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Too much talk leads to mistakes.

Ren Pingsheng just nodded, took the wild goose from the guards, held it in his arms, and followed the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

The wild goose in his arms cooperated, poked its head and looked around, its small eyes revealing the clarity that was not polluted by knowledge.

The other guards followed closely with various gifts.

The last one to fall behind was Li Yong, holding the head sheep in his hand.

The sheep was stubborn and would not leave unless it was dragged hard, which made him very angry.

The group passed through the Meridian Gate and saw a square paved with jade.

There were five exquisite white marble arch bridges on the square, and under the bridge there was a Jinshui River, shaped like a jade belt.

There was another gate further in.

Ren Pingsheng held the wild goose in his arms and followed the officials of the Ministry of Rites through the gate.

Looking up, a magnificent palace stood before him, with yellow glazed tiles glittering. From a distance, it looked like a fairy-tale palace, magnificent and solemn!

"So impressive." Ren Pingsheng exclaimed in his heart.

"Prince, please pay your respects."

The voice of the Ministry of Rites official came.

Ren Pingsheng came back to his senses, gently put down the wild goose, and paid homage to the Fengtian Hall.

The Ministry of Rites official stared at Ren Pingsheng, and seeing that his process of paying homage was impeccable, he walked forward and picked up the wild goose.

"Prince, please wait a moment."

After saying that, he held the wild goose and walked towards the distant hall.

Behind him.

The eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department had already taken the gifts from the guards and followed the Ministry of Rites official.

The sheep was as stubborn as ever, and refused to leave. Two or three eunuchs dragged it away, and they were so angry that their teeth itched.

The wild goose that was taken away by the Ministry of Rites official, perhaps because it was used to living in Ren's mansion, saw the familiar people getting farther and farther away from it, stretched its neck, and screamed shrilly.

"Ga-ga-"

The sound was loud, spreading in all directions, and echoed in the quiet palace for a long time.

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Ren Pingsheng's mouth twitched, and he was speechless for a moment.

The guards behind him wanted to laugh, but they held back their laughter and said nothing.

I don't know how long I waited.

The official from the Ministry of Rites returned to Ren Pingsheng and said indifferently: "Prince, His Majesty has accepted the selection ceremony and the petition, and the selection is over."

Is it over?

It's not quite what I imagined.

Ren Pingsheng thought he would be troubled, but in fact the whole process was very harmonious.

It was so smooth, probably because the etiquette was wrong, and the officials were also punished?

He thought so and heard the official from the Ministry of Rites say again:

"Her Majesty the Queen is holding a banquet for the prince in the Jinshen Hall, please invite the prince to the banquet."

"Okay."

Ren Pingsheng nodded, looked at the guards behind him, waved his hand and said: "Wait for me outside the palace."

"Yes!"

The guards saluted and turned to leave.

After that.

Led by the guards from the Ministry of Rites.

Ren Pingsheng came to the door of the Jinshen Hall.

Looking up, what caught my eye was a royal road stone carved with various patterns.

There were cliffs, sea water and flowing clouds. If you look closely, you can see nine dragons playing with pearls in their mouths. The image is dynamic and full of vitality.

Entering the hall, you can see the floor paved with gold bricks.

There is a carved gold-painted throne facing north and south.

A woman sat on it.

She was wearing a red scarlet silk dress with five phoenixes embroidered in gold. Her facial features were delicate, her skin was fair, and she had a dignified temperament.

When he saw her for the first time, Ren Pingsheng couldn't help but think of a word - still charming.

Then, he tortured himself in his heart. Who would use such a word to describe his mother-in-law? How cheap!

After a brief moment of random thoughts, he calmed down and saluted uprightly:

"I, the prince of Zhenbei, Ren Pingsheng, pay my respects to Her Majesty the Queen!"

The queen on the throne nodded slightly and looked down at Ren Pingsheng, with no sadness or joy on her face.

"Please take a seat."

As soon as the words fell, a maid moved a stool and placed it behind the table in the front.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Ren Pingsheng bowed again and walked to the table and sat down.

The queen looked around and asked, "Who hasn't arrived yet?"

"Your Highness, Princess Yunhe and Prince Anguo were delayed by something and will arrive later."

"Then we won't wait."

It was a family banquet, so there were not so many trivial etiquettes. It was fine for the protagonists to enter.

The queen waved her hand.

After a while, music started.

Accompanied by the melody, a dancer with a graceful figure walked into the hall and danced gracefully.

At the same time, the maids brought all kinds of delicacies and placed them in front of everyone's table.

Ren Pingsheng looked around and found that most of the people at the banquet were his peers.

There were men and women.

From the clothes, there were officials from the six ministries and royal relatives.

Most of them knew each other, and after the dishes were served, they toasted and chatted.

Ren Pingsheng was very tactful and lowered his head to eat the food, not to cause trouble.

It must be said that the imperial chef in the palace had good skills and the food he made was delicious, much better than the cook hired by Ren's mansion.

Ren Pingsheng ate for a while without any distractions, and found that the palace was getting more and more lively.

He looked up and saw that the throne was empty.

It turned out that the queen had quietly left with several concubines without knowing when.

Ren Pingsheng thought:

"This queen is very smart. She took all the elders away and left room for everyone to play."

The banquet was nothing more than eating, drinking and having fun.

There is no need to say more about eating and drinking.

The fun mainly revolved around "wine", including but not limited to pitching pots, flying flowers, and winding water flowing wine.

In the presence of elders, if you drink too much, your behavior will inevitably be inappropriate.

So everyone restrained themselves and tried not to drink too much.

After the elders left, the situation was completely different.

People who are familiar with each other, no matter how much they drink, must drink until the other person falls down, and then they will have fun.

But

None of this has anything to do with Ren Pingsheng.

Today.

He is just a ruthless eating machine, that's all.

Thinking so, Ren Pingsheng picked up a piece of bear paw meat and put it in his mouth.

This is the first time he has eaten this thing, it's a bit fishy, ​​not as delicious as he imagined.

Just when Ren Pingsheng was concentrating on eating and drinking.

Several people were watching him silently.

Seeing that he was silent all the time, someone couldn't help but take out a jade pendant from his arms, stood up, and said with a smile: "I'm throwing out a brick to attract jade. Please write poems and lyrics with your ambitions as the theme. If there is a talented person who makes a good work, this piece of cold jade from the north will be given to him!"

The speaker was Yuan Zhe, the son of the Earl of Zhongqin and the son-in-law of the Left Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Rites.

The voice fell.

The hall was quiet for a moment.

When everyone heard the words "Northern Cold Jade", their eyes lit up.

This thing is a treasure, only in the cold land occupied by barbarians to the north of the northern border.

Wearing it on the body can nourish the meridians and warm the literary spirit.

Whether it is a warrior, a Confucian scholar, a Taoist priest, or even a Buddhist disciple, it can be used.

"This banquet is held for the prince of Zhenbei. As everyone knows, this person has mediocre talent, no ambition, and has been doing nothing for twenty years...

Yuan Zhe proposed to use ambition as the topic, clearly wanting to humiliate him.

I don't know how he will react."

Ren Pingsheng's opposite.

Jin Wang Liu Yutong looked at Yuan Zhe, then at Ren Pingsheng, with a smile on his face, looking like he was watching the fun.