The Grand Void – Becoming a Dragon

Chapter 45: Banquet of Gaoyuelou

   Among the sixteen prefectures in Huai'an, Fengcheng is a place of prosperity.

   It is precisely because of this that Zhuang Ming personally came to Fengcheng and spent several months of hard work to establish the foundation of Zhuang's firm here.

   It is also precisely because Fengcheng is a prosperous place, the forces can be described as intertwined, various big families, many celebrities, and interests entangled.

   Even Zhuang Ming spent a lot of effort, fighting wits and courage, and it took root under the joint resistance of various families, so that each family would be willing to cooperate with him and seek common interests.

   The moon hangs high tonight.

   Fengcheng streets are brightly lit.

   Hawkers hawking on the street, shops on both sides.

   Passing pedestrians, noisy sounds, all show the prosperity of this city.

   "Within the Dongsheng Dynasty, except for the capital city with the highest power in the world, if it talks about the prosperous place, Fengcheng should be one of the ten cities."

   Zhuang Ming sat in a wheelchair and smiled at the night of Fengcheng.

   Yin Ming pushed the wheelchair, and Qian Yang walked on the left.

   The little maid, Shuang Ling, is on the right, looking left and right, and she is in a good mood.

   "You son, son, look, Gao Yuelou is here."

   Shuang Ling pointed to the restaurant in front of him.

  The restaurant is luxuriously decorated and has about five floors. Lanterns are hung under the eaves of each floor.

   laughed and laughed in the inside, the guard in front of the door stood upright.

   People come and go, all dressed in luxurious clothes and behaving extraordinary.

  ——

   When Zhuang Ming arrived.

   The atmosphere became weird again.

   The recent experience of this young man who disturbed the situation in Fengcheng can be called ups and downs.

   "Zhuang Ming is here?"

   "It is him. Unexpectedly, Wang Chen invited him to come."

   "I heard that Wang Chen has unblocked all the Zhuang's firm."

   "It looks like it's turning fighting into jade."

   There are many discussions in secret.

   Someone came up again, quite enthusiastic.

   Zhuang Ming looked as usual, and made a few polite words.

   These people were also on that ship last time. At that time, the Zhuang's firm was sealed up by the man ordered by the king of Chen, and the future was worrying and in danger of collapse.

   At that time, even though these people did not dare to ridicule or fall into trouble, they did not dare to talk to him for fear that they would be remembered by the king of Chen and suffered by the fish.

   The attitude this time was completely different from the previous one.

   is even more enthusiastic than before.

   Zhuang Ming is also a very deep person in the city. His joy and anger are invisible. On the surface, he is still talking and laughing with these people.

  ——

   "Prince Chen Wangye ordered a thorough investigation of various violations of the Dongsheng dynasty, but only the Zhuang's firm was closed down, clearly targeting Zhuang Ming."

   "This move is not unrelenting. The general business firms can't stand it, and they fall apart."

   "The prince meant to kill him clearly."

   "Now he has unblocked his shops and warehouses, and, listening to the news, the government seems to treat the Zhuang firm more favorably than before."

"It's really weird. How did the local merchants change their minds? What qualifications does he have to make Chen Wang change his mind? Although the Chuang's firm has strong financial resources, how can the prince use gold and silver to bribe ?? Secondly, the prince seized the Zhuang family firm, and only had to kill Zhuang Ming and order someone to take over. The entire Zhuang family firm was in the prince’s pocket. Why reconciliation?"

   "What method did this young man use?" An old man stroked his beard slightly, looked down, and muttered: "In just a short time, such a change has turned decay into a miracle."

"Yes, I reversed the situation that must be extinct." Another middle-aged man said with emotion: "It is rumored that Mr. Thirteen is very smart, but the prince ordered that the general situation of the government is suppressed. It cannot be solved. However, he was able to come to life like a turnaround."

   "However, I heard that in the 16th Mansion of Huai'an, many things happened in the past two days. There were robbers and bandits who looted, killed many people, and took a lot of things. The specifics are not clear..."

   "What does this have to do?"

   Everyone didn't know the true intention of Wang Chen when he came to Huai'an, and they didn't know what these things were, and how they were related.

   What's more, the dignified imperial kings with different surnames are just mere merchants and ordinary people. In this way, they can be forced to compromise?

  If Zhuang Ming did this thing, even if there is no evidence, as long as the prince has doubts, he can use unreasonable charges to take Zhuang Ming to jail, and no one dares to object.

   The twists and turns are unknown to outsiders, but they can only sigh, Mr. Thirteen of the Zhuang firm really has the wisdom to turn things around and bring back life, so that King Chen’s killing intentions disappeared, and he changed his mind.

