Qi Zhu felt secretly resentful in his heart, but he still stood up and saluted, "I have seen Mr. Cao Guo..."
"Look, you can't avoid this drink!" Li Jinglong said with a hearty smile, "You can't escape the fate between us brothers. Even if you don't give me a favor, don't you think it's happened? "
In Qi's heart, she gritted her teeth again.
He has been an official all his life and has reached the level of a feudal official. Why can't he understand the meaning of Li Jinglong's words?
"You hide! Where can you hide? As long as you are in the capital, don't say you don't eat after lunch. Even if you were born unable to eat, you still have to cook two bowls of sorghum rice for me..."
"Dong Cao Guo!" He Rong said with a smile, "Xiao Qi is half of my hometown. If he doesn't eat your food, don't pick on him. Not only can't you pick on him, but you will also have to take care of him when you need to take care of him in the future..." ..."
"That's necessary!" Li Jinglong laughed and said, "In this day and age, to put it bluntly, the only people who can sit at the same fucking table to eat are either relatives or friends! We are all on our own, and if our own people don't help our own people, it's nothing. One of our own?"
The so-called showing courtesy for nothing is either adultery or theft!
Qi Zhu has lived for most of his life and still understands this truth. Now that He Rong and Li Jinglong are singing and singing, they are half fellow villagers and their own people, he understands that he is determined to be the pirate ship today.
As for what kind of thief it is, I’ll tell you after you do it!
But generally speaking, he already had some judgment, because in the morning, when he was in the Forbidden City, Zhang Hao gave him face-to-face instructions.
"Now that the sea is about to open, you are the chief secretary of Guangdong. And the emperor has temporarily reused you and asked you to serve as the minister of the Ministry of Works starting from August, and to sit in Guangdong as an imperial envoy to build the seaport... "
"You have to know that you are a big piece of fat now! Everyone wants to win over you and take a bite of you."
"The most greedy people in the court are nothing more than two groups. One is the Huaixi nobles headed by Cao Guogong. The other is the eldest son of the fourth prince's family..."
"Actually, the former is okay. As long as the money they make is not excessive, it can still be discussed. But the latter, he is in charge of Zongzheng Mansion... The princes in Beijing now, as well as the vassal princes who are about to be separated, are all waiting Do you want money?"
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Li Jinglong smiled and sat down on the side seat. Behind him was a burly man. Although he was not introduced, he was also wearing a python robe, which showed that his status was very important.
The table was full of warriors, Qi Zuo lowered his head helplessly.
"Mr. Cao Guo!" Zhang Quan poured wine for each person one by one and said with a smile, "Since you are late, you have to drink one drink as a penalty!"
"No!" Li Jinglong smiled and waved his hands, "To tell you the truth, this junior almost died last year!"
"Ah?" Zhang Quan was stunned, and Qi Zhu also subconsciously raised his head.
"I felt a little depressed that day. I drank alcohol at home and accidentally drank too much. My brains were sweating and my heart was burning!" Li Jinglong continued, "I just wanted to go out for some fresh air, but guess what happened?"
Zhang Quan subconsciously asked, "What's wrong?"
"As soon as I went out, the wind just blew!" Li Jinglong slapped his thigh, "Plop, he was lying there unconscious, vomiting, twitching all over..."
"Hiss..." Zhang Quan took a breath of air.
"That means I am lucky!" Li Jinglong continued, "There is an immortal in the palace..."
He Rong said to Zhang Quan, "I told you, the old emperor was someone who could not be separated from him for a moment!"
"Yeah!" Zhang Quan couldn't help but nodded.
"Xi Shenxian took a pulse, I have an evil wind entering my head!" Li Jinglong continued, "I was busy with magic elixirs and acupuncture for half the night, and after closing the hell gate and walking around, I barely managed to save this little life. !”
"I'm not afraid of your jokes. When I first woke up, I was walking with my left foot on the bottom and my right foot making circles, six on my left hand and seven on my right... It was even difficult to put on my pants."
At this point, he slapped his knee and said, "Look, it's just this leg. It's hard to walk now..."
"Is this a bad leg?" Zhang Quan stared.
