Chapter 2296 The old man always pays the most attention to fairness and justice, and the minority obeys
Chapter 2296 I always value fairness and justice, and the minority obeys the majority... (Please subscribe and vote)
Cheng Chubi took Cheng's pipa and tried it, and the sound of music immediately flowed from his fingertips.
He nudged Li Ke, the King of Wu next to him, who was so affectionate that he was wearing the same pair of pants, with his elbow and winked.
"My dear brother, how well did you practice that toast? Why don't you show it off to the brothers?"
Li Ke said hey hey knowingly, immediately put down his chopsticks and took up his clothes and rolled up his sleeves.
"Brother, I'm here to join in the fun and do a couple of verses. Next, no matter who I'm standing in front of, that person will have to fill up the wine and drain it in one gulp."
The eldest brother on the side, Cheng Chumo, also stood up, flexed his hands, showed off the steel biceps on his arms, and smiled with extra excitement and anticipation.
"It's natural. His Highness King Wu personally went out to persuade him to drink. If anyone dares not to drink, let's all drink him up!"
"Okay, we agree." Cheng Lao Er, Cheng Lao Si, and Cheng Lao Wu all raised their hands to support their eldest brother.
As the person in charge of Princess Lu's house, General Cheng, who didn't like to drink wine, happily stroked his beard and slapped the table, and the whole hall suddenly became clear.
"Hahaha... Okay, okay, I always value fairness and justice. Since most people in the hall agree with it at this moment, let's do it this way."
Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong had dark faces. Even if they wanted to vote by a show of hands, they could only obey the majority.
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Cheng Chubi began to lower his head and pluck the strings of Cheng's pipa, and the music started playing.
Li Yifu saw Cheng Sanlang there with his head lowered and playing the pipa...
And our Prince Li Ke left the table in a rather wanton and flamboyant manner to the rhythm of the music and began to sing loudly.
"If love is a cup of poison that penetrates the intestines, I have drunk it. If love is a muddy water in the world, I have waded through it..."
As soon as I opened my voice, a piece of music with a hint of pathos and a slightly hoarse but full of emotion tightly captured the hearts of all the pure men present.
It was the first time that Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu heard the lyrics that touched people's hearts.
There are also those heartbreaking life experiences that every pure man who has gone through vicissitudes of life, shed tears and drank heavily knows.
In an instant, Xu Jingzong, who was nearly sixty years old and whose life was full of ups and downs, almost shed tears.
Li Yifu couldn't help but think of his own rough fate and the darkness of officialdom he had felt these days.
I was repeatedly coerced by that Shangguan many times, and I was even remembered and resented by a prince.
Suddenly his eyes turned red, and he choked up and burst into tears.
At this moment, Li Ke had already arrived in front of Li Yifu, raised his glass and sang loudly.
"...Fill up the wine and keep him drunk. I don't want to ask you how much you have to worry about. All your worries will flow eastward..."
After hearing such heart-wrenching lyrics, Li Yifu, who was already drunk and moved by the lyrics, could not hold back.
I picked up a full glass, swallowed it with tears, as if it was not the case, and I was really sorry for this toast that sung into the depths of the pure man's soul.
The gray-haired Xu Jingzong also raised his glass with tears in his eyes, raised his tone-deaf voice and began to howl.
As soon as this song was sung, all the Cheng family members raised their glasses and sang loudly in unison. Although everyone was not very musical, they all sang heart-breakingly, as if they were moved by real emotions.
Listening to such a magnificent toast, can you not drink two more glasses? Are you too embarrassed not to drink as much as you want?
Li Yifu felt that he was drunk, but not from the wine, but from the noisy and touching atmosphere.
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The guests all closed their eyes peacefully, and they were all pushed back on the door and sent out of Duke Lu's mansion.
As for the entire Cheng family, they were all quite energetic. After all, it was so easy to deal with three gentlemen.
For this reason, the Cheng family also involved themselves in fighting for wine. Fortunately, the father stopped his own child from doing this in time.
After Cheng Chubi and his two brothers saw off the three guests, they returned to the front hall and saw their own father sitting behind the table with a golden sword.
Where can I find Xu Jingzong, who was just arm-in-arm with me, looking drunk, waiting for the butler, Uncle Fu, to pour him some sobering soup?
I took a big sip of the hangover soup handed over by the butler Cheng Fu, and rubbed my face vigorously a few times.
The Cheng family members had already obediently squatted in front of their father. Cheng Chubi saw his father's empty bowl, picked up the jar containing the hangover soup and filled it up for his father.
"Thank you for your hard work, dad. Come on, have another bowl."
Cheng Yaojin pushed him aside in disgust and glared at the flattering Saburo.
"Stop messing around with me, this sobering soup is not wine. What are you doing if you drink so much?"
Cheng Chumo took the jar and poured three bowls. The three brothers also picked up the hangover soup and took a big gulp.
Cheng Chubi put down his bowl and asked impatiently.
"Dad, during today's family dinner, did you see what those two people were doing?"
Cheng Yaojin immediately became happy, patted Cheng Sanlang's forehead and cursed with a smile.
"You think of your father and me as a god. Can you see through people with this drink?"
"Xu Jingzong, this old boy, although I didn't have much dealings with him back then, I don't want to see him look kind and kind.
In fact, that old boy is not big-minded, speaks in eccentric ways, and is not popular with others..."
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Cheng Chubi drank wine and listened to his father analyzing in front of him with his two brothers. He made a rough inference based on the performance of these two at today's family dinner.
At least these two are masters of observing facial expressions, and they are not ordinary people.
Therefore, if you want to have a deeper understanding, I am afraid that a family dinner is not enough, and you have to get them drunk three or five times.
Hearing his father's raised five fingers, Cheng Chubi couldn't help but wipe his face.
Still remembering the scene where Li Yifu vomited twice in a row and finally buried his face into the vegetable basin, Cheng Chubi felt that if he came here for another five days in a row.
Xu Jingzong didn't know, but the probability of Li Yifu's stomach bleeding was quite high.
Cheng Chubi didn't care whether Li Yifu died young due to stomach bleeding. After all, this kind of person could leave a lasting infamy in history.
There is nothing wrong with pressing the fast forward button to allow him to survive in advance, and it can also save the internal friction of the Tang Dynasty.
Being able to free up more strength to deal with the pressure of the external environment, Cheng Chubi really, as Li Ke said, wished that Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu could be reborn as soon as possible.
As the saying goes, hello, I am hello, everyone. Of course, formal and legal methods were used. After all, Cheng Sanlang was also a law-abiding citizen of the Tang Dynasty.
However, General Cheng was not stingy about imparting his experience in seeing people to his third son, which made Cheng Sanlang nod his head frequently.
"Thank you dad, I understand. Unfortunately, if you want to invite them to a banquet again, you have to wait for a few days and look for another opportunity."
"You kid, why are you so sincere?" General Cheng raised his fingers and nodded twice at Cheng Sanlang.
"If you invite them, they can't invite you back? If they don't take the initiative, you can't take the initiative?"