Since the Grand View Garden opened to welcome guests, seven or eight days passed in a hurry, and February 16th.

This day, Jiao Shun Xiu Mu wanted to go to the Shi Family to discuss the "recruitment" matters, but Feng Ziying posted a post early in the morning to invite him, Baoyu and Xue Pan to have a drink.

Because he had previously entrusted General Feng Tang, Shenwu, as a matchmaker, and owed the Feng family favors, it was naturally difficult to refuse the wine.

So the three of them spent some time together in Rong Mansion and rushed to Feng Ziying's house.

When we arrived at Feng's mansion, we saw Feng Ziying, Wei Ruolan and a half-baked young man, chatting in the hall with the singing and dancing.

Xue Pan was so envious of this. Even Dao was the general of Shenwu and was enlightened. He didn't say anything if Feng Ziying made such fans at home.

"You stupid guy!"

Feng Ziying laughed and scolded when she heard this: "It's a fun thing. I heard what you said, it's like my family is broken - I don't dare to do this normally. Isn't this Brother Jiao and Brother Bao coming? I dare to take advantage of their own goodness to be arrogant."

Jiao Shun also smiled: "It was my job to be the one, but I didn't want to be snatched by Brother Feng first. I chose to hold a banquet in your mansion. I just wanted to rush to get money and I had nowhere to find a place to collect money."

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

At this time, Wei Ruolan placed three glasses of wine on the table and greeted: "Brothers can gather together and have fun, no matter whose host it is? But you are late, so you must be fined three glasses of wine before you can get in the table!"

The two young men next to him also started to make excuses.

Jiao Shun hadn't said anything, but Xue Pan stopped doing it for now. He was not afraid of drinking, but he felt that eating this wine was wrong.

He hurriedly argued: "This is no wonder Brother Jiao and I are brother Bao..."

As he was talking, Jia Baoyu drank three cups without saying a word.

Feng Ziying and others didn't understand why, and they cheered in unison when they saw this. They all thought that Brother Bao was so happy, not as if Xue Da was calculating.

Only Jiao Shun knew that he was drinking to drown his sorrows.

Not long after moving into the Grand View Garden, Lin Daiyu's birthday was just around the corner.

Because there was less restraint in the internal and external isolation, and with Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang intentionally indulged, Jia Baoyu breathed the free and sweet air in the Grand View Garden for two days, and then got a little lost in the moment, and even had the courage to reunite with Lin Meimei.

But what Lin Meimei wanted was a certain future, at least a future where she could see hope, but Jia Baoyu only wanted to keep her head in the other courtyard and just live it alone.

Needless to say, he naturally felt disappointed again.

No matter what the reason is, Jia Baoyu took the lead and punished himself three times, and Jiao Shun and Xue Pan naturally had to follow suit.

Fortunately, it is low-grade sweet wine, so it is not difficult to swallow.

Jiao Shun put the wine glass back on the table, looked around and wondered: "I thought you must have invited Brother Liu. I was originally thinking about asking for information and seeing when he was going to leave for a trip to Europe - what, is it that King Beijing refused to let anyone go?"

Feng Ziying shook her head and said, "How could he be restrained by the prince?"

Then he made a vague statement that for some other reasons, he did not intend to invite Liu Xianglian to come today.

Because he heard that there seemed to be something hidden, Jiao Shun was tactful and did not ask any more questions. He and Xue Pan pushed each other into the table. As for Baoyu, because his face was resentful and gloomy, even Wei Ruolan and others who had cheered and shouted just now had seen something wrong, so naturally no one dared to provoke him.

As soon as he talked a few words on the table, the door curtain suddenly picked up again. He walked into a handsome young man with a small figure as if he was like a jade. He saw him walking a few steps and bowing to the table, saying apologetically: "Jiang Yuhan is one step late, please don't blame me."

"Boss Jiang doesn't have to be too polite."

Feng Ziying smiled and waved her hand, and introduced it to everyone during the meal one by one, saying that the name of this young man named Jiang Yuhan was the red star who was famous in the capital recently.

Jiao Shun suddenly realized, thinking that no wonder he didn't invite Liu Xianglian. It turned out that it was King Zhongshun's "private favor" to be a guest.

He had no interest in actors, and he didn't want to get involved in the cesspool of King Zhongshun, so he had a cold face and deliberately acted like he was keeping others from thousands of miles away.

But Xue Pan and Baoyu are different. Their four eyes were almost nailed to Jiang Yuhan's face. I have to say that the aesthetic views of these cousins ​​were surprisingly consistent.

Because Jiang Yuhan made up the last piece of the puzzle, Jia Baoyu also forgot his sorrow for the time being, and naturally he sang and danced and talked and laughed.

Because most of the people in the banquet were going out, the topic was unconsciously linked to the recent news that the court intends to formally withdraw troops from Akagi Country.

