Following the maid through the winding corridor facing the water, Qin Yun arrived at the banquet hall of the palace.
The banquet hall is a banquet place specially used by wealthy families to entertain distinguished guests. When Qin Yun came in, a banquet had already been set up. A group of beautiful singers were dancing in the center of the hall, and musicians were playing sweet songs next to them.
Dance music brings an air of luxury and luxury to your face.
Yan Lingyun was seen sitting on the main seat, and the others were seated on the left and right sides. The pretty maids shuttled around the banquet like butterflies in flowers, delivering food and drinks back and forth, and there was endless laughter and laughter.
Seeing Qin Yun arriving, Yan Lingyun was very surprised and immediately stood up to greet him personally.
The musicians and singers stopped performing and quietly retreated to the corner, and everyone present stood up one after another.
Among them are majestic warriors, gentle scribes, gray-haired old men, and spirited young swordsmen. But no matter who they are, those who can have a place here must not be ordinary people.
Yan Lingyun stepped forward and held Qin Yun's arm, and asked with great concern: "Junior brother, are you out of seclusion so soon? How are you recovering from your injuries?"
Qin Yun smiled and said: "Thank you, senior brother, for your concern. I am no longer seriously injured, thanks to senior brother's elixir."
Yan Lingyun looked at Qin Yun's expression carefully, nodded and said: "It seems that you have gained a lot this time. You must have made a breakthrough in your realm. It is really gratifying!"
Qin Yun had just successfully emerged from seclusion, and his body was full of true energy, and he did not use the breath-holding technique to cover it up. Yan Lingyun was an innate high-level strongman, so he felt the changes in his breath keenly.
Qin Yun chuckled, acquiescing.
The key to his breakthrough is to break through the bottleneck of the third level of the Nine Yang Divine Art. After the Nine Yang Fire Seed is broken and then established, he can accumulate more and stronger Yang Fire Source Power, although he has not been able to advance to the fourth level of innate heaven.
Realm, but the strength has definitely increased a lot.
Continuous improvement and breakthroughs in battle are the secret to many strong people's cultivation and promotion. The test of life and death battle can greatly stimulate the potential of warriors, but the price of failure is too high.
Of course Yan Lingyun understood this truth. He was both happy for Qin Yun and envious of Qin Yun.
The son of a rich man cannot sit down in court. After Tiancheng Jianzong left the mountain and returned to Yanjing, unless he gave up the fight for the throne of the crown prince, it would be impossible for him to experience fighting in person, and he would not even have much time to practice martial arts.
Swordsmanship and realm strength have been difficult to improve from now on.
In Yan Lingyun's heart, he has never forgotten the days when he learned swordsmanship in the Sword Sect. In Qin Yun, he saw the shadow of himself back then. But he would never be able to pursue the supreme martial arts as freely as Qin Yun.
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Thousands of thoughts flashed through the prince's mind, and he was absent-minded for only a short moment. Then he smiled and said: "Let's not talk about it anymore. Junior brother, you are here at the right time. Let me introduce it to you."
Yan Lingyun introduced the people attending the banquet one by one to Qin Yun: "This is Master Luo Chengluo, a great scholar of the time, who is also my mentor. This is Master Lin Kailin, a master guest in my house...
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Qin Yun greeted each other with greetings, and the other party returned the greetings with a smile.
There are not many people here, including Fang Feicheng, there are only eleven people, but they all have their own identities and origins.
Qin Yun's heart was clear. These people should be Yan Lingyun's confidants and aides, and they were Yan Lingyun's team to compete for the crown prince. However, except for Fang Feicheng, they generally did not appear in front of others.
Everyone was very polite to Qin Yun and said words that they had admired for a long time. The atmosphere was harmonious for a while.
"Brother Qi, you are so mean. Why don't you invite me over when you hold a banquet to celebrate?"
Just as Yan Lingyun was finishing the introduction to Qin Yun, a melodious voice suddenly came from outside the door.
Yan Lingyun was stunned at first, then laughed loudly and said: "Jiu Mei, I didn't expect you to come too. It was indeed my negligence! But it's better to be early than to be lucky. You came just in time, and I couldn't even think of inviting you!"
This uninvited guest is none other than Ninth Princess Yan Fangfei!
I saw her walking into the banquet hall with two attendants, pursed her lips and chuckled: "Brother Qi is not honest, you didn't invite me at all, okay? Maybe you are blaming me for coming uninvited and disturbing you!"
Yan Lingyun didn't have the slightest temper towards her younger sister. She raised her hands in surrender and said, "I was wrong. Ninth sister just let me go, seventh brother!"
Yan Fangfei suddenly laughed, causing everyone to laugh too.
Everyone here knows something about this widowed princess. Although it is said that Yan Fangfei has no chance of aspiring to the throne, no one dares to underestimate her due to her ability and the degree of favor she enjoys in front of Emperor Longwu.
In the overt and covert fights among the princes, Yan Fangfei has always maintained an impartial stance. She was able to take the initiative to visit Yan Lingyun, which undoubtedly gave Yan Lingyun a lot of face.
