Here in Li Mao, he doesn't have much blood affection for this sister who was lost when she was a child.

Li Mao has been afraid of King Ding, who has a bit of a cold and irritable temperament in his bones since he was a child. King Ding's evaluation of the eldest son is also soft and yin, and he doesn't like it very much. So later, even if his emperor Aya made him the crown prince and hired him as the most famous Confucian of the dynasty, what could he do? He happened to think of that sister, and the only impression left was that she took away her father's favor.

He also thought that she had already died, and over the years, with an almost indifferent and even secretly watching the show, he watched his emperor Aya offer his dead sister a hairpin star, a pomegranate tree, and an annual birthday party for those who don't know. He never imagined that one day, this half-sister would quietly return as a court painter.

And before this moment this morning, he didn't even notice it.

The previous doubts have also been solved.

No wonder the emperor is very kind to this little painter, yesterday he even went with the car and ordered to stay in the Yueyue Building, all kinds of arrogant favors, leading countless people to conjecture behind the scenes.

Not to mention, at this moment, the emperor asked her to beat the golden drum on her behalf.

He was the crown prince of the dynasty, and even he could not enjoy such glory.

What will others think of him, the prince who has been a prince for more than ten years?

Li Mao suppressed the deep jealousy and shame that welled up in his heart at this moment, and stood stiffly, motionless.

Su Yu walked in front of Han Kerang, the general of Jingo.

This purple-haired general who looks majestic like a halberd on weekdays, but his eyes are not very good when he recognizes a woman. In his eyes, the woman was greased and powdered, and then pasted with Huadian, and they all looked almost the same.

Of course, when the princess of the saint, who everyone thought was dead, descended in such a way at this moment, Han Kerang didn't need to see the appearance of the person in the jade chariot to have an epiphany, that the little painter should be the princess. Otherwise, who can bear such grace from a saint?

However, it was really until this moment that Su Yu met him at close range, and he still couldn't believe his eyes, the princess in front of him wearing a gorgeous hairpin crown and a gorgeous dress was really the little court painter in green clothes and a plain face!

Han Kerang was stunned, reacted, and the first thought in his mind was Pei Xiaoyuan.

He couldn't help but turn over slightly, and the corner of his eyes turned to Pei Shizi, who was under the dragon behind him at the moment.

He had also gotten up, stretched straight, and his whole person looked dignified and solemn, like a sword. This is the most standard military etiquette.

However, Han Kerang soon discovered that Pei Shizi's eyes that should be looking straight ahead at this moment were slightly lowered when the princess passed in front of him, and her eyes seemed to fall to the ground.

Suddenly, a gust of wind from the top of Cangshan Mountain swept over Suzaku Terrace. The flower hairpin and the gold and jade crown on the high bun trembled slightly, and the ring was gently belled, and the embroidered ribbon fluttered gracefully with the wind.

The one that followed her, in the gorgeous skirt that shimmered slightly, also dragged in front of Pei Xiaoyuan's boots.

Then she stepped onto the drum platform. The drummers held the mallet in their hands and knelt down to greet her.

She took the black lacquer drumstick with the dragon's whisker tied, and waved her arms to beat the golden drum against the hunting mountain wind from the foothills of Cangshan Mountain.

After the sound of the golden drum that shook people's hearts like splitting clouds and breaking through the fog, the ceremony was announced by the official and the music of the breaking array began.

Accompanied by the majestic and mighty breaking array music, those who had been waiting for a long time danced along the movement, the formation was round and square, swimming dragons and geese, staggered flexion and stretching, and fighting back from beginning to end.

In this group of military sons and daughters who can be said to be the most elegant and noble in Chang'an, because of this accident, because of this princess who fell from the sky, the atmosphere has also quietly changed. Everyone exerted more effort than the previous rehearsals, competing for performance, hoping that their perfect military etiquette and majestic demeanor could stand out among the crowd and fall into those bright eyes, which left a deep impression on her.

After Lebi, Chengping and Yuwenzhi in the team closed their strengths, their chests rising and falling slightly. Because of the dancing of the people, or even more because of the agitated mood, both of them were a little breathless, but they all agreed, and their eyes were firmly fixed on the high platform in front of them, the figure that had retreated to the side of the saint.

They were already looking forward to tonight's night banquet in the Qingyuan Palace.

Princess Shouchang will definitely attend the palace banquet with the saint tonight.

Chapter 78

After breaking the formation, the dancers saluted in the direction of the high platform under the leadership of King Kang, and were rewarded by the saints.

Elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, rhinos, and many fierce beasts lined up, bowing down to the ground tamely towards the high platform, and then lined up left and right, and the martial arts exercise officially began. The six armies passed in front of the Suzaku Terrace one by one, showing their military might, and then changed columns, and then turned into military formations, alternating advance and retreat in foot columns and cavalry columns, three picks and five changes, and finally, each returned to its position, and all of them paid homage to the emperor and princess again.

The emperor summoned the prime minister and the various scholars, and ordered them to comment on the performance of the armies today. Some say that it is strong, some say that it dares to be sharp, some say that it is forbidden to order, and the army is mighty.

The emperor looked very happy, nodded frequently, and finally ordered that in order to congratulate the princess on returning to the court, and to reward the wonderful performance of today's warriors, the soldiers were on the spot tonight, and they were rewarded in the barracks to participate in the night banquet of the Qingyuan Palace.

Tens of thousands of soldiers made a sound of long live and a thousand years old like a mountain and a sea, and the courtiers and women on the left and right under the high platform bowed down as if they were rituals.

In the eyes of 10,000 people, the emperor, supported by the princess, got up on the throne, stepped down from the Suzaku Terrace, and prepared to leave.

Suddenly, he saw that the princess seemed to stop deliberately before boarding the car, and he didn't know what she wanted.

Han Kerang froze for a while, and when the princess took advantage of the public opinion, Fang reacted, looked left and right, and saw that Fan Ximing and others nearby were all in sight, and he couldn't help but feel a little flattered in his heart. Thinking of his previous misunderstanding and almost offending the princess, he couldn't help but secretly anger, turned his head to look at the subordinate beside him who was as pale as water at the moment and didn't know what to think, raised his hand to him, and clicked a few times in the air, and then hurriedly got on the horse and followed.

That night, the Sixth Army slaughtered cattle and cooked sheep in the barracks. In the Cangshan Palace, in the Qingyuan Palace, the emperor set up a banquet to entertain his ministers and many vassal kings and envoys who came with him this time.

There is no doubt that the newly returned princess has become the most high-profile figure among the ten thousand people in Cangshan. Tonight, as many young men had hoped, she appeared at the feast and sat down beside the emperor.

Compared with the appearance of the day, the princess looks a little different tonight. She still wore her hair in a high bun and wore a crown, but the crown that adorned her dark temples was not as solemn and heavy as it was during the day. It is a golden crown made of gold wire coiled by a craftsman, gorgeous, without losing agility, two strings of beads and jade swaying, hanging down from the tips of the wings of the golden luan's wings, landing on the side of the princess's temples, when she travels, gently trembling. Between the princess's forehead is a golden emerald flower, a pair of phoenix eyebrows, long depicted with Persian indigo. Under the scorching background of Cui Tian and Qingmei, on the pink face, the pair of dark lacquer-like bright eyes were not robbed of their brilliance, but more and more eye-catching. Tonight, the princess wore an apricot gold undergarment, tied a peacock blue skirt decorated with scattered patterns, draped in a light purple veil, and the long skirt together with the curtain, like flowing clouds, like a phoenix tail, gently dragging the ground.

With the arrival and ascension of the princess under the two rows of mica fans, this tall and deep banquet hall seemed to be also in an instant, because of the sparkle of gold beads and jade on her head and body when she moved, and was dyed with a faint halo of glow.

Everyone who participated in the night banquet knew that this princess was the protagonist of this night banquet.

She rode jade wheels, beat golden drums, and all kinds of treatment, all of which were encroached. But the emperor obviously didn't care about these at all, and he wouldn't listen to the advice of his subordinates. His affection for him, a princess who had only recently returned after many years of separation, was free to do as he pleased, and was completely unfettered by any regulations.

At the beginning of the night banquet, after the visit, some of the Qing and Xian old ministers in the seat, headed by the crown prince and the prince, almost all hung their heads and remained silent, in this way to express their secret dissatisfaction with the emperor's blatant tyranny.

But the emperor's mood was obviously not affected in the slightest by the resistance shown by these old woodcarving ministers. He was full of smiles, full of energy, and ordered the musicians to play scattered music, and the haiku was better than the open space in the hall to stage a hundred operas, swallowing swords, playing ropes, through ladders, and edge poles. There are also turtle dancers on the stage.

The silent resistance of those old ministers is destined to be their own grievances in tonight's night banquet. In the face of more waves of goodwill to the princess that followed, it was like a drop of water into the sea, and it couldn't set off half a wave at all.

Soon after the night banquet began, the prince himself came out and presented the princess with a set of colorful ceremonial clothes woven with gold and silver silk threads and Baise feathers, and a treasure box, which was opened, and there were twelve stems of purple mushroom inside, staggered and exquisite, like a dragon and phoenix.

