Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

After all the delicacies were served, Zhao Dan did not start immediately, but led the ministers of the State of Zhao to conduct a very formal and serious pre-dinner sacrifice.

There are sacrificial words for the pre-meal sacrifice, and everyone has to read them, that is, to pray for the blessings of the ancestors, good fortune and good luck, and so on.

After the pre-dinner ceremony is over, the dinner will not officially begin.

Zhao Dan picked up the dagger in front of him, picked up a piece of porpoise and put it in his mouth, wiped it out in two or three gulps, took another sip of wine, then put down the wine jue and dagger, and faced the ministers of Zhao State in front of him Said: "The widow is full."

No one in the hall showed any surprise.

Xiangbang Zhao Sheng stood up and said in a respectful voice: "Your Majesty is the king of your subjects. If your Majesty does not eat, how can your subjects dare to eat? Please also invite your Majesty to eat."

All the ministers stood up and saluted one after another: "Please eat, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Dan stood up, and also saluted all the courtiers of Zhao Guo present: "I also invite you to eat."

Only then did everyone take their seats and started to move.

At this time, Zhao Dan was actually very tired and crooked. You must know that what you just said was not Zhao Dan's hypocrisy, but the standard Zhou Dynasty etiquette, even Zhao Dan, as the king of Zhao, must abide by it.

What's the matter, with so much superficial effort for a meal, this week's ceremony is really troublesome.

Thinking of the very unpleasant "success to the temple" on his wedding night, Zhao Dan became even more tired.

It must be changed, and it will be changed next year!

After the banquet started, the melodious music sounded, and dozens of Zhao Guo dancers in costumes entered the hall with soft steps amidst the music, dancing in front of everyone.

This dance is not simple. I can see that these singers dance with slender waists and round movements. The dance steps they dance are not only very gentle, but also faintly revealing a bit of solemnity. It is Dashao who was called "perfect" by Confucius .

Another group of singers sang in unison:

"Drunken with wine, full with virtue. A gentleman for ten thousand years, Jieer Jingfu.

If you are drunk with wine, you will eat food.A gentleman for thousands of years, Jieer Zhaoming.

Zhaoming has Rong, Gao Lang's order ends, and the order ends with Chu, and the public corpse is a good report.

He told Weihe"

This song from the Book of Songs is called Jizui, and the main idea of ​​the lyrics is to praise the king. It is a common song in New Year's banquets in various countries.

After the singers and dancers retreated, there were "haiku" clowns who came forward to perform various juggling, as well as funny programs such as cross talk sketches, which caused bursts of laughter from time to time in the hall.

This night, the palace city of Handan in Zhao State was brightly lit, and the monarch and his ministers had a good time.

But the New Year's Day banquet held in the palace of Taoyi, the capital of Wei State hundreds of miles away, was not so harmonious.

In fact, an undercurrent is quietly surging in Taoyi Palace.

The target of this undercurrent is none other than Wei Wuji, the well-known son of Wei Guo, the current Xiangbang of Wei Guo, and Lord Xinling.

Chapter 488 Wei Wuji's "Affair" (first update)

Wei Wuji was a little drunk.

The reason why he was drunk, of course, was because he drank too much wine.

Wei Wuji actually didn't intend to drink too much wine, but the problem is that there are some wines that Wei Wuji doesn't drink if he doesn't want to.

There is a saying in the Book of Poems:

The gourd leaves on the flags and flags are harvested and prospered.A gentleman has wine, taste it at his discretion.

There is a rabbit with the head, and the cannon burns it.A gentleman has wine, and offers it at his discretion.

There is a rabbit's head, which is burnt and burnt.When a gentleman has wine, he uses it with discretion.

There is a rabbit with the head, which is burnt by the cannon.A gentleman has wine, and he pays it according to his words.

The "offering", "sugar" and "remuneration" here are a kind of drinking etiquette in this era.

The so-called "offering" means that the monarch offers wine to his courtiers, and the wine means that the courtiers also toast to the monarch, and the reward means that the monarch does it first, and then the courtiers follow suit.

After drinking the whole offering, wine, and reward, this completes a formal drinking ceremony, which is called "one offering".

Regarding the number of times of this "one offering", there are also regulations, which are graded.

Since Wei Wangyu has become king, the level of drinking etiquette used is naturally the same as that of Zhou Tianzi. As Wei Wuji, as the state of Wei, the applicable level is the princes under Zhou Tianzi.

The drinking ceremony between the emperor and the princes has a total of "nine offerings". According to the above process, it is necessary to drink three nines and 27 wines before the "nine offerings" ceremony can be completed.

Of course, like the words of ordinary monarchs and ministers, usually everyone just means it, clinking glasses counts as one time, and maybe drinking a few glasses of wine after Jiuxian is almost enough.

But today Wei Wangyu obviously didn't intend to let Wei Wuji get away with it. Drinking wine was all kinds of boring, so Wei Wuji had to accompany him to the end.

After the whole nine offerings, Wei Wuji, who drank the 27 Jue wine, already felt a little bit up, and his whole head was a little groggy.

Seeing that Wei Wangyu, who was at the top, had already collapsed on the mat, Wei Wuji couldn't help but wryly smiled, and stood up a little staggeringly.

He needs to go to the bathroom.

Let alone 27 glasses of wine, even if a person drinks 27 glasses of plain water, he must go to the toilet.

So amidst the melodious music and singing, Wei Wuji left the hall in a hurry.

Although it is said that this is Taoyi's new palace rather than the old Liangcheng palace where Wei Wuji grew up, Wei Wuji took the lead in the construction of the new palace, so he is no stranger to the layout of this new palace.

Under the light of the moon, Wei Wuji walked through the red corridor with a somewhat shaky gait. Bronze palace lanterns hung on both sides of the corridor, illuminating his path, making his shadow longer and shorter. , left and right.

Wei Wuji turned a corner, and suddenly a figure appeared in front of him.

Wei Wuji was caught off guard, he didn't even see the face of the person in front of him clearly, he just felt a gust of fragrant wind coming, and he bumped into the person in front of him exactly.

Wei Wuji was knocked over on his back, he subconsciously hugged the person in his arms, and with a bang, the two fell to the ground one by one.

He only heard a soft cry of pain coming from his arms, Wei Wuji took a closer look, only to find that it turned out to be a beautiful young woman in palace attire with peach blossoms on her face.

"Zhong, Mrs. Zhongshan?"

This Mrs. Zhongshan is none other than the dancer girl from Zhao State who was brought into the palace by Wei Wangyu not long ago. Because she was born in the old place of Zhongshan and has Zhongshan blood, she was named Mrs. Zhongshan by Wei Wangyu.

Mrs. Zhongshan was also quite surprised, she opened her big eyes and looked at Wei Wuji, a trace of confusion clearly flashed in her eyes, but she immediately turned into embarrassment.

"Xin, Lord Xinling" Mrs. Zhongshan opened her jade teeth lightly, her voice was murmuring, her pretty face was flushed, her whole body seemed to have completely lost all strength, and she was limp and motionless.

Wei Wuji came back to his senses at this time, and he held Mrs. Zhongshan in his arms, and put one hand on some plump, upturned, indescribable place!

Wei Wuji was so bluffed at once, his drunkenness was completely dispelled in an instant, he hurriedly got up and lifted the woman in his arms, and apologized: "I'm drunk and rude, please forgive me, Mrs. Zhongshan."