Chapter 399 Chapter 4 Tai Chi Banquet

Kou Zhong stepped into the vast and magnificent space of the Tai Chi Hall, only to realize how popular he is in Chang'an. People, whether they know him or not, are vying to greet him and make friends with him. When he was very busy, Mei Xun patted him on the shoulder and said: "Young brother will be excused! I will meet Mr. Mo for a drink and have fun later, and I will be my host." Kou Zhong was stunned and said, "Where is Head Mei going?" Chang He said with a smile: "Master Mei doesn't want to go somewhere, but each has a seat, let's break up for now!"

Mei Xun laughed and went on her own. Chang He pulled Kou Zhong and walked towards the banquet close to the chairman, explaining: "Prince Jiancheng occupies eight seats, King Qin has six seats, and King Qi only has four seats, the seats are expensive, Mei Xun can only sit up to Qi. to the king's seat." Kou Zhong understood, and said: "Of course the younger brother will sit in the matching seat with the prince, right?" Chang He laughed and said: "Your elder brother is a special guest, and he is sitting at the emperor's side seat, how come!" Kou Zhong followed him to the third seat outside the east seat, and the two senior officials stood up and said, "Mr. Mo, please sit down!"

Kou Zhong took a look, and saw that it was Liu Zhenghui and Wen Yanbo from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who had met in Sifang Building today, and hurriedly returned the greeting. Liu Zhenghui personally introduced all the people at the table to him, all of whom were top officials from various ministries and provinces. He sat between Liu Zhenghui and Chang He, and there were still two vacant seats. After chatting and laughing, Kou Zhong couldn't bear it and asked, "Who hasn't come yet?" Liu Zhenghui said with a smile, "You have to ask Old Wen." Wen Yanbo said: "One is an important foreign guest, of course we should wait for him in terms of politeness, instead of making him wait! My little brother will not accompany you for the time being."

Kou Zhong didn't take it seriously, he approached Chang He and said, "This kind of banquet can make people feel bored, when can we go outside to play?" Chang He said in a difficult way: "I thought you were sitting in the side seat of His Highness the Crown Prince, and it wouldn't be so eye-catching when you slipped away. Now..." Liu Zheng met them and whispered to each other, and asked curiously, "What's the matter?" Kou Zhong smiled wryly, "It's nothing, it's just that my travel plan is over." Those who sat with them were all masters of Tiance Mansion, including Changsun Wuji, Yuchi Jingde, Li Jing and his wife, Pang Yu, Luo Shixin, and Liu Dewei.

There are still four empty seats, but I don't know who to leave them for, Xu Ziling is not like Kou Zhong, although he murmurs in his heart, he knows that it is not appropriate to ask anyone. Fortunately, Changsun Wuji didn't sit beside him, otherwise he would have to parry his questions. Eunuch Bao'e refilled their glasses, and Pang Yu on the left sighed, "I don't know who's lucky to be able to sit next to everyone in Xiufang tonight." Although the main hall is full of people, it is a palace banquet, everyone is solemn and restrained, they dare not make noise, and the atmosphere is restrained and serious.

Hongfu girl scolded with a low laugh: "From my point of view, Xiufang's heart already belongs to someone else, Mr. Yu, don't want to be delusional." All the people here are not moved, and they are not without jealousy. "Young Master Yu" is Pang Yu's nickname in Tiance Mansion. Hearing the words, he was shocked and said, "That person is the lucky one who is truly enviable and jealous. Who is this son? As long as I spread the news, Baobao has many people who will look for him desperately." Hong Fu said: "What is the name of this gentleman, please forgive Hong Fu for not being able to provide it, because I just guessed it."

Changsun Wuji said with great interest: "Although I am not qualified to be the servant of everyone under Xiufang's skirts, I still care about the lifelong happiness of the talented girl. I don't know what clues the eldest sister guessed from that the talented girl has something to belong to?" Hongfu girl said: "Yesterday, Hongfu visited her in Shanglin Garden and saw her writing down the lines of 'Long Lovesickness, Long Lovesickness; Tears are wet with tears, and the young man owes a lot of grace' on the paper. Many times, when you see me coming, you still throw away the note, if you are not suffering from lovesickness, how could you be like this?"

Pang Yu said dejectedly: "Thank you, big sister, for your reminder, this note is definitely not written for me." Li Jing suddenly whispered: "Look who is here." Everyone looked at him, and saw a group of people entering the hall proudly, two of them were Kang Jiaoli from East Turkic and Yang Wengan, the leader of Jingzhaolian.The latter obviously enjoys a lot among the dignitaries in Chang'an, and he keeps greeting the dignitaries in the eastern and western seats. Following behind them was the great fairy Hoover and his daughter Hu Xiaoxian. Unexpectedly, this pair of famous father and daughter in the gambling world were also invited.

