Chapter 99 Palace Banquet

Amid the tsunami-like shouts of 'Long Live', Yandan's hoarse and exhausted voice clearly spread throughout Jidu. "Princess Zhang Le has achieved the golden core. Today is a great joy. All the princes enter the palace to have a feast. Use the message circle to pass on the big swallow, and celebrate with the whole world."

After a slight pause, Yan Dan's voice sounded again: "I have been in seclusion for three years and ignored the government. Today's exit coincides with the successful achievement of Jindan immortality. It is a sign of great joy. After three days, I will reply every three days. In the court, you should be slack in dealing with government affairs, big and small, and all the important documents and files in the past three years must be completed within three days."

Wu Qi and Lu Chengfeng didn't take it seriously when they heard Yan Dan's words, but Nie Baihong frowned in surprise and said, "Emperor Yan handles the government affairs in person? Nothing happened recently, so what should he handle personally? For hundreds of years, no Are they all governors and eight princes who are in charge of the government? Although the governors and eight princes have changed several rounds, they have never seen him go to court in person?"

Shaking his head, Nie Baihong didn't take this matter to heart. He picked up Wei Xiaoxiao, and said to Lu Chengfeng: "This sect came here to accept you as a disciple. The Heaven Cracking Sword Sect has a secret recipe of mending the sky, which just fits your wish. Emperor Yan hosted a banquet, and as Lord Yan Le, you must enter the palace to attend the banquet. This sect will be waiting for you in your residence, after the palace banquet, you can come back and formally apprentice yourself!"

After hearing Nie Baihong's words, Lu Chengfeng looked at Wu Qi in surprise.

Wu Qi smiled indifferently, and nodded towards Lu Chengfeng: "The Sky-Splitting Sword Sect was passed down by the ancient immortals, and the Heaven-Bending Formation should be a very important formation technique. My son worshiped the Sky-Splitting Sword Sect, and we happened to Take care of each other." After a slight pause, Wu Qi said in a deep voice: "The Sky-Splitting Sword Sect needs the spirit stone mines on the master's fiefdom, and the young master also needs the support of a powerful force, and the young master's worship under the Sky-Splitting Sword Sect complements each other perfectly. .”

Wu Qi spoke very straightforwardly, directly pointing out the reason why the Sky Splitting Sword Sect wanted to accept Lu Chengfeng as an apprentice. Nie Baihong didn't think it was a pest, but just nodded slightly at Lu Chengfeng. After bowing his head and thinking for a while, Lu Chengfeng smiled and said, "What Wu Qi said is very true, worshiping the suzerain as a teacher really complements each other." He took advantage of the situation and kowtowed a few times to Nie Baihong first, explaining the master-student relationship first. After finalizing it, he stood up, pointed to Wei Xiaoxiao who was in a coma, and said, "This Wei Shizun's woman, I have to thank Master."

Nie Baihong said happily: "Okay, I'm going to kill Webster's people, you just go to the palace to have a banquet." Picking up Wei Xiaoxiao, Nie Baihong turned into a white rainbow and went away in an instant. A burst of exclamation came from the gate of Yan Le Gongfu, and many of Webster's guards who had just recovered from the changes in the world were wrapped up and beaten away by Nie Baihong, and a ball of white light rushed out in the blink of an eye. Jidu outside the city.

After tidying up his appearance and changing into the official Duke's ceremonial clothes of the Dayan Dynasty, Lu Chengfeng transformed into a dignified and dignified Duke of Dayan. Wu Qi greeted Luo Kedi, Ma Liang, Zhang Hu, Hu Wei and others, and the group changed their official uniforms, brought a large group of guards, and rode hurriedly towards the direction of the palace.

Lu Chengfeng inherited the title of Lord Yan Le and the official position of Zuo Guozheng.

