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Chapter 65 Birthday Banquet

Both Yun Meier and Xing'er changed into green clothes, tied their hair on their heads, dressed up as a book boy, and turned around in front of Yang Yong. Xing'er asked with some anticipation: "Young Master, how do you look at our outfit?"

Both women have red lips and white teeth, and they are even more charming and charming when wearing men's clothes. Yang Yong was almost lost in his sight, but he deliberately shook his head and took two beauties like flowers and jade for several months. The two women are still virgins. If their subordinates know, they must suspect that the prince is in trouble.

In fact, Yang Yong wanted to do something several times, both Yun Meier and Xing'er were half-hearted. Naturally, they knew that unless the prince didn't want them, they would definitely follow the prince in their life. However, every time they were about to enter Hong Kong, they were destroyed. When they were with Yun Meier, Xing'er would definitely make trouble. When they were with Xing'er, Yun Meier was the same. The two of them looked at each other, which made Yang Yong unable to succeed.

Seeing Yang Yong shook his head, Yun Meier became anxious: "Young Master, what's wrong?"

"It's just that people are inappropriate, they're a little too beautiful." Yang Yong showed a narrow smile on his face.

The two girls only realized that they were teased by Yang Yong and stomped their feet together. Yang Yong laughed: "Look at it, are you still like a book boy like this?"

The two women stopped acting cutely and looked at each other, but they realized that it was not right. They couldn't help laughing. The prince went to the Wang family to attend the banquet, but there was no reason to bring a maid. However, the two women heard that the Wang family was a noble family that had been passed down for more than 700 years, and were very curious about the Wang family and insisted on pestering Yang Yong to take them with them. Yang Yong was so pestered that he had to let the two women dress up as a book boy. There were many flaws in this dress, and in fact he was just a good example. The prince said that they were book boys, so they were naturally book boys. Who would dare to prove it?

Qu Tutong and Wei Yi walked over and reminded: "Your Highness, you have all arranged it."

"Okay, go."

A total of three identical carriages came over. Yang Yong took two women into one of them, and the other two carriages were also in the same carriages. Then the curtains were lowered and they were mixed together in a short while. No one knew which carriage the prince was sitting in. The Wang family courtyard was not in Qingzhou City, but there was an independent fort about fifteen miles outside the city. The assassin's affairs were like a thorn. Wei Yi had to arrange this, and Yang Yong had to let him do it.

Hundreds of soldiers were the first to lead the way. In the middle were the well-dressed guards of the East Palace, and at the end were a group of 200 soldiers. This formation was stronger than when Yang Yong was patrolling outside. The people who wanted to watch along the way were dispersed to the side by the soldiers. If an assassin really dared to assassinate, he would be taken down before he could take action.

Not long after leaving the city gate, there was a straight road leading directly to Wangjiawu Fort. The team along the way were safe and sound. When we arrived at the periphery of the fort, the head of the Wang family received the news that he had already brought his whole family outside the fort to welcome him.

When Yang Yong lifted the curtain of the carriage and walked down, Wang Meng, the head of the Wang family, led all the men of the Wang family to kneel down: "See Your Highness, Your Highness, Thousand Years! Thousand Years! Thousand Years!"

Looking at the darkness kneeling in front of him, there were probably as many as a hundred people as thick as possible. Yang Yong was shocked and asked Wei Yi next to him softly: "Are these men from the Wang family?"

"When you come back to your highness, these are just male men in the five squads. If you go outside the five squads, it will be easy for the Wang family to gather thousands of male men." Although the Wang family is not included in the seventh family of the five surnames, they are definitely the first family in Qinghe, so Wei Yi naturally has some understanding.

Among the hundreds of people kneeling on the ground, there were thirty or dozens of people wearing official clothes, mostly blue clothes, and several officials with purple clothes ranked above the fifth rank. Instead, the head of the Wang family, who was kneeling in front, was wearing plain clothes, and obviously did not hold an official position in the court.

Although the family is the priority of the family, the clan leader will also hold official positions in the court. In the era when the high-ranking clans were prevalent, it was easy to send the head of the family to a high position with the power of the family. It is rare for the clan leader to be white. If the clan leader of most families does not hold official positions, it is mostly because he retires at home because he is old, and the head of the Wang family is obviously special.

"Don't give me a gift!"

"Thank you, Prince!"

After paying homage to the prince, the male member of the Wang family retreated on his own, but only the head of the family Wang Meng stayed and bent down slightly: "Your Highness, please come here in the castle!"

Only then did Yang Yong see Wang Meng's face clearly. Wang Meng's face was white, her skin was smooth, her nose was high, and her slender beard with a long jaw would not make people feel that he had a powdery smell. It looked like he was about forty people. If Yang Yong hadn't known that he was here today to attend Wang Meng's fiftieth birthday, even if someone told him that Wang Meng was only in his forties, Yang Yong would have believed it.

