How to Be a Male Queen

【Here comes a little ancestor】

The dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital will hold a Shangyuan banquet every year on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.

It is said to be a "small banquet", but the actual scale is not small at all. All Beijing officials who have entered the rank can participate, and even those who cannot enter the rank are thinking of doing everything possible to ask others to get in.

Due to the large scale, civil and military officials had to hold it separately.

Civil officials are generally presided over by Prime Minister Zuo, while military officials mostly meet in the Liaodong General's Mansion. These two are the oldest and highest-ranking civil and military officials, enough to convince the public.

This year's situation is a bit special. First, Liaodong water bandits were rampant a few years ago, and the general of Liaodong asked the border guards not to return to Beijing; secondly, King Ping did not return to Beijing in previous years, but he came back this year because of Princess Yonghe's marriage. The tallest person was replaced by him.

Therefore, this year's Shangyuan small banquet at the military attache's side was changed to Prince Ping's Mansion.

The reason why Princess Anya called Jian Hao over in advance was because of this incident.

In addition to General Pingxi’s Mansion receiving invitations from Jian Zhenxi and his eldest son Jian Yu, because of its relationship with the General’s Mansion, Princess Anya’s Mansion is also counted on the General’s side, so they will also receive invitations from the Military Officer’s side every year , nominally to invite Xiao Shizi to participate.

Princess Anya would ask Jian Hao every year if he wanted to go.

In the past, Jian Hao would not go out at all except for going to and from the Princess Mansion and the General Mansion, so when he was 15 years old, he never went there once.

Today's Jian Hao is different.As soon as he heard that there was a lot of fun to join in, he didn't care who it was at all, so he happily shouted "Going to go".

Butler Lan Xin said with emotion: "Your Highness is indeed grown up, and knows how to move around."

Princess Anya looked at her son with benevolence and love as always.

***

At this time, Jian Hao was sitting on the carriage to Prince Ping's Mansion, with the bulging purse hanging on his waist.

After he went back last night, he took advantage of his excitement to draw several portraits of the old lady one after another, and very shrewdly painted the old man very young and good-looking, which made the old lady very happy.

However, the fourth lady, who was always well-dressed, almost fainted when she saw the "paintbrush" in his hand.

The carriage swayed, Jian Hao bumped his head, and suddenly heard a somewhat familiar voice from outside, "Is the eldest son of General Pingxi's mansion sitting in the carriage?"

Jian Hao thought, the eldest son of General Pingxi's mansion?Isn't that my young master?

He lifted the curtain of the car to look out, and saw Li Shu's smiling little white face.

"Hey! Li Shu, why are you here?" Jian Hao was quite happy to meet a friend he could talk to.

Li Shu still had that soft southern accent, "I was going to the academy, but I happened to see your carriage, so I thought of coming over and asking."

Seeing that the two really knew each other, the coachman stopped the carriage quickly.

Jian Hao waved to him, and said happily: "Come up quickly, and take you to a big meal."

Li Shu's eyes lit up, and then he hesitated, "Father told me to go to the academy today..."

Jian Hao made a "cut" sound, bewitchingly said: "Academy is so boring, I'll take you to the General's Mansion today, and there will be good wine and good food - anyway, your father doesn't know, so it's the same if we go tomorrow!"

Li Shu struggled for almost three seconds before happily getting into the car.

The coachman looked at his eldest son, moved his mouth, but didn't say anything after all.

As soon as Li Shu got into the car, he saw the big purse hanging on Jian Hao's waist.

And Jian Hao noticed the big thick book in Li Shu's hand at a glance.

The two looked at each other and laughed.

"Exchange exchange." Jian Hao smiled and untied the purse and stuffed it into Li Shu's hand, and at the same time snatched the book from the other party's hand.

He opened it and found that it was not a book at all, but something similar to a roster.

On the upper left corner of each page, the name of the person is written in regular italics, on the upper right corner is a small portrait, and on the bottom is written a brief introduction of the person in incomprehensible lines.

Jian Hao flicked through a few pages, and found that some had portraits and some did not, so he asked curiously, "What is this?"

"The roster—the roster of the rich and powerful in the capital. They are all people who cannot be offended. I will make them up one by one, and I will walk around when I see them—how, is this a good idea?" Li Shu said with a smile on his face Ask for praise.

When Jian Hao heard the words "I can't afford to offend", all the narcissistic cells in his body exploded in an instant, and he began to look for his name with a proud face.

However, he turned over more than a dozen pages in a row, but he never saw the word "Jian Hao", so he immediately turned his face, "I said, you are not mean enough, young master, how can I be number one?" , why can’t even this broken brochure be published?”

Li Shu was taken aback, and explained with some embarrassment: "My little brother has been in the capital for more than three months, and I have never seen Brother Jian leave the mansion..." Naturally, there was no need to make a detour.

"No, no, add, must add!"

