Rebirth: Dominating the Country

Su Zhiran welcomed many guests.

Now the birthday gift is hanging on the wall of the Su Mansion, it is a picture of a hundred years of life written in a hundred kinds of fonts, and there is a small seal at the bottom, with the four small characters Qing'an Layman inside.

The crown prince gave some precious medicinal materials, such as velvet antler and wild ginseng, which naturally couldn't compare to King An's birthday gift.

There are about forty people, and the birthday banquet in the Su Mansion is not as elaborate as that of the royal family, and there is a lot of noise when the banquet starts.

Because there are all kinds of guests today, apart from some witty remarks, what these people talk about most is the congratulatory gift for the birthday star.There are all kinds of strange things, gifts for the Emerald Buddha, swords, and dried century-old centipedes.

"King An is really good at writing. Doctor Zijin Guanglu, who was sitting in the east, looked at the hundred-shou picture and praised it.

"We vulgar people don't know how to write and write, but seeing so many birthday characters makes us happy. If I have time, I will ask An Wang to write one for my old man next time after the banquet is over. There are so many birthday characters, dozens of them are enough!" This man with a loud voice is a black-faced man named Chang Xi, who came from a rough background and has been with General Su for five years. The recently named General Ning Yuan is well-known. Quick-tempered and careless.

Mu Bai's position is on Su Zhiran's left side, not too far away from this table, he has very good hearing, and when he heard this brawny man's cheeky begging, he turned his body and smiled, just about to say something What, the old historian sitting next to the military officer scolded the thick-skinned Chang Xi: "This picture of Baifu is exquisite, how can you just write it casually!"

The historian who spoke had just stepped down from his position not long ago, now in his seventies, he was hard-headed, an old-fashioned figure, he was extremely particular about calligraphy, and it was most shameful for people to be so contemptuous of writing.

The old historian blew his beard and stared, and Chang Xi was also very violent, because he didn't read much and was a rough old man, but he hated these literati who complained that he didn't know what to do, and didn't remember that it was his general's birthday banquet. Staring at the old gentleman with a big copper bell, he folded the chopsticks in his hand.

As soon as the chopsticks were broken, the atmosphere froze immediately. General Su was having a good time talking with a few friends. Su Zhiran was entertaining guests at another table and didn't pay attention to this side. It was a young man who was at the same table as the old historian. The civil servant hurried out to smooth things over.

It's a pity that he couldn't calm down, and the atmosphere became even more awkward.It was Mu Bai who got up, came over and said a few words: "This king can't drink alcohol, so I will offer you a cup of tea instead of wine." After finishing speaking, he drank the tea in one gulp.

The guests at these two tables also stood up to toast one after another, wondering why King An came here, Mu Bai looked at the picture of a hundred birthdays on the wall and said, "Today is General Su's birthday banquet, except for the birthday star and the birthday gift , don’t talk about anything else, what do you guys think?”

Obviously, King An saw the confrontation and calmed down the matter. The historian was old but thin-skinned, so he waved his hand naturally, and sat down with someone's support, "King An didn't say anything, so the old man naturally has no unnecessary opinions."

The servants of the Su Mansion exchanged Chang Xi's broken chopsticks while talking with a few people. Unlike the official historian, the newly named Ning Yuan General Chang Xi is indeed a thick-skinned man. Seeing the rightful lord come at this time, it's really true After saluting with both hands clasped in fists, I asked, "I am Changxi, Lao Yueshan will be [-]th birthday in a few days, and I don't understand what is so special about this [-]th birthday picture. A picture of sixty years of life, if Wang An really looks down on us and other big bastards, that's fine."

The faces of the people around him changed. An Wang's outstanding literary talent is not low in the hearts of literati, and there are many conflicts between civil servants and military officials.If Mu Bai refused, according to Chang Xi's words, wouldn't it mean that he looked down on the military officer, but if he agreed in this way, then King An was too cowardly to be bullied, and he lost face as a literati, and even more so, the royal family.

