The banquet was finally over, and everyone had arrived, except for Sima Yucheng and Sima Lanting.

Sima Lanting was staying in the innissation hall at first, and he only arrived a quarter of an hour in front of Sima Yucheng when he knew that someone was coming to look for him.

"The emperor has arrived." The shrill voice of the eunuch came from the door.

Then a dark yellow walked into the hall.

Everyone stood up to see the emperor.

The sacrificial dance quickly glanced at the people on the upper position, and quickly lowered his eyes. I'm going to habitually touch my wrist in my sleeve, but I remember that the clothes I'm wearing are a little inappropriate.

The sacrificial dance originally thought that the plan was going off again, and the Sima Liang Council prepared the costumes of the ladies for themselves. Who would have thought that he had prepared a set of guards' clothes. Fortunately, the sacrificial dance is slender and slender, so you don't need to speak out loud, otherwise it will really arouse the suspicion of others.

Sima Liangyi gestured to the priest ruthlessly as he sat down. Seeing this, the priest stepped forward two steps and stood beside Sima Liangyi, blocking the waiting maid.

Sima Liangyi glanced at the maid with some apologies, and then said softly: "This palace is used to his personal service, so you don't have to work here, go down." If something happens, this palace will call you. ”

The maid glanced at Sima Liangyi with some flattery, so she retreated from the good stream.

"People here, you should remember well, especially these female dependents, you have to look at and recognize, there are the queen and the four concubines who came today, and there is a more favored concubine. Make a note of them. Sima Liangyi whispered as he ruthlessly bent down to pour wine.

Wen Wen Yan glanced at Empress Xie Xinxin, who was sitting next to the emperor, and then glanced at the rest of Sima Liang's people. After remembering people, he retreated behind Sima Liangyi.

Sai Wuqing has always felt that there is a hot gaze staring at him, but because he is in the palace, he is just a small guard, so he doesn't dare to see who is staring at him.

Sima Yucheng, who was on the top position, raised the wine glass that had been replaced, frowned, and just wanted to be angry, but Yu Guang just saw Xie Xinxin, whose face was slightly haggard, and the words became verbal: "Today is when Lanting comes back from his five-year term, Zheng is very relieved to hear what he is doing in the south, I think you have also heard about it." ”

The people in the audience praised Sima Liangyi, and some people also praised the emperor.

The sacrificial dance looked at it and thought secretly, this group of people is really hypocritical.

Then he followed everyone and looked at the few people Sima Liang wanted to see by himself.

The sacrificial dance saw the rumored Xie Xinxin. The face is kind, dignified and generous, and the gestures are all cultivated by the ladies of famous families.

It's just that his face is a little pure white, especially every time Sima Yucheng raises his glass, he seems to be nervous about something.

Sima Liangyi noticed the gaze of the sacrificial dance, and also looked at his mother, and said, "The queen mother, she has been a little tired recently, and her body is a little worse than before. You should pay more attention to her when the time comes, and help Hongu take care of her. She now has to take her fifteenth brother and fourteenth princess with her, both of whom are still young. The queen mother is also hard. ”

What did he mean by what he said, and after agreeing, he asked himself to go out and have a look.

"The palace is strict, there are many rules and places that you can't go, you hold the token of the palace, and it is convenient for you to act when the time comes. Also be careful, don't make too much noise if you don't get discovered, and remember to come back early. After listening to Sima Yucheng's words, he glanced at the smile on the corner of his mouth, and quietly retreated.

It wasn't until I walked out to worship the dance that I felt that the gaze staring at me had disappeared.

She breathed a sigh of relief, but she didn't know that this was the first time she had come out of Yixiang Courtyard, and she shouldn't be targeted by people if she looked at people like this. And because of Sima Liangyi's worries, half of his face was painted with rouge on half of his face. All the way from the corners of the eyes to the cheeks.

The sacrificial dancer raised his hand and touched his face, and said in his heart: Forget it, don't care.

The sacrificial dance is hidden in this palace, and people are slowly familiar with the terrain. Looking at these gorgeous houses in front of me, there is no wave in my heart. Even though she's going to live here in the future.

