Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 239: I'm Not Satisfied (5)

Before Zhao Xingde could answer, Wanyan Aguda yelled loudly: "Can you fill your stomach with just drinking? Serve the food quickly, and don't let the guests starve." All the nuns and dignitaries burst out laughing, Wanyan Zongbi said to Zhao Xingde: "All my father's life in the army, he always believed that eating well is the most important thing, and drinking is second."

Not long after, the maidservants sent wooden bowls containing brown rice to everyone, with a spoonful of bean paste poured on top of the brown rice, and a wooden plate served at the same time. The wooden bowl was filled with raw dog blood, and the wooden plates were piled up. Pickled scallions, leeks, and cucumbers are used by the Jurchens to eat bibimbap, followed by meat such as pigs, sheep, chickens, deer, and wolves, which are placed slowly on each table. Slowly, everyone cut the meat off the dinner plate with their daggers, and the rice was stained with raw dog blood and pickled vegetables.

"'Grandma', 'grain', is this something people eat?" Liu Zheng tried a mouthful of dog blood dipped in scallions, and almost didn't spit it out. "It's right, it's not like I haven't tried it before." Du Chuijiao joked, cut off a piece of robe meat, wrapped it in a roll with pickled vegetable leaves and cucumber, and ate it.

When the Jurchen dignitaries and Han army chiefs were feasting, hundreds of Jurchen tribal girls sang and danced in the tent. They wore only a piece of lambskin on their upper body, and a small wooden stick hung from a thin rope around their chests. As he turned around, he could faintly see a smear of snow on his chest trembling, and the little mallet danced and moved between the soft hills and valleys.The tall and slender waists of the girls were constantly twisting, and the unique fish skin skirts of Liaodong tightly stretched their plump round buttocks, and their round and slender thighs were exposed under the skirts, making people dazzled.

As the dancing posture became more and more exciting, except for a few elderly people such as Wanyan Aguda, the men all "sexed" their souls, and some people ate every bite of food without knowing the taste.Some people swallowed their saliva unceasingly.The maidservants brought up a large wooden basin full of porridge and meat soup. A Han army leader scooped up a wooden spoon and poured it into his collar.Liu Zheng served a bowl of porridge, but when he brought it up, he took the bowl containing the dog's blood condiment by mistake, and he drank it without changing his face. The dog blood, or his own nosebleed, stared straight at the dancing girl in front of him.

Unexpectedly, there would be such a beautiful scene in the banquet, Zhao Xingde cursed in his heart that it was absurd, he secretly glanced at Han Ningshuang beside him, and saw that her face was as usual, not shy or embarrassed.

Wanyan Zongbi on the opposite side seemed to notice his gaze, raised his wine glass to him with a half-smile, leaned over and whispered to Zhao Xingde: "These are not lowly slaves, they are good girls from my Wanyan clan, if someone is caught If they fall in love, brother Zhao will be blessed. Haha." Zhao Xingde's heart shuddered, he raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "Thank you, Your Highness, Fourth Prince, but I already have a family, such gentleness is no blessing."

Wanyan Zongbi said with a smile: "Brother Zhao, you don't have to worry about your family. Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated. My Wanyan tribe makes a living by fishing and hunting everywhere. People with the same surname in the clan cannot get married. There is a custom of "retaining children". If a girl in the clan is pregnant, it is regarded as a generation of offspring in the clan. The clan members will help bring up the child, and they will also take the mother's surname Wanyan. The clan members don't regard it differently. Let the population of the tribe continue to prosper. If foreign men want to take the women away from the tribe, it will weaken the girl's family, so the men will come back to live in the girl's house, serve their parents-in-law, and engage in various labors. From the perspective of you Han people, you are no different from servants, and you must obtain the permission of the girl's family before you can bring your wife back to the family."

Zhao Xingde shook his head with a smile, and thought to himself, if the man has to do long-term labor for the girl's tribe for several years to compensate, wouldn't the hundreds of Han army leaders present here have to fight for the Wanyan tribe for several years?

While he was meditating, Wanyan Aguda, who was sitting at the head of the banquet, waited for several old men from the Jurchen tribe to get up quietly and avoid going out.As if this was a sign, the torches in the tent were extinguished, and some of the girls had shy faces, while others cuddled boldly into the arms of the heroes at the banquet.These days, the Han army was wielding swords and swords in the school grounds of the manor, and there were always many girls from the Zhen clan watching beside them, and many of them had already chosen their ideal husband.In the end, there were only Du Chuijiao and a dozen other girls who were not dancing beside the old and ugly man, which showed that the girls of the Wanyan tribe didn't accept them all.The light was very dim, and an ambiguous and seductive smell gradually spread.

The girl from the Wanyan tribe that Liu Zheng had been eyeing all along really bent her knees and sat beside him like a little bird, and shyly poured a bottle of sweet and glutinous rice wine into her mouth.A beautiful Wanyan girl looked at Zhao Xingde shyly, and finally mustered up the courage to come over, but Zhao Xingde left the table and left the tent, the girl pursed her lips with a disappointed expression, and didn't look for anyone else. He left sadly with his head down.

A little embarrassed to escape from the gentle fragrance array, a gust of breeze blows over the face, Zhao Xingde slightly sobered up from the drunkenness, and secretly cursed, I don't know who came up with this idea.

