Zhuo Qihua

Standing on the high platform outside the main hall of Zhongcheng Hall, Emperor Yong'an gave Zhang Xian an order, and Zhang Xian immediately took the forehead wipe from Chang Jing's hand, and put it on for him, it was very windy outside.Seeing that Emperor Yong'an loved this Shunxi so much, Yelu Washeng couldn't help but laugh.Emperor Yong'an and the imperial concubines stood at the front, with important officials on both sides, members of the mission on the other side, and low-ranking officials and officials from other places behind.

Lin Yi and Qin Zhongyi were not on the high platform, they went to the bottom of Zhongcheng Hall.After waiting for about a cup of tea, the two rows of guards below the Hall of Zhongcheng raised a slender thing like a firecracker in their hands.The torches appeared and ignited the "firecrackers" in their hands.

"Whoosh!"

A red spark exploded in the air, followed by a second, a third... a total of 10 dazzling red sparks exploded in the air.Outside the palace, the kite team and the firearms battalion, which had been waiting for a long time, received a signal from the direction of Daxing Palace, and the performance began!

It's windy tonight, with a headwind.The members of the kite team stood on the high platform set up in advance. The first member grasped the crossbar of the big kite, accelerated and flew out from the high platform. The target was Daxing Palace, Zhongcheng Palace!

Around the mandala in front of Zhongcheng Hall, torches are brightly lit.Emperor Yong'an looked in the direction of the sky, but the others didn't know what kind of medicine Lin Yi and Qin Zhongyi sold in the gourd.

"Long live! Look!"

Zhang Xian suddenly pointed at the distant sky and shouted.Following his shout, many people exclaimed: "What is that?"

In the air, glittering "big butterflies" flew towards Daxing Palace.The big butterfly flew close quickly, and people realized that it was not a butterfly, it looked like a huge kite!

"It's the kite team!" An official recognized the glittering ones in the sky.

In the air, the big kites decorated with flames caused a commotion and chase in the sky above the capital.Flying over people's heads, flying over the walls of the imperial palace, flying over the gate of Daxing Palace, and flying into the range of Zhongcheng Palace.

"That's the big kite?"

"How can a big kite shine?"

The big kite was getting closer and closer, and before it was about to fly to the high platform, it made a turn in the air, circled half a circle above the mandala, and then gradually landed.One kite lands, two kites land.Everyone saw with their own eyes that the big kite flew in from outside the palace.Some veterans are crying at this moment, is this the big killer that the army of the Mata country can successfully invade the city of Tarkin!It turns out that the big kite is like this!

This was also the first time that Emperor Yong'an saw with his own eyes how the kite team flew in the air, how they landed, and how they ignored the height of the city wall.The big kites landed one after another, and the top edge of each kite was decorated with round glass balls. Inside the glass balls were burning candles, and that's how the light came from.

The 20 kite team members landed perfectly in the open space of the mandala.The team members put down their kites, stood in a row, and knelt down under the leadership of Qin Zhongyi: "The kite team wishes my emperor a long life, a holy body and a healthy body, and my emperor's long live, long live!"

"Haha, good! Boys of the kite team, flying well! Reward!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Boom!"

Something exploded.Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a dragon-shaped firework exploding in the air.The concubines shouted in surprise, Zhuo Ji gripped Emperor Yong'an's warm hand tightly.

"Boom!"

There was another explosion.Another dragon appeared in the sky.

Lin Yi shouted: "Huoqiying, I wish my emperor a long life than Nanshan, the sun and the moon are bright, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Along with Lin Yi's birthday celebration, another flying dragon exploded in the air.

Emperor Yong'an's laughter echoed over Zhongcheng Hall: "Good! Reward!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Boom!Boom...! !

Eighteen cannons of the Huoqi Battalion blasted eighteen flying dragons in different poses in the air.This scene deeply shocked the officials of Mata country, and also deeply shocked the members of the missions of Beiman, Nanyue and Nanzhao.

