Chapter Twenty-Nine: Crushing
The door case, waist round stool, all the guests are divided into two sides of the seat, one side to watch the song and dance performance, the other side to feast and drink. Dishes include raw knots, caviar, and roasted quail roe; The wine is Lanling fine wine, which is served in celadon wine cups, and the cyan wine cups match the golden wine syrup, which is warm and clear, and it is also refreshing and pleasing to the eye just by looking at it.
The wine cup used in the warm pavilion is decorated with gilt on silver, and the gold and silver complement each other, exquisite and rich, and the brilliance is brilliant. Even in remote Shanzhou, the banquet was magnificent. In this situation, Cheng Ting's half-breasted court dress with a Luo skirt is even more felt.
The weather is very cold, although there is a charcoal fire for heating in the hall, but Cheng Ting may not be able to keep out the cold when she wears such a Luo skirt, women are more willing to sacrifice comfort than beauty.
Xue Chongxun instructed the slave who poured wine next to him: "Move that pot of fire closer." β
Cheng Ting bit her lip lightly, lowered her shy beautiful eyes, and touched Xue Chongxun's big hand under the case, and gently pressed her fingers on his palm. Xue Chongxun smiled slightly, and said in his heart: This girl will always have such and such small movements, which makes people's hearts warm for a while, although it is very light, but it is very interesting.
Their small movements did not escape the eyes of Murong Yan sitting at a table, including Xue Chongxun's action of flicking snowflakes on Cheng Ting's sideburns at first. Women are always careful. Murong Yan was extremely envious, and it was not good for others to express him, so he whispered in Tuyuhun and Fu Lu: "Look at how careful the men of the Tang Dynasty are to their own women. β
Fu Lu shook his head and replied: "Yin is prosperous and Yang is declining!" At first, Empress Wu was the emperor, and now Princess Taiping is in power, so men can serve women! Look at the way the Duke of Wei Guo whispered to a concubine, if he was in front of his wife, then he would not have to kneel? I heard that his wife is from the Li Tang clan. β
Murong Yan said angrily: "That's not a low voice!" β
"What's that?" Fu Lu asked with a puzzled look as he tossed a pigtail back of his head.
Murong Yan's face turned gray: "Don't say it, it's a bit rude for us to speak in a language that others can't understand." β
Sure enough, at this time, Xue Chongxun asked, "What are the ministers and princesses talking about?" Murong Yan showed a charming and generous smile, which immediately made people not want to worry about it.
Xue Chongxun picked up his glass and said, "Everyone have a drink together, and congratulate Datang and Tugu Hun on their fight into jade silk." The officials and squires at the foot of the stairs took up their wine cups, and each of them said some words of blessing in a mess, and made a commotion, and then drank all the wine in the cups.
"The princess is casual, and the woman has a limited amount of alcohol, so she doesn't have to finish it." Xue Chongxun said to the two women with a smile.
Murong Yan gently put down her wine glass, looked at Xue Chongxun and said, "Thank you." β
At this moment, Xue Chongxun felt a pain on the back of his hand, which turned out to be quietly twisted by Cheng Ting, he hurriedly held back, but his expression still showed a strange appearance without paying attention, and Murong Yan asked differently, "What's wrong?" β
Xue Chongxun hurriedly shook his head and smiled, "It's okay." β
After the dancing girls in the hall danced a row, Yuguan went out, and everyone stood up to toast when they took advantage of the change of dance. Xue Chongxun and Fu Lu raised their wine glasses to socialize, Fu Lu's Chinese was very stiff and just two sentences back and forth, Xue Chongxun's official tone came as soon as he opened his mouth, and many of the official clichΓ©s were still very fresh, because they were modified by modern scenes, and the Tang people naturally had never heard of it.
In the joyful atmosphere, Xue Chongxun said something that didn't use his brain, but he felt a little trance. The pain on the back of his hand flashed in his mind just now, and he couldn't figure out why he usually treated Cheng Ting so well, was this hurting her? Maybe because she is the only woman around, Xue Chongxun is just influenced by his memory and is habitually gentle on women in details. If you want to talk about love, there are so many women, he really doesn't know who to love...... But he did like them.
If he is just a person of ordinary status, he can be wholeheartedly good to a woman he likes in order to get her; But as soon as the identity changes, it doesn't take too much effort to get all kinds of beauties that people like, and it is inevitable that they will be greedy...... He reflected on himself, a man can indeed like multiple women at the same time, the key is whether he has capital.
Xue Chongxun sighed softly.
At this moment, Murong Yan played with half a glass of wine in the wine glass and said, "Lanling wine, it looks beautiful and smells fragrant." β
Xue Chongxun said with a smile: "The fragrance is far away, the color is golden, the drink is drunk without headache, the mouth is not dry, and the water is not laxative, and its water is called heavier than other water. This is a good thing for our Han family, the origin until the Warring States, according to legend, it was created by the wise man Xunzi, and it was not in vain. β
"Really?" Murong Yan was still playing with the wine glass, but occasionally glanced at Xue Chongxun, her eyes seemed to be a little drunk, it seemed that this woman was too drunk to drink, and she blushed after half a glass.
