"Please ask the swordsman Liu Liuyao!" Han Xizai shouted.

Everyone looked sideways and saw a young lady with a high-cannon belt entering with a sword. The young lady named Liu Liuyao was wearing a loose white robe with a fluttering belt and dressed very elegantly; she was wearing a high-cannon belt on her head. Her face looked quite heroic, with a straight nose, her cheeks, and her facial lines were not as round and soft as ordinary girls. With her hairstyle, she was indeed less soft and more heroic.

In this elegant and gentle atmosphere, it is somewhat unharmonious to appear such a person. However, people like to be strange and pay attention to her enthusiastically at this time.

Li Ji, who played the pipa, and the sister of the deputy envoy of the Jiaofangsi, loved this handsome young lady very much when she saw this young lady, and immediately asked, "Which song is Miss Liu going to dance, I will accompany you."

Liu Liuyao raised his sword eyebrows: "Just play, I will dance improvise."

Li Ji smiled and said, "If you say that, I will just play around with it."

"I wish to hear good news." Liu Liuyao said provocatively.

"Okay, okay!" Everyone cheered when they heard this. Sword dance is also a kind of dance. Usually people choose familiar songs, and they can follow the rhythm. It is really not easy to dance at will without messing up the dance steps.

Han Xizai said: "If Li Ji plays randomly, it will be difficult for me to beat the drums."

Li Ji bent her knees slightly and chuckled, "Han Gong is too modest."

The servants had already moved the Jie drum to the hall. Han Xizai rolled up his wide sleeves and stood in front of the drum with enthusiasm and prepared. Everyone forgot the soothing and quiet tone just now, and was waiting for the more enthusiastic sword dance with interest.

"Clang..." Suddenly, there was a light sound of the scabbard mechanism, and then the metal sound of the sword being unsheathed and rubbing it out of the sheath sounded in the hall. The sound was particularly obvious. Liu Liuyao pulled out a sharp sword and threw the scabbard directly on the ground.

"Oh!" The top scholar Huang Can's face was lost when he saw this and said in surprise, "How can sword dance use such a sword? How dangerous is it!"

Dr. Taichang next to him comforted: "In the Han Gong's mansion, Han Gong has his own concerns. There is no danger. Liu Liuyao is probably very accurate in his grasp."

Li Jiaming smiled and said, "Langjun Huang is a scholar-official who reads the books of sages, so he is naturally not used to the occasions where he dances with swords and guns."

Liu Liuyao heard the voices next to him, looked slightly and showed a faint contempt for the young new top student.

At that time, the sound of the pipa was like a pearl and jade falling from the plate. Han Xizai listened to the melody and beat the drums to match it. Liu Liuyao swung his robe and his posture was flowing, and the sword light slowly shone in the light. The sword dance of the sword and the floating belt formed a visually gorgeous scene, and people couldn't help but cheer loudly.

Liu Liuyao's posture is light and smooth, which is quite consistent with the beauty of dance, but when using a sword, it mainly uses strike, stab, pattern, and washing. The slow and rapid sword technique is long and powerful, and it is quite powerful when taking action. This is not an ordinary sword dance, but it combines dance posture and martial arts into one. Li Ji's pipa becomes more and more urgent, like a waterfall torrent. Liu Liuyao follows his rhythm, and for a moment, the sword lights and sword shadows in the hall are scattered like the wind. The slutty and soothing atmosphere is swept away, and the place is full of passion. Everyone is intoxicated and sees it intoxicating.

Perhaps Li Ji deliberately provoked Liu Liuyao, and the fast pipa rhythm did not stop for a moment, and he no longer cared about the method of matching the rhythm with slow and rapid rhythm. Although it was already night, the temperature was very high at the end of summer. Liu Liuyao's vigorous exercise soaked the ends of his hair, and the fragrant sweat was poured in the sword dance.

At this moment, the sound of the pipa suddenly came. Suddenly, Liu Liuyao's body flew to the side, and the sword edge hit the side at an extremely fast speed. People were stunned, as if they heard the sharp sword tip piercing through the air. With a "swish", the sword tip pierced at the eyes of the top scholar Huang Can, and suddenly stopped.

Huang Can's face immediately turned into a dead gray color. When he realized it, Liu Liuyao had already put away his sword and lifted it behind him. Huang Langjun's body became soft and his butt was on the ground, scaring him to death.

"Hahaha..." The man and woman in the crowd burst into laughter when they saw him making a fool of themselves.

After a while, Huang Can finally came to his senses, got up in a mess, and said angrily: "It's too much! It's too much..."

Liu Liuyao clasped his fists and said, "On a whim, I'm just going to make a joke with your husband, I hope to forgive me."

Everyone also smoothed out the situation and said that the dancer was invited by Mr. Han and would not hurt the guests. The hall was noisy.

...At this moment, no one noticed the two small holes in the back window. Behind the house, two people were secretly peeking. Hanlin Attendant Zhou Wenju and Gu Hongzhong at the Painting Academy.

They bent over there and stole there for a long time. Han Xizai's mansion was very large, and he was a civil servant in Jinling. There were not many guards, so they stayed here quietly for a long time and were lucky to be undiscovered.

What should I do if I am discovered? The two of them were also fearless because they were sneaked up by the order. Han Xizai couldn't do anything to them even if they were discovered... If they were not ordered, they were a scholar-official class, and they were not willing to do such things secretly.

