Chapter 386: Extra-Forty-Eight
He couldn't understand why the young man in black he met for the first time was so deeply hostile to him.
He looked at him, his gaze drifted, and it fell quietly on Rong Qiao on Gong Huangjue's side. But at the moment of moving back, he found that the cold current was a little stronger, and he knew in his heart at the moment that his hostility was coming from.
That woman, the elegant and pretty Rong Qiao, the favored Princess Jingyao today, is willing to stay by the side of Huang Jue in Prince Zhong's palace for some reason, bearing the title of his seventeenth concubine, but is unwilling to become the concubine of the fifth prince Zhou Jingyao?
A faint confusion came to his eyes.
He didn't seem to be able to see through Rong Qiao in front of him, and he didn't understand why she always looked at another person's soul through him when she looked at him, just like the feeling she felt when she first saw him.
Did he really look so much like the person in her heart?
So much so that every time she saw him, she looked angry and clenched her fists, so that she looked at him with a touch of intense sadness and pain.
Did the man who looked like him ever hurt her?
So she was going to stare at him with such angry and sad eyes?
Unexpectedly, a feeling of displeasure floated into his heart.
He, Mo Yutang didn't like her very much that she saw him as another person, and he didn't like this kind of resentful expression every time she faced him.
At that moment, he stepped forward, bowed down politely and hugged his fists and said, "Princess Jingyao, Weichen is polite." ”
As soon as his voice fell, Lu Kui, the guard who had been sorry for Rong Qiao, suddenly turned pale with fright.
Unexpectedly, she turned out to be the famous Princess Jingyao, the first emperor in the world, Shang Rong Qiao, who was crowned by the emperor.
He actually had eyes and didn't know the gold and jade, and he had the audacity to think that she was the Diao Min who stole the jade plate of the Five Princes!
Cold sweat continued to overflow from his forehead inexplicably, and his legs went limp, and he fell to his knees in the dust.
"The subordinates have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, and I hope the princess will forgive her sins!" Lu Kui's head was lowered and he didn't dare to look up at Rong Qiao.
Rong Qiao didn't expect that Mo Yutang, the new champion, would reveal her identity on the spot, and couldn't help but feel slightly annoyed.
This annoyance was no longer mixed with the person in her heart, but annoyed that the young man in front of her was too self-righteous and too good at asserting.
She waved her sleeve coldly. "Get up." A cold light flashed through the clear eyewaves.
"Remember that after entering Qingxue Mountain Villa, you should not know the identity of this princess, you two, I warn you, if you ruin this princess's plan, don't blame this princess for being ruthless!" She raised her eyebrows, waved her sleeves angrily, and pulled Gong Huangjue at her side.
"Cold-faced man, let's go inside, ignore them."
At this time, Mo Yutang was completely different from the person in her heart, and Rong Qiao had no confused and shocked emotions.
She is no longer confused, he is him, that person is that person, the two of them, they are not the same person in the first place.
Gong Huangjue was pulled indignantly by Rong Qiao and stepped into Qingxue Villa, and when he turned around, he just happened to crash into a sly light that swept up from the phoenix eyes of Moyutang.
That glance made him wary of him.
The cold aura couldn't help but float between the strong eyebrows, and under the peak of the eyebrows, the deep black pupils, the cruel light that had been lost for a long time, faintly appeared.
The folding fan in Mo Yutang's hand opened, snapped, as if leisurely dispersing the breeze, he looked down at Gong Huangjue, as thin as a clear spring, with a blurry swirl.
He nodded slightly towards Gong Huangjue, with a spring breeze smile on his face.
Gong Huangjue glanced at him coldly, the corners of his cold lips raised, and the evil light faintly flowed out of the corners of his eyes.
With a cold snort gently, he didn't look at Mo Yutang anymore, and followed Rong Qiao striding towards the arena of the Tea King Competition.
When their figures disappeared from Mo Yutang's sight, the fan in his hand was put away with a snap, and the handle of the fan was clearly shining with a layer of bright luster under the sunlight.
He quickly hid the folding fan in his sleeve, and then raised his eyebrows and stared, his eyes were still on Lu Kui, who was kneeling on the ground.
"Get up, the princess is gone."
As soon as Lu Kui heard Mo Yutang's words, he dared to raise his head, and when he found that Rong Qiaoguo was not in front of him, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and slowly got up.
"I'm sorry, my lord, my subordinates offended me last time, and I almost implicated my adults because of this, and my subordinates are really to blame."
offended today's princess, or the princess favored by the emperor, and slandered the princess as a shameless villain who steals, even if he has ten heads, it is not enough to cut off.
Fortunately, Princess Jingyao was righteous and didn't bother with him, otherwise, his family of thirty-six people would have to suffer from the disaster of destruction because of his words.
It's so dangerous.
Thinking of this, he was shocked, his heart was uneasy, and his eyes flickered.
Mo Yutang glanced at him lightly, and said indifferently: "Get up, don't blame those who don't know, this official believes that the princess will not blame you for this matter again." But if we keep standing at this gate, we will have to provoke the people to watch. ”
When Lu Kui heard this, he hurriedly got up. "Your Excellency is right, your subordinates are not considerate, my lord, please."
He let his origin come, and opened the way for Moyutang to go first.
Mo Yutang nodded, and walked into Qingxue Mountain Villa.
