Chang'an Youth Tour

The day before the farewell banquet, the atmosphere became more and more tense.

The prince went to Yongqian Palace early in the morning to see His Majesty's reply, and he didn't even bring a companion to read, only a few entourages.Yan Junyu overslept, and when he woke up, he was gone, and asked Yun Lan, she could smile softly even if the sky fell: "Your Highness, please go to the Holy One, and I will be back in the afternoon."

Yan Junyu panicked immediately, but Ao Ji wanted to scare him, so he didn't speak, just stood in the outer hall wearing armor, even the saber was sharpened, his face was as cold as frost, as if he was going to fight Yu Yanran had already put on the posture, and seeing Yan Junyu pitifully frightened, she smiled and said, "Let's go to the barracks, and Xiaoyan go to play?"

"How could you enter the barracks without an order?" Although Yan Junyu panicked, he still knew the reason.

"The change of defense in the capital city was originally received by the Holy Majesty. Now that the Holy Majesty is recuperating, it is natural for us to go to the East Palace. After His Highness has been busy for a while, we will have to formally interview him. Let's go say hello first." Yu Yanran smiled slyly: "You don't know the last name of this new general, do you?"

The garrison of the capital changes every year for fear of collusion with courtiers and relatives.Taizong of the Great Zhou Dynasty established the country with martial arts, so he was particularly strict with military generals. Except for a few royal palaces that closed the borders, the military garrisons were often changed, which also led to the lack of morale of the army and frequent defeats.

Yan Junyu was confused: "What's your last name?"

He was asking, when Ao Ji snorted coldly, Yu Yanran stopped talking immediately.

"I dare not say that," he said with a smile, "you just ask Ao Ji."

After Ao Ji left, Yan Junyu went to pester Yun Lan, and Yun Lan told him: "It's Ao Ji's father, General Ao."

"Then what can't you say?"

"Ao Ji's father and son are at odds. You don't see him wearing armor, just so you don't have to worship him." Yun Lan also laughed: "If you say that Ao Ji is really bad-tempered, he is going as an accompanist to the East Palace. Dare to make him kneel, you are really stubborn."

Yan Junyu asked about Ao Ji's affairs, and worried about the prince again. He was very sincere, and when he was worried, he was seriously worried, and the food would not taste good. He: "Don't worry, Your Highness is sensible."

Yan Junyu just didn't believe it: "But the Holy Majesty and His Highness have different opinions. One wants to fight and the other wants to make peace. How can we talk about it together?"

"Even if we can't get together, His Highness still has a sense of proportion. If you can't be persuaded, you won't be persuaded. It won't make everyone ugly."

When she said this, Yan Junyu became even more worried: "Then it's going to be a marriage?"

Yun Lan smiled.

"Let's Xiaoyan, really," she saw that Yan Junyu was frowning seriously and worried, with a bulging face, so cute, if he was a child, he would bite him twice, so he could only rub his hair and said, " You want His Highness to be safe, but you don't want to get married, how can such a good thing happen?"

"Then if you don't want to get married, unless His Highness is safe?" Yan Junyu caught the key point.

"Otherwise, why do you say that the Xirong people are powerful." Rong Hao came in from the outside, heard this, and interjected: "If His Highness really opposes it desperately, the marriage will not be possible, but it will inevitably hurt the relationship between father and son. This plan is so cruel. it's here."

"That's what you said." Yun Lan sneered, "Your Highness has never said that Xirong people are powerful."

When the prince came back at night, his expression was as usual.

"How to say?" Rong Hao was the first to ask.

"Farewell tomorrow, don't talk about marriage, the courtiers will discuss it another day." The prince said lightly: "But the Ministry of Rites has already seen the princess in secret."

But with a few simple words, the waves behind it can be imagined.Yan Junyu remembered Yun Lan's words, and when the others dispersed, he quietly approached the prince and asked in a low voice, "Did you quarrel with His Majesty?"

He is talking like a child, back then in Yonggan Palace, Emperor Qingde beat the crown prince, it was the royal method that did not show any trace.Yan Junyu didn't understand tactics, so he imagined the disagreement as a "quarrel".

Xiao Jingyan also just smiled: "There was no quarrel, my father said that I worked hard in assisting the government and rewarded me with a lot of things."

"Really?"

"Really, it's all at Yunlan's place. Does Xiaoyan want to take a look?"

After coaxing Yan Junyu away, Yun Lan came over there, and said calmly: "I heard that the Holy One is angry?"

"It's just that I was bothered by persuasion." Xiao Jingyan said with a smile: "There are a bunch of memorials in the imperial history, and I haven't finished reading them yet. I tried to persuade a few more words, so I became angry and refused to drink the medicine."

Yun Lan just shook her head and went down again.

August 27th is the day of the farewell banquet.

Emperor Qingde supported his sick body and also attended. Dazhou is now a peaceful and prosperous age, there have been no famines for several years, and the treasury is very rich, so just spread out the gold mountains and silver seas, and the banquet is full of flowers. Unspeakably lively and extravagant, because it was a farewell banquet, so the envoys from various countries were all present. Naturally, Wuhu was the leader, and a long banquet was placed on the left hand side of Emperor Qingde, and the crown prince accompanied all the officials on the right side. It went on from noon to night, performed countless songs and dances, and finally sang an opera.

