His eyes widened with disbelief on his face. Kou Wanwan was just hosting a banquet, and just one seat at the front... cost ten thousand taels of silver!

OMG!

City people really know how to play!

Zhu Xiuyuan remembered that the last time he asked Qiu Wen how much money their small family had, it turned out that it was only more than 130,000 taels... As a result, they held a banquet casually and bought 10,000 taels for one seat...

Regarding Zhu Xiuyuan's shock, Liu Wencai was very calm, "It's only 10,000 taels, and it's already worth it to buy a seat at the front! Hehe, Brother Zhu, when you meet Miss Wanwan, you will understand what I mean.

It’s true!”

…

Zhu Xiuyuan and Liu Wencai were chatting, and before they knew it, the time had come to the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the afternoon, which was around eleven o'clock at noon.

It’s time to take your seat!

So everyone in the inner hall left one after another and walked to the outer hall.

The inner and outer halls of the Poyang Prince's Mansion are divided into intimate and distant halls.

The people in the inner hall were usually people close to King Poyang, or people with high authority.

In the inner hall, except for Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng, there were almost all princes and their heirs.

However, the birthday banquet was held in the outer hall, so when the birthday banquet time came, everyone in the inner hall came out one after another and came to the outer hall.

There were more guests in the outer hall, including various princes, uncles, etc., as well as high-ranking officials from the imperial court in the capital.

These people are not enough to enter the inner hall to wait for the birthday banquet to begin, but in this outer hall, they are already a group of people with the highest official positions.

The lords of Chen Guo are generally divided into three levels, from small to large, they are Bo, Hou and Wang!

Regardless of whether he is a prince or a county prince, he is always of the same rank.

The Marquis is of the third grade.

My uncle is in the fifth grade.

To be able to become a lord of the Chen Kingdom, one must be a relative of the emperor or have great military exploits. However, whether they are uncles, lords or kings, they are actually generals who lead troops to fight.

If civil and military families were separated, these lords should belong to the "military" family.

As for the high-ranking officials from the imperial court in the capital, they are almost all civilian officials.

It's just that among these civil servants, there is no first-grade civil servant who cannot be compared with the first-grade prince. Therefore, there is not a single civil servant in the inner hall.

In the outer hall, in addition to Bo, Hou and other honorary officials and civil servants of the imperial court, there were also officials from nearby states and counties, and the relatives of King Poyang. These people were the largest, and Ulala occupied a large number of seats.

Of course, in this whole "system" that distinguishes between distant and distant relatives, Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng are exceptions.

Logically speaking, as local officials of prefectures and counties, Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng should stay in the outer hall. However, because King Poyang was optimistic about Zhu Xiuyuan and treated him as his nephew, he dragged Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng to the inner hall.

When Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng appeared with King Poyang and a group of nobles, they caused a small sensation!

Now it seems that Dong Cheng and Zhu Xiuyuan have not only "climbed" to the heights of King Poyang, but are also related to so many princes... They are really envious of others!

Everyone in the outer hall looked at Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng strangely.

However, Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng didn't care. They handed over to Prince Poyang and other princes and walked straight to a seat in the outer hall.

Zhu Xiuyuan immediately saw the seat "occupied" by Li Linzhou, the old beggar.

Why is it said to be "occupying"? It probably has something to do with the old beggar's clothes. He is a real old beggar! Moreover, the Poyang Palace seems to be secretly protecting this sloppy old beggar. No one dares to provoke him, so they avoid it!

The entire table was almost empty, with only Li Linzhou and the old beggar sitting there.

So Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng saw that seat at a glance. After bidding farewell to the princes, they walked there.

Zhu Xiuyuan had just taken two steps, but he found that Liu Wencai, the prince of Zhenze, was following him step by step. He smiled and said, "Brother Zhu, I want to sit with you!"

After all, Liu Wencai knew both Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng, so it made sense to go with Zhu Xiuyuan.

But... But the Prince of Poyang, Liu Xun, actually came with him!

Why is this?!

Because Liu Xun was very cold, and looked like he was repelling people thousands of miles away, Zhu Xiuyuan was not familiar with him, so it was difficult for him to ask, so he gestured to Liu Wencai with his eyes.

Liu Wencai is the eldest son of Prince Zhenze, and Liu Xun is the eldest son of Prince Poyang. Prince Poyang and Prince Zhenze are close friends. I believe Liu Wencai and Liu Xun should know each other.

Sure enough, Liu Wencai caught Zhu Xiuyuan's look and hurriedly asked Liu Xun, who was following the crowd: "Xun Daxia, why did you come here too?"

Training heroes?

Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng couldn't help but be stunned.

This Liu Xun has a stern face, holding a knife in his arms, and two locks of hair on his forehead are blowing in the wind... He really looks like a walking hero!

However, Liu Xun ignored Liu Wencai at all, and did not even look at Liu Wencai. He just quickened his pace, passed the crowd, walked in front of Zhu Xiuyuan and the others, and walked straight to the empty seats.

Looking at Liu Xun's cold back, Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng looked at each other.

But Liu Wencai disagreed and shrugged, as if he had anticipated Liu Xun's words and deeds.

Zhu Xiuyuan continued to walk forward. After a while, they saw Liu Xun walking straight towards the old beggar, bowing with his knife in his hand and saying something.

The distance was a bit far, and Zhu Xiuyuan and the others did not hear clearly. They saw the old beggar wave his hands helplessly, and then Liu Xun sat on the side of the old beggar.

Liu Xun is planning to spend the entire birthday party here!

Zhu Xiuyuan was slightly surprised, but he didn't think much and walked over quickly.

"Master!" Zhu Xiuyuan saluted the old beggar.

Liu Wencai followed suit and said, "Master!"

The old beggar glanced at Zhu Xiuyuan and Liu Wencai, and didn't take it seriously that Liu Wencai also called him "Master". He seemed to have been used to it for a long time.

"I wish you, boy, are you okay now that you're out? Come and sit down..."

Zhu Xiuyuan sat on the other side of the old beggar as instructed, Liu Wencai sat next to Zhu Xiuyuan, Dong Cheng next to Liu Wencai, and finally Li Linzhou adjusted his seat and sat down next to Dong Cheng.

There are eight seats at a table, and a group of them occupied six.

The originally empty table suddenly became lively.

As soon as Zhu Xiuyuan sat down, he suddenly noticed a gaze directed towards him.

This gaze is like a "charged particle", carrying huge "energy", and seems to want to penetrate Zhu Xiuyuan!

Zhu Xiuyuan hurriedly looked up, and his eyes instantly came into contact with each other, causing intense sparks of collision.

Those are a pair of extremely gloomy eyes!

With bad intentions!
Chapter completed!