Chapter 181: The Night Banquet of the Palace
At this time, Su Wuming couldn't fully understand King Di's intentions, and it was impossible for him to oppose King Di's proposal at this time, so Su Wuming hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "Everything is subject to the arrangement of the prince."
King Di nodded: "Okay, you go to the room to rest first, and I will send someone to invite you when you are ready." ”
After bowing and retreating, Nangong Yan said: "This King Di is not very strict, he is very easy to get along with." ”
Nangong Yan said this, naturally because King Di was very elegant in his speech and demeanor and had no arrogance, but Su Wuming knew very well that people in the world could not only look at appearances, and royal personnel like King Di could not look at appearances, maybe they were smiling and chatting with you here, and they were already thinking about how to deal with you.
Of course, for a person like Su Wuming, King Di naturally disdains to suppress it, first, because Su Wuming is just a small Dali Temple Sizhi, and he is okay in the place, but when he arrives in the capital, he is just a petty official who does not enter the stream.
Besides, Su Wuming is just a case-solver, and he has never had any connection with the government or anything, and King Di has no reason to suppress Su Wuming.
However, even so, these behaviors of King Di were still very strange in Su Wuming's opinion, so he only smiled lightly at Nangong Yan's opinion, and then shook his head slightly.
Seeing Su Wuming shaking his head and smiling lightly, Nangong Yan was a little angry and said, "What, you don't agree with my point of view?" ”
"How dare I disagree with Miss Nangong's point of view, it's just that we have just met King Di, why are you in such a hurry to make a conclusion?"
"I ...... That's what I think anyway. Nangong Yan felt that what Su Wuming said made sense, but she was still angry, and finally had to say such a thing that seemed like a scoundrel.
Su Wuming didn't say anything else, and went directly to the wing room prepared for them by King Di, which was a courtyard, with three rows of rooms on three sides, and a vermilion lacquer pavilion in the middle, which was extremely carved, and looked at it from a distance, as if it was a handicraft.
And around this vermilion lacquer pavilion, there are more than a dozen plum trees, the plum blossoms have not yet opened at this time, but they are already budding, in this cold wind, faintly can also smell a faint fragrance, Su Wuming and others just entered the courtyard, found that there was a young man sitting in the pavilion, the young man was dressed in white, in this vermilion lacquer pavilion and the plum blossoms of a slight color are very conspicuous, the young man in white sat in the pavilion to read, the appearance and elegant, from time to time to whisper two sentences, to this small courtyard to add a little poetry.
The young man chanted Li Bai's poems, and when he didn't finish a sentence, he saw Su Wuming and others, when he saw Su Wuming and others, he immediately put down the poetry collection in his hand, and arched his hand to Su Wuming and others: "In Xia Nie Zhiwen, he is a guest of the Di Palace, I don't know how to call a few?" ”
For this Nie Zhiwen Su Wuming and others have never heard of it, but they introduced themselves first, out of politeness, Su Wuming hurriedly returned the salute and said: "In Xia Su Wuming, these are my friends and wives." ”
As soon as he finished saying this, Nie Zhiwen was suddenly startled and said, "Your Excellency is the famous Dali Temple Si Zhisu and the nameless Su?" ”
Looking at Nie Zhiwen's expression, it seemed that he had heard of Su Wuming, which made Nangong Yan a little proud, and at this time, Su Wuming smiled lightly: "It's indeed Su Wuming down there, but it's not as famous." ”
Su Wuming is modest, but Nie Zhiwen shook his hand again and again: "If Lord Su is not a famous person, then in this Hangzhou city, there are few people who can be regarded as famous. ”
Being so praised by a stranger, Su Wuming was more or less uncomfortable, so he waved his hand and asked Nie Zhiwen to sit down in the pavilion, and then sat down as well, and said: "Not long after I first came to Hangzhou, I don't know much about the celebrities here, I wonder if Nie Gongzi can introduce himself?" ”
Although Su Wuming's words were very polite, it was inevitable that people would not feel good, especially Nie Zhiwen, after he heard Su Wuming's words, his face suddenly turned purple, and then turned red, thinking about it, he didn't know how bad it was in his heart, he admired Su Wuming so much, but Su Wuming had never even heard of his name.
But even so, this Nie Zhiwen did not have a seizure, and after a shallow smile, he said: "Zai Xia is just a scholar in Hangzhou City, and he has no reputation, and the reason why he is here is just that King Di has a courtesy to scholars, and he has recommended himself several times in Xia, which is why he has a little friendship with King Di." ”
Hearing Nie Zhiwen say this, Su Wuming smiled lightly: "Nie Gongzi is really modest, and it is true that King Di is courteous to scholars, but if he doesn't have real talent and real learning, he can't get into the eyes of the prince, right?" ”
After saying this, the two sides glanced at each other, and then they both smiled lightly.
