as lightning, sonorous sound, two people move and dodge, light and free, see a lot of people can't take their eyes off it. Some people even suspect that someone is fighting in the lanterns.

Finally, on the polo field, the sword strikes into the sound of horses' hooves, the fight on the court is fierce, the horses gallop, one moment is the huge hooves of the war horses stepping down, the other is the polo from far and near whistling, until the breath of the person stagnates.

As the music slows down, a cherry blossom path appears, a girl in a small blue dress, stepping on a field of flower petals, bouncing into the distance, and a big white goose waddled.

The lights go out at the end of the song.

Everyone was still unsatisfied, and Emperor Wu praised it from the bottom of his heart, and said a reward. In the end, he smiled and clicked Shen Mengxi twice with his hand, full of the meaning of "you are the best at playing".