It wasn't until I reached a small pool that I stopped. Looking at the fish swimming in the water, I was a little envious. But then I thought about it, this fish is probably the same as myself, they are all trapped by people, and there is no freedom. Although I was given a lot of rights to wait for me, I still lived for others, and I didn't have the slightest idea of waiting for me. Over time, I guess I will forget about myself.

Just like this fish, as long as you can have a full stomach, it is good to survive.

The sacrificial dance was full of thoughts, and suddenly he was hit by something in the leg. It was too dark for her to see clearly, just as she was about to do it.

There was a small milk doll's voice apologizing: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The sacrificial dance lowered his head and saw carefully what he had bumped into himself, and it turned out to be a milk child. It is estimated that there is only the little prince who can run around in this palace. It looks like it should be the fifteenth prince.

Once the prince in the harem reaches the age of seven, he must leave the harem and go to the prince's residence alone.

Today, only the fifteenth prince is still young, only six years old, and he can stay in the harem and move around freely. The remaining seventeen princes are still very young, and they have only been born for a short time.

Sai Wuqing squatted down and looked at him, touched his little head, and gently coaxed him: "It's okay, why are you running around in the palace?" What about the people who follow you? ”

Sima Yanzhao looked at the person squatting down, felt her movements, and said a little angrily: "Don't touch the head of this prince, be careful if you do this, I will tell my father and let him punish you!" ”

The kid is quite fierce.

Sai Wu Wu thought so.

After finishing speaking, he heard someone calling him behind him, so he quickly hid aside with the sacrificial dance.

After the people left, he poked his head out again to confirm whether the people were really gone.

"Your Highness, what are you doing here?" Sai Wuwu looked at the child with a smile.

Sima Yanzhao looked at him fiercely, and first reprimanded him, but he was afraid of attracting people over. It's just like this, and the sacrifice is ruthless, wide-eyed, wide-eyed.

After half a pillar of incense, Sima Yanzhao was sure that people would not come back, and even if he reprimanded the people beside him, they would not attract attention before coming out of the place where there were many mosquitoes.

He touched his face swollen from mosquito bites, and ran away quickly, no longer in the mood to pay attention to the merciless sacrifice.

The sacrificial dance originally wanted to stop him, but after thinking about it, he was idle anyway, so he just followed him to see where he wanted to go.

The little prince who looked at the sneaky little prince along the way was a little speechless. It turned out that I wanted to go to the imperial dining room to steal food.

Do you need it?

After seeing him enter, he felt bored, so he thought it would be better to go back.

"Bang."

The man who was about to leave heard a loud bang.

I saw that the position just now disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The sacrificial dance is to go in and catch people.

She didn't want to worry about it, but she didn't know if it was out of habit or what, so her brain didn't react and ran in.

After she came out with the little prince, she touched her wrist with a little regret.

Sima Yanzhao probably didn't expect that he would touch the pot on the stage. By the time he reacted, he had already brought out the sacrificial dance.

The loud sound attracted the passing palace people, and they went in and were about to go in to see what was going on, when they heard a cat meow, so they scolded and walked away.

The sound of the cat's meow led away the palace people passing by, and Sima Yanzhao was about to go in again when he was stopped by the sacrificial dance.

Sima Yanzhao looked at the person in front of him who was taller than him, and said viciously: "Don't think that if you just helped me, I can ignore your business." ”

The sacrificial dance is a bit inexplicable, what did he do to let the little prince treat him like this.

"I'm just trying to ask you what you're going to take, are you using that?"

"What does it have to do with you, get out of the way." After Sima Yanzhao finished speaking, he reached out and opened the hand she stopped in front of him.

"I can help you, lest you wait a little and not be high enough to knock over something." The sacrificial dance said slightly badly.

"You ......" Sima Yanzhao listened to the ruthlessness of staring at the sacrifice in front of him, a little angry, but he had to admit that what he said was right.

"I'm going to bring Sister Hui'er the peach blossom crisp made in the imperial dining room today."

Seeing that the little guy was angry and had to say the purpose, he was ruthless and had a bad sense of joy that he had done bad things and succeeded.

