Get on the carriage, go out, drive onto the main road in the west city, and stop at the agreed place.
After waiting for a while, the Zhang family's carriage arrived as expected. Zhang Su opened the curtain and smiled at Jia Lian: "Sorry for the long wait, brother Lian."
"Brother Su, you're welcome. I've just arrived. Are we leaving now?"
"Wait a minute, I have an appointment with someone."
Jia Lian nodded. While waiting for others, Jia Lian and Zhang Su spoke across the carriage and asked casually: "How long have the second brother and the fourth prince known each other?"
"Since I completed my career, I have been appointed by the Holy One as His Highness's companion. It has been almost three years now."
When Jia Lian heard this, he thought to himself that it would be beneficial to be able to study. For example, he wanted to compare with Zhang Su. In fact, the Jia family's family status was higher than that of the Zhang family. Moreover, Zhang Su was only the second grandson of the Zhang family, but he had already been involved with the princes and relatives.
And he, so far, probably doesn't even recognize a prince, let alone have any friendship with him.
This time, the fourth prince took advantage of his vacation to hold a poetry reception in his new residence and invited Zhang Su.
Thanks to Jia Lian's intentional friendship during this period, Zhang Su's relationship with Jia Lian quickly heated up. The saying that long separation is better than newlyweds is similar to men. When they were children, the two of them peed together and peeked into other people's homes. Now that they have reunited after many years, they are closer than ordinary cousins.
So Zhang Su invited Jia Lian to accompany him to the Fourth Prince's Mansion today, but Jia Lian did not refuse.
After talking for a while, sure enough, another carriage drove up from the east end of the street, also lightly dressed.
As soon as he got close, a tall young man in a green robe jumped out quickly.
He took two steps forward, cupped his fists and saluted, saying, "I'm sorry, I'll keep you two waiting."
Zhang Su said with a smile: "Let me introduce you to Brother Lian. This is the son of General Feng, the Shenwu General. His twin names are Zizi and Ying. I wonder if Brother Lian recognizes him?"
Jia Lian looked at Feng Ziying who was smiling at him on the ground, nodded and said: "Brother Feng and I must have met several times, but we rarely interact with each other."
Feng Ziying also bowed to Jia Lian at this time, "I didn't expect to see second brother Lian here, Ziying is polite."
Seeing that they knew each other, Zhang Su didn't say much, let Feng Ziying get in the car, and then ordered him to set off.
Zhang Su often went in and out of the Imperial City, so the gatekeepers of the Imperial City recognized him, so they were let through without questioning them.
The Imperial City was much quieter than the rest of the city, especially in the winter. There were almost no people on the avenue. Only the occasional carriages passing by would make some noise, and everything soon became quiet.
Before arriving at the recently built mansion of the fourth prince, this place was much more lively than elsewhere.
As you approach the gate, you can feel the restless atmosphere inside.
Jia Lian and the other three got out of the car one after another, and prepared simple congratulatory gifts. They were registering on the side when they suddenly saw a large carriage speeding up and stopping in front of the mansion gate. Behind it, followed a large group of servants.
A young man in brocade robes was helped out of the carriage and cursed: "Damn it, it's getting colder and colder!"
Then he turned around and ordered: "Please bring out my Black General quickly... Huh, he has been hiding for so long. Today I want to see how he can hide and what he can use to deal with my Black General."
As he finished speaking, two followers were seen respectfully carrying a cage out of the carriage. Through the gorgeous mesh, one could clearly see that inside was a majestic and high-spirited rooster. It's just that most of the black hair on its body has fallen off, revealing its dark chicken body, which looks very funny.
The young man didn't think so. When he saw the black chicken, it was like seeing his own wife. He quickly took it, held it in his arms, covered it with his sleeves and walked forward, as if he was afraid that his "beloved wife" would be blown by a bit of cold wind. .
It's not like Jia Lian has never seen the behavior of cockfighters, but he still can't help but laugh a little at this moment.
Zhang Su actually thought it was funny, but he recognized the young man, so he secretly pulled Jia Lian to ask him to pay attention.
Jia Lian just felt funny in his heart and couldn't help but smile a little on his face. He didn't make any mocking move or make any discordant sound.
