"A nation that has been depleted by years of war for a quarter of a century cannot alone resist the attack of an armed whole world." - Engels commented on the defeat of Napoleon

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At this time, he really raised his head in amazement, looked at the envoy of Seris on the other side, and found that the other party's eyes were also flickering in surprise, looking at his appearance, although both sides were a little transparent in their hearts, and they were also a little confused, but these two were extremely active, and no one said anything, so they still had to take the trick seriously!

"In addition, the envoy of Seris personally has a generous gift to give to His Excellency the High Priest." At this time, it was too late for Zhonglang to put Wang Qinian in an attempt to stop Otakilius, but seeing that the other party waved his hand, he asked a team of servants to carry a box forward, and Li Bida and Adiana stretched out their heads to look. "What is this? Like jadeite. Adiana asked curiously.

Li Bida, who saw clearly with fixed eyes, almost didn't - no wonder Wang Qinian wanted to speak and stopped just now, the box was half of the slightly rippling well water, there was ice floes floating on it, and impermeable python skin was padded below, and in the water, it was pink and white and shiny, and it was actually a piece of fine tofu flowers

It seems that this envoy is really powerful, I really don't understand how he sent soybeans to the carriage and horses for thousands of miles, and sent them here, but this tofu flower must have been made here first, but I don't know if this is to give beauty to himself, or to give this Wang Zhonglang will satisfy his own mouth, I really don't know.

Li Bida looked at Wang Qinian, and the other party could only smile and stretch out the sleeves of his robe, meaning that this delicacy was offered to the high priest of Rome and the queen of Ubertonia.

"Very good, Calabia, it's very good food." Li Bida leaned over. "Thanks to Cyris's ability to keep it in ice water," he whispered to Adiana, "we can now have the servants process it." Hold it at the banquet, and you and Eujit can taste it. Absolutely gourmet! ”

It was a grand feast, and in the main hall of the palace of Nicomide, the most handsome musicians and the sexiest dancers circled between the seats, and the high priest and his queen frequently saluted him, wishing him good fortune and longevity, and congratulating the envoys of the generals who had come from afar, and the interpreters in the middle were almost exhausted. Precious gifts, ivory carvings, enamel jewelry boxes, corals, porphyry gemstones, crystal vessels, etc., were piled up in front of the king, and several of the most beautiful dancers were also gathered around the general, toasting and massaging, all of them were gifts from the high priest tonight.

"No, no, if you return to your home and receive too much of a gift from the high priest, you will be impeached for being disrespectful and having a personal relationship with a foreign country. No, you can't. Wang Qinian said politely to the translator, but he said that in the period before returning to China, he would definitely be "disrespectful" to the gifts of the high priest and the queen.

After a while. The finale dish, tofu is here!

As a result, at this time, the high priest and the middle priest looked at each other's tables, and suddenly there was a little estrangement - in front of the vessel in front of the high priest containing tofu flowers, there was Indian "cut" cane sugar, and in front of Wang Zhonglang, there was "Wu salt" brought from Seris.

So Wang Qinian could only sigh, shook his head, and raised the silver spoon in his hand. There is a great summer insect with an unspeakable expression.

Only Adiana and Eujit, cane sugar and salt. Eat almost from mouth to mouth.

Suddenly, the high priest finally couldn't take it anymore. He asked directly in the already rusty modern Seris dialect (no three people here understand it anyway), "General Wang Zhonglang, your Excellency should be able to recognize the ivory carving I gave to you, is that so?" ”

Now the translator opened his mouth, not knowing how to convey it.

Wang Qinian stopped the action of eating in his hand, lowered his head, and the spoon was shaking slightly, he straightened his clothes for a long time, and finally replied to Li Bida with a smile, "Knowing is knowing, but these statuettes, men see their peons, women show their eyes, very indecent, very indecent, I'm afraid I can't bring them back to China!" ”

"It's simple, I can ask someone to send some more fully clothed ones to Your Excellency." The high priest continued very politely, and even Adiana was stunned at this moment, and saw that the two of them were talking more and more happily without hindrance, which was really strange to others.

After the dinner, Li Bida also invited Zhonglang General to play "Montanus" together for a while, Wang Qinian and Li Bida were all "Montanus faces", and the two competed like a dragon and tiger, sweeping away the chips of Adiana and Otakilius.

And on the table, although the two were expressionless, but the conversation did not stop for a moment, from the jacquard machine to the canal, to the shipping route, almost everything was discussed, Zhonglang General promised that he would return to China, and he would do his best to mediate for the high priest, and the high priest also said that in case something went wrong in Seris, he could come here, and he could ensure the glory and wealth of Zhonglang for a lifetime.

After seeing off the king, the drunken high priest got up and found that Adiana had left the table early, but the maid he had appointed to hear the news of Eujit was half-kneeling before him, and handed over the "queen's ultimatum", telling him to go to the queen's chambers tonight for a final showdown.

"Showdown? I didn't expect Calabia to say such a word. The high priest said with some displeasure, but then he granted the maid's request, and went into the chamber where the queen was bed, followed by the servants.

By this time, the lights had been extinguished on both sides of the room, and the Queen's couch was placed behind the drape, on which Adiana could be seen lying on her side, shadowed by the candlelight.

Li Bida suspects that this is a trap, and as soon as he enters it, he will be hacked to death by the ambushed maids and eunuchs, or poisoned by something from Adiana, he loves the queen of Euternia, but he will not love anyone when he dies, right?

So Li Bida could only stand outside the curtain, quietly, without saying a word, waiting for the other party to speak first, and then decide on countermeasures.

"What will happen to your gift to Eujitt—I know, Calabis, I hate it when we discuss such a subject, but you also know that it is time to be honest with each other." Finally, Adiana said behind the curtain.

"Bosphorus, after destroying Dacia in the future, I will give him half of the other side, as well as Colchis." Li Bida said these words.

The queen sighed inside, and said that I was satisfied with these gifts, but in fact I had already figured it out, "That dream in the sacred wheat field has long foreshadowed the revival of my kingdom, whether it is called Pontus or Eubernia, it is all yours, Calabis." I know that the fact that I have brought up this topic in the past few days has made you feel sorry for me in your heart, so when you made this promise, I was already happy for Eujit, you still have your own love for him after all, and I think there is a good reason for you to execute Spencers, when we were young, we made a vow that 'Calabia and Calabis will trust each other', right? (To be continued) R466