mesbooks Chapter 844: Dust Cleansing Banquet
Chapter 844: Dust Cleansing Banquet
Later in the day, Xu Qing and Xiao Ye got up to attend the cleansing feast.
The Dust Cleaning Banquet was held in the Zhou Palace.
Now that the days are short and the nights are long, the sky is already showing twilight, and against the backdrop of the newly installed palace lanterns, it makes the imperial city of Zhou Kingdom cast a layer of mystery.
Xiao Ye walked to the gate of the city and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Brother Xu, I can't take it anymore! Can we allocate some money to repair and decorate the imperial city after we go back?"
Xu Qing comforted: "Brother Xiao, don't worry, even if we build a house with colored glaze, we can build it now."
It is really not easy to say that Chu State was at the beginning.
The poorest of the Three Kingdoms is Chu, who is not willing to spend money on anything but armaments.
The capital city and the imperial city can save as much as possible on the basis of ensuring practicality. Naturally, they are not as good as Zhou State, and even farther than Zhao State.
Xiao Ye had never seen the world before, and had only been to grasslands that were not as good as Chu State, so naturally he would not have any thoughts, but after walking around Zhou State, he really couldn't bear it.
It would have been fine if it had been poor before, but now that Chu State is rich, Xiao Ye naturally couldn't bear Chu's useless decorations other than practicality.
Just when Xu Qing was about to step into the palace gate, he saw a person wearing a moon-white palace dress walking towards him, walking at a steady pace. Although there were no other accessories around him, he was still quiet and moving.
Xu Qing was slightly taken aback when he saw the visitor: "Mingyue?"
Li Mingyue was just walking with her head down, but when she heard this familiar call, her whole body trembled slightly. She raised her head in disbelief and saw Xu Qing, her long eyelashes trembling slightly: "Mr. Xu."
Xiao Ye at the side looked at Xu Qing, and then at Li Mingyue who was desperately suppressing the surprise in his heart, his face suddenly turned into the color of Eight Trigrams.
Li Mingyue noticed Xiao Ye who was beside Xu Qing and then smiled slightly: "I have seen the prince."
Hearing Li Mingyue's voice, Xiao Ye had no choice but to suppress Eight Trigrams' expression, cupped hands returned; "I have seen the princess."
Xu Qing looked at Li Mingyue in surprise and said, "Mingyue is not in the palace?"
Li Mingyue opened the mouth and said, "A few days ago, I left the palace to open the mansion. It has just been repaired, and I lived in the mansion outside the palace for two days."
Li Mingyue's words made Xu Qing very curious, Zhou Huang actually allowed Li Mingyue, a concubine princess or a concubine princess who could no longer be concubine, to leave the palace and start the mansion.
Could it be that Li Xun has been sent to the fief?
Spy Shadow has not received news of any prince of the Zhou Kingdom leaving the capital to become a vassal recently.
Xu Qing asked curiously; "What about Brother Li?"
Li Mingyue said; "Brother still lives in the palace."
Xu Qing was even more puzzled when he heard this, what kind of tricks is Emperor Zhou playing?
Why are they treated differently?
At this moment, the third princess, led by two maids with lanterns in front of her, saw the scene in front of the gate of the imperial city, especially when she saw Li Mingyue standing with two strange men. Walking over, he said: "Isn't this Mingyue Little Sister, who even flirts with a strange man here, so I'm not afraid of causing gossip for nothing."
Li Mingyue immediately lowered her head and said, "The third princess misunderstood... Mr. Xu is Mingyue's savior in Chu, and I'm here to thank you."
The third princess was surprised: "Oh? Are you two from Chu?"
Xu Qing said: "Chu Guozheng envoy."
Xiao Ye said: "Deputy envoy."
The third princess couldn't help laughing when she heard Xu Qing and Xiao Ye's words; "It turns out that they are guests from the Chu Kingdom. I have seen the two in the royal study of the father before. They are sealed as wolves, and they drink horses. , Yining really admires the two of you."
Xu Qing said: "The whole country does it with the power of the whole country, and I dare not take credit for it."
