Chapter 72: Returning the Sword (1/2)

The moon is in the middle of the sky.

Many ministers wore at least crimson official uniforms, and their grades were high and low, but the shape was similar, except for Wang Anfeng, who stood at the front of the military attaché, wearing a white brocade robe, standing with a sword, which was different from everyone else, attracting many eyes.

Among them, the envoys of the royal families of the Western Regions and Northern Xinjiang, as well as the younger generation of families from all over the country are the most curious.

Most of them have heard of the word Shenwufu, but they have only heard all kinds of exaggerated rumors, and they don't believe it in their hearts, and they only think that it is a false rumor, and today I saw him standing in front of many military attachés, and I saw that those Qin generals who were as fierce as beasts were all extremely obedient, so I felt that the legends on the rivers and lakes were not necessarily false.

Laughing Tiger Li Sheng stood at the height of the palace, with a handful of dust in the crook of his arm, looked at the hundred officials, and said loudly: "The hour has come, and the hundred officials will salute." ”

On either side of the royal path stood a janissary every fifty paces, and the voice could be heard far away.

Then, without waiting for the crowd to salute, there was a second decree.

"The master of the Shenwu Mansion doesn't kneel."

There was a subtle change in everyone's expressions.

The team of nearly 1,000 people on the royal road bowed down to the high place of the palace pavilion in a neat manner, and the nobles and ladies on the pavilions on both sides could not be exempted from the number of courtesies, and the guards also knelt down with spears, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and only one person in the front of the hall stood with a sword.

Three hoops long live the voice.

Wang Anfeng looked up and saw the two generations of emperors of Great Qin for the first time.

After the salute, the hundred officials got up.

Eunuchs dressed in dark blue clothes carried tables from everywhere, and the maids held lamps, because the number of people here was too large for the palace to accommodate, and only those who were above the three grades of the official position were qualified to enter the pavilion, in front of the emperor.

Wang Anfeng didn't know how to count court etiquette, he didn't take a step, and the ministers didn't dare to take a step.

It was also the eldest grandson Nian who smiled and whispered, Wang Anfeng just walked forward, and the courtiers above the third rank followed him into the palace, and the two emperors were already seated at this moment, and the food table for these ministers had already been prepared inside.

One person led Wang Anfeng to sit in the first position, opposite Zhou Fengyue, who had not fallen through three dynasties.

According to the ancient rites, the two emperors were Jiuding food vessels. On one side, the royal family headed by Donghai Hou has a maximum of seven tripods, and many ministers, even if they are a lot of old pillars, are only six tripod eaters, which cannot be surpassed.

The emperor smiled and beckoned, and Li Sheng, the laughing tiger, bowed to the side and whispered a few words.

Laughing Tiger Li Sheng bowed slightly, stood up, took a few steps forward, first as in the past, similar to today's celebration, and then his voice paused slightly, and said: "Shang Shuling has gone through three dynasties and served the first emperor. ”

"Today's ritual has increased by one ding."

The eldest grandson leaned over and saluted.

"The Zhongshu Order has gone through three dynasties and served the first emperor."

"Today's ritual has increased by one ding."

Zhou Fengyue's expression was as plain as the moonlight outside.

Then Li Sheng's gaze directly crossed the last of the three high-ranking officials and landed on Wang Anfeng at the front, because he didn't expect Wang Anfeng to really appear before, thinking that the first ritual prepared by the military attache was also the six tripods of the courtiers, Li Sheng took a slight breath and said loudly:

"The main ceremonial vessel of the Shenwu Mansion has been increased by two tripods, which is eight tripods."

This sentence hit everyone's hearts like a thunderbolt.

Two eunuchs stepped forward with a simple tripod and placed it on the table, a total of eight large and small tripods, only inferior to the emperor and the emperor's nine tripods, this is the etiquette specifications of the princes and kings, plus Wang Anfeng saw the emperor not kneeling before, holding a sword to the palace, and violating the dragon pattern on his body, everyone didn't know how many strange thoughts flashed in their hearts.

There are already several noble old men who are qualified to enter the hall with their teeth clenched, and their eyes are staring at the back, yes, the back, even if a long time has passed, if you only look at it from the back, it is almost exactly the same as the person back then.

Even the direction and angle from which he looked at the man did not change.

The only difference is that I am already old.

The hatred in his heart couldn't help churning, biting the ground and hurting his heart and lungs, and several old men couldn't help but clench their palms tightly, but they still had the most basic reason, and they thought about the safety of their families, so they didn't immediately burst out.

But seeing that Wang Anfeng entered the same place today as Wang Tiance back then, all kinds of people from big families could easily get the honor that they couldn't ask for in their lifetime, but they looked at themselves, their family was ruined, and they were old ministers of their homeland, but because of the continuation of their family, they had to be courtiers for the enemy country, and the pain in their hearts cut into the bones and was beyond words.

Li Sheng said again: "Hundreds of officials are seated. ”

Those men had attended many ceremonies.

