Chapter 308: Western Xia Marriage (II)
After everyone had found their place and sat down, a door in the room was opened, and everyone turned their heads to see that it was a group of Xixia palace maids who had walked out of it, and some ordinary palace maids were standing in front of them ready to wait, and the palace maid who seemed to be the leader walked lightly to the main seat.
Seeing this, everyone stood up together and gave a fist salute, and the leading maid also saluted everyone, and then they all sat down.
"Her Royal Highness the princess instructed, all the guests are coming from afar, Qingfeng Pavilion is ashamed that there is no good tea and delicious food to entertain you, it is really lazy, please feel free to use some."
"Hey, you Xixia are really verbose, let's let the princess come out quickly." Prince Zongzan of the Tubo Kingdom is a rough man, and he wants to see the beauty of the Xixia princess as soon as possible, so he said impatiently.
"After the guests have eaten the refreshments, the princess will have another message." In the face of such a rough person as Prince Zongzan, the leading princess still said patiently.
"Since the princess has a life, we should obey it, and everyone should eat quickly." Prince Zongzan heard that he could move on to the next step after the refreshments, so he said to everyone, and then very rudely picked up the pastries on the table and nibbled on them.
When the others heard the conversation between Prince Zongzan and the leading palace maid, they also began to pick up the pastries on the table and enjoy them, and Wu Sheng also picked up a pastry at random to enjoy, although it was not as good as the pastries he enjoyed when he was shooting the Condor Plane, but it also had a different flavor.
"It's time to do it this time." After Prince Zongzan saw that everyone had enjoyed the pastries on the stage, he took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. wiped his mouth, and then said to the palace maid.
The leading palace maid nodded with a smile, then walked to the front of the gate that she had just entered, and then turned to everyone and said, "Her Royal Highness the princess, please come to the inner study to watch the calligraphy and paintings." ”
"Hey, what is there to see in the calligraphy and paintings, is the beauty on the painting really good-looking, I can't touch it, I can't smell it, it's all fake, let's invite the princess out quickly." Prince Zongzan heard that the princess had not come out yet. He ran out in a hurry and said.
"Her Royal Highness the princess has an edict. Please all the girls dressed as men, and the guests who are not confused, stay here to rest and drink tea, and the rest of the guests are invited to the inner study. "In the face of Prince Zongzan's complaints. The leading palace maid ignored it. Rather, it continued to convey the will of the Western Xia princess.
Then the bag was different and walked out. pointed out that Prince Zongzan has passed the age of forty and is now forty-one years old, and Prince Zongzan must not admit it. So the two wanted to quarrel, but when they saw the leading palace maid walking towards the door, they could only follow in resignedly.
The leading palace maid just held a candle, plus a lighting thing for the two palace maids behind him, and led everyone to walk for a while in this dark place like a cave, fortunately there were also some candles on the wall, otherwise some people with low martial arts skills were likely to cause some accidents.
They led the way until they reached the end of the cave, and then the leading maid took out something and knocked twice on the stone wall in front of them, and the stone wall opened, and the wall that looked like a stone wall turned out to be a stone door.
Through this stone gate, there is a stone staircase that goes down, and then the leading palace maid leads everyone to walk for a while, and then stops.
The place where this woman led you to come is a place like a cliff, but you can't see the bottom when you look down, it's pitch black, if you fall down, unless you are a person with excellent light skills, you will definitely die a tragic death without seeing the bones.
"If you want to go to the inner study, you have to pass through this secluded stream, please." After the leading maid introduced to everyone, she jumped down, and then everyone saw that she was walking in the air.
"There must be something like a wire in this stream, otherwise it would be impossible to walk through it in the air." Murong Fu didn't believe that people could walk in the void, although he really couldn't see his five fingers in the stream, and it was so dark that he couldn't see things clearly, but he believed that the leading palace maid must be walking on something like an iron cable.
This Youlan stream is about four or five zhang, and the leading palace maid quickly walked to the opposite side, and Prince Zongzan seemed to see the location of the silk rope below, first jumped down first, and then slowly walked forward.
Then Murong Fu, Bao Yi and others jumped down one after another, stepped on the silk rope and walked to the opposite side, and when these people had all passed, and only some dragon traps were still here, Wu Sheng performed light skills and jumped down, lightly touched the silk rope below with his toes, and then jumped into the air like a dragon, and flew directly in the void.
After passing through this quiet stream, and walking a little way forward, everyone came to the inner study, and saw that it was very spacious, at least the size of a football field, and there were many white lanterns hanging above, so that although you were in the cave, you did not feel dim at all.
"This is the inner study of Her Royal Highness the Princess, please feel free to enjoy the calligraphy and paintings." After walking for a while, the leading palace maid stopped and said to everyone.
