Chapter 65: The Mansion Banquet
The old man asked the two attendants to walk down from the table with the paintings, and the two of them held the paintings, passed by one desk after another, stopped in front of each table, and then walked to the next table!
The old man said, "This painting was bought by the prince at a great price a few days ago, but I can't understand where this painting is worth, so I want to ask everyone here to help the prince palm his eyes, has the prince spent money in vain!" ”
Wen Qing moved to Xie Yu's side and asked, "What is this for?" ”
Xie Yu turned his head and whispered, "This is the assessment!" Maybe that painting is really as the old man said, maybe it's just a disguise, no matter what it is, there must be a lot of articles in that painting! Later, everyone will have to interpret the painting, someone will take notes, and afterwards King Yuzhang will select the guest according to the content of the interpretation! Only those who are picked out can really enter the palace of Yuzhang and become the real disciples of Yuzhang Wang! ”
Wen Qing understood, just like the competition, the invitation is only the shortlist of the preliminary round, and now it is the real final, and the final test is an impromptu performance! Because no one has ever seen that painting! So no one has done their homework! Whether you can find out what King Yuzhang wants to see from that painting depends on your own eyesight and on-the-spot brain reaction ability!
Her eyes fell on the two entourage, and she saw that where the two entourages passed, everyone in front of the desk showed a puzzled look!
This shows that they all know that this is an assessment, and what they are confused about is just the content of the painting!
Wen Qing tugged at the corner of Xie Yu's clothes again, "Have you seen Song Xiulan's son?" ”
Xie Yu looked to the side, "When I came in just now, I took a look, he was in our row, as if he was a few places away from us!" ”
As he spoke, the two attendants had already taken the painting to this side, and Wen Qing returned to his place and sat down!
The two attendants walked from the row of desks diagonally opposite them, and when they came to the end, they took Wen Qing's side as the starting point, and the two attendants brought the painting over!
It was a painting about a meter long, with several scenes vividly depicted on it, telling a strange story!
The first scene depicts a small town, and the inhabitants of the town are standing on the streets of the town with doubts on their faces! They are all looking in the same direction!
In the second scene, the residents of the town begin to flee in a hurry, as if something is chasing them behind them, and their faces are full of fear!
In the third scene, the town has become a purgatory on earth, the streets with bright red blood flowing are everywhere, a burly giant more than two meters tall is holding a huge mace, killing the residents of the town, and a giant black dog is standing on the roof, looking indifferently at everything in front of him! The giant dog was almost the size of an adult!
In the fourth scene, the town is bleeding in a river, and the big dog jumps from the roof and lands next to the burly giant who is more than two meters tall, and the giant dog looks up at the giant and then walks forward! The burly giant followed the giant dog, one dog and one another, and disappeared into the depths of the jungle!
The two entourages didn't stay in front of Wen Qing for long while holding the painting, and then moved in front of Xie Yu!
It seems that everyone has the same amount of time to see, basically just enough to see what the painting is about!
So it's basically certain that the article hidden in this painting is in the content of this painting! Because this amount of time is only enough for them to see the content of the painting!
If, as the old man said, this painting has any other value, then this little time is not enough to see it!
The whole time of looking at the painting did not last long, after everyone looked at the painting, the two attendants took the painting and handed it to the old man, the old man rolled up the painting, called the two attendants, attached to the ears of the two attendants, and did not know what to say to the two attendants!
The two attendants withdrew, but it wasn't long before they returned, and when they came back, they had a lot of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone in their hands! They distributed pen, ink, paper, and inkstones to the crowd!
The old man said on the high platform, "Everyone saw the painting just now, and I don't know what I found after reading it, now I can write the highlights or slots and opinions I found on the paper in front of you, and I will present it to the prince later!" ”
Wen Qing also got a pen, a piece of paper and an inkstone!
She asked Xie Yu in a low voice, "How do you write this?" ”
Xie Yu whispered back, "What you see and what you write!" ”
The old man said, "The people in the audience don't talk to each other, each writes his own!" ”
Wen Qing shrunk her neck and twisted the pen, she looked up at the people opposite, everyone frowned, holding the pen in their hands, but they didn't put down the pen, just like the candidates for the exam had encountered some big problems! Extremely important questions that you can't do yourself!
Wen Qing didn't think about it, and began to write on the paper!
On the second floor, behind a transparent screen, sat a young man and an old man with gray hair!
There was a table in front of them, and there was a pot of tea brewing on the table, and it was steaming, and the whole room was filled with the smell of tea!
The young man was gorgeously dressed, and he was constantly changing his sitting posture, looking a little impatient! The tea poured into the teacup seemed to be almost cold, but he didn't mean to touch it at all!
The old man stood behind the screen with his hands behind his back, and when he looked down from here, he could clearly see everything downstairs, but when he looked down from below, he couldn't see the top!
