"Young Master Zhou is a member of the royal family. In formal public occasions, he treats guests with tea as a courtesy, and the guests drink tea in return as a courtesy. Any neglect is a crime of disrespect and an insult to the country's dignity." Qili Anqing
Qing Yaya said, and Zhou Xingyun nodded.
Zhou Xingyun generally understood what Qili'an meant...
In any case, he is the consort and the brother-in-law of the current emperor.
Leaving aside private matters, when receiving guests in public, Zhou Xingyun serving tea to others is equivalent to representing the royal family of a country and receiving guests with courtesy and etiquette.
Although Bai Banxie was not a guest, Zhou Xingyun treated them with courtesy, greeted them warmly, and served them tea. This made Bai Banxie and others have to become "guests" even though they were not guests.
At this time, Zhou Xingyun, as a relative of the emperor, served tea to Bai Banxie and others. If they did not drink it, they would be toasting instead of eating and being fined, openly humiliating the dignity of the royal family, and it was a disrespectful act.
This is like the ruler of a country receiving foreign envoys in public, and rewarding the envoys who came from afar with tea in front of many people. The envoys will accept the cup of tea regardless of emotion or reason.
If he dares not to accept the tea given by the king of a country, wouldn't that be equivalent to humiliating the king of a country in front of many people and not taking their country seriously?
Although Zhou Xingyun is not the king of a country, he is a relative of the emperor. Therefore, Bai Banxie and others must accept this cup of tea.
When Qili'an said this, Zhou Xingyun still had only a partial understanding and did not hear the mystery behind it.
Just take the tea. What’s the big deal if you drink a cup of tea? He didn’t poison the tea, so what’s not to drink?
"The key is who delivers the tea." Looking at Zhou Xingyun's half-comprehensive look, Wei Suyao knew that Zhou Xingyun was not yet enlightened, so she had to remind him one more time: "Have you forgotten even the most basic etiquette?"
"What are you talking about? What does this have to do with etiquette?" Zhou Xingyun was puzzled. Could it be that it was against etiquette for them to serve tea to Bai Banxie?
"Fool, haven't you ever heard of using tea to settle grudges?" Mu Hanxing couldn't help but pull Zhou Xingyun. At first, she thought Zhou Xingyun was so smart that he came up with a way to serve tea, forcing Bai Banxie and others to agree.
Ren Jiechan and the others corrected their evil ways and returned to the right path.
Who knows, Zhou Xingyun didn't realize this at all...
"Ah! So this is what you are referring to! Of course I know! If I didn't know, how could I let them serve tea!" Zhou Xingyun opened his eyes and told lies. Mu Hanxing could only give him a charming look and said he was a genius.
letter.
Zhou Xingyun finally had an epiphany and found that he had missed the mark and inadvertently forced Bai Banxie and others to accept the tea offer of Ren Jiechan and the evil witches.
Serving tea to apologize is an old custom in the world. If a disciple does something wrong, he will offer tea to apologize to the master, and ask the master to drink tea to relieve his anger and forgive the disciple's mistakes.
No... This custom of offering tea to apologize is not limited to Jianghu, but is also common in ordinary people's homes.
No one is a sage, and no one can make mistakes. If you can correct your mistakes, there is no greater good.
Ren Jiechan offered tea to Bai Banxie. In the eyes of people in the world, it was not only a naked provocation, but also meant that she was admitting her mistake by serving tea.
Bai Banxie drank the cup of tea handed over by Ren Jiechan, which was equivalent to forgiving Ren Jiechan and all the evil witches, and letting go of the past.
In the eyes of Isabel and others, Zhou Xingyun's move was so outrageous that no normal person would do such a thing!
Only a despicable person who is extremely shameless and despicable would come up with this method. Why do you say that?
Because Zhou Xingyun's move was tantamount to a naked provocation against Bai Banxie. After the provocation, Bai Banxie still had nothing to do with him. He even had to forgive Ren Jiechan and other evil witches in public, and never hold them accountable for being members of the evil sect in the past.
To use a more vivid metaphor, after Zhou Xingyun slapped Bai Banxie on the left cheek in public, Bai Banxie stretched out his right cheek and slapped him again!
That’s what it really means!
Yesterday, Bai Banxie and others did not trust Jie Chan to correct Zhou Xingyun's evil ways. Today, Zhou Xingyun used the method of offering tea to force Bai Banxie to drink the 'apology tea' handed over by Ren Jiechan.
The dignified elder of the martial arts alliance drank the tea handed by the evil woman. The meaning of this action is clear to the hearts of the righteous warriors. That is to recognize that the other party has changed his evil ways and returned to the right way!
Can Bai Banxie and others not drink?
cannot!
Qi Li'an also explained the reason clearly. Zhou Xingyun is a relative of the emperor. He lowered his status in front of everyone to entertain the elder of the Wulin Alliance. Bai Banxie and others must show dignity to the imperial family!
So here comes the question, what will happen if Bai Banxie and others drink this cup of tea?
That is the new martial arts alliance. We can no longer accuse Chen Jiechan and other women of being members of the evil sect, because Bai Banxie has already drank the tea she served.
From this, we can imagine how uncomfortable Bai Banxie and others felt when facing the tea handed to them by Ren Jiechan.
What was placed in front of them was not tea at all, but gas, gas that explodes at the drop of a lick! If Bai Banxie and others drank the tea handed to them by Ren Jiechan, their stomachs would turn into oil and gas fields, which would make them seventeen years old.
Kong Shengyan!
