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Chapter 343 Hibiscus Garden Banquet
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival.

Although Wu Meiniang accepted the post because of Li Ke, but because she hadn't actually married into the Chu Palace, Wu Meiniang still went to Furong Garden with the warrior Xun.

Furong Garden is located in the south of Chang'an City, beside the Qujiang Pool.

It was nearly noon when Wu Meiniang came to the Furong Garden in a carriage with the warrior Xun and Concubine Yang.

"Father, is this the Furong Garden?" Wu Meiniang got out of the carriage and looked at a garden facing the water. The high white wall stretched back for more than ten miles, like a ribbon bordered by the water. asked the samurai Xun curiously.

Although Wu Meiniang often came to Beijing with the samurai Xun, the Furong Garden is a royal garden, and outsiders are not allowed to come near it, so Wu Meiniang has never entered.

The warrior Xun said: "That's right, the wall of Furong Garden is connected with the outer gate of Chang'an. Every time you return from Mingde Gate to the south, you will see this place from afar."

"So that's how it is." Wu Meiniang said, following behind Warrior Xun, she walked into the garden.

It was early spring, just after the harsh winter, and it was noon. The weather was much warmer than before. Wu Meiniang followed the warrior Xun into the garden, looking at the green grass sprouts all over the garden, and the courtesans in red and purple walking in the garden. The rich and powerful, but there is a bit of excitement.

Furong Garden is not a simple garden with a larger area, but a forest garden made up of many elegant small gardens, with nearly ten large and small gardens.

And today is the imperial banquet, the crowd is complex, the emperor and all the important officials of the court will come here, so the garden is also heavily guarded, there is no lack of guards on duty at the entrances and exits of the gardens.

These imperial guards were guarding the palace city, and they had met countless clansmen and dignitaries. In addition to their responsibilities, no matter who they were, these imperial guards officers and soldiers all looked serious, and Wu Meiniang had always been like this along the way.

But when Wu Meiniang walked to a courtyard gate on the west side, the soldiers guarding the courtyard suddenly made a sound.

"The last general pays his respects to Ying Guogong and my young lady." The soldiers of the Imperial Army guarding in front of the courtyard cupped their hands and said to the warrior Xun and Wu Meiniang.

Although the scene in front of her didn't frighten Wu Meiniang, it was enough to surprise Wu Meiniang. Wu Meiniang couldn't help looking up at the warrior Xun.

Wu Meiniang's appearance, the warrior Xun also knew what Wu Meiniang was curious about, looked at the leopard riding embroidered emblems on the clothes of these soldiers, and replied: "These soldiers are not other people, but the right guards under His Highness's command."

When Wu Meiniang heard this, she immediately understood that Li Ke was also the General of the Right Xiaowei, and the leopard riders in front of him were his subordinates. It was not surprising that they saw the warrior Xun and Wu Meiniang saluting.

Wu Meiniang asked You Xiaowei, "General, do you know that His Highness is here?"

You Xiaowei pointed to the north side and replied: "Your Highness just passed here before serving tea, and went to Liushang Garden."

The so-called Liushang Garden is the main garden of Furong Garden, and it is also the place where the grand banquet is set up. It was named after Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty carved water decorations in the garden, following the story of Wei and Jin Qushui Liushang.

Wu Meiniang heard what the soldiers of You Xiaowei said, and knew that Li Ke was already in the garden, so her heart was settled.There are too many dignitaries in this garden, and they don't know how close they are to Li Ke. Li Ke is in the garden, so she doesn't need to be in trouble.

Wu Meiniang followed the warrior Xun to the Liushang Garden. Sure enough, in the Liushang Garden, she saw Li Ke sitting in the garden at a glance.Li Ke's seat was very close to the front, so he was the first one on the right hand side of the previous leader, and Wu Meiniang saw it just by raising her eyes.

