A big tree attracts wind, a gun strikes the bird, and a tree is revealed in the forest, and a wind will destroy it. Master Zhang finally knows the meaning of these words, and begins to regret that he is too famous and has a strong reputation in the capital. The reason is that Master Zhang’s master and servant are on the excuse of going out for a trip. He just sneaked out of the inn with silver notes and jewelry on his back. Before he went out, he was stopped by more than a dozen servants from different families. They all held prayer letters and big red invitations in their hands, and said in a hurry: "I would like to pay my respects to Mr. Tanhua. My master is the minister of the family, Lord Yang Suxiu, and I want to ask Mr. Tanhua to move to my house for dinner. Mr. Tanhua must enjoy the scenery."

"Tanhua Gong, my master, Zhou Rupan, Minister of Rites, set up a banquet at home and invites Tanhua Gong to the banquet."

"Tanhua Gong, the youngest one is the servant of the minister Huang Liji and Huang. My master wants to invite Tanhua Gong to enjoy the banquet."

"Tanhua Gong, Master Gao Digao, the Minister of War, wants to invite you..."

"Thank you, thank you for your kindness." The banquet of the flatterers came overwhelmed. Master Zhang was panicked and had to refuse repeatedly, saying, "I'm really sorry, I've made an appointment to meet someone today. I really can't take time to go to the banquet. Please report to you all, Zhang Haogu will definitely come to apologize again."

Master Zhang insisted that he had made an appointment today, and those servants who sent the invitations dared to force Master Zhang to accept it. He just nodded and smiled and asked Master Zhang to accept his master's greetings, so that Master Zhang knew their master's respect for Zhang Da Tanhua. Master Zhang had a headache but was helpless, so he had to let Zhang Shitou take it one by one and thank him politely. But at this moment, a group of people suddenly came to the gate of Liansheng Inn, carrying two sedan chairs and stopped in front of Liansheng Inn. The curtain of one of the sedan chairs was lifted, and a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties pushed the crowd away and walked to Master Zhang. Without saying a word, he knelt down on his knees and kowtowed respectfully and said: "Nephew Gu Tianxin, I wish my uncle a blessing as good as the East China Sea and a long life than the South Mountain."

"You...Who are you?" Master Zhang was stunned and thought to himself, when did a nephew come out? Judging from his age, it seems that how many years older than my current father?

"Uncle Zhang, I am your nephew Gu Tianxin." The middle-aged man who was old enough to be the couple of Master Zhang raised his head and said with a smile: "Gu Bingqian, the chief assistant of my father's cabinet, is the adopted son of his 9,000-year-old man. Uncle Zhang, you are also the adopted son of the 9,000-year-old man. By seniority, your nephew Gu Tianxin should call you uncle."

"Oh, it turns out to be such a nephew." Master Zhang suddenly realized. The servants sent by officials at all levels next to him gave an exaggerated surprise and made up their minds--after returning, they must report this matter to their master as soon as possible and let his master slap Zhang Datanhua's flattery heavier. On this side, Master Zhang was embarrassed to let a man older than his father always kneel in front of him, and quickly helped Gu Tianxin up with both hands and said politely: "Good nephew, please come up. Although your father and I are already brothers, we have not yet expressed our brotherly rituals. Nephew must not be so polite."

"What my uncle said is so, my father and my nephew think so too." Gu Tianxin beat the snake and followed the stick and said respectfully: "So my father has already set up a banquet at home, and sent my nephew to welcome my uncle. First, I want to invite my uncle to the shabby house to have a banquet, and second, my father wants to take this opportunity to share the same family affection with my uncle and perform brotherly rituals. I hope my uncle will not refuse." As he said that, Gu Tianxin pointed to the sedan chair he brought and said respectfully: "Uncle, please see, in order to show respect to my uncle, my father is afraid of violating the court rules, so it is not convenient to send an official sedan chair to welcome his uncle, so he specially asked my nephew to bring the four-carrying private sedan chair he usually sat on to welcome his uncle through the mansion."

If it were a few days ago, Gu Bingqian, the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, the Young Tutor, the Grand Tutor of the Prince, the Minister of Personnel and the Chief Cabinet of the dynasty, sent someone to welcome Mr. Zhang to the banquet, and wanted to be brothers with Mr. Zhang, so Mr. Zhang would agree immediately. After all, having a relationship with a high-ranking official like Gu Bingqian is very beneficial to Mr. Zhang's future. But today is different. Mr. Zhang, who is already planning to leave, now hopes that his popularity will be as small as possible. How dare he become sworn brothers with Gu Bingqian and let more people stare at him? So Mr. Zhang couldn't help but secretly wiped his cold sweat and quickly refused: "Nephew, I'm really sorry, I've made an appointment today..."

