The moon festival banquet organized by Ulsan-gun reached its climax in the evening. Yeh-hee danced beautifully, the guests mingled and laughed noisily, and the banquet went on until midnight, when the guests were drunk and many of them were drunkenly talking nonsense and dancing, and some frivolous nobles even pulled Yeh-hee down to flirt with her, which made the scene look a bit messy.
As the host of the banquet, the king of Ulsan, who had been drinking all day long, was overwhelmed by the wine and fell down on the main seat and fell into a sound sleep. Wei Shen was afraid that he would catch a cold if he slept in the open night, so he ordered his mute slave to help him to the backyard to rest. As soon as Ulsanjun left, the nobles took their leave of Wei Shen one after another.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui left the banquet together with the Chen clan chief. The nobles attending the banquet either had family homes in Dacheng, or had other residences in the city. Zheng Chu and Chu were the exception in the banquet, the two of them had neither a residence nor a separate residence in Dacheng, so they could only book a place to stay tonight at the Dacheng Inn.
Chen's patriarch Chen Meng in the azure mountain gentleman drunkenly collapsed seat, immediately ran to the south port seat, with Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui and the seat, the seat and Zheng Chu two people keep exchanging pleasantries, in the south port heard the crowd's place of residence is an inn, immediately invited the south port crowd to go to the Chen's in the city of Dacheng, the other residence accommodation.
In the face of Chen Meng's enthusiasm, Zheng Chu two people gladly accepted. Chen Meng wanted to strengthen ties with Nambu, so that he could be the first to get sweet potato seedlings and planting techniques next year. Zheng Chu wanted to strengthen communication with the local nobles to better integrate into the society.
With the purpose of the two sides of the people, a beat, the words are happy, as if it is friendly for decades of friendship, see diagonally across the Guo Huben indignation. In addition to the road to Dacheng met, Zheng Yuming and he greeted once, after that, Zheng Yuming did not look at him more than a glance.
Since Guo Huben saw Zheng Yuming at the city gates, he was immediately surprised by the heavenly man, and since then he regarded other handsome men as dung, but unfortunately, the beauty was not interested in him and always ignored him. Today's Zheng Yuming a white jacquard coat, more and more set off the skin as white jade. Guo Huben look more and more love, but in the way of the presence of the Azure Mountain King, Guo Huben dare not compete with the Lord beauty, can only be in the banquet with the eyes can not stop stealing glances at Zheng Yuming, and so on the Azure Mountain King left the scene, Guo Huben rubbed his hands to think of the South Port seat with the beauty of the set close to. He did not want to get up here, Chen Meng has been with Zheng Chu two people and table, Guo Huben angry nose smoke, Guo Huben very dislike Chen Meng. Because Chen Meng looks ugly, is a small nose, small eyes of the middle-aged man, in the eyes of Guo Huben is a lewd little old man.
"Fourth son, what are you doing?" Patriarch Guo had just returned from a toast at Wei Shen's place, and before he could sit down in his seat, he saw his nephew with chopsticks vigorously pounding the venison, Guo Huben ranked fourth in the clan.
"Old man Chen Meng is going around selling out." The relationship between the Guo Clan and the Chen Clan was somewhat rival in nature, so Guo Huben did not address Chen Meng with enough respect.
Patriarch Guo followed his nephew's gaze and realized that Chen Meng was having a pleasant conversation with the two Nambu Governors. Guo's family is a new aristocrat in Dacheng, relying on Wei Shen's support to barely become the top three aristocrats in Dacheng, and their power is not comparable to the Chen's family, which has been in Dacheng for a hundred years. The patriarch of Guo wanted his family to surpass the Chen Clan to become the second largest in Dacheng, but although Chen Meng was not an outstanding person, he was smooth in his work, and the Chen Clan, under his presidency, firmly suppressed Guo's head.
"This sly head sees that the Prince likes Governor Zheng, so he rushes up to sell his good behavior!" Patriarch Guo slightly bristled, turning his eyes to see his nephew staring into Zheng Yuming's infatuated eyes, he couldn't help but shout angrily, "Fourth son! Put away that little caution of yours!"
"Uncle, Fourth Son is both a good scholar and a good soldier, can't he be worthy of Governor Zheng?" Guo Huben commiserated.
"You can't match even if you're worthy!"
"Why?"
