Chapter 42: The Luncheon

The three of them walked to the front of the steps and stopped, looked up at the queen and bowed and said, "Zhuang Hao, Zhuang Xiaomeng, I will meet Her Majesty the Queen!"

"No need to be polite!" said the Queen, with a slight hand, "all of you take your seats!"

Everyone stepped back, and the three of them realized that there were many long tables behind them, and the tables were full of fruit and other food. Just now, everyone stood in two columns, just blocking the long table.

Each long table can only seat two people, Lu Jin took Zhuang Xiaomeng and Yi Chen to the long table closest to the steps on the left and sat down, and then led Zhuang Hao to the long table on the right to sit down together. Others sat down.

On the steps, two men carried a long table to the queen, and the food on the table was the same as the one on the table. The queen sat down at the table, and the two maids sat on either side, one on the left and one on the right.

"In a remote place, there is no good food and wine, a few distinguished guests can eat at will!" the queen raised her glass to the three of them, "I will toast a few people with tea instead of wine!

After speaking, the queen gently blocked the veil a little with her left hand, and then tilted her head slightly and drank the tea in the cup.

"Your Majesty Queen Xie!" the three of them said in unison, and drank all the tea in their cups.

"A few distinguished guests have worked hard all the way, eat something to cushion your stomach!" said the queen to the three of them with a smile.

"Sister Xiaomeng, you eat a fruit first!" Yi Chen picked up a purple fruit on the table and handed it to Zhuang Xiaomeng and said, "This kind of fruit is called Zisha Jujube, it bears fruit once in thirty years, the flesh is like sand, sweet and sour, and you can quickly recover your strength after eating!"

Zhuang Xiaomeng hadn't eaten fruit for a long time, so he said "thank you", took the fruit and took a bite, and the taste was exactly the same as what Yi Chen said.

The queen looked at Yi Chen and asked in surprise, "Little brother, have you eaten this fruit before?"

Yi Chen shook his head and said, "This fruit is very rare, I have only seen it in books, and I have never eaten it. ”

"I didn't expect you to read poetry and books at such a young age, it's really rare!" the queen praised.

"Your Majesty's praise!" Yi Chen said.

"I'm really sorry that the four foxes disturbed you on the road! They wanted to play with a few people, but they didn't mean to hurt. But seeing that you were so detailed about them, I thought that it was a messenger sent by Huaguo to arrest them, so I started to kill. The queen glanced at Yi Chen and Zhuang Xiaomeng, then looked at Zhuang Hao and said, "I apologized to the three on behalf of the four foxes!"

"Don't dare, don't dare!" Zhuang Hao hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is serious!"

The queen and everyone chatted while eating, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

After a while, two men actually ran to the middle and somersaulted and juggled, and everyone applauded again and again.

"There is a way that women don't let their eyebrows go, sisters, let's dance!" After a moment, the red-robed maid beside the queen suddenly stood up and said. After saying that, he jumped from the steps and flew to the center of the hall, and then fell. When the six women who had been eating at the long table saw it, they all stood up and ran to the center of the hall.

The two jugglers made amusement out of the way and rolled over behind the long table.

The sound of the pipa sounded, and the green-robed maid beside the queen didn't know when she took out a pipa and played it. In the center of the hall, seven women began to dance, one moment like a weak willow swinging the wind, the other like a fish playing in the water, it was simply beautiful to the sky!

Everyone was fascinated by the music, some hummed a little song to the music, some watched the dance knock on the table to the beat, and even the blind man with nothing in his eye hole was shaking his head to the melody.

The queen looked at everyone in the hall with a smile on her face, this is the country of forgetting worries that she has single-handedly built!

Zhuang Hao had a rare smile on his face, this was exactly the rivers and lakes of his dreams. Here, regardless of the past, regardless of dignity and inferiority, smile and enmity.

Yi Chen saw the smile on Zhuang Hao's face, and also saw a trace of blood on Zhuang Xiaomeng's originally pale face, and suddenly thought that maybe for their father and daughter, this is the best place to be.

