The county magistrate has no time to save the world

Chapter 133 Zhang Buer and the Pig

Zheng Nian got up early the next day, and he was going to the Wu family today, so he had to prepare a meeting ceremony.

Yesterday Zheng Nian made arrangements to ask Jiang Ming and Zhang Buer to prepare presents, and they had to prepare them carefully, after all, the meeting ceremony of the first family in the Great Zhou must be solemn.

Not so early in the morning, the two of them were already waiting at the door with a suitcase.

Zheng Nian looked blankly at the two people in front of him, feeling rather uneasy, and said in a low voice, "Open it for me to see."

"Master, things like meeting gifts are my specialty. Don't you feel relieved about me, Mr. Jiang Ming?" Jiang Ming said, "I've already inquired about it. This is Marshal Wu's favorite."

Zheng Nian was worried that he would miss Wu Siyan's waiting, so he could only nod awkwardly, and led the two of them straight to the gate of the inner city.

When they arrived, Wu Siyan was already at the gate of the city.

"Master." Zheng Nian said.

"En." Wu Siyan was drinking morning tea.

She is very beautiful today.

She was dressed in black and red velvet fur with carved flowers and sprinkled gold, and was wrapped in a white and red velvet embroidered bird and phoenix cloak. Her long hair was tied up and flowed naturally. The gold leaf Boyi knife beside her looked very heroic and unrestrained.

"Have you eaten?" Wu Siyan asked.

The three of Zheng Nian nodded, then shook their heads again.

"No hurry, eat some." Wu Siyan beckoned, and the female officer on the table behind her went to Xiao Er to order three morning teas.

After several people had eaten, the order was issued and they entered the inner city.

As a capital city, people admire and respect the inner city. Many people from the outer city of Kyoto have never been to the inner city in their entire lives, and they don't know what the inner city is like.

Even Zhang Lie, the son of the minister of the Ministry of Industry, only rarely did it a few times.Not to mention Jiang Ming, who never came.

There is a saying well.

Sleeping in the inner city for a day, the son won the first prize.

It is said that the air in the inner city is better than anywhere else. If you breathe here for a day, your son can win the top prize when you go out.

Zheng Nian naturally didn't believe it, but Jiang Ming and Zhang Buer were breathing heavily.

The streets of the inner city are much wider and cleaner than those of the outer city.

It's not that the cleanliness here is in place, but that most of the people here go out in carriages, and few walk on the side of the road. Even the shopkeepers who pick goods come in at night, and go around a few inner cities with the night watchmen. Zhaizi, and finally sent out of the inner city.

The few people walked for nearly half an hour before arriving at the place where the Wu family was.

This time, Zheng Nian was dumbfounded.

The three of them stood on the street dumbfounded as if they had entered the Grand View Garden with Grandma Liu.

This place is similar to the palace in Zheng Nian's mind!

The vermilion high wall is not something ordinary people can climb. Four gates and a small gate stand at the end of the street. Two tall auspicious beasts are lifelike, male on the left and female on the right, made of gold and silver.

The male lion on the left is playing with a pure gold hydrangea in its right front paw, with a cute and naive look and gentle eyes.

The lioness on the right is stroking her cub with her left front paw. She looks ferocious, her mouth is open, her teeth are made of sterling silver, and her eyes are fierce. Just looking at each other can scare ordinary people into a stagger.

The gates of the entire palace are magnificent. Just standing at the gate, you can see that there are eight inner gates. These eight gates are all the same. There are gold and silver, copper and iron, jade and emerald, glass and red sandalwood. .

The pillars are all made of golden nanmu, the texture is very good, and the fragrance is overflowing.

The threshold of the main entrance is as high as half a person, like a seven or eight-year-old child. It is purely made of jade, carved with nine-colored auspicious clouds, and looks very beautiful.

The Jiudaomen hairpin is like nine steel knives, fierce and mighty.

Zheng Nian squinted his eyes and looked along, the door was full of people, a large number of people got off the carriage, and sent gifts in large and small bags. There were five people at the door to mark the gift, and five people reported it. The voice progressed, and no one interrupted anyone.