After the war last year, the court had actually withdrawn more than half of its expeditionary forces, but nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers were still stationed in Qianxiang, poisoning the border to prevent abnormal movements.

As time goes by, the officers and soldiers are homesick, and Akatsuki, who is responsible for providing logistics supplies, is also a little overwhelmed. Some people in the court suggested that taking advantage of the opportunity of sending ambassadors between the two countries, it is better to withdraw all the expeditionary forces from Akatsuki to show our sincerity for permanent harmony.

This style of acting that actively shows weakness is naturally not favored by the second generation of the army. Everyone is criticizing and criticizing this.

Baoyu was bored when they said it, so he simply found an opportunity to go there and said that he wanted to be convenient. He secretly gave a wink when passing by Jiang Yuhan.

Jiang Yuhan understood it and hurriedly got up and followed him out.

When Wei Ruolan saw this scene, she was determined to remind Baoyu that King Zhongshun's forbidden body could not be provoked, but was stopped by Xue Pan.

But the two of them answered a few words outside, but they felt they met too late. Baoyu pulled the fan and gave it to him, while Jiang Yuhan took off the sweat towel on her underwear and tied it as a gift.

It was wrong that a servant passed by and alarmed the pair of "Wild Mandarin". I was afraid that all four eyes would be nailed to each other and would never be able to pull them out again.

When the two of them returned to the table tacitly, they found that the topic had not been finished. However, Feng Ziying and others were talking all over the place, but now they all stretched their necks obediently and watched Jiao Shun gesture on the table with chopsticks.

In the past year, the surplus has almost been made through the wood, medicine and spice business, and I can earn about 70,000 to 80,000 taels of silver.

In order to keep this financial path smooth, we naturally have to contact the Yunnan and Guizhou generals and officials. After hearing too much about them, coupled with the information channels of the Ministry of Works and the fur obtained from later generations, what we know and gain is naturally far from what a few dandy can compare to.

At the beginning, he didn't say whether the withdrawal was right or wrong. He directly picked up various cold dishes with chopsticks, and simply put out a map of the mountains and rivers of Qianxiang Country on the table. He also pointed out the dangers everywhere, where to build bridges, where to station troops, and where to have a station. The analysis was very clear.

After he was almost done, he then pointed out: "According to my opinion, because the supply in Qianxiang Country is not smooth, it is necessary to withdraw troops, but there is no need to withdraw all of them, and there is no need to withdraw directly to Yunnan and Guizhou."

As he said that, he pointed to several of the places on the 'map': "You might as well withdraw the team to these places first, so as to relieve the logistical pressure of Akagi's country, and drive prisoners of war [the Ushi people only redeem their own soldiers, but ignore the captured poisonous servants] to build bridges and pave the way between the two countries."

"In this way, we can win over the people's hearts of the country's people and make up for the public grievances caused by the supply and transportation frontlines; secondly, as long as these key throats are cleared and a small number of garrisons are set up as a guarantee, no matter whether the Uxi people make a comeback or the domestic unstable of Aixiang, the imperial army can directly point to the heartland!"

After listening to his explanation, Feng Ziying was silent for a while, and couldn't help but shook her head and sighed: "I was not convinced before when my father scolded me for not discussing the government affairs. Now, after hearing Brother Changqing's high opinion, I realized that I was arrogant in the well."

Wei Ruolan and others also sighed, wonderingly, Jiao Shun was about the same age as everyone else, and could be famous in the capital by his own strength, while he and others could only be mediocre rice insects with their family protection.

Because they were all from generals, those who could get along with Feng Ziying were mostly ambitious - although most of them were highly keen on the geography of mountains and rivers. Although they did not think that they would go to the southeastern border to fight in the future, they still subconsciously asked the details of the place.

However, Jia Baoyu couldn't listen anymore and smiled and interrupted: "I have heard the sound of 'killing' in my house recently. Now I've finally been outside, so I don't want to listen to these fights, killings anymore. Let's have a drink order."

"Which one do you coax?"

Wei Ruolan was dissatisfied and asked: "We had heard Xue Datou say that you had lived in a private courtyard in the palace. You were all covered in the moon and the flowers were shrouded in the fish and geese. You are the only one in the garden, but where did you come from the shouts of killing?"

Before he finished speaking, someone next to him was making a fuss to punish Baoyu for wine.

"How dare I deceive all my brothers."

Jia Baoyu pointed at Jiao Shun with a bitter face: "It's because Brother Jiao recently made a card show called "Three Kingdoms Killing". The sisters often use it to relieve boredom when they are idle. The most common card show is the word "kill, flash".

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly asked in detail. After hearing the general rules, they couldn't help but get interested. It happened that the banquet was almost the same. Feng Ziying simply proposed to go to Rongguo Mansion to play cards and have fun, which immediately attracted a lot of noise.

Baoyu was happy to obey his orders because he thought about having more contact with Jiang Yuhan.

