The entrance of Ningfu.

When Ning Xiaochuan got drunk and got out of the carriage, Su Su and Su Min were already waiting at the door.

Seeing Ning Xiaochuan, Su Su hurriedly went up to help, and Su Min next to him also hurriedly went up to help him put on his coat to prevent him from catching a cold.

"I want wine...... I'm not ...... drunk" Ning Xiaochuan shouted drunkenly, and the family who sent him back looked at him like this, and after giving up his hand slightly, he got into the carriage, and didn't leave until he watched Su Su and Su Min carry Ning Xiaochuan to the mansion.

As soon as he walked into the Ning Mansion, Ning Xiaochuan, who was still drunk and unconscious just now, got up in an instant like a nobody, and this scene startled Su Min next to him.

"Young master, ......" Su Min looked at Ning Xiaochuan in astonishment, it turned out that Ning Xiaochuan was pretending to be like that just now, but this pretending was too similar.

Su Su smiled slightly, and seemed to be accustomed to all this, "The first time, I was just as surprised as you. ”

"Hmph, you want to pour me wine......" Ning Xiaochuan sneered, turned around and spit out a big sip of wine.

After vomiting, Ning Xiaochuan quickly took off his clothes full of alcohol, put on the robe handed by Su Min, and the corners of his mouth curved: "Susu, prepare a jar of wine, today's Zhonghe Festival, I'll go to see Lao Song Tou"

"Yes."

……

The stable in the backyard of Ning Mansion, since the last time Su Jing showed his strength in Jiangbei Town to save Ning Xiaochuan, Ning Xiaochuan has even more gratitude and respect for this smiling old man.

Seeing Ning Xiaochuan running over with a large jar of wine, the corners of Su Jingle's mouth curved.

"Five boys, didn't you go to some conference today? Why haven't you drunk enough? Coming to me again, old man. ”

Ning Xiaochuan put the wine on the table and said with a proud face: "Old Song Tou, what do you see this, this is a good Yichun wine on a jar, don't you want to taste it?"

Besides, what kind of conference is that, it's a Hongmen banquet that pulls me into the water, and the wine is so happy to drink with you. ”

"Oh? It's interesting, pull you into the water, I thought it was that stinky old man who wanted your life. Song Jing said while bringing two enamel bowls.

Ning Xiaochuan opened the wine, and the aroma of the wine overflowed for a while, just by smelling the aroma of the wine, Song Jing couldn't help but sigh: "It is indeed a good wine......

"I'm also quite strange, I thought this was the Hongmen banquet prepared for me by Lei Kangshan, but I never thought that this banquet would have another spring and autumn." Ning Xiaochuan said and took out the invitation card from his waist and handed it to Song Jing.

Song Jing took the invitation, looked at it carefully, and then looked solemn, "This invitation is a royal invitation, and it is also a direct line, and it is either the prince or the other two princes who can send this kind of invitation." ”

Ning Xiaochuan nodded solemnly, and his expression was extremely cautious, "The fonts on this invitation are all written in gold dust, ordinary literati will not be so extravagant at home, more than a hundred invitations are written in gold dust, how much expense, only the royal family has this capital." ”

Song Jing looked at the four corners of the invitation and said: "In order to show the royal prestige, the royal family will let the Ministry of Rites decorate the four corners of the unicorn accessories when distributing the invitations.

However, even if the ornamentation is removed, the outline is left on the invitation, and although it is not easy to notice, if you look closely, you will still see one or two. ”

That's right, the reason why Ning Xiaochuan was so nervous at the cocktail party was because he discovered the outline of this unicorn.

And when he was pretending to be drunk, the words that the man said to him just confirmed this, except for the people of the royal family, how could anyone come up and say that Dafeng was worried about internal and external troubles.

Ning Xiaochuan is not a fool, how could he not hear such an obvious solicitation.

