Jiang Qing

In order to show generosity, Zhao Zhen came to Qingluan Terrace to show his face in the final test of martial arts competition.

He said that he was worried about the marriage between Jing Jing and the eldest princess, and he would leave after just a look, without needing to work hard, but he asked the Ministry of Rites to arrange the seats of the officials early.

Seeing that Zhao Zhen cared so much for the princess, the officials felt that the son-in-law would visit the court many times in the future, and they all wanted to curry favor with the future son-in-law.There is no need for Zhao Zhen to express it, but all officials of certain ranks are very attentive, making Qingluan Terrace like the Chongzheng Palace in the early dynasty, and they are all purple official robes above the fourth rank.

All officials, big and small, arrived in Pingdu, except Bai Bingchen.

Those who can get into an official position in Pingdu are all cautious old foxes. Even if they are not in the palace or in the early court, everyone can sit well in the Ring Pavilion according to their ranks. There is no need for the arrangement of the Ministry of Rites. There is nothing wrong with sitting.This made the vacant seat next to Zhao Zhen very eye-catching.

"Your Majesty, the auspicious time has come." Seeing that Zhao Zhen hadn't announced the start, the official in charge of the Ministry of Rites stepped forward to remind him in a low voice.

Zhao Zhen glanced at the empty seat next to him, and frowned slightly: "The Right Prime Minister didn't come?"

Since the last chat in the inner hall, Zhao Zhen has been waiting for Bai Bingchen's response, but he didn't wait for the slightest movement.

Bai Bingchen is a smart person who weighs the pros and cons. For his own sake, he should also be aware of current affairs.

Knowing that Bai Bingchen didn't want Mei Shao to return to Pingdu, Zhao Zhen was inevitably angry, but such a faux pas has never happened before.If he hadn't known that Bai Bingchen had been in the court for so many years, he had always been humble and polite, and he wasn't an emotional one, Zhao Zhen would have thought that he was taking advantage of his position and power to show his face.

"President Bai is busy with political affairs, so it's okay to forget for a while." Looking at Zhao Zhen's complexion, Zhang Jiudai interjected when he saw the opportunity, for fear that the fire would not be ignited.

"Forget it, it would be bad to miss Jing He's auspicious time." Zhao Zhen ignored Zhang Jiudai and waved to the ceremony officer, motioning him to start.

Zhao Zhen was still not at ease, and whispered softly to the eunuch Fushun behind him: "Go to the White House and take a look quietly, he didn't come because of something."

The ceremony official's lengthy congratulatory speech finally came to an end, and the person who announced the order of the contest was a young eunuch brought by Fushun.

The little eunuch had only read half of the order of the duel before being interrupted by Zhao Zhen. He temporarily decided that the order of today's competition would be drawn up on the spot.

There were no objections to such a fair matter on and off the stage, but Princess Jing and the eldest princess, who had not said a word after sitting down, took a look at Zhao Zhen.

Unexpectedly, the accident happened, and Jian Shiliu, who was drawing lots, was a little at a loss. He prayed secretly with a stern face before opening the note in his hand.

Perhaps it was God's will, Ling Che faced Jian Shiliu in his first match.

Seeing Ling Che's name on the note, Jian Shiliu, who was usually expressionless, couldn't help but twitched his lips, and looked at the place where Mei Shao was sitting begging for help.

It's a pity that today's big figures are all occupying the good seats, so Mei Shao can only hang out in the scattered seats outside.

Qingluan Terrace is a circular stand, and a three-story attic is built along the stand, but only the second and third floors have boxes.

It's not too crowded for Zhao Zhen to sit on the third floor with his clan relatives and officials of the first and second ranks, but the box on the second floor needs to be shared by several officials.

Originally, Li An's calculations were very good. He thought he was not a royal relative, and he didn't have any high-ranking status. When the people in the Ministry of Rites arranged seats, if they were more polite, they could arrange an exclusive third for him. If you don't like him, you can arrange him a seat on the second floor to be crowded with officials below the third rank. Although I don't have much power, I won't suffer from the third rank officials.

But he didn't expect that the number of officials in the DPRK was so perfect that he was one more.

"My lord, your seat was supposed to be on the third floor, but today the royal family has come a lot. There is no seat on the third floor." Zhou Mao, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, came to explain to Li An in person, and he couldn't do anything.

Anyway, this was also within his psychological expectations, Li An lifted his foot and walked to the second floor, "Then the king will go to the second floor to squeeze."

"There are two courtiers arranged in each attic on the second floor. The national teacher calculated that this will not damage Feng Shui. If the prince insists on going, I'm afraid it will ruin the good marriage between Jing and the eldest princess."

After these words, Li An couldn't take any steps towards the second floor.

The royal family of the Li Kingdom believes that there was an emperor earlier who even proclaimed himself a Taoist title, and abandoned his throne to visit Taoism and cultivate immortals.These generations of emperors did not have such a feat of sacrificing their lives to understand the Tao, but they all admired and respected him, and often went to ask for divination when encountering some major events.

Near the imperial city is Luofengzhai, an old Taoist priest's place of pure cultivation. He practiced Taoism in such a noisy place, which attracted the visit of the late emperor. The late emperor praised his Taoism and named him a national teacher.

The old Taoist didn't refuse, but after accepting an apprentice, he threw the title of restraining people into his apprentice's arms, and traveled all over the world by himself. His apprentice Qingxuan didn't know the old Taoist's trace, so he had to Under this title, he will practice in Luofengzhai.

