Chapter 22 Princess Night Banquet (Part 2)

The birthday banquet was held in the Bihan Pavilion in the back garden of the Princess's Mansion. It was actually a pavilion in the middle of the lake. It was built on the water surface and was made of sandalwood. It was covered with light gauze to prevent mosquitoes. The pavilion was several feet wide. People sat in the pavilion. The sandalwood itself prevented mosquitoes. Yang Lihua ordered the gauze cover to be rolled up. Everyone was in the pavilion and felt the breeze blowing on their faces, which was cool and pleasant. Holy Hall.com

The wine and food have been served, and the quantity is very small. Two or three plates are placed in front of each person, and the dishes are exquisite and pleasing to the eye. They are reluctant to leave.

The pavilion is round and everyone sits in a circle. The seating arrangement also takes the owner's painstaking efforts. Children cannot go to the main table, while several children sit alone in a row of small tables, leaning behind the main table.

The male guest and the female guest sat on both sides. Because the seats were round, the male guest was still adjacent to the female guest. There were only three male guest. Yang Zhao sat in the middle, and Yu Wenshi and the female guest was on the side of the male guest, while the female guest was Nanyang Princess, that is, the couple sat together.

Yang Yuanqing sat next to the child, but next to him was Yang Lihua's granddaughter Li Jingxun. Li Jingxun was just between adults and children. According to her seniority, she should sit with the children, but Yang Lihua arranged her to the main table and sat next to Yang Yuanqing.

Li Jingxun looks like her father and has a tall figure. She wore a blue striped skirt and a beautiful ornate gem-inlaid gold necklace around her fair neck. This is her favorite thing. Although she is young, she is already graceful and graceful, just very thin, like a thin bamboo.

The reason why she sat up and sat next to Yang Yuanqing was that Yang Lihua had good intentions. She hoped that Yang Yuanqing would wait and marry her when her granddaughter grew to thirteen years old.

"General Yang, I will toast you with a glass of wine, to defend the enemy for the country and guard the border."

Li Jingxun picked up a glass of wine and toasted Yang Yuanqing. He was a little embarrassed between his eyebrows and eyes, lowered his head and his face turned slightly red.

"Thank you, Miss!"

Yang Yuanqing picked up the wine glass and smiled and clinked her glass. He found that Li Jingxun's physique was very similar to her mother, and they were both very thin. In folk words, it was not a beautiful son. Yang Lihua only gave birth to one daughter, which can also be understood as being neglected by the emperor's husband, but Yuwen Eying also gave birth to one daughter, which is a matter of physical fitness. (《》.com)

Yuwen Eying has a weak constitution, while her daughter Li Jingxun has a weak constitution, which is not a sign of longevity. Yang Yuanqing couldn't help but feel a little pity for her, but Li Jingxun drank a glass of wine and her face turned redder, as if drinking this glass of wine meant something big, which made Yang Yuanqing a little embarrassed.

Li Jingxun is only eight years old this year, and she is ten years younger than Yang Yuanqing. When she sat with Yang Yuanqing, Yang Yuanqing did not realize the profound meaning of the seat arrangement at all. Only a few women realized it with their unique sensitivity.

The Crown Princess Wei sat next to today's female birthday star Yuwen Eying. She took advantage of the time when Yang Lihua arranged to serve the dishes and asked Yuwen Eying in a low voice: "Does the emperor mean that he wants to grant Jingxun to Yang Yuanqing?"

Yuwen Eying didn't understand why her mother thought of arranging her daughter next to Yang Yuanqing. She understood what her mother meant, but her daughter was still too young and it would take at least five or six years to consider getting married. She is still a child now. More importantly, she felt that her mother was a bit wishful thinking. Are they willing to wait for the quiet training?

She knew that her mother liked Yang Yuanqing very much, and even complained that she had married too early, which made her a little amused. Does she like her just to marry her daughter or granddaughter?

Yuwen Eying shook her head, "This is not realistic. Jingxun is still young and is not worthy of age."