First there was the troupe in the palace, the left was just some old-fashioned dramas, singing about peace and so on, it was so noisy, it was annoying to hear, and finally went down, and another troupe came up, but no one came out, only the sound of silk and bamboo, Qingyue The melodious, far-reaching artistic conception makes people calm down immediately.

"This is one of the Southern opera troupes called into the palace this time." A young official from the Ministry of Rituals approached Rong Hao and explained, "There are three in total, and the most powerful ones are yet to come."

He is full of smiles, handsome, and looks very young, but he is already wearing a third-rank peacock official uniform, and he is shoulder to shoulder with Rong Hao, he seems to be a first-class prince.

"Why don't you say that you are doing well." Rong Hao also said with a smile.

It turned out that this play was about nothing else, it was the story of the countries of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, called the Orphan of the Zhao Family, and it was full of twists and turns. This, but the second one is singing Wu Zixu, which happened to be the finale, and at the end there is another part of the story, where there is a beautiful woman who happens to be Xi Shi..."

Yan Junyu was listening, and couldn't help asking, "Is Li Jieyuan's team ranked second?"

The official from the Ministry of Rituals would also try to make a living, but seeing his appearance and age, he knew that he was the legendary "Yan Xiaohou Ye". , There are many people more talented than him. Not to mention, there are people in your East Palace who can compare with him, this young master Rong back then..."

Rong Hao smiled and poured him wine: "If a hero doesn't mention his bravery, I don't need you to brag about it."

While laughing and fussing, the play had already been sung, and the actors came up together to thank them. The rewards in the palace have always been generous. Many young eunuchs had filled baskets with many gold and silver ingots with auspicious patterns. It was like a torrential rain, and only the sound of money on the table could be heard. It was really lively.

While talking, the second team also came up, first they pretended to be a war scene, the two teams fought back and forth, it was just a show, only one team fled, Yan Junyu was thinking about why the costumes of the two teams were different It was too similar to the clothes of the Spring and Autumn Period, when I suddenly heard a very desolate and deep voice, like a flute but not a flute, like a qin but not a qin, I felt a sudden chill in my heart.

"What is this?" He couldn't help asking Rong Hao, and was surprised to find that Rong Hao's face suddenly turned pale.

"It's Hu Jia."

"Hu Jia's Eighteen Beats is not the sound." Yan Junyu recalled the piece he heard at the banquet a few days ago.

Rong Hao said with a pale face, "Hu Jia's eighteen beats were composed by Cai Wenji imitating Hu Jia with the sound of the qin. It's a qin piece, so the sound is naturally different."

"Didn't they rap "Wu Zixu"? Why did Cai Wenji suddenly come up?" Yan Junyu was puzzled.

Over there Ao Ji sneered and said, "It would be great if it was really Cai Wenji."

Seeing that their faces had changed, Yan Junyu knew that something was wrong, and then looked up the stage, and it turned out that the character had already appeared on the stage, she was a very beautiful woman, but her eyebrows and eyes were a little familiar, she wasn't one of the two teenagers that Li Yu took him to see that day. Who is that feminine one?

He was startled, and when he took a closer look, he was dressed as a woman, with bright makeup, sad eyes, a scarlet cloak, a pipa in her arms, and a ermine and rabbit on her head. The appearance of Wang Zhaojun on the beautiful screen.

And that heroic young man dressed up as a young general, wearing strong and sharp clothes, followed by a group of soldiers. It turned out that this play was not Wu Zixu, let alone Cai Wenji, but Zhaojun going out of the fortress.

That's all, I only heard that Zhaojun went to Taichung and sang mournfully to all the officials: "I went out of the Han Palace with a pipa in my arms, and the west wind blew away the dust. There are thousands of soldiers in the court, and I believe that the credit is due to the woman."

The banquet was so quiet for a while that a needle could be heard falling, Yan Junyu felt that his eyes were darkened, and he didn't dare to look at the face of the Holy Majesty, but only dared to stare at the Prince's back, which was beautiful and slender, and did not waver at all.At this moment, it seemed that the surrounding world was collapsing silently, and in the dead chaos, only this person was as stable as a mountain.

Just when he thought this was the most terrifying, he heard Zhaojun on the stage turn around and sing to Emperor Qingde again: "The gold hairpin fell to the ground and piled up clouds on the temples, don't you hear about Chaoyang Emperor. Send the concubine to be safe." Sheji, I don't know where to use generals."

Yan Junyu couldn't help but cast a glance at Emperor Qingde, only to see that he was coughing violently, and the servant next to him hurriedly waited on him, calling repeatedly: "Your Majesty", but he just waved his hand and said coldly: "Reward!"

The gold and silver ingots were thrown down again, like it was raining. Yan Junyu knew that this was only superficial calm. This is how things are done in the palace. Can't let outsiders see the slightest.If the arm is broken, it has to be hidden in the sleeve.

Yan Junyu wanted to look at it again, but his sleeve was pulled, it was Rong Hao.

"Walk."

"Where?"

"Where else can I go? Where can I arrest people? Li Daoyong changed the play that the emperor ordered, and acted in "Zhaojun Goes Out of the Fortress". To arrest people, are you still waiting for the emperor to give an order after the game is over?" Rong Hao taught in a low voice.

Yan Junyu saw that Ao Ji and Yu Yanran had already gone out with their guards, so they could only follow in a hurry.