Which city can resist the kite team of Mata country?And Mata country, who can blow up flying dragons in the air, is something from the Firearms Battalion?Are those cannons?The ministers who went to Chatan in the Mata country were moved to tears, especially those ministers who knew the origin of the big kite and participated in the negotiation and production of the big kite, cried and laughed.Many ministers said in their hearts: "This is not called a 'big kite', this is called a 'hang glider'!"

Lin Xieshan, Shi Yu, Wu Shaowang and others restrained their eyes to look at Shunyu.Emperor Yong'an happily raised his arms and hugged his beloved servant, all the gratitude and excitement were in his strong arms.

Zhuo Ji said: "Your Majesty, is the performance over? Then go back and look at the gift from the servant."

"Hehe, okay, go back!"

A group of people roared back to the Zhongcheng Hall.

Lin Yi and Qin Zhongyi stood in the middle, knelt down on one knee, Lin Yi: "Your Majesty, I implore Your Majesty to reward you with the gift I gave to Your Majesty."

Qin Zhongyi: "Your Majesty, I also beg you."

Emperor Yong'an: "You two, let's count as one each."

Lin Yi and Qin Zhongyi were happy: "Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Suzu!"

Shi Yu: "Your Majesty, that minister's share..."

Emperor Yong'an: "Shunxi, you have presented me with a problem. How about this. Take out the gift first, and I will decide how to reward it."

Shi Yu: "Your Majesty is wise—"

Many people cast disgusted eyes on Shi Yu.

Two eunuchs brought a low table.Wu Qi and Wu Ba came in carrying a box and put the box beside the low table.Wu Qi opened the box, and Wang Bao and Yuan Xiu, who came in with the two, stretched out their hands and brought out a heavy-looking thing from the box. Wu Qi and Wu Ba helped and put the thing on the low table.Wu Qi and Wu Ba then carried the box down, and everyone stared at the tall cardboard tube on the box.The paper tube was very thick, with paintings on it, a beautiful rope was tied to the hard paper tube, and a beautiful bow was tied on the top.

Wang Bao and Yuan Xiu looked at their master after saluting.Zhuo Ji nodded slightly to the two of them, Wang Bao stretched out his hand to untie the bow, Yuan Xiu took off the top paper cover, and then the two of them worked together to open the cardboard tube, revealing the contents inside.

"Wow--"

Exclamation sounded.

Wang Bao and Yuan Xiu stepped aside, and the queen mother stood up: "Shunxi, this is... a cake?"

Wang Bao: "Go back to the Empress Dowager, this is the birthday cake that the master personally made for His Majesty's birthday. The decorations on it are all painted by the master himself with cream."

Lin Yi and Qin Zhongyi were excited, they have a share!

It was a four-tiered birthday cake.There are three colors of flowers made of cream on the cake, white, red and yellow.The cake was topped with strawberries and grapes and a birthday card.Anyone present who has seen such a birthday cake, many people are in a hurry, begging His Majesty for a reward!

The smile on Emperor Yong'an's face, as long as he is not blind, can tell what the mood of His Majesty the Emperor is.He got up and walked down, walked to the low table, looked at his birthday cake in surprise and emotion, feeling sweet in his heart.He pressed his sleeve with one hand, picked up the birthday card on the cake with the other, and opened it.With just one glance, Emperor Yong'an closed the greeting card and put it in his sleeve pocket.The queen mother also came down, Wang Bao took out a special box of thin candles and said, "Your Majesty, please allow me to light the candles for you."

Emperor Yong'an: "Do you still want to light candles?"

Zhuo Ji: "Your Majesty, this is a wishing candle."

"Haha, okay, click on it."

Emperor Yong'an took a step back with the queen mother. Wang Bao and Yuan Xiu inserted 33 candles on the cake and lit them with a torch.The candles are lit on the beautiful cake, and the wonder rises and falls.

The eunuchs guarding the candlesticks in the hall blew out a few candles, and the hall was darkened.Zhuo Ji stood up: "Your Majesty! I wish you a happy birthday."

Huang Guixie stood up, followed by the concubines in the harem and the officials of the capital. After that, everyone stood up and followed Huangguixie to shout: "Your Majesty, I wish you a happy birthday."

