The state pastoral mansion is located in the center of Yecheng, covering an area of several hectares, majestic and solemn, and the momentum is extraordinary.

The hall used for banquets is located in the southeast corner of the mansion and can accommodate nearly 100 people sitting at the same time. At this moment, it is already full of guests and friends, talking and laughing.

"Childe stays!"

Yuan Mai had just walked up the steps and was about to enter through the side door, but he was stopped by someone unexpectedly. Turning his head to look, he recognized Feng Gang, who often presided over large and small ceremonies in the state pastor's mansion, he was Feng Ji's younger brother, serving as a teacher and friend, and he was responsible for arranging the reception for today's birthday banquet.

"What's the matter with the sacrificial wine?"

Yuan Mai could smell the unwelcome breath from Feng Gang's tone, held his head high, and asked calmly.

"Hehe, today is the forty-eighth birthday of the lord, and all the generals and adults have come to celebrate. Don't go in and make trouble, so as not to upset the lord and make it difficult for the gang. Feng Gangpi said with a smile.

"What do you mean by that? It's because today is my father's birthday, so I came to celebrate my father's birthday, and you actually stopped me from entering the door? Are you slandering me, or are you slandering your father? Or is the father's son unworthy of his birthday? What is your intention? ”

Yuan Mai did not show weakness, and reprimanded Feng Gang in a loud voice, and he had to teach him a lesson unceremoniously for this kind of villain who despised him.

"Son, be quiet, it's not appropriate for the lord to hear it."

Feng Gang presided over various ceremonies in Yuan's mansion all the year round, and he looked down on the fourth prince who couldn't beat a fart with eight sticks, so he directly refused Yuan Mai to enter the door, but to his surprise, he didn't expect Yuan Mai, who was usually submissive, to be tough today, and his words were sharp, so that he could hardly parry.

"Who's noisy?"

A majestic inquiry sounded in the hall of the palace, full of energy, and suddenly fell silent. Yuan Mai knew that this was "his father", Yuan Shao, the current general, the leader of the Jizhou pastor, and the military governor of Ji, Qing, and the three states, Yuan Benchu.

"If you go back to the lord, it is the fourth prince who deliberately makes trouble, and the gang can't stop him......"

Hearing Yuan Shao's question, Feng Gang could only reluctantly go in and pour all the dirty water on Yuan Mai.

Yuan Mai originally wanted to make a big deal so that the generals and strategists present could know him, but he didn't know that Yuan Benchu actually had a fourth son at home, so he strode into the hall at the moment.

"The child sees his father, and wishes his father a long life, sweeping the princes, and unifying the ...... Kuang Fu Han Room. ”

Yuan Mai walked to the center of the banquet under the gaze of the civil and military officials, bent down to Yuan Shao, who was sitting tall, and gave his birthday message.

In the end, it is Yuan Shao's biological son, besides, who doesn't want to listen to a few auspicious congratulatory words when he is born, after listening to Yuan Mai's words, the anger in Yuan Shao's heart was swept away, and he stroked his beautiful hair and said: "You don't have to be polite to buy a child!" ”

Looking at the young son standing in the center of the hall, under the gaze of nearly a hundred pairs of eyes, he was unrestrained and talked eloquently, which made Yuan Shao very surprised: Hey, Xianyong has always been taciturn, he doesn't like to contact people the most, and he usually stutters a few words for a long time when there is a person, how can he open up today?

"Father, generals, lords, all of you will judge...... Today is my father's birthday, as a son, why not come to celebrate my father's birthday? But when the sacrificial wine prevents me from entering, am I deliberately making trouble, or is it that the sacrificial wine has nothing to do? ”

As he spoke, Yuan Mai bowed to the full house of civil and military officials, and said in a humble and arrogant manner.

After listening to Yuan Mai's words, there was a meal during the feast. There are many people who say that they are nosy and ask for their own hardships.

Feng Gang was a little overwhelmed, and asked Yuan Shao for help: "Lord, look at this matter, Gang is a banquet arranged according to your instructions, without you, how dare Gang stop Gongzi." ”

Yuan Shao, who was dressed in a shroud, pondered for a moment and said: "I don't do this thing with sacrificial wine, it is because my father instructed him not to allow idle people to enter the hall!" Then he waved his hand to signal Feng Gang to step back.

