69. Chapter 69

What happened in the palace, Du Long naturally had no idea!

After picking up his grandfather from Lingyun Mountain Valley, the old man was naturally excited after learning that he had won the first place in the three grades in the year-end exam, and he held a family banquet that night to celebrate the New Year in advance, and at the same time, he was also celebrating the Du family's grandson to achieve such good results!

The next day was the big day of the New Year's celebration, and Du Long was pulled up by Xia Qinglian before dawn, and then he was dressed up the same as in previous years.

After having breakfast with family and friends, and then under the send-off of Xia Qinglian, Su Jinbao and Yuan Yu, the family took the Du family carriage that had been prepared long ago and galloped towards the palace!

The New Year's celebration held in the palace of the Haotian Empire, Xia Qinglian and Su Jinbao and the three of them were not qualified to participate at all, so they could only stay in the mansion and wait for them to come back from the New Year's celebration.

Finally lined up and entered the palace, Old Man Du went to get together with the Emperor Taishang and his old courtiers according to the custom, and Du Long followed his parents into the Chengde Palace.

After Du Long nodded and said hello to a few friends he knew in the hall, he followed his parents all the way towards the second-grade martial arts area, and then ignored how polite his father and mother were with those adults, and stood aside and closed his eyes to recuperate.

In the second-grade martial arts area, the only one who is good with him is Yang Yunfeng, but their family doesn't seem to have arrived yet, and Du Long only sees a few guys he doesn't want to see, such as Dewey, Fan Wei, Li Xiaojun and others!

These guys, now seeing Du Long is like a mouse seeing a cat, even Fan Tong was beaten by him, how many of them are fart?!

Far away, in the first-grade civilian waiting area, Fan Tong stood behind his first-grade civilian father Fan De, and his eyes were gloomy sweeping towards Du Long, who completely ignored his existence in the second-rank martial arts area, looking at his gritted teeth, it seemed that he couldn't swallow it alive!

Du Long is directly opposite the second-grade civilian candidate area, behind Zhao Guodong, the second-grade household minister, Zhao Lin'er's expression is also full of resentment, her current reputation can be regarded as the bottom, today I almost didn't have the courage to participate in this New Year's party, and in the end, shame still failed to overcome her vanity!

"Du Long! came so early!" A crisp and pleasant voice woke Du Long up, and he couldn't help but open his eyes and look in the direction where the voice came from, and suddenly looked at the owner of the voice with a smile and said, "Hehe, it turned out to be Sister Green! We have just arrived for a while!"

It turned out that the owner of the voice was Xu Luyin, one of Princess Huofeng's several close friends, the daughter of Xu Qirui, the governor of Erpin Jingzhao, and she happened to follow her parents to this second-grade martial arts area.

Xu Qirui, the governor of the second grade of Jingzhao, and his wife had a good relationship with Du Zhentian and his wife, and the four adults quickly became polite, and Xu Luyin said hello to Du Zhentian and his wife, and then greeted Du Long.

"Du Long has seen General Xu and Mrs. Xu!" Du Long said politely to Xu Luyin's parents.

"Hehe, I heard Lu Yin say that you won the first place in three places in the first year of the martial arts department this time, what a great little guy! It's a pity that my Lu Yin doesn't have that blessing, how many years older than you, otherwise ......" Xu Qirui looked at Du Long in front of him with bright eyes, and said something inexplicable.

"That's right! Such a good and handsome young man, there are still people who take the initiative to give up, it's really visionless!hehe!" Mrs. Xu also stared at Du Longdao with appreciative eyes, and the words of praise of the husband and wife made Du Zhentian and his wife smile on their faces, and there was no adult who didn't like their children to perform well.

Du Long naturally humbly politely said a few words, and then chatted with Xu Luyin on the side, only to see Xu Luyin with a mysterious smile on his face, and said with a smile: "Du Long!

"Congratulations, where did this joy come from?!" Du Long asked a little inexplicably.

"Hehe, I don't know the result yet, so I can't say it yet! Anyway, congratulations to you first! No matter what the result is, it's a great event!" Xu Luyin's answer made Du Long a little confused.

While chatting, Yang Yunfeng also came to this area with his father, General Erpin Tiger Roar, and everyone was naturally polite again!

Soon, the royal clansmen began to appear, from the right back door of the Chengde Palace, there was the figure of the Fire Phoenix Princess, I saw that as soon as she entered the main hall, she couldn't wait to sweep her eyes to Du Long in the second-grade martial arts area, and finally lowered her little head shyly, and actually did not run over like last year's New Year's celebration, but obediently followed the team to the clan waiting area to stand.

Du Long looked over under Xu Luyin's reminder when Princess Huofeng entered the main hall, and couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that she finally didn't trouble herself this time, he didn't want to be like last year's New Year's celebration, becoming a bird and being taken by the emperor to talk about things!

It's a pity that this time it is estimated that he will not be able to get his wish!

"The emperor and the queen have arrived!" In a sharp shout, in the Chengde Palace, hundreds of officials and their families respectfully bowed their heads in the direction of the emperor's entry.

This time, Du Long didn't want to make the same mistake as last time, so he obediently hung his head and hid behind his parents, borrowing their bodies to block his body as much as possible.