"Uncle." Gu Tianxin didn't give Mr. Zhang an excuse at all. He held Mr. Zhang's hand and said sincerely: "My nephew had heard that someone had an appointment today, but it doesn't matter. It's still early now. Uncle, please go with my nephew to sit in the house first, and share the brotherhood with my father, and then go to the appointment again?"

"But the time I made an appointment with him is now." Mr. Zhang wanted to refuse. But Gu Tianxin asked again: "Then my nephew dared to ask, I wonder who my uncle has an appointment with? My nephew can send someone to explain to him. If my uncle's friend is convenient, my nephew can also take him into the house to meet with my uncle. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

"This..." Master Zhang was a little stunned, but seeing Gu Tianxin's bad posture, he seemed to have never given up until he took Master Zhang to his house for dinner. Master Zhang had no idea, and was afraid that someone would see the flaws when he continued to get entangled with Gu Tianxin, so he had to grit his teeth and say, "Okay, then I will go to Gu Ge's home with my nephew first, and then go to the appointment." After that, Master Zhang turned around and winked at Zhang Shitou, and ordered: "Shitou, go to my friend's place first, explain the reason for my lateness, and I will come."

Zhang Shitou understood it and knew that Master Zhang wanted to prepare the ship to escape first. At the same time, he had an excuse to get out of Gu Bingqian as soon as possible. He nodded and replied, "Yes, don't worry, Master." At that moment, the master and servant acted separately. Master Zhang got into Gu Bingqian's sedan chair and rushed to Gu's mansion. Zhang Shitou first rushed to the canal wharf to hire a ship, and when Master Zhang came out of Gu's family, he would leave immediately.

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Gu Bingqian's house is located in Lige Lao Hutong in Xicheng, Beijing. It is not too far from Liansheng Inn where Mr. Zhang lives. However, for Mr. Zhang now, this journey seems extremely long - it seems like he will never walk. There are two reasons for this. The first reason is that Mr. Zhang is very anxious now, and the second reason is that the sedan chair that Mr. Zhang is sitting in. The sedan chair that Mr. Zhang is not only a four-carriage sedan, but also many Gu family servants are rushing in front and behind the sedan. So walking on the street naturally attracted attention and pointed and scared Mr. Zhang so much that he quickly lowered the window curtains of the sedan's sedan's sedan's sedan's windows before and after not long after he left, so that more people would know him and cause unexpected trouble.

"It's unfair!" Master Zhang must have gone out today but didn't look at the imperial calendar. He was already anxious and confused. He was about to be at the gate of the Gu Mansion, and a new accident appeared again. With a shrill cry for injustice, a girl squeezed out of the crowd and rushed to Master Zhang's sedan chair and knelt down on her knees, raised her hands in blood, and shouted in a tragic voice: "It's unfair! The people's women are wronged. Please ask the chief assistant Gu Ge Lao to avenge the people!"

"Huh? The sound is so familiar?" Master Zhang looked out from the crack in the sedan curtain in confusion, but after just one look, Master Zhang was stunned again - the person who was kneeling outside the sedan chair and shouting for justice was Xiong Hu who had left without saying goodbye a few days ago! At this time, Gu Tianxin poked his fat head out of the sedan chair behind and cursed angrily: "The bold and scheming woman dares to stop the sedan chair and make trouble? Come on, drag this scheming woman away!"

"Get order!" Gu's family members agreed excitedly, pounced on Xiong Hu like a wolf and tiger, and took the opportunity to touch her. Xiong Hu did not dare to resist, but just struggled desperately and cried, "Gei Master Gu, the people's women have wronged! The people's women have wronged, please ask the parents to seek justice for the people's women!"

"Stop it all!" Seeing the Gu family's servant dared to pull Xiong Hu's little hand directly from the curtain, Master Zhang Wuming suddenly became angry and couldn't help but shout in the sedan: "Stop it, let her go!"

When everyone heard the voice of Mr. Zhang, they knew that Mr. Zhang was a distinguished guest of Mr. Gu Bingqian, and they were stunned. They subconsciously stopped pulling Xiong Hu. Xiong Hu was also stunned. They thought that this voice was so familiar yesterday? Fortunately, Gu Tianxin, who was in the sedan chair behind, also came out of the sedan chair and came to the window of Mr. Zhang's sedan chair, nodded and bowed, "Uncle, I'm so sorry, I accidentally let this foolish woman disturb you, and I made my uncle laugh. My nephew asked someone to drive away a fool."

