The words of Zhang Rui and Zhang Xuling were like a ladle of cold water, rushing directly over King Yan's head.
"Whose surplus is used to make up for whose shortcomings?" He sneered, "should I use my surplus to make up for Li Shouming's shortcomings?"
Just when King Yan was getting cold and cold, Zhang Xutang suddenly appeared at the door.
He was wearing a crow-wing green round-necked long-sleeved shirt. The clothes also appeared heavy in the dim light. Zhang Xutang entered the room with such heaviness all over his body.
He glanced at Yuan Ye expressionlessly and nodded casually to him. Zhang Xutang had no intention of saluting King Yan, but instead walked to Zhang Xuling.
Before the others arrived, Zhang Xuling had already stood up and offered his seat, standing upright, ready to go and escape at any time.
Zhang Xutang casually pointed to the chair next to Yuan Ye: "Brother, sit down."
Only then did Zhang Xuling dare to shake the big man and sit over, and tried his best to get closer to Yuan Ye. Seeing the confusion on Yuan Ye's face, he introduced him: "This is the second child. You saw him when he was a child."
At the same time, he thought in his heart: "Although he is the second child, I might as well kiss you."
Yuan Ye hurriedly stood up, saluted Zhang Xutang, and called "Second Master."
Zhang Xutang was sitting in a chair, with his eyelids half-closed, showing a ring of thin and dense eyelashes. He opened his eyes and glanced at Yuan Ye again, and most of this ring of eyelashes was hidden in his eyelids.
He saw this person in his eyes and stopped looking at him. He called out "Dad" in a wan tone. Seeing that the table next to the chair was bare and only had a cup of tea, he turned to Zhang Xuling and told Zhang Xuling: "Peel two rice dumplings and give them to me."
Dad will peel one off too."
Zhang Xuling stood up like a big, docile dog and looked at Prince Yan with a smile: "Would you like to have a taste, Your Majesty? It's all made at home."
Zhang Xutang looked at King Yan, his eyes full of ridicule: "Your Majesty doesn't eat food from outside. Our family is no longer a human being inside and outside now, let alone being skinned by Your Majesty."
Before King Yan could get angry, Zhang Rui shouted: "Shut up, in front of the prince, how can you upset such a child!"
King Yan remembered that he had slapped Zhang Xutang. Since then, Zhang Xutang had been treating him neither yin nor yang. In addition, he did not follow Zhang Xutang's advice and reported his illness. After that, Zhang Xutang treated him even more.
He has a cold face.
He wanted to use his status to scold Zhang Xutang again, but because of the imperial concubine and Prime Minister Zhang, he could not speak. His face was red with anger and his eyes were on fire.
Zhang Xutang's face did not change, and he was still cold: "Dad, our family is working hard, naturally for King Yan. Now King Yan has made great plans and has no need for us, so why should we move forward? It would be better to retreat."
Zhang Rui was silent.
King Yan's anger had been churning in his stomach for a while. At this time, after listening to Zhang Xutang's words, he was furious: "Okay! Zhang Xutang, if you want to withdraw, you can withdraw. You also withdraw from the Yue family's marriage."
, and then retreat all the way to Daxiangguo Temple to become a monk!"
He made Zhang Xutang really angry with his ridicule, and even became rude to Zhang Rui.
"The Prime Minister also retreats blindly in the court. If you retreat, others will enter!
The county magistrate surnamed Xu in Zezhou, an official as big as Sesame, was able to stir up a movement to re-measure the land. Most of the three divisions were originally our people, and Dong Tongying was left empty-handed. As a result, Liu Qiuyu was now in the hands of
The guy named Yuan was taken away!
On the day of my plowing, King Jin made a big splash and openly challenged me. I told him to teach him a lesson, but you still stopped me.
He is a scoundrel of the Pei family! He has almost turned the court upside down, and you are still retreating! Do we have to wait until he rides on our heads to shit?
