Shu Blossoms

Chapter 50 The Night Banquet
"His Royal Highness, you must prepare to leave. If you move over there, it is very dangerous for you to stay here!"

Xia Houqing warned worriedly.

"Don't worry, it will take seven or eight days for the news over there to arrive at the earliest, and this time is enough for us to leave!"

"His Royal Highness is going to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in Da Zhou?"

Xia Houqing was moved when he heard the words, and asked in surprise.

"It's rare to come here, Xiahou doesn't want to know what is so special about the leader of the younger generation in Da Zhou?"

Tuoba Yu leaned against the soft hidden sac with a hint of sternness in his lazy voice. "Besides, if I leave early, it will definitely arouse Da Zhou's vigilance, and your actions will also be affected!"

After he finished drinking his glass of wine, he looked up at Xia Houqing.

Xia Houqing understood, got up and said goodbye, "I'm going to prepare, Your Highness take care!"

"Pay attention to Xingzang, don't be careless!" Tuoba Yu ordered, and then listened to the song, but his eyes fell into the distance.

Half a month before the mid-autumn feast, Tuobayu became more high-profile, as if he was fascinated by the prosperity of Jiankang City. Not only the nobility, but even the common people secretly ridiculed that the third prince of the Wei Dynasty was a bastard who had never seen the world!
It is a pity that the once prosperous and prosperous Central Plains has become today's backcountry.

When Zheng Wei and Zheng Heng were visiting the paper shop, they saw Tuoba Yu wandering in the rice shop opposite, with a look of great interest.

Zheng Heng asked curiously, "Didn't you say that the third prince of Wei is addicted to eating, drinking, and having fun? Why did he go to the rice shop?"

Zheng Wei is also strange, Tuo Bayu's recent behavior is indeed very abnormal.

Ever since I met him in the West Market, I have often heard that Tuoba Yu shuttled around the entire Kyoto, like crystal shrimp dumplings in the water and clouds, flower brew in the depths of hundreds of flowers, painting boats on the Qinhuai River in the clouds, Tuoba Yudu. He is a frequent visitor, sometimes staying overnight in a painting boat.

Now it seems that he not only likes to eat, drink and have fun, but I don't know what his plans are!
The owner of the paper shop listened to Zheng Heng's words and said with a smile: "Then the third prince of Wei had been to the shop just now, and he took the little old man to ask him, the question was very strange, like what kind of soft paper Is it expensive to sell, and who buys it? What kind of paper is cheap and durable, etc.?”

Zheng Wei was even more curious when he heard the words. He went out of the paper shop and dragged Zheng Heng to the rice shop opposite. After inquiring, he learned that Tuobayu did not buy rice grains, but only asked about the price of rice grains, what kind of rice yields high, good Feed these strange problems.

At this time, Zheng Wei understood a little. Tuoba Yu not only went to the rice shop, but also went to the blacksmith shop and oil shop. These are the national economy and the people's livelihood.

Tuobayu is definitely not as unrestrained as he looks on the surface, there are always ambitions hidden in the eyes of those smiling foxes, and there are more people from Limin at this time.

Zheng Wei has more admiration.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Zheng Mansion also received the imperial decree to enter the palace for a banquet a few days earlier. Zheng Wei went to the Queen's Palace with Mrs. Zheng and the eldest princess after noon.

Emperor Zhou's mother and concubine died early. Now there is no queen mother in the harem. The queen is the woman with the highest status in the harem. The mistress of the gentry and the daughters of ministers must first come to see the queen when they enter the palace.

When the queen saw the eldest princess come in, she hurriedly sent the female Shi beside her to greet her, and then got up in person and gave the eldest princess a family salute with a smile.

The eldest princess hurriedly took two steps to pull her, and said angrily: "It's been so many years, now that you are the queen, you can no longer salute me."

When the queen stood still, the eldest princess bent down and bowed, followed by Mrs. Zheng and Zheng Wei.

The queen pulled them up with a smile and instructed the palace maids to wait and sit by the side, and then she smiled homely, "I heard that the old lady was unwell a few days ago, and now you look ruddy and in good spirits, it's good to think about it."

Mrs. Zheng got up and thanked the gift: "Thank you for remembering, the minister and wife are all right!"

Afterwards, there were many more life wives. The eldest princess and Zheng Wei almost felt familiar, but they couldn't remember which family they belonged to.

So she had a headache to attend those poetry gatherings. Fortunately, the protagonist today is the queen, she just took it along, as long as the boss echoed a few words along with the queen.

Zheng Wei is even simpler. In the past, when she was young, she hid behind her grandmother, and few people spoke to her. She was shy when she couldn't hide, and she earned a name of quiet and elegant.

It's just that today is different. The ladies from various families frequently look at her. Even if the movements are hidden, Zheng Wei can feel those fiery gazes. There are curiosity, appreciation, and many hidden deep but still let people feel like a man. Contempt disgust in the back.

Zheng Wei naturally knew the reason. In the past two months, the sons of many people here have been discussing with her every day, and many people have been beaten hard.

Come to think of it, she is now famous in Jiankang City!

Mrs. Zheng also felt the gazes from everyone. She was afraid that her granddaughter couldn't bear it, so she secretly held Zheng Wei's small hand.

Zheng Wei felt her grandmother's comfort, smiled at her, and calmly ate the preserved fruit on the plate in front of her.

In this world, women are mostly vassals of men, and men value their power, but if men are unreliable and power is not allowed to be controlled by women, what else can they hold in the end!
I don't know why, since returning to Jiankang, she often has some shocking thoughts that others see, and she has seen that the world is no longer willing to hide in a dark corner, the situation changes, and it rises and falls one after another. Become a starving death in a troubled world...

When Zheng Wei was thinking wildly, when it was time for the night banquet, everyone rushed to Xianyang Palace with the Queen.

When they arrived, most of the people had already arrived. Zheng Wei looked up and saw that Tuo Bayu had also arrived early. He was bored and dragged the person next to him to talk, but the person obviously didn't want to pay attention to him, so he turned his head away from him with a dark face.

Soon Zheng Wei followed Old Madam Zheng to the women's seat, and he couldn't see Tuo Bayu's expression even if he was a little far away.

Soon the emperor arrived with Concubine Yuan, and the banquet began.

A few months ago, on the great victory of the Northern Expedition, all the ministers congratulated Emperor Zhou with high spirits. There were many compliments, and Zheng Wei felt that he had really benefited a lot.

There was only one person who was out of place in the lively celebration of the whole world. Although Zheng Wei couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, his figure remained motionless from the beginning of the banquet.

Soon tonight's big show came, Han Shidi took the initiative to stand up and saluted Zhou Di: "Your Majesty, I have heard that the third prince of the Wei Dynasty is all-rounder in both civil and military affairs. Do not hesitate to teach me, and it is also for the sake of His Majesty and the Empress!"

The matter had already been settled, and Emperor Zhou did not ask Tuobayu's opinion, he just answered Han Shidi's request and raised his glass with a smile, "Da Lang, the third prince is my guest of Da Zhou. !"

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Tuoba Yu, only to see that he didn't say a word, got up slowly, and looked at Han Shidi opposite with a smile.

Although he couldn't see clearly, Zheng Wei felt that he was smiling, but his smile was cold!
The two took the long swords handed over by the guards and drew them out at the same time, pointing their swords directly at each other.

(End of this chapter)