Today, due to the sudden arrival of the Great Qin envoy, because of a massacre, the entire Yue royal court is not only frightened, but also full of a very aggrieved joy in this panic, because to welcome the envoys of the Great Qin Emperor, the Yue King announced the slaughter of cattle and sheep, so that many royal families and princes, tribal leaders held a huge welcome banquet together.

Therefore, under the afterglow of the sunset, on the grassland with flowers and plants blooming around the entire lake, groups of Yueshi people rushed back and forth, hundreds of slaughtered cattle and sheep were cut and put on the fire to start barbecuing, and streams of cooking smoke rose in the beautiful grassland, mixed with the aroma of barbecue and mare's milk wine, and the whole royal camp looked lively.

In the huge royal tent, a new sheepskin carpet was laid anew, and groups of Yueshi maidens dressed in new clothes placed the tableware and food for the banquet, rough pottery plates, pitch-black horn cups, some unknown nuts in the simple wooden bucket, mare's milk wine in the leather bags painted with abstract patterns, and large pieces of roasted beef and lamb chops were sent into the big tent like flowing water.

On the main seat in the center of the royal tent, there is the king of the Yue clan wearing a fur robe, on the left hand side sits a group of tribal leaders such as King Zuoping and King Nantu, on the right hand side sits Li Shun and several Daqin officials who came with him, and there are more than ten seats in the remaining more than ten seats where several royal families and princes are sitting.

The Yue's maidens went back and forth between the wine tables, filling the horns of mare's milk wine for everyone, and with the sound of a clanging huqin pipa, a group of Yue's dancers in short clothes and short skirts began to dance in the center of the royal tent to cheer up the wine feast.

Smelling the slightly rancid mare's milk wine, looking at a large lump of crude black barbecue, and looking at the rough and simple utensils on the table, Li Shun and several Daqin officials all frowned in unison.

The so-called delicacies on this table, except for a white jade plate containing salt and a crude silver knife, are simply like old objects dug out of a cemetery in the Central Plains a few years ago.

You must know that now Daqin has begun to use fine porcelain, and even the palace and some princes and princes have begun to use crystal glass tableware, ordinary porcelain can be seen almost everywhere in Xianyang families, even if these items are very expensive, but there are still a few window dressings, especially the official class, if there are not a few pieces of porcelain and a set of teapots and tea sets at home, they will inevitably be laughed at by their peers, even if it is the pottery used by the people in the countryside, it is better than these rough pottery plates at the moment.

If the craftsmen of Daqin fired the pottery into this forced sample, they would definitely not be able to sell it, not only would they not be able to sell it, but they would also be punished by officials, and they would even be beaten by their peers, this level is really embarrassing for the craftsmen of Daqin.

But at the moment, Li Shun and the others have to admit that according to the scale and level of this banquet, this should basically be the best utensils of the Yueshi people.

Because each of their envoys had a jade plate and a silver table knife in front of them, and in front of the other tribal leaders and even the royal family, there were only ordinary pottery plates and copper table knives, and the styles of the knives were all kinds of different sizes, long and short, straight and curved, just like a grocery store owner entertaining guests.

King Yue put an extra plate made of gold in front of him, but the roughness of the workmanship made Li Shun couldn't help but tremble a few times.

This level of craftsmanship is simply not flattering, and such a large lump of gold has been wasted in vain.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor for our Yueshi people to come to the Yueshi today, let us raise a glass to welcome the envoy!" The king of the Yue clan sat in his place, raised the horn cup in his hand and said loudly.

The king of the Yue clan spoke in the Yueshi language, and the interpreter who was sitting between Li Shun and several officials hurriedly translated it.

"Huh~~" The people in the king's tent raised their horns almost at the same time and looked at Li Shun and the others together.

Li Shun and several officials had no choice but to twitch and raise their wine glasses together.

"Thank you King Yue for your hospitality, King Yue is so gracious, after going back, the envoy will definitely inform His Majesty the First Emperor of Great Qin about this matter, Your Majesty must be very happy, everyone, please~"

After Li Shun finished speaking, he drank it all after covering his face in his sleeve robe, and then turned the horn cup over to the center, indicating that he had finished drinking.

"Haha, the messenger is refreshing!"

The king of the Yue clan said it in the Central Plains dialect this time, and then he also took the wine glass and drank it all, and the rest of the tribal leaders and royal families who accompanied the wine banquet also drank the wine and began to pick up the knife to cut the meat and eat the meat and laugh, and the whole big tent was instantly lively, noisy like a vegetable market.

"Ahem~ too ...... It's so hard to drink! The interpreter sitting next to Li Shun covered his mouth and kept coughing.

"This wine smells sour, it's really hard to swallow, if you drink two more glasses, I'm afraid the lower official will vomit!" Another official also frowned, pinched his throat and whispered.

"Exactly, this mare's milk wine has a rancid smell of water, I'm afraid that I will have diarrhea tomorrow, I don't know if the accompanying doctor has brought antidiarrheal medicine!"

Li Shun secretly twisted his sleeve robe full of wine under the desk and said, "It's really hard to swallow, it seems that we can only take out the wine we brought in advance!" ”

"We brought our own wine?" The interpreter opened his mouth wide, and a sour smell of mare's milk wine erupted from his mouth, and Li Shun, who was rushing, covered his nose.

