It was night, and all the streets of Kaiyang City, large and small, were patrolled by brave soldiers of the army, enforcing the curfew.
Nowadays, the whole of Jeju is not peaceful, with Blood Dao martial artists on the prowl, and some of the larger cities are patrolled by soldiers at night, strangling all those who walk at night.
Of course, the Jianghu people generally don’t pay any attention to the orders of the court, and it is common for them to walk at night. But such people could not be blamed on others for being hanged by the soldiers.
Every night, from time to time, people let out their dying screams. These were the last voices of those who were not strong enough.
As for those who had enough strength, they would not have been discovered by the soldiers if they had wanted to walk by night. Since they were not discovered, naturally they were not considered to have broken the curfew.
But tonight, there were people drinking and feasting at a tavern on Baiyun Street in Kaiyang City.
The tavern is an ordinary tavern, and the tables and chairs inside are not expensive, but ordinary yellow pear wood. It is said to be a banquet, but there is no decoration either, just a few plates of small dishes on an ordinary four-sided table, plus three gla*ses of wine.
In general, it could be summed up by the words “ordinary” and “unexceptional”.
“Lord Ning, Lord Qin, come, I’ll drink to you!”
In the tavern, a very bold-looking man, dressed in a flamboyant outfit, raised his gla*s and said.
“Your Majesty is very kind, it’s our turn to toast you.” Ning Wuming lifted his wine cup and said courteously.
It was true that those who were drinking here were Ning Wuming and Qin Xihai, who had come to the dinner party of King Renyi. The big, bold man was naturally King Renyi.
The word “benevolence and righteousness” has a very heavy meaning in the Great Qian. Apart from signifying noble character, the word also represents the two lines of benevolence and righteousness of the Confucian school back then. But it was a name a*sociated with the Confucian school that ended up on the head of a big, brash man.
It is said that a Confucian student once wept bitterly after meeting King Renyi, shouting that his descendants were useless and could not live up to the Dacheng Supreme Master.
Qin Xihai had heard about this in the past, but did not take it seriously and only thought it was a rumour. Until today, she met this Renyi King.
She had to say that King Renyi had turned her imagination upside down. She had thought that this king, who had been staying in Jeju since the late Emperor Bintian, was an ambitious man, but now that she had seen his dignity and style, she felt that calling him ambitious was a bit of a disservice to those who were ambitious.
“What, is Lord Qin not satisfied with the food and drink?” Perhaps seeing Qin Xihai’s hesitation, Renyi Wang Feng Yuan put down his wine cup and said suspiciously.
‘No, I just feel that this wine banquet is a bit out of the ordinary.’ The corners of Qin Xihai’s mouth twitched as she thought.
In her mind, this wine banquet should be at the top floor of the most luxurious Deng Yun Building in Kai Yang City, if not in a luxurious and expensive mansion. But she had never imagined that it would be in an ordinary restaurant.
“The food and drink looks ordinary, but the taste is very delicious.
This is not nonsense, although the pork, boiled cabbage, beef in sauce, and the most ordinary fried peanuts are all ordinary dishes, but the taste is not ordinary at all. Qin Xihai really found it delicious.
“Haha, it’s good to be satisfied, it’s good to be satisfied, so I’m relieved.” King Renyi laughed out loud.
He had always referred to himself as “I”, not “this king”, and did not seem to have the air of a king at all.
“These dishes may look ordinary, but they are actually the result of the chef’s countless efforts, and they can hardly be compared to the delicacies of the sea.”
He picked up a piece of pig’s head and said, “This meat is from a pig that grew up eating a thousand spirit ginseng and drinking green blue liquid. Each of the piglets raised by the Hundred Herb Pavilion with its secret method will cost more than 50,000 taels of spiritual medicine. And their selling price is 150,000 taels per head.
In this plate of pig’s head meat, each piece was taken from the most tender part, and by rough calculation, four Bi Luo pigs had to be used. This dish alone would cost six hundred thousand taels of silver.”
“Your Majesty, am I correct?” Ning Wuming slowly took the pig’s head into his mouth and slowly chewed.
“And this boiled cabbage, the water is pearl liquid and the vegetable is a white jade spirit vegetable that absorbs the medicinal liquid and grows. The beef in sauce, the meat is the flesh of the descendants left behind by the divine cattle of the PeaC*ck Dynasty in the old days. Even this peanut rice is fried with Inferno Light Fire.”
Ning Wuming pointed and pointed, spelling out the names of all these dishes.
“The most precious thing is that the chef who prepares these dishes uses pure true qi to turn the spiritual energy in the dish into every ingredient, making it look like an ordinary dish, even if an expert tasted it himself, he would only think that the taste was extremely beautiful, but would ignore the spiritual energy in it.”
“There is also this seemingly non-existent incense ——”
Ning Wuming suddenly flapped his nose and said, “The ambergris incense produced by the East Sea incense whales is a special supply from the royal family and hard to find for ten thousand gold.”
“Your Majesty, your generosity has been too much for us to bear.”
After the words had fallen, the scene was suddenly silent for a moment before it was broken by loud laughter.
“Haha, is that so? I only asked the people below to pick some good treats for the two divine constables, but I didn’t expect them to create such a big surprise for me. Hahahaha —— I’m a rough man, I don’t even know these doorways, so I’m sorry to bother Lord Ning with the introduction.” King Renyi laughed.
A roughneck?
The breezy Ning Wuming also had a twitch of his face.
If the descendants of the royal family, who have been pa*sed down for thousands of years, are coarse people, then what are we? A peasant in the countryside, or a street beggar who couldn’t read or write?
Ning Wuming didn’t believe that the benevolent king who had helped the late emperor to ascend to the throne would be a coarse person who knew nothing about anything. Even if he was coarse, he should be coarse in a fine sense.
“Your Majesty has over-complimented you.” In the end, Ning Wuming only said indifferently.
King Renyi’s laughter slowly lowered. He looked at Ning Wuming, who was still faintly silent, as if he wanted to see into his heart.
Silence, suddenly, had to descend on this ordinary little restaurant.
But it did not last. King Renyi quickly broke the silence, “Since we are being served a banquet, if we don’t eat, won’t we be letting down the chef? Two divine constables, let’s continue, come, one more toast.”
Naturally, Ning Wuming and Qin Xihai would not refuse, so they also raised their gla*ses and clinked them together.
The three of them ate and drank like this, slowly finishing the four valuable farmhouse dishes and drinking up the extraordinarily good yellow wine.
King Renyi had been drinking heavily and eating large chunks of meat, showing his bold nature.
Ning Wuming, on the other hand, looked indifferent and could not see any enthusiasm.
The seemingly simple banquet ended quickly, after all, the three of them ate non-stop. Ning Wuming took Qin Xihai to say goodbye as soon as the wine and food were finished, ignoring King Renyi’s entreaties at all.
King Renyi, on the other hand, looked a little disappointed, but did not look annoyed.
The banquet started in an unexpected place and ended in an extremely strange way.