You are afraid of him, but I am not! It’s just 280,000 taels of silver. So what if I take it? I’ve taken all 2.8 million taels.
If your Majesty asks, he will say that last year there was a chaos in the tax and bank case, no one was in charge, the Liangguang Road and Bridges were in ruins, there was stagnant water, and the spring rains and autumn rains caused the cross-currents to surge, resulting in a sharp drop in tax revenue!"
Zhang Rui smacked the tea cup in his hand, made a crisp sound, sat back in his chair, closed his eyes, and sighed deeply from his nostrils.
Zhang Xutang stretched out his hands, slapped him slowly, and then slapped him hard twice, with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty is awesome, really awesome."
Anyone could hear the sarcasm in his words.
Yuan Ye never expected that he would hear this fight. He wished he could turn into an ant, crawl through the cracks in the ground, climb out of Zhang's house, and climb onto the boat.
However, this was impossible. He could only bury his head deeper and deeper, with the intention of burying his head in his crotch.
King Jin looked at Zhang Rui, feeling suddenly frightened.
The three slaps that Zhang Xutang took were like slaps on his face, waking him up instantly.
He shouldn't have said this.
Even if he is dissatisfied, he should not say it so carelessly in front of Zhang Rui. Auntie often said that he cannot write two characters in one stroke. If he wants to be the prince and ascend the throne, he still needs the full support of the Zhang family.
But having said it all, if he, the prince, was asked to humbly apologize to his ministers and admit his mistakes, he couldn't do it. He could only sit there with an expressionless face and say nothing.
But Zhang Xuling was so frightened that he was sweating. He was afraid that Zhang Xutang would bury King Yan if he disagreed. He hurriedly went out to peel the rice dumplings, peeled off a big pot, cut them with a knife, put them on a plate, and put some paint on them.
Everyone has a share of chopsticks.
He walked back like a peacemaker, winked at Yuan Ye again, and asked him to stand up and leave.
Yuan Ye immediately stood up and said goodbye to King Yan and Zhang Rui, folding his hands deeply. When Zhang Rui was relieved, he turned around and left as if he had received an amnesty. After stepping out of the threshold, he walked out quickly.
Zhang Xuling then took the plate and chopsticks from the servant, placed the three plates of rice dumplings with a clinking sound, mustered up the courage to put on a smile, and distributed them in all directions.
"We are a family, and some bumps and bruises are inevitable. What's more, what we are doing is a big thing. We can't do it all at once. We have to discuss it slowly. Even if King Jin is very capable, he can't just sit on the throne right now.
Besides, the military power is still firmly in the hands of Privy Council Yue. Our three-way marriage between the Zhang family, the Yue family, and the prince is unbreakable and the King of Jin will never get any favors from us."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly thought of the "pig" in Tanzhou that Zhang Xutang always talked about.
At this moment, he really felt for Zhu Guangli. It was not easy to survive in the cracks.
Zhang Rui then opened his eyes and looked at King Yan kindly: "My lord, please try the rice dumplings. They are handmade by your aunt. Although they are not exquisite, the home-cooked taste is the most rare."
King Yan breathed a sigh of relief, borrowed the donkey from the slope, picked up the rice dumplings and took a bite: "My mother often thought about the rice dumplings made by my aunt in the palace."
Zhang Xuling looked at Zhang Xutang pleadingly, hoping that he would be merciful and allow his elder brother to live a few more years.
Fortunately, Zhang Xutang seems to be really hungry. He has been eating the rice dumplings since he came in without even raising his head. When he went to the Daxiangguo Temple today, he saw Song Huiyue and his family were also at the Daxiangguo Temple.
Ask for the fragrance of Buddha.
Song Huiyue and her old-fashioned guard stayed together to eat rice dumplings. They ate vegetarian rice dumplings made by Daxiangguo Temple. However, each of them had one, and the food was sweet, as if they were eating an unparalleled delicacy.
On the way back, he kept craving for rice dumplings.