Since it was someone else's prince who invited him, Xiao Chen didn't want to neglect him. He returned the invitation, rewarded the visitor generously, changed his clothes, and rode a horse over alone without any followers.
He thought he had arrived early enough, but unexpectedly Murong Heng had already arrived first.
The tea on the table is no longer steaming. It seems that the two of them have been chatting for a long time just now...
"Hahaha, Xiao Chen is here!" When Li Shi saw Xiao Chen, he smiled brightly and laughed heartily. It seemed that he had a good chat with Murong Heng just now, "Come on, come on, meet Mr. Murong Heng soon. Mr. Murong Heng, this This is Xiao Chen and Xiao Wucheng, you two haven’t met yet, right?”
"This is my first time meeting Mr. Xiao, but I have heard of his name for a long time." Murong Heng said with a smile, "Sure enough, a hero comes from a young age. He is famous but never seen in person!"
"Junior, pay homage to my husband!" Xiao Chen made a gesture of bowing down.
"Haha, we are here with the prince, so we are exempt from these gifts, right?" Murong Heng hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him. He said that this was the prince, and he really didn't dare to ask him to kneel down to him.
But then again, although he didn't have to worship himself, he still had to worship his daughter Danqiu... Danqiu was seriously ill, and it was the prince who cured him himself.
Sigh... Our father and daughter have received too much kindness from the late Emperor and the Crown Prince, but we don’t know when we will be able to repay it?
In other words, I don’t know when, Prince, you will rebel?
Or are you not planning to rebel? Otherwise, why would you come to Fengyang City at this time? Yes, it's too reckless...
He mentioned this matter when he met his daughter Danqiu, but Danqiu kept her head down and remained silent. Xiao Xing'er beside her suddenly said, "Brother Xiao knows that Sister Danqiu is seriously ill, so of course he will come." ah! '
Murong Hengda was surprised.
It was not easy to ask her daughter this question, but her daughter did not refute Xing'er's words, as if she acquiesced... Could it be that the Crown Prince's feelings for her have reached this deep level?
But it's not easy to ask Xiao Chen this. If Xiao Chen denies it, everyone will be embarrassed.
If he admitted it, he would be a little embarrassed, because as Danqiu's father, of course he was very happy about it, but as the late emperor's trusted minister, he also felt that it was unusual for the prince to take such a strange risk for a girl. It shouldn’t be!
So the look in Xiao Chen's eyes now was extremely complicated.
The three of them had just sat down when someone reported outside that Prince Fengyang had arrived!
This Li Feng is here after all...
Li Shi also brought Sun Zhi with him. Li Shi was very polite to Sun Zhi. Although he knew that he was dressed in white, he treated him as a guest.
After greeting each other and sitting down again, the atmosphere suddenly became subtle.
"Sir, Xiao Chen, you two came early!" Li Feng was smiling, but he was just smiling.
Both of them said that the prince invited him and they didn't dare to come late.
"Haha, the second brother invited a lot of people today, but they didn't come as early as you two. It seems that you guys get along well. If I were to treat guests, I'm afraid that might not be the case. Just say Xiao I'm afraid I won't be able to invite Chen to serve as my master." Li Feng's words were really harsh and unpleasant.
Xiao Chen could only sneer twice, he said in his heart, you are really right, if you invite me, I really won't give you this face, what can you do to me?
"Third brother, have you been feeling better lately?" Li Shicha changed the subject, "I still have some thousand-year-old wild ginseng here. You can take some back later to replenish your health."
"Thank you, second brother, for caring about me. It's just that my brother's illness is caused by heart disease. It's caused by worry and cannot be cut off." Li Shidao.
"No matter what kind of illness it is, I'm afraid of taking care of it. As long as I take care of it for a while, it will always get better." Li Shidao, "Third brother, you have been working hard outside these years, and your bones have been damaged. Second brother, I am also disabled, so I can’t share the burden for you, so I can only feel anxious..."
"Then there's no need to worry. What do we brothers do? As long as Xiao Chen, a loyal minister and good general, is here, can we still be used?" Li Feng said with a smile.
Xiao Chen lay innocently in the gun and could only smile bitterly.
But speaking of it, one can't blame Li Feng for targeting him. He just had to publicly express his support for Li Shi. Now Li Feng sees him as a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh, but how can he be so obedient?
"Although Xiao Chen is smart and capable, he doesn't have three heads and six arms. To protect the family and the country, everyone needs to work together. For example, if my husband didn't conquer the Western Regions, we brothers wouldn't be able to sit here and gossip, hahaha!" What Li Shi said was both grand and stingy, but in short it was quite irritating.
Not only did he refute Li Feng's words, but he also took advantage of his words and briefly provoked his relationship with Murong Heng, while also drawing closer to Xiao Chen.
So I don’t know who is more powerful in fighting between the two brothers, but when it comes to bickering, the two Li Feng combined are no match for Li Shi...
Fortunately, guests arrived one after another, which broke the awkwardness in the excitement.
Seeing that there were too many people to sit in the room, Li Shi simply invited everyone to sit in a small theater in the palace. Several square tables were filled with pastries, melon seeds, fruits and other snacks.
Everyone sat down separately, chatting while eating, listening to the pianist on the stage tuning the music, and the actor clearing his throat, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively.
Li Shi invited a lot of people, but not too many. After all, there were only a few people who were qualified to come to his palace to watch the show.
Zhu Xiaochuan, the Commander-in-Chief of Jinyiwei, Wang Anbang, the Minister of the Ministry of Official Affairs, Ma Wuming, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Lu Jing, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Shao Wenzhao, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Cheng Youwen, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, Jiang Tiansheng, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, Duan Fengnian, the governor of Langya County, and Li Feng who came with Murong Heng His Minzhou general Liu Pengju...
Chen Wenqi, Wu Zicheng, and Wu Zhong were also invited, but they all claimed to be on official business and could not come.
Wu Zicheng is the commander of the Forbidden Army, and Wu Zhong is the admiral of the Nine Sects. It is definitely inconvenient for the two of them to come to the palace as guests, but Chen Wenqi didn't come either. I wonder why?
Xiao Chen was not familiar with Duan Jinshen and Liu Pengju. They were not friendly with Xiao Chen either. They were both Li Feng's people. When Xiao Chen was his rival, he just made a haha when greeting him and spoke like a prude. Xiao Chen is not as familiar with them either.
Xiao Chen knew Cheng Youwen, but he hated this person very much, not because he was Li Feng's... In fact, Xiao Chen hated him even more than Li Feng!
This guy is simply worse than a beast and has no humanity!
Last time, he was the one who suggested to the emperor that he should set up a Jiaofangsi. To put it bluntly, it was a brothel for officials. All the captured Yizhou female relatives, as well as the wives and daughters of prisoners of war, would be put into the Jiaofangsi, so that they could be prostitutes for generations. Forever a slave!
Is this something that humans can do?
No serious brothel would force girls into prostitution. He, a minister of the Ministry of Rites, could come up with such a cruel idea, and Li Wanjiang actually agreed... This is called the collapse of rituals and the destruction of music. You, Da Zhou, are destroying yourself by doing this. !
At that time, Xiao Chen almost couldn't hold back and beat him up. What if the emperor hadn't stopped him?
