Chapter four hundred and eighty sixth: salt does not taste, fruity like breastfeeding
As if he could read Ding Xiaoyi's thoughts, Tu Tu warned in a low voice: "Lower your head, if you face the Holy Master directly, you will be entering the eye-gouging hell for two days!"
After hearing Tu Tu's words, Ding Xiaoyi immediately lowered his head again.
Before everyone could get up, the side door on the other side opened, and guards wearing armor were seen advancing into the hall with neat steps.
The leading guard holds two red wooden signs, one with "divine power" written on it and the other with "favor" written on it.
It is different from the empress’ maid’s ritual.
Most of the maids of the empress were holding lanterns, sails, feather fans, and incense burners.
But what these guards were holding were golden melons, bronze tripods, and axes.
I saw the emperor walking slowly from behind. Different from what I had seen before, the emperor had already put on another outfit.
Wearing a beaded jade crown on her head, her eyes were as black as ink jade, shining with a warm brilliance.
The robe as dark as night was embroidered with nine golden dragons from the sea. As he strode forward, the golden dragons on the corners of the robe twisted and flashed with scales, as if they were about to pounce down from above at any moment.
The emperor didn't need a screen. He was sitting on the dragon chair generously, his eyes looking down at everyone, looking down on the world from a high position.
Even if he just raises his palm casually, it seems to have the power to suppress the sky and the universe.
"See Emperor Tianqi Rensheng."
Not only are the rituals different, but even the names are different.
The empress greeted me respectfully, but she didn't call her by her full name.
The Great Emperor not only calls him by his full name, but this time even the old man and the others have to kneel down and worship him.
This time even Tutu stood up and knelt down.
"Isn't it said that the empress is greater than the emperor? But looking at the posture, it seems that the emperor is more majestic?"
Tu Tu did not speak, but Liao Qiu understood this very well, but he knew that Ding Xiaoyi did not understand these rules of Netherworld, so he simply translated them into vernacular and gave a simple metaphor.
"It's different. The empress is the chairman of the board, but she is a hands-off shopkeeper. The emperor is the highest executive officer, and the entire Netherworld official position is appointed by him. He is our direct person in charge, and his life and death are all in the hands of the emperor.
Furthermore, the empress is a guest today, and the guest follows the host as he pleases. It is too formal, and it is easy to overshadow the guest. If it were the reincarnation palace of the empress, the emperor would be the same, and he would not be called by his full title."
"oh oh!"
He nodded and glanced at the aloof emperor again from the corner of his eye.
I feel that the Emperor looked better when I first met him. Although the Emperor now is majestic and solemn, he has an air of inhuman indifference and unattainability inside and out.
"Get up! Today's Qingming Festival is also a grand ceremony, but..."
The emperor paused for a moment and turned his eyes towards Bai Pangpang, causing cold sweat to break out on Bai Pangpang's forehead.
I thought that the emperor would not expose himself at this time.
Fortunately, the emperor changed his words: "It's just that something has gone wrong with the Paradise Tree recently. It may not bear fruit for a long time in the future. This is good, and it will save everyone's trouble..."
"There's something wrong with the Bliss Tree!"
Everyone was shocked. The Bliss Tree is a sacred tree in Youshan Mountain. It is said that the roots run through Youshan Mountain and are the network of all the forests in Youshan Mountain.
The vegetation on Youshan can thrive precisely because of the Bliss Tree, which provides a steady stream of vitality to the vegetation on Youshan.
If there is a problem with the Paradise Tree, there may be a problem with Youshan in the future.
At a time when everyone is worried about the future of Youshan.
The emperor smiled knowingly, did not say any more, and waved his hand to signal the fruit feast to begin.
The attendants who had been prepared long ago came in from outside the palace and presented various exotic fruits to everyone's tables.
In fact, this is not the first time for everyone to participate in the fruit banquet.
However, the specifications of this year's fruit banquet are a bit... shabby.
The old man picked up a fruit with his fingers. It was a unique spirit lantern fruit in the Netherworld. The core inside shone with fluorescence, like a lantern at night.
