The 100-day banquet at Prince Qin's Mansion was very lively and there were many guests. Although it seemed to be a celebration for the concubine at the moment, Zhao Tong did not have a royal concubine and no one knew what would happen in the future, so the gifts given were all very expensive.
Especially for those officials who came from noble families, the gifts were even more precious than when Zhao Zanna married Zhu Xiuniang. Emperor Daojun also specially gave a golden pearl knot. This thing was later developed into a longevity lock, and the Hundred Days Banquet was Needless to say, the reason for such importance is because Zhu Xiuniang gave birth to an heir for King Qin.
For women, giving birth to children is very important in this era. No matter where you come from or what your background is, you can only secure your position if you give birth to a child, even if it is just a girl.
This is why the ancients sometimes favored women who had been married and had given birth, because it proved that the woman could have children and would not end up unclear about the problem in the man and the woman. The ancients believed that there were three types of unfilial piety, and having no offspring was the greatest. Not an empty statement.
In the Song dynasty, people were as virtuous as Renzong, but the thing that could be criticized was that they had no heirs.
Zhezong, who worked hard to revive the Song Dynasty, actually died prematurely half of the time because he had no heirs.
Zhezong had always been in weak health. At the end of his reign, he was severely hit by the death of his daughters one after another. Under double mental and physical pressure, he finally died of hemoptysis in Funing Palace. He reigned for fifteen years at the age of twenty-five.
Therefore, King Qin Yansi, to put it bluntly, was more important than Na marrying a prince.
On this day, the palace was bustling from morning to afternoon. Different from when Zhao Tong got married, there were not many ceremonies, and there was no need to enter the bridal chamber, just enjoy drinking.
At this moment, all the people in the government were gone. Even the soldiers led by Tan Zhen had also resigned, and the only ones left were Zhao Tong's own men.
He sat at the same table as Lu Junyi and Du Bo, both of whom were very generous. The gangsters from Suiyulou took turns coming over to offer toasts without being knocked down. In the end, many of the toasters were carried out.
At this time, the thoughts of the people present are different from those of the officials. They are all direct descendants of Zhao Yu. No matter what happens, they will stand with Zhao Yu. Whether Zhao Yu is the prince of the lord's palace or they are the disciples of the dead, it doesn't matter. , it is a great joy for the lord to have a baby, which makes them more determined and less worried.
Zhao Tie glanced at Lu Junyi and Du Bo. It turned out that there were more than three people at this table, and the others were drunk and carried away, so they couldn't replace them for a while.
He looked around and saw that few could still drink. However, he caught sight of General Lu hiding in a corner, pouring a drink for himself. General Lu lowered his head hurriedly as if he felt Zhao Tong's gaze.
There was no other reason for this. At this banquet, everyone else gave a lot of gifts, but he only wrote a message and gave it to them. It was not that he was stingy, but he was really short of money.
He has no money. He was arrested and brought to Tokyo with nothing to gain and nothing to lose.
After the new year came into effect, Suiyulou gave him some money as a subsidy every month. Seeing that Suiyulou took care of food and housing and had no extra expenses, he spent all the money to buy books.
How expensive were books in this era? The amount of money subsidized is quite a lot in daily calculation, but it is not enough to buy books. He did not expect that there would be a day when he would have to give gifts.
It didn't matter if the people around him borrowed money, he really couldn't open his mouth. Although those scoundrels were disgusting, it didn't mean he wouldn't borrow money, but he really couldn't get this face.
Then just write a calligraphy. I originally thought that as a scholar, I have the best temperament and strong character. No matter how much those corrupt officials give me, it doesn’t matter. He looked at them with a cold expression, but it was unimaginable that scoundrels like Suiyulou also had wealth and were spending lavishly.
This made him a little unbearable. People all love to compare with those around them. No common people would compare with princes and generals because it was out of the circle of their actual life.
If these scoundrels from Broken Jade House only gave away gold and silver, that would be fine. However, there were also many arty ones who gave away some expensive pens, inks and inkstones, and some even gave away calligraphy and paintings by famous figures from the previous dynasty.
No matter how good his calligraphy was, General Lu was still far inferior to those of others, so he felt depressed. He drank alone in a corner, and no one around him tried to persuade him. He didn't know martial arts and couldn't talk about it. Let's go together and let him pour his own drink.
