The entire inner hall was unusually quiet, and the atmosphere seemed to be very solemn. In such an environment, it is more and more difficult to feel that something earth-shaking is about to happen.

Suddenly, the sound of rings and collisions sounded outside the door, soothing the solemn air. The doorman sang and said, "The envoy of the Blue Moon Empire has arrived--"

This singing disturbed the peace of the inner hall, and many of the guests had a look of surprise in their eyes, as if they had not expected that an envoy from the Blue Moon Empire would come to this banquet.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

The uninvited guest in everyone's minds was a delicate woman, and she was followed by two people, and Rick knew that it was Gott, the deputy leader of the Caiyun Mercenary Regiment? Watson and Chief Think Tank Syllen. The envoy sat in one of the three seats in the main house, and as soon as she made her official appearance, Rick realized that she was the woman he had met at the ranch who knew how to fight, and today she was dressed in a costume that Rick could barely recognize. The rest of the people were more concerned about why the envoy of the Blue Moon Empire was sitting in the seat of the master's house, and he was still sitting in the middle seat, which symbolized the status of the master. Only Rick vaguely guessed that it was likely that the background of the Caiyun Mercenary Group in Feng Meng's words was the Blue Moon Empire. This can explain how the leader of the Caiyun Mercenary Group suddenly became an envoy of the Blue Moon Empire.

"I think you must have a lot of questions. Most of the distinguished guests here are powerful figures in Qingcheng. Before I make a announcement, I would like to ask Deputy Chief Pompey--" Almost half of the people turned their eyes to the rich fat man in the third seat on the left, and the woman in the main seat continued, "How could the second elder suddenly be interested in sending someone to attack my Caiyun mercenary group?" ”

Oturu, the undersecretary of finance of the Kingdom of Huca? Pompey. That is, the fat man who was in a blessed state, and his sharp eyes narrowed slightly: "This seems to have nothing to do with your Blue Moon Empire, respected envoy." ”

The woman at the main table smiled coldly and said: "I forgot to tell you that I still have an identity, my name is Concubine Ji Xue, the daughter of Ji Lan, the previous head of the Caiyun Mercenary Group, and the current head of the Caiyun Mercenary Group." ”

"It turned out to be Head Ji, but I don't know what Head Ji meant by the question just now?"

"The second elder is really forgetful, he just sent a large group of people to visit the ranch of my mercenary group outside the city a few days ago, so he doesn't remember it so quickly."

"It seems that Captain Ji is mistaken, how could I do such a stupid thing. Where did the news about Captain Ji come from? This may be a blame-set-up. I also asked the head of the regiment to inquire clearly. ”

"I know Your Excellency will not admit it, so I remind the Second Elder that we took a prisoner during the attack on the ranch. It's a woman in red armor. She calls herself "The Red Rakshasa Ada". I've also heard. The second eldest had a concubine, also named Ada. ”

Otulu? The fat on Pompeii's face trembled. I don't know if it's intentional or not. His cold gaze swept over Rick's face, and then said with a smile: "It should be that Captain Ji made a mistake, indeed, I have a concubine named Ada, and I took her with me when I went out this time, but she is a weak and slender woman, not a robber who can fly off the wall." If Captain Ji doesn't believe me, I can ask someone to bring her after the banquet. After Oturu finished speaking, a smug glint flashed in his eyes. Although his eyes changed quickly, that glimmer still could not escape Ji Xuefei's eyes that were the best at capturing people's psychology, and she secretly exclaimed, because she suddenly thought of a possibility, maybe it would turn her thousands of efforts into nothing, and it would also make her lose her wife and break her army, exposing her family background, and failing to hit the enemy. Rick thought of that possibility, too, but he thought it was absolutely impossible. Oturu wanted to take the opportunity of the banquet to send someone to the Tianxiang Inn to rescue Ada, but he would only beat the dog with meat buns - there was no return. He believed that even if an army broke into the Tianxiang Inn now, it would not be possible to save Ada, because forty-four Nymph guards were standing there, and their combined strength would fear even the gods.