Through the tent, heavy breathing and whistling could be heard inside.Unconsciously, he blushed a little, and said to himself: "Right and wrong are only in a moment of thought, Zhao Xingde, you can't be sorry to Ruoxue, you've become a beast," he walked away quickly, muttering as he walked , "The Master said: 'Self-restraining and returning to the rites is benevolence. One day self-restraining and returning to the rites, the world will return to benevolence. Is benevolence up to oneself, but to others?" Yan Yuan said: "Please ask its purpose." , don't listen to injustice, don't speak inappropriate, don't move inappropriate.Don't see anything wrong with it, don't hear anything wrong with it, don't speak anything wrong with it, don't move anything wrong with it.Don't see anything wrong with it, don't hear anything wrong with it, don't speak anything wrong with it, don't move anything wrong with it.See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, move no evil..."

Suddenly someone beside him said leisurely: "Zhao Yuanzhi is famous, but he is so panic-stricken. It's really worth seeing once."

Zhao Xingde looked up and saw Han Ningshuang frowning looking at him.Zhao Xingde's eyes froze slightly, but he didn't speak.Han Ningshuang sensed his guard, hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Chen Kang told me about your identity."

Zhao Xingde thought: "It turns out that Chen Kang was talking about her." After he was shocked, a look of surprise appeared on his face, Han Ningshuang seemed to guess what he was thinking, turned his eyes away, and did not want to mention this matter again.On the contrary, Zhao Xingde was a little embarrassed, and changed the topic: "This woman from the Wanyan tribe is too shameless. Jin Guo actually resorted to this trick to win over the Han army."

Han Ningshuang said coldly: "Could it be that the Central Plains people are clean? I don't know what you foreign men think, but the girls from the Wanyan tribe really chose Mr. Ruyi."

Zhao Xingde felt that her tone was a bit strange, but he didn't understand her meaning, so he didn't speak. Han Ningshuang frowned slightly, and said again: "Uncle delayed the selection of the leader, I thought he was hiding something else. But I didn't expect that right here During the procrastination period, the Kingdom of Jin has been constantly wooing and treating them favorably, and they have already made moves. However, if these village leaders and the woman surnamed Wanyan have a relationship, then the two will naturally become allies. This is probably not Xia What the country likes to see?"

Zhao Xingde frowned, looked at the golden tent, and said with a wry smile: "If you love a concubine, can't you beat a mandarin duck with a stick?"

"Why not?" Han Ningshuang said in a deep voice, "Could it be that you want to sit back and watch the Han army and the Jin family form allies? Although I promised in the Huguo Mansion that the Han army would never form an alliance with the Jurchen, if the envoy of the Xia Kingdom also If we just sit back and ignore it, it won’t be an agreement with our Han army.” Her pretty face was frosty, and her tone was a bit harsh, Zhao Xingde patted his head and said, “Okay, I’m going to fight it out.” He patted the cross on his waist Dao, striding towards the golden tent with infinite spring.

The girl next to Liu Zheng was called Wanyan Pushan. Although Pushan was a little shy, she still told Liu Zheng boldly that she had seen him shooting arrows in the school field. Worrying about her.The two hugged each other while they were talking, Liu Zheng told Pula that he still had a wife in Xiaguo, but he was not jealous, and when things happened in Liaodong, he would send Pula to Xiaguo.Pu La was not at all dissatisfied with Liu Zheng having a wife for a long time. The Jurchens were polygamous, so she nodded with her head down, giggling and smiling.Holding his delicate and fiery body in his arms, when Liu Zhengzheng felt that he only envied mandarin ducks but not immortals, he was kicked hard by a person next to him.He raised his head in pain, and was about to stare and curse at the man, but Du Chuijiao shouted: "Liu Yingxiong, get up, General Zhao is gone."

Zhao Xingde only brought Du Chuijiao and Liu Zheng to the banquet, but neither of them noticed when Zhao Xingde disappeared.

"What?" Liu Zheng was surprised. Du Chuijiao's words were like a bucket of cold water, which immediately quenched his anger. He glanced at Pu Shan apologetically, and said in a low voice, "I'm going to find my leader." Pu Shan opened her eyes wide, nodded, and let him go.Liu Zheng hurriedly stood up, touched his waist, felt a little embarrassed, just now when they were making out, he untied his weapons and put them beside him, and was about to look down, when Wanyan Pushan said in a low voice: "Here " Handing him the saber and bow and arrow, Liu Zheng glanced at her gratefully, leaned over and gave Wanyan Pushan a gentle hug, then stood up, and followed Du Chuijiao towards the outside of the tent.

Just as he walked to the door of the golden tent, he saw that the door curtain was lifted vigorously, and a torch was stretched in.The torches in the golden tent had already been extinguished, and when they saw light, Du Chuijiao and Liu Zheng felt that the fire was dazzling, and they couldn't see anything clearly.Du Chuijiao had a bad heart, put his hand on the handle of the horizontal knife, and blocked Liu Zheng, who was a little slow to react, but heard Zhao Xingde's voice: "It's just right, both of you, hurry up and get the torch, and put the torch in the tent. Light all the torches."