Fu Canglu

Chapter 555 Family Dinner
His Royal Highness is getting married.

This is the news that the Nineteen Daoists of Qi Liang had known about half a year ago, and the real wedding ceremony was officially held in Lanling City about a month after the end of the new year.

After the official wedding date was announced, the nineteen realms, all the lords, carefully prepared generous gifts. This news exploded at both ends of the rivers and lakes and temples, and soon caused disturbances all over the world, and even some guests came from far away from the north .

Even Nanhai offered gifts in advance to His Highness the Second Highness and reserved a table.

The end of the year is not much different from usual.

His Majesty gathered his favorite group of people and had a reunion dinner that came true.

His Highness specially put aside the matter of the North Gusu Road and rushed here. Mr. Qi Shu and Yi Shaoran were not absent. The Second Highness and Tang Xiaoman were busy welcoming the gift-giving guests. Wait.

His Royal Highness attended the New Year's Eve dinner together with the princess.

This already says a few things.

For Xiao Wang's table, those who are eligible to sit in the seats are all members of Lanling City's family.

This at least shows Xiao Wang's affirmation of Wei Lingshan.

At the banquet, Xiao Wang specially vacated a seat.

That is the location of Yuan Tiangang.

Master Guo Shi is still out at sea, so he can only be absent from the night banquet in Lanling City.

His Majesty left the most important seat beside him.

Xiao Wang had longed for a day like this a long time ago.

At the end of the new year, the whole family can be reunited, temporarily put down the burden on the shoulders, and step down from the throne.

In the Spring and Autumn Period of the Central Plains, among millions of ordinary people, there were only two emperors, Xiao and Cao.

Sitting too high is bound to make you feel lonely and uninteresting, and the older you get the more so.

The servants in the castle in the air found that His Majesty is always in a daze in the pavilion, reviewing memorials, and often making mistakes.

People are old and weak, and there are always times when they are tired.

When the lion is old, Yewang will no longer be as eager as he was when he was young. His claws and teeth are still sharp and his hair is still trembling, but he can no longer gallop on the grassland like he was when he was young, exchanging blood for blood.

Xiao Wang is now as usual, dealing with Qi Liang's important affairs diligently every day, but with the exhaustion of Qi and blood, it is difficult for him to swallow thousands of miles like a tiger like a tiger when he was young.

So this year, everyone watched His Majesty walk up to the highest point of the hall slowly, with white temples, and sat firmly with the support of two young His Highnesses.

They knew that His Majesty was old.

Such a scene, the contrast is particularly strong.

black and white.

Young and old.

Time is something that human beings cannot resist. Whether it is grassroots people, emperors, or even powerful practitioners, as time goes by, they will grow old, exhausted, and finally fall down.

How many times will there be before Qi Liang's pillars fall?
How many chances do the three young Highnesses have to drink with this old man?
Nobody knows the answer.

Yi Xiao didn't know the answer either.

Your Highness knows that in this world, the most valuable thing is time. When most people are young, they act absurdly, get drunk, and never realize that time has passed.

And the most valuable thing is precisely time. When the sideburns are not full of hair, and the wrinkles on the forehead cannot be smoothed out, there is not much time left for oneself in this world.

Years are like knives cutting down the arrogance of heaven. An old man like Xiao Wang, when he was young, rode on an iron horse, crossed the north and south of the river, and established nineteen peace!How majestic is it?

What kind of unfathomable sorrow is sitting in the palace now, born with a whole body of illness?

Yi Xiao has already asked Su Yu, the eldest lady of the Su family, who takes Xiao Wang's pulse every day. Xiao Wang's body and old diseases are all left over from the battles in those years. Reviewing memorials, sleepless nights, sleepless nights
If the body suffers for a long time, it will naturally become sick.

Nothing is perfect in the world.

Xiao Wang summoned all three His Royal Highnesses, as well as his most trusted courtiers these years, and this family banquet hosted all the people he wanted to see.

This family banquet should have been perfect.

But...not so.

After drinking for a while, Xiao Wang's complexion became obviously not good.

He first coughed lightly, covered his lips with a fist in his sleeve, coughed lightly when no one was paying attention, glanced at the red stained finger in his sleeve, pretended to ignore it, and still looked at the noisy atmosphere in the family banquet with a smile.

This scene was perfectly captured by His Highness' eyes.

Yi Xiao sighed slightly, pretending not to see it.

He knew that Xiao Wang was ill, and he also knew how difficult it was to gather so many people for this family banquet, so he didn't say anything.

Immediately after that was the highest part of the main hall, and there was a continuous, uncontrollable heavy coughing sound. The old man coughed until his tears came out, but he stubbornly pushed away the maids on both sides who came to help him, looking at the blood-stained sleeves with blurred eyes. , did not feel shocking.

I just feel so sorry.

In any case, this family banquet can only be eaten here.

"Your Majesty is in good health."

The eldest lady of the Su family spoke with some embarrassment. She knew such a statement and could not convince the three highnesses in front of her.

But she said helplessly: "Your Highness, some of you also know medical skills. Judging from the pulse, His Majesty's body really doesn't have many old diseases except for overwork. To, it is too perfunctory."

Yi Xiao saw that Xiao Buyi and Xiao Chongding were looking at him, nodded seriously, and said softly: "Miss Su is not wrong."

Xiao Buyi was silent for a moment, he tried his best to sound kindly: "Miss Su, can you help me?"

Su Yu shook his head.

She sighed, and said euphemistically: "I have little talent and little learning, and there is no cure for it."

"We can only wait for the teacher to come back." His Highness lowered his eyebrows and said: "The teacher is looking for medicine overseas, and the father's body only needs to resist this period of time. When the teacher returns to Lanling City, the medicine should be available." cured."

Outside the castle in the air, there was a slight knock on the door.

Qi Shu tapped on the door three times, then pushed the door open and entered.

Before the people arrive, the voice arrives first.

Qi Shu asked eagerly, "How is Your Majesty's health?"

Then he glanced roughly at the courtyard, and saw the expressions of several His Highnesses in the courtyard, so he knew the general idea.

silence.

It is really not a good thing for His Majesty to be ill during the happy days of the new year.

Could it be that the fortunes of the Qi and Liang kingdoms have really reached the point of "turning from prosperity to decline"?
Qi Shu narrowed his eyes, clutching the yellow paper information in his sleeve, and said in a low voice: "There is an important order from North Gusu Road."

Everyone was shocked.

"The mission from the Western Regions crossed the beacon again and came to Lujia Town."

"Gu Shengcheng, the lord of the Chess Palace, personally led the mission."

"He hopes that Qi Liang can give the Western Regions a chance to negotiate."

(End of this chapter)