  ——

   "The prince is here."

   With this voice, everyone looked up.

   I saw Wang Chen walking slowly, majestic and heavy, with a faint gaze.

   When everyone saw it, they all respectfully saluted.

   is Zhuang Ming, sitting in a wheelchair, also bowing his hands in salute, under the public, showing a respectful look, giving Chen Wang a full face.

   Wang Chen's eyes swept across the crowd, and he stayed on Zhuang Ming for a moment.

Originally, Wang Chen was in a bad mood. At this moment, he saw Zhuang Ming's respectful look and bowing his hands. Although he knew in his heart that this young man was bold, he might not be respectful in his heart. What he did was only superficial, but seeing this behavior, his heart was slightly relieved. .

   "You are welcome."

   Wang Chen waved his hand and said: "Let’s take a seat first. The previous time on Bailing Lake, Lord Zhao hosted a banquet. You are very grateful for your enthusiasm for this king... So this time, this king personally hosted a banquet to entertain everyone."

   Zhuang Ming's expression remained as usual, and he secretly wondered.

   This King Chen is not a good kind.

   This banquet must have a purpose.

   It's just that, for the time being, it shouldn't be for yourself.

   After all, Wang Chen must still be finishing.

   And beside him, Qian Yang and Yin Ming are here, and there are young dragons guarding him in secret, he is fearless.

  ——

   Tonight’s banquet is different than before.

   each seated, wine and delicacies came up one by one.

   There is another singer, Yingying stepped forward and danced gently.

   Music sounded, brisk and joyous.

   "Wine and delicacies, delicacies of mountains and sea..."

   Zhuang Ming looked at the dishes placed in front of him, looking extremely delicate.

   This time, in the name of the prince, the banquet was hosted by the upper class of Fengcheng.

   Therefore, these dishes are mostly precious ingredients, and various cooking methods are extremely complicated.

   The so-called "color, fragrance and taste", especially in the aspect of "color", almost achieved the ultimate.

   At this time, Wang Chen stood up again, raised his glass and drank at an old man, and then he made a sound.

   "I heard that Mr. Lin recently prayed for his family, quietly refrained from eating meat and fish, and was grateful for God. Therefore, your old table is a vegetarian diet, please rest assured to eat."

   Hearing the words, the old man was shocked.

   and everyone looked around.

   I only saw the old man in front of him. In addition to a few dishes, there were also chicken, duck and fish, just like the dishes in front of everyone.

The old man picked up a piece of fish, put it in his mouth, with a satisfied expression on his face, and smiled: "Good cooking skills, this fish itself is made of beans, and its meat quality, taste, and real fish are no different. Kind of fragrance."

  ——

Shuang Ling glanced at the old man, and behind Zhuang Ming, he said softly: "The son, that old man is one of Fengcheng's great scholars. I heard that he hates our Zhuang firm. His disciple, I also wrote a sentence, "Zhumen stinks of wine and meat, there are frozen bones on the road" to mock you."

   Zhuang Ming chuckled lightly, nodded and said: "I know."

   On the Bailing Lake that day, in the boat next door, the old man had a very happy conversation with Wang Chen.

   After he boarded the ship, Wang Chen came to the ship where he was.

  In the eyes of those scholars, it is myself, a common man, who has disturbed the yaxing of talking about poetry and songs.

   The old man was also quite dissatisfied.

   "What kind of meditation, refrain from eating meat and fish, and thank God, it is hypocritical..."

There was a scholar in the corner, who seemed to be quite dissatisfied, and muttered: "The meat taste is no different from real fish. Then you can eat fish? Such a vegetarian diet is much more expensive than ordinary chicken, duck and fish. It's just extravagance and waste."

   "If you are really meditation and abstaining, wouldn't it be enough to have thick tea and light rice? Want to make chicken, duck and fish meat, but also have the taste of chicken, duck and fish?"

   "The old guy is obviously reluctant to bear the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, but he is afraid that people will chew his tongue and make the cook spend a lot of time and energy to make these many things. It is really wrong."

   The voice is extremely low, and it is in the corner, and it is not clear to others.

   But there is a young dragon in Zhuang Ming's sleeve, Qian Yang and Yin Ming beside him, but he can hear clearly, and he is interesting in his heart. He glanced over there, and immediately revealed a different color.

The scholar was in his early twenties, and he was dressed plainly, but from his appearance, he must be extraordinary. After all, this banquet is different from last time. Those who can go to the banquet this time have one characteristic, regardless of their professions. Is a good family.

   "There are faint traces of dust on this scholar."

