The emperor read the story book in the memorial

"Where's the princess?"

In the deciduous garden, looking at the empty room, Zhao Linxu crossed his chest and glanced at Uncle Chen standing beside him.

"It's clearly still there just now." Uncle Chen frowned slightly, and stopped a guard to ask.

"The princess said she was going to see City Lord Li throwing the hydrangea..."

"Didn't I tell you not to let the princess go out!"

The guard was startled, and said calmly, "I saw that there were many guards following me, so I didn't stop them."

The main thing is that it cannot be stopped.

"Forget it, let's go and have a look." Zhao Linxu couldn't help gloating in his heart, so how will the beauty solve this matter?

Zhao Linxu rode Yuefeng, and Uncle Chen hadn't reached the place where the hydrangea balls were thrown, when they heard everyone's shouts from a long distance away. It must be a sea of ​​people under the high platform, and it was very lively.

"City lord! The slave family has admired the city lord for several years, and I still ask the city lord to favor him!"

"Oh, such a beautiful woman must be held in the palm of the hand, and it hurts to hold it in the mouth. Such a beauty should be accompanied by piano and chess every day, decorated with calligraphy and painting. My Zhang family has been an official for generations, and there are thousands of classics in the family. Please, beauty, live a fairy life with me in the future!"

"The city lord, no matter how desirable the person is, it is not worth the money! I have nothing but money! The city lord, come and enjoy the blessings with me!"

"City lord! You will definitely have a good life with me!! I kill pigs every day! Kill strong ones!"

Zhao Linxu laughed.

Walking along the lake, after turning a corner, there is a surging crowd of people, not far from a high platform, but before Zhao Linxu can really see the scene in front of him, he saw a colorful thing in the air above Arrows are flying in the direction where they are.

"Ah, it's not good——"

"Catch it! It's about to fall into the lake!"

"My God! It's too late!"

Seeing that everyone seemed to be in a panic, it seemed that something had happened.So Zhao Linxu subconsciously jumped up to catch the thing, successfully preventing it from falling straight into the lake.

"..."

The world is silent at this moment.

It was silent.

Li Jianyu looked at Zhao Linxu and felt that the world was gloomy.And Zhao Linxu saw that all the common people were staring at him, so he lowered his head.

A pair of lifelike mandarin ducks came into view.

"..."

cough cough.

"The city wants to be the queen?"

Someone in the crowd made such a sentence, and then it spread and exploded.

"The city lord is going to be the empress!! The emperor, the emperor of Jiulong, the city lord's number one beauty, should be a real match!"

"This is too bad. Should the emperor choose the vixen that night or the city lord? It's so hard to choose!"

The sound of excited gossip, and the sound of grief because he didn't receive the hydrangea, Li Jianyu felt that he was about to be overwhelmed, and was so angry that he locked his eyes on Zhao Linxu.If you look carefully, there are still a few traces of resentment hidden in those calm eyes.

Let you mind your own business.

You pick up a fur ball, isn't it a home?

Zhao Linxu received Li Jianyu's gaze, smiled, and rode under the high platform with a "drive" and shouted: "I'm here to save you! Jump down!"

Li Jianyu was taken aback.

Without waiting for him to react, Zhao Linxu raised his eyebrows and leaped onto the high platform from the horseback with light work, and stretched out his hand to pull Li Jianyu into his arms.

Li Jianyu only felt a strong arm wrap around his waist, and then the scene in front of him flashed, and he was actually pulled out of the high platform.

With his feet hanging in the air and his body falling down without support, Li Jianyu closed his eyes subconsciously, and tightly wrapped his arms around Zhao Linxu's neck.And when he opened his eyes again, he had landed firmly on the horse's back.

"Beauty, let's elope."

"drive--"

Yuefeng held his head up and screamed, leading the two of them away, leaving only the cheers and boos of the common people.

The two on horseback were brought to the city gate by Yuefeng.

"Where are you going?"

Zhao Linxu said: "Shall we go to the woods to have fun?"

Li Jianyu froze all over.

Can't you speak well?

What do you mean, go to the woods and be merry.

"No, the celebration will start the day after tomorrow, and I still have a lot of things to decide."

He had to deal with these trivial matters quickly before he could quietly go up the mountain to give Phoenix Lingzhi at night.I haven't seen them for two days, and I don't know what happened to those phoenixes.

"City Lord!"

The guard at the city gate stepped forward and said, "The Fifth Prince is here!"

Li Jianyu and Zhao Linxu were both taken aback.

Dagong Fifth Prince Zhao Zhanqi, Zhao Linxu's half-brother.As the general of the north and the south, he has made great achievements in battle.

"The minister should go to meet you."

Zhao Linxu lowered his eyes and smiled, "I will go with you."

Outside the city gate was a mighty procession, riding at the forefront was a tall and handsome man who presumably was the Fifth Prince Zhao Zhanqi.A gentle and elegant man in white was riding beside him, and behind them were rows of North and South troops in neat armor.

"Welcome the lord to drive Luoye City." Li Jianyu got off his horse and knelt in front of Zhao Zhanqi's horse and said, "I don't know when the lord will arrive, so I didn't let someone come out to greet him. I also ask the lord to forgive me."

Zhao Zhanqi looked at Li Jianyu condescendingly.

She really lived up to her reputation, with such a beauty, even he was almost taken aback.

