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Chapter 341 Night Banquet in Qianjiao Garden (6)

The place where the banquet is held in Qianjiao Garden is not far from the front hall where guests receive guests. Across a small courtyard from the long corridor is Huaqing Garden, which is where Nie Huaishen designated the banquet.

Huaqing Garden is divided into the main hall and the east and west wings. There is a stage in the center, facing the four directions of the yard, east, west, north and south. Guests from any direction can see every scene in the stage.

In addition, the main hall and the wing rooms on both sides are connected, making it convenient for the host to visit guests from all walks of life.

When Lou Xiyue arrived at Huaqingyuan, many guests were already seated inside and outside the courtyard. However, the banquet had not officially started yet, and only tea and cakes were placed in front of their table. They gathered together in twos and threes, and there was a burst of laughter between conversations.

"Hey, everyone is here. I mentioned you just now, and you are here!" Nie Huaishen saw Lou Xiyue's figure from a distance, and immediately called her with a smile, and then waved people over.

Lou Xiyue noticed the glances from around her, so she smiled and nodded to everyone, then walked up to Nie Huaishen and said, "I'm late, I hope I didn't disturb your enjoyment."

Nie Huaishen waved his hand and said: "You came at the right time. Come, I will introduce you to some distinguished guests..."

As he said that, he couldn't help but grab Lou Xiyue's hand and pull him to his side. At the same time, he held her shoulders affectionately, pointed at several people and said:

"This is Mr. Zhang, the Minister of Industry, who is young and talented. When he took the scientific examination, he was still ranked second! Now he is in his thirties, and his future is limitless!"

"There is also this one. This is the prefect who came from Ruipingzhou. His political performance in the past few years has been quite good. He has contributed a lot of money and food to our Daxuan court...and this..."

Nie Huaishen introduced several people to Lou Xiyue one after another. These people were all important officials in the Daxuan Dynasty. Each of them had their own origins, and each of them was a member of Prince Xiang Feng's party.

Lou Xiyue showed an expression that she did not dare to neglect, and at the same time, she memorized the names and faces of these people one by one for future use.

"They are all ministers of the Daxuan Dynasty, so they must not be neglected. Miss Izumo must entertain the distinguished guests well. Don't let the distinguished guests down." Nie Huaishen said.

Lou Xiyue naturally understood what he meant by "entertainment", and suddenly felt disgusted. She suppressed her impatience and put on a smile: "I'm sorry, please don't worry, Mr. Nie."

Nie Huaishen also laughed: "Yes, yes, Miss Izumo has experience, after all, she came from Cuiyan Tower!"

When everyone heard about the origin of this "Izumo girl", they also flattered Nie Huaishen and said:
"Oh, I didn't expect Mr. Nie to be so well-connected that he would invite all the Izumo girls from Cuiyan Tower! Teaching the 'Number One Piano Player in Jiangnan' to serve us, that would really be... not a great honor, not a great honor, Hahaha!"

"Yes, yes, this has to be Mr. Nie, otherwise he might not be able to invite Miss Izumo if he were someone else, right?"

"That's right, that's right!"

Several people were laughing and joking, and the atmosphere in the main hall was very lively.

At this moment, the boy who delivered the message quickly ran over: "Master, Master, the Crown Prince, His Highness the Crown Prince is here and has already entered the door! -"

Nie Huaishen didn't have time to make jokes with others: "Really? Welcome!"

As soon as the words fell, twenty or thirty people in the palace stood up one after another, and in a blink of an eye they knelt down in front of the courtyard: "I'd like to see you, Your Highness, the Crown Prince. May your Royal Highness be safe!"

Lou Xiyue is also included in this list.

She knelt down along with everyone else, and heard the sound of staggered footsteps not far ahead. She raised her head slightly and saw Xiang Feng coming from outside the hospital with his entourage. He held his head high and looked extremely proud.

Lou Xiyue noticed that there was an unfamiliar person following him. The man had a smile on his face and was dressed in unusual clothes. I don't know if it was the light or some other reason. Looking from a distance, I could see that the man looked somewhat similar to Xiang Feng.

Lou Xiyue was surprised by this discovery, but then she realized something was wrong - the man's appearance seemed familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

But she thought carefully, but she couldn't remember where she had seen such a person.

Lou Xiyue rarely wandered away for a while. Just as her eyes drifted, a handyman in gray cloth burst into view.

The handyman was kneeling in the corner of the main hall with his hands hanging down. Under the cover of the blue vase beside him, he raised his eyes and looked at Lou Xiyue. The two looked at each other silently.

"..." After confirming Xuan Yi's position, Lou Xiyue calmly looked back.

At this time, Xiang Feng and others had already arrived in the courtyard. He swept his eyes around and said immediately: "Today is a rare night banquet. Don't be too restrained. Everyone, please get up."

He waved his hands and everyone thanked him.

Nie Huaishen also patted his sleeves, came up to Xiang Feng, and said with a smile:
"His Highness's schedule today is really unpredictable. Qi Yu and I were waiting for you in the garden. We heard twice in succession that you were coming soon, but we waited until we had no time. I thought that Your Highness had something else to do today and wouldn't come. Woolen cloth."

Xiang Feng patted him on the shoulder, looked at Qi Yu again, and said, "I brought new friends here today, so I was delayed for a while." As he said that, he stepped aside and said:
"Come, let me introduce you to you - this is the medicine merchant who has come all the way from Guicheng, Mr. Qi Lianqi, come and meet him!"

The moment she finished speaking, Lou Xiyue's pupils not far away shrank - Qi Lian? !

She looked at the man surrounded by everyone in the center in surprise, and thought to herself, she remembered!
No wonder that man looked so familiar, he had actually seen it before! That person was none other than Qi Lian, a medicine merchant who appeared during floods in the south of the Yangtze River and distributed medicinal materials to provide relief!

Lou Xiyue frowned - after the floods and epidemics were over, Fu Guan sent someone to investigate Qi Lian, but he was not a businessman from Guicheng at all.

Moreover, since Qi Lian left Jiangnan, the people sent by Fu Guan lost his whereabouts. Why is he showing up in the capital now? Are you still on the line with Prince Xiang Feng?

what on earth is it?

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"Drug dealer?" Nie Huaishen's eyes changed. "Could it be that His Highness invited him here..." He and Qi Yu looked at each other with confusion in their eyes.

Qi Yu asked: "But the medicinal materials used in the current prescription are not good, so His Highness has found a new drug dealer to cooperate?"

The places that need medicine now are nothing more than the "elixir" provided by the palace to the emperor, and the medicine used by Linlang Pavilion to train dead soldiers. The palace has its own "Taoist priests" cooking, so there is no need to worry. Then the only thing that might go wrong is Linlang Pavilion.

Although Qi Yu and Nie Huaishen did not interfere much in the affairs of Linlang Pavilion, they often followed the prince, and naturally they were influenced by it.

They knew that one of the medicinal materials used to train dead soldiers was a vital medicinal material - Lost Soul Grass. They also knew that for some reason, the drug dealer that had been supplying medicine to Linlang Pavilion had stopped supplying medicine for a while, but the prince did not tell the details, and it was difficult for them to ask.

Now that they saw the prince bringing this medicine dealer to the Qianjiao Garden banquet, they had to make assumptions - could this young master named Qi Lian be the businessman who provided the Lost Soul Herb to Linlang Pavilion?