Chapter 231: To give the royal face
Finally on the day of the emperor's birthday, every household in the capital put up lanterns, all restaurants and restaurants were replaced with red lanterns, and the children on the street ran around laughing and cheering, a prosperous scene, completely no different from the New Year!
Early in the morning, before Zhao Xuanyi woke up, he heard a burst of firecrackers outside, and Zhao Xuanyi, who was awakened, was very unhappy
"It's a birthday and it's not an anniversary, why are you doing it? Sleep doesn't make people sleep? The purple kite lying beside him hurriedly covered Zhao Xuanyi's mouth
"My ancestors, you can't talk nonsense, you will be beheaded if you hear it!" Zhao Xuanyi smiled, took the hand of the purple kite and kissed it on the mouth a few times
"Who can hear but you? Sleep a little more! After speaking, he buried his face in the arms of the purple kite and continued to sleep.
"Don't sleep, there's a lot to do today, get up!" Purple Kite pulled Zhao Xuanyi up like a child, and then brought a new set of clothes for Zhao Xuanyi to change!
Zhao Xuanyi didn't like it when he saw this smoky-colored gown
"Am I not dressed in red and white? Why wear such an old color? ”
"You still have purple and gold, but today you are going to the palace, can you wear them? The emperor asked you to participate in the banquet to save face for the courtiers, and you also have to give face to the royal family! Don't worry, none of the people who attended the banquet today wore bright colors, they were all gray and black, etc., not even white! In this way, the majesty of the royal family can be highlighted! Purple Kite said while helping Zhao Xuanyi sort out his clothes.
"It's sick! Only the governor is allowed to set fires, right? ”
"Almost! But that's just the day! Just bear with me! Purple Kite helped Zhao Xuanyi tie his belt, took two steps back and looked at it, showing a satisfied expression
"Hmmm! It's beautiful! Zhao Xuanyi looked at himself in the mirror and snorted lightly, it was the first time for him to wear such old clothes, and he would be sorry for himself if he didn't eat back today!
When he went out and saw the carriage, Zhao Xuanyi sat in, because he couldn't wrinkle his clothes, so he couldn't ride a horse!
Shen Wei drove the carriage to the General's Mansion, and Purple Kite accompanied Zhao Xuanyi to sit in the car! When the carriage arrived at the gate of the General's Mansion, Shen Wei pulled the reins
"Young master, the General's Mansion has arrived!" Zhao Xuanyi took his hand out from under the purple kite's skirt
"So fast?" After speaking, he lifted the curtain and got out of the car, and the purple kite walked out with a delicate face, and the two walked into the general's mansion as if nothing had happened!
When I came to the front hall, I saw that Li Yukun was wearing a blue shirt, and Li Hanrui was wearing a light gray shirt.
Li Hanyan came to Zhao Xuanyi's side and looked at Zhao Xuanyi's clothes, showing a smile
"Yes, it's very attractive!"
"You can't lie, just say it's ugly!" Zhao Xuanyi said very unhappily.
"Hahaha!" Li Hanyan smiled and was happy!
"Alright, we're almost ready, let's go! I don't know how long I'll have to wait in front of the palace! After Li Yukun finished speaking, everyone walked out of the general's mansion together.
When they arrived at the door, Li Yukun got into his carriage, while Zhao Xuanyi and Li Hanrui got into Zhao Xuanyi's carriage, and the two carriages rushed to the palace under the gaze of everyone!
The street is very lively, the sound of all kinds of firecrackers and fireworks has not stopped, because there are too many people, so the speed of the carriage is not very fast, walking slowly in the crowd!
Li Hanrui opened the curtain and looked, only to see that there were all kinds of snacks sold on the street, Li Hanrui saw that the carriage was walking very slowly, so he simply jumped out of the carriage and bought five baked cakes, and after buying it, the carriage had not walked out of 20 meters, Li Hanrui walked a few steps and got into the carriage!
"Brother-in-law, will you eat a few baked cakes?" Li Hanrui smiled and put the baked cake in front of Zhao Xuanyi! Zhao Xuanyi shook his head
"Don't eat, I haven't eaten breakfast, I'm just waiting to go to the palace to taste the food in the imperial dining room, I must eat a full meal today!" Li Hanrui smiled when he heard this
"I advise you to eat two more!"
