Yongzhou, Huaiwangfu.

The warbler sings and dances, and the feast is in full swing.

In the middle of the seat, six or seven dancing girls are holding long swords, dancing a soft sword dance, and the dance clothes folded up with layers of tulle reveal a thin waist of white and tender willows, bending down with the dance movements, shaking and shaking.

Thirteen stood behind his master, looked around, and counted the familiar faces in the banquet with his fingers.

The deputy marshal, the general of the left dart cavalry, the general of the right dart cavalry, the deputy generals of the various armies, the overseers, and even a few thousand households that have recently emerged, are all happy, and at a glance, they almost include most of the forces in Yongzhou City.

The first position on the left is empty.

Everyone here knows whose position it is, Gu Zheng, the general of Zhenbei, has 400,000 Yongjun in his hands, the first god of war in Dayin, and the uncrowned king of the northwest.

He is also the biggest master of the thirteen.

Halfway through the feast, the man was still empty, and though he never came.

Thirteen pursed his lips and secretly sighed with emotion about the "Corporal Lixian" who was pregnant with the king.

The sound of silk and bamboo gradually stopped, and the woman dancing the sword danced after the dance, and retreated from the seat.

King Huai looked around at the guests in the hall, smiled restrained and modest, raised his glass and said: "The generals have defeated the Hu people this time and made great contributions, which is my great luck, and I salute the generals with a glass!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a beautiful Hu maid came forward to pour wine, with a strong aroma of fat powder in her sleeves, and Thirteen glanced at her master.

His robe was on the ground, his phoenix eyes were lowered, and he was concentrating on wiping a dagger seven or eight inches long, and his face looked unusual.

The daughter was choked with incense, and she was about to put on Gu Jiaqing's black clothes, but her scalp tightened, and she hurriedly stopped the woman, and filled the wine glass with her own hands.

They sat on the top, and although the movement was not loud, they could not stand the sharp eyes of King Huai.

King Huai's toasting action stopped, and he asked with concern, "What's wrong with Gu Gongzi?" But the subordinates are not well served? ”

Although his voice was not loud, it was enough for the entire hall to hear clearly, and everyone at the banquet cast their eyes.

However, Gu Jiaqing did not react, still wiping the dagger that was already very smooth with a faint expression.

The originally noisy banquet was silent.

Thirteen looked at his master's expression, and hesitated whether he should make a round of noise.

It happened that the Yongjun had just won a big victory, and the holy decree of Enfeng had not yet come down, but the Huaiwang Mansion had already put on a celebration banquet.

After all, he is a serious prince, the emperor's younger brother, and it is always not good for him to be too young.

Silence spread during the banquet, and King Huai's face gradually became a little unbearable, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became stiff.

"Gu Gongzi?" He called out in embarrassment.

Gu Jiaqing only raised his head at this time, and glanced at King Huai, as if he had just noticed that someone had mentioned him.

He shook his head and said, "I don't like the smell of fat powder." ”

King Huai quietly exhaled a breath, pulled up his smile again, and smiled heartily: "Gu Gongzi has been in the army all the year round, and he doesn't like fat powder, so why don't you ask someone else to serve this king?" ”

Gu Jiaqing casually refused: "No need, I brought a long follower, and he was enough to pour tea and deliver water." ”

The smile on King Huai's face froze imperceptibly, and everyone at the banquet was a little sneering.

It's so arrogant and shameless.

Gu Jiaqing, the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei, this name has been very loud in the northwest recently.

The eldest son of the Zhenbei General's Mansion alone is already very eye-catching, not to mention the small wars of several different races in the spring, he shines, and the old and unpredictable use of soldiers is unpredictable, and even some veterans who have fought for more than ten years are not as good as themselves, and they all sigh that the tiger father has no dog.

This time, he was the first to pacify the Di people and disturb the border, and in just half a month, he beat the group of strong barbarians to the wind, and drove them back to the depths of the grassland all the way, and he did not lose a single soldier, so that the future is limitless.

King Huai has been circling around in the northwest over the years, and he is very active, of course he is close to such talents, as long as Gu Jiaqing is willing to take refuge in him, don't say that he is just arrogant, even if he demolishes King Huai's mansion, he will only have a good share.

It's just that since Gu Jiaqing's surname is Gu, his temper naturally follows the surname Gu.

The northwest of Manchu knows that the Zhenbei General's Mansion has always been very interested in King Huai, so even if King Huai has been circling around all these years, it is very helpful to say that a group of generals who feel that the emperor is far away from the mountain are moved.

The Zhenbei General's Mansion didn't nod, and no one dared to take refuge at all.

"It's okay......" King Huai's eyes sank, but he still smiled kindly, "The master is as good as he is a guest, and Gu Gongzi is at ease." ”

Gu Jiaqing nodded casually.

The silk bamboo has changed to a new song to play, the face of the king has begun to toast again, the palace is immersed in the feast, no one is alert to the danger approaching.

Gu Jiaqing squinted his eyes, greeted the sunlight shining in, and carefully looked at the dagger that had been wiped for a long time.

He nodded with satisfaction, and raised his eyes to look at the bearded girl who had just come up with the wine, and who had now quietly retreated outside the hall......

With a high nose and deep eyes, he is slender, and although he is wearing Han clothes, his temperament is very different from that of Han people.

