After the steward ushered Murong Yunshu and Chu Changge into the banquet hall of the royal residence, he quietly retreated to find King Chu, who had not yet presented himself.
"Your Highness, Chu Changge has secretly brought so people with him. Do you think we should strengthen our guard to avoid......"
"No need." King Chu said, "I invited them for dinner, not for a fight. What's more, it's not yet my turn to deal with them."
The steward was puzzled. "Could it be that you have another high-handed approach, Your Highness......"
"You don't need to bother about this matter." King Chu interrupted the steward and then changed his tone as he asked, "Where's Ziqing?"
The steward reported back, "The Fourth Master is already in the front hall, but it is the Third Master, who has not been seen all day long. I don't know where he has gone to......"
At these words, the corners of King Chu's mouth slightly curved up as he said in an unfathomable manner, "He has his own place to go."
*
Murong Yunshu was busy exchanging pleasantries with the various wealthy rchants and magnates present. Chu Changge, on the other hand, was sitting at the table silently swirling the wine cup in his hand, seemingly in deep thought, but the corner of his eyes never left Murong Yunshu's body.
After about half a stick of incense, the room suddenly fell silent.
King Chu finally arrived.
Chu Changge only paused his hand to raise his eyes slightly to glance at King Chu before withdrawing his gaze and continued to swirl his wine glass.
All pleasantries in the room ceased, and Murong Yunshu returned to her seat. She picked up her cup of tea to sip down a few sips to quench her thirst. "Will the wine taste better after a few swirls?" She asked Chu Changge with a smile.
Chu Changge said, "I'm afraid this wine won't change its taste after a few hundred swirls."
At that mont, King Chu happened to pass by them. When he heard these words, his brow could not help but frown. He glanced at Chu Changge, then without saying a word, he walked to the main seat and picked up a cup of wine. He tilted his head and drank it down, then spit a mouthful of water to the side and sternly scolded, "How can you serve guests with such poor wine? Soone, pour it all out and replace it with ten-year-old wine."
"Yes, yes." The steward imdiately ordered the servants to change all the wine.
Murong Yunshu smiled shallowly. With stars coldly twinkling in her eyes, she looked at her reflection inside the cup. She murmured, "Behind the vermilion gates, at and wine go to waste while out on the road lie the bones of the frozen."
Chu Changge's eyebrows twitched slightly at her words, and then he laughed, "If this wine was given to passers-by, I'm afraid it wouldn't be as simple as freezing to death."
Murong Yunshu heard Chu Changge's off-screen voice and imdiately understood sothing wrong with the wine. So she raised her eyes and looked leisurely at King Chu, only to see that he was smiling, not the slightest bit guilty of being a thief. She could not help but sigh, "This King Chu is quite a character. He knew that you had found sothing wrong with the wine, yet he did not make a sound and destroyed the evidence on the pretext that the wine did not taste good. Sure enough, he knows to keep himself calm in the face of an unwanted event."
Chu Changge said, "In fact, he can feel free to feast on the guests. This wine can't poison since it's only like water to . As for the others, it's best if they die, so I don't have to do it myself."
"Aren't you most concerned with reasons for killing other people? What have they done to offend you?" Murong Yunshu raised an eyebrow.
Chu Changge did not answer imdiately but slowly took a sip of the 'poisonous wine' before he coolly dropped these words, "They're unpleasant to look at."
"......how many people in the Daye Dynasty are pleasant for you to look at?" Murong Yunshu teased him with a smile.
Chu Changge thought for a mont, then answered with a straight face, "Probably just two or three people."
Two or three......how would the Mojiao Sect people endure this kind of words from him? Not to ntion others, the nine people who were standing guard outside the royal residence at this mont alone would be fighting over these precious two or three places with their head broken and blood flowing, right? "Tell the truth, have you tasted it?" Murong Yunshu asked with a smirk and a smug look. [T/N]
Chu Changge was greatly embarrassed by these words that he moved his stiff neck and asked back, "Tasted what?"
Murong Yunshu said, "The sour taste." He didn't think she wouldn't know that he was staring at her like a stalker when she was exchanging pleasantries with those wealthy rchants.
"No." Chu Changge refused to acknowledge.
"Really?"
"Really."
"If you admit it, I'll let you sleep on the bed tonight."
"If you won't let , then I'll also......" His voice stopped abruptly. Chu Changge suddenly realized that her words ant 'if you don't admit it, you won't be allowed to sleep on the bed tonight'. "Madam, you can't keep threatening with this." Chu Changge was powerless.
Murong Yunshu said, "Then tell one other thing that I can use to threaten you."
"......" The focus was on the words 'threat', not what thing to threaten him with! However, Chu Changge didn't plan to play word gas with Murong Yunshu. She was a rchant who was very good at lip service, which made him feel ashad of being inferior. Of course, if it ant another kind of mouth work, that would be a different story.
At this ti, the servants of the royal residence had replaced each dining table with new wine. King Chu stood up with his glass of wine and said with a smile, "Thank you all for being able to give so faces to this Wang and for honouring today's banquet with your presence, especially Miss Murong. This Wang will do the honour first." After saying this, he drank the wine in one go.
"Your Highness is too serious."Murong Yunshu substituted tea for wine.
"Haha, Miss Murong is surprisingly straightforward." When King Chu put down his glass, the dishes on the table were already served. "Everyone, enjoy your al."
None of them moved their chopsticks, and a silence fell over the tables. Suddenly, one of the wealthy rchants asked, "For what reason did Your Highness call all of us today?"
King Chu replied, "Nothing much. Just an invitation to join this Wang for a al."
What obvious nonsense. All present were veterans who had been in the business for decades. They understood that the unaccountably solicitous onealways hid evil intentions. So, none of them moved their chopsticks. No one had an appetite until the matter was made clear. Of course, there were exceptions to everything. Murong Yunshu and Chu Changge were among the exceptions.
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