In the blink of an eye, it was the middle of April, and according to the custom, the generals of all border guards had to return to the capital to report on their work. This matter involves the stability of the family and the country, and it is a major national matter. Song Jinyan attaches great importance to this matter.

Among the border soldiers, there is no shortage of young talents, unlike the men who stay in Dadu and have the spirit of scholars, the men who have lived in the border for a long time are more sword eyebrows and starry eyes, revealing a heroic spirit. This is even more provoking the nobles who have lived in the capital for a long time to have a different idea.

Therefore, at this time of the year, the palace will also set up a banquet to invite the border soldiers, half of which is to catch the wind and wash the dust, and the other half also has an ambiguous sense of inexplicability.

"The Queen Mother, this year's reception banquet seems to be extraordinarily grand," Mama Meng said while helping the Queen Mother comb her hair in a bun, and the tray was full of emeralds, tourmaline heads and other gemstones, and the people who flashed couldn't open their eyes.

The Queen Mother's eyes showed a slight dissatisfaction, and she nodded slightly: "What do you know, you must know that this time Kou Yunwu is in prison, the Northwest Army is leaderless, and other countries are looking at us with a tiger's eye, so they naturally have to put on a big battle in order not to show cowardice." ”

Mama Meng laughed, nodded, and continued to focus on the Queen Mother's head, and after a while, she said cautiously: "Queen Mother, okay." Supporting the Queen Mother, the group came to the banquet place.

Everyone has arrived, waiting for the arrival of the Queen Mother, and when they saw the Queen Mother, everyone stood up and saluted respectfully. Different things from the past, this banquet, the banquet was not a row of civil officials, but all military generals, all of whom were thick eyebrows and big eyes, among which there were also a few handsome young talents, but the border soldiers could not return to Dadu once in a few years, so although their names were known to everyone, they were a little confused when they really saw me.

Lan Ruoxuan carefully looked at the people under the banquet, only to see a person smiling at her. For some reason, Lan Ruoxuan actually felt that this look was very familiar. I cast a questioning look again, but no one was found.

The Queen Mother's face was good today, she smiled slightly, stretched out her hand to support her in the air, and said, "Everyone, please get up," her eyes glanced at it, and suddenly saw the person standing with her head hanging not far away, and said with a slight smile: "What's wrong with Prince Chu." Don't look good? ”

When Chu Li heard this, he raised his head and said with a smile: "Chu Li Xie Empress Dowager cares, last night Chu Li's palace entered a cat, disturbed the rest, nothing happened." ”

The Queen Mother nodded: "Since everyone has arrived, Your Majesty, let's start." ”

Song Jinyan nodded, a look, and suddenly the bell sounded above the hall, sometimes smart and light, sometimes majestic and atmospheric, with the dance of one after another constantly changing the rhythm, everyone was staggered, all intoxicated in the sound of wine music.

"This dance is not bad," after the dance, Song Jinyan pointed to several dancers in the audience and squinted his eyes and said: "It's just that the tune is still too flat, and it lacks a little bit of rhythmic beauty." ”

"Indeed," the Queen Mother nodded: "The mourning family has seen it for many years, and now the songs and dances in this palace are exquisite, but they always feel that they tend to be formal, and they look a little dull." ”

When Kou Shu heard this, she hurriedly got up and apologized. But seeing Chu Li not far away, he stood up, bowed his hand slightly towards Song Jinyan, and said, "Chu Li has a fresh thing here." If the emperor is willing, he might as well take a look. ”

"Oh?" Song Jinyan raised his eyebrows, seemed very interested, and said, "Since Prince Chu said it, I want to see it." ”

Chu Li smiled slightly, saluted in the direction of Song Jinyan, and then raised his hand, and after a while, several men with three big shoulders and five thick shoulders and round waists carried up a cage.

One of the men pulled the red cloth on the cage with all his might, and all the contents of the cage were displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

Everyone exclaimed in unison, and a few timid official ladies even fainted directly against Xiaoji.

In the cage, there was a giant python more than ten feet long, with black and gold scales that looked extremely shocking, and it was hissing and spitting out the letter in its mouth, which made people's hairs stand up.

What's even more amazing is that there is a delicate dancer standing next to the snake, twisting her delicate waist and dancing with the snake.

Chu Li took a step forward and said, "This is the unique snake dance performance of my Nanzhao. This snake has been trained by snake tamers and dances with dancing girls, which has a unique style. ”

"That sounds interesting," Song Jinyan nodded, looking quite interested.

Nanzhao's unique drum music sounded, and the snake dancer sometimes twisted her waist and clinged to the snake's body, and sometimes stretched out her tongue to kiss the snake, and the people in the audience were amazed.

The snake dancer twisted her waist, Tingting curled, and then pulled out a piccolo from her waist, put it on her lips and played it slowly, the rhythm of the song was bright, and the agility was abnormal, and the giant python heard the sound of the flute, as if it had heard a command, and flexibly posed in various poses with the ups and downs of the tone.

As the flute became more and more rapid, the snake writhed more frequently and violently.

Everyone looked at the dancing snake body intently, but suddenly saw the snake dancer exclaimed, and the flute in her hand was inexplicably broken.

The snake suddenly lost its flute and rushed towards the guest table as if out of control. Song Jinyan sat the Queen Mother on one side, Lan Ruoxuan on the other side, and Concubine Lan, Concubine Shu and other concubines and concubines.

The snake was actually conscious, and swam straight in the direction of Kou Shu. Kou Shu narrowed her eyes slightly, a sneer flashed in her eyes, from Chu Li's appearance today to the appearance of the snake, she felt that this matter was not simple, and she was really waiting for her here.

Although the snake looked unusually coarse, it swam extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was about to flash in front of Kou Shu's eyes. However, at this moment, Yuan Yun was a little far away from Kou Shu, and Yuan Ming couldn't appear in front of the public, so he could only stare at him in a hurry. Ripples stood next to Kou Shu, her mouth wide open as if she could stuff an egg into it. Completely frightened, I froze in place.

Song Jinyan's heart tightened, he wanted to get up but it was too late, and the giant python had already rushed to Kou Shu's eyes regardless of it. But just as he was about to meet Kou Shu, the giant python suddenly stopped, turned around and swam in another direction.

"Niangniang-" Kaori covered her eyes, almost unable to believe her eyes, and exclaimed, the giant python turned around from Kou Shu, and swam straight in the direction of Lan Ruoxuan, even more swift and fierce than just now.

Everyone was caught off guard, and the snake dancer opened her mouth to rush up, but it was too late.