Chapter 16: Slightly drunk
"There's something your father doesn't seem to have done yet?"
"It's a problem with the military intelligence department, the emperor seems to be going to use troops after the autumn harvest, and he asked the intelligence department to find out the situation in the mountains of the Jiak tribe, but it didn't go well...... My father was in a hurry, but he couldn't run over and be a spy himself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" The girl looked at her helplessly, as if she was very distressed: "Prime Minister, you have to carry a fairly large pot before you are called Prime Minister." ”
After the emperor reprimanded the prime minister a few words, the atmosphere of the dinner party became awkward, but fortunately the parties themselves quickly noticed this, waved the prime minister away, and after a few words with the Duke and Duchess Foster, they left the hall with the attendants, and the surroundings became lively again.
"I went to comfort my father. Friss was suddenly uninterested: "Let's talk about it in two days." ”
"Well, in fact, your father is a good prime minister, but with great power comes great responsibility. I guess...... Most things have been too smooth for His Majesty since he took the throne, which may have led to his expectations of everything being too high. ”
"Alas. ”
Friss sighed and left, and Rhodes continued his search for food along the long dining table as he pondered where to go for anti-magic gadgets. As soon as he thought of the delicate appearance of the little fox girl in his family after becoming a human, his chest was itchy and hot, if Yin'er was willing to let him kiss and touch the body under his clothes or something, how wonderful would it be...... Thinking like this, the two large glasses of "lost wine" that he had just drunk in his stomach began to turn up, and he drank averagely, only feeling that his cheeks were hot, and his head began to be a little dizzy.
Rhodes decided to find a place to rest and sober up, so he left the table and sat down in a chair by the window, resting on the cushions while looking around.
Everywhere there were bored people, maids and maids roaming the banquets, pouring wine and tea for others to collect the food scraps, a group of old men who were obviously confused and ignorant but had to analyze and express their opinions on the current situation of the empire and the international situation, young men and girls gathered in groups of twos and threes, or talked about love or discussed the affairs of their respective circles, and the noblewomen tasted the food delicately, and at the same time praised each other or talked about each other's jewelry, clothes, cosmetics, and other people's parents......
Of course, there are also some who are storming the steaming food on the table - not all of them are rich or in high positions, and there is quite a lot of food here that they don't get a chance to taste a few times a year. Rhodes knew that it was inappropriate to focus on food at such parties, as well as to react negatively to pick-ups, greetings and small talk. In order not to violate "etiquette", he carefully avoided people he knew, especially girls.
The food at the banquet was good, but he hated such time-wasting activities, there were too many people, too stuffy and noisy, he liked to be lively, but not this kind of meaningless type...... He endured it without showing his impatience, but he would rather pick a few kinds of food and quickly eat enough to practice swords or go hunting on horseback outside the city, even if he tossed for half a day and found nothing.
The strength of the wine continued to rise, and Rod secretly admired in his heart: worthy of Sepheus, although this guy was always obscene and trivial in the past, his tricks have always worked, he can survive for a while after drinking a few sips of spirits on weekdays, but today he drank this special thing but he was slightly drunk after a glass and a half...... It was still clear in his mind, but his body began to be a little numb and disobedient, his sense of direction and balance was slightly out of order, and the ground under his feet was as soft as cotton.
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Something was spinning, and he quickly lowered his head to study his shoes to avoid the dizziness from intensifying, and after his eyes stopped looking at the various people around him, his other senses, which were already extraordinary, became more and more acute.
He heard the other boys discussing what the girls were dressed up for the day, and he heard some of the adults discussing the less credible insiders...... There were also a few noble ladies not far from him who discussed hidden topics, their voices were small and they giggled from time to time, but he still heard the content. After a few seconds, Rhodes realized that the content seemed to be related to him.
"The little fresh meat of the Foster family is there, who dares to go over and put him on him?" said a woman in a cut-out gown, "and I will give her this necklace worth twenty gold coins around my neck." ”
"Keep your necklace, you can be a, and I still think about the old cow eating tender grass. Another whispered, "I heard that he is very closely watched by his family, either at home or by his beautiful sister, I don't want to test how big Duke Foster's belly is." ”
"Hey, this kid does seem to be a bit charming, I can't tell why...... Not only is he young, healthy, and handsome, but I've had enough of the old man at home, if I can taste the taste of such green fruit......"
"I've heard that the Duchess is a succubus disguised as an adult, and the children she gives birth to are naturally born to seduce people...... If you dare to sleep with him, you will be squeezed dry by him. ”
"Nonsense...... The duke was not sucked dry by his woman. ”
"People have the body of a sword master, the number one sword master in the world, what do you have?"
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Rhodes cursed in his heart, a little glad that he was drunk and couldn't blush more, but more annoyed, they just made fun of themselves, and he and his friends often talked nonsense in private, which was understandable, but they still dared to slander their mother!
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"He's looking at us, and he's not going to hear us. The women in the distance continued to talk: "What will you do if he comes later?"
"I'll seduce him and get him to follow me to that hut in the civilian area to have a few shots. The speaker threw a wink at the young man from a distance of nearly twenty meters, and he never imagined that what he said would fall into the other person's ears word for word.
"So troublesome, I'll take him directly to the garden outside the auditorium to fight in the field. ”
"Haha, such a handsome guy would like you old women?" one of them chuckled, his voice sharp and piercing, "Maybe you need charm-pills and charm magic, but one is contraband, and the other is high-level magic, can you get it?" ”
"I can let my daughter learn this magic and use it on him and make him my son-in-law, so that I can see him every day. ”
"And then climb into your son-in-law's bed every night?"
A group of women laughed, and Rhodes was embarrassed, superman's hearing was an advantage most of the time, and sometimes he could hear things he shouldn't have heard and didn't want to hear, they were just joking, and they could only hear it as if they didn't hear it. He tried to look elsewhere to listen to what the others were talking about, but was unsuccessful, so he got up and found a seat farther away.
Then I met someone I didn't really want to meet.
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