As Zuo Guozheng, who is in charge of supervising the affairs of the thirty-seven vassal states in the west of Great Yan, Lu Chengfeng is surrounded by dozens of officials, big and small, so Wu Qi and others are now appointed as subordinate officials of Zuo Guozheng's government. As far as Wu Qi is concerned, his current position is the supervisor of Zuo Guozheng. If he leaves Dayan from the throne of Shenyin and goes to inspect the country of the thirty-seven princes in the west of Dayan, wherever he goes, his status will be the same as The status of the monarchs of those vassal states is equal.

With such a unique position, Wu Qi and others are naturally qualified to attend the palace banquet.

When everyone left the mansion, there were already countless carriages and horses and people on the street, all of them were the nobles of the Yan Dynasty rushing to the palace for a banquet. The suzerains of the hundreds of clans of the Great Yan Dynasty, many nobles with titles, officials of the three ministers and nine officials, and the patriarchs and elders of many aristocratic families, as long as they have status and face, they all have to rush to the palace.

These great nobles and important officials add up to more than ten thousand people, plus their accompanying guards, the crowds of people, carriages and horses are rushing forward along the streets. If the streets of Jidu are not extraordinarily spacious, this passage would be impossible. became a big problem.

Entering the palace, according to their status, they were quickly shunted to various palaces and pavilions in the Jiuzhong Palace Group in the palace.

Those who are eligible to enter the banquet in the highest palace of the Great Yan Dynasty, the "Chongtian Palace", are naturally the eight governors, the suzerains of the hundred sects, many princes, three prime ministers and other important officials, the patriarchs and elders of the aristocratic families, etc. Task. The top core nobles of the Great Yan Dynasty were only about a thousand people together, and the inner sea of ​​the huge Soaring Temple seemed empty, so the many nobles who entered the Soaring Temple could bring one to three followers into the hall according to their status.

With the titles and official positions of Lord Lu Chengfeng Yanle and Zuo Guozheng, he is qualified to bring three entourages into the Chongtian Hall for a drink. Those who followed him into the hall were Wu Qi, Zhang Hu, and Hu Wei. Luo Kedi and Ma Liang, who had innate cultivation bases, looked at each other bitterly, and could only obediently follow the palace guards to the palace where the nobles and bureaucrats of the middle and lower classes had banquets. The two also knew that compared with Zhang Hu and Hu Wei, they were not Lu Chengfeng's confidantes, so naturally they would not have the opportunity to enter the Chongtian Temple.

In the majestic and unusually furnished Chongtian Temple, there is a black lacquer table with a seat length of three feet and six villages neatly placed, and some tableware and wine vessels have been placed on it. Under the guidance of the etiquette officer, the many nobles who entered the Chongtian Temple sat down one by one in strict accordance with their status.

The three of Wu Qi sat in the back area of ​​the main hall. Behind Wu Qi, there were two rows of chime bells and drum stands. More than 500 musicians were gently adjusting their instruments, preparing to play songs at the beginning of the banquet.

Looking forward from where Wu Qi was, he could only see the backs of countless people and the dark heads. He couldn't even see where Lu Chengfeng was sitting.

Nearly 5,000 people gathered in the main hall, except for the musicians, no one made a sound. Everyone was kneeling upright on the cushion behind the table, with their hands flat on their laps, and they were looking straight ahead without squinting. I don't know how long it took before a wisp of fragrance wafted from all over the hall, and the melodious music sounded. Many nobles in the hall bent down and shouted "Long live my emperor" in unison.

A group of people walked out slowly from behind the main hall, formally led by Yan Dan.

Wu Qi also saw Yan Dan's face clearly for the first time. The young man who looked no more than 30 years old had a handsome and resolute face, with an indescribably tired look on his face, as if a lot of things were pressing on his body and heart. He was wearing a blue and black mian suit and an emperor's crown on his head. With his eyelids slightly drooping, he walked out slowly, and sat silently behind the dragon table with a width of one foot and two feet on the high platform at the end of the hall.

On the high platform, on the left side of Yandan's dragon case is a smaller case. A man who was born to drink Yandan was 90% similar, almost like his brother. The man wearing the prince's crown walked slowly behind the table, glanced at the many dignitaries in the audience with serious eyes, and then calmed down. Sit down slowly.

