Chapter 26: Drunkenness
The third prince and the fifth prince had an unpleasant quarrel, and the people sitting below did not dare to speak casually, and everyone was bored and ate what was on their own table.
"Today's wine is mellow and strong, smooth in the mouth, and sweet in the aftertaste, it is really a good wine. Brother Zhao, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could take some back to settle down and live in peace, and we could have a drink at night. Phantom Tong looked at Zhao Zhenyu and squeezed his eyes.
Zhao Zhenyu immediately understood that Huantong didn't want the banquet to be too embarrassing, and wanted to liven up the atmosphere.
"Situ, you may not know, this wine is called Baihua Brew, and it can only be drunk in Yixianglou, even if it is somewhere else in Sansheng Pavilion, it will not work."
As soon as it came to wine, everyone was really interested, and they all raised their heads and looked at Huantong and Zhao Zhenyu.
"Why can you only drink it in Yixianglou?"
Huantong was a little puzzled, if it was only Sansheng Pavilion, it would not be strange, but this wine can only be drunk in this room, which is a little unusual.
"I heard that the flowers brewed by Baihua are all picked in the courtyard of this Yixianglou, so the amount that can be brewed is not large, so it is specially offered here." It was Li Changrong who spoke, he picked up his cup and took a sip, and put it down with some regret, "If it is brewed in large quantities, it will definitely be popular all over Kyoto." ”
"If everyone can drink it, it's not a rare product, so what's the point of drinking it? Only now is it more attractive. ”
"The five princes have tokens here, although they can all come and drink it, but we have to wait a long time to drink it once." Zhao Zhenyu held his face with both hands and looked at the five princes aggrievedly.
"I'll just bring you more."
With the promise of the five princes, Zhao Zhenyu suddenly had the spirit, picked up the wine pot and added wine for himself, as if he felt that the wine had landed, and he didn't plan to save it when he drank it.
"Phantom Tong, I also have tokens here, but I rarely come, so I might as well give it to you." The third prince took out a small wooden plaque from his arms and handed it to Huantong by the little guy next to him.
The small wooden plaque of the three princes is rectangular, and the piece of the five princes is round, and there can also be different patterns on it, and Huantong guesses that everyone's token is different.
"Thank you for the kindness of the third prince, but I think this token depends on the person, I came with your token, and they will also think that I stole it." Phantom Tong returned the token to the little servant, and then smiled at the third prince to show his gratitude.
The third prince took the token and put it in his arms.
"In that case, if Phantom Tong wants to drink Baihua Brew in the future, just come to me."
"Since the three princes have spoken, then I'm not welcome."
Phantom Tong drank two more glasses of wine, and at this time everyone had already chatted with each other, and Phantom Tong estimated that the atmosphere was good, so he spoke again.
"I still remember when I first came to Kyoto, the Holy Lord also held a banquet, and that night the three princes and Emperor He invited me to play chess together. It's been almost a month since I came to Kyoto, and I haven't fulfilled that promise yet. ”
Phantom Tong's exclamation attracted the attention of the third prince, he thought for a moment and stopped Phantom Tong.
"Coincidentally, tomorrow I am going to enter the palace to play chess with my father, and Phantom Tong wants to be together."
"If so, that's great."
Huantong is very happy, after all, his current identity can't enter the palace at will, but he still has to test the emperor and the queen, and he has to go to the palace.
Since Baihua Brew can't be taken away, everyone drinks happily here, wanting to drink enough before leaving. It was getting late, and the little maid came in and lit candles, and found that the guests were already drunk, and they were staggering one by one, and only the third prince was still sober.
After getting the order of the third prince, the little maid called the entourage and guards of the princes and princes, and walked out staggeringly with a master of the house.
Huantong only brought Meng Qilai, and as soon as Meng Qi entered the door, he disappeared, so now everyone is gone, and he is the only one left on the food table.
"Big brother, big brother, wake up." In the dark, Meng Qi shook the sleeping Phantom Tong.
Phantom Tong woke up slowly, looking at Meng Qi with a confused look, "Xiao Qi? You're back. ”
"Don't sleep big brother, everyone is gone, I'll help you go to rest."
Huantong only felt dizzy, and he didn't know where Meng Qi was going to take him, he just felt that it would be good to have a bed to sleep in, so he agreed in a daze, and let Meng Qi carry him around in the Sansheng Pavilion.
