"This pot of Jiannan Shaochun... belongs to the guests of this house?" a voice asked vaguely.
"Yes, Mr. Wang." It sounded like the voice of the shopkeeper just now.
"Give it to me and I'll deliver it."
"No, Mr. Wang, the envoy of the king..."
The two people started arguing at the door. Guo Zongyi already guessed who it was, so he pointed at the door and said with a smile: "Cousin, drive him away."
Cao Bin also guessed it. He stood up and opened the door. He saw a drunkard dressed as a Confucian scholar at the door, trying to take the wine bottle from the shopkeeper's hand. When he looked at his face, he saw that it was Wang Zhizhi who was observing. For a moment, he was also in trouble. He just asked in a deep voice: "Brother Cheng Xiang, what do you mean?"
Wang Zhu seemed to have drunk a lot of wine. He was staggering a little at this moment, but his hand was firmly holding the wine bottle. He shook his head, squinted his eyes and looked Cao Bin up and down. After a long while, he suddenly realized: "It's Cao Bin." Consecration, discourtesy, discourtesy..."
After saying that, he put down the wine bottle and bowed to him stumblingly.
Cao Bin did not want to get involved with a drunken person. This person was fond of drinking and often made mistakes, so he had a bad reputation among the officials in Chanzhou.
He snatched the wine flask that Wang was holding tightly with his hand, turned to the shopkeeper and said, "He drank too much. Please ask the shopkeeper to send a few people to take the envoy Wang back to his house, so as not to disturb the noble man."
The shopkeeper Wei Wei agreed. Although he didn't know who the undressed young man in the room was, he saw that he was wearing a scarlet robe at a young age and had an extraordinary bearing. There was also a eunuch standing in front of him. He guessed that he was a senior official from the palace, so he came to serve him personally.
Unexpectedly, the king drank too much again. When he passed by, he smelled the incense of the old spring and insisted on coming over to ask for a drink. The two started to argue.
The shopkeeper apologized, picked up Wang Zhu and was about to leave. Unexpectedly, Wang Zhu pushed the shopkeeper away and said vaguely: "Who is Guohua drinking with? How about taking Wang?"
The shopkeeper was pushed to the ground and hit his head heavily on the threshold. He let out a scream and felt a fishy mess in front of his eyes. When he touched it with his hand, it was full of blood.
Cao Bin had an angry look on his face, but due to Wang Zhu's status and the inability to teach him a lesson, he had no choice but to bend down to help the shopkeeper. Unexpectedly, Wang Zhu had an opportunity to take advantage of it. When he saw the opportunity, he jumped into the house with a powerful leap. , his feet were unstable when he landed, and he stumbled. He rolled a few times and happened to be at Guo Zongyi's feet.
"Wang Zhizhi, long time no see." He looked at the gray-faced Wang Zhu on the ground and joked with a smile.
Cao Bin over there couldn't care less about the shopkeeper, turned around, grabbed Wang Zhu's collar, lifted him up, and put him aside.
Wang Zhuwu looked at Guo Zongyi with a look of confusion on his face. He felt that the person in front of him seemed familiar, but he couldn't name him.
"Your Highness, this person..." Cao Bin said hesitantly with a confused look on his face.
Guo Zongyi waved his hand and shouted toward the door: "Shopkeeper, shopkeeper."
The shopkeeper covered his head and ran over with a painful look on his face. He forced a smile and said, "What do you have to say, distinguished guest?"
Guo Zongyi looked at the wound on his head, with blood dripping down his fingers. He couldn't bear it. He took out a few taels of broken silver and said warmly: "Go find a doctor and take a look. I will make the decision for you."
The shopkeeper didn't take the money, but just smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's normal for people in our business to bump into some drunken people."
Guo Zongyi put the money away, knowing that he was relying on the king's official position and did not dare to say anything, so he said: "Go and call my boy downstairs."
After a while, Wu Shen looked panicked and trotted upstairs. He was relieved to see Guo Zongyi sitting there unharmed.
"Your Highness." Wu Shen said politely. There were no outsiders at this moment, so he didn't make any attempt to hide it and just called His Highness.
Guo Zongyi nodded slightly and said in a cold voice: "Go and ask Wang Jiexuan and come here to get people."
Wu Shen quickly glanced at Wang Zhu and remembered the injury on the shopkeeper's head just now. He knew it clearly in his heart, shouted and ran away.
Guo Zongyi looked at Wang Zhu again and saw that he was drunk to death. He sighed and said, "Help him to that chair."
Being disturbed by Wang Zhu, Guo Zongyi ate with chopsticks in the east and the other absentmindedly.
Cao Bin had also sobered up from drinking at this time. He sat down with a depressed look on his face and stopped talking. He just kept