The young man is Yang Xuan, the king of Yuzhang, he is extremely handsome, but he is not a person who can endure his temperament! He was in the chair as if a needle had pricked him, and at last he got up and came to the white-haired old man!
He picked his nostrils very infiguratively, and also looked at the people downstairs.
"Uncle Zhao! Is it that troublesome? Look at who you're looking for, it's a bunch of crooked melons and cracked dates! ”
The white-haired old man named Uncle Zhao smiled and said, "Lord Wang, sometimes, what you see is not necessarily the truth!" How many batches of elite soldiers and strong generals were sent into that place, but what was the result? None of them came back, did the prince think about why? That's because they don't fit, don't fit in that place! That place is not something that can survive by brute force alone, so use it here! ”
The white-haired old man pointed to his head!
Yang Jun pulled his pants again after picking out his nose! He pointed to a few people downstairs!
"Uncle Zhao, look, that tall man is okay, what are the others? Look at the fifth one on the left, the weak little body, a gust of wind can blow him away, and Ye Shen, are you going to let him die, there is no one around this king, isn't that person Chu Shangshu's son? There is also the son of the secretary of the ministry, that! Uncle Zhao, you are trying to kill me! If they die, how can I explain to their Shangshu father! Why is there still a female streamer? Is that where the female streamer can go? Uncle Zhao, you're just a mess! ”
"Which of them do you think is as strong as the elite soldiers I picked before? No, none of my elite soldiers can come back alive, and they are only sent to death! ”
The white-haired old man stroked his beard, shook his head and said, "No, no, no!" ”
"Lord Wang, you don't know anything! The weak scholar that the prince said likes to travel, he has traveled to the peripheral villages of that place, and lived in those villages, the prince does not know, those villages are inhabited by some barbarians, they are very xenophobic, maybe the elite soldiers and strong generals sent out by the prince before were all killed by the barbarians in those villages, and it is not impossible to even see that place! ”
"That scholar, he knows those barbarians well, and with him leading the way, we can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble! After all, our destination is that ancient town, so there is no need to spend so much effort on other places! ”
"As for Gongzi Chu, his brother died in that massacre that year, Gongzi Chu's martial arts are strong, and he is not worse than the elite soldiers and strong generals selected by the prince in the past! He also wanted to know what happened in the ancient town back then, so he would definitely go all out for this operation! ”
"Xie Yu, the son of the official Shangshu, the prince only knows that he is a fool, but he doesn't know that he can do Gu arts, this is all jungle and dense forests, poisonous insects, mosquitoes and ants are indispensable, and he knows a little about medical skills, and he can also act as an accompanying doctor!"
"That girl!"
The white-haired old man set his eyes on Wen Qing, and his smile grew!
"She was recommended by Gongzi Chu! If you look at it alone, can the prince see what is special about her? ”
Yang Jun scratched his head, he didn't think about it, so he said, "What's so special?" ”
"Doesn't the prince think it's strange? What a blessing it was to be invited by the prince to attend the banquet! But the ordinary clothes worn by the woman came! ”
"That's right! Why? ”
"Everyone in the world knows that your King Yuzhang is a womanizer, and even dares to rob a woman with His Majesty! This lady is deliberately dressed like this, she doesn't want to show her good-looking side in front of the prince! So deliberately pretending to be ugly! ”
Yang Yan was not angry when he heard the white-haired old man say this, but said in a hurry, "Then is this girl good-looking?" ”
The white-haired old man turned his head and glared at Yang Jun, "Lord Wang, when is this coming, you are still thinking about women, I want this woman, Lord Wang still don't beat her idea!" ”
Yang Yan became bored and muttered, "Look at her and don't look good!" ”
The white-haired old man shook his head when he heard this! But when he saw the group of people downstairs, he was in a slightly better mood! These people were carefully selected by him for a long time!
Especially Wen Qing, the case of Yihong Courtyard and the case of the Song family's annihilation, he admired it so much!
But then he sighed again, "Lord Wang! Time is running out for us! ”
Yang Jun put away his hippie smile, and his face became serious!
"So, this time I decided to lead the team myself!"
Yang Jun was surprised, "What? Uncle Zhao, are you going to that hell place? ”
The white-haired old man smiled, "Not only I'm going, but Princess Zhu'er is going too!" ”
Yang thought he had heard it wrong! "What? The third sister is also going? What is she going to do with the fun? Isn't this nonsense? No way! I disagree! ”
The white-haired old man turned around and patted Yang Jun on the shoulder, as if he was very sympathetic to him!
"The prince will go and tell Princess Zhu'er himself!"
"I..."
Yang Jun's hardened anger instantly suffocated, and he sighed helplessly!
"What is she going to do..."