Crown Princess Wei is meticulous. Based on her unique intuition of women, she feels that one of the three girls of Pei seems to be destined to Yang Yuanqing, and it is definitely not Li Jingxun. She is also carefully observing which one is destined to be?

The three girls of Pei were sitting near the child. Behind Pei You was Yang You, the youngest son of the prince Yang Zhao. Yang You was only five years old and had a naughty personality. He liked Pei You very much. His likes were to tease people. He secretly added a little vinegar to her pole wine, and then took advantage of her inattention and pulled out the hairpin from her hair. Pei You was very upset and was extremely bored, but he couldn't do anything.

At this time, Pei Xier gently touched her arm and looked at Yang Yuanqing. Pei You also noticed that Li Jingxun brought the wine glass and was toasting Yang Yuanqing.

Pei You was distraught by Yang You and did not notice the subtlety of Li Jingxun's seat arrangement at all. But she was also a smart woman after all. With Pei Xier's reminder, she also saw that Pei You felt extremely uncomfortable. Seeing Li Jingxun lowered her eyebrows and toasting Yang Yuanqing, she snorted in her heart, "Does a yellow-haired girl with unfilthed breasts know how to please men?"

She secretly hated Yang Yuanqing to be tempted by the incest and her little mother who had not yet grown up. Just because she was Princess Leping's granddaughter, he just met her. The man is really disgusting. ("" website 7*

Pei Minqiu sat on the other side of Pei Xier, and she also saw Li Jingxun toasting Yang Yuanqing, but her mentality was different from the other two girls in the Pei family. She looked at Yang Yuanqing with a smile, with a hint of joke in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows. She could feel Yang Yuanqing's embarrassment. This was really interesting. Will Yang Yuanqing be willing to be Princess Leping's grandson-in-law?

Just at this moment, Yang Yuanqing looked at her quietly, his eyes were filled with helplessness. His innocent expression made Pei Minqiu laugh out loudly with a "sneer!"

Pei Minqiu's laughter made everyone's eyes look at her. Pei You felt that this was very rude. She glared at Pei Minqiu and apologized to everyone: "My sister is still childlike. I hope everyone will forgive her for her rude behavior!"

Yang Lihua also likes Pei Minqiu very much. She likes her natural and simple life without any pretentiousness. She invites the three girls of the Pei family to come, and to a large extent she likes Pei Minqiu.

"Minqiu, do you often go out?"

Another reason why Yang Lihua likes Pei Minqiu is that she is very healthy, with a rosy face, cheerful and lively, and has a strong spirit. It is completely different from her sick and sick granddaughter. Yang Lihua has always been worried about Li Jingxun's weakness. She hopes to find some health secret recipe from Pei Minqiu, how she eats and exercises, so that her granddaughter can follow her and become healthy.

Pei Minqiu was smart and she immediately understood what the princess meant, and wanted to know how to make Li Jingxun healthy. She smiled and said, "Actually, I think I should go out for more walks and get close to the mountains and rivers. I will be healthy in body and mind, and my personality will become cheerful. I used to live in the countryside of Wenxi County and often went out to play with my sisters of the same race. Adults don't allow it. If possible, I want to go out for an outing these two days."

Yang Yuanqing laughed, "Tomorrow I will go hunting with some aristocratic families. I heard that there are also ladies from a wealthy family traveling together. If Miss Pei is willing, I will invite Miss Pei to go out together."

Pei Xier quietly pinched Pei Minqiu, meaning that she could not agree easily, but Pei You felt a little jealousy in her heart. Yang Yuanqing's public invitation was not her turn. Before Pei Minqiu could speak, she said first: "General Yang's kindness is recognized, but my sister is not good at riding horses and following him on hunting may become a drag, so she will not go."

"It doesn't matter if I'm not good at riding a horse. My horse is very agile and easy to control. I can ride the horse to Miss Pei. The key is whether Miss Pei wants to go or not."

Yang Yuanqing warmly invited Pei Minqiu, and Pei You felt even more uncomfortable. She was about to refuse again, but Pei Minqiu smiled and said, "If General Yang doesn't think I'm a burden, Minqiu is willing to hunt with the general."

"What a refreshing girl!"