"Don't! Allow me to refuse! Zhao Xuanyi said very firmly. Li Hanrui nodded, took the baked cake back, and ate it bite by bite, although the road was not very far, but it couldn't stand the traffic jam on the road, it took two quarters of an hour to walk, and it was almost an hour to walk by car, and finally came to the palace in front of the noon gate.
Zhao Xuanyi got out of the car and was shocked by the scenery in front of him, only to see that there were about two or three hundred people outside the noon gate, some wearing official uniforms, some wearing civilian clothes, some with children, everything, so many people, Zhao Xuanyi really didn't know a few!
Li Yukun got out of the carriage, Li Hanrui and Zhao Xuanyi hurriedly came to the side, and Li Yukun looked at Zhao Xuanyi
"Is this the first time you've seen anything like this?" Zhao Xuanyi smiled and nodded
"It's the first time I've seen so many officials!" Li Yukun smiled, looked at so many people in front of him, and whispered
"If you look closely, you will see that there is everything, loyal dogs, ambitious wolves, man-eating fish, rootless beasts, it has it all!"
"Hahaha!" Zhao Xuanyi covered his mouth and smiled, he didn't expect his father-in-law's mouth to be so powerful! Li Hanrui also smiled
"Brother-in-law, it's your first time here, so you must obey the rules, don't talk to people you don't know, salute when you see the elders, it's best to be a fool the whole time, don't laugh, everyone is like this!"
"Understood, I'll do whatever you do in a while!" Li Hanrui jumped his thumbs up, he is smart!
"Let's go, we'll meet this bunch of things!" After Li Yukun finished speaking, he led the two of them towards the crowd. And when this group of people saw Li Yukun coming, they came over one by one with a smile on their faces
"Oh, the old general is here!"
"General, long time no see!" Everyone came up to hug their fists, saluted, and greeted each other very warmly!
Li Yukun responded one by one
"Guys, long time no see, long time no see! How are you doing? Yo, Lord Wang, your body is still so tough? Seeing Li Yukun shuttling very smoothly among this group of officials, Zhao Xuanyi had to capitalize the word "uniform", who is Li Yukun?
The fiery temper, the master who said to kill and draw the sword, he always thought that this was a very unsociable person, and the general generals were very indifferent, so that everyone was afraid!
But seeing Li Yukun with a smile on his face, Zhao Xuanyi found that he was wrong, Li Yukun can clearly remember the names of so many people, even their families, which is enough to see that Li Yukun is not a brave and unscrupulous soldier!
"General! You're here! A middle-aged man with a very serious face walked over, followed by a young man, this man was none other than Li Hanrui's good brother, Wang Heming!
"Yo, Brother Wang, you came early enough today!" Li Yukun said with a smile. The man came to Li Yukun and grabbed Li Yukun's hand
"The general has been in good health lately?"
"TOEFL, you can still practice guns every day, it's not bad, what about you? I haven't seen you in a long time! ”
"I'm in prison all day except confinement, what is there to see?" The man said with a smile.
"Han Rui, Xuanyi, come and see Lord Wang!" Li Yukun said with a smile.
"I've seen Lord Wang!" Li Hanrui and Zhao Xuanyi saluted and said, Zhao Xuanyi didn't even know this person, who is this?
Li Hanrui introduced
"Brother-in-law, this is the left waiter of the Criminal Department, Wang Mingcai, Lord Wang, and the father of Wang Heming's brothers!" Only then did Zhao Xuanyi understand that it was Wang Heming's father
"Brother Wang is here too!" Wang Heming walked from behind his father
"I've seen the general! Second brother, Zhao Gongzi, has been gone for a while! Dad, this is Zhao Xuanyi Zhao Gongzi! Wang Mingcai looked at Zhao Xuanyi and couldn't help nodding
"I heard that you also helped my son solve two big cases?" Zhao Xuanyi smiled
"It's all luck, it's a coincidence!" Wang Mingcai couldn't help but nod and looked at Li Yukun
"General, you've found a good son-in-law!" Li Yukun laughed happily
"Brother Zhao taught me well, raised it for more than ten years, and finally let me lose the leftover! Hahaha! Hey, Brother Zhao didn't see it? ”
"I didn't look at it, I guess I'll be able to come later!" Wang Mingcai looked left and right, but he didn't see Zhao Mingqing's figure!
