"See Your Majesty."

During the banquet, all the guests had already stood up, and they all walked around to the black stone pavement in front of the low table. After the group stepped into the garden, they bowed in unison, and at a banquet in this situation, they were exempted from kneeling when they saw the royal family.

Before Yi Yu could see the person clearly, he was pulled in front by Lu Zhi and bowed down, and a deep male voice came from his ears, "You don't need to be polite, I am not here to spoil your interest today." ”

The words fell, but the guests in the courtyard still bowed quietly, and the eyes of Yu Yu looked at the road in front of them, and the group of people strode past them, until the voice sounded again just now, and the guests got up and returned to their seats.

"Don't stand still, sit down."

When everyone sat down, Yi Yu slowly raised his head and looked in the direction of due north, and saw that the three seats that were vacant before were all seated, and there were two low tables on the seat in the middle, and the red and yellow figure behind the case on the right was obviously the emperor today.

Although the chair was three or four feet away from their seat, she still clearly felt the momentum emanating from the person who was dressed in red, and it was the kind of feeling that made people's hearts slightly depressed just by looking at it.

She can also be regarded as a person who has experienced life and death. This kind of special momentum that can bring her a depressed feeling, she has only seen it in three people so far, one is her newly recognized cheap grandfather Lu Zhongzhi, one is the emperor Li Shimin who she met for the first time, and the other is Li Tai, the king of Wei who has met several times.

If you compare the special momentum of these three people, it is undoubtedly the most powerful emperor today, Lu Zhongzhi's momentum is the most calm, and Li Tai is the most subtle.

And now these three people have gathered together, sitting behind Li Shimin's side is Li Tai, who saved her again not long ago, under the light of several bright lights in the air, His Royal Highness King Wei, who is dressed in bright blue, is still handsome and distracted, and the white-haired old man in a dark coat sitting on the other seat is the cheap grandfather she only saw this morning.

Yi Yu looked at Old Man Lu with a strange face, seeing that he was looking straight and not squinting, he turned his head sideways and looked at Lu Zhi's expression, and when he saw his indifferent face, he knew that he must have known in advance, and in his heart, he counted her eldest brother's knowledge and did not report it.

"You don't seem surprised to see me, obviously you got the news early?" Li Shimin's timbre is very rich and full of rhyme. At the beginning of the succession to the throne that year, because the brave and warlike King An was suppressed, the northern steppe nomadic tribe took the opportunity to invade the Central Plains under the leadership of the leader Jieli Khan.

Li Shimin was far-sighted, and temporarily ended the war by making peace with him, in exchange for time for birth and development, and finally achieved a great victory in Dingxiang in the third year of Zhenguan and pacified the north. Therefore, although he is not as good as King An, he is not much better than Tang Taizong in the history known by Yiyu.

After he finished speaking, he glanced around the banquet, and there was no blame in his eyes, with a faint smile. Among the guests, someone soon stood up from the table, and Yi Yu looked at the person wearing the dark clothes of autumn fragrance in the opposite room, respectfully bowed to the north seat, and said loudly: "Your Majesty is really an honor for me to be here, and my heart is naturally more happy than surprised." ”

Although this person's words are a little evasive, it is a good explanation, how could Li Shimin not know that the news of his coming has leaked early, but he is just taking the opportunity to see what everyone reflects, as long as the person who took the lead in standing up and answering can speak a little, he will not pursue this issue again.

"Mowgli, this is your third son?" Li Shimin glanced at the person who answered, turned his head and asked a middle-aged man with a slender face and nearly forty years old on the nearby seat.

"Back to the emperor, it is the eldest grandson of the dog."

"Well, I haven't seen you for a few years, and I've grown into an adult, okay, you can sit down."

The young man named Changsun Chuan sat down afterwards, because it was not far away. Yi Yu didn't miss the smug look on the other party's face, and Cheng Xiaofeng beside him snorted slightly.

Li Shimin's face was slightly friendly, "I'm here to have a fun today, you can do whatever you want, don't be restrained because of me, it will ruin this good day." After finishing speaking, he nodded lightly to Li Tai on the side.

His Royal Highness King Wei then stood up with the wine glass on the table, and his deep voice was very calm, "Most of the people who can be at this banquet tonight are talented people in Beijing, and this king hopes that you can serve your father and emperor wholeheartedly in the future, please." ”

Li Tai's words were very concise, and everyone stood up with their wine glasses during the banquet, and as Li Tai raised his glass to them from left to right, they all raised their glasses and drank the wine in the glass.

