Chapter 69 Noble (3)

At seven o'clock in the night, the fourth district of Aslan Star City, North Yellow Road Street, was brilliantly lit.

Jiang Jianming got off the self-service rental aircraft, took away the 78 points of the ride fee, and watched the aircraft slowly fly back to the high-speed air road above.

Looking around, the red, yellow, blue and green taillights of the aircraft pulled out afterimages, which overwhelmed the stars farther away.

The black-haired young man stood by the roadside, his slightly pale cheeks were swept by all kinds of lights, but it was brought out a kind of unique atmosphere of loneliness.

After a long time, Jiang Jianming sighed helplessly, and in the winter night, a small cloud of white mist was released, and his gloved hands were inserted into his coat pockets.

... In order to coax his dear Highness Garcia, he was originally scheduled to arrive at the dinner party half an hour early, but he was a full hour late. How could this happen?

Even worse, he actually agreed.

As the saying goes, the beginning of everything is difficult. His Royal Highness retreated from the first step, and the rest became very smooth.

At that time, seeing Jiang Jianming on the opposite side of the projection showing embarrassment, Garcia immediately explained in a low voice: "It was the leader who asked me to go to the empire."

...inherited the crown prince.

He said, "I want to go too."

...to find you.

In the end, Garcia almost put his face on the projection screen: "Where is it? You have no reason to hide your whereabouts, unless Lieutenant Jiang is doing something shameful."

Jiang Jianming did not agree with Garcia sticking to himself like this. Since His Royal Highness has reached an agreement with the leader to return to the empire, there must be a lot of business to do.

He should go to the White Jade Palace first, go to the military headquarters, and then reveal his identity, reveal his identity... In short, he shouldn't sneak over to find a crippled civilian first.

The two repeatedly grinded for an hour, and finally ended in the defeat of Lieutenant Jiang.

——He couldn't resist this man's sullen stalking and that lethal face.

Forget it, little thing.

It's no big deal to meet first.

Jiang Jianming thought to himself with relief, he walked to the end of North Yellow Road Street, and sent the coordinates of a remote place outside Kaios Military Academy and the estimated end time of the dinner.

"We meet here. There should be a public wooden chair there, under the shade of a tree. Please wear a mask, sit there and wait for me, and don't run around."

Why so skilled? Of course, it is the experience of many underground romances with His Royal Highness Lean three years ago...

Jiang Jianming smiled and put away his wrist phone, looked up, and Guanghua caught his eye.

On the northernmost side of Beihuangdao Street, there is a huge mansion in front of Jiang Jianming.

The style is retro European style, with rich decorations and majestic marble statues on the lawn, and night lights are reflected in the fountain. The music loomed from inside the castle-like building.

On the side of the road, high-end and expensive private aircraft continued to land, and men and women in dresses were gracefully stepping off the aircraft and heading towards this splendidly lit mansion.

When everyone passed by Jiang Jianming, they would cast strange and funny glances at him, as if they were watching a monkey intruding into a human banquet.

"..."

Jiang Jianming suddenly realized that something was wrong.

clothing. In the Empire, to attend the banquets of nobles, you need to wear a formal dress and full make-up to attend.

As soon as he was interrupted by Garcia, he forgot about it, and came directly wearing the clothes he used to go out every day, which was inappropriate.

It was already late anyway, Jiang Jianming turned around and did not go directly into the mansion, but chose a dress shop on Beihuangdao Street.

He pushed open the door and went in, the wind chimes on the door jingled.

The enthusiastic salesperson girl inside is actively introducing a dark blue dress with more than 300,000 yuan to the guests.

The female guests covered their lips and smiled, surprised at the affordable price.

Jiang Jianming was thinking of quitting.

After hesitating for two seconds, he walked in.

"Feel sorry."

When the guests in front dispersed, he stepped forward and asked the salesman, "I want to know the price of the cheapest dress in your family."

"??" The little girl was stunned, the ribbons wrapped in her hands were all tied crookedly.

She had obviously never seen a guest who asked such a pitiful question and asked such a frank and unashamed question.

Jiang Jianming looked mild and patiently repeated: "May I ask the price of the cheapest dress in your family?"

"Ah...please, please wait a moment."

Jiang Jianming's attitude was too serious, and the little girl was led away by him in a daze, and really used the wrist phone to check the price of the complete set of dresses in his store.

Soon, she held out a simple gray dress with a shirt, coat, cape, bow tie, trousers and leather shoes plus a few matching accessories.

"Look at this, the brand is Yanisa, um... Although their styles don't have any special highlights, they are simple and elegant, and you can wear them on any occasion. The color is calm and it suits you very well. The scent."

The saleswoman, who gradually regained her professionalism, said, "And we are offering a 20% discount for the year-end clearance. If you buy it, we will give you a small bottle of Yanisa's own men's perfume, which is very cost-effective."

The little girl smiled sincerely: "It's really cost-effective, it only takes less than 50,000 coin points to complete a set."

...

Inside the mansion, the banquet had already started for more than an hour.

The elegant and restrained voices of conversation and laughter flow along with the music. The red tape, favored by the old aristocracy, is over, with knives and forks colliding on plates, food being cut, and raised wine glasses reflecting under chandeliers.

A full three long tables covered with white tablecloths were lined up, but the seats were not full.

Occasionally, someone would leave the table and walk to the side of the Excellency they want to please, smile and bend over, toast and talk; some people are already satisfied, holding a glass of wine and sitting in the distance with their friends.

In any case, everyone is elegant, and every inch of the corner exudes an air of drunkenness.

This is a dinner party for the Lance family, so naturally it should be a big fan of money.

Lance is a special family in the empire. They are considered old nobles according to their titles, but they were born in the Glorious Dominion, and they are considered to be of the same origin as the Empress Dowager Sylph. The most prominent sign is a natural silver hair color, known as "Silver Lance."

Because of this, this family can be said to be half a royal family. It has taken over 60% of the arms and energy trade between the imperial power and the glorious dominion. God knows how many military items and prohibited new crystal weapons have been touched in private.

In short, a behemoth with a long history and strong strength.

Now the overly young head of the Lance family, Master Audrey Lance, was sitting on the top seat holding a goblet filled with red wine.

He has neat short silver-white hair, a handsome and beautiful face, and is wearing a delicate silver-gray dress and silk gloves.

People kept coming up to talk to him, and everyone had a prominent position, and they were all supporters of Audrey Lance in this "Prince Contest".

But Audley's expression hardly changed... He always maintained an indifferent smile, raised a glass to everyone who came forward, and bestowed basic courtesy.

……too young. Countless nobles who watched from afar sighed in their hearts, and cast their complex eyes on this distinguished young man.

Six years ago, Mr. Audley's parents were killed at the same time. I thought that the prominent Lance family would be devastated. I didn't expect this young man, who was only 19 years old at the time, to support the huge Lance by himself. family.

Even, depending on the unpredictable mood of His Majesty the Emperor, he has a great possibility to go further and sit directly in the most honorable seat of that empire.

In contrast to this...

In the other corner of the banquet, Audrey Lance's younger sister, Diana Lance lowered her head shyly, sitting in a corner away from the dining table.

She grabbed the skirt of her dress and twisted uneasily. The fluffy and slightly curly silver-white long hair reaches her waist, and a pair of extremely light blue-gray eyes are like a pair of glass beads. The girl's temperament is weak and timid, and she is completely an ignorant doll.

The young lady of the Lance family, the real sister of the family head, no matter how much she hides, it won't help.

Soon, several middle-aged men came forward to salute her with smiles on their faces.

One of them raised his glass and began to sing the praises: "Dear Miss Diana, you are still as beautiful as a white hibiscus today..."

Before the other party's flattery was finished, Diana shivered, and her eyes immediately turned red.

"Do not……"

She cried and hid behind the housekeeper beside her, shrank herself into a small ball, and used the trembling all over her body to exude the meaning of "I'm so scared", "I'm so scared", "I'm just a doll, don't talk to me" .

Middle-aged nobles: "..."

The housekeeper was accustomed to it, and stood in front of Diana like a big hen protecting her cubs, and said solemnly: "Your Excellency, Miss Diana likes to be quiet and doesn't like to see strangers. Please don't disturb her."

Some of the nobles who were watching from a distance snickered, and the few people who came up to him were ignorant.

The brothers and sisters of the Lance family, the elder brother is a young, mature and talented new human elite; while the younger sister is a weak and shy, crippled human Dodder who knows nothing about family affairs.

Audley is also a terminally ill sister-controller, which has caused Miss Diana to be cared for since she was a child, and she is naive enough.

But after all... the latter is a weak and sickly disabled human. In the circle of the upper-class nobles, it is not uncommon for disabled people to be raised as delicate glass dolls.

In the corner, Diana grabbed the butler's arm and said tearfully, "Horn, when will brother come?"

Under the light, she had snow-white hair, and she bit her lower lip pitifully: "I don't like banquets... There are so many people, I seem to be out of breath, I want to go back to the house."

"As for being so squeamish?"

Not far away, Beimaner couldn't help frowning and muttering.

"Maner, why are you talking nonsense?"

Beside her, Beimaner's father frowned and said to his daughter, "How did you promise your father the day before yesterday, didn't you agree to pay attention to etiquette in the future?"

"Besides, Miss Diana is an amorphous race. The mental state of the amorphous race is much weaker than ours. It is only natural that they need more care... What are you laughing at?"

Beimaner held back the smile at the corner of her mouth, and quickly waved her hand to indicate that it was all right.

——She just remembered a certain Amorphous person with a "fragile mental state" who drove an M-IP 18 to kill red caterpillars, and refused to return to the Empire until he coughed up blood in the distant stars.