At this time, Zhao Tie saw him and waved: "Shopkeeper Lu!"
General Lu hated this title, but there was nothing he could do about it. During this period, he had just settled the matter of the printing and bookstore that Zhao Yu had told him. The day before yesterday, Zhao Yu had arranged a new job for him, working as a bookstore printer. Big shopkeeper.
There is also a big boss above the big shopkeeper, the eighth prince Zhao Chu, who asked the two of them to support the business.
Zhao Yan was even more confused as to how Lu Jiang had ever done business, but he couldn't do it if he didn't want to do it. He had agreed to be a cow or a horse, but he was just a shopkeeper, and he was far from being a cow or horse.
General Lu had no choice but to stand up and answer, and then went over: "What are your orders, Your Majesty?"
Zhao Tong said: "The work in the bookstore was done well. Let's sit down and have three drinks."
General Lu had no choice but to sit down. He was drinking slowly from a small cup in the corner, but he was not drunk yet. Now he changed to a large cup and drank three times. He suddenly felt dizzy and about to fall down. Zhao Tong frowned. Said: "It's just a piece of trash. If someone comes, take it back to the building."
Immediately, someone came forward to lift General Lu up and carry him out. At this moment, Lei San hurriedly came in and said, "Your Majesty, I received another gift."
Zhao Tong wondered: "It's so late, who sent it here?"
Lei San took out the letter and said, "It was sent by the young man from the Yue family!"
Zhao Tong glanced at Lu Junyi: "Junior Brother Yue?"
Lu Junyi wondered: "How did Junior Brother Yue know that the prince was holding a hundred-day banquet?"
Zhao Tong had already opened the letter and read it over, shook his head and said: "It's not a gift for a hundred-day banquet, it's a gift to make up for my wedding banquet... He had traveled to the north with his teacher before, and now he is back. The teacher has returned to his hometown in Shaanxi. He is rushing to Tokyo and will probably arrive in a few days."
Lu Junyi said with a smile: "Junior Brother Yue will probably need to make up for some more gifts when he arrives."
Zhao Tong smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, but I miss Junior Brother Yue a lot. I wonder why Master doesn't come to Tokyo?"
Lu Junyi thought about it and said, "Are you afraid that it's because of the teacher's affairs that I don't want to meet you?"
Zhao Tong nodded and said: "When Junior Brother Yue arrives this time, he must ask carefully. After all, the teacher has given him all the information about the sect."
Lu Junyi said: "This is inevitable. At least I don't even know the names of my junior brothers and sisters. If I tell them, it will become a joke."
Zhao Tong smiled and said: "It's because the teacher's calculations are too careful. I acted cruelly in Suzhou this time. Isn't it all because the teacher kept his disciples secret?"
Lu Junyi said: "If all the disciples are as good as that uncle in the clouds, then I don't want these disciples."
Zhao Tong said: "That's not necessarily the case. I heard that Master, he always hates evil and is upright and benevolent, but I don't know why he has such a disciple."
Lu Junyi shook his head. He couldn't figure this out in his heart. He could only sigh: "Master, maybe he is a man who has no education but only looks at talent and not character?"
Zhao Tong pondered slightly: "That's probably the case..."
Unknowingly, three days have passed since the Hundred Days Banquet at Prince Qin's Mansion.
This morning, Zhao Tong sat in the Qingliang Hall behind the palace and watched the murals.
The murals are naturally the stone walls brought back from Hero Island. Now these three stone walls are lined up in Qingliang Hall.
Qingliang Hall is the only main hall in Prince Qin's palace, next to the Split Golden Pavilion. Zhao Tong rarely comes here, because the interior is grand and empty, so he put stone walls inside.
Zhao Tong was looking at the second piece of the mural, Whales Fighting the Wind and Rain. He sometimes frowned, sometimes thought deeply, and sometimes shook his head. When the sun reached noon, he stretched and stood up and walked out.
Not far after leaving the main hall, Lei San came over from the front: "Your Majesty, the young man from the Yue family has arrived."
Zhao Tong was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately said: "Please come into the study quickly...and invite General Lu over."
After a while, the three of them sat facing each other in the study.
Zhao Tong took a closer look at Yue Fei, but he was taller and stronger. He was still dressed in blue cloth and had a delicate appearance.
