And these are just ordinary maids in the box.

This is the most advanced box, and there is a beautiful young woman similar to the old bustard, and after everyone is seated, the young woman Yingying asked with a smile: "A few sons dining, singing and dancing, listening to music and girls come up together, there is still a sequence." ”

Su Guo had already shouted skillfully: "According to the standard of Grade A, come up all!" ”

As he spoke, Su Guo had already produced a silver ingot of five taels, and the young woman picked it up from the ground with a smile.

Cai Jing was not far behind, and gave each of the girls in the box a piece of broken silver.

The young woman half-knelt on the carpet, picked up the brass pestle on the table, and struck the brass bell on the low table, and as the bell rang, several musicians and girls with musical instruments in their arms came in, saluted, and began to play.

Along with the music, seven dancers wearing transparent red veils walked in from outside the door, dancing gracefully with the music.

Zhang Bin's eyes are full of long clothes fluttering, gauze clothes flying, the ancient hot dance has its own incomparable place for later generations of glamorous dances, and this team of dancers and musicians are of a very high standard, even Zhang Bin is dazzling.

After a full stick of incense, the music suddenly stopped, like a torrential rain away and everything returned to silence, and the seven dancers bowed to the ground, their backs slightly undulating, obviously the dance just now was also extremely physical.

"According to the practice of this Fan Lou, we can choose the daughter of the attendant from these seven women, if you are not satisfied, you can also change people, Ziyu, you choose first!"

Although Zhang Bin lamented the luxurious and erosive life of the noble eunuchs of the Great Song Dynasty, he also knew that this time was not the time to be pretentious, and unceremoniously pointed the most beautiful one among the nine, the woman immediately thanked Zhang Bin with a grateful face, got up and walked over in small steps, snuggled next to Zhang Bin, and began to wait.

Zhang Bin was not stingy, and rewarded a piece of broken silver casually.

The others also chose their own ones, and the wonderful enjoyment began.

After the dance, another sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl walked out, wearing a veil, her looming appearance and posture made the eyes of the five people brighten, not to mention the face, I don't know how to grow at this young age, convex and backward, and the figure is not much better than the old bustard before.

The girl set up the piano case, and a guqin with a mottled appearance was placed on the piano case.

The quaint piano sounded, and a poignant and soft sound came from the strings, the sound of the piano was melodious, like a complaint, but there was a faint sense of bitterness in this tune, I don't know if the tune itself was so, or this woman integrated her emotions into it.

While listening to the sound of the piano, everyone began to drink and chat, Zhang Bin was the first to take the initiative to toast, and after everyone drank a few rounds of wine, their behavior became a little uninhibited.

"Don't hide it from you, my father told me when I went out today, after today's drink, I will go home to study hard and prepare for next year's spring exam, and it will not be so easy to come out and have fun later." Su Guo couldn't hide his words, and brought up the most worrying things in his heart first.

"That's right, we have already made meritorious deeds and taken the lead, but if we fail to pass the imperial examination, everything is useless." Sun Guodong looked emotional.

"To be honest, I don't know the bottom of my heart!" Zhang Santao has always shown that he attaches the most importance to and worries about the imperial examination.

Cai Jing didn't talk, and his hand kept touching the secret place on the girl next to him, making the girl's pretty face flush and gasping, Zhang Bin knew that the imperial examination was easy for Cai Jing.

Zhang Bin hesitated for a moment and said, "A few brothers, you have to prepare well for Jingyi to ask questions next." ”

When the four of them heard this, they were stunned, Cai Jing stopped in his hand and asked: "Ziyu, last time you joked that the imperial examination of poetry would become a question of Jingyi, wouldn't it be true!" ”

Zhang Bin said with a smile: "Don't ask me why I think so, if the four brothers can trust the younger brother, they can quietly put more effort into the Jingyi policy in advance, and they will have more or less the opportunity compared to others." ”

Su Guo asked in surprise: "Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, for hundreds of years, the imperial examinations have been mainly based on poetry, if the imperial court suddenly changes to the Jingyi policy, I'm afraid there will be many people who oppose it!" ”

Zhang Bin thought to himself that in history, your Lao Tzu Su Shi had the most fierce opposition, but in the end he was successfully reformed by Wang Anshi.

Cai Jing thought for a moment and said: "However, in terms of political affairs, poetry is indeed useless, Wang Xianggong and His Majesty are bent on being strong and pragmatic, and it is not impossible to carry out this reform." ”

Zhang Bin secretly praised in his heart, Cai Jing's insight was really extraordinary, and he nodded: "What Yuan Chang said is extremely true. ”

At this time, the sound of the piano stopped suddenly, and everyone turned their heads to look at the girl playing the piano, but the latter suddenly got up and walked a few steps closer to everyone, knelt directly in front of everyone with a flutter, and unveiled, but it was a beautiful girl, and it was rare to have a baby face.

Just when everyone was puzzled, the girl's face was pitiful, and her big black and beautiful eyes were even more teary, and before she could speak, the five of them couldn't help but feel pity.

"If you have any problems, just say it!" Zhang Bin said lightly, but he was not blinded by this woman's beauty and pity in his heart, and he did not make any guarantees.

The girl plucked up her courage and said: "The slave family is called Jiuniang, and the slave family wants to ask a few sons for help, don't let the slave family serve the Liao people." ”

Zhang Bin was stunned, but Cai Jing was already indignant and helpless, and said: "Ziyu, the Liao envoy arrived in Tokyo City in three days, according to the practice of previous years, in order to prevent the Liao envoy from making excuses, the imperial court has taken care of the Liao envoy's hospitality!" Dancing girls, singers, music girls, and prostitutes will choose the best from the major stores in the capital to send to the Liao mission. ”

Su Guo continued: "I heard that as long as the women sent to the Liao people, whether they are dancers or singers, or music girls, they will be treated as prostitutes by the Liao people, and they will be ruined and humiliated in every way. ”

Everyone was indignant, but they were silent for a while, because what Honglu Temple did was the will of the imperial court, and their petty officials couldn't change anything at all.

This is the price of not being able to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, to put it bluntly, the court has no confidence, what else can it do!

Do you want to kill the Liao envoy, I'm afraid that the Liao side is happy to let the Great Song Dynasty kill a Liao envoy, and then use this as an excuse to start a war.

Of course, with Zhang Bin's current fame, he is the No. 3 person in the appeasement division, if he asks to go to the door, most of the Honglu Temple will give him face, and he can save the woman named Jiuniang in front of him.