Chapter Ninety-Six: The Banquet Begins
As soon as they entered the Jade Building, the three of them felt a fragrant breeze coming to their noses, and a woman who was about thirty years old, with a well-proportioned figure and an outstanding face, walked over, spread her jade hands in front of Chen Feifei and the three of them, and smiled: "Three distinguished guests, welcome to the Jade Building, can you take a look at the invitations of the three?"
"Sister Xu, the three of them are the people invited by Miss Ling!" the man who brought the three of them in just now hurriedly explained. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Oh?" the woman looked the three of them up and down with her hands around her, then chuckled, "I didn't think Yanni would too... I won't bother the three distinguished guests Yaxing, but I was invited by Yani, so the seats for the three of them will be arranged on the west side of the second floor. Zhang Liu came over. ”
Not far from Sister Xu's left, Zhang Liu, who was dressed as a subordinate, walked over and said respectfully, "Sister Xu, what are your orders?"
"Take these three guests to the Amber Room on the west side, and help them find the three best seats. ”
"Yes!" Zhang Liu never looked up at Sister Xu from beginning to end, but kept his head down.
"Thank you! Sister Xu!" Looking at Zhang Liu's attitude, Chen Feifei and the three of them knew that Sister Xu's identity was not simple.
Seeing that the three young people spoke in unison, Sister Xu smiled again: "Giggles! The three are polite! Since it is Yanni's invited guest, of course it must be treated well." There are a lot of people here, and I won't greet the three of you anymore, if you need it, just tell Zhang Liu directly!
Seeing that Sister Xu turned her head to greet the other dignitaries and nobles in an endless stream, Chen Feifei and the three of them didn't want to bother anymore, so they followed Zhang Liu and walked towards the second floor.
This jade building, in fact, is tight on the outside and wide on the inside, from the outside of the jade building, I don't think much, it is only three stories high, and the overall feeling is not big, but when I really look inside, it gives people another feeling. Why do you say the inner width, that is, the whole building of the Jade Building is a round tower-shaped building, its middle is hollow, from the first floor to the third floor, there is nothing in between, that is to say, standing in the middle of the first floor and looking up, you can see the roof above the third floor. The seats where the guests sat were also placed around the open space in the middle, and to be exact, all the halls of the Emerald Building were planned around the circular open space in the middle. Except for the first floor, where there is only one hall in the east and west directions, there are two floors above, and each floor has four halls, which are divided into four directions, south, south, west, and north, and each hall has a different color and environment.
After the three of them sat down, a few maids on both sides began to bring out a pot of excellent tea, a plate of fruit, a few plates of dishes and some teacups, chopsticks and other miscellaneous things placed on the small table next to the three people. The person who was entrusted by Ling Yani just now also retreated to his life after seeing Chen Feifei and the three of them seated again.
"Wow, big brother, look!" Zhang Xiaohua just sat down, then stood up from the chair again, pointed to the front and said excitedly.
Following the direction pointed by Zhang Xiaohua, there is a circular open space in the building, and a high platform is being built at this time, and the relatively distant seats on each floor are several steps higher than the first few rows of seats, so that the seats are placed at a low level in front and high in the back, no matter which floor in the three floors can be seen by which distinguished guest.
Before the banquet began, the three of them began to slowly taste the delicious food prepared by the Jade Building, while looking around.
Through the analysis of the three of them, and a few girls who took the initiative to talk to the next to them, they roughly understood the arrangement of this banquet, the people sitting in the hall on the first floor are all high-ranking officials and nobles, and the second floor is where the sons and daughters of official eunuchs or some rich families sit, and the third floor is some rich businessmen who are not high in status but are rich. No matter which floor it is, next to each seat, there are a few young and beautiful maid rings waiting on the side, and there are also a few young and strong subordinates guarding each aisle, but these maid rings can't take the initiative to talk to the guests, and the guests are not allowed to do anything to them, even if they are high-ranking officials, they are not allowed to take these maid rings lightly.
The backstage of this Jade Building is so hard, not everyone can do it, Chen Feifei and the three of them curiously asked a few maids around them, and the answer was that the owner of this Jade Building was the Sister Xu they saw just now, but who was Sister Xu's backstage, but no one answered, only knew that they had a good relationship with Miss Ling, they often saw Miss Ling coming to Jade Building, and that Miss Ling was Ling Yani.
During the conversation, a group of rich children came to a few seats next to Chen Feifei and the three of them. Seeing that Chen Feifei and the three of them had sat down first, only one of them, a rich boy named Yan Zeyu, who was about twenty years old, greeted Chen Feifei and them warmly as soon as he sat down, which was considered to know each other, and the rest of the sons took a look at Chen Feifei's clothes, and they didn't plan to take a second look, so they didn't want to say hello to others, of course, Chen Feifei and the three didn't mind how others thought of themselves, since others ignored them, they wouldn't be bored.
What is strange is that Yan Zeyu and the group of rich children only occasionally have a few words, but they talked more speculatively with Chen Feifei, and this son-in-law who is in the fur business at home is very interested in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, especially the Yingjie Conference in Kuang Hucheng, after learning that Chen Feifei and the three of them participated, they asked them to roughly explain the whole process of the Yingjie Conference.
About two quarters of an hour later, just as Chen Feifei and the three of them finally finished their words and were busy drinking tea to moisten their throats, the guests were all seated, and at this time, the door outside the Jade Building was also closed unconsciously, and the entire Jade Building was quieter all of a sudden, and it seemed that the banquet was about to officially start.
At this time, there was a sudden agitation on the first floor, Chen Feifei and the others looked down one after another, only to see a woman in red slowly walking from behind the screen on the north floor to the high platform in the middle.
This woman's face is like a peach blossom, her eyebrows are slender, her eyes are like autumn water, her nose is straight, her red lips are bright and dripping, her snow-white pink neck, her plump breasts, her graceful figure, and her snow-like skin seem to be blown and broken. At this time, Ying Ying smiled, sometimes charming and sometimes dignified, and fascinated all beings as soon as she appeared, this is really the beauty of the country and the city!
"Wow!" Zhang Xiaohua couldn't think of how to describe her beauty for a while, so she scratched her head and smirked.
After the woman walked on the high platform, she began to sing and dance alone with the ancient music coming from behind her: "The sky is high, the earth is far away, the old man is shaking, the heart is shaking; I think I met the king at the beginning of the year, and the king smiled because of the concubine Meibo; however, the years are not forgiving, and the years have passed away, why is the king annoyed? Heaven and earth have the same longevity, but I hope to grow old with you; how can I expect that the king has left for Yisao, but I know that the concubine still fetchs water for the king to burn; the sky is high, the earth is far away, and the old man is shaking." ”
The song "Shake of the Heart" sings the sad story of a woman who was abandoned by her father-in-law due to old age and decrepitude.
The beautiful woman on the high platform vividly expressed the shyness of her girlhood and the helplessness of old age and decay, coupled with her heavenly voice, which made all the audience fascinated, and waited until the song was over, and only after a long time broke out thunderous applause from the silence.
"She's Ling Yani!" Chen Feifei said in a calm tone to the two brothers beside him who were clapping vigorously.