Sheng Shian

The Palace of the Longevity Festival was busy without a moment's stop. There were those who built the banquet table, those who practiced the music, the hats, the uniforms, and the female officials of the Six Shang Bureau of Food and Beverage kept confirming repeatedly.Chang Zhiyu of the Ministry of Rites patrolled back and forth, and listened to the singing of birds at the banquet with his colleagues, and tried the music. Sometimes they said that this one was too high, and sometimes they said that that was too low. There are two hundred sticks and drums facing each other on both sides, which is bound to frighten the envoys who come to congratulate them at the banquet.

And Fushun was instructed by Chang Zhiyu to run back and forth, and then he took a break and drank a bowl of herbal tea, and then received the order from his godfather, Lu An, to send him hairpins to Laoshizi Wenfu. When he came back, the banquet was about to start, and he Smelling all over his body, he hurriedly washed and changed his clothes, and followed Eunuch Lu.

"Godfather, Shengshang is busy with state affairs, why is he still in the mood to take care of the family affairs of a Zhima official?" Fushun hurried over and asked complainingly.

"The servants are all Zhima officials, so what are the servants?" Lu An raised his eyes to look at him.

Fushun was stunned for a moment, knowing that he had said something wrong, he squeezed Lu Gonggong's shoulders: "Godfather also knows that I am stupid, don't be as knowledgeable as me."

Eunuch Lu didn't bother with him, and was just taking a look at the banquet arrangement on the way, in case the Holy One asked, he pointed at the jewels, delicacies, beauties, and musicians on the banquet: "You usually serve the Holy Side, and these things are not uncommon in private. Bar?"

"Fushun dare not."

"If you don't dare, it doesn't mean no one will give it to you." Lu An has become a human being. If Fushun dared to mess around behind his back, he would not let him off lightly. He asked, "How much did the editor of the Fu family pay?"

Fushun was taken aback, he didn't expect his godfather to know about even the small matter of being a sixth-rank official and secretly begging him to secretly put the certificate of promotion to his official position in front of the saint.

He knew that his godfather was warning him not to think that he could do whatever he wanted if he was a close servant. As a eunuch, Eunuch Lu was the supreme ruler.

Fortunately, he didn't have any wrong thoughts, and he didn't agree to these dirty things.

Fushun walked up to Lu An and stretched out his hands to make a five, and then pointed to the white jade pearl that was tributed by Dongying at the Longevity Banquet.

"But Fushun never dares to be complacent. Fushun's success today was cultivated by his godfather. If his eyes are blinded by petty profits, the punishment is small, and his painstaking efforts are wasted. gone."

"You are quite sensible." Lu An saw that he had told the truth, and was grateful, so he smiled and walked back: "Under the whole world, is it the king's land? On the shore of the land, is it the king's ministers. Other people's mountains of gold and silver , are just passing clouds, if you want to be rich and honor forever, you'd better understand the grace of the emperor, which is the ultimate reliance."

Lu An also took out a hairpin from Wanguan gold and silver: "For example, this hairpin, if you are sensible, it will be a blessing. If you are not satisfied, it will be a wake-up call."

How can the loyalty of a subject be called a family matter.

"What my godfather taught me is that Fushun must be regarded as a standard and always judged."

Lu An didn't mention the fact that someone gave Fushun a gift until now. He raised his head and saw Shen Shi. He glanced at Fushun and asked Fushun, "It's been three hours since he finished speaking, why hasn't he left the palace yet?"

Fu Shun followed his gaze and said, "The Ministry of Rites is short on staff. Mr. Shen was recently ordered to compile a new ceremony, and he has a close relationship with the Ministry of Rites, so he was invited to help."

"The Ministry of Rituals is eager to eat the meat of the reduction of funds, how could it invite him..."

"Maybe he deliberately arranged some hard work to make him suffer..."

Lu An shook his head, but he didn't pay much attention to it, how Shen Shen had nothing to do with him.

But Fushun could see from Lu An's expression that this matter was strange, he had a good impression of Shen, and it would be best if he could have a friendship.

As the sun was setting and the palace lanterns were lit up one by one, the musicians had already taken their seats and played cheerful and festive but not vulgar music, and all the officials and workers rushed to the banquet like flowing water.

Shen saw that there were many people, so he moved a little further away and stood in the pavilion of the glass kissing beast. This is where he usually comes to. The terrain is relatively high, and he can just see the prosperous feast of the Longevity Festival, but he has never seen it before. It turned out to be such a landscape.

