I sat back to my original seat, the ministers and city lords had introduced themselves, and the banquet was finally on the right track.
Liyi looked like General Desheng, and Kaiya also squinted, stroking the folding fan and smiling happily. Noren looked at this side provocatively, with his thumb pointing down, he scratched the front of his neck. I lowered my head, looking bored, eating food and drinking wine on my own.
With such a big banquet, it is naturally impossible for all the focus to be on me. When the music was played again, everyone's topics became diverse. Some people said that Miss Elf who talked about the three-stringed violin really had a good temperament, some people said that the Sixi meatballs on the plate tasted really good, and some people had already started to communicate how to cooperate more in the new year. The banquet seemed lively.
When the banquet was more lively, there was a link where the princesses poured wine for the city lords, and then the king stood up to toast, and the city lords also stood up to wish the king a long life. The first step of this link was that the three princesses poured wine for the city lords. There were thirty-six people present, and each princess was in charge of twelve people. Little Princess Lanna is the youngest, so she is in charge of our last twelve city lords.
In fact, when I saw the little princess Lanna walking towards us, I was a little happy. But when I saw the expression on her pouring wine, the last turmoil in my heart also calmed down. The smile on her face was very polite, but also very strange. If she told me now that she is Lanna's twin sister who grew up with court etiquette, I might believe it.
She didn't look at me as she poured my drink. Just holding the handle of the jug with one hand, pressing the lid with two fingers on the other hand, leaning forward, pouring the wine in the jug into my cup. During the whole process, her expression didn't change a bit. Her cute little face was not as innocent and cute as it was last time, but was tense instead.
The clear wine gradually filled the jasper wine glass. Lanna stood up and withdrew her hand. Suddenly a handkerchief fell from her sleeve and landed on my table.
"Your Highness, your handkerchief has fallen."
I picked up the handkerchief, pretended to return it to her, and quickly glanced at the handkerchief.
A bloody "go" clearly came into view.
Even though I hid it well, my hands trembled unnaturally.
The font is crooked, and the bloodstains are not dry yet. Obviously, there is no time to write more in a hurry, so I can only use this simplest prompt to convey some information to me. I guess Lanna obviously knows something, but judging by her current appearance, there should be no way to tell me directly.
And there is only one word "go".
—Leave the capital!
There is no other way, no other choice. All she could think of was leaving the capital.
All of a sudden, I felt as if a poisonous snake crawled up my feet, and the cold skin rubbed against my body, slowly entangled and tightened, and turned into a rope that bound me, and fell into the abyss with me.
After a moment of trance, Lanna took back the handkerchief from me, put it back in her pocket calmly, and returned to the king with the flagon. The king calmly stretched out his hand to her, my heart trembled, Ke Lanna took out a handkerchief from her pocket as if nothing happened, and handed it to the king. After the king took it, he read it several times, and then gave it back to her.
When the king took it out to look, there was nothing on the handkerchief.
At first, I even suspected that I was dazzled just now, but then I realized that Lanna should have prepared two handkerchiefs in advance, one with blood written secretly on it, and the other was clean. The side that writes is hidden in the sleeve, and the side that does not write is put in the pocket. After I read it, she casually put the handkerchief with writing on it into her pocket, and after the king asked for inspection, she took out another handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to the king.
So thoughtful to this extent, just to tell me this little bit of information.
The weight of this word can be imagined.
The king raised his glass and said:
"Then, let me say something first. In the past year, you have worked hard. But your fathers worked much harder than you. Let this cup be to those lords who cannot be present."
With that said, the king picked up the wine glass and drank it down.
We drank it too.
The king put down his glass, exhaled, and said:
"The day after tomorrow is the Spring Festival. Those of us of the older generation are still used to regard the Spring Festival as the New Year. In the eyes of this king, this year is coming to an end, and a new year is about to begin. Every year there is a new look— This king really wants to say this, but this Eternal Heaven Kingdom has maintained the current weather for an unknown number of years. There are some undercurrents and some storms, but as long as the Great Array of Protecting the Nation is still there, it will be difficult for the foreign races outside to invade our human beings. Territory. In the same way, as long as the king is still sitting in this position for a day, it will be difficult for the undercurrents at the bottom of the water to find out what tricks."
His voice was very calm, with a feeling of intimidating Xiaoxiao.
Occasionally, the tone was drawn out, and the voice like the roar of dragons and tigers echoed in the hall.
After the king finished speaking, the city owners filled their glasses with wine.
Then start waiting.
Thirty-six people can't get up to toast at the same time, and they haven't been specially trained. So everyone turned their attention to the little brother named Bai sitting in the first seat, waiting for him to toast as the representative of the city lord. However, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the little brother was still burying his head in eating the fish, patiently picking up the thorns in the belly of the fish with chopsticks, and eating the velvet-like fish bit by bit. Everyone just looked at him, and he just ate fish on his own, until Xiao Hei next to him coughed, poked him quietly, and said a few words to him, then Bai stood up, raised his glass, and said:
"May Your Majesty live forever."
But in fact there is no wine in his glass, and he does not drink from the beginning to the end. The cup toasted by the princess just now is still standing beside it.
But I don't know if it's because behind him is the number one territory in the world, and no one bothered about it. Everyone raised their glasses to toast, and the king drank another glass.
In front of us juniors, the king is still very mighty and domineering, and the mighty and domineering king also said to us in a mighty and domineering way:
"Your parents are basically of the same generation as this king. When this king gets old, sooner or later the family business will be handed over to his children. The same is true for your parents. The Kingdom of Eternal Heaven will still depend on you sooner or later. New One year, I hope that you can work diligently and be a down-to-earth person. You come from different territories, and you have grown up with different cultures, but human beings are human beings, and you cannot make things difficult for your own compatriots. I hope you can govern Take good care of your fiefdom, take good care of your own people, so that every household can have a bite of hot rice and drink a mouthful of hot soup, and live a bit of a human appearance!"
Most of the thirty-six city lords lowered their heads, as if they were being taught.
Only Bai Huang raised his head and said lightly:
"May I ask your Majesty, among the 300,000 disaster victims in Tianyue Mountain, who suffer from hunger and cold, and live in the open air, which one is still alive?"