In previous years, the Ling Deng Fruit was at least as big as a human head.
Placed on the table, it looks like four bright lights.
Regardless of this, the other fruits are even more crooked, and their quality is far from the previous years' fruit fair specifications.
Bai Pangpang picked up a fruit and chewed it slowly, as if the fruit in his hand was a ginseng fruit.
When the ghost king saw this, he picked up a fruit and put it in his mouth.
As a result, after taking one bite, Ghost King Yaoji's face suddenly froze. When he looked around, he saw that Bai Pangpang had already eaten all the fruit in his hand.
He was rubbing his hands and holding the hairy fruit in his hands.
"Hey, look at what I'm doing, eating."
Ghost King Yaoji's eyes widened, and he stuffed the fruit into his mouth coldly, but every time he took a bite, his hand under the table squeezed tightly on his thigh.
Looking at Bai Pangpang, his expression became colder and colder.
"Don't look at me with such murderous intent. I don't owe you money."
Bai Pangpang looked puzzled, and then suddenly understood something: "Oh, so you want to eat the fruit from my hand, here you go!"
As he said that, with the angry eyes of Zongji, he put the hairy fruit on his hand on his plate.
"Come on, please please..."
The bad old man on the other side picked up his wine glass and toasted his enemy Xuehe.
Then he said with a distressed look on his face: "Brother Xuehe, you are already so old and your teeth must be in bad shape. Come on, come on, eat more of this golden soft fragrance!"
As he said this, Old Man Zao put the blackened and soft fruit on the plate into Xuehe's plate.
Xue He's eyes widened and he looked at the bad old man, ready to chop him with a knife.
He snorted coldly: "You're too polite, brother, but looking at your face, I can see that you have been working hard day and night, and you are getting sick. Take this bunch of grapes, so don't be polite!"
The so-called tree grapes are each about the size of a baby's fist. They are delicious and sweet. After eating, they can regulate the five qi and bring good luck to people.
Of course, the effect is by no means as miraculous as the Wufu Pig.
It's just that the bunch of grapes in Blood River were obviously picked too early.
Each one was no bigger than the size of a fingernail, just like an unripe apple. The old man took a bite and it was sour and astringent. Swallowing it down his throat was like swallowing a knife.
It's so unpalatable that it makes me cry.
"Fengdu, why are you crying?"
The emperor, who was sitting on the dragon chair, looked at the old man with squinted eyes, and his face suddenly darkened: "Why, do you think my fruit is not delicious?"
After hearing this, the bad old man took three mouthfuls in a row and completely ate all the fruit on his hand before he started to explain.
"I was just moved. I don't know when, but my sense of taste became worse and worse as I got older. I even ate salt without knowing its taste.
It wasn't until I ate the fairy fruit given by the Great Emperor that I realized what sweetness, sourness, and springs under the tongue were.
It feels like I have returned to my childhood and tasted the first sip of semen. I am so grateful that I am grateful to the emperor for his kindness..."
A group of people in the distance heard the bad old man flattering him, and they felt very angry even for the old thief.
"Flattery!"
"shameless!"
"Haha, what a shameless ghost!"
All kinds of curses echoed in everyone's heart. They just wanted to mess up the old man and flatter him. After he said this, who would dare to say that the fruit was not delicious?
All of a sudden, the tables were next to each other, caring and greeting each other, being humble and courteous, and the atmosphere of the meeting suddenly became extremely harmonious.
"You two, don't sit still and eat!"
Tu Tu grabbed Ding Xiaoyi and Liao Qiu and pushed them to the table.
Looking at the table full of fruits, Ding Xiaoyi glanced around and found that the scene was so harmonious and respectable, but beneath the respectability, there was also murderous intent.
It seems that what you are handing is not fruit, but revenge for killing a relative.
The funniest thing was when he saw Po Meng sitting with a man.
The man has a good appearance, but his behavior is very girly. He holds his fingers in his hand and even his voice sounds girly.
He didn't even eat the fruit, but kept selling his cosmetics around Po Meng.