Yan Fangfei's beautiful eyes flickered, she paused for a moment on Qin Yun's face, and said with a smile: "Master Qin, it seems that your injury has recovered. It's really thanks to you that you defeated Iga Feng this time, otherwise I would really have to pay heavy losses."
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Qin Yun cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Princess, you're welcome."
Yan Lingyun smiled and said: "Jiu Mei, junior brother, let's sit down first and talk while eating!"
Of course, the two of them had no objections. After everyone sat down again, Yan Lingyun placed Yan Fangfei in the left seat and Qin Yun in the seat below her. Fang Feicheng still sat in the right seat.
Yan Lingyun clapped her hands, the singers and musicians reentered the stage to perform, and the atmosphere quickly recovered.
Of course, because Yan Fangfei was present, everyone became more polite.
After Yan Fangfei took a brief sip of the wine, she put down her glass and said to Yan Lingyun: "Brother Qi, the main reason I'm here this time is to return your bet and the money you won. Please take a look at it."
A follower behind her respectfully presented a heavy white jade box to Yan Lingyun.
The gambling duel between Qin Yun and Yi Hefeng started because of Yan Lingyun and Yan Chaozong, but Yan Fangfei entered the game and opened the banker. All the bets from both parties were placed in her hands in advance, and now of course they have to be returned to Yan Lingyun.
Yan Lingyun didn't even look at the box. She waved her hand to the attendants next to her to put the box away. She didn't seem to care that it contained a huge fortune worth hundreds of thousands of jade.
He smiled and said to Yan Fangfei: "I'd rather trouble Ninth Sister to send it over in person. Have you not forgotten my junior brother's share?"
Although it was a joke, it also represented Yan Lingyun's concern for Qin Yun's deserved benefits.
Yan Fangfei rolled her eyes at him angrily: "Who do you think I am? Master Qin's share is of course indispensable!"
At her signal, another attendant presented a sandalwood box to Qin Yun.
This box was much larger than the one given to Yan Lingyun. Yan Fangfei opened the lid with her own hands, and the contents inside were immediately displayed in front of Qin Yun. It was a pile of neatly stacked red jade pieces.
Qin Yun is very familiar with these jade stones. They are all fire spirit jade, extremely high quality fire spirit jade!
Next to the fire spirit jade, there is a roll of light yellow paper and a bead that exudes a soft light.
Ice Chi Pearl!
Before the showdown, Qin Yun gave Yan Fangfei three Ice Chi Pearls as a bet, and Yan Fangfei apparently returned one of them as agreed, while she bid for the other two.
Yan Fangfei said slowly: "After my calculations, there are a total of one hundred pieces of top-grade fire jade and fifty pieces of top-grade white jade, which are your deserved share of the bet, and this..."
She picked up the roll of paper and unfolded it, and her fingertips lightly ran across the delicate paper: "This is the deed of Yueyunfang Shop in the name of the twelve girls. I will give it to you as a gift to you, and it will be regarded as two Ice Chi beads.
cost."
One hundred pieces of high-quality fire spirit jade!
Fifty pieces of top quality white spirit jade!
Just the wealth represented by these spiritual jade is enough to make Qin Yun moved. Although he does not know the reputation of Yueyunfang in Yanjing, the fact that it can be exchanged for two Ice Chi Pearls fully proves its value.
This time I really made a lot of money!
Even though Qin Yun didn't care much about foreign objects, he still felt extremely surprised in his heart. You must know that whether it is the top-grade fire jade or the top-grade white jade, they are both rare and rare spiritual objects. Not only can they be exchanged for money, he can also directly
When used, its value to him will definitely be higher than that of others.
He suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but ask: "What about my senior brother's share..."
"Of course it has been converted to him, and he will not suffer any loss!" Yan Fangfei said with a smile: "If you don't believe it, I can have someone send you the account for review."
"That's no need, thank you Your Highness!" Qin Yun shook his head and took the paving deed from Yan Fangfei's hand.
He did not put the shop deed in his arms, but handed it directly to Yan Lingyun: "Brother, I don't know how to run a shop, and I don't have many relatives or friends in Yanjing. I still leave this shop to you!"
"Give it to me?" Yan Lingyun was stunned.
Yan Fangfei smiled and said: "You might as well take care of it for me. I only want 30% of your profit, and I guarantee that you can earn more than 300,000 taels of silver every year. If it's not enough, I will subsidize it for you myself!"
"My seventh brother is good at everything, but he doesn't know how to do business, and he will leave Yanjing soon."
"What!?"
Yan Lingyun, Fang Feicheng and several guests seated below all exclaimed at the same time.
Yan Fangfei stretched out her hand to brush her hair and said with a smile: "I almost forgot about this. Emperor Father summoned me in the afternoon. He asked me to pass on an oral message to summon you and Qin Yun to the palace tomorrow morning after the court meeting!"
Yan Lingyun was speechless. She almost forgot such an important thing.
However, Yan Lingyun immediately understood that Yan Fangfei was definitely joking with him, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
But in his heart, Yan Lingyun was extremely excited. Yan Fangfei's hint was so obvious. If he couldn't hear it, then he really shouldn't try to compete for the position of crown prince.
When he thought that things were developing as he hoped, he was naturally in a good mood. Why would he care about Yan Fangfei? It was too late to be grateful to the other party!
