Volume 1 The Worldly Rivers and Lakes Chapter 73 The Banquet Turmoil
Pei Ge Lao just said that there are no restraints, and there are no rules, but Li Qingxuan glanced left and right, and his heart was clear. The people who sat at this table were all the henchmen in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the children and grandchildren of the Prime Minister, except for Pei Yingxuan, the rest of the young ladies were all at the other table, and the dignitaries and nobles sat at two other tables. In this way, this seat was arranged in advance.
Although it is a small banquet, the richness of the wine and food is no less than that of the Yu family's birthday. After all, he is the prime minister of the dynasty, and he is not comparable to a local family like the Yu family. "Regardless of beef and mutton meat, this fish is an extremely rare type, which has the effect of nourishing blood, and its value is more than ten times higher than that of ordinary fish. In addition, this pot of clear soup and that plate of birds and birds are all excellent dishes. ”
Li Qingxuan pondered: "If you hold a banquet in a restaurant, each dish will cost a few taels of silver, and some dishes, silver taels are not only that. The dishes on this table are extremely rich, and if you calculate carefully, you can already make ordinary people's families eat and drink for several years. Li Qingxuan was looking at the table full of dishes, only to feel that it was too luxurious.
Zhumen dog meat stinks, and there are frozen bones on the road. At that time, the poetry of the poet Saint Du Fu explained the social contradiction of "Zhu Men is overwhelmed, and the Han people are suffering". Throughout the ages, this has been the case in troubled times. Although the rebellion of the two thieves of Anshi was suppressed, the lives of the people in the Tang Empire were devastated, and the people were struggling to make a living. Li Qingxuan took his thoughts, but saw that Pei Ge Lao did not put down his chopsticks, but just looked at him with a smile.
"The old man was able to wake up and leave this old life, and the biggest credit is Li Langjun. Pei Ge Lao said: "Li Langjun saved the life of the old man, saved the life of my granddaughter Yingxuan, and saved dozens of people in the convoy, along with Lao Zhang and Fan Tengyun, all of whom saved their lives because of you." Today's family banquet, everyone can gather here, all of them are Li Langjun's work, if Li Xiaolangjun doesn't act on chopsticks first, how dare the old man put chopsticks to eat?"
Originally, because of respect and because of Li Qingxuan's extraordinary martial arts, everyone dared not disrespect him, so the four words Li Xiaolangjun have been commensurate with Li Langjun these days, and the word "small" has been hidden. And Pei Ge Lao changed his name at this time and called him Li Xiaolangjun, but he became closer.
Li Qingxuan turned his head to look and saw that everyone was looking at him. He doesn't move chopsticks, and Pei Ge doesn't move chopsticks either. And Pei Ge didn't move the chopsticks, who would dare to move the chopsticks first? Many people suddenly realized at this time, and secretly said in their hearts: "This family banquet was originally dominated by this Li Langjun. Thinking of this, some Miss Childe, who felt that she had been left out, couldn't help but have some resentment in their eyes.
Li Qingxuan chuckled lightly and said, "In the next scholar, although he also knows some etiquette, but the elder is so generous, then you are not welcome." He didn't shirk it, after all, he really made a great contribution to Pei Fu, so he didn't have to pretend to be modest, raised his chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish meat, and sent it to his mouth. Suddenly, Li Qingxuan's hand was stunned, and he gradually frowned.
Everyone couldn't help but be stunned, thinking that although he claimed to know some etiquette before, he was too rude as a scholar. Pei Ge didn't know what was going on, he only smiled and said, "What's the matter, but the dishes are not to taste?" Li Qingxuan was silent. At this moment, I saw that his chopsticks were loosened, and the fish fell to the ground. The flesh was falling to the ground, and everyone's faces changed suddenly.
Even Pei Yingxuan felt that this scholar was too abnormal, and there was a look of surprise in her eyes, and she was a little panicked in her heart. "What a bold man, he actually humiliated the face of the Prime Minister so much!" A twelve or thirteen-year-old boy stood up and shouted, "Come on, take him down!" The guards guarding outside the door entered one after another, each holding a sword, and it was Zou Lin who was the leader, and when he knew that he was going to capture Li Qingxuan, he couldn't help but be stunned and speechless.
When the young man saw that this scholar was a few years older than him, and that he was so respected, and that he, as the grandson of the old man of the pavilion, had to sit on the other side, and felt that he had been left out in the cold, he was not as good as a scholar from outside, and when he saw that the guards in the palace still did not listen to his orders, he was furious and shouted, "Are you deaf?
"Shut up!" Pei Ge Lao snorted coldly, "How can you speak here?" The young man suddenly didn't dare to speak. Pei Yingxuan also knew that this cousin was a gentleman, but if she didn't expect him to be so unwise and out of shape, she sighed in her heart, and had already concluded that it would be difficult for this young man to get the attention of the Prime Minister in the future, and at most he would be a son and brother who had no worries about food and clothing in this life, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to become a big man in the end.
But compared to this cousin, at this time, she was more concerned about the scholar's abnormal behavior. There was silence in the room. Li Qingxuan took a deep breath, only to feel that the true qi in his body was turbulent, and it seemed that something was stirring his blood. When I smelled a wisp of meat before, there was a change in my body, and my true qi was turbulent.
"Gu worm?" Li Qingxuan was horrified in his heart, but there was a wisp of breath from the end of his nose. Icy cold, pungent. But this murderous aura actually came from the dishes on the table. Li Qingxuan was shocked. Pei Ge waited for a long time, but there was no movement, so he had to frown and ask, "Li Xiaolangjun, what does this mean?"
