Entering the palace gate, there were palace attendants to guide the way, Su Liang walked with Liqing, although sometimes there were people at the banquet looking at him with curious eyes, but he didn't dare to look more, and walked smoothly into the Taihua Palace.

As a small national teacher, Liqing is indeed different from others, sitting alone on a half-high platform, surrounded by white veils, outsiders can only vaguely see the figure in the platform, and the rest of the people attending the banquet are sitting in the main hall according to their grades.

Su Liang looked at the people outside who were walking around to greet each other before the banquet began, and said with some curiosity: "Why are there all old men in front?" ”

"The banquet arranges the seats according to the grade, and the group of beards in front of them all climb up with great effort, and they have worked hard for decades compared to the people in the back, so they are naturally much older." Li Qing sat there upright, although he looked serious, but his eyes were boring, and Chong Su Liang pointed to the dim sum in front of the table, "The dim sum at this banquet is unpalatable to death, don't expect to be full, the more important thing today is to come to the play." ”

Su Liang quietly took a piece of dim sum and stuffed it into his mouth, his mouth was sweet and greasy, and he hurriedly drank a sip of tea to dilute the taste, it was indeed not very delicious, "What about the four young ones at the front?" ”

"Four?" Li Qing Wenyan narrowed his eyes and looked down, "Strange, why is there one more?" ”

"It's Zhou Chongzhi of Daoqi Academy, and he is on the list of today's banquet." Tan Yin behind him opened his mouth to explain, "I came to the royal city a few days ago, but unfortunately the king has not been summoned on the grounds that he has been bedridden, and today should be the first time to enter the palace." ”

"Daoqi Academy?" Li Qing smiled playfully, "Speaking of which, it's been twenty years." ”

"He's also a member of the Zhou family?" Su Liang was a little surprised when he heard Daoqi Academy, isn't there also a Chenggu sect here?

"It's the Zhou family, but this Zhou Chongzhi is very famous, the last experimental product of the Zhou family, a flawed product, a pseudo-Su Xian. His father is the famous Zhou Chaodu, who single-handedly led the junior of the Zhou family to overthrow the current dean of the Chenggu faction, but unfortunately his own child is an experiment, which is really ironic. Li Qing saw Zhou Chongzhi's appearance clearly, and couldn't help but snort, "I can barely see it." ”

Su Liang looked at the four young people in front carefully, three of them looked quite similar, their eyebrows were very tough, but only one, delicate not like Lang Jun, was smiling and talking to the three people, as if he had noticed something, and suddenly glanced at the top of the platform, although through the white veil, Su Liang always felt that he saw himself, only to see Zhou Chongzhi stunned for a moment, and then continued to talk to others, and did not seem to see anything.

"The king is here~" A slightly shrill voice came into the hall, and suddenly the surroundings quieted down, several palace ladies neatly lined up in two teams from the palace gate to enter, followed by a golden chariot, carried by twenty-eight attendants, gold lacquer colored, carved hollow patterns, behind the left and right Gong E holding palm fans, and musicians do not know where to play musical instruments, the sound of silk and bamboo into the ears, but also added a bit of solemnity and solemnity.

The people of the main hall stood on both sides, gave way to the road, bowed down and shouted in unison: "Greetings to the king, I wish the king a long life." ”

I saw that above the step, the gray-haired King Yin coughed lightly, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Everyone is exempt from courtesy, all of you here are the pillars of my Yin country, today is only when we are the monarch and the ministers are happy, no need to be polite, let's have a banquet." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." After the people in the hall saluted here, they all sat down, King Yin sat on the top platform in the palace under the support of Gong E, after King Yin sat down, many palace ladies came out on both sides of the palace in an orderly manner, there were also dancing girls on the stage in the middle, with the sound of silk and bamboo dancing gracefully, the banquet was a peaceful atmosphere.

"Father, on today's big day, the sons have the courage to ask for a reward for Chenggong, Chenggong is very old, and the unjustified disaster of the past few days is true that Chenggong has suffered a lot." Just as Su Liang was trying other dishes, a voice came from below, and a man in the four seats at the front suddenly spoke, Su Liang looked at Liqing and asked in a low voice, "You haven't told me yet, who are the other three people." ”

"The one who opened his mouth was the second prince Shang Zhao, next to him was the third princess Shang Yu, and the fourth prince Shang Qi was opposite." Hearing Shang Kai's mouth, Liqing was finally no longer so bored, and introduced to Su Liang with great interest, "The Chenggong he said is the old man on the left hand in the first row below, the one who is eating melons, haha, you see that his melons have fallen." ”

The Taihua Hall was empty and huge, and Shang Zhao said a word, and the voice was not small, and there was an echo in the hall, and the whole hall was stunned by this sentence, and even the dance music stopped, and suddenly quieted down for a while.

King Yin on the high platform raised his eyelids, looked at Shang Zhao below, and could see the excitement in his eyes that couldn't be hidden under the top of the platform, and couldn't help but cold his eyes, and asked, "What does Chenggong want to be rewarded by the lonely king?" ”

Wang Chenggong wiped the corners of his mouth, got up and arched his hand and said: "Thank you for the second prince for his love, it was that the minister did not know people clearly, and he was calculated, but fortunately, the king was aware of everything and returned the minister's innocence, the king did not blame the minister for being a great favor, how dare he ask for a reward?" ”

King Yin's face softened when he heard this, "Chenggong has indeed suffered, so if you send the cold mountain night map of King Gu to Chenggong's mansion, you should compensate Chenggong." ”

"The minister is terrified." Wang Chenggong saluted and sat down, although his face was still dignified, Su Liang saw that he was eating a little faster, and he thought he liked it very much.