When Feng Gang heard this, it was like an amnesty, and hurriedly withdrew from the hall. The muddy waters between their father and son are better to be less involved.

After listening to Yuan Shao's words, Yuan Mai felt a little resentful, and argued with reason: "Could it be that my father means that the child is also an idle person, and he is not worthy of celebrating his father's birthday?" ”

"That's not it, it's just that today is not just my father's birthday, you see all of you here, at least the officials at the county guard, so my father ordered that idle people are not allowed to enter the ...... during the sacrificial wine."

Yuan Shao glanced at the civil and military officials kneeling below, picked up the teacup on the desk in front of him, took a sip, and said.

Listening to Yuan Shao's words, Yuan Mai's heart swelled with a little sadness. The father said in his life, when he was a son, he was not qualified to participate in the feast, how could there be such a ridiculous thing in the world? It's just that he dislikes himself and loses face to him, this Yuan Shao is really a man who loves fame, no wonder he will lose so badly in history!

Yuan Mai decided to fight on the basis of reason, anyway, Yuan Shao didn't like himself, if he couldn't change his opinion of himself, it would be useless to stay, it was better to leave as soon as possible.

"Yes, it is true that the child does not have an official position, and it stands to reason that the child is not worthy of sitting with the generals. However, today is not a feast for my father to discuss important matters with the generals, but my father's birthday. Parents, the person who gave birth to me and raised me, father's birthday, as a son, if he does not come, the world will laugh at the child for being an unfilial person, the child comes, the world knows that the child has a father in his heart, if the father thinks that the child is not worthy of attending, the child will retreat! ”

As soon as Yuan Mai's voice fell, the audience was in an uproar, but they couldn't say what was wrong. His words undoubtedly pushed Yuan Shao to the precipice of contempt for his son, if Yuan Mai left today, Yuan Shao would be able to wear the hat of looking down on his own son.

was confronted by his own son, Yuan Shao was very annoyed.

But think about it, it seems that he has done something inappropriate, he is also his own son, why are the three brothers Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi, and Yuan Shang talking and laughing at the table, and Yuan Mai should hide in the corner and no one cares?

The reason why I didn't like this young son before was nothing more than that he was weak and sickly, and he was silent, which was far from his own dignified appearance.

However, today this son has impressed himself, as if he has changed a person.

He was dressed in white, striding forward, holding his head high, neither humble nor arrogant, although his words were fierce, but there was no rudeness, which made it impossible to refute. Such a son, should I re-examine him? Get to know him again?

Yuan Shao suppressed the anger in his heart and decided to let Yuan Mai attend to see how much ability he had: "What Mai'er said is not unreasonable, since this is the case, ......"

"In this case, let's find a table and squeeze it, there are too many people to put down the case. I'd like to see which general is squeezing with him? ”

Before Yuan Shao's words were finished, he was taken over by his wife, Liu, who was sitting beside him.

Yuan Shao didn't carefully ponder the deep meaning of Liu's words, and thought that Liu was really worried that he couldn't add a few more cases, so he nodded and agreed to Liu's proposal: "Well, listen to your mother." Find a place to squeeze in. ”

"Yes, the boy obeys."

Although he knew that Liu's words were ill-intentioned, Yuan Mai also knew that it was a fluke that Yuan Shao did not get angry at his own confrontation, and if he had to ask for an additional case for himself, he was afraid that it would be self-defeating.

Yuan Mai quietly glanced around everyone at the feast, relying on the subconscious preserved in his mind to know them, looking for a place to sit.

Yuan Shao, the overlord of Hebei with a dignified appearance and extraordinary instruments, sat cross-legged in the center, looking like a king over the world. Wearing a bun and wearing jade, the noble lady's majestic wife Liu sat on his side, and she was also full of queen's style, and the husband and wife shared the same table. On both sides of Yuan Shao's wife, a little back, kneeling were the three Yuan Tan brothers and Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan.

Relying on the subconscious in his body, Yuan Mai recognized the first person on the left, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a beard and erratic eyes, Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan, who is currently the Qingzhou Thorn and the general of Zhengdong.

