The Legend of Heluo Xianxia

Chapter 337 The Night Banquet
Royal Palace.

There is a Yuehua Palace, which used to be the residence of a concubine of Dahua. Later, for some unknown reason, this concubine died in the courtyard of the Yuehua Palace.It happened thousands of years ago, and after that, the Yuehua Palace was abandoned.Sometimes the concubine who was punished was locked up here and treated as a cold palace.The concubine who has not been punished will be deserted here.

Later, there were concubines or maids in the palace who were wronged and couldn't survive, and some ran here and threw themselves into the well, and there was a dark side in the palace, where people were thrown into the well alive, and this place was even more deserted, unless It's someone who wants to die, no one comes here.

There are two places closest to Yuehua Palace, one is on the left, where the maid in charge of starching in the palace lives, and the other is on the right, where a low-ranking eunuch lives.

The courtyard in front of Yuehua Palace was covered with thick snow, it was silvery white, and there was only a dark wellhead left.The mouth of the well suddenly rippled slightly, like the ripples of a lake, the ripples slowly overflowed the mouth of the well, spreading towards the surroundings at a slow speed.

In fact, these so-called ripples are not visible to the naked eye at all.

Early in the morning, the sky was just slightly bright.

The lowest maids and eunuchs in the entire imperial palace have already woken up, especially in the new year, there are too many jobs in the palace for these lower maids and eunuchs to do.

The two young eunuchs, shrinking their necks and yawning in the cold winter wind, walked along the wall, and they reached the gate of Yuehua Palace.The two little eunuchs who were cursing the ghostly weather in a low voice suddenly fell silent, and their eyes became hollow. They stopped, turned to the gate of Yuehua Palace, climbed up the steps like puppets, stretched out their hands and pushed Opened the mottled door and walked in.He walked straight to the well and jumped in with a plop.

The black air in the well surged, drowning the two eunuchs.The souls of the two eunuchs floated out of their bodies, their faces were full of horror, and they screamed silently. There seemed to be a big mouth at the bottom of the well. Before the souls of the two eunuchs realized that they were dead, they were killed. Sucked in.

"Swish..."

Dense black beetles crawled out from the bottom of the well. Each beetle was as big as a fingernail. I don’t know how these beetles survived in the cold winter. Come out and disappear at the bottom of the well.But the two eunuchs only had two skins left, and their flesh, muscles, bones and internal organs were eaten away.

Those two pieces of skin floated out slowly from the mouth of the well, and floated to the door of Yuehua Palace, opened the door, floated into the room, and disappeared.

New Year's Eve.

The royal family of Dahua, as well as the civil and military officials in the court, came to the palace in an endless stream.Every year at this time, Emperor Dahua would hold a banquet, where the royal family and all the ministers would gather together, even the emperor Qin Yu who could not go to court several times in a year would also appear.

in the cold wind.

The palace is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and there are guards wearing armor and holding weapons standing on both sides, majestic and majestic.

Civil and military officials met in front of the door, greeted each other, said auspicious words, and then walked together in twos and threes.

Dai Donglin and Mao Chao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, walked side by side, and behind them were officials of different ranks.

A grand and huge palace gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes. This is the Star Observation Building, and every big banquet, the imperial furniture is held here.

When Dai Donglin came to the Star Observation Tower, he couldn't help but frowned slightly. He had no objection to the Star Observation Tower, but he had a problem with Qin Yu not going to court all day and staying in the Observation Tower for retreat.

Mao Chao, who was following Dai Donglin, frowned even tighter than Dai Donglin, and he was very dissatisfied with Qin Yu in his heart.You are an emperor in the secular world, the most important thing is to deal with the government affairs, and it is the business of the Taoist palace to cultivate Taoism.It's not that the emperor is not allowed to practice Taoism, but you must distinguish between priorities, right?
A person came from the other side, but it was Zheng Tao, the chief eunuch. Although he was an eunuch, he walked like a dragon and a tiger while walking, without the slightest obsequiousness of an eunuch, and his eyes were radiant.

Dai Donglin glanced at Zheng Tao, and frowned even tighter. It was the biggest eunuch in the palace, the emperor's most trusted confidant, who searched the world all day long, searching for everything that could assist the emperor's cultivation. Indulging in cultivation, Mao Chao on the side even cursed directly:
"Eggless traitor!"

Zheng Tao glanced at Dai Donglin and Mao Chao indifferently, and said two words lightly: "Idiot!"

This made Mao Chao annoyed, and he slapped Zheng Tao with a slap: "Hit you, a villain!"

Zheng Tao smiled bluntly, stretched out an index finger and stabbed at Mao Chao's palm like a sharp cone.

"boom!"

Both Zheng Tao and Mao Chao shook their shoulders, and each took a step back.

Mao Chao was furious, and just about to continue to move forward, he heard Dai Donglin yell, "Stop, what a shame."

Zheng Tao, who had raised his finger again, smiled lightly and lowered his hand.Mao Chao also flicked his sleeves resentfully.Dai Donglin was Mao Chao's boss, so naturally he had to listen.And Zheng Tao was also jealous of Dai Donglin, the chief assistant, and soon had a direct conflict with Dai Donglin.

Seeing the two people stop, Dai Donglin's expression didn't soften in the slightest, and he walked towards the Star Observation Tower.

Entering the Star Observation Building, I went straight to my seat and took a seat. The number of people in the Star Observation Building gradually increased, and the royal family and officials also arrived one after another, taking their seats.

A shout came: "Your Majesty is here!"

Qin Yu walked in with big strides. Although he was over a hundred years old, he looked like a middle-aged man, with a smile on his face, but a grand manner.

"See Your Majesty!" The royal family and officials saluted.

"Free gift!"

Qin Yu strode to his seat and sat down, pressing down with both hands: "Take a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Everyone took their seats one after another, and the maids were still serving wine and food, and Qin Yu was very straightforward:
"I have cultivated to the critical point in these years, so I rarely go to court. The affairs of Dahua state have made all the nobles work hard."

"Don't dare!"

"This is the duty of a minister!"

"........."

Dai Donglin watched and listened, and sighed in his heart, the emperor is still strong, this is simply not something he can persuade.All of a sudden, I was a little depressed, and I didn't bother to say some words of persuasion that I had carefully prepared.

Prince Qin Yang sighed softly when he saw his father's relatively young appearance.A thought came into my heart, if only I wasn't the prince, why bother to suffer this?

However, he then discarded this idea, because he knew that he was the prince now, and his only way forward was to move forward, not to retreat.If he is now deprived of the crown prince by his father, he might lose his life.

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(End of this chapter)