"…Get up."
Li Yuan raised his hand and ordered,
"Let me take a good look at you, this eagle that dominates the grassland."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Jie Li responded, slowly stood up, looked at Li Yuan, and immediately dodged away.
He tugged at the Tang suit on his body, feeling a little uncomfortable with it.
"Hahaha……"
Li Yuan looked at Jie Li carefully, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, laughing loudly and saying,
"It's nice to wear our Tang Dynasty costumes! It's pretty good!"
"This is called doing as the Romans do!"
"Jieli, are you used to eating and living in Chang'an? How do the buildings in Chang'an City compare with your Turkic tents?"
Jie Li's expression darkened.
"Going back to the Supreme Emperor, Chang'an is very good, and the place to live is also very good."
He cupped his hands and whispered,
"It's just that I'm used to living in tents, so I'm really not used to it..."
Even if he was given the chance to live in the Jinluan Palace, he would still prefer his own tent.
"Ha-what's this called?"
Li Yuan pointed at Jie Li and joked towards Li Shimin,
"This means that the wild boar cannot eat fine chaff!"
"Barbarians are barbarians. They live in attics and eat delicacies unwillingly, but they like to sleep in tents in the wild and drink blood like hair!"
Jie Li's face looked slightly ugly.
These words were naturally an insult to him!
But now that he is a prisoner, what confidence does he have to rebel?
Fortunately, before he came, he was already prepared to be humiliated - as long as he could survive, that would be better than anything else!
"Father, don't say that either."
Li Shimin shook his head and smiled,
"Everyone has their own habits, and we must respect their dietary customs."
"After all, from now on, the Turks are the same as the people of the world. They are all Tang people and we are all one family! This includes Jieli."
Li Yuan nodded slightly.
"Yes, yes, that's the truth."
He turned to look at Jie Li, waved his hands repeatedly and said,
"Jie Li, what I said just now was a little too much, please don't take it to heart."
"Come on, give me a seat!"
Thumb thump.
Two eunuchs brought a bench.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Jie Li hurriedly saluted and said,
"What you said is actually absolutely correct. We barbarians are like this, camping in the wild and drinking blood."
"It made the Emperor laugh."
Li Yuan curled his lips.
Before coming, he had already thought of eighteen ways to humiliate Jie Li, but now that he saw the other party lowering his attitude so low, he suddenly found it boring.
People are already like this, and if they continue to be ridiculed and humiliated, they will lose their grace.
Forget it……
"You can't say that..."
Li Yuan put down his humiliating thoughts and said with a smile,
"You Turks also have great merits!"
"For example, if you are good at singing and dancing, our Tang people cannot compare to this."
"Hey! It happens to be a grand event today, Jie Li, can you just take advantage of this warm atmosphere and do an impromptu dance for us to add to the fun?"
Jie Li: "..."
There was hesitation in his eyes, but Li Yuan couldn't help but pull him up after he had just sat down.
"Come on, come on! Don't be coy!"
Li Yuan said enthusiastically,
"I don't let you dance for nothing! I will accompany you!"
"I can play a lot of musical instruments. I can play all the pipa, harp, and harp."
"How about we play a pipa song and you dance a Hu Xuan dance?"
"Come on! Get the pipa!"
Uh-huh.
The musician on the side quickly handed over the pipa in his hand.
Bang!
Li Yuan's hand crossed the strings of the pipa, making a burst of rapid music.
"I haven't touched this thing for a long time, it's a bit unfamiliar."
He smiled lightly and said,
"I'm going to feel it first, Jieli, you can feel it too."
"You must have not danced for many years, right?"
Seeing that he could not refuse, Jie Li had no choice but to stand up and stretch his muscles twice.
After a brief warm-up, his limbs began to become flexible.
Not to mention, even though this Jieli is a bit fat, he can be regarded as a flexible fat man. He only jumped twice before he became proficient.
"Okay, okay!"
Li Shimin felt itchy when he saw him twisting his arms and legs. He stood up and shouted,
"I haven't danced for many years! Today is a grand event, so I have to do something active!"
"My father plays music. As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I danced with the former Turkic Khan Jieli. It is recorded in the history books. It is also a beautiful story! Hahaha..."
"Come!"
Thump thump thump!
After Li Er finished speaking, he went down the steps and arrived in front of Jie Li.
"here we go again……"
Changsun Wugou rolled his eyes from behind and muttered in a low voice.
"Mother, can your father still dance?"