After everyone sat down again, they saw one person take the initiative to stand up and walk from the banquet to the spacious black stone slab in the middle, first saluted the chairman's seat, and then turned sideways and shouted:

"I thank Yuan, tonight is a beautiful day, I am very happy to be able to gather here with all of you, and I will dedicate a poem, all for the purpose of throwing bricks and attracting jade......"

After that, this person moved his steps lightly, and chanted the poem in three steps, Yiyu knew that this was the beginning of a talent show, and the first person to get up, the disadvantage is that there is no comparison, if it is not a talented person, it will inevitably give people a sense of unsatisfactory, but there are benefits. As long as his performance is not too mediocre, it is generally remembered.

At this banquet, talented and beautiful people can take the opportunity to show their hands, there are forty-one people, and the names can be remembered by very few people, and the distinction between good and bad is obviously not only by personal factors, the order of this performance becomes particularly important, if a person is only in the middle and upper, but before him three or five people are ordinary middle-class people, then it will be three points higher, if a talent is upper-class, but before and after him is in the middle, then the life is a step down.

The forty-one people at the banquet were ostensibly friends sitting at one table, but in fact, there were connections between the several seats scattered everywhere, except for the six people on Lu Zhi's side, most of the rest of the people secretly took refuge on both sides, like one of them was for today's banquet to be brilliant with Changsun Lian, as long as the number of people was sufficient, that part of the people would make Changsun Zhuo brilliant, and the other part of the people could use these orders to disrupt other people's arrangements.

Yi Yu didn't think of this at first, the first few performers performed just slightly better than usual, but the fifth person on the stage made her keenly aware that something was wrong, and this person reported his name. She had some expectations, she came to school to take the exam twice, and she got a good score in the academic evaluation, and so did the eldest grandson Xian, in addition to the two of them, the other person who got a good score in a row was this student who was writing.

Yi Yu saw that his poetry was not bad, this word and the poem are good separately, but they are down by three points in one place, the word is vaguely contrary to the poetry, she is very talented in calligraphy, because she created a font. In terms of artistic conception and glyphs, it is comparable to those masters who are obsessed with calligraphy for dozens of years, so she can easily see that this person is deliberately clumsy, and the hiding is very fine and fine, which is difficult for people to discover.

If this person's clumsiness aroused her suspicions, then the next performance of Changsun Lian made her suddenly realize, the words are good, and the poems are also claimed to be ready-made, the two are just the middle and upper level of art in one place, and it is actually three points higher, plus the previous few people are commendable but not brilliant, and suddenly the words of Changsun Jian won a soft praise from Li Shimin on the seat.

"Good words, good poems."

This soft praise represents the opportunity to enjoy the moon with the emperor after the talent show, taking advantage of this opportunity to be pro-saint, Li Shimin's reputation for loving talent is the most prosperous, and the person who can grasp this opportunity, unless it is an accident, has been favored by the saint nine times out of ten, and the importance of this favor is comparable to the top three in the imperial examination.

At this time, Cheng Xiaofeng, who was sitting beside her, whispered to Lu Zhi: "Ah Zhi, this kid is wrong today, even if those individuals are arranged in front, they shouldn't have such a good performance?" ”

Lu Zhi's eyes flashed slightly, "It's a little strange, his calligraphy today is more than two points better than before." ”

Their words proved Yi Yu's guess, there was really something wrong with the order this time, but the people on Changsun Lian's side were obviously more clever, not only using the order, but also working himself, and even Lu Zhi didn't identify the original cause for a while.

Cheng Xiaofeng was a little worried in his heart, "I don't know if the five people just now are all from the eldest grandson's family, if it's okay, if not, wouldn't they still have the strength to hold out two or three more - no, let's not wait, let's play early." ”

These forty-one people, although they are talented and capable people among the young people in Beijing now, it is difficult to produce one person who can really be called amazing and brilliant for more than ten years. And in this banquet, if you want to ignore the influence of that order, even the upper level is not enough, you need to be the super-current.

The more brilliant people there are, the more inconspicuous they will be in the back, and there are only a few places for the saints, Cheng Xiaofeng obviously doesn't have a beautiful head, and he still knows this kind of truth.

