Before Li Le could focus only on the recruitment situation of Taichang Temple, Qianqiu Ri arrived first.
On the Qianqiu day, Qianqiu went to the palace to attend a banquet.
Li Le was just surprised that he could also go to the Qianqiu Banquet?
The emperor is celebrating his birthday. Can a Taoist priest on official duty like him go?
Logically speaking, shouldn't only the officials at the front be allowed to go? And there aren't many seats, so the rest of the people can only sit outside and eat while standing? It's a bit like eating at a buffet.
This is a state banquet, and Li Le has never been there. After hearing what Gongsun Miaoran said, he was a little tempted.
Li Le just asked: "Can I go?"
Gongsun Miaoran said: "Yes, but we can only stay outside, because I can bring someone into the palace. After knowing this, I thought of the Taoist priest."
In fact, it is not just that. The palace rules are strict. Even Gongsun Miaoran cannot bring anyone he wants. The reason why he can bring Li Le this time is because His Majesty wants to meet Taoist Li. Therefore, for inviting Taoist Li, he can only succeed and not fail.
Gongsun Miaoran added: "I don't have many friends in the capital, and I haven't been back to the capital for several years. It would be a bit boring to go to a banquet alone, so I wanted to invite the Taoist priest to go with me."
After listening to it, Li Le gave the other party a complicated look.
There was no need to find him as a temporary partner, and he was not very familiar with the other party. They had only met briefly a few times. And because of the other party, he was in trouble with Huang Ruo.
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Li Le suddenly realized that it was no wonder that this person came to him to attend the banquet. Think about how important the Qianqiu Banquet was. The officials who could eat outside the court were spread across important places in the capital and held great power. If he casually made friends with one or two of these officials, it would be like expanding his network.
The other party was willing to take him along for such a good opportunity, probably because of Huang Ruo. It was because Huang Ruo had caused him trouble, and the other party wanted to use this opportunity to apologize.
Otherwise, why would we invite him for no reason?
After Li Le figured it out, he let go of his last concern about the matter and nodded to agree to the other party's invitation.
Gongsun Miaoran said happily: "That's great. It is really an honor for Miaoran to have the Taoist priest accompany me."
Li Lezhi: “…”
He couldn't stand the other party's exaggeration a bit, and he remembered what Minister Zhou said when praising this person. He didn't see anything at all. Maybe Minister Zhou was just considering the other party's parents.
After the agreement.
Gongsun Miaoran left.
The banquet started at 1:00 p.m. and lasted for four hours, ending at 5:00 p.m.
This was different from what Li Le had imagined, which was to hold a banquet at night. But when one thought about it, it made sense. After all, it was a state banquet, and it was in ancient times. In ancient times, people relied solely on candles for lighting at night. Holding a state banquet in that atmosphere would be like telling a horror story.
Know when to go to the banquet.
Li Le went to bed early and didn't dare to stay up late for fear of oversleeping. The next day, he woke up before dawn because he was thinking about the Qianqiu Banquet. He closed his eyes and went back to sleep, frowning slightly as if he had dreamed of something bad.
When he woke up the next day, Li Le only recalled his previous dream, which was not good. He also remembered the divination he had done a few days ago, which said that something bad would happen on July 15th, and it would be a big thing.
Only he and the doctor in the Ministry of Bi knew this divination, but no one else knew it. Nothing bad would happen at this Qianqiu Banquet, right?
If something big happened on a day like this, Li Le didn't dare to think about it.
Probably not.
It was about the emperor's birthday banquet, and it was carefully checked inside and out. How could something go wrong? And if something went wrong, it should have nothing to do with him.
Li Le just felt relieved.
Because this time he was attending the Qianqiu Banquet, Li Lezhi didn't understand what was happening at the banquet. It was his first time in ancient times and his first time attending an ancient state banquet, so he didn't know much about many things.
He also struggled for a while on what to wear. He always felt that among all the officials, he would be particularly conspicuous and out of place in a Taoist robe. Moreover, based on his clothes, someone might guess who he was.
If there were someone who looked down on Taoists like Censor Qiu, although the other party was not stupid enough to cause trouble to him at the Qianqiu Banquet, but... it is better to have less trouble than more, so Li Lezhi finally changed his Taoist robe and wore a light blue robe that was more elegant.
When putting on the clothes, Li Lezhi always felt a little uncomfortable. He took it as the nervousness of attending a state banquet.
After saying something to Gao Mingli and Qian Xi, he got on the carriage prepared by Gongsun Miaoran and headed for the palace.