Li Lizhi leaned close to Changsun Wugu's ear and asked in a low voice,
"Is he dancing well?"
The little heads all had expressions of curiosity and a bit of anticipation.
This was their first time watching their father dance!
"Um……"
Changsun Wujiu pondered for a moment and said,
"The Queen can only be described in three words -"
"Eye-searing!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yuan had already found the feeling and made a stroke with one finger.
Bang!
Bang!
Danglanglanglanglanglang...
The rapid sound of pipa sounded in the pavilion. Jieli closed his eyes and danced gracefully to the music.
Not to be outdone, Li Shimin twisted his waist to the beat of the music and danced face to face with Jie Li.
Between the two of you, you twist your waist and I swing my legs, you wave and I shake my head, which made Xu Fenglei's eyes almost pop out of his head.
"wipe……"
He couldn't help but complain,
"What the hell is this called dancing? It's too embarrassing..."
Jie Li was a little better, and it was obvious that he had some skills. Li Shimin looked like a zombie and shook his head.
"Master, have you never seen this scene?"
Changsun Wuji on the side covered his mouth and snickered,
"His Majesty liked dancing very much in his early years. During the war, every time he won a battle, he would drink. Whenever he got drunk, he would start dancing and no one could stop him."
"But somehow, after so many years, his dancing skills have not improved much..."
"Hey, God is fair after all. You can't just let one person monopolize all the unique skills, don't you think so?"
Xu Fenglei nodded with deep approval.
Looking at the two people dancing on the field again, he really wanted to say something:
Stop it, stop it! Stop fighting!
"Come on, Jie Li, let's have a drink!"
Li Shimin shook his head, picked up a bottle of wine from the table, drank it with his neck raised, and said with a big smile,
"It's so happy, so happy!"
With the help of alcohol, he danced even wider, standing on the spot and turning around several times, staggering back a few steps, and almost fell into Changsun Wuji's arms.
"Ouch, Your Majesty!"
Changsun Wuji hurriedly supported him and said,
"Take it easy, don't drink anymore, or stop dancing!"
"It would be too dangerous to jump down again! I almost hit the table!"
He tried hard to persuade, but Li Shimin shook his head nonchalantly.
"What's this? I haven't had enough fun yet!"
he spat,
"You civil servants are just not heroic enough!"
"Such happy days are rare! Make me excited and restless!"
"Come, auxiliary engine! Write a poem and sing praises to this situation, come!"
Changsun Wuji: “￥%……&*#@#”
At this moment, Changsun Wuji's face showed a look of embarrassment.
Write poetry?
He won't!
While he was dilly-dallying and hesitating, Li Shimin over there was already impatient.
"hurry up!"
Li Er urged.
"This... Your Majesty, I don't have any literary thoughts for a while, and I really can't do anything..." Changsun Wuji looked like he was constipated, and waved his hands, "You... just spare me!"
It is true that he is a civil servant.
But which rule says that civil servants must be able to compose poetry?
Normally, if he had to hold it in forcibly, he might be able to sing out a song, but what he was doing now was improvisation, so he really couldn't do it...
"Ah."
Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and spat,
"You're not going to do it, are you? You're not going to give me this face on such a happy day?"
"Okay! Come on, if you can't compose a poem, you'll have to drink three drinks as a penalty! I'll spare you!"
"Choose one yourself!"
Changsun Wuji was so urged by the emperor that he had no choice but to pour wine.
Gudong, gudong, gudong.
After three glasses of wine, Li Shimin let him go.
Fortunately, this is grape wine, it is not very strong. If it were made from bamboo leaf green or something like that, he would probably pour it!
Even after three glasses of this grape wine, he felt a little dizzy...
"Humph, you're really useless."
Li Er snorted coldly and turned his gaze away to Xu Fenglei.
"Listen clearly, if the auxiliary machine is not good at composing poetry, you must be good at it."
He raised his head and said,
"You come!"
The corners of Xu Fenglei's mouth twitched and he picked up the wine glass.
"I can't do that either. I'd better drink..."
As he said that, he was about to drink, but his hand was held down by Li Shimin.
"You can't punish me with alcohol!"
Drunk Li Er snorted coldly,
"Drinking is nothing to you. Even if you drink thirty drinks, it's just for fun."
"If I want to punish you... if you can't compose a poem, then you go up and dance and give us all a dance!"
This sentence made the eyes of the little kids present shine with light!
"Okay, okay, I want to see Master dance!"
"Master, dance! Master, dance!"
"Master must be more beautiful when dancing than my father!"
