The rise of the prince

Chapter 838 Fire in the Inner Court+Little Tsundere

After the emperor inspected the three armies, he was so excited that he spoke to several generals in front, especially Yang Wenguang, Zhe Weizhong, and Wei Chaoren.

It is rare for border guards like them to have the opportunity to enter Beijing, let alone face saints.

Then Degong came out to announce the decree, which was roughly to reward all the generals and soldiers of the new army, but it was not too detailed, just talking roughly, and set a batch for the rewards.

Li Xingzhou made the first contribution, followed by the six commanders of the three-way army, and then the meritorious generals and the officials in charge of logistics.

More detailed rewards must be formulated by him, the marshal.

Then the army and many generals followed the emperor's officials into the city.

The people in the city had been waiting for a long time. The army stuffed all kinds of things into the arms of the soldiers everywhere, and some shy girls gave out intimate gifts with a shy face.

Li Xingzhou is at the forefront, only after the Son of Heaven, regardless of credit or status, this is the position he should have.

If it were in previous years, Li Xingzhou must have been proud of his horseshoe disease, but at this time he was not leisurely, but rather guilty for no reason.

His eyes kept scanning the crowd around him, wanting to see if anyone from the palace was there.

Soon, he saw Qiu'er, Yue'er, Qifang, Yan Kun, Yan Gu and others surrounded by a large group of servants of the palace, waving to him constantly from a distance.

Li Xingzhou was very happy. Seeing these familiar faces again after half a year, he was very excited. He immediately went to say hello, but he was afraid of hindering the queue behind, so he just said a few words and continued to move forward.

Qiu'er looks thinner, but Yue'er is more rounded. It seems that the little girl is still as greedy as before, while Qifang next to her is not as busy as last year, but more calm.

The eyes of the two little girls shone brightly, while Qi Fang had a slightly weird smile on his lips.
Li Xingzhou's heart skipped a beat, and he soon realized that something was wrong.

Neither Gillian nor Shiyu came!

Looking at Fang who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, with an expression of watching a play, Li Xingzhou knew that it must be the fault of those rumors related to Pu Chaling.

"Stop laughing, yin and yang!" Li Xingzhou was annoyed: "You are the one who is the best at fighting!"

"Hmph, if Your Highness didn't have so many affairs, the little girl would have nowhere to flirt." Qifang sneered.

Li Xingzhou knew what she said, sure enough. Alas, the common people are gossips, you will die if you don't talk nonsense!He was sure that Shi Yu and Gillian must have heard all kinds of embellished versions, otherwise they would not have come to see him.

He ignored the gloating Qifang, patted his eyebrows and caught up with the emperor's frame, thinking about how to deal with it.

In the afternoon, the emperor held a banquet outside the imperial city to entertain all the triumphant soldiers, in fact, those who followed into the city, and the new army camp had its own arrangements.

It started a few days ago, and it took several days to buy chickens and sheep. It is not a joke to feed tens of thousands of people.

For people in this era, it is already a good celebration to have a good meal, wine and meat.

There is also a banquet in the palace, it is an ordinary banquet, the kind that can bring family members, the atmosphere is very casual, it is to celebrate this great victory, it is a kind of palace dinner.

Li Xingzhou stopped in front of the main gate of the palace, and ordered Wei Yubai, Yang Hongzhao and others to arrange soldiers.

Then the palace began to arrange banquets, such a grand occasion was rare.

Since it is a celebration banquet, there are not so many rules.

In the afternoon, after the sun had set, the jade railings in the palace and the corners of the attic halls were lit up one after another.

The banquet was held in the main hall of the Changchun Palace, and it was very grand. In addition to preparing all kinds of drinks, delicacies were also sent up in turn.

The emperor said a few words on the occasion, and then the maids and eunuchs kept bringing up various dishes, and let everyone eat and drink freely.

The luxury of the palace banquet far exceeds the expectations of ordinary people, but it mainly depends on the emperor.

Like Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, he was not so particular about his style. After all, the style of fighting in the South and the North was eating and sleeping in the open.

During the Song Huizong period, he and Qin Hui went to the newly promoted prime minister's house as guests, and the other party prepared more than 120 dishes to serve him well.

And these more than 120 dishes are still only those whose names were recorded in detail by the people of Song Dynasty, and there are no detailed records.

There are more than 100 dishes, not including all kinds of dim sum and soups. Even one bite of each dish is enough to kill people. Most of them must be ostentatious and wasted.

