Chapter 258: Guests at the Great Banquet
Returning home in a trance, Chen Kan raised his head and took a look, and the plaque of Chen's Mansion on the door of the mansion had been replaced by four gilded characters of the Jinghai Marquis Mansion.
Chen Kan's mansion was originally the original Puding Marquis Mansion, and it did not need to be renovated with great fanfare.
Just change the plaque, and it will become the new Hou Mansion.
sighed that the officials of the Ministry of Industry were really fast enough to do things, and Chen Kan strode into the house in the admiring eyes of the porter.
As soon as he entered the door, the officials of the Ministry of Rites followed.
"The Divine Decree has arrived!"
Chen Kan tilted his head to look, but it was Song Li, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who came in person.
Chen Kan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly ordered Yun Cheng to open the middle door.
The people in the house were busy again.
After the incense case and other things were prepared in the house, Chen Kan went out of the gate and greeted Song Li.
"Lord Lao Song is here in person, please come in!"
The two saluted each other and walked into the Chen Mansion with their arms.
The big-eyed cute girl was also alarmed by the movement in the front yard, and trotted out all the way out of the door.
Seeing this, the gift had to give a salute to Zhu Yuelan first: "See Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”
"No courtesy."
Zhu Yuelan's little face couldn't hide her excitement.
Even if she is a princess, she can't escape the shackles of comparing brothers and sisters.
Chen Kanfeng Marquis, she will be able to have one more conversation among the noble ladies of Beijing in the future.
What's more, Chen Kan relied on his own merits to make a real marquis, which is different from Yuan Rongli and those bewitching sluts.
Song Li straightened up and shouted with full anger: "Where is Chen Kan, the commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses?" ”
Chen Kan bowed and saluted: "The minister is here." ”
"Kneel to receive the decree."
Chen Kan led the Chen Mansion and the other subordinates to kneel down respectfully.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: Admiral Chen Kan, the commander of the five cities of the Soldiers and Horses, is cautious, diligent and supple, Yonghe is pure, gentle and good-natured, Kexian Neize, and Shude Hanzhang...... He was immediately canonized as the Marquis of Jinghai and enshrined by the imperial court. ”
"Chen Kan received the order, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
Although Zhu Di has personally promised in the palace, but now that he has obtained the holy decree, the title of Chen Kan can be regarded as the real dust.
Chen Kan took the holy decree, handed it to Yun Cheng, and asked him to put it on the incense to worship, then he got up and arched his hand to Song Li and said: "Lord Song has worked hard, the house has already prepared thin wine, and please Lord Song must appreciate it." ”
"Hahahaha, that's natural, this official is here today to send joy to you, Lord Chen, it's not too much to eat your meal, right?"
Song Li burst out laughing, and Chen Kan laughed too.
The two men put their arms toward the auditorium.
Relying on the handover and passing the news of the feudal marquis to the various mansions that are friendly with the Chen Mansion, there will naturally be big-eyed cute girls and Yun Cheng to worry about.
"Someone!"
"Prepare an invitation, and the guests of the Jinghai Marquis Mansion will be ...... three days later"
At a critical time, Zhu Yuelan's sharpness was so sharp that people didn't dare to look at it directly.
A group of subordinates were commanded by her.
The housekeeper Yun Cheng followed Her Royal Highness the princess throughout the whole process, carefully writing down every name that Zhu Yuelan spit out of her mouth.
Marquis of Guangping, Marquis of Longping, Marquis of Fuyang, Marquis of Wuyang, Duke Cao Guo, and Loyal Bo.......
Among the six books, the squire, and the squire...
One name after another or official position spit out from Zhu Yuelan's mouth, and in a short period of time, the officials or generals with names and surnames in the Beijing division have been covered all over again.
Chen Kan's identity is relatively special, it stands to reason that his teacher is the head of the civil officials, and he should also be invited to the civil official department for such a big thing.
But Chen Kan was born in a general, and his father Chen Huan was one of the twenty-four generals in Huaixi, which led to a more unclear relationship between him and the Xungui Group.
So on the third day, there was a situation in the newly promoted Jinghai Marquis Mansion where the civil and military generals stared at each other.
On the eighth day of the fourth month of the first year of Yongle, on this day, the entire Jingshi fell into a sea of jubilation.
The guests of the Marquis of Jinghai feasted the whole city, and set up a flowing water table in Wuyi Alley, and the people who came to congratulate him, no matter what the etiquette you sent was, whether it was an egg or a duck, they could sit down and eat in front of the Hou Mansion.
The dishes of the flowing water table are not so exquisite, the meat tube is full, and the wine tube is enough.
Its momentum is huge, and it is not stingy on the day of Chen Kan's wedding with Her Royal Highness the Princess.
In the Jinghai Hou Mansion, Chen Kan stood at the gate of the second courtyard, welcoming visitors from all directions.
