Chapter 1341 Banquet on the 6th

The five consecutive banquets were all glamorous on the surface, but in reality all kinds of scheming, which really made Lin, a magician born in a fat house, feel impatient. Especially the kind of beauty trap that rushes to send noble women, which makes someone even more disgusted.

Let’s not discuss the issue of whether these women can do it cleanly. Not everyone can eat the sugar-coated bullets and throw them back without hesitation. No one can guarantee that there is no poison in the sugar-coated bullets. Besides, if you touch some things, it will be troublesome, so why bother yourself.

These days, the empress did not have any trysts with anyone. As for the commander of the Wolf Cavalry Corps who died in the battle at Xia Palace that day, no follow-up news reached the ears of Lin and the others.

This made Lin suspect that the Karlsruhe Empire was very united and knew how to isolate information from outsiders, so it attended the noble banquet for five days in a row without hearing any news. Or maybe the empress hasn't made a fuss about the death of the legion commander yet?

But on the sixth night, at the banquet hosted by the empress, Lin discovered something unusual again.

The processes of the banquets I have attended in the past few days are actually similar. What is more special is that the meals are served in a buffet style, rather than the long table banquet style in other areas. This is another place that seems to be the legacy of many predecessors.

However, the disadvantage is that there are usually no chairs to sit on in this form of dining. Everyone stood to eat and mainly chatted. If you look at this in the eyes of some conservative elderly people in your hometown, if you dare to eat standing up, you won't get a few chestnuts on your forehead!

The time spent chatting and eating is also the time waiting for guests to come to the banquet. Some big names, or those who don't quite match up with the host of the banquet, will come later. But whoever comes and who doesn’t come, and whoever does come, will get a reply when invited. Generally speaking, nothing much can go wrong.

When everyone has gathered, the food and drinks have been decided, and then the host of the banquet will lead the dance. The time for the three court dances is an opportunity for the young men and women at the banquet to express their love for each other. And some couples who have a good relationship, or who have to show a good relationship, will also end up dancing.

The Karlsruhe Empire is not a monogamous system. There are no restrictions on marrying those who have the ability or ability to marry. Excellent people need to have more children. This is the concept of most barbarian tribes. The empire that absorbed these tribes had many customs affected.

Therefore, when dancing, except for young people in estrus, who the man leads and who the woman follows all have different political interpretations. It can be said that there are rules in every step, and each one has deep meaning.

After the three court dances, it’s time for rest. Everyone continued to eat, drink, and chat. The third aunt and the sixth aunt were all in full force, and they began to pull strings on anyone with unmarried children. If a good thing can be achieved, the newlyweds will remember the introducer's kindness. If anything happens in the future, of course I will help if I can.

If there are three palace dances, people who see each other, or people who already have a crush on each other, not limited to men and women, will also find an empty room to rest temporarily at this time. As for what you do behind closed doors during breaks, everyone knows it, so I won’t mention it here. If there aren't enough rooms... it's night anyway, just find a dark corridor. Some people with lower status don't care about this.

The music will not stop during the breaks, and those who want to dance can continue dancing. During this period, most of the dances were scattered, with people joining and quitting at any time, and the dance patterns were relatively inconsistent.

However, there will be no dancing scenes at the aristocratic banquet. Everyone has grudges to resolve, so they go out to duel with real swords and guns. Who is dancing? This is a world where beating someone to death is as common as eating and drinking.

The breaks don’t last forever either. When it's almost done, the host of the banquet will come out to lead the dance again, and then after two court dances, the banquet will enter the final stage. Everyone was chatting, eating and drinking, and those who lived far away and had high status also left one after another.

If there is a banquet in another place, and those who live very far away will stay overnight and leave early the next morning. However, everyone has mansions in Neuquen Imperial City, so there is no one to stay overnight. At this point, the one-day banquet ended, which was the usual procedure for the nobles of the Karlsruhe Empire.

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However, at these banquets, even if they are enemies and small nobles, for the sake of face, the big nobles will at least send a representative to attend and bring gifts as long as they receive an invitation. If you fail to do this, you will be judged as ignorant by outsiders. But regardless of the old and new grudges of these nobles, the empress was never invited to these banquets.

Or maybe I was invited, but no one came? Lin guessed.

But in the green hall, the banquet invited by the empress was a large venue and had the largest number of nobles participating. However, the atmosphere was very different from the banquets held by other great nobles in the previous few days. The most obvious difference is that there are two more thrones at the banquet. These two chairs are of course prepared for the Empress and her husband, His Royal Highness the Prince.

For other noble banquets, a butler must be arranged at the entrance of the mansion to receive them. If someone of high enough status comes, the master has to personally go out to greet him.

It was not so convenient in the palace. The guards lined up directly in a human wall from the main entrance of the palace to the green hall. All the nobles who can enter have passed the guard level, and no one has a higher status than the emperor, so everyone can come on their own.

