Chapter 135: Old Acquaintances Again
The whole banquet can be said to be singing and dancing, there is no disharmony in the court, everyone in the banquet between each other, from time to time there will be important ministers or old ministers to come forward like Zhao Yun and the Empress Dowager Yang toast, say some auspicious New Year's greetings, there will be some rewards, and the ministers in order to please the queen mother and the new monarch, have also prepared their own gifts, at this time also presented one after another, placed in front of Zhao Yun and the queen mother. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Everyone is accompanied by smiling faces, looking at peace and sound, as for what they are thinking in their hearts, I am afraid that only they know, in short, Gao Huaiyuan knows that there are few people here who eat and drink honestly, and the people who can come here naturally have their own plans, including himself.
After taking a closer look, Gao Huaiyuan still saw some wonders, although the hall was full of ministers, but it seemed to be intentional or unintentional, the position of the ministers was a little subtle, and unconsciously, three small circles were formed, who sat in what position, in fact, they roughly saw the forces they were inclined to.
But this situation is not too obvious, like Gao Huaiyuan and Zheng Qingzhi, they did not gather in the circle of royalists, but inadvertently chose to sit among these civil and military ministers who were inclined to Shi Miyuan, laughing and farting with them, and seemed very enthusiastic, this is also what Zheng Qingzhi reminded Gao Huaiyuan before entering the palace, so everyone seems to be far from reaching the level of distinction, and it seems to maintain a harmonious atmosphere, but also to paralyze Shi Miyuan's party, and the province was alerted by their party at this time. squeezed them out of the court, in that case, Zhao Yun is afraid that he will be miserable and completely alone.
The banquet was carried out until late at night, and various performances arranged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs were staged in different ways, and gradually pushed the atmosphere of the banquet to a peak, and the Empress Dowager Yang rarely showed a bright smile, and from time to time she would laugh with some people around her.
And Zhao Yun also listened to Zheng Qingzhi's admonition, and often took the initiative to get up and toast Shi Miyuan, expressing his gratitude to Shi Miyuan, and letting Shi Miyuan sit on the upper hand seat with a good spring breeze.
Gao Huaiyuan naturally inevitably scurried around with a wine jug, to every table, toasting to the military generals he knew, everyone also knew that Gao Huaiyuan's identity was very good now, on the one hand, he was a military general that Shi Miyuan trusted very much, on the other hand, he was also a very caring minister of the saint, so every time Gao Huaiyuan passed, all the ministers paid tribute to him one after another, and behaved very politely to him, among which some even showed a flattering demeanor to him, and the words of welcoming the horse came to him like a tide, Gao Huaiyuan really couldn't stand it, and went out to vomit, but fortunately, his amount of alcohol was still very good, so after turning around, he was stunned and was not overturned on the spot.
Even so, Gao Huaiyuan was still top-heavy, his steps were frivolous, and after returning to his table, Xia Zhen smiled and said: "Lord Gao is really a cool person, he dares to turn down in such a circle, if it were me, I'm afraid I won't be able to walk half of it, and I will be taken out to sober up!" ”
Fang Shuda, who was at the same table, was grateful for Gao Huaiyuan's help to him a few months ago, if Gao Huaiyuan hadn't risked his life to persuade him, he would have been cold at this time, and he also helped him say a lot in front of Shi Miyuan afterwards, so that he was able to get rid of his crimes, he was not promoted, at least he was not beaten, and continued to stay in the Beijing Division as his infantry commander, so the current Fang Shuda can be said to be grateful to Gao Huaiyuan, as soon as he saw him blushing and returning to the front of the table, he hurriedly gave Gao Huaiyuan vegetables, and asked the waiter to send Gao Huaiyuan a sobering soup quickly.
"I heard that Lord Gao has a good amount of alcohol, and today I saw that it was true, come on, come on, hurry up and eat something, if you drink like this, no one will be able to hold it!" Fang Shuda said approvingly while busy making vegetables for Gao Huaiyuan.