When Phantom Tong woke up again, it was already the next morning, Phantom Tong slowly opened his eyes, only to feel the sun dazzling, so he raised his hand to block it. With one hand in front of him, the other hand propped up the bed, slowly propping himself up.
Putting down his hand, Phantom Tong found that he was lying in a strange room.
"Little Seven, Little Seven." Huantong only felt a headache, probably because he had drunk too much last night, and shouted at Meng Qi while rubbing his head.
"Big brother, you're awake!" Meng Qi pushed the door in with a bowl of decanting soup.
Huantong frowned because of the headache, looked around, and looked at Meng Qi, "Where is this, I slept here last night?" ”
"This is Sansheng Pavilion, my eldest brother drank too much yesterday, and I couldn't get you back by myself, so I borrowed a room from Sister Meng."
Huantong saw that Meng Qi was quite sincere, so he didn't care about it anymore, took the decanting soup and drank it.
"By the way, big brother, Sister Meng said to let you wake up and go to her, she has something to tell you."
Meng Qi was rarely well-behaved, and he didn't talk like he said to the future, and after saying what Meng Junsheng had instructed, he packed up the empty bowl and withdrew.
Looking at the direction Meng Qi left, Huantong smiled and shook his head, "Only in the Sansheng Pavilion can you be quiet for a while." ”
After tidying up his clothes, Huantong went to find Mengjunsheng. Today, Meng Junsheng did not sit on the chaise longue, but stood outside the house to repair the flower branches.
"I thought the Dream Pavilion Master wouldn't do these things."
"Childe, I can't sit all day, I still have to find something." Meng Junsheng put down the scissors for repairing flowers, and walked to Huantong.
"The Lord of the Dream Pavilion is looking for me, is there something important to do?"
"How much does the prince know about the four princes?" Meng Junsheng was not in a hurry to answer, but asked Huantong a question.
Phantom Tong raised his hand to support his chin and thought for a moment.
"Fourth prince, I met a few times when I was in the palace, but he was still young at that time, and I can't remember it clearly. Why suddenly ask him, what's wrong with him? ”
The fourth prince has a hard time, and he hasn't seen it in Kyoto these days, and he almost has forgotten his younger brother.
"I heard that the four princes look very similar to King Jin, and they are more like King Jin than other princes, so after King Jin died, the emperor loved the four princes very much, but five years ago, the four princes were shot to death by random arrows when they went out."
After Meng Junsheng finished speaking, he looked at Phantom Tong meaningfully.
"What do you want to say, my father loves me very much?" Phantom Tong felt ridiculous, when he was a child, his father's indifference to him, his love for his sister and his kindness to other princes, he saw it in his eyes, Phantom Tong didn't understand since he was a child, what he did wrong to make his father hate him so much.
"Don't say whether the emperor loves King Jin or not, what I want to talk about is the death of the four princes. We searched for a long time in and around the place of the accident and found an arrow stuck in a tree with a plum blossom carved on it, the same thing carved on the broken sword found in Anling Mansion many years ago. ”
Meng Junsheng said and walked to the stone table on the side of the courtyard, on which was a small wooden box, and when he opened the wooden box, there were the arrows and the broken sword inside.
Phantom Tong took out these two things from the box, carefully comparing the plum blossoms in the two places, no matter how you look at it, this is the same pattern.
"Therefore, it was the same group of people who killed the Anling clan and killed the four princes. However, the two have nothing in common, and it is difficult to believe that there is a killer organization. Phantom Tong rubbed the plum blossom pattern on the broken sword and fell into deep thought.
"No, this is the mark of the plum blossom guard, not a killer organization."
Looking at Huantong's somewhat puzzled expression, Meng Junsheng smiled, and didn't want to sell anything to him anymore, "Meihuawei is the secret guard of the Nan family, I don't know how many people there are, but their strength and weapons are still very strong." ”
"The Nan family, it's the Nan family again, I must let the Nan family taste the despair of the Feng family back then." Phantom Tong slapped his palm on the stone table, and the murderous aura in his eyes seemed to be the north wind in the depths of winter, which made people feel a chill.
The table that had been slapped by Phantom Tong shook, and then a crack appeared, all the way from the outer edge to the center.
Meng Junsheng looked at the destroyed stone table, his expression became hideous, he pulled away the phantom tong, and he didn't care about any master and servant, and scolded, "Little rabbit cub, the old lady's stone table is very expensive!" ”
Huantong came back to her senses like this, looked at the table that was damaged by herself, smiled awkwardly at Meng Junsheng, and ran away while she was unprepared.