Zhao Tong smiled and said, "It's been so many years, how come junior brother never comes to Tokyo? Have you forgotten that your two senior brothers are here?"
Yue Fei stood up and saluted the two of them again, and said calmly: "Third senior brother has wronged me. I came here once that year, and it happened to be that senior brother led troops to conquer the Huaihe River. He also came last year, but he went to suppress Fangla again."
Zhao Tong said: "Sit down, it's time to explain. Tell me about your trip to the north with the teacher?"
Yue Fei said: "Two senior brothers, my teacher and I went to the Liao Kingdom and met female straight people."
"You went to the Liao Kingdom?" Lu Junyi took a breath and said, "Junior brother, why did the teacher take you to the Liao Kingdom?"
Yue Fei said: "Actually, the teacher wanted to take me to see the female straights of the Jin Dynasty. However, there is no border between Song and Jin Dynasties, so we can only go by sea. But the teacher didn't want to go to the sea, so he crossed through the Liao border."
"Jurchen?" Lu Junyi looked at Zhao Tong after hearing this. He didn't know that there was a Jurchen delegation coming to Tokyo.
Zhao Tong was speechless and wondered why Zhou Tong would take Yue Fei across the Liao border to see the Jurchens. This was an extremely dangerous matter.
When he killed Aguda of Yan and fled across the Liao border, he could see the formidable scene everywhere. After Aguda's death, there was no telling how much more defenses would be added to the border. It was not easy to make a round trip.
"It's a straight woman." Yue Fei said, also looking at Zhao Tao.
Zhao Tong was silent for a moment and said with a smile: "Why did the teacher take Junior Brother Yue to see the Nvzhi? You must know that the Song Dynasty and the Nvzhi are separated by the Liao Kingdom."
Lu Junyi nodded from the side, looking like he couldn't guess what Zhou Tong meant.
Yue Fei's face was slightly red and he said: "Third Senior Brother, this is a test for me. The teacher said that you can definitely guess his intentions, and also asked me to convey everything I saw and heard on the road to Senior Brother."
Zhao Tan laughed loudly when he heard this, and Lu Junyi also laughed. They were all very happy looking at the blushing young man in front of them.
"It turns out that the two senior brothers did it on purpose." Yue Fei also laughed.
"Tell me what Junior Brother Yue and Teacher observed along the way." Zhao Tong picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.
Yue Fei nodded and began to tell, and it took more than an hour to stop.
At this moment, Zhao Tong looked solemn, and Lu Junyi's eyebrows were slightly furrowed.
After a moment of silence in the study room, Zhao Tong sighed: "A great chivalrous man serves the country and the people, and the teacher is the true chivalrous man! I have remembered the teacher's good intentions!"
Lu Junyi nodded repeatedly, but then asked: "I don't know why the teacher wants to return to Shaanxi and not meet us in Tokyo?"
Yue Fei shook his head and said: "Teacher has decided to retire in Huashan. He will probably not go out for travel again. Even to overseas teachers, if there is no major incident, he will not go again."
Overseas division? Zhao Tong and Lu Junyi looked at each other, and Zhao Tong coughed lightly and said, "Junior brother, the teacher has never mentioned anything about this matter in our school. Since you know, please tell us in detail."
Lu Junyi also said: "Now that the teacher has decided to retire, he might as well say it now."
Yue Fei looked at the two of them and wondered: "Of course I should say it, but looking at the expressions of the two senior brothers, could it be that they have met someone from the sect?"
Zhao Tong thought for a moment and then told the story of Yun Jiuxiao in Suzhou.
After hearing this, Yue Fei looked unhappy and said: "Teacher didn't talk about the conduct of the elders in the sect, but he explained all the relationships to me clearly. I will tell my two senior brothers now."
After a while, Yue Fei finished narrating, and Zhao Tong had already straightened out the Jintai lineage in his heart.
Jintai is a master of ancient and modern martial arts. He is said to be the best in martial arts in the world. He is said to be the best in the world in boxing skills throughout the ages. There are even sayings among the people that the king is not as good as Xiang, the general is not as good as Li, and the boxing is not as good as gold.
In the beginning, he learned a lot of martial arts and was almost able to master it. He was extremely talented, but his official apprenticeship was Master Hongyun of Songshan Mountain.
