Mikago

The inner court banquet during the day made all the ministers return home in high spirits.

However, for Lu You, this is just the beginning.

After nightfall, in the Chengxiang Hall by the Nanhai Pool in the Harem, seven or seven strings of 49 night pearls were hung high up, illuminating the huge palace clearly.All kinds of well-prepared cold food are packed in the tooth plate and marigold, and placed on the ebony table.

In the next few hours, the empresses, concubines, and clan children will have a banquet in the Chengxiang Hall and enjoy singing and dancing.

In order to avoid talking before, Qi Yunchu did not appear at the inner court banquet where the courtiers gathered.However, the banquet deep in the harem cannot be without his figure.

It was precisely because of this that Lu You was able to silently follow behind Qi Yunchu, imagining himself as a shadow.

This gave him a long-lost sense of security.

Whenever there is a banquet in the palace, the focus of all attention is naturally the emperor himself.

Although the emperor had been there to have fun with all the officials in Baifu Palace before, but because there was a polo field between the north hall and the south corridor, Lu You did not see clearly the true face of the Ninth Five-Year Lord.

However, at this moment, the distance between him and "Tian Yan" is less than twenty steps.

I remember Tang Ruilang once said that the emperor had a majestic appearance and a beard several inches long.Rui Lang also said that the emperor had a few wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and he was always smiling at banquets in the palace.

However, what Lu You saw was not such a man.

The emperor in front of him was more like an old man over sixty years old.

Gray hair, gray beard, stooped back... perhaps because of his poor body, he always drooped the corners of his mouth, frowned slightly, and narrowed his eyes into a line.

No matter how you look at it, this is too different from Tang Ruilang's description.

In just three years, how could such a big change happen to a pampered nobleman?

No, that guy Tang Ruilang must be talking nonsense - Lu You quickly came to this conclusion and stopped thinking about it.

The emperor was naturally accompanied by the empress, and Lu You saw Empress Xiao next.

Empress Xiao is the daughter of Xiao Rong, the grand master of the former emperor, so it is estimated that she has reached the age of no doubt.However, perhaps because of the proper maintenance, he looks much younger.

I saw her combing her bun high, adorned with flowers, pearls and emeralds all over the place.The shoulders are covered with gold and jade xiapei, and the chest is full of wreaths, which complement the cold light of the night pearl... It is as radiant as the star river pouring down the ground and the queen mother descending into the world.

Lu You had never seen such a luxurious attire, and she hadn't seen the appearance of Empress Xiao clearly, but her eyes were dazzled by the pearl light, and she hurriedly turned her head away.

Under the emperor and empress, the first seat on the east side of Danchi should naturally be the seat of the prince of the East Palace.

The crown prince of the current dynasty was named Zhao Yun. He was clever and clever since he was a child, and won the emperor's favor. He was established as the heir apparent at the age of six.But now Zhao Yun is in his twenties, but he has nothing to do with his knees, which has become the heart disease of his mother, Empress Xiao.

Thinking of An Le Wang Zhao Nanxing's affair, Lu You couldn't help but wonder if Zhao Yun was as good as Long Yang.

But when he saw the Prince's face clearly, his eyes widened unexpectedly——

He actually saw his own face!

Although during this period of time, Lu You has rarely had the opportunity to examine his true face; but at this moment he can still be sure that the "Prince" in front of him definitely has the same face as himself.

No, this is not Prince Zhao Yun at all, but King Xuan Zhao Yang!

What Li Honghe said before was absolutely correct - this face simply cannot be described as "similar".That is the reflection in the water, the two sides of the mirror...

In the overwhelming astonishment, Lu You desperately told himself to stay calm.

He further pondered: Since King Xuan sat on the position of the prince of the East Palace, where did the real prince go?

"The crown prince is slightly ill, and he is staying in the East Palace to recuperate. He has never participated in such noisy matters." Qi Yunchu, who was standing in front of him, suddenly explained this way.

His voice was like a fountain of ice, calming Lu You's mind.

Lu You took a deep breath, and continued to look at Xuan Wang Zhao Yang—who clearly had the same appearance as himself, but with a golden crown on his head and a crimson gauze red robe, sitting on the noble seat next to the empress.

It's like a sky and an underground, like clouds and mud.

It's just that this lofty King Xuan seems to be absent-minded at the moment.He propped his head on one hand, and yawned slowly; with the other hand, he squeezed the chopsticks to mess with the cold food in front of him, and stretched out his fingers from time to time to caress a small group of pale yellow furry things on the side of the golden bowl.

Lu You took a closer look, only to realize that it was a dead hibiscus bird.

In an instant, all kinds of bad news about King Xuan came to my mind at the same time.Lu You was worried about causing trouble to his upper body, so he didn't dare to look at Zhao Yang any more, and hurriedly shifted his gaze to the next seat.

