Chapter 104: The Eastern Emperor Goes to the Banquet
Ren's mansion, the gate.
A carriage slowly headed towards the Tang family's mansion.
Inside the carriage, a middle-aged man in a dark yellow robe, with a tall figure, a face like a crown of jade, and starry eyes, was sitting opposite an old man.
The old man, dressed in a green robe, was of medium stature, with an ordinary appearance, with long gray-white hair draped behind him, and sat on the side of the carriage solemnly.
"Family master, didn't the eldest lady say that she wanted to go to the Tang family's mansion with you for a banquet?"
The old man is the great elder of the Ren family, Ren Qiong.
Listening to his address to the middle-aged man sitting opposite, this middle-aged man was obviously the head of the Ren family, Ren Tianxing.
"That girl, I don't know which tendon is wrong recently, and I haven't been out for more than ten days...... In the past, she liked to join in the fun, but yesterday I went to her and asked her if she wanted to go to the Tang family with me for a banquet, and she refused without any hesitation. ”
Ren Tianxing smiled bitterly and shook his head, his eyes full of incomprehension.
"The eldest lady went out frequently before, and she was very close to that Yang Zixi...... It's a good thing not to go out now, at least not because of getting close to Yang Zixi, and being angry with the Shi family. ”
Ren Qiong said.
At this time, the people in Ren Tianxing and Ren Qiongkou are the eldest lady of the Ren family, Ren Jiapei.
Since more than ten days of gathering of the wealthy children in the Qianwei family's mansion, Ren Jiapei has been staying in the Ren family's mansion, not going out, no longer lively in the past, there are people who catch her during this time, and she can find that she is no longer cheerful.
And the reason why she is like this is entirely because of the word 'love'.
After that day, Ren Jiapei realized that he had fallen in love with the young man beside Yang Zixi, even to the point where he couldn't give up.
However, Yang Zixi also likes that teenager.
She regards Yang Zixi as her own sister, and Yang Zixi is still her childhood savior, so it is reasonable for her to compete with Yang Zixi.
Because of this, she has recently locked herself in her room, which is called retreat and cultivation, but in fact she is escaping.
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Today's Tang family mansion is very lively.
The heads of all the wealthy families in Chu Wangcheng all came, without exception.
In addition, the major lord families in Chu Wangcheng, and many heads of big valve families also came in person.
Although the heads of the three top big lord families did not come, they each sent a family elder over, and they were all Qi Gathering Ninefold Martial Arts Cultivators, which could be said to have given the Tang family enough face.
Nowadays, the families above the wealthy families in the Chu Wangcheng, but if they receive the invitation, only the Chu Wangfu has no one to come.
No one was surprised by this.
The Chu Wangfu is the master of the Chu King City, and it is also the master of the entire Western Chu Wangling, even if it is a top lord family, it must rely on its snort to survive well.
The Tang family, although it is a big valve family, has not been placed in the eyes of the Chu Wangfu, and the Chu Wangfu does not need to think about whether to give the Tang family face.
If you don't give the Tang family face, what can the Tang family do?
To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the Chu Palace, even if it is a top big family, it is just a relatively large ant.
"Except for the people from the Chu Palace, it seems that the people from the major wealthy families and above have all come, right?"
At the gate of the Tang family's mansion, several disciples of the Tang family who were in charge of reception opened the list in their hands and glanced at it, and soon found that not only the people from the Chu Palace's mansion did not come.
There was one more person who didn't come.
However, this person does not belong to any family, but he is in the first line, and only the word 'benefactor' is written.
"I didn't pay attention just now...... The 'benefactor' in the first row of this list is the one who saved the lives of the family master, the Great Elder, and the Second Elder that our Tang family held a banquet for tonight?"
One of the Tang family disciples guessed.
"It should be. ”
Another Tang family disciple nodded with a condensed face, "Today, I have the impression that the guests who come here are all from major wealthy families and above...... There are no raw faces. ”
"Since the name of that person is not written on the list, he must not be from a wealthy family in Chu Wangcheng, and may not even be from our Chu Wangcheng. ”
"Why hasn't that lord come yet? If he doesn't come, what's the point of our Tang family holding a banquet today?"
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Several Tang family disciples looked around for a while, but they still didn't see anyone walking towards the gate of their Tang family's mansion, and they were all a little puzzled for a while:
As today's protagonist, the person who saved the lives of their Tang family head, the eldest elder and the second elder won't not come, right?
"The people of the Chu Palace, they shouldn't be coming. ”
As time passed, a group of onlookers at the gate of the Tang family's mansion gradually dispersed.
And just when most of the onlookers dispersed, at the end of the road, a white figure and a figure in a rose-red dress walked side by side.
The two of them walked directly to the gate of the Tang family's mansion.
The young man dressed in white took out an invitation from his arms and handed it to a Tang family disciple who was guarding the door.
"They are from the Chu Palace?"
"Impossible! I have the impression that all the characters in the Chu Wangfu have heads and faces, these two people can't be from the Chu Wangfu!"
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Among the onlookers who had not yet left, some people speculated that the young man and girl in front of them were from the Chu Palace, but they were quickly refuted.
"The girl...... Isn't it Yang Zixi who was personally expelled from the Yang family by Yang Yunji, the head of the Yang family, nearly four months ago?"
"Yang Zixi, did I think she was a little familiar just now, yes, she is Yang Zixi!"
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Soon, someone recognized the girl in the rose-red dress, Miss Zixi of the Yang family, who had been expelled from the Yang family nearly four months ago.
"That Yang Zixi who was expelled from the Yang family? You won't recognize the wrong person, right? Those children of the Tang family, when facing her and the young man beside her, are much more enthusiastic than facing Yang Yunji, the head of the Yang family. ”
"Don't talk about Yang Yunji...... Even the elders who greeted the three top lords before, they didn't seem to be so enthusiastic. ”
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Under the watchful eyes of a group of onlookers, several children of the Tang family bowed down and moved in unison, welcoming the pair of young girls who were like golden boys and girls.
"I'm sure she's Yang Zixi! The reason why these Tang family children are so enthusiastic should be because of that young man. ”
"In the Chu King City, there are very few people who can make these Tang family disciples like this...... Could it be that you want to say that this young man is the little prince of the Chu Palace?"
"The little prince of the Chu Palace, I have seen it all, and there is no him among them. ”
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Zhou Donghuang, who was warmly welcomed into the gate of the Tang family's mansion by several members of the Tang family, did not know that he was mistaken for the little prince of the Chu Mansion.
Several children of the Tang family who were guarding the door, after seeing the invitation taken out by Zhou Donghuang just now, were shocked, and welcomed him into the Tang family's mansion one after another.
Just because, Zhou Donghuang's please sticker, the line of the invitee, the word 'benefactor' is written.
Of course, several Tang family disciples didn't think that it was the young man in front of them who saved their Tang family's family head, eldest elder, and second elder, but only thought that it was the young man's elders who came to the rescue, and the young man just came to the banquet instead of his elders.
But, even so, they still dare not slack off.
"Young Master Zhou, please inside. ”
Several children of the Tang family, and finally left one person behind, and took Zhou Donghuang and Yang Zixi to the place where the Tang family held a banquet tonight, the vast front yard of the Tang family's mansion.
Just now, when a child of the Tang family asked Zhou Donghuang how to call him, Zhou Donghuang casually said his name, so several children of the Tang family already knew his surname Zhou.
"Go ahead, we'll just go over by ourselves. ”
When the children of the Tang family wanted to take them directly to see Tang Liunian, the head of the Tang family, Zhou Donghuang stopped him, and the latter naturally obeyed his words and did not dare to go against Zhou Donghuang's wishes.
The Tang family, as the high-class big valve family in Chu Wangcheng, has a vast family mansion, which is much larger than the mansion of the Shi family.
Now, in the spacious front yard of the Tang family's mansion, there are large round tables, many people are already sitting in front of many round tables, and more people are standing in groups of three or five chatting everywhere.
With just one glance, Zhou Donghuang saw:
In the distance, in front of the round table in the easternmost part of the front yard, Tang Liunian, the head of the Tang family, was chatting with the three old men.
Tang Yuxin, the second elder of the Tang family, and Tang Yong, the third elder of the Tang family, are now also standing in the distance and chatting with a few people.
Because of the distance and the noisy sound in the front yard, when Zhou Donghuang walked into the front yard with Yang Zixi, Tang Liunian and the three of them didn't notice them for the time being.
It's just that Tang Liunian and the three didn't notice Zhou Donghuang and the others, but someone noticed them.
"Isn't that Yang Zixi?"
Many people recognized the girl beside Zhou Donghuang.
"This Yang Zixi, wasn't she expelled from the Yang family? Now she is not a child of a wealthy family, how can she appear here?"
"Today, the Tang family held a banquet, and the banquet was for people from major families above the wealthy family...... This Yang Zixi, who was expelled from the Yang family, is logically unqualified to appear here, how did she come here?"
"Could it be that the boy next to her brought her here?"
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As a group of people whispered, many people's eyes fell on Zhou Donghuang.
Now, although Zhou Donghuang is over eighteen years old and has a height of more than one meter eight, he is already a young man, but with a bit of childishness in his appearance, it is still easy for people to mistake him for a teenager.
"It's him!"
"Isn't this young man the one who abolished one of the Zhang family's arms in the Wei family's mansion more than ten days ago?"
"He didn't even die? Shi Yu, the eldest young master of the Shi family, didn't settle accounts with him?"
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Many of the children of wealthy families present recognized Zhou Donghuang at a glance, and many of them whispered and shifted their eyes to a round table in the distance.
Shi Yu, the eldest young master of the Shi family, sat there, with his back to them.
"Shi Yu?"
In front of a round table nearby, Wei Hongtao, the eldest young master of the Wei family, sat there, listening to the whispers of a group of wealthy families, but he couldn't help but shake his head, and the corners of his mouth followed a mocking arc.