"It turns out it's Gu Bingqian's brother, so it must be not him." Xiong Hu breathed a sigh of relief, thankful and worried, "Oh no, it seems that I stopped the wrong sedan and called for justice, and stopped the sedan of Gu Bingqian's brothers. What should I do?" Master Zhang whispered in the sedan again: "Nephew, bring this woman to your doorman's doorman. I have something to ask her alone."

"Would you like to ask her alone?" Gu Tianxin was a little surprised, and then glanced at Xiong Hu's appearance. Gu Tianxin suddenly realized that his godfather's godson was indeed all the same--eat or lustful. After understanding this, Gu Tianxin hurriedly laughed beside the eldest young master Zhang's sedan chair and said, "Uncle, although this girl is beautiful, she is not a top-notch guy. If your uncle likes her, my nephew will arrange a few for you when he goes back."

"Stop talking nonsense." Master Zhang shouted angrily: "If you don't agree, I'll get out of the sedan chair and take her away."

"Yes, yes." Gu Tianxin had no choice but to curse in his stomach and turn around and instruct, "Let go of this woman and take her back to the mansion." Xiong Hu was overjoyed when he heard this, thinking that he could have the opportunity to meet Gu Bingqian and Gu Pavilion Master, and I had the hope to hand the complaint to the emperor.

At that moment, Master Zhang and his party set off again. Behind the two sedans was a Xiong Hu, and soon arrived at the gate of Gu Bingqian's mansion. Gu Bingqian, who was over 70 years old, had already led a large group of children and grandchildren to guard the door. Just as Master Zhang lifted the curtain, the big strings of firecrackers were clattering. Gu Bingqian's more than a dozen sons and grandchildren also knelt all over the floor, blocking Master Zhang's way out and couldn't get out of the sedan. He shouted in unison: "My nephew (grandson) pays his respects to his uncle (grandson) and wishes his uncle (grandson) all the best and a bright future."

"Oh no, I forgot to ask Zhang Shitou for some golden leaves to send wedding money." So many children and grandchildren suddenly appeared, and Master Zhang was inevitably at a loss. Fortunately, Gu Bingqian, with silver hair, obviously didn't care about these trivial matters. He just smiled happily and came to the sedan chair, personally helped Master Zhang get out of the sedan chair, and said with a smile: "Old brother, get out quickly, brother, have already prepared a banquet at home, and I'm waiting for you to start the meal."

"Thank you brother, brother, I really can't bear it anymore." Gu Bingqian, who is over 70 years old, can't help but blush. He quickly got out of the sedan chair and bowed to Gu Bingqian. But Gu Bingqian, who once took his son to worship Wei Zhongxian as his grandfather, has trained it. He just laughed and helped Master Zhang up and said intimately: "What are we polite brothers? Brother, if you are polite, you will not give your brother face. Hurry up, speak inside..."

"Ah——!" Before Gu Bingqian finished speaking, Xiong Hu, behind the team, was already screaming, pointing at Master Zhang who had just gotten out of the sedan chair, shouting in dismay: "It's you?! Are you the brother of Ge Ge, the chief assistant of the dynasty?"

"Yes, it's me." Master Zhang turned his face to look at Xiong Hu, and replied in embarrassment. Xiong Hu's pink face turned red at first, then turned his head and left. Master Zhang was anxious and quickly pushed Gu Bingqian away, followed him in two steps, grabbed Xiong Hu's little hand, and explained: "Hu'er, don't leave, listen to my explanation."

"What are you explaining? What else are you explaining? Go away! Don't let me miss your brilliant future!" Xiong Hu was also angry, crying and cursing, and slapped Master Zhang's face hard. It's a pity that Master Zhang was prepared for Xiong Hu's fierce temper and grabbed Xiong Hu's little hand in time, which avoided the scandal of Tanhualang being teased in the street.

A foolish woman tried to beat Jinke Tanhua, and there was naturally a chaos at the gate of Gu Bingqian's mansion. Seeing that there were too many people next to her, Master Zhang tightened Xiong Hu's hand and walked into the gate of Gu's mansion. Xiong Hu struggled and said, "What are you doing? Let me go?"

"Stop talking! I'll slap you again!" Master Zhang's eyes rolled, and he showed a fierce look. Not to mention, Master Zhang's murderous look was really majestic in despair. For a moment, he shocked Xiong Hu and was pulled away by Master Zhang involuntarily. Master Zhang turned to Gu Bingqian and shouted: "Old brother, I'll lend you your doorman to use, and I have a few words to say to this girl alone."
Chapter completed!