Chapter 183 There was endless singing and dancing at the state banquet, and people were talking and laughing.
Several princes sat at a distance apart on either side.
Then came the left and right prime ministers and the important ministers in the court.
Courtiers were seated according to official rank.
Looking further into the distance, I saw several hollow screens inlaid with gold, silver and gems separated by them.
On the other side of the screens were the female family members.
The complicated congratulatory ceremony was over, and the guests drank fine wine and enjoyed the dancer's singing and dancing.
The soft and soft voice of the southern woman is singing softly, and the beauty is dancing gracefully.
After three rounds of drinking, the songs and dances changed one after another.
The dancers in neon clothes quietly retreated and were replaced by a group of men holding swords who came together to perform sword dances.
The sword light was like a rainbow, and suddenly a man in armor walked out of it, reciting a frontier poem in a deep voice.
Ji Lan drank lightly and frowned as he listened to the reciter's poems.
The long poem tells the story of the heroic expansion of the Daji Dynasty in the early days of the founding of the country, the grand occasion of people from all over the world worshiping and bowing their heads, and the outstanding achievements and excitement of the emperors of the Daji Dynasty.
The sound of the drums gradually became faster and louder, but the chanter's voice became deeper and deeper, singing about the incompleteness of the moon and the withering of the leaves.
It was even more so that the history of the fratricide of the previous dynasties and the destruction of the country was borrowed from ancient times to describe the present.
The sound was extremely sad, and the sound of the drums was heavy.
"Bold!"
Dou Hongyan yelled in a sharp voice, and the people from Dongchang filed in, all looking cold and stern.
There was a pause in the drumming, and the men who were praising the sword dancers stopped moving, and they all fell to the ground and knelt down.
The reciter of the long poem had tears in his determined eyes.
He stood there and did not kneel down like other swordsmen.
Dou Hongyan pointed at him and ordered: "Come here, take him down."
The people from Dongchang quickly ran down the high platform along the snow-white stone steps.
"The Shou Emperor mutilated his elder brother and framed his brothers and sisters, and he had no moral integrity to maintain his position," the reciters shouted.
Dou Hongyan jumped up and captured him personally However, before he arrived, the chanter shouted again: "I am so sorry that the Daji Dynasty has to repeat the same mistakes as the previous dynasty.
Our ancestors are not in peace."
After saying this, he hit his head on the stone lion pillar and died, with blood splattering on the spot.
Ji Lan wiped the wine stains on the corner of her lips with a handkerchief, waved her hand casually, and said: "Don't listen to such traitorous talk, just clean it up and continue drinking."
Ji Lan raised her glass and shook the wine bottle in her hand.
There was a sound of clothes being rubbed together during the dinner, and all the civil and military officials raised their bottles in response.
After finishing the glass of wine, the ministers sat down again, but the right minister came out from behind the table, bowed his hands towards Ji Lan, and said: "Your Majesty, today's state banquet is also a day for family reunions in the new year.
Your Highness is thinking of you.
As a brotherhood to His Majesty, I traveled thousands of miles back to express my New Year greetings to His Majesty.
However, His Majesty has not received your permission, so I don’t know if Your Majesty can forgive him for his illicit crime."
King Guangxian laughed twice and said: "On the way to the border, His Highness met a bold bandit.
He thought that His Highness had suffered misfortune long ago.
It is really gratifying to return home on the day of reunion.
I am happy for Your Majesty." ah" When Ji Lan came to the throne, she secretly sent someone to assassinate Ji Yan.
Naturally, the assassination could not be done blatantly, so she made up an excuse for Ji Yan's unfortunate death when he encountered bandits on his way to the border.
Ji Lan's eyes narrowed slightly, he gently turned the wine bottle in his hand, and spoke slowly without changing his expression: "It's a happy event for my second brother to come back.
It's even more precious for my second brother to come back from all the way to be reunited with me.
How could I do that?"
Blame the second brother."