Zhuang Ming calmly retracted his gaze, and said in secret: "It looks like a trace of trying to cultivate true qi, but he has not yet started. It is about calming and calming the nerves. There is a vague sense of qi, but even the zhenqi has not been condensed. Which family’s incomplete inheritance of Taoism."

  In the Dongsheng Dynasty, there was also a saying about cultivation and nourishing qi, but most of them were used to calm the mind and soothe the nerves, basically incomplete, or just the basic spit-nagong method.

   Therefore, the hermit in the deep mountains, whose name is left in history, is actually more of an elegant temperament rather than a magical power.

   On the contrary, there are many people who practice martial arts in the market, and they can practice martial arts to protect themselves and walk the rivers and lakes.

   Of course, there are many people who are like this scholar who learn the exercises of breathing, vomiting and satiating, which is conducive to meditation.

   Zhuang Ming retracted his gaze, but he didn't care much about it, but from the few words just now, he somewhat appreciated the scholar.

   "Everyone..."

King Chen held up the wine glass and bowed to the crowd with a grieving expression on his face. He said: "Drought in the Dongsheng Dynasty, north of the Huaihe River, has already suffered from a drought. The disaster is serious. I am afraid that from this time onwards, the number of victims will increase. The problem, and the loss of life, such a cruel thing, I am afraid that until the snow season, I am afraid that many people will die from starvation and cold."

   He sighed, and said, "From today onwards, this king is supposed to pray for the people. Until today next year, he will eat vegetarian food."

   Zhuang Ming squinted across the scholar in the corner, and a smile was drawn from the corner of his mouth.

   I only heard the scholar whispering again.

   "It's another hypocritical person."

   "Pray for the people?"

   "Is this to lie to ghosts?"

   "You steal food at home, who knows?"

   "You just don't steal it. These so-called vegetarian chicken, duck and fish meats are chewy and tasteful, so what's the difference?"

   "This so-called vegetarian diet is more expensive than eating chicken, duck, fish and meat. It is a waste of manpower, financial resources and material resources. It is better to save some money to help the victims, pretend to be a bird, eat a bird!"

  ——

   The scholar was quite disdainful, but he was still in the corner as usual, and few people cared about him.

   But Chen Wang’s words are quite popular.

   Everyone present, no matter what they thought, they all agreed.

   After Chen Wang's words fell, an old man got up and bowed.

   "The prince is really benevolent, praying for the victims of the disaster, and abstaining from the desire to speak, is really beyond my generation."

   "Lord benevolence!" As the old man said, everyone also got up and agreed with the Tao.

   "It's just a little bit of effort, I only hope that the sky will pity, no more disasters, this king alone prays, afraid that the meager manpower will be useless." Chen Wang laughed bitterly, and sighed in dismay.

   "The prince must not be presumptuous." The old man said sternly: "You are a king of the world, a hero among people, under one person, and above ten thousand people, the heaven is alive, and you should respond."

   "I hope so."

   Chen Wang raised his glass, UU reads www.uukanshu. Com drank it in one go.

   Everyone responded and drank all the wine.

  While Wang Chen drank, he was embarrassed.

   Among the crowd, someone asked at the right time: "Master, can I still order? Can I wait a little bit to do my best?"

When Wang Chen heard this, he couldn't help sighing, and said: "I am ashamed to say that this king hosted a banquet today, with good wine and delicacies, but he can't help but think of the victims in the Northern Territory, facing famine. The shame of freezing to death..."

After    finished speaking, he took a deep look at Zhuang Ming.

   Zhuang Ming's expression was flat and did not respond.

Then, Wang Chen regained his gaze and sighed: "This king prays for blessings, but it's just hard work, but the victims in the Northern Territory need relief... Now that the court's disaster relief funds have not arrived, this king has a banquet for the Northern Territory. The victims raise money."

   After speaking, he tossed the wine glass, bowed down.

   "For the victims of the Northern Territory, this king is brazen, please donate generously!"

   "……"

   "……"

   "……"

   Everyone looked at each other, and the scene was silent.

   Zhuang Ming reached into his sleeve and gently stroked the head of the young dragon, his eyes condensed slightly.

   And just then, he heard the scholar in the corner whispering.

   "This boy looks the same as usual, and the eyebrows are greedy. At first glance, he is asking for money."

   "I bet on three copper coins, this shameless king with a different surname, he himself is what he calls the victims of the Northern Territory disaster."

   "This guy must be called a fundraiser, and it's actually a collection of money."

   "The silver taels raised today will be fixed in his pocket."

   "The more I think about it, the more correct it is. It must be the case. Unfortunately, no one is calling, otherwise I can bet on another pair of underwear."

  

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