After hearing Ying'er's explanation, Zhao Hongrun suddenly realized that these women accompanying the banquet were actually women trained by "Fangshui Pavilion". No wonder they were all attractive.
Just like his younger brother Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan, the young people in the palace who didn't have much experience in this area seemed to be seduced by these women who catered to them. Although they felt uncomfortable all over, they couldn't help but peek at the people on both sides.
Those women.
"Uncle Six is really generous..."
Zhao Hongrun thought to himself, he knew how much manpower, material resources and energy it would take to train these women.
What surprised Zhao Hongrun even more was that these women were all of the highest quality. Not only were they extremely beautiful, they also knew how to charm. No, there were already many nobles who were fascinated by these women.
"Your Highness, what are you looking at?" Ying'er moved her position, half-leaning on Zhao Hongrun, and said in amusement, "Isn't it enough that Your Highness has my two sisters to serve you? Don't look at those people..." She
He covered Zhao Hongrun's eyes with his hands mischievously.
Zhao Hongrun knew that she was joking with him, but when he pulled her hand down and squeezed it subconsciously, he instinctively felt two scorching gazes.
The line of sight on the left comes from Oona who is pouting with a disgusted look on her face, and the line of sight on the right is from Mi Jiang who is expressionless.
"It's fatal..."
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel a little headache.
Fortunately, at this time, Emperor Wei appeared to relieve him.
"Your Majesty has arrived."
Following the sound of the visitor's report, Emperor Wei led Concubine Shen Shu and Concubine Wu Gui into the palace from a side door, followed by the great eunuch Tong Xin and several young eunuchs.
Seeing this, all the guests in the palace stood up one after another, bowed their hands and said, "We will pay homage to Your Majesty."
Even Mi Jiang stood up and saluted at the same time as Zhao Hongrun stood up.
"Ping Shen." Emperor Wei waved his hand, helped Concubine Shen Shu and Concubine Wu Gui to the main seat, then sat in the middle, and said with a smile: "Today the emperor and his ministers have fun together, eliminating those complicated etiquette and customs."
Seeing this, all the guests in the hall took their seats one after another. Only King Yi Zhao Yuanli was still standing, raising his hands and patting him twice.
In an instant, the bells and drums rang together, and the music started playing. Two more groups of young women wearing thin skirts poured in from outside the hall with light steps, and danced in the center of the hall to add to the excitement of the feast.
At this time, the eunuchs who served in the chamber also led some women to serve dishes and presented them to the table in front of Emperor Wei and all the guests in the palace.
It has to be said that today's banquet was extremely rich in dishes. It took half an hour to serve the dishes alone, so that Zhao Hongrun felt a little sorry for the young women dancing in the hall.
After the dishes were almost ready, the young women who performed the dance slowly retreated from the main hall, and the music temporarily stopped - according to the rules, Emperor Wei should say the toast at this time, and the third one should do so.
When one person takes down his chopsticks, the rest of the guests can use their chopsticks.
"I told you that there are no complicated etiquette and customs today." Emperor Wei complained, which caused echoing laughter in the palace.
After a moment of contemplation, the Emperor of Wei raised the wine bottle in his hand and said seriously: "I wish my country Wei a prosperous future and eternal prosperity!"
After hearing this, all the guests in the hall also raised their glasses and echoed in unison: "I wish my country Wei a prosperous future and eternal prosperity!"
After the ceremony, the music sounded again, and a group of young women walked into the hall and danced to add to the fun.
At this time, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became heated. Regardless of whether there had been conflicts among the guests in the past, at this moment, everyone was changing cups, drinking and drinking, or feasting on the dishes displayed on the table, or admiring the dishes.
The young women in the center of the hall were dancing or joking with the wine companions beside them. I believe that most of the people present felt that their trip was well worth it.
"The luxurious life of the evil upper-class nobles..."
Zhao Hongrun sighed in his heart, and then decided to devote himself to it.
If he had a choice, he would prefer to play music and dance every day. Who wants to be busy all day and night with endless national affairs?
At this time, the sky was gradually getting darker, but the atmosphere in the main hall of the Central Palace did not diminish at all.
Especially when the visitors reported the gains that Emperor Wei had made during the imperial hunt, the hall was filled with praises, praising the Emperor of Wei who was seriously out of shape as if he was the best warrior in the Wei Kingdom.
After Emperor Wei, the visitors also reported the harvests of others one after another. Only then did Zhao Hongrun know that there was an activity to compare the number of prey during the emperor's hunt. The top few who hunted the most prey would be lucky enough to get Wei's.
The emperor gave him something to carry with him, probably a jade pendant or something.
It is said that in previous years, when King Yan Zhao Hongjiang was still in Daliang, he always came out on top.
However, for Zhao Hongrun, this imperial gift is nothing rare, it is just a few broken jade pendants with some commemorative significance. I believe that those who participated in this event are also interested in the significance of this imperial gift.
, rather than the jade pendant itself.
By the way, this year's event seems to have been won by Zhao Hongmin, the eldest son of Zhao Yuanyan, He Song, the grandson of He Mei, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and Zhao Chengzan, the crown prince of Prince Chengling. This made Zhao Hongrun secretly surprised: cousin Zhao Hongmin, seems to be a gentle man.
It turned out that he was also a skilled hunter with bow and horse.
"Well, I can ask for advice in the future."
Zhao Hongrun thought secretly.
I don't know how much time passed, but most of the guests in the central palace had had enough to drink and eat, and were hugging their respective concubines and teasing them.
Vaguely, everyone heard bursts of noise coming from outside the hall.