What kind of eye cream is it? It’s a magical skin care product. If you don’t know, you’d think the person sitting next to you is a certain micro-business agent.
Po Meng's head was blown by what he was talking about, so she picked up the fruit and put it in her mouth. After taking a sip, her face was blank at first, and then she saw the muscles on her face tightened, and she just rolled her eyes.
Seeing this scene, Ding Xiaoyi almost burst out laughing while hiding behind him.
Anyone who can sit in the main hall is certainly not stupid. At this time, he suddenly understood why the emperor had to first talk about the problem with the [Bliss Fruit Tree] when he opened his mouth.
Feelings shift responsibility in advance.
When Ding Xiaoyi saw someone's face turn dark green after eating two fruits, Ding Xiaoyi's face turned dark.
Who dares to eat this? Big men like them will look like this when they eat it. If they eat it themselves, they will not eat themselves to death.
Liao Qiu grimaced, picked up a grape-sized fruit, and carefully placed it in his mouth. As a result, the muscles on his face almost became distorted. He had to swallow three sips of water before he could eat the fruit.
"Xiao Yi, I'll give you one billion, so you can take care of this table of fruits!"
After eating only one, Liao Qiu shouted that she couldn't stand it anymore and looked at Ding Xiaoyi with hopeful eyes.
"Come on, I won't pretend anymore. I'm showing off my cards. I'm the second generation of rich people. My grandfather still has dozens of big boxes of money deposited for me in the Tiandi Bank."
He sternly refused and said, "Don't let me take the blame. If you eat like this, I might really die if you eat it."
Fortunately, I didn't come alone.
Don't forget, there are meat balls too.
Wake up Meatball quietly and put a fruit into Meatball's mouth.
For a creature like the iron mayfly, which can be eaten and stored, if these fruits fall into its mouth, who knows whether it eats them or hides them in its belly.
After seeing his effort, he destroyed a few fruits quietly.
The look on Tutu's face suddenly became relaxed.
When I looked around, I saw these enemies on the table, all gnashing their teeth, but still trying to show humility and happiness. Their expressions were even more ferocious than those little devils in the Hall of Hell.
I couldn't help but have a cold war in my heart.
I don’t know if the emperor did this intentionally to trouble them.
"Ahem!"
At this moment, it seemed that the atmosphere below was too harmonious. The emperor coughed twice and said, "Since you like eating so much, please bring ten pounds each back later."
Everyone almost trembled when they heard this. Ten pounds, is this going to be used as arsenic?
But even though their stomachs were churning, everyone could only show flattered expressions on their faces, and stood up one after another to thank the emperor.
"That's almost it. It's time for the Paradise Fruit!"
At this time, the empress's impatient voice came from behind the screen, which made everyone feel deeply moved, thinking that the empress understood them.
Being urged by the empress, the Emperor's face became a little ugly.
But it looks like he is suppressing it so that he can’t have an attack.
When everyone below saw this, they couldn't help but secretly say: "Sure enough, the rumors are true. It seems that the empress and the emperor really had a quarrel."
For a while, the hall gradually became quiet. Even Old Man Zao, the old guy who was known as the emperor's flatterer, lowered his head and nibbled on the fruit in small mouths.
At this moment, I heard a group of people walking in outside the door.
It turns out that in addition to the bigwigs from all over the world coming to attend the Fruit Festival, the descendants they brought also came to take the opportunity to pay homage to the Emperor and seek good luck.
Originally, this was a small gap that would be arranged until the end of the fruit and vegetable meeting to increase the atmosphere.
I was just in charge of the fruit meeting. Seeing that the atmosphere had cooled down, I hurriedly moved this session forward.
I saw a group of people walking towards them, led by a young man about the same age as Ding Xiaoyi.
"Huh!!"
As soon as the young man appeared, he attracted everyone's attention.
The most surprised person was none other than Ding Xiaoyi.
His eyes were attracted by the young man. After his eyes were fixed on the other person's every move, he couldn't help but feel a surge of waves in his heart.
