Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 499

2021-11-30

Chapter 498 Writer Friends
With Director Anlos on the carriage, a group of four were not killed. Search for weapons. Director Anros still has things to do. After entering the Yodell Palace, he separated from Shade. If there are no other things, Shade probably won't see his boss at the banquet tonight.

It was 6:50 at night, and Tobesque in late summer could only see the last rays of the setting sun at this time, the courtyard of Yordle Palace was full of ribbons and decorations, and well-dressed men and women exchanged Greetings, under the light of courtyard gas lamps, step on the red carpet spread on the central axis of the courtyard from the entrance to the main building of Yodell Palace.

The banquet is about to begin.

The "Yordle Palace" belonging to the royal Cavendish Xu Family is not actually a palace, but a palace complex located in the city center. Its own area is about four to six St. Teresa squares. It is not only the residence of the royal family, but also serves as the political center of the kingdom.

Today is the Queen's birthday party, so the main building of Yodel Palace was opened as a banquet venue. In addition to the birthdays of the king and queen, a banquet of this magnitude could only be entertained when the royal delegation of Kasenrick was entertained, or for some important awards.

Shade and Dorothy followed the crowd on the red carpet, through the furnished courtyard and into the foyer of the three-story building.

Although it is an entrance hall, its area is larger than the total area of Shade's house with a basement and three floors.

After the furniture was removed, it was set up to look like a banquet hall.

Today's banquet was held on the first and second floors, except for the long banquet table, the red carpet on the clean floor, the gas lamps and the crystal chandelier overhead, everything here was like is shining.

Gifts can be handed over at the entrance to the banquet hall, and a steward in a wig and monocle, wearing a red coat, leads the servants to take notes at the long table at the entrance. Dorothy told Shade in a low voice that this man was the head of the West Hall of Yodell Palace and one of the palace's stewards.

And when Shade asked her how many stewards were there, Dorothy didn't even know.

"Lescia spent a lot of time remembering everyone's names when she was a child."

Of course, the gift to the queen would not be opened on the spot. , but piled the gift boxes together for the queen to examine herself. Shade handed out his own box. Although the packaging of the box looks good on its own, it is a little ordinary when put together with other gift boxes.

Dorothy, of course, brought a gift too, she chose a silver vanity mirror. It's worth the money, but it's nothing special. Dorothy simply didn't bother to choose, since the queen was impossible to keep all the gifts she gave.

After registering at the door, Shade and Dorothy officially entered the main venue of the banquet.

The specific process of the banquet, Miss Galina has already told Shade. At eight o'clock, the queen will appear and thank the guests for coming, and possibly if King Larousse III is all right.

After 8 o'clock, the courtyard is fully open. People who want to breathe fresh air can go outside for a walk. Bands and performers are also arranged in the courtyard.

At half past nine, the indoor dance officially started, but only on the second floor. If you want to dance, you can go up with your companions.

You can choose to leave after ten o'clock, but at that time, some beautiful fireworks will be set off in the courtyard, which will be enjoyed by people in half the city. The banquet ended at twelve o'clock, but it lasted until one o'clock before those who stayed for various reasons left. So, this night is still a long time, if Shade is not thinking about Darkness, this is actually a rare moment of relaxation for him.

It seems that everyone can find something to do at this banquet, people in small groups gather to whisper the banquet, or with acquaintances before Queen Diana shows up about the Yodell Palace.

A few reporters also received invitations to the banquet. The cameras mounted at the entrance of the banquet hall on the first floor recorded the scene of gold and jade in glorious splendor after the flash went off. That photo represents, I am afraid it can be called the most prosperous scene of this era.

Shade and Dorothy came to the second floor together, and the two stood at the long dining table, while Shade listened to Dorothy introduce the Yodel Palace guards and servants who were walking around.

But even Laccia couldn't recognize everyone here, so Dorothy could only briefly introduce those she had an impression of.

"You and Laccia are both in Yodell Palace now, will you be affected?"

Shade asked in a low voice, looking at the food on the table. Most of Tobesque's aristocratic banquets use self-service food delivery, even the queen's birthday banquet is no exception.

"Don't worry, Lecia is now in the room on the corner of the west corridor on the second floor."

Dorothy answered.