While they were chatting, eating, drinking, and waiting for guests, the empress did not appear. Only Prince Thomas walked around the scene and chatted with a few nobles he was friends with. From time to time, of course, there are also noble women who come forward to hook up.

Finally, when the dance was about to begin, the empress came to the green hall under the call of a waiter.

Saint Alegria wore a violet fluffy dress with gorgeous lace decorations. The silk sleeves were made of purple and embroidered with flowers. Her hair was tied up high, with a delicate golden flower pinned to it. On her neck are five rows of pearl necklaces. She put a little makeup on her face, shook her silk fan gently, covered her red lips, and nodded to the nobles passing by.

Under the dress, this posture is a bit more coquettish, unlike the heroic and upright posture a few days ago.

The empress deliberately stopped briefly in front of the divine envoy of the Goddess of Gold Coins, exchanged a few lukewarm greetings, then walked up to her throne and sat down peacefully. At this time, Prince Thomas also came to the right and sat on the diamond-encrusted throne with a back that was shorter than the chair next to him.

The banquets held by the royal family have more rules than those held by the nobles. A palace etiquette officer sang the names of each stage one by one with a high-pitched voice, and everyone moved. Including the following dance stage, even the band's accompaniment was only performed under the call of the etiquette officer.

As for this court dance, thanks to the large venue of the Green Hall, all the nobles would lead their eldest wives to dance together as long as they came in person. If it were another noble banquet, it could also be said that he would bring out his beloved wife or lover. But in the presence of the emperor, it is better to do less etiquette things to avoid getting into trouble.

The dance stage begins with the empress and her husband leading the dance. After a while, other people came in to dance. His Majesty and his husband had sat back in their seats, smiling slightly and watching everyone dancing to the melodious music.

As the leader of the Gold Coin Goddess Mission, Lin couldn't excuse himself by using the excuse that he couldn't dance. It was the same the past few days. No matter what, someone would be arranged to dance.

Fortunately, for him now, he can instantly detect the dancing postures of the people around him and then reproduce them on himself. In addition, the speed of dancing is really not fast, and it cannot be compared with Azad's battle. With these abilities, pretending to be a good dancer is not a big problem. It’s just that if you do this, you’ll lose the point of dancing and it’s not fun at all.

The same goes for the banquet held by the empress, and she was also assigned a dance partner. It's just that this dance partner doesn't look like he was rushing to see his daughter off a few days ago. As soon as the music ends, I want to drag people upstairs.

The partner we dance with today is a little brown-haired girl with a round face, thick pink lips and big brown eyes. He doesn't look old for his age, and his smile is sweet.

The large round neck reveals a piece of white flowers, and there are no unnecessary jewelry, but it is better than hanging gold and silver jewelry. A goose yellow dress with fluffy shoulders and tight three-quarter sleeves decorated with lace strips. The skirt is conical, and the basket under the petticoat holds the skirt up to the left, right and back, with several rows of bows embroidered on it.

Although someone danced quite mechanically, the little girl in front of him seemed to be enjoying it, jumping and jumping just right.

When the three-piece dance was over, the little girl was not as eager to lead people upstairs as the aristocratic women in the previous few days. Instead, he lifted his skirt slightly, bowed his knees and saluted, and then skipped away again.

This behavior left Lin a little confused. Logically speaking, this should be the person arranged by the empress. But nothing was said or done, just dancing?

Looking at the woman sitting on the throne, she maintained a dignified smile from beginning to end. Surrounded by a group of attendants, some were holding wine glasses and flasks, and some were carrying various dishes. They only waited for Her Majesty the Empress's eyes to come forward to serve her.

However, most of the time, the empress just sat quietly on the throne, watching a group of nobles perform monkey tricks below, and did not dance with everyone. Like an exquisite and beautiful porcelain doll decoration, or like a goose for foie gras, being constantly fed by the people around you.

There were other people who came forward to greet the empress, but they were just the female students, and they only said a few simple words. Especially those little nobles who always get eye-rolls, even shyly come to the empress at this time.

It can be said that the nobles who are willing to be loyal to the empress, in addition to the close ministers of the royal family, are the remaining crooked melons and jujubes picked by the five major factions. To put it bluntly, these people were not of much use in the political disputes of the Karlsruhe Empire, just as flag-wavers.

A certain magician carrying the sign of the Goddess of Gold Coins wanted to come forward and greet the empress. But his identity was very popular in the eyes of the nobles, and there were circles around him who were jealous of the wealth the goddess had amassed, and they were always thinking of ways to use the money from the goddess's kingdom.

What he said is nothing more than that the gods have no need for money, and the money will not automatically generate small money if placed in the Kingdom of God. It is better to give it to them for use. The conscientious ones know that they will return the money to Her Majesty the Goddess when the time comes. The unconscientious ones only talk about taking out the money and not mentioning the repayment part.

It's just that these people don't think about it, does the money entering the goddess' kingdom belong to the goddess? Can you control it at will? That's just someone else's deposit!

Someone helplessly continued to practice Tai Chi, which was missing.

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