"Why did the royal family solicit me for no reason? My eldest brother and second brother are in the middle of the court, why did he go to all the trouble to pull me into the water? Ning Xiaochuan took a big sip of Yichun wine, and the liquor entered his throat, this wine was better than the wine party.

Song Jing also drank a bowl, and after drinking, he licked the corners of his mouth unsatisfactorily, and his face instantly flushed.

"Good wine, five boys, what do you think is the purpose of recruiting you, the current saint is over half a hundred years old, once there is a mistake, the position of the king of the great Feng country will be vacant."

"The Battle of the East Palace......"

These four words flashed in Ning Xiaochuan's mind in an instant: "What he cares about is not me, but the Ning family behind me." ”

"The Ning family has 100,000 state troops, the eldest son has been stationed at the border for a long time, those princes are beyond the reach of the whip, and the second son serves as a servant of the ministry, under the emperor's nose, they don't dare to stretch out their hands to the court at present.

The third boy has no intention of officialdom and is obsessed with poetry, and the fourth boy is far away in Shuzhou, needless to say, as long as His Majesty is there, it is impossible for him to support any prince.

Therefore, if you want to get the support of the Ning family, you must start with you, and once you get close to that prince, you may be used by someone with a heart. Song Jing pointed at Ning Xiaochuan and said.

Ning Xiaochuan helped Song Jing pour a bowl of wine, and the two clinked glasses and drank it all, "It's really interesting, so this banquet has nothing to do with Lei Kangshan?" It's just the East Palace dispute. ”

"It's hard to say, after the first battle in Jiangbei Town, Lei Kangshan suddenly disappeared, and the Wu family was raided, and there has always been a dispute in the East Palace, why don't these princes look for you early or late, but look for you after you come back from Jiangbei Town? That's a coincidence, isn't it? Song Jing continued, and drank another bowl after speaking.

Ning Xiaochuan frowned, if that Lei Kangshan was really a member of the royal family, then what he had been hiding would be a joke, and it was very likely to bring great disaster to the Ning family.

But if this is the case, the royal family will definitely kill him, why would he suddenly recruit him, he was still trying to kill him a second ago, and now he is soliciting again, what does this mean?

Song Jing looked at Ning Xiaochuan's contemplative appearance, and said with a slow smile: "Five boys, this battle in the East Palace has been a battle of life and death since ancient times, and once there is a slight mistake, it will be doomed." ”

"I don't have the heart to get involved in their royal affairs, there is only one thing I really care about, that is, who is going to kill our Ning family in the first place, and whether all this has anything to do with the royal family...... Ning Xiaochuan frowned and said.

Song Jing smiled bitterly and looked at the dim sky outside the window, the dim candle flame swaying in the wind.

"Five boys, the battle for the East Palace is not something we can stay out of the matter if we want to, whether you want to or not, from the moment you walk into the poetry and wine conference today, you have been swept in."

Ning Xiaochuan frowned, "Isn't there a way to get out?" ”

"There is a way, but the cost may be a little big......," Song Jing said halfway through and did not continue.

Ning Xiaochuan sneered after hearing this, "Old Song Tou, what are you doing with this, today's Neutralization Festival, this matter is over, let's talk about something happy, we can't live up to the good wine, today, I don't want to get drunk and don't return!" ”

"Hahaha."

Song Jing laughed, "Old man, I like your temper like you, five boys, come, drink!" ”

In the small tiled house, the sound of drinking, laughter, mixed with the sound of enamel bowls colliding, echoed in the stables for a long time.

Ning Xiaochuan began to pretend to be drunk after he noticed the royal identity, but why did Yu Gongming pretend to be drunk, was it also because he was afraid of the royal identity?

Ning Xiaochuan had been thinking so for a long time, and it wasn't until he saw Wei Zhengchun again that Wei Zhengchun told him that Yu Gongming was really drunk, Wu Zizhi was poured with three cups, and Yu Gongming was poured without even three cups.

