My wife is number one in the world

Chapter 1022
"Preach the decree, let's start the banquet!"

The chief executive waved the whisk in his hand solemnly: "Your Majesty has an order, let's hold a banquet!"

As soon as the chief executive finished speaking, the melodious notes of the piano, lute, and chime played with silk and bamboo sounded, and hundreds of eunuchs handed out all kinds of food covered with exquisite covers to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs!

First, four plates of pastries carefully tanned by the imperial chef were placed on the table, followed by four fresh and tender melons and fruits!
Immediately, there were as many as sixteen hot dishes served with various meat and vegetable towers, and the grilled leg of lamb and roasted whole lamb were also served one by one!

In the end, two altars of fine wine exuding a rich aroma were placed on each table. Once you smell it, it is an old wine. At least it is the imperial wine that has been stored in the palace for ten years!

Liu Mingzhi participated in many celebration banquets and this was the first time he had seen such a sumptuous banquet. It can be seen that Li Zheng spent a lot of money to make the guests and the host happy, and the envoys from Western countries saw it all!
The banquets of the Ministers of Civil and Military Affairs were extremely sumptuous, and there were many dishes on the tables of the empress and many concubines. Only Li Zheng, the great dragon emperor, had only simple three dishes and one soup on the dragon table in front of him!
A glazed wine jug holds a pot of fine wine, and a jasper wine glass is placed next to it!
In comparison, it can be described as simple and crude. I don’t know whether Li Zheng has a poor appetite, or whether he is rich in life, but still remembers the hard-won rules of one tea and one meal!

More than 30 singers in feather dresses entered quietly stepping on musical symbols, dancing on the square!

In the eyes of ordinary people, the thirty singers are all beautiful women with good looks and good figure!
The youngest of the singers is about 16 years old, and the oldest is only 23 or [-] years old!

The feather dresses on their bodies swayed flexibly with their dancing postures, the dancing postures were enchanting, and the beautiful eyes lingered and moved people's hearts!
Under the leadership of the leading dancer, the singers toss and turn, long-sleeved and good at dancing, frowning and smiling at the civil and military officials watching the singing and dancing from time to time, with a sense of enchantment and charm!

As for the Western envoys in the farthest distance, they didn't have this kind of treatment. They all held the wine glasses in their hands and stared at the bare waists of the divas with their mouths wide open.

Liu Mingzhi didn't take care of the four little padded jackets who kept destroying the delicacies on the table, and he didn't have the heart to admire those beautiful dancers with enchanting dancing postures.

With complicated eyes, he caressed the golden whip in his hand. Although he knew that this was the emperor's art, no matter anyone would do it, and the queen would also play this trick, Liu Mingzhi still felt a little uncomfortable!

Although Li Zheng treated himself well, being on guard against him from time to time really made him a little mentally exhausted, but there was nothing he could do!
Because not only himself, Li Zheng even his own son King Qing and the others are on guard!

He was on guard against everyone in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, from the first-rank officials to the left and right Zaifu, down to the small officials of various departments and nine-rank officials, in the eyes of the emperor, they were all people who could not get along with each other.

The emperor is doomed to be a loner, in his eyes only the imperial power is the most important, talking about love between children is just a dream!

The third princess slowly put down the wine glass in her hand, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, the third princess had a blush on her cheeks!

The third princess looked at the father sitting on the dragon chair with complex eyes, chewing slowly and enjoying the song and dance, and sighed silently!

"Father, father, my son can understand your difficulties as an emperor, but your husband may not understand!"

"How long can your monarch and ministers maintain harmony? Do you know how difficult it is for sons and ministers to be caught in the middle? Do you know how difficult it is to be a fool in silence!"

Gently holding her husband's arm, the third princess looked at her husband's more resolute profile with infinite affection in her eyes!
"Husband, no matter what the situation is in the future, Yan'er will always be with you until we live and die together!"

Li Zheng put down the silver chopsticks in his hand and wiped the grease from the corner of his mouth. He filled himself a glass of wine and was about to toast!
The Chief Steward grabbed Li Zheng's wrist, with a hint of worry in his eyes: "Your Majesty, the imperial physicians have repeatedly ordered you not to let you drink alcohol. Can this old servant bring you a pot of tea?"

