Tanhualang

In mid-November, Sun Ping went to Beijing to take a post, and Xi Wei went with him.Zhao Heng, king of Yu, hosted a family banquet in the mansion, accompanied by Cao Feng and others.

At the table, Shen Jing sat with Xi Wei, and Xiao Youjing was in the last seat.Cao Feng took his seat and found himself flanked by Sun Ping and Wei Zheng.

Zhao Heng sat at the head of the table, with a detached position. After the banquet, he raised his glass and said: "I set up this family banquet alone to clean up the dust for Sun Shilang and General Xi. I also wish you two great achievements and great achievements in the capital. Don't be restrained today. Everyone, don't get drunk."

Sun Ping and Xi Wei thanked each other, and everyone agreed: "If you don't get drunk, you won't return!"

Only Cao Feng remained silent, trembling while holding the wine glass.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone opened their hearts, Sun Ping was pulling Zhao Heng to say something, while Shen Jing was talking to Xi Wei, while watching Xiao You and Wei Zheng surrounded Cao Feng and toasted again and again.

Xiao You finished drinking, and deliberately smiled at Cao Fengliang's bottom of the cup: "Duke Cao, if you don't get drunk, you won't go home!"

Cao Feng: "..."

Wei Zheng gave Cao Feng an elbow: "Duke Cao, why don't you eat it? Eat more!"

Cao Feng: "..."

After a while, Sun Ping also joined the battle to encircle Cao Feng: "Governor Cao, we two have been in Gansu for many years, and we have never been able to decide the winner in terms of drinking capacity. Let's borrow the prince's treasure to try again today!"

Xi Wei couldn't understand, so he quietly asked Shen Jing, "This Governor Cao... seems to be very popular."

Unexpectedly, Cao Feng heard it with sharp ears, and immediately looked at Shen Jing sadly, and said to Xi Wei: "General Xi Wei is really an honest man, didn't you notice this? I offended one, and the whole family came to avenge me."

Xi Wei: "..." What should I do if I still don't understand?

The little girl next to him smiled sharply and made up his sword: "How did you offend someone? You can only blame yourself for being cruel. Apart from Your Highness, who has not been drunk by you all these years? The new information accumulated over the years I have hated the old, today I have to see what you look like when you are drunk!"

Zhao Heng smiled and said nothing from the beginning to the end, Cao Feng was completely desperate: "Your Highness is so victorious, three drink me one!"

Zhao Heng smiled and said, "Three? Let Lian Gu count in four."

Cao Feng: "...Okay."

Yu.

Hee.

alone.

Family.

After a round of drinking, Cao Feng began to understand and adjusted his tactics: No matter how many people surrounded him to drink, he only looked for Zhao Heng, and went to respect Zhao Heng's wine when he saw the opportunity.

Shen Jing learned to be smart this time, and she only carried the teapot to pour tea the whole time, and picked out the honest man Xi Wei by the way: "Just do what you can. If you can't drink, drink less, Your Highness won't blame you."

Xi Wei said with a smile: "If you do what you can, then there is nothing to count. Since I was 14 years old, I have been able to drink three jars of alcohol. I haven't drunk it yet."

Shen Jing: "...Oh, so."

He immediately replaced the teapot with a wine jug, and served it to Xi Weiman: "Then you also go to serve Cao Dugong a bar. Help His Highness relieve the siege."

Xi Wei: "..."

The banquet didn't rest until the middle of the night, and everyone drank until they were crumbling.Fortunately, the palace has a large courtyard, so Wei Zheng and Xiao You took their guards to carry Sun Ping and Cao Feng to the bedroom to rest.

As expected, Xi Wei was really big, as if nothing happened, so he quietly sent him to the door, and when he came back, he saw that the light was still on in the hall, so he went to have a look, but saw Zhao Heng sitting alone in the main seat, his expression unchanged, drinking slowly Tea.

Shen Jing stepped forward and changed him a bowl of sweet soup: "Strong tea is not suitable after drinking. Please drink some soup, Your Highness."

Zhao Heng gave a "hmm", took the soup, and took a few more sips slowly.

Shen Jing stood with him for a while, seeing that Xiaoyou was still not coming, she asked softly: "Xiaoyou may have stumbled. Would you like to go back to your room to rest first, Your Highness?"

Zhao Heng remained silent, sat for a while and said, "That's fine."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to Shen Jing: "Miao'an... help me."

Shen Jing stepped forward to support Zhao Heng's right arm in amazement. Seeing Zhao Heng slowly getting up, he realized that Zhao Heng also drank too much.

Thinking about it carefully, everyone surrounded Cao Feng in the first half of the trip, but Cao Feng was really scheming, and kept catching Zhao Heng to toast in the second half of the trip. Given Cao Feng's capacity for alcohol, Zhao Heng did drink a lot.