Na Lu Kui didn't dare to slack off, and followed closely behind Mo Yutang, looking vigilant, looking around, to see if there were any suspicious people who were not good for Mo Yutang.
Over there, Rong Qiao and Gong Huangjue entered Qingxue Villa, and after the two came to the place arranged for the Tea King Competition, they unexpectedly met on a narrow road, and they actually bumped into Huang Asan who was taught by Gong Huangjue that day.
As soon as Huang Asan saw the two of them, a poisonous light flashed in his eyes.
"Someone." He raised his hand and summoned a servant, and whispered something in the man's ear.
Gong Huangjue saw the sneaky Huang Asan in the distance at the venue, a pair of strong eyebrows raised slightly, he approached Rong Qiao, and whispered in her ear: "Be careful later, I don't think that Huang Asan has the right look in his eyes." ”
Wrong eyes?!
Rong Qiao looked in the direction he was staring in, and she turned to Gong Huangjue in surprise.
"At such a distance, you can actually see each other's eyes? That's an exaggeration. ”
Gong Huangjue's cold and hard lips tugged, but he smiled lightly, and without explaining much, he patted her on the shoulder.
"Let's go and sit down first." He took Rong Qiao to find a position, and the two looked at the front of the stage with indifferent expressions.
Today's presiding over the Tea King Contest is the local prefect, and the judging is participated by the local famous tea nobles.
Unexpectedly, the emperor paid so much attention to the local Tea King Competition, and sent the red minister beside him to Jiangnan to supervise the fairness of the Tea King Competition.
Rong Qiao secretly had a calculation in his heart.
On the table of Mo Yutang, his clear and bewitching phoenix eyes swept over everyone lightly, and then left Rong Qiao's face and paused.
He looked at her, a strange glow streaming from the corners of his mouth.
The folding fan was lightly opened, and his gaze drifted to the left slightly, signaling that the prefect behind him could start.
The prefect had been carefully paying attention to the chief judge sent by the emperor, and he was afraid of offending Mo Yutang, the big red man beside the emperor, but now when he saw his eyes drifting, he immediately understood.
The official robe swept away and the master was summoned. "Let's get started."
He straightened his official hat with both hands, and his expression instantly became serious.
When Rong Qiao saw the prefect's demeanor at this moment, he couldn't help but have a sneering smile in his eyes.
This prefect, it seems that he can mix with the fifth-grade officials, and he must have spent a lot of money.
He turned a blind eye to the so-called brother-in-law's accumulation of money, which shows that most of the money must have gone with him.
Hmph –
Suddenly, she snorted lightly.
Gong Huangjue saw the ironic coldness floating at the corner of her lips, and a bright brilliance flashed in her eyes. And Mo Yutang on the stage looked at the expressions of the two people in the audience with interest, especially Rong Qiao's.
Of course, they couldn't keep an eye on it, because the big drum was beating at the beginning of the Tea King Tournament.
Knock Knock Knock –
The deafening drumbeat is wide and far-reaching, thick and deep.
Then, in the sound of drums, the master of ceremonies picked up the gong and struck it hard, and his loud voice resounded in the sky above Qingxue Villa.
"All business friends who come to participate in the Tea King Competition, please come out and stand at the tea table arranged at the venue." As soon as his voice fell, all the participants stood at the tea table and waited for the master of ceremonies to announce the rules of the competition.
"This tea king competition is divided into two competitions, the first one, regardless of the tea variety, regardless of the famous spring landscape, as long as the tea that is unanimously approved by the judges is brewed, it is good tea, and you can enter the second competition. Now the competition begins, and you can brew the best tea that can satisfy the judges within the time of a stick of incense, and begin! ”
The boy who lit the incense had already lit the incense in the incense burner, and the red flag in the hand of the master of ceremonies waved into the air, and all the candidates who participated in the Tea King Contest began to move.
Rong Qiao calmly began to heat the cup, she spread the hot water on the top lid of the teapot with even force, but when the mist was faint, the cup touched her fingers, and the heat was suitable, then the water at the right temperature was flushed into the cup, and then a little Biluochun was put into it, without a lid.
Slowly, the tea leaves sink slowly, the dry tea absorbs water, the leaves unfold, showing the true color of the buds and leaves, the spring of the snail is like a snowflake flying, the bottom of the leaf becomes a flower, fresh and tender. The beauty of falling leaves is like spring dyeing the seabed.
Subsequently, she picked up the teapot to avoid the tea leaves, and slowly poured out one-third of the teapot from the first brew, because the first brewed tea soup was the most difficult to grasp the temperature in the review, and the aroma was low and the taste was more astringent.
Therefore, Rong Qiao gave up the first brew of tea soup as the tea for the judgment, and chose the second brew of tea soup, because of the second brew of tea soup, the tea soup is thick, the tongue is sweet after drinking, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless.
As for the third brew of tea soup, most people will not choose it, because the taste of tea has faded at that time, and the taste is very different from that of the second brew of tea soup.
So when Rong Qiao's second tea soup was brewed, she shot like the wind, her movements were as quick as lightning, the teapot spout was aimed at the teacup around the tea tray, and it was sprinkled evenly, and the cup just reached the edge of the cup for seven minutes, just right.
But seeing her behind her back with her hands, Ying Ying smiled and ran errands to her side.
"That's it."