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The brothers and sisters rested for a while in the back hall of the Xuanzheng Hall, and then a palace official came to report that the preparations for the palace banquet had been completed.

The palace banquet is also a very important procedure after the enthronement ceremony. Sometimes the new emperor ascends the throne suddenly, and the courtiers and the new emperor are not familiar enough with each other, so this palace banquet will become the first opportunity to contact each other.Therefore, this palace banquet has always been valued by people. Even though Chu Zhao has been in politics for many years, his conduct and methods have long been known to all the ministers, and he himself knows these ministers very well, so he will not be perfunctory about this palace banquet.

"Let's go." After hearing the palace man's report, Chu Zhao didn't delay, stood up, straightened his sleeves casually, and said to Chu Yi.

Chu Yi nodded in response, and followed Chu Zhao out of the back hall of the Xuanzheng Palace. Halfway through, he said uneasy: "Brother Huang has been too busy these days, and his health is already at a loss. Drink less wine at the palace banquet tonight, or you should go to bed." It's hard."

In front of Chu Zhao, Chu Yi hardly hides anything, she always speaks out when she has something to say.However, every word she said today showed concern for Chu Zhao's body, which made Chu Zhao wonder, is it true that her body is so bad that she can't hide it from others?

Of course he didn't know that as early as two years ago, a black cat had listened to his secrets on the roof of Chonghua Palace.

Thoughts turned, but the face did not reveal the slightest, Chu Zhao still smiled gently: "Ah Yi, don't worry, I never drink too much."

As the new emperor, the team behind Chu Zhao has grown a lot. With so many outsiders present, the brothers and sisters will not say much, especially when Chu Yi can't help but care about Chu Zhao's body-she knows her brother's condition. It's nothing to be in poor health, but if the news of the new emperor's poor health spreads outside, it will be more or less troublesome, and it may cause some disturbances.

The two were silent all the way, and Chu Yi followed Chu Zhao into the Xuande Hall half a step behind.

At today's formal and grand palace banquet, the only women who came with the emperor were the empress, and there were also some favorite concubines who were crowned in the harem, so it was really rare to bring a younger sister.Even though Chu Zhao didn't canonize as a queen, and didn't think much of the few concubines in the harem, such behavior undoubtedly showed his honor and respect for Chu Yi.

This kind of importance became more and more obvious later on when Chu Zhao arranged Chu Yi's seating arrangement and treated him differently during the toast.

Chu Yi was arranged to sit under the imperial steps, on the upper left side, where Chu Zhao, the crown prince, had sat for many years.Opposite her are the few uncles who are still in Beijing, each of them is a prince with real power.

In addition, when the ministers toasted the new emperor, Chu Zhao's response was always to raise his glass and touch his lips, even if those vassal kings came to pay respects.This is a common practice, and everyone knows that Chu Zhao's health is not good, so they will not and dare not force it.So at such a moment, when Chu Yi stepped forward to toast, Chu Zhao's gulp down seemed even more different.

On the first day of the new emperor's official ascension to the throne, Chu Yi was pushed to the forefront.

This is Chu Zhao's cultivation of Chu Yi, and it is also his polishing of her - no matter how good the rough jade is without careful polishing, it will not be able to bloom the most beautiful elegance.Chu Zhao agrees with Chu Yi's aptitude, but she is still young and has spent 12 years in the cold palace. He is afraid that he does not have much time to pave the way for her life, so he can only use this method to let her Grow as fast as possible.If she can handle it well, it proves that she has the ability to control everything in the future, but if not, he should think about how to keep her healthy for the rest of her life and avoid everything in front of her.

Chu Yi could somewhat guess what his brother was thinking.She was a little sad, but she couldn't let him down, so when faced with the overt or covert scrutiny of the crowd, she didn't frown, but smiled and toasted, showing a completely calm look.

After all, a palace banquet is still a palace banquet, and the officials and the new emperor do not need to get acquainted with each other temporarily. Therefore, after the pilgrimage and toasting process, this palace banquet is still as boring as all the usual palace banquets.