Next to the crown prince's seat was a prince who was much older than Zhao Yang.Thick black eyebrows, drooping eyelids, and a well-defined profile made him look like an "emperor" in Lu You's imagination.

On the carpet in front of Danji, there were already orchids dancing gracefully, and a few bold women even showed frequent glances at the banquet.However, the prince just looked at his mouth and cared about him, dignified and silent like an old monk in meditation, and didn't look at him half an eye.

In addition, there is a woman sitting beside the prince, with a beautiful appearance and a dignified manner.

Lu You quickly calculated in his heart—today, there are seven princes and four princesses in total, except for the two who unfortunately died.Among the remaining six princes, apart from the crown prince Zhao Yun and Tang Ruilang's second brother-in-law Duan Wang Zhao Qing, only Tang Ruilang's eldest brother-in-law - King Kang remained.

Take a closer look, the woman next to the prince does indeed have the shadow of Tang Ruilang between her eyebrows...

Lu You was in a trance, but heard Qi Yunchu prove this conjecture: "That is King Kang Zhao Jing, born to Concubine Shu Feng. His concubine is Tang Manhua, the eldest daughter of Minister of the Ministry of Officials Tang Quan."

That's right, Lu You quickly recalled the records in the handbook——

Seven years ago, the 16-year-old Tang Manhua was selected by Jinshang and Empress Xiao as the candidate for the crown princess because of her outstanding appearance and gentle temperament.Seeing that the wedding date was about to be set, who would have thought that the crown prince, Zhao Yun, would refuse to do so after hearing the news.

It's a good happy event, but it will break up in an unhappy way between coming and going.At this time, Kang Wang Zhao Jing suddenly stood up and said that he and Tang's parents and daughters loved each other, and they had promised each other for life, and begged their father to grant marriage.

In this way, Tang Manhua finally married Kang Wang as his wife. After marriage, the couple played harmoniously, and they were very harmonious.

Of course, all the records in the Handbook are limited to stating the superficial facts.As for the truth behind the facts, it is all left to Lu You to discover by himself.

This is also Qi Yunchu's consistent behavior style.

But Lu You also understood in his heart - at least for now, there are still some things that he can't understand based on his own ability.

So he lowered his voice and asked actively: "Kang Kang and Wangfei really had a lifelong alliance?"

Qi Yunchu asked back with a smile: "Yes or no, what does it matter now?"

They were talking in a low voice, and the music in their ears stopped for a while, but one person's laughter rose loudly.

Lu You followed the prestige and gasped - that was a man who was more beautiful and coquettish than a woman. If he wasn't wearing the prince's fine attire, he would have been mistaken for a prince or concubine.

When it comes to beauty, Lu You admits that Qi Yunchu is also very good-looking, but it has not yet reached the point of being "indistinguishable".

Moreover, Qi Yunchu's beauty has a sense of alienation that rejects people thousands of miles away, but the beauty of the prince in front of him has malicious intentions, as if it wants to attract everyone's attention.

Lu You couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

He seems to have seen a bright and fresh pomegranate, revealing a circle of ruby-like seeds, but after taking a bite, it is sour to the bone marrow, which is unforgettable forever.

The beautiful prince was still smiling, but the surroundings became quiet.

The emperor put down the wine cup in his hand, and the wrinkles between his brows deepened a bit.Zhao Yun, Zhao Yang and others also turned their heads and looked over in unison.

The beautiful prince laughed more and more, and then stood up unsteadily.

Immediately following from the dark place behind him were two men dressed in blue clothes, they were not eunuchs from the palace, and they were holding medicine boxes in their hands.

"Don't come here! I will kill whoever comes here!"

The beautiful prince sternly warned those two people, but he walked up to the dance floor in front of Danchi in two or three steps, and held the hand of an orchid.

"Father, this woman is so beautiful. Anyway, my son's concubine has passed away for three years, why don't you give her to me?"

It's him? !

Lu You's heart skipped a beat, and he realized that the beauty in front of him should also be Duan Wang Zhao Qing.

It has long been heard that King Duan is arrogant and self-willed, but Lu You never thought that he would be such a ostentatious person.

Zhao Qing's request for a dancing girl has not yet received a response from the Ninth Five-Year Lord, but Empress Xiao has already pulled her face down.

"Ridiculous! Do you know what you're talking about?!"

"My son knows."

Zhao Qing's cheeks were flushed, and her eyes were frighteningly bright, like a wild cat in the dark.

"Anyway, the father is also thinking about continuing the son-in-law, so if he chooses a day or day, he will choose the first one here."

As he spoke, he pulled up the dancer's silver veil and draped it over his head, and spun around happily. There was a bit of innocence in his smile, and it was so beautiful that it made one's heart tremble.

But Lu You had vaguely sensed something - this Zhao Qing was also different from the Duan Wang Zhao Qing when Tang Ruilang's sister passed away three years ago.