Chapter 128: Zhifu Night Banquet (2)
We mingled with a group of new servants and worked all afternoon sweating, waiting for the evening to bring food and drink, and then take the opportunity to sneak into the feasting hall. But when we walked to the front yard with the wine urn at sunset, we were completely dumbfounded. All the utensils, food, and wine, when they were transported a hundred paces from the high hall, had to be handed over to another group of beautiful maids who were under the supervision of the head of the house, who carried them in batches.
Seeing this, I pulled Wuxian to the side two steps, and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid today's hard work is in vain, let's not say we want to go in, even if we get closer, we will be arrested by those guards at the door." β
"It's okay, I have a way." Innocent grinned at me and said mysteriously.
"What's the solution?"
Innocent glanced at the group of servants who passed by us one after another, and whispered, "Let's go slowly." β
After a busy day, the big guys were already too tired to walk, and they all walked with their heads down and muffled, and no one noticed that Wuxian and I were walking more and more slowly, falling at the back of the line.
"Tell me, what can you do?"
Innocent raised an eyebrow, looked around, and pulled me into a path behind the high hall.
"Don't tell me, you're going to climb in from the roof!"
"That's right! You hold my waist, and I'll take you to jump on it. β
"If Hongyun'er knew, he would have killed meβ"
"Then you're not going?"
"Goβwhy not?" I reached out and hugged Innocent's waist, looked at the roof, and my heart immediately became empty again, "Don't throw me down!" β
"If you're afraid, close your eyes."
Innocent big hands wrapped up my whole person, ran a few steps, followed by several ups and downs, when I opened my eyes, the person was already standing on the eaves, the sky was within reach, looking at the end of the eyes, the remnant sun was like blood.
"Lower your body and follow me!" Innocence pulled me by the hand.
I reacted and immediately bowed down, and carefully climbed to the center of the roof of the Ming Hall with the innocence on my waist. There are two bronze beast faces with round eyes and square teeth standing here. One facing south and one facing north, always seven feet wide, and Innocent and I slipped into the gap between them, completely hiding our figures.
"It's such a nice place, people from the front and back can't see us, how did you find out?" I sat down happily.
"I like to stand on a high place, and when I get to a place, I always go to the roof first."
"You also climbed the roof of Zhao Shizi?"
"Well, I've climbed over his father's roof."
"You actually went on the roof of Zhao Ying! You're too bold! Don't do that next time, be careful of being shot with arrows! β
"They can't shoot me!" Innocent snorted coldly, looking disdainful, "There is no place in this world that I can't go!" β
"Innocenceβ" I ran my hand over his head, coldly pronouncing his name between my teeth.
He looked at me, his arrogance immediately wilted, and he reluctantly replied: "Got it......"
"You listen to me obediently now, and in the future I will accompany you to climb the highest mountain in the world, follow you to play with the clouds and the wind, and hold the moon and pick the stars."
"Ah Shi-" Innocent's eyes were full of brilliance, and he nodded heavily.
The winter sky darkened very quickly, and the little remnant sun on the horizon quickly sank to the depths of the earth, dissipating the only purple halo it left. Suddenly the sky and the earth went dark. Suddenly, thousands of candles lit up on both sides of the avenue leading to the main gate of Zhifu, and the candle flames led a hazy water vapor cage around him, transforming into glowing balls that swayed and jumped in the dark night wind, and from a distance it looked like the galaxy in the sky had inadvertently fallen into the mortal world.
The drums are ringing in unison, the stars are in the road, the courtyard is blazing in the sky, and the red lacquer gate of Zhifu opens in response to the sound when the drum beat accumulates to the highest place.
The guests are about to enter the house.
At the main entrance, the scholars and doctors dressed in gorgeous clothes diligently handed over the prayer posts and gift lists; At the side door, stacks of painted lacquer boxes and cloth and silk were carried in by the servants in an endless stream.
At night, Zhifu is as lively as a market in March. The only difference is that the market is trading the hope of the common people for the new year; And what is traded here is the future rights and status of the Jin Guoshi doctor. Zhao Ying is old, this person who has been in the Jin Kingdom for thirty years is already an old man over sixty years old, and the next Shangqing, Zhi Yao, the sect leader of the Zhi family, is in the prime of life, and the future Jin Kingdom will undoubtedly be his world. Therefore, on this night, almost all the officials of the Jin Kingdom, large and small, appeared at this banquet that attracted the attention of the whole country.
The guests at the gate came in one after another, but I never saw Zhao Ying and Wuxian. About two quarters of an hour later, a yellow-clothed servant suddenly ran in from the gate, and he galloped all the way into the lobby. A moment later, a man wearing a black crown, a fox fur, and a brown coat strode down from the hall. He was tall and thin, and when he walked, the sleeves of his robe were blown and his belt was flying.
Fox Qiu is only worn by the Son of Heaven, princes, and Qing clans, could this person be Zhiyao?
