The banquet hall of the Summer Palace is huge in area.
The golden main seat that originally belonged to the prefect on the high platform was temporarily removed, and only eight square tables were placed in the empty space surrounding the huge hall below. The tables were large and heavy, all made of golden nanmu. The palace dishes are decorated with fruits and rare vegetables, which make you happy when you look at them.
Behind the desk are rows of seats. There are no desks in front of the seats. In fact, this array of seats has already taken up the entire hall. If it is full of people, it will look crowded.
By the time Luochuan and his party arrived at the Banquet Hall under the guidance of the Yongchang County palace attendants, the square tables and chairs in the south and north facing the main entrance of the Banquet Hall were already full of people. From west to east were the Cangyan Sword Sect located in Li County, Jinjianmen is located in Guang County, Tingfeng Pavilion is located in the three cities in the southern part of Hanoi County, and Xiaoyao Valley is located in Anyang County.
Hearing the movement behind them, the disciples on the seats of the four major sects turned around one after another. Only the older sect seniors at the front and the four sect masters and masters behind the desk were as steady as a mountain.
The old headmaster of Cangyan Sword Sect closed his eyes and meditated, as if he were a lifeless stone.
The golden-robed headmaster of the Golden Sword Sect put his hands on his knees, leaning forward and staring at the first plaque in the banquet hall, minding his own business.
The middle-aged head of Tingfeng Pavilion wearing light green clothes raised a cup of tea and drank tea as leisurely as if he was just entertaining friends in his sect.
The head fairy of Xiaoyao Valley crossed his hands on his legs and lowered his gaze. A snow-white beast that looked like a rabbit but without long ears or a cat without a long tail lay prone in his arms, looking around curiously, not afraid of the crowd.
Sitting on the square table and chairs facing north and south, only the seat closest to the east and adjacent to Xiaoyao Valley was occupied. The middle-aged man who had stood up from behind the table with a smile on his face after seeing Li Jun and his entourage arrived. The fat man is Meng Jiaoyang, the governor of Yongchang County and the lord of Summer Palace!
"It turns out that the prefect of Li County has arrived! I originally thought that the prefect of Li County was the farthest away from Xingcheng, but unexpectedly he arrived first. This shows how much the prefect, as the main creator of the Annan Conference, attaches great importance to the conference," said the middle-aged fat man Meng While praising loudly, Jiaoyang raised her hand in the direction of Luochuan and guided him to the two desks due north. Then she turned to the palace waiter behind her and said, "Why don't you go and invite the prefect of Li County to take a seat!"
A row of more than a dozen palace waiters trotted up to Luo Chuan and all knelt down in front of Luo Chuan. They walked on their knees and guided them to the north desk, "I respectfully invite the Grand Administrator of Li County to take a seat."
"Everyone, get up." Luo Chuan was a little embarrassed to see such a scene. He waved his sleeves and asked the kneeling palace waiters to get up. But these dozen people dared not really get up, so he looked at the middle-aged fat man and said, "Prefect Meng, Let your people stand up. This is a grand event for the human race and they should not be allowed to do this."
"The prefect of Li County is right," Meng Jiaoyang responded with a smile, then waved her hand and said firmly, "Didn't you hear what the prefect said? Quickly get up and step aside, don't block the way of the prefect!"
All the palace attendants quickly got up and hid aside.
Luo Chuan then walked into the hall with a group of people behind him. He did not go to the seat due north as Meng Jiaoyang directed, but walked directly to the seat in the west and sat down next to the Cangyan Sword Sect.
Qianxue and Yingying sat in the closest seats behind him, Si Qi and Hua Yu stood beside him, and the young female Taoist returned to the Cangyan Sword Sect and sat down in the empty seat in the first row behind the old headmaster.
Naturally, Luo Chuan's actions could not be concealed from the perception of the old headmaster Cangyan. When he sat down, the old headmaster finally opened his eyes and nodded slightly at him with an expressionless face. Luo Chuan sat back upright and bowed.
After Master Cangyan closed his eyes and meditated again, Luo Chuan looked at the masters of the other three sects, then smiled and said with his hands in courtesy, "Seniors of Tingfeng Pavilion, Xiaoyao Valley and Golden Sword Sect, junior Luo Chuan, please be polite. Got it!"
Zhong Shuye, the middle-aged head of Tingfeng Pavilion, smiled and nodded in reply, "The prefect of Li County is young and promising, and he is even more famous when we meet him."
Wan Qingsi, the head fairy of Xiaoyao Valley, raised her head slightly, looked at Luo Chuan's face carefully with her beautiful eyes, then nodded and said, "I have met the prefect of Li County."
Ling Anzi, the golden-robed head of the Golden Sword Sect, didn't say a word. He just glanced sideways at Luo Chuan and waited until the other two people finished speaking before slowly saying, "I once had a relationship with your father Luo Tianen." Due to fate, I thought he had a long life just by looking at his face, but unexpectedly he died young. After hearing this, I originally wanted to go to Li City to have a look, but after thinking about it, I gave up. Now that I see you, it’s okay. He has three points of magnanimity."
Luo Chuan no longer looked at him, but just sat quietly in his seat and picked up a colorful glass cup, looked at it, and said, "Since it's just a one-time relationship, there's no need to mention it again."
The head of the golden robe, Ling Anzi, did not change his posture at all when he heard this. He snorted coldly and was about to say something when he heard the sound of footsteps coming from the palace door behind him again, so he stopped and just looked sideways at Luo Chuan. The colder it gets.
Wan Qingsi, the head fairy of Xiaoyao Valley, looked at Luo Chuan and then at the head of the golden robe. She raised her hand to caress the smooth fur of the pet in her arms. She didn't know what she was thinking.
Zhong Shuye, the middle-aged head of Tingfeng Pavilion, seemed to have not heard the previous conversation between the two and was drinking tea leisurely.
Soon, the owner of the footsteps had arrived near the banquet hall. Before anyone arrived, the voice had already reached everyone's ears, "...What nonsense are you talking about! Although I, Yun Sanshan, have never met Ling An. There are three other masters and masters besides Zhenren, but am I less devoted to the Tao? Being able to see these immortals on the mountain with my own eyes this time, in my opinion, is the greatest significance of the Annan Conference!"
Amidst the obsequious sounds of a series of Yongchang palace waiters, a man in rich clothes swayed into the banquet hall, followed by a beauty in white and a woman in brown robes, and behind him, a group of uniformly dressed black people The man in clothes followed silently.
Roshan didn't care about the looks he got from all around, he waved to the other fat man casually and said, "Brother Jiaoyang, I haven't seen you for a few years, but you are still the same, you haven't changed at all!"
Meng Jiaoyang's eyes cracked with laughter, and she hurriedly smiled and said, "Prefect Yun, you have changed a bit, you are more energetic, which is enviable!"
Yun Sanshan laughed loudly and walked straight around from Li Junfang, twisting his fat body and sitting behind the desk not far from Luo Chuan, "Brother Jiaoyang's words are still so joyful, but now that we are here "Xingcheng, you are the landlord, you don't have to be polite to me," he looked around and said, "The only one missing is Yan Siyu from Anyang County?"
Meng Jiaoyang sat down slowly, but her eyes quietly swept over the beauties sitting alone in the first row behind Roshan, "Yes, they should be there soon."
Yun Sanshan snorted and patted the desk in front of him with his hand, "It's okay to let me, Yun Sanshan, wait. Let the four masters and masters wait here. This Yan Siyu's airs are really a bit... ....too big!"