"Governor Zheng is the beloved for whom the Gongzi has broken his sleeve, so you should avoid me in the future!" Patriarch Guo knew that this nephew of his was a bit of a dilettante, and was afraid that his pestering Zheng Yuming would cause Gong Ziguang's dislike. The honor of the Guo clan was all from Gong Ziguang.
"What's a broken sleeve? That's not what the waiter made up." Guo Huben refused to believe it.
"Hmph! If the blind talk, Wei Shen man early hands to dispose of the waiter." Guo patriarch stroked down the goat beard, Wei Shen not only do not pursue the waiter private discussion, but also listen to rumors spread, which means far-reaching ah, for Wei Shen, Guo patriarch is a very good understanding of Wei Shen, but also because of the understanding of Wei Shen, he was Wei Shen trust, the family only jumped to the three great families of the city of Dacheng.
"Uncle..." Guo Huben opened his mouth, a hard feeling in his heart.
"That's it, give me a break from that distraction, less delusional, work well under Wu Zai, and strive to become a Vice Zai in the future."
The people of Nambu followed Chen Meng to the Chen Clan's residence in Dacheng, Chen Meng had sent his domestic servants back to the residence long before he left the banquet, and packed up a courtyard for them to rest before the people arrived. Chen's family today to participate in the Moon Festival in Dacheng a lot of people, vacate the room is more difficult to pack out the courtyard is not very large, can not let the South Port people each one room, to two people a room in order to live. The housing was a little crowded, but the conditions were much better than the inn, as soon as the Nambu people arrived at the compound, the servants in the compound served hot water and tea for the guests to use.
From dawn to get up, a day down, the people have long been tired, hastily cleaned, then to their respective rooms to rest. Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui two people live in the compound master bedroom, Zheng Yuming on the bed will be huffing and puffing, Chu Zhaohui but the moon smoked two cigarettes before going to bed to rest.
The people of Dacheng slept too late on the day of the Moon Festival, and except for the soldiers who opened the gates, the other people of Dacheng generally got up late. Nambu people except Chu Chao Hui and Wei Qing, Huo Sizhong still got up according to the valley's work and rest time, everyone else slept until eight o'clock in the morning before waking up. The people got up and cleaned up and ate breakfast, and it was already more than nine o'clock. Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui went to Chen's main house to thank Chen Meng for his hospitality, and then the people of Nambu prepared to set up their vehicles to return.
The horse and mule cart had just been led out of the gates of the Chen Clan's separate residence, when a brown-robed messenger delivered an edict from the Ulsan Monarch, that Duke Guang wanted to summon Zheng Yuming to the Monarch's mansion to catch up with him.
Upon receiving the edict, both Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui did not look good.
"Chaohui, you go back first, the valley can't be left unguarded there. Si Zhong and I will return to Nambu tomorrow." Zheng Yuming couldn't refuse Gong Ziguang's summons, not only because his and Chu Chaohui's bases were under the jurisdiction of the Azure Mountain Monarch, but also because they would need Azure Mountain Monarch's protection for their future development.
Chu Chaohui looked at Zheng Yuming for a while with a taut face, before he silently led over his brown horse, rolled over and mounted it, and faintly instructed Zheng Yuming, "We'll go back first, and you'll return to Nambu early tomorrow as well."
"Uh, okay!" Zheng Yuming sighed, he had a good impression of Gong Ziguang, but in his heart, he could not accept this kind of summoning and calling summoning, the people in this time and space thought that such summoning was a kind of honor for the superior to favor the inferior, in the heart of the people in the 21st century, it was a kind of inequality and disrespect.
As soon as Gong Ziguang woke up in the morning, he asked someone to go and find Zheng Yuming, the jade he promised to give to Zheng Yuming had not been delivered yet. Gong Ziguang didn't know what kind of jade Zheng Yuming liked and wanted to tell him to pick it out himself. When Zheng Yuming rushes to the Jun Mansion to meet Gong Ziguang, he is confronted with a room full of jade.
"Zheng Qing, come and take a look, what kind of jade do you like." Gong Ziguang looked interested.
"Eh, I don't know anything about jade." Zheng Yuming looked around at the jade, he only understands flowers and trees, farmland planting and machinery, he has very little contact with jade antiques, to buy these things also only stare at the price to buy, tell him to appraise or something, he can take the real as a fake and the fake as a real.
"Does Zheng Qing's hometown have no jade?" Gongzi light doubt, in his eyes, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui should be born everyone, since it is a big family, jade this kind of thing is very common plaything. How that Bermuda country seems to be very rare, Zheng Yuming even look like he does not know jade.
