Chapter 21: Who Wants to Be Your Confidant

Shen Qiandu finally did not give up eating that cool ** dumpling and solemnly put it into his bosom.

In the public hall, the heads of the Da Lisi and the Northern Zhenfu Si were very much a bit of a headache.

Zhuo priests not only died suddenly, but also quite a tragic meaning, spread the word and then be added to the vinegar, I am afraid that and “Bi Gan dissected the heart”, “Wu Zixu gouge out the eyes” together to become a storytelling joint field, and is not the direction of the public opinion that they are happy to see.

Should this be reported? When? How?

Around these three core issues, the jinyiwei commanders and the Secretary of the Da Lisi launched a war of words, the scene soon showed a one-sided situation, the strong and arrogant jinyiwei won a great victory.

Feng went evil and said: ”Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, no one is allowed to disturb His Majesty’s mood for the festival. All matters of bad luck will be reported after the festival. First Zhuo Qi’s body frozen. All of you here, mouth to me to tighten the door, who dare to unauthorized report, Zhuo Qi’s today, is his tomorrow!”

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The fifth of May, the palace festive atmosphere, the palace family ministers wore up the Ai Hu complementary son python clothes, each hall door on both sides of the calamus Ai pots, hanging on the door with a sword in addition to the poison of the celestial masters like hanging screen, as the New Year’s door god, to be hung for a month before they will be removed.

The emperor rewarded the ministers of the Dragon Boat Festival gifts, Su Yan also received a copy, including a bamboo bone paper palace fan, a tiger head beard five-color tapestry, five-color thread wrapped around the color of the staff two, painted with tigers and poisonous insects Ai Hu paper two.

It’s nothing expensive, it just means that it rains and it pours, and it’s a good luck.

Instead, the Prince personally pounded a bowl of noodles with garlic over water, had to let him eat, said it was to ward off evil spirits.

Prince from the clothes to reach out, cooking can be imagined, Su Yan can not argue with the fist of the intention, only to pinch the nose to eat, but also against his will to praise that the color and aroma are perfect.

Zhu Hailin supported the tip of his elbow on the edge of the table and rested his hands on his cheeks to watch him eat the noodles, very happy.

“Later, when we go to the East Garden to bat and shoot the willow, you will also come down to the field, so that I can see how good you are.”

Su Yan drank a mouthful of tea, suppressing the garlic noodle flavor: “What kind of stature do I have to speak of? Don’t shabby me.”

Zhu Helin boasted, “Then let you see my skill. Last year’s Dragon Boat Festival willow shooting, I won the top prize and was greatly honored by Father.”

“Then may Your Highness win the laurels again this year, and it will be good for me to be present to wave the flag and cheer.”

“What’s a laurel?”

“It’s the crown of flowers woven from laurel branches for the winner. It is a Greek custom.”

“What’s Greece again?”

“Uh, it’s one of the western fandangos, which at this point would be called Eler …… Right, Eler Sacrificea.”

So accompanying the Crown Prince in the carriage on the way to the East Garden, Su Yan had nothing to do and told the laurel myth of Apollo’s pursuit of Daphne.

After hearing this, Zhu Helin was incredulous: “Is Daphne stupid? A mere river god’s daughter, who is favored by the handsome, strong and powerful sun god, would rather turn into a laurel tree than marry him?”

“But she has the freedom to choose whether to marry or not ah. In other words it means that a woman in my dynasty should have the right to refuse even if she is pursued by the son of heaven.” Su Yan endeavored to explain to the young prince what it meant to respect an individual’s wishes.

“Pursuit?” Zhu Helin snorted, “That’s called grace. Whichever woman the Son of Heaven likes and wants to take her as his consort, that’s a blessing she’s had for several lifetimes. If you dare to say half a word no, you are not afraid of being criminalized for resisting the decree and being sentenced to a full house!”

Su Yan: “…… “Talking to feudal rulers about natural human rights and free will, am I stupid?

He arched his hand perfunctorily, “Your Highness is right.”

“Tsk, but why do I feel that you are very unimpressed in your heart?” Zhu Hailin tilted his upper body closer, trying to see his face.

The carriage took a big lurch, and Su Yan planted herself in the opposite direction, her teeth knocking heavily into the crown prince’s mouth.

The Prince covered the corner of his mouth and let out a cry of pain with an ow.

The Jinyiwei rider next to the carriage immediately knocked through the window and asked, “Is there something wrong with Your Highness?”

Zhu Hailin choked and replied, “Nothing.”

Su Yan guiltily pulled away his hand to check the wound, “It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s only knocked through a small opening and bled a little.”

Zhu Hailin was annoyed: “This Prince is a man of gold, what do you mean by ‘only a small crack’? Quickly bring me a mirror to take a look!”

Su Yan in the compartment box, found a Western clergy tribute glass mirror, palm size, clarity and modern mirrors are no different, handed him.

Zhu He Lin heartbreakingly looked at the bloody mouth at the corner of his mouth, “Being seen by the father emperor, again should say that I am stubborn and unstable …… Hey, how do I feel, with the broken mouth on your mouth is quite like.”

“Where like.” Su Yan subconsciously touched his lips, which had already scabbed over and was almost healed, so he really couldn’t tell unless he looked closely.

Zhu Helin wiped away the blood with a clean hand towel and stared at Su Yan suspiciously, “Yours wouldn’t be a bump too, would it? By whom?”

…… This terrier quickly turn the page, please beg your father and son! Su Yan helplessly lay on his arms, “Don’t talk to me, I get carsick!”

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As a royal garden favored by successive emperors, the East Garden was built in a quiet and elegant manner.

The temple is brilliant, pavilions all over the garden, the strange stone towering, ring planting flowers, and lead the spring for the square pool, the pool on the jade dragon spit water like a waterfall, ingenious work of art.