Those who can enter the Hou Mansion and sit are at least officials of the fifth rank or above.
And in the largest auditorium, everyone is a court boss.
The civil officials were headed by Fang Xiaoru, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and the honorable people were headed by Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo.
"The Marquis of Guangping brought Princess Yongan to ......"
"The Marquis of Fuyang brought Princess Yongping to ......"
"His Royal Highness the King of Han, His Royal Highness the King of Zhao to ......"
Every time Yun Cheng outside the door sings, Chen Kan has to go up to greet him.
However, for one morning, Chen Kan only felt that his legs were filled with lead, and he was so heavy that he couldn't take a step.
The smile on his face is also extremely stiff, and there is a faint tendency to cramp.
Originally, Chen Kan didn't mean to make a big deal, he only planned to invite people close to him, such as Fang Xiaoru, Chen Qia, Ruyu and others to come to the house for a meal.
However, the big-eyed cute girl disagreed, and Chen Kan could only follow his wishes.
Feng Yihou was even more tired than him drilling forests in Shuzhong and Yunnan, which he never expected.
"Eldest sister, second sister, second brother, third brother......"
Several people are considered relatives of Chen Kan, and at this time, there is no need to call identity or official position.
As kind as you want.
Perhaps because of Lao Zhu's influence, in private, the people of Lao Zhu's family prefer to call each other by relatives, rather than the royal one.
Just like Chen Kan shouted a second brother in his mouth, he could obviously see that Zhu Gaoxu, who had a stinky face, instantly became gentle on his face.
Zhu Gaosui patted Chen Kan on the shoulder, nodded at Chen Kan, and walked into the auditorium with Zhu Gaoxu.
As for the two princesses, Zhu Yuelan introduced them to the auditorium where the ladies were located early.
Only Yuan Rong and Li Rang were left, Chen Kan didn't call them, and they didn't look at Chen Kan more.
Chen Kan couldn't remember when he had offended them, but the two had been very hostile to him since they first met.
Chen Kan was too lazy to get used to them.
If it weren't for the fact that they both married princesses, Chen Kan and them might not have anything to do with each other in this life.
I was in a good mood today, and Chen Kan didn't bother to quarrel with them.
The identities of the two princes are the most valuable, so they are basically the finale guests today.
When the two of them arrived, there would be no guests.
After being a mascot all day, Chen Kan felt that his face couldn't change back.
He rubbed his face vigorously and prepared to enter the door and start fooling today's guests.
But before he could make a move, he heard a sharp call outside the door.
"Your Majesty has arrived."
"Why is Your Majesty here?"
This sharp voice was heard not only by Chen Kan, but also by the officials in the auditorium.
Fang Xiaoru poured out of the auditorium with a large number of civil servants, with a thoughtful look on his face.
Li Jinglong, who was hanging, stood on the other side of the courtyard with his honors, and between the civil officials and the military generals, there was quite a bit of the meaning that the well water did not interfere with the river water.
Zhu Di came very domineeringly, and in the blink of an eye, the huge Jinghai Marquis Mansion was controlled by Jinyiwei, and even the subordinates of Chen's Mansion were controlled by Jinyiwei.
A moment later, the entire Hou Mansion was surrounded by water.
Chen Kan was a little puzzled, what was Zhu Di doing here?
Come to eat?
The officials were also puzzled, although Chen Kanfeng was a happy event, it was not yet to the extent that His Majesty came to congratulate him, right?
Then the only explanation is that Chen Kan's position in Zhu Di's heart is likely to be high to a level that they can't imagine.
A team of Jinyi lieutenants even demolished the threshold of Chen Kan's house.
Chen Kan was angry, but he didn't have a good seizure, so he had to look out of the door with a dry smile.
Zhu Di's Luan drove straight into the Hou Mansion under the escort of the water.
The attendant little yellow goalkeeper Zhu Di helped down from Luan's car.
The hundred officials in the courtyard knelt down neatly.
"See Your Majesty, long live long live long live!"
The voice of Long Live Shanhu sounded, and Zhu Di's limelight has completely overshadowed today's protagonist Chen Kan.
With a gentle smile on his face, Zhu Di looked at the hundred officials kneeling in front of him, and the whole person was like a god.
He chuckled and said, "Zhuqing, excuse me." ”
"I came here today just to congratulate Chen Xiaozi, you can do everything as usual, you don't have to be restrained."
Chen Kan took the lead in standing up, trotted in front of Zhu Di, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, how can you have time to come to the Son-in-law's Mansion today?" ”
Zhu Di smiled and asked, "Why, half of the officials of the Beijing Division are here, can't I come?" ”
"Uh..."
Chen Kan rolled his eyes and whispered: "That's what the minister meant, what the minister meant, Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities to run out of the palace for such a trivial matter......"
"Don't talk nonsense, lead the way for me."
Zhu Di kicked Chen Kan's ass angrily.