Yang Lihua applauded and laughed. She pointed to her granddaughter Li Jingxun, "Miss Pei, would you like to take Jingxun out for a trip?"

Pei Minqiu asked Yang Yuanqing with a smile, "Will General Yang dislike us two women who are not good at riding horses?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly, "It seems I can't help it!"

There was a burst of laughter in the room, and Pei You secretly regretted it. In fact, she wanted to go, but she said too much just now and couldn't make a turn.

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After the family dinner, Yang Lihua arranged several more pleasure boats for everyone to raft. The inner lake in her mansion covers an area of ​​more than 30 acres, with sparkling waves and a cool breeze. The three girls of the Pei family took a boat with Yang Lihua. At Yang Zhao's request, Yang Lihua specially arranged a small boat to let Yang Zhao and Yang Yuanqing sit together.

Inside the small boat, Yang Zhao stared at the lake's water light. He sighed softly, "Yuan Qing, I have a premonition that the world may be in chaos."

"Why did your Highness say this?"

Yang Zhao shook his head, "I don't know, it's just a premonition. I feel that my father's method of doing things is too rough, impatient, and tyrannical. Two days ago, he told me that the south is the orthodox Han people. If you want to reverse the situation of strong north and weak south, relying on a Grand Canal alone is not enough. It is best to kill all the Miscellaneous Hu in the north, and drive all the troops controlled by the Guanlong nobles to die. Then, the southern population is largely moved north, so that the power of strong Hu and weak Han people can be completely reversed, and the Sui Dynasty can become a dynasty of Han people."

Yang Yuanqing was shocked and asked quickly: "What will the emperor do?"

"He said it was vague, saying that it was best to launch a war, such as Goguryeo, which was a little weaker, and then drove the soldiers controlled by the Guanlong nobles to die, and then drove the Shandong Zahu to the same place, so that they could all die in Goguryeo, and then migrate the people from Jiangnan to the north."

Speaking of this, Yang Zhao sighed, "I hope he just talks casually. If the father really does this, the situation in the north will inevitably be out of control. Those descendants of the six towns will be willing to surrender. Those Guanlong nobles will not lose their capital. The Han people in the south may not appreciate it. The descendants of Chen and Liang will be ready to move. The northern aristocrats will not support their father. They will be surrounded by enemies. The Sui country will be destroyed in the hands of their father."

Yang Yuanqing was silent. In fact, the situation developed like this. Yang Guang only wanted to be domineering in his work, and did not consider the ability of the people in the world to bear it. He wanted to change everything overnight. From the fact that he built a new capital and dug a canal, it can be seen that he completed the huge project that others had completed in several years or even decades in a year. He never cared about the lives and death of the people behind him. He wanted to torture and torture all the Hu Han people in the north to death.

The assimilation of Hu and Han in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties lasted for hundreds of years until the Northern Song Dynasty was gradually completed, but Yang Guang wanted to complete the great cause within ten years. Seeing that he could not do it, he did not hesitate to use extreme means to launch the Goguryeo War, using the hands of war to destroy the Xianbei and Northern Hu forces, and thus the world was in chaos and the Sui Dynasty lost its deer.

Yang Yuanqing sighed very much. The wheel of history was slowly moving towards the most dangerous direction, but he was unable to pull the car. The prince also saw this trend and he was powerless. I am afraid that no one in the world could stop the wheel of the Great Sui Dynasty except Yang Guang himself.

Yang Zhao pondered for a long time and said slowly: "Yuanqing, if you are willing to assist my son and keep them safe for life, I can leave my life to them. You are my brother and I will treat you as the emperor's uncle."

Yang Yuanqing was shocked and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, why did you say this?"

Yang Zhao smiled sadly, "I have concealed my father. In fact, I have fainted twice these days. I can feel the changes in my body. My life is not long. The reason why I stayed in Luoyang and refused to go back is that I don't want to die alone. I want to die by my parents. Yuanqing, if I die, I will entrust my son to you. You are their uncle!"

After saying that, Yang Zhao knelt down in front of Yang Yuanqing and burst into tears.

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Chapter completed!