Sitting in the carriage, Li Le was a little nervous. He took out the tortoise shell and played with it, listening to the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground outside, again and again, which sounded like a drumbeat mixed with his pounding heart.
What Li Lezhi didn't expect was that after the carriage stopped, the door was opened, and Gongsun Miaoran, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, walked in, smiled at him, and then said: "I haven't been to the palace for a long time, and I'm a little nervous. I have to go with the Taoist priest, so that I can feel better."
After a pause, Gongsun Miaoran said, "Master Li, do you mind?"
"Well, I don't mind." Because of Gongsun Miaoran's presence, Li Le's nervous heart calmed down instantly.
He knew that these were all excuses made by the other party, who said so because it was his first time at the banquet.
Li Le only touched the back of the tortoise shell twice with his fingers and put the small tortoise shell away.
The two of them sat in the carriage together, and throughout the journey Gongsun Miaoran talked to Li Lezhi about some of his past experiences in the capital.
Li Le just listened with his ear tilted.
Slowly, the carriage stopped, and the coachman outside said, "The young master has arrived."
Li Le waited for Gongsun Miaoran to go down before getting off the carriage and looking at the palace in front of him.
He followed Gongsun Miaoran inside. Even with Gongsun Miaoran there, they still had to conduct a thorough investigation.
As expected of an imperial palace, it is heavily guarded. Even a bird entering the palace would be checked.
After this kind of inspection, Li Le simply didn't believe that there would be any accidents at the Qianqiu Banquet.
However, Li Le didn't expect that there was a carriage parked on the palace road ahead.
When Li Le learned that this was arranged by the Queen, he glanced at Gongsun Miaoran, and Gongsun Miaoran was very calm, as if he had experienced it many times. Sure enough, what Gongsun Miaoran said before was to take care of him.
He didn't see any sign of nervousness in the other party.
After getting on the carriage again, Li Le wanted to look at the scenery on both sides, but he didn't dare to. He was not a talkative person. Even though he knew Gongsun Miaoran was extraordinary, he was not the kind of person who would rush to curry favor with him. He had to close his eyes and rest, and politely declined socializing.
In Gongsun Miaoran's eyes, looking at Li Lezhi's appearance, he sighed that the Taoist priest was indeed not a mortal, floating out of the world, as if he had become an immortal. If there were really immortals in this world, they must be people like the Taoist priest.
It has nothing to do with age or anything else, but once you see him, you will feel that he is a banished immortal.
Gongsun Miaoran thought about the people who were going to the banquet, and then thought about the relationship between him and Taoist Li. The corners of his mouth curved slightly and he smiled faintly. The palace banquet was about to begin, and he already wanted to see the surprised expressions of those people when they saw Taoist Li.
This time the banquet was held in the Xing'an Hall of the Suzaku Palace. In the past, before the banquet, Gongsun Miaoran would definitely go to pay a visit to his aunt, but now that Taoist Li was here, he couldn't leave Taoist Li alone.
Besides, it would not be too late for him to go after the banquet. The most important thing now was to accompany Taoist Li, so as to prevent any ignorant creature from disturbing Taoist Li.
After all, those people don't know Taoist Priest Li's abilities, and they will always look down on him.
The two men walked into the Xing'an Hall, arriving neither early nor late. There were many tables placed on the open space outside the Xing'an Hall.
After seeing this scene, Li Le realized that it was different from what he had imagined, but fortunately the weather was clear today and it did not rain, otherwise they would have to dine in the rain.
Since there is a table, the sitting position is important. However, Li Lezhi doesn't know how it is arranged. In this important place, he can only follow Gongsun Miaoran closely.
Fortunately, Gongsun Miaoran also thought of this, and whispered to Li Lezhi: "The third-rank officials sit inside the hall, and the outside of the hall is also divided according to rank, but ours are listed separately and will sit on the same seat with those royal family members and royal relatives. Taoist Li, you are with me, so you can sit next to me."
"My seat is fixed. Some people's seats will be vacant in the future and no one else will sit in them. The seats beside me have always been vacant. This time, Taoist Li is accompanying me, so Miao Ran won't be lonely anymore."
"I don't know who will be attending this Qianqiu Banquet. I wasn't in the capital for the past two years and didn't attend, so..."
Gongsun Miaoran smiled embarrassedly.
But he knew that there were two or three people who could sit at his table, and some of them did not get along with him, such as Xu Ling, the brave marquis, who wanted to bully him when they were young, but later he caught a cold and became weak, so he was rarely seen.