The third princess glanced at Li Mingyue and said: "Now that Mingyue is about to marry as a woman, she shouldn't show her face in front of others. Perhaps my father thinks that Mingyue is about to marry far away, so I let Mingyue come here to participate in the dust-cleaning banquet. See you at last." Once you see the world, if you two are not very familiar with the palace, just ask me."
Hearing what the third princess said, Li Mingyue looked at Xu Qing with a little panic and wanted to explain, but then lowered her head again, and her eyes dimmed instantly.
Xu Qing couldn't help but frowned when he heard the words of the third princess: "What did the princess say? Mingyue wants to marry someone?"
The third princess was surprised and said, "Doesn't Xu Zhengshi not know? Mingyue Little Sister is the person handpicked by the father to go to Loulan to marry King Loulan. Zhengshi must also know that the two years of two wars in Zhou Kingdom have greatly consumed the national strength. If it is possible to use the method of marriage in exchange for Loulan's surrender, it is naturally worthwhile, and it is also in the interest of our country Zhou to use a concubine to marry a princess."
Just now the third princess saw clearly that this Xu Zhengshi should be Li Mingyue's old friend in Chu State, and definitely not as simple as an ordinary lifesaver.
The two were so close just now, and the emotions in their eyes were so rich, how could this seem to repay some life-saving grace?
Who is this Xu Zhengshi?
The dean of the National Chamber of Commerce of the Chu State is also the heroic general of the Chu State who seals the wolf into the Xu family. Even the Zhao State, which is the most powerful in writing, is defeated by him.
He is capable of both civil and military skills and can make money. I am afraid that there is no other man like this in the whole world.
She, Li Mingyue, a concubine, how could she be favored by such an outstanding man?
The third princess didn't believe that this Xu Zheng could still value Li Mingyue so much after he knew that Li Mingyue was about to marry a woman!
What the third princess said really surprised Xu Qing, he looked at Li Mingyue and asked, "Mingyue, what's going on?"
When Li Mingyue heard Xu Qing's words, she put her feet together and intertwined her hands; "This... This is His Majesty's will, and Mingyue must obey it."
Li Mingyue's voice was so low that she didn't dare to raise her head to look at Xu Qing.
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"What are you guys doing here? Let's get in quickly. If it's going to go out, outsiders may think that Zhou Guo's hospitality is not enough." Zhou Guo's prince walked to the gate of the imperial city and said with a smile: " The work of the two envoys made me very admired, seeing the real person today is really extraordinary, please come in."
Xu Qing originally wanted to ask more questions, but he also knew that it would be inappropriate to ask more questions at this moment, so he could only enter the palace with the prince of Zhou who claimed to be his own palace.
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Xu Qing looked at Li Mingyue who was sitting across from her with her head lowered and did not dare to lift her face, her expression was complicated for a moment.
Sitting on a high seat, Emperor Zhou said, "Yesterday, I just set the date for the marriage between Zhou Guo and Loulan. Today, the envoys of Chu Kingdom have arrived. It is truly a double blessing."
Xiao Ye looked at Xu Qing who had an inexplicable expression on the side and Li Mingyue who kept his head down, then turned his head to look at Emperor Zhou and said, "Unexpectedly, Loulan, a vassal country, is also qualified to ask your country for marriage. If the country wants to propose marriage to your country, I wonder if your country is willing to marry the princess to our Chu country?"
Zhou Huang said with a smile; "In the battle of the grassland, my country of Zhou owes your country a favor. If your country wants to form a good relationship with my Zhou country between Qin and Jin, I will marry my daughter-in-law, the third princess, to your country and your country." The country has formed a good relationship between Qin and Jin."
The third princess couldn't help but feel a little shy when she heard Zhou Huang's words. Chu is the strongest country in the world. If she can marry there, she will become the most beautiful princess. Both the prince and the county lord are quite beautiful Handsome, and they are all generals who seal wolves and live in Xuxu, and they look like they will not lose money if they marry anyone.
When Xiao Ye heard Zhou Huang's words, he immediately withdrew his gaze: "Let's forget what she said."