Chapter 66: The Imperial Capital Banquet
After entering the Receiving Hall of the Shengwu Pagoda, the old butler took out ten medium-quality spirit crystals that had been prepared a long time ago and placed them on the complex large array carved on the ground of the Receiving Hall.
After everyone entered the formation, Cai Pu took out a talisman from his arms and inserted it in a certain eye on the ground, and the symbols carved on the entire ground suddenly lit up.
The space was strangely distorted, and Lin Shengsheng and the others in the teleportation array just felt that their eyes were dark and then brightened, and they found that they were no longer in the same place, and they had gone somewhere else.
It is still the Saint Martial Pagoda, but the area is twice as large as the original Saint Martial Pagoda, and the teleportation array carved on the ground is also twice as large. Guarding outside the teleportation array were no longer the original guards, but the elite soldiers of the imperial capital wearing armor made of pure gold, and more than a dozen gentlemen dressed similar to Cai Pu and Ye Hongdao were waiting for them at the door.
Seeing Cai Pu and others appear, these gentlemen greeted them one after another.
The leader arched his hand with a happy face and said: "Master Cai, I haven't seen you for ten years, and your health is still the same!" Hearing that Master Cai is coming to the imperial capital, the students were overjoyed, and immediately put down all the affairs in their hands and asked His Majesty to come and receive you in person. The students have already booked a banquet at 'Yuelaiju', and invited Master Cai and these young talents from Southeast County to go to 'Yuelaiju' with the students for a meal and drink. First, let the students talk about the old days with Master Cai, wash away the dust for Master Cai, and secondly, to celebrate these young talents for breaking into the Imperial Capital General Ring Competition, and wish you in advance to make persistent efforts and achieve better results!"
Cai Pu glanced at the guy who called himself a "student", nodded and said, "It's Zhang Jun, I heard that you were already a waiter in the Ministry of Rites the year before last, and you are rising step by step!"
Lord Zhang Jun hurriedly said: "It's the credit of Master Cai!"
"Don't!" Cai Pu hurriedly waved his hand and said: "The old man has been staying in Southeast County, and he hasn't been to the imperial capital for ten years, so he has the ability to support you." You can do it by your own strength and the appreciation of Your Majesty!"
"Xie Lu Xie Cai Shi, but Cai Shi's teaching back then was also indispensable!"
After Zhang Jun was humble for a moment, he repeated the old words: "Master Cai, please go to Yuelaiju with the students!"
Cai Pu's expression was a little embarrassed: "The old man is here to see His Majesty, there has been a bad attack in Southeast County, and the old man has to report it to His Majesty!"
Zhang Jun hurriedly said: "Master Cai doesn't need to worry, Your Majesty has actually already known about this matter." Don't hide it from Master Cai, the Holy Spirit Sect is not the only one who attacked this time in your Southeast County. Jiangnan, Jiangbei, and Dongshan County all had incidents of the Silver Knight of the Holy Spirit Sect attacking the young talents participating in the Shaoyan Sacred Martial Arts Ring Competition. In particular, Dongshan County, which is close to your southeast county, eight of the top 10 players died, and the remaining two were seriously injured, and the county lord of Dongshan County came to the imperial capital early yesterday morning and was crying to His Majesty! As for Jiangnan and Jiangbei counties, five and six young talents also died respectively. In comparison, only three people died in your Southeast County, which is already a great luck in misfortune!"
"What?" Cai Pu looked shocked: "The Holy Spirit Sect is so bold and reckless, and it also attacked Jiangnan, Jiangbei and Dongshan County at the same time? What do they want to do? Do they want to start an all-out war with the Great Yan Empire?"
Zhang Jun said: "We don't know the reason, Your Majesty is discussing this matter with the vice president, the generals, and the Lord Shangshu of the Sixth Division, and it has been an afternoon, and it is still being discussed." That's why the students will pick up Master Cai. Otherwise, with the friendship between Master Cai and His Majesty for many years, I'm afraid His Majesty will come in person!"
"In this way, since Your Majesty is busy, then let's go to Yuelaiju first!"