Jian Hao directly turned to the first page, glanced at it hastily, and found that those tall introductions looked familiar, he didn't care, directly tore off the blank page from the back, and sandwiched it in front of the first page. He said grandly: "I won't argue with you this time, my lord. If it's the same next time, don't blame me for not recognizing you as a friend!"

Li Shu nodded repeatedly.

He glanced at Jian Hao's position, and asked cautiously: "Brother Jian, are you sure you want to be in front of King Ping?"

"Of course." Jian Hao said without hesitation—their family has a hundred thousand troops more than him!

Jian Hao asked for the purse from Li Shu, took out his paintbrush, and painted his own portrait on it himself.

Not to mention, the painting is really quite similar.

Li Shu took a look, and praised sincerely: "Brother Jian, I didn't expect you to have such a talent, this is really... a unique style of painting, a unique style of painting!"

Jian Hao raised his chin very shamelessly, and hummed: "I have a lot of talent, and you will know it gradually in the future."

Li Shu was about to nod in agreement, but when he lowered his head, he inadvertently noticed the "paintbrush" in his hand, and was stunned for a moment, "Jane, brother Jian, this in your hand...but, is it Luozidai?"

"What is Luozidai?" Jian Hao pouted his lips, "This is my beautiful mother's thrush pencil, and it is temporarily acting as my brush."

Luo Zidai is a thrush pencil, a thrush pencil that Persia paid tribute to, and it is rumored that one is worth ten gold, but in fact it is priceless.

With trembling hands, Li Shu unscrewed the round box full of jewels, took a deep breath, and looked down—well, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven...except for the one in Jian Hao's hand, There are eighteen of them!

How much money does this have to be... Can his grandfather, his father, his uncle, his uncle, and all his brothers-in-law add up to make it back?

Seeing him staring at the box, Jian Hao thought he wanted it too, so he generously poured out a handful and stuffed it into his hand, "Anyway, I won't be able to use it up in a while, so I'll share half with you."

Li Shu's hand sank, as if holding a mountain of silver.

He just felt it for a while, and then he put it back enduring the pain in his body, and said with a forced calm: "Thank you, brother Jian... I'm used to drawing with a brush."

Jian Hao pouted, twisted up the box, stuffed it back into his purse, and tied it back around his waist, muttering, "No vision, this is much better than that limp weasel fur !"

Li Shu chuckled, it doesn't matter, his household is made of wool...

However, Li Shu was still bitter in his heart—thinking of him as a poor man with only half a tael of pocket money every month, why would he want to be friends with such a person? !

The two of them were talking and making trouble in the car, but it worried the driver outside - how unlucky did he have to be for this job?If I had known earlier, I might as well have exchanged with Lao Liu and dragged the ladies out of the city to offer incense!

***

Maybe it was because Luo Zidai's incident was too shocking, but when Li Shu saw the plaque of Prince Ping's Mansion, he acted quite calmly.

However, Jian Hao frowned, took out the invitation card stuffed on his back, opened it, looked at it, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "It clearly says Lingnan General's Mansion!"

The second steward of Prince Ping's Mansion had noticed the carriage in General Pingxi's mansion early in the morning. He was still wondering, didn't General Jian's eldest son, Jian Yu, Jian Xiaowei, just walk in?Why is there another one?

After seeing Jian Hao's appearance clearly, the second steward's legs gave way, and he almost knelt on the ground—my lord, why did this ancestor come here? !

At this time, Li Shu was also explaining to Jian Hao the relationship between "Ping Wang" and "Lingnan General" in a low voice.

"Because it's a small banquet for fellowship between generals, His Royal Highness Prince Ping can't use the title of prince, so the identity of 'General of Lingnan' was written on the post..."

Jian Hao curled his lips, "I don't write clearly, it seems that he has many identities!"

The corner of Li Shu's mouth twitched. Looking around the entire capital, he didn't know that His Royal Highness King Ping and the Great General of Lingnan belonged to the same person. Apart from you, I really couldn't find the second one!

The second butler had just approached, and when he heard Jian Hao's words, he was sweating with embarrassment—in the world today, this is the only person who dares to talk about his prince like this?

As everyone knows, Jian Hao's two consecutive glorious deeds have long been spread throughout the entire Prince Ping Mansion, one was publicly challenged by His Royal Highness King Heping on the road to Princess Yonghe Shangxiang, and the other was Qin Laojiu, who ranked third in the Lingnan Army in terms of force Rip off the horse.

At the same time, the words of His Royal Highness Ping Wang were also spread - in the future, when you see him, hide away...

People who can make their lords say such things, how can they, such little people, be able to offend them!

The second housekeeper didn't dare to ask who Li Shu was, seeing that there was no difference between the words and deeds of the two, he personally invited them into the mansion together.

Before that, he even winked at the servant behind him, "Go quickly, the chief steward of the ward will call, a little ancestor has come, let him deal with it well!"