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Palace.

Gao Yuan, who had been busy all day, was already tired and had a sore back and neck, and as soon as he returned to the East Palace, he asked the maidservants around him to help him beat his back and rub his shoulders, which was called a pleasure.

Just as he closed his eyes and enjoyed the rare comfort, an old man on crutches walked in.

Gao Yuan, who heard the footsteps, hurriedly got up, and before he could clean up, the old man walked in front of him, "The old minister Qin Wanzun pays a visit to His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Gao Yuan smiled awkwardly, "Grandpa, it's so late, what are you doing here?" Come on in......"

"Today's banquet is empty?" National teacher Qin Wanzuka sat on the chair unhurriedly and said leisurely, it seemed that he had already expected the ending.

Gao Yuan nodded helplessly, "That Ning Xiaochuan is really rude, today I put my posture to the lowest, but he still doesn't know how to restrain himself, he has no etiquette at all, it's not an exaggeration to say that he is a gentleman, if I really am in the company of this person, wouldn't it be a shameless face?" ”

Who knew that after hearing this, Qin Wanzuka directly threw the invitation card in his hand over, and shouted angrily: "Hmph, there is no light yet? The fifth child of the Ning family is not simple, but you are still consciously smart, and you don't look at what stupid things you are doing. ”

"Grandpa, what do you mean by this, didn't you say that you used the poetry conference to recruit Ning Xiaochuan? Why are you blaming me again now? Gao Yuan said with some grievances, and for a while he didn't know where Qin Wanzun was so angry.

Qin Wanzun pointed to the invitation and said: "The old man is talking about this invitation card full of loopholes, write the invitation with gold dust, Your Highness, you are really rich, even if the ordinary scribe's family is rich, it will not be able to write more than a hundred invitations with gold dust."

Does this unclear pendulum tell Ning Xiaochuan that your identity is not ordinary? And this invitation was changed by you to the Ministry of Rites, don't you look at what it changed, and even the outline of the unicorn at the four corners is not covered, is this for fear that people will not know that this is a royal invitation? ”

After Qin Wanzuka scolded angrily, Gao Yuan picked up the invitation on the ground and took a closer look, it was really like this, but the outline was not particularly clear, and it couldn't be seen if he didn't look carefully.

Then he said with some embarrassment: "Grandpa, it's not as serious as you said, besides, no one in more than a hundred people recognized me today, not even that Li Shaofu, I don't believe that Ning Xiaochuan can see this." ”

"Li Shaofu's old poet has seen it, and he is indeed a rare talent, but Ning Xiaochuan can't be underestimated."

"Grandpa, then you mean that Ning Xiaochuan already knew about the invitation issue, and today's move is just a show?" Looking at Qin Wanzuka, Gao Yuan frowned and said.

Qin Wanzuka shook his head, "I don't know yet, if Ning Xiaochuan found out, then Ning Xiaochuan's drunken appearance when you met today is likely to be pretended, which shows that Ning Xiaochuan is careful and cautious, and he is a genius." ”

"My grandfather has a point." Gao Yuan pondered.

"Okay, the old man came to tell you about the invitation, and the second prince was very angry after learning that you held a poetry and wine conference to recruit Ning Xiaochuan.

It is estimated that it will not be long before you will find a way to see Ning Xiaochuan, you have to hold on tightly, no matter what method you use, first stabilize him in your hands. Qin Wanzun got up slowly and said earnestly.

As the prince of the dynasty, only if his grandson sits on the throne, their Qin family can last for a long time, so Qin Wanzun is heartbroken, not only for this grandson, but also for their Qin family.

Gao Yuan nodded, "Grandpa, don't worry, I have the bottom in my heart." ”

Qin Wanzuka nodded and turned to leave.

After Qin Wanzuka left, Gao Yuan leaned back in his chair, his mind was full of Ning Xiaochuan's expression and attitude when he talked to him today, all of this was pretended?