There is also Xiao Xuan, who has been outside the Great Wall in the past few years and I don’t know whether he has returned this year.
Li Le only knew how much he had taken advantage of Gongsun Miaoran. His seat was very close to the front, and he also saw the figure of Minister Zhou.
However, Li Le had never expected that he would actually see Wang Ren. Could this person be a royal relative?
No wonder he is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple at such a young age.
Seeing Li Lezhi, Wang Ren was also surprised for a moment, and said with a smile: "After last meeting, I didn't expect to meet Taoist Li at the Qianqiu Banquet. Does Taoist Li know Miao Ran?"
Li Lezhi: “Yeah.”
Gongsun Miaoran asked, "Last time we met? You also know Taoist Li?"
How did Wang Renyi, the chief justice of the court, know Taoist Li? Was it because of Su Ping's incident? Or was it because of some cases?
He came in a hurry and had no intention of investigating Taoist Li. He also didn't know that Wang Ren actually knew Taoist Li. This made Gongsun Miaoran feel a sense of urgency, as if his status was threatened and that he was being coveted by others.
He didn't want Wang Ren to take away his position in Master Li's heart.
Gongsun Miaoran looked at Wang Ren with a fierce look in his eyes.
Being looked at like that by Gongsun Miaoran, Wang Ren touched his nose. He had not forgotten why he was looking for Li Le. He also suspected that the other party was a monster in disguise. Or maybe not? According to the temperament of this Taoist priest, it could be a divine beast in disguise? Those who can read people's minds are not necessarily monsters. He remembered that there was a divine beast, which seemed to be the Diting under Ksitigarbha, which could listen to people's minds and identify all things in the world.
This seems to be consistent with everything Master Li is doing now.
I can tell fortunes and identify everything in the world. Next time I meet the Third Prince, I will tell him about it.
It’s best not to think about testing Master Li.
However, Wang Ren was very curious about whether Li Lezhi was Di Ting or not, so he approached Li Lezhi and asked in a voice that only he and Li Lezhi could hear: "Master, are you Di Ting in disguise?"
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Before Li Le could focus only on the recruitment situation of Taichang Temple, Qianqiu Ri arrived first.
On the Qianqiu day, Qianqiu went to the palace to attend a banquet.
Li Le was just surprised that he could also go to the Qianqiu Banquet?
The emperor is celebrating his birthday. Can a Taoist priest on official duty like him go?
Logically speaking, shouldn't only the officials at the front be allowed to go? And there aren't many seats, so the rest of the people can only sit outside and eat while standing? It's a bit like eating at a buffet.
This is a state banquet, and Li Le has never been there. After hearing what Gongsun Miaoran said, he was a little tempted.
Li Le just asked: "Can I go?"
Gongsun Miaoran said: "Yes, but we can only stay outside, because I can bring someone into the palace. After knowing this, I thought of the Taoist priest."
In fact, it is not just that. The palace rules are strict. Even Gongsun Miaoran cannot bring anyone he wants. The reason why he can bring Li Le this time is because His Majesty wants to meet Taoist Li. Therefore, for inviting Taoist Li, he can only succeed and not fail.
Gongsun Miaoran added: "I don't have many friends in the capital, and I haven't been back to the capital for several years. It would be a bit boring to go to a banquet alone, so I wanted to invite the Taoist priest to go with me."
After listening to it, Li Le gave the other party a complicated look.
There was no need to find him as a temporary partner, and he was not very familiar with the other party. They had only met briefly a few times. And because of the other party, he was in trouble with Huang Ruo.
Think of Huang Ruo.
Li Le suddenly realized that it was no wonder that this person came to him to attend the banquet. Think about how important the Qianqiu Banquet was. The officials who could eat outside the court were spread across important places in the capital and held great power. If he casually made friends with one or two of these officials, it would be like expanding his network.
The other party was willing to take him along for such a good opportunity, probably because of Huang Ruo. It was because Huang Ruo had caused him trouble, and the other party wanted to use this opportunity to apologize.
Otherwise, why would we invite him for no reason?
After Li Le figured it out, he let go of his last concern about the matter and nodded to agree to the other party's invitation.
Gongsun Miaoran said happily: "That's great. It is really an honor for Miaoran to have the Taoist priest accompany me."
Li Lezhi: “…”
He couldn't stand the other party's exaggeration a bit, and he remembered what Minister Zhou said when praising this person. He didn't see anything at all. Maybe Minister Zhou was just considering the other party's parents.