"Nonsense, in addition to the ordinary red wine of Fan's Winery, Qinghe Hou also specially asked me to bring three Qinghe wines, saying that they were for the Yue Clan's royal family, hehe, I will definitely not know about drinking a few bottles of Hou Ye secretly!"

Li Shun laughed dryly, and stood up with a wave of his sleeve robe.

The people of the Yue clan, who were drinking and eating meat enthusiastically in the king's tent, all raised their heads and looked over, not knowing why the envoy of Great Qin suddenly stood up.

In the habit of the Yueshi people, it is very impolite to stand up during the banquet, and the guests can only leave the table when the host is full of wine and food and announces the end of the banquet.

"Thank you very much for the hospitality of the Yue Clan's banquet, when we left Xianyang, the First Emperor asked us to also bring our Great Qin's wine, and today I just took this opportunity to dedicate our wine to the Yue Clan King and you!" Li Shun smiled at the Yue Clan King and said.

Wen Bupo, who was sitting beside the Yue Clan's king, changed his face slightly, and quickly translated Li Shun's words aloud.

There was an incomparably silent silence in the entire king's tent for a moment, everyone put down the wine glasses and table knives and meat pieces in their hands, and many people's faces were extremely ugly, even the face of the Yue Clan King, who had been smiling, instantly became gloomy.

This is a naked slap in the face.

Do others bring their own drinks when they are treated?

"Bang~" A burly, tall and red-haired tribal leader glared at Li Shun angrily, and roared loudly in his mouth.

"What do you mean?" Li Shun turned his head to look at the interpreter with a confused face.

"My lord, he said that we looked down on them, offended the king of the Yue clan, and asked us to apologize to the king of the Yue clan." The interpreter whispered.

"No, no, don't be angry!" Li Shun waved his hand again and again, and then said to the king of the Yue clan, "The king of the Yue clan is grateful, and we are grateful, but the so-called exchange of courtesies, how can such a lively banquet be without the wine of the Central Plains, the envoy just wants to take out the wine he brought and take this opportunity to let the king of the Yue clan and the leaders taste it!" ”

Wen Bupo translated Li Shun's words aloud again, and the atmosphere in the king's tent eased slightly, at least he didn't mean to be offended when he heard Li Shun's meaning.

"Great King, the Great Qin Envoy may just not understand my Yue Clan's etiquette!" King Zuoping whispered to King Yue.

The gloomy face of the King of the Yue Clan slowly relaxed, and he nodded slightly and said, "Since the envoy still has fine wine, then I also want to taste the difference between it and my Yue's mare's milk wine, and ask the envoy to take out the fine wine of Daqin!" ”

"King Yue, wait a minute!" Li Shun sat down with a smile and ordered an official to go out, and soon moved in two tightly covered wooden boxes with a few forbidden soldiers on their backs.

"Open!" Li Shun commanded.

"Whoa!"

Several forbidden soldiers ripped open the cowhide wrapped on the outside of the wooden box, and opened the lock with a few clicks.

"Wow~~"

As the wooden box opened, there was a violent commotion in the king's tent.

One of the wooden boxes was a neatly arranged porcelain vase, and the other box was not clear because it was all corn, and I didn't know what it contained, but just the white and smooth bottleneck of the porcelain vase that was exposed made everyone couldn't help but marvel.

"Stand down!"

Li Shun waved his hand, several forbidden soldiers clasped their fists and saluted and then withdrew from the king's tent, Li Shun personally walked to the front of the wooden box, reached out and took out a delicate and smooth porcelain bottle, the snow-white bottle body also has painted flowers, plants, birds and fish patterns, and there are four ancient seal characters written on Qinghe wine.

Li Shun raised the Qinghe wine in his hand to signal around, and under the reflection of the burning oil candles around the tent, this exquisite porcelain bottle seemed to be the most beautiful treasure in the world, exuding a colorful and attractive light.

"King Yue, this is the best grape wine in our Great Qin, called Qinghe Fine Wine, each bottle is comparable to the same weight of gold, this envoy was entrusted by the Great Qin Emperor to envoy Yue, so he also brought this most valuable wine to express respect for the King of the Yue Clan and all the tribes of the Yue Clan, absolutely no offense......"

Li Shun walked in front of the Yue Clan King as he spoke, and put the Qinghe Liquor in his hand on the Yue Clan's desk.

At this time, everyone's eyes in the king's tent had already focused on this exquisite wine bottle, and even Wen Bupo forgot to translate Li Shun's words, and looked at this exquisite wine bottle scorching in the candlelight, speechless.

The king of the Yueshi clan knew the Central Plains dialect, so he naturally heard Li Shun's words clearly, stared at the painted porcelain bottle tightly for three minutes, and then took a long breath and picked up the porcelain bottle to grope and watch repeatedly, and then slowly put down the wine bottle after a few minutes and said: "Such a beautiful wine container, I think it must be the best wine in the world, the heart of the Great Qin Emperor This king is grateful, come to the people, exchange jade cups with the king and the messenger, this king wants to taste the Qinghe wine sent by the Great Qin Emperor!" ”