Chapter 238: The Longest Night (2)】

August 15.

At the beginning of the day.

The full moon is in the sky.

Contains the Jade Palace.

The emperor's banquet extended from the main hall to the steps outside the palace, all kinds of food and wine were moving up like flowing water, with the moonlight like the heavenly match, shining on the wine that had been poured into the white jade cup, so that the whole wine glass was revealing a warm fluorescence, and those who were sitting on both sides of the hall were playing various musical instruments of the fingertips of the fingertips of the people, with the lights reflected by the palace lamps hanging on the beams of the eaves shuttled through the palace of frost and snow-like curtains composed of the delicate palace maids' bright wrists, the ministers were talking in a low voice, but the tone was always elegant, the inner supervisor is responsible for the distribution of wine and food, with meticulous court rules, and a majestic atmosphere that only belongs to the royal palace comes to his face.

"The emperor has arrived!" a sound that gradually expanded from the far distance came with the night.

The emperor is finally here.

The ministers who were standing on the side chatting in twos and threes immediately stood in line to greet the arrival of the emperor.

Today's Emperor Chicheng is full of red light, and he looks heroic and not annoying in his regular clothes, with the inner supervisor who opened the way first, he finally stepped to the front of the Hanyu Palace, behind him is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chen Jianwei and the most favored third prince Chen Weifeng, and then some other children.

"See Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live. "The courtiers were to make a great salute under the guidance of the inner warden.

Emperor Chicheng smiled, and said very casually: "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, you don't have to be restrained, the big gift will be waived, let's sit at the table." ”

He said that he walked towards the main seat in the palace first, followed by the crown prince and the third prince, until the emperor and most of the princes and princesses were seated, and the ministers were seated one by one under the leadership of the old prime minister Yuan Bailu.

"Ladies and gentlemen, tonight is the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion night, and it was supposed to be a family reunion, but I was selfish and brought you all to drink with our family, you won't blame me, right?" Emperor Akagi was really in a good mood today, and he laughed rarely, and he was not as serious as when he usually went to court.

"The ministers don't dare. "Or the old prime minister takes the lead, at this time, of course, you can only say that you don't dare, who dares to say that the emperor is not, isn't that looking for death?

"Why don't you dare, you must have already drenched the blood of the dog I scolded in your heart, come, I will give you a glass, it will be regarded as reparation!" The emperor picked up a special dragon-headed moonlight cup and said to all the ministers.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the three princes naturally raised their glasses, and then there were a group of princes and princesses.

Of course, the minister shirked for a while before daring to raise his glass.

After a while, they toasted in turn according to their status.

On Wenchen's side, naturally the old prime minister Yuan Bailu took the lead in toasting, and Wuchen's side, because the first Wuchen general Wang failed to come back in the border area at this time, he was led by another general.

"Ladies and gentlemen, tonight is really a good show, not only the singing and dancing talents presented by each family, but also the showdown at the top of the Forbidden City between the two most outstanding young warriors of my Da Chen today, this is an unprecedented initiative, and you ministers are fortunate to see it, and it is not in vain tonight. The emperor drank a meal, and he was even more happy, "But because Gu Yuean and Cui Li made an appointment to start at the same time, so we still have time, let's take a look at the singing and dancing talents of each family first. ”

With the emperor's order, finally, this royal night banquet officially began.

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Meanwhile.

Just when the emperor feasted his ministers, in the capital, everywhere was also the time when the wine was hot.

Because Gu Yue'an had already announced the details of the duel a few days ago, everyone knew when it would start and how the duel would be conveyed to the people of the capital at that time.

Naturally, I have to ask Bai Xiaosheng, the main restaurants and tea shops in the capital have reached cooperation with Bai Xiaosheng, when the duel starts, they will also get a first-hand information, and the speed will only be slower than in the palace, as for other smaller places, then they can only resign themselves to fate.

Therefore, many people simply drank it first, so as not to lose money when they got it, and they didn't even drink enough, which really outweighed the losses.

But if you drink too much, you are also prone to accidents, especially now that the capital is full of martial arts people who come from other places, all of them have guns and sticks, and if one is not good, there will be conflicts, and it is even more so after drinking.

Therefore, tonight's defense of the capital is very tense, more than half of Jin Wuwei's manpower is used to disperse in the city's vital positions, at any time to deal with emergencies, other minor patrol guards, forbidden fire guards are scattered in the restaurant tea shop forest, to deal with some small situations, but the manpower is still insufficient, so that it is necessary to move rescue troops with the Qinglong Division to supplement the patrol force.

That is to say, in fact, the actual defense force of the capital tonight is extremely weak, if it is not this place but the important place of the national capital, the current years and months of the country and the people are safe, there is no internal trouble and no external enemies, such a setup is extremely dangerous.

At the second quarter of the first month.

The seventh guard of the Qinglong Division personally led people to patrol the streets at the end of the night, and unlike the other guards in the Qinglong Division, as the seventh guard who was used to perform all kinds of trivial duties all year round, and acted as half of the patrol force of the capital, this kind of temporary secondment, even a matter of shopping on the street, is not the first time.

Compared with the sighs of the other guards, at the end of the night, as the head of the seventh guard, he was already at ease, and even practice makes perfect.

"My lord, why do you say we are so unlucky, all the good things are not us, the bad things are all us, think about the bastards of one guard, two guards and three guards, now I don't know which corner of the palace to eat and drink spicy food, but we want to blow the cold wind here, it's really unwilling!"

Qinglong Division Seven Guards, the upper three guards only deal with core secrets all year round, and the lower four guards have their own divisions, tonight is a big deal, the upper three guards are naturally responsible for guarding the palace, and the other four guards can only drink the wind on the street.

"Okay Lu Wu, if you don't accept it, just climb up quickly, when you climb to the upper third guard, you can also go to the palace to eat and drink spicy, remember to pull me." The end of the night walked forward with his head in his hands, and said casually.

"Hey, bitter, who knows when it will be the first day. Lu Wu sighed, and suddenly looked around, and said, "My lord, why don't we slip away?" Anyway, there are so many other brothers watching tonight, and it's okay to have a few of us, why don't we go to a few shops? When I win, I will press Cui Li, and when I win enough money, I will go back to my hometown to ask for a wife, and then I won't do this Laoshizi Qinglongwei!"

"If you want to go, tomorrow you will be dismissed, I will beg the director for you, so that you will not die, and I will not treat you lightly. The end of the night was indifferent to this.

"Eh, my lord, don't, I know that you have recently fallen in love with the girl who drinks the moon building, and you are raising money to redeem her body, right?

"If you want to press me, I will also suppress Gu Yue Angu Hero. The end of the night was silent for a moment and said.

"Haha, my lord, are you willing?, then let's hurry up and ......" Lu Wu became excited, but was interrupted by the end of the night before he could finish speaking.

"Okay, stop dreaming just yet, let's live. At the end of the night, he suddenly stopped, and his eyes instantly looked coldly ahead.