The prince said that this was a terrestrial spirit that he found in the East Palace not long ago, and he didn't know why at the time, so he only carefully picked it up and stored it in a treasure box. Today's princess sister returns, he has an epiphany, this must be a good omen given to him by God, brother and sister blood relatives, love is as deep as the sea, so dare not hide the treasure, tonight to give the princess at the right time.

He also said that His Majesty had missed the princess day and night for many years, so that he fell ill, and he had no filial piety, but he could not share his worries for His Majesty, and he was restless day and night.

Speaking of emotion, the prince knelt down to worship the emperor and bowed his head and shed tears.

The hall was silent for a while. The emperor stared at the crown prince for a long time, nodded slowly, and ordered him to get up. There have already been ceremonial officials who presented the prince's ceremonial clothes and treasure boxes to the princess. Su Yu accepted it, got up and sat down in person, and helped the prince up with a smile and thanked him.

For a while, the hall was full of admiration for the prince's filial piety, and even the emperor's gaze at the prince seemed to become a little softer.

King Kang was secretly jealous, how could he be willing to fall behind, and immediately followed the throne, and presented the princess and sister with a golden crown of pearl flowers and jade phoenixes, a dust-whisking treasure robe, and a hundred treasures and flowers mirror.

Just this morning, when he recognized that the princess sent by the jade chariot was the little court painter on the sinking ship of the Qujiang Banquet, he was shocked and remorseful. Then he danced, restless, and stepped on the wrong beat several times. Originally, I wanted to lead this breaking dance to show my majesty in front of the emperor, so as to overwhelm the prince at the beginning of the Cangshan trip, but I didn't expect to make a fool of myself.

After the daytime parade, he immediately quietly held a secret meeting with his grandfather Feng Zhenping and urgently discussed how to make up for it. The only good thing is that apart from that accident, he has not offended this princess and sister. At the time of his birth, she was in exile. Compared with her brother, who is not hostile to her, she has more reason to dislike it, it seems that the crown prince Li Mao.

understands this truth, plus he has a vicious face, and knows the truth that he can afford to let go, the matter has come out, and he can only try his best to make up for it, so he sent someone to rush back to Chang'an on the spot during the day to prepare rare rituals, and finally at this moment, as scheduled.

He has a golden crown and jade belt, a gorgeous dress, and an eager expression, as if nothing has happened, full of sisters and sisters, calling non-stop, it looks really flattering.

Su Yu also accepted it with a smile. And because he is a younger brother, it is also the first time they met, and he gave back a vanilla bag with a jade buckle. King Kang respectfully, took it with both hands, cherished it on the spot, and thanked him again and again, and then returned to his position.

After the crown prince and the prince, a group of royal children, including Li Xu, the king of Xin'an, came to visit the princess and present their respective rituals.

Li Yu should still not wake up from this new discovery, and when he called Suyu as his aunt, he looked very happy, but he was a little restrained, unlike others, who were all flattering and flattering.

Su Yu also secretly has a little preference for this cousin, and when she returned the meeting gift, she specially gave a Tuanluo fan with her own hand-painted patterns.

Li Yu hurriedly took it with both hands happily. When he came down, he subconsciously looked at the row of Jinwu halberds that were standing next to a large pillar in the hall at the moment, and saw that the master was also among them.

The master was leaning around tonight, with a salute sword hanging from his waist, looking majestic, but for some reason, probably because he was on duty in front of the emperor, he looked completely detached, his eyes were level ahead, and he stood quietly behind a row of Jinwu guards, inconspicuous.

The royal front is so lively, but he seems to have nothing to do with it. If you hadn't deliberately searched for him, you would have almost lost sight of him.

Master Li Zhizhi had a good relationship with the princess's aunt, so he could only temporarily endure the thought of sharing joy with him and return to his position.

Then, Cui Daoji, who also came with the saint this time, ignored the sideways glances of those Qingxian colleagues, and offered a poem on the spot to celebrate the return of the princess.

After hearing this, the emperor rewarded him on the spot, and ordered him to give a German crown and a jade belt.

This is unprecedented in the time of a saint. For the first time, someone was so honored for his poetry.

It must be known that the sage was originally most disgusted by these so-called poems that were obviously superficial and flattering, and they were criticized for being useless. Today is not only not to blame, but to be rewarded?

Following Cui Daosi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, the secretary and supervisor, the scholar of the middle school, Dr. Guozi, etc., these hall officials, who are usually known for their literary talents, also competed to offer poems, all of them spit out Chinese chapters, and praised the princess's fairy appearance in a variety of ways.

The emperor was overjoyed, and each of them was rewarded, and he asked someone to record it on the spot.

