Chu Shou and Song Yanqing looked at him with open eyes and confusion.
Song Yanqing asked first, "The banquet is over there, where is Your Highness going?"
Chu Shou tilted his head, crossed his arms and crossed his chest, waiting for his answer with a sense of scrutiny.
Luo Qi saw the two men staring at him with the same eyes, and immediately lost his temper. When he was about to say something, he was interrupted by his younger brother Luo Xu who came from behind.
Luo Xu came up to greet him and saw Chu Shou and Song Yanqing standing opposite. He paused, his somewhat gloomy face suddenly brightened up, he bowed straightly, then turned to look at Luo Qi and asked, "Excuse me, brother, what are these two people doing?"
What is the position?"
Luo Qi glanced at him for being so pretentious, and cursed secretly in his heart, but still said coldly: "Princess Liuchuan of Ming Qi... Song Yanqing, the Censor of the Tongdu Procuratorate."
Luo Xuzuo suddenly understood, and nodded ignorantly, "I have met the princess, and I have met the imperial censor."
Chu Shou looked at the man in front of him, raised his hands and cupped his fists, and returned the greeting in vain. Song Yanqing nodded slightly but did not make any statement.
"I heard early in the morning that Princess Ruchuan had a miraculous plan and was able to help the Holy Emperor to clean up the court and the people when he was still young. Now that I see him, he is really magnificent and unparalleled."
"Master Du Yushi is very resourceful and good at making decisions. He is also a capable minister of your Majesty. He has a majestic head and horns. When I see the two of you below, I am ashamed of myself. I am nothing more than me."
Chu Shou couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard these two paragraphs said by Luo Xu. These words sounded wicked but were very useful.
Of course, for her, Song Yan would probably hit someone if she listened.
Sure enough, Song Yanqing sighed softly, put his hands behind his hands and turned his head to look at the flowers and plants in the garden, feeling quite desolate.
"The prince is eloquent and articulate. He is also a rare talent."
Chu Shou smiled coquettishly, responded politely, and gave him a thumbs up.
Luo Xu shook his head humbly, nodded and said with a smile: "The princess and Lord Song are a talented and beautiful woman, they are a perfect match..."
"That's enough!" Luo Qi shouted to stop the boy. He raised his eyes and met Song Yanqing's eyes. His eyes seemed to be quite dissatisfied with him...
Chu Shou lowered his head and smiled softly, raised his eyes and explained: "I think...it's Prince Wang that you have misunderstood."
"Yes, the princess is already engaged to the young general Gu who dominates the northern border. Please stop talking nonsense."
As Luo Qi spoke, he looked steadily at Luo Xu, signaling him to be silent with his eyes, but left his peripheral vision to look at Song Yanqing's face.
But he was a little confused, didn't the princess' eyes always follow Song Yanqing?
Even this time when I came to Qingzhou to investigate the copper mine case, the princess was specially sent by the Holy Emperor to follow the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
How could it be that he was trying to shirk it, he thought, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, it was interesting, it was really interesting.
"There's a banquet, let's go."
Song Yanqing said in a deep voice to several people, his eyes dark and emotionless, but Chu Shou stiffened a lot and looked particularly embarrassed.
Several people arrived together, and all the officials present stood up and bowed respectfully. After all kinds of pleasantries, the banquet officially started.
However, even in such a happy and peaceful scene, there are still many secret guards hidden in the darkness. In addition to protecting the safety of a few people, the more important thing is to keep an eye on the guilty person, Wei Qingxuan.
Wei Qingxuan was restless, brushing away the thin sweat from his forehead, because it was getting closer and closer to the time when he would be convicted by the Metropolitan Procuratorate. After entertaining the envoys You Yan and sending them to Beijing, he would be detained.
Entering the cage, the day his reputation is ruined.
Therefore, at this time, I was talking absent-mindedly to the people on the sidelines, feeling uneasy.
However, the rest of the people at the table were all having their own thoughts. The junior officials were stuttering, and the senior officials tried their best to hold up the scene. Even Chu Shou was very polite, and there was no lack of etiquette.
But there was an undercurrent surging between the two men. One was Zhan Yingshao, the minister of Honglu Temple in the Ming Dynasty, and the other was Qi He, an official of You Yan Li Zhi.
Zhan Yingshao was wearing official uniform, sitting there solemnly, holding the wine glass tightly in his hand, squinting at Qi He on the opposite seat, but the dishes on the table were not touched at all, and he was having a unilateral fight with Qi He.
Watch the battle in the eyes.
Qi He, on the other hand, drank and ate meat leisurely, instead of looking at the graceful dancer on the stage, listening to the music, and even clapped his hands when the love was strong, and did not take any trouble from Zhan Yingshao.