"I can't go back to Wan'er!" Li Jinglong said, "From then on, for the sake of my own life, after listening to Xi Shenxian's words, I will not drink at all!"
"Then..." He Rong thought about it and said, "If you don't drink, how can you accompany Xiao Qi..."
Qi said, ".........."
He stared helplessly at the opposite side and pulled the ball for a long time, but he didn't want to suddenly click the corner and turn to him.
"So! I have brought someone to accompany Master Qi!" Li Jinglong smiled at Qi, then pointed at the man in python robe beside him, "Let me introduce to you, the eldest son of the former Dingyuan Marquis, Anyuan Marquis Wang De, is now an official The Commander-in-Chief of the Rear Army of the Fifth Army Commander’s Mansion!”
Qi Zhu quickly stood up, shaking his dizzy head, and saluted solemnly, "I have met the Marquis!"
Wang De's father was Wang Bi, who was a peerless warrior who followed Lan Yu in the fishing sea and almost caught the Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty...
Moreover, the Wang family now has two marquises. The eldest son is the Marquis of Anyuan, and the second son is the Marquis of Xiting...
Although he came from a family of warriors, Wang De showed none of the arrogance and rudeness of a warrior. Instead, he stood up and returned the greeting, "I have long admired Qi Buzheng's name. I am honored to meet you!"
As he spoke, he picked up the wine glass and said, "The two veteran military lords are seniors, and Qi Buzheng is also a founding hero..."
"The founding hero..." Qi Zhu was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that this was coming from his father-in-law, Xu Ben.
"You're not even an outsider when you say that!" Wang De continued with a smile, "I'm late because I made the two marquises and Qi Buzheng wait for a long time, so I'll drink three glasses first..."
"Don't......."
Before Qi Zhe could exclaim, Wang De had already picked up the wine glass and dropped it with his hand.
Just like drinking water, drink three glasses of water.
Qi Zhu was dumbfounded, but he could also see clearly that the wine seemed to have flowed down his throat without even seeing Wang De's Adam's apple move.
"It's great!" He Rong and Zhang Quan laughed in unison, "What a boy, like a man!!"
"I have finished drinking the fine wine!" Wang De smiled slightly and looked at Qi Zhu with the wine glass in his hand, "Now this glass is dedicated to Qi Buzheng alone..."
"The drink you just drank was not a penalty drink. This drink you drank was a penalty drink for me. You are saying that I will drink a penalty drink if I toast..."
Qi Zhu sighed in his heart and glanced at Li Jinglong.
The latter met his gaze with a smile, not concealing the other meaning behind it.
This look made Qi Zhao understand.
I gave you all the face I deserved!
Two princes, a count, and a duke...
Such a big scene is just to get myself on the pirate ship... If I don't get on the pirate ship, I may drown in the future...
"Xiaguan, I would like to thank several princes, princes, and Uncle Dongguan for their kindness. I specially set up a wine for Xiaguan..."
Now that he had thought about it, Qi Zhu no longer had the burden, and simply started to feel weird.
"I am just the chief minister of a province, but I am so lucky to receive such courtesy!"
This is the opposite, but it actually means, "You are so powerful that you can force a frontier official to look like this!"
"The prince wants to pay respect to the official..." Qi held up the cup and said with a smile, "Drinking is fine, but if you drink all the cups, the official will be afraid... before you even eat the food. Too drunk!"
What he said about eating vegetables is actually saying that you haven't stated your intentions yet!
"Actually, this is the drunkest time Xiaguan has ever been in his life so far!" Qi Zhu continued to laugh, "That was the year when he was named on the gold medal list. Emperor Taizu Gao held a banquet in Fengtian Hall, and Xiaguan Fang was the first... .... Emperor Taizu Gao heard that the official was the son-in-law of the Xu family, so he was specially rewarded with an extra jug of wine..."
As he said that, he put down his wine glass and looked at it with a smile.
The meaning is obvious, "I, Qi Zhuo, have less official power than you, but I am also a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty and a disciple of the Emperor!"
"Only the Emperor, I must do whatever you want me to do! And since you want to beg me, don't do this trick..."