But other people don't see it that way, like Xia Zhen, these people can be said to be a little red at Gao Huaiyuan's ascension during this time, but now that they have been promoted to the top, it is rare to die if they want to be promoted to another level, but they have watched Gao Huaiyuan fly from a small attendant to a fifth-grade member in three years, how can they not be envious?
So these people moved their brains at this time, while even exaggerating Gao Huaiyuan's strong drinking, but at the same time they got up to toast Gao Huaiyuan, Gao Huaiyuan said in his heart that these grandsons were really harming the family, and they actually took the opportunity to beat the chicken, and wanted to overturn him on the spot to make him ugly, so they hurriedly got up and pushed it, but these guys didn't give up, saying that they were all military generals, how could they not drink it well, and pull Gao Huaiyuan to continue drinking anyway.
In this way, Fang Shuda stood on Gao Huaiyuan's side, took the initiative to stop these people, and drank with them, Gao Huaiyuan drank a bowl of sobering soup, and his brain cleared up a lot, seeing that Fang Shuda couldn't stand the bombardment of these people, so he also rushed up, man! Sometimes drinking is also a kind of competition, and you can't say anything to weaken your momentum.
So their table gradually became the focus of the hall, a group of generals pushed the cup to change the lamp competition, the voice will inevitably suppress others, their persuasion of wine soon suppressed the voice of other people in the hall, some of the ministers turned their heads to look, their eyes couldn't help but show a look of disdain, and scolded in a low voice: "In the end, it is still a group of vulgar people!" ”
But a person's voice fell in the ears of Gao Huaiyuan, who was persuading Xia Zhenjiu, so Gao Huaiyuan immediately became angry, and found the civil official who scolded them in a low voice with a wine jug, looked down and knew this guy, and actually had a flash of inspiration in his mind, remembering that he had seen this person before, and he had a deep impression of this person, it turned out that this guy was many years ago, he went to Xiangyang Zhao Fang and sued him for a black state, so that in the end Zhao Fang demoted him back to the guy surnamed Qian in Daye's hometown, after he arrived in Lin'an, I forgot about this person, and I didn't have any connection with this person, so I didn't see this guy until now.
This is a new hatred and old hatred surging into my heart together, thinking that this guy was just a petty official, but he went to Xiangyang to say Xiang for the Zhou County Lieutenant who was killed by Gao Huaiyuan, so that Gao Huaiyuan had to interrupt his military career and was driven back to Daye County.
So Gao Huaiyuan came to him and said with a smile: "Lord Qian is invited, I wonder if Lord Qian can still recognize him?" ”
This guy surnamed Qian used to be a member of Shi Miyuan's party, but this guy was a little pedantic and not very likable, so he was later made by Shi Miyuan to be a compiler in the Jiying Palace, which was equivalent to giving him an errand, so he was offered up and became an idler who no one cared about.
He used to go to Xiangyang because of the killing of his relative Zhou County Lieutenant, and wanted to kill Gao Huaiyuan to avenge Zhou County Lieutenant, but in the end, because of Zhao Fang's maintenance, Gao Huaiyuan was only expelled from the army and driven back to Daye's hometown to pull him down, so that he could only return to the capital in a huff.
After so many years have passed, this guy surnamed Qian has long been no longer in the limelight, in the past two years, he has heard about Gao Huaiyuan's affairs, and he is quite angry about Gao Huaiyuan's situation of such a soaring fortune, and he feels that Gao Huaiyuan has gone to shit luck, and today he watched Gao Huaiyuan and everyone push the cup to change the lamp, so he couldn't help but scold, where did he expect Gao Huaiyuan to be a tailwind, and when he heard his scolding words, he actually turned his head and found him, and recognized him, and immediately turned his old face into pig liver color.
Even if he is pedantic, it doesn't mean that he is stupid, now Gao Huaiyuan is someone in the capital, he naturally knows it, and he is already a member of the fifth grade, and his official position is one level higher than him, and he is a celebrity in front of Shi Xiang and Shengshang, where can he afford to offend!
