Chapter 81: The Family Feast
His Royal Highness is getting married.
This is the news that Qi Liang Nineteen Dao knew as early as half a year ago, and the real wedding ceremony was officially held in Lanling City about a month after the New Year.
After the official wedding date was announced, the nineteen realms, all the princes, have carefully prepared generous gifts, this news, exploded at both ends of the rivers and lakes and temples, and soon caused a storm in the south and the north, and even guests came from afar in the north.
Even Nanhai gave a gift in advance to His Royal Highness and reserved a table seat.
The end of the year is not much different from usual.
His Majesty gathered his favorite group of people and had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner that fulfilled his wishes.
His Royal Highness specially put down the matter of Beigu Sudao and rushed over, Mr. Qi Shu and Yi Shaoran were not absent, and His Royal Highness and Tang Xiaoman were busy greeting the guests who gave gifts, and they were a little late, and they didn't make everyone wait for a long time.
His Royal Highness and Lord County attended the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together.
This already says something.
Xiao Wang's table meal, those who are qualified to sit on the seat are all members of the family in Lanling City.
This at least shows Xiao Wang's affirmation of Wei Lingshan.
At the banquet, Xiao Wang specially vacated a seat.
That was Yuan Tiangang's location.
The National Teacher is still out at sea, and now this night banquet in Lanling City can only be absent.
His Majesty left the most important seat beside him.
Xiao Wang looked forward to the day when he could have this day a long time ago.
At the end of the year, I was able to reunite with my family, temporarily put down the burden on my shoulders, and walk down from the throne.
In the Spring and Autumn Period of the Central Plains, millions of ordinary people and ordinary people, there were only two emperors of Xiao Cao.
If you sit too high, you will definitely feel lonely and bored, and the older you get, the more this will happen.
The attendants in the pavilion in the air found that His Majesty was always in a daze in the pavilion now, reviewing and revising, and often making mistakes.
When people are old and weak, there will always be times when they are tired.
When the lion is old, his ambition will no longer be as eager as when he was young, his claws are still sharp, his hair is still vibrating, but he can no longer gallop the grassland as he did when he was young, and exchange blood for blood.
Xiao Wang is now, as always, diligently handling Qi Liang's major affairs every day, but with the exhaustion of qi and blood, it is difficult for him to swallow thousands of miles like a tiger like when he was young.
So this year, everyone watched His Majesty slowly walk up to the highest point of the main hall, his sideburns white, and sat down firmly under the support of the two young highnesses.
They know...... Your Majesty is old.
The contrast is particularly strong in such a scene.
Black and white.
Youth vs. aging.
Time is something that human beings cannot resist, whether it is a grass people, an emperor, or even an extremely powerful cultivator, when the years pass, they will grow old, then exhausted, and finally fall.
Before the top beams of Qi Liang fell....... How many more will there be like this year?
How many more opportunities can the three young Highnesses have to drink with this old man?
No one knows the answer.
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Yi Xiao didn't know the answer either.
His Royal Highness knows that in this world, the most worthless thing is time, and when most people are young, they act absurdly and get drunk, and they never realize that time has passed.
And the most valuable thing is precisely time, when the sideburns do not grow and the forehead folds cannot be smoothed, there is not much time left for yourself in this world.
When he was young, he sat on an iron horse, stepped through the north and south of the river, and set down nineteen peaces!
Now sitting in the temple, giving birth to a sickness, what kind of unfathomable sorrow is it?
Yi Xiao had already asked Su Sturgeon, the eldest lady of the Su family, who saw Xiao Wang's pulse every day, Xiao Wang's body, an old illness, was left by the war that year, and after settling down, he never had an idle time, and he still worked hard every day to review and review, couldn't sleep at night, and couldn't sleep and eat......
The body has been suffering for a long time, and it will naturally become a disease.
There is no such thing as perfection.
Xiao Wang summoned all the three highnesses, as well as his most favored courtiers over the years, and set up this family banquet, calling all the people he wanted to see.
This family banquet should have been perfect.
But...... Not really.
After a tour of wine, Xiao Wang's complexion was obviously not good.
He coughed lightly, covered his lips with a fist in his sleeve, coughed lightly when no one was paying attention, his eyes glanced at the red stained in his sleeve, pretended to ignore it, and still smiled at the noisy atmosphere in the family banquet.
This scene was captured by His Royal Highness's gaze excellently.
Yi Xiao sighed slightly, pretending not to see it.
He knew that Xiao Wang was sick, and he also knew how difficult it was to gather so many people at this family banquet, so he didn't say anything.
Immediately after that, at the highest point of the main hall, there was a continuous, irrepressible heavy coughing sound, the old man coughed so much that he choked on tears, but stubbornly pushed away the maids who came to support him on both sides, and looked at the bloodstains on his sleeves with blurred tears, and did not feel shocked.
I just feel a lot of pity.
In any case, this family feast can only be eaten here.
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"Your Majesty's body is fine......
The eldest lady of the Su family spoke a little embarrassed, she knew that such a statement could not convince the three highnesses in front of her.
But she said helplessly: "Your Highness, some of you also know how to heal...... Judging from the pulse, His Majesty's body, except for overwork, really does not have too many old diseases, and such coughing up blood at today's banquet is too perfunctory if it is explained as caused by wind and cold. ”
Yi Xiao saw that Xiao Buyi and Xiao Chongding both looked at her, nodded seriously, and said softly, "Miss Su is not wrong. ”
Xiao Buyi was silent for a moment, and he tried to make his tone sound kind: "Miss Su, can there be a way?"
Su Sturgeon shook his head.
She sighed and said euphemistically: "I am only a shallow learner, and there is no cure for the symptoms." ”
"I can only wait for the teacher to come back. His Royal Highness lowered his eyebrows and said, "The teacher is looking for medicine overseas, and my father's body only has to resist this period of time, and when the teacher returns to Lanling City, he should be able to cure the disease." ”
Outside the pavilion in the sky, there was a slight knock on the door.
Qi Shu knocked on the door three times, then pushed the door in.
Before the person arrives, the voice comes first.
Qi Shu asked eagerly, "How is Your Majesty's health?"
Then he glanced at the courtyard roughly, and saw the expressions of several highnesses in the courtyard, and knew the general idea.
Silent.
On the day of the New Year's celebration, His Majesty's ill health is really not a good thing.
Could it be that Qi Liang's national fortune has really reached the step of "prosperity and decline"?
Qi Shu narrowed his eyes, clutched the yellow paper information in his sleeve, and said in a low voice: "There is an order from Beigu Su Dao. ”
Everyone was shaken by the spirits.
"The Western Regions mission once again crossed the beacon and came to Lujia Town. ”
"Gu Shengcheng, the head of the Chess Palace Palace, personally led the delegation here. ”
He wants to...... Qi Liang was able to give the Western Regions a chance to negotiate. ”