"Okay, what are you doing in a daze, go on." King Yin looked at the dancers who were already kneeling on the stage below, waved his hand, and then the musicians continued to play, and the dancers also got up and continued to dance.

"That Wang Chenggong has been greedy for this cold mountain night map for a long time, this time the king actually rewarded him directly, it is really cheap for him, if he had known that he would have been imprisoned for a few months, he would have been able to exchange it, I am afraid that he would have packed his luggage and gone to Sikou Prison early." Li Qing turned his head and rolled his eyes, and the corners of his mouth behind the veil were very disdainful.

"Eunuch?" Su Liang didn't know much about these official positions.

"The clan is not punished, and the Sikou Prison is a place dedicated to the clan that has committed a crime, and the environment inside is no worse than the inn in the royal city." Li Qing rarely explained in a good-natured manner, "Don't talk, the fun is coming." ”

"I'm afraid that a single picture of the night of the cold mountain can't make Cheng Gong relieved, if I am Cheng Gong, I will definitely send the person behind this to the Si Kou Prison, so that I can breathe this breath." Shang Zhao continued to speak without giving up.

"Second brother, today's Halloween has passed." Shang Yu frowned and looked at his second brother, too anxious, too obvious, the eldest brother is only thinking about it behind closed doors in the East Palace now, and he can already see his father's attitude, so aggressive will definitely dislike his father.

"I'm just telling the truth." Shang Zhao didn't take her words to heart, and wanted to take this opportunity to beat the eldest brother into the abyss and never turn over again.

"Oh?" King Yin put down his wine glass and looked at Shang Zhao, "Do you have any objections to King Lone's decision?" ”

Hearing this, Shang Zhao hurriedly got up, looking up and couldn't see King Yin's expression clearly, but the cold voice still extinguished the excitement of these days, and replied a little uncomfortably: "Erchen doesn't dare." ”

"Hmph." King Yin looked at Shang Zhao's appearance, shook his head with some disappointment, and rubbed his forehead with a headache, "Then give King Gu an honest meal, it will seem that you have a mouth." ”

"Yes." Shang Zhao sat down with his head drooped and never said anything more.

"That's it?" Li Qing rolled his eyes disdainfully, "I still think it's so exciting, these princes are really getting less and less level!" ”

Su Liang had already tasted all the dishes on the seat, and he was particularly fond of a bowl of egg custard, and after eating, he smacked his lips unsatisfied, and when he saw this, he took the egg custard on his seat to her, and said with a look of disgust: "Why don't you eat that dog thing?" A bowl of egg custard is delicious. ”

Su Liang ignored Liqing's dislike, took the egg custard a little happily, continued to eat, and shook his head again and again.

"Father, although the second brother is a little straighter, the eldest brother must always have an explanation." Shang Qi, who had been silent, also opened his mouth, but his tone was much more tactful.

King Yin looked at Shang Qi silently, and said for a long time: "Do you also think that what King Gu did was wrong?" ”

"The son doesn't dare, but the father hasn't made a decision yet, right?" Shang Qi lowered his head, as if he was chatting with King Yin about daily trivial matters.

King Yin closed his eyes, "The lonely king has his own decision, so let's not talk about it today." ”

"Yes, father, it's the sons and daughters who have said more." Shang Qi didn't say much when he heard this.

Shang Zhao on the opposite side looked at Shang Qi quite unconvinced, his eyes were full of provocation, why was he so strict with him, and so gentle with the fourth brother!

Shang Qi ignored Shang Zhao's eyes and ate quietly.

"These four princes are a little interesting, and they are not particularly boring." Li Qingrao looked at Shang Qi, who was eating quietly, and turned his head to ask Tan Yin, "Did he hand over a post to the National Teacher's Mansion?" ”

"Never." Tan Yin shook his head without hesitation.

"Oh? That's really interesting. Liqing's eyes narrowed and said thoughtfully.

The banquet continued peacefully, and nothing else happened during the period, until King Yin left and the banquet ended, Li Qing twisted his sour neck slightly, and complained a little: "Why do you think I can't come to the palace banquet to suffer such a crime?" The things made by the chefs in the palace are not as delicious as those made by Tan Qing. ”

"Since you have chosen this path, you naturally have to follow the rules." Tan Yin stepped forward and gently pinched Liqing's shoulder, instantly relieving Liqing's fatigue.

Su Liang took a sip of tea and said unhurriedly: "I think this dish is okay." ”

"It's really poor little Ryoko, I haven't seen the world like this with that dog." Liqing looked at Su Liang with disgust, "I really ate a lot." ”

Before Su Liang could refute, a palace lady came to the stage, stood respectfully outside the white veil and said, "Little national teacher, the king asks you to stay and go to the Taihe Palace to discuss some things." ”

"Taihe Palace?" Tan Yin stepped back, clasped his hands in front of him, raised his chin and asked, "Who else did the king invite?" ”

"I don't know." Gong E lowered her head and was submissive.

Li Qingjian couldn't ask, so he didn't embarrass her, and raised his head at Su Liang, "Let's go, you will also come with me." ”

"You didn't invite me again." Su Liang was a little full of food, and he didn't really want to go, so he shook his head and refused.

"Did I say I would discuss it with you?" Liqing looked at Su Liang strangely, and said word by word, "If you don't follow me, you won't be able to get out of this palace." ”

Although Su Liang felt that he could, it should be very troublesome, so in the end, he went with Liqing and went to the Taihe Hall together.