However, the young man still seemed to feel the way Jia Lian and the others looked at the monkeys, so he glanced at the three of them. When he saw that they were not royal children, he sneered: "Country bumpkins!"
When Jia Lian heard this, he felt even more funny. He felt that he had seen this scene before, and definitely more than once.
Fortunately, the story did not go as he had speculated. The young man did not mean to cause trouble for them. He just snorted coldly and walked in with his beloved wife in his arms.
Only then did Zhang Su show the same smile as Jia Lian and introduced: "He is Crown Prince Duan, a first-rate gangster of the royal family. He has some grudges with our fourth prince...well, there is quite a bit of grudges."
Jia Lian and Feng Ziying both expressed their understanding. There is indeed a class of people in the world who don't need to speak. As long as they show up, except for their names, all other information will be exposed to others. This is obviously the case for Prince Duan.
Zhang Su was relatively familiar with the Fourth Prince's Mansion, so he took Jia Lian and his two men deeper without the guidance of a servant.
During this period, Jia Lian also reviewed the newly built Prince's Mansion. To be honest, apart from being brand new, some of the walls and columns and beams were carved with dragons and phoenixes. In fact, the layout and splendor were slightly inferior to those of the Rongguo Mansion. Moreover, visual inspection shows that the entire Prince's Mansion occupies a much smaller area than Rongguo Mansion.
I don’t know whether it was because the emperor’s funds allocated to the fourth princes to build their mansions were not enough, or because there was too little land in the imperial city.
Based on this comparison, wouldn't it be suspected that the Ningrong and Rongfus were violating the rules? Fortunately, it was created by the emperor's order, otherwise this crime would be enough to kill the Jia family.
After a while, I arrived at the martial arts arena, which seemed to be overcrowded.
Around the martial arts stage, in addition to the neat and bright swords, guns, swords and halberds placed on all sides, there are some tables, chairs and benches placed in the other free spaces in an orderly manner. The tables are covered with wine and food.
On the high platform, a magnificent and thrilling battle has begun.
The main characters are two chickens.
Jia Lian, the fighting cock above, didn't care at all. He was observing the people present.
As expected, the princes, grandsons, and princes all live in different circles. Most of the people here are unknown to him. Most of them are the princes, grandsons, and relatives of the emperor. As for Zhang Su, many people knew him, and people kept greeting him along the way.
The three of them found a relatively empty place to sit down, and then they saw that the battle above had come to an end. After all, the black chicken was unstoppable and pecked the opponent to death.
Prince Duan's proud laughter could not be suppressed and spread in all directions.
I saw a young man with a dark face suddenly jump on the stage, and a few black feet kicked towards the arrogant and arrogant black rooster. It was so startled that it screamed "coo-coo" and ran away.
"Wei Ling, are you still shameless?!" Crown Prince Duan was extremely angry and hurriedly ran up to protect his beloved wife.
The fourth prince, who had already received a kick and was in a much better mood, saw that the opportunity had been lost, so he stopped taking action. He just put his hands on his hips and cursed: "You are so proud of yourself. If my general Shenwei hadn't been killed by my father, , you are nothing but a nigger, you are just a defeated general!
Forget it, I have recently changed my hobby and fell in love with cricket fighting. If you can beat me in cricket fighting, then I will be convinced of you. "
Prince Duan sneered and said, "You are still like that. You always talk harshly when you lose. Who knew you were going to fight crickets today? I didn't bring you with me. How could I fight with you?"
"Crickets are easy to deal with. There are a lot of crickets in the grass outside my yard. Go and pick them up quickly. With the light of my new mansion, you might be able to pick up an invincible one. Don't worry, I won't take them away then. It’s your money.”
"Huh, do you think I'm a fool?"
Two people quarreled in front of dozens of young men, but everyone took it for granted and just treated it like watching a show. Until a rather majestic young voice came from under the eaves of the front corridor: "Okay, we are all children of the royal family. How unbecoming are you two arguing back and forth on the stage? Come down and leave the competition stage to everyone."
Hearing this voice, even Crown Prince Duan, whose nostrils were pointing upwards, quickly turned around, bowed, and then looked at each other with disapproval and jumped off the stage.