Another example is Qianlong, he himself likes to eat hot pot, so he also likes to have some "single happiness is not as good as all the joy", and he also likes to invite ministers to eat hot pot, and he can hold a hot pot banquet every now and then. .

Compared with their style, Jingguo's palace banquet was more low-key. The dishes were changed three times, and there were about [-] or [-] dishes. It was not bad, but not extravagant.

The food is good food, and the wine is good wine from the palace, but Li Xingzhou has no appetite, and he has been thinking about Gillian and Shiyu in his heart.

Nine times out of ten, they heard the rumors that he "loves beauties but not country", "doesn't care about anything for the emperor of Jin", "Pu Chaling is the most beautiful woman in the world" and so on.

Those who chew their tongues will die!

What is logic? Is he the kind of person who doesn't care about the overall situation?It's just that the overall situation has been decided, and it's just a matter of taking advantage of it.

But now that this is said, no one will believe it, and Gillian's poetry will not believe it, because Pu Chaling has already been named the most beautiful woman in the world, and she is the most beautiful woman in the world.

In the middle of the banquet, everyone had drunk three rounds, tasted the dishes, drank almost, and began to brag about their glorious achievements in the north. The emperor quietly left without knowing when, leaving the home court to them.

The atmosphere of the banquet became lively, and Li Xingzhou was a little drunk. After all, people kept coming to toast, and he mostly didn't refuse.

He also quietly withdrew from the table while the crowd was boisterously drinking.

Out of the main hall, through the inner city, the hundreds of tables of open-air banquets in the outer city and inner city are even more lively. Here are the soldiers who accompanied them into the city.

Li Xingzhou walked around the edge without attracting everyone's attention, and went directly to the stable to lead Meixue to the palace.

When he returned to the palace, it was completely dark. The guard at the gate was shocked when he saw him come back. He was about to go in to report when Li Xingzhou stopped him. Then he strode into the palace and rushed to the backyard.

People in the mansion come and go, and all kinds of familiar voices can be heard from a distance, the accountant urges tea, complaints from the kitchen, whispers and gossips from the maids.

Li Xingzhou walked quickly from the corridor to the backyard. Someone just caught a glimpse, and then he realized something. He vaguely heard something like "His Highness is back!" courtyard.

The rooms on the east and west sides were lit with fire, Li Xingzhou went straight to the second floor and opened the poetry room where he had left.

Immediately, two eyes in the room looked at him at the same time.

One of them was Shiyu. She was wearing a loose dress and sitting sideways on the bed, where two infant children were sleeping soundly.

Another middle-aged woman stood beside her, not Gillian, but a nanny or something, helping to take care of the child.

Shiyu looked at her, eyes full of surprise and excitement, just about to get up, she squeezed her fingers tightly, stopped her movements abruptly, her whole body was tense, and she turned her head away from looking at him: "His Royal Highness is back."

"I'm back." Li Xingzhou nodded awkwardly.

The middle-aged woman sensed that the atmosphere was not right, she glanced left and right to observe the situation, then bowed her head and retreated.

"Isn't there a celebration banquet in the palace? Your Highness is the protagonist, why are you back?" Shiyu said, her voice not fluctuating at all.

Li Xingzhou chuckled, "The celebration banquet is not as important as you." He sat down next to her, and stretched out his arms to wrap around her slender waist, but she moved forward, avoiding without a trace.

So he had no choice but to stretch out his hands to the two sleeping children, "This is our child, he really looks like you, and he has been cute and cute since he was a child." In fact, he didn't see what the child looked like at all because of the lack of light.

But after saying this, the attitude of the poetic language softened a lot, and there was a taste of anger in the tone: "Nonsense, the child is so young, how can you tell.

But you, come back so early, aren't you afraid that the emperor will blame you? "

"Don't be afraid, I'm on the road again today, I'm accompanying him to inspect the armed forces, and I'm busy all day long, I'm already exhausted, so I won't accompany you.

Let's go back to Beijing again, the first person I want to meet is you!The first thing I want to do is to come back and see you!
If the emperor hadn't led all the officials out of the city today, I would have come back to see you directly," Li Xingzhou held Shiyu's hand and said affectionately.

I feel goosebumps myself.But to deal with such an arrogant woman like Shiyu, she has to do this, how disgusting, how shameless, and at the same time revealing some details that can make her feel soft, busy all day, tired and so on.

After all, being arrogant is because you care.

"Hmph" Sure enough, Shiyu hummed a syllable from his nasal cavity, but he didn't resist him and leaned over.

"Aren't you looking for the most beautiful woman in the world?"

"There is no woman more beautiful than you in the world, why don't I know, who are you talking about?" Li Xingzhou pretended to be stupid.