When Zhao Xuanyi heard this, his father was coming today? Didn't give me a letter! Wang Heming suddenly shouted
"It's coming, it's coming, where is it! Zhao Shibo, here! Zhao Mingqing walked into the crowd wearing a red official mansion and came directly in front of several people
"General, Lord Wang, I haven't seen you for a long time!" Wang Mingcai smiled
"Look at you, you just said you, you are so careless, this is here!"
"Oh? Say me? Could it be that you have caught evidence of my corruption? Zhao Mingqing said with a smile. The crowd burst into laughter
"We are saying that you have taught well and raised such a good son!" Li Yukun said with a smile. Zhao Mingqing looked at Zhao Xuanyi, and Zhao Xuanyi bowed his head slightly
"Father!" Zhao Mingqing smiled with great satisfaction
"This is not taught, it depends on the child's nature, my family Xuanyi has been smart since he was a child, follow me!"
"Look at it, look at it, say he's fat and he's gasping!" Li Yukun said, everyone laughed again, and the small group of several people chatted very happily!
After a quarter of an hour or so, someone was suddenly heard shouting
"Uncle Guo is here, Uncle Guo is here!" The voice spread instantly, and I saw all the officials turn their heads and run outside.
Zhao Xuanyi turned his head and saw a very luxurious carriage slowly leaving, the carriage stopped, and the first one to get off was Ye Yaoming, Zhao Xuanyi knew, and then Ye Yuanzhi came down!
Zhao Xuanyi took a closer look, this was the first time Zhao Xuanyi had seen Ye Yuanzhi himself, although he had always known him, he had never seen him, and today he saw it.
A Chinese face, two thick eyebrows, the facial features are not bad, and the appearance is very domineering, no matter what, Ye Yuanzhi is also a general who has been on the battlefield!
Ye Yuanzhi was wearing a brown and yellow robe, and when he got out of the carriage, he saw everyone smiling, hugging his fists and greeting everyone, looking very close to the people.
"Humph! It's really popular! Wang Mingcai said disdainfully.
"How can I say it, I am also the brother of the emperor's favorite concubine! Even if you don't climb high, you don't dare to offend! Zhao Mingqing said.
Li Yukun shook his head
"Look at this group of people, are there any people who don't want to climb high?" Wang Mingcai and Zhao Mingqing looked at each other and smiled!
"It's nothing more than a swarm of flies that see food!" Zhao Xuanyi said casually, and after all the people around him heard it, they instantly understood, and laughed one by one!
Ye Yuanzhi saw Li Yukun, Zhao Mingqing and Wang Mingcai, and walked over with Ye Yaoming quickly
"Oh, General Li, Lord Zhao, Lord Wang, you are here!" Ye Yuanzhi said with a smile.
The three of them also clasped their fists and saluted
"Isn't this Uncle Guo? It's so early! Li Yukun said lightly, and didn't seem to intend to give Ye Yuanzhi face.
"Don't mention it, I came out a long time ago, but today is a good day, there are too many people on the road, I just walked for an hour, I knew it was so slow, I might as well come over with my legs!" After Ye Yuanzhi finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Zhao Xuanyi on the side, his eyes were full of bright eyes
"This is Lord Zhao's second son, Zhao Xuanyi, right?" Zhao Xuanyi bowed his head and saluted
"Xiaguan see Uncle Guo!"
"In the past six months, among the younger generations in the capital, you can be regarded as the most prosperous!" Zhao Xuanyi smiled and shook his head
"Uncle Guo has a good reputation, it's all due to the sons of you!" Ye Yuanzhi smiled slightly, his face was full of strange expressions, it seemed that he had said something, it seemed that he had not said anything, this feeling made Zhao Xuanyi very uncomfortable!
The noon door was opened, and I saw dozens of guards in armor walking out of it, followed by more than a dozen eunuchs, and this group of people came out and was divided into left and right sides, and finally saw Nanzhu wearing a pink dress and walked out.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the banquet has been prepared, please come to the side to register, take out some items that are not allowed to be brought into the palace for safekeeping, and then you can follow your father-in-law to the Shotoku Hall to attend the banquet!" Nanzhu shouted loudly.
Everyone began to slowly go to the places on the left and right sides of the noon gate to register, and by the way, they had to search their bodies, after all, they were participating in the banquet of the royal family, so naturally they should not be careless!
Ye Yuanzhi looked at Li Yukun
"General, let's go in too!"
"Uncle Guo, please!" Li Yukun made a gesture of concession.