Early the next morning, the backyard of Guo Zixing's marshal mansion was lit up, and the house slaves and maids came and went, all wearing red and green, beaming, and holding huge trays in their hands, with melons, fruits, pears and peaches in the tray, all kinds of exquisite snacks. {top}{dot} novel

Today is Guo Zixing's 50th birthday, although Guo Zixing has repeatedly emphasized that only a family banquet will be held today, and a large banquet must not be held, but even if it is just a family banquet, it is also colorful and lively.

Guo Zixing, the protagonist of the birthday banquet, was not in the house, and early in the morning, Sun Deya sent someone to invite Guo Zixing with his name post, saying that he wanted to discuss important matters. Guo Zixing couldn't stay, but he remembered what the two generals Tang He and Deng Yu said that day.

I also feel that this time is indeed a good time to surrender Sun Deya. It stands to reason that if Sun Deya asks for himself, he should obediently roll over to the door, and then beg for himself. Who knows, this old thief actually swaggered and only sent a personal soldier to come, so he wanted to invite himself to go.

Guo Zixing endured his anger and repeatedly warned himself that if he wanted to succeed in big things, he had to be patient for the time being and show his mind. After the four old thieves are collected, it is not too late to slowly clean them up.

Thinking of this, Guo Zixing asked Sun Deya's personal soldiers to go back to resume their lives, and he would be there in a while.

Waiting for the pro-soldier to retreat, Guo Zixing groaned to himself for a while, and asked people to quickly summon General Tang He to the Shuai's mansion to discuss matters.

After a while, Yuhe hurried in. As soon as Guo Zixing met, he told Tang He what had just happened and his doubts and plates, and asked Tang He to help him with that idea.

Tang He first asked about General Li in Xuzhou, asked Guo Zixing if he had any further news about Xuzhou, and said that Sun Deya's actions this time must be related to the matter in Xuzhou.

The stakes were so important that Guo Zixing was inconvenient to hide from him, so he told Tang He about meeting General Peng yesterday and surrendering his subordinates, and also told Tang He that Zhao Jun, another general in Xuzhou who had escaped, defected to Sun Deya at the same time.

When Tang He heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and after thinking about it for a long time, he said slowly: "Dashuai, Sun Deya's move is too strange, and the last general thinks that Dashuai is better not going." ”

"Why?" Guo Zixing said strangely: "General Tang, yesterday, didn't you always encourage this marshal to go to Sun Deya and them?

Tang He looked handsome, standing in front of Guo Zixing, like a big poplar tree with a long body, Guo Zixing had to raise his head slightly and squint at him.

"Marshal, at this time, the Tartar army is about to march under the city of Haozhou, Sun Deya's four soldiers are outnumbered, and whether Haozhou City can be defended depends on the marshal alone. It stands to reason that the four of Sun Deya should have hurried to take the blame and come to the door to ask for the handsome.

However, now that things are strange, they are still calm and invite the marshal to come to the door, and the last general feels that there must be a trick in this, and the marshal must not be fooled. ”

Guo Zixing didn't care, waved his hand, and said loudly: "Alas, General Tang, you are charging into battle, how heroic you are, how can you be afraid of a few little old thieves today." Not to mention that Ben Shuai decided that a few of them didn't dare to play any tricks, even if they dared to play any tricks, Ben Shuai was not afraid. ”

Tang He shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Dashuai, the situation is very important now, you must not be rash. That Sun Deya and the others are scheming, so don't underestimate them too much. ”

Guo Zixing sneered, slapped his hand on the table, and said loudly: "Hmph! What did the four old thieves of Sun Deya calculate, my old Guo is still going to meet the four of them, I want to see, they dare to ask for my old Guo's old life!"

Tang He saw that Guo Zixing had made up his mind, and he no longer persuaded each other, but said loudly: "Since Dashuai has made up his mind to meet Sun Deya's old thief, the last general is not talented, and he is willing to follow Dashuai and go to Dongcheng together." ”

"Good. Guo Zixing nodded happily, "That's it, you and I will bring a dozen people, and we will go now." ”

Hearing that Guo Zixing was going to meet Sun Deya with only a dozen people, Tang He nodded silently, and did not object, in fact, even if he brought hundreds of people, after all, Sun Deya still had tens of thousands of soldiers there. You can't really take tens of thousands of people with you.

Without further ado, the two only took Guo Zixing's dozen personal soldiers, and hurried to Dongcheng to meet Sun Deya and them.

Dongcheng is the old city of Haozhou City, Sun Deya's army entered only a few hundred households before entering, compared to the suburbs in the south of the city, on the same day, Sun Deya defected to Guo Zixing, Guo Zixing designated Sun Deya's army of four people to be stationed in Dongcheng.

Early in the morning, Zhu Chongba came to Guo Zixing's mansion, he asked east and west, asked everywhere, and asked everywhere to see where he could help, but although everyone was busy, they were all in order, Zhu Chongba couldn't get involved at all, where else did he need help.

