Chapter 5: The Palace Feast
The next day, the Queen Mother's birthday banquet was held in Fengyi Palace as scheduled.
In the afternoon, the magnificent princes and princes carried their respective families, dressed up with thousands of manners, and walked into the Fengyi Palace with a smile on their faces. It was an honor for everyone to be able to participate in the birthday banquet of the Honorable Queen Mother, and I was thrilled to be able to present the treasures that we had been waiting for for a long time at such a grand banquet. Everyone has their own little Jiujiu in their hearts, looking forward to their rare treasures being able to stand out during the banquet and get the approval of the Queen Mother, and the future road to becoming an official will be brilliant.
Li Yao looked at the two in the distance who bowed their hands to each other respectfully and humbly, but no one would step into the long-awaited palace gate first, like two fish who squeezed their heads and wanted to jump the dragon gate, but they lacked the simplicity of the fish, like two swordfish with honey belly.
Thinking of this, the corners of Li Yao's mouth couldn't help but show a sly smile, thinking to himself, no matter what era it is, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
"Oh, our King of Changning has also returned to Beijing!" In unison with the voice, a big fat hand was already patted on Li Yao's shoulder.
Li Yao glanced back at the person behind him, if he hadn't heard that friendly word, he almost instinctively made an over-the-shoulder fall. The fat hand on the shoulder is regarded as a courtesy.
"Yo Yo Yo, our always honest King Changning is getting more and more agile." Words that sounded like praise and joke came from behind Li Yao.
Searching for fragments of old memories in his head, and giving himself two seconds of expression management, Li Yao slowly turned around. At this time, the angular Jun already had a vague smile on his face, and greeted lightly: "King Yan is good." ”
"Alas, alas, this is the normal state. With your agile skills just now, this prince thought he had recognized the wrong person, hahahaha. Yan Wang Li Hang opened his fat mouth slightly, and his squinting eyes had been squeezed into a line by his fleshy face.
It's time for Li Hang to control his weight, he looks fatter than before, Li Yao's slightly frowning expression was fleeting, and it may be more difficult to let Li Hang control his weight than to change the dynasty.
Yan Wang didn't want to think about controlling his weight, shook his fat body and came to Li Yao's side, turned to look at Li Zhiyou who was quietly hiding behind Li Yao, and exclaimed: "Yo you, I haven't seen you for so many years, Zhiyou has grown into a big girl." ”
Li Yao looked at his sister hiding behind him, and arched his hand: "Brother Yanwang, Zhiyou has grown up and is shy, don't tease her." Our brother and sister have been away from Beijing for a long time, and the palace environment is not familiar, so we have to rely on the guidance of Brother Yanwang. ”
Li Yao humbly and sincerely gave Li Hang a salute, which can be regarded as having a companion in the deep courtyard of this palace.
Why Yanwang Li Hang? Li Yao was in the fragments of his memory just a few seconds, but that memory was always so vague, like seeing flowers in the fog, but the existence of Li Hang in his memory did not seem to be annoying.
Li Hang was not humble, waved his big arm, with a posture of "Xiaodi walking with me", shaking his chubby body to lead the way in front.
Li Yao pulled up his sister who was hiding behind him, and followed King Yan into the long-heard Fengyi Palace.
The high thresholds of Fengyi Palace are one after another, and when they cross the layers of thresholds, pass through the corridors, and pass by the rows of guards, there is gradually no noise from the outside world, and there is no loud conversation, and the solemn atmosphere is instantly coming.
The Empress Dowager's Fengyi Palace is really not comparable to Yaoyun Palace and Changle Palace, Li Yao held his sister's hand and unconsciously tightened slightly.
Li Zhiyou looked at her brother's handsome side face, slightly closed her thin lips, although she couldn't see his emotions, but the slightly tight force in her hand reminded her to speed up her pace and keep up with Li Yao's footsteps.
The palace with hundreds of turns and thousands of turns was also familiar at the feet of King Yan, and finally stopped in front of a palace with a golden roof and a red door.
King Yan looked happy, and his elation was overflowing.
It is also a festive day to gather with all the royal brothers and ministers, and the birthday of the queen mother, there must be a lot of treasures from all walks of life. This is also the excitement of King Yan, wine and food have long been commonplace, the psychology of curiosity is stronger, and there are all kinds of rare treasures to open your eyes, isn't it happy!
The dragon and phoenix on the eaves of the palace, with golden scales and golden armor, are vivid, as if they want to fly into the air. Around the main hall, the ancient trees are towering, the green trees are shady, the red walls and yellow tiles, the gold is brilliant,
The antique style makes people feel solemn spontaneously. At the top of the red vermilion lacquer gate, there is a black gold silk nanmu plaque, and the dragon flies and the phoenix dances on the top of the inscription three big characters 'Fengyi Palace'.
Li Yao stopped and looked at Li Zhiyou behind him with concern with firm eyes, although he couldn't remember how many turns he had turned and how many corridors he had crossed, his sister was his only concern.
Li Zhi smiled gracefully, she saw the change in Li Yao's eyes, and today, after many years, this kind of concerned gaze appeared in her brother's eyes again.
"Let's go, brother, let's go in with Brother Yanwang." Li Zhiyou tugged at the big hand she was clenching.
Although the banquet in the palace had not yet officially begun, the atmosphere was already lively, the speech was cheerful, and the ministers took what they wanted. Around the princes, leaned over slightly and listened to the fragrance of the prince's mouth seriously and respectfully, nodding and smiling from time to time to express his agreement. The Queen Mother was not present, and the atmosphere of the whole banquet had entered a state of joy.
Li Yao looked at the lively scene in front of him, and couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, anyone with a discerning eye could see that in fact, everyone was bored, and they were just perfunctory greetings to each other, but they had to pretend to be tireless and happy.
In the joy and excitement, there are also people who prefer to be cold, not so much cold, but cold, even the surrounding air will be solidified, just erect a plaque around "do not approach the living, do not disturb acquaintances". This person is sitting in the forefront, the seventh emperor brother of the current emperor, Prince Ping Li Xun.
The birthday banquet where the whole country celebrates and everyone is happy seems to have nothing to do with Prince Ping, sitting alone in the forefront, cold as an iceberg. Perhaps his greatest expectation and joy today is to see his mother.
Li Yao's gaze stayed on the body of Prince Ping Li Xun for a moment, wearing an ink-colored silk satin robe, and the belt was also a dark series, without any bright embellishments on the whole body, like a killer-like coldness, which made people feel a chill.
Li Yao's body couldn't help but shudder, some fragments poured out of his head, he closed his eyes and tried to see clearly but it was still very blurry, he was almost used to this hazy feeling, everything seemed to be understood, but he couldn't remember anything. In this moment, we will no longer think about what we have and what we don't, and the present moment is the most important thing.
Li Yao looked around, and his gaze naturally fell on Li Qi, the prince of Shu, who was sitting opposite Li Xun. Li Qi, the prince of Shu, is just like his name, it sounds comfortable and looks very comfortable. Li Qi's tall and elegant figure, wearing ice blue fine silk, embroidered with elegant bamboo leaf patterns of snow-white piping and the mutton fat jade hairpin on his head complement each other, the waist is tied with a jade belt, and the figure is elegant and straight.
As a man, Li Yao wants to give him a thumbs up with his backhand, no wonder so many white-skinned and beautiful celebrities are haunting the left and right of Prince Shu, even if he is not attached to the emperor's relatives, he must be close to Prince Shu just for the sake of eye-catching.