If we talk about his lineage from Master Songshan Hongyun, there are many side branches. I am afraid there are hundreds of monks and laymen, but there is no need to mention this Xiangyuan. I will only say that from him down, A total of three disciples were accepted, namely Taoist Zhou Tong, Yun Jiuxiao, and Qi Yu.
Among them, Zhou Tong has five disciples, Yun Jiuxiao has eight more disciples, Taoist Qi Yu is a female crown, and has three disciples.
Zhao Tong listened to Yue Fei's words and said, "Junior Brother Yue just said that his disciple is overseas?"
Yue Fei said: "Teacher said that the gate is now above the East China Sea and is managed by Master Qi Yu. As for Master, he is not there."
Lu Junyi wondered: "Master is not in the dojo, where did he go?"
Yue Fei said: "Teacher and I just had a brief conversation, saying that my master went back to Songshan many years ago and seemed to want to die there."
Zhao Tong wondered, this master was estimated to be over a hundred years old. Since he decided to retire in Songshan, why did he go to the East China Sea to open a dojo in the first place?
Lu Junyi also had this question and couldn't help but ask: "Why doesn't Master take care of himself in Donghai?"
Yue Fei smiled bitterly and said: "There is a public case here. I heard from the teacher that it shocked the world at that time. When the master was still in Songshan Mountain, one day someone came to challenge him. No one in the temple could defeat him. Master Hongyun was about to pass away at that time. I didn't want to He was unable to take action, and finally the master stood up and faced the challenger."
Zhao Tong said: "Who is so powerful that he would challenge Songshan alone?"
Yue Fei said: "She is a young and beautiful woman from Xixia Zizaimen, her name is Li Canghai..."
Zhao Tong glanced at Lu Junyi: "Xixia Zizaimen?"
Lu Junyi shook his head and said, "I've never heard of it. I'm afraid it's some hidden place."
Yue Fei continued: "Master and Li Canghai fought for a day and a night, but there was no winner. Later, the two sides stopped and made peace, and then..."
"Then what?" Zhao Tong narrowed his eyes.
"Then the two fell in love with each other. It seemed that after many ups and downs, they finally got married. Later, the master retired from the court and went to the East China Sea to open a master's dojo..."
Lu Junyi said in surprise: "Isn't that the master?"
Yue Fei lowered his head and said: "Senior brother, that's exactly what happened. I just said disrespectful words to my master. It's rude to me!"
Zhao Tong said: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, why did Master return to Songshan Mountain many years ago..."
Yue Fei said: "I heard from the teacher that the Xixia Zi Zi Sect martial arts learned by my master has flaws. Sometimes the Qi and blood go backwards, the hair is half black and half white, and people become old and young. In the end, it backfires. Even if the master's martial arts are superb, he can't do it. After thorough treatment, we can only try our best to extend the life of my master, but even so, she will die in the end before she is even sixty years old, and my master was so traumatized that he left the East China Sea and returned to Songshan to die."
"It turns out there is such a secret, but I didn't expect it." Zhao Tong nodded.
"No wonder Yun Jiuxiao is so arrogant and shameless. It turns out that the master retired to Songshan Mountain a long time ago and no longer manages the sect." Lu Junyi also said.
Zhao Tong thought for a moment: "By the way, Junior Brother Yue, what are the names of Second Senior Brother and Fourth Junior Sister?"
Yue Fei said: "The teacher said that the second senior brother is the son of an old friend from Jinghu South Road, named Qiu Shao, and the fourth junior sister is called Lin Wanfeng. It seems that he has some relationship with the Xixia Zizai Sect, but the teacher only mentioned it vaguely, and did not tell me the specific relationship. speak."
Zhao Tong nodded and said with a smile: "It's good to know everything now. It's not far away. If you have time, go to Songshan Mountain to pay a visit to this master. Maybe you can get some advice."
Yue Fei blinked and said with a smile: "Third senior brother, the teacher knew that you would have such thoughts, so he asked me to send a message to you. Even if you go, you won't be able to find the master, so don't waste your efforts."
Zhao Tong was immediately embarrassed and said with a sneer: "Just think about it, the teacher really thinks he has a clever plan... No more, no more, our brothers and sisters haven't seen each other for a long time, so we must get drunk today!"
After saying that, he ordered people to serve wine, and the three of them drank until the moon was on the willow tops and the stars were shaking in the Milky Way, and then they took a rest.
(End of chapter)