He leaned forward with his upper body, placed the wine bottle in his hand on the banquet table, and said, "Where is my second brother?
Why haven't you come to meet me?"
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A sound of footsteps came from one side, and Ji Yan walked out of the corner alone.
He walked right in front of Ji Lan, looked at Ji Lan from a distance, and knelt down without bowing.
Ji Lan looked at him with a smile, waiting for him to salute.
After a long stalemate, Ji Lan chuckled and said leisurely: "It seems that the second brother came here today not to celebrate the New Year."
Ji Yan said coldly: "The third brother has never stopped chasing the second brother this year.
Even if the second brother talks about New Year greetings, he is really unwilling to do so.
Why do you and I have to say such lies?
" "Second brother is joking."
Ji Lan responded calmly, "Ever since my second brother encountered bandits on his way to the border, I have been thinking about him.
I pray for him all the time, so how can I pursue him?"
Ji Yan sneered and said, "Bring someone here."
Ji Lan narrowed her eyes slightly.
After a burst of messy footsteps, two guards escorted a man whose hands and feet were cut off and threw him to the ground.
There was a sigh of relief in the banquet, and the female relatives who looked over through the hollow screen even exclaimed, their beautiful faces turned pale.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty ordered that His Highness be hunted down and killed without mercy."
The man stammered, his eyes empty.
"Second brother, is this a result of a beating, or is it just a random person to talk nonsense about?"
Ji Lan smiled elegantly, swaying the wine bottle in his hand, "Second brother, why did he get drunk before he even sat down to drink?"
"Bring people up again," Ji Yan said again.
The people brought up this time were a man and a woman.
The man was not unfamiliar, and many officials in the court had seen him.
His name is Xiao Qianzi.
He once worked as an errand beside Ji Yan and was a popular person around Ji Yan.
The other woman, named Qianqian, was Sun Yinlan's maid.
"Third brother is really good at winning people's hearts.
You have been able to take over the small money man who has been with me for so many years.
You ordered them to poison my and Sun Yinlan's tea, and you also led people to catch the traitor and give me peace.
Sun Yinlan, who was notorious for seizing his sister-in-law, is your fiancée, but you actually want to use your own woman."
There was another uproar at the table.
Ji Lan's expression remained calm and she responded calmly: "It is true that someone framed the second brother for last year's Lantern Festival banquet, but it was the fourth brother who did it.
Father has already cleared your grievances and settled the case for the fourth brother.
Second brother Could it be that today’s remarks are based on the belief that my father is not fair enough?”
"Ha" Ji Yan laughed, "Third brother, he really didn't change his expression even after the mountain collapsed.
Today, he is still talking nonsense and does not know how to repent."
Ji Yan pointed at Ji Lan angrily and asked loudly: "How dare you swear to God that you didn't frame me?
How dare you swear to God that you didn't murder the eldest brother?"
King Guangxian's eyes flickered, he stood up and said, "What does His Highness mean by these words, and how does this matter involve the eldest prince?"
Another minister of the DPRK agreed: "The eldest prince has been deceased for many years because he sought power and usurped the throne.
What does His Highness mean by this?"
Ji Yan looked around and said: "As the eldest son, the eldest brother has been appointed as the crown prince since he was a child.
Sooner or later, he will inherit the throne.
Before what happened that year, my father had no intention of changing the crown prince, so why should he rush to usurp the throne?"
Ji Yan looked sad: "The Emperor's brother is extremely talented.
He is such an outstanding person who combines the spirit of heaven and earth.
He has been praised by many sages for his ancient genius, but he was killed by him."
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The right prime minister's eyes darkened slightly, and his heart was filled with sadness.
He was once the prince's tutor, and he was fortunate enough to teach Ji Chong when he was young.
He knew the child's intelligence better than anyone else.
He had lamented more than once that if Ji Chong was in the hands of Ji Chong, he would prosper in the future and recreate the achievements of his ancestors. of merit.