Lu Shifei, Elder Peng and the other seniors saw Bai Banxie, He Qinghai and others blushing, staring at the tea in front of them, all muttering in their hearts... Zhou Xingyun is indeed a witty little cunning guy, this is so annoying.
The dirty method of paying for one's life is too vicious!
They compared their feelings with each other. If they were Bai Banxie and others, they would probably be so angry that they would be internally injured at this moment.
To put it bluntly, before the two sides started fighting, Bai Banxie and others suffered tons of damage... psychologically and spiritually.
Although Zhou Xingyun, who is as stupid as he is wise, only realized at this moment that his whim of serving tea would make Bai Banxie and others at a loss. But the martial arts warriors present had already noticed the trick Zhou Xingyun had set for Bai Banxie, so that
The scene was deathly silent.
Because the next move by Bai Banxie and others will be a big turning point! Drinking tea means that today's affairs are over.
Even if Bai Banxie and others don't want it to end, it must end!
Since they drank Ren Jiechan's apology tea, they naturally have no reason to continue to ask Zhou Xingyun to ask for the evil witch, or to let him draw a clear line with the evil witch.
Of course, Bai Banxie and others can default on their debts, but since the ten elders of the Wulin Alliance have gone back on their word, it's unclear how much credibility they have left in the eyes of the Jianghu people.
If Bai Banxie and others don't drink this tea, things might get serious and even cause trouble to the current emperor.
This will depend on whether Zhou Xingyun is making a big deal out of a molehill or minimizing a big deal...
However, when the martial arts warriors in the world were thinking about how Bai Banxie and others would choose, Sun Tongtong went ahead and took the tea from Xu Luose's hand as a sign of respect, and drank it down in one gulp very gracefully, soul-stirring, and cleanly.
After finishing the drink, Sun Tongtong proudly stretched out his arms and turned the tea cup upside down, letting everyone witness that he drank every drop.
"Good tea! Thank you for your help, Miss!"
When everyone saw this scene, they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts. This boy was probably dazzled by the beauty...
It turned out that apart from Zhou Xingyun, Sun Tongtong did not discover that there was another mystery in the 'tea ceremony'.
Sun BuTong just wanted to show his heroic spirit in front of Xu Luo se, or in other words, he wanted Xu Luo se to see his courage and courage. Even if Zhou Xingyun poisoned the tea, he would drink it without leaving any drop. Sun BuTong
It actually doesn't matter if she drinks the tea handed to her by Xu Luose. After all, Xu Luose made it very clear that she is a weak woman with no family or any political background.
What went wrong was that after Sun Tongtong drank tea, he came to Zhou Xingyun without thinking and wanted to help Xu Luose redeem himself.
Redemption? Zhou Xingyun looked at Sun Butong in astonishment. This guy with a brain problem actually shouted righteously that he wanted to redeem Xu Luose's body.
Sun Butong believed that Zhou Xingyun used his status as a royal aristocrat to coerce Taifu Xu into selling his granddaughter to him as a maid.
Sun Tongtong even pointed at Zhou Xingyun and shouted: "A wealthy man like you, who is rich in alcohol and meat, has no right to have a gentle woman like Miss Xu! Today I must seek justice, redeem Miss Xu's life, and give her her freedom! I want to
Save her from the power of your sycophant!"
Sun Tongtong directly regarded Zhou Xingyun as a bully who forced good girls into prostitution, and believed that Xu Luose was persecuted by him and had no choice but to commit herself to becoming Zhou Xingyun's maid.
When Sun Butong finished speaking, not to mention Zhou Xingyun, even the surrounding warriors were deceived.
He imposed his own subjective judgment on Zhou Xingyun and Xu Luose, believing that Zhou Xingyun forced Xu Luose to submit, and that Xu Luose had no choice but to become Zhou Xingyun's slave.
Xu Luose was ordered to serve tea, and when Sun Butong was dumbfounded, he thought about many things in his mind, and firmly believed that his subjective analysis was absolutely correct.
Xu Luose is a beautiful, virtuous and good girl. She should marry a handsome man like him and live a happy life from now on.
Now that Xu Luose has become Zhou Xingyun's slave, Zhou Xingyun must have abused his power to bully men and dominate women, forcing her to commit herself to him.
Seeing that Xu Luose had always lowered her eyebrows and did not dare to breathe when she was next to Zhou Xingyun, Sun Butong was even more convinced that she was often ravaged by Zhou Xingyun.
It's a pity that Zhou Xingyun is Xu Luose's master, so she has no choice but to submit and succumb to Zhou Xingyun's lustful power.
But having said that, Xu Luose was originally the beauty that Taifu Xu used to marry the sixteenth son of the emperor. Her weak and submissive temperament made it easy for people to misunderstand that she was forced by Zhou Xingyun.
To sum up, Sun Butong confidently wanted to complain on Xu Luo's behalf, and immediately approached Zhou Xingyun, clamoring to save Xu Luo from the dire straits.
Regardless of whether Zhou Xingyun was willing or not, Sun Butong was determined to redeem Xu Luose's life today.
Because he is righteous!
Because Xu Luose was forced to surrender to Zhou Xingyun.
Because only by helping Xu Luose redeem herself can she escape from Zhou Xingyun's minions and regain her freedom!
Because Xu Luose can only achieve true happiness by following a good man like him!
All in all, Sun Butong had thousands of reasons in his heart that he had to redeem himself for Xu Luose! So he had no choice but to step forward and fight for Xu Luose's happiness!