The five consecutive banquets were all glamorous on the surface, but actually all kinds of scheming, which really made Lin, a magician born in a wealthy family, feel impatient. Especially the kind of beauty trap that rushes to send aristocratic women.
It's even more like calling someone tired.
Let’s not discuss the issue of whether these women can do it cleanly. Not everyone can eat the sugar-coated bullets and throw them back when they see them. Who can guarantee that there is no poison in the sugar-coated food. Besides, as long as some things are stained,
It's all trouble, why bother yourself.
In these days, the empress had no more trysts with anyone. And no follow-up news about the commander of the Wolf Cavalry Corps who died in the battle at the Summer Palace that day reached the ears of Lin and the others.
This made Lin suspect that the Karlsruhe Empire was very united and knew how to isolate information from outsiders, so it attended the noble banquet for five days in a row without hearing any news. Or maybe the empress had not yet reported that information.
The news of the death of a regiment commander was used to make a fuss?
But on the sixth night, at the banquet hosted by the empress, Lin discovered something unusual again.
The process of the banquets I have attended in the past few days are actually similar. What is more special is that the meals are served in a buffet style, rather than the long table banquet style in other areas. This is another place that is suspected to be a legacy of many predecessors.
However, it is not without its disadvantages. There are usually no chairs to sit on in this way of taking meals. Everyone eats standing and mainly chats. If this is seen in the eyes of some more conservative elderly people in their hometown, they dare to eat standing up and have stains on their foreheads.
Don't be rewarded with a few explosive chestnuts!
The time of chatting and eating is also the time of waiting for the guests to come to the banquet. Some big names, or those who are not in harmony with the host of the banquet, will come later. But who will come and who will not come, and who will come if they come?
, they all get replies when they are invited. Generally speaking, there won’t be much mistakes.
After everyone has gathered, the food and drinks have been decided, and then the host of the banquet will lead the dance. The time for the three court dances is the opportunity for the young men and women at the banquet to show their love to each other. Some people have good feelings, or must show their feelings.
A good couple will also dance together.
The Karlsruhe Empire is not a monogamous system. There are no restrictions on whether you can marry or marry if you have the ability. Excellent people need to have more children. This is the concept of most barbarian tribes. The empire that has absorbed these tribes
, many customs have also been affected.
Therefore, when dancing, except for young people in estrus, whoever the man leads and who the woman follows all have different political interpretations. It can be said that there are rules in every step and each one has deep meaning.
After the three court dances, it was time to rest. Everyone continued to eat, drink, and chat. The three aunts and the sixth aunts were all in full swing, and they started to pull the strings for those who had unmarried children. If a beautiful thing could be achieved, both newlyweds would do it.
Remember the kindness of the introducer. If anything happens in the future, of course, you will help if you can.
If there are three palace dances, people who see each other, or people who already have a crush on each other, not limited to men and women, will also find an empty room to rest temporarily at this time. As for what to do behind closed doors during the break, everyone knows
, I will omit it here. If there are not enough rooms... it is night anyway, just find a dark corridor and it will be done. Some people with lower status do not care about this.
During the break, the music will not stop, and those who want to dance can continue to dance. During this time, most of the time is loose dancing, with people joining and quitting at any time, and the dance forms are relatively inconsistent.
However, there will be no dancing scenes at aristocratic banquets. Everyone has grudges to resolve, so they go out to duel with real swords and guns. Who is dancing? This is a world where beating people to death is as common as eating and drinking.
.
The rest time does not last forever. When it is almost over, the host of the banquet will come out to lead the dance again, and then after two palace dances, the banquet will enter the final stage. Everyone is chatting, eating and drinking, and those who live far away and those with high status also leave one after another.
go.
If a banquet is held in another place, those who live very far away will stay overnight and leave early the next morning. However, since everyone has a mansion in Neuquén Imperial City, there will be no one to stay overnight. At this point, the banquet is over. This is
The usual procedure for the nobility of the Karlsruhe Empire.
[By the way, the best app for reading and listening to books is Yeguo Reading, www. Install the latest version. 】
However, at these banquets, even if they are enemies and small nobles, that's it. For the sake of face, the big nobles will at least send a representative to attend and bring gifts as long as they receive an invitation. If they fail to do this, they will be judged as ignorant by outsiders.
.But no matter what the old and new grudges of these nobles were, the empress was never invited to these banquets.
Or maybe they were invited but no one came? Lin guessed.
But in the green hall, the banquet invited by the empress was a large venue and had the largest number of nobles participating. However, the atmosphere was very different from the banquets held by other nobles a few days ago. The most obvious difference was that there were so many people at the banquet.
There were two thrones. These two chairs were of course prepared for the empress and her husband, that is, His Royal Highness the Prince.
For other noble banquets, a butler must be arranged at the entrance of the mansion to receive the banquet. If a person of high enough status comes, the host must personally greet him.
It is not so convenient in the palace. The Guards are directly lined up in a human wall, from the main entrance of the palace to the green hall. All the nobles who can enter have passed the Guards level, and no one has a higher status than the emperor.
So everyone just do it by yourself.