When Hu Xiaoxian passed by, she glanced at Xu Ziling with her beautiful eyes, and she also pursed her lips and smiled, with a smug and hateful expression. Luo Shixin, who was sitting next to Xu Ziling, asked curiously, "Does Teacher Mo know Hu Xiaoxian?" Xu Ziling felt very embarrassed, so he could only vaguely say: "It's just a one-sided relationship!" At this time, Hong Fu Nu pushed Li Jing and said, "Shi Ji and his wife are here!" Xu Ziling was shocked when he heard that, he looked towards the gate of the palace, and it was indeed Shen Luoyan who was walking towards them with Li Shiji beside him like a bird, and couldn't help crying in his heart.

Kou Zhong couldn't resist asking Liu Zhenghui about the ins and outs of the buildings around the Yuema Bridge, and when he was talking interestingly, all the people present stood up one after another, not knowing what happened, but saw the beautiful Shang Xiufang, the head of the eunuch in charge of the court banquet tonight His son Chen Gong led the way and went straight to the table.The people in the nearby seats all showed envious expressions. Kou Zhong came to his senses, hurriedly stood up to welcome him like the others, secretly thinking that Shang Xiufang is more attractive than any rich official or rich man.

Eunuch Chen opened a chair for Shang Xiufang himself, and invited her to take a seat, but Shang Xiufang said: "Xiufang has a heartfelt request, can she sit next to Mr. Mo instead, so that he can ask Mr. Mo some medical questions. " If Kou Zhong was a person with a romantic appearance like Pang Yuyou or Hou Xibai, everyone would guess that the goddess had a heart, but if Kou Zhong was an ugly doctor, naturally no one would suspect this aspect. Right now Liu Zhengzheng will almost give up his seat, and two other eunuchs come to move Shang Xiufang's seat, and when Shang Xiufang sits safely next to Kou Zhong, all the people return to their seats one after another. Chang He leaned close to Kou Zhong's ear and said with a smile: "Be careful, brother, your virginity will be lost." Kou Zhong only returned with a wry smile. Shang Xiufang immediately became the target of public criticism, including Chang He, everyone scrambled to flatter her, and she was also eloquent and quarreling, she would never lose anyone. Kou Zhong, on the other hand, seemed to have turned into a mute, stealing glances at the gate of the palace from time to time, seeing Li Mi, Wang Bodang, Chao Gongcuo, Da Dazhi and others entering the arena. When he saw Dongming princess Shan Wanjing and her appointed husband-in-law Shang Ming entering the arena, Shang Xiufang finally "leaved" everyone at the banquet, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Mr. Mo, do you know Xiufang?" Why did you arrange this seat?" Kou Zhong knew something was wrong, so he bit the bullet and said in a low voice: "What is the reason?" Everyone thought that they were discussing medical issues, so they didn't dare to disturb them, and chatted and laughed with each other. Shang Xiufang said: "Because this is a special request from Xiufang. Alas! What about you! I was almost deceived by you." Kou Zhong's heart was shocked, and he looked at her in astonishment. Shang Xiufang responded with a charming smile, and said nonchalantly, "When will Miracle Doctor Mo find time to treat Xiufang?" Kou Zhong still didn't understand the true meaning of her "almost being cheated", he said with a wry smile: "Miss Xiufang has a life, how dare the villain refuse to obey, whenever the lady wants someone, the villain will report to the lady at that time." Shang Xiufang smiled coquettishly, her soul-stirring, Jianshui pupils twitched on his ugly face, she moved closer and lowered her voice to the lowest possible level, but her words were still clear, and her breath was as loud as ever. Lan's soft voice said: "It's the Spring Festival, how about the young commander come to Shanglin Garden to accompany Xiufang to celebrate the new year? Don't miss the appointment this time!" Kou Zhong's scalp went numb immediately, he didn't know where to show his flaws, he actually showed her his false face, and said dejectedly: "How dare a villain disobey his orders?" At this time Wen Yanbo came back, and the foreign guest he led was Mo Heer, the envoy sent by East Turkic for trade. The music started. When the emperor of the Tang Dynasty arrived, nearly a thousand guests in the main hall stood up to welcome him. Xu Ziling wished he could find a hole in the ground and get in. The four empty seats were filled by two couples, one was Xu Shiji and Shen Luoyan, and the other was Shan Wanjing and monk Ming. Hearing the title of "son-in-law", Xu Ziling knew that Dongming princess Shan Wanjing "accepted" Shangming as her son-in-law according to the arrangement of Dongming sect itself.No wonder I met Yiren again before, she acted so dignified and self-restrained, and tried to avoid the selfishness of men and women in her speech. After Shen Luoyan's beautiful eyes stared deeply at him, she pretended not to pay attention to his expression, but Xu Ziling was sure that she saw through that she was Xu Ziling. But because of Shan Wanjing's previous record of "Yong Qin", even though he had doubts, he still couldn't make a conclusion, so his eyes couldn't stop shooting at him, which made him even more restless. Although he has never had any relationship with the two women, or fell in love with him, and he was known as Hua Youzhu earlier, but seeing the two women sitting in pairs at the same table face to face, it feels strange and uncomfortable Only you know. Fortunately, at this time Li Yuan led his concubines, three sons and relatives of the emperor into the arena. The group of nearly a hundred people was mighty and mighty, attracting everyone's attention, thus relieving his suffering and pressure. Among the concubines of Li Yuan, the only one Xu Ziling knew was Dong Shuni, she