After the agreement.
Gongsun Miaoran left.
The banquet started at 1:00 p.m. and lasted for four hours, ending at 5:00 p.m.
This was different from what Li Le had imagined, which was to hold a banquet at night. But when one thought about it, it made sense. After all, it was a state banquet, and it was in ancient times. In ancient times, people relied solely on candles for lighting at night. Holding a state banquet in that atmosphere would be like telling a horror story.
Know when to go to the banquet.
Li Le went to bed early and didn't dare to stay up late for fear of oversleeping. The next day, he woke up before dawn because he was thinking about the Qianqiu Banquet. He closed his eyes and went back to sleep, frowning slightly as if he had dreamed of something bad.
When he woke up the next day, Li Le only recalled his previous dream, which was not good. He also remembered the divination he had done a few days ago, which said that something bad would happen on July 15th, and it would be a big thing.
Only he and the doctor in the Ministry of Bi knew this divination, but no one else knew it. Nothing bad would happen at this Qianqiu Banquet, right?
If something big happened on a day like this, Li Le didn't dare to think about it.
Probably not.
It was about the emperor's birthday banquet, and it was carefully checked inside and out. How could something go wrong? And if something went wrong, it should have nothing to do with him.
Li Le just felt relieved.
Because this time he was attending the Qianqiu Banquet, Li Lezhi didn't understand what was happening at the banquet. It was his first time in ancient times and his first time attending an ancient state banquet, so he didn't know much about many things.
He also struggled for a while on what to wear. He always felt that among all the officials, he would be particularly conspicuous and out of place in a Taoist robe. Moreover, based on his clothes, someone might guess who he was.
If there were someone who looked down on Taoists like Censor Qiu, although the other party was not stupid enough to cause trouble to him at the Qianqiu Banquet, but... it is better to have less trouble than more, so Li Lezhi finally changed his Taoist robe and wore a light blue robe that was more elegant.
When putting on the clothes, Li Lezhi always felt a little uncomfortable. He took it as the nervousness of attending a state banquet.
After saying something to Gao Mingli and Qian Xi, he got on the carriage prepared by Gongsun Miaoran and headed for the palace.
Sitting in the carriage, Li Le was a little nervous. He took out the tortoise shell and played with it, listening to the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground outside, again and again, which sounded like a drumbeat mixed with his pounding heart.
What Li Lezhi didn't expect was that after the carriage stopped, the door was opened, and Gongsun Miaoran, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, walked in, smiled at him, and then said: "I haven't been to the palace for a long time, and I'm a little nervous. I have to go with the Taoist priest, so that I can feel better."
After a pause, Gongsun Miaoran said, "Master Li, do you mind?"
"Well, I don't mind." Because of Gongsun Miaoran's presence, Li Le's nervous heart calmed down instantly.
He knew that these were all excuses made by the other party, who said so because it was his first time at the banquet.
Li Le only touched the back of the tortoise shell twice with his fingers and put the small tortoise shell away.
The two of them sat in the carriage together, and throughout the journey Gongsun Miaoran talked to Li Lezhi about some of his past experiences in the capital.
Li Le just listened with his ear tilted.
Slowly, the carriage stopped, and the coachman outside said, "The young master has arrived."
Li Le waited for Gongsun Miaoran to go down before getting off the carriage and looking at the palace in front of him.
He followed Gongsun Miaoran inside. Even with Gongsun Miaoran there, they still had to conduct a thorough investigation.
As expected of an imperial palace, it is heavily guarded. Even a bird entering the palace would be checked.
After this kind of inspection, Li Le simply didn't believe that there would be any accidents at the Qianqiu Banquet.
However, Li Le didn't expect that there was a carriage parked on the palace road ahead.
When Li Le learned that this was arranged by the Queen, he glanced at Gongsun Miaoran, and Gongsun Miaoran was very calm, as if he had experienced it many times. Sure enough, what Gongsun Miaoran said before was to take care of him.
He didn't see any sign of nervousness in the other party.
After getting on the carriage again, Li Le wanted to look at the scenery on both sides, but he didn't dare to. He was not a talkative person. Even though he knew Gongsun Miaoran was extraordinary, he was not the kind of person who would rush to curry favor with him. He had to close his eyes and rest, and politely declined socializing.