Jinbi Yao Terrace, Liusuo Hongqiao, lighted lanterns and flowers to guide the way, brocade stones spread all over the place, and the flowers on both sides of the bank are as gorgeous as fire, which complements the several strange rock pines and cypresses at the entrance. Then step on this pilgrimage road illuminated by Huaguang, and finally climb up the nine-story white marble ladder to sit.

Just entering the arena is already majestic.

Shen was fascinated by the scene of the prosperous continent, and he remembered the years when the national power was the most difficult in the past. The Longevity Festival was held together with offering sacrifices to the heavens. It's shabby.

In just three years, there is a huge difference, how much Liu Changze has paid for such remarkable and remarkable results...

Shen couldn't help feeling distressed. Nothing was more impactful than what he saw with his own eyes, and no one knew better than him how difficult it was to implement the New Deal, and it was even more difficult to achieve the results if the New Deal was not completely corrupted.

The people who do it are sharp blades, there is no good or evil, and they will be killed if there is a block in the way.

Disharmony with morality, intolerable by the laws of heaven, and reviled by the world.

He tried to ask himself that he couldn't do it.

"you again."

Shen Shi suddenly turned around, and the charming light of Liuli Kissing Beast fell on his face. He was wearing the uniform of the government and the public, and he was confused with the thousands of servants not far away. It is difficult to pay attention to a person's appearance at this time. What you can see are his warm and affectionate eyes, and his noble demeanor like pines and cypresses.

Liu Changze was caught in those amber eyes, which were completely different, but he just stubbornly believed that it was the Taifu, the Taifu...

This intuition brought him to the brink of collapse.

He picked the Taifu's coffin, and he delivered the funeral process step by step, with his own hands...

It was his own hands that closed those eyes...

He couldn't speak, the overwhelming despair that enveloped him three years ago, he really couldn't hold on...

He really misses Shen Ziqing...

Shen Shi suddenly hugged him.

It was like holding him out of the deep sea with both hands, allowing him to breathe the air at the last moment of drowning, and that warm body was the warmest thing he could hold when he lost temperature, freezing his body for three feet Cracks appeared in his heart, and it began to beat slowly again.

Shen Shi said like a raving: "It's all right."

Liu Changze's sadness was about to overwhelm him, and he couldn't help hugging him, no matter what he remembered, whether it was a dead teacher, a lover who died young, or helplessness that violated morality...

Don't be sad, it's okay, he's back.

Taifu, I will help you.

Liu Changze was so absent-minded that he just wanted to grab this piece of driftwood with his survival instinct.

And Shen let go of his hand.

In fact, it was a very short hug, not even a hug. It was just a little hug, which seemed restrained and rational. Shen had many excuses to explain it. For example, Lord Hou, you seem to be in a bad mood, so I helped you one time……

But he didn't say anything, he asked, "Master Hou, are you coming to the banquet?"

Liu Changze nodded stiffly, and walked away without saying a word, but this time he didn't walk very fast, as if he was deliberately waiting for Shen Shi.

Shen Shi also cooperated with him and walked side by side, getting very close.

Like saying, I am here.

But the two of them also had a subtle speechlessness, they couldn't explain it, and they couldn't hold it.

After passing the nine-story cloud ladder, the two walked to the opposite seats like strangers, and the distance became farther and farther away.

The maids were dressed in dignified and generous dresses, holding delicacies, and moved lightly to the banquet with lotus steps, adding wine and serving meals for the ministers and workers.

When she reached Shen Shi, the maid accidentally poured the wine into the dishes. She knelt down in fright. Change another table for Mr. Shen!"

Shen Shi bowed his hand to express his thanks. For this kind of state banquet, it is best to make big things into small things, and make small things into nothing.

Fushun also returned a gift to him, and left in a hurry.

It is even more inconvenient for the close servants and important ministers to show their intimacy at this time.

The minister at the next table smiled and said: "Young Master, don't worry, you look like Pan An, you hold an important position, and you are not yet married, so naturally you have to accept more favors from beauties..."

Shen Shi smiled politely. At the big banquet, there are often court ladies looking for a life for themselves, and everyone is used to it, so they don't pay much attention to it.

Shen felt that someone was watching him and looked up.

Liu Changze looked away.

Shen thought it was an illusion.

The maid quickly delivered a new meal, but the person was not the same as before.

