Chapter 175: Brother Ji's Birthday (Part II)
The royal birthday banquet in Fang Chongyong's heart should be dull and depressing.
A venue is divided into several tables, and different guests are seated in their own seats.
In the banquet hall, everyone sat at the same table with familiar or unfamiliar people with a false smile on their faces, and then carefully considered what to say and what not to say, and always kept an eye out for anyone eavesdropping.
Eating delicious food and drinking all kinds of wine like chewing wax. Then listen to Brother Ji's lecture, and boldly write another poem, flattering.
After eating, go back to their own homes, find their own mothers, and fall asleep, or go to the toilet to vomit at a time.
However, on the day of the banquet, after Fang Chongyong saw Brother Ji's luxury and the realm of an artist, he was completely dumbfounded!
The entire Xingqing Palace, a quarter of the venue, put up flowing water seats, set up a stage, the whole background color, red, gold and white. The Ministry of Industry sent special personnel, based on the original structure of Xingqing Palace, and built a new set in it, decorating the banquet venue beautifully, full of Taoist elegant atmosphere, but there is no lack of royal luxury inside.
Every day it is held at night, and when it disperses in the early morning, the lantern wheels and curtains complement each other, and the candlelight and golden light are dazzling. Why do you say "every day"?
Because according to the grapevine, Ji Ge believes in Taoism and emphasizes "ninety-nine to one", so this birthday banquet will be held for nine days!
As for why the banquet is held at night, it is purely because the lights are more dazzling at night, more artistic, and more appetizing for Brother Ji. Other things are not in the scope of Ji Ge's consideration.
From the moment the palace gate opened, there were dancers from various squares in Chang'an City, wearing beautiful clothes of different styles, dancing on the set up stage. The band in Liyuan is divided into three classes, and when one group is tired of playing and singing, it will change to the next class.
Famous tunes from all over the world will be played in turn, and the style is changeable, and it will not be the same for a few hours!
The day loses its brilliance, but the night is adorned like day!
The number of nobles, officials, and even Hu merchants in the Western Regions who entered the venue to eat exceeded 1,000 people every day! Coming and going, in and out, like a vegetable market!
The dreamlike and elegant scene, and the noisy and bustling vulgar atmosphere, the two contradictory temperaments are perfectly integrated. When people come here, it is as if they will be infected by the wonderful and absurd atmosphere in it, and become confused, presumptuous, arrogant, and their true nature is revealed!
Brother Ji did not refuse to come, and he was very generous. As long as there is an invitation, regardless of status, you can enter the banquet venue of Xingqing Palace. As for security, Kee didn't believe that anyone would assassinate him at this juncture.
Everything was handed over to Chen Xuanli to be responsible, and there was nothing special to explain.
Not only were the people who came to the banquet not afraid of the royal power, but they couldn't help but let loose their wreckage, and bastards who splashed their drinks on others abounded, not caring at all that these fine wines were worth a thousand gold. There is no shortage of people who drink too much wine and start to "compare" when they don't agree with each other.
And these foolish people were just driven out of Xingqing Palace by the Longwu soldiers on duty in the end, and they were not punished in any substantive way at all.
Fang Chongyong saw a young man wearing a prince's costume, picked up a Miaoman dancer who was about to leave Xingqing Palace and kissed him, the dancer was not polite, flirting with him, the two sides kissed and touched in front of the public, and they couldn't wait to burn immediately, and the scene was unsightly.
Upon inquiring afterwards, this prince seemed to be Li Longji's sixteenth son, Yongwang Li Luan.
However, even with such a debauched scene, Brother Ji only laughed when he saw it, and let Gao Lishi "teach" King Yong a few words in the past and then no longer cared about it.
Xingqing Palace originally had a small pool as an appendage of the pavilion, one zhang in length and one zhang in width, and several feet deep. Recently, it has been drained, re-paved with stone slabs, and poured white wine made from grapes grown in Beiyuan, and you can smell the fragrance of the wine from afar.
If the guests want to drink, just take the flask and make their own drinks inside!
Li Bai was also here, and Fang Chongyong saw him drinking while chanting poems with a few literati-looking people, but he was too far away to hear what he was talking about. Just looking at their expressions, they were probably a little carried away, and Li Bai even took off his boots.
"Alas! This is really the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty! ”
Seeing the scene where the guests were intoxicated and seemed to be crazy, Fang Chongyong suddenly felt as if he was a superfluous person.
"My birthday banquet, why are you worried?"
Fang Chongyong's joking voice sounded beside him.
