The Snow Emperor nodded, and the chief eunuch understood, got up and waved outside the hall.

The old eunuch outside the hall clapped his hands, and walked into the two teams of palace maids from outside the hall holding trays in their hands, and walked to each table in turn to put on various dishes.

After the wine and food on each table were served, the palace maids slowly retreated, and Fang Sheng raised the wine bottle and said loudly below: "Today, since the early morning of the boat, the boat and car have been tired, and the cold wind has been hard, and the secretaries have worked hard. ”

Seeing this, the ministers also raised the wine bottle, and even Ji Ye held the wine glass on the table in his hand.

The people around said in unison: "Your Majesty assists the Holy Concubine and sacrifices to the Holy Emperor of Heaven and Earth to bless you, which is for the sake of the Jiangshan Sheji, and is the luck of the subjects of my Snow Country." The ministers followed His Majesty, delusionally thinking that they could make some small contributions, how could it be described as hard. ”

Ji Ye raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard it, and was secretly surprised, this long paragraph of the heart was said so neatly, it can be seen that this rhetoric is on his lips every year, and even every festival has practice.

Snow Emperor Fang Sheng raised his head and took a sip, and the ministers below drank it all. Ji Ye took a sip, and suddenly felt a clear taste in his throat, which was less spicy and bitter than the porcelain bottle spirits that day, and it was extremely palatable, and he drank all the wine in the cup.

Immediately, a maid stepped forward to fill it up.

And the leading eunuch clapped his hands again, and walked out of a group of dancing girls from the back of the hall, dressed in green clothes and hairpins on their heads, standing in the central space of the hall, and then several women walked out, holding various kinds of piano flutes and sitting in various places in the hall.

The sound of the piano flute sounded, and the song and dance gradually began. Although the singing and dancing on this banquet occasion is not as tender and charming as in Mingyue Tower, it is better in being dignified and elegant, but it lacks Su Bu and other peerless leading dancers, which is really lacking some meaning.

Ji Ye drank with his left hand, and with his right hand holding vegetables, he lowered his head and ate violently, saying in his heart that even in this remote palace on the mountain, the taste of this wine and food was extremely beautiful.

After cleaning up the front, Ji Ye raised his head and secretly looked at the main hall.

I only see that there is a woman sitting on the left side of the Snow Emperor Fangsheng, wearing a golden phoenix crown, wearing a dark green robe, with colorful Zhai birds tattooed on it, wearing white jade double wear, wearing countless precious gold and jade in her ears and neck, and then looking at her beautiful face, she looks very young, about twenty-seven or eight, and she can't tell the actual age.

Ji Ye leaned closer to Fang Yu and asked, "Is the one on the left side of the Snow Emperor the Holy Concubine in their mouths?"

Hearing him ask, Fang Yu stopped his chopsticks and looked up, but his eyes were not as indifferent as he usually faced other royal families, he nodded and said, "Exactly, this is the reincarnation of the twenty-third Holy Emperor of my Snow Country, named Lin Yuechu." ”

Ji Ye was puzzled and asked, "Since you are the Holy Emperor, why is you also called the Holy Concubine?" ”

Fang Yu leaned in and whispered: "Nominally, our dynasty has been honored by the reincarnated Holy Emperor since ancient times, and every Snow Emperor is its assistant, but the actual power is still the Fang family, and the Holy Emperor is only in his position and does not seek his own government. Therefore, when the third Snow Emperor ascended the throne, he changed the name of the reincarnated holy emperor to the holy concubine on the grounds that one country does not produce two emperors. ”

Ji Ye looked at the hall and nodded silently, thinking that since she was a holy concubine, she must be a husband and wife with Emperor Xue, but this royal clan is inevitably too complicated, and most of the Yu Country is even more so, thinking that this man and a woman of the same generation in the Yu Country are sitting beside her, and her heart sank.

His eyes glanced at the person on the right side of the Snow Emperor, only to see that the person was slightly far away from the Snow Emperor, but he was still side by side with the two imperial concubines, and his person was very eccentric, and he was also wearing a hat in the hall, and the white silk curtain was connected to the shoulders to cover the whole face.