Concubine Ji Xue and Otulu both had their own thoughts, and neither of them spoke again, and the banquet fell into a strange silence. Rick secretly looked at the reactions of the guests around him: the seat to the right of Oturu, that is, the second seat, sat a businessman who looked overly drunk, he was drinking non-stop, and seemed to be indifferent to the debate between Ji Xuefei and Oturu; On the left side of Otulu, the third seat, the big men in nomadic attire have been looking around, showing their absent-mindedness; The two women are dressed very strangely, their clothes are basically similar to the popular clothing styles on the mainland, but there are two aspects that have been exaggerated, one is the waist, which is very tight, and the other is the sleeves, from the elbow down, open very big, anyone who looks at such a costume will feel weird, but if it is purely appreciative, such a costume worn on a woman, not only is it not weird, but it shows the delicate and elegant curve of the woman. There were six seats on Rick's side, and in addition to the guests who occupied one of the seats himself and the guests who did not show up for the second seat, the other four guests also had different reactions to the debate just now: the two officials of the Business Alliance in the first seat had been sitting upright without squinting, and Rick guessed that one of them must be the owner of the entire banquet venue, the Lord of the Qingcheng Garrison Mansion; The guest at the third table was a crane-haired old man who had been dozing off; At the next seat, the bewitching half-aged and the two scholars, an old man and a young scholar, were whispering from beginning to end; As for the couple closest to Rick, they were the most relaxed of the whole feast, and their manners could be called leisurely and elegant, but they did not dare to be flattering, and they focused all their attention on the hearty food, and fought for it, as if their bellies were always full. Rick was all too familiar with their movements, for the little devil Ao Ling'er looked like this when he ate, and even more so than the couple. At this moment, she was sitting beside her, desperately regretting why she was wearing a veil, and it was an inhuman torture to see that she couldn't eat so much delicious food. She had thought about simply taking off the veil, but it was obviously against the rules of formal social etiquette, and everyone would not hesitate to mark her "not a lady" in their eyes. It was not worth it, and in order to resist the temptation of food, she chose to hide her body behind Rick as much as possible, away from those temptations, out of sight.

This passage is written rather slowly, but in fact, the whole process is less than a cup of tea. Concubine Ji Xue also took advantage of this time to secretly gesture and call a mercenary dressed as a maid behind her, and asked her to quickly inform Feng Mengna of the possibility she had just thought of, so that he could come up with a countermeasure. Otulu saw this qiē in his eyes and sneered secretly: This girl is really too tender, since he vetoed the fact that the concubine fell into the hands of the other party, how could he give her a chance to refute. The master of Sanssouci Villa, who had spent a lot of money to hire, had gone to the Tianxiang Inn an hour ago. One hour was enough for them to raze the entire Tianxiang Inn to the ground, even if the stinky boy's subordinates on the opposite side were extremely powerful, and the masters of Sanssouci Villa couldn't save Hongyu, but killing her would definitely be easy. The thought that his most beautiful concubine might be killed by someone he had sent to him, his heart also twitched a few times in pain. However, what made him feel the most pain was not the loss of his beautiful concubine, but the 300,000 gold coins spent on hiring the master of Sanssouci Villa, which was an astronomical amount of money!

The atmosphere of silence was finally broken, but it was not the guests at the banquet who broke the frozen air, but another chorus from the doorman: "Miss Long Yuyan and His Royal Highness Prince Becky have arrived--"

Rick was overjoyed, he couldn't imagine that a banquet with unintentional willows would lead to the "Flower of Sidi" Long Yuyan that he had been looking for for a long time, and now he could explain to the restless swordsmen. He reacted in the same way as the big man in nomadic attire on the other side, and one of them, a big man with a full beard, had a strange light in his eyes.

A man and a woman walked in outside the door, the woman in front and the man behind, judging from the distance between the two, they did not come together. Careful people will find that the handsome young man who followed the woman and her attendant was a "flower messenger" at all, unfortunately, the falling flowers were intentional, and the flowing water was ruthless, and Long Yuyan didn't even look at this "flower messenger" with a straight eye.

Long Yuyan's participation in this banquet seems to have been expected by the banquet host, and the second seat on Rick's side was prepared for her. Rick could see clearly that Long Yuyan and her attendants were wearing silver-white soft armor, and the soft armor also had a strange sign engraved on its chest - a golden axe and a golden shield intersected. Rick couldn't figure out what the logo meant. Seeing his confused face, Chrissy whispered in her ear, "That's the symbol of the Temple of the God of War." ”

"How did she become a nun in the Temple of the God of War?" Rick asked, surprised. In his knowledge, the people who stayed in the temple were either nuns or priests. Although Long Yuyan wears soft armor and does not look like a nun, Rick's understanding of the temple is not something that can be broken lightly.

Chrissy laughed, "The women who stay in the temple are not necessarily nuns, and the Temple of War is not the same as its temple. There are three kinds of people in the Temple of the God of War, the first is the elder, the second is the samurai, and the third is the priest. The priests of the Temple of the God of War were all men, not women. Therefore, Long Yuyan should be a samurai, but how could she take refuge in the God of War Temple? Chrissy had a confused look on her face.

Long Yuyan sat in the second seat on Rick's side, and the Prince Betty Ying sat in the sixth seat opposite. This arrangement of positions was confusing to Rick. According to etiquette, the prince should be much more noble than a warrior in the Temple of War, and perhaps even more noble than anyone present, and it is impossible to arrange him at the last seat. However, Chrissy explained: "That Prince Betty Ying only brought two retinues with him, and he obviously came to this banquet in a private capacity, maybe he just came after Long Yuyan. So, nominally, not as much as most of the people here. (To be continued......)