Chapter 189: Wandering
Heading west from Yuanling Mountain to Kyoto, the Tiger Roaring Country, the high-speed Lingzhou only takes two days to arrive, and a little slower three days is enough to arrive.
As the spirit boat descended the sea of clouds and slowly fell to the endless grassland, Feng Huanling's heart was depressed because of the flower god country, and he stretched a lot because of this open scenery.
Tiger City looks down from mid-air like a tiger entrenched in the grassland, the tiger head is easy to defend the city gate, the tiger tail is a large river that brings together the small rivers in the city in all directions, the imperial city is built in the crouching tiger's chest at the vital point, the emperor and the concubine live in the palace is in the most important tiger heart position.
When the Lingzhou settled down on the square in front of the palace, Feng Huanling couldn't help but secretly rejoice - at least this Tiger City had not become an empty city with only white bones and corpses.
As early as when their spirit boat appeared, some palace people went to report to the emperor of the Tiger Roaring Kingdom that they knew, but Hu Yanlie didn't greet them out as if they had just arrived after they got off the spirit boat and were welcomed into the palace gate by the palace people.
"I don't want the national teacher to come back and bring back so many distinguished guests, I really lose my welcome, disrespect, and disrespect."
Compared with three or four years ago, Hu Yanlie's body and appearance have not changed much, but the momentum of the whole person is much more restrained and calm, and he can hardly see the absurd appearance that he had to chase when he saw a beauty in Dragon City in the past.
"Your Majesty is polite, we are not guests who came with the national teacher, didn't Your Majesty receive the greeting post we sent a few days ago?"
Feng Huanling, who came for the alliance, didn't intend to be regarded as a friend of the national teacher Cangdao who traveled with them, so he was welcomed in so inexplicably. So she didn't wait for Cangdao to speak, otherwise this negotiation would have become extremely unsettling from the beginning, and it would definitely not be a good start.
"Oh? Bye-on? What kind of prayer? Could it be that Her Majesty the Empress is referring to the 'prayer post' that the Moon Emperor sent to you a few months ago? If I'm not mistaken, it doesn't seem to say that you are going to visit my Tiger Roar Country in person. ”
This Hu Yanlie pretended to be stupid and was really familiar with it, and now it seems that most of his ridiculous behaviors when he was in Dragon City were also pretending to be pigs and eating tigers!
"It doesn't matter if Your Majesty really doesn't receive the post, I don't mind telling Your Majesty in person." Feng Huanling handed over another letter of worship that had already been prepared in his arms to Zhilan beside him, and asked her to forward it to Hu Yanlie, "We are here to discuss with Your Majesty about concluding an alliance against the demon army of the Xuanwu Kingdom. ”
Zhilan seemed to be afraid that the Tiger Roaring Monarch would come up with some crooked excuses, so she kindly helped him open the prayer post with a smile on her face, and asked if she needed to help recite it.
According to Hu Yanlie's mountain-like tall figure, it is indeed a little strange to look at a delicate prayer post, but when you look at the post held by a petite girl in front of everyone, the behavior is more and more bizarre and ridiculous.
Hu Yanlie finally had no choice but to wave his hand and said with a haha: "Since the Fire Phoenix Kingdom and the Flower God Kingdom have already agreed, it is naturally easy to talk about our alliance, so please go inside and sit down and talk slowly." ”
It was clear that what she wanted to talk about was an alliance, and Feng Huanling allowed Hu Yanlie to welcome her into the main hall, leaving only Ghost Fire and Zhilan to follow.
The tiger roaring in the Western Regions is rough and unrestrained, even the state banquet will not be as complicated and elaborate as the southeastern countries, except for some untouchable bottom line rules, the banquet only seeks the pleasure of the guests and hosts.
Drinking wine and eating meat in a big bowl is the biggest custom feature of the Tiger Roaring Country, and the palace banquet is naturally much more elaborate than the folk banquet, but if it is compared with the delicacy of the south, it will inevitably look too rough.
Fortunately, Feng Huanling had been in contact with the folk customs of the Northwest in his previous life, and it was not too difficult to adapt, but it was really a headache to be poured into alcohol. If she refuses to drink here, it is a great faux pas, but if she drinks too much, she really can't bear it, and Zhilan's alcohol consumption is a little worse, so she has no choice but to give a fierce look at the ghost fire.
The ghost fire that is still holding the shell of Yan Wudaunt's body, although he doesn't understand a lot about the complex feelings of the human race, but he is by no means stupid, and he immediately understands that the master is letting him help block the wine, and he smiled and came up.
The first time it drank this thing, it felt terrible to drink, and it couldn't understand how these people liked to drink such a ghostly thing, but then after drinking it a few more times, it tasted the beauty of it, so it was really hard to ask it to stop the wine at this time.
"I don't know if Your Majesty knows that the Flower God Kingdom has been slaughtered by the demon army, and everyone in the entire Jincheng has been buried in the mouth of the demonic beast except for the prime minister who survived?"
The people who came to pour wine were all stopped by the ghost fire, and Feng Huanling was finally able to free his mouth to speak.