However, Zhao Heng's wine taste was fine, except for a slight sluggishness in his steps, he couldn't tell at all, especially his face didn't change at all.When they arrived at the door, there was a cold night wind outside, Shen Jing hurriedly turned around and took the cloaks of the two of them, first put them on Zhao Heng and tied them, then put them on herself, and then helped him into the backyard.

Slowly walking to the door of the backyard, Shen Jing thought that there was someone in Zhao Heng's backyard, so she knocked and opened the door. As soon as she went in, she saw the maid who served tea that day rushed up to greet her, saluted first, and then went to help Zhao Heng.

Zhao Heng paused, turned his head to look at the opponent, and dodged it.

The maid asked Shen Jing softly, "Has Your Highness been drinking?"

Shen Jing replied: "Yes, I drank a few more glasses."

"Thank you, Mr. Shen." The maid said and went to help Zhao Heng's arm, and said softly, "Leave it to the servant girl."

After hearing the words, Shen Jing let go of Zhao Heng, and saluted: "Your Highness, please rest. I will take my leave first."

Before he turned around and walked to the door, he heard Zhao Heng say: "...Miao'an, come and help me."

Shen Jing turned her head back, just in time to see the maid wanted to help Zhao Heng, Zhao Heng blocked it and turned around to leave, she followed a few steps up, still going to help his arm: "Your Highness, please this way, this servant will help you back to your room—— "

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Heng stopped in his tracks, raised and shook the arm held by the maid, turned around, and said in a sullen tone, "Gu—do you want to help me?"

The maid took a step back and fell to the ground. Hearing this, she immediately turned over and fell to her knees: "Your Highness, calm down!"

Zhao Heng stood where he was, and slowly gathered the messy cloak on his body. Although he was drunk, his tone was still clear and calm, and he asked coldly, "Do you think you are drunk and confused?"

The maid knelt on the ground and wept softly, "I dare not..."

Shen Jing was stunned by this sudden change, and was at a loss for what to do when Xiaoyou Wei Zheng and several guards hurried in the door.Zhao Heng looked down at the maid who was kneeling on the ground, and said coldly, "Wei Zheng, take him down."

The maid heard the words and begged again and again, but was still dragged out of the courtyard by the guards.Passing Shen Jing at the door, she suddenly broke free from the guards, threw herself at Shen Jing's feet and grabbed his clothes tightly, crying softly: "...Mr. Shen! Mr. Shen, please say something for me—"

Seeing the guards pulling her roughly, Shen Jing remembered talking to her a few days ago, turned her head to look at Zhao Heng, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness—"

Xiao You winked at Shen Jing from the side, and Shen Jing lowered his eyes.Seeing that the maid looked weak and pitiful, she clutched at her sleeve and begged bitterly, and couldn't help but look at Zhao Heng again: "Your Highness, she didn't mean to—"

Zhao Heng gave the maid who was kneeling on the ground a cold look, and said to Shen Jing: "This person will never stay alone."

Xiao You immediately waved at the side: "The guards are here! Take them away!"

The guard next to her immediately stepped forward and pulled her hand away from Shen Jing, hooked her arms and dragged her out the door.The maid cried miserably for help, she didn't have the demure and gentle appearance she saw that day.Shen Jing couldn't bear it, turned around and bowed to Zhao Heng: "Your Highness! Please let her go—"

Zhao Heng didn't know whether he was angry or annoyed, so he sneered: "Okay. Since you have repeatedly pleaded for her, let her follow you. I will reward you."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked away.

Xiao You glared at Shen Jing, shook his head, and followed immediately.

The guard released the maid in front of the door.Seeing her disheveled clothes and loose hair, she knelt on the ground and wept softly, sighed quietly, took off her cloak and put it on her body: "Get up first."

The maid slowly got up from the ground, saluted Shen Jing and said thanks.

Shen Jing didn't know how to deal with her, so she had to take her out of the yard, stood still in the atrium, and comforted her in a gentle voice: "Wait here for a while. Wait for Steward Qian to come out and see where to put you."

After about a moment, Xiaoyou opened the door and came out of the courtyard, saw Shen Jing and the maid were still there, sighed and went forward: "Shen Jing, you—"

He glanced at the maid and said nothing further.Shen Jing was completely cold, La Xiaoyou took two steps away, rubbed his hands and said in a low voice: "It's like this...but what should I do?"

"What should we do?" Xiao You glared at him, and said sarcastically, "Didn't His Highness say to reward you just now? Then you just accept it, take it back to the house as a daughter-in-law, and let her have children for you."

"..."

"Either send it back to Suzhou and let her take care of the housework for you. Speaking of which, you can be regarded as a small landlord, and you can't afford to raise a delicate daughter-in-law?"

