The bell rang after school, Yiyu didn't hurry to leave, leisurely packed up the bookbag, and listened to the students' chatter by the way, but today's gossip file was obviously not to her taste, just after listening to a few words, she sped up her movements, and packed up her things in three or two, but there were still a lot of words that slipped into her ears.

"Alas, alas, His Royal Highness King Wei's birthday is this month, right?" It was a female voice.

"It's the ninth day of the first month." It was a male voice.

"You remember it clearly." This is another female voice.

"Where he remembers clearly, it should be his second sister who remembers clearly." The first female voice muttered, "Why don't you know, at the palace banquet a few months ago, Miss Liu was pointed out by His Majesty to His Royal Highness the King of Wei, and she almost became the side concubine of the Wei Palace——"

"Don't talk nonsense! My second sister didn't! The boy was a little indignant, after all, it was a good thing to be rejected for marriage.

"I didn't talk nonsense, my eldest sister was also there at the dinner that day, and she ......"

Du He watched Yi Yu walk by, then greeted the two good friends, glanced at the pair of students who were about to quarrel, and followed alone.

"What, follow me to eat?" Yi Yu's footsteps did not stop, and said to Du He, who walked to his side.

"Yes, didn't you say it, Ganwei lives on the second floor, and I can eat whatever I want."

Yi Yu smiled, she didn't say anything more when she was a little irritable, the two walked to the door, and didn't see Lu Zhi's figure, so they walked towards Tai Academy, and saw Lu Zhi standing under the sparsely populated courtyard wall talking to people from a distance, Cheng Xiaofeng and Lu Shuqing were arguing not far away, and Cheng Xiaohu was watching back and forth beside them.

When she got closer, Yi Yu recognized that the girl who was talking to Lu Zhi with an angry face was Miss Feng, Feng Yating, who had not met much since the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

"Lu Zhi, this is the last time, if you don't go, then we won't have anything to say!"

Feng Yating gritted her teeth and shouted at Lu Zhi after saying this, she strode away to the east, Yi Yu looked at her back that was trembling with anger, frowned, and looked at Lu Zhi.

"That's Miss Feng, right?"

Lu Zhi smoothed out the somewhat wrinkled placket, heard the voice of the remnant jade, and the moment he turned his head, the indifference on his face receded, and he chuckled, and said, "Yes." ”

"What's the quarrel?"

"It's just a little misunderstanding," Lu Zhi saw Du He, and the topic passed by, "What, Du Er is here to eat?" ”

Hearing the same question from the brother and sister, Du He smiled secretly and replied, "Xiaoyu said, Ganweiju, eat with me." ”

Lu Zhi nodded, and led the remnant jade who wanted to stop talking and walked forward, and the three of them also followed by Xiaofeng and them.

"Hey! What do you follow us for! Cheng Xiaofeng said to Lu Shuqing dissatisfied.

"Didn't the eldest brother just say that he wanted to invite him to dinner?"

"I didn't say I'll take you."

"Then I took you?" Lu Shuqing didn't have a temper, but the words he said were full of thorns.

"You ......"

Yi Yu listened to the two of them fighting again with a headache, hesitating whether to persuade her, but after walking through the intersection, she saw Lu Zhi's footsteps stop, pointed to Du He in the direction of Ganweiju, and said with a smile:

"What else are you going to do, you go and eat as you like, we are going to Hongyue Building, not by the way."

“... Brother Lu. The corners of Du He's mouth twitched, and he shouted with a sad face, seeing that Lu Zhi ignored him, he walked towards the main gate, and stood in place for a moment before catching up.

"Brother Lu, it's so boring for me to eat alone, and you don't have much of me......"

Looking at Du He, who was pestering Lu Zhi in front, and listening to the dispute between Lu Shuqing and Cheng Xiaofeng in the back, Yi Yu sighed lightly and rubbed his eyebrows.

"Xiaoyu, what's wrong with you?" Cheng Xiaofat, who was walking beside Yi Yu, asked.

"Headache."

Wei Wangfu Combing Pavilion

After lunch, Ah Sheng walked in with a tea tray in one hand and the roster he had just obtained outside the door in the other, and walked through the front hall to behind the screen in the inner room.

Li Tai was now sitting on the soft couch, holding a book in one hand and an ordinary satin pouch in the other, and on the blanket in front of the soft couch was a small rattan box, which contained some bits and pieces of clothing, such as wearing and leather belts, if you ignore the embroidery on it, it is just some ordinary materials.

At such a glance, although his face was still expressionless, Ah Sheng knew that his master had been in a good mood since he came back last night, and it was still good at this time.

"Master," put down the tea tray, Ah Sheng boldly handed over the roster, "This is the list of guests invited to the birthday banquet sorted out by Master Du, please take a look." ”

The Lord Du he said refers to Du Ruhui's brother Du Chuke, who is currently the head of the Wei Palace, the assistant government affairs, and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and is the number one person in the Wei Palace.

Li Tai put down the book, picked up the roster with one hand, scanned it, raised his hand and threw it on the ground, and said:

"Let him in."

"Yes." Ah Sheng glanced at the long stack of papers scattered on the ground, turned around, and said silently in his heart: Master Du, don't blame me for not helping you, I already handed it over when the prince was in a good mood.