Holding the queen's hand, the dragon walked towards the dragon seat of the main hall, the emperor's eyes swept to the ministers below, and finally settled in the second-grade martial arts area, he saw the figure shrunk behind his parents at a glance, although Du Long tried his best to hide his existence, he still couldn't escape the emperor's gaze standing on a high place.

After the emperor and queen sat down, the ministers below shouted long live and bowed to the highest standard, while Du Long knelt down with the crowd indiscriminately, not even bothering to move his mouth.

According to his thoughts, anyway, there are thousands of civil and military officials in the entire hall, plus family members, and it doesn't matter if he can't open his mouth or not!

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that the emperor sitting on the dragon throne was staring at him viciously, completely taking in his disrespectful appearance.

In the hall, the hundred officials did not wait for the emperor to shout for peace, and involuntarily peeked up, and saw that he was looking angrily in one direction, and everyone looked at him with his gaze, thinking that they would be able to see the scene of standing out from the crowd again, but they didn't see anyone who dared not kneel on such an occasion like Du Long back then!

However, many people followed the emperor's gaze, and finally fell on Du Long, the little guy was hiding behind his parents and knelt on the ground, which seemed to be nothing wrong!

At this time, Du Zhentian and his wife, who were kneeling in front of Du Long, finally saw the emperor's angry gaze, so they subconsciously turned their heads to look at Du Long.

The crime of disrespect to the emperor can be forgiven the first time, and if you continue to do this for the second time, it will definitely not be forgiven!

Just when the two of them wondered why the emperor was looking angrily in his direction, on the dragon throne, the emperor said in his deep voice: "The Qing family is flat!"

Kneeling for a long time, Du Long kept his head down and didn't look up, as soon as he heard the emperor say this, he immediately stood up with a smile, but he heard the whole hall of Wenwushan shouting: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Once again, despite all his caution, Du Long finally repeated the mistakes of history and stood out alone!

He was looking up with a smile, and at a glance he saw the emperor's eyes on the dragon throne that wanted to kill, Du Long understood that he was a little careless this time, but the military officials in this hall had already stood up, he could only secretly stick out his tongue, and then cowered behind his parents, secretly praying in his heart, hoping that the emperor would not care about the villain's unintentional mistakes.

It's a pity that on the dragon throne, the emperor didn't let him get his wish!

"That, Du Long!" the emperor stretched out his hand and pointed to the figure shrunk behind Du Zhentian and his wife, and shouted loudly, "Hurry up and speak!"

Du Zhentian and his wife were almost scared and fainted, where did their precious son offend the emperor again?

"The emperor won't trouble himself on such a big occasion because of such a trivial matter, right?!" Du Long said depressedly in his heart, so he could only walk out of the waiting area, and then walk all the way to the bottom of the dragon seat in the passage in the middle of the main hall.

Downstairs, there began to be a slight discussion among the civil and military officials, and the eyes that looked at Du Long were very strange, obviously, for two New Year's celebrations in a row, this stinky boy was actually named by the emperor, and they didn't know what to say.

Like Fan Tong and Zhao Lin'er, those guys who are not right with Du Long, naturally hope that this kid will offend the emperor, and then be executed by Ling Chi to relieve his hatred!

"Happy New Year, Emperor, Queen, I have a New Year's greeting to you!" Du Long came to the bottom of the steps in front of the dragon throne, and immediately squeezed out a respectful smile and knelt down and said loudly.

"Hmph, stinky boy, don't smile at me, why didn't you see you so respectful just now?!" the emperor was obviously a little embarrassed by Du Long's smiling appearance, and pretended to keep a straight face and snorted angrily.

"Could it really be that the matter of his own indiscriminate filling just now has been revealed?" Du Long was secretly stunned in his heart, but his face could only be covered up with a dry smile: "Hehe, how dare the kid be disrespectful in the slightest!

"I heard that this kid of yours not only joined the Haotian Royal Academy this year, but also won three first places in this year-end assessment?!" The emperor didn't bother to continue to dwell on that little matter with him, and began to say lukewarmly.

'How could the emperor mention such a trivial matter of himself on such an important occasion?!Is there any conspiracy that cannot be accomplished?!' This thought immediately flashed through Du Long's mind, but he could only smile modestly and said: "The little one is not talented, but he is just lucky!"

"Luck?!No, no! My Haotian Royal Academy has always been rigorous in its studies, and there is no question of good or bad luck at all, which can only show that it is your strength! Okay, don't talk nonsense, I have something important to announce on today's big day!"

"According to the emperor's decree, the princess of Huofeng will be married to Du Long, the son of General Erpin Zhongwu! In the first month after the New Year's celebration, choose a good day and an auspicious day to get engaged, and as for the wedding, let's wait for another year and a half!" the emperor announced on the spot.

In the entire Chengde Palace, there was originally some discussion, but this would be a drop in the needle, including Du Long, who was still smiling just now, was completely dumbfounded at the moment, and thought that this time the emperor must have asked him to punish himself for the crime of disrespect, but he never thought that he was actually going to give marriage? !

People say that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, which originally came up with the heart of punishment, but the result was no punishment and reward, such a sharp contrast, directly made Du Long's head blank, I don't know if I haven't woken up in a dream now?!