At the beginning of the design of this palace-style building, the foyer on the first floor and the lobby on the second floor were planned as banquet halls. Although the two are quite large, they are not very large compared to the building itself. You know, the main building of Yodell Palace was once the largest palace in the entire old continent.

This record was not surpassed until 20 years ago by the newly built Imperial Family Palace in Carson Rick.

Marquis Grassley, who had given Shade a Lord card invitation in the opera house, found Shade on the second floor at 7:40.

Shade was holding a plate at the time, gazing at the blanched meat that was cooked. The Marquis smiled and informed Shade that the Lord's card game at the banquet would start at 8:30 on the second floor.

He heard that last week Shade used the Devil series Rhodes card to win the [King's Secret Order · Standby] at the Three Cats Hotel in Anthem Square in the lower city, and he was very excited to ask Shade Did you bring these two cards.

“Of course.”

Shade took the cards from his dress pocket and shook them.

"That's good, I heard that there are many people waiting to play Rhodes cards with you at the banquet."

The Marquis reminded in a low voice, while Shade I feel that this "a lot of people" should also include him.

"It's okay, I'm looking forward to seeing more special cards too."

After the excited Marquis Grassley left tonight, Shade wanted to meet Doro again Akane exchanged views on the topic of drinks at the party, but Dorothy, presumably tired of hearing Shade complain that juice was hard to come by, dragged him to meet her friends.

Said to be "friends", but in fact they are just peers. Those people occupied a corner of the sofa area in the southwest corner of the banquet hall on the second floor, and besides the writers, there were also some arty aristocrats chatting with them here.

On approaching, Shade caught sight of the playwright Mr. Procy Newman, whom he had met once at the Opera House after exam week. Because it was the Queen's birthday party, he didn't dress up as a terrifying woman like last time.

But even so, the makeup on the gentleman's face is more feminine, as Shade has never seen this bold pink lipstick color on any man's lips in this day and age.

But Mr. Newman is also surrounded by the most people, a screenwriter who appears to be in his thirties. The "Prince's Revenge" that Shade and Miss Carina went to the opera house to watch a few days ago was adapted from Knight's novel into an opera by him.

"Look, here comes Luyesha."

Probably because of Professor Luyesha, many people here know Dorothy. As an emerging novel theme, detective novels should not have been accepted by peers so quickly, but judging from the way they warmly welcomed Dorothy, the influence of that Professor Luysha may be greater than Shade thought.

"This is the Hamilton of Rejed, the character prototype of the protagonist of my novel."

Dorothy also introduced Shade's identity to her friends, and sure enough, All Tobesque writers who were invited to the banquet knew who Shade was.

There is no one here who refuses to shake hands with Shade Hamilton because of the rumors that "Shade Hamilton can only have his current identity when he is close to the Duchess". And Shade is trying hard to remember who everyone is there, so that the next time they meet on the street, they won't be able to name them.

In addition to the somewhat feminine-looking playwright Procy Newman, the more famous here is the 39-year-old poet Miles, who won the kingdom's highest literary award last year for his poem "Falling Leaves". Mr. Garoff; Ms. Eva Swift, from Kasenrick, living in Tobeysk, hoping for a new inspiration from Delarion, she holds the Baron title of Kasenrick, and is not an inheritance, is Acquired by his own literary achievements; having published thirteen best-selling novels, Mr. Huumann-François, who specializes in adventure and travel fiction, holds the record for the highest number of popular novels published in contemporary Delarion; finally It is the forty-one-year-old prose writer Professor Mulder Goethe, who teaches at the University District of Tobesque and is also employed as the royal literature and grammar teacher at Yodel Palace.

Compared to these guys, Dorothy, whose career has just got a new start because of "Hamilton Detective Tales", is not at all unremarkable.

After Shade and Dorothy took their seats on the sofa, it was Shade who was more popular. People were keen to chat up Shade, talk about his detective career, or have a few words on the Rhodes card.

Then the topic somehow came to the creation of popular novels, and Dorothy had a chance to say a few words at this time, and Shade was dragged into the conversation by Dorothy.

Of course he doesn't know anything about literary creation, but thanks to the many literary works and masterpieces he has read in his hometown, as long as it does not involve the principle details of literary creation and poetry, no matter what he talks about Can say a few words.

After all, you can't write poetry in your hometown exam.

(end of this chapter)