Chapter 281 The Su Family's Hongmen Banquet

After the autumn hunt ended and Su Zhengyang returned to the capital the next day, he came to the Major General's Mansion.

When he arrived in front of the mansion, he saw two guards standing at the tall and majestic gate, looking bored to death.

He handed over his name card and said, "My name is Su Zhengyang. Please tell the emperor I want to see General Yun."

The guard said, "The general has not been back since he returned to the capital."

Su Zhengyang asked: "Then where did she go?"

"have no idea."

"When will you be back?"

"have no idea."

"Where are you now?"

"have no idea."

“…”

Su Zhengyang was speechless because he knew nothing about anything. Then the two guards asked him:

"Sir, have you seen our general? What does our general look like?"

“…” Su Zhengyang was completely speechless.

It seems that Yun Chen really doesn't want to go home. He leaves such a big Major General's Mansion alone and spends the night outside all day?

Why does it sound like he's some playboy general who's never at home?

He shook his head in amusement and caught a glimpse of a shallow gray footprint on the snow-white, smooth courtyard wall.

He walked over and took a closer look. It looked like the patterned sole of a military general's riding boots.

I reached out and measured it again. It was just the right size. Such a small foot could only be a woman's.

Does this guy have to climb over the wall to return to his own house?

Su Zhengyang found it quite interesting, as if he had accidentally caught a "little flaw" in Yun Chen's identity being exposed. Suddenly, he remembered the purpose of this trip and hurried to the Huo Mansion.

He guessed Yun Chen should be in the Huo Mansion.

Sure enough, when he arrived at the Huo Mansion, as soon as he gave his name, a guard from the Huo Gang crossed his arms, looked at him warily, and asked in a bad tone:

"Are you Su Zhengyang, the man who repeatedly caused trouble for Achen?"

Su Zhengyang had no choice but to smile bitterly and say yes.

As soon as he finished speaking, several guards from the Huo Gang rushed over, all of them looking ready to take action, obviously thinking that Su Zhengyang was here to cause trouble again.

Look at these guards of the Huo Gang, they are only at the level of guards, and their status is far different from Yun Chen's current status, but they still call him "Achen" affectionately, and they all seem to be very protective of their children, so we can guess what kind of person Yun Chen is in his daily life.

Looking back at what he and Songlan had done, he felt ashamed of himself.

He said with a serious face and very sincerely:

"I'm here to apologize to General Yun. I also need her help with something. Please let everyone know."

Looking at Su Zhengyang's aristocratic temperament, he didn't look like a rogue looking for trouble. Several guards from the Huo Gang looked at each other and passed the message inside.

A moment later, the guard leader Ye Yan, who had been seen at the mutton banquet, came out.

His head and body were covered in traces of flour, obviously from being beaten, but he hadn't had time to change his clothes, and his face had just been wiped clean.

After asking Su Zhengyang about his purpose, Ye Yan took him to Qiyunju.

From a distance, Su Zhengyang heard Yun Chen laughing.

The laughter was so hearty and cheerful that it seemed to reach people's hearts. Su Zhengyang couldn't help but curl his lips when he heard it.

Passing by the priceless yet low-key and restrained house of the Huo Mansion, and through the dignified and majestic gate of Qiyunju, Su Zhengyang saw that the yard was in a mess.

A sack filled with black ash was spread on the ground, with two long tables next to it. On them were several rolling pins, bamboo combs, a bag of flour mixed with black ash, and dozens of pitch-black dumplings scattered around.

Yun Chen rode on Hua Jue's back, waving a rolling pin and happily shouting "Jia Jia Jia!"

Hua Jue's face was covered in black ash and flour. She was so angry that she shook her head and tail, but she couldn't get rid of Yun Chen. She could only hold her head with her backhand, pull her down over her shoulder, and throw her into the flour.

The flour exploded and scattered all over the sky in a hazy gray cloud.

Bu Yan was choked and coughed repeatedly. He waved his hands vigorously to fan the air, wiped the dust off his face with his barely clean sleeves, and cursed with a smile:

"Ah Chen, your arm doesn't hurt anymore, right? Stop it! Why are you mixing flour with snake and elephant ashes to make dumplings? Just let everyone have a bite! And you're still saying 'a gentleman who takes it can live a thousand years'! If you keep playing like this, you won't even get to eat dumplings even if you live a thousand years! It's a waste of the young master's kindness in sharing his ashes with us!"

Share ashes?

Using ashes to make dumplings?

Su Zhengyang had heard about the Huo Gang’s brutal and bandit style before, but he didn’t expect them to be so brutal?

No one paid any attention to the stunned Su Zhengyang.

Only two black shadows flashed in the white flour air, suddenly clamped Bu Yan on both sides, and pressed Bu Yan's head into the flour.

Bu Yan was pressed down in the flour, raised his snow-white face, and cursed while spewing flour from his mouth:

"Today I'm making dumplings with two kinds of fillings! 'Hua Jue filling' and 'Yun Chen filling'!"

"Wow! The Lord of the Secret Guards is showing his power! Run!!" Yun Chen laughed and ran away, bumping into Su Zhengyang.

Fortunately, Ye Yan was quick-witted and pulled Yun Chen, otherwise she would have crashed directly into Su Zhengyang's arms.

Looking at this living person who suddenly appeared, Yun Chen was stunned for a moment.

"What? You came to my house to fight? Think about it, I have a big family, you can't beat me."

Su Zhengyang now knew that Yun Chen was a woman. Seeing her playing around with several male guards, he felt that it was very inappropriate and could not help but frown:

"Is your injury healed? Aren't you afraid of it festering from playing like this?"

Yun Chen squinted at Su Zhengyang and said, "I'm most afraid of the enemy's sudden concern. Tell me, what do you want?"

Su Zhengyang laughed, "I'd like to invite you to a banquet at the Su Mansion. We've prepared a banquet, please do me the honor of attending, General Yun."

Hearing this, Hua Jue brushed off the flour and black ash on his body and walked over to look Su Zhengyang up and down:

"Your Su family almost hates Achen to death, so why are you suddenly inviting us to a banquet now? Inviting the 'sheep' to a feast in the 'wolf's den'? What are we going to eat?"

Su Zhengyang uttered two words in a tangled manner:

"mutton……"

The scene fell into an awkward moment.

Ye Yan winked at Yun Chen:

"Young Master should have just arrived at General Duan Jie's house. Today is General Duan's second son's first birthday party, and they'll probably be drinking until very late. How about we wait until Young Master comes back?"

This means that Yun Chen should not attend the Hongmen Banquet and use Huo Gannian as a shield to refuse.

Yun Chen completely ignored Ye Yan's eye contact and, adhering to the principle that it is better to resolve a feud than to create one, decided to go to the Su family.