The poetic tone pinched him: "Still pretending! Everyone is in the palace, don't fool me."

"Ah!" Li Xingzhou was shocked. Pu Chaling asked Yan Shen and Wei Yubai to escort them back first, but told them to find a garden outside the city to settle down first, and then bring him back after he stabilized the mood of the family leader.

Shiyu raised his head, and looked at him resentfully: "It's already spread all over the world, and you still want to let people have a home and can't go back. Are you really anonymous?"

"You brought her back?"

"Otherwise, after all that, you still want to hide it from us, am I such a stingy person?"

"Isn't it?"

"I am!" Shiyu's beautiful eyes were covered with mist: "I am like that. No woman would expect her husband to find a woman outside. I am not happy, but I know the priorities."

Li Xingzhou quickly hugged her and coaxed her:

"I was wrong. I couldn't control it for a while. There was nothing else. There are all big men in the army. I couldn't control it all at once. I made a mistake and I corrected it."

Shiyu huddled in his arms: "Hey, pervert! I knew it. Seeing her leaving her hometown with a pathetic and restless look, I've long since stopped being angry at that. I was just angry at why you kept it from us and let Yan Shen quietly Arranging her outside the city, we are not unreasonable people."

"I'm afraid you're not happy. If you're not, I'll send her back to the Kingdom of Jin." Li Xingzhou had a determined face, and he had to be correct, all for Shiyu.

"How can it be like this, people have been treated like this by you, how will they behave when they go back?" Shiyu said dissatisfied: "Besides, I think that sister looks like she will definitely be able to bear children, and the family will be prosperous in the future."

Pu Chaling is already 25, so she is called her sister in poetry. People in this era still have relatively primitive and conservative ideas.

For example, Prince Kang has given birth to dozens of children, and everyone praises him for his good fortune.

But Li Xingzhou thinks about it, if he has dozens of children in the future, not to mention eating him poor, even if they are annoying, they will be annoying to death.

However, the warmth and softness in his arms made him feel relaxed, and his heart was filled with love, "It's all up to you, you have the final say." As he spoke, his arms tightened again.

Shiyu leaned quietly in his arms, the feeling of reunion after a long absence finally broke out, and she just wanted to be so quietly dependent on each other.

"Let's change the room." Li Xingzhou glanced at the two sleeping children and whispered.

Shiyu immediately understood what he meant tacitly, her breathing became rapid, and her face slowly reflected a beautiful red color under the dim candlelight.

"No." She whispered: "You go and make it clear to Gillian and Xiaoqian first, they are playing mahjong with Qiuer Yueer down there, and Yelu Yali is also there."

"Let's talk about it later, I promise to make a quick decision." Li Xingzhou was already impatient, Xiaobiesheng was newlywed.

Shiyu was short of breath, but he still tried his best to restrain himself, turned around and put his hands on his chest, his small head against his chin: "No, it's not okay, you go and tell them clearly, there will be plenty of time in the future, if you just come back, just wait If I don’t leave here, I won’t see anyone, what will my sisters think in the future.”

Li Xingzhou was helpless, he really wanted to be unscrupulous, and he could do whatever he wanted, but from the moment he became the grandson of the emperor, everything changed.

These women will be concubines in the future. You must know that once he ascends the throne, the queen will be a super first-rank system.

Even if the harem cannot interfere in politics, just the detached rank added to them makes them feel that they can radiate political influence even in the palace.

So he can no longer treat the wives at home as capriciously as before.

The poetic language is right, she seems to be thinking about unity, Li Xingzhou is willing to be with her, she is naturally moved and happy, but if it causes discord in the house, then she would rather wrong herself.

Poetry is always like this, assertive, characterful, arrogant and selfless.

"Then I'll be back later, let the nanny take the two small oil bottles away first, so don't disturb us then." Li Xingzhou rubbed his hands and ordered.

Poetry dissatisfied: "What are you talking about, they are all your flesh and blood! When you come back, you don't even ask the child's name, just think about those messy things."

Li Xingzhou slapped his head, "Yes, what are their names?"

Shiyu had no choice but to agree with him: "There are only nicknames, and they are called according to the time of day. Boys are called Xiaochen, and girls are called Yinyin. The big names are waiting for their father to come back to get them. In the end, their father is a prodigal son. After going home for a year and a half, I don’t care about my children.”

"Haha, I'm afraid of disturbing their rest." Li Xingzhou went downstairs to find Gillian and the others, because they heard that His Highness had returned.

(End of this chapter)