Rebirth of the Merry Warrior

Chapter 55 Langya Night Play

The palace banquet in the palace was over, but the palace banquet in the imperial garden continued.

Because it is not easy to set up a large wine table outside the Langya Water Pavilion, the officials all sit on a mat at will.Shen Chengqian happened to be next to Long Chenyu, and both of them were sitting in the middle of the group of officials.

Langya Waterside Pavilion has a pair of water pavilions. In the west pavilion sits the emperor, queen mother, and empress, and there are more than a dozen maids and eunuchs serving them personally.A few opera actors in the east pavilion babbled and sang songs, and the sound of the water was really melodious.

Shen Chengqian cautiously glanced sideways, and happened to see the emperor and the empress smiling and whispering in each other's ears.Beside the two, the queen mother, who was already like a candle in the wind, was sitting quietly alone, lost in her soul. In this extremely lively scene, she was particularly desolate.

What the actors in the East Pavilion sang was a song "Junwei Pavilion".

Shen Chengqian didn't like listening to opera very much, and he couldn't understand the babbling song at all, so he just sat on his seat.In a blink of an eye, it was time to watch the watch late at night, but the palace banquet was still long overdue.

When the time came, Shen Chengqian couldn't help but whispered in Long Chenyu's ear: "It's at this time, and it's reasonable to let the Queen Mother go back to rest first. Her old age is still blowing in the night wind, I can't stand it."

Long Chenyu replied: "Forget it, except you, who would dare to pity her. The Emperor is just watching her for fun, and sent her back for nothing. He has nothing to watch."

Shen Chengqian looked at the empress dowager's pale lips, and could only sigh softly, without saying anything else.

After a while, a few maids and servants distributed a piece of paper to the officials, and when they opened it, they were all riddles, and the puzzles on each person's paper were different.

Grand Duke Sun De said loudly at the side: "Now the king is very happy, and he is giving lantern riddles to all the ministers. If any lord can get the right answer, you should give Langya fine wine to reward his wisdom."

Shen Chengqian had heard of Langya fine wine, and it was said that it was a very cherished aged wine.Take 12 taels of Chixia stamens in spring equinox, 12 taels of green lotus stamens in summer solstice, 12 taels of maple color stamens in autumn equinox, and 12 taels of winter white stamens in winter solstice, dry them in the sun, and grind them into powder.Then mix it with the freshly fallen snow on the plum blossoms to make fine wine, and the altar can only be opened after 12 years of burying.It is said that the wine has a strong aroma and is extremely mellow, and it is rumored that it is an aged wine that is more delicious than Yaotai Qiongjiang.

Such a rare thing, although Shen Chengqian is not very addicted to alcohol, but he also wants to have the chance to taste it.

He lowered his head and carefully looked at the lantern riddles on the paper.

Like flowers but not flowers, the sound is still beautiful,

Like fog but not fog chasing after candle clouds.

A thunderbolt shook the sky,

The brilliance turned to ashes in an instant.

Shen Chengqian lowered his head and pondered for a moment, always feeling that he had seen similar lantern riddles before... Isn't the answer to this riddle obvious, firecrackers?

He got the answer to the riddle, pondered it over and over again for a while, and decided that he was right, so he picked up a pen and wrote the answer and his name on the pad.Afterwards, he quietly turned his head to look at Long Chenyu's, but he didn't expect that Long Chenyu's lantern riddle was much more difficult than his own, let's not talk about the answer, just in the riddle, he still didn't know a few words, and even more Forget about deciphering.

Long Chenyu looked at him sideways, and said: "The military master is wise enough to solve this mystery of mine?"

Shen Chengqian just shook his head, and said: "It seems that I am still inexperienced and can't solve it. Has the general figured out the answer?"

"I haven't figured it out either, and this question is too difficult." Long Chenyu said. "Your riddle is simple, just look at the riddles of the ministers next to you. If you are lucky, you will be the number one lantern riddle tonight, and the Langya wine will be yours."

Shen Cheng smiled lightly: "If I am lucky enough to get it, I will share the food with the general."

Long Chenyu replied with a smile: "Then I'll wait." Afterwards, he picked up a pen and wrote his name and surname without writing the riddle, and handed it to the little eunuch beside him, asking him to submit it.

In the west pavilion, Beichen Yuanhuang was carefully looking at the papers, and finally picked out a few.

He stood up, walked across the small bridge, walked to the banquet, looked around at the ministers and said loudly: "I really have talents under my knees, and seven adults have guessed the answer. However, there is only one jar of Langya wine. It's not that I'm stingy, it's just that old wine is not easy to make, if there is too much, it will be vulgar and not precious."

"Sun De offered a plan to me, let's try another question, and see how lucky the lovers are." Beichen Yuanhuang said. "I complied with his wish and asked him to randomly select one of them, and if he got the note from that lord, whoever will be the winner tonight." Afterwards, he turned around and said, "What's the result?"

Sun De took out one of the seven notes, and replied: "Return to Your Majesty, it is a note from Lord Shen."

"Okay!" Beichen Yuanhuang turned around and looked at Shen Chengqian. "It seems that Shen Aiqing is not only brave and resourceful, but also very lucky. Come, bring the Langya wine and the green jade bucket."

Shen Chengqian hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, then stood up and bowed again.During this period, several young eunuchs had already moved the wine jars and sealed them with mud.Immediately, the aroma of the wine overflowed, and the aroma was so strong that it attracted people's mouth watering.

