Chapter 202: The Covenant of Peking(1/2)
The next day.
Hu Fei left the mansion early in the morning with the New Year's gifts prepared for Prince Yan and the Crown Prince. He took Pei Jie and the other two people into the carriage and went straight to Prince Yan's mansion.
Today he has to go to two places in a row, first to Prince Yan's Mansion and then to the East Palace. He hopes that the Zhu family brothers will like these two gifts that he has prepared with great effort.
After a long time, Xiaowu finally arrived at Prince Yan's Mansion in a carriage.
In front of the mansion, the housekeeper Ge Yang was directing a group of servants to clean up. When he saw Hu Mansion's carriage, he hurriedly sent someone in to report to King Yan. He stopped the servants who were sweeping the floor and hurried to greet the carriage.
"Master Hu, have a great New Year."
Seeing Hu Fei coming out of the carriage, Ge Yang hurriedly saluted and said respectfully.
"good."
Hu Fei glanced at Ge Yang, smiled, got off the carriage, and replied casually.
"Master Hu, please come inside."
Ge Yang stepped aside respectfully and said with a smile.
Hu Fei nodded, walked inside, reached into his arms, and threw a piece of silver to Ge Yang.
"Hey, Mr. Hu, what are you doing?"
Ge Yang was startled, hurriedly stretched out his hand to catch the silver, and asked in confusion.
"You have given me my New Year greetings in advance, so just think of it as the New Year's money that I gave you in advance."
Hu Fei said with a smile as he walked.
"But this is too much, thank you Mr. Hu!"
When Ge Yang heard this, he was very happy. Although he was polite, he had already put the money in his arms.
Although he was the steward of the palace and his status was much higher than that of ordinary stewards, he pretended not to be moved when he saw such a large ingot of silver.
Spring Die held the wooden box containing the sword and slowly followed Hu Fei.
Soon, Hu Fei, accompanied by Ge Yang, entered the palace.
After receiving the report from his subordinates, King Yan Zhu Di had already been waiting at the entrance of the main hall. When he saw Hu Fei walking into the mansion, a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.
"Fourth brother, have a great New Year!"
Hu Fei also saw Zhu Di, cupped his hands from a distance, and said loudly.
"Okay, okay."
With a smile on his face, Zhu Di also cupped his hands and returned the favor with a smile.
The two hadn't seen each other for a few days, but they seemed closer than before.
"Tomorrow is the New Year's Day, why are you still running around? Don't you know how to stay in the house to accompany Mr. Hu?"
Zhu Di looked at Hu Fei and asked with a smile.
"Why do I hear that Fourth Brother doesn't welcome me? In this case, I will leave, little brother. I can just give the gift I prepared for Fourth Brother to anyone."
Hu Fei looked at Zhu Di, deliberately pretended to be disappointed, waved his hand and said.
"A gift? What gift?"
When Zhu Di heard this, he couldn't help but become interested and couldn't help but ask.
"My fourth brother has driven me away. It doesn't matter what kind of gift it is. It's a pity that such a treasure can only be given away to others."
Hu Fei shook his head and said.
Hearing what Hu Fei said, Zhu Di became even more interested, but suddenly Hu Fei was helpless and didn't know how to explain it.
"Haha, just kidding."
"Aren't you going to invite me in to talk? Fourth brother?"
Seeing the embarrassment on Zhu Di's face, Hu Fei grinned, pointed to the main hall, and asked with a smile.
"Hehehe, you!"
"Then please come inside, my Mr. Hu Dashan!"
Zhu Di couldn't help laughing, made a gesture of invitation, and walked inside with Hu Fei.
"Hu Dashanren?"
After hearing what Zhu Di called him, Hu Fei was stunned for a moment and showed a trace of doubt.
"Yes, you don't know it yet, right? Now the people in the whole city call you Hu Dashanren."
"Fourth brother has already heard about the fact that you bought New Year's goods for the childless old people in the city and invited them to a dinner party at Hong Bin Building tomorrow night. Yes, you did such a good job, which really surprised me, fourth brother.
"
Zhu Di nodded, glanced at Hu Fei approvingly, and explained with a smile.
While talking, the two of them had already walked into the main hall and sat on chairs.
Ge Yang hurriedly poured tea for Zhu Di and Hu Fei.
Spring Die held the wooden box and stood beside Hu Fei.
"It's just a small effort. Fourth brother has given me too much praise. During the New Year, it should be more lively. Those old people are used to being young and widowed. There is not much I can do. I just hope that they will be happy at least one day a year.
happy."
Hu Fei waved his hand and said modestly.
"I admire you from the bottom of my heart, Fourth Brother, that you have such a kind heart. Hu Xiang is really good at teaching his children."
Zhu Di looked at Hu Fei and said seriously.
"Fourth brother, it's okay if you praise me. You don't need to bring my old man with you. This is all my own initiative and has nothing to do with him."
Hu Fei smiled and said jokingly.
"You, I just praised you a few times and started talking nonsense again."
When Zhu Di heard this, he couldn't help but smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Hu Fei smiled, took a sip of tea, turned to look at Chundie and winked.
Chundie understood and immediately placed the wooden box in his hand on the table next to Hu Fei.
Looking at the valuable box on the table, Zhu Di's eyes lit up and he looked at it curiously.
"Fourth brother, tomorrow is the New Year's Day. I have prepared a few small gifts. I should have sent them after the new year. However, I thought that many people would come to the Yan Palace to give gifts after the new year. I didn't want to join in the fun with them, so I chose to give them in advance.
Fourth brother, I hope fourth brother likes it."
Hu Fei pointed to the box on the table and said with a smile.
"Brother Xian, you are so polite. Just looking at this box is worth a lot of money. Why do you and I need to be so polite to each other? Fourth brother is already very happy that you have such a heart."
Zhu Di shook his head and said slightly reproachfully, but the curiosity and expectation in his eyes could not deceive anyone.
"Fourth brother, please."
Hu Fei cupped his hands, pointed at the wooden box, smiled and motioned for Zhu Di to open it himself.
Zhu Di slowly stood up and came closer, looking at the wooden box with a curious look on his face.
"What kind of weird stuff is in here?"
Zhu Di looked at it and asked with a smile.
"Fourth brother will know after seeing it."
Hu Fei smiled and said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Di reached out and opened the wooden box, and at a glance he saw the knife inlaid with gems placed in the wooden box.
"knife?"
Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he asked in surprise.
"This is the gift I spent all my efforts to select for my fourth brother. I ordered people to search everywhere half a month ago and finally found it for my fourth brother."
"Although this knife looks a bit extravagant in appearance and does not look like a sharp weapon for killing enemies in battle, it is a sword that can cut iron as well as clay. I have tried it myself for my fourth brother. It can be said that it is extremely sharp!"
Hu Fei pointed at the sword in the box and praised it profusely.
Zhu Di took out the sword while listening to Hu Fei's praise. The moment the blade was unsheathed, a dragon's roar came instantly, and the energy of the sword seemed to cut off the air in an instant.
"What a knife! What a knife!"
Zhu Di looked at the knife in his hand and couldn't help praising it, with a look of love on his face.
"As long as Fourth Brother likes it."
Looking at Zhu Di who was beaming with joy, Hu Fei smiled and said lightly.
When he saw this knife, he already guessed that Zhu Di would like it, because even he liked it.
If it weren't for the sake of getting close to Zhu Di, he would be reluctant to give away such a good knife.
To be continued...