Chapter 213 and the mud
Chapter 213 and the dirt
Seeing the newly married Li Mao and his bride Yang Yuhuan also come to Xiliu Villa, King Guang Li Ju showed a fleeting expression of astonishment on his face, and then he happily greeted him.
"The Eighteenth brother is here too! This Tuesday is really unreasonable, and he actually keeps me in the dark!"
When Li Mao saw a royal brother and a cousin who actually came to Xiliu Villa for a trip, he immediately showed a happy expression and said happily: "Today, Yu Niang pestered me on an outing. Unexpectedly, he met the starling and Hua Nu Ge here!"
Li Mao ranked 18th among many princes, and Li Ju ranked 8th among the elders, so he was called this.
As a landlord, Zhou Chengye was busy again and introduced the guests around him to King Shou and the Princess one by one.
Regardless of what everyone was thinking or thinking, Zhou Chengye, Yang Yuyao and his wife warmly greeted the men and women guests to climb up the stairs and walked towards the top of the hill with a smile.
The reason why this "king to king" situation today is naturally the result of Zhou Chengye's careful planning.
After inquiring from multiple sources, it was confirmed on Tuesday that Li Longji had not clearly expressed the intention of deposing Prince Li Ying at this time. Conspiracy between Wu Huifei and Li Linfu against Li Ying, Li Yao and Li Ju are still brewing, so he was happy to pretend that he didn't know anything, and simply invited the two parties who might have conflicts in the future, and brought a witness Li Ju.
According to Tuesday's analysis, Li Ju did not realize that a conspiracy against their three brothers "258" was brewing, and Li Mao did not realize that his mother was trying to spare no effort to win the status of the crown prince for him in order to survive the empress dowager's addiction.
Li Ju realized this later because he had not seen clearly that he had always been kind and kind, but actually had a cold-blooded and cruel side; Li Mao was so confused and never thought about the position of prince at all, because he was cowardly by nature and did not like to fight with others, and was already very satisfied with his current life.
As mentioned earlier, before Li Mao was born, Wu Huier had two children, but unfortunately died prematurely. In order to support this child, Li Longji even fostered Li Mao in the mansion of his elder brother Li Xian since childhood, and Li Guan was Li Xian's son, so he had a good relationship with Li Guan like his brother.
Zhou Chengye remembered that one of Wu Huier's methods of dealing with the three brothers "258" was frame-up, saying that Li Ying, Li Yao and Li Ju often got together and plotted to kill many fathers.
In order to secretly help Li Ju, Zhou Chengye thought of this method to pull Li Ju and Li Mao together.
Although this kind of method is simple, it is really useful.
Li Ju is both good at poetry and prose and has great talent. It is natural to get together with the second young master of the Zhou family, Li Bai, Du Fu and other famous scholars who are famous in Chang'an. Li Juan is happy to drink and enjoy himself, and is Zhou Chengye's immediate boss. It is normal for people to come to attend parties held by his subordinates occasionally. Li Mao is easy-going and likes to have banquets. Princess Yang Yuhuan is also the biological sister of Yang Yuyao, the wife of Zhou Chengye. It is reasonable for the two families to walk around frequently.
Others such as He Zhizhang, Wu Zhong, Wang Fen, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and others also have their own grand reasons to come to attend the party. In short, people will not catch the handle and will think randomly in the direction of forming cliques and gathering people to rebel.
As for the arrival of the two little guys Zhang Jinyu, grandson of Zhang Jiuling and Gao Qi, son of Gao Lishi, although it is not very noticeable, there is also some meaning behind it.
The camping bonfire party that was created on Tuesday was a young man, a man and a woman, a royal relative, and a commoner. No matter how you look, it looks like a steaming pot of Northeast stew, making people unable to think about it in other places.
Everyone followed Zhou Chengye to the top of the hill. Although they were not very tired, they also felt a little sweat.
At this time, the cool breeze of early summer blew gently, and the afterglow of the sunset spread across the hills. Looking at it, you can still vaguely see Mount Li not far away standing pavilion.
After being in the cage for a long time, I can return to nature.
Although Xiliu Villa is not a famous place and there are no beautiful mountains and rivers for viewing, everyone still feels cool and comfortable and happy.
The felt for people to sit on the ground has been laid, and the fire of oil smoke is sizzling from the fiery red barbecue. The actor and dancer have already sung on the temporary stage. The rich aroma of wine fills the clearings in the forest.
Without waiting for Tuesday to greet, everyone rushed into the campfire and a happy and relaxed party began.
Li Bai couldn't resist the clamor of everyone, so he got up and performed a sword dance. Li Ju was so jealous that he pulled out his sword from his waist and danced with him. Du Fu was moved when he saw it, but because he was not good at sword skills, he improvised to recite the poem of the Sword Immortal in the Drinking Festival.
Li Feng fell in love with "Doudizhu" and forced Wu Zhong, Wang Fen and He Zhizhang to pull together. The four of them threw a deck of cards and cracked each other from time to time.
Li Mao inherited the artistic bacteria of Li Longji, was proficient in music, and liked singing and dancing. He and his princess Yang Yuhuan performed on stage. One held the rhythm of the Ke drum beater and the other danced with a long sleeve like a fairy descending to earth to win a lot of applause.
