Chapter 16: The Family Feast I
In the Zhongwu Hall of King Fu's Mansion, the maids served dishes one after another. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe hall is simple and simple, two rows of wooden tables are placed on both sides of the hall, and King Xiaofu is sitting on the hall. Jiang Zhen and Xiao Qian sat at the bottom in turn, and on the other side were Su Yue, Chai Wuming, Tong Ye, Ji Feng, and Yu Tassel, and Xiaoying was happily eating delicious food on the side.
While Su Yue, Chai Wuming and others were relaxing in the wing room of the West Cross Courtyard, Jiang Yuan sent someone to take Tong Ye, who was still drunk, from the cabin of Luoshui Wharf to the house.
"The lower officials are rude, and I hope that His Royal Highness will be guilty. Tong Ye knelt beside the wooden case, clenched his hands into fists, lowered his head in frustration, and said in a rough voice.
"Hurry up, Lord Tong, please get up, many of you are drifting on the river, it is inevitable that there will be.... Your Highness can understand," Jiang said with a smile.
Su Yue, Chai Wuming and others looked at Tong Ye who was kneeling on the side, and turned their eyes to the main seat, Xiaofu Wang looked at Tong Ye's half-drunk and half-awake appearance, smiled slightly, and said loudly, "Master Tong, hurry up, today is a family banquet, don't be limited by the number of etiquette, please get up quickly." ”
Tong Ye's rough eyes widened, he glanced at Su Yue and Chai Wuming, got up and said respectfully to King Xiaofu, "Thank you, Your Highness" and then sat down. The waiter on the side poured wine for him, but he blocked it with his hand, causing everyone to laugh.
King Xiaofu smiled, looked at everyone in the hall, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, his eyes stayed on Su Yue, and said with a smile, "You have just arrived in Luoyang, this king has done a little bit of the friendship of the landlord, and I hope you will not be polite with this king, and eat and drink to your heart's content." ”
"Thank you, His Royal Highness King Fu" The five of them said in unison, Su Yue picked up the wine glass on the table and glanced at the jade tassel at the end of the seat, his face was embarrassed, and he raised the wine glass and said respectfully to King Fu, "Senior Sister Yu is not strong enough to drink, and I hope Your Highness will forgive me." ”
"If you can't drink enough, you can replace it with tea. Jade girl casual. King Fu raised his glass to everyone, "A month ago, this king learned that you would be inspecting Luoyang, so he specially invited a famous chef from Jinling to prepare Jinling's famous food. I don't know if it's to your taste. ”
"Thank you, Your Highness," everyone raised their glasses and drank them all, and began to taste the delicacies on the wooden table.
After three rounds of drinking, King Xiaofu's face flushed slightly, slowly put down the wine glass in his hand, picked up a piece of fish head on the plate with chopsticks, and said with a sip of wine, "This king has heard that King Yan and King Qing often have dealings, I don't know if Su Qianhu has heard of it?"
Su Yue looked up at the drunken Xiaofu King, and muttered for a moment, not knowing whether he was really drunk or fake. Suddenly, he laughed and said, "I don't know what Your Highness means by this?"
Xiaofu Wang was stunned for a moment, put down the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he smiled dumbly, "Uncle Yan Wang and Uncle Qing Wang are brothers of the same mother, and it is normal to move around often. ”
Su Yue looked at the cold eyes of King Xiaofu, a trace of cold sweat oozed from his forehead, and said in his heart, King Qing was ordered by the prince to take charge of the Jinyi Guard, and the prince and King Yan had always been suspicious, so he didn't know what King Fu meant. Chai Wuming on the side saw Su Yue's face embarrassed, and hurriedly raised his glass to salute King Xiaofu and said, "Your Highness, I am waiting for this northern tour on the orders of the crown prince, although His Royal Highness King Qing is in charge of the Jinyi Guard, but we are directly under the command of Ning, so I don't know if what you said is really substantiated?"
"This..."Xiao Fu Wang sneered and was silent for a moment. Jiang Zhen in the palace hurriedly relieved the siege and said, "It's all to blame for the many mouths, and I don't know where the rumors came from." His Royal Highness King Qing was ordered by the crown prince himself, how could he... How could it be".
