Chapter 2270 Beauty (April Monthly Ticket Plus 6)
The two chatted for a few minutes before General Guo and his son arrived.
Bai Shan glanced at Manbao, and the two of them turned around and stood still, looking towards the door with smiles on their faces.
General Guo and Guo Zhao also came in with a smile on their faces. As soon as they entered, they clasped their fists and greeted everyone. After greeting everyone one by one, they first came to Zhou Man. He said with a smile on his face, "This must be Doctor Zhou. I have heard of your great name for a long time. We have all heard of your miraculous name in the Western Regions."
Manbao immediately said that this was an exaggeration and that General Guo's praise was unworthy. After saying this, he praised Guo Zhao behind him, saying, "Young General Guo lives up to his reputation. It's true that a tiger father will have a dog son."
Guo Zhao: ...I always feel like I'm a generation lower than you inexplicably could imagine.
Not only Guo Zhao, but General Guo also had this feeling. Looking at his colleagues who were younger than his son, he always felt a little uncomfortable, so he laughed it off and turned to greet Mr. Zhuang.
General Guo met General Meng last, but unlike Zhou Man and the others, he seemed much closer to General Meng. He even reached out and patted the other's shoulder hard to show his appreciation for him.
Manbao and the others couldn't help but look at his abdomen with sympathy on their faces.
General Meng accepted the compliment without changing his expression. When he looked up and met their gaze, his stomach, which had only felt a slight pain, suddenly felt a sharp pain.
General Guo laughed heartily and sat back in his seat. He then looked at the young men Zhou Man had brought with him and asked, "I haven't been back to Beijing for many years. I don't even recognize my cousin from the Liu family. I wonder who he is?"
Liu Huan had no choice but to stand up and salute, saying, "General Guo, I am you."
"Why call me General Guo? You should call me uncle." General Guo laughed heartily and patted the couch beside him. He said with a smile, "Come here. We haven't seen each other for many years. I didn't expect to meet in a place like the Western Regions. Come to uncle and let's have a warm chat."
Manbao and the others widened their eyes, and Liu Huan also looked as if he was struck by lightning. How should they respond?
In the silence, Mr. Zhuang secretly glared at the children, bringing them back to their senses. Then he looked up and said to General Guo with a smile, "Excuse me, General Guo. This child is young and naive. Meeting the general for the first time is inevitable that he is a little excited and misbehaved. How dare I let him sit next to the general when he is like this? Liu Huan, why don't you apologize to the general?"
Liu Huan came to his senses and immediately bowed to apologize.
General Guo then looked at Mr. Zhuang and said with amusement, "Hey, Mr. Zhuang, a mere official in the Honglu Temple, is supposed to be in charge of the grandson of Prime Minister Ji?"
The Minister of Revenue is also known as the "Prime Minister of Strategy", which is indeed a compliment, but for some reason it has a sense of irony when it comes out of General Guo's mouth.
Mr. Zhuang's expression remained unchanged as he explained with a smile, "Thanks to Minister Liu for not abandoning me, I served as Liu Huan's tutor for a few days. I'm taking him with me this time because I want to broaden his horizons."
As Mr. Zhuang has the same father as his teacher, he can really be the master of Liu Huan. Even in the eyes of the world who don't know the depth of their relationship, he is more legitimate than his cousin General Guo.
General Guo just laughed it off and didn't dwell on it anymore. Guo Zhao also came to the rescue at the right time, "Father, it's time to start the banquet."
General Guo then smiled and asked the steward to serve the dishes and wine, and of course, the beauties!
Rows of beautiful maids came in carrying wine and food. They had graceful figures and every move was as beautiful as a dance. Man Bao and the others were stunned again.
Manbao, Baishan, Bai Erlang and the others, who thought they had seen enough in the palace, once again felt like country bumpkins and that their experience was far from enough.
Even Yin Huo and Liu Huan were watching over him.
However, Zhou Liru looked up at them and then stared at their clothes, thinking that their clothes were so beautiful.
She felt that she had little experience, so this kind of thing should be normal. Maybe wealthy families liked to serve food and wine like this?
Manbao also came back to his senses from their graceful movements and stared at the wine poured into her glass. The wine was clear and smelled fragrant, but no matter how fragrant it was, it could not hide the fact that it was white wine.
And it should be a craft from Central China, and it smells a bit familiar. Based on her experience, it must be very bitter, so she doesn't want to drink it.
Bai Shan also didn't like drinking. He always felt that people who drank had a stinky smell on them, so he didn't move. He planned to wait until he needed to toast and drink before picking up the glass to drink.
Looking at the food and wine on the table, the friends couldn't help but feel fortunate that they had a good and long meal in the afternoon, so they were not hungry at the moment. Otherwise, it would have been too bad to come to the banquet on an empty stomach and eat such a small amount of food.
But other guests didn't think so. After taking a sip of the wine, one of them praised it, "Is this a bar in Yicheng? Great wine."
General Guo smiled complacently and said, "Yes, it is the wine from Yicheng. This is my collection. If I hadn't had a distinguished guest today, I wouldn't have been willing to take it out. Come, Lord Zhou, my nephew, I'll toast you. It's fate that brings us together, even though we've traveled thousands of miles together. We are destined to meet."
Manbao and Liu Huan raised their glasses and said they dared not, but when they saw him tilt his head back and drink the wine, they had no choice but to drink up the wine in the glass.
Then they had to toast General Guo with another glass of wine.
Okay, two cups and that's it.
Lieutenant General Nie, who was sitting behind them, drank with gusto and couldn't help but chat with Wei Xingren, "This is top-quality Yicheng wine. It's rare even in the capital. I didn't expect to be able to drink it in Gaochang, which is so far away."
Seeing that the general beside him seemed unhappy, Wei Xingren whispered to General Nie, "General Nie, it's not called Gaochang now, it should be called Xizhou."
Lieutenant Nie also caught a glimpse of the cold face of the person next to him. He sneered in his heart, but smiled cheerfully on the surface and said, "Yes, it's Xizhou."
Mr. Zhuang, who was sitting in front of them, suddenly felt something in his heart and looked down at the wine in his glass.
"Just drinking is boring, let them come up and dance."
When Manbao and the others looked up, they saw another group of pretty girls coming in one after another with sweet smiles on their faces. Then, as the music started, they began to dance to the rhythm of the music. When someone spun in front of them, she even winked at Bai Shan. There was nothing they could do about it, since he was the most handsome.
Bai Erlang and Liu Huan also received a lot of flirting glances, even Man Bao received two, but Yin Huo didn't get any.
After counting carefully, Manbao found it very strange, "Why didn't anyone seduce Yin He?"
Bai Shan: ...
Yin Huo on the side: ...
Bai Shan turned his head to look at Yin Huo, and finally burst out laughing, "Maybe because he is whiter than them?"
Everyone stared at him.
Yin Huo glanced at them and ignored them.
General Guo had established rapport with several people and finished a pot of wine. Turning around, he saw them whispering to each other and occasionally glancing at the dancers in the hall. He was even happier. "Why, do you nephews like it? It's simple. Someone come—"
(End of this chapter)
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