My apprentice is a little weird?

Jiang Yan rolled his eyes, took Shen Ming's hand and sat back in his original seat.

From beginning to end, he had no intention of helping Xin Lai, nor did he greet him.

The two had only exchanged greetings since they met.

It looked like old friends meeting after a long separation, but it wasn't as exciting as I had imagined.

Everything seems peaceful and natural.

Xin Lai rolled up his sleeves in anger and amusement, and pointed his finger at Jiang Yan.

"You don't know how to respect the elderly and love the young. I'm old but you don't come to help me."

Jiang Yan glanced at him and said: "Your leg is still there, if it's not broken, take a few steps."

Xin Lai shook his head helplessly, but there was no trace of blame in his eyes. Instead, he seemed to feel a little emotional and happy.

pat pat pat.

He walked into the private room with a cane, bowed to Master Pei and Xiaolan with a smile on his face, and spoke in a slightly shrill voice.

"My name is Xinlai, and I am the owner of this store."

"I was so excited to meet my friends just now that I didn't notice you two. Please forgive me, please forgive me~"

"Please forgive me if we have not provided you with good service. After all, I am an old man who has half of my body buried in the ground and I don't have the energy to run this store anymore~"

Xiaolan reacted quickly because she didn't think too much about anything else. She only heard the other party say that he was the owner of this store!

After a brief moment of daze, he quickly stood up and returned the greeting.

"It's okay, it's okay, the store is very good, very good!"

"My name is... oh no! I am the young master's maid, I dare not call you by a cheap name, just call me Xiaolan."

"Young Master..."

Xiaolan bowed her head and introduced herself, but she was just a maid after all.

As the owner of the inn, he had personally greeted them and introduced himself. It was impossible for her to introduce her own young master to him as a servant, right?

That's too disrespectful. I'm a person of status and I'm here to pay my respects to you, but you only let a slave come.

So she was very anxious at the moment and kept shouting in her heart.

"Master! Stop being in a daze! It's ok to be in a daze at other times! But why are you in such a daze now? "

Xin Lai was not in a hurry. He just watched the scene with a smile on his face.

"Don't worry, little girl. I'm not a monster. Sit down and have a cup of tea to calm down."

The beautiful woman next to him was also looking at him tenderly, her eyes full of tolerance towards the younger generation.

Then he helped Xin Lai sit next to Jiang Yan.

Seeing that the other party did not look dissatisfied, Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief, then immediately came to Master Pei and pulled him.

"Master, stop being distracted!"

Jiang Yan poured a glass of wine for Xin Lai and brewed a cup of tea for the beautiful woman. In the middle of the conversation, he pointed at Master Pei with his chin:

"He's a nice guy, but his brain circuits are a little abnormal"

Xin Lai held the wine cup and shook it gently, and the wine inside swirled along the wall of the cup, then he shook his head and chuckled.

"How many of those who can hang out with you are normal people~"

"Tsk! What you said is a bit disrespectful. Come on, have a drink."

.........

Master Pei...his expression is confused...his eyes are dull...his mind is paralyzed...

My brain is in a state of shutdown at the moment, and the other person's words just now keep echoing in my mind.

He...what did he say just now? Oh, the owner? What owner? The owner of the Fulai Inn!

Oh my god, I heard it right.

Fulai Inn... Fulai... Xin Lai? ?

And the retired official from the imperial court seemed to be named Xin...

I was wondering why it looks so familiar...

At this moment, the other person's appearance is combined with the vague figure in my mind, coupled with this somewhat feminine temperament.

One hundred percent similarity!

And no one dares to pretend to be the owner of this inn... So this person is really...

"Xin Lai..."

Master Pei muttered to himself with a dazed expression, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, and he recalled what Jiang Yan had said casually.

"I have a friend named Xin Lai... He has made some new achievements since he entered the court as an official..."

"A new achievement?? You put it so lightly??"

pat!

Master Pei's wine cup fell from his hand, and the fragments scattered everywhere...

The wine also spilled half over his body, with a little splashing onto Xin Lai's sleeves.

He paused in his drinking motion and gave him a gloomy look.

Just this one glance woke up Master Pei!

He was instantly pulled out of his confusion.

My brain reached an unprecedented clarity at this moment, and after realizing what ridiculous thing I had just done, I couldn't help but sweat on my forehead!

He stood up suddenly, clasped his hands together, and bowed ninety degrees.

"Master Xin! I just lost my composure! I'm so sorry!"

"My name is Pei Mengmeng! I am from Lingzhou! My father's name is Pei Hu, and he is a merchant in Changping County! It was the magistrate of Changping County who personally issued the order to allow this!"

"Just now, when I heard your name, I was so shocked that I lost my mind, so I..."

"Please forgive me, sir!"

Master Pei finished speaking in one breath, then lowered his body a little more.

At this moment, his chest and back were already covered in cold sweat, and his heart was pounding.

There had been many dynasties in the Eastern Liao region before, but they were all destroyed one after another by later more powerful dynasties.

The name of this dynasty was "Sanyuan", and his family occupied the entire East Liao region!

It has been a hundred years since it was passed down.

But in fact, more than ten years ago, the Sanyuan Kingdom could be considered to be crumbling. The king was very old and had only a five-year-old prince under him.

However, chaos had already occurred in various places. The princes were secretly separatist and were ready to make moves, showing signs of confronting the imperial court.

Internally, the Three Kingdoms were extremely corrupt, filled with the smell of decay from the inside out.

Orders from above often don’t even reach the local level.

The old emperor was also powerless to do anything about it, or to be more precise, he was too lazy to care.

The court's inaction further exacerbated the chaos in various places.

All of this finally broke out when the emperor passed away.

How could the young emperor possibly handle these matters, so many forces within the court began to intervene.

Chaos is about to begin~

But at this critical moment, an unknown eunuch stood up.

He was originally one of the eunuchs responsible for taking care of the young emperor, but he was well aware of the various forces and situations.

The young emperor followed his advice and used his methods to temporarily suppress the civil strife in the court.

Afterwards, this eunuch was named the emperor's teacher. This was unprecedented in all dynasties, a eunuch as the emperor's teacher.

And he was the first one.

From then on, the eunuch began his legendary life.

Teach the emperor, put down rebellions, suppress the kings, and change the laws.

And they boiled the frog in warm water, boldly innovated in the appointment of talents, and created a new assessment and selection system, which gradually replaced the original aristocratic class.

Those who disagree will be exterminated, and the entire family will be reshuffled within the Sanyuan Kingdom with bloody means.

After that, the entire Sanyuan Kingdom began to revive.

All of this originated from that eunuch.