At first, the guests in the hall didn't pay attention, but when the noise outside the hall became more and more obvious, the guests felt that something was wrong, so that the hall suddenly became quiet.
And during this silence, the movements outside the palace could be heard more and more clearly - in addition to the roars and curses, there were also sounds such as the sound of swords hitting each other.
"What's going on?"
"What happened outside the palace?"
"What happened?"
All the guests in the hall suddenly became panicked.
"Your Majesty? This..." Chengling King Zhao Shen looked at Emperor Wei in shock. He instinctively felt that something was wrong.
It's not that he doubted Emperor Wei, after all, Emperor Wei had no reason to attack many guests in the palace during such a grand event as the Emperor Hunting.
You must know that the nobles who participated in this imperial hunt accounted for almost half of the nobles of the Wei State. It is no exaggeration to say that if something went wrong in this palace, the Wei State would almost be destroyed.
Therefore, the only possibility that Chengling King Zhao Shen could think of was: there was a thief coming!
"Are they trying to eradicate us?" Wei Ziyi, the head of the Wei family in Gangu, whispered to Wei Feng, the head of the Wei family in Tianshui.
"Be calm and don't be impatient." Wei Feng of the Tianshui Wei family shook his head. He did not believe that Emperor Wei Zhao Yuanxi would do such a thing.
Facing the inquiry from Chengling King Zhao Shen, Emperor Wei first calmed down Concubine Shen Shu and Concubine Wu Gui, who were a little panicked. Then, he glanced at the guests present and said lightly: "It's okay, it's just that some rats want to disturb today's feast.
That’s all.”
After saying that, he turned to look at Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo, and asked with a faint smile: "Does Nanliang King have anything to say about this?"
Hearing this, all the guests in the palace looked at Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo with surprised eyes, even Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan were no exception. However, Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo just shook his head and said lightly: "Your Majesty, I have learned from you.
This matter has nothing to do with it.”
At this time, Li Zheng, the leader of the President of the Three Guards Army who was sitting in the banquet in the palace, stood up, clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, General Rong Mo is going to find out what's going on."
After that, he walked out of the queue and walked towards the palace door. However, after taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped, his body swayed, and he fell to the ground as if his feet were weak.
"The drink is poisonous?!" Li Zheng struggled to help the desk next to him stand up.
As soon as he finished speaking, before all the guests could panic, someone said in a nonchalant manner: "It's not poison, it's just an anesthetic...it's not harmful to people."
For a moment, the entire palace was silent. Everyone looked towards the direction of the sound. Immediately, they were stunned.
It turned out that the person who spoke turned out to be King Yi Zhao Yuanli.
"Uncle Six?" Zhao Hongrun looked at Zhao Yuanli in disbelief, his head blank.
"Do you want me to take action?" Mi Jiang asked softly.
Next to her, Que'er was stunned when she heard the words. She immediately flipped her wrist, revealing a golden hairpin. Then she pinched the golden hairpin and tried to use it to hold Mi Jiang hostage. Unfortunately, Mi Jiang was faster and started to pull the hairpin.
A silver chopstick blocked the golden hairpin, and then he tapped the head of the chopstick on Que'er's shoulder.
Que'er's right hand lost strength and the gold hairpin in his hand fell to the ground.
When she came to her senses, the silver chopstick head in Mi Jiang's hand was gently pressed against her throat. She said lightly: "You have no intention to kill, so I won't kill you, but... don't move."
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard Ying'er's laughter coming from the side: "What a surprise, why are you two okay? But please put down what you are doing, Mrs. Mi."
Mi Jiang looked back, frowned and saw Ying'er leaning on Zhao Hongrun, her fingers gently rubbing the latter's face.
"Don't be impulsive. Everyone will be safe and sound." She said softly, not only for Mi Jiang but also for Zhao Hongrun.
"..." Mi Jiang frowned, and finally put down the silver chopsticks in her hand, letting Que'er pick up the gold hairpin from the ground to restrain it.
Zong Wei, Wei Jiao, Gao Kuo, and Lu Mu looked at each other, dumbfounded, not understanding what was going on.
Compared with Zhao Hongrun and Mi Jiang, who were not affected by the anesthetic, the other guests were even more unbearable. They only felt weak all over, so much so that they were subdued by the girls who were in their arms before.
In fact, it didn't matter whether they were in uniform or not, because they were so weak at the moment that they couldn't even stand up. They thought this was just a sequelae of excessive drinking, but they didn't expect that the drink was actually drugged.
Only the eunuch Tong Xian and several other eunuchs who were not drinking were already vigilantly guarding Emperor Wei, Concubine Shen Shu, and Concubine Wu Gui, and looked at King Yi Zhao Yuanli in surprise.
"Surprisingly..."
Emperor Wei glanced at the dominant women in the palace, and looked at Yiwang Zhao Yuanli with an ugly expression. Even he did not expect that the Yangwu Army and Imperial Guards outside the palace were just a cover.
The trump card is actually these seemingly powerless women.
However, Emperor Wei was not worried because he knew Zhao Yuanli too well. This brother had always been soft-hearted and would not do anything to cause trouble. The only thing he worried about was whether this brother would be used by others.
"Lao Liu, are these women yours?" Emperor Wei asked calmly, as if he didn't care at all about the situation in front of him.
"Brother Emperor, you didn't expect that, right?" Zhao Yuanli smiled with a bit of bitterness, then raised his hand and introduced: "They are the adopted daughters I adopted under the name of 'Fangshui Pavilion' over the years...'Nightingale'!