Chapter 54: King Jing's Mansion Attends a Banquet (Part 2)

As soon as King Jing finished speaking, Qiao Songyu opened his eyes wide in doubt, and asked, "Isn't the prince joking?"

"Of course not." King Jing said, with a smug smile on his lips, he slapped his hands twice, and saw a maid handing over a plate carefully. King Jing raised his face at the maid and said, "Come on, let Mr. Qiao San uncover it for himself."

Qiao Songyu habitually looked towards Pei Rongbai, and saw a smile on his face, but there was no trace of a smile in those eyes, just looking at him coldly, he subconsciously felt that Pei Rongbai was extremely unhappy that King Jing gave him somethingYes, but the more unhappy he is, the more he will do it!Therefore, he turned his face away, pretending not to understand Pei Rongbai's meaning, and then stretched out his hand to remove the brocade cloth covering the plate——

I saw a luminous pearl the size of an egg placed firmly on a gilded shelf. The luminous pearl was white as a whole, the color of suet white jade, like a huge jade ball.There is no difference between ordinary night pearls.

"Come here, close the door and seal the window." King Jing said, the servants outside immediately closed the door and sealed the window with a black cloth. In an instant, the flower hall was plunged into darkness.

Qiao Songyu froze for a moment, looked at the luminous pearl suspiciously, and was surprised to find that the luminous pearl was completely different from just now. In a moment of darkness, the luminous pearl seemed to become transparent, the whole bead became transparent.There seemed to be a shadow in the bead, floating in the middle, showing three characters, and these three characters happened to be "Qiao Songyu"!

Even the well-informed Mu Qianyun was stunned for a moment.

"How is it?" King Jing asked Qiao Songyu triumphantly, "I didn't lie to you, did I?"

Qiao Songyu naturally wouldn't simply think that it was formed naturally, so he asked in a daze, "How did the prince do it?"

King Jing laughed, clapped his hands twice, and the surroundings instantly became bright again. He glanced at Pei Rongbai at the side, then at Qiao Songyu, and asked without answering, "Prime Minister Pei must not be able to do this for you.What does Young Master Qiao think?"

As soon as these words came out, King Guangling Mu Qianyun on the side looked at Pei Rongbai and Qiao Songyu with a half-smile, looking like he was watching the show.

Pei Rongbai knew what King Jing was up to just now, and now he could understand what King Jing said so bluntly. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Qiao Songyu say:

"My lord's Ye Mingzhu is naturally good, but I don't even have a red Luoru skirt, and I don't have a place to tie my Ye Mingzhu. I'm afraid I can't accept my lord's gift."

Pei Rongbai was stunned for a moment, and then the corners of his lips raised—there was a poem by Zhang Ji in the Tang Dynasty called "Jie Fu Yin", which said:

The king knows that the concubine has a husband, so give the concubine double pearls.

I feel the lingering meaning of you, and tie it in the red Luo jacket.

The tall buildings of the concubine's house rise from the garden, and the lover holds the halberd in the bright light.

Zhijun's heart is like the sun and the moon, and the husband swears to live and die together.

Huanjun Pearl wept with tears, wishing not to meet her when she was still married.

Qiao Songyu borrowed allusions and politely rejected King Jing.

He also said to King Jing: "Thank King Jing for his great love for my husband and wife, but the things are expensive, so the prince should keep them by himself."

King Jing's expression was not very good-looking, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he sneered and said, "It's a pity, I didn't expect Mr. Qiao San to be confused in this regard."

Qiao Songyu looked at the wine glass on the table expressionlessly, without speaking.

Pei Rongbai's tone seemed to be a little lost, he said: "Today the prince summoned the officials and husband, is it just for a night pearl?"

"Oh, that's not true." King Jing seemed to remember the business all of a sudden, the smile on his face became warm again, and he said, "I heard that the account books of the Xie family fell into the hands of Qiao Yuanwai.So I asked me to intercede with the third son of Qiao, and asked Yuanwai Qiao to return their family's account books to them."

Qiao Songyu was confused for a moment. He frowned and asked, "The Xie family? But the Xie family, the imperial merchant who supplied the royal family with cloth?"

"That's right." King Jing nodded and said slowly, "This account book is useless to you, but the Xie family needs to keep accounts, so I would like to ask Mr. Qiao San to intercede with Yuanwai Qiao and put the account book away.Return it to the Xie family."

Qiao Songyu became more and more confused - since when did their family have Xie's account books?Is this ledger useful?Why do you still ask King Jing to intervene?

And... today's banquet, could it be because of this that he invited himself instead of Pei Rongbai bringing himself as a cover?

He was thinking about it, when Pei Rongbai at the side spoke very calmly: "My lord, don't embarrass my wife. My wife doesn't know anything about this matter, and she doesn't even know that the Qiao family got the account books of the Xie family."

King Jing was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "What's the matter, don't you know now?" He looked at Pei Rongbai again, and said, "Since you know Rongbai, it can be seen that the relationship between you and Qiao Yuanwai Weng-in-law should be very close."Well, why don't you do me a favor, and the Xie family as well, and intercede, okay?"

Mu Qianyun on the side also helped and said: "Exactly, if the two of you are willing to help, the Xie family and my uncle will be very grateful."

Qiao Songyu was about to say something, but Pei Rongbai on the side pressed his hand. Qiao Songyu looked at him suspiciously, and saw him smiling to Mu Qianyun and King Jing and said:

"We don't care about thanking the gift or not. But my Lord Taishan is a businessman, so I will weigh it... I wonder what kind of gift the prince and the Xie family have prepared for us?"

King Jing seemed to know that Pei Rongbai would agree, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and said, "One thousand taels of gold."

Pei Rongbai's smile became brighter and brighter, as if he was tempted: "Okay, Xie's family and the prince are so sincere, Pei must do his best." He glanced at Qiao Songyu beside him, and said, "My wife and I are in the same voice, naturallyI will also do my best.”

The more Qiao Songyu listened, the more confused she became. She didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Pei Rongbai's gourd, but she didn't dare to refute him rashly, so she just smiled and nodded towards King Jing.

"Good! Very good!" King Jing was overjoyed, and immediately said to the maid beside him, "Come here, pour wine for Lord Prime Minister and his wife!"

"Thank you, my lord." Pei Rongbai was also very face-saving, as if the host and guest were enjoying themselves.

...

The banquet didn't end until the end. Qiao Songyu followed Pei Rongbai into the carriage of Pei's mansion. King Jing also gave the two of them a pot of peony flowers the size of a plate."Golden loincloth, official backgammon".

As soon as he left King Jing's Mansion, Pei Rongbai kicked the pot of peony flowers, and said with a sneer: "How can he be so elegant, most of the soil in this pot is filled with gold and silver treasures."

Qiao Songyu was taken aback, took off the hairpin from her head and inserted it into the soil, it was really hard inside, and when she turned to the side, she saw yellow gold exposed from the soil.He looked up at Pei Rongbai, with infinite doubts in his heart.

"Song Er wants to know?" Pei Rongbai looked at Qiao Songyu with a half-smile, "Call me 'good husband' and I'll tell you."

Qiao Songyu still remembered how he bullied her these two days, so she immediately turned cold and turned her head away.

He didn't even hum anymore, it can be said that he was very angry, the kind that couldn't be coaxed well!