Lu Zhi listened to her words, but shook his head lightly and said, "Don't worry, wait." ”

Then four or five more people showed their talents, and Yi Yu quietly put his eyes on the expressions of everyone at the banquet, and soon the hidden contradiction appeared, after the eighth person performed, two people stood up at the same time, and after the emperor personally pointed to one of them, the other expression was obviously not very good-looking, and the expression of the seventh or eighth person was also with a slight annoyance.

The seventh and eighth people were probably in order to support the ninth, but unfortunately they were disrupted by the other party's people, and sure enough, the ninth person who grabbed the order performed well and was praised by Li Shimin for the second time.

There are thirty-two people, but this number has been reduced by two, in the past, the three or five places of King Wei's night banquet and moon appreciation have never been exceeded, and the emperor will not break the convention of his favorite son's mansion for such a trivial matter, so there will be no exception today, at most five people.

The secret battle behind was a little intense, and there were three times when two or three people got up together, until the performance reached the nineteenth person, and the emperor's praise was sent for the third time, and two people at Lu Zhi's banquet couldn't hold their breath.

Miss Feng's probe gently tapped on Lu Zhi's case, "Brother Lu, what are you waiting for, our target is the two of us, if we don't make a move now, when will we wait?" ”

Glancing at the twentieth person who had already begun to chant poetry, Lu Zhi filled the wine glass in his hand, "Okay, you and Brother Ji can prepare." ”

"Hmm!" After Miss Feng answered, she talked softly to Ji De beside her, and when the person who recited the poem bowed down and retreated to his seat, the two stood up together.

At the same time, there was also a young man who stood up with the eldest grandson, the two sides looked at each other, and the young man smiled and said, "Miss Feng, can you let Jing Yan come first?" ”

Miss Feng smiled softly, "Brother Zhang, you can't compete with one of my girls," and then without waiting for him to answer, he raised his feet and walked out, followed by Ji De, as soon as the two stood on the black stone slab, someone whispered suspiciously, the two turned a deaf ear, and after saluting the north seat, Miss Feng said:

"Your Majesty, the little girl and her brother-in-law are both good at painting, and today we will make a painting for you to enjoy."

The young man who came out to grab the order before put away his smile and sat down, Miss Feng is a woman is no one criticizes for doing that somewhat laid-back move, but he is a man, if he competes with him, he will obviously end up stealing chickens.

"Okay, I'll take a look at your paintings."

Miss Feng did not use drawing paper but took out a soft white cloth from the wide sleeves and showed it to everyone, and then spread it out on the table, standing on the east and west sides with Ji De, standing opposite each other, taking a pen and starting to draw.

It was not boring when he was waiting, everyone was drinking and talking, Cheng Xiaofeng didn't know that he also moved to Cheng Xiaohu's case, and he didn't know what he was whispering to him, Yu Yu leaned in front of Lu Zhi and asked in a low voice:

"Big brother, are you going to write poetry or painting later?" Speaking of these two things, he is upper-class, even the art of playing the piano, although he is not as good as Changsun Xian, who has been specially taught by his husband since he was a child, but he can also handle it.

Lu Zhi glanced at her sideways, the corners of his lips hooked into her ear and whispered a few words, Yi Yu's eyes went from confusion at the beginning to wide opening later, and finally couldn't help but whisper:

"Brother! You're not kidding me, are you? ”

Lu Zhi shook his head, "No, I'm serious. ”

Yi Yu grabbed his sleeve, looked around, and lowered his voice and said, "Brother, that really can't be said nonsense, if it is, what if it angers Your Majesty?" ”

Lu Zhi patted the back of her hand, and looked down at her with a hint of resoluteness in his eyes, "Xiaoyu, there is no risk, where does the opportunity come from, don't worry, I have made all plans, if it is..."

He didn't say the rest of the words, Yi Yu's hand holding his sleeve tightened again, then slowly let go, and finally sighed, and said with a wry smile: "I knew you were going to say this, I was-"

"Xiaoyu, what are you two talking about?" Cheng Xiaofeng interrupted her words with a sudden voice.

After receiving the signal from Lu Zhi's eyes, she adjusted her breathing, turned her head to Cheng Xiaofeng and smiled: "It's nothing, I'm asking about schoolwork." ”

(It's a tragedy, it's still two more, it's too late) (!) )