"Okay, I'll get it for you. But I also have a request. ”

After Sima Yanzhao heard her listen to the things he brought for himself, he didn't care so much and agreed to her.

"Whatever you ask, I can agree to you."

Sai Wuqing looked at his happy appearance, so he couldn't help but tease him and said: "It's hard for me to want you to agree, can you do it, you just agreed to me." ”

Looking at the sacrificial dance and not believing that he could do it, Sima Yanzhao was slightly anxious: "I am the fifteenth prince today, and I am the emperor's son-in-law, what can I do, just say it." ”

"Okay, then let's not rush to say the request first, let's go get the peach blossom cake first."

Sima Yanzhao agreed with her. So the two quietly entered the imperial dining room again, this time with the help of the sacrificial dance, Sima Yanzhao easily got the peach blossom crisp, and by the way, he also asked the priest to ruthlessly help take other dried fruit cakes.

"I'm going back to the Jiaofang Palace, what do you want, hurry up, it's hard for you to see me again in the future." Sima Yanzhao looked at the Jiaofang Hall that was about to arrive, and said a little impatiently.

The sacrificial dance looked at the little ghost who was much shorter than himself, and said that there was a request to help get the peach blossom crisp, but he didn't expect Sima Yanzhao to remember it, and he forgot it.

"I don't have any requirements right now."

Sima Yanzhao was a little annoyed: "Then were you playing with me just now?" ”

"Your Royal Highness is really smart." After the sacrificial dance was finished, it quickly slipped away.

Sima Yanzhao stomped his feet fiercely, and then slipped into Sima Hui's room unwillingly holding a pile of pastries and dried fruits.

After leaving, I was bored walking and walking, thinking that this harem was almost gone, and it was time to go back.

Not long after the festival left, an uninvited guest came to the originally lively banquet.

Everyone looked at the five princes kneeling in front of Sima Yucheng and looked at each other.

Everyone knows that this Sima Tingshan is a master who is not easy to mess with, and he is from the favorite concubine Le Fei. And he is deeply loved by Sima Yucheng, no matter what good things are, it will be his turn after Sima Liang has finished discussing it.

Because of his love for him, Sima Yucheng once wanted to give him the title of king early, but under pressure and afraid of making enemies for him, he kept dragging it out, planning to give him the title of king when he was sealed this winter.

Sima Ting did not sit down after receiving the order, but walked to Sima Lanting's side, looked at him, and said to Sima Yucheng: "Father, the son just heard something about the second brother. ”

Sima Lanting and Sima Ting looked at each other and raised their eyebrows. I thought in my heart: I didn't expect that after only one day, some people began to demonstrate, and sure enough, the capital is a place of right and wrong, which is difficult to like.

Sima Yucheng heard Sima Tingdan's words and had a little headache. He had always loved the child, who was brave and resourceful, but extremely disobedient to discipline. And he is very dislike about national affairs. When establishing the crown prince, he gave Sima Ting many opportunities to take the lead, but he refused to accept them. The beautiful name said: What is the meaning of being a prince, it is better to be a free king.

So in this way, the prince became Sima Liangyi.

But that's fine. Sima Tingdan often looks for trouble from time to time, and it all depends on his mood. This time, I don't know where Sima Lanting came back and provoked him.

"What's the matter?" Sima Yucheng still dealt with it if he didn't want to, otherwise it would be very difficult for Sima Ting to make trouble at that time.

"Come on, bring me the guy I just caught." Sima Ting looked at the confusion in Sima Lanting's eyes, hesitated for a moment, and finally gave an order.

When everyone saw the person who came, they were very surprised, and some bold people even shouted: "Master Li, how did you become like this." ”

The person who came was Li Wu, who followed Sima Lanting to the south together. At this time, none of the bloody clothes on his body were good, it looked like he had been beaten, and he was still bleeding.

The ladies at the banquet covered their eyes with their long sleeves, not daring to look at the scene in front of them.

"Ridiculous!" Sima Yucheng was a little angry, no matter how much he usually filled Sima Tingdan, he was not allowed to bring out such a person on such an occasion.

