The next day.
The Li family's mansion.
Although the eldest young master Li Fu's birthday was being celebrated in the Li family's mansion today, looking at the scenery in the mansion, everything was as usual.
As usual, when Wang Lin came to the Li family's residence, he thought he had made a mistake.
If Li Fu hadn't been standing in front of the door, soliciting guests, Wang Lin wouldn't have dared to say that this was the birthday of the eldest young master of the Li family.
The Li family, which was so glorious yesterday, had to bow their heads and lower their eyebrows today because of Concubine Xiao Shu's actions. They had to bow their heads and lower their eyebrows even during a birthday banquet, for fear of violating the mighty emperor's grace.
Wang Lin got off the carriage and strode towards the inside.
When Li Fu saw Wang Lin coming, he quickly came forward to greet him with a smile on his face.
"Prince Lin's visit really brings glory to my residence."
In the past, who would have dared to imagine that the person in front of him was the eldest son of the Li family.
I originally thought that when Wang Lin came here, he would find faults everywhere, so the Li family had already made preparations and sent a servant to follow Wang Lin. I was afraid that if I didn't do something thoughtful enough, I would be punished by the prince.
But Wang Lin acted as if he didn't know what happened in the palace yesterday. As soon as he entered the door, he exchanged pleasantries with Li Fu.
This made Li Fudu feel a little at a loss. He didn't know when Prince Lin's palace came so close to the Li family.
In a small hut, Li Zhangzheng and his dog-headed military advisor were watching the movement here.
Wang Lin's every move was naturally watched by them.
"Mr. Ge, look at this..."
Dog-headed military advisor Yang Wu couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart when he saw Wang Lin's unrestrained and uninhibited movements like those of the dandies in Beijing.
Is this really the old and angry Prince Lin? Although I have never seen him before, when I saw him today, he seemed to be no different from those wealthy young men in the capital.
It's nothing more than a descendant of the royal family, the bigger Kuo Shao.
"He didn't attend yesterday's Ji Xia banquet." Li Zhang looked outside through the crack in the window, not knowing what he was thinking.
After hearing this, Yang Wu pondered for a moment and then spoke: "Could it be that Elder Ge meant that there was a conflict between Prince Lin and the Emperor, and he didn't even attend the Ji Xia Banquet?"
Li Zhang stroked his beard and said something earth-shattering.
"If so, he would have known it a long time ago. Wouldn't the banquet be held?"
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Noon.
Even though it didn't look like a birthday atmosphere from the outside, there were still many wealthy and noble people gathered in the hall of the Li family's mansion today.
Sitting on the main seat was Li Fu, today's birthday boy. As for Li Ge Lao Li Zhang, he has not shown up for a long time.
The people sitting below were all children from wealthy families, and there were very few ministers in the court.
One is because the Li family is keeping a low profile today and does not want to cause too much noise. The second reason is that the emperor personally convicted Concubine Xiao Shu yesterday. Due to the relationship between Concubine Xiao Shu and Li Zhang, many ministers did not dare to come even if they wanted to.
Just when Wang Lin was wondering, such a funeral-like birthday was really rare, Li Fu suddenly clapped his hands.
Snapped.
Snapped.
Snapped.
After three applauses, a large area of beauties dancing in gauze floated out from behind the screen in the hall.
After dancing in the center of the hall, they slowly began to float towards the people around them.
In the end, these beauties sat at a table, lying in their arms or kneeling in front of them. In the hall that had just returned to elegance and tranquility, there was an aura of lasciviousness in an instant.
Regarding this kind of thing, Wang Lin is not willing to lag behind. After all, he didn't take advantage of the bastard. While he took the beauty into his arms, he carefully groped her waist and hips. This caused the beauty in his arms to scream in surprise during the banquet.
After all, based on the experience of the original owner, when the original owner was playing with these, these little kids here might still be playing in the mud.
Therefore, Wang Lin's actions made everyone around him blush.
Especially the slightly older ministers present, who did not dare to say anything when they saw the scene in front of them, were made blushing by the women on the side.
However, what they didn't know was that Li Zhang was watching every move they made.
At this time, Li Zhang was sitting in a secret door in the hall, taking in everything outside.
Seeing that these forces, large and small, who usually followed the Li family, still dared to eat, drink, have fun and live in luxury in the Li family's house, Li Zhang suddenly felt relieved.
Then, Li Zhang looked at Wang Lin, who was sitting in the front.
I saw a beauty with a peach-like face, smiling happily under the guidance of Wang Lin. It can be seen that if he had not been a really cool player in this capital, he would not have been able to achieve such skillful movements.
In the dark room, Li Zhang looked at everything in front of him, his expression relaxed a lot.
Seeing the change in Li Zhang's expression, Yang Wu on the side also said: "It seems that Prince Lin is just an ordinary person and does not have such great magical powers as the legend says."
"Now that he has accepted Mr. Ge's invitation, he must not be so hostile to Mr. Ge. If Mr. Ge can win over him..."
After listening to Yang Wu's words, Li Zhang nodded.
When Wang Lin first came to his mansion, he couldn't believe it.
But looking at how Wang Lin was now enjoying himself in this wasteful banquet, Li Zhang seemed to see the incompetent Prince Lin again.
"Come on, let's go out and take a look."
After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.
While Wang Lin was fiddling with the beauty in his hand, a very familiar voice sounded from behind him.
"Prince Lin, how is the food in Bishe? Is it to your liking?"
Standing behind Wang Lin is naturally the current Ge Lao Li Zhang.
When Wang Lin saw this, he also stood up and held his hands in his hands and said politely: "Mr. Li Ge is joking."
I came here just to wait for this moment.
The old fox was hiding somewhere just now, but today he finally showed his tail.
Li Zhang was secretly happy when he saw that Wang Lin's behavior in the court these past two days was really different.
He felt that this should be what Yang Wu said. There must be some rift between Wang Lin and Wang Chen, so the usually unattainable Prince Lin would come to his house at this time of year.
"Prince Lin, this is not the place to talk. Let them fool around here for now. How about coming out and talking to me?"
Seeing that Wang Lin was giving him face, Li Zhang's tone towards Wang Lin was naturally much more polite.
After walking out of the door, Li Zhang took Wang Lin to a pavilion.
I saw two chess pieces placed neatly on the stone table in the pavilion. Seeing Wang Lin's puzzled look, Li Zhang stroked his beard and spoke.
"A few days ago, I accidentally found two jars of warm jade chess pieces."
"I know that the prince likes such elegant things, but I am a despicable person and cannot use such a good thing."
"Then I changed my mind and thought, why not give it to the prince."
"I wonder what the prince thinks?"
Li Zhang looked at Wang Lin in front of him and said steadily.
