Chapter 274: Drink less. Do you still want to have a wedding night when you are drunk?
I wanted to land in a very handsome manner, but unexpectedly, when I turned over and jumped down, I made a mistake and almost fell to the ground with my head falling.
Thanks to that man's gentle hand, the prince did not make a fool of himself in front of the servants.
Xia Zhixu looked up at the roof and curled his lips. He still has more to practice.
After sighing in his heart for a while, Xia Zhixu looked at the Mobei man in front of him, chuckled, and told the servants in the yard to go out.
There were often people from Mobei coming to Yan to do business, so even though there was a feud between the two sides, in order to make money, many people acquiesced to the interconnection of their trade routes.
This Mobei man was tall, with bare arms, black wolf tattoos on his arms, bulging muscles, and a hideous face.
Compared to this man from Mobei, Xia Zhixu was tall and thin. Although he did not have the Confucian air of a scholar, he was also very thin.
The two of them entered the room together, and only their backs were visible, one was as tall as the sky and the other was as low as the ground.
After entering the house, the Mobei man sat down on the chair without any courtesy, watched Xia Zhixu close the door, took out a letter from his waist and put it on the table.
Xia Zhixu turned around and saw it. He chuckled, then walked to the side, took out the melon seeds and some tea and put them on the table.
In the past, Xia Zhixu always ate melon seeds and drank tea by himself. Sometimes when Meng Shaoan came, he would go with a companion, but Meng Shaoan was very particular about etiquette, which made Xia Zhixu very uncomfortable, so gradually she stopped hanging out with Meng Shaoan.
But today someone came, and it’s better to share the joy with others than to enjoy it alone, so I took it out.
The man from Mobei was not polite. He reached out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds, then started eating them without saying a word.
Xia Zhixu looked at this man and started eating without saying a word, and curled his lips, saying, "How rude!"
Then, he picked up the letter and started reading.
But halfway through, Xia Zhixu looked up at the Mobei man and said, "Old Xiao, we are talking about marriage. How can your queen mother, my future mother-in-law, talk about feelings with me? We can't talk about feelings when it comes to business."
The Mobei man called Lao Xiao didn't say anything. He just glanced at Xia Zhixu and continued to eat melon seeds.
Xia Zhixu felt bored, so he continued reading the letter.
After reading it, Xia Zhixu picked up a handful of melon seeds on the table and didn't say anything for a long time. After eating a lot of melon seeds, he looked strange and finally couldn't help but said, "Is your queen mother sick?"
Upon hearing this, the man from Mobei suddenly stopped his actions and looked at Xia Zhixu with murderous intent.
Xia Zhixu immediately spread his hands and said, "It was a slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue."
The man from Mobei suppressed his murderous aura, then looked at Xia Zhixu and said slowly, "Shulu An can't go back. He was sent to die. The reason we gave him the position of King of the Southern Courtyard is that we need a King of the Southern Courtyard to deliver Yelu Gu's head, and we also need a King of the Southern Courtyard to die in Daxia. After you marry the princess, the position of King of the Southern Courtyard of Mobei will be yours. You don't need to doubt it."
Xia Zhixu clicked his tongue, "How cruel! She even sent her own brother to die. She is indeed a woman who dared to cut off her own wrist."
After saying this, Xia Zhixu stood up, looked at the man and asked, "Would you like some wine?"
The Mobei man looked at Xia Zhixu, who asked but went to get the wine on his own, and said, "You killed your brother and are going to kill your father. What qualifications do you have to say that others are cruel?"
Xia Zhixu, who was holding wine and two glass cups in his hands, heard this and looked pitiful: "What can I do? My father is not dead and his body is so good. If I don't kill him, how can I succeed to the throne? And my father, ah, it's hard to describe. He was born into a bad family. He had such a stupid father. He had so many ways to deal with the troops in Jiaodong, but he had to play this trick with Yelu Gu. Now my sister has such a good reason to deal with him. Even I have to plan a way out for myself, otherwise I will be implicated."
