Surrounded by strong ministers

When Sima Xian went to Beijing, Xiao Zong arranged a banquet for each other as usual, but because of the sudden ailment of Prince Chu, the imperial banquet was postponed.When the banquet was reset, it would be seven or eight days after Sima Xian entered the capital.

During these seven or eight days, everything in the capital was considered safe.Apart from the fact that a group of courtiers showed an extremely reassuring appearance to the King of Chu in the Golden Palace, which made Xiao Zong a little unhappy, there was only one thing that made him feel troubled.

The day before yesterday, he arranged for the guards outside the East Pavilion to report that King Qin was ill.

After tossing and guarding himself for half a month, King Qin finally tossed himself down.

According to what the guards said, King Qin suddenly fell to the ground unconscious after he was practicing martial arts with his personal guards and knocked down a group of strong generals from the Suanteng camp.He immediately went to the East Pavilion to give doctors and medicines, and the imperial doctor came back after diagnosis and treatment to report that the king of Qin had been drenched in the rain for too long, and he had exhausted his physical strength from practicing martial arts, so he suddenly fell down.As long as the fever is removed, it can be cured after a few days of self-cultivation, and there is no serious problem.

He was really disturbed to hear such news.

Some time ago, when he first heard that man tossing people in the hotel, he couldn't figure out what the Northwest Warriors did. Now that the Warriors abused him like that, he couldn't understand what the song was about. Which one is out.

Xiao Zong held the wine cup and looked down absent-mindedly.At this moment, the candles in the Longyin Palace were brightly lit, and everyone was in full swing of wine. In the center of the hall, the dancing girls fluttered their sleeves, their colorful dresses fluttered, and the moving silk and bamboo were pleasing to the ear.

This banquet set up to welcome the prince of Chu is just a lively time.

Xiao Zong subconsciously glanced at the long empty seat on the side. The seat was originally set up for King Qin, but King Qin didn't attend because of his tossed illness.

Xiao Zong felt a little annoyed.

Sima Xian has been in Beijing for several days, everything is going well, it seems that the man is really keeping his promise.

"Your Majesty, I would like to offer you a toast." A low-pitched voice came from the steps below.

Xiao Zong was slightly taken aback, he recovered from King Qin's disturbance, and looked down.

The dancer girl retreated to the side knowingly, and stood alone in the center of the hall, with a white silk robe lining her slender figure, with a natural charm, a jade face, smiling eyebrows, as beautiful as peaches and plums, she was the second son of the king of Chu Sima Xian.

Xiao Zong looked at this cousin whom he had never met before, and subconsciously sized him up and down.He has never paid much attention to people's appearance. Skin is something that is born with him. Whether it looks good or not is just a layer of skin. When the skin is peeled off, everyone is the same.But at this cousin right now, he couldn't help but take another look.

Sima Xiansheng had a stunning face, with slender eyebrows and phoenix eyes, thin lips, high nose, and pointed chin. Such an appearance that women are inferior to, was born on a man. Unconsciously, there was a bit of femininity, and there was a faint gloomy look between the brows, which added a bit of majesty to that good appearance.

Sima Xian stood at the bottom of the steps, holding a bronze wine cup, and said: "Your Majesty, this cup of my minister's is to respect my father and brother. My father and elder brother have mentioned many times that I want to go to Beijing to meet Your Majesty, and I want to thank Your Majesty." Gratitude to the Sima clan. However, my father is ill, and my elder brother is busy with the affairs of the jurisdiction, so I can't come in person, so my father and brother have asked me to apologize to Your Majesty."

Covering his lips with wide sleeves, he drank a glass of strong wine in one gulp, slightly raised his thin lips towards Xiao Zong, raised his slender phoenix eyes slightly, and unexpectedly revealed a unique charm.

Xiao Zong looked at his cousin and said with a faint smile, "The King of Chu has a heart."

In fact, Sima Xian is really not a cousin of the emperor.

There are two sons in the Prince Chu's residence, the eldest son, Sima Jin, the eldest son of Prince Chu, is the descendant of Xiao Zong's aunt, Princess Chu.Concubine Chu went through a lot of troubles during childbirth, and Sima Jin was born with difficult labor, which took two full days.Therefore, the child was born weak and the mother was injured. Sima Jin was not yet one year old, and Princess Chu died.Later, the King of Chu continued his marriage and took in a side room. The side room was born in Fengyue, a beauty in the world, and gave birth to a son, who was the second son of the King of Chu.

Sima Xian toasted the wine, but did not enter the table. He turned around and took the jug from the hand of the maid serving the wine, filled the empty glass, and turned back to the imperial steps, "Your Majesty, I will toast you again."

His demeanor was casual, without any formality, but it was not contemptuous.