"The guest of honor in the house, the Minister of the Household Department, with congratulatory gifts of 200 taels of gold, three Japanese slaves, a flying dragon, a jade qin, a congratulatory letter written by Xun Weiyang, a lot of pure gold jewelry, and three pieces of brocade."

"The guest of honor at the residence, the general of the garrison, comes with congratulatory gifts of 200 taels of gold, three spirit deer, two Taishan gray wolves, one spirit beast, a pipa, a long sword, a lot of pure gold jewelry, and three pieces of brocade."

Zheng Nian looked at Wu Siyan blankly, "Master, what day is today?"

"My father's birthday." Wu Siyan said, "Oh, by the way, did you bring a congratulatory gift?"

"Bring...?" Zheng Nian looked back.

Zhang Buer and Jiang Ming were shocked.

Wu Siyan also saw their expressions, and yawned, "It's okay, come in with me, if you don't bring it, you don't take it."

After stepping on the gate, before Wu Siyan could say anything, the servant who paid the salute said, "Miss returns home, salute."

All the servants knelt down and said in unison, "Welcome Miss."

Wu Siyan walked in with no expression on her face.

At this time, Jiang Ming leaned over, "Master, what... what should we do? Didn't you say a greeting ceremony?"

"I don't know either." Zheng Nian said awkwardly, and hurriedly followed Wu Siyan to the inside, but was stopped by a person, and when he looked up, it was the person who kept the ceremony.

At this time, Wu Siyan was directly grabbed aside by two thirteen or fourteen-year-old children, who were chatting and laughing, and didn't realize that Zheng Nian didn't keep up.

"Who are you?" asked the clerk,
"My name is Zheng Nian..." Zheng Nian subconsciously said, and then felt that he had made a big mistake, but the man wrote down his name very quickly.

Looking up again, two people came directly and enthusiastically, helping Zheng Nian to take the box from Zhang Bushou behind him, and opened it.

A chicken flew out.

Jump on the table, cluck cluck.

"What is this?" Zheng Nian asked, pointing at the chicken.

"I heard... General Wu likes exotic animals, so..." Zhang Buer smiled awkwardly.

"You call this... an exotic beast?" Zheng Nian asked.

"This chicken...is missing an eye, no... isn't it strange?" Jiang Ming explained, "I bought it from a peddler in the city, and it cost three taels of silver..."

Afterwards, he heard the report from the humane, "Guests in the house, Zheng Nian, a one-eyed pheasant."

Three people entered the house.

Zheng Nian felt his face was burned.

Wu Siyan looked at Zheng Nian in surprise, "What is a one-eyed pheasant?"

Zheng Nian gritted his teeth, unable to explain.

Wu Siyan suppressed her laughter, and led Zheng Nian all the way into the mansion. The banquet outside had already been set up, and the singing and dancing inside had already begun. Come.

Below it is a grand master's chair, which is said to be a gift from His Majesty.

There was a large banquet under the grand master's chair. It was estimated that there could be two hundred tables, but even so, it was still overcrowded. The whole courtyard was full of people, and it was very lively.

"Should you celebrate my father's birthday first? Or go directly to the Wuyang Building behind to find your weapons?" Wu Siyan asked.

"I..." Zheng Nian just said a word.

"Eat something, master. There are thirty dishes on the table, and I haven't seen any of them." Zhang Buer said.

Zheng Nian is going crazy.

"It was a mistake for me to bring you here today." Zheng Nian turned around and said.

Wu Siyan has already found someone to arrange seats for them.

This time Zheng Nian broke contact with Wu Siyan.

Following a family member came to a central position, Zheng Nian felt lingering fear. After sitting down, he pressed the arms of the two brothers and said, "Let me tell you, everyone is different here, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Just eat honestly and don’t say a word, do you understand?”

"Yes!" The two said in unison and agreed very well.