Everyone laughed, and the atmosphere in the hall became much calmer. Su Yue got up from the banquet, looked respectful, and saluted, "If Your Highness has evidence of private dealings between His Royal Highness King Qing and His Royal Highness King Yan, you can directly hand it over to us and others to directly inherit His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." He lowered his head and glanced at the little Fu King in the palace, and his face changed slightly. He thought in his heart, the kings had privately cultivated their own forces and attacked each other, and if there was evidence that had been secretly reported to the Jinling East Palace, how could they ask them again.
Xiao Fuwang's face was pale, and he held the wine glass in his hand tightly, making a crisp sound, and the wine glass was squeezed into powder in his palm and scattered under the curtain of his wooden case. "How can I participate in my two uncles!" Xiao Fu Wang held back, his face instantly returned to normal, laughed loudly, and looked at Su Yue on the left with his eyes.
Su Yue heard this, cold sweat flowed, the wine glass in his hand trembled, and the blood on his face suddenly disappeared. Since the crown prince came to power, King Yan has been dissatisfied with this, and Taizu sent King Yan to guard Beiping and defend the northern frontier with King Fu in order to prevent his brothers from killing each other. However, in order to prevent the kings from conspiring in private, the prince took charge of the Jinyi Guard with his henchman King Qing, and commanded Ning Wuji in the air. Unexpectedly, after King Qing became the head of the Zhenfu Division, he would secretly befriend the kings and secretly develop his own power.
This time, under the pretext of inspecting the northern frontier, Su Yue was ordered by King Qing and King Yan to secretly communicate letters. But he never thought that he was learned by the secret agents of King Fu's Mansion in Beiping, so King Fu deliberately said it at the banquet with the intention of drinking, testing Su Yueren's reaction.
Jiang Yuan, who was sitting on the opposite side, looked at Su Yue's face suddenly changed, and then he understood it, and said with a dry smile, "Su Qianhu can rest assured, His Royal Highness King Fu has no intention of participating in the Jinling dispute, and I hope that Lord Su will make more clear to His Royal Highness the Prince, My Royal Highness only wants to defend the northern frontier for the Ming Dynasty to resist Meng Yuan." ”
Chai Wuming looked at Su Yue's complicated expression, as if he saw something, and when he saw Jiang Yue say this, he already understood two or three percent in his heart. He coughed, looked at Su Yue, and said in a low voice, "Big brother, are you okay?"
"It's okay.... It's okay...."Su Yue, who was relieved, returned to normal and said with a smile, "His Royal Highness King Fu wholeheartedly guards the northern frontier for the imperial court, and we will definitely explain it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." ”
"Then thank you Su Qianhu and all of you. King Xiaofu picked up his wine glass, his face was full of joy, and he laughed loudly, "Everyone, please eat." It just so happens that there will be a grand event in Luoyang City, you might as well go to Tianxianglou to take a look after inspecting the city defense, I don't know what you think?"
Su Yue was thinking about how to divert the topic, and King Xiaofu changed his words and stopped mentioning King Yan and King Qing. He hurriedly preemptively said, "Could it be that the thing Your Highness is referring to is the Eight Sects of the Martial Arts in the martial arts?"
"Yes, it is the martial arts event that the eight factions will be martial, but not everyone can go to these eight factions. Jiang Zhen looked smug and said happily, "However, Fuwangfu and Tianxianglou have some friendship, if Su Qianhu and a few adults want to go, Fuwangfu is still happy to introduce them." ”
"Very well. Su Yue looked straight and nodded in response, "The five of us brothers and sisters have just entered the rivers and lakes, especially Senior Sister Yu, she is the first time to set foot in the rivers and lakes, and she just took her to see it." ”
"Su Qianhu" Xiaofu Wang was sitting in a precarious position, drank a cup of ginseng tea handed by the maid, his face was slightly less drunk, and said in a rough voice, "After you finish inspecting the Luoyang city defense, how about I ask Brother Yuan to take you to Tianxiang Tower?"
"Your Highness Xie," Su Yue and the others said in unison.
Tianxianglou has stood for more than 100 years, and has been making friends since King Fu guarded Luoyang. In the few sessions of the Eight Sects of the Old Fu Wang, the Fu Wangfu did not hesitate to provide various subsidies for the disciples of the Eight Sects, and even dispatched Jingwu Wei to maintain law and order in Luoyang City during the Eight Sects Meeting. Therefore, he has a lot of influence in the hearts of the eight factions of martial arts, and Murong Jue invited the old Fu Wang Jiang Qi to come to Canglong Pavilion to watch the ultimate battle of the eight factions.