Anping talked to Duanmufei for a while, and then sent her away satisfied, also afraid that the two of them would get too close and cause unnecessary trouble to Duanmufei. ◢ With * dream * small ◢.1a

He had already stared at Duanmu Fei for a while, and he was dissatisfied, but he couldn't reprimand Duanmu Fei in front of so many people, so he could only suppress the anger in his heart, barely maintaining a decent smile, and thinking that he would sue Duanmu Xian after returning home, so that he could also see what kind of virtue his favorite granddaughter was!

Duanmu Fei didn't care about He's attitude, and after saluting her, he sat down beside her, and the palace maid serving on the side served her tea with a clear eye.

Duanmu Fei picked up the hot pastel-painted gold-painted flower teacup, and used the tea lid to flick the tea leaves floating on the amber tea soup, and was about to bring the tea bowl to his lips, when he saw two familiar figures coming together to bite his ears out of the corner of his eye.

Duanmu Fei forgot to drink tea for a while, so he maintained this action, watching Wuyang and Hanxing talk in their ears.

I saw Han Xing squinting and glancing in a certain direction, nodded, and then the two sisters stood up and walked out of the main hall together.

Duanmu Fei took a sip of hot tea, and at the same time looked in the direction where Hanxing was looking just now, and it was Yang Wu girl sitting there.

As far as she knew, Han Xing didn't like the Yang family either.

Since beating Yang Huifei into the palace to be favored, she has been really rampant, although she didn't dare to offend the queen, she didn't stumble on the concubine, and the emperor favored her.

I'm afraid that Han Xing's temperament has endured it for a long time, and now that Miss Yang Wu wants to enter the palace, Han Xing must be unhappy, since the two have the same goal, they can naturally hit it off.

Everyone in the world said that the queen and Duanmu Guifei were not in harmony, but as far as she could see, the relationship between the two was actually not so stiff, and it was more to "calm other people's hearts".

Wuyang seems to have figured it out, there is no need to go to Yang Wu, in the final analysis, the core of this matter is not whether Yang Wu can accept favor, but the emperor......

Duanmu Fei drank tea slowly, silently.

Everyone in the hall was busy greeting each other, and no one seemed to care about the departure of Wuyang and Hanxing except for her, and no one noticed that the two of them came back silently after a stick of incense.

Not long after, a small chamberlain hurriedly came, and the auspicious time arrived.

So, everyone got up one after another, and surrounded the queen and went in the direction of the Huagai Palace.

The banquet has been set up in the Huagai Palace, the palace people take the civil and military officials, the nobles of the clan one by one, and wait until everyone is settled, the emperor, the queen and the queen mother walk out of the next door slightly, the emperor ascends to the throne, and accepts the kneeling and birthday wishes of the ministers.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live, queen mother, thousand years old, queen mother, thousand years old!"

"I wish the emperor a long life and happiness like the East China Sea!"

The thunderous voice resounded through the halls.

The ceremonies of the longevity banquet were carried out in an orderly manner under the control of the celebrant and were very lively.

With the roar of a few salutes, the palace maids wearing a lake-colored palace costume will enter the palace, holding a variety of dishes and drinks to the seats of the guests, the musicians in the hall begin to play music, a graceful and colorful dancing girl dances, and there are folk artists who are invited into the palace to perform a variety of plays, such as rods, rope jumping, handstands, bending waists, etc., everyone is dizzying, and applauds.

After three rounds of drinking, starting with several princes, the ministers began to present to the emperor in turn the treasures they had carefully collected from Tiannan and Haibei, such as ivory carved immortal longevity dragon boats, blue and white longevity porcelain vases that mean "longevity without borders", Wannian Ruyi jade cups, red coral cloud bats, Ganoderma lucidum patterns, copper gilded and dyed bone plates, coral branches, amber mountain bonsai...... These birthday gifts are extremely exquisite, basically can be summed up by the words "fine, rare, and strange", and many people are amazed, and the emperor on the throne is also a dragon's heart.

However, what no one expected was that the birthday gift that the emperor greatly rewarded was a box of "longevity fruit" paid tribute by Duanmu Xian, the head of the household department:

"Okay, very good, Duanmu Aiqing still knows my mind!"

"I will share the suffering of the people today."

"Come on, quickly cook this longevity fruit and share it with all Aiqing!"

Hearing this, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were all dumbfounded, and secretly said in their hearts: What kind of longevity fruit, isn't it actually just a few copper plates that can buy a basket of falling peanuts?!

Duanmuxian, the old fox, even justifiably excused the Huaibei disaster, he felt the same way, he was really cheeky and cunning!

Didn't he imply that these rare treasures they had carefully prepared for the emperor were extravagant?!

The atmosphere in the canopy hall gradually became a little subtle, and the officials who offered the birthday gift next were not left, nor right, and the birthday gift that had been prepared still had to be offered, but they did not dare to exaggerate their rarities, so they could only take it flatly, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault.

At this time, even time seemed to have slowed down, and even the emperor's mood was affected, and he was a little unhappy.