As luck would have it, no one took the initiative to mention the copper mine, so the prince, who had a lotus tongue and was eloquent, spoke up.
He stood up with a wine glass in his hand, toasted to the superior Chu Shou and Song Yanqing beside him, and said intentionally or unintentionally: "The first reason we came here this time is to pay tribute every two years, and we brought it according to the list in front of us.
There is gold and platinum, some deerskin and brocade, and a lot of other things."
"Now, my father heard that Ming Qi recently discovered a ship of smuggled copper materials at the border between the two countries, which immediately caused a lot of rumors. We are here to clarify the copper mine case with His Majesty. I hope
Your Majesty, please don't listen to the instigation of villains and ruin the friendship between the two countries."
Soon after saying it, Qi He, who had a gentle face at first, suddenly turned cold. A scholar could not be killed. Even if You Yan was defeated and had to bow his head to Ming Qi and became the territory that Ming Qi could not conquer, he would not be able to conquer it.
I won't let Ming Qi be humiliated like this.
Stealing other people's property to enrich one's own pockets is contrary to the gentlemanly style that You Yan upholds.
And he had inquired before coming here that the copper mine was privately mined by the local bandits in Qingzhou. This was obviously his own responsibility!
The bandits could not be suppressed, nor could the banditry be suppressed, and the disaster would be diverted to the south. Who knows whether intercepting the copper materials at the pass was an excuse for Ming Qi to suppress the bandits.
Why does it have to involve someone else...
Qi He thought this, his beard trembled, and he put the wine glass in his hand on the desk with a clatter.
Chu Shou was startled by the sound and closed his eyes silently. The real show was about to begin...
"Since it is bandits who are causing trouble, I would like to ask you to confront the bandits instead of just making random assumptions about others without any evidence!"
When Zhan Yingshao heard this, he blew his beard and glared with a disdainful sneer, dropped the wine glass in his hand, and said sternly: "Hey, I know that you are especially following the small country and the power, and if you want some copper materials, just ask the court.
Why do you have to go around and do something sneaky?"
"surreptitiously?!"
Qi He slapped the table, stood up suddenly, eyes wide open, and shouted at Zhan Yingshao: "You said that we colluded with bandits to mine the copper mine privately. Where is the evidence? I have evidence of cooperation with you bandits.
Woolen cloth?"
"Every day you open your mouth, you are spreading rumors! I think the Third Division you set up is just a decoration!"
Zhan Yingshao shook his head and imitated the tone of the opposite Qi He, "Decoration~~", his eyes were full of disdain, but he still sat firmly and said with his hands on his hips: "San Si? It turns out that you just want something from nothing. I will give you another five hundred years."
You don’t deserve Sansi either…”
"you!"
Qi He was said to be unable to keep up. Firstly, as a vassal state, Youyan really could not set up three divisions. Secondly, Zhan Yingshao's face was so vicious that it made people want to kick him.
"I have a dark mind, and I insist on thinking of others as dark as you. It's like eating pancakes rolled in charcoal. My heart is not that dark!"
When Zhan Yingshao heard this, he got up and shouted angrily, "A real man is upright. If you do it, you do it. If you don't do it, you don't do it. All day long, you will only make some sarcastic remarks and fake jealousies. Compared with that
Even the mice carrying the oil lamp must be cunning!"
When the two are arguing now, it feels like they were demarcating the boundaries back then. They are bickering, not to see who is reasonable, but to see who is more assertive and confident.
However, Ming Qi has always been confident.
Chu Shou held his forehead and listened to the two people below who were coming and going. He shook his head helplessly and raised his glass to silently signal to everyone sitting here - the two of you are fine, just get used to it. It's best to drink and eat while the food is hot.
Song Yanqing felt a little nostalgic today. He didn't know whether it was because he personally sent his brother off, or whether the charm for peace in his memory was too dazzling.
Is it that the autumn wind is too bleak, or that people's hearts are too unpredictable...
Thinking of "people's hearts are unpredictable", he couldn't help but look at Chu Shou, who was sitting in the seat. She was staring at the two green grapes on a branch, and she didn't say a word to care about the two guards from all over the world who were making a noise at the table.
, as if everything in the world has nothing to do with her.
He couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips, but then he remembered that he and Chu Shou were by the lotus pond just now. Although he told Chu Shou many things that really happened to him in the past, the emotions he showed seemed to
It was not well accepted by her.
Even after being misunderstood by Prince Wang, she tried to evade it with a smile.
However, yes, she is engaged, so why not wait until there are no flowers and break the branches, fearing that even a single flower will not grow, and the relationship between the two of them may have long been overgrown.
