Early in the morning of the second day.

Chen Yingren took the booklet about the king of Jiangning County and presented it to Yang Xiaoyu.

Yang Xiaoyu nodded, and asked Chen Yingren to go to the Baihu Office to deal with official affairs, and he read the brochure in the mansion by himself.

The great-grandfather of Zhu Leshan, the king of Jiangning County, was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his grandfather was named the king of Jiangning, and then passed it to his father, after his father died, the title of King of Jiangning was passed to the eldest son, that is, Zhu Leshan's brother, Zhu Leshan was not eligible to inherit the title, but he was the heir of the prince after all, and after reaching the age of eighteen, he was canonized as the king of Jiangning County by Emperor Wanli.

Zhu Leshan has five forty this year, the princess of the county is the lady of Nanzhili, and has two sons, Zhu Leshan has another three-room concubine room, one room is the 'thin horse' given by Yangzhou salt merchants, one room is the slave maid of the palace, and the last room is the concubine of the Yangzhou inspection envoy.

The lord of Ningmeng is born to Zhu Leshanna's 'thin horse', and his female son is arrogant and gorgeous, and in March of the first year of the Apocalypse, he was married to He Ziping, a man from Yangzhou.

The princess of the Ming Dynasty must marry a commoner.

This is the rule established by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent his relatives from persuading and corrupting the dynasty.

Although the county lord of Ning Meng is the daughter of the county prince, the person she marries is destined not to be the son of a high-ranking official family, but only a commoner with an innocent family background.

Zhu Leshan usually likes to chant poems and make the moon, often sings with some celebrities in Yangzhou, flowers before the moon, is polite, gentle and elegant, quite the style of Jiangnan scribes.

Yang Xiaoyu continued to read, all of which were poems about Zhu Leshan's public appearances, as well as some records about other people in the Jiangning County Palace.

For him, there is no valuable news in this booklet, except for Zhu Ningmeng's engagement with He Ziping, everything else is dispensable.

Changing into a blue robe, Yang Xiaoyu threw the booklet under the pillow. Prepare to go to the Shen family's family banquet.

The family banquet of the dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty is generally selected at noon, and only when the birthday is celebrated to the visitor, the family banquet will be held in the evening.

The Shen family held a family banquet, and there would be no shortage of relatives who went to the Shen family, if he expected it to be good, Shen Mingda let him participate in the Shen family's family banquet. I wanted him to get to know the rest of the Shen family in advance.

First, Shen Mingda can use the marriage with the Yang family to improve his prestige in the Shen family, and second, let him get to know the Shen family in advance, which can be regarded as giving him a chance to get to know the people with heads and faces on the ground in Yangzhou.

In fact, it is more that Shen Mingda wants to use his identity as a Jinyi Wei Qianhu to sound a wake-up call for the Shen family, and at the same time, it is also for him to let the Shen family go when dealing with official affairs in the future.

Live in the palatial city of Yangzhou. who has not committed some adultery. For the trivial matters of committing crimes, Shen Mingda's precautionary thoughts are not profound.

Yang Xiaoyu guessed this, but he couldn't refuse Shen Mingda's 'kindness'.

In Yangzhou City and Nanzhili, the Shen family is a well-deserved giant.

The Shen family once produced a legendary figure who has been in charge of the cabinet for decades and has not fallen.

Although the descendants of the Shen family cannot be as famous in the world as Shen has always been, in this rainy Jiangnan, the former officials of the Shen family have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Shen Mingda is Shen's consistent concubine and has a high reputation within the Shen family. Now he is a four-grade civil official and serves as the prefect of Yangzhou. According to the rule of serving a three-year term, Shen Mingda should be promoted one step higher next spring, but Yang Xiaoyu can't guess where he will be promoted.

After the successive prefects of Yangzhou stepped down, many were transferred to the capital as officials, wanting to come to the Shen family's fame. After Shen Mingda stepped down, it was a sure thing to enter Beijing as an official.

Yang Xiaoyu hastily ate breakfast, and ordered the guards to go to the street to buy some gifts, such as ginseng.

As the saying goes, the threshold for famous families is high. If the grade of the gift he takes is too low, it will be difficult to earn Shen Mingda's face.

When the sun rose high in the sky, Yang Xiaoyu took a group of guards and carried a large number of gifts to the Shen Mansion.

Today, there are many luxury carriages in front of the Shen Mansion, and there are more than a dozen domestic slaves in new clothes standing in front of the mansion, smiling and welcoming the guests who come with gifts.

Yang Xiaoyu stepped forward with the gift and handed it to the house slave, and when he was about to enter the house, the house slave asked suspiciously: "May I ask your son's surname?" ”

"The official's surname is Yang!" Yang Xiaoyu felt that he couldn't say his name, so he only replied with his surname.

The house slaves didn't dare to ask more, after all, the people who came to the Shen Mansion for the family banquet were all relatives of the Shen family, and if they offended the relatives of the Shen family, their food bowls would not be guaranteed.

After Yang Xiaoyu walked into the gate of the Shen family, he heard the house slave shouting: "Yang Gongzi gave two hundred-year-old ginseng, two Ganoderma lucidum, and two deep-sea pearls." ”

Suddenly, everyone gathered in the corridor turned to stare at Yang Xiaoyu, their expressions were puzzled, today is the Shen family's family banquet, and all the relatives of the Shen family and Shen Mingda's close friends have come, haven't you heard that the Shen family has a relative surnamed Yang?

Looking at the age again, Yang Xiaoyu is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and it is impossible to have a relationship with Shen Mingda, so who is this young man? Could it be that you are going to the wrong door?

