Chapter 24: The dilapidated tiled house

The generals' welcome banquet was held as scheduled in the evening. It's set in Mayor Vortex's large backyard, where a large number of round tabletops are placed. To say that this backyard is really big, it is really hard to describe compared to those civilians.

Jiang Jingwen couldn't count how many round tables there were, but at a glance, she was quite sure that there were more than a hundred.

I heard that the mayor of the town also put the banquet here, because there has never been such a large area in the town.

Some of the dignitaries and nobles in Vortex Town came, especially those who were in high positions. Of course, there are many merchants who come and go here, and some of them come from afar.

It's no wonder, because there are a few incredible characters in Vortex Town, which is also a fact that everyone knows.

Since the mayor said that he was inviting Shen Mengting and some other generals who surrounded their homes, they were the top priority here. In the backyard, which almost fills the yard, one of the tables is placed closest to the front of the house. It was also as if it was deliberately separated from the other round tables, at a distance from the other round tables.

At that round table, Generalissimo Shen Mengting and Regent Lin Mingyuan were naturally sitting at the most opposite door, which gave them a feeling of being in the middle.

And Qian Hao and the others sat next to Shen Mengting, like a kind of edge feeling. However, as long as you sit at this round table, you also have a feeling of being in the center. Because the mayor of Vortex Town and a group of high-ranking officials were just sitting next to Lin Mingyuan.

Jiang Jingwen looked at her seat and found that she was facing away from the gate, that is, the rows of round tables behind her.

"Sitting here, can others only see my back?" Jiang Jingwen's eyes widened.

There were already a lot of guests at the round table at the back, all of them chatting, and there was a kind of end to coming to this table to talk.

Jiang Jingwen was warmed by this sense of excitement, and she thought that she was still in the cold barracks yesterday!

The banquet was unfolding in an orderly manner, and from time to time, a large number of people who came to be afraid of horses came to toast Lin Mingyuan and Shen Mengting.

Lin Mingyuan did not shy away from this, but Shen Mengting stuck to his bottom line.

"I'm not going to drink, it's still a complicated situation and we can be in danger at any time, so I have to keep my head up at all times. Whenever someone came up to her and held out a small shot glass full of sake, she would respond like this.

Shen Mengting is the generalissimo of Saran, and no one will question her actions. So those who came to toast naturally had no choice but to go home.

"Ah! I really admire Marshal Shen's self-discipline! Stick to your own principles and don't plan to compromise!" The mayor of Uzumaki Town stood up and drank the sake from his cup in front of him.

"Mayor Li, you're welcome!"

"Ah, no, no, no! The Generalissimo doesn't have to say that, I, an old man, really admire you!"

Looking at the appearance and actions of this mayor, Jiang Jingwen came up with the title of 'old fritter' in her heart. It seems that the mayor's emotional intelligence must be very high on weekdays!

Shen Mengting kept putting an embarrassed smile on her face, and she could sense that she still had something on her mind. It's no wonder that Sauron's army is still on the border, and the crisis shows no signs of lifting.

"Hey, I said, that kid...... Before...... Before...... Why is it so abnormal?" Shen Jun suddenly asked secretly, and the 'kid' in his mouth naturally referred to Zhao Yu.

Qian Hao twitched as if he had come back to his senses, "Ahhhh

Looking at the conversation between the two, Jiang Jingwen couldn't help but think of Zhao Yu's strange behavior in the face of the tiled house when she first arrived in Vortex Town. It was still midday, but now it was evening, and he still hadn't shown up.

'He won't encounter any accidents, right?' Jiang Jingwen began to worry in her heart, and she looked at Shen Mengting unashamedly.

Shen Mengting must have heard Qian Hao's conversation at the moment, but she unexpectedly did not participate in the conversation.

"But I wondered, was there anything special about him about that tiled house? Why did he do that? And he had been here? He knew it very well?"

After Shen Jun's inquiry, Qian Hao also seemed to cheer up, "Huh?

"Of course! Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that he has been here. But why is it ...... What would you do to that tiled house?" Shen Jun seemed to be completely confused, and his hands pressed directly to his temples.

"Hey, I said you two, what are you whispering about?" Shen Mengting suddenly asked.

In fact, she was knowingly asking, and she had already included all the conversations between the two of them, but it wasn't that she didn't want to respond to anything.

"It's me who should say 'hey'!" Qian Hao hurriedly leaned towards Shen Mengting next to him, "Hey! You're too weird! You usually seem to care about Zhao Yu very much, why is that kid like this today, you are completely indifferent?"

Shen Mengting instinctively picked up her small wine glass, which was a high-end wine glass with a silver color and a pattern on the wall of the glass. The moment her hand touched the cup, she felt the meaning of preciousness.

