Chapter 20 The banquet is dark
On the fifteenth day of the forty-seventh year of King Jin Ming, the Yu clan hunting group entered Beijing.
The crown prince Yimo led a hundred officials out of the Suzaku Gate to greet him personally, and invited the envoy to the royal banquet in the Leyou Garden, accompanied by many disciples of the family.
Zhi Hunt Zhen was also among them, he was dressed in gorgeous clothes, with a hosta in his bun, and knelt in front of a food table on the periphery, deliberately without a sword, so as not to attract the attention of the Yu clan.
Wang Ziqiao sat behind him, with Zhou on the right, and Xie Xuan sitting on the left, casually folding off a jasmine flower in the flower garden, sticking it diagonally on the placket, and looking forward to the meandering water that surrounded him.
"Brother Yuan, Brother Xie, Brother Zhou......" Kong Jiuyan came over and took a seat, and meticulously greeted everyone one by one. Kong Junzi followed behind slowly, the corners of his eyes kept looking, the plan of the year lies in summer, and the little ladies are so light and transparent.
"Everyone, have you seen my thirteenth brother recently?" After a few words of greeting, Kong Jiuyan couldn't help but ask, and there was some anxiety between his eyebrows. After the Shadow Festival, he stayed in Jiankang to look for his thirteenth brother, but it is still difficult to find a trace.
Everyone shook their heads, and Kong Jiuyan became more and more worried. Although Xiao Thirteen loves to mess around, he won't be so ignorant, could it really be an accident?
"Xiao An, I heard that you made an appointment with my cousin a few days ago, and the two of you quietly traveled to Qinhuai at night?" Xie Xuan glanced at Wang Liangmi, who was sitting in front of him, and deliberately raised his voice.
Wang Hui and Wang Xian brothers glanced at each other, moved their knees quietly, leaned back slightly, and pricked up their ears to listen. In the past few days, the fragrant story of Yuan An and Xie Yongxu's private trip in the middle of the night has spread all over the streets and alleys of Jiankang and has become a hot topic in teahouses and restaurants.
It is rumored that Xie Yongxu went out yesterday and was thrown rotten eggs by some dissatisfied women.
Zhi Zhenzhen said helplessly: "Brother Big Mouth, the two of us are just discussing swordsmanship, you don't have to listen to the gossip in the market." ”
"Groundless wind may not be without cause. Xie Xuan showed a lewd smile, "You guys met with Qin Huaihe privately in the middle of the night, just to discuss swordsmanship. Hehe, Xiao An, your ability to lie is not as good as your swordsmanship. ”
Wang Hui nodded thoughtfully, Wang Xian shook the gold folding fan, and shook it exaggeratedly, and the four big words "want to cover and shine" were written on the fan.
The corners of Zhi Hunting's mouth twitched slightly: "Why should I deceive Brother Big Mouth? ”
"Okay, just trust you for my brother. Xie Xuan glanced at Wang Liangmi again, and said in an ambiguous tone, "I believe that you are lonely men and widows, and you have done nothing but sword discussions in the middle of the night." ”
Kong Junzi stroked his beautiful beard and sighed: "As soon as the dry wood and fire meet, it will win countless in the world!"
Zhi Zhenzhen looked at Xie Xuan: "If I do anything else, won't I become your brother-in-law?"
Xie Xuan was stunned, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, grabbed the crystal crab bun on the dining table, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Yuan An wants to be the son-in-law of the Xie family? Wang Hui's eyes lit up, and he whispered a few words to the family disciples on the side, and the person mysteriously told the neighbors, so that after coming and going, hundreds of family disciples began to spread - "Yuan An and Xie Yongxu will get married next month!"
These families are at the outskirts of the feast, sitting in a circular layer, and the food tables made of Lan bamboo are all fresh emerald green, and when viewed from above, they resemble the calyx part of a huge flower. The inner circle is the seat of the patriarchs, which is also distributed in a ring, layer by layer, and the food table is made of vermilion danmu, like a piece of blooming bright red petals.
This is the most fashionable flower banquet of Jiankang Gate Valve, and the stamen part inside is the golden food table polished by the sun stone, and the hundred officials in the middle of the court are sitting in danger. The crown prince Yimo, Situ Wang Tingzhi, Sikong Pan Yangming, the general Gao Tianyue, and more than a dozen Yu clans stood tall in front of the mutton fat jade food table, located in the center of the entire Ruhua feast.