Shen Jing was blocked by him and couldn't say a word, she just looked at him pitifully.

"That's all." Xiaoyou waved his sleeves angrily, turned around and left, "Come with me."

The two picked up the lantern and walked for a long time, then sent the girl back to the side courtyard of the palace overnight.On the way back, Xiao Dian nodded quietly: "Did you forget what I told you, why is there no maid in the palace?"

"Why don't you remember?" Shen Jing sighed, "It's one thing to know. It's just pitiful to see her crying... She is a weak girl, and she must be spoiled at home—"

"Shen Jing, have you forgotten where she came from? Do you want me to choose the methods of those women in the palace and tell you carefully?"

"...No need."

"Poor people must have something to hate. There are thousands of poor people in the world. Are you coming here? Your Highness reprimanded and expelled her. His Highness has his own reasons. Why do you stir up this muddy water?"

Shen Jing sighed: "I remember it. I won't do it again in the future. But Your Highness...how should I explain it now?"

"How can I explain, do you really want to marry this woman?" Xiao You shook his head, "Tomorrow morning, go and ask for your own guilt. Your Highness won't do anything to you."

After a pause, he joked again: "You are not joking, His Highness has always valued you, maybe he will give her to you after he loses his temper? Maybe. You are not at a disadvantage for being a beautiful girl for nothing. Go out and rent a yard for you, and you can take her out to live with Meimei. Maybe you will thank His Highness when the time comes."

Shen Jing: "...you can still laugh."

"Is there anything I can't laugh at?" Xiaoyou said coolly, "I can't marry half a daughter-in-law anyway in my life. Look at you marrying such a good-looking woman who can cry, and is so beautiful when she cries." Daughter-in-law, why not be happy for you?"

"..."

After muttering all the way, the two returned to the west courtyard. Xiao Youcai said a few nice words of relief and said quietly: "Okay, okay, don't take it seriously. Your Highness might not remember it when you get up tomorrow. Besides, it was given by the Holy Majesty." Yes, His Highness may not be able to do anything to her when he is overwhelmed. Go to bed early."

Shen Jing was slightly relieved when she heard the words, and went back to the house to clean up and wash up, preparing to rest.As soon as he lay down on the bed, he heard Wei Zheng knock on the door: "Quiet!"

He hurriedly put on his clothes and got up to open the door. Seeing Wei Zheng holding a lantern at the door, he said, "Your Highness seems to have committed another chronic illness. I ask you to go and have a look."

"Did you catch the cold again?" Shen Jing heard this, and immediately went back to the room to change clothes, took the silver needle from the cupboard, went to the kitchen to fry a salt bag, and followed Wei Zheng to the backyard of the palace in a hurry.

Walking along the road, Wei Zheng reminded him in a low voice: "Your Highness is still angry. You asked me just now if you really took that woman away. You know what you have in mind, and you must answer carefully when you go in, and don't provoke her again." gone."

Shen Jing listened gratefully and said: "Thank you for reminding me."

"Your Highness is also a little bit drunk." Wei Zheng said at the door, "It's nothing serious, don't worry too much. Go in."

Shen Jing calmed down, knocked on the door and went in, and sure enough, he saw Zhao Heng sitting on the couch with his right hand on his knee, seeing him coming in, he didn't speak, only raised Danfeng's eyes, revealing a little bit of drunkenness.

Shen Jing stepped forward to salute, and handed over the salt bag: "Your Highness, use this to iron your knees first."

Zhao Heng still didn't move, for a long time, he tilted his head and slightly raised his eyebrows to look at Shen Jing: "What happened just now, do you have anything to say to Gu?"

Hearing the words, Shen Jing lowered her head and honestly admitted her mistake: "...I have overstepped. Please punish me, Your Highness."

"Punishment?" Zhao Heng stood up, walked slowly in front of Shen Jing with his hands behind his back, and looked at him with deep eyes: "How do you punish you if you want to be alone, punish you with a stick, go to prison, or send you to the army?"

Hearing the words, Shen Jing looked up in astonishment: "Your Highness—"

Zhao Heng stood in front of him, raised his hand to clasp Shen Jing's chin, his handsome and sharp eyebrows slowly approached: "Shen Jing, do you value you because of your loneliness?"

"..."

Shen Jing forced her composure to meet his gaze, but her hands couldn't help trembling slightly.King Yu, who was always upright and gentle, seemed to be a different person at this moment. The person in front of him was unpredictable. He had never seen Zhao Heng like this before, and he didn't know how to deal with it.

Being close at hand, Zhao Heng called out his name lightly: "Shen Jing...Shen Miao'an."

"Your Highness—"

Shen Jing reluctantly responded, and when he was at a loss, Zhao Heng suddenly lowered his head and grabbed his lips, sucking and kissing him.