During this period of time, with the efforts of the Protection Association, the term "Amorphous Race" has gradually become popular in Aslan Star City.

However, for the time being, only when facing the disabled human nobles, the title will change and become a crystalless noble.

The handicapped poor, it seems, are still handicapped poor.

"Pfft."

At the dining table near the door, a few young nobles suddenly laughed.

"Oh my God, I'm not dreaming..."

"How did this guy get in here?"

Looking along the eyes of these people, saw a figure walking in from the door.

The black-haired young man calmly stepped into the brightly lit aristocratic banquet hall.

He seemed to have stayed on the streets of the winter night for a while, and he carried a clear chill around him, which actually sank the atmosphere of the extravagant dinner party by three points.

If it was on an ordinary occasion, people would definitely stop to pay attention to the unique temperament of this young man, and even be amazed. But here and now...

The noble lady covered her red lips and snickered, and the noble boy shook his shoulders to hold back the smile.

Their parents can still maintain a serious face, but there is a deep contempt in their eyes——

These can still be held back. As for those who can't hold back, they have long ago spat out the fine wine they just drank in their mouths with laughter.

because of clothes.

The imperial dress system is very different from everyday clothes. Even if the visitors are actually wearing prudent and elegant clothes, they are still out of place among a group of glittering nobles.

How could anyone attend a banquet without a dress?

Moreover, not to mention that there is no makeup for attending the banquet, and even the jewelry is not the same!

How could such a ridiculous scene happen at the Lance family's banquet, what did the doorman eat?

Horn, the big butler of Lance's house, saw this scene at the door from a distance, and his eyes were about to fall out of anger on the spot.

He didn't dare to tell Miss Diana, who was shivering, to shove off the bathroom, turned around and rushed to the door outside the hall.

The winter wind was still whizzing outside the door, and the big butler Horn was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and forced several guards: "What's the matter? That commoner who can't even wear a formal dress... Who let the person in and took the initiative to stand up? come out!"

A doorman was sweating: "Master Steward, but this guest...he, he does have an invitation."

Another doorman grimaced: "Yes, we initially thought he was either going the wrong way or making trouble out of nowhere, but he showed us an electronic invitation card using his wrist phone."

Horn was shocked: "Electronic invitations!?"

It's better if you don't listen to this. After hearing this, the big butler immediately broke into a sweat.

Their invitations are all retro paper, and electronic invitations are invitations that only the owner of the house has the authority to send, and are generally used to grant authority to the big people who are temporarily present...

Horn looked back at the hall in shock and suspicion, and swallowed. saw that the young man in simple clothes walked in facing the sight from all directions, and his steps were not disordered at all.

The more the big housekeeper looked at it, the more his heart skipped a beat: Could it be that this person is really not an ordinary person?

...

In the banquet room, Jiang Jianming's expression was as usual. The heating in the room was sufficient, so he took off the long black padded coat he was wearing and put it in the crook of his arms, and raised his eyebrows to meet a circle of eyes with different emotions.

He knew he was being rude.

He is thrifty, but he doesn't understand the rules at all, and he doesn't intend to pretend to be vulgar or crazy.

On the contrary, after all, he was someone who almost became a crown princess, and he actually had a deep understanding of these upper-level etiquette.

As long as he has more money on hand, as long as there are fewer difficulties and obstacles in the future, he does not want to be so embarrassing.

But 50,000 points, I'm sorry.

With this money, he doesn't buy himself a sedative, or a new box of crystal bullets?

He also wanted to save money to buy a new, more powerful crystal mechanical thermal weapon, and even buy another private folding mecha. He also needs to buy a lot of medicines and replenish the energy of the treatment cabin many times...

Not enough, not enough, coins will never be enough for him, because he is the only disabled human being in Yin Beidou.

For him, a little more money is a little more guarantee of survival, and a little more hope of finding the truth.

Compared to this, what is shame?

Jiang Jianming glanced at the layout of the hall casually, and immediately understood the rules of the seat.

The seats are arranged according to the seniority. The three long white dining tables placed horizontally are divided into three different classes.

Then each table is divided again and arranged according to the right and left.

He came to find the "brother and sister" of the Lance family, and was not very interested in participating in the entertainment of these nobles, so he casually picked a remote seat at the most "low-level" dining table and sat down.

The knife and fork in front of him were brand new on the napkin, Jiang Jianming slightly rolled up his cuffs and picked it up calmly.

The whispering around is bigger, and it has surpassed the level of "whispering".

The gazes of almost everyone at this dining table—whether they were malicious and sarcastic, or simply curious and surprised, or more of watching the fun—at this moment were pinned to him like needles.

But in Jiang Jianming's mind, that was not important.

Now, he can enjoy a free dinner.

The author has something to say: the former crown princess came to the Lance family head (wrong)

The poorest lieutenant of Yin Beidou came to eat dinner (yes)

Actually, Lieutenant Jiang is not that poor. He just needs to save money because of his constitution.