Chapter 33 The feast of fright
Wu Fan insisted on coming to the cover this time.
Because Wu Fan really didn't expect that if the ancient emperor had to go on a patrol, there would be so many rules. Before Wang Chengen finished speaking, Wu Fan was completely stunned. If he continued to do so, he might be defeated by the many etiquettes. So Wu Fan decided to not do any rituals at Wu Sangui's house this time and just go on a patrol with a micro-dress.
Wu Fan prepared a big set of rhetoric to convince Wang Chengen, but unexpectedly, as soon as he proposed to be submissive, Wang Chengen immediately agreed, which surprised Wu Fan.
In fact, Wu Fan didn't know that he was not in accordance with the rules at all when he went to his minister's house. It would take a month to report to the Ministry of Rites. Such hasty decisions would have made Wang Chengen feel extremely difficult. Of course, if Li Letong had not shown monster skills and Wu Fan's increasingly powerful martial arts skills, Wang Chengen would never have agreed to let Wu Fan leave the palace in a very indifferent manner. However, Wang Chengen saw that Wu Fan had made up his mind to go to Wu Sangui's mansion, so he naturally chose the fastest way.
Wu Fan didn't know that just before he left the palace, Wang Chengen had commanded nearly a thousand palace guards all over the way from the palace to the Wu Mansion. As long as there was a hint of possibility that threatened Wu Fan, a terrible scene similar to a mutiny would appear in the capital.
Wu Fan was holding a sandalwood paper fan in his hand. Of course, this fan was purely used to show off. It was late March of the lunar calendar, which was about 5.1. The temperature in the capital was not as hot as the fan was still in the same way.
When Wu Fan saw Wu Sangui kneeling down to greet him, he turned the paper fan in his hand twice, and said with a smile: "Get up quickly, there is no need for so many rules. The reason why I came here in vain is to chat and have a meal with Wu Aiqing like a friend. If you kneel down with so many people, what's the fun?"
Wu Sangui then got up from the ground, bowed slightly to Wu Fan, and said with a smile on his face, "The emperor treats me like this, which makes me both moved and panic. What moved is that the emperor is so kind to heaven, and the envoys are like spring breeze; what is frightened is that I cannot be diligent in the king's affairs and share my worries for the emperor."
Wu Sangui leaned over to Wu Fan. Li Letong behind Wu Fan couldn't help but glared with his eyes, and his feet were slightly pressed, and the big tendons behind him suddenly bulged. Su Zhenhai had been standing beside Li Letong, afraid that Li Letong would cause trouble, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand on Li Letong's collar and leaned his body next to Li Letong. Li Letong, who had always been a little afraid of the extremely smart Su Banxian, was pulled by Su Banxian, and immediately showed a silly smile, reached out to scratch the back of his head, and relaxed again.
With Wu Fan's listening skills practiced in the poisonous bee array, he had long noticed the strangeness of Li Letong behind him. Wu Fan did not expect that Li Letong would protect his master like this, and he felt proud in his heart. Anyone who had such a guard who had a monster level and was so loyal to him would feel that he would sleep more peacefully than usual.
Under the leadership of Wu Sangui, Wu Fan came to the main hall of the Wu Mansion. Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang led all his family to bow to Wu Fan again. As a modern person, Wu Fan was indeed a little uncomfortable with the red tape of this period. He shook his hand casually and said, "I came here in a secluded manner this time just to chat with Wu Aiqing like a friend. If you have always been so respectful, I will not eat any more. Let's go back. We don't follow the rules for this meal, just like an ordinary party. Just be happy, do you know?"
Wu Fan's words have reached this point, and Wu Sangui can no longer continue to show the joy of the king and his subjects. He simply relaxed and began to call on his family to prepare for the meal as if Wu Fan was just here to have a meal.
After the banquet began, Wu Fan naturally sat in the first place. Wang Chengen, Su Banxian and Li Letong were arranged in sequence on the left, and Wu Sangui, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui's brothers and sons were all sitting on the right. There were about fourteen or fifteen people.
Since Wu Fan was inexplicably selected by the devil, it has been a long time since a large table of people gathered together to eat and drink. After two glasses of wine, Wu Fan felt inexplicably as if he had gotten off work and had a drink and chat with his colleagues. His voice began to grow louder without realizing it. He even took the initiative to tell two jokes that were often told at the tables in later generations.
The jokes the emperor told in person were not funny at all, and the people here dared not not laugh, not to mention that the jokes Wu Fan told were really novel and giggling. The people on the table laughed so hard that they were laughing. Even the servants standing beside each other and the servants serving the food were giggling desperately.
After finishing laughing, Wu Sangui put the chopsticks on the dish in front of him and said to Wu Fan in a fun way: "The emperor's two jokes are so funny. I have never heard of them before, so I'm a little rude. Please don't blame me. I'm also telling the emperor about interesting things. This is not a joke. I just saw them on the battlefield when I was fighting against the Qing Tartars in Liaodong..."
After laughing a few times, the atmosphere completely relaxed. While we were drinking and drinking, everyone gradually forgot their usual etiquette. Li Letong even brought the wine glass to toast Wu Fan with a glass of wine. Wu Fan also regained the feeling in the wine court, and actually picked up the wine glass and started to circle according to the rules of the later wine courts.