While they were chatting, eating and drinking, and waiting for the guests, the empress did not show up. Only Prince Thomas walked around the scene and chatted with a few nobles he was friends with. From time to time, of course, some noble women came forward to flirt with her.
Finally, when the dance was about to begin, the empress came to the green hall under the call of a waiter.
St. Alegria wore a violet fluffy dress with gorgeous lace decorations. The silk sleeves were made of purple and embroidered with flowers. Her hair was tied up high, with a delicate flower pinned to it.
Jin Hua has five rows of pearl necklaces on her neck. She puts on a little makeup on her face, shakes her silk fan gently, covers her red lips, and nods to the nobles passing by her one by one.
Under the dress, this posture is a bit more coquettish, unlike the heroic and upright posture a few days ago.
The empress deliberately stopped briefly in front of the divine envoy of the Goddess of Gold Coins, greeted a few words of lukewarm greetings, then walked up to her throne and sat down peacefully. At this time, Prince Thomas also came to the right and sat on the throne.
The back of the chair is shorter than the diamond-encrusted throne next to it.
The banquets held by the royal family have more rules than those held by the nobles. The palace etiquette officer sings the name of each stage one by one with a high-pitched voice, so that everyone can move. Including the following dance stage, even the accompaniment of the band
All are carried out under the roll call of the etiquette officer.
As for this court dance, thanks to the large venue of the Green Hall, all the nobles would lead their eldest wives to dance with them as long as they came in person. If it were another noble banquet, it could also be said that they would lead their beloved wives or lovers.
.But in front of the emperor, it is better to do less things that are not in line with etiquette, so as not to cause trouble.
At the beginning of the dance stage, of course, the empress and her husband led the dance. When the period passed and other people came in to dance, Her Majesty and her husband had already sat back in their seats, put on a slight smile, and watched the dancing under the melodious music.
The crowd danced together.
As the leader of the Gold Coin Goddess Mission, Lin couldn't excuse himself by using the excuse that he couldn't dance. It was the same thing a few days ago. No matter what, he would be assigned to dance alone.
Fortunately, for him now, he can detect the dancing postures of the people around him in real time and then reproduce them on himself. In addition, the speed of dancing is really not fast, which cannot be compared with Azad's battle. With these abilities, he can pretend to be himself.
It's not a big deal to look like you can dance well. It's just that if you do that, you lose the meaning of dancing and it's not fun at all.
The banquet held by the empress was the same. She was also assigned a dance partner. However, this dance partner did not look like she was rushing to see her daughter off a few days ago. As soon as the music ended, she wanted to drag people upstairs.
The partner we dance with today is a little brown-haired girl with a round face, thick pink lips and big brown eyes. She doesn't look too old and has a sweet smile.
The large round neck reveals a piece of white flowers. There is no extra jewelry, but it is better than hanging gold and silver jewelry. The goose yellow dress has fluffy shoulders, and the tight three-quarter sleeves are decorated with lace strips. The skirt is conical.
, the basket under the petticoat holds up the skirt to the left, right and back, and several rows of bows are embroidered on it.
Although someone danced quite mechanically, the little girl in front of him seemed to be enjoying it, jumping and jumping just right.
When the three-piece dance was over, the little girl did not impatiently lead people upstairs like those aristocratic women in the past few days. Instead, she lifted her skirt slightly, bowed her knees and saluted, and then jumped up and down again.
gone.
This behavior made Lin a little confused. Logically speaking, this should be the person arranged by the empress. But he didn't say anything or did anything, just dance?
Looking at the woman sitting on the throne, she maintained a dignified smile from beginning to end. She was surrounded by a group of attendants, some holding wine glasses and jugs, some carrying various dishes, just waiting for a look from Her Majesty the Empress.
, they stepped forward to serve him.
However, most of the time, the empress just sat quietly on the throne, watching a group of nobles playing monkey tricks below, and did not dance with the crowd. She was like a beautiful and beautiful porcelain doll decoration, and also like a foie gras maker.
Like a goose, he is constantly being fed by the people around him.
There were other people who came forward to greet the Empress, but it was just the female students who only said a few simple words. Especially those little nobles who would always roll their eyes at each other, they were even more shy in front of the Empress at this time.
It can be said that the nobles who are willing to be loyal to the empress, in addition to being close ministers of the royal family, are the remaining crooked melons and jujubes picked by the five major factions. To put it bluntly, these people are just waving flags in the political disputes in the Karlsruhe Empire.
Not of much use.
A certain magician carrying the sign of the goddess of gold coins wanted to come forward and greet the empress. But his identity was very popular in the eyes of the nobles, and he was surrounded by circles of nobles who were jealous of the wealth that the goddess had amassed.
Thinking of ways to dig out money from the goddess's kingdom to use.
What he said is nothing more than that the gods have no need for money. The money will not automatically generate small money if placed in the Kingdom of God. It is better to take it out and let them use it. Those with conscience will know that when the time comes, return it with a profit.
To Your Majesty the Goddess; if you are a heartless person, just talk about taking out the money and not mention the repayment part.
It’s just that these people don’t think about it. Does the money that goes into the Goddess’ Kingdom belong to the Goddess? Can it be used at will? It’s just something that others keep!
Someone helplessly continued to practice Tai Chi, which was missing.