Chapter Forty-Eight: The Gift Competition
The food that reached the mouth flew like this, I really want to greet the person who reminded the emperor, can't people go after eating?!
Fortunately, without me protesting, someone stood up and objected: "Your Majesty, there is no hurry to compete in the competition. ”
I looked in the direction of the voice, and saw that the person who spoke was a middle-aged man of forty years old, with eyebrows and eyes somewhat similar to Kou Huaizhun, and the seat he was in belonged to the Kou family, wasn't it Kou Huaizhun's father?
However, whether he is Kou Huaizhun or not Kou Huaizhun's father has little to do with me, since he has prevented the activity of going to the martial arts arena, then I will continue to eat!
"I heard that this time the Mei family handed over the birthday gift to the Mei family's eldest lady, and I even heard that the Mei family's eldest lady only brought a hundred gold coins with her when she went out, I was curious, what gift did Miss Mei prepare with a hundred gold coins?"
Hearing this, the beef soup I had just eaten almost spewed out, and everyone's curious, contemptuous, gloating, and so on looked at me, and even more sneering when they saw my embarrassed eating.
Strange Daddy glanced at the person who spoke lightly, and said to me: "Xiaoguo'er, Uncle Kou is very curious about your gift, let's talk about it, what gift did you give to the emperor?" ”
I swallowed the food in my mouth, calmly wiped the corners of my mouth, and then got up and said: "Back to Daddy, my daughter's birthday gift is a soft armor magic weapon, and I blame my daughter for being incompetent, I really can't give away a magic weapon that is too high-grade, and I ask my father to forgive my sins, and please also ask the emperor and the heads of the family not to laugh!" ”
How to say sister, I am also a person who has been rampant in the underworld for more than 250 years, although I look a little two on weekdays, but I am not ambiguous in business, I want to see my jokes, dream about it!
The strange father was very satisfied with my answer that he had handled it properly and left suspense, and his red lips outlined a beautiful arc.
Over there, Kou Huaizhun's father really followed the hook I threw and asked: "The magic weapon of less than 100 gold coins, I really want to see it, Brother Yanchao, I don't know if it's okay?" ”
Although he looks much older than Strange Daddy, don't be surprised, the two of them are indeed people of the same generation, but unfortunately, Strange Daddy's qualifications are amazing, and he is already a phantom master before he is thirty, and this one, who is nearly forty years old, is wandering in the early stage of the Great Spirit Master, and the head of the Kou family who is still pressing the early stage of the Phantom Master is getting farther and farther away from the Wonderful Father in terms of identity.
It's no wonder that there is always a sour taste in his words.
The strange father ignored him and glanced at me: "Xiaoguo'er? ”
I didn't care: "The gift has already been sent, if Uncle Kou wants to see it, he can only ask the gift officer to find out." ”
Seeing that the strange father ignored him, Kou Huaizhun's father's face stiffened for a moment, and he barely maintained a smile: "This little thing is not a problem!" ”
Hearing this, I subconsciously looked at the emperor on the dragon chair, under the bright palace lamp, the old emperor's face was sallow and ugly, but there was always a faint smile on his face, as if what happened below had nothing to do with him.
And in fact, Kou Huai's father's behavior of transgressing his subordinates is already suspected of contempt for the imperial power, and he can still laugh in this case, should I say that he is tolerant enough, or is he too scheming?
The official of the Ministry of Rites, who had just been in charge of recording the gifts, glanced at the emperor in embarrassment, and the emperor nodded, and the official of the Ministry of Rites answered "yes", picked up a large booklet with gilded characters from his side and walked to the center of the hall.
Opening the booklet, the gift Guan was about to speak, and the wonderful father said lightly: "Since you want to read it, let's read out everyone's gifts, let us all see it, and take advantage of this to understand how the officials have lived in the past year, how about my proposal, Your Majesty?" ”
An interested smile appeared on the emperor's sallow face: "This move is in harmony with my intentions." ”
The smile on Kou Huai's father's face stiffened again: "Gift officer, don't you want to read it yet?" ”
Under the gaze of the three big Buddhas, the gift official looked at the golden book with a trembling body, and read in a trembling voice: "Gaocheng City Lord, one Jade Guanyin, Yangcheng County Order, two South China Sea pearls......"
"Alright, alright!" Father Kou Huaizhun frowned and waved his hand: "Don't read these inconsequential people at the bottom, just read the gifts of the city lords of all levels, the major families, and the officials above the third grade of Shengjing." ”
Guangle is a vast country and a large number of cities, there are dozens of second-level cities alone, and there are countless third-level cities, if these people's birthday gifts are read once, I am afraid that they may not be able to read it until the end of the banquet.
The gift officer glanced at the emperor in embarrassment, and when he saw the emperor nodding, he turned the pages of the booklet with confidence and continued to read: "Hubu Shangshu, a pair of exquisite jade cups, a military Shangshu, and a ...... of Shu brocade."
After the long list of officials was finally read, he turned another page and continued to read highly: "Young Master Qin, a copy of the last song of the previous dynasty, two high-grade fine iron daggers of Young Master Kou, and two golden hairpins of Miss Mei Er's ruby and butterfly hairpins...... The head of the Qin family, a phoenix tail qin, the head of the Bao family, a rare telescope, the head of the Nangong family, a single copy of the Shixian Taibai, the head of the Kou family, a Qingfeng sword made of Xuantie ......"
A blue-edged sword made of Darksteel?
As far as I know, the dark iron is a good thing, the materials on the low-grade demonic beasts are as precious, if you use the dark iron with the magic crystal, there will be an eighty percent chance of creating a low-grade spirit weapon, and the other twenty percent chance of unsuccess is a character problem.
In my memory, the Kou family would also send some weapons to the emperor as a birthday gift in previous years, but there were no spiritual weapons in them.
Speaking of which, I would like to introduce that although the five major families are all great families split from the Qingxin faction, due to the different fields that the founders were good at at at that time, the direction of development was also different.
This point should be seen from the birthday gifts given by the five major families, the pianist is good at music, the people of the Bao family love to invent, the Nangong family is still a scholarly family in addition to cultivation, the Kou family is good at refining, as for the Mei family...... I can only say that the ancestor of the Mei family was an all-rounder, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and very good at refining weapons and medicines, but what he preferred to do was to do business......
However, the curiosity telescope? Are the heads of the Bao family sure they didn't travel from the global village of the 21st century?
My cranky thoughts were only for a moment, and Kou Huai's quasi-father couldn't wait to urge the gift officer: "What about the size of the Mei family?" ”
The gift officer cautiously glanced at my name on the gift list, as if relieved: "Miss Mei, a defensive magic weapon soft armor, grade, lower grade spiritual weapon!" ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar, and Kou Huai's father's face changed drastically, and he exclaimed: "How is it possible?!" ”
Even Daddy looked back at me in surprise, obviously not believing that I could come up with such a good thing, you know, my start-up capital is only a hundred gold coins, and this hundred gold coins also includes my coiling.
Digression: Collection 370, 30 away from 400 plus, Mo Mo Da ~~~