Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Dutch Night Banquet

Lin Qing Earl's Palace

Lin Qing, who was well-groomed, led Yu Dan from the living room on the second floor to the living room on the first floor.

Xia Xiaoxue, who was still bickering, and several bodyguards immediately fell silent.

"Dandan, you are so beautiful. No, when you come back, you have to try on your clothes for me, Dandan, stand up quickly, I'll take a picture of you. ”

Xia Xiaoxue directly took out her mobile phone and started a wild shot at Yu Dan.

Although several bodyguards stood there solemnly, their eyes had already begun to drift.

"Young master, the carriage is ready." Butler Joe Hart is not a person who is used to seeing big scenes, but he was not handsome by Lin Qing.

Lin Qing nodded, rescued Yu Dan directly from Xia Xiaoxue's clutches, and led her to the door, ready to leave......

Now that it is winter, Lin Qing looked at the open-top carriage at the door, and couldn't help but want to curse, this is really a pit man, although it is still completely winter, but the temperature in Amsterdam at night is already below zero, if you sit out like this, you will be lucky not to freeze to death.

I really don't know who broke the rules, and I have to take a carriage to the dinner party, didn't the person who made the rules think about how cold it was in winter? Is it true that banquets are held on sunny days and not on rainy days? Complaining fiercely in his heart, Lin Qing walked directly to the car behind, the rules are dead, people are alive, can't you take the car first, and then take the carriage when you are almost at the destination? Witty as I am.

The place where the Queen of the Netherlands held her banquet was at the Dutch Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

The Dutch Royal Palace is located on the Dam Avenue Square, built in 1648, is a miracle in the history of 17th-century architecture, a total of 13,568 tree stumps support the building, known as one of the eight wonders of the world, but since the last century, the Dutch royal family refused to live in the Dutch Royal Palace, after all, no one dares to live in a house supported by a lot of rotten wood, what if it collapses?

The Dutch Royal Palace is very close to the Earl of Linqing's Palace, and it only takes about ten minutes to reach it by driving at a speed of less than fifty per hour.

Lin Qing's convoy stopped about 500 meters away from the palace, and Lin Qing got out of the car with a bitter face and walked to the carriage behind.

Cold, really cold, Lin Qing felt for the first time that the winter in the Netherlands would be so cold, because he was going to attend a dinner party, Lin Qing was wearing a dress, and it was very thin, at this time, when he stepped out of the car, Lin Qing only felt that one foot had stepped from heaven to hell.

Butler Joe Hart took out a pure white shawl from the car and handed it to Yu Dan, asking her to cover her exposed shoulders and other positions, so that she felt a little warm.

Lin Qing waited expectantly for his housekeeper to be able to do magic, and took out a piece of clothing from the car to drape himself, so that he could also feel the warmth.

However, Lin Qing was obviously disappointed, and Joe Hart never got down after getting in the car. The car started slowly, leading Lin Qing's carriage into the Dutch palace slowly.

This old royal palace has been uninhabited for a long time and has been developed as a tourist attraction in the Netherlands, but today it is closed to the public as a banquet venue.

At the entrance of the palace, the royal guards in red dresses and black high hats stopped the convoy, and after reviewing the invitations, Lin Qing's carriage was guided by a guard and slowly moved to the main entrance of the palace, while Joe Hart and Lin Qing's bodyguards were taken to another place.

The banquet venue is in the hall on the first floor of the palace, and many Dutch nobles have arrived in the splendid hall one after another, whispering together in groups of three or five.

Some of these people look down-and-out, wearing suits that are obviously old-fashioned and wrinkled, which is intolerable for a nobleman who pays attention to quality of life and etiquette, but for a down-and-out nobleman, it is no longer so important.

The aristocratic class is not as far as the outside legend says, living in luxury, with wine and meat rain, and beautiful women.

Only a small number of people live very wealthy, and most of the nobles now only have the title of nobles, but they live the life of ordinary people, after all, after entering the twentieth century, the new class in Europe has had a huge impact on the traditional aristocratic class, and most of the nobles have gone bankrupt.

Lin Qing took Yu Dan to appear and immediately became the focus of the audience.

The combination of handsome men and beautiful women is very eye-catching everywhere they go, not to mention that they still come by carriage, riding in a carriage is a sign, this young nobleman is a rich nobleman, not a down-and-out family.

After several acquaintances who Lin Qing had visited greeted Lin Qing, the two sides began to chat familiarly.

"Count Lin, you're getting younger and younger, is this the countess?"

"Count Lin, it's not a loss to be the heir of the Van Gart family, it's really young and promising."

“・・・・・・”

Thousands of clothes, not sycophants, Lin Qing was a little proud to enjoy everyone's praise.

Yu Dan was a little restrained, he didn't let it go very much, and he had been grabbing Lin Qing's arm since he entered the door, as if he was afraid that he would disappear suddenly.

Today's party is attended by the head of a family, and there is no young generation, and the purpose is equivalent to the annual meeting of a large company, and the nobles will have two or three such gatherings at the end of each year.

In addition to the down-and-out households, the Dutch aristocracy had their own business, some were engaged in politics, some were in business, and they needed to communicate and cooperate with each other, and the banquet was a bridge for them to establish friendship and communication with each other.

At eight o'clock, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, with her eldest son William and Alexander, slowly walked down the revolving escalator on the first floor.

At the age of 68, Queen Belitrix has been on the throne since 1980 and has been widely respected by the Dutch people.

The queen slowly walked down from the first floor, smiling and greeting the people around her, she was a little surprised when she walked in front of Lin Qing, but she immediately reacted: "You are the new patriarch of the Van Gart family, Earl Lin Qing."

"Yes, Your Highness, I wish you good health."

"What a young lad, and I am glad to see you, by the way, is the old earl all right? I haven't seen him in years. ”

"Grandpa is in very good health, he is now settled in Moldova."

The queen seemed to care about Lin Qing very much, chatted with Lin Qing for a few minutes, and introduced William and Alexander to Lin Qing before leaving, and let them get closer and closer.

The queen only came out for half an hour before returning to the second floor, leaving William-Alexander to preside over the dinner for her.

The content of the dinner is actually very simple, everyone communicates with each other before the opening, and the queen comes down and meets after the opening, and then it is a simple drinking party, everyone eats and drinks and chats, exchanging some information, it seems very dull, after all, the official party, there are no special programs that everyone likes, all eyes are old men, and the only eye-catching one is closely following others.

Towards the end of the banquet, Prince William left first and went up to the second floor.

The protagonist has already left, and some of the people attending the banquet who can't stand the loneliness are starting to stay a little longer, constantly looking at their watches, ready to leave at any time, but they still seem to be waiting for something.

When Lin Qing was about to leave, the butler who had been following William at the dinner party walked up to him and whispered a few words to him.