I don't know how long it took, a little chamberlain quietly entered the hall, said a word in Cen Yin's ear, and then relayed it to the emperor in a low voice.

The emperor was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Xuan! Hurry up! ”

The little chamberlain hurried down again, and as soon as Cen Yin raised his hand slightly, the musicians in the hall stopped playing.

The ministers all looked at each other in confusion, and could only vaguely guess from the emperor's face that something good should be there.

After a while, there was movement outside the hall, and the little chamberlain with a soldier in armor ran towards this side panting, and as he gradually approached, the sound of armor clashing suddenly entered the hall.

The dusty soldier stopped outside the hall for a moment, then strode to the center of the hall, knelt down on one knee respectfully, and said to the emperor with his fists clenched:

"See the emperor, Jiangcheng good news! Hundreds of remnants of the Jiangcheng water bandits' have been killed, and more than a dozen water bandits of all sizes in the surrounding Jianghuai area have also been annihilated. ”

"Good!" The Emperor tapped the armrest of the carved dragon with joy.

Receiving this good news on the day of Halloween is really icing on the cake!

Immediately, the ministers of the organic spirit knelt down and praised "This is the emperor Hongfu", and then other ministers also responded, and the Huagai Hall was full of joy.

The smile on the emperor's face became even stronger, and he asked loudly, "Where is Li Tingyou?!" ”

Li Tingyou, who was wearing the scarlet robe of a fourth-grade military attache embroidered tiger and leopard, hurriedly stood up from his seat and bowed down and clenched his fists: "The minister is here." ”

"Li Tingyou, this Jiangcheng difficulty, thanks to you for helping the officers and soldiers of Jiangcheng defend the city, fighting to the death with the bandits, and making great contributions." The emperor praised with a smile, and rewarded Li Tingyou with 100 acres of fertile land and 3,000 taels of silver on the spot.

Li Tingyou half-lowered his eyes and listened with his fists clenched.

At this time, he recalled the scene at that time, and still felt palpitations.

The danger of the siege of Jiangcheng this time was really thrilling, and almost the entire city's troops were used, even the young and strong men among the people, however, the enemy was strong and I was weak.

Jiangcheng claimed to have 5,000 defenders defending the city, but the army ate empty salaries, discipline was lax, and the armament was ineffective, and the general soldiers of Anhui Prefecture reported their military registration to fraudulently receive food and salary, and the "no one with a nationality" accounted for four or five out of ten in the army, and the 5,000 soldiers and horses were actually less than 3,000 people. This man is like this, not to mention military horses and armaments. Nearly 2,000 people in Guangjiang City fell into the private pockets of the general soldiers of Wanzhou, not to mention other towns in Anhui.

The soldiers are the power of the generals, the courage of the soldiers, the Jiangcheng soldiers are not fine, the generals are not brave, but they are just a bunch of wine bags and rice bags.

At that time, if it weren't for Feng Yan leading the reinforcements to arrive in time and deploy effectively, with the defenders of Jiangcheng who were greedy for life and afraid of death, even if they defended it themselves, Jiangcheng would have been lost!

Jiangcheng's battle is clearly the credit of Feng Yan, he has roughly explained the military situation to the emperor as early as after arriving in Beijing, but he avoided the problem of empty salaries and did not mention it, but the emperor seemed to turn a deaf ear and attributed all the military achievements to himself, without mentioning Feng Yan.

Although Li Tingyou has only been in Beijing for more than a month, he is not ignorant of all the things in the capital, as early as before he set off from Minzhou, his grandfather and father told him a lot of things about the court, so that he would not be blinded and accidentally cause trouble, so he is very aware of the embarrassing situation of Feng Yan and the Anping Eldest Princess's Mansion in the Dasheng Dynasty now......

Jiangcheng won the battle, and the emperor is now on the rise, if he insists in front of his ministers that the credit should belong to Feng Yan, he is not helping Feng Yan, but causing trouble for Feng Yan. No wonder my father always said that the power struggle and intrigue in the court are much more dangerous and complicated than on the battlefield!

This is a real problem...... Wait a minute!

Li Tingyou's mind suddenly flashed a certain little fox who likes to pretend to be clever, this matter can't be directly dealt with openly, maybe that little girl who pretends to be can find another way!

It's just a flick of his fingers, Li Tingyou is already in a hurry, and he knelt down on one knee to thank him and said, "Thank you for Emperor Longen!" ”

The eyes with envy in the scrutiny were all shot at the young man who was as dazzling as the midsummer sun, and there was a mocking gaze hidden in it.

Shameless people who take the lead in military exploits! A cold glint flashed in Chu Qingyu's eyes, this Li Tingyu is just a jumping clown who can embroider his legs, and in his previous life, he didn't know how he made him a martial champion, this time, as long as he made a little move, he could set things right.

This time, there will be no more surprises!

Chu Qingyu quickly withdrew his gaze quietly, and sat beside his mother, Second Lady Chu, with low eyebrows.