After drinking a circle of wine, everyone else praised Wu Fan for being approachable in his heart, but he didn't know that Wu Fan had drunk a little too much. The wine level in ancient times was quite low in modern wine, but Wu Fan himself was not a person with a lot of alcohol. After drinking more than a dozen glasses of wine, his face turned red and he began to feel a little dizzy.
Perhaps because of alcohol, Wu Fan suddenly squinted his eyes and asked Wu Sangui, "Wu Aiqing, I heard that there is a beauty named Chen Yuanyuan by your side who is known as the best in the world. She is both singing and dancing. Why don't you ask her to come out and let me open my eyes?"
Wu Fan was used to the flying jokes in the wine shops in later generations, and speaking under the stimulation of alcohol was a bit too hard to speak. In all the film and television literary works in later generations, Chen Yuanyuan's name is essential, so he blurted out that he wanted to meet Chen Yuanyuan.
Unfortunately, Wu Fan didn't know that Chen Yuanyuan was originally a singer-songwriter bought from Jiangnan for a large price by Concubine Tian's father, who was preparing to send him to the palace to serve Chongzhen, and was prepared to compete for Concubine Tian and Empress Zhou's favor. Unfortunately, Chongzhen was not an emperor who was willing to indulge in beauty. In Chongzhen's eyes, the country was much more important than beauty. He just looked at Chen Yuanyuan from afar and asked Mr. Tian to take Chen Yuanyuan out of the palace. The reason for Chongzhen at that time was that Chen Yuanyuan's beauty was too amazing, and Chongzhen was afraid that he would be unable to extricate himself in the future. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, he did not want to leave this beauty in the palace.
After taking Chen Yuanyuan back to the mansion, Mr. Tian did not give up and still supported Chen Yuanyuan privately, preparing to find an opportunity to send him to the palace again. At this time, Wu Sangui once went to Mr. Tian’s mansion to drink. Mr. Tian was excited and sent someone to summon Chen Yuanyuan to sing for Wu Sangui. As a result, Wu Sangui fell in love with Chen Yuanyuan at a glance, and actually picked up Chen Yuanyuan on the table and said to Mr. Tian: "If you can give him Yuanyuan, I will protect your Tian family from harm." After that, he hugged Chen Yuanyuan and left the table.
At that time, the world was in chaos. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were in chaos in the Central Plains. In addition, the Qing Dynasty outside the pass was eyeing him, so Mr. Tian really wanted to rely on Wu Sangui who had heavy troops to protect him. He had no choice but to agree. After Wu Sangui returned home, he learned that Chen Yuanyuan had been sent to the palace. In shock, he blocked the news, fearing that Chongzhen would cause trouble for Chen Yuanyuan.
As a result, Wu Sangui never expected that Wu Fan came home this time just for Chen Yuanyuan. His face suddenly became gloomy and ugly. He hesitated to hold the wine glass in his hand. He didn't know if he should immediately recruit personal soldiers and turned against Wu Fan. The Wu family knew the details of this matter, and at the same time he was silent, looking at Wu Sangui without blinking, waiting for Wu Sangui's decision.
Of course, Wang Chengen understood the entanglement between Chongzhen, Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan. He immediately complained in his heart, wishing to give him a few words on the spot, but he couldn't even calculate it. The emperor actually came to Wu Sangui's mansion for Chen Yuanyuan. Thinking of this detail earlier, Wang Chengen said that nothing would let Wu Fan come in disguise.
Although Su Banxian didn't understand the threads in it, he was extremely smart and immediately saw something wrong from the faces of the people on the field. He was worried and secretly stretched his hand under the table to his waist and held the dagger that had been hiding around his waist.
Only Li Le was straightforward and said, and he had been fighting on the battlefield for many years. He felt the faint murderous aura in the hall. He suddenly glared at his eyes, and his anger penetrated his whole body, and began to look around with alertness.
Wu Fan didn't think of so much, and he didn't know anything about it at all. Seeing that Wu Sangui didn't say anything, Wu Fan actually laughed and pointed at Wu Sangui and said, "Wu Aiqing, you are here again. I said that there is no distinction between a monarch and a minister at the dinner table today, only a friend. As your friend, it's not too much to meet your wife? Are you still worried that I will steal your wife?"
After saying that, Wu Fan burst into laughter, not knowing that the entire table was stunned by his words. What is this? Meeting your wife? This is what the emperor said? Only a small person in the market would say it?
Li Letong felt more and more that the emperor was so angry that he couldn't help laughing with Wu Fan.
So in the scene where everyone looked at each other on the table, only Wu Fan, who was drunk and Li Letong were laughing wildly there.
Wu Sangui gently placed the wine glass on the table, and he knew that he could not take action at this time. Although Wu Fan seemed to be obedient and only had seven or eight people around him, I was afraid that there were many big masters accompanying him in secret. Moreover, the army loyal to Wu Fan outside the city was hundreds of thousands. Once he took action, Wu Sangui didn't know if he could hurt Wu Fan, but his Wu family would definitely be killed.
So Wu Sangui's face was filled with smiles again, and he turned his head to look at Wu Fan and said, "Your Majesty, since you have even heard of the songs of the cheap man, that is the blessing of the cheap man. Now I will call the cool man out and ask her to perform her skills for the emperor."
When Wu Sangui opened his mouth, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became active again. The servant standing beside him hurriedly ran out to the backyard to invite Chen Yuanyuan...
Chapter completed!