Shen was aware that there might be a problem, he glanced at Liu Changze who was drinking with his head up, and the waiter and the sidelines tried the dishes with silver needles.

The silver needles were transparent, but he felt uneasy.

With the sound of the singing of birds and music, everyone looked up at a hundred meters behind the middle of the banquet, a magnificent and magnificent Zichen Tower rising three thousand feet from the ground, and a phoenix chanted like a broken jade mountain. The chimes and drums on all sides rose rhythmically and hurriedly.

At this time, Lu An opened the curtain of pearls and emeralds. Emperor Chengming was wearing a uniform of twelve totems and a jade crown on his head. With a piece of beautiful jade tied to the ear, it is like a deaf ear, not slanderous.

The surrounding area was originally brightly lit, but when Emperor Chengming stepped out of the pavilion and looked down at the capital from a high altitude, only the Zichen Tower was shining like the sun and the moon, illuminating all living beings.

Emperor Chengming raised the first cup of imperial wine to the moon, all the music sang together, all the people kowtowed, and the mountain shouted long live.

This banquet is a festival, and the whole world celebrates it together. The people in the capital look at the highest point and worship, and the people in Daqi bow to Ziweixing.

When the ceremony and music came to an end, and everyone hadn't withdrawn from the aftertaste of the fairy music, Emperor Chengming was already in the seat where brocades and qi intertwined, decorated with lanterns and candles. The two sides became the emperor's ten thousand years.

Elder Song Ge raised wine to offer his congratulations, all the officials poured their glasses, and the Longevity Banquet officially began.

Shen thought, Fushun should be in Zichen Tower.

The Wanshou Festival is about the dignity of the country. If you dare to plot at this time, saying that it is against him, a powerless official, it is a big deal, but what about Lord Hou?

Shen looked around in fear, the embroidered curtains were connected, and there were thousands of sounds from gold and stones. He didn't know who it was, who needed him to lead the Lord Hou into his plan, how to arrange it, and what did he want to do?

There were more and more people coming and going to congratulate each other with wine, Shen was cautious and did not dare to drink too much, so he pretended to be overwhelmed with alcohol early on, and looked at Liu Changze's movements during the banquet in a daze.

And Liu Changze's image of not eating strangers and not getting close to them has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The ministers whispered to each other in twos and threes, which seemed to be very deserted in his place. Occasionally, a few short-sighted people tried to make a toast, but they were frightened away by his cold glance. .

Or someone who insisted on persuading him without knowing his life or death would be thrown away by him directly. Anything is worthy of respecting him.

Only Shen Shi was that kind of guy, he wouldn't refuse anyone who came, Liu Changze looked at Shen Shi who was half lying on the desk displeased, and his disgust was beyond words.

Liu Changze even wanted to leave the banquet to give him a hug. He would never associate such a drunkard with the Taifu again, and he would never have the throbbing and attachment just now.

Or, just wanted to hug him, the time just now was too short, so short that Liu Changze had no time to savor it, and was overwhelmed by overflowing satisfaction.

He is nostalgic, so he needs a high-sounding excuse.

"Here, this is the Shen Shaoqing I mentioned to you the day before yesterday." The ministers and colleagues sitting next to him pointed to Shen Shi who was toasting with him across the air.

Liu Changze's ear-tips caught his attention.

"How come it didn't take long for the banquet to start, and it seemed to be drunk."

"You don't understand this. If you miss the elder's daughter, don't you want to drink wine and turn it into tears of lovesickness?"

"Why do you have such a big opinion on him? The day before yesterday, you sued him for more than a salary, and today you sued him for losing his spirit and losing his vitality."

"Hmph, you don't know that the Holy One punished him to shut himself up and reflect on himself that day. He actually played obscene poems and songs all night. His sorrow and sadness, and his desire for what he didn't get, is outrageous!"

"Maybe it's a rumor..."

"Damn it, I saw it with my own eyes. At that time, many girls were crying at the gate of Shen's residence. They really have no sense of shame! Reading poetry and books is useless!"

Liu Changze clenched the wine bottle tightly and sneered.

Sorrowful and sad, ask for nothing.

Well, you are Shen, you have no complaints on your mouth, but your heart is full of embarrassment!

Wow, bang.

"Who!" The first-rank minister was poured a glass of wine, and even the wine bottle knocked on the back of his head.

He rubbed his face and looked around furiously, but he saw Master Liu looking at him with a half-smile.