"Ask the saint for forgiveness."
Fang Chongyong reflexively bowed and saluted.
"Huh? This is where the words are. I don't blame those who deliberately spill wine on others today, how can I blame you, hahahahahaha! ”
Li Longji seemed to be in a very good mood, pretending to be displeased, and waved his hand very casually.
He had just performed on stage, playing the song "Guangling San", and now was the time to get excited. When he played, his hair bun had been untied, and Ji Ge shook his head and indulged in it, as if he had returned to his youth.
This is the real celebration of the whole world.
Li Longji was very satisfied with the banquet for his 60th birthday, which allowed him to see a scene of illusion in the world.
Brother Ji just wants to see others laugh, because he almost can't really laugh now!
Only when he sees outsiders happy, he is infected by this emotion, and he will unconsciously feel happy.
Suddenly, Fang Chongyong saw that the smile on Li Longji's face seemed to freeze, his muscles tensed, and his face gradually became gloomy.
The constantly rotating light wheel reflects the light of different light and shade and different colors on the face of the Tang Dynasty, which seems to hint at his inner struggle and struggle.
Fang Chongyong followed Brother Ji's gaze and found two young people, a man and a woman, standing at the tables eating and talking happily.
"Ah Lang, the concubine told you, in the whole banquet, this cherry cheese is the best, cold and sweet. The concubine couldn't stop talking when she picked it up. ”
The young girl who spoke was none other than the new Princess Shou Wei Sanniang. And the man next to her is Yang Yuhuan's ex-husband, Shouwang Li Xuan. Wei Sanniang seems to have endless vitality on her body, she can use her own methods to mobilize the already dead heart of King Shou, so that he can feel the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the world.
When it comes to appearance, Wei Sanniang is far inferior to Yang Yuhuan, who is glamorous. But her optimism and vitality, as well as her innate innocence and activity, are incomparable to Yang Yuhuan.
Wei Sanniang, who is nourished by love, looks forward to the brilliance, with a mysterious flying look, and a smile is charming, Li Longji has not seen such a woman for a long time.
There are so many sufferings in the world, such a woman doesn't seem to notice it at all, or she doesn't care if she knows it, she just enjoys the good life now.
It's like even if they know that tomorrow they will be too poor to eat, today they will happily pick up their rice bowls and sit down at the table to eat well.
"It's autumn now, and eating cold things is not good for your health, and it's easy to get sick."
Shouwang Li Xuan said softly to Wei Sanniang.
"It's not good for your health, but it's really delicious. Every time the concubine is in a bad mood, as long as she eats a little, her mood will improve.
Come, Ah Lang don't hide, feed the concubine! Don't hide! Open your mouth! ”
Wei Sanniang smiled and dug up a spoonful of cherry cheese in the white porcelain bowl, and stuffed it into the mouth of Shouwang Li Qi simply and rudely.
When he finished eating, his teeth chattered with cold.
The two looked at each other speechlessly, Wei Sanniang's eyes flowed, and she threw a wink at King Shou, and then both of them laughed, as if no one was holding each other's hands, they felt the happiness that each other had, and they didn't notice that someone not far away was staring at them.
Looking at the backs of the two leaving, Li Longji's heart was deeply stabbed!
Why can they be so happy! The one who celebrates his 60th birthday is obviously me!
Why can the smile on Wei Sanniang's face be so beautiful and sincere?
Li Heng, this waste, why can he always have a good woman? And I am rich in the world, why not?
Brother Ji felt as if there was a flame burning in his lower body, and under the anger, the part of his body, which had long lost its vitality, began to move at this moment.
Why hasn't a woman ever laughed like this in front of me? Why are they all like goblins, just for the sake of exploitation?
Why doesn't a woman really care about whether he, the son of the Tang Dynasty, is doing well or not, and whether he is happy or not?
Why?
Why is this happening?
Li Longji clenched his fists tightly and looked at the back of Shouwang Li Xuan, his eyes full of jealousy and resentment.
He remembered that when he was in Lingzhou, he rode a high-headed horse and galloped on the horse with Yang Yuhuan, and when he was tired of running, the two of them met wildly in the grass, presumptuous and arrogant, full of wild vitality.
What a chic and happy time it was!
However, compared to the scene in front of him, he felt that something was missing there, and he couldn't figure out what it was.
But Ji Ge knew that in some ways, he had lost to this son he despised the most: Shouwang Li Xuan.
It's hard to buy me to be happy, what is happiness? There are so many concubines in the harem, aren't these women just tools for giving birth?