Chu Yi didn't even look at those songs and dances that were said to be new every time, but in fact she couldn't tell the difference at all.She first filled her stomach, which had been hungry for half a day, and then took a sip of the wine glass, not looking at the eyes of those ministers who drifted over from time to time—anyway, most of these people's morals and abilities are in her heart. Well, her imperial career in those years was considered useless, and she was not stupid, so she could naturally see many problems after many years - she only cast her eyes on the vassal kings at the opposite table.

The emperor's heirs were never too many, and Chu Yi's grandfather had fifteen sons, not counting the ones who were named on the jade plate.After excluding losses such as premature death and fighting for the throne, there are still nine sons who survived after the first emperor ascended the throne, and the other eight princes were named kings. Among them, King Qi, King Zhao and King Wei were named by Chu Yizu's father. Prince, the King of Yue is the prince conferred by the late emperor, and the rest are just county kings.

Now King Zhao and King Wei were imprisoned for treason, and King Qi was deposed by the former emperor to become King Changping. Among the uncles, only King Yue was still a prince, so he naturally sat opposite Chu Yi, at the head on the right .

Chu Yi raised his eyes and saw that the King Yue, who had had a contact with Chonghua Palace, was still gentle and elegant. When he saw her, he raised his glass to her with a smile.Compared with King Yue, King Changping, who sat next to him because of the ranking, had a gloomy face. When he met his eyes inadvertently, he could easily detect the fullness of prey.

Maybe it's really because of sitting in this position, Chu Yi, who didn't pay much attention to these people and things before, still observed them intentionally or unintentionally.

Apart from King Yue and King Changping, there is nothing worthy of attention about the other uncle kings.Their titles and fiefdoms are not visible, and the late emperor once commented on their mediocrity, and it is because of their mediocrity that they have survived to this day.Apart from King Yue's good reputation among scholars, Chu Yi doesn't know much about it, but she knows a little about why King Changping looks like a bird of prey who wants to kill people.

After the decree of conferring was issued, King Changping stayed in Beijing and could not go back, but the relocation of the fiefdom would not be delayed because of his stay, so when he failed to arrange it properly, his palace had already changed from a wealthy to a rich man. Quzhou was moved to Changping, which was poor and chaotic.The migration of the palace has always been guarded and followed. Naturally, the soldiers and horses in Quzhou cannot be taken away from the palace, and private soldiers will not follow without his seal. As soon as the palace moved to Changping, they were threatened by the locals—the dignified palace was unexpectedly taken away. A group of thieves robbed it!

Only the people in the palace know how much they lost, but the face was slapped with a "slap".In terms of King Changping's self-proud nature, it is conceivable that when he heard the news, he was so depressed that he vomited blood.So there's really nothing strange about his expression today.

Chu Yi glanced across the opposite side lightly, but he couldn't see anything more.But since Chu Zhao pushed her to the current position, she should pay more attention to these matters, and she will have to ask him for some information to take a good look at later.

Thinking of this, Chu Yi couldn't help but shift his eyes to Chu Zhao who was sitting high on the dragon chair - he usually sat with the emperor brother, and it would not be difficult for the siblings to chat when the palace banquet was boring. He's not around anymore, it's really boring.

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Probably because of this boredom, Chu Yi kept sipping his wine glass slowly, but he was a little drunk by the end.

After the sky darkened, Chu Zhao left first.As the emperor, if he doesn't leave, no one will dare to leave, and this palace banquet will be extended indefinitely.And just after he left, some old ministers who were holding on to him left one after another, but there were still more than half of the people left, and the singing and dancing never stopped, and the whole Xuande Palace was still full of excitement.

Chu Yi was not interested in staying. She already thought the palace banquet was boring. No one here was worth her stay, and no one would talk about important topics on such occasions. There was no point in staying.So she put down her glass and stood up, until the moment of dizziness after standing up made her realize that she seemed to have drunk a little too much.

His eyes glanced at the opposite side inadvertently, and the several vassal kings did not leave at this time.King Changping looked at her drunk with a sneer in his eyes, while King Yue looked at her with a look of... contempt?