At this point, Xia Zhixu shook his head, put the glass cup on the table, looked at the Mobei man beside him and asked, "It's annoying, you don't know how distressing it is to have a father like this. You want your father to be a dragon, but he insists on being a caterpillar, meddling in everything. My sister-in-law is such a good person, but he also meddled in and wanted to kill her. What is he meddling in? What! He wants to marry me to my sister? It's annoying just thinking about it."
"So it's better for him to die. He won't cause me any trouble. When I achieve something in the future, I'll give him a title of some kind. Then, I'll make some changes in the history books to make him look better. Otherwise, it's embarrassing for me."
As he said this, Xia Zhixu poured a glass of wine for the Mobei man, poured himself a glass, and said with a smile: "Drink it, I bought it not long ago, it tastes good."
The Mobei man picked up the wine, looked at the red liquor inside, took a sip and asked, "Are you sure your father can't come back? Or have you already sent someone?"
Hearing this, Xia Zhixu immediately slammed the table and said angrily: "Xiao Podi, let me tell you, don't think that you are my senior brother and you can slander me at will. I, Xia Zhixu, am the kind of person who would kill my own father with my own hands! This is related to human ethics, and it is a taboo!"
When Xiao Podi from Mobei heard this, he just glanced at Xia Zhixu coldly, then drank the wine in the glass in one gulp: "Poisoning your own father, hum..."
Finally, Xiao Po Di smiled contemptuously and pushed the glass cup in his hand away.
Xia Zhixu reached out to help refill the bottle, then looked at Xiao Podi sternly and said, "Let's be clear, poison! It wasn't me who poisoned him, it was my men who poisoned him! And I didn't let my father drink it, I just gave it to him, and he drank it himself. And this time when he goes to the capital, he will definitely die. Even if my sister doesn't kill him, my sister-in-law will definitely do it. He can't escape. Even if he is lucky enough to come back alive, my men will kill him. This has nothing to do with me. It's someone else who wants to kill him."
Xiao Podi looked at Xia Zhixu with an innocent face without saying a word. He just picked up the wine glass and thought about the first time he met Xia Zhixu.
At that time, there was a little sister in the sect who was very likable and loved to raise birds.
But Xia Zhixu put the snake into the birdcage, and finally ran to tell his junior sister about it. After the junior sister arrived, he pushed her into the snake pit.
Finally, he told his master that the little sister who was killed by the snake had nothing to do with him.
No one cared about the killings within the sect, but why did Xia Zhixu want to kill that little sister? Xia Zhixu just said, "I don't know, maybe the snake wanted to kill her?"
As a result, no one in the sect dared to talk to this seemingly harmless little fellow disciple.
Xiao Podi took another sip of wine, then said, "Let's get back to the point. Having said so much, you have read the letter. If you agree, I will send the letter to the Queen Mother. If not, you are on your own."
Xia Zhixu sat on the table as if he had no strength left in his body, fiddling with the glass cup with his fingers. From the other side of the cup, one could vaguely see Xia Zhixu's expression at the moment: "You're asking for too much~~ How about changing the conditions?"
Xiao Podi looked at Xia Zhixu, put down the wine glass in his hand, stopped drinking, and said slowly: "The Queen Mother said that if you want to negotiate conditions, you can negotiate freely, but there is only one thing you can't discuss."
At this point, Xiao Podi added very seriously: "Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!"
Hearing this, Xia Zhixu grinned at the wine, then sighed: "Hey, senior brother, you said that life is really tiring. Those who dig for food in the fields, look to God for food, and when they go home, they have to worry about a penny or two. For people like us, although we don't worry about a penny or two, and we don't worry about food. But we have to worry about trying every possible way to get what we want, and we still have to look at others for food. The higher the position, the more you have to look at others to eat. If you don't look, others will take from your bowl, just like my sister, who is a good person and smart, and can replace several of me, but she sits on the throne of the emperor. If she doesn't look at others, people will look at her, so she has to start fighting back. Today is her wedding, and there will be one more person by her side in the future. She has to help look after them, otherwise the two of them will have nothing to live for. Your queen mother is the same. She has done the work, but she is exhausted, and she still has to worry about the food in my sister's bowl."