Emperor Yong'an nodded again and again: "I am very happy, very happy! I like this gift very much! By the way, you come here, imperial concubine, noble concubine, you all come here too."

Empress Dowager walked down.Several people who were named also passed by.Emperor Yong'an: "Everyone who is a concubine or above, come here too."

The dignified masters of Ming, Zhao, Chun, Xiao, Wen, Jing, Zhuang, and other palaces of Danyang Palace gathered around Emperor Yong'an.Emperor Yong'an held the Queen Mother in one hand and Zhuo Ji in the other, looking at the candles on the cake happily.

"Your Majesty, make a wish. Make three wishes, and don't say the last one."

Emperor Yong'an took a deep breath and made a wish.

"I wish that the queen mother's body is safe and peaceful, and the harem is peaceful."

Hold Zhuo Ji's hand tightly.

"I wish that the country of Mata will be safe and peaceful, and the weather will be smooth!"

Emperor Yong'an closed his eyes.

[I hope that in my lifetime, I can see the blueprint of the Mata country that Zhuo Ji has drawn for me! 】

Emperor Yong'an opened his eyes, Zhuo Ji said, "Your Majesty, blow out the candles."

Emperor Yong'an blew out all the candles in one breath.Applause sounded: "Happy birthday, Your Majesty—!"

The hall brightened up.Zhuo Ji took a bamboo knife from Wang Bao's hand: "Your Majesty, this first knife is for you to cut."

Emperor Yong'an took the bamboo knife from Ai Shi's hand, hesitated for a moment, and then dropped the knife.He couldn't bear to cut such a beautiful cake.

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The first piece of cake was naturally the Queen Mother's.Emperor Yong'an and the Empress Dowager got the biggest piece, and Huang Guixie and other concubines who had blown candles with Emperor Yong'an just now got a piece each, and Zhuo Ji's piece was also big.King Qin and King Qi, each with one piece.The envoys of the Beiman, Nanyue, and Nanzhao missions—that is, the heads of the missions—one piece for each person.There is a piece of Yelu Buyan and Yelu Tangkuo who have just entered the palace.Lin Yi and Qin Zhongyi each got a piece.What each person gets is actually two bites, after all, there are more people and less cakes.

The rest, can only rely on their own ability.Emperor Yong'an took this "cake" as the title.Whoever writes the best poem will get a piece, until all the poems run out.Don't worry about the military generals, if the civil servants get one piece, they will give the military generals one piece.Civil servants are better than civil servants, and generals are better than generals.Next, the atmosphere became lively.Everyone is racking their brains to come up with their best literary talents, just to get a piece of (by the way) hand-made cake.

Emperor Yong'an happily ate his birthday cake in the first song, watching his courtiers fight to the death with poems for a piece of cake.King Qin and King Qi were already licking their lips, it was so delicious.Deguixie and Mingxie also finished their portion.Ming Xun wiped his mouth: "Shun Xun, don't you want to eat?"

He didn't move the big piece in front of Zhuo Ji.Zhuo Ji drank the wine and said, "I ate a piece before I came here. Anyway, if I want to eat it in the future, I can make it myself. I think the two princes are hopeless."

Mingyu: "It's delicious. Give me the recipe, and I'll open a shop and make this cake. I'm sure I'll make money."

Zhuo Ji: "I also have this idea, so I'll leave it to Brother Mingxi."

The rest of the cake will soon belong.Shi Yu, Chen Changgeng, Guan Minghui, Lin Xieshan... Anyway, the few who really wanted it and had enough status and status all got their wish.King Wu Shao fought hard to break out of the siege and grabbed a piece, but King Xianyi was defeated regrettably.As Zhuo Ji had guessed, the two princes did not grab it.

Zhuo Ji called Chang Jing, whispered something to him, Chang Jing nodded, and took away the untouched piece of cake from the master.Everyone stared at Chang Jing's actions, but they saw that Chang Jing left Zhongcheng Hall without looking back, and they didn't know who he was going to give his piece of cake by the way.

The song and dance that was interrupted for a long time continued.Zhuo Ji's jug was empty, and it was filled again.Zhuo Ji drank and ate tonight, and when he found out, he was already on top.