Zhang Jinyu and Gao Qi stared at each other and played Lu Zhanqi. Guo Yuanzhong fanned the fire and acted as the referee. The Yang sisters and female relatives such as Guo Yuanjing gathered together and whispered to each other, but the things they were talking about were related to their own men. Zhou Chengye took Pei Hean, Li Ziyan, Xie Junming, Ouyang Chen and others to shuttle between the crowd, and from time to time he gave a glass of wine to the bosses in the field.
The royal guards who came from the royal palaces were arranged in another place not far away. The Zhou family guards accompanied them to drink and have fun, and they learned some martial arts and sword skills from each other, which was also relaxed and comfortable.
I had fun all night, and after everyone had fun, it was already midnight.
When we came, we had already agreed that we were attending a campfire party, so we naturally had to live on the top of the mountain outside.
The tents for temporary residence have been set up long ago, and they are separated from each other for a distance. Although they are not very far away, no one can hear the whispers in the tent.
The entire mountain bag was surrounded by hundreds of guards and dozens of hunting dogs at this time. Unless someone landed vertically from the air, he would not want to cross the guards' alert to enter the camping place.
Most of the guests who came to the party did not bring their female relatives. For the sake of fairness, everyone simply separated the men and women. The men lived in tents east of Shanbao, while the women lived in tents west of Shanbao.
A tent can accommodate two to four people. Zhou Chengye did not ask everyone for advice and directly grouped according to his own wishes.
Li Ju, Li Ju and Li Mao were naturally divided into a tent; He Zhizhang, Meng Haoran, Wang Wei and Wang Fen were divided into a tent; Wu Zhong, Zhou Chengzhi, Xie Junming and Ouyang Chen were divided into a tent; Pei He'an, Guo Yuanzhong and Li Ziyan were divided into a tent; Zhou Chengye himself gathered into a tent with Zhang Jinyu and Gao Qi.
It is even simpler for the female guests. The three Yang daughters and a Zhou daughter-in-law gathered in a tent, chatting about family matters all night, and no one fell asleep at all.
Zhou Chengye was lying in the tent, secretly happy in his heart.
During the party, he clearly saw that Li Ju, Wu Zhong and others seemed to want to say something to him alone, but because of the crowd, he could not speak. After the party ended, he went to sleep in the tent of his two children on Tuesday, and did not give them the opportunity to speak privately.
It was the landlord on Tuesday, so it was most appropriate for him to take care of the two children. It was reasonable for the other tent staff to be grouped together, and no one could find any fault.
"Now is not the time to take sides. I care whether you are a ** or a concubine party. Since you have come to Xiliu Villa, you have to follow my arrangements!"
After saying this in his heart, Zhou Er fell asleep peacefully.
The next day, before noon, the guests staying at the top of the mountain retreated, and after a fresh and seasonal "farmhouse" in the village, they returned to Chang'an in a mighty manner.
Zhou Chengye originally planned to accompany the team to leave Xiliu Villa, but Xiao Liuzi suddenly came to report something, but left him in the village.
Xiao Liuzi took advantage of the fact that everyone was on the bus and had some confidence to report to Zhou Chengye: "Erlang, after my careful observation recently, I think Xiu Guba has probably regained his mind, but for some reason, she still pretended to be ignorant and did not want to live a normal life."
Zhou Chengye nodded softly and whispered: "Go and call Lao Wu and several children into the hall. I have something to ask everyone later."
After seeing off all the VIPs, Zhou Chengye immediately came to the reception room of the owner's mansion. Sure enough, he saw that Wu Jing and his six children were in place.
"I have a small task here that requires everyone to cooperate. You must cooperate with each other and act in the real world..."
We quickly assigned tasks to everyone on Tuesday and waited for good news to come.
Zeng Qixiu has moved to Xiliu Village for almost four months. This period was the quietest and worry-free period in her life. After a period of cultivation, she gradually no longer feared to recall the painful experience that lasted more than ten years in her dungeon. She began to go through this black years and memories.
Zeng Qixiu recalled how he was still a girl's house, remembered his parents, brother, sister-in-law and sister, and also remembered the elder brother who left home to learn martial arts when he was urinating.
Surrounded by a group of happy children like magpies every day, Zeng Qixiu's long-dead heart gradually recovered and began to grow a bud called hope.
However, whenever she remembered the ravages and tortures she had endured in the black prison, she was ashamed to admit her identity. She felt that living carefree as she was now is good. Even if she pretended to be stupid, it would be better than when she met her brother and sister, and let herself experience the heart-wrenching feeling again.
On this day, the children gathered around her as usual, some helped her comb her hair, some pinched her shoulders and rubbed her feet, some sang, and some told jokes.
As he was talking, a little boy suddenly whispered: "Have you heard of it? Something happened to Uncle Zeng!"
"Which Uncle Zeng?"
"So stupid! It's Xiu Gu's biological brother, and the master's master, Mr. Zeng, is the housekeeper!"
"I heard that Uncle Zeng is very good at martial arts and has a very strong position in the Zhou family. All the guards listened to him very much. How could something happen to such a powerful person?"
"Uncle Zeng is really amazing, but when he saw Xiu Gu's current appearance, he felt very sad. He felt that it was all her who harmed Xiu Gu. So he quietly went to Kaifeng to take revenge on his back, but was plotted against by the Pei family. His life and death are not clear now!"
Xiu Gu, who had been pretending to be nothing, suddenly heard the children say that something happened to Zeng Qiliang, and suddenly stood up anxiously. (To be continued.
Chapter completed!