"This cup, this humble minister is pleading guilty for himself." Sima Xiandao, "This humble minister should have kowtowed upon the holy car as soon as he entered the imperial city, to show the way of a minister. During this period, I even taught Your Majesty to take care of my body, and I am really terrified." He cast a meaningful glance at Xiao Zong, smiled and drank his drink.

Xiao Zong raised his sleeves, drank the wine in the glass, and looked down the steps. The prince of Chu bowed to him, smiled and sat back on his seat.

A few days ago, Jing Zhaoyin interrogated all the servants in the Zhuxiang Courtyard, and picked out two of Sima Xian's entourage and brought them to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for interrogation.This matter was carried out in secret, outsiders had no way of knowing, but this rightful lord could not hide it, and Xiao Zong did not intend to hide it from him.Where did those two tricks come from, Wang Ling has tried his best to torture those two mouths, and Xiao Zong has no hope for it, but the stricter the mouth, the more strange it is.

Sima Xian's situation should be clear to him, that's what the last sentence of what he said just now meant.

Xiao Zong looked at the second son of King Chu, who was chatting and laughing happily with all the ministers at the seat, and there was always a faint smile on that stunning face.

Since those two small works were caught out, Sima Xian has always been as calm and composed as he is now, without any panic, calm and calm, and calmly dealt with the situation of life and death.

Xiao Zong casually took a sip of his wine, but he didn't need to be surprised, how could the son of King Chu be an ordinary person.

The banquet lasted until midnight, Sima Xian was probably used to the scene, he drank with all the officials round after round, after drinking heavily, even though he was not drunk at the end of the banquet, he was already staggering.Han Su helped him to leave the table, Sima Xian leaned on the waiter's shoulder, squinted a pair of phoenix eyes, half drunk and half awake, and bid farewell to Xiao Zong with a light smile.

After the banquet was over, Xiao Zong came out from the Dragon Song Palace. It was raining at night outside, and the night wind was gusty, bringing the chill of autumn night to his face, blowing Xiao Zong's already swollen head comfortably.

Several of Xiao Zong's nephews were present at the banquet tonight.The last time there was a banquet for the King of Qin, because Xiao Heng showed up halfway and insisted on attending, he couldn't resist and agreed, afterward the other children found out and murmured to him for a long time.This time the children heard that there was another banquet, and they all urged him to attend, Xiao Zong wanted to let them get used to such occasions earlier, there was nothing wrong with it, so he brought all of them with him.

Xiao Zong hugged his little nephew Xiao Jian from Wang Rong's arms, who was dozing off sleepily. After all, this baby was too young to stay up all night. He raised his sleepy eyes and saw his uncle's face in front of him. Shut up, knocked his head on Xiao Zong's shoulder, and fell asleep soundly.

Xiao Zong patted his nephew on the back lightly, made a silent gesture to the other nephews who were still sleepy, and led a group of children to Zhaoyang Palace. The little nephew was carried back to the room, and when he came out, he saw the other three nephews still in good spirits, still lingering in the hall.

Xiao Zong didn't have time to speak, why didn't he go to sleep?He saw Prince Kang's son Xiao Jun winking at him.

Xiao Zong frowned, "What are you guys doing?"

Xiao Jun frowned for a long time, and said with a smile: "Uncle, when will you become a concubine, can you find us an imperial aunt?"

Xiao Zong frowned, he had a hard time recently, a group of little kids came to make trouble, subconsciously looked at Xiao Heng who was silent, he felt that this kind of question should be asked by Xiao Zong.

Xiao Heng turned his face away lightly, "It has nothing to do with me."

Xiao Jun continued, "That prince of Chu is quite handsome."

Xiao Zong looked at the emperor's nephew, and his brows furrowed a little deeper. He suddenly felt that he should find someone to mention the matter of men and women. My little ones, they may be young, but it's better than this kind of indiscrimination between men and women. Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Xiao Jun say again, "Just now when we were at the banquet, you flirted with Prince Chu..."

Xiao Zong rubbed his forehead, thinking, he really should find someone to teach these kids.

At this time, Xiao Li, the son of Prince Gong on the other side, couldn't hold back anymore, "Xiao Jun, can you be more cheerful, don't jump out of your sentence." Turning to Xiao Zong, "Uncle, in fact, we want to say, the king of Chu There is a unique aura about you, Young Master."

"What breath?" Xiao Zong rubbed his forehead, not bothering to say anything.

"Evil spirit." Xiao Li said, he probably felt that Xiao Heng's stern face was very enjoyable in front of his uncle, so he imitated Xiao Heng's old-fashioned manner and said, "Commonly known as fox spirit. Uncle, you must not be fooled. It is said that fox spirits specialize in absorbing human energy." Xiao Li said with a solemn face, old-fashioned.

Xiao Zong slapped him on the head, "Go back to the room and sleep."