Chapter 67 Flowing water
"It seems that we have finally arrived together, so I'll give you a drink first!" Seeing the last two people seated, Sui Yuan stood up, raised his glass to face everyone, and the rest of the people also stood up.
"I wish the Sui City Lord a sixtieth birthday, and his longevity is better than Nanshan. Everyone congratulated in unison and drank the wine in their glasses.
"I don't know if you have noticed the circular green bamboo canal in front of you? It is also fate for everyone to get together today, why don't we just play a 'flowing water'? Sui Yuan pointed to the circular canal that flowed in front of everyone present, and everyone also looked over and applauded from time to time.
In the middle of the feast, everyone sits around the curved canal, places the special light wine glass upstream, and lets it float slowly along the twists and turns of the water, and the wine glass floats in front of whoever floats in front of it, who will take the cup and drink. And so on until you have the fun. The literati even developed this custom into a collection of celebrities and scholars, that is, whoever stopped in front of the wine glass, and had to write a poem, which was slightly the same as the "drumming and passing flowers" or "throwing handkerchiefs" played with children.
It seems that Sui Yuan has been preparing for such a show, the clear water flows slowly between the green bamboo canals, and the tables and chairs in this area are also arranged according to the ring of the canals, so that the clear water can flow in front of everyone.
After speaking, Sui Yuan clapped his hands, and a group of maids served sake and wine glasses, and each handed out one.
"What trick is this old city lord playing?" Yan Kaiting looked at the surrounding circle of people with different backgrounds, and whispered, so that Fu Mingxuan could hear it alone.
"In short, don't be careless. Fu Mingxuan slowly poured a glass of wine into the boat-shaped cup.
"So, let's go in order, Sui will come first?" After speaking, Sui Yuan poured a glass of wine into the special lightweight boat-shaped wine glass, and gently placed the wine glass in the canal.
I saw that the wine glass contained a small glass of sake, floating on the clear water, slowly flowing downstream along the canal, bumping a few times from time to time, and hitting the edge of the canal, but the wine in the glass was still stable in it, and not a drop was spilled.
Just when everyone guessed that the first drink would stop in front of whom, an explosion suddenly remembered, and they threw a stone into the lake, and everyone was a little startled, and it turned out to be a performance on the stage again, and it was a circus performing to train spirit animals.
The explosion just now was the explosion of a fireball that spit out from the mouth of the reddened spirit beast into the sky. Suddenly, the entire banquet area erupted in a burst of applause.
When everyone turned around, they saw that the wine glass stopped in front of Yan Kaiting, but Yan Kaiting hadn't paid attention yet, still patting Fu Mingxuan's shoulder, pointing at the spirit beast on the stage and saying something.
"Ahem. Fu Mingxuan coughed lightly and said, "Brother Ting, you have won the lottery." ”
"Oh?" Yan Kaiting looked into the canal, only to see that the small boat had stopped in front of him, still spinning on his own.
Everyone looked over for a while, Yan Kaiting looked at everyone, stretched out his hand and came out of the canal to marry the cup of wine, stood up, and said: "In the Yanjia Yan court in Yujing, Xiayongzhou, today I gathered here with you, it is also a fate, the juniors are not talented, and there are no special skills, and the poetry is not killed, so this first cup of wine, I would like to thank the old city lord of Sui for his love for my juniors." ”
After speaking, he drank it all.
"Okay!" Cheng Xiaotian was the first to applaud, and Lian'er next to him trembled with laughter.
Sui Yuan also smiled so that his eyes narrowed into a slit, so that people could not see the real look in his eyes. The four of Xiao Youmen also smiled faintly, and their eyes glanced at Fu Mingxuan from time to time, but Fu Mingxuan was indifferent. The man in Duobao Pavilion also had an indifferent smile, looking at Yan Kaiting, and on the other side, the eyes of the pink-clothed woman who was talking to the city lord's wife also swept over Yan Kaiting and the two from time to time.
The next second time, You Yan poured a glass of wine and put it in the canal, only to see the boat floating, going around, and stopping in front of Cheng Xiaotian.
"Ouch, it's my turn!" Cheng Xiaotian stood up, took out the wine and drank it all, and then burped loudly.
"Huh... It's dirty!" Lian'er, who was sitting next to Cheng Xiaotian, waved her hand impatiently, as if to drive away the smell of wine floating in the air.
"Since Master Ben has drunk wine, I have to show it, why don't you guys here, how about playing with a big knife?" After a glass of wine, Cheng Xiaotian's face turned red.
Yan Kaiting and Fu Mingxuan were also speechless, they were beaten to the ground by Yan Kaiting and lost their faces, and now they are going to play a big knife for everyone in front of the two of them?
Wasn't that big knife smashed into two pieces by Yan Kaiting with Tai Chu? Yan Kaiting felt a burst of disdain in his heart, but he wanted to see what tricks this kid was playing now.
Before everyone could speak, Cheng Xiaotian jumped onto the performance stage, scaring the dancing singers into a panic.
"Go, go, don't get in the way of this little master!" Cheng Xiaotian savagely drove the group of singers off the stage, and he didn't know where to take out two big knives, so he waved them on his own.