"What about King Jin Ming, why don't you come out to toast to the envoy?" Luan An pinched the bronze wine jue, turning it back and forth in the palm of his hand, ignoring the crown prince Yimo who stood in front of him and raised his glass to him.
There was a sudden silence in the four places, the hundred officials frowned secretly, Yi Mo's expression froze, and said: "The king has been sick for more than a month, and he is incapacitated, and he is still recuperating in the palace, and I hope that the envoy will understand." ”
"Oh - I see. Luan An said in a long voice, and said with a smile, "I thought that King Jin Ming looked down on me, the envoy of the Yu clan?"
"The envoy misunderstood. Imo held the wine lord and stood in place, in a dilemma. But every time there are things that damage the face of the royal family, such as the Daomen Festival and the Yu clan's tour of Beijing, the King of Jin Ming will always be sick, and he, the prince, will take care of it.
"Misunderstanding?" Luan An sneered, and casually pushed the wine lord down, and the peach-colored wine syrup spilled out and splashed on Yimo's four-clawed Cloud Python robe. "Do you need this envoy to go to the palace and visit King Jin Ming in person?"
Imo lowered his head, staring at the drops of wine that slid across the python's robe, and the hand holding the cup clenched violently, then slowly released. "How dare you work to be a master?" he said in a breathless voice.
"Don't dare?" Luan An stretched out his hand and patted Yimo on the shoulder, "According to the envoy, you short-born breeds are very bold!" "This is the custom of the Yu Clan's envoys, first to intimidate the foreign clan, and make things difficult in every possible way, and then to knock out the benefits." This time, Feng Lao accompanied him, although he didn't know the other party's purpose, it was always right to squeeze more money and be filial.
Ji Kang, who was in the distance, saw Luan An's almost insulting movements, and couldn't help but want to take the case, and was dragged by the adjacent mountain waves. "Brother Ji, endure the humiliation for a while, don't let the lives be ruined. ”
Ji Kang glared at each other angrily: "You always endure, endure, endure! Go and be a shrunken turtle!"
Shan Tao said in a low voice: "Even if you want to be angry, you have to be justified, and being tough will only cause the imperial court to suffer greater humiliation." ”
"These birdmen!" Ji Kang hesitated, sat down hatefully, snatched the flask from the maid's hand, and drank it with his head up.
Most of the patriarchs turn a blind eye to this, ignore it, and drink on their own. Don't you see that the people from the Chongxuan Department didn't show up at all? Why did they bother to wade into this muddy water when they couldn't even avoid the Daomen? The royal family has been quite restless recently, and they just happened to use the hands of the Yu clan to knock on it.
"These birdmen are very arrogant!" Xie Xuan pursed his lips, "Isn't it great to have a lot of hair?"
"There is always a time to teach them a lesson. Zhou held the silver chain soft gun around his waist, and his eyes burned.
What Brother Zhou said is exact. Kong Jiuyan said awe-inspiringly, these sons of these families are all young and vigorous, and they are quite resentful of the Yu clan, and they can't disobey the will of the clan, so they have to deliberately eat melon seeds, bite fresh fruits, and throw melon peels and husks everywhere.
The Lord's words are inaccurate. The clear voice was like a cracked stone piercing the clouds, agitating and shaking the sky. Every time you say a word, the wine stains on the Yimo python robe will turn into a trace of mist, and the "Zizi" will evaporate, and when the last word "Yi" is spoken, the liquor in the Yimo cup will evaporate, and it will turn into a peach-colored "sky" in mid-air, and it will not disperse for a long time.
"Before the Great Road, there is only the difference between life and death, how can there be a difference between long and short?" Gao Tianyue's eyes were calm, his steps were sonorous, he took the wine lord in Yi Mo's hand and threw it on the ground. "Poof!" the wine lord entered without earth, leaving only a small hole that was bottomless.
The families on the periphery couldn't help but boil with blood and burst into a burst of thunderous applause.
Luan An stared at Gao Tianyue, his cyan pupils suddenly contracted, and a trace of coldness burst out: "A mere foreign clan, An dares to throw a cup in front of this envoy to be rude?"
Huo Ran, a sword cultivator of the Luan clan who had refined the gods and returned to the void, stood up, and suddenly felt a chill in all directions, and a sharp sword qi rushed out from his body, and the air broke through the air waves that could be discerned by the naked eye, and shot straight into the high leaning moon gate.