"It's okay, I'm very happy with today's banquet, and it's okay to drink three cups of thin wine!"

"Your Majesty, this old servant begs you, cherish the dragon body!"

"I know my body very well, let go!"

"His Majesty!"

"Old Zhou, for 40 years, you have never violated my wishes!"

The chief executive sighed and loosened Li Zheng's wrist gently: "Your Majesty, drink less, drink less!"

The chief executive who returned to the original place hurriedly winked at the little eunuch beside him and ordered softly: "Go and summon all the imperial doctors to enter the palace to wait, except those who dare not come when they are on official business, we will smash him to pieces!"

The little eunuch shivered and nodded, hugged Fuchen and walked lightly towards the corridor beside him!

"My beloved ministers, my distinguished envoys, drink three cups of wine with me, to show that Dalong and the western countries will maintain their ties forever!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Thank you Great Dragon Emperor!"

Li Zheng raised the jade cup and drank the wine in the cup, and raised the wine cup to signal to everyone!
"Your Majesty is massive!"

A glass of wine can also be described as massive, and everyone's positions are not unreasonable!
"Lao Zhou pours wine!"

"Yes!"

The chief manager picked up the jug and slowly filled Li Zheng's glass half full of wine, and was about to recede!
"Fill up!"

"Yes!"

"Everyone, have another drink with me!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The chief manager knew that persuasion was useless and continued to fill up the wine glass and stared nervously at Li Zheng who was holding the wine glass, for fear that Li Zheng would show something bad!

"One more drink!"

"Please, Your Majesty!"

After three glasses of wine, Li Zheng motioned to everyone and sat on the dragon chair with a light smile!

Seeing this, the chief executive let out a long breath, only to realize that his forehead was already covered with dense beads of sweat, and hurriedly wiped it off with his sleeve without any traces!

Li Zheng raised his own spoon, held a spoonful of the tonic soup carefully prepared by the imperial chef in his hand, and was about to send it to his mouth!

Between Mu Ran, Li Zheng blushed unnaturally, coughed twice and hurriedly put down the soup bowl in his hand, looked at Qionglou Yuyu around the square with melancholy eyes, and took a slow breath!

"Prince!"

"Father!"

Li Baiyu hurriedly put down the cake in his hand and looked at Li Zheng respectfully!

"I still have some memorials to deal with, you treat me to entertain the civil and military officials, and the Western envoys!"

"My son obeys the order, father and emperor, go slowly!"

"Queen, come with me, I have something to tell you!"

"Chen and concubine follow the order!"

When Li Zheng left, except for a very few people who knew, most people's minds were lingering on Diva's body!

In the imperial study room, Li Zheng wiped the fine sweat off his forehead with a silk scarf, drank the soup and medicine handed over by the chief manager, smiled and looked at an old Taoist with sloppy clothes and a childlike face opposite him!
"Old Immortal, I made you laugh!"

If Liu Mingzhi was present, he would be able to tell at a glance that the old Taoist priest opposite Li Zheng was Li Buyi, the divine figure he hadn't seen for many years!
A few years passed in a hurry, and the years did not seem to have left any traces on Li Buyi's body, and there was no change at all when he parted with Young Master Liu for the last time. He had white hair and a childlike face, a ruddy complexion, and his back was straighter than a young man's!
"Your Majesty, the old Taoist is an outsider. He never takes this matter to heart. Tranquility and inaction are the supreme purpose of Taoism!"

"The old god is still exactly the same as 20 years ago. Unfortunately, I have changed from green to gray. The years, the years, are really unforgiving!"

"Your Majesty, everything has its own destiny, everything has its own destiny!"

"Yes, everything has its own destiny. In his later years, the first emperor was obsessed with the golden elixir avenue and abandoned state affairs. I vividly remember it, but I still want to ask the old gods, is there really no way to live forever?"

Li Buyi, who is nearly 130 years old but has the same appearance as an old man in his 50s, closed his bright eyes and shook his head slightly!

"Your Majesty, alternation of yin and yang, birth, old age, sickness and death is the right way in the world, and there is a way of longevity!"

(End of this chapter)