The palace ladies waiting outside the temple gate entered the main hall one by one, first presenting delicious Uba grape wine, followed by countless nutty snacks. These foods are designed to appetize everyone first, and they are eaten and drunk at the same time.

After a while, all kinds of hot barbecued meats, all kinds of delicious soups, and all kinds of precious seafood produced in the south were served to the table by the palace ladies in turn.

The hall was full of people, everyone toasted to each other, praised each other, and groups stepped forward to toast the king and offer courtesy, so a lively and extraordinary scene.

Robit and Cook are not very old, and these delicious barbecues are very filling to the stomach, and it will not be long before the two of them are full. But when they were full, countless delicious roasted whole sheep came in from outside the hall, which made them both regret it.

The adults' drinking feast has just begun, and this is the theme of the banquet while drinking.

When it comes to sycophancy, the fourth duke Cologne is the best. He got up and carried a fine wooden box, walked up the steps respectfully, then knelt down before the king and said, "Your Majesty, I bought it from Nanyang with a lot of money, and I hereby present it to your Majesty." I wish Your Majesty good health and eternal happiness! ”

The king's favorite thing was the gifts of the nobles, and although his treasury was full of rare treasures, the king never had too many of them. So Furyk put down the leg of mutton in his hand, smiled and asked people to take the gift and put it away, and praised Cologne.

After Cologne had begun, the other nobles waited in line, offering their own gifts for the king.

Sometimes the king hated Thatcher and Fawkes, because they were very upright, never prepared any gifts for themselves, and did not know etiquette as well as Connor and Salder.

But this year is different, Earl Fox, who has always been jealous and hateful, has also prepared a precious gift this time.

When Fawkes presented the box in his hand, the king stood up in surprise and stepped forward to accept it himself.

He had never received a gift from Furyk, so the king was naturally very curious and opened the gift box in public. This is a pure white jade statue, sculpted into the shape of a knight, the texture should be the best in the world, and the king was stunned when he saw it.

The king reached out and touched the jade, then pinched his fingers and felt it, and then praised loudly: "Well, after touching it, it seems that my fingers are moist, this is really a good treasure!" ”

Fawkes replied respectfully, "Your Majesty likes it, it's not a good baby, and gadgets are not worth mentioning." ”

"Yo!" The king smiled and said, "Count Fawkes, why have you become so good at talking?" What a day it is, I was so surprised to receive a gift from you, Earl Fawkes. No, I have to reward you! ”

After speaking, the king gestured to the ceremonial officer beside him, and the ceremonial officer hurriedly rummaged through the box, took out a bag of gold coins, handed it to Fawkes, and said, "Count Fawkes has made a meritorious gift, and His Majesty has given him a special gold coin." ”

Although this jade is good, it is worth dozens of gold coins at most, but the king gave him Wu Bai gold coins, which aroused the envy of everyone, and they hated that their gifts failed to attract the king's favor and failed to get the king's reward.

Fawkes thanked him and returned to his seat with the gold coin.

Connor turned his head and asked, "Fawkes, it seems that you are well prepared this time, and the king is very satisfied with you!" ”

Fawkes smiled silently, reached out and took a sip of his glass.

From Fawkes' face, Connor could read some of his thoughts, and he knew what Fawkes was thinking.

"What? The first time you did this kind of thing, did you still feel very uncomfortable? ”

Fox sneered and said, "Yes, I used to be very disgusted with this kind of atmosphere, but I didn't expect to do it myself now, you say it's pathetic?" ”

Connor smiled, reached out and touched Cook's small hand beside him and said, "It's all the same, you think I like to do this?" We sit in this position and have to follow the rules of the palace, so that we can pave the way for our children to inherit our honor and status in the future! ”

After saying that, Connor glanced at Arashiyama, who was sitting opposite, and then asked him, "Arashiyama, do you understand what I mean?" ”。

At this time, Arashiyama was only interested in drinking and eating meat, and he didn't listen to Connor's words at all, but he still replied, "Well, I know my father's intentions, and I will learn from you seriously in the future!" ”

For this kind of perfunctory words, Arashiyama almost became a slippery mouth, he knew what kind of answer his father wanted to get every time he asked a question, and he said this just to conform to his father, no matter what intentions and reasoning.

Connor nodded, and continued to turn his head sideways to Fawkes: "Did you find it, the gifts they gave in Cologne this year are particularly precious, these guys seem to be rich now, and I don't know how many people have no food to eat!" ”

Fawkes sneered and muttered, "Don't let me catch the handle, or I'll tell them not to try to escape!" ”

Connor glanced at Fawkes, picked up the flask and filled the glass for him, then smiled and said, "You're always so inflexible. They are also dukes of the kingdom, and even if they commit something, it won't happen, at most, His Majesty will let them restrain themselves. There are some people in the kingdom who are not allowed to come by force, at most, just move their mouths and draw their swords to scare them, as I did before. If I really turn my face, I won't be able to end it, so can I really take the Knights to teach them a lesson? Isn't that a joke! ”

Fawkes nodded, reached out and took a big gulp.