Shooting willow field location in the west in front of the temple of Longde, neighboring a ring of blue river, has long been the first guards set up neatly, will be a lot of pigeons and smaller birds in the gourd and wooden box, hanging in the fluttering willow, arrows shot, if you can box open the pigeon fly and do not injure the birds, will be counted as a win.

It is customary for the princes, kings and ministers to come down and shoot in order, and the one who opens the most boxes wins.

The Emperor’s Golden Emperor is placed in the pavilion on the square platform at the edge of the field. Su Yan went with the Prince to kowtow, Jinglong Emperor has brought Wei Guifei seated.

Wei Guifei has been pregnant with nine months, another month will be produced, the emperor would like to leave her in the palace to raise the fetus. But your consort had to follow, said the palace suffocated, want to come out of the mind, the doctor also said that the woman in labor is best to move around more, the future production can be smoother. The emperor had to agree to give her double the service of the palace.

After the Prince saw the salute and got up, the Emperor was slightly stunned and asked, “Why is your mouth also broken? Also on fire?”

The crown prince awkwardly wiped the corners of his mouth. Su Yan stifled a laugh behind him.

The emperor glanced at Su Yan in a warning-like manner and faintly said, “Sit down and give wine.”

The wine is the calamus wine for the festival, with vermilion sand and male enhancement in it, Su Yan drank straight out of his tongue, and had to drink it all in one go.

Zhu Hailin remembered to hate him for knocking his own mouth and losing face in front of his father, and poured him another large cup, staring at him to finish it, before he proudly left the stage.

Although he is young, but the strength is not small, and good movement like martial arts, shooting skills through the famous teacher training, amazing accuracy. Horseback riding strong shot, successive fifteen boxes have never missed, birds flying into a piece of fluttering.

At the end, he turned back and winked at Su Yan as if showing off.

Su Yan was so drunk that he looked at him with a bit of double vision.

Not only the Crown Prince on the field, but also King Yu, including a cadre of royal relatives and court officials, he looked at them all with some contours of weakness.

Emperor Jinglong noticed his flushed cheeks and confused eyes and laughed, “It’s only two cups, Servant Su’s drinking capacity is too shallow.”

Su Yan very much wanted to answer the emperor, he was seasick, before he also ate a bowl of half-baked over-water noodles, regurgitated badly, otherwise it is definitely more than this amount of alcohol, but unfortunately, he could not speak, and could only wave his hand to show that he was not able to drink.

Wei Guifei picked up a pomegranate flower on the table, coated with cardamom fingers in the petals repeatedly kneaded, and finally the flower grinding into a ball of red mud, discarded on the ground. She said carelessly, “Why don’t we let Servant Su go down to the shooting willow, and move his muscles and bones, and the alcohol will dissipate.”

Without waiting for the emperor to speak, he signaled the palace men beside him to help Su Yan down from the pavilion.

Blown by the cool breeze of the river, Su Yan’s drunkenness really subsided a few points, and a lieutenant next to him handed over a bow and arrow.

He took it, stood and bent his bow and strung it, took aim for a long time, and moved a few steps closer to his target before he shot an arrow.

The arrow flew out crookedly, and seeing that it was going to fall towards the river, it somehow, inexplicably hit the lowest hanging and largest wooden box on the willow tree.

The lieutenant in charge of registration shouted, “Bingo!” A few breaths later, he shouted, “Why are there no pigeons flying out?”

He climbed the tree, opened the wooden box, and to his dismay pulled out a pigeon that had been killed by an arrow.

There was a roar of laughter all around.

Wei Guifei raised her sleeve and laughed chirpily: “Other people shoot boxes, he shoots birds in boxes, an arrow through the heart, which is another kind of good accuracy.”

Su Yan awkwardly said, “I’ll try again.” Three more arrows were shot one after another.

One arrow, one bird life, and the deaths were unbearable to watch.

Emperor Jinglong said helplessly, “Are you shooting willow or killing life. It’s better to come back, and if you want any reward, I’ll just give it to you.”

“I really don’t know how to shoot arrows.” Su Yan put down his bow and arrow and walked to the pavilion to apologize to the emperor.

Emperor Jinglong said, “Look at the posture of your bow-guiding just now. Take advantage of today’s gathering of masters, you pick one to be your master, and I will order him to teach you until you are done.”

“My son taught him!” Zhu Helin immediately called out.

The emperor glared at him, smacked him as a prince but loss of reserve, but heard a handful of low and thick voice laughed: “My brother to self-recommendation. Previously En Rong Banquet, my younger brother and Su readers talk about poetry and discuss the road, quite a good match, after sitting hidden game, each other as confidants, this time and then jointly sparring shooting, is also considered to be a period of Bo Ya Ziqi’s good story.”

As soon as Su Yan heard this magnificent bass, he remembered the slate lifting his face under the peach blossom tree, and immediately took a wary step back, “Don’t bother, I’m not familiar with His Highness the Yu King, I really can’t talk about any confidant.”

Yu Wang was his public face is not annoyed, cheeky answer: “Qinghe but worried about foreign ministers and the royal relatives have had from, attracting suspicion, so just clear the relationship? Don’t worry, brother is broad-minded, generous and kind, will not blame you for this.”

He turned his head to look at the Emperor, “My brother is right, isn’t he, Imperial Brother?”

Emperor Jinglong’s face was light and his tone was calm: “Fourth brother is right. Since this is the case, I will hand over Servant Su to you for half a day to see how many points you can actually learn.”

King Yu casually arched his hand towards him, holding his bow in one arm and taking Su Yan’s arm in the other, mouthing, “The forest behind the temple is clean, just right for practicing archery.” Tugging on the reluctant Su Yan, he headed out towards the field.