"It's okay, it's my king who didn't let anyone report it. You can get away with it."

Zhao Zhanqi also dismounted to greet Zhao Linxu.

"Brother Huang."

"Ah."

Li Jianyu stood aside, thinking about it in his heart.

The atmosphere between Zhao Zhanqi and Zhao Linxu was really strange, and it was indeed as unharmonious as rumored.

"Where is Your Royal Highness?" Zhao Zhanqi said: "Can you arrange for this king to meet his future wife?"

Zhao Linxu's expression darkened immediately.

Li Jianyu was surprised from the bottom of his heart.

Future, wife?

Zhao Zhanqi raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "The imperial father's edict promised the princess to this king. Could it be that the imperial brother wants to disobey the order? How can the imperial father feel at ease."

Li Jianyu suddenly understood why Zhao Linxu ignored Zhao Jiangxue's wishes and forced her to Prince Anding, because he didn't want Zhao Jiangxue to marry Zhao Zhanqi.

"We'll talk about this later. Beauty, don't neglect to arrange accommodation for the prince."

"Yes."

Li Jianyu took Zhao Zhanqi to the best inn in the city, and Zhao Linxu was not in the mood to ride a horse anymore. When he returned to the Fallen Leaf Garden, he saw Zhao Jiangxue sitting on a stone bench in the yard, his face was blank, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Brother..."

When Zhao Jiangxue saw Zhao Linxu, she raised her head slightly, but her eyes were red.

Zhao Linxu sighed.

"You knew already?"

Zhao Jiangxue bit her lower lip, trembling slightly.

Zhao Linxu immediately stepped forward to hug her and said, "Don't be afraid, my brother will protect you and won't let you marry Zhao Zhanqi."

"Why didn't you tell me..." Zhao Jiangxue felt extremely ashamed when she thought about the matter of her refusal to marry Prince Anding.

"Don't be afraid, don't think too much." Zhao Linxu patted Zhao Jiangxue on the back and said, "If you don't make trouble, I didn't think too much. It is indeed my fault for you to marry Prince Anding, and I shouldn't handle things like this. You Don't worry, I will neither let you marry Zhao Zhanqi, nor let you be wronged and marry someone you don't like."

Zhao Linxu thought to himself, he came out of that cold palace and finally became an emperor in order to have the power to protect the people he wanted to protect, so naturally he couldn't admit defeat.

Zhao Jiangxue nestled in his brother's arms, shaking his shoulders and trying to hold back the tears.

"Well, I believe you."

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Li Jianyu rushed up to the mountain to feed Erbao with Ganoderma lucidum after finishing his work that night. He watched Erbao slowly recover his vitality and body temperature, and then went down the mountain in the early morning of the next day.

There was a rumor in the city before that there was a phoenix in the mountains, but there was no sign of it in the past few days, and the ganoderma was also picked, so the rumors of the phoenix cooled down along with the ganoderma.

After Li Jianyu returned to the city and settled down, he immediately wrote a letter to Hua Huanxi, telling her not to tell about the pattern on her body, saying that it was a family secret, and it was inconvenient to disclose it.

Fortunately, the imperial court was worried that someone might pretend to be the person of that night, so they didn't say that the man had tattoos on his body. Li Jianyu knew it was because Uncle Chen didn't shy away from him and Meng Qingshu.

Li Jianyu said so, Hua Huanxi did not suspect him, and specially told the disciples who saw the pattern to keep their mouths shut.

Everything seems to be running smoothly.

After that, the celebration began. Li Jianyu welcomed many distinguished guests these days, such as famous wizards from Daxi, envoys from Dafan, sons from aristocratic families from the capital...Because Zhao Linxu had more distinguished guests than in previous years, Li Jianyu couldn't help but more cautious.In such a scene where fish and dragons are mixed, and the crowd is full of bosses, the most fearful thing is that something will happen. The main reason is that if anything goes wrong, it will be him.

The first day of the celebration was just an ordinary banquet. There were people dancing on the stage by the lake, tables, chairs and delicacies were placed under the stage, and people came and went.

Li Jianyu sat in the first seat with Zhao Linxu and Zhao Jiangxue, and all the guests would come to toast Zhao Linxu and show their faces.

Zhao Zhanqi is no exception.

"I wish the emperor a healthy body." Afterwards, Zhao Zhanqi poured another glass of wine and handed it to Zhao Jiangxue.

"Your Highness."

Zhao Jiangxue froze all over, and her complexion was slightly pale. If it wasn't for the support of her noble status as a princess, she would have always escaped.

Zhao Linxu looked at Zhao Zhanqi with an unfriendly expression.His status was embarrassing, and it was not easy to pick it up, and Zhao Jiangxue was also frightened, so the glass of wine was stuck in the air, and the wine in the glass wobbled.

"The princess is delicate, and she can't drink such a strong wine. I dare to indulge the prince." Li Jianyu leaned slightly to take the glass of wine and drank it down.

Zhao Zhanqi looked at Li Jianyu with a half-smile, and then turned to Zhao Linxu and said, "If Brother Huang doesn't want to entrust his beloved sister to me, it would be a good thing to give City Lord Li to me."

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In Li Jianyu's heart, ten thousand grass and mud horses galloped past.

What is Zhao Zhanqi going crazy? !

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