"Master Cai, please!"
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"Yuelaiju" is one of the best hotels in the imperial capital, which is obviously much more luxurious than the "Rihengju" in Wanghai City and the "Mingyue Tower" in Yanyang City. The outside looks resplendent not to mention, the inside of the layout is also very elegant, whether it is a table, chair or chopsticks are not ordinary items, if you sell them outside, it is estimated that ordinary people can live for three or five months.
Such a hotel is obviously not something that ordinary people can come in to consume, and most of them are used to entertain the magnates of the imperial capital or to a powerful local tycoon like Xiang Cai Pu.
Ye Hongdao, Fengshan, and Jiang Shanghe have already returned to the Imperial Capital Shengwu Academy to report on their work, and then they will come to pick up Lin Shengsheng and others. Lin Shengsheng and these people can be regarded as the blessing of Cai Pu, otherwise I am afraid that even if there is money, they will not be able to enter.
Zhang Jun had apparently reserved the seats on the second floor of the "Yuelaiju", and there were six large eight-immortal tables on the second floor, but the seats on the four tables were already full of guests.
The tables of the Great Eight Immortals were already filled with fragrant and exquisite-looking dishes.
Basically, these dishes are not affordable for ordinary people, and many of them have not even been seen in Yin Chengdao's "memory".
This made Lin Shengsheng can't help but suspect that this self-proclaimed student of Cai Pu, Zhang Jun, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, is a big corrupt official. Otherwise, where did you get so much money to invite people to eat, these banquets that are enough for an ordinary family to earn a lifetime of money.
"Master Cai, the student will introduce you to ......"
After listening to Zhang Junyi's introduction, Lin Shengsheng and the others realized that these people were the county lords from Jiangnan, Jiangbei and Dongshan Counties, as well as the young talents who participated in the Shaoyan Shengwu Ring Competition.
Originally, in the general ring competition of the imperial capital, there was no need for the county lords from all over the country to follow, just send a representative, such as the city lord of the county capital, to lead the young talents who broke into the top ten to come over. The problem is that these three counties are the same as the southeast counties, and there is an incident of the Silver Knight of the Holy Spirit Sect attacking and killing the top ten players participating in the Imperial Capital General Ring Competition. The county lords of these three counties were as stimulated as Cai Pu, and thought it was necessary to come to the imperial capital in person to report to His Majesty the Flame Emperor, so they all came.
The county lord of Gangnam County, whose surname is Yu Mingtian, is a middle-aged man in his forties, and just half of his top ten contestants died under the attack of the Holy Spirit Sect.
The county lord of Jiangbei County, surnamed Yao Zhiqing, was an old man of about sixty, and six of his top ten contestants died under the attack of the Holy Spirit Sect.
The county lord of Dongshan County, surnamed Qin Mingzhenbei, was a fifty-year-old middle-aged man, and his top ten contestants were the worst, eight people died under the attack of the Holy Spirit Sect, and two were seriously injured, so it can be said that the entire army was wiped out.
Compared with the southeast county, which only killed three people, the southeast county can indeed be said to be a great luck in misfortune.
This time, there were ten young people who followed the three county lords to the "Yuelaiju" banquet. To be sure, the counties of Gangnam, Gangbuk, and Dongshan, like the southeastern counties, adopted the hidden rule and chose the best candidates from among the defeated players to make up for them.
The three counties of Jiangnan, Jiangbei and Dongshan are adjacent to Southeast County, and the county lords of these three counties naturally know Cai Pu, and when they saw Zhang Jun's introduction, they all stood up to say hello to Cai Pu. After learning that the same attack had also occurred in the southeast county, and that three people had been killed, expressions of hatred rose on their faces.
"Master Cai, who are these people?"
Zhang Jun originally wanted to invite Cai Pu and the people he brought to the table together, but he found that Cai Pu seemed to bring too many people, and the remaining one-third of the seats couldn't sit down, so he couldn't help but look at Zhao Qinglong and Feng Lei Zhentian and his party and asked curiously.