Chapter 79
At Xu time in the evening, King Jin escaped from the palace.

A stage was set up in the garden, and a music class was invited to play and sing some of King Jin's favorite tunes.The two big round tables under the stage were filled with delicious food and wine. Except for the old lady who lived in seclusion, everyone had a banquet in the mansion.

The lights are bright and the silk and bamboo are melodious.

King Jin sat at the main table, and the soldiers he brought sat a little further away.A group of people were dressed in dark red outfits of the same color, all of them were tall and mighty, with muscular muscles.Jiang Xian was curious and kept looking there.

Qin Yanfeng stretched his face.

He reached for the melon and fruit cakes on the table, deliberately blocking Jiang Xian's sight.

"Qin Yanfeng, you blocked me."

"This is delicious." Qin Yanfeng picked and picked from the plate, pretending to be stupid, "This is also delicious."

"..."

Jiang Xian looked lonely.

After King Jin took his seat, Princess Jiayun ordered the cook to start serving hot dishes.

Many ingredients were brought by King Jin from thousands of miles away, such as precious deer tail, ostrich, golden pheasant, snow rabbit, and some sea bugs, etc., which were kept fresh in the ice mirror.

Princess Jiayun picked a snail meat for King Jin and put it into his bowl, and said angrily, "Your Majesty, it is true that you let Father leave so late, and it doesn't matter if you are hungry or not."

King Jin raised his hand slightly, and said with a hearty smile, "It's a good thing that the emperor misses me. I'm afraid that he will be driven away after drinking a cup of tea like Lao Qi." He stuffed the snail meat into his mouth and said while chewing , "I have to enter the palace after dinner, I won't be staying with you for a few days."

Emperor Xianqing wanted to have a long talk with King Jin and ordered him to live in the palace.

Princess Jiayun was dissatisfied, but she didn't dare to complain.

The dishes on the table were rare, and Jiang Xian had never seen many ingredients.While eating, she thought about whether to replace these rare ingredients with ordinary ingredients and develop new dishes for the restaurant.

At this moment, the servant brought another steaming casserole with fresh fennel, which was ruddy in color and fragrant.

King Jin held up his chopsticks and said to the crowd: "Guess what kind of meat it is, because of it, this king almost broke his arm."

Jiang Xian was salivating, but when she heard this, she hesitated to put down her chopsticks.

The meat in the casserole is cut into thumb-sized pieces, the meat is glued, and the overall sauce color looks like deer tendon or spinal cord.

"Could it be a tiger?" Qin Yuan guessed wildly.

King Jin raised his head and laughed, picked up a piece of meat, and explained seriously, "This is an elephant that the king hunted in Nanzhao. The ivory was carved into a pair of Avalokitesvara statues, and the elephant skin was used for armor. The elephant meat is too old. You can't chew it, but this trunk is good for cooking. How do you all taste it?"

Elephant meat was a rare commodity in the Yuan Dynasty, and everyone raised their chopsticks one after another.

Qin Yanfeng picked up a piece and put it in a bowl, noticing that Jiang Xian, who loves food the most, froze.

He couldn't help wondering, "Why don't you eat?"

Jiang Xian felt awkward, "Eating this... feels weird."

Golden Pheasant Snow Rabbit is fine, she can't taste any other smells, but elephant...Jiang Xian put down her chopsticks and sighed: "I remembered a story about elephants, and I have no appetite."

Qin Yanfeng turned to look at her, with "Let's listen to it" written all over his face.

Jiang Xian got closer and said softly: "Did you know? Elephants are very smart. They live together as a family just like people. It is said that an elephant can predict its own life. When it knows that its time is running out, The elephant will leave the herd and go to a place alone to die silently."

This is the "elephant cemetery" that Jiang Xian heard from her teacher when she was a child.

Maybe she is hypocritical, or too sentimental. She originally told Qin Yanfeng a story, but she couldn't help but take the role of an elephant herself, feeling melancholy.

How is she like the elephant who sees death?
Next spring, she will die too.

Qin Yanfeng was indifferent in his heart and had no empathy for this elephant story.Unexpectedly, Jiang Xian's eyes turned red as she spoke, and the dim light shone on her beautiful face, as if a wronged rabbit was about to cry.

Qin Yanfeng was stunned.

Why are you crying so well?

Is it because of this plate of elephant meat?
Qin Yanfeng lost interest immediately, and simply picked out the elephant meat from the bowl, and scraped it away with chopsticks.

He didn't eat it either, okay? !
Jiang Xian caught a glimpse of his actions from the corner of her eye, raised her wet and bright eyes, smiled through tears, "Be good."

(End of this chapter)

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