The third day of the first month of September is Yang Boqing's birthday, there are old people in the family, it is not suitable to do a big job, as in the past, Yang Boqing just invited a group of brothers who studied in the same school when he was young to come to the house to eat tea and drink, these brothers are his classmates who worshipped in the school before he took the fame, sharing nine people, in order of age, Yang Boqing is the longest, and then down to Li Zixing, Liu Xiaocheng, Liu Xijue, Fan Xiuyuan, Lin Keli, Yu Pingguang, Feng Jinzhe, Li Mingshuo.

Among these nine people, only Liu Xijue and Feng Jinzhezhong have raised people, and entrusted Yang Boqing to take care of them, and respectively made a six or seven grades of imperial history and did it in the matter; Li Zixing and Fan Xiuyuan only took the exam, and they are still studying hard at home, looking forward to the middle of the next year; Liu Xiaocheng and Yu Pingguang were tired of taking the eight shares, so they chose to send their love to the landscape, chanted poems, and vowed to be a famous poet; Lin Keli, who ranked sixth, was the least successful, this guy neither participated in the scientific examination, nor played with elegance, and the family style was not good, a few years ago, his father and a well-off family competed for a maid in the sale, instructed his son and the family to kill the competitor, and got into a lawsuit.

Yang Boqing thought to himself that this Lin Keli had no talent and no virtue, he still had a sharp face, monkey cheeks, rat head and rat brain, and he couldn't do anything on the table, so it was not good for him to find an errand to do in the government, so he could only ask him to purchase some engineering materials, eat some kickbacks, and mix bowls of rice to eat, even so, he was also a muddy man who couldn't get on the wall, and many civil engineering businessmen refused to deal with him, and later he relied on Yang Boqing's autumn breeze to live.

In addition to Yang Boqing's important status, there is also a slightly embarrassing identity among the children of this group of rich families, and the youngest among them is named Li Mingshuo, who was twenty-four years old at the time, his family has inherited the military position for generations, his father is currently the chief military officer of Xuanfu, and he leads soldiers outside all the year round, and his two sons accompany his mother at home.

Li Zongbing originally hoped that his two sons would be able to read and become famous in their studies, and that the family would be able to produce civil officials, so he cultivated his two sons as reading seeds since he was a child, but the two sons perfectly inherited their father's genes of poor reading, and they all read books in a mess. This Li Mingshuo is the eldest son of Li Zongbing, although he reads the book confusedly, he looks like a man with a lofty and dignified appearance, but he can't listen to him speak.

When he was in the school, Li Mingshuo was the pistachio of these big brothers, and everyone liked to make fun of him, and the situation has not changed until today.

There is a father who is glorious and glorious, and then put on a good skin, Li Mingshuo's marriage is too good to be good, and he is married to Princess Ning'an, the daughter of Cao Duanfei, the favorite concubine of Emperor Jiajing today, although Cao Duanfei was jealous of the queen because of her exclusive favor, and finally died unjustly, Emperor Jiajing's friendship with Cao Duanfei has never diminished, with infinite guilt for his concubine, he found a husband who was born to his daughter who is superior in his opinion, perhaps Li Mingshuo is not brilliant among many young talents, But in the princess can only marry a commoner, not the Ming dynasty who cannot marry into the Hou family, Li Mingshuo is a bit out of the standard.

The friends Yang Boqing made when he was young were such a group of guys with different qualities and temperaments.

Everyone was almost here, Yang Boqing beckoned everyone to sit down, because he saw that Lin Keli had not yet arrived, so he called his henchman Tian Geng over and asked, "Why hasn't your Uncle Lin arrived yet, go out and have a look to greet you." ”

Tian Geng is more powerful than the master, he muttered reluctantly: "I went to send a post to Uncle Lin a few days ago, and there was only one old man left in the house, saying that Uncle Lin took his family to the countryside to sell the field and the house, and I don't know if I can rush back from the countryside today." ”

Yang Boqing listened to Tian Geng's words, frowned and said: "This Lin Lao Liu, he has a business in his hands, but he is not enough for his family to chew and wrap, and he has to sell the fields and houses in the countryside, which is mud and can't be glued to the wall." ”

Tian Geng took the opportunity to say: "Yes, master, or you and you can just open the banquet, don't wait for him." Maybe he's in the countryside getting some money. ”

Yang Boqing shook his head and said: "No, you quickly send someone to his house to see if the person has come back, if he doesn't come back, just let him ride over if he comes back." At the same time, he said to the guests who came: "Brothers, eat tea first, let's wait for Brother Lin." Everyone was the only one who looked forward to Yang Boqing, and nodded in agreement.

Tian Geng's face drooped, and he reluctantly went out to find the little guy to run errands, and before he stepped out of the threshold, he heard Lin Keli shouting loudly outside the door: "Brothers are offended, Lin is late, let you wait for a long time." He said as he stepped through the door. It happened to be opposite to Tian Geng's eyes when he walked to the door, this Tian Geng's expression was very strange, surprised and bored, and he quickly bowed down to Lin Keli and returned to Yang Boqing.

Lin Keli's eyes were also very strange when he looked at Tian Geng, a little proud and a little disdainful, this was all a fleeting thing, he quickly walked to Boqing's side to greet his eldest brother and hand him a birthday gift.

Yang Boqing let Lin Keli sit down, this time everyone is together, and he ordered the kitchen to serve food and wine, a table of people to eat and drink, talk and laugh, what he said is nothing more than some scientific examinations, officialdom, and the new elegant poetry, two people, two talents, two celebrities can learn one or two, only Li Mingshuo and Lin Keli are the worst, they can't insert a few words, so they eat food and drink with their heads bored, Lin Keli can't drink well, and he drinks very modestly, but Li Mingshuo let go of the drink, and the person who came did not refuse, and he was drunk after a while.

