"Hmm? Go and tell the imperial kitchen to prepare the barbecue ingredients quickly!"

Li Shimin finished the last skewer of pork and drank a beer. Thinking that all the prepared barbecue ingredients were eaten up, he said to the eunuch.

"Your Majesty, there are enough ingredients tonight. The Marquis said: Barbecue should be eaten and grilled while chatting, so it is interesting. You can't prepare them all at once." The eunuch replied in a low voice.

"Hahaha, great, that's great!" Li Shimin laughed when he heard it.

"I'm going to start pretending!"

"Everyone, at this free time, why don't you drink and recite poems to liven up the fun tonight?"

Li Shimin raised his glass and proposed, and everyone was not surprised, as it was the same in the past.

"Your Majesty, I wonder what the topic is tonight?" Wei Zheng asked.

"Xuancheng thinks that what topic should be used for poetry tonight to be suitable for the occasion?" Li Shimin asked thoughtfully.

"This farmer must have come prepared tonight!"

Wei Zheng looked up at the moon, picked up the wine glass and said, "Your Majesty, the moonlight is bright tonight, why not use the moonlight and wine as the theme, what do you think?"

Li Shimin tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, looked at everyone expressionlessly, and asked, "What do you think?"

"Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng, you finally behaved like a man again"

"Your Majesty, we agree!" The ministers answered in unison that on the 15th of August, the Mid-Autumn Festival, poems would definitely be written on the theme of the moon.

"Well, in that case, which minister will go first?" Li Shimin nodded and asked lightly.

"It's my fault that I'm showing off. You came up with the topic. It's fair, isn't it!"

Li Shimin felt like he had won the lottery, and silently recited the poem twice in his heart to avoid any accidents.

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and other civil officials all held their prepared poems in their hands. They could all guess the topic of the poem tonight.

Just as Changsun Wuji was thinking about getting up to write a poem, Wei Zheng suddenly said, "Your Majesty, why don't you invite me first tonight so that I can open my eyes."

Li Shimin smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Well, it's rare that I am happy tonight, so I will agree to your request this time."

"However, I have not prepared it before, so don't worry, wait for me to brew it."

Wei Zheng immediately said, "I am not in a hurry, waiting for your Majesty's masterpiece."

Li Shimin nodded slightly, frowned and thought, suddenly picked up the wine glass and stood up, and the ministers wanted to get up, but Li Shimin raised his hand to stop them.

Li Shimin looked up at the moon and remained silent.

After a while, Li Shimin slowly chanted:

"When will the bright moon appear?"

Everyone was shocked. Although there were only five words, the artistic conception was too high.

Before everyone recovered from the shock, Li Shimin raised his wine glass to the moon.

"I ask the sky with wine..."

The first two sentences, just ten words, both the moon and the wine, and its artistic conception is even more unfathomable. The ministers could not sit still and all stood up.

"I don't know what year it is in the palace in heaven...

...

How is it like being in the human world."

The people at other tables also heard the two lines of poetry recited by Li Shimin and stood up.

"Turning the red pavilion, lowering the beautiful window, shining on the sleepless. There should be no hatred, why is it always full when we are parting."

Everyone looked at Li Shimin as if they were looking at a god.

At this moment, Li Shimin was the "poet immortal" in their hearts.

Of course, except Su Chen, this guy only cared about eating and drinking.

"People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, and the moon has waxing and waning."

"Good words! This is a quatrain for all ages!" Fang Xuanling couldn't help cheering.

Li Shimin raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet and listen to him finish pretending.

Li Shimin continued to read:

"It is difficult to achieve this in ancient times, but I wish you a long life!"

"We share the beauty of the moon even though we are thousands of miles apart!"

After reading, Li Shimin drank the wine in his cup.

"Everyone, it's your turn!" Li Shimin said lightly.

"Your Majesty's talent is beyond our reach.

Therefore, I dare not show my ugliness in front of Your Majesty, fearing that it would be a disgrace to His Majesty!" Wei Tietou gave in and said respectfully.

Li Shimin's mouth corners slightly raised, and then he looked at other ministers.

"Your Majesty, from now on, I'm afraid no one will dare to write poems on the theme of the moon."

"Your Majesty's poem will be passed down for thousands of years!"

This time, the ministers did not flatter him at all, and they said it sincerely.

Listening to the praises of the ministers, Li Shimin's heart had already "taken off" in his heart, but he still remained calm.

"Haha, I just improvised what I felt, it's not a masterpiece." Li Shimin waved his hand and said.

Su Chen at another table twitched his mouth after hearing Li Shimin's pretentious words.

"My dear old Su, I'm sorry, but I'll keep your ci name for you. You can create another one in the future and surpass yourself. It shouldn't be difficult!"

Su Chen silently apologized in his heart, "Tang poetry and Song lyrics are really amazing""Your Majesty, don't be too modest. This poem will surely be passed down through the ages and admired by all the literati in the world." Although Wei Zheng was stubborn, he was also pragmatic and could afford to lose.

"Your Majesty, does this poem have a ci title?" Changsun Wuji asked respectfully. He wanted to give this masterpiece a name so that he could take advantage of it.

How could Li Shimin give them a chance!

Li Shimin pretended to think and said, "If I was inspired, this ci title would be:

Midsummer Night·Li Shimin was inspired!"

When Li Shimin's ci title came out, the ministers had nothing to say. Your Majesty's name was in it, what else could they say? They immediately stopped.

Seeing that no one dared to write a poem, Li Shimin poured himself a glass and immediately raised the glass, "Everyone, drink this glass."

Everyone raised their glasses, "Cheers to Your Majesty!"

I miscalculated tonight and was pressed to the ground by Your Majesty. It should be said that Your Majesty's poem is really good. No one would suspect that the poem was plagiarized by His Majesty, just because Li Shimin did too much foreplay.

Li Shimin looked at the empty table, without a single piece of barbecue. Then he turned to look at the eunuchs beside him.

He found that they were eating barbecue in their hands. He was confused at first, but then he understood. It must be the boy's order.

The eunuchs and palace maids found that the emperor was looking at them, and they were scared to hide the barbecue behind them. It was disrespectful to eat the same food as His Majesty in front of the emperor.

"It's okay, you are very tired all night, no need to hide, eat!" Li Shimin chuckled.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The palace maids, eunuchs, and the barbecue master in the field thanked respectfully.

"Haha, it's rare that Su Xiaozi can be so considerate to the servants!" Li Yuan had long discovered that the palace maids and eunuchs were eating barbecue, and he also knew that it was Su Chen's intention.

When Wang Defa wanted to ask Li Shimin for instructions before, it was Li Yuan who nodded in acquiescence.

"Father, you don't know! In that boy's eyes, I am not an emperor at all, I am the same as ordinary people!" Li Shimin complained.

"Humph, that's because you are not liked by others." Li Yuan rolled his eyes at Li Shimin and said unhappily.

"But... if Su kid treats you with respect, will you still love him so much?"

Li Yuan raised his wine glass and motioned Li Shimin to clink glasses with him. This action of clinking glasses was what Li Yuan just learned from Su Chen and others.

"Hehe, father is right!"

Li Shimin held the cup with both hands and clinked glasses with Li Yuan, and the two drank it all in one gulp.

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