Chapter 29

The Martial Arts Banquet has been held every three years since the introduction of martial arts.

This move is intended to thank the emperor and the examiners, and the second is to highlight the honor of the new martial arts scholars.

The Shen family's father and son celebrated at home in advance before coming to the Ministry of War dressed up.

In this year's martial arts competition, apart from the top spot, the Shen family's father and son are the most popular. There are many father and son soldiers in Changyuan City, but most of them have no fame and fame, and their identities are changed only by fighting on the battlefield.

Only generals like the Shen family who are capable of writing and martial arts are rare. Originally, according to the Shen family's official position, and Shen Bai's senior high school student, they sat in two positions below the emperor.

As soon as Shen Nantian entered the military department, he saw Sun Ting, the great general of the Sun family who had been recalled. Before the banquet started, he found a familiar colleague to change seats, found Shen Bai, pointed to the middle seat and said, "Let's sit there go."

"Yes, father."

Shen Nantian didn't sit close to him, but when he got in the middle, Shen Bai was puzzled and obeyed him.

Although Shen Nantian didn't want to deal with these scenes, it was different today, his son was a good man, so a few drinks were indispensable.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone relaxed a bit, and greeted the Zhuangyuan Lang, and he also took a look at the Zhuangyuan Lang by the way.

Dressed in a dark military uniform with hidden patterns, black hair crown, feminine and feminine, he looks really good-looking. Shen Nantian has heard from others that this martial arts champion is from the same hometown as himself, and he is also from Jizhou.

Although he was able to deal with everyone's greetings or flattery, Shen Nantian could tell that he was born in a poor family, not a family of officials, so he was inevitably a little arrogant to be ranked first.

Shen Nantian can also understand, this Zhang Yuan has always been a place where students from poor families struggle to survive, but fortunately the current Emperor Gu Wen does not place as much emphasis on literature and despise martial arts as in the previous dynasty, so he has a bright future.

Counting, among this year's martial arts students, there are not many heirs of courtiers on the list, Shen Nantian turned to look at his own son, this brat might be one of them for the time being.

Scanning around, when he accidentally glanced at the present sage, he found that Emperor Gu Wen was also staring at Zhuangyuan Lang.

Emperor Gu Wen has been in power for ten years, and he has always been decisive in killing and attacking, with great power, but at this time, he stared at Zhuangyuan Lang with warm eyebrows and shining eyes, very satisfied.

Could it be...

Due to the stability of the court in the past few years, Emperor Gu Wen had two heirs, two sons and one daughter, and the rest was a princess born to Concubine Jiarui and six princes and one princess born to other concubines, and the princess was only 12 years old.

Shen Nantian bowed his head thoughtfully.

The emperor's mind is unpredictable. Emperor Gu Wen has always cherished talents, but he also fears the collusion between officials and officials, and even hates the connection between the former court and the harem.

This martial arts champion came from a poor family and was alone.

Shen Nantian more or less guessed the emperor's mind.

When the courtiers saw Zhuangyuan Lang, who was not inferior in appearance and martial arts, they more or less had other thoughts, and glanced at his face one after another.

Especially those from the Ren family, who almost wrote the word "satisfaction" on their heads.

Shen Nantian moved to a corner at some point, and was about to pick up the wine glass and drink it down, when a pair of boots appeared in front of him.

"Master Shen." The visitor bowed and saluted, looking at him with a smile.

Shen Nantian put down his wine glass and took a look, it turned out that it was Wei Lang who was second in the list.

"Master Shen, I'm Wei Lang."

"It turned out to be Young Master Wei, and now he's also the governor. Congratulations."

"Master Shen, you are being polite. I have the same position as Brother Shen Bai. I just admire Master Shen's reputation, so I came here to pay my respects."

Shen Nantian didn't have any other thoughts about Wei Lang who came to meet him suddenly, but Shen Bai was a little surprised that Wei Lang had been quiet and rarely showed up before the palace examination, so why did he suddenly come to see his father.

"Master Shen is famous, even Wu Bangsong came to visit... Maybe it's because of his daughter in the boudoir."

Wei Lang stood aside silently.

Sun Zhi served in the Yushi Yamen.

Sun Ting's younger brother.

The visitor is not good.

The tone seemed relaxed but harsh, Shen Nantian knew that the moment he was entrusted with Sun Ting's publicity, he would feel like a slap in the face to the Sun family, so he had to be low-key, low-key during this martial arts banquet.

He also understood the principle of separation of powers and control. Sun Ting made countless contributions to pacifying the border turmoil at the beginning of the Southern Dynasty. Emperor Gu Wen also used him very much at the beginning, and gave him special honors to reward the whole family of Sun.

Shen Nantian was helpless, most of the time he felt that he couldn't bear it, there was something in these words.

"Sun Yushi's words are wrong. I was cultivated by the sage to be able to use my fists. How did I get a reputation? It turns out that the sage appointed the virtuous and capable, and the internal affairs were cultivated. The name of a virtuous king was spread outside the world."

Emperor Gu Wen was still in power, Shen Nantian's words were impeccable, Sun Zhi originally wanted to say that he has no emperor and thinks very highly of himself, and being blocked by him like this, he has nothing to say.

"I hope it's just as Mr. Shen said, don't step on the wrong side, and the days of being an official in the same dynasty will be long."

As soon as Shen Bai heard this, he stood up and said: "The younger generation has seen Mr. Sun, the Holy Majesty is before him, so he will naturally do what his father said. Could it be that your lord disagrees with what your father said?"

Sun Zhi held his breath in his chest.

"You..." His face turned pale with anger.

Wei Lang next to him spoke softly: "Both are officials in the court, and the two lords are important figures. The Holy Majesty is still there. If he sees...why should we be unhappy? Don't you think so? Sir Sun."

Sun Zhi glanced at Wei Lang, angrily left and returned to Sun Ting.

Wei Lang's words surprised Shen Nantian, so he took a good look at the person in front of him.

Bright eyes and eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, unlike the femininity of champion Long, he has a heroic and extraordinary temperament.

Shen Nantian immediately thought of the rebellious daughter in his family. This person has just won fame but is not afraid of the powerful and powerful, and can speak out with justice. She is quite courageous.

The more you look at him, the more pleasing to your eyes, even Shen Bai at the side can feel his father's gaze, staring straight at him.

"Father, father?"

Shen Nantian recovered from his thoughts, looked at Wei Lang with a smile on his face and said, "Where is Mr. Wei Xiaolang's house? Who else is there?"

"..."

Well, Shen Bai never knew that his father was such a straightforward person, and he froze in place with a look of embarrassment on his face.

He quickly explained: "Wei Lang, you and I are in the same position. What my father means is that we are about the same age and don't need to be so formal. How about sitting together?"

Shen Bai secretly laughed in his heart, he was afraid that his younger sister would have appointed her husband and son-in-law without expecting a banquet.

At the end of the banquet, the atmosphere became much more relaxed. At this moment, the officials in the next seat were chatting, laughing and drinking, and Emperor Gu Wen, who was sitting in the upper seat, had a rare chat with his close ministers.

The number one scholar has attracted much attention, but he can't let the other Jinshi in the list be too cold.

The emperor ordered some officials to arrange meals and drinks, and looked at the other Jinshi with a smile.

 Please take a leave of absence from the readers. Since I am constantly struggling with rewriting and re-conceiving the overall structure of this book, I will only update one chapter today.

  
 
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