Chapter 39: Finding Poison (2)
Looking for drugs? Ouyang Qianyun was confused, but she still followed, interesting, this time she was actually looking for poison. Thinking about it, a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth.
It has been three days since Ning Fengyang's disappearance, Xu Lin sat in the hall anxiously, although no one has found out about Ning Guoshi's disappearance yet, but he always feels very uneasy in his heart, and in the past two days, he has also sent people to look around and inquire around, but there is no news.
"Master Xu, what's wrong with you? Why did you sweat so much? Beside him, a Jiupin official seemed to notice Xu Lin's strangeness and asked out loud.
Hearing this, Xu Lin realized that the sweat on his forehead was oozing out finely, "Maybe the stove in this house is too hot." ”
Xu Lin had to explain like this. He also suspected that Ning Fengyang's disappearance was related to the masked man, but he had no evidence, and he couldn't turn his face with that person when the safety of his wife and children was in danger.
"I can't believe that adults are so afraid of heat."
"Hmm." Xu Lin said a perfunctory sentence and walked out.
He got up and walked up the steps, walked to the top floor of the heavy building, overlooking the entire Jianglin, and the blue pond at his feet caused a slight ripple under the breeze, which also soothed a lot of his uneasy mood.
Since the time of Shen, the door of the heavy building has been wide open, and literati and artists have walked in one after another, and the back kitchen is also preparing all kinds of exquisite snacks.
Xu Lin invited more than 100 people to this banquet, and the banquet venue was very empty, except for a sandalwood table in the center, there were long mahogany tables in various places, and a wine glass was placed in each position.
This banquet is still in the name of Chonglou, requiring everyone present to write poems in a stick of incense, and finally by several old scholars to judge the best works of this time, the winner can get Wang Xizhi's own handwritten Lan Pavilion preface. This is even more attractive than rewarding 10,000 taels of gold, after all, it is definitely something to be proud of to be able to obtain the handwriting of the book saint, so many famous scholars who came were ready to move, looking at everyone present with hostile eyes.
When night fell, the whole advent sheng song was everywhere, drumming and blowing, and they all celebrated the official opening of the banquet in Chonglou.
Xu Lin walked into the venue, "Everyone, today Xu has the honor to convene you here, open the annual Chonglou banquet, Xu hereby thank you for coming to participate, tonight, please also ask everyone regardless of identity, rich or poor, just be a confidant of the end of the world, enjoy your heart's content, and drink happily." ”
Xu Lin paused, held up his confidence, and continued: "Tonight's topic is still unnamed in Chonglou, everyone composes a poem in the time of a stick of incense, and these gentlemen around me will judge the best work, and the winner will have this orchid pavilion preface next to me." Xu Lin said, pointing to a pair of notes on the side.
"Good...... Master Xu said it well......"
In the hall, someone got up and agreed.
Suddenly, there was a lot of applause from the audience.
"Now, please feel free to eat and drink. Half an hour later, the game officially began. ”
After Xu Lin finished speaking, he stepped aside.
"Who do you think will come out on top this time?"
In the hall, someone was already bowing his head and whispering.
"Needless to say," someone said with a mysterious smile, "naturally it won't be your turn or mine." ”
"Hey, I think we're just going through the motions."
"This is not just a formality, I heard that ......" the corner of the man's eyes narrowed slightly, and he leaned into the other person's ear and whispered, "I heard that there are a lot of people from the government this time, and it seems that there are still people from the palace." ”
"Palace? Could it be the crown prince? But the man quickly pouted again, "It shouldn't be the prince." ”
"Who knows? It is rumored that this prince has a problem with his brain, but I don't know if it's true or not. ”
The hall was full of excitement, everyone was talking and laughing, the smell of wine filled the hall, some people drank and exported into poems, while some people only focused on eating the side dishes in front of the case, but they didn't know that there was already a dangerous atmosphere outside......
Ning Fengyang took Ouyang Qianyun all the way to Chonglou.
Ouyang Qianyun straightened the wide men's robe on her body, why didn't she feel comfortable, this person, why did she dress up as a man? And give her such ugly clothes, she really doesn't have any vision at all.
Ning Fengyang glanced at Ouyang Qianyun, looking at her restless posture, her expression was full of dissatisfaction, and for some reason, the corners of her mouth slowly hooked up a slight arc.
The guard at the door looked at a handsome and elegant figure appearing in front of him, followed by a little scholar, the two of them were about to buy it one after the other, and hurriedly took their swords and stepped forward to stop, "Stop, do you have a post?" ”
Ning Fengyang just glanced coldly at the guard who stepped forward to stop him, and the chill in his eyes forced the guard to withdraw his sword, and his intuition told him that the identity of the person in front of him must not be simple, so he would have such a noble aura.
It's just that he still has to ask clearly: "What do you want to ask your lordship?" I'll go in and inform Lord Xu. ”
"Not necessarily." Ning Fengyang coldly spit out two words, and strode in.
Ouyang Qianyun almost couldn't keep up, this person was so fast, she was already running, why couldn't she keep up with his pace, she knew that she shouldn't have agreed to this deal, and she would definitely have a good income in Zhuangzi.