The banquet in the evening was very grand, after all, this was a banquet organized by the generalissimo of Zhengxi and the king of Muyang, and all kinds of people in Xiyang Pass and even Xiyang County could participate in such a banquet to show their faces, and it was certainly not possible for ordinary people to participate in such a banquet, and the king of Muyang specially mentioned that he wanted to invite local businessmen to participate in the banquet, how could these people not hope to get an admission ticket like crazy.

"Xiyang Guan Zuowei waits for the sky to worship a jade screen, and ten catties of high-grade spiritual materials. ”

"All the way, the owner of the warehouse, Zhou Zheng saluted one hundred taels of silver, and ten catties of high-quality spiritual ingredients. ”

"Huang Minghan, the great Confucian of Xiyang County, paid tribute to a rare ancient book and an ancient painting. ”

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Li Meng set up two hundred tables in the Marshal's Mansion, but there were too many people who came, and later added hundreds of tables before he could barely tolerate it, Li Meng did not refuse those who came, and these people did not eat in vain, Li Meng could be regarded as making a fortune in a national disaster.

There were twelve banquet halls, and the front yard of the entire Marshal's Palace was occupied.

Halfway through the banquet, Li Meng personally led Miao Yidao of the Imperial Forest Government Intelligence Bureau and the Zuowei Government Intelligence Bureau to fly around the various venues, since the guests came, as the host, they always had to meet them, these guests naturally could not walk around casually when they entered the Marshal's Mansion, and Li Meng could not toast next to the table, just mean it at each venue, even if this made the people attending the banquet flattered, a large wave of sycophants received.

"Huh?"

Li Meng found a black pot in a very small venue, this pot is much smaller than the old man's cauldron, only about a foot, and the pot contains piping hot mountain delicacies, good things!

The food inside is not the point, the point is that this pot is very similar to the pot of the old man, one size smaller, and the appearance and details are very similar.

Li Meng has been looking for the old man of the pot for a long time, all along, Li Meng thought that the black child of the third princess was the old man of the pot, the time of birth and characteristics are reminiscent, Li Meng once suspected that the old man of the pot had turned into a human and was reborn as a child, so Li Meng has been looking forward to the child very much, and even took a look before the expedition, but unfortunately the two children are not much different from ordinary children, except for the weirdness of the appearance.

Muhei?

Mu Nihei, this name is suitable for that child, Li Meng smiled secretly.

The other girl was called Mu Yu, and Li Meng was very unsure what was going on, although Li Meng felt that this girl was a little related to Yan Jiaojiao.

Li Meng smiled and asked He Taiyi beside him, "Lord He, where are the guests at this table from?"

He Taiyi was also confused, what was the situation? There were too many guests, and he didn't know very well, He Taiyi glanced at a steward beside him.

The steward hurriedly said: "Back to the prince, back to the county guard, the guests at this table are local squires and businessmen, the guest wearing the hat is Zhou Zheng, the owner of the goods inn all the way, and the one on the left is ......."

Li Meng: "Okay, this table of guests has a fate with the king, let them sit together in the king's hall, and even bring the tables, chairs, soup pots, and the king's banquet to discuss with them." ”

Li Meng rashly went over and took a cauldron to look left and right, which was naturally very inconsistent, and simply moved the people and tables and plates to the main hall of the Marshal's Mansion together, and the people next to him were naturally very strange, but this was arranged by the prince, who dared to ask, and the guests at this table were naturally honored.

This Muyang King's interests and hobbies are really not ordinary......

What he likes is difficult for others to understand.

Towards the end of the banquet, Li Meng actually announced the establishment of a business association, with himself as the president of the association, Zhou Zheng, the owner of the inn all the way, as the vice president, and the other people at the table were appointed as members and other positions according to their occupations.

Li Meng's eyes didn't leave the black cauldron until the banquet ended.

After the guests left, Li Meng returned to the study with the pot, which made Dao Bai roll his eyes, and the prince's actions naturally couldn't escape the eyes of the captain of the guard team who had been paying attention to the safety of the banquet.

"Daobai, go and ask, where did this pot come from?"

"Yes, my lord. ”

After a while, Daobai took a person to Li Meng's study.

"Lord Wang, this pot belongs to this person, this person is a man of the baggage army, his name is Agai, there are too many guests today, and the plates and pots used for various banquets are not enough, and a group of people from the baggage army have been temporarily transferred over, and this Agai's craftsmanship is not bad. ”

Oh, there are more than 50,000 people in the baggage army, and Li Meng has come all the way from Yunjing, so naturally it is impossible for everyone to know everyone.

Li Meng: "Agai, where did this pot come from?"

Agai was about twenty years old, with dark skin and a very old look, as if he had been tempered countless times.

Ah Gai replied with some restraint: "Lord, this is left to me by my brother Ah Guo, my brother's pot was originally an ancestral thing, but later because of some setbacks, the cauldron was broken, my brother Ah Guo cleaned up the fragments of those pots and made such a small pot as a thought, although the cauldron is gone, the small pot is left behind after all." ”

Li Meng seems to understand, but what is that frustration? It won't have anything to do with himself, under Li Meng's careful questioning, Ah Gai said that the previous things should really be related to Li Meng, when Ah Guo woke up inexplicably and was stunned, he was immediately caught by the guards of the third prince's house, Ah Guo became a man who carried the pot, although there is no evidence that the theft was done by Ah Guo, but Ah Guo is a subordinate after all, and he was thrown out of the palace with a broken leg without evidence.

The pot was also broken, and if it weren't for the ancestral heirlooms, it might have been thrown in the garbage, so Ah Guo finally collected a part of it and cast this small pot.

Li Meng: "Is your brother Ah Guo okay now?"

"Back to the prince, it's not good, since the accident, my sister-in-law who has not passed through the door has been disconnected from our family, my brother now lives alone, making some ironware, mending pots and pans, and is now in the suburbs of Yunjing. ”

Li Meng tried to ask, "I heard from the steward, you cook good food, why didn't you open a restaurant?"

Ah Gai said with a look of embarrassment: "Lord Wang, the villain's family is not rich, and the restaurant needs to have a shop, and the others add up to at least twenty taels of silver, the villain's family really can't take it out, last time I spent a lot of money to treat my brother's legs, and now I still owe money to my relatives, my brother's legs and feet are still not very good, and I really can't think of opening a restaurant." ”

How difficult it is for the poor, Li Meng empathizes, Ah Guo's experience seems to be partly related to himself, Li Meng's words as a prince may be able to change their fate now.

Li dreamed for a moment and said directly: "Agai, this king has taken a fancy to your small pot and plans to buy it, and this king will not treat you badly, this king plans to give you a good shop plus a hundred taels of silver, I don't know what you think?"

Ah Gai is overjoyed, this pot is worthless, maybe it can't even be sold for one or two silver, but after all, this is an ancestral thing, and the money is too little to be reluctant to give up, but there is a shop plus a hundred taels of silver that is a huge wealth, this is an extremely cost-effective deal, this is the prince wants to help him, although Ah Gai doesn't know why.

Ah Gai happily left the palace with the slip that Li Meng gave him, Li Meng was worried about his safety, so he did not give Ah Gai cash, but asked him to go back to Yunjing to find Lao Dang to cash one hundred taels of silver and the shop.

I believe that Lao Dang will arrange it properly.