The luncheon lasted more than an hour before everyone dispersed.

The queen said to the green-clothed maid beside her, "Xiaoqing, you take the three guests to rest!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" said the maid in green clothes, who walked down the steps and said to the three of them, "Three, please come with me!"

The three of them followed Xiaoqing out of the banquet room and into the street. There are many houses on both sides of the street, which look very old-fashioned. He Chen was a little surprised to find that there seemed to be more houses than people here.

"There are so many houses here, and there are more than one room for each person. Yi Chen said to Xiaoqing.

Xiaoqing smiled and said, "Yes." Her Majesty has built us many houses, so that anyone who comes to the country of Forgetfulness will have a place to live and live as long as they want. ”

"Her Majesty is really warm and generous!" Zhuang Xiaomeng praised. Xiaoqing smiled at her and responded.

"Are there any medicinal herbs here?" asked Xiao Qing.

"We have a pharmacy here that stores medicinal herbs. Xiaoqing said, "What herbs do you need, I can take you there." ”

"Sister Lao took Uncle Hao and Sister Xiaomeng to rest first, and then took me to the pharmacy. Yi Chen said to Xiaoqing.

Yi Chen's idea was that if the medicinal materials for treating Zhuang Xiaomeng could be found here, then there would be no need for Zhuang Hao's father and daughter to go to the wild land.

"Okay, no problem!" Xiaoqing readily agreed.

"Yi Chen, let's go to the pharmacy together!" Zhuang Hao said.

"yes, I feel like I'm back now, and I'll be fine when I go. Zhuang Xiaomeng said.

"Alright, I'll take you to the pharmacy first. Xiaoqing said, "Go this way!"

The three of them followed Xiaoqing into an alley, and before they went far, they saw a house made of stone, the door was open, and the lintel was written with two big words "pharmacy".

Xiaoqing walked directly into the pharmacy with the three of them.

"Isn't this place usually locked?" asked Yi Chen.

"Why lock it? The herbs here are for everyone. Xiaoqing asked a little surprised, "If it's locked, what if you don't have a key in case of emergency?"

Only then did Yi Chen realize that he had asked a stupid question, this is the country of forgetting worries, eating and using are all together, there is no private property, why lock it?

In addition to the main door, the other three walls of the pharmacy are made of wooden cabinets attached to the wall, and the wooden cabinets are full of boxes. Some boxes have a label on the outside, while others don't.

"The herbs are all here. Xiaoqing said, "Tian Langzhong has already written labels on all the medicinal materials he knows, and what is not written is what we collected back, but we don't know the name." ”

Yi Chen walked around the pharmacy, opened a few boxes without labels, checked the medicinal materials inside, and then exclaimed: "There are so many medicinal materials here!

"Really?" Zhuang Hao asked as he looked at Yi Chen in surprise. In order to cure his daughter's illness, he spent more than ten years, running all over China but found nothing, but the fifteen-year-old boy in front of him actually said lightly that he could dispense medicine!

Yi Chen nodded to Zhuang Hao and said, "I said before that I was seventy percent sure, because some medicinal materials are not easy to match. But there are better herbs to replace here, and the medicinal effect is not inferior to that of dragon ginseng. Therefore, I am now very sure that I can prepare the medicine that will cure Sister Xiaomeng. ”

"Yi Chen, thank you!" Zhuang Xiaomeng said as he looked at Yi Chen gratefully.

Yi Chen smiled at Zhuang Xiaomeng and said, "It's just a gesture." ”

After speaking, Yi Chen turned to Xiaoqing again and said, "Sister Xiaoqing, I need a little time to dispense medicine." If you don't have to worry that I'm here alone, you can take Uncle Hao and Sister Xiaomeng to rest first. ”

"Nothing to worry about. Xiaoqing said, "Then let's go out first." ”

Zhuang Hao asked Yi Chen to rest first, and then come to dispense medicine later, but He Chen politely refused.