It seems that the life of the officials here is quite nourishing! Shen Mengting couldn't help but have such an idea. She felt more and more that it was the right thing to do to come to Vortex this time, risking a possible crisis.

She didn't even feel what was in the glass, she just poured it into her mouth.

"Ah......h

Oops! Why are you so careless? Shen Mengting looked at the wine glass that had been emptied by her in a daze, and directly put it down angrily.

"Sister Mengting, it seems that you are still very worried about Zhao Yu now!" Jiang Jingwen lowered her head and looked at Shen Mengting with a roll of her eyes.

Shen Mengting's current mood is still quite confused, as can be seen from the fact that she forgot what the wine glass was just now and drank it blindly.

"I'm not indifferent, I just think that Zhao Yu's kid is already twenty-one, and there is anything for him to face alone. All I can do to help him is help him when he can't figure it out the most. What else can I say?"

Qian Hao's body shrank back after hearing this, and there were a few dry blinking movements, "But...... But don't you think it's strange why he behaved like that dilapidated tiled house?"

After a long silence, Shen Mengting finally decided to take a deep breath. Her breath was inhaled for a long time, and then slowly exhaled. Judging from such an action, she has a great tendency to expose everything.

"Alas, it's not that I don't want to help him!, but this matter ......" Shen Mengting rarely showed hesitation.

"What the hell is going on?"

Shen Mengting glanced at Qian Hao quickly, and looked at Shen Jun and Jiang Jingwen together, "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything about this matter, but now you all want to know, then I'll talk about it!"

Shen Mengting began to talk about Zhao Yu's relationship with this town. Of course, he was born here, and that the tiled house was his former home, and that his mother died in it at the hands of the Saurons.

"Ahh

Shen Jun and Jiang Jingwen also stared at each other, showing great surprise.

The noise made by the other people in the banquet was loud and clear, but Shen Mengting's soft whispering was also very penetrating.

"Anyway, you want to ask me if I'm worried? I'm really worried! But he can only get out of this situation on his own! Besides, I think he's been out of here for so long, and wants to be alone in his former home a little longer. That's why I didn't bother him!"

"Oh...... So that's the case!" Jiang Jingwen nodded slightly. At the same time, there was another sentence stirring in her heart: In fact, you are still very worried about Zhao Yu, as can be seen from the careless drinking of sake just now.

"Alas, I always thought he was a stupid person! But I didn't expect so many things to accumulate in my heart!" Qian Hao couldn't help but fold his arms, and even his sitting posture became a little crooked.

"Hey!Qian Hao!Don't look down on people!Maybe that kid is smarter than you!" Shen Mengting raised one of her eyebrows.

To be honest, this sentence still caught Qian Hao a little off guard, and he almost fell off the chair. However, recalling that he was almost killed by Zhao Yu, he also had a sense of fear.

"But, Sister Mengting!" Jiang Jingwen's head lowered one step closer, which caused her jaw to hit the table, "I don't know when he will be able to come out of the predicament?

The expression on Jiang Jingwen's face was also quite depressed, she was indeed very, very sympathetic to Zhao Yu.

Shen Mengting also sighed deeply for this, "Yes! I really hope he comes out!"

"Hey, but I'm thinking, that kid won't have any accidents, ......right?" Shen Jun looked left and right in a panic, "because he was too sad to do some self-harm!"

"Phew, what are you talking about in the crow's mouth?" Qian Hao made a 'spit' insult to it.

But this time, Shen Jun surprisingly didn't fight back, he instead stretched out a finger solemnly, "I think that kid is very weak!

Shen Mengting thought for a while, and her eyes moved, "I think it should be impossible! Since he has a deep hatred of the sea of blood on his back, I think even if he wants to find any short-term vision, it should be after revenge!" Her body was also relieved, "So he shouldn't have any big deal now!"

"It's just that I think ah, Sister Mengting! Zhao Yu, what is he doing in the tiled house now?

"Hah! I think it's possible, he's always in a daze anyway!" Qian Hao made a casual joke.

Shen Mengting rolled her eyes when she heard this, and imagined a scene Zhao Yu sat in the tiled house and cried, this sitting was an afternoon, and there was no sense of coming out of sadness.

Shen Mengting exhaled deeply, she thought to herself if she should at least send someone to the tile house to greet Zhao Yu?

"Well, but anyway, I really hope he recovers soon. How dilapidated that tiled house is! It's too sad to stay there, it's not as lively as here!Look!" Jiang Jingwen pointed to the scene in the distance again.

Indeed, this banquet was relatively successful, at least the atmosphere was okay!