Looking at her in a pure white fox fur again, her figure is graceful, and she can faintly see that she is a young girl through the veil.

And although she can't see her face clearly, her whole person is cold and indifferent, there seems to be snow drifting in the cold river around her, but it is the posture of ice and snow out of the dust, and her temperament is unique, and others will never dare to approach it in vain.

Without waiting for Ji Ye to speak, Fang Yu knew what he was thinking, and leaned closer to whisper, "This is my contemporary saintess, named Lin Xingyi." ”

"Holy Maiden?" Ji Ye also lowered his voice, and then said: "Where did this holy woman come from, isn't it the child of this holy concubine and the emperor?" ”

Fang Yu pouted for a while, and explained: "Naturally not, if this is the case, wouldn't it be that every generation of princes and saints are born of close relatives through marriage?" ”

Ji Ye slapped his head suddenly.

Fang Yu continued: "The Holy Maiden is selected from among the girls aged three to six in the country when each generation of the Great Emperor reaches the age of six, and the person with a similar face to the Holy Emperor is selected as the reincarnation of the Holy Emperor, and then changes the surname of Lin to be the Holy Maiden. However, the girl was too young at the time of selection, and the Holy Emperor Lin Xuan was even more thousands of years old, so how could the similarity be judged by the portrait alone. Therefore, to this day, the conditions for this similar appearance have become good looks and good temperament, and all of them come from the official eunuchs and the homes of the gentry. ”

Ji Ye said after listening: "Why is this, there is a shady curtain in it?" ”

Fang Yu shook his head: "This final round of selection is personally instructed by the emperor, and it can't be faked, besides, the local directors of each city and the city are all appointed by Shangjing for such a major event, if they are secretly manipulated, they will be guilty of exterminating the nine clans." ”

As he spoke, he straightened up and raised his glass to take a sip, and Ji Ye drank another glass with him.

Fang Yu then said: "It's just because since the girls were two or three years old, or even one and a half years old, the parents and elders of those eunuchs and merchants brought in the mothers in the palace, regardless of their manners and footwork, or their words and deeds. In the long run, even if there are occasional girls from ordinary families with outstanding appearances, it is impossible to compare their temperament and demeanor. ”

Ji Ye listened attentively, but he couldn't understand the deep meaning, so he just said to Fang Yu: "I didn't expect His Highness to know so much about this. ”

Fang Yu smiled and didn't answer.

The two stopped whispering, and Ji Ye's wine was already a little upsurged, and he didn't think that although the imperial wine in this palace was not very spicy, the stamina was no different from that day's soju.

Ji Ye casually looked at Li Ruolin, and found that the other party was also looking at him sideways, the two looked at each other for a while, Ji Ye was about to speak, and the music around him just stopped, so he had to swallow the words and look at the center, but he didn't notice that Li Xiaose's eyes also stopped at him and stared coldly.

The dancers in the center of the hall stopped dancing and stood still, and together with the piano girls at the four corners, they got up and bowed to the Snow Emperor in the hall, and retreated along the way they came, and the hall was suddenly dumb.

Listening to the palace, Fang Sheng said loudly: "Yun'er, Qiu'er, in previous years, you were personally escorted in front of the palace to compete, and let the two of them come up to help the secretaries."

Fang Qiu hurriedly got up after hearing this, and said: "Father, the son-in-law guards have been infected with the wind and cold in the past few days, and they are still recuperating. ”

He was already large and fat, and he occupied two positions in the seat alone, and after listening to Fang Sheng's words, he got up quickly and smartly, and his words were flattering and soft, which was very different from the fierce expression he usually had, and it seemed very funny to others.

Fang Sheng looked at it, and Fang Qiu was indeed the only one sitting at the table.

Fang Yun stood up at the right time, took a step out, bowed to the hall and said, "Father, I heard a few days ago that the third brother also has an extra guard by his side, and this will also be there, why don't you let him fight with this master next to Erchen?" ”

"Oh?" The hall snorted lightly, and looked straight at Fang Yu and Ji Ye.