was by no means inferior to other concubines in beauty, following closely behind Concubine De and Zhang Jieyu who had recovered from a strange illness, it could be seen that she was very much loved by Li Yuan. Li Jiancheng and others also lead their concubines into the palace in order of respect and inferiority. After completion, it was Shimin, followed by Yuanji, and finally Li Shentong, Li Nantian and other members of the Li clan. Kou Zhong couldn't leave Li Xiuning's gaze after she entered the palace, what made him most miserable was that Chai Shao was openly by her side, it was obvious that his status had already been confirmed, so he could make such an arrangement in the seat. When the members of the Li Clan sat down in Chairman Liuwei, the officials and guests in the hall, led by Liu Wenjing and Pei Ji, two of Li Yuan's closest ministers, toasted Li Yuan three times, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became lively. After Li Yuan said again that everyone should enjoy the festive season without restraint, under the leadership of Ji Qian, more than a hundred kabuki danced like butterflies from the back hall doors on both sides of the chairman, singing and dancing to the melodious sound of drums. Ji Qian in the dance is extraordinarily charming, especially against the backdrop of many kabuki, her outstanding and graceful posture can be seen.All the girls sang, she sang and danced gracefully, her voice was sweet, although it was not as good as Shang Xiufang's unique and outstanding style, she still had a charming charm, no wonder she became the most popular famous performer in Chang'an. Seeing the tumbling skirts, fluttering long sleeves, Ji Qian's melodious singing voice, and the gorgeous dancing posture that can look at Qingcheng and Qingguo again, even Li Yuan can't take his eyes off her. Kou Zhongshang saw Ji Qian for the first time, and he couldn't help but put aside the melancholy and melancholy caused by Li Xiuning for a while, and was fascinated by watching, when Shang Xiufang's soft voice suddenly sounded next to his ear, "Is Mr. Mo moved?" Kou Zhong woke up with a start, his nose was filled with the beauty's fragrance, he couldn't help but counterattack casually: "Only for Miss Xiufang, my brother will be tempted." Shang Xiufang was slightly taken aback, her pretty face turned hot, she gave him a glance and said in a low voice, "You're lying again!" This time it was Kou Zhong's turn to be startled, thinking to himself whether Shang Xiufang had taken a fancy to him, otherwise how could this daughter have such a coquettish demeanor, and even spoke to him in such a tone. The others were engrossed in enjoying the song and dance, and did not pay attention to the little episode that happened between the man and woman. Just listen to Ji Qian leading the singing: The rain and dew are fresh in front of the Calyx Building, and there are Taiping people in Chang'an City. The dragon holds the fiery tree with thousands of flames, and the chicken steps on the lotus for a long live spring. The emperor's palace plays on the spring platform three to five times, and the rain and wind are not to be jealous. Thousands of Shadow Trees in the Western Regions Lantern Wheels, Donghua Golden Que Wan reopened. After the song was over, the lights dimmed, and suddenly a colorful lantern appeared in the hands of the women as if by magic, and the rays of light hit the hundreds of lanterns dancing together, changing thousands of patterns woven by the dancing lights in the space of the hall , everyone was dazzled and amazed. When the lights in the hall were turned on again, all the maikos had already exited the hall from the original way. The applause shook the hall. Gao Shilian, another minister in Kou Zhong's banquet, applauded and said to Shang Xiufang: "The dance music composed by everyone in Xiufang is really brilliant and admirable." Only then did Kou Zhong understand why Shang Xiufang lived in Shanglinyuan. It turned out that it was to train Kabuki for this performance. Shang Xiufang hastily yielded. At this time, Bao'e brought delicacies to the table like flowing water, which was another round of excitement. It was Li Yuan's turn to toast to everyone, creating another harmonious atmosphere where the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves. Xu Ziling on the other side felt something in his heart, and thought to himself that if it weren't for the great power of the Tang Dynasty, the atmosphere of the banquet tonight would never be as high-spirited as it is now.If it weren't for the factions in the court who were constantly fighting, there would indeed be no one in the Tang Dynasty who could compete with them. After drinking for three rounds, 300 guards of the imperial guards wearing battle armor entered from the main hall gate, lined up in various formations, held knives and grabbed swords and shields, performing a "soldier formation" full of mechanical beauty. Compared with the beautiful maiko just now, it is another full of masculinity, which is also exciting. After the "soldier dance", Li Jiancheng led Li Shimin, Li Yuanji and other royal relatives to toast Li Yuan, setting off another climax. When he calmed down, Li Jiancheng stood up and said in a loud voice: "I have been invincible in all battles in Taiyuan since the Tang Dynasty. In the tradition of my Tang Dynasty, martial arts examinations are indispensable. My Highness will throw bricks to attract jade, and send the captain of the Changlin Army, General Dazhi, to accept the challenge. No matter the winner or loser, the two sides will each reward ten taels of gold to add to the fun .” There was a burst of applause in the hall immediately. Xu Ziling applauded in his heart, he didn't expect to be able to compete in martial arts so soon. Under the eyes of everyone, Da Kezhi stood up, boldly came to the front of the hall, knelt down and kowtowed to Li Yuan.