Ji Lan nodded lightly and said sadly: "The eldest brother is indeed extremely talented, but" Ji Lan changed the topic, "When the eldest brother passed away, I was not in the palace, and I ordered random arrows to kill the eldest brother's people.
It’s the second brother.”
Ji Yan gritted his teeth and said angrily: "That was entirely because you designed to create the illusion that the eldest emperor brother was seeking power and usurping the throne, which made me mistakenly believe it was the truth."
Ji Lan chuckled lightly and said: "According to what my second brother said, I am really quite capable.
I can bribe whoever I want to bribe, and I can harm whoever I want to harm."
Ji Lan sat high up and looked around, finally focusing on Ji Yan.
He still had an elegant smile on his face, but there was already a coldness in his eyes, and his voice became colder: "But what you said today is just one-sided words, and the so-called evidence really doesn't count.
Since you said it, I can buy people's hearts at will. , why can’t you buy these slaves?”
"Do you still remember me?"
A hoarse female voice sounded in the distance.
The sound was too harsh and unpleasant, causing everyone to look over.
Wen Jingshan held the crutch with one hand and Xiao He with the other, walking slowly forward.
Ji Lan slowly stopped smiling and her face became colder.
Wen Jingshan walked to Ji Yan and slowly took off the veil on her face.
She turned around, her eyes gradually swept across all the courtiers, and asked loudly with her harsh and sharp voice: "Five years have passed, but some people still recognize me?"
There was dead silence during the dinner, and suddenly a little girl blurted out: "Princess" After she finished speaking, she realized something was wrong and quickly covered her mouth with both hands.
The expression on Ji Yan's face also showed surprise.
He didn't know that Wen Jingshan would come today.
He didn't even know that Wen Jingshan was still alive.
The moment he saw Wen Jingshan, he was as shocked as everyone else who came to the banquet today.
Ji Yan's mind was racing, and he quickly wondered why Wen Jingshan appeared here.
After thinking about who brought her here, he could only guess Ji Wujing.
But why didn't Ji Wujing tell him in advance?
When Ji Yan turned around, he didn't see Ji Wujing.
Ji Wujing had already gone to Xichang to look for Chen He.
Wen Jingshan slowly turned around and looked up at Ji Lan on the high platform, her eyes as cold as ice.
She said: "His Royal Highness the Prince is friendly to his brothers and sisters.
He often praises his third brother's intelligence in front of me.
But he didn't expect that the good third brother he praised was actually so unpretentious that it killed him."
Wen Jingshan asked in a high-pitched voice, one voice louder than the other, hoarse and furious, as if a evil spirit had returned to the world and demanded life ferociously.
She continued to walk forward, and with every step she took, the crutch in her hand hit the carved blue bricks.
Ji Lan stared at Ji Lan with ferocious and hateful eyes: "You not only killed His Highness the Crown Prince, but also framed him.
He is such an innocent and upright person.
There are more than 300 people in the Crown Prince's residence, and the 200 members of my Wen family, all of them How can a person like you, who was killed by you, be the emperor of Daji and accept the kneeling of his subjects?"
Ji Lan had put away all the smiles on his face.
He put down the wine bottle in his hand and said angrily in a cold voice: "Ji Yan, are you going to rebel and usurp the throne when you enter the palace today?"
"Rebellion and usurpation is a joke," Ji Yan pointed to the sky and said loudly, "The person who rebelled and usurped the throne was clearly you, because you secretly changed the imperial edict."
Ji Lan sneered: "Second brother is talking nonsense again, what kind of witnesses are you going to bring this time?"
"Of course there are witnesses."
It was King Linsi who spoke.
Ji Yan glanced at King Linsi in slight surprise.
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Just as he was about to order the young eunuch who had been working with Emperor Chang to be taken into custody, he saw that the courtiers at the table were all looking towards the female family members' table at the back.
Ji Yan was stunned for a moment and followed everyone's gaze.
Gu Jianli slowly walked out from behind the screen. gd1806102: