"Haha, you love to be polite!" Qin Shi Huang waved his hand in the carriage and stood up, but a pair of eyes roamed around, as if looking for something.

"Your Majesty, what are you looking for?" A group of ministers who greeted each other all looked at each other, and Chen Xu hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

"I heard that the Marquis of Qinghe arranged two strange beast puppets at the door to do a beast dance to welcome the guests, why didn't I see it when I came?" Qin Shi Huang looked at Chen Xu with a little regret.

"Ah~oh~ this...... The minister was afraid that his majesty, the ladies and the princess would be frightened, so he stopped the beast dance! The situation outside is complicated, if Your Majesty wants to see it, please enter the garden first, and then arrange a performance! Chen Xu quickly said after he understood.

"Well, that's fine!" Qin Shi Huang nodded, a group of ministers who greeted him quickly dispersed on both sides, and two teams of hundreds of Xuanwu guards rushed into the park and began to set up defenses, only after the safety order came from inside, six horses pulled the cart through the gate and entered the park.

The cars of the princess, princess, and princess who followed behind also passed through the gate one after another and entered Qinghe Garden.

Chen Xu stood next to him and kept bowing down to greet him, bending down a few more times, he actually felt a little dizzy, and couldn't help but gently hammer his waist a few times.

The habit of eating in the Qin Dynasty is too bad, two meals a day, and breakfast is actually placed at ten o'clock in the morning, which is the rhythm of starvation.

"Qinghe Hou!" A soft and clear voice came from overhead, Chen Xu looked up, and saw a delicate face that was looking forward to shining and smiling at him from the car window, with red cheeks and spring eyes.

"Chen Xu meets the fifth princess!" Chen Xu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly bent down to salute again.

"Hehe, I'm tired of standing, I'll go in first, I'll definitely come to me later!" Ying Shiyan covered her mouth and lowered the curtains, and the carriage gently swayed past Chen Xu.

"Fifth sister, seeing that you are happy, your face is red!" Another little girl's voice came from the carriage.

"Don't talk nonsense, where is it red, blown by the cold wind!"

"I don't believe it, but Qinghe Hou is really beautiful, white and tender......"

Chen Xu blackened his face and began to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, where is Lao Tzu white and tender, obviously it is still relatively dark, okay, praise people are not so unreasonable.

Several more cars creaked past, and several of them lifted the curtain and poked their heads out to greet him, and in a blink of an eye, only the last one remained.

When the welcome is so tired, I will never treat you again next time!

"Chen Xu!"

Just when Chen Xu bowed down for the last time and got up and took a long breath to finish work, a cold and crisp voice came from above his head.

When I looked up, I saw a familiar face that was slightly thin and beautiful, the willow eyebrows were about to speak and stopped, and the face with a slight hint of sickness seemed calm but carried an indescribable emotion.

"Chen Xu meets Princess Qingning!" After Chen Xu lost his mind for a short time, he hurriedly saluted again.

"Look for me later, I have something to ask you!" After Wang Qingsleeve finished speaking, he lowered the curtains, and as the curtains shook, Chen Xu also saw that the two twin little Loli were hiding in the window and secretly looking at him.

Alas! Chen Xu sighed in his heart, and returned to the park with a group of welcome ladies, and after hundreds of Xuanwu guards and guard guards poured in behind, the lieutenant forbidden army behind them completely put the entire street under martial law, and there was no longer a single idle person waiting for the excitement.

With the arrival of Qin Shi Huang with a group of wives, sons and daughters, except for Wang Jian who couldn't bring a message yesterday, all the guests invited by Chen Xu this time have arrived.

The three provinces, the six ministries and the second-grade or more senior officials, plus the dignitaries with the marquis in their bodies, plus their respective families, and more than 30 members of the royal family, add up to a total of hundreds of people.

After everyone entered Qinghe Garden, the two black gates that were more than a foot wide also slowly closed, and the huge iron door bolt fell with a clang.

After Qin Shi Huang came in, he got out of the car, and a group of ministers of first and second rank and the nobles of the marquis all gathered around to brush their faces.

"Qinghe Hou, hurry up and arrange the beast show, I can't wait!" Qin Shi Huang had long lost any interest in a group of ministers who had to brush their faces until they vomited every day, standing in the middle of a group of guards and still looking left and right, and there were a group of concubines, princes and princesses beside him who were also looking at Chen Xu with expectant faces.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Chen Xu turned around and gave a command, and soon the sound of gongs and drums sounded, and the two lions began to perform in a clearing in the garden again, jumping and tumbling with the rhythm, and from time to time they also made movements to fight each other.

"Knock knock, knock knock......"

In the strong sound of gongs and drums, Qin Shi Huang was instantly attracted by this novel beast dance that he had never seen before, and he couldn't blink when he watched it, and the group of imperial concubines and princesses who followed were also watching it attentively one by one, and some little princesses couldn't help but scream in surprise to express their excitement.

The rest of the ministers, who had been watching for half an hour just now, were still watching with relish, pointing while watching.

"Could this beast be the legendary unicorn?"

"Definitely, didn't you hear what the Marquis of the River just said, this is called the Lion Dance!"

"It looks so strange, could it be a kind of fairy beast?"

"Hmm, it's very likely, legend has it that in ancient times, there were immortal beasts and holy beasts!"

In the midst of the choking, another half an hour soon passed, and the two lions were estimated to be tired, and their movements began to slow down.

Chen Xu also felt that the time was almost up, because more than 100 people, whether it was the emperor's concubine or the princes and princesses, were still standing in the cold wind and watching, so he walked to Qin Shihuang's side and said: "Your Majesty, it's cold outside, it's better to warm up in the hotel, and there will be ......drama after the banquet is over."

