Su Qin still believes that Chen Zhi and Zhang Yi probably wanted to take advantage of the chaos of the prince's assassination to provoke the princes and envoys to leave Handan and return to China. And the two of them will definitely be the first to take the lead.

After he stopped talking, he raised the wine glasses on several cases, and said to the envoys: "I, Zhao Yong, the prince of Zhao State, raise a glass and drink a cup with the ranking envoys, let us start this feast!" ”

As he spoke, he gestured to the people with his hands flat, then folded his hands, covered the glass with the sleeves of his robe, and tilted his head to drain the wine.

At this time, all the guests attending the banquet raised their glasses and drank the wine in the cups on the table in front of them according to the prince's actions. Su Qin drank his wine in the same way, and he thought to himself: "This behavior of the prince is a very standard banquet host's opening etiquette, it seems that he has practiced it seriously before." ”

After the prince finished his opening remarks and took the lead in drinking the opening wine, Zhao Rong had the opportunity to interject, he hurriedly raised his glass again, and said to the guests: "Distinguished guests, I, the Zhao Guozong, are proposing to have a toast again, this is not only my own intention, but also represents my Zhao clan, I wish you all happiness and longevity, and wish your country prosperity!" ”

As he spoke, he raised his glass with both hands, covered the cup with the sleeves of his robe, and drank it all. The envoys followed Zhao Rong and drank again. Su Qin was thoughtful, he didn't know if the guests present at the Lu Dao dinner could hear Zhao Rong's voice, the prince deliberately pressed Zhao Rong, saying that he could only represent himself, but Zhao Rong once again emphasized that he was the spokesperson of the Zhao clan.

The open and secret battle between the two of them, to Su Qin, a prepared person, naturally noticed the subtlety. He also deliberately observed the venue to see how everyone reacted.

Su Qin suddenly noticed a mysterious smile on the face of his junior brother Zhang Yi, and he couldn't help but think: "It seems that Zhang Yi also knows something about the dispute between Zhao Rong and his nephew Zhao Yong." Otherwise, how could he have such a strange look? ”

Su Qin and Zhang Yi have been studying and living together for more than a day or two, and they don't need to listen to each other's thoughts, just from their demeanor, they can see that they are eight or nine times out of ten. Seeing this situation, he firmly believed that at tonight's banquet, Zhang Yi and Zhao Rong were converging, intending to disadvantage the prince and disrupt the meeting.

After Zhao Rong proposed a glass of wine, he took the lead this time, did not give others a chance, and carried out the next step of the banquet agenda non-stop. I saw that he stretched out his broad slap and slapped it three times, and even the applause was extraordinarily loud.

After the applause, six groups of kabuki people, each of whom was six people, entered from outside the door of the banquet hall, forming a phalanx. Seeing this, Su Qin thought to himself: "This is probably a song and dance performance for the banquet, judging from the singing and dancing queue of six rows and six columns, it may be necessary to perform formal songs and dances such as "Qing Temple". ”

Sure enough, as the kabuki people entered the hall and the procession was completed, several bells rang out, and the soothing monotonous music flowed. Su Qin frowned slightly, reluctantly listening to the boring music, looking at the almost walking dance moves, unable to lift his senses.

Su Qin was originally a person who loved singing and dancing, and when he was up, he himself participated in singing and dancing performances, which was not an act once or twice, and it was precisely because of this that he aggravated the unruly color in the impression of many people.

However, this old-fashioned sacrificial music and dance is quite boring, not only for the Kabuki people, but also for those who watch it.

Many of the princes who were reprimanded as mediocre should have presided over ceremonial activities such as sacrifices and ancestor worship, but because they hated taking this responsibility, they abandoned the formal ceremonial activities of the country, so they were ridiculed and criticized by the people.

For a person like Su Qin, he is glad that the etiquette of the Zhou Dynasty in the era in which he lives has been almost smashed, and people have minus a lot of restraints, if he lived in an era more than a hundred years earlier, he would definitely be a mischievous and mischievous person who has been criticized for his mischievous behavior and very disorderly behavior.

Su Qin hardly went to watch the singing and dancing performances, his eyes were still inspecting the behavior of the people at the banquet, and he found that there were actually not a few people who agreed with him, even the prince Zhao Yong couldn't stop yawning, and he could see that he was watching the performance with a strong spirit.

Zhao Rong, who is the head of the Zhao family, had to make such an arrangement, because Zhao was the host country of the alliance, and in order to show that Zhao was a polite country, this kind of decent ceremonial music performance was essential.

Of course, Su Qin could understand the reason, he just wished that the performance would end quickly, and the agenda of the banquet could be simplified and accelerated, so that the enemy would not be given an opportunity to take advantage of, and the risk of chaos would be reduced.

The tedious performance that was carried out as usual lasted for half an hour, making everyone at the banquet drowsy, and if it were not for a particularly formal dinner, I am afraid that few people would have been able to stay, and they might have left early.

Su Qin anxiously waited for the end of the song and dance, and he wanted to propose to end the banquet shortly after that, because this kind of dinner was only a symbolic event, and no one expected to have a good drink on this occasion, so everyone would not complain if it ended earlier.

Just after the Kabuki people finished and Luo Guan came out, Su Qin's hand reached out to the wine glasses on the table in front of him, and he was about to raise a glass to invite all the guests to drink together, and by the way, he asked to end the banquet.

But at this moment, from the line of kabuki people who had left the scene, a man came up from the opposite side, and this person separated the kabuki people with his arms, and rushed up to the hall quickly, like a small boat against the wind, splitting the waves in the river and moving forward quickly.

The movement of the person who came was very fast, but it still alarmed almost all the guests in the banquet hall, Su Qin was even more surprised, he didn't expect someone to dare to blatantly break in, Su Qin's right hand involuntarily stretched out to the Qingshuang Sword under his waist, he pressed the sword and stomped, his expression was extremely nervous.

When Su Qin saw the appearance of the person who came, he was even more surprised, and he hurriedly shouted: "Who is coming, quickly retreat!" ”

It turned out that the man was of medium stature, lean, and his eyes flashed, and the most notable thing was that on his face, there were three long scars.

As soon as Su Qin saw the scar, his heart was shocked, and he immediately thought that his identity should be Jiang He, who was under the pseudonym Wei Ning, the captain of the Wei State. It's just that Su Qin didn't expect that Jiang He would have the courage to come to the banquet hall in person, isn't this a blatant provocation to Su Qin!