After Liu Liuyao danced his sword, Han Xizai got up and left the intermission. Everyone laughed with the prostitute and threw away the jokes just now. Only Huang Langjun looked angry and was very dissatisfied with the dancer, but he was helpless in Han Xizai's mansion, and he seemed unwilling to do anything.

Gu Hongzhong was still waiting, but Zhou Wenju, the assistant minister of Hanlin Academy, was no longer patient and whispered: "I will go back to the palace to report first, Brother Gu will stay for a while. But it seems that there is nothing exciting after that."

...When Zhou Wenju returned to the palace, Li Yu had not yet slept, but had already returned to the court. When Li Yu heard the eunuch's report, he was in a hurry to summon Zhou Wenju into the palace that night to speak out.

Li Yu retreated and left only the eunuch Gao Ji, and Queen Zhou Xian was also beside him. Everyone in the court knew that Queen Zhou Xian was favored by Li Yu. In addition to be favored by his wife, the king had never been to the other concubines, and there were also people who advised him for this.

"I bow to the king, queen." Zhou Wenju bowed.

Li Yu hurriedly asked him to get up and asked about the night banquet at Han Xizai's mansion. Zhou Wenju first said the name of the court officials who participated in the banquet, and said: "First, Li Ji, the sister of Li Jiaming, the deputy envoy of the Jiafang Office, played the pipa, and the dancer Liu Liuyao danced the sword. When the Weishi left, he saw that Han Gong and the guests were already tired, so the show should be over."

Of course, Li Yu didn't want to know what Han Xizai did, what he wanted to know was the details. That's why he sent Zhou Wenju and others to sneak up on it. Zhou Wenju and others were good at painting; Li Yu knew a little bit about both chess and calligraphy and painting, and was good at music, but also knew about painting... He knew that anyone who painted was the best at observing the details, otherwise he would not be able to paint well, which was also one of the reasons for picking people.

What did Han Xizai say, what emotions, and what posture was? Li Yu asked in detail one by one, hoping to guess Han Xizai's thoughts from this.

After Zhou Wenju described it in detail, Li Yu allowed him to leave.

"It's often the ministers who speculate on the emperor's intentions, but the king has turned around. How could he be so interested in Han Xizai?" Zhou Xian asked softly.

Li Yu said: "Han Xizai is very knowledgeable. When my father was in power, I listened to his talk many times, and they were quite well-organized. However, there have been major issues in the country recently and hesitated when asked about his countermeasures. What is the intention?"

After hearing this, Zhou Xian pondered and said, "The king's words are reasonable. According to reason, the new king succeeded to the throne and attached great importance to him. He should try his best to gain recognition in front of the king and consolidate his official position."

Li Yu said angrily: "Han Xizai looks down on me?"

Seeing this, the confidant eunuch hurriedly advised: "Why should the king argue with a Han Xizai? He is ungrateful. The king asked him to dismiss his post and go back to raise him."

Li Yu suppressed his anger and walked a few steps: "We can't act rashly for the time being... There are a large number of scholars and commoners who have traveled south to Jinling and even in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are many people who have fled from the north. Han Xizai is the most valued member of these people. My attitude towards Han Xizai is very broad; Han Xizai's attitude can also show the general thoughts of those who have traveled south to the north."

After hearing this, the eunuch hurriedly said, "The king is far-sighted."

Zhou Xian asked softly again: "When Lin Renzhao came to Jinling, many people impeached him. What is the king's intention to deal with it?"

Li Yu was furious and rubbed his temples: "Tokyo also sent someone to say that Lin Renzhao built a large warship in Wuchangjie Town and asked what our country was going to mean. He also said that Lin Renzhao was upstream and disturbed the local officials in the north of the Zhou Dynasty, which may cause conflict and death and injury, which is not conducive to the relationship between the two countries. The Zhou Dynasty envoy urged our country to transfer Lin Renzhao from Wuchang."

"Even Tokyo has paid special attention to Lin Renzhao?" Zhou Xian said.

Li Yu said: "Yes, so this person should be a capable person. But if such a arrogant general is not careful, he will be bold and arrogant. I have to be careful of him being uncontrollable after he becomes a big shot... Just imagine, this person drags our country into a mud pit for war. If the court wants to rely on him to fight again, he will be threatened. He is a Fujian man, with his loyalty, who can see through it?"

Li Yu turned around and said seriously: "There are some considerations. Lin Renzhao is a war pro-war faction. If I rely on him, I will have to fall into war with the Zhou court... Who supports the war, who sells his owners and seeks honor, and who go with the flow and only cares about their own fertile land and luxury houses?"

Zhou Xian was speechless when he heard his words.

Li Yu said: "All the forces in the country have their own ulterior motives, and they are like a mess. If they fail to sort out, they will start a hasty war. It will inevitably be difficult to coordinate and the country will be defeated faster!"

Zhou Xian asked softly: "The King thought that Zhou Jun and Zhou Xingfeng, the next target would be the Southern Tang Kingdom?"

"It goes without saying that, it's obvious." Li Yu said coldly, "But people like Lin Renzhao think too easily... or are too scheming. At first glance, it sounds so sensible, I won't be confused by him easily!"

Zhou Xian said: "The king must quickly promote some loyal civil and military officials and restore the situation. I hope the king and Guo Shao will be divided and defeated him."
Chapter completed!