mesbooks Chapter 285: Birthday Banquet
Chapter 285: Birthday Banquet
"What is a bad check?"
Xiao Ye looked at Xu Qing suspiciously.
Xu Qing thought for a while and said, "Brother Xiao, I'll treat you to dinner another day."
"Another day?" Xiao Ye asked, "What day is the next day?"
Xu Qing said with a smile: "This is a blank check."
Xiao Ye was slightly taken aback when he heard this, then he understood, and followed Xu Qing into the room.
Li Ming, who stayed where he was, took a deep breath and walked out of the palace gate. He knew Su Qian's identity, and he also saw Xu Qing walking not far away. He warned Song before the matter started. Mingzhe, it's a pity that he didn't listen to persuasion for the sake of flattering Qin Zihong, and he couldn't tell the truth in the presence of Qin Zihong and other top dudes.
If he can't persuade him, and a top-notch dude like Qin Zihong is patting his chest to guarantee that Su Qian's husband is definitely from a humble background, then he can only watch Song Mingzhe go further and further on the road to death.
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The Great Hall, which celebrates the queen's birthday, is so big that it must not accommodate all the guests.
Those who can be seated in the main hall are people with high authority and status in the court, such as: two prime ministers, several high-ranking generals, six ministers, and ministers of various ministries, as well as favored princes and princesses.
And the patrol guards here are also the strictest.
Inside the side hall are the family members of the officials in the main hall. Of course, most of them are wives with imperial orders, and some favored concubines of the Emperor Chu all sit here, which belongs to the palace exclusively for the female family members.
In the palace that is a little further away, find a place to sit by yourself if you are above the fifth rank or below the third rank.
Of course, there is another group of people who are very special, those who have no official position but have the grace of their elders in their families.
They can also get invitations because there is a high-ranking adult in the family, and they can attend the empress's birthday banquet, but the place where they sit has almost no connection with the main hall. As long as there are no vicious incidents such as fights, You can eat and drink as you please, the degree of freedom is very high, anyway, no one cares about you.
It stands to reason that Xu Qing, as the dean of the National Chamber of Commerce, is also able to favor the family members, but most of these things are the descendants of Enyin, who has heard of Enyin's father-in-law?
In this way, the poor county magistrate Su can only eat alone tonight.
As soon as Xu Qing and Xiao Ye walked into the Great Hall, a big hand appeared on their shoulders, and then the voice of Old General Liu came from behind: "What are you two boys doing, you came so late, Come, sit with the old man over there."
Even with Xiao Ye's terrifying force value, he couldn't break free from Old General Liu's hand, so the two gave up struggling.
Old General Liu looked at Xiao Ye and said, "Your father learned all his martial arts from this old man, and you can be regarded as half of my grandson, so follow me honestly."
Then Old General Liu turned his head and looked at Xu Qing again: "I haven't seen you in court for a few times, but this aura is getting stronger and stronger. It seems that I have practiced a lot on weekdays, but it's a bit late to start. , but luck is good."
"Hey, boy, why do you look at me like that?"
Xu Qing looked at Old General Liu and said, "Old General, are you missing a younger brother?"
Xiao Ye on the side immediately widened his eyes when he heard this: "Huh?"
Old General Liu patted Xu Qing on the shoulder with a smile, and scolded with a smile: "You will take advantage of it, and you will be addicted to being a junior? If you become the old man's junior, I am afraid that you will become a senior uncle of half the court. Sit down honestly."
After the virtuous king and concubine, the emperor and the empress were seated one after another, and everyone bowed, the banquet could begin.
The emperor looked at a vacant seat in the hall, looked at King Xian and asked, "Brother Huang, where did Xue Er go? Why didn't you come here?"
Xian Wang smiled and said: "The girl followed Uncle Anding's wife to the side hall, this girl has more and more own ideas."
The emperor nodded and said with a smile: "So that's the case, then let's have a banquet."
It was also the first time for Xu Qing to see the appearance of an empress. Naturally, she had no choice but to be an empress. She was dressed in a graceful and luxurious phoenix robe, and her headdress was carved with gold and jade, which looked exquisite and extraordinary.
Good-looking is good-looking, but this set is definitely not light, allowing the empress to attend a banquet with such a small body and such a set of clothes in a dignified manner.
At night, if the emperor has any special hobbies, he still has to wear it...
It's really not easy.
On the Queen's birthday, the opening remarks are indispensable. The Emperor of Chu said: "Last year, there were many disasters in my country of Chu. Fortunately, my great Chu monarchs and ministers worked together to overcome this difficulty. Your love is invaluable. Today, I will use the Queen's birthday On this day, I will gather together with all my lovers and share a feast."
Naturally, the civil and military ministers quickly stood up, bowed and said in unison: "It's all thanks to your majesty's great blessings and blessings, and the empress and mother are respectful to the world. I dare not take credit for it!"
After taking his seat again, Xu Qing whispered suspiciously: "Did you rehearse in advance?"
Xiao Ye shook his head and said, "I don't know, no one told me."
At this moment, Old General Liu's voice came from the side: "Boy, it's really rare and strange. You'll know it after a few times. It's like this every year. At most, you just change your rhetoric. The year before last, I said that the weather in my hometown was smooth and the weather was good. .”
Xu Qing looked at Xiao Ye: "Brother Xiao, have you been here many times?"
Xiao Ye said: "No one told me every time."
Xu Qing: "..."
The opening is over, Xu Qing hasn't eaten a few bites of food, and then there is the part of presenting birthday speeches. Of course, like in previous years, it is almost all the solo show of civil servants, and no one on the military side can write this stuff .
Several princesses and princes had their birthday speeches. The front was quite normal, but I always felt that there was something wrong with Xin Wang's birthday speech.
What kind of empress, empress and mother respect the world, the words of the phoenix are right, and the sons and ministers are enlightened.
A few sentences later, the empress and empress bless the common people, and her son and minister have benefited a lot from her actions.
On the surface, they are exaggerating how good the queen is, but if you listen carefully, it means that you are right and you are right, right?
Such a birthday statement is obviously full of perfunctory!
Isn't the whole article just: yes, yes, yes, what you said and what you did are right, isn't that all right?
However, there are quite a few sons and daughters of Emperor Chu, and it took a lot of time for them to present their birthday speeches.
It's really possible!
Especially the king of Shu, the eldest son of the emperor, on the surface he is of the same generation as Xiao Ye, but in fact the children are all born out of trouble.
Mingming Xianwang is still a big brother, but the children are not only younger than Little Brother's, but also younger than Little Brother's.
This is also understandable. After all, Emperor Chu was well protected by the sage king since he was a child. When the sage king was fighting openly and secretly with the princes, the emperor Chu who had nothing to do could only make people.
When the virtuous king was fighting for his country across the battlefield, the emperor of Chu continued to make people with nothing to do.
It's quite surprising that there are only so many of them.
After the civil servants, the prince and the princess had finished their birthday speeches, Xu Qing was relieved and could eat normally.
At this moment, King Xian looked at Xu Qing and said with a smile: "Xu Qing, don't think that the king can't see you because you are hiding beside Old General Liu. Many ministers have offered birthday poems. Where is your birthday poem? Do you want to hide it?" Tuck it in, don't you?"