"Shun, are you drunk?" De Guixie looked at Zhuo Ji's appearance, worried, "Stop drinking."

Zhuo Ji: "It's rare to be able to drink once, and you will be drunk when you get drunk. Anyway, I won't go to work tomorrow."

"work?"

"Uh, not on duty."

"I think you are really drunk."

Deguixie was going to get Zhuo Ji's jug, but was stopped by Chang Jing: "Young lady, let the master drink. The master hasn't touched wine for a long time."

De Guixie felt a "boom" in his heart, he withdrew his hand, looked at the emperor above him calmly, and said, "Then drink, I don't know when the next time will be."

Chang Jing filled the master's wine glass, Zhuo Ji picked it up and drank half of it: "Today's sweet-scented osmanthus is really delicious."

Zhuo Ji watched the dance with blurred eyes, and said, "The lead dancer is pretty, like Fang Bingbing."

De Guixie was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Shunxi, I'll peel grapes for you to eat."

"Oh, good." Zhuo Ji turned to Deguixie, and Deguixie, Chang Jing, and Xiaohui all heaved a sigh of relief.

Zhuo Ji was really drunk, propping his head on one hand, he felt the table was turning.At this moment, Emperor Yong'an put down his chopsticks, Zhang Xian waved his hand, and the dancing girls immediately stopped, retreated hastily, and the music stopped.Emperor Yong'an: "I am a little tired. All the ministers and envoys continue. I will go back to the palace first."

Everyone got up: "Respectfully send off Your Majesty—" except Zhuo Ji who was dizzy badly.

At this time, the concubines in the harem should also leave.Empress Dowager got up and supported the Empress Dowager, and followed His Majesty down the steps.

The people in the hall looked at the man who was sitting with his head propped on one hand.In fact, those who have been paying attention to that person know that he only drank two jugs of wine, not much.Emperor Yong'an walked to Zhuo Ji's table and bent over: "Shunxi, are you drunk?"

"Um……"

Zhuo Ji raised his head, his drunken eyes were hazy.

Emperor Yong'an looked at Chang Jing: "Put a cloak on Shunxi and wipe his forehead."

Chang Jing immediately put the cloak on the master, fastened the belt, put it on and wiped his forehead, and pulled the hood up again.Chang Jing and Xiaohui stretched out their hands to support their master vigorously, and Mingyu helped Zhuo Ji out.

The queen mother was surprised: "Did Shunxi eat 'wine' today?"

Emperor Yong'an: "I'm happy today, let him have a few drinks, I didn't expect him to eat too much."

Zhuo Ji came out, with his head down, his eyes half-closed, like a confused cat.Emperor Yong'an stretched out his arms to hug him, pressed his head into his arms, then turned around and led the people towards another door.

"Congratulations to the empress dowager, respect to the emperor's concubine, respect to the empress—"

While many people were stunned, Emperor Yong'an walked away with his drunken paternity in his arms so lovingly.Yelu Buyan and Yelu Tangkuo looked back at Yelu Washeng, and left with the team of concubines.Outside the Zhongcheng Hall, the Empress Dowager, Huang Guixie and others got into their carriages one after another.Yelu Buyan and Yelu Tangkuo, who were walking behind, saw with their own eyes that Shun Yu, who was making a splash tonight, was helped by the emperor of the Mata country into the only bright yellow carriage, and then the emperor of the Mata country Also got into the carriage.As for the two of them, they could only board a very ordinary carriage with other low-level concubines in a group of six.

In Xiangren, Emperor Yong'an, who didn't care about the mood of the new elegant (noble person), picked up a jug of wine that Feng Xi had prepared in advance, poured some into his mouth, and pointed it at the mouth of the dazed man in his arms, Feed it in slowly.

Zhuo Ji, who was forced to drink alcohol, protested dazedly: "Your Majesty..."

"I'm happy today, let's have a few drinks with me."

"I am dizzy……"

"If I hold you, you won't faint."

What a fallacy.But at this time Zhuo Ji was too dizzy to question.