Chapter 114: Eating, Drinking, and Merry

When everyone arrived, the banquet began, and Hong Tao finally saw what it meant to serve three dishes on a ten-year wine. However, this time it is not a separate meal system, and it has become a large plate of food, it is estimated that the environment is different, if this kind of banquet is everyone bows their heads and eats the food on their own plates, it is inevitable that it will be a little deserted. Wine over three rounds of dishes over five flavors, the origin of this sentence is estimated to be the Song Dynasty, but it should be changed to wine over three rounds of dishes over six flavors, this standard can only be regarded as mid-range, according to Luo Youde's pomp, that is, wine over three rounds of dishes over nine flavors.

At first, everyone was not very familiar with it, and the table was a little deserted, and it was not very effective to rely on Luo Youde to support him left and right. At this time, the three girls played the role of a catalyst, and they pretended to be stupid and cute on the side to provoke the topic, as long as someone followed along, it would be easy to do. After a few sips of wine, Hong Tao began to sell his mouth again, starting with sesame oil, all the way to Carl's hometown of interesting facts, and then turning back to his hometown of Australia, anyway, he didn't say a word about the Great Song Dynasty. It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but he doesn't dare to say it, he is afraid that if he says something wrong, he will be pulled out and beheaded.

In later generations, Hong Tao's mouth belongs to the existence that can say that the dead are alive, and in the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago, it was simply against the sky, you just ask, there is nothing he doesn't know, just talk to a few little ladies about whether it is better for a woman to have a child by caesarean section or a natural birth. As long as his mouth plays normally, you don't want to be quiet at the dinner table, and you can't be lively if you don't want to. At this time, you must be careful, don't stuff too much food into your mouth, otherwise he will shake out a burden and keep you spraying a table.

"Hou Dutou, I wonder if the Jin people in the north are still heading south?" When everyone was talking and laughing, and changed from strangers to acquaintances, Hong Tao took the topic back from the boundless nonsense, and asked a question that he was very concerned about seemingly casually. It's been more than a year since he came to the Great Song Dynasty, and it's still unclear what the movements of Jin and Mongolia are, and he didn't have a place to inquire before, but now he finally has a chance, and he must ask.

"The Jin State didn't care about fighting with the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Mongols are attacking them, and the Jin State has moved the capital to Bianjing, and even their hometown Liaodong has been occupied by the Mongols." Hou Fang did not hesitate to tell him everything he knew.

"Is the Great Song Dynasty helping the Mongols to attack the Jin Kingdom together?" When Hong Tao heard the news, he trembled in his heart, he was not very clear about the history of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, but he still had a slight understanding of the trend. At that time, the Mongols dragged the Southern Song Dynasty to attack the Jin State back and forth, but as soon as the Jin State was destroyed, the Mongols immediately turned their faces and directly began to attack the Southern Song Dynasty. With the remnants of the Han army of the Jin State, the Mongols actually did not invest too many troops and destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty. If this is calculated, once the Jin Kingdom jumps in a few days, the Southern Song Dynasty will also have a few days of comfortable life.

"I haven't heard of this, we martial artists don't understand the things in the court, according to me, whether it's the Mongols or the Jin, it's not a good thing, it's better not to believe it at all." Hou Fang shook his head and expressed his own thoughts.

"Oh, you men sit together and know how to talk about those uninteresting topics, and I and other women don't understand, so we should be punished!" When Sister Wang saw that the table was about to be cold, she immediately stood up, interrupted the conversation between Hong Tao and Hou Fang, and put a bamboo tube in front of Hong Tao as she spoke.

"What's the penalty?" Hong Tao looked at this bamboo tube, which was about the same as a pen holder, slightly taller, and contained a lot of small bamboo pieces, half a foot long.

"Brother Xian, you will know ...... by smoking one" Luo Youde smiled and encouraged Hong Tao to draw a bamboo slice from the bamboo tube.

“…… Wearing one? What do you mean? Hong Tao took out a small piece of bamboo from the bamboo tube, it turned out that there were words on it, and he read it directly, but he didn't understand what it meant.

"Hahaha...... Providence, the elder is a lamp, naturally whoever is the tallest who drinks a cup, come on, come on, drink full! Drink to your heart's content! As soon as Luo Youde heard Hong Tao read out the words on the small bamboo piece, he almost didn't look up with laughter, and pointed at Hong Tao and nodded his fingers, but he couldn't speak, or Sister Wang said the reason.

"Ahh You have to drink it when you grow taller? There is also Wang Fa gone...... Hong Tao was directly dumbfounded, he already understood that this thing should be a kind of fun game at the banquet of the Song Dynasty, specially used to persuade wine. My luck is a little back.,If you pull out a short person.,Won't you'll be fine.,Gotta drink!