I hid behind the bronze beast face, poked my head out, and saw the man striding to the door, and exchanged a salute with Zhao Ying, who had just stepped out of the carriage, and the shirtless standing behind Zhao Ying, then bowed to the man.
"It turns out that he is Zhiyao......"
"Which one, the one with the black crown? It's too skinny, it's not like it. Innocent leaned out and muttered behind me.
I nodded, feeling a little lost in my heart: "I also don't think he is like, except that he is about the same height, he doesn't look like him at all." Lan Ji's words rang in my head that day, did I really jump into this mess after seeing everything?
"I recognized the wrong person, so are we going back now?"
"No, since you're here, let's take another look!"
Once all the guests had entered the lobby, I carefully uncovered a piece of green tiles from the roof and peered inside.
In the hall, Zhao Ying and Zhi Yao sat on the high steps, and everyone under the table enjoyed and drank very lively.
Since I came to the Jin Kingdom, I heard that Zhiyao is a famous beautiful man in the Jin Kingdom. The beauty of a man is like a bright one, and it is graceful, like a flower shadow; But Zhi Yao's face is almost perfect and exquisite, no matter where the eyebrows, eyes, lips and nose are, it seems that they can't be changed in the slightest, otherwise it will ruin a masterpiece of heaven. But this perfect facial features combined with his delicate clothes and decent smile make me feel that he has a hypocritical, indifferent, and indifferent heart to the world. The young man sitting on the lower right of Zhiyao should be Zhiyan, compared to his father, his face looks much inferior, his forehead is too narrow, his nose is too wide, and there is not much aura between his eyebrows.
"Ah, look!" Wuxian leaned into my ear and grinned, "Zhao Wuxian is sitting below, he must not know, we will step on top of his head now." β
I looked down and saw that Shirtless was sitting at the feet of me and Innocent, and a man was drinking in a muffled voice.
The princes of the Wei and Han families are sitting next to Zhiyan at the moment, the three of them are talking and laughing, pushing cups and setting lamps, and Wuxian obviously came with Zhao Ying, but he was arranged in the most corner position, and sat together with a few shrunken lower-level doctors.
"They're too bullying." I was indignant.
"Who are you bullying?" Wuxian leaned over to take a look at it and said with a smile, "It's good to drink quietly!" β
I glared at Innocent, and when I looked down again, I saw Zhi Yao standing up with a bronze jue, and he said a few words of toast according to the courtesy. Afterwards, Shizi Zhiyan stepped into the banquet and shared a drink with the guests.
"Look at this stinky boy, his wife just died, why did he start drinking?" I was looking at it when a man's voice suddenly sounded in my ears, and I looked back to see that the red hair of the thief was right next to my nose.
"Innocent!" I lowered my voice and called.
Wuxie, who was standing on the side, shrugged his shoulders and said innocently: "This uncle said that he also wanted to see it, and I saw that he was good, so I gave him the position." β
"What? Uncle! The thief turned his face sharply and stared at Innocent with an angry expression, "I look like an uncle?" β
"Well, you've got folds on your face. Ah Shi said, even such a person must be called uncle. β
"I-" The thief stepped up and reached for Innocent's collar, who immediately reacted and dodged sideways.
"You're good!" The thief smiled, and stretched out his right hand to reach out to the waist of the innocent with lightning speed, and the innocent fell down, grabbed the thief's belt and lifted him out.
The thief turned around in the air and landed lightly and skillfully on the tile: "Boy, come again!" β
"You wait!" As soon as the innocent was interested, he actually played a game of chasing and fleeing with the thief on the roof of the lobby of Zhifu as if no one was around.
This is on the roof of Zhifu, and most of the big people of the Jin Kingdom are sitting under it at the moment! I looked at them with trepidation, and my heart was already beating to my throat.
"You guys stop meβ" I whispered.
Their ears were pointed, they looked at each other and smiled, and jumped over.
"If you two want to play, find a place where no one is around, don't attract the guards and trouble me!" I looked at Innocence and Thief and gritted my teeth.
"I'm not old, but my temper is quite big." As the thief passed me, he pulled out a palm-sized bag from his bosom and threw it over, "There's enough stuff in it to ask you to buy a place, right?" β
What? I took the bag and opened it, and it contained three pearls the size of a bird's egg, round and white, almost flawless. Not to mention buying a "lookout" on this roof, it is not a problem to buy a courtyard.
"You've already gone through the treasury of Zhifu?" I asked.
The thief squatted down and smiled, "That's nature." This is a congratulatory gift sent by Chen Heng, the left minister of Qi State, to the prince of the world, and you can make a bead to bring when you are a little girl. Don't thank me, I only take things because they are valuable, and if I take them and don't use them, I will be cheaper for you. After speaking, he lay down with his hands propped up, "Ha, how did you get it here?" β
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It's been the 100th day of the change.,Celebrate it yourself~~~ I'll continue to work hard (*^__^*)