The intimate gesture suddenly made Baiguan's heart flutter again.
They found that they still underestimated Chen Kan's position in Zhu Di's heart.
How could Zhu Di ever be so intimate with his courtiers?
Even His Royal Highness King Han and His Royal Highness King Zhao in the crowd don't have this honor, right?
Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui watched Zhu Di and Chen Kan enter the auditorium with complicated faces, and couldn't help but feel a little frustrated in their hearts.
Baiguan didn't guess wrong, they really didn't have this kind of treatment.
For as long as they can remember, Zhu Di has always played the role of a strict father in their hearts.
It is only in the mother that they will feel the kind of affection that the elders have for the younger generations.
And in the crowd, Yuan Rong and Li Rang were even more jealous.
are also sons-in-law, why is there such a big difference?
Zhu Di treated them either by beating or scolding, but with Chen Kan with an attitude of completely treating his own people.
In terms of merit, ability, and character, where are they inferior to Chen Kan?
What the officials think now, Chen Kan doesn't care, and he doesn't have time to care.
The most important thing for Chen Kan at the moment is to find ways to serve the great god Zhu Di.
Fortunately, the auditorium of the Marquis of Jinghai Mansion is large enough, even if Zhu Di, a real dragon, is entrenched, it can barely accommodate a hundred officials.
Fang Xiaoru, the head of the civil officials, and Li Jinglong and Chen Kan, the heads of the honors, sat together.
Without waiting for Chen Kan to speak, the cooks and chamberlains brought by Zhu Di from the palace took over Chen Kan's subordinates, and the two little eunuchs removed the food from the table.
The imperial chef in the palace directly occupied the courtyard, set up the stove, took out the ingredients, and began to manipulate it.
The others were already familiar with this scene, but Chen Kan couldn't help but twitch a few times when he looked at this scene.
Zhu Di's persecution paranoia has obviously penetrated deep into the bone marrow and is hopeless.
Zhu Di sat steadily on the top and looked at the hundred officials in the auditorium, casually took the wine jug from the table and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it, frowning imperceptibly.
"You're going to serve your guests with rice wine?"
Looking at the undisguised disgust on Zhu Di's face, Chen Kan nodded with a blank expression.
What's wrong with rice wine, how sweet and silky it is.
The palace people who were waiting understood, and threw the wine jug full of rice wine into the large trash can outside the door in front of Chen Kan, and took down two jars of imperial wine from Luan.
first filled Zhu Di with a glass, and poured a small glass for each of the three people on the table, and then stood motionless behind Zhu Di like a stone statue holding the wine jar.
If you come to someone else's house for a banquet, you don't eat someone else's food, and you don't even drink other people's wine.
If it weren't for the identity of Emperor Zhu Di there, if it were another person to do this, even if the other party was a prince, Chen Kan would have swept him out of the house with a broom.
It's just that Zhu Di is the emperor, and Chen Kan not only can't drive him away, but he also has to coax him with good words.
For a while, the civil and military generals in the auditorium didn't know whether Zhu Di came to congratulate Chen Kan or whether he was idle and had nothing to do to find a sense of existence.
The most obvious manifestation is that the auditorium, which was originally bustling, is silent at this time.
The delicacies under the imperial chef were brought to the table one by one, Zhu Di took a sip of the Chinese wine in a small glass, lifted the chopsticks and began to eat.
Don't forget to greet the officials.
"Eat all the vegetables, don't be restrained."
Zhu Di said so, but the officials were not enough to take his words seriously.
As they took small bites, the atmosphere of the auditorium suddenly became a little elegant.
Seeing this, Zhu Di didn't say anything more.
Chen Kanwei chewed wax and ate a few mouthfuls of food, and drank a few glasses of wine with Zhu Di before sitting aside silently.
Fang Xiaoru and Li Jinglong have experienced a big scene after all, and compared with Chen Kan's appearance of sitting on pins and needles, their performance is much more remarkable.
Not only did he eat and drink happily, but he could also whisper a few words with Zhu Di from time to time.
When Zhu Di had eaten his stomach, the palace people handed him a silk silk to worship.
Wiping his mouth, Zhu Di spoke, he looked at Chen Kan and smiled: "Chen boy, you are a marquis, how do you feel?" ”
"Feelings?"
Chen Kan pulled the corners of his mouth, arched his hand towards Zhu Di, and said dryly: "Thank you Your Majesty for your cultivation, Weichen will definitely live up to expectations and make new contributions to the Ming Dynasty." ”
Zhu Di smacked his mouth, touched his chin and squinted his eyes, "Gone?" ”
Chen Kan shook his head: "It's gone!" ”
Zhu Di suddenly smiled and said: "How can you say that you are also a marquis, aren't you known as a poet, so you don't have anything to say?" ”
As soon as Chen Kan wanted to shake his head, he met Fang Xiaoru's eyes full of evil spirit.