Sima Ting seemed to have guessed that Sima Yucheng would be angry, but he didn't have much reaction. Instead, he knelt in front of Sima Yucheng again: "Father, the son heard that the second brother sent this person out as soon as he came back, and I happened to bump into him, so I secretly followed him to see what he wanted to do." So I saw that he had a close relationship with those Huns. So I arrested all the people and asked them all this morning, and only now did I ask about them. The second brother actually secretly traded with the Xiongnu, intending to give benefits to those people in order to ......"

Sima Yucheng was originally still angry that Sima Tingshan brought out such a person, but after hearing the Huns, he hurriedly asked, "What are you doing with this?" ”

Sima Tingshan said those words unspeakably: "Use this to rebel!" ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, only to know that five years ago, the second prince didn't know what to do with the emperor had a dispute, and then the second prince automatically invited Ying to go to the ancient city in the south.

Now that they are back, everyone thinks that the relationship between the two has eased before people come back.

Who knew that these two princes would do such a thing in the ancient city.

There was a lot of disagreement.

Sima Yucheng was also very shocked when he heard it, although over the years, he had also sent people to watch what he had done, but he had never heard of such a thing. Could it be that he really did too well to hide from his secret guard?

"Sima Lanting, is there such a thing?" Sima Yucheng looked at Sima Lanting, his eyes were full of caution.

Sima Lanting himself felt strange when he heard it, and said: "Father, there is no such thing, although this Li Wu went to the ancient city with his son, but he is your person!" How dare Erchen send him to dock with the Xiongnu? ”

"Second Highness, maybe Li Wu threatened or bought you!" One of the princelings stood up and spoke.

Sima Lanting took a look after hearing this, and found that he had only been away from Beijing for five years, and the people in this court had changed a lot, and the person who had just spoken didn't know who he was.

However, when the prince on the side heard his words, he frowned slightly, glanced at this person, and was a little displeased.

"You are spewing blood, how could the Second Highness do such a thing." A person who had always valued Sima Lanting stood up and spoke for him.

Sima Lanting looked at the argument that broke out, and looked at Sima Yucheng with a little headache.

Sima Yucheng didn't intend to stop it, I don't know if he was putting pressure on Sima Lanting, so that he would be on his side. Listen to your father.

Sima Tingshan suddenly yelled: "Stop arguing! ”

After that, he said to Sima Yucheng: "Father, I think the second brother should be taken into custody and handed over to Dali Temple, and this matter should be handed over to my master to investigate." ”

Sima Tingdan's master is an exception to the Criminal Department, because of his high skills. But there are people who have a very strange temper and don't want to obey the court. Sima Yucheng is also an emperor who cherishes talents, so he gave him the right to investigate cases freely, and hanging this name in the Criminal Department can be regarded as meeting his requirements and indirectly doing things for the imperial court.

As soon as someone heard this, they immediately disagreed: "This doesn't seem to be in accordance with the rules, so I hastily locked up the Second Highness!" It is detrimental to the majesty of His Majesty! Your Majesty, the old minister does not agree to act so hastily. ”

Sima Yu came to see them make trouble for a while. Seeing that things have come to this point, I have to speak out to stop it.

"Li Wu will be locked up first, as for the second prince." As he spoke, he glanced at him and continued: "Since this matter arose because of him, and he himself said that there was no such thing, then leave this matter to him to deal with." Give him a chance to prove his innocence. ”

"Let's go back if we have nothing to do." After saying that, he threw down the people who followed, got up and brushed his sleeves and left.

The queen watched a palace banquet that she had carefully prepared and finally became like this, and she was tired and asked someone to help her go back. Leaving the fourth concubine, I plan to let Concubine De take care of the rest of the things.

Just when I came back, I saw those ministers coming out in a hurry. By the time she found Sima Liangyi, everyone was almost gone.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I'm coming back late."

"Nothing. It's because of the fifth brother. Sima Liangyi looked at Sima Lanting's distant back, and he also left with a sacrificial dance.

She was shocked when she heard the dance, she had also heard about Sima Tingdan when she was in Yixiangyuan before.

But I didn't expect that this fifth prince would be so bold as to dare to make trouble at such a palace banquet. This is too bad for Sima Yucheng's face.