In the face of the request of the princess of Xixia, everyone could only agree even if they were dissatisfied, so everyone scattered and came to the side of the calligraphy and painting to watch.
Wu Sheng casually came to the side of a pair of calligraphy and paintings, and then opened it to see, and sure enough, he saw the martial arts of the Xiaoyao School carved on the wall, and suddenly he heard the leading palace maid say to Bao Wei: "These graphics are invisible, Her Royal Highness the princess said that it is harmful and useless to see it." ”
"Then if the kung fu has been practiced at home, isn't it beneficial and harmless, my kung fu has been practiced at home." Bao has a bit of conceit in his different personalities, so he thinks that he has practiced his kung fu at home, so he begins to practice the free school martial arts on the stone wall.
In addition to the different bags, the others also discovered the graphics hidden by the pictures one after another, and then they also began to cultivate, and not long after, they found that their true qi in practice was insufficient, and one by two began to go crazy.
Although these people were self-inflicted because of greed, it was completely their own death, but Wu Sheng still wanted to save them, only to see him use his skills, and forcefully hit a group of palm winds, extinguishing the candles in the white lanterns.
After the group of people didn't see the figures, they gradually controlled their true qi, and some of them said in fear: "Run, you will be fascinated by these figures." ”
Some people who didn't know the truth and practiced graphic martial arts were also frightened after hearing this, and hurriedly ran out of the same way, and after a while, dozens of people walked away, leaving only Wu Sheng Duan Yu and others, Murong Fu and his party, Prince Zongzan and a few others.
Duan Yu was kind-hearted, and walked over to ask the leading palace maid why she wanted to harm the people here, and the leading palace maid explained that she had persuaded you not to watch it just now, but these people did not listen to the persuasion, so they suffered this crime.
After hearing the explanation of the leading palace maid, Duan Yu carefully analyzed in his heart and felt that she didn't seem to be someone who wanted to harm here, so he didn't say anything, but thought about what the princess of Xixia asked them to come here for.
At that moment, a stone door suddenly opened in the cave, and a woman shouted, "Her Royal Highness the princess has arrived." ”
Then more than a dozen guards came out of the stone gate one after another, and when everyone saw this situation, they all walked over to see what the princess of Xixia was going to do and what kind of test she would give.
Finally, a palace maid came out, and said a word of warning to everyone, asking them not to light the fire to look at the graphics on the wall, at this time, Prince Zongzan came out to brush up on the sense of existence, saying that it was pitch black and no one could see anyone, so he wanted to let him go to other places.
The palace maid came out to change the topic, saying that the princess of Xixia had three tests for them, and as long as they passed these three tests, they could see the princess's face and become a concubine of Xixia.
Hearing this, everyone could only wait patiently for the princess to come up with the question, and the palace maid first came up with the first question, which was to ask you to answer a question, which was about poetry, calligraphy and painting, and those who had the answer could take a pen and paper in the hands of the guards on the side and write the answer to her.
Only those who have the correct answer can proceed to the next round, and after the palace maid finished talking about the first question and some precautions, she gave a rather difficult question, and the time limit for a pot of tea was given.
In terms of poetry, calligraphy and painting, Duan Yu can be said to know everything, but he has Wang Yuyan in his heart, so he doesn't want to marry Princess Xixia, and Zhu Danchen and Ba Tianshi also saw his thoughts, so they put Duan Zhengchun to suppress it, and he could only go to the guards with a dissatisfied face to answer questions with pen and paper.
The second person to answer the question was Murong Fu, although this person wanted to restore the country in his head, but there were more or less real materials in his belly, and this question was difficult for him, so this person looked at Duan Yu with a sharp gaze in his eyes, and then took the pen and paper from the guard's hand to answer the question.
Wu Sheng was born in modern times, although he often traveled through ancient times, so he only had a little study of poetry, calligraphy and painting, and he came to Western Xia just to join in the fun, even if he didn't know the answer to the question.
And Qiao Feng too, this person just accompanied Duan Yu over, and his purpose was just to join in the fun like Wu Sheng, although he would not answer the question, but he also stood in place with an indifferent look.
In the end, there are only a few people who can answer the question, and those who don't know the answer, such as Prince Zongzan, walked around in a very anxious heart, and finally used force to force a dragon who knew the answer, and got the answer from this mouth.
To everyone's shock, this was allowed, but the time for a pot of tea had passed, and those who did not hand in the answers were eliminated, and the faces of those people were full of remorse, and it seemed that they had also thought about snatching it by force, but they didn't do anything, so now they really regretted their intestines.
After the palace maid checked the answer, she said the eliminated people, and asked all the eliminated people to go out to Qingfeng Pavilion to rest and drink tea, and if you want to leave Xixia, everyone can get a pair of calligraphy and paintings here to compensate. (To be continued......)