"Sister Mengting! I think you should send a small soldier to that tiled house and call Zhao Yu! Otherwise, I guess he won't know when he will come out of there? Besides, I really hope that everyone will always be together. Chen Tianhao couldn't come because he had to go out to take care of the affairs of the guard tower. Now that Zhao Yu is absent because of some personal matters, I really feel a little lonely. ”

Jiang Jingwen's tone was quite sincere, and Shen Mengting could also hear the meaning of pleading. However, she still felt that it would be better for Zhao Yu to calm down more. At least for his age, many things can no longer be helped by others to get out.

"Oh! You're exaggerating, aren't you!" Qian Hao stretched out an index finger and shook it slowly in front of his eyes from time to time, "There are two people who are not there, but aren't there still us?"

Shen Jun also shouted "oops" with great cooperation, and raised his arm, as if a student was answering a teacher's question, "Yes, yes, yes, there are two of us here, why do you want to watch those two stuffy people?"

"That's it!"

Seeing that the two living treasures began to flamm again, Shen Mengting was no longer ready to pay attention to them. She snorted at Jiang Jingwen, "Jingwen, don't worry! If Zhao Yu doesn't return to the team tomorrow, I will go to him personally!"

"Ahh

"But, anyway, I'm not going to leave him alone. It's just ......" Shen Mengting lowered herself a little, and when she lifted it again, she looked up at the rows of desktops in the distance, "It's just that I have more important things to do now!"

"Oh, something more important?" Qian Hao also put down the arm that hooked Shen Jun when he heard this.

This made Shen Jun have no time to react, and he twisted his neck in disobedience, and even his mouth was tightened.

"Yes, I won't hide it from you......" Shen Mengting was about to say something, but after parting her eyes to her right, she quickly approached the left side headed by Qian Hao.

On the right are Lin Mingyuan and an elderly official from Vortex Town. Lin Mingyuan didn't need to guard against anything, but Shen Mengting still didn't want the elderly mayor to know about some of the things they were about to do.

Therefore, Shen Mengting still chose to tell the situation quietly to tell her thoughts.

"The reason why I accepted the invitation of Vortex Town to participate in some kind of banquet is actually to do two things!" As she spoke, she also reached out and made a 'two'.

"Oh?" Qian Hao listened very seriously, "two things?

"One ......" Shen Mengting deliberately paused, interspersed with throat clearing movements, "It is to increase the prestige of our soldiers in the Yokoga barracks." Imagine bringing back the message that the townspeople worship us and praise us, and tell the other soldiers about it, and instill that if you fight to the death against the invading enemy, you can get the support of the common people. Can the soldiers not be happy when you say that? Won't their morale rise? As long as the morale remains high, I have the confidence that I can defeat the enemy!"

Shen Mengting said very excitedly, but the words 'on the contrary, if morale is low, you must not be able to defeat the enemy', she received it in her heart in time.

After hearing this, everyone trembled, as if their eyes were about to fall out.

Especially Qian Hao, he also showed his admiration, "Ah! I can't think of you...... You're so thoughtful?"

"Of course! Since I am the commander of the three armed forces, I must not consider everything to the troops!" Shen Mengting looked quite proud, "And with the current situation, I think the first idea has been completed nine times." Now, when we leave Vortex tomorrow, we can go and tell our brothers in the camp about the matter!"

Everyone began to nod their heads continuously, and they knew that what Shen Mengting said was true.

"And what about the second one?" Shen Jun asked as if he had thought of something, and suddenly asked in a hurry.

Shen Mengting seemed to be selling Guanzi, and after she hooked her mouth and smiled, she lowered her head one step closer, "What about the second ......one?"

She began to say the second thing she wanted to do. In fact, these two are the most important things for her, but she is not confident in whether she can implement them.

She muttered a lot of words, and the expressions on everyone's faces were even more surprised, and Jiang Jingwen's face was even a little pale.

After Shen Mengting finished speaking, five minutes had passed.

"What...... What do you mean...... Ahh......h It's also too ...... Too...... That's it!" Qian Hao was scratching his hair vigorously, "I didn't expect you to have such a mind!"

"yes, that's too ...... Too that...... Oops...... "Shen Jun also wanted to find some words to describe what he had heard. But just like Qian Hao, he couldn't find the adjectives he should have.

"Sister Mengting, I'm not questioning anything, but as far as you just proposed, this is ......."

"I know you think it's incredible, but in the current situation, this method should be tried. In the face of an enemy that is so much stronger, we must use all available resources!" Shen Mengting's voice unconsciously increased.

"That being said, that's true! but...... Are you sure your idea can be implemented?" Qian Hao cast a suspicious look at Shen Mengting.

"Whether it can be implemented or not, you will only know if you really do it!" Shen Mengting began to straighten her posture, and she was about to complete the 'second' thing.

Although she also knows that this thing may be a taboo. But in order to win this war, she must try whatever methods and things she does.