Liu Xijue saw that Li Mingshuo's face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, and he wanted to tease him, so he said: "Brother Qianqian (Li Mingshuo), a few days ago, Lord Lingtang sent someone to my house to look for you, and your follower Moge disappeared together, saying that you two have not been home for several days, and asked me if I saw you and took you in, I said no, Lord Lingtang refused to believe it, where did you go to be happy in those days?" I also recommend it to us. ”

Li Mingshuo was so drunk that his face was red and his neck was thick, and he said with a drunken smile: "My brother was worried about the situation of the country's border defense a few days ago, and took our family Moge out of Juyong Pass for a walk, and came back to see that the border defense was fine. ”

Yu Pingguang, a celebrity who wrote poetry, posted it: "Brother Qianqian's nonsense is to come casually, my family saw you fighting with people in the ring on Wusheng Street a few days ago, and you won several people in a row, and you are still in Yongguan, so you can go in a dream." ”

The crowd laughed.

was exposed, Li Mingshuo was not annoyed, but just scolded with a smile: "You dead fish head, it's a pity that you don't belong to Jinyiwei." I've run so far and you've got your eyeliner. ”

Liu Xiaocheng also came to make up for the gun: "How did I hear that our concubine and his wife quarreled, and Brother Xianqian was afraid that the housekeeper and mother of the princess's mansion would come to beat him, so he was so scared that he didn't even dare to go back to his mother's house, and he was hiding outside in Tibet, but there was such a thing?" ”

Except for Yang Boqing, the others all raised their hands and said, "I heard about it too." ”

Yang Boqing couldn't help laughing, relieved Li Mingshuo, and scolded these former classmates with a smile: "You scumbags, where did you hear about this gossip, stop it, don't spoil the reputation of our brother Li Xian." ”

Li Mingshuo also drunkenly defended: "There is no quarrel, there is no quarrel, lend me ten guts, I don't dare to quarrel with the princess, I am just angry with the princess's wet nurse, the old immortal housekeeper, usually can't see me and the princess intimacy, even the girl in my house she can't tolerate, finally a girl dares to be close to me, this dead old woman also pleaded with our old lady to marry my little girl to her poor relative suffering from leprosy, so that my little girl died in the candle night in the cave room, My little girl is only seventeen years old, and she was forced to die alive, do you think this old woman owes a scolding? Is it old and immortal is for the demon. ”

As Li Mingshuo spoke, he was a little excited, and there were tears in his red eyes.

Everyone was silent, only Yang Boqing persuaded him: "Brother Qianqian, even if the princess's nurse is doing something wrong, she should also be taught by the princess, you just let the princess train her, if you run directly to scold her, it will not give the princess face." Naturally, the princess will have trouble with you. ”

Li Mingshuo shouted to the eldest brother: "Big brother, I understand what you mean, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, I know this reason, the princess also reprimanded me like this, but I was really dizzy, I didn't control my mouth, and bumped into the princess, I said that she was hypocritical, but I was afraid that it was too late to be happy, how could I be willing to discipline my henchmen." For this sentence, the princess was also angry with me, and even let the palace people out, I was afraid that I would be scolded by my old lady when I went home, so I simply played outside for a few days before going back. ”

Lao Xiucai Li Zi said: "Brother Qianqian is so blessed, marrying a gentle and virtuous princess, if other princesses let you fight like this, I'm afraid that your ass will bloom at that time." ”

Li Mingshuo admitted: "Yes, my princess wife really doesn't have to say anything, she treats her subordinates generously and gently, she is not an eventful person, she is the housekeeper's mother-in-law, and she has to make a three-foot wave when there is no wind, and she has done a lot of immoral things in the name of the princess." ”

Liu Xiaocheng said: "In short, it is still a good life for Brother Qian, born in the Ming Dynasty as a concubine, in case it is not at the right time, catch up with the Han and Tang Dynasties, those Han and Tang princesses are extremely strong, and they don't bring you a green hat every day, and you don't dare to get drunk and hit the golden branch." ”

The crowd burst into laughter again.

Li Mingshuo couldn't cry or laugh, and said to Liu Xiaocheng: "Hey, ---, I can't see that there is still someone here who envies me, if you envy me, I really want to change with you, you go to be a colt, how about I go to live with my sister-in-law in my arms?" ”

Liu Xiaocheng was so angry that he complained to Boqing: "Brother Eun Cheng, take care of him, you see what kind of bastard things he says." ”

Yang Boqing held back his laughter again and reprimanded Li Mingshuo: "Brother Qianqian's words are indeed bastards, why don't you hurry up and punish yourself with three cups to make amends to Brother Xingdian." ”

Li Mingshuo is really good at talking, and hurriedly poured himself a drink to apologize to Liu Xiaocheng.

The rest of the people still have fun with Li Mingshuo, and they have been looking for allusions to the princesses and horses of all dynasties to be amused.

Lin Keli, who had not spoken much, kept glancing at Yang Boqing's body.

The banquet was only halfway through, and the others were only slightly drunk, and Li Mingshuo's stomach couldn't hold on, so he got up and said inarticulately: "Fellow classmates, drink first, Li goes out to sober up, a small urine, go and go back." With that, he staggered out.

As soon as he went out, Lin Keli stood up and said that he was going out to relieve himself, and by the way, he helped the drunk Li Mingshuo and followed him out of the house.

Li Mingshuo really had to go to the latrine, but Lin Keli slipped towards Yang Boqing's study with his hands crossed.