After chatting for a while, the two sides went back to the house to rest, and after returning to the house, Su Wuming showed a light smile on the corner of his mouth, and said: "By chatting with this Nie Zhiwen, I found that he is really a great talent, and the city government is extremely deep. ”
Nangong Yan didn't think much about this, and said, "Oh, where is he in the city?" ”
"A person can live in the palace of the king of Di, and a person who talks to people and is humble and cautious everywhere, isn't the city government deep?"
As he spoke, a subordinate of the palace shouted outside the door: "Lord Su, the banquet has been prepared, and the prince asked the little one to come and invite him." ”
Su Wuming bowed slightly, and was about to go out, but after thinking about it, he stopped again, and instructed the people in the palace: "You come in, this official will ask you a few questions." ”
The people of the palace bowed down and entered the house and said, "What does Lord Su want to ask?" ”
"Nie Zhiwen, who lives in the same courtyard as this official, do you know?"
The people of the palace nodded: "Then Nie Zhiwen is the first talent in our Hangzhou City, he is proficient in poetry and songs, and he is also the Tanhua of this year's imperial examination." ”
Su Wuming also participated in the imperial examination this year, but he participated in the selection of Dali Temple personnel, although it was the same time to take the test, but it was not in one place, and it was understandable that they didn't hear each other, but soon, Su Wuming found that things were not so simple, when he was in Chang'an City to take the Dali Temple Evaluation, because he was selected by a poem, so this matter caused a lot of turmoil in Chang'an City, this Nie Zhiwen was also in Chang'an City at that time, then he must have heard of it.
If so, was there a subtle irony in his words? In fact, he knew that Su Wuming was not because Su Wuming had solved many murders in this Jianghuai area, but because Su Wuming wrote a poem in Chang'an City before entering Dali Temple?
If Nie Zhiwen really meant this, then he was not only deep in the city, he was simply hateful to treat Su Wuming as a monkey.
At this time, Su Wuming's face was ugly, but soon, he smiled lightly, as if he didn't take it to heart at all; At this time, the people in the palace saw that Su Wuming was like this, and hurriedly explained: "After Nie Gongzi was hit by Tanhua, he returned to Hangzhou City and entered our palace, and now he is the chief staff of our prince, and his face is really big." ”
Hearing these words from the people of the palace, Su Wuming really realized that this Nie Zhiwen was really not simple.
Under the guidance of the people of the palace, the group went directly to the place where King Di invited the guests, it was a large living room, with five or six tables and chairs in each row, and most of the tables and chairs were occupied at this time, of course, there were two or three tables and chairs that were empty for Su Wuming and others.
Su Wuming and the others entered the living room, and after glancing at those guests, they were suddenly a little surprised, because among these guests, many of them turned out to be Su Wuming's acquaintance, such as Hangzhou Thorn Stinway, as well as his subordinates Zhuge Kong, Ding Jun and Song Jingtian; Su Wuming was surprised when he saw them, and they were also surprised when they saw Su Wuming.
But surprise is surprise, because this is the Di Wang's Mansion, so they didn't say hello, Su Wuming and the others walked to their seats and sat down, and carefully looked at the guests present, among them, Nie Zhiwen and a man dressed as a scholar sat opposite Su Wuming, the man dressed as a scholar seemed to be taller than Nie Zhiwen, half a head taller than Nie Zhiwen when he sits, a pair of eyes were slightly small, and when talking to Nie Zhiwen, his eyes kept scanning everyone.
In addition to these people, Su Wuming found that in the row opposite him, most of the people sitting were scholars, and Nie Zhiwen and the very tall person were sitting at the head; And Su Wuming's row, most of the people sitting in their row are court officials, these court officials are headed by Ding Wei, Su Wuming's identity is special, and his seat is second only to Ding Wei.
Seeing that King Di invited so many scholars and officials from Hangzhou City, Su Wuming was even more puzzled, thinking that this King Di wanted to sing that play?
Just as Su Wuming was thinking, a member of the palace shouted that King Di had arrived, and everyone got up and saluted in panic, and King Di bowed his hand slightly, and said: "Everyone, please take a seat, today is just a reception banquet held by this king for Lord Su, everyone doesn't need to be polite, it's better to be casual." ”
After King Di finished speaking, everyone sat down, and when everyone sat down, King Di introduced Su Wuming to everyone, and the beauty of his words made Su Wuming feel blushing when he heard it, and when King Di introduced Su Wuming, he introduced several important guests to Su Wuming, and until this time, Su Wuming knew that the tall scholar who was sitting with Nie Zhiwen was called Liu Gao, and he was also a talented man in Hangzhou City, of course, he was able to sit here and sit at the same table with Nie Zhiwen, and he was also a staff member of King Di.
Although this Liu Gao is not as good-looking as Nie Zhiwen, his speech and demeanor are more decent than Nie Zhiwen, although his speech is civilized, but there is a trace of seriousness, and he makes people feel that his words should not be despised or ignored, which makes people feel that his words should not be despised or ignored, which makes people extremely impressive.