Mu Bai still had a smile on his face, looking at the smug Chang Xi, he asked, "I wonder how many cities General Ning Yuan plans to exchange?"

The whole house was in an uproar, and Chang Xi's face immediately turned pale, as if he had been insulted: "King An, what does this mean? If you want a reward, I can't afford it. This world belongs to the Holy One. How dare the last general exchange the Holy Majesty's city?!"

This time Mu Bai suppressed his smile, put the cup on the table, and said in a low voice, "General Ning Yuan, you know why this Qing'an Layman's calligraphy and painting are so valuable?"

It's not because of your high status, and those businessmen's hearts are dark, Chang Xi naturally dare not say this sentence, plus Mu Bai is Tian Huang Gui Wei after all, his cold face is still very intimidating, He also asked along the way: "Why is that?"

"It's because Qing'an Layman always only donates calligraphy and paintings, and never buys or sells them." A civil servant rushed to answer, he was Prime Minister Zhang's favorite student, and he was also the second place in the new department this year.

Mu Bai went on to ask Na Chang Xi: "General Ning Yuan thinks how many cities do you think today's birthday guy has conquered for my great northern country?"

"General Su went to the battlefield on the 34th. It has been [-] years now. He has experienced hundreds of battles and won hundreds of cities." Speaking of General Su's achievements, Chang Xi naturally did not hesitate to praise himself .

Although some of these cities were originally lost by the Northern Kingdom, and some of them were just places that were slapped in the face, there are indeed hundreds of scattered cities, and the hundreds are naturally exaggerated.

"General Su is the Tiance General, and ordinary people really can't match him. However, each generation in the Northern Kingdom is stronger than the previous generation. General Ning Yuan is the best. I heard that General Ning Yuan also captured more than [-] cities. I will wait for General Ning Yuan to be able to After conquering the remaining dozen or so cities, let alone the Hundred Shoutu, even the Qianshoutu, the king will come to the door and offer it with both hands."

How can this be the same?This time, Beiguo and Lingyue, who had been stalemate for decades, had just signed an armistice treaty, and General Su also withdrew. It was uncertain whether Chang Xi could be reused. He was planning to stay in the capital to enjoy some happiness. How can a few cities be so easy to fight.It's hard to say whether he can live to that time, but when he gets the letter from King An, his Lao Yueshan must be dead.

But Chang Xi had nothing to say, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he wouldn't dare to make trouble in the Su manor like this, not to mention that the prince said so, he couldn't take it anymore, he could only sit down and let things go away Let it go.

Mu Bai got up and walked back, Su Zhiran just returned to his seat, and asked suspiciously: "It was fine before, why did you suddenly leave your seat?"

"It's just a small matter, by the way, who is Lao Yueshan of the new General Ningyuan?"

"Oh, you mean Chang Xi, his father-in-law is a commoner, but he has a brother-in-law who is the second son of the founding marquis."

The founding marquis is a member of the prince's faction, so Chang Xi's actions today are naturally not unintentional.But thinking of the prince, he suddenly remembered that he didn't see Mu Yan at today's birthday banquet.

Before he could ask, Su Zhiran said, "The East Palace won't be coming anymore. The news just came that the crown prince's side concubine had a happy pulse today. A group of people gathered around him. Concubine Yu is turning around."

"Be careful," Su Zhiran caught the cup that Mu Bai dropped by mistake, "This is a good thing for you, if the concubine's child is a boy, His Majesty has no reason to stop your marriage."

It really sounds like a good thing, but in my memory, Mu Yan clearly has no heirs, so what went wrong so that the side concubine Yu had a child at this moment.

Mu Bai suppressed the turbulent waves in his heart, and hurried back to Prince An's Mansion after the banquet, but what was waiting for him, except for this accident, was part of the truth that Madam Su made up her mind to tell him.