"Sooner or later I will settle this account with the Lin family."
Su Chen's eyes were indifferent. Anyone who dared to scheme against him behind his back would never end well.
If before, Su Chen's grudge was limited to Lin Wei and Lin Cheng, two juniors of the Lin family, but now, the scope of this grudge has expanded to the entire Lin family.
"Little friend Chen, actually I am here this time to give you an invitation."
King He Yandan got to the point.
"What invitation?"
Su Chen asked.
King He Yandan took out an invitation. This invitation was gilded on the outside and had a gem inlaid in the middle. It was the most luxurious invitation Su Chen had ever seen in his life.
"The Empress Dowager in the palace has her birthday next month. According to the Empress Dowager's wishes, she wants to make it a lively event, so she invites the rich and powerful of the imperial capital, as well as top figures from all walks of life."
"You are the champion of the alchemy competition, and you are considered a new member of the imperial capital. You are also invited, so I came here today specifically to bring you the invitation."
Su Chen took the invitation and said: "The Queen Mother's birthday party?"
King He Yandan nodded: "How about it, do you want to go and have a look? In my opinion, this is a good occasion for you. Many young talents of the imperial capital will be invited to the banquet. Maybe there will be an opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas.
."
"Okay, I'll go."
Su Chen put away the invitation and thanked King He Yandan.
…
For the next period of time, Su Chen continued to practice with great concentration.
Time soon arrived at the beginning of next month, the day of the Queen Mother’s birthday banquet.
Early in the morning, Su Chen woke up from meditation.
If anyone was present at this moment, they would have noticed that there seemed to be two invisible small swords spinning in his eyes that he had just opened.
"Finally, I have cultivated the "Ninth Level of Sword Origin" to the third level."
Su Chen felt the true meaning of kendo surging in his body. For a moment, he was affected by the sharp energy of kendo.
The individual is also like a sharp sword reaching into the sky, with astonishing momentum, as if it can poke a hole in the sky.
moment.
Su Chen calmed down his momentum, took a bath with hot water, and changed his clothes.
Then, he walked out of the gate of Rongxian Chamber of Commerce and walked towards the palace.
The Queen Mother's birthday banquet was held in the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the palace.
In this life, Su Chen came to the Yunyuan Empire Palace for the first time. Looking from a distance, the entire palace complex stretched endlessly, which was quite spectacular.
The Liu family, the royal family of the Yunyuan Empire, has been working here for more than seven hundred years.
As far as Su Chen knew, the Liu family, the royal family of the Yunyuan Empire, was a branch of the Liu family, one of the eight ancient families in Dongzhou.
It is precisely because of this that although the Yunyuan Empire is relatively weak among the Thirteen Kingdoms of Dongzhou, it has always been able to maintain peace without any war. The reason is the support and protection of the Liu family.
Su Chen came to the entrance of the palace and showed the invitation given to him by King He Yandan to the palace guard.
"Hey, Mr. Chen?" a voice came from behind.
Su Chen looked back and saw Guan Fan, the head of the Guan family, wearing a military uniform and leading a group of senior officials of the Guan family striding from behind.
"Guan Guogong."
Su Chen said hello.
Guan Fan looked in high spirits and said with a smile: "Master Chen is also here to attend the birthday banquet of the Queen Mother?"
"Yes, what a coincidence, I met Guan Guogong again."
Su Chen also smiled. The Guan family is a royal family, and its status in the imperial capital is second only to the royal family. It is normal for them to attend the Queen Mother's birthday banquet.
"Where is Concubine Guan?" Su Chen asked.
"I have returned to the palace a while ago, no
If something unexpected happens, she should also attend today's birthday party."
Guan Fan said, warmly inviting Su Chen, "Let's go in together."
Su Chen and Guan Fan walked side by side towards the palace gate.
At this moment, many dignitaries from the imperial capital gathered at the entrance of the palace to attend the Queen Mother's birthday banquet. They were all very surprised when they saw Su Chen and Guan Fan walking side by side!
What surprised them was that Guan Fan, as a dignified prince, would actually walk side by side with a very young boy?
The young man was wearing a black mask, and someone recognized him. He was the first place winner in the Imperial Capital Alchemy Competition that had ended.
Some people recognized that the young man was also the owner of the Rongxian Chamber of Commerce, which had recently become famous in the imperial capital.
However, that's just it. What kind of charm does a young alchemy genius and a businessman have that can make Guan Guogong such a courteous and virtuous corporal walk side by side with him?
Many people's expressions were full of confusion, and the looks they looked at Su Chen were filled with all kinds of expressions.
In this way, Su Chen and Guan Fan walked into the palace gate.
As soon as I entered the palace gate, I felt a burst of fresh air. It was the middle of winter in November, but inside the palace compound, flowers were blooming everywhere, making the entire palace compound look like spring.
generally.
Obviously, this was specially prepared in advance for the Queen Mother's birthday.
Su Chen knew that making the palace compound present such a spring-like scene all year round would be a costly and labor-intensive project.
You need to hire a formation master to arrange the spiritual energy formation to facilitate the growth of plants, and you also need to hire a spiritual planter to match the plants. These two items alone cost a lot.
"The emperor must be quite filial, and he can arrange the palace courtyard like this to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday." Su
Chen chatted casually.
Unexpectedly, Guan Fan shook his head: "What Young Master Chen said is wrong... The relationship between the Emperor and the Queen Mother is average, and the Emperor has been in poor health recently and has not appeared in the court for a long time. Even today's birthday banquet for the Queen Mother
, I’m not even sure whether the emperor will attend.”
When Su Chen heard this, he felt surprised that the emperor did not attend the Queen Mother's birthday banquet. This kind of thing was really uncommon.
"Then who ordered the palace compound to be arranged like this?" Su Chen asked.
Guan Fandao: "It's Prince Rui. The relationship between Prince Rui and the Queen Mother has always been very good. He is recognized as a filial son. Even the Queen Mother's birthday banquet was organized by him."
While talking, the two came to the open square in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
At this moment, nearly a thousand tables have been placed in the open-air square, large and small banquets, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.
Even Guan Fan couldn't help but be speechless and said: "Such a large-scale birthday banquet is really rare in the past ten years. It seems that Prince Rui really spent a lot of money to hold a lively birthday banquet for the Queen Mother this time.
.”
With that said, Guan Fan turned to Su Chen and whispered: "By the way, Mr. Chen, if we see Prince Rui later, we must remember not to have a head-on conflict with him. Prince Rui holds great power in this palace, and he has great power."
The tiger talisman of the inner guard in red is in his hand, so it would be no good for us to have a confrontation with him here."
Su Chen was noncommittal. Last time, the Guan family and Prince Rui did have an unpleasant quarrel because of the incident at the Motie Mine. Prince Rui seemed to hold a grudge against Su Chen because of it.
"Prince Rui has so much power? He also controls the tiger talisman of the Red Guard?" According to Su Chen's knowledge, the tiger talisman of the imperial guards is generally in charge of the emperor himself, or at worst, it is in charge of the emperor's close associates.
Chapter completed!