After a while, Du Chuke was led in by Ah Sheng, and after saluting the person on the couch, he bowed down to pick up the roster on the ground, and the middle-aged man folded the roster and said:

"I know that the prince doesn't like to be too lively, and there are too many guests for this banquet, but the emperor only specially instructed Weichen yesterday to hold your birthday in the Furong Garden Imperial Banquet Palace, how can you perfunctory Your Majesty, you can bear with it."

The person who can face Li Tai in such a calm tone and say such a calm persuasion is afraid that there is only Du Chuke in the whole Wei Wangfu.

"Then you will come to perfunctory this king?" Li Tai took the teacup handed by Ah Sheng, played with the purse and asked.

"Don't dare to deny yourself." Du Chu said.

"The guests on the third and fifth pages, removed." There are seven or eight pages on the fold of this list, and each page roughly contains the names of more than a dozen people, and it is also a shame that Li Tai can remember it after scanning it.

Du Chuke flipped the roster to the two pages and read it, then looked up and said, "I can't go to this." ”

"Huh?"

Du Chuke took out a blue-headed text from his sleeve and said: "This is what His Majesty and the Queen Mother have ordered, and they are all the young ladies in Jingzhong contained here, specially prepared for you to choose a concubine in the future, how can you go." ”

Li Tai glanced at it and remembered that this was the day before yesterday when he was in the palace, Li Shimin gave him a list of marriageable women in Beijing, and when he returned home that day, he casually threw it to the housekeeper, and he didn't know how it got into Du Chuke's hands.

"Lord, since the Hongwen Pavilion, Katsuki has been close to you, and now it has been seven years, and you should know better than others that you are the one who has achieved great things, however, with all due respect, the prince is really indecisive in marriage at the moment, even if the concubine is difficult to stand, there should be a side room in the house. As soon as your birthday passes, you will reach the age of 20, if there is still no concubine in the house, and there is no heir, it will be unfavorable to major events, and your heart will not seek it. ”

Ah Sheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva and peeked at Li Tai, only to see him look sideways at Du Chuke who was standing with his head down, and said in a low voice:

"Big things, hearts? I don't remember what I said, but your mind is not small. ”

Hearing this question, Du Chuke's calm and straight face showed a hint of loss, but it was quickly covered by rigor.

"It's a lot of self-denial, but it's better not to change the list of guests to this banquet."

"Go down."

"Yes."

Du Chuke turned around and glanced at the rattan box on the ground, looked suspicious, and then exited the room. Li Tai glanced at his back, his fingers traced along the embroidery on the lotus bag, Ah Sheng saw that he didn't seem to be in a bad mood, thought about it, or decided to ask.

"Master, what are your plans for choosing a concubine?" Li Tai has been delaying marrying a concubine, this original reason, even he doesn't know very well, but now that the emperor has intervened, the matter has come to this point, if he turns a blind eye to this matter, it will definitely not work.

"What do you say?"

"My subordinates think that you might as well choose a slightly shallow household first, which will not cause too many troubles, and living in the house will not annoy you." He didn't know the reason, and he didn't want to ask, at this time he missed Shen Jiantang, but it was a pity that this man who didn't keep his mouth dirty had left Beijing the night before yesterday, because it was the first and fifteenth days of the new year, he wanted to go back to Jiangnan to drink wine and suppress drugs.

“......”

Seeing that Li Tai was silent, Ah Sheng hesitated and continued: "Master, Miss Lu is there for many years, Young Master Lu is helping the emperor to do those secret things, the matter of "Kun Yuanlu" has been prepared, you are going to leave Beijing at the beginning of spring, it is really not appropriate to make a branch at this time, so as not to cause trouble for her." is to marry a side concubine first, that is also placed in the mansion as a decoration, otherwise, how can you make Your Majesty feel at ease in the past three years, so that the people in the capital are 'at ease'. ”

Surprise! Li Tai actually planned to leave Beijing with the help of this "Kun Yuanlu", and he would go for three years?!

There was silence in the room for a moment, and Li Tai finally spoke, "You go and do it." ”

"Yes," Ah Sheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that his master would be "willful" at this juncture, "Don't worry, your subordinates will definitely let people carefully investigate their conduct and choose a docile and sensible young lady." ”

As soon as his words fell, he saw Li Tai sit up from the soft couch, bypass the screen and walk towards the door, Ah Sheng hurriedly took his coat and followed.

"The candidates for the writers will go to the Literature Museum this afternoon, and the subordinates have already asked people to prepare a carriage, do you want to go over and have a look?"

"Hmm." Li Tai stopped in front of the door, put on his coat, and handed over the purse in his hand, after Ah Sheng took it, he almost put it in his sleeve, but seeing that Li Tai was still standing in place, his brain was clever, so he carefully tied it to the jade belt around Li Tai's waist instead.

Green jade belt, brocade wrapped around the waist, there is a jade ring, but a single bag is clumsy, Ah Sheng glanced at it, there was a bit of helplessness between his eyebrows and eyes, Li Tai also glanced down, and when he walked forward, the corners of his lips were lightly tugged. (！ )