Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Banquet
By the time Zhu Yan had cleaned up her mood, Xue Jingyan had already pulled her to sit down at the table.
The dishes are really full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, birds and beasts, and it can be seen from one or two dishes that are obviously not produced in Muzhou, that the people who treat them are really very attentive.
The injury on Xue Jingyan's right arm has healed for more than a month, so there is no need to worry about suffering this delicious food and wine today.
I don't know what the people at the banquet think, but they can still find a beautiful woman in the wilderness, Zhu Yan looked at Xue Jingyan's face that suddenly cooled down, and he couldn't help but laugh in his heart.
The woman wore an apricot yellow shirt, perhaps because of the summer, which was extraordinarily light and faint in some places. Ahem, that's too blatant. Especially in front of everyone, even if Xue Jingyan wants to do something, he is embarrassed.
"Get out!" He let the smiling woman leave without any pity.
The woman's face was a little shocked, and in the blink of her eyes, countless crystal tears fell, Kan was pitiful, but it was a pity that the object of her charm seemed to have not noticed at all, just looked at her coldly.
The woman seemed to finally understand her situation, and finally saluted Xue Jingyan, squatted down and said, "Qing'er is rude today, I just hope to see her son in Mucheng in the future." No, the child's temperament is extraordinary, how can he take a fancy to Qing'er's posture like a willow! It's Qing'er's mistake, Qing'er quits...... "Finally, Ai Ai retreated, and before going out, she looked at him charmingly.
Tsk, it's quite scheming, just one sentence, and her name four times. When squatting down, Zhu Yan also saw a white skin on Miss Qing'er's chest, if Xue Jingyan saw it, it should be clearer. It's a pity that at that time, Xue Jingyan just looked away and didn't see it at all.
Qing'er just saw that this Xue Gongzi was surrounded by all the officials and was flattered by them, she just thought that she was a big man, and she only thought that if she hooked up with him, she wouldn't have to worry about it for the rest of her life. It's a pity that this boy is not at all like the stinky man who couldn't walk when he saw her.
She wondered if it would be this person who wanted to get away with it, but she knew that these people who came out to have fun didn't need her true feelings, and she hadn't reached that brainless point yet.
Alas, it's a pity, that son, can't look down on himself. This son is very good-looking, and he seems to be very rich and has status, but he is the person they yearn for the most. I don't know if the person who invited me will be angry, but I can't help it. Even the appearance of pear blossoms with rain can't attract his attention, and he doesn't know when this man will be moved.
She glanced at Zhu Yan before going out, and thought to herself, since she was not interested in a mature woman like her, did she prefer a younger one? Thinking about it this way, the anger that his charm didn't work wonders also received a little. She didn't know that Zhu Yan was just Xue Jingyan's apprentice.
The people at the table were a little pale, feeling that they had lost their face, but they didn't want to think about whether their kindness should be accepted or not.
Li Xiangyun looked at Xue Jingyan who was expressionless, and then looked at Zhu Yan who was looking clear on the side, as if he understood something in his heart, he thought that Xue Gongzi must not be able to put his face down in front of the newly accepted apprentice. You know, he invited the Oiran of the Charm Pavilion, and others can't see her yet.
He was a little hesitant in his heart to comfort her first, and then thought that the person in front of him was more important, so he said: "Xue Gongzi, Qing'er just admires Xue Gongzi, if there is anything wrong, please forgive me." A cup of Xiaguan respects the son! Please also invite the young lady to dinner. ”
Xue Jingyan didn't say anything about Li Xiangyun's self-proclaimed subordinate official, he just looked at the wine glass in front of him for a long time, and only drank the wine in the cup in front of him when Li Xiangyun was a little angry.
Zhu Yan didn't pay attention to their intrigues, and when Xue Jingyan moved his chopsticks, he began to fill his stomach. Even if something really goes wrong with the Xue family in the future, her current status won't help much. If you talk to Xue Jingyan now, people may only think that they are worrying about the sky, and they still have to wait.
Xue Jingyan saw that she only sandwiched a few dishes in front of her, and knew that because she was a little short, she couldn't eat like usual, and she had to maintain her demeanor, so she couldn't clip the food farther away. He stood up with a smile, ignoring the surprised eyes of the Muzhou officials, and directly put the dishes into the Zhuyan bowl.
