Chapter 885: Gao Xiangguo's Banquet

Yang Huairen received a high-standard reception from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Yang Huairen had no pressure, maybe he really felt too tired, and he slept until noon, and after bathing and changing clothes, only the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion said that the head of the family had come back from the court.

It happened to be a meal, and Gao Shengtai set up a banquet to entertain Yang Huairen, but no one accompanied him, and only Gao Shengtai and Yang Huairen dined in the main hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Yang Huairen looked at a few dishes on the table, they were all exquisitely made, but the number and amount of dishes were not much, ten dishes, four meat and four vegetables, plus two bowls of soup, it was the banquet for the Gao Xiangguo Mansion to receive the guests.

Yang Huairen doesn't feel that Gao Shengtai picks the door, maybe this is Gao Shengtai's hospitality habits, or the customs of Dali, and the taste of a few dishes, it is still good, very with the local characteristics of Dali.

Chicken, duck and fish are also available, the bait is not like the most common folk roast to eat, but made into a soup, the milk fan is not too oily, and the dough cake is stacked and steamed, there is a kind of Western pizza charm.

Chinese pay attention to talking about things at the dinner table, but it does not mean that Yang Huairen wants to question Gao Shengtai's "usurpation" at the dinner table, and Gao Shengtai seems to understand the purpose of Yang Huairen's trip to Dali Kingdom, so he will not first mention Yaxing, who swept everyone's meal.

An old man and a young man drank slightly, chatted about some customs and local interesting things, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Yang Huairen found that Gao Shengtai ate very little, and almost all of the ten dishes were invited to Yang Huairen to taste first, and then he symbolically moved his chopsticks to take a bite, and then he would not eat the second bite.

In the end, he used a small bowl of rice, and he was considered to have eaten it, and the whole table was basically eaten by Yang Huairen alone, he spent a lot of physical strength last night in the sky, sea and volcano, and he was really hungry.

Gao Shengtai smiled and watched Yang Huairen gobble up, and he didn't think he was rude, but felt that this young county prince from the Great Song Dynasty was different from ordinary Great Song officials, this person was very practical and didn't play with empty heads.

Seeing that Yang Huairen had eaten well, Gao Shengtai surprised Yang Huairen that he actually ordered his subordinates to bring the leftover meals to his sons to eat.

Yang Huairen couldn't help but be surprised, if an old man over sixty years old had a small amount of food, he could understand it, but he could give his leftovers to his son, wouldn't it be too frugal? Or is he putting on a show?

As the Xiangguo of Dali, although he has not yet established himself as the emperor, he is already the actual supreme power of Dali, he does not live in the palace, and he is frugal and outrageous, which is really unreasonable.

Gao Shengtai seemed to notice the change in Yang Huairen's face, and said with a slight smile, "In our Dali, food is not as abundant as that of the Great Song Dynasty, and people in many places are still worried about two meals a day, so no matter who is in the house, wasting food is the biggest sin."

In our customs, children enjoy the leftover food used by their parents, which is a sign of filial piety and respect for their elders, and if they are not given food, they will feel that they have not fulfilled their filial piety, which is also a sin.

As the prime minister of Dali, the old man naturally wants to set an example for the people of Dali. ”

Gao Shengtai said frankly, and Yang Huairen could only admire it, and nodded with a smile to express his apologies.

The food on the table was withdrawn, and the Pu'er tea with a strong aroma was brought up by the subordinates, and Gao Shengtai personally poured tea for Yang Huairen, and then asked, "I don't know that Yang Jungong came to Dali, but he was entrusted by the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Yang Huairen suddenly had a very complicated mood, he had very little contact with Gao Shengtai, but from these contacts, he found that this old man and before he came to Dali, from the initial impression formed from hearing about him, it was very different from what he had seen and heard after coming to Dali.

Gao Shengtai now gives him the impression that he is a personable old man, he speaks indifferently, behaves elegantly, lives frugally, is upright, and has a frank temperament.

Of course, you can't judge the character of a person based on his external performance, maybe he hides his heart very deeply and hides it well in front of an outsider?

Yang Huairen thought that since Gao Shengtai proposed it himself, there was no need for him to go around the bend, so he asked directly, "Don't hide it from Gao Xiangguo, His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty has given the kid the name of Lord Qincha, and he has to come to the southwest to inspect."

The kid thought to himself that I was also a royal eater in the Great Song Dynasty, but I didn't have much ability, and Your Majesty handed over such an important errand to me, and the kid was afraid that I would live up to Your Majesty's good intentions.

Later, His Majesty secretly left the boy behind and told him that this trip to the southwest was fake, and he secretly came to Dali to find out whether the current power structure was true or not.

The kid said in his heart that the boy couldn't do it, first, I was not familiar with Dali, and secondly, I didn't know anything about diplomacy and political affairs, how could I do such a complicated errand?

But the kid was favored by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and he couldn't do it if he didn't come, so he drove the ducks to the shelves, chased the rooster for eggs, and came so hard.

I think, in fact, the internal affairs of your Dali country, our officials in the Great Song Dynasty are just concerned about it, and they don't want to interfere more, the key is that no matter who is in charge of Dali, the relationship between our Song and Li should get along well, isn't it?

So the kid has been confused since he entered the border of Dali, and asked Gao Xiangguo to give the kid some advice. ”

Gao Shengtai will not take it seriously because Yang Huairen humbly calls himself a kid, or is as confused as he said, and he will not take him seriously, let alone look down on him, but listen to him seriously with a smile, and nod his head from time to time in agreement.

It's just that Lao Gao can have today's status, and he is not a clay sculpture, Yang Huairen pretended to be stupid, in his eyes, this kid is smart.

Like what happened in the secret passage outside the east gate last night, he changed his head and was a little incompetent, and it is estimated that he has died eight times, where can he sit here and play tricks with him?

Moreover, since he is the county prince of the Great Song Dynasty, he is still the county prince who was awarded the title of county prince because of his military exploits, and he was appointed by the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty as the Qin Mission, who wants to be a fool if he is all based on luck and has no real ability.

"Yang Jungong is humble, the old man has already heard that Yang Jungong is not only eight buckets high, but also has the best cooking skills in the world, and he is famous all over the world with only one fish on the Yan Tower;

Under the Qingping Pass in Tongyuan County, with thousands of border troops, he defeated 20,000 elites in Lituri in Xixiaye, and throughout the ancient and modern times, there are only a handful of such young heroes.

Yang Jungong is so wise and courageous, it is not an exaggeration to say that both civil and military, the old man sighs to himself, why bother to be so humble? ”