In Gongsun Miaoran's eyes, looking at Li Lezhi's appearance, he sighed that the Taoist priest was indeed not a mortal, floating out of the world, as if he had become an immortal. If there were really immortals in this world, they must be people like the Taoist priest.
It has nothing to do with age or anything else, but once you see him, you will feel that he is a banished immortal.
Gongsun Miaoran thought about the people who were going to the banquet, and then thought about the relationship between him and Taoist Li. The corners of his mouth curved slightly and he smiled faintly. The palace banquet was about to begin, and he already wanted to see the surprised expressions of those people when they saw Taoist Li.
This time the banquet was held in the Xing'an Hall of the Suzaku Palace. In the past, before the banquet, Gongsun Miaoran would definitely go to pay a visit to his aunt, but now that Taoist Li was here, he couldn't leave Taoist Li alone.
Besides, it would not be too late for him to go after the banquet. The most important thing now was to accompany Taoist Li, so as to prevent any ignorant creature from disturbing Taoist Li.
After all, those people don't know Taoist Priest Li's abilities, and they will always look down on him.
The two men walked into the Xing'an Hall, arriving neither early nor late. There were many tables placed on the open space outside the Xing'an Hall.
After seeing this scene, Li Le realized that it was different from what he had imagined, but fortunately the weather was clear today and it did not rain, otherwise they would have to dine in the rain.
Since there is a table, the sitting position is important. However, Li Lezhi doesn't know how it is arranged. In this important place, he can only follow Gongsun Miaoran closely.
Fortunately, Gongsun Miaoran also thought of this, and whispered to Li Lezhi: "The third-rank officials sit inside the hall, and the outside of the hall is also divided according to rank, but ours are listed separately and will sit on the same seat with those royal family members and royal relatives. Taoist Li, you are with me, so you can sit next to me."
"My seat is fixed. Some people's seats will be vacant in the future and no one else will sit in them. The seats beside me have always been vacant. This time, Taoist Li is accompanying me, so Miao Ran won't be lonely anymore."
"I don't know who will be attending this Qianqiu Banquet. I wasn't in the capital for the past two years and didn't attend, so..."
Gongsun Miaoran smiled embarrassedly.
But he knew that there were two or three people who could sit at his table, and some of them did not get along with him, such as Xu Ling, the brave marquis, who wanted to bully him when they were young, but later he caught a cold and became weak, so he was rarely seen.
There is also Xiao Xuan, who has been outside the Great Wall in the past few years and I don’t know whether he has returned this year.
Li Le only knew how much he had taken advantage of Gongsun Miaoran. His seat was very close to the front, and he also saw the figure of Minister Zhou.
However, Li Le had never expected that he would actually see Wang Ren. Could this person be a royal relative?
No wonder he is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple at such a young age.
Seeing Li Lezhi, Wang Ren was also surprised for a moment, and said with a smile: "After last meeting, I didn't expect to meet Taoist Li at the Qianqiu Banquet. Does Taoist Li know Miao Ran?"
Li Lezhi: “Yeah.”
Gongsun Miaoran asked, "Last time we met? You also know Taoist Li?"
How did Wang Renyi, the chief justice of the court, know Taoist Li? Was it because of Su Ping's incident? Or was it because of some cases?
He came in a hurry and had no intention of investigating Taoist Li. He also didn't know that Wang Ren actually knew Taoist Li. This made Gongsun Miaoran feel a sense of urgency, as if his status was threatened and that he was being coveted by others.
He didn't want Wang Ren to take away his position in Master Li's heart.
Gongsun Miaoran looked at Wang Ren with a fierce look in his eyes.
Being looked at like that by Gongsun Miaoran, Wang Ren touched his nose. He had not forgotten why he was looking for Li Le. He also suspected that the other party was a monster in disguise. Or maybe not? According to the temperament of this Taoist priest, it could be a divine beast in disguise? Those who can read people's minds are not necessarily monsters. He remembered that there was a divine beast, which seemed to be the Diting under Ksitigarbha, which could listen to people's minds and identify all things in the world.
This seems to be consistent with everything Master Li is doing now.
I can tell fortunes and identify everything in the world. Next time I meet the Third Prince, I will tell him about it.
It’s best not to think about testing Master Li.
However, Wang Ren was very curious about whether Li Lezhi was Di Ting or not, so he approached Li Lezhi and asked in a voice that only he and Li Lezhi could hear: "Master, are you Di Ting in disguise?"
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Happy Dragon Boat Festival! There is one more
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: 307860547 bottles; Summer Night Never Leave, and Fluffy Save Me 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!
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