"Thank you, Master." Zhu Yan smiled and immediately ate the dish that Master had brought over. There are some dishes that she has never eaten in her life, but unfortunately it is a little inappropriate to burn them here, and the good taste of some dishes is not fully expressed. After all, this is just a post station, what a great chef can be.
However, Zhu Yan is not so pretentious, some of them are good, at least better than what they ate when they were in a hurry.
As for Xue Jingyan, he grew up in fine clothes and jade food since he was a child, although now he is roaming the rivers and lakes, and he is not as comfortable as staying in Xue Mansion in the past, but it is still easy to want something.
Because it was easy to get, these Muzhou officials did everything possible to find the delicacies that they didn't put in Xue Jingyan's heart, but when they saw Zhu Yan eating so happily, they thought that the other party hadn't eaten anything delicious in the past few years, and she should let her taste it in the future.
He still remembers that the pig's feet of the Li family in the capital are particularly delicious, and the first product of Tianxiang Lou is also a must, which is made of peony flowers, and the honey roast duck in Tianweilou also makes him remember the taste to this day.
He wrote down in his heart a few places where he would take Zhu Yan to eat in the future, and he also began to chew and swallow slowly. He thought to himself, this table of dishes is not cheap, and he doesn't know how many people have looted the fat and ointment on the table, and he is embarrassed to say that he paid out of his own pocket. Although Taizu cut through the chaos quickly when the country was founded, he killed a large number of corrupt officials, but there is a saying that the flowing water is not corrupt, the household hub is not beetle, and there are three years of Qing Governor's Mansion and 100,000 snowflakes of silver, no matter when the corrupt officials are always killed.
Although Taizu has done the criminal law to the extreme, there is no corresponding solution, and it only slightly deters those people for a while. To be honest, I heard that the situation in the first few years of the founding of the People's Republic of China was also good. But as time passed, it seemed that the previous cycle had begun. The only thing to be thankful for is that now these corrupt officials are also afraid of being caught as exemplars, and they are a little more hidden.
But Xue Jingyan also has some power in his hands because of his father, so he can naturally know that there are some problems in Muzhou's officialdom, which is why he wants to come to Muzhou.
After eating and drinking, Zhu Yan was a little sleepy, so Xue Jingyan asked her to send her to rest.
After Zhu Yan left, the officials invited Xue Jingyan to the hall, and a small official had a good eye to serve tea on the ground, and then quietly withdrew.
This time, it was not Li Xiangyun who came forward, but a civil official named Xu Xuan who stood up and said, "I wonder if Gongzi Xue is here, is he on the order of the regent?" I wonder if the lower officials can help? If you are sent, you will die! ”
The welcome in the words was obvious, Xue Jingyan frowned, picked up the tea bowl, lifted the lid of the tea bowl, and blew into the clear tea inside.
Xu Xuan froze there, and some couldn't get off the stage.
At this time, Xue Jingyan spoke, he looked around and said, "I didn't pay attention before, why, didn't Liu Zhizhou come to greet me?" You have all received the news, so it is not that Liu Mingxu is a magistrate who doesn't know the news of my coming. ”
Xu Xuan is a spirit, I don't know how to answer this, could it be that people are royalists, and even the regent is a little disdainful, and they will come to greet you, the sixth son of the Xue family, who is rumored to be not very favored at home all year round? So, he looked at Li Xiangyun.
Li Xiangyun said with a somewhat gloomy expression: "Lord Liu has actually already known the news of Xue Gongzi's arrival, but unfortunately, it is a pity that he is in poor health, and he has to drag his sick body to deal with government affairs, so he really doesn't have time to come." But Lord Liu told his subordinates that he must entertain Xue Gongzi well, otherwise he would be the only one who asked. I had no choice but to take over the task given to me by Lord Liu, and I just hope that Gongzi will not be weird. ”
"Humph!" Xue Jingyan slammed the tea bowl in his hand, the tea splashed everywhere, and then a pair of phoenix eyes looked at him coldly, "Lord Li has such a big face!" The girl just now asked me for forgiveness, and I don't know where the vulgar powder came from, and now she wants me to forgive me. The sixth son of my dignified Xue Mansion, why did he let a small Zhizhou come to see me, and he was so condescending? Sick? Do you think I'll believe it! ”