The two people next to her, Cheng Ting's face was uncertain, sometimes depressed, sometimes as if relieved, her eyes were uncertain, just like the clouds of May, how many changing raindrops should be in the belly of the color clouds of light and land; Fu Lu was ignorant, he didn't know the current situation at all, and what he paid the most attention to was the dancing girl in the lobby, with a look of joy on his face.
Xue Chongxun chanted in a calm, slow and magnetic voice: "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls with amber light. But that the master may be drunk, and he shall not know where ...... is elsewhere."
Murong Yan pondered for a moment and said happily: "This poem is good, and the warm hospitality of the Duke of Wei Guo is exactly in line with our state of mind at the moment." β
"It turns out that the princess not only speaks Chinese well, but also understands poetry."
"The letters we exchanged with Shanzhou last year were written by me, have you ever seen them with your own eyes?" Murong Yan looked at him with a smile.
Xue Chongxun said suddenly: "No wonder the font is so delicate and timeless, it is suspected that it is written by a woman, it turns out that it is really written by the princess." β
Murong Yan brushed the hair that had fallen to her forehead behind her ears, gently touched her delicate chin with her onion-like fingers, and asked in a low voice, "Is it good-looking?" β
"What is a princess ......"
Murong Yan smiled and said nothing.
Xue Chongxun didn't answer, and suddenly turned his head to look at Cheng Ting and asked gently, "Ting'er, what's wrong with you?" β
Cheng Tingqiang smiled, looked very strange, shook his head and said, "Maybe it's blowing the wind outside, and it's a little uncomfortable." β
The moment when the delicate petals crumbled into the palm of his hand appeared in Xue Chongxun's mind...... How sad the scene was, but he clearly felt a strange pleasure, as if he smelled a rich fragrance.
He turned his head, leaned lightly into Cheng Ting's ear and said, "If a petal is not injured, all the petals on the bone will be shattered into fragrant dust." Do you understand? β
Cheng Ting was stunned, suddenly remembered something, and whispered a little sadly: "Lang Jun always makes me forget my identity ...... often."
Xue Chongxun said calmly: "But I know you're hurt, and I haven't ignored your feelings, have you?" β
A sweet smile appeared at the corner of Cheng Ting's mouth.
Xue Chongxun said in his heart: The advantage of this girl is that she is good at waiting. He laughed when he thought about it. Murong Yan didn't speak just now, just looked at the men and women opposite with interest.
No one knew Xue Chongxun's heart, and he suddenly had an idea: under this light red ambiguity, there was a simple formula hidden. When people are poor, giving everything may capture a woman, love, energy, money, and so on; And when you are developed, because you have more things, you can share them with more women.
Give and take, love and possess. What a simple game...... A thing that is dressed in beautiful clothes cannot stand scrutiny, just like the flesh and blood and meridians of a wolf bèi under the skin of a beautiful woman.
But Xue Chongxun still couldn't withstand these false temptations, which made his mind a little confused.
Because he clearly felt the sadness, beauty, and heartbeat of the moment, these unpredictable things, but they are not fake.
After three rounds of drinking, the guests were also let go, and the cups were staggered and laughed. While admiring the half-exposed breasts, water snake-like waists, and skin under the translucent light veil of white flowers, Fu Lu drank too much unconsciously. People say that the fat man has a good amount of alcohol, but Fu Lu's alcohol consumption really does not dare to compliment, and he actually falls asleep on the desk.
He didn't pay attention to it when he was drunk, and he didn't know where he dreamed, but his feet slowly straightened, and Xue Chongxun was on the opposite side, and he happened to touch Xue Chongxun's calf.
Xue Chongxun was slightly surprised when he was touched like this, and when he looked up, he saw that Fu Lu was sleeping soundly; And Murong Yan found that his gaze was also looking at him with a smile, and his eyes were staggered...... Xue Chongxun said in his heart: Did she touch me with her foot? FrΓΌdu slept like a dead pig, wasn't she who?
Of course, he was embarrassed to open the curtain to check, so he could only guess.
This matter made Xue Chongxun a little confused and hesitant, this Xianbei princess seduced Lao Tzu? But she is already a married woman, and according to Xue Chongxun's habits, she is not very willing to have any intentions against the young woman...... But as soon as he looked at Fu Lu beside Murong Yan, Xue Chongxun's moral bottom line began to waver, this guy is not only Tuo Niu dung, but he is also a war criminal, and he has a lot of Han blood on his hands, the reason why he is not liquidated is because Xue Chongxun also needs this guy to maintain the situation in Tuyuhun country, which is completely a kind of use relationship.
Just like Xiao Heng, who was used by Xue Chongxun at the beginning, if it wasn't for Sanniang to dissuade him, Xue Chongxun would have no psychological pressure to move his wife.
So this Tuyuhun Murong clan, can it move? Xue Chongxun remembered that when he was in exile in Tuyuhun, the main person who helped him was this Murong Yan...... Even if she was thinking about her interests at that time, she wanted to get involved in the Tang Dynasty, but she finally lived her own life.
So Xue Chongxun didn't want to hurt this woman, and he wasn't a white-eyed wolf, although he didn't necessarily have clear grievances about everything, he still understood who was good to him.
But Murong Yan took the initiative to do this, he thought to himself that even if he had any thoughts, there was nothing wrong with it, right? Her charming and understanding eyes, enthusiastic red lips, and beautiful exotic face all teased Xue Chongxun's fragile nerves. A