At this point, Xia Zhixu sighed again, and then continued: "Our master is right. When people live, they compete with themselves and with people's hearts. Confucianism restrains oneself and returns to propriety, and a gentleman is cautious when alone. Taoism is quiet and inaction, and does not avoid the empty boat. Buddhism is to subdue the mind and the will. They are all like this, but you tell me, you want the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, if I give it to you, I will feel unhappy, and if I don't give it to you, you say we can't talk, what do you say? I, your junior brother, am competing with you in my heart right now."
Xiao Podi looked at Xia Zhixu without saying anything.
Xia Zhixu was helpless again: "Hey, the conditions can definitely be negotiated, but it depends on whether I can satisfy you. Otherwise, I will use human lives as a betrothal gift? You are fighting with the Huihe now, aren't you going to die? You must be reluctant to leave the people in Mobei, after all, you have to keep them to fight Daxia, so you are in great need of people."
At the end of his speech, Xia Zhixu placed the glass cup in front of him and looked at Xiao Podi.
The red wine swayed back and forth in the glass cup, and soon became quiet. Looking closely, one could see Xia Zhixu's pupils staring at Xiao Podi through the red wine.
Then, Xia Zhixu gently flicked the glass with his hand, and the red wine in the glass swayed again, and Xia Zhixu continued: "What about Yelu Gu and his men? They killed a lot of people when they came to Yandi last time, but it doesn't matter. I will give you 150,000 people, and you can use them to fight on the battlefield. Then I will also give you Liuzi Fort and Wuhe Mountain."
Hearing Xia Zhixu's nonchalant words, Xiao Podi frowned slightly, and a hint of disgust flashed in his eyes as he looked at Xia Zhixu, especially when he looked at the slightly blurred half of Xia Zhixu's face through the red liquid.
Xiao Podi inexplicably recalled the day when he went to rescue his junior sister and Xia Zhixu was playing with a snake. At that time, Xia Zhixu's face was covered with his junior sister's blood.
But Xiao Podi still asked: "How can you deliver so many people to us?"
Xia Zhixu said casually, "They volunteered. I have a very well-read man under me named Meng Shaoan. He also has a way to appease the people. He does it completely according to what is written in the books of sages. The people trust him very much. I asked him to ask the people to go to the villages around Yangcheng. You just wait there. Yangcheng is deserted anyway and needs to be rebuilt. They will definitely be willing to go there. You can take them away when the time comes."
When he said this, Xia Zhixu tilted his head and grinned at his senior brother.
The glass cup only covered half of Xia Zhixu's face.
but
Xiao Podi looked at Xia Zhixu, especially at the half blurry face behind the red wine. He felt a little nauseous, even disgusted, because he couldn't forget the scene that day when Xia Zhixu hugged the bloody snake and rubbed his face against it with a smile on his face.
And now, half of Xia Zhixu's face was behind the wine, like half a snake's face covered in blood.
Swish!
Xiao Podi stood up and stopped looking at Xia Zhixu: "I will tell the Queen Mother. I will come again in five days."
After saying that, Xiao Podi walked straight outside.
Xia Zhixu looked at Xiao Podi's back and didn't say goodbye, but just said, "Brother, take care. Tell Master that I miss him."
Xiao Podi didn't respond. He opened the door and left.
Xia Zhixu sat at his seat, drank a sip of red wine, and picked up the melon seeds on the table. But just as he was about to eat them, he noticed that the sky outside had become cloudy again in just a short while, and it looked like it was going to snow.
Think of snow.
Xia Zhixu took out a piece of paper from his arms, on which were written the three words "It should be Heaven".
Then Xia Zhixu curled his lips and asked, "What on earth is behind it?"
Looking at these three ugly words, Xia Zhixu started to eat melon seeds. He didn't eat them immediately, but piled the kernels on the three words.
The small melon seeds piled up, Xia Zhixu ate them all in one gulp, then sniffed the three words on the paper, Xia Zhixu looked satisfied, put the paper away, then drank the wine in the glass, pursed his lips with satisfaction and said, "It's so beautiful."
…
The wedding banquet in the capital city continued as usual.
The common people outside were even happier. After all, today was the wedding day of the Emperor and the Empress, but it was also the first day of the new year, a big day for everyone to celebrate!
Especially at the Qingya Restaurant, there was a big banquet today, and it was all free, so many people flocked there just to have a good meal.