"Is there such a thing?" Hu Yanlie was shocked, "That's really a tragedy in the world, it's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity that the city is full of strange flowers and plants and peerless beauties!" Come, come, I toast with Your Majesty, and pay tribute to those poor undead in Jincheng. ”
Feng Huanling was almost laughed out of anger, but after all, he said patiently: "Don't you think that if Your Majesty can form an alliance as soon as possible and form a Guiyuan alliance to fight against the demon army, the Flower God Kingdom will not be hit hard by this?" ”
"Does Her Majesty think that a mere Terran coalition will be able to resist that demon army?" Hu Yanlie still had a smile on his face, but his eyes were already cold, "Although I haven't seen it in person, I heard that the people and horses brought by the Demon Venerable to slaughter the city in the Flower God Kingdom are not even as good as one percent of the garrisons inside and outside Jincheng, but what is the result?" Even if we really form an alliance of the Returning Kingdoms, will we be able to defeat the power of the alien demons? ”
Cangdao saw that his master was forced to remove his disguise and expose the vacuum so quickly, and he couldn't help but glance at Feng Huanling again, "Your Majesty, the emperor means that even with the power of Yuanling Mountain, our confrontation with the demon army led by the Demon Venerable is destined to be a difficult battle." If Your Majesty is unable to provide more reassuring conditions, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to refuse the more powerful demon army and choose the obviously weak Terran Alliance. ”
As a human being, it is extremely "rare" to be able to be shameless to such a degree.
"Dare to ask the national teacher, do you know what the price of the alliance with the demon army will be?" Feng Huanling laughed angrily, "Xuan Ming is suspicious, in order to make the people who take refuge in him absolutely centered, he will feed all the returnees with the Demon Pill. The national teacher is a well-informed person, and he must know what this magic pill is. ”
Seeing that Cangdao's face changed greatly when he heard this, Hu Yanlie blurted out and asked, "National Teacher, what is the reputation of the Demon Pill?" ”
"Thank you Your Majesty for reminding me, it seems that this is really an extremely dangerous thing to be with demons, and we will carefully consider joining the Guiyuan Alliance." Cangdao first replied to Feng Huanling, and then whispered to Hu Yanlie before continuing, "Your Majesty has just arrived today, and the journey has been hard, so please feast first, and it will not be too late for us to discuss the covenant in detail tomorrow." ”
Smack, smack, smack!
Hu Yanlie suddenly clapped his hands three times, and the noble ministers who were still toasting during the banquet returned to their places one after another, and the lively and noisy hall was so quiet that even an embroidery needle could be heard.
"Knowing that the distinguished guests are coming, I specially arranged a song and dance, and I hope that Her Majesty the Empress will not dislike my barbarians in the Western Regions for being too rude."
Barbarian has always been a contemptuous term for the Central Plains people for the foreign tribes in the frontier, but since it came out of the mouth of the overlord of the Western Regions, it has become a word of self-humility.
As soon as Hu Yanlie's words fell, before Feng Huanling could respond to a few polite words, the musicians had already begun to play the prelude to the dance music, and an ethereal rattle sounded crisply in the hall, with a long echo.
Stepping on the faint ringing of the bell, a graceful woman wearing a light gauze long skirt with Western Regions characteristics floated to the center of the main hall, the crimson veil covered most of her face, revealing only a pair of unusually thick black beautiful eyes.
This song, this dance, this body!
Looking at the dancing queens in the main hall who danced like flowing clouds and flying clouds, and from time to time with those eyes that seemed to hook the soul, Feng Huanling felt that whether it was music, dance or dancing queens, there was a strange sense of familiarity. She must have seen this dance somewhere, as for the beauty who was dancing......
Zhilan leaned into the master's ear and said in surprise: "Your Majesty, isn't this the Flying Immortal Dance?" The slave maid remembered that at a palace banquet many years ago, she saw Miss Feng San skipping in front of Emperor Xuan. ”
Flying Fairy Dance?
After chewing on the name several times, Feng Huanling suddenly remembered that as Zhi said, this was a dance that the disfigured Feng Qingyuan danced in public to turn the tide at a palace banquet many years ago, and at that time it also won the reward of Man Tang Cai and Long Jingming.
But why did the emperor of the Tiger Roaring Country prepare such a dance with good intentions? Could it be that this dancer is the wind and the girl?
Thinking of this, Feng Huanling stared at the dancing girl in the hall more and more carefully, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that she really looked like Feng Qingyi!
"This guest from afar, would you like to dance with your concubine?"
Mai Ji seemed to feel Feng Huanling's burning gaze, and came to her in front of her in a few turns, stretching out a small white hand that was as soft as a bone, and spread it out in front of her, and the snow muscles of her arms hidden in the crimson loose gauze sleeves were faintly seductive.
"I don't ......"
Feng Huanling was just about to refuse this invitation out loud, but the dancing girl unveiled her face, and it was Feng Qingmei who was smiling like a flower, and she was still the fairy-looking Feng Qingmei before her disfigurement!
"Fourth sister, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you don't even want to give such a thin noodle to your sister? Don't say you won't, I know you will. ”
Feng Qingmei, who has no old scars on her face, seems to have undergone another rebirth, and her fine white porcelain skin like water tofu is more perfect than in the past, making people want to go up and pinch it or simply bite it.
But this kind of beauty is different from the beauty of the fairy in the past, and I don't know if it is the relationship between Western Regions style makeup and dress, at this moment, whether she has eyebrows, eyes, facial features or body temperament, she is coquettish and bewitching everywhere, and her beauty is so beautiful that it is demonic and weird.
If it is said that the wind in the past is clear, it is a daffodil that is not stained with dust and smoke; Now she is the glamorous and enchanting Manzhu Sahua.
It was a flower that bloomed on the banks of the Lethe River in the Netherworld, bewitching and beautiful, but it heralded death......