Hong Tao started, and everyone smoked one according to the order, relying on the sentences written on the bamboo slices to judge who should drink. Hong Tao slowly figured out the trick of playing this thing, that is, he had to be shameless, and if he didn't admit anything, he would naturally be able to drink a lot less wine. For example, the girl sitting next to him drew a piece of bamboo, which said "One for the younger", Hong Tao immediately said that he was 40 years old, believe it or not, this glass of wine was poured into Sister Wang. The three girls here don't count, they are escorts and do not participate in this kind of game, but they can drink instead of guests, but they also have to volunteer.

"It's not refreshing! Withdraw the fund, let's change the pitcher! "Sister Wang suffered a secret loss, and she couldn't be thicker than Hong Tao, so she shouted to change the way of playing to prevent Hong Tao from playing tricks again.

"What is this thing called?" Hong Tao heard the names of these small bamboo pieces from Sister Wang's words, and specially asked the girl next to him in a whisper.

"......" The girl wanted to laugh when she looked at this hedgehog-like strange man, and covered her mouth and nodded.

"Oh, I see, staggered! I originally thought it was a wine glass and chopsticks thrown around, but it's not chopsticks, it's this thing! Drinking can also grow knowledge! Hong Tao was relieved, this glass of wine was not unjustly drunk!

The pitching pot came quickly, a large copper kettle with two ears and a large wooden arrow without arrows, which were all the utensils. The gameplay is very simple, put the copper kettle 3 meters away, one on the wine table counts one, one person sends 5 wooden arrows, and throws it into the copper kettle. Throw one in and give it to a chip that you just played, and after a round, everyone counts the chips in their hands, and the least penalty is drinking.

The mouth of the copper kettle is very small, only the mouth of the bowl is large, and the center of gravity of the wooden arrow is also very backward, light and fluttering, don't look at it only two or three meters away, it is very difficult to throw accurately. Anyway, Hong Tao didn't have the ability, and after throwing five arrows, his hand was still empty. In addition to him, everyone else has gained, and it's not a star and a half, the least one also has two chips, it's worth it for them to bully themselves for not playing this thing, it's too inauthentic!

Fortunately, the alcohol content of the Song Dynasty was low, and Hong Tao didn't care about drinking two more glasses, everyone didn't throw like a game, and they would talk about the day when they threw two rounds, and then threw them, and drank a few more glasses. After Hong Tao finally found some feel and could throw one or two into it, Luo Youde announced that he would stop playing and watch song and dance performances instead. is so angry that Hong Tao's eyes are full of fierce light! He can bear the loss of doing something else, and he can bear the loss of playing the game, he is the hatred of gritting his back molars!

The song and dance performances of the Song Dynasty gave Hong Tao a headache more than watching opera in later generations. First of all, he can't understand the local dialect, and secondly, the music, accompaniment, and dancing are not beautiful, at least in his eyes, they are very ordinary, but you still have to applaud against your heart, pretending to appreciate and understand very much. Hong Tao only endured it for a while, and then he couldn't bear it anymore, but because of Luo Youde's face, he couldn't say goodbye in advance, so he came to the waiting party again and whispered to the Great Song officer about the situation in the north. He was interrupted by Sister Wang halfway through the conversation just now, and Hong Tao was not very willing to ask this question clearly.

Before he could finish talking about it, Hong Tao had to interrupt his business again and get up and go next door, because he heard Carl's very distinctive voice shouting, sometimes Chinese and sometimes Latin, as if he was arguing with someone. He and Luo Dacai's entourage were dining alone next door, how could they quarrel, could it be that they drank too much and made a fuss?

"Allah is with you! The King of Heaven covers the tiger! When he got to the next door, Hong Tao was also dumbfounded, it was not Luo Dacai who quarreled with Carl, but a few Arabs, standard Arabs, 100% of the kind. Hong Tao didn't know why they were arguing, seeing that the two sides were about to start, he didn't have time to ask others what happened, so he could only stand up, shouting a few words of Arabic that he only knew, while talking nonsense, trying to attract the attention of those Arabs and prevent the situation from deteriorating further, in case of a fight, he would definitely help Carl, if he missed and injured someone, it would be troublesome to be detained again, God knows what kind of charter the Great Song Dynasty had for drinking and making trouble.

“%@¥@……@……! Do you know our language? It worked, as soon as Hong Tao, who was neither Han nor Arab, appeared, the Arabs immediately became less excited and began to ask Hong Tao in Arabic, but unfortunately he didn't understand a word, and spoke too quickly.

But it doesn't matter if you understand it or not, with this buffer time, Hou Fang and Luo Youde also rushed over, and there are Arabs who Hou Fang knows, so this fight can't be fought. Hong Tao was responsible for pulling Karl away, and Hou Fang persuaded the Arabs to leave.

"My lord, they scolded me first! They can testify! Carl was very aggrieved and hoped that Hong Tao would call the shots for him.

"This is the Great Song Dynasty, you plan to let the Song Dynasty government understand the matter of the Crusades, and then turn to your side, do you think it is possible? Don't make trouble, we don't have the ability to catch anyone and beat whom, let me first ask those Arabs where they come from, how can there be so many Arabs? "Hong Tao won't call the shots for Carl, let alone Carl, even if he encounters this kind of thing, he has to endure it, and first find out who the other party is.