"Well, what Qinghe Hou said is true!" Qin Shi Huang watched it for half an hour, although he was still interested, but he didn't have the urgency he had at the beginning.

So Chen Xu ordered the lion dance to stop, and then personally led Qin Shi Huang and his wife and son and daughter to the largest restaurant in the Qinghe Hotel, while the rest of the princes and princes and their families were arranged to several other restaurants under the leadership of the welcome and hotel stewards.

Stepping into the gate of Qinghe Hotel, there is a garden in the middle, in the garden sits on a single blue brick and stone house facing south, although the appearance is slightly old, but it adds a bit of heaviness and atmosphere.

There is a wooden plaque hanging on the lintel, the purple gas from the east is four big characters that are seals and non-seals, there are two wooden cards on the thick wooden doorposts on both sides, and a couplet is written on it: one yuan is renewed, auspicious clouds spread the world, Vientiane is renewed, and Ruiqi is full of energy.

Qin Shi Huang stood at the door with a stunned face and stared at the wooden plaque and couplet for a long time, his face seemed to be throbbing, and finally retracted his eyes and looked at Chen Xu and asked, "Qinghe Hou, what does this plaque mean?" ”

"Your Majesty, the purple gas comes from the east, it is rumored that there is a saint coming, the saint, not a god or a fairy, but the most enlightened person in the mortal world, so the name of the purple gas Donglai Pavilion here is to use the saint's breath to protect the auspiciousness, and Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, the three emperors and five emperors, and the saints in the world are all incomprehensible, Your Majesty is visiting Qinghe Garden today, there must be the air of the saint coming, and the minister is also borrowing the light of Your Majesty, hoping to bless us with endless delicious food and wine every day!"

"Haha, good, good, this meaning is indeed auspicious, I like this name very much!" Qin Shi Huang's face was so bright that he couldn't help laughing, and then pointed to a couplet and asked, "What do these two sentences mean?" ”

"One yuan restarts, meaning that my Great Qin has finally dominated the world after many twists and turns, and is about to start a new era, Vientiane is renewed, implying that my Great Qin is waiting to be revived, and everything is about to grow and flourish like the arrival of spring, these two sentences are both an expectation and a vision, and the minister hopes that His Majesty's brilliance can spread the world like auspicious clouds, and bless me with the wind and rain of Great Qin, and the people will have no worries about food and clothing!"

"Hahahaha......" Qin Shi Huang's heart was full of joy when he heard this, he grabbed Chen Xu's hand and looked up to the sky and laughed, "Qinghe Hou is really my master, good, good, I have Mr. Chen's assistance, Daqin will definitely be thriving and renewed, go, I must have a drink with Mr. Chen today!" ”

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your orders, Your Majesty, please!"

"Mr. Chen, please!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, and then walked into the Purple Qi Donglai Pavilion hand in arm.

Today's banquet, Chen Xu originally didn't plan to invite Qin Shi Huang, because there will be all kinds of troubles if the emperor participates, especially the food and wine, which need to be strictly tested by the officials of the Shaofu, and the production naturally cannot make the slightest mistake, which is a very troublesome thing.

But after thinking about it and fighting for a few days, Chen Xu still invited the emperor.

Because inviting the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty but not inviting the emperor will make the emperor feel some vigilance and vigilance, and it is not a good thing for the court officials to collude with each other, especially Chen Xu invited all the senior officials above the second rank and all the military generals with marquises.

Therefore, Chen Xu finally invited the emperor's family to eat and drink.

Moreover, in order to ensure the safety of meals and drinks, he also specially asked Shaofu Ling Zhao Wei to send a group of palace officials and imperial chefs to strictly monitor the purchased ingredients and production process in the kitchen.

However, fortunately, after a few days of preparation, everything was in order and there were no mistakes, coupled with strict security measures, today, the entire Qinghe Garden was surrounded by the lieutenants and guards and the forbidden army of the flies could not fly in, and the hundreds of Xuanwu guards in the park were also three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and the monitoring of this purple qi Donglai Pavilion was not leaky.

Because this is not a family banquet, and in order to take care of the habits of the Qin Dynasty, men and women eat separately in the arrangement.

Therefore, at the beginning of the treat, Chen Xu had already arranged, except for Qin Shihuang's family, which was arranged separately in the Ziqi Donglai Pavilion, all the other officials' female dependents were arranged in a separate courtyard called Fangfeiyuan according to their respective husbands' official titles, which contained four restaurants of Meilan Zhuju, which had already been introduced into the corresponding room by the maids arranged by the steward of the Qinghe Hotel, and had already prepared tea, rice cakes, sugar-fried chestnuts, walnut cakes, yam cakes and other drinks and desserts to entertain. And each room is also arranged with a singer who can play the piano and sing.

This is a kind of gathering of officials' wives that has never been experienced, and it brings all the women a completely unique and novel feeling, and the four restaurants of Meilan Zhuju are originally in the same courtyard, so soon these women began to chat, and at the same time, some children also gathered together to laugh and play games, and there was a sound of frolic and laughter in every room.

All the male guests gathered in another courtyard called Diaoyutai, where there are also four restaurants, similar layout, a large round table outside, a circle of cushioned high-backrest chairs, a screen stove, warm kang coffee table, in addition to today, Chen Xu also specially prepared a special mahjong table and mahjong.

Therefore, after these court officials entered the restaurant on the invitation, they were all very familiar, so they began to play mahjong after chatting a few words.