So he quickly stood up with an embarrassed face and hugged his fists to give Gao Huaiyuan a salute: "Of course, the lower officials still remember Lord Gao, how much they have offended, and I hope Lord Gao will forgive me!" ”
Gao Huaiyuan pretended to be confused and said, "Huh? I've forgotten when Lord Qian offended me! But just now I heard Lord Qian say that I am vulgar and wait for martial arts, I don't know, but did I hear it wrong? ”
Gao Huaiyuan deliberately wanted to rectify this guy surnamed Qian today, and directly said out loud what he had just whispered, this time Xia Zhen's gang didn't do anything when they heard it, they were all military generals, this scolding martial artists is vulgar, isn't it equivalent to scolding them together? So immediately a group of people glared at them, and there was a military general who had drunk too much, and he rolled up his arms and sleeves on the spot to come over and use his fists to find the theory of the surname Qian, but fortunately he was pulled by someone, otherwise, today's banquet would have been completely disturbed by them.
This surnamed Qian's face turned white with fright when he heard it, many of these generals who can sit in the hall today are people he can't afford to provoke, he couldn't help but scold just now, but when he was shouted at by Gao Huaiyuan, he was equivalent to offending all the generals in the court to death, how can he still mix in the capital in the future!
So he hurriedly retorted: "Lord Gao must have heard it wrong, how could the lower official say such a thing?" ”
But it was the house leak that happened to rain overnight, and a minister sitting at a table with the surname Qian was obviously not on the right path with the surname Qian, so he actually fell into the well and said: "Lord Qian is an upright person, if you have anything to say, Lord Gao doesn't have to worry about Lord Qian!" ”
This time it is considered to have proved the guy surnamed Qian to death, and that person's words are clearly testifying, this surnamed Qian did say this just now, and he forced the surname Qian into a dead end, and the angry surnamed Qian blew his beard and stared at the person who spoke, eager to pounce and strangle the guy.
Gao Huaiyuan smiled coldly and said, "It turns out that Lord Qian looks down on us generals!" But I don't know why Lord Qian looks down on me and others? Can you tell me bluntly, so that I can take this as a warning in the future, and save myself from being insulted by you again? ”
The surnamed Qian can't wait to crash into the ground at this time, and run away and pull down, and the generals on the other tables will also pay attention to it, if they can kill people with their eyes, these people may have killed the surname Qian countless times at this time, and he also knows that it is not good for Gao Huaiyuan to recognize him, this is deliberately to make him arouse public anger, and he will not be able to gain a foothold in the court in the future.
He didn't know how to answer Gao Huaiyuan's words at this time, and he didn't answer or not, as long as he opened his mouth, he would offend people, forcing him to almost have a myocardial infarction and fall on the spot, forcing him to be red-faced, and he really had nothing to say, so he flicked his sleeves and turned his head away, walked to the table where the Queen Mother was, knelt down and said: "The Queen Mother, the lower officials are not strong enough to drink, and at this time they are unwell, so they can't accompany the Queen Mother to continue the feast!" The minister came to ask for a retreat, hoping that the queen mother would leave the palace! ”
The Queen Mother was not familiar with this surname Qian, and when she saw him coming to ask for her resignation, she waved her hand and said: "If Aiqing is unwell, just retreat and rest first!" ”
The man surnamed Qian immediately ran out of the hall with his robe and fled for his life, and Gao Huaiyuan still shouted behind him with a wine jug: "Lord Qian, it's good to go, don't fall!" ”
Who knew that his mouth was really poisonous enough, as soon as the words fell, the man surnamed Qian stepped on the front hem of his robe, and hit it out, and his head grabbed directly to the steps, and the bones rolled down, causing a group of ministers to exclaim, and the generals immediately laughed.
After this episode, Xia Zhen and the others will no longer pour Gao Huaiyuan to drink, no matter what, Gao Huaiyuan is a bad breath for these generals today, and it is considered that in terms of civil and military affairs, they will always be ridden on the head by civil officials to and pee, they are also considered to be all the way, and they can breathe a sigh today, for them, it is quite a refreshing feeling, and it is much cuter to look at Gao Huaiyuan again.