Listening to these poems that were more numb than a flesh, Su Yu gradually felt that his ears were hot, and he couldn't help but look sideways at the emperor, feeling that he was a little too much. However, her emperor Aya seemed to be unaware, not only that, but he was still unsatisfied, and even ordered the hundreds of officials who attended the banquet on the spot, not to study martial arts, if they could not do it on the spot, they would be given a grace period of one night, and then they would be written after they went back, and they would all offer poems tomorrow, and he would choose the best ones from them and engrave them into a book to pass them on to the people.

The officials looked at each other, and soon, they all responded, saying that they would definitely think about it at night and hand over poems tomorrow when they went back. It is also praised that the saint's love for his daughter touches the heavens and the earth.

The emperor's face was pleasant, obviously very useful.

If it weren't for the hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at the night banquet, Su Yu would almost have hidden his face.

After composing the poem, the officials began to offer auspicious rui again.

At first, it was a thorn who entered Beijing to report on his work and was fortunate to accompany him, saying that there was a spring river in the boundary of the territory under his jurisdiction, which had always been yellow and turbid, but just a few days before he left for Beijing, the spring water turned clear, and the local people were happy and came to bow down. Thorn Shi said that he didn't care about this matter originally, but today he witnessed the return of the princess and had an epiphany, which should be an auspicious omen of peace in the world.

The performance of the assassin history, called the emperor Longxin Dayue, asked the close officials to the book, was told that he had made outstanding achievements in foreign politics, and now he was returning to Beijing to be awarded an official, and immediately ordered to be promoted to the envoy.

This was opened, and then, many people followed the auspicious performance. Some say that the hoarfrost falls on the sycamore, some say that the phoenix appears, there is light in the air like fire, and after the landing, the gold yuan is excavated. It is said that in a local temple, there are five-colored clouds gathered on the ancient well, and the shadow of the golden phoenix appears in the well, which must be a sign of the princess's return to the dynasty. In the end, it is even said that there is a liquor spring breaking out of the ground in the back mountain of the local area, and the nearby mountains are petrified as food, and the poor people from near and far have come to eat and praise the grace of heaven.

These so-called "auspicious rui", the more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes.

Su Yu quietly looked at the emperor Aya on the side, and saw that he was still smiling and listening to the report, and there was no difference on his face. Suddenly, as if sensing that she was looking at him, he turned his face and quietly glanced at her, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes, obviously hinting to her that forbearance is.

Su Yu was angry for a while, and felt a little funny.

At this moment, another official came out, bowed down and carried a birdcage covered with only brocade, and said that some time ago, in the northern mountains of Gyeonggi, there were tens of thousands of birds gathered, in flocks before and after, flying in the direction of the capital, and it was only dispersed in three days. One of them did not go, but stopped on the plane tree, and the mountain people caught it, so he took advantage of today's opportunity to offer the princess, which was a great auspicious fortune.

Everyone looked over and saw that it was Chang'an Ling who came out to speak. The white luan he sacrificed, the whole body was snow-white, and the phoenix tails were draped, looking at it, as he said, it looked like a divine bird.

Su Yu ordered someone to take the sacred bird closer, looked at it, and recognized it as a phoenix-tailed white finch.

In the past, she traveled with her grandfather and traveled all over the famous mountains, and naturally encountered similar birds. Although it is rare, however, where is it a sacred bird?

Chang'an Ling saw that the left and right were amazed, and his face was secretly proud. Unexpectedly, after looking at the divine bird for a while, the princess on the throne opened her mouth and ordered someone to let it go.

Chang'an Ling was stunned, and hurriedly bowed down to dissuade: "Princess, don't!" This is a rare bird in life, besides, it must be a hundred birds to know that the princess returns to the court, and the party gathers in Beishan, as if worshipping. Weichen deliberately offered this sacred bird to the princess, thinking that he would congratulate him. ”

The princess smiled: "Although the divine bird is rare, you also have a heart." But in my opinion, this is not auspicious. ”

Everyone in the banquet hall spread their eyes and looked at the princess with bated breath.

"Time and year are abundant, is Jiaxiang. The country's virtuous is the only good man. For example, when we talk about martial arts today, there are those soldiers who are not afraid of death, and work together to protect our holy pilgrimage, so that the enlightenment of our holy pilgrimage will spread far and wide, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment, and there will be no hunger. These are the real auspicious! ”

"As for this bird, it's Zai Lingrui, even if it's really a divine bird flying from the sky—"

She looked again.

"What's the Greeting?"

"Let it go back to the mountain!"

The princess's words were not high, but the words were clear, and they reached the ears of everyone in the banquet hall tonight.

As her words fell, the hall fell silent for a moment.

The emperor leaned back on a table behind him, with a faint smile on his face, and looked at the ministers in front of him.