Besides that, Dianjiangchun Rouge Shop, because of the Empress' wedding and the festival, came up with something new, called 'Promotion, 50% off on all items'.
This attracted many women or men who loved beauty. Because of this, the queue at Dianjiangchun Rouge Shop was no less than that at Qingya Restaurant.
Same.
Many shops throughout the capital city are holding various activities, all trying to imitate Dian Jiangchun's business, so all the busy streets are crowded with people, it is very lively.
Especially the daytime fireworks near noon opened the eyes of the people. They were all surprised and wondered what the hell it was and why it was so beautiful.
Outside the palace, the common people were having a lively time today.
However, at the wedding banquet in the palace, without the presence of someone as rash as the King of the South Courtyard in the morning, the wedding banquet returned to its usual lively atmosphere.
And it was getting more and more lively. Everyone stopped restraining themselves and started chatting and laughing with wine glasses in hand. The envoys from the Western Regions showed off their talents, either dancing or singing. It was really lively.
And because of the line "Have you not seen that the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky", Mu Xu also made the wedding banquet lively.
Su Changan deliberately did not tell Mu Xu, so he just deliberately said two lines of the poem "Jinjiang Jiu·Don't You See" by the great immortal Li Bai.
Scholars have always had high demands for the artistic conception of articles, especially now that Su Changan's impromptu poem is at least of the level that is good enough to be passed down.
What's more, just these two sentences are already so majestic, so what will happen next.
But Su Changan just didn't want to say it, which almost drove Mu Xu crazy.
But Su Changan's status is so high that Mu Xu doesn't dare to act rashly.
Especially with Xia Fengxiang around, even if Mu Xu dared to make a joke with Su Changan when they were alone in the past, he didn't dare to do that today.
So Mu Xu had no choice but to look for people everywhere and tell these two lines of poetry to them, hoping to get a group of people together to go to the Queen Mother to ask.
The Queen is soft-hearted. Since so many people are asking, she will definitely tell you.
But unexpectedly, when everyone heard these two sentences, they naturally sighed at the beauty of the poem, but when they heard that the Queen was not happy to say the latter part, they thought that the old man Mu Xu was here to win them over to find the Queen!
Be good!
Everyone immediately shook their heads!
It is true that I desire poetry, but it is also true that I don’t dare to do it, mainly because I am not as bold as Mu Xu!
If the queen is alone, it would be fine to go up and ask, His Majesty is sitting there! !
You, Mu Xu, may dare to do it, but we don’t have the courage.
Even though Xun Kuang, Master Yao and others wanted to know, they could see that the queen was doing it on purpose, so they didn't say much and just looked at the Lord Chief Priest who was jumping up and down in anxiety.
The people in the Imperial College were thinking
You deserve it!
Hence.
There was such a scene.
One by one, people came up to toast and congratulate Xia Fengxiang and Su Changan. The chief academician of the Imperial College stood aside and looked at Su Changan pitifully.
Su Changan didn't care about Mu Xu, and even asked Xia Xia and the others to find a chair for Mu Xu to sit on. He would ask if he was hungry or thirsty from time to time, but he didn't say what was going on.
Just to tease the old man.
Have fun, have fun.
Xia Fengxiang naturally understood what Su Changan meant, but she did not stop him. In her opinion, Mu Xu needed to be criticized from time to time to prevent him from being too cocky.
and
Even though Xia Tingyu and Su Changan spoke like that just now, especially Xia Tingyu deliberately angered her, it doesn't matter!
Just write it down and teach Su Changan a lesson.
But we'll talk about that tonight.
At the moment, Xia Fengxiang looked at Su Changan's profile, lowered his head to look at the hand he was holding, was stunned for a moment, and almost laughed, mainly because he thought of what Su Changan said, "Holding hands, year after year."
You can say anything!
Thinking of this, Xia Fengxiang reached for the wine glass on the table with his other hand.
But before he touched it, Su Changan replaced it with tea. Xia Fengxiang frowned slightly.
Su Changan turned his head to look at Xia Fengxiang, whose face was slightly red. "How can you have a wedding night when you are drunk? I have been waiting for this time to buy a ticket and get on the bus with a legitimate reason."
(End of this chapter)
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