Lin Yuan asked in surprise, "What did you say?" Humiliate us? ”

Ilya said helplessly: "Mr. Lin Yuan, I am a diplomat, I advocate fighting for the greatest interests of my motherland at the negotiating table, but humiliating the other party's envoy is something I don't want to see, and I despise it. ”

Lin Yuanha smiled and said, "Humiliate us? What do they want to humiliate us? Do you want to arrest us all and crucify us in the streets? ”

Ilya said: "Definitely not, but His Majesty the Tsar will do everything he can to make you ridiculed by others, so ......" Ilya changed his words and said to Lin Yuan: "You better not go." ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "It's okay, we Chinese have always been despised and ridiculed by foreigners, I am used to it, if it was before, we might have endured it silently, but now it is different, others mock us, we have to return it a hundred times a thousand times, so I have to go to this banquet!" ”

Ilya nodded, and said to herself: "I grieve for my homeland!" ”

After Lin Yuan said this, he turned around and whispered this matter to Shen Wanqing, Shen Wanqing's eyes lit up after hearing this, and said, "Great, I still want to treat them well, this time I can be regarded as seizing the opportunity." ”

Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing decided to go to the banquet, but they didn't tell Wang Genbao about it, they were worried that Wang Genbao would not go in if he was scared for a while, Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing were just about to go in, they saw Wang Genbao trotting all the way back to the side of the carriage, and took down an antique box from the carriage, the box had a strap on it, Wang Genbao put the box on his back, and was about to walk into the palace gate with Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan pointed to the box and asked curiously: "You took this box when you got in the car, I wanted to ask, what is in it?" ”

Wang Genbao said: "are all seasonings, our family ancestors, you don't know, the reason why our Wang family's dishes are fragrant is all because of these seasonings, my father specially instructed me when he was dying, once these seasonings are taken, others may imitate them, so our Wang family's brand will fall, so my father asked me to look at it, it is best not to leave at all times." ”

Lin Yuan couldn't laugh or cry when he heard Wang Genbao's reason, and said, "You just put it in the post house, there are still people in our mission who can steal you!" ”

Wang Genbao whispered: "I'm not worried about our cook, I'm worried about the Russians, what if the Russians enter my house and steal my spices?" ”

Lin Yuan finally couldn't help but laugh and said, "What are the Russians stealing your seasonings for?" Where did they know you had seasoning in your box! Okay, since you've brought all the stuff with you, you can carry it on your back. ”

Wang Genbao had just walked to the door when a guard said, "Your box needs to be checked!" ”

Ilya's mood happened to be unpleasant, and when he heard this, he immediately shouted angrily: "They are distinguished guests invited by His Majesty, how can there be any reason to check things!" Don't hurry up and let us in. ”

The guards were scolded by Ilya and stood aside, and the three of them led by Ilya to the Georgiev Hall, which was specially used for the welcome banquet, was a tall and imposing building, with bright lights inside and out, and melodious music wafting from it.

Ilya walked into the hall with three men, and saw long tables on either side of the hall, on which plates were either gold or silver, glowing with psychedelic brilliance in bright light, and in them were seabass burned pale pink, and grouse wings fried to golden brown; In the innermost part of the hall was the symphony orchestra, and the music they heard outside was their hand, and closest to the orchestra was a huge dance floor, in which men and women in fine costumes were dancing.

In the outermost part there are dozens of dining tables, full of people wielding knives and forks gracefully, and the most striking thing is the open space between the tables, where a dozen clown-like people throw balls and somersaults between the tables and do all sorts of funny things.

Ilya said to Lin Yuan: "The tsar and empress have not yet arrived, you can eat something, or find a beautiful girl to dance, you can do whatever you want." ”

At this moment, I saw a bejeweled girl elegantly walking up to Shen Wanqing and saying to her, "This is a beauty from the East, right?" Don't mess around with these men, let's go, let's go over there, have a glass of mead, and talk about whether there is a lily of the valley or a rose on the table when we eat herring, okay? ”

Shen Wanqing whispered to Lin Yuan: "See, nobles are nobles, and even the topics they talk about are so cutting-edge, I'll go and talk to them." ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Be careful! ”

Shen Wanqing said with a smile: "They are a group of little hairy girls, and they still want to bully me, dreaming!" With that, Shen Wanqing followed the girl into the hall.

Lin Yuan asked Ilya on the side: "Who is that girl?" ”

Ilya said: "She is the cousin of His Majesty the Tsar, Princess Ililovna, if it is calculated according to the ethics of you Chinese, it is very messy, so I can't explain it clearly." ”

Lin Yuan knew that the European royal family was also like the royal family in ancient China, and liked relatives to get married, so he didn't ask carefully, and sat at a table with Wang Genbao.

Lin Yuan thought to himself, "Are they trying to humiliate me?" Why don't you do it yet? Looking at the humility with which they clinked glasses with me, did they really want to humiliate me? ”

Lin Yuan was thinking about it, when he saw Shen Wanqing coming over from a distance, patting Lin Yuan on Lin Yuan's back, Lin Yuan followed Shen Wanqing to a small room on the side, there were several such small rooms on the side of the hall, which were specially for guests to deal with their own affairs.

Lin Yuan looked sad when she saw Shen Wanqing's helpless look, so she smiled in her ear: "Look at your appearance, what's wrong?" Are you really humiliated by those little girls? ”

Shen Wanqing nodded with a heavy face, Lin Yuan couldn't help laughing, and said, "Aren't you an agent?" How can you be humiliated by a group of little girls? Tell me, how did they humiliate you? ”

Shen Wanqing gestured helplessly on her body and said, "I was humiliated by them from head to toe!" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What do you mean by 'humiliation from head to toe'?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Take a good look at me, is there any difference between me and other women at the banquet." ”

Lin Yuan stared at her for a while, then said with a wicked smile: "Your figure is much better than theirs!" ”

Shen Wanqing frowned, and said coquettishly: "Don't make trouble." ”

Lin Yuan stopped laughing, Shen Wanqing was wearing a white evening dress, which was no different from the Western dresses of this era, Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "I don't have a lot of research on clothes, so I don't see any difference." ”