Even if he lost his mind, he still subconsciously raised his hand and followed everyone to thank the emperor for his grace.

Then sit down together.

The musicians of the ceremonial department played elegant music, and the women of the Daqin Music Workshop used sword dances to cheer up.

Headed by the emperor, I wish the emperor today's birthday, many courtiers, the royal nobles of the Western Regions of Northern Xinjiang toast together, Wang Anfeng is a rather old bronze wine bottle, which is the wine vessel prepared by Daqin for the princes and kings, which is used for the first time in decades.

After drinking, everyone saw that the cuffs of the white robe were like clouds.

The dragon pattern was almost free.

I don't know how many people secretly feel numb in their scalps.

The imperial chefs of the Great Qin Palace are selected from the world layer by layer, and they can say that the best cooking person in the whole world, the wine contained in the wine bottle is like jasper elixir, which is the spring of the world in the cellar of Daqin, and the wine is sweet and cold in the throat, and the aftertaste is extremely long.

What Wang Anfeng is serving behind is not an ordinary palace maid.

Dressed in green clothes, with a silverfish bag at the waist, wiping her forehead and binding her hair, although her appearance is only beautiful, her temperament is dignified, and she is obviously a female official in the palace.

Wang Anfeng raised his hand and drank all the wine in his cup.

The female official, who was graceful but had no hint of kitsch, took the wine jug from the palace maid's hand, leaned over to add wine to him, her lips were like Danzhu, her fingers were like onion roots, and her wrists were as white as frost and snow.

Many courtiers eat and drink and laugh, regardless of political affairs, from time to time from the mouth of the generals will laugh loudly, the emperor seems to be in a very happy mood, Wang Anfeng is holding the wine, slowly thinking about returning the sword in his heart, the young eunuchs continue to send out the imperial meals from the imperial dining room.

It took almost an hour before he began to take the utensils down.

Hundreds of officials are still sitting, in the middle of the tacit vacancy of a large space, today's Emperor Taishang is the emperor, hard work, but after old age, but become indulgent, very fond of extravagant things, every year of the birthday banquet, many courtiers have to offer.

If you can satisfy the emperor, you will have to give a reward, but if you let the emperor do not hesitate, there are not a few people who are scolded in public, many officials secretly criticize this kind of thing, but every year and today, they will also work hard to collect things that can satisfy the emperor, and in the past 20 years, it has almost become a practice.

Today's emperor cares a lot about clean government, but at this time he will not care about this matter, and even personally prepare a congratulatory gift for the emperor, the emperor is extremely satisfied with the acceptance every year, people can't help but feel that although the son is not the father, but the father is also the son, the father-son friendship is the father-son friendship after all, and those young Confucian students feel that although the two emperors are alive today, the father and son are filial piety, there are no hidden dangers, and it is also the evidence of the prosperous age.

It's just that in these years, the treasures of the Emperor Taishang have seen almost, even if the ministers have searched their minds, it is difficult to satisfy the Emperor, and sometimes it will be self-defeating, causing the Emperor Taishang to dislike, and he is frightened every year, or today's saints sympathize with the courtiers, and the ministers can present gifts in front of everyone, if there is nothing ingenious, they can also drink and watch.

The young man wearing the Chinese clothes of the Western Regions drank all the wine in the cup, stood up, bowed to the two emperors, and said some auspicious words for the birthday of the Western Regions, instinctively beckoning, but thinking that this is the palace of Daqin, his subordinates have stayed in other places to eat and drink, and at this time I am afraid that he will be drunk to death.

Fortunately, he had already prepared, but he was not used to it, smiled, leaned over and took out a brown satin package from the side, looked around, untied the satin, and everyone around couldn't help but show a look of amazement.

Inside the package was a guqin.

The Emperor Taishang's preference for music is known all over the world, and there are many musical instruments of various eras collected in the palace, but everyone has not been able to see such a guqin carved purely from blood-red jade, which is extremely complete, like the top qinist carefully took this Qin out of a whole piece of jade.

Although the Central Plains greatly admires jade, the most jade-producing mountains are in the mountains of the Western Regions, and such a complete piece of huge blood jade has never been seen.

The royal family of the Western Regions stretched out his hand and plucked the pipa strings at will, the sound was clear, this was obviously not a plaything that could only be used for enjoyment, even if it was just looking at the timbre, it was also enough to be a treasure that could be passed on to future generations, and then held the guqin in both hands and raised it respectfully, bowed his head and said:

"The lord of Gumo has heard that His Majesty likes musical instruments, and it just so happens that there is such a piece of jade in the treasury, so he invited a jade craftsman from the Central Plains to carve it out and give it to His Majesty, I hope Your Majesty likes it."

The Emperor took a sip of wine, laughed and waved his hand:

"Take it, you can be considered to have a heart."

The young man's heart was relieved, a smile appeared on his face, and he handed the blood jade guqin to the eunuch next to him.