The sharp silver light flashed in the hall, and only a "poof" sound was heard, and before everyone had time to react, the dagger that was originally held by Gu Jiaqing in his hand had accurately sunk into the chest of the bearded girl.

Blood gushed out, staining the plain white skirt red, the woman's eyes widened, staring at Gu Jiaqing in disbelief, but she didn't even have time to say a word, and slowly fell down.

"Ah!!h

There was a moment of chaos in the temple, and there were screams of panic.

"It's ?!! What is Gu Gongzi doing?!! ”

Everyone was in an uproar and looked sideways.

Gu Jia Qing'an sat in the banquet with no waves.

He wore a wide-sleeved robe with dark color and silver edges, he didn't look like a military general, but like a civil official, his phoenix eyes flew obliquely into his sideburns, his pupils were dark and deep, cold and sharp, and his appearance was beautiful and handsome, but there was an unfathomable sense of danger, which made people dare not approach.

Behind him, Thirteen's face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly picked up the wine glass on the table and sniffed it, and then picked up the silver chopsticks to explore, and the originally polished silver chopsticks turned black.

Everyone was shocked, and then they came back to their senses, and they picked up chopsticks to probe the wine in the cup that they hadn't had time to drink, and all of them changed their faces.

"Toxic !!"

"Mine also has !!"

"I'm !! too"

Thirteen's cold sweat suddenly came out, patronizing to watch King Huai sing a big play, and a moment of negligence actually made people come to the dark.

He hurriedly turned around and knelt down, his face flushed with shame, "Subordinates are negligent!" Please forgive your sins!! ”

It's also strange that he has a bad brain today, and at the celebration banquet of the defeat of the Hu people, he specially found the Hu people's maids to serve, how fresh and refined this method of finding death is, he didn't even notice anything abnormal.

Gu Jiaqing stood up, lowered his phoenix eyes, and said coldly: "Dereliction of duty, go back and get thirty military sticks." ”

After that, he didn't care about the pale face of King Huai, and turned around and walked out expressionlessly, the wide sleeves of the dark robe inlaid with silver threads brushed the surface of the Huanghuali chair, like a gust of breeze, leaving no trace.

Naturally, no one in the audience stopped him, and everyone looked at King Huai in the upper seat, and asked in astonishment: "Lord Wang, what's the matter??! ”

"This ...... This ......"

King Huai was sweating profusely, and eagerly reassured: "Generals, don't be impatient, this king will definitely give you an explanation......"

He didn't expect such a fork to happen, and it was just when he was in a hurry that a white-faced and beardless inner supervisor walked in eagerly and whispered something in his ear.

King Huai's face changed drastically, and he said coldly: "What you said is serious? ”

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At the same time, in the Hanzhang Hall of the capital.

Wei Yu was gathering around the Eight Immortals table with Meng Yingying and a few palace people, concentrating on playing the leaf card.

Meng Yingying punched out a 100,000 yuan, clapped her hands and smiled: "I won again!" ”

Wei Yu looked at it in shock, sighed, threw the cards in his hand, and shouted: "Don't play, don't play!" ”

She hadn't touched it for many years, her hands were not good, she lost very miserably, the chips on the copper plate on the rosewood table in front of her had been exhausted, and they all fell into Meng Yingying's plate on the opposite side, her plate was piled up, and there were some pearls and jade jewelry mixed in it, all of which were exported by Wei Yu.

Meng Yingying picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "If you can't play it, you will be fooled, and if you say it, you are not afraid of damaging the prestige of your Princess Zhaoyang." ”

Wei Yu leaned on the table without any manners, and sighed: "How can I have any prestige? There's a lot of infamy, right? ”

She is still a little self-aware of her reputation, and she hired a master to study in the former palace, and she ran five masters and eight teaching grandmothers in a year, so she became famous in the capital.

Later, Emperor Cheng had no choice, so he took her with him to teach her personally, but he himself was a bastard when he was young, digging birds in trees, fishing in the river, fighting cocks and lackeys, and losing his mind to playthings.

He has always been soft-hearted, and whenever he wants to be strict, as long as Wei Yu pulls the corners of his clothes and is coquettish, he will immediately soften.

Raised Wei Yu in this way, I don't know anything about knitting women, but I am very good at riding and shooting, hunting, playing birds and cockfighting, etc., and I have read through three or two books, not a lot, and as for the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, I only learned a rough idea.

The Queen Mother often said that she had wild characters written in her bones, and she didn't look like a girl at all, but she had grown up and had a temperament, and she was helpless.

Meng Yingying smiled, held her cheeks and said, "You don't know yet...... Princess Zhaoyang's corruption and selection of talents have spread throughout the capital. ”

Meng Yingying often goes in and out of the palace, and there is an eldest brother at home who is the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, who is the most well-informed about all kinds of gossip and news in Beijing.

Wei Yu stiffened and sat up straight, "How did this little thing spread?" ”

The news that she was asking for an official to Xiang Siyuan was not widely publicized, why are there these rumors?

Meng Yingying said strangely: "You really don't know? As soon as the holy decree arrived at the Dingyuan Marquis' Mansion, the entire capital spread, and it had been several days. ”

"But ......" Meng Yingying leaned closer, carefully examined Wei Yu's face, and asked seriously: "Are you really interested in this Xiang Siyuan?" When he was in the capital, he didn't see you paying much attention to him. ”

Wei Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said with some annoyance: "Who said that I was interested in him?" ”