At this time, Li Ke was sitting on the seat, and the officials in purple clothes next to him greeted. Wu Meiniang saw Li Ke, and Li Ke also saw Wu Meiniang, waved to her, and nodded slightly.

Although Wu Meiniang had already been married by Li Shimin, she was half a princess of Chu, but after all she was not yet married, so she didn't go forward, she just smiled back, and followed Yang to sit down at the female family's table.

Liushang Garden covers a very large area, about [-] mu, and it is near the water, so the arrangement of seats is quite interesting.

The two chairs are on the upper reaches of the Qujiang River, and the ones waiting to sit are naturally the emperor Li Shimin and the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan, and the seat where Li Ke sits is next to the chair, and the only ones who can sit with Li Ke are the princes and prime ministers of the court. He Dabang envoys, and under the table where Li Ke was, there were hundreds of officials from North Korea and Chinese, and envoys from Fanbang. Most of these people were dressed in rich purple.

And under the second seat is the women's seat where Wu Meiniang and Yang are. It is quite far away from Li Shimin and Li Yuan who are sitting first, and they can't even see it clearly.

But Wu Meiniang is also very clear that this kind of seat is something that many people in the court can't dream of. At least her aunt watched it eagerly for several years, and she couldn't enter the garden until today.

Wu Meiniang was sitting in the female family's banquet, she was not very conspicuous, originally she thought that her first Furong Garden banquet was over like this, but she never thought that the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan would mention her.

After a round of drinking, Li Yuan sat in the head seat, with nothing to do, and glanced at the people sitting below. When he saw Li Ke, he suddenly remembered, so he asked Li Ke: "Ke'er, why are you sitting alone at the table?" Now, where is the young lady of the Wu family?"

Li Ke was sitting at the bottom, originally focused on drinking, never thought that Li Yuan would ask such a question, after hearing Li Yuan's words, a sip of fine wine stuck in his throat, and he choked all of a sudden.

"cough cough"

Although the wine was not strong, it was still uncomfortable when it got stuck in his throat, and Li Ke coughed out again and again.

"According to the emperor's grandfather, when I entered the garden just now, my grandson saw Mei Niang's side, so he must be still in the garden now." Li Ke put down the wine glass in his hand, stood up and replied.

Li Yuan looked at Li Ke's bewildered look for a while, and couldn't help but find it funny. The warrior Xun is Li Yuan's best friend, and Li Yuan regards Wu Meiniang as his younger generation. It is more pleasing to the eye than other princes.

Li Yuan pressed his hand and signaled Li Ke to sit down and rest first, then turned to Samurai Xun and asked, "Xinming (Warrior Xun character), can you tell me where is my granddaughter-in-law?"

The atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was open, and the defense of men and women was not like that of the Song and Ming Dynasties, especially among the rich and powerful.Moreover, Wu Meiniang had already been granted Li Ke's concubine by imperial decree, and had the title of imperial bestowal. At this time, Li Yuan said that although it was a bit early for grandson-in-law, there was nothing wrong with it.

The samurai stood up and said, "Reporting to the emperor, my little girl is sitting in the female family seat."

The samurai Xun was originally a hero from the dragon. Li Yuanshang followed Li Yuan when he was staying in Taiyuan.

Li Shimin also wanted to ease the relationship with Li Yuan, so he looked at Li Yuan's high-spirited appearance, and said to the waiter behind him: "The young lady of the Wu family has been canonized by decree and has passed three ceremonies, so I should be Li Yuan." Daughter-in-law, how can you sit on the female family's table, you should sit at the same table with my son, please come up quickly."

"No." The waiter said, and went down to invite Wu Meiniang.

The scene in front of her was really flattering to Wu Meiniang, but when she followed the servants and looked at Li Shimin and Li Yuan who were sitting above her, she suddenly felt troubled.

Wu Meiniang thought of a question that seemed ordinary but was the most difficult to decide. The emperor and the emperor, one father and one son, how should she greet each other back and forth?
(End of this chapter)