Sun De knelt in front of Shen Chengqian, and presented a boxy wine vessel made of jasper, which must be the green jade bucket.It's just that this wine container is very big, I'm afraid one can hold half a catty of wine.

On the opposite side, Beichen Yuanhuang held a small cup in his hand, and said to Shen Chengqian: "Today's opportunity is also rare, Shen Aiqing, would you like to share a cup with me, and wish me Beichen Jiangshan forever?"

Shen Cheng was startled, if he drank this glass of wine, he would just die of drunkenness.

But the emperor has already said, this wine is to wish me forever.Other excuses are fine, he absolutely cannot refuse this excuse, otherwise, he will be rebellious.

Helpless, Shen Chengqian had no choice but to drink this cup with Beichen Yuanhuang with the intention of going to death.

That Langya wine is naturally a good wine, but it is aged, the wine is very strong, drinking it so quickly, it is very spicy.In the end, Shen Chengqian almost choked up tears, but he didn't dare to stop, and just kept pouring down.

After drinking, I wanted to thank you. Shen Chengqian knelt on the ground and respectfully said: "The king's gift is really good wine. I have no luck to enjoy this treasure alone, and I would like to share it with all the ministers."

Beichen Yuanhuang saw that he was so generous, so he readily agreed to him.The altar of Langya wine was completely divided at the banquet.Shen Chengqian only felt it was a pity, he wanted to take it home for a slow drink, but he turned into a ruthless fool.

After a while, the smell of alcohol rolled up.

In the end, Shen Chengqian already felt in a daze, so drunk that he couldn't even see clearly. In the end, he didn't even know how Long Chenyu brought him back to Prince Wu's Mansion.

Shen Chengqian originally thought that he would be able to sleep soundly all night, but unexpectedly in the middle of the night, he was woken up again by a restlessness.

The drunkenness of Langya wine comes quickly, and also fades away quickly.When he woke up again, his mind was very clear.As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Long Chenyu walking out wearing a battle robe, and hurriedly asked: "Why, what happened again?"

Seeing that he was awake, Long Chenyu stepped back to the bed and kissed him, and said: "I have to go to the palace, the emperor was assassinated just now, and there is a lot of trouble in the palace now."

The emperor was assassinated?

That man is very bold, who knows that the current king is extremely violent, and will destroy the nine clans if he is dissatisfied.If he is assassinated this time, if he fails to succeed, there will only be a dead end.

Shen Chengqian asked again: "Did the assassination succeed?"

Long Chenyu shook his head: "Then the preparations were extremely thorough at this moment. Unexpectedly, the empress who was sleeping with the emperor at night was awakened by the noise, and blocked the assassin's sword again, protecting the emperor."

"What about the Empress?"

"I don't know, the imperial physicians are probably trying their best to treat them." Long Chenyu said. "Go on and sleep, the emperor has called me into the palace urgently."

After saying this, Long Chenyu went out.

Shen Cheng frowned slightly, and thought about it for a while, but still felt a little tired, so he lay down and rested again.

Unexpectedly, before closing his eyes, he heard a bell ringing in the corridor in the courtyard.

Shen Chengqian counted in his heart, the clock struck twelve times, no more, no less.

Twelve night bells, symbolizing funerals.

If there is no accident, the empress should have died.

Once entering the palace, Long Chenyu commanded the troops to patrol around.

However, the night is hazy, and the palace is so vast.The palaces of the concubines are even more difficult to search, and it will be even more difficult to seize this moment.

Searched overnight, but to no avail.

Long Chenyu looked at the murder weapon used by the assassin, it turned out to be an extremely rare crescent scimitar, about seven or eight inches long.Although the handle of the knife is only made of ordinary silver and iron, it looks a little elegant, but the patterns on it are extremely complicated and the shape is extremely elegant.This thing is probably a seemingly ordinary divine weapon, and it is not something in Beichen's country.

Could it be an assassin from another country?

But after asking again, Long Chenyu learned that there were no outsiders in the palace a few days ago.Beichen Yuanhuang is very suspicious, usually only the old people who have served him for many years are kept by his side, and he has to be careful when a new favorite concubine comes occasionally, let alone raising someone from another country by his side.

In the end, I asked everywhere, but to no avail.

The soldiers who inspected the palace did not gain any results. In the end, they did not even see the shadow of an assassin or thief.

Long Chenyu expected that he should be a martial arts practitioner, if not, that person would not be able to climb over many palace walls, and just disappeared like this.

Therefore, there was no morning court the next day, so Beichen Yuanhuang summoned Long Chenyu in the imperial study in the early morning and asked him about the assassination last night.

But apart from the scimitar, Long Chenyu had no other clues.Although Beichen Yuanhuang was helpless, he couldn't find anything else, so he could only give up.He only beat a group of servants and soldiers who were guarding in the dormitory until they were half dead, and then issued an order to send them to the bitter cold land to serve as an army.

Although this assassination did not hurt Beichen Yuanhuang, it caused the death of the present Empress Fu Xuecheng.The sky is jealous of her beauty, and she only pities Fu Xuecheng to be a queen for only a hundred days, and only twenty-eight years old, so she has turned into a ghost.

In order to show empress Zhenlie, Beichen Yuanhuang ordered the whole country to observe a national funeral for the empress for one year.Within one year, no marriages, banquets, or music are allowed in the middle school.

In the end, there is really no clue about the cause of this matter, so it can only be turned over.It only increased three times the number of guards in the emperor's bedroom, so he gave up.

The author has something to say: I wrote another girl to death~