Connor also picked up his wine glass, his expression was a little heavy, his eyes looked at the wine glass silently, and said in a very low voice: "Actually, I also know that Cologne and Acedo are deliberately connived at by His Majesty, the purpose is to use them to balance me in the kingdom, lest my Connor be too powerful and affect His Majesty's majesty!" ”

Fawkes was shocked when he heard this, and immediately reminded Connor: "Lord Duke, have you drunk too much, there are some things that you can't talk nonsense on this occasion!" ”

Connor smiled and gulped down the wine from his glass. After drinking, he sighed and said, "Yes, this wine is a little intoxicating today, and if you drink too much, you will talk nonsense." Hehe! ”

At this time, a voice suddenly came from the side: "How can it be, where is this, with the amount of your first duke, it is not a problem to drink a few more pots from him!" ”

After hearing this, the two immediately looked up, and it turned out to be the second Duke Thatcher who came with a toast.

Connor and Fawkes immediately got up and invited together, "Come, come, Lord Duke, please take a seat!" ”

Duke Thatcher was an upright man and never concealed his words, he said directly: "This group of people in Cologne is like harmful voles, they are simply the scum of the kingdom!" ”

"Huh!" Connor smiled happily when he heard this, and he replied, "When the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and if there are good people, there will be bad people, normal." Thatcher shook her head helplessly and sighed, raising her glass to invite Connor and Fawkes to drink together.

Suddenly, Connor thought of something, turned to Thatcher and asked, "Oh yes, where is your Michelle?" Any news on this? ”

When it comes to his uncompetitive son, Thatcher likes and hates it. The good thing is that Michelle inherited his fine traditions, practiced a good skill, and gained face for the Duke of Dragon City's mansion. What he hated was that he actually fell in love with a Tubisi woman, violated the law and betrayed the king, and lost face for the Duke of Dragon City's mansion.

Thinking of this, Thatcher was inevitably a little sad, shook his head and sighed: "There is no news, just disappear like this!" ”

Fox opened his mouth and said: "Michelle's spear and swordsmanship rank first among young people, if you put a hundred knights to deal with him, he may not be defeated, how can he disappear out of thin air." Lord Duke, you should send more people to Luo Khan to look for it, right? ”

Thatcher shook his head and said: "More than a dozen waves of people have been sent out to find it, if he is willing to come back, he will come back a long time ago, and there is no point in looking for it again." Hey, I don't think I gave birth to this son, let him be! ”

Connor said indignantly, "It's a pity! If Michelle can return to the Duke of Dragon City's Palace, which round of his Cologne Spartt Spring Breeze is proud, at most it will only be on an equal footing with Michelle! ”

Fawkes replied, "That's not the case, that Spartt is still good, it's his father's ......!" ”

"Ahem!" Thatcher coughed suddenly, which was a wary gesture against both of them.

The two of them looked up in a daze, only to see Spartt appearing with a wine glass, but he stood there stunned, showing an embarrassed face, as if he had heard their conversation just now.

Spartt lowered his head and hesitated, but he still walked over, raised his glass to the three of them, and said, "In my Spartt's heart, you three elders are the pillars of our kingdom. I have long admired the three elders, and my father ....... ”

At this point, Spartt lowered his head again, as if even he was ashamed of his father.

After a moment's hesitation, Spat continued: "I'm me anyway, and my father is my father!" If you don't dislike it, the younger generation wants to toast the three elders with a cup! ”

Connor was stunned for a moment, although he was not familiar with Spart, but from what he said just now, he could hear that Spart was more upright, at least willing to admit that his father's actions were not very honorable, and he could distinguish between right and wrong.

Connor smiled and stood up cheerfully, followed by Thatcher and Fawkes.

Connor nodded to Spart, and said with a little approval, "It's rare for a young man to have such an insight, and I hope you can follow your own path in the future!" ”

With that, Connor raised his head and grunted, and drained the cup.

Thatcher smiled and drank without saying anything.

Fawkes reached out and patted Spart's shoulder and said, "Don't forget to practice the long sword diligently, otherwise you will be rusty after a long time." ”

Spartt smiled happily after hearing this, he bowed deeply to Fawkes, and replied with a big salute: "Thank you Chief Instructor for teaching me, I have always taken your words to heart, and I dare not slack off." ”

Fawkes nodded in satisfaction, then tilted his head and drank the wine from his glass.

Spart, seeing that Fawkes had also drunk, opened his mouth to drink. After drinking he saluted the three elders again, and then turned back to Cologne.

Connor was a little surprised, he turned to Fawkes and asked, "Hasn't this Spartt been in Cologne's territory all this time, and when have you taught him again?" ”

Fox smiled and said, "I can't talk about teaching!" A few years ago, Cologne brought him to the royal capital to meet His Majesty, and I saw that he was standing at the door of our training camp and followed the knights to keep gesturing, and felt that this kid had great potential, so I pointed out a little by the way. I didn't think much about it at the time, who knew he was the son of Cologne. ”

Connor nodded, casually admiring, "Oh, I see. This boy is very grateful, and I hope that he will become a useful talent in our kingdom in the future. ”

"Hmm!" Thatcher and Fox answered together.