So everyone rode seven or eight large carts and returned to Rongguo Mansion in a mighty manner.

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at the same time.

Jia Yun was walking in Fenggong City with a bad look on his face. When he saw Dongshikou, he was hesitating where to go. He saw two or three big cars stop not far in front of him. Someone greeted him: "Isn't this brother Yun? Why are you so idle to enter and come to Fenggong City for free when you have time?"

While speaking, the man jumped out of the carriage and walked towards Jia Yun with a smile.

This person is Jia Qin, a brother of Jia Yun, who somehow got through Wang Xifeng's path and got the fat from Guanjia Temple. He was extremely rampant among the younger generation.

However, he did not dare to show off his crazy face in front of Jia Yun.

After all, Jia Yun is now a celebrity around Jiao Shun. Even Master Zheng looks at him differently. After three or five years of training, he donated his official position to make up for the vacancies. Maybe he is another Jia Yucun, Jiao Changqing!

Therefore, when he arrived in front of Jia Yun, he even said that choosing a date is worse than a day. Since he happened to meet in Fenggong City, the two brothers must have a few drinks to finish.

Jia Yun knew his character, so naturally refused to bother him, so she hurriedly refused and said, "I just had a meal with my uncle, let's go another day, I'll treat my brother to drink if I have the chance."

When he mentioned his uncle, he couldn't help but frown.

Jia Qin was accustomed to observing his words and expressions. In addition, after hearing a lot of rumors recently, he guessed his thoughts and couldn't help but laugh: "If brothers encounter difficulties, just go and ask the elders to make the decision. Why bother to find trouble to get into this horny horn?"

"Elder?"

Jia Yun repeated these two words and seemed to have some insight.

But it turned out that he had an uncle named Bu Shiren, who was really as his name, and did not do anything about human affairs.

Because Jia Yun's family was in a downturn, the two families almost cut off contact. When they occasionally met, the uncle and aunt would sarcastically sarcasticly towards Jia Yun and his son.

But since Jia Yun followed Jiao Shun and won the favor of Jia Zheng, his uncle's attitude has changed every day. Recently, he has been trying to marry his daughter Yin Jie'er to Jia Yun so that he can get a kiss.

It would be fine if he just shaved his head and took a hot head. But Bu Shiren's sweet words made Jia Yun's mother moved. As a son, he did not dare to disobey his mother's orders - especially because he was the mother's independent one. Recently, he was worried.

Now that he had received guidance from Jia Qin, he hesitated for a moment and simply found the Jiao family, wanting Jiao Shun to point out a marriage - Jiao Shun is both his benefactor and nominally an elder, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is respecting the elder.

Since the elders came forward to help protect the media, my mother naturally couldn't say anything else.

I didn't want to wait until he arrived at the Jiao family, but I was stunned and said that he had gone out for a drink with Mr. Bao and Mr. Xue.

Jia Yun was about to return disappointed when she saw Li Gui running like a gust of wind, saying that it was Mr. Bao. Mr. Jiao brought the guests back and urged him to take the "Three Kingdoms Kill" away.

The servant hurried to the east wing to get the card show box. He was about to hand it over to Li Gui, but Jia Yun intercepted it.

"Good brother."

He smiled at Li Gui and said, "I am asking Uncle Jiao for something. Please give this Qiaozong to me. I will treat you to wine tomorrow to thank you."

Li Gui was Baoyu's nanny brother, and he was quite decent in Rong Mansion, but he was not easy to offend Jia Yun's outstanding children, so he hurriedly said, "What are you talking about? I'm happy to be at ease."

Jia Yun then held the card show and followed Li Gui's guidance to find the flower hall near Neiyimen.

He was about to enter the door, but he didn't expect a little maid carrying a food box suddenly came across from him. He looked like Xiaohong who deliberately threw a veil that day.

"Isn't this Mr. Yun?"

Jia Yun was a little embarrassed for a moment and didn't know how to deal with it. But Xiaohong greeted him as if nothing had happened, and then held the food box and said, "Madam asked me to send the sober soup over, I'll go in first."

As he said that, he entered the hall on his own and retreated soon after.

After Jia Yun watched her go away, she smiled and sent the card show in the door.

While Baoyu's mouth was flying and explaining the rules to everyone, Jia Yun talked about his recent troubles to Jiao Shun in a scattered manner.

After hearing this, Jiao Shun couldn't help but feel emotion. When he had just traveled over, he was just a ignorant family and had a son. Who would have thought that in just two and a half years, he hired the daughter of the Marquis' family, and even the other branches of the Duke's Mansion came to him to decide the marriage.

He asked now: "What are your conditions?"

When Jia Yun heard this, she knew that Jiao Shun had agreed. She couldn't help but say happily: "There is nothing else to be around, you just need to be a good match. It's better that the family is just passing by!"

After a pause, he added: "Then it is better to maintain health and can bring prosperity to the family."

Tsk ~
Chapter completed!