Chapter 978: Picnic (I)
The banquet in Yelu Bawotai, the atmosphere was very harmonious, Yang Huairen felt that the cook of the king of the Southern Courtyard should be Han, and a bowl of barley millet porridge was boiled very finely, and the taste was also good.
Yang Huairen naturally knew that this kind of picture of the harmonious coexistence of the Khitans and the Han people was just an illusion deliberately made by Yelu Bawotai, and he would not not know that this was deliberately made for him by others.
At the end of the banquet, Yelu Bawotai also personally sent Yang Huairen and others out of the gate of the South Courtyard, and said that a few days the Song envoy went north to Zhongjing, and he happened to go to Beijing to report on his work, so he asked Yang Huairen to go with him.
Yang Huairen didn't think there was anything strange about this at the time, until later......
At the beginning of March, the wind changed direction, the cold and dry northwest wind stopped, and the warm and humid southeast wind began to coat the whole city in a green gauze skirt.
The mission left the north gate of the Jinfu Mansion and continued to set off for the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and the traveling procession of the king of the South Courtyard was already waiting outside the north gate.
Regardless of whether Yang Huairen is happy or not, it is impossible to avoid walking with Yelu Bawotai, in fact, the two northbound teams are very large, and when they are on the road, everyone sits in their own cars, and Yang Huairen will not have any contact with Yelu Bawotai.
It's just that at noon and when he rests at night, Yelu Bawotai will always politely invite Yang Huairen to come over to have dinner together, Yang Huairen is naturally not good at refusing people's kindness, and feels that except for always listening to Yelu Bawotai's lame Chinese is a little spicy, nothing else.
In this case, Yang Huairen is not good to rub rice so old, it is impossible to go empty-handed, and it is not easy to cook on the journey, so he brought some cakes and snacks prepared in advance, as well as some fine wine, so he can't shorten his face.
Don't look at Yelu Bawotai's year of Dayan, but his appetite is very good, more than ten catties of a roast leg of mutton, he can make more than half of a meal, and there are also catties of wine.
He also liked the cakes and snacks sent by Yang Huairen very much, and just made his dessert after dinner, and soon made a whole basket, even so, after eating, Yelu Bawotai laughed and said that he was old and didn't eat as much as before.
Yang Huairen could only laugh on the side when he heard this, one smiled politely in response to Yelu Bawotai, and the second laughed because he felt that this old guy was so able to eat, and he ate so unhealthy, sooner or later he would burst his blood vessels.
Later, when he went back, the younger brother of Tianba who accompanied him was embarrassed, and sighed with a pout, "What kind of bullshit king is this Khitan, he can really eat his daughter, if he is in his thirties, he will really have a fight with the younger brother." β
The next day the weather was fine, and before noon, the two teams had reached the mouth of the four rivers of the Qidu River, and the northeast direction was the later Niulan Mountain.
The Qidu River is beginning to thaw at this time, the gurgling water of the river is a little clear, the various pebbles at the bottom of the river reflect the brilliant and colorful dazzling light, with the bright green on the Niulan Mountain in the distance, it really makes people feel good.
Yang Huairen guessed that Yelu Bawotai ate the cake and liked it very much, so he specially ordered someone to invite Yang Huairen to the river for a picnic again, and also ordered the person who came to pass the word to praise the cake that Yang Huairen brought yesterday.
Yang Huairen smiled and asked the messenger to go back and tell Yelu Bawotai that he would definitely arrive on time and bring the favorite cake of the king of the Southern Courtyard.
The messenger happily thanked Yang Huairen, and then ran back happily, leaving Yang Huairen to look at his legs as if he was holding a ball, running away in a posture uglier than a toad.
Yelu Bawotai actually looks quite rude in terms of appearance and dress, but Yang Huairen didn't expect him to be a very petty bourgeois person.
When Yang Huairen arrived, it was already noon, and Yelu Bawotai had already ordered a dry riverside to spread a large soft carpet with a diamond-shaped pattern, on which a circle of saddle-shaped futons was placed, and in the middle was surrounded by various kinds of roasted meat on a silver plate, as well as two pots of tea in long-legged pots and a few common dried fruits.
The sun is shining on the ground at this time, Yelu Bawotai and his wife and daughter have already arrived, it seems that the customs of the Khitan and the Han people are still slightly different, the Han people of this era will not bring their wives and daughters and the men next to them to have a picnic outside, and the Khitan people are not so particular.
Yelu Bawotai was sitting cross-legged on the soft carpet admiring the green mountains and beautiful waters, and when he saw Yang Huairen coming from afar, he waved at him.
Yang Huairen also politely hugged his fists from a distance, and after getting closer to see the three people sitting on the soft carpet, Yang Huairen was so shocked that he almost fell into the Qidu River.
On the right hand side of Yelu Bawotai sat his wife, dressed as a wealthy Khitan woman, who looked to be less than thirty years old, and should be just a favorite concubine of one of his attendants, and on his left hand, the girl who was also dressed in luxurious clothes was actually Hulun Erya - Halloween.
Yang Huairen's heart beat violently involuntarily, no matter what, he couldn't believe that Sister Ghost was actually the titular daughter of Yelu Bawotai, so the Khitan villain who forcibly married her mother in her life story was not Yelu Bawotai?
Then she is nominally the daughter of the king of the Southern Court of Liao, so isn't she a county lord of Liao?
Oh, I'll go, Yang Huairen said in his heart, this is too exciting, isn't the enemy of the ghost sister her adoptive father, by the way, since her mother had her first before she was forcibly married to Yelu Bawotai, what about it...... The green hat on Yelubawotai's bald head is really big enough, haha!
Yang Huairen tried his best to hide his surprise and excitement, and when he approached the soft carpet, he pretended to enjoy the beautiful landscape of early spring, and sighed, "This mountain and this water, with the warm sunshine, the scenery is so beautiful!" β
As he spoke, he peeked at Sister Ghost, and found that she was pretending to be a naΓ―ve Khitan sister, looking over with a smile on her face, but her eyes were as curious as if she had never seen Yang Huairen before.
Yang Huairen walked on the soft carpet, and Yelu Bawotai signaled him not to be polite, and sat down to talk.
Yang Huairen bowed slightly, and also found a futon directly opposite the Yelu Bawo platform and sat down cross-legged, "I have thanked His Excellency the King of the Southern Courtyard for his kindness, I don't know who these two are?" β
Yelu Bawotai introduced, "This is the king's beloved concubine Xiao, and this one here is the king's little daughter, Yelu Qijin." β
Xiao Shi and Sister Ghost bowed slightly at the same time and said, "I've seen the Song envoy, and the concubine is polite." β
Yang Huairen saw that they were all good gifts for Han women, so he hurriedly returned the salute, "I've seen the princess, I've seen the county lord." β
Sitting so close now, Yang Huairen didn't dare to peek at the ghost sister anymore, but he felt funny in his heart, the Khitan name of the ghost sister, even if it was too embarrassing, right?
What is the weight of Jerod? Who? Isn't it the bald head of Yelu Bawotai, you gave it to you, right? Ha ha......