And on the right side of Yandan's dragon case, behind the incomparably gorgeous and rich table carved with gold and decorated with various gemstones, Yan Zixuan, the Princess of Zhangle, who is wearing a blue palace dress, is smiling all over her face. After this case, Shi Shiran sat down. The cases in front of everyone in the hall, including Yan Dan's dragon case, are all black, but the case in front of Princess Zhang Le is particularly eye-catching, obviously specially made for her. It can be seen from this, Princess Zhang Le's position in Yan Dan's heart, and the pampering she has received.

Today's Princess Zhang Le is different from what Wu Qi saw a few times ago. There was a colorless divine light looming behind her, like a peacock spreading its tail, and the fluctuations of the spiritual energy of the five elements poured out from the divine light, causing the spiritual energy in the hall to be in chaos. I don't know how Princess Zhang Le's eyes were born. There were five or six thousand people sitting in the hall, and Wu Qi huddled in the corner at the back of the hall, but she saw Wu Qi at a glance, pursed her red lips, and looked towards Side showed a charming smile.

There are three high platforms at the end of the hall, Yan Dan and the other three sat on the highest one. On the second stage, five tables were laid out one word at a time, and five men with different descriptions sat behind the tables. Among these five men, Wu Qi saw at a glance the burly man in the middle who was wearing a white robe with loose long hair and a red belt around his waist.

This man can't be called handsome, his face can only be described as rough and bold. But with every move he made, between his eyebrows and his gaze, there was a majestic aura like a mountain rushing toward his face. Frank, upright and innocent, Wu Qi just took one look at him, and he knew that such a wonderful man, if the God Seal Throne wasn't the one who was windy and cold, who could it be?

As soon as he was seated, the white-robed man grabbed the wine jug on the bank, and 'Gululu' filled the jug with fine wine. After drinking all the fine wine in the jug, the man shook the jug in his hand unhappily, and suddenly slapped the table heavily: "The more stingy you bastards are, serve the wine, serve the wine! The emperor didn't say that there was a banquet, but he didn't say that drinking is not allowed?"

The sound of slapping the table frightened the breath-holding noble bodies in the hall to tremble suddenly, but Yan Dan laughed loudly: "The general is addicted to alcohol, Ma Yi, Ma Yi, quickly serve the general! "

There was a sound of footsteps, and a servant nine feet away, with a hulking back and a blood-stained face, strode into the hall with two tanks of wine in his hands. Wu Qi looked a little dumbfounded, what the waiter was carrying was not two jugs or jars, but two tanks of fine wine. The height of these two large black porcelain wine jars is just over one foot, and the diameter of the mouth of the jars is also about six feet. It came in steadily.

General Jing Ke of Great Yan saw the two tanks of wine, his eyes lit up immediately, he turned his head and smiled at Yan Dan: "Your Majesty still understands me, with these two tanks of wine, there is no need for other meals. Come, come , get me a wine bucket, who cares to use a wine glass!"

Before the banquet started, Jing Ke had already put two tanks of fine wine behind him, and drank three buckets of fine wine with a wine bucket carved from white jade, 'Gululu'. Wu Qi secretly calculated, the capacity of this wine bucket is at least ten catties of good wine!

Where did Jing Ke drink happily, Yan Dan stood up, and softly shouted at the rich and noble people in the hall: "Forget it, everyone get up!"

All the dignitaries in the hall stood up one after another, but Yan Dan suddenly shouted in shock: "Dan heard that Yan Le Gong Yan Buzhi drowned? It's the number one joke in the world. No matter how absurd Yan Buzhi's child is, he is also born With a cultivation level in the realm of gods, how can a mere river drown him? Fengwei, the chief patrol officer, is patrolling Qin Qingshui, get out and answer!"

With a muffled sound of 'dong', Qin Qingshui really rushed out of the crowd rolling and crawling.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" Qin Qingshui knocked his head on the ground, and the first sentence he said was to ask Yan Dan to spare his life.

The aura in the hall suddenly became deadly, depressing to the point of thunder and lightning.