Chapter 9: The Dinner

The huge flame flower palace looks extremely spacious, and the whole palace presents the castle palace style of the Western fantasy world, and with various punk-style mechanical pipes and gears and other objects that do not belong to that style, it looks quite novel.

On both sides of the palace, there are floor-to-ceiling windows seven or eight meters high, Victorian-style window frames, and red floor-to-ceiling curtains on the eve of the industrial age, which look quite good. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows is a flower stand planted with a variety of strange flowers, which looks beautiful in the sunset.

A wide, long carpet stretches from the doorway to the front, and on the front of the stairs is a golden throne. The ornate decoration, the crystal clear jewelry adorned on it, looks quite extravagant. However, at this time, the throne was empty, and Calpens pointed to the long table that had been set up under the throne, and feasted: "Please also invite all the envoys of China to sit down, travel tiringly, have a full meal and rest for one night, and it is not too late to do foreign affairs tomorrow, Your Majesty will arrive later." ”

Lu Ling nodded, and glanced at the palace chairs around the long table covered with red tablecloths, a total of 23. There were 11 on the left and 11 on the left and right, and there was an even more ornate chair on the part of the long table near the throne, which Lu Ling guessed should be the seat of His Majesty Julian in Culpens's mouth. Lu Ling then led everyone into the seat under the guidance of the palace attendants, and Lu Ling sat in the first position on what was probably Yurian's right, and below him were 10 diplomats.

As for the group of the ghost special combat team, since they were the "entourage" of the Huaxia diplomatic corps, as an inferior person with a low "rank", it was naturally impossible to be at the same table as a superior person with such a distinguished status as a diplomat. Instead, under the leadership of the palace guards, he stood at the gate of the Flame Flower Palace from afar, waiting for Lu Ling and his party from afar. After all, the Ghost Operators are armed men, and not unloading their weapons is already very merciful to them. You must know that in addition to several ministers at this dinner, there is also His Majesty Emperor Julian. The palace guards kept a close eye on You Lile and the others, for fear that they would make any changes.

Lu Ling looked at You Lile apologetically, this is a diplomatic occasion after all. You Lile also bowed slightly, that is, the ghost special forces all understood that the task of the ghost special forces was to protect the Chinese "diplomats", not to eat with the Chinese diplomats.

Opposite Lu Ling, 11 ministers and nobles of the Noah Empire also sat down. However, apart from Foreign Secretary Calpens, there seems to be no important ministers. As for the Earl Morgan, it falls at the very end of the seat. After all, there are as many princes as dogs in the imperial capital, and Morgan, the earl, really can't get on the stage. There are 4 dukes and 5 marquis on the dining table alone, all of whom came to see the excitement, and by the way, they are eating and drinking the old fritters of the imperial capital here with His Majesty the Emperor.

The dishes on the table were sumptuous, all of which were foods that Lu Ling and his party had never seen before. Roast chicken swaying like jelly, steak as clear as jellyfish, biscuits five centimeters high floating on the plate, cream cake with chicken flavor, strange sweet fruits, and colorful drinks. A small, multi-legged robot carrying a dinner plate, and a dragonfly robot buzzing around the dining table carrying drinks and national disasters. The dinner was rich and colorful. It's not at all comparable to the Court Banquet of the Twin Moon Empire and the Supreme Council of Nolan. Fortunately, Chinese people have their own foodie attributes, what flies in the sky, runs on the ground, as long as there are legs, not made of wood can be eaten. Lu Ling and the others did not shy away from alien food, in this world where the physiology of humanoid creatures in the galaxy was very different, seeing Calpens and others began to explain how to taste, everyone also learned.

A glass of red watermelon wine poured into his stomach, Calpens smashed his mouth, put the transparent goblet on the table, and knocked on it twice with a dinner fork, and then saw the palace attendants push open the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sky had become dark, and the lights outside the window were dim. At this time, hundreds of court musicians flew in from the window with their instruments in their hands, flapping their wings and flying on the left and right sides of the table, playing pleasant music. This was followed by dozens of gorgeously dressed dancers, like jingle bells in Peter Pan, who flew in from outside and began to dance to them. The graceful posture of the dancers and the melodious songs of the musicians make people feel good.

Lu Ling somewhat appreciates these music and dances, but what she didn't expect was that in a country with a steampunk style, there were such delicate songs and dances, which made people's eyes shine.

Suddenly, the music changed, and the music that was halfway through the performance suddenly became a majestic piece of song. At this time, the dancers also stopped their dancing postures one after another, slowly fell to the ground, bent down slightly, lowered their heads, and saluted. Calpens and the others also stood up from their seats and looked to the side. Lu Ling knew that this must be the emperor of the Noah Empire, Julian, who had appeared, and then with a wink, the other diplomats also stood up.

Sure enough, after a while, a man in his twenties appeared in the Flame Flower Palace with a meteor, followed by several maids. Dressed in dark blue Victorian aristocratic costumes, with several medals on his chest, he looked at the dining table, his eyes fell on Lu Ling deliberately, smiled at Lu Ling, and then walked over. This is Julian, the young Emperor.