The young man is indeed very unique, with cicada eyes, willow-leaf eyebrows, a tall nose, and dazzling purple hair.
But what shocked me was not the young man's appearance, but the fact that this guy was actually a living person.
"Great Emperor, this is my new disciple Song Xingxue, and he is also my last disciple."
Ghost King Yaoji, who was sitting next to Bai Pangpang, stood up and introduced himself to the emperor.
"Songxingxue pays homage to Emperor Qi Rensheng of Dongyue Tianqi in Mount Tai."
As he said this, he saw the other party prostrate on the ground, bowing to the ground.
Not to mention anything else, this courtesy alone was so perfect that everyone nodded.
"You are a good boy, I will reward you!"
The emperor threw his hand, and a fruit fell right in front of Song Xingxue. When everyone saw it, it turned out to be a fruit of bliss.
Looking at Song Xingxue for a moment, I couldn't help but feel envious.
Only after Song Xingxue knelt down and kowtowed his thanks did he stand firmly behind Ghost King Zongjie.
"Xiao Yi, your competitor is here!"
Liao Qiu looked at the other person with squinted eyes. Although there was nothing wrong with the other person's words and deeds, Liao Qiu felt very unhappy no matter how he looked at him.
After listening to Liao Qiu's words, Ding Xiaoyi frowned slightly.
There is a very unpleasant feeling.
It's like playing a game. You find a Feng Shui treasure land that spawns monsters quickly and has a high explosion rate. You could have monopolized it by yourself.
But later I discovered that someone had also discovered this place.
Suddenly, it is inevitable that a feeling of being violated will arise in my heart.
Soon, several waves of people came to the palace one after another, all of them descendants of various big bosses.
If he met someone the Emperor liked, he would casually reward him with a piece of Paradise Fruit.
In the blink of an eye, five bliss fruits were given out one after another.
"Disciple of Po Meng and the surviving daughter of the Chai family, Chai Rong would like to send your regards to the Emperor!"
When everyone heard the sound and took a look, they saw a woman walking into the hall, bending her body and raising her hands to the emperor and said, "Hail, emperor."
"Whose girl is this? She's so beautiful!" Everyone focused on Chai Rong, their eyes lit up, and they cast envious glances at Po Meng.
I saw that Chai Rong was still wearing the Dian Cui she had given her, but she had put on a brand new set of clothes, which made her look more calm, generous and pleasing to the eye.
"What a wonderful seedling!"
The man sitting next to Po Meng bumped Po Meng's shoulder with his elbow: "If you don't count me, I happen to be short of an apprentice."
"Get out!" Po Meng's face darkened, and she almost took out her crutch and beat him.
The emperor, who was sitting on the dragon chair, looked up and down through the bead curtain, and then glanced at Ding Xiaoyi in the corner. He knew what happened to Chai Rong clearly in his heart.
Speaking of which, the reason why I was able to pay off this bad debt had something to do with me.
Thinking about her unintentional actions back then, Chai Rong didn't want to let Chai Rong, who was trapped in this fate, finally get out of the trap.
The emperor's mood suddenly became happy: "Okay, okay, Po Meng has accepted a good apprentice this time."
After saying that, he took out two more [Bliss Fruits] from his sleeves and gave them to Chai Rong.
This is already the seventh fruit given away.
And giving away two at a time will inevitably make everyone feel envious.
Chai Rong took the Paradise Fruit and knelt down to the Emperor again before standing behind Po Meng. When she saw Ding Xiaoyi sitting in the corner, her face suddenly turned red.
He lowered his head for a moment, not daring to look at him again.
But thinking about it, if Mrs. Meng hadn't been staring at her from the side, Chai Rong would have already run up and gave Ding Xiaoyi one of the Paradise Fruits in her hand.
"The son of Zhou Jue Yin Tian Palace, Zhou Yi wishes the great emperor a long life and good fortune..."
At this time, outside the main hall, a man was seen walking into the main hall with brisk steps, chest held high and head held high.
But the moment he stepped into the hall, everyone's eyes were focused on him. No, to be precise, it was the loose robe on Zhou Yi.