Li Qingxuan didn't answer, he took out a piece of 100-year-old raspberry grass and pinched off the tip of the leaf, which was about the size of half a fingernail. Crush it and sprinkle it on top of the broth. In just an instant, I saw a layer of snow-white floating on top of the clear soup. Everyone was stunned, and someone asked, "What is this?"
"Eggs. Li Qingxuan took a deep breath and said: "This was originally a colorless and tasteless poison, and it was a live poison, nourished by the hundred-year-old raspberry grass, and turned into insect eggs in an instant. If you drink this soup and eat this dish, but for a moment or three, the poison will be nourished by blood and qi in the body and turn into insect eggs, and when the eggs hatch, it is insect poison, which can easily take people's lives, and even life is worse than death. ”
After being planted by his own master, he had read many books about Gu arts, and most of the Gu techniques recorded in the books were made up out of nothing, but many of them were still justified. Pei Ge Lao's eyes froze, and he said, "Gu worms?" Everyone remembered that if they ate the dishes and drank the clear soup, worms would be born in their bodies, everyone was pale, and the woman was even more faintly nauseated.
When Pei Ge Lao said the word Gu worm, it added a bit of fog to this kind of living poison. Gu worms are extremely secretive, making people stay away. "Where did the Gu poison come from?" "Who poisoned it?" Fan Tengyun and Zhang Weng glanced at each other, shocked and inexplicable. Suddenly, Li Qingxuan suddenly drew his sword and slashed at Pei Ge Lao!"Bold!" "What are you going to do?" This time, even Fan Tengyun, Pei Yingxuan and others were furious.
Pei Ge Lao watched the sword fall, his expression calm. The blade of the sword rested above his head. A worm split in half and landed on the table. "It seems that he is coming for the elder pavilion. Li Qingxuan only said one sentence, and then thought in his heart: "It's just that this poison is too ruthless to poison everyone at this banquet." If it weren't for the fact that I could sense the murderous qi, and the Gu worms in my body would be doing something wrong, I was afraid that I would really be poisoned, even if I practiced qi cultivation, I couldn't help the insects from eroding the internal organs in my body.
Li Qingxuan ignored the shocked and angry appearance of the crowd, he looked through the window, and there was a flying insect flying towards the west. "West!" Li Qingxuan got up and chased after him, his body as fast as lightning. As soon as I went out, I heard an exclamation behind me. When Li Qingxuan left, all the guards followed him, but as soon as he went out, someone fell to the ground.
This person is Pu Ning, who knocked Li Qingxuan unconscious on a horse and had murderous intentions, he originally chased after him, but he stepped on a piece of bamboo. Pieces of bamboo pierce the soles of the shoes and pierce the soles of the feet. When the bamboo piece touches the blood, it melts, and along with the blood, it spreads all over the body in an instant.
Seeing this scene, Li Qingxuan remembered the Gu technique recorded in the classics. Take a piece of bamboo, go through multiple processes, and finally soak the bamboo piece with the venom of five kinds of poisons, such as centipede, silver krait, black-backed scorpion, gecko and black-eyed toad, and after 8864 days, it is made into a piece of Gu.
This piece Gu is quite sharp, even armor can pierce it, comparable to a weapon, and after stabbing a human body, it will melt and cannot be pulled out, and it will only die in an instant. "Gu technique?" Li Qingxuan's heart was solemn, the other party was obviously proficient in Gu art, so it was extremely difficult. It is still unknown how that person's martial arts are, but with this hand Gu technique, even the great martial arts master, if he is not careful, he is afraid that he will be poisoned on the spot.
This is a method of poisoning, but it is more terrifying, using live insects as poison, which is weird. In the eyes of outsiders, it is mysterious and mysterious, and it is almost regarded as a strange means alongside supernatural immortals. Originally, Li Qingxuan only regarded Gu art as a legend, as illusory as the magic immortal art, until Master Zhang Laodao implanted the Gu worm into his body, Li Qingxuan knew that there was really a way of Gu art in this world.
Although the way of Gu magic is not as amazing as the immortal secret technique, the principle is only with the help of insect poison, but the method of poisoning is very weird. Li Qingxuan was not only dignified, but also had a lot of interest, and secretly said to himself: "Who is this person? I want to meet him for a while to see what kind of character he is, he is so ruthless, he wants to poison everyone, and even I almost suffered." ”
He chased after the flying insect from before, and only a short distance out of the Prime Minister's Mansion heard two screams behind him. Two more people were poisoned. Zhang Weng and Fan Tengyun chased them out, and when they saw this, their faces changed greatly. Fan Tengyun shouted: "The other party is a Gu Dao master, and the poisoning method is too weird, you all go back and protect the elder." ”
Ordering the guards to go back to the house, Zhang Weng and Fan Tengyun glanced at each other, a little shocked, and paused before chasing after Li Qingxuan's departure. And Li Qingxuan's movement shrank and shrunk into inches, and he has disappeared without a trace. "Gu Dao master, who could it be?" The one who asked was another eight-inch master beside Pei Ge Lao.
When Fan Tengyun and Zhang Weng chased after each other, Pei Ge got up silently and returned to the room. And when he left everyone's sight, this master hidden in the shadows was revealed. This is a man in the prime of life, he is burly, his face is square, his thick eyebrows and big eyes look majestic, and his breath is as strong as a hot oven.
Outsiders only know that Ye Qing is the commander of the guards, and those who are closer know that Zhang Weng has eight inches of internal strength and is responsible for the real guard. However, within Pei's Mansion, only two or three people knew about the existence of this person. And Pei Yingxuan, the granddaughter, is quite talented and highly valued by Pei Gelao, but she doesn't know about it. Perhaps with her intelligence, she can vaguely perceive it.