After a glance, he withdrew his gaze, Chu Yi didn't seem to see anything.She stood for a while, feeling the dizziness recede, then straightened her clothes, saluted several Uncle Wangs on the opposite side, then turned and left calmly.

Chu Yi is not greedy for drinking, and she doesn't drink alcohol on weekdays except at banquets. Although this feeling of being drunk and dizzy is not the first time for her, it is still a bit fresh.So no one was asked to prepare the sedan chair, and Chu Yi walked towards the Linzhi Hall with a somewhat fluttering footsteps.A group of people followed her left and right, and she was not worried that she would get drunk and go to the wrong place, or encounter any danger.

When Chu Yi walked back to the Linzhi Hall in a daze, the silver plate looked like the moon had already hung in the sky.

Chu Yi, who was drunk, was supposed to go back to the dormitory to sleep, and according to her usual schedule, it was indeed time for her to go to bed now.However, everyone was about to reach the door of the dormitory, so she turned around and walked towards Qiyunxuan.

Cheng Zian didn't recuperate in the room, her injury was almost healed, and recently she picked up the matter of martial arts again.And because he was injured in the hands of several assassins before, he practiced martial arts even more desperately under the grudge.

When Chu Yi walked to Cheng Zian's small courtyard, he waved everyone away, and then walked in with somewhat messy steps.

Naturally, Cheng Zian had heard these chaotic footsteps a long time ago. After she had practiced one type of marksmanship, she stopped, but waited for a long time before seeing a wobbly alcoholic walking in.

Frowning slightly, Cheng Zian put down his fist and went up to meet him: "Your Highness, you are..."

While speaking, she had already noticed that Chu Yi's clothes were different today.

Chu Yi's thinking was quite clear, she raised her hand to signal Cheng Zian to help her, and when someone reached out to help her, she leaned into his arms: "Today's enthronement ceremony, the emperor asked me to go with you , tossed for a day, and now I just came back from the palace banquet."

Cheng Zian was injured and should have gone home to recuperate after his injury stabilized, but Chu Yi couldn't bear it, so he tried every means to keep him.After leaving him behind, she naturally wouldn't let him go, so no matter how busy she was, she would find time to come and have a look every day.

She didn't come today, Cheng Zian has been practicing martial arts in the courtyard, so maybe he didn't mean to wait for her.But after hearing what Chu Yi said, Cheng Zian was a little dazed, and after a while he said, "Since Your Highness is drunk, you should go back and rest earlier."

Chu Yi raised his head, looked at Cheng Zi'an's handsome side face, and said with a vague smile: "Today is a good day, I don't want to let it down like this, so I came to Qiyunxuan to look for you to enjoy the moon and see the beauties together."

Hearing this, Cheng Zian smiled a little more on her usual cold and serious face. She glanced around the empty surroundings, and said jokingly, "Look at the beauty... Are you talking about yourself, Your Highness?"

Of course not, the beauty is obviously you!

But since Cheng Zi'an said that, Chu Yi raised his eyebrows cooperatively and said, "What? Am I not beautiful?"

The light from the corridor reflected on Chu Yi's delicate face. The girl who had just reached the age of [-] had bright eyes and teeth, and a smile on her face. It was the most beautiful moment.Coupled with the fact that she was drunk today, her fair cheeks were slightly flushed, and her beautiful eyes were like spring water, looking softly at her, even a hard-hearted person couldn't help being moved, let alone a person who had already fallen in love with her.

Cheng Zian only felt that his heartbeat missed a few beats, and the feeling of heartbeat had never been so clear before.

Holding Chu Yi's soft body in his arms, the moment his eyes met, Cheng Zian seemed to be bewitched, and replied unconsciously: "It's beautiful."

When Chu Yi heard this, the smile on her face burst into bloom. She raised her head slightly, kissed Cheng Zian's face, and said with a smile, "You're so cute!"

Cheng Zian's fair and handsome face suddenly turned red, and he didn't know whether it was shyness or embarrassment.