This shouldn't be, giving such a heavy gift shouldn't be the person who went to the wrong door.

So who is this young man in Yang?

The people in the corridor were muttering, and some were even more reverie.

Yang Xiaoyu didn't expect that the Shen family would still have this set, and he would shout out the gifts sent by the guests, and he should have known that in this way, he should have taken ordinary gifts, which were neither eye-catching nor shabby.

When Yang Xiaoyu passed through the corridor, he smiled and bowed to the relatives of the Shen family on both sides.

These people stood on the edge of the corridor, and it was obvious that their identities were average, otherwise, they had already entered the hall of the Shen Mansion, and the same group of famous people of the Shen family praised each other, how could they still stand here and bathe in the air?

These people smiled at Yang Xiaoyu and returned the salute, but no one asked Yang Xiaoyu's background story out loud.

Yang Xiaoyu walked through the corridor and came to the front hall of the Shen Mansion, it was estimated that it was still early before the family banquet at this time, so he slipped to the edge of the pavilion alone, blowing the autumn breeze, and looked at the layout of the Shen family's mansion.

After a while, a house slave came to the edge of the pavilion and asked, "Is it Yang Gongzi?" ”

"What's the matter?" Yang Xiaoyu asked without looking back, his expression was a little cold and arrogant.

"My lord invites my son into the lobby to talk!" The house slave bowed and replied.

Yang Xiaoyu got up and smiled bitterly, he couldn't come here to hide for a while, it seemed that Shen Mingda had high expectations for his prospective son-in-law.

The house slave led the way in front, and Yang Xiaoyu slowly swayed with his steps.

In front of the hall, Yang Xiaoyu retracted his nonchalant expression and slowly walked into the hall.

Shen Mingda is the master today, wearing a black robe, sitting on the main seat, with a smile on his face that people never get tired of looking at.

On the seats on both sides sat six middle-aged people wearing silk and satin, their expressions were different, some looked at Yang Xiaoyu who walked in, and some were sipping fragrant tea, their expressions were flat, and they couldn't see what they were thinking.

"The virtuous son-in-law is here, take a seat!" Shen Mingda got up slightly, waved his hand at the first chair on the left, and laughed loudly.

"Master Xie Yue!"

Yang Xiaoyu was bitter in his heart, he hadn't married Miss Shen yet, Shen Mingda called him a virtuous son-in-law, and he had to call him his father-in-law, which was really unlucky.

When the other people in the hall heard Shen Mingda's words, their eyes fell on Yang Xiaoyu, and they all wanted to see something from Yang Xiaoyu's expression?

Yang Xiaoyu is not an idiot who does not understand human feelings, his expression is calm, with a faint smile on his face, and with extraordinary confidence on his body, he slowly walked to the chair designated by Shen Mingda and sat down.

At this time, Shen Mingda pointed to Yang Xiaoyu and introduced to everyone: "This is the son of Yang Du's commander, and he is also the son-in-law of the old man!" ”

Yang Xiaoyu knew that the people below were all prominent figures in the Shen family, so he had to stand up and bow to everyone.

"It turned out to be Yang Gongzi, it's rude!"

On the right, a middle-aged man in his forties sat on a chair and smiled.

"This is your fourth uncle!" Shen Mingda explained to Yang Xiaoyu with a smile.

"I've seen the fourth uncle!" Yang Xiaoyu had a scolding anger in his heart, he hated some indiscreet relatives the most in his life, especially these relatives were older than him, he had to greet him politely when he met, but the current situation was that Shen Mingda introduced him, and he had to accept them one by one.

Next, Shen Mingda introduced the six people in the hall to Yang Xiaoyu respectively.

Yang Xiaoyu had a smile on her face and frequently bowed to everyone.

Without exception, these people are all big names in the side branches of the Shen family, some are wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou, some are officials in Yangzhou, in short, these people are all celebrities of the Shen family in Yangzhou City.

After everyone got acquainted, one of the wealthy businessmen asked Yang Xiaoyu: "I don't know if Yang Gongzi works in Hangzhou?" ”

In the minds of these people, since Yang Xiaoyu is Yang Yong's son, he is the future commander of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, and he will have a friendship with Yang Xiaoyu, and their business in Zhejiang will be guaranteed in the future.

Yang Xiaoyu glanced up at Shen Mingda, and saw that his face was calm and his expression was natural, which showed that he did not tell his identity to the people of the Shen family.

"Working in Yangzhou!" Yang Xiaoyu knew that Shen Mingda wanted him to say it himself, so as to earn him a face, so he replied with a smile.

"It turns out that Yang Gongzi is working in Yangzhou, I don't know which government it is?" The fourth uncle, who was sitting first on the right, took over and asked,

"Jinyi Wei Thousand Households!" Yang Xiaoyu's heart was not ordinary, he deliberately didn't make it clear before, just waiting for these people to ask, and sure enough, there were still people who couldn't help it.

Jin Yiwei?

Yang Xiaoyu quietly threw out an explosive news, except for Shen Mingda, the faces of the rest of the people in the hall all changed, some were frightened, some were surprised, their expressions were myriad, unpredictable, and elusive.

"It turned out to be Lord Yang, disrespectful and disrespectful!" The expression on the rich businessman's face changed several times, he just asked where Yang Xiaoyu worked, but he didn't expect to recruit an uncle in Jinyiwei.

Although the Shen family is a famous family, it can be compared with the world-famous Jinyiwei, which is a small thing.

The expressions of everyone in the hall changed from surprised to flat, and they began to keep silent, for fear of saying something that should not be said, so that Yang Xiaoyu would seize the handle. (To be continued......)