Song Yanqing thought like this and couldn't help but narrow her eyes. She grabbed the wine glass in front of her and drank it all in one gulp. She drank too much and suddenly felt a little tight in the chest and short of breath. She felt very uncomfortable both inside and outside her heart.
Noticing Shen Yi's gaze, there was some unexplained ridicule in Shen Yi's eyes, so he turned towards Shen Yi and cursed "Get out."
Shen Yi was surprised, he was just trying to persuade Song Yanqing to drink less of the wine You Yan brought.
Regardless of You Yanzhongwen, this wine is very strong and one gulp will burn your heart and lungs.
Song Yanqing then looked at the dancing girls flying back and forth on the stage in a depressed manner.
The moving pipa sounds were about to break through his eardrums again and again. The people around him were noisy, and the sounds amplified and rushed over again. There was a ringing in his ears. At this time, he felt that his head was about to explode.
Only then did he react, picked up the wine glass, stared at the strong wine inside, and drank to the top...
Zhan Yingshao and Qi He were still arguing, but each of them was using their desk as a boundary, and they would not cross this boundary no matter how unpleasant the criticism was.
until……
I don't know if it was Zhan Yingshao, but Qihe also said a sentence that is familiar to people in the streets and towns.
Tsk, this is such a dirty word.
"Okay! Sirs, please stop arguing. Since His Majesty has sent the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate, I will naturally give you an explanation for the smuggling of copper mines."
Chu Shou sat in the upper seat, behaved appropriately and in line with etiquette. If he couldn't stand the two adults chasing each other, he would probably have to watch another good show with his own eyes.
She had been listening carefully, and when she got the chance, she immediately jumped in and said this.
Very good, so he pointed the finger at the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Chu Shou looked at Song Yanqing and thought to himself, he didn't know how they were doing with their investigation...
The letter she handed to the Metropolitan Procuratorate miraculously matched Qi He's thoughts, but she was forced to do so.
When she returns to Kyoto, she must ask His Majesty why he did this. It is obviously only one step away from the truth, but he always tries to make up for the impossible illusion.
It's the same this time, I'm afraid she will backstab Mr. Zhan...
"The Qingzhou Copper Mine matter has been known for a long time, so I have to ask Prince Wang and the two adults to calm down."
The prince Luo Xu, who was eating obediently at the side, was less anxious than Chu Shou. When he heard that his name was called, he immediately became attentive.
Song Yanqing suppressed the burst of strong wine, supported the table with one hand, and swept around. Seeing that everyone still looked dusty, he said in a deep voice: "The evidence has been found."
He raised his hand slightly, and the secret guard came from behind, holding some letters in duplicate.
One by one, they were sent to the guests sitting at the seats.
Chu Shou took the letter and looked through it one by one. Except for You Yanxizuo, which she could not do and could not get involved in, the rest of the incidents and detailed evidence were all obtained through hard work. They were similar to those found in the mystery of his life.
at.
After Zhan Yingshao looked around, there was indeed no evidence that You Yan had colluded to smuggle copper ore.
In just that moment, the energy that was originally higher than the sky immediately diminished a bit.
Qi He looked at the letters and secretly raised the corner of his mouth, secretly saying: This old man Zhan, don't shut up now!
After reading it, he raised his head and laughed "hahahaha" and said a few good words. After that, he proudly threw the letter on the desk in front of him and said to Zhan Yingshao: "Brother Zhan, then
You can see the flowers on the paper, but when you look again, there are some things that are not there, just not there."
When Chu Shou heard this, she felt that she could not help Master Zhan Yingshao. In fact, she really wanted to uproot the people You Yan had placed in Ming Qi, but... no matter what.
However, although Zhan Yingshao's face did not change much, he shook the piece of paper and asked Song Yanqing: "Master Xiao Song, is this what you want to explain to us?"
Song Yanqing paused for a moment, lowered his eyes and thought, thinking about how much he should reveal today, which would be the best way, so he added: "Of course, I will wait until everyone is here before I can give everyone an explanation."
With that said, he stood up and walked out, bowed to Chu Shou, and asked: "May I ask, Princess, how do you close the net at this time?"
Chu Shou turned the small wine glass in his hand and rubbed the wall of the glass with his fingertips. When he met Song Yanqing's gaze, she made rapid calculations in her mind.
She had also thought about whether there was a suitable opportunity to end their trip to Qingzhou.
I originally thought it would be better to return to Kyoto and report to His Majesty the ability to punish whose crimes should be punished.
But looking at Song Yanqing's firm eyes, she felt that this opportunity had already arrived.