For a while, Ji Ge's heart was full of complex and contradictory feelings such as jealousy, envy, regret, remorse, and melancholy, and he just wanted to cry bitterly after laughing wildly.
It's just that the expression on his face gradually faded indifferent, so that in the end it was as calm as a pool of stagnant water.
"Say, am I alone?"
Li Longji suddenly sighed and asked, without even looking at Fang Chongyong, just looking at the towering and constantly rotating light wheel in the distance in a daze.
"The saint is rich all over the world, how can he say that he is lonely?"
Fang Chongyong cautiously replied, of course he knew why Brother Ji was unhappy.
Because Ji Ge saw something called "true love" in Shouwang and Wei Sanniang, which he never had, and it was also a luxury for all emperors.
That was when he was in Hexi, Anaye's face was full of entanglement again and again, and he diligently put leather armor on his body and helped him when he sent the king to the city gate.
Just like the "deep love of the sword" in the mouth of a certain emperor of the Western Han Dynasty back then!
Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was lucky, he at least had an "old sword", so as not to get lost under the domination of absolute power; And Ji Ge's misfortune is that although he has many concubines, he doesn't even have an "old sword".
It's just that you can't say that, at least not now. Fang Chongyong, who is a man in two lives, knows very well when he should be wise and protect himself.
Trouble comes from the mouth, and at all times, you must suppress your desire to express.
"You're still young and don't understand a lot of things. You don't understand what I'm thinking. ”
Li Longji waved his hand a little disappointed and said.
"Asking the saint to forgive his sins, it is the incompetence of the minister."
Fang Chongyong crossed his hands and saluted.
"Go ahead, eat more and drink more, and if you like a singer and dancer, just take it back and play." Here, you can be as happy as you want. ”
Li Longji said weakly, turned around and left.
"No matter how honest a person is, if his wife is robbed twice, he will go crazy.
Don't persecute honest people. ”
Fang Chongyong looked at Brother Ji's back, sighed lightly and said to himself, I don't know how to complain.
I hope that this time Brother Ji can suppress his desires and not play with fire.
……
"The concubine heard that the light wheel in Xingqing Palace is dozens of zhang high! Is it true that there is no end to the wine pond meat forest and that you can't finish everything? ”
Anaye's eyes widened with curiosity, and she looked at Fang Chongyong with burning eyes and asked. The expression seemed to say, "Tomorrow is the last day, so you can take me to see it!"
"I've seen dancers get touched and undressed in there more than once. You are so beautiful, don't go in for a stick of incense, and your clothes will be stripped off, so it's better to save it. ”
Fang Chongyong waved his hand weakly, stuffed a tribute orange from Fuyang County, Hangzhou, into Anaye's small mouth, and blocked her from continuing to speak.
"Don't the saints care about these things?"
Wang Yunxiu asked with a frown while eating oranges.
There were a lot of moths in this banquet, for example, someone actually drowned in the wine pool! There are also dancers who were taken out of Xingqing Palace, and the two sides did not negotiate prostitution, and later the dancers went to the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion to report the case!
As for the women being rubbed with oil in the banquet, it is even more common, and in such a crazy and rampant banquet atmosphere, many people are applauding.
"O saint...... The saint is probably busy. ”
Fang Chongyong sighed, from this banquet, he saw the omen of the Tang Dynasty's demise, but now that he says it, it is estimated that no one will believe it.
"Two days later, it will be the first of the imperial examinations, is Ah Lang confident that he can pass?"
Wang Yunxiu looked at Fang Chongyong with a puzzled expression and asked.
This one, since Li Longji's birthday banquet, has not opened the book at all.
"Jiangshang is general, and Inoue is a black hole. The yellow dog is white, and the white dog is swollen.
It's not difficult to write poetry at all, I just open my mouth. ”
Fang Chongyong said unashamedly.
"You are so blindly confident, you really ......"
Wang Yunxiu kneaded her temples in pain, and the other party was speechless.
"By the way, what's your little cousin's name?"
Fang Chongyong suddenly asked Wang Yunxiu a strange question.
"Little cousin? Li Kui? ”
Wang Yunxiu remembered who it was, her "little cousin", her addiction to being an official is not small, but since the last time the imperial examination was not accepted because the emperor said that he was not allowed to admit him, there has been no progress in the imperial examination.
It can be said that every year is not in the middle of the annual exam.
"Invite him to dinner tomorrow, I have something to tell him."
Fang Chongyong said with a slight smile.
This chapter is released first.,The next chapter starts to enter the next scene.,The update will be slow.。
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