Retracting his steps, Li An still found it unbelievable: "That bastard Qingxuan really figured it out? He wouldn't just talk nonsense to scare you, would he?"

"My lord, be careful, the national teacher's morality is not shallow." Zhou Mao paused, and couldn't help reminding, "And the national teacher is the same age as your lord, if he is a young boy, then you..."

"Ah! It's good to have as few desires as possible. No wonder Taoist priests look smaller." Li Jianan sighed pretendingly, blocking Zhou Mao's remaining words.

Li An secretly sighed that he was unlucky, and was about to find a seat on the first floor, but was stopped by Zhou Mao.

"But I don't dare to neglect my lord, so I'll bother you to squeeze in Prince Sheng's box on the third floor."

After walking around for a long time, Li An turned out to be waiting here. Thinking of Zhao Yuansheng's face, Li An felt terrified. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Has the national teacher ever counted the number of people in the box on the third floor? Isn't it bad Feng Shui?"

"This national teacher didn't say anything." Zhou Mao thought seriously, as if he really took the theory of Fengshui as a top priority, "The lower officials also learn some techniques of geomantic omen in their spare time. According to my humble opinion, there are some With the real Dragon Emperor pressing down, there shouldn't be any major problems."

Li An pushed away the nagging Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites. He felt that he had studied Fengshui, the five elements and the gossip, and his mind was confused. He didn't want to talk to him, so he ran to the first floor to relax At the seat, I spent money in exchange for a decent position.

Mei Shao, who originally thought that Li Anguang could be attached to Li Anguang, didn't want to come early to pay homage to Zhao Zhen, but when he slowly walked in, he was about to grab a young man and ask Li Anguang which private room he was sitting in, when he saw that there was a lot of effort in the scattered seats. The fool who waved at him.

After Mei Shao squeezed through the crowd and barely sat down, he realized that Jian Shiliu had already fought Ling Che for half the time.

At first glance at this scene, Mei Shao was also startled, he didn't expect these two people to run into each other in the first game.

Since the martial arts contest to recruit relatives, the order of each battle was arranged by a young eunuch in the palace. Li An secretly bribed the little eunuch. Until the end, Jian Shiliu and Ling Che would never meet.

Jian Shiliu can help Ling Che kill a few more martial arts fighters, so that he can firmly grasp Ling Che's victory or defeat in his own hands.But who would have thought that Zhao Zhen changed it to drawing lots temporarily, and Li An watched his vain money go to waste.

"At first I wanted to help him, but now it's good, I have to rely on him to carry it." Mei Shao quickly adjusted, and even had the mood to make fun of it.

Jian Shiliu played very strenuously in this half, he bite the bullet and played for a while, but didn't see Mei Shao, and didn't know whether he should go all out or give in secretly.

Taking advantage of turning around, he finally saw the red dress in the crowd.Mei Shao pretended to be drinking tea, and waved at him indistinctly, Jian Shiliu felt relieved.

In the previous contests, Ling Che and Jian Shiliu had fought against each other several times, and both of them won or lost within one or two strokes.In the first half, the two were evenly matched, and they played fairly well.

With past experience, Jian Shiliu was not a tough opponent, so Ling Che fought him like this, hoping to use up some of his physical strength so that he could reverse the attack.

But it was just a simple side step to give way, but Jian Shiliu's sword barely scratched Ling Che's robe.This distance can be completely avoided according to the sword speed of Jian Shiliu in the past.Realizing this, Ling Che was startled, because Jian Shiliu's sword became faster.

This is just the beginning, the sword turns sixteen times from defense to offense, the shadow of the sword is hazy, only ten moves, but the speed of the sword has increased.

Ling Che anxiously discerned the sword shadow in front of him, and with a powerful blow, he used brute force to press down on the sword edge of Jian Shiliu, blocking the attack of Qingshuang Sword, and felt the pain in his body belatedly.

Qingshuangjian's sword was sharp and thin, and it cut more than a dozen slender cuts on his body, and now blood is slowly oozing out.

"Swordsmanship is still slow, if I would never let Ling Che hold this sword." Mei Shao grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds, knocking them while commenting, as if she had nothing to do with her.

Li An didn't understand Mei Shao's gesture just now, but now he realized what was going on on stage, and was in a hurry: "You asked Jian Shiliu to do his best? If this continues, Ling Che will have to be carried down even if he wins. This is terrible It's not the end, he still has a competition in the future!"

"The emperor is not in a hurry..." Mei Shao swallowed those two words, "Why are you in a hurry, the one above has not moved yet."

At this time, Li An couldn't care about the word "eunuch" that Mei Shao meant, and thought about what he said, and said softly, "Your Majesty?"

"For a dull and boring idiot like Ling Che, it's just right to use bitter tricks. Fortunately, our Majesty tried his best to match." Mei Shao's eyes darkened, looking at Ling Che who was already a little bit irresistible on the stage, and then turned his gaze to the third floor Zhao Jinghe was in the private room, "I just don't know if this ice cube can warm my heart."

Mei Shao seemed to have thought of something again, showing nostalgia on her face, and said with a slight smile: "These two people, one is full of heartfelt words, but his mouth is stupid and he can't say them. Said. I didn't see it at the time, but this pair of gourds are a perfect match."