"Your Excellency, there is jade in Yuming's hometown, but it is relatively rare."
"Oh, in that case, then I'll explain jade to you today." Gong Zi Guang released, his heart unexpectedly happy, the Azure Mountain Monarch's House finally had one thing to hold that could overpower the Baimu Kingdom. Things were all about rarity, jade should be a very expensive thing in Baimu.
Gong Ziguang likes jade, also respected jade, he thinks that jade in winter to hold in the hand warm, not cold, will not freeze the hand; and the relatively hot weather in the summer and does not feel warm hands, it is really no better, so that the jade warm, introverted, do not flaunt, not frivolous. Jade is tough, gentle, delicate and subtle, and slowly radiates a charismatic beauty from the inside out. These characteristics are in great harmony with human nature. The praise Gong Ziguang bestows on jade is the realm he has always pursued and aspired to in his ideology.
Gong Ziguang talked about jade very vigorously, from the origin of jade and the texture of jade, said half an hour, Zheng Yuming seems to understand, he only understood the Dushan jade, Jing and stone and Cui jade. When Gong Ziguang asked him to pick a piece of jade, Zheng Yuming casually pointed to a few things, one of the yellow jade carved into a carp that Zheng Yuming felt like, this carp jade pendant does not look big, and is not particularly precious, Zheng Yuming then picked that piece of jade.
"Zheng Qing likes this carp pendant?" Gong Ziguang picked up the piece of jade with sadness on his face.
"Yes, this carp is carved alive and lovely." Zheng Yuming pondered, could it be that this insignificant piece of jade he picked was a treasure instead, and that the Gongzi's sad face was because he didn't want to give it to him?
"This is King's brother Ming's favorite jade, Ming gave this jade to Light on his twelfth birthday." There were tears in Gongzi Guang's eyes; his brother had died shortly after giving the jade.
"Yuming was reckless." Jung Yuming was chagrined that he couldn't pick anything but a dead man's thing.
"It's not that Zheng Qing is reckless, it's that you and it have a destiny, it should be that Ming also likes you and wants to give you this jade pendant." Gong Zi Guang shook his head, his brother's things were stored separately elsewhere, he remembers that this carp jade pendant was in that separate storage, not among the jade in this room, now the carp jade pendant not only appeared accidentally, obviously in a room of jade is very inconspicuous, but also happened to be picked by Zheng Yuming, Gong Zi Guang feels that it is the Yin Spirit of his younger brother Gong Zi Ming who wants to give this as a gift to Zheng Yuming. Brother Ming from childhood and his mind, he likes the person, Ming always also like.
"How can this be." Zheng Yuming hurriedly excused himself, he really didn't think that this inconspicuous jade pendant would be the beloved object of Gongzi Guang's deceased brother.
"Ming to live person, also have Zheng Qing such age." Gong Ziguang looked at Zheng Yuming in fascination, "Ming is also picturesque, if he grows up, he must also be amazingly elegant like Qing."
When Gong Ziguang finished speaking, he gave Zheng Yuming the carp jade pendant to tie around his waist.
"Thank you Prince!" Zheng Yuming looked at the Gongzi Guang who bowed his head and seriously gave him a jade pendant, the bottom of his heart suddenly surged with a kind of heartache, this prince who looked like a jade, must have gone through a bloody storm to live to this day, even if he lives to this day, there is no guarantee that he can safely live to old age and death, the Wu Wangdu just need to be a little bit of a mutation, and the destiny of this prince will undergo a drastic change.
In addition to letting Zheng Yuming pick the jade, Gong Ziguang also let him accompany him to play a few games of chess, so delayed, Zheng Yuming will not be able to rush back to Nambu on the same day. There is no lighting at night in this time and space, the road is sparsely populated except for the villages, and there are wild beasts in the places near the mountains, so when it gets dark, people never drive at night. When Chu Chao Hui left the Chen's Residence, he expected that Zheng Yuming would not be able to return to Nambu that day, and would not return until the next day.
Zheng Yuming was left to stay in his lodgings for the night by Gong Ziguang, and the next day, before Zheng Yuming had risen from his bed, the servant of the House of Jun came knocking at the door of his room, and Chu Chaohui sent someone to look for him, and the person who sent him was Wei Qing, who was covered with soot and his clothes were dirty.