On the right side of Yuan Tan is Gao Gan, who looks similar to Yuan Tan's age, with a dignified appearance, a strong physique, and looks very capable. Yuan Shao has more than a dozen nephews, but Yuan Shao has a lot of trust in Gao Gan and entrusts him with important tasks, which is estimated to be mostly related to Gao Gan's outstanding appearance, because his talent is really average, and Yuan Mai really can't think of a reason for Yuan Shao to reuse Gao Gan.

"It seems that this old man Yuan is an out-and-out appearance control, not a beautiful man and a handsome guy!" Yuan Mai stood in the center of the hall, looking for a place to sit down, and muttered something in his heart.

Yuan Shao's first on his right hand is his favorite third son Yuan Shang, who is eighteen years old this year and is a standard beautiful man. Sheng's facial features are upright, thick eyebrows and big eyes, his voice is loud, and his instruments are extraordinary. It is no wonder that Yuan Shao dotes on him very much, as if he is the pearl in his palm, in terms of appearance alone, this guy can be called a complete explosion of all the men here.

Kneeling on Yuan Shang's left was his second brother, the second brother of the same father and mother, Yuan Xi.

is also handsome and extraordinary, but his eyes are much kinder and more modest, far less domineering than his own brother, and there is no arrogance in his empty eyes. Perhaps, this is the reason why Yuan Xi is willing to sit below Yuan Shang although he is an elder brother.

Sitting side by side behind Yuan Shao's father and son were Yuan Shao's five concubines, kneeling from left to right, according to their size.

Yuan Shao's wife was not Liu, but Yuan Tan's mother, Zhang.

In the sixth year of Zhongping, that is, the first ** year in history, nine years ago from today, the brain-dead general He Jin recruited all the princes into Beijing to conspire to kill the eunuchs, Dong Zhuo led the tiger and wolf division of Xiliang into Chang'an, controlled the government, and brought disaster to the world.

At a court meeting, Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo broke out a sharp conflict, and afterwards feared that Dong Zhuo would retaliate against him, so he led his subordinates out of the city in a panic and left his family in the capital. At this time, it coincides with the cold winter. Yuan Shao's wife Zhang was unfortunately infected with wind and cold, and Liu took advantage of the absence of Yuan Shao's father and son to order the maid to close the door of the house and not to find a doctor to treat Zhang, which eventually led to the aggravation of Zhang's condition and his life.

After that, Mrs. Liu, who was young and beautiful, scheming, and twelve years younger than Yuan Shao, successfully ascended to the position of Yuan Shao's wife.

Mrs. Liu's name was originally called "Liu Jiao", but she was too cheesy and too feminine, so she took it upon herself to change the word "Jiao" to "proud", hoping that she could be a proud woman and let many, many men surrender to her knees.

After Liu ascended to the position of the main wife, Yuan Shao's other five concubines were afraid of her ruthlessness, and did not dare to say much about Liu's plot to kill Zhang, for fear of causing trouble. Among them, only Yuan Mai's mother Yan was very dissatisfied with Liu Jiao's mean and domineering, and repeatedly contradicted Liu in public, which made Liu Jiao determined to get rid of Yan.

Taking advantage of the fact that Yuan Shao was promoted to be the leader of the Eighteenth Route Princes Alliance and led the army to defeat Dong Zhuo, the Liu family used a conspiracy to kill the Yan family. Because of Yan's frequent abdominal pain, Mrs. Liu secretly bribed the doctor to mix poison into Yan's prescription, causing Yan's to cough up blood and die after taking the medicine.

In this way, Mrs. Liu's power in the Yuan family is even more one-handed, and several other wives and concubines dare not be angry or speak, and the matter of getting rid of the Yan family is as easy as crushing an ant to death for Liu Jiao.

This year, Yuan Mai was nine years old, and he didn't know what hatred was.

And Yuan Shao, who was busy fighting in all directions, had no idea what was happening at home, and really thought that the Zhang family and the Yan family did die of illness.

After a while, Liu sent his henchmen to search around, and found a beautiful woman surnamed Zheng from Taiyuan County, who recognized him as his distant "cousin", and made the decision to marry Yuan Shao, which was very pleasing to Yuan Shao.

Since then, Mrs. Liu's position in the Yuan family has become more unshakable.

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