"This ......" looked at Cheng Xiaotian who seemed to be dancing for a while, Sui Yuan showed a slightly embarrassed expression on his face, and said to everyone: "Please forgive me, this Cheng Xiaotian is the only son of my eldest sister, who has been spoiled since he was a child, and today he also made you laugh." ”
"Where, Cheng Xiaoge is young, his courage is indeed outstanding, and he will definitely be a talent in the future. One of the people in Xiao Youmen said, Yan Kaiting and Fu Mingxuan both looked over.
I saw that this person was thin, with a lean face, a unique voice, like an ethereal valley, and it seemed that he was the one who was the leader of the four people of Xiaoyoumen.
"His name is Luo Changsu, and he is a well-known 'Hollow Valley Ghost' in Xiaoyoumen, don't listen to his good voice, at a critical moment, this voice can kill. Fu Mingxuan said softly in Yan Kaiting's ear, Yan Kaiting also nodded, it was the first time he heard the killing method with the human voice as a weapon, it seems that the people in Xiaoyoumen are not ordinary, and I don't know how Fu Mingxuan got to this position by himself.
"Counting it, he's still my senior brother. Fu Mingxuan said.
At this moment, Cheng Xiaotian, who had finished playing with the knife, finally returned to his seat, panting and asking Lian'er: "Lian'er, do you think I play a good job?"
That Lian'er pursed her mouth, snorted lightly, and said, "The monkeys on this Wushan Mountain are better than you!"
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help laughing, and they all endured it for the sake of face.
"Hmph!" Cheng Xiaotian didn't reply, probably because he was used to being hit by Lian'er, poured a glass of wine, and put it in the canal.
Unexpectedly, the wine was a little full, and it didn't float far, floating past Tu Yuyong, and stopped in front of the man with the finger wrench.
Seeing that the man looked elegant and graceful, he gently took the wine glass out of the canal, stood up, raised his glass to everyone and said: "Mu Qianyu in Xia Duobao Pavilion, it is really an honor to be able to come to the birthday banquet of the city lord, this third cup of wine, I will first give it to the birthday star, the city lord of Sui." ”
After speaking, he drank all the wine in the cup.
After drinking the wine, Mu Qianyu took out a spherical magic weapon slightly the size of a teacup from his arms.
This ritual vessel is small and exquisite, the appearance is a layer of metal grid, it looks like gilt, shining under the light, the nodes of the grid, are inlaid with magnificent and brilliant colored gemstones, in the center of the ball, there is a crystal clear blue ball of light, like a water drop that shimmers with strange light.
"This is a magic weapon I recently created, called 'Empty Spirit', which has two functions, first, it is used to move and destroy objects in the air, and second, and the most important function, which is to distort time and space. ”
After speaking, Mu Qianyu threw the empty spirit into the air, and immediately the sphere was fixed in the middle of the ring lined up by everyone.
The sphere rotated on its own, and I saw Mu Qianyu stretch out his hand, as if holding the ball in the air, twisting it slightly, then slowly withdrawing his hand, and instantly pushed it forward. The blue droplet hanging inside the empty spirit suddenly launched a point of light forward, and the point of light passed through everyone like an arrow, shooting on a rockery in the distance, and with a bang, the rockery exploded, it simply turned into powder, fluttering and falling.
Such a rockery more than two feet high, but it turned into flying powder and disappeared in an instant, which shows how powerful this magic weapon is, and everyone exclaimed.
"So, what about distorting time and space?" said Lian'er, who stared at Mu Qianyu curiously with a pair of big eyes.
"Don't worry, Miss, come and see me. After that, Mu Qianyu took the empty spirit in his hand, rubbed it with both hands, and then threw it into the air, and shouted in surprise: "Sure!"
Before everyone understood what was happening, they saw that except for the banquet area on the inner floor, all the people, things, and scenery in the rest of the banquet area were frozen at this moment, as if time had stopped passing.
"Wow! that's amazing!" Lian'er clapped her hands happily, and everyone was in amazement.
At this moment, the surrounding scenery changed again, and the world seemed to be caught in a strange whirlpool, distorted into a grotesque appearance, whether it was the people laughing loudly, or the various precious delicacies on the table, or a cherry blossom blowing in the wind, it was as if it had been printed on a silk cloth, and then twisted into a ball.
This state lasted for about half a pillar of incense, and Mu Qianyu suddenly exclaimed: "Return!" Suddenly, the surrounding scene returned to its original state, and the guests laughed and laughed again, drinking and eating, as if nothing had happened just now, and the cherry blossoms rolled up in the wind fell on whose head.
"What a powerful magic weapon!" Sui Yuan clapped his hands and said, "It is worthy of the Duobao Pavilion, it is so powerful!"
Mu Qianyu collected the spirit of the void, sat down, and said, "The city lord smiled, this is just a gadget I made casually, it is not enough to worry about, and it does not represent the true strength of Duobao Pavilion." ”
Hearing this, Fu Mingxuan and Yan Kaiting glanced at each other.
A few days ago, Han Fenglai appeared in Yujing City, and the words at that time still exist between the two of them, although they didn't understand it at the time, but now they see the Duobao Pavilion that made a big deal in Weiqing City, and the doubts in their hearts suddenly became a little clearer.
The refining disputes that took place in the Yujing City a few days ago, if it weren't for the Yetian Workshop in it, the suspicion of so many treasure pavilions would have been too great.
According to the rules, Mu Qianyu poured wine into the cup and put it in the canal, and everyone looked at the boat full of wine, who would stop in front of this time.