The Wang family inherits seven hundred families. No matter how ugly the ancestors are, their direct descendants may become handsome and beautiful after hundreds of years of beauty gene transformation. Yang Yong casually glanced around, and it turns out that the Wang family children present were all handsome.

Since we come to celebrate the master's birthday, we always have to give him some face. Of course, this situation is not suitable for a large group of soldiers to follow the prince. Once they enter the fort, the East Palace guards brought by Yang Yong and the Mansion soldiers brought by Wei Yi were all guided to the side courtyard to call him. Yang Yong brought as many as 600 guards. When they enter the fort, they are still like sand entering the sea. This shows that the Wangjia Fort covers a vast area.

Only Wei Yi, Qu Tutong, Lu Mulin and two girls dressed as scholars followed Yang Yong. Although Wang Meng saw that these two scholars were strange, he wisely did not ask. After passing a long bluestone road, everyone actually came to the inner courtyard of the fort.

If the outer courtyard is like a battlefield, the inner courtyard is a huge garden. On the left side of the garden is a huge lake, with pavilions and towers everywhere on the lake, connected by long water pavilions in the middle, and countless flowers, plants and trees are planted on the right. Although it is the end of September, many trees are left with only lonely branches, and there are still a lot of green in the garden, which complements the clear water in the lake.

Today is Wang Meng’s birthday, and Qingzhou’s famous figures are basically here. Many people also bring their newly grown children to come here. On the water pavilions in the lake, surrounded by young heroes and ladies. The entire fortress is a lively scene.

Along the way, we would meet guests who came to the royal palace to celebrate their birthday. When we saw Wang Meng and Wei Yi accompanying each other, everyone suddenly realized Yang Yong's identity, hurriedly moved the road away and saluted respectfully. Everyone would loudly report their names to Yang Yong, hoping that they could attract the attention of the prince. Yang Yong responded with a smile, and remembered how many people at the beginning. When there were more and more people, he no longer had the heart to remember.

After walking by the lake, the main hall of the Wang family was filled with heads of various families. When they saw the Prince's Palace coming, they naturally had another visit. These people were all heads of high-ranking families. They usually had high positions and power, but they still had to lower their proud high skulls when facing the imperial power.

"Your Highness, the first old man in the lower left is Lu Kuen, the head of the Lu family." After sitting down, Wei Yi immediately introduced the people on the stage for Yang Yong. These families are high and low, and each person's seats are strictly arranged, so it is never allowed to be confused. Yang Yong naturally sat in the center, with the owner and Wei Yi at the bottom of both sides. Then he went down and took two rows of cases on the left and right. Each person took a separate case and sent it until thirty-two meters away. Fortunately, the length of the Wang Family Department was enough, so people were not placed outside the door.

At this banquet for the head of the family, Lu Mulin and Qu Tutong were not qualified to have seats. Lu Mulin was invited to the side, where some small family leaders were entertained, but Qu Tutong was unwilling to leave Yang Yong and had to stand behind Yang Yong. As for the daughters of Yun Meier and Xing'er, they had to act as boys on both sides.

Yang Yong looked at the head of the Lu family that Wei Yi mentioned. Lu Xun was over 60 years old and had a thin face. From the outline, we can see that Lu Xun must have been a rare beauty when he was young, but now the skin on his face has wrinkled, no longer as smooth as he was when he was young, and he showed a bit of kindness.

Yang Yong has also heard some of Lu Hu's deeds in the past few days. If it is true, then this old man is not only unkind, but also very sinister. It is said that Lu Xun and Lu Hun, who are of his cousin, are almost the same age as Lu Xun. They grew up together. Later, Lu Xun fell in love with a businesswoman and wanted to marry that woman as his wife.

The patriarch of the Lu family was furious when he found out. The Lu family, as a high-ranking family in Qingzhou, ignored even ordinary second-rate families. How could they allow their children to marry a businesswoman? The patriarch immediately confines Lu Mie and orders Lu Mie to deal with the matter. Lu Xun thought there was a turning point and begged Lu Mie not to make things difficult for the merchant because of their relationship. Lu Mie agreed on the surface, but instructed him to pretend to be a robber to enter the merchant's goods.

He robbed the businessman and broke the debt, then pretended to be a creditor to collect debts, forcibly robbed the woman whom the cousin Lu Xun fell in love with. After seeing the woman's appearance, Lu Hun first raped the woman and then sold the woman to a brothel. When Lu Xun lifted the ban at home, the businessman's family had already been destroyed. The woman whom Lu Xun loved had been taken to the brothel for half a year. In the end, Lu Xun just gave up and was forced to marry a daughter from a noble family.