There are at least one or two hundred servants in the courtyard, and each person is more than enough to take charge of one table, but recently the food was served on the front tables, and none of the rear ones were served.

After a while, the noisy courtyard suddenly fell silent, and an old man who looked very tough walked into the courtyard surrounded by everyone.

This is the Patriarch of the Wu family, the Marshal Wu Yang, the marshal who led 50 soldiers to conquer half of the Great Zhou Dynasty and expanded the territory to millions.

After entering the table, an eunuch walked up to Wu Yang with a hunched waist, first knelt down respectfully and kowtowed, then stood up and said in a low voice.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict said."

"Today's Marshal Wu Yang, who became 61 Jiazi, is the bone of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the blessing of the people, whoever wins the Marshal, all the people will be safe."

"I order the world today to enfeoff the king of Wu County, three continents, three counties and three cities, eight thousand households in the food town, and this is my honor."

Wu Yang bowed to thank him and accepted the imperial decree.

People were amazed.

The first king with a different surname in Da Zhou will be born.

Then the big officials went up to congratulate and give some small gifts and the like.

At this time, the banquet has already begun.

What Zheng Nian didn't expect was that in this era, there was already a wooden turntable that used magnets, and the serving of food here was simple and rude, directly filling the wooden turntable with vegetables and serving them directly to the table.

It is both trouble-saving and labor-saving.

Just as Zheng Nian picked up his chopsticks, he found Zhang Buer standing up.

He had never seen the table turning, Zheng Nian was going to explain it to him, but found that he didn't answer him at all.

His eyes were fixed on the plate of roasted jade pig with emerald pearls on the table not far away.

The people at this table are all dignified people, and the one sitting north and facing south is a general in the army. Even for today's banquet, he is still wearing a majestic general's armor.

Zhang Buer suddenly stood up with a plate, and everyone thought it was the last toast, so they grabbed their glasses and stood up wherever Zhang Buer walked.

But Zhang Buer frowned, "I'm afraid these people are going to follow me to snatch this roasted jade pig!" '

Taking advantage of the trend, he quickened his pace.

The people who were toasting were also dumbfounded, and they followed a few steps with their glasses in hand and found that they couldn't keep up at all.

Zhang Buer suddenly rushed to the table with a brisk stride, set his chopsticks on the pork leg, immediately felt very happy, and suddenly let out a cold drink.

"what!"

Everyone at the table was taken aback.

Zheng Nian and Jiang Ming covered their foreheads with their hands and lowered their heads without saying a word.

Jiang Ming even prayed, "The demons and ghosts leave quickly, the ghosts and ghosts leave quickly."

Zhang Buer was about to pick up his chopsticks, but the pig turned away again, angrily pointing at the general not far away, "Brother, help me press the table, I'll give you some chopsticks."

Seeing that the general ignored him, he said in disdain, "I'll press it for you when you eat later!"

The general was so angry that he put down his chopsticks and put the two pork legs on his plate, which was extremely quick.

Zhang Buer didn't eat the pork and saw the pig running away, he was very angry, but he didn't dare to make trouble, and immediately sat beside Zheng Nian, and suddenly remembered that Zheng Nian didn't let him talk, so he had to drink alone.

The maid next to her looked funny, but she didn't dare to be negligent. After all, the people who could attend such occasions were not ordinary people, so she walked up to Zhang Buer and whispered, "Master, what do you want to eat? The servant will come and pick it up." .”

Zhang Buer looked at the pork, then at Zheng Nian, closed his mouth, and pointed at the roasted jade pig with his finger.

The maid smiled bitterly and stretched out her hand to pinch it.

Zhang Buer got the pork, and immediately ate it with big mouthfuls, his face very satisfied.

Zheng Nian leaned on the back of the chair and asked in a low voice, "When he wanted his hair, did he use his brain as a primer for medicine? This buddy used to be like this?"

"Master, I heard that official disciples like them are...marrying close relatives..."

Zheng Nian understood, nodded repeatedly and said, "Then... it's justifiable."

"Ha!" Zhang Buer laughed.

(End of this chapter)