"Yes, for sure!"
"..."
Xu Fenglei: "￥%...&*@!!!"
Under these earnest gazes, he felt an uncomfortable feeling of thorns on his back and goosebumps all over his body.
wipe.
Want me to dance?
It's better to let me die!
Anyway, once you put on that stupid goose-like posture, it is no different from social death...
"...I, I'd better write poetry."
Xu Fenglei stood up with difficulty and said helplessly,
"But Your Majesty, I have a certain degree of criticism when writing poems. It would be bad if it spoils the atmosphere of the banquet."
When Li Shimin heard this, he immediately shook his head.
"It's okay, feel free to criticize!"
He said magnanimously,
"As long as you can do it and do it well, I and everyone will applaud you!"
"Come on! I'm looking forward to it!"
The music continued, Li Yuan still played the pipa selflessly, and Jie Li still danced.
They are still immersed in their own world.
Everyone else looked at Xu Fenglei, looking forward to his masterpiece.
"Fine grape wine, luminous cup."
Xu Fenglei held the wine glass in his hand and read the first sentence.
"Ok, Ok."
Li Shimin said with a smile,
"Although the first sentence is unremarkable, it is also realistic."
Xu Fenglei ignored him and read out the second sentence:
"If you want to drink pipa, urge me immediately."
Changsun Wuji raised his eyebrows.
"What a great sentence!"
He tasted and said,
"In just two sentences, the joyful atmosphere of the banquet was conveyed."
Turning around, he looked at Jie Li again and asked with a smile:
"I heard that the pipa beyond the Great Wall is played on a horse, Jieli...is that true?"
"Yes." Jieli gathered his limbs, waved the sweat from his forehead, and responded, "The pipa has an urgent sound. We Turks often play it to race horses. Therefore, we Turks have many horse racing songs, all played on the pipa, which is very interesting. Cheerful.”
Li Shimin smiled.
"Auxiliary machine, you are quite knowledgeable." He joked, "You know how to read poetry, but you don't know how to write poetry?"
Changsun Wuji scratched his head in embarrassment.
"What your Majesty said... is like although I like delicious food, I don't know how to cook."
He responded cheerfully,
"Tasting and tasting are okay, but if I really ask you to come, I won't be able to do it."
"Listen carefully and study hard!" Li Er ordered, then looked at Xu Fenglei and said with a smile, "Why does this poem smell like a battlefield? Listen, you are thinking of fighting in Northern Xinjiang. Is the scene set?”
Xu Fenglei nodded.
"Yeah, I remember the day before leaving the border and the wine I drank that day."
He said with enthusiasm,
"On the eve of officially leaving the Tang Dynasty, I drank heavily with the soldiers and got very drunk! That day, I also had pipa as my companion."
"At that time, I was thinking... What should I do if this little life is given to the Turks? I just kept thinking about it, and I felt very melancholy and kept drinking."
"Finally, while half asleep and half awake, I suddenly became open-minded, free and easy, and the last two lines of the poem came out."
Speaking of this, Xu Fenglei paused for a moment.
Li Shimin raised his eyebrows.
"Oh? What do you say?" he asked.
"Don't laugh, Lord, who is lying drunk on the battlefield. How many people have fought in ancient times."
Xu Fenglei’s words are contagious,
"After singing and drinking, you just live with your head in your belt!"
"As soon as I joined the army, I was determined to die!"
"Even if I lie drunk on the battlefield and wrap my body in horse leather, it is still my duty and my destiny! There is nothing wrong with it! Since ancient times, few people have returned from wars!"
Li Shimin was slightly stunned.
After hearing these words, he fell into a brief silence.
The wine seems to have sobered up a bit.
"Fortunately, in the end, we successfully won the war. We can drink here without any worries. We don't need to worry about how to live tomorrow, how to fight the enemy, and how to save our lives."
Xu Fenglei picked up the wine glass, grinned and said,
"That's great! Even if I'm drunk this time, I don't have to lie on the battlefield anymore!"
"For this reason, drink more!"
Gudong, gudong, gudong.
No one urged him to drink, so he drank three glasses of wine and felt relaxed.
But the entire Lingyan Pavilion was extremely quiet at the moment.
Several generals participating in the battle were all looking at Xu Fenglei at this moment, with some inexplicable emotions in their eyes.
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
"Okay, okay..."
Li Shimin was silent for a long time, then suddenly raised his palm, clapped it, and said with emotion,
"What a poem!"
"What a beautiful poem!"