Lu Xun is the father of Lu Kai, the current minister of the Ministry of Personnel. This news has been decades passed, and no one knows whether it is true or false. Wei Yi heard this rumor completely accidental. Of course, even if the matter is false, Lu Xun's son became the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Lu Hu still sat firmly on the head of the Lu family, and knew that Lu Hun was not a simple person.

Someone reported that the assassin appeared in the Lu Mansion. Is it true or false? This Lu Hun is undoubtedly one of the most unwilling families to move to the capital. He relied on the reputation and power of the Lu family in Qingzhou. Even the governor of Qingzhou Wei Yi sometimes depends on his face. Once he arrived in the capital, the Lu family was nothing. Moreover, his cousin Lu Kai was the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and his cousins ​​were not as good as father and son. Once Lu Kai wanted his father to be the patriarch, Lu Kai was out of reach when the Lu family was in Qingzhou before, and Lu Kai had the final say in the capital. He was also likely to lose his position as the patriarch.

Thinking of this, Yang Yong couldn't help but look at Lu Kuo a few more times. Seeing the prince looking at him, Lu Kuo was not panicked at all, and a smile appeared on his face and nodded to Yang Yong.

Yang Yong immediately gave up the idea of ​​seeing something from the old fox's face and turned his face to other directions. This main hall is where the Wang family often entertained guests. It was covered with calligraphy and paintings on all sides, and many of them were original works of famous artists. Yang Yong had no research on calligraphy and paintings in his previous life. He learned a little in this life. He knew that taking a random painting of calligraphy and paintings here would be enough for ordinary people to have a year of food and drink. If it was preserved for later generations, it would make a person become a monster in a blink of an eye.

Seeing everyone's place, Wang Meng clapped his hands and dozens of beautiful maids stepped in from outside the hall. The maids were dressed in colorful clothes, holding trays high in their hands, walking in the hall like butterflies. First, Yang Yong's desk table was filled with delicious wine, and then they were divided one by one for each head of the family. After batches of these maids, they seemed to be flowing and calm, and even they were full of beauty when they placed food, which was obviously strictly trained.

After a while, food and wine were piled on the tables in front of each head of the family. Wang Meng stood up with his wine in his arms: "Today is the 50th birthday of Lao Huai, and it is rare to invite His Royal Highness the Prince. I wish you a prosperous Sui Dynasty and a prosperous future forever!"

"I wish the great Sui Dynasty prosperity and unceasing forever!" The other heads of the family also stood up quickly and responded with a loud bang.

Yang Yong smiled and raised the wine bottle and drank the wine in the bottle. The wine was not high, a bit sweet, and easy to eat. It was hundreds of times better than the inferior wine sold in the wine shop.

Wang Meng said a few more words to everyone and ordered the banquet to begin. All kinds of gold, stone, silk, bamboo, gu, earth, leather, and wood were suddenly filled with gazes. A group of singers in colorful clothes rushed from the back hall to the center, dancing gracefully, sometimes like colorful butterflies flying, sometimes like willows swaying. These women had soft figures and made various difficult moves from time to time, which immediately attracted everyone's praise.

When Yang Yong first came, these heads of the family were sitting upright. At this moment, they drank wine several times. With the cover of the singer, many people gradually became unrestrained from whispering and talking loudly. Most of these aristocratic families are large families over a hundred years old. They have inherited the legacy of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and naturally they are not restricted by later generations.

Yang Yong raised his ears and filtered the vocal music, wanting to listen carefully to what these gentry heads gathered together to talk about, but the distance was still a little further away and did not hear what they said clearly. I think they would not say anything important at the banquet, so Yang Yong had to give up.

Some heads of the family walked over to Yang Yong, who was dancing and singing in a cappella, and toasted Yang Yong loudly, and then to Wang Meng, who was the birthday star. Yang Yong responded one by one.

After several rounds of drinking, the music in the venue suddenly became low. Everyone knew that there was another group of singing and dancing. The singing and dancing at the banquet had been changed three times, and each time it was a different singer. The dancers had more than thirty-six dancers. These girls had beautiful appearances and were all in the 28th year of age. Their singing voices were very lively and their dance postures were extremely lively. Only when they were trained since childhood can they achieve such an effect.

When Yang Yong was in the capital, he was all involved in Guanlong nobles. If it was said that only three generations could cultivate aristocrats, then the Shandong gentry was trained by five generations, ten generations or even dozens of generations. It has to be admitted that Guanlong nobles were more like local buns than Shandong gentry, and they were far behind in cultural cultivation.