The maid opened the seat for Julian, and Julian walked to the seat, looked at Lu Ling, and said with a smile: "You are Lu Ling, the envoy of Huaxia, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

Lu Ling rubbed her hands generously, and said with a smile: "The Chinese diplomatic mission is your majesty." ”

Julian smiled and said, "You actually learned the etiquette of the empire, did Calpens teach you?" ”

Lu Ling shook her head slightly and said, "It was Earl Morgan who taught us." He spoke with humility, but without losing confidence, and at the same time looked at Morgan.

At this time, Julian also looked at Morgan and looked at the middle-aged greasy man. For this little nobleman he didn't know, Julian just nodded, and then asked, "You are the person in charge of this reception, right?" ”

Morgan said in a sincere panic, for fear that he would be disgusted by Emperor Julian if he said something wrong: "Back to Your Majesty, it is the little minister." ”

Lu Ling also giggled and smiled, and said well for Count Morgan: "Your Majesty, thanks to the Earl along the way, it was really nice to entertain us, hehehe." As he spoke, Earl Morgan threw two eyebrows, and said, "Death, I'm helping you!" ".

Since it has been affirmed by Chinese diplomats, this is naturally to be rewarded, Julian is not a stingy person, he is a rather generous emperor, otherwise there would not be so many people loyal to Julian. Julian waved his pen and said, "Earl Morgan, okay, I remember, from now on you are the Marquis Morgan, and I will have people give you the new fief." ”

Earl Morgan looked flattered, and couldn't hide his joy at all: "Thank you...... Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty, the minister will be the liver and brain, and make persistent efforts. ”

Julian said disapprerovantly, "You should thank Envoy Lu." ”

Morgan looked at Lu Ling, who was smiling, and said excitedly, "Thank you, Your Excellency, Envoy." ”

Earl Morgan...... The Marquis Morgan completed his task, and naturally became a knight. At this time, the Marquis Morgan had a feeling of being proud of the spring breeze and walking to the peak of his life to marry Bai Fumei. Looking at Lu Ling's eyes, he also became a little flustered, and he couldn't wait to take this Chinese woman who rolled the sheets with him every night home, and rolled around on the new soft and big bed in the new fiefdom every day.

Julian pressed his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down: "Let's not talk about official business today, let's talk casually and start eating." ”

The dinner did not have the feeling of the West at all, but there was an Oriental table culture, and talking while eating was the roar.

Julian and Lu Ling chatted with each other, trying to learn from each other's mouths what kind of country each other was. Lu Ling's purpose was only to conduct intelligence reconnaissance in the Noah Empire, and naturally he would not do real diplomatic actions. The humanities and industries have fallen several levels, talking about China as a country of science and technology between the eve of the industrial revolution and the First World War. is full of praise for Noah's Empire, envy of Noah's Empire's strength, superb technology, and beautiful life, and want to move into Noah's Empire to live a cloudy life, and become a "Jingnuo" element.

If he hadn't known that Lu Ling was an intelligence officer of the Second Department of the General Staff, You Lile would have almost believed it and was conquered by Lu Ling's acting skills. However, the members of the ghost special team in the power armor scolded, this Lu Ling is simply a traitor. Another diplomat was "instigated", and a group of ghost special forces members shouted in the channel that it was not worth protecting this group of people at all, and one or two of them became "Jingnuo", and they were quite angry when they looked at it. You Lile could only smile and did not answer, the soldier is strong, he understands very well, after all, the team members don't know the real situation. Yu Lile told everyone that no matter who the other party was, the task of the ghost task force on this trip was to protect them.

However, Lu Ling at the dinner table didn't get much useful information from Yurian, and Yurian didn't plan to tell Lu Ling about Noah's empire. Julian's arrangement for the Chinese diplomats is very simple, there is no intention of peace talks at all, just to see what the Chinese people look like. By the way, humiliate them in a few days, and then officially start a war with Huaxia. This is the usual diplomatic attitude of Noah's empire, either surrender or perish. Unless you beat me to the point of losing my temper, we can sit down and talk calmly.

The atmosphere of the dinner was quite good, and after the dinner, Julian asked Lu Ling and his party to go back to their rooms to rest. At the same time, one of them gave a robot hummingbird and said: "This is a communicator, if you need anything, you can contact the chamberlain in the palace or Calpens through this little guy." ”

After having a full stomach, Lu Ling led her robot hummingbird back to her room under the guidance of a maid. Closing the door, Lu Ling looked at the machine bird that was flying upside down and staring at him not far in front of him, smiled slightly, and then whispered through the translator: "This robot bird is probably a robot for surveillance, everyone rest, I will send the task to your data terminal." ”

After quickly saying these words, Lu Ling circled around the robot hummingbird like a little girl, looking strange. After a long time, perhaps because the novelty was over, Lu Ling took off her clothes, entered the bathroom, turned on the shower head and began to take a shower.

In a hidden room in the Castle of Life, it is filled with old-fashioned television screens, and images are transmitted to the screen through the robot birds. A little girl was smiling and tilting her head to look at Lu Ling in the picture, admiring her graceful figure in the bath, her concave curves, supporting her head with both hands and saying excitedly: "This sister has a good figure, it's called Lu Ling, I really want to capture her as a plaything, giggle." Read the latest chapters, stay tuned