After that, several people presented the treasures they had found, but they failed to satisfy the emperor, but they did not make the old man angry, and they were regarded as getting a good evaluation.

Until a man from a Jiangdong family got up under the encouraging gaze of the old man next to him.

This time it was a delicate and light armor, the nail leaf was a small piece of thumb-sized crystal feathers, glowing like a water moon, the man's hand was a little hard, the armor spread out, and the nail leaf gently collided, making a sound as crisp as a musical instrument.

Some people could see that this treasure was slightly narrower on the shoulder armor and was not intended for men.

The Emperor Taishang looked strange and said with a smile: "What is this?" ”

The young man bowed his head and said respectfully:

"It's not a treasure that today's armorsmiths can accomplish."

"Jiangdong once in the middle of the year, in the Dingshan found a secret place seven hundred years ago, mobilized the family to find it, it was the feather coat cast by the Great Zhou Kingdom that year, each small piece of armor leaf is the longest feather behind the neck of the Luan bird that can carry a person straight to the nine skies, and it is passed through with the gold thread spit out by the snow silkworm and cast into armor."

"Although it is as light as a falling feather, even if it is the grandmaster's qi machine, it is difficult to penetrate this feather coat in one move, and now the Luan Bird has disappeared from heaven and earth, and the method of casting has also been lost with the fall of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and only this feather coat is left in the world."

"The Jiangdong Lu family would like to congratulate this feather coat."

The Emperor Taishang laughed and said, "Come on, come on, present it." ”

On the other side, the eunuch Li Lian, who looked older than the Emperor Taishang, took the feather coat and handed it to the Emperor, the old man shook his hand casually, and the nail leaves made of Luan bird feathers collided, and the sound was crisp and ethereal like a wind chime, and Fu took out a dagger with iron like clay from the side, and stabbed at the feather coat.

With a bang, the dagger was bounced up and there was no trace left on the feather coat.

The old man laughed, threw the dagger in his hand casually, fell to the ground, and directly submerged in it, in front of Lu Zihua, and said: "This feather coat is very good, this dagger will be given to you." ”

Lu Zihua respectfully pulled out the dagger, and a streamer seemed to flash under his eyes, and then dimmed.

Lu Zihua brushed the layers of dull rust on the blade of the dagger, and said in his heart that the artifact was obscure, and he was quite surprised by this unexpected joy, and suddenly felt a pain, and blood had oozed out of the fingertips of his fingers, obviously this dagger was extremely sharp.

The Emperor Taishang was full of praise for the feather coat, and immediately handed it over to Li Qiwu next to him.

At this moment, the rest of the people knew that the Jiangdong Lu family had paid attention, and it was difficult to impress the current Emperor Taishang, but the Emperor Taishang loved Li Qiwu very much, such a treasure that looked gorgeous and could save his life, for Li Qiwu, the Emperor Taishang would also accept it.

The Emperor Taishang got two very favorite treasures, and there was no grand occasion in previous years.

Li Lian has served the Emperor Taishang since she was a teenager, and she knew that the Emperor Taishang was quite satisfied, and when she saw that many courtiers had no intention of getting up, she immediately took a step forward and said softly: "If there is nothing else, you can retire today, there are still many places to enjoy in Tianjing City tonight, I wish you all fun." ”

And when they understood the meaning of the words, they all stood up and saluted.

Wang Anfeng put down the wine cup, stopped the meaning of the female officer in Tsing Yi behind him to pour wine for herself, and got up and walked forward.

Eyes fell on him.

Wang Anfeng said: "I was entrusted by someone to give a thing to the emperor." ”

Emperor Taishang's eyes fell on Wang Anfeng, he had been laughing all the time tonight, but now, Wang Anfeng could see that there was no smile in the old man's eyes, and he seemed to be indifferent from the whole cheerful atmosphere today.

The old man said:

"Bring it in."

Wang Anfeng's hands were empty, the five fingers of his right hand were slightly open, and his fingers pinched out the sword technique, and the qi lingered.

An unprecedentedly large celestial machine swept through the sky.

He said in his heart that he was generous when he borrowed the sword, and he couldn't be stingy when he returned the sword.

Today is not stingy in any way.

Many courtiers looked at Wang Anfeng, not knowing what he was doing, but they didn't dare to speak, and in such silence, a clear sword roar suddenly sounded in the distance of the sky.

The sword box in the Shenwu Mansion opened, and the two sword lights circled each other like dragons, rising into the sky.

The sword qi dragged the steel swords on the weapon rack of the Shenwu Mansion out of the sheath together.

The swordsmen who were drunk and watching the lanterns roared their swords together.

Everyone subconsciously raised their heads and immediately lost their voices.

The sound of the sword suppressed the sound of the bamboo.

Hundreds of flying swords, coming from outside the sky.

The sword qi is rampant.

The dense flying sword surrounded two streamers and went straight into the palace.

On this day, Daqin had a sword immortal to celebrate the birthday of the emperor.

Return the sword.

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