Everyone stretched their necks and waited for the next singing and dancing. It was amazing that people could have a singing girl of more than ten people of this level, but the singing girl of the Wang family seemed endless. And the singing girl sang and danced differently every time, so naturally people looked forward to the singing and dancing later.

The sounds of gold, stone, moustache, earth, leather, and wood all stopped, only silk and bamboo were lingering alternately, like the whispers of lovers, and like the resentment of a woman, a lingering feeling floated in the hall.

A group of women rushed out. There were fifteen women in this group, each with a pretty face and a smile, and a springy look. They were better than the singers before. Strangely, a woman rushing among them was covered with a gauze, covering her delicate face. Although she had never seen the woman's face, everyone subconsciously believed that the woman in the middle must be more beautiful than the singers who showed up.

"Okay!" Before the women of this group of women started singing and dancing, some people were cheering, and everyone was attracted to their strong curiosity. All the women inside were beauties chosen from thousands. What kind of beauty would be like if those who overwhelmed these women.

Many people looked at Wang Meng with malicious intentions. No wonder he looked at him like about forty people. Could it be that Wang Meng could replenish yin and replenish yang?

The sound of silk and bamboo like resentment and crying was still echoing. The singer's wide sleeves were swung, and fifteen people had already started dancing. The dance posture was not fierce, but it was extremely lively. The fifteen people were like a whole.

The woman in the middle opened her mouth slightly, and the crisp sound of the orioles had spread throughout the hall:

Fragrance,

Flying Stars' hatred,

The Yin Han crossed the distance.

After a pause in the middle, Yang Yong immediately felt that the singing woman's eyes were shooting at him, and there seemed to be a lot of affection in his eyes, but Yang Yong was speechless. Isn't this the Magpie Bridge Fairy of Qin Guan's later generations? How could it appear here?

When the golden wind and jade dew meet,

It is better than countless people in the world.

The woman's singing continued, but Yang Yong seemed to be in a dream, and his hands couldn't help trembling. Could it be that there is another person in this world who comes from later generations like himself?

Such singing and such wonderful lyrics and music, I believe that even these knowledgeable heads of the family heard this for the first time. They couldn't help but quiet down. The scene was silent, and only silk and bamboo echoed in the hall with the singing of the woman in the middle. Wang Meng looked at the crowd around him, feeling quite proud.

Tenderness like water,

Good time is like a dream,

Bear with the way back from the quack bridge.

If the love lasts for a long time,

How come it is day and night?

The singing sounded softly and gradually lowered, and the woman repeated the sentence "If the two loves lasted for a long time, how could they be together day and night?" After several times, the sound gradually became unheard, but everyone seemed to be clearly chanting, and the lingering sound was lingering for a long time.

Although the singing stopped, the dance in the center did not stop. More than a dozen women danced more and more urgently. The ribbons were flying, and everyone could no longer tell the figure. Suddenly, a metal sound of "clang" came, and the dancing woman stopped immediately. The woman stood in the middle, and the singers were either lying down or lying under the mat. The woman raised her head back, and the whole curve was displayed in front of everyone. The original veil on the woman's face slid down at some point, revealing her charming face.

When everyone saw the face of the woman in the middle, they were shocked. Such a beautiful face, with skin reflected in snow, eyes like autumn waves, eyebrows like crescent moons, and mouth like cherry lips. Even if you put the most beautiful word on her, you will only feel that it defiles her beauty.

After the fourteen singers retreated for a long time, everyone came to their senses and cast envious eyes at Wang Meng. If they could change, someone would be willing to spend all their wealth for such a woman. However, everyone knew that the Wang family in Langya would never like any ordinary property. Unless the Wang family took the initiative to give it to each other, I am afraid that no one could exchange this beauty from the Wang family.

A person who had seen this woman cried out in dismay: "Isn't that Miss Wang?"

Everyone suddenly realized that they had heard that the youngest daughter of the Wang family was beautiful, but Wang Meng had secretly told this precious daughter. In addition to the words of the maid serving the Wang family, how beautiful the lady was? Few people have seen this beautiful lady of the Wang family. I didn't expect that Wang Meng would let his daughter show up in public at Wang Meng's birthday party today.

Many people suddenly felt sad. Since it was Miss Wang, Wang Meng threw his daughter out this time, and undoubtedly wanted to choose a good son-in-law of a good match for his daughter. Although the people present had enough status, they were all heads of the family and had a wife for a long time, so don't even think about it. Some people looked at the prince in the main position and felt a little clear in their hearts, secretly calling the Wang family shameless, probably because they wanted to offer their daughters and seek honor.

Yang Yong did not care about the Wang family woman, but asked Wang Meng in a trembling voice: "Wang Qing, where did the lyrics I sang just now come from?"
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