Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Banquet in the Hall of Benevolence
The old minister headed by him had no choice but to submit. Driven by the fat boy, a group of people left the palace and headed in the direction of the royal ancestral hall.
The sun is slanting to the west, and the moon has appeared. The candles that are often lit day and night in the ancestral hall are particularly bright in this dim evening.
"Your Majesty, it's here!"
"The heart refining hammer is in the ancestral hall, why don't I know?" the fat boy was surprised. When he was young, the eclectic fat boy was a frequent visitor to the ancestral hall. If you ask who knows the ancestral hall best, the fat boy will bear the brunt.
The old minister at the head did not speak, but pointed to the ground.
"Underground?"
The old minister at the head nodded, and then walked into the ancestral hall, knelt on the futon and kowtowed three times, and so did everyone. The old minister who got up walked to the coiling dragon golden pillar on one side, stood on tiptoe, held the dragon head, and pulled hard.
Suddenly, the huge carved dragon masonry under the central desk protruded. The old minister looked at the brick and stone, sighed, and said, "Move away!"
After removing the masonry, a bottomless cavern emerged, along with a staircase leading to nowhere.
"Let's go down!" the old minister at the head took the brunt and lit a torch.
The crowd descended the steps, round and round. There weren't many steps to walk, and when everyone was sweating, the end came. The light of the torches stained the small space red, covered with cobwebs and dilapidated. In the middle, on the uneven rocky floor, stood a hammer-shaped object, covered with dust, and there was nothing special about it.
"Is this the Heart Hammer?" the fat boy's voice rang out in disbelief.
"Your Majesty, the old minister doesn't know!" The old minister led by him showed his merits and said, "Since Taizu, no one has ever come in." Yushitai has always inherited and adhered to the legacy of Taizu, never forgotten, never overcome. β
"Before Taizu's posthumous training, those who believe in their mouths should be killed!" the fat boy pointed to the words carved on one side of the wall and shouted angrily.
The ministers looked sideways, looked at the inscription on the wall, knelt down in unison, sweat like rain, and did not dare to speak again, asking for forgiveness.
"In front of Taizu, it is not appropriate to be bloody!" The fat boy put up his face and said, "The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped!" Go and wipe the hammer clean as a punishment!"
The old minister led by him was grateful, extremely aware of current affairs, took off his official uniform, and wiped the heart hammer with his underwear. After a while, a short-handled hammer about a foot long, shiny, carved with simple patterns, exuding bronze brilliance, appeared in front of everyone's eyes, dazzling, but not dazzling.
The fat boy looked at the new heart refining hammer, and was overjoyed, and directly stepped forward with his sleeve and grabbed the hammer handle. However, the thread did not move.
"Come!" the sweaty fat boy let go and returned in discouragement.
The ministers did not move, Meng Tiance and Jia Fugui looked sideways at the same time, looked at Jiao Yang'er who was still pondering, and rubbed his arm.
"Well, what's the matter?" Jiao Yang'er came back to her senses.
"Take the hammer!" Meng Tiance and his family were a little embarrassed.
"Forget it this time, you can't take it!" Jiao Yang'er calmly.
"Why?" the two of them were puzzled.
"Qualifications are not enough!" Jiao Yang'er smiled and said, "Let's go, it's enough to see him here!"
"Let's go!" Meng Tiance called.
"Let's go, let's go!" The fat boy turned away when he heard the sound, shook his head and said in disappointment: "I can only see it, I can't use it, it's a pity, it's a pity!"
Everyone came out of the Treasure Pavilion, the ancestral hall was restored to its original state, and the ministers were interested in retiring. The fat boy came to Jia Fugui's side and said respectfully, "Sir, will you stay and have dinner together?"
Jia Fugui didn't answer, and looked at Meng Tiance at his side. The fat boy was clever, looked at Meng Tiance with a smile, hardened a little, and said, "Da Chuan'er, I haven't seen you for a few years, I won't get drunk tonight!"
"Okay, old place!" Meng Tiance readily agreed.
The fat boy who was happy took the three of them to the old place, the eunuchs and palace maids were busy, and the humerus ministers hid.
"It's here!"
"Once, there were two bamboo ladders, and now, there are four bamboo ladders!" Meng Tiance looked at the four bamboo ladders on the eaves of the palace and sighed with a lot of emotion.
"Renhe Palace, what kind of place is this?" Jia Fugui stood in front of the hall, chanting the name of the hall.
"The place where the emperor went to court, the place where hundreds of officials deliberate, hahaha!" Meng Tiance replied with a debauchery and uninhibited attitude.
Before Jia Fugui could react, the fat boy pulled Jia Fugui to a bamboo ladder and said, "Sir, please!"
"Huh?" Jia Fugui was really blindfolded and knocked on his head. This is the emperor, this is the emperor's palace.
"Meat, go up!" Meng Tiance, who had already stepped on the bamboo ladder, pointed to the roof of the palace.
Jia Fugui looked at Meng Tiance's signal, understood, and convinced, but he couldn't convince himself to believe everything in front of him, and climbed up mechanically.
Jiao Yang'er saw through it a little and followed the customs. The four of them sat on the backbone of the temple of benevolence.
"Wine!" the fat boy waved his long sleeves.
Chrysostom said that the momentum was huge. The eunuchs pushed a siege wagon to the front of the Renhe Palace, dozens of jars of wine, four roasted whole sheep, and placed them on a custom-made long wooden plank, which was bolted to the long pole protruding from the siege vehicle.
"One, two, oneγ......" The long plank rose steadily and appeared in front of the four of them amid the whispers of some of the women.
"Stand down!" the fat boy ordered, and the eunuchs and palace maids below all quietly retreated.
"Big skewers, isn't it convenient?" the fat boy raised his eyebrows proudly.
"It's convenient, but it's not a business!"
"Why don't you do your job, I've already cut off the heads of five household books, hey!" the fat boy shook his head helplessly.
"Poof!" all three squirted out a sip of wine.
"I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce it after tossing for a long time!" Meng Tiance was a little hindsight and said, "Mu Xin, the emperor of the Xijin Empire!"
"Also, I'm his little grandfather!" the fat boy explained to the two next to him, smirking proudly.
"Don't say it, I'm coming!" Just as Meng Tiance was about to introduce Jiao Yang'er and Jia Fugui, the fat boy shouted, "I know, listen to me!"
"This gentleman, looking at his tough body, must be Mr. Jiao!"
"This gentleman, looking at his extraordinary wisdom, must be Mr. Jia!"
After speaking, the two wanted to put down the wine jar to salute, but they were stopped by the wine jar stretched out by the fat boy and touched each other. The fat boy laughed and said: "Tonight, when you drink in this place, there will be no royal etiquette, and there will be no difference between monarchs and ministers. β
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"Fat boy, you've grown stronger, you must have done your homework!" Meng Tiance was a little impressed by the fat boy.
"It's not enough!" The fat boy became modest, looked at Jia Fugui, and praised sincerely: "Sir's wisdom, I have seen it today!"
"What's next, what are you going to do next?" the fat boy got serious.
"Revenge!" said in unison, and the atmosphere on the roof suddenly became solemn, and the three of them poured their drinks.
"Revenge is necessary, but it has to be considered in the long run, in the long run!" the fat boy comforted, shuddering.
"What you said is that now that Qifeng Tower and Mo Yutang are in my hands, I am going to do something for the Fengxi Empire first!"
"Congratulations to Da Chuan'er for getting what he wanted!" the fat boy stretched out the wine jar and touched it.
Meng Tiance smiled bitterly, poured a sip of wine, and asked Jiao Yang'er, "Yang'er, what are your plans?"
"Cultivating Heaven and Earth Forging!" Jiao Yang'er looked calm, chewing slowly.
"Sir, what's next?" The fat boy looked at Jia Fugui, a little expectant, a little apprehensive.
"Make money!" Jia Fugui took a sip of wine and said heroically: "Earn all the money of Fengxi and buy all the resources of Fengxi!"
"Okay, the soldiers are not bloody!" the fat boy applauded: "Sir is really talented!"