Later, Zhu Chongba simply stopped wandering around, and sat obediently on the outermost table of eight immortals in the hall.

There were only four tables of eight immortals in the hall, one of the largest was placed in the middle, and three were placed horizontally at the bottom of the place. The Eight Immortals table in the middle fluttered with a red satin tablecloth and a golden python pattern piping, which looked joyful and extraordinary.

The other three tables were also covered with red tablecloths, and four tables were filled with delicate dim sum and dried fruit preserves.

At this time, it was still early, the guests had not yet come, and the maids and servants outside were busy and happy. Zhu Chongba sat alone in the hall of Nuoda, looking at the busy crowd outside, and didn't know what he should do, so he could only sit there blankly, looking at the flower hall outside the door.

Who knows, Zhu Chongba sat for nearly two hours, and it was already noon, and Guo Zixing still had no figure.

There was already a mess outside, and Mrs. Zhang had already sent people to the Shuai's Mansion to find Guo Zixing, but the people went to several times, but they all replied that Guo Dashuai was not in the Dashuai's Mansion at all.

The cold dishes in the hall have already been put on the table, and the pots and bowls are full, but until now, none of the guests have appeared, it seems that the master is right, Guo Zixing is indeed just a family banquet this time, and he did not invite others.

Of course, the family members will not appear in advance, so Zhu Chongba is still alone in the hall for half a day, except for the maids who serve the food. More than two hours passed, Zhu Chongba really couldn't sit still, stood up and shot, and wanted to go out to see if he could find some work to do.

Who knew that as soon as he came out of the hall, he could hear a commotion outside, it turned out that Mrs. Zhang had sent dozens of people everywhere to find Guo Zixing, and who knew that dozens of people had not found Guo Zixing's shadow until now.

Although Guo Zixing acted casually, he would not slack off on such a major event as his 50th birthday today. Zhu Chongba was strange in his heart, Guo Zixing usually told his relatives that he was accompanied by his own soldiers, but today he had not heard of Guo Zixing letting his relatives accompany him.

Mrs. Zhang was quite calm, and while letting people continue to prepare for the birthday banquet, she sent several waves of people to look outside the city to see if Guo Zixing had gone outside the city. Seeing that Mrs. Zhang was so calm, everyone slowly calmed down and continued to do what they were doing.

Everyone knows that Guo Zixing has two wives, both of whom are surnamed Zhang, and everyone is generally called Mrs. Da Zhang and Mrs. Xiao Zhang.

Now it is Mrs. Da Zhang who commands everyone, Mrs. Da Zhang is Guo Zixing's wife of the chaff, is the husband and wife who have been married for ten years before Guo Zixing's uprising, it is said that she was born in a rich peasant family, although she has not read, but she acts decisively and calmly, and is definitely Guo Zixing's good internal helper, and has helped Guo Zixing a lot over the years, and is regarded by Guo Zixing as his military advisor.

Mrs. Xiao Zhang was met by Guo Zixing in southern Anhui a few years ago, and the two are said to have fallen in love at first sight.

This Mrs. Xiao Zhang is usually in the back house, the door does not go out of the second door, and she is much more reserved than the young lady in the deep boudoir, there are so many people in the house and outside the house, there are really few people who have seen Mrs. Xiao Zhang.

It was past noon, and everyone had nothing to do. Everyone stood with their hands down, waiting for Guo Zixing to come back and start the banquet immediately.

At this time, the four Eight Immortal Tables in the birthday banquet hall were almost full, Mrs. Da Zhang sat on the second main seat of the Big Eight Immortals Table in the middle, and on the other side sat a delicate young woman, Zhu Chongba recognized, it was Guo Zixing's Xiao Zhang, Mrs. Xiao Zhang was dressed in jewelry, sitting there, not squinting, just looking at herself expressionlessly more than ten steps away, and she didn't know what she was looking at.

Mrs. Da Zhang had a solemn face, kept looking at it, and her eyes hardly left the door, obviously worried about Guo Zixing.

The other tables were also sitting by women, and Zhu Chongba didn't dare to look at it. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and his eyes were fixed on a girl in pink clothes next to Mrs. Xiao Zhang.

The girl had a round goose egg face, her eyebrows were flying, and a pair of clear big eyes were also looking at herself, Zhu Chongba recognized that she was none other than Guo Zixing's righteous daughter who he had rescued from hunting that day, Miss Ma Xiuying.

Ma Xiuying's big eyes kept looking at it, and she saw Zhu Chongba sitting in the corner at a glance. Ma Xiuying smiled, stood up, walked to Zhu Chongba's table, and said to Zhu Chongba: "Aren't you Zhu Chongba?

Zhu Chongba looked at everyone in the hall looking at him, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, stood up, and said in a low voice: "It's Zhu Chongba, I've seen Miss." ”

"Yes. Was it my father who invited you?" Ma Xiuying tilted her head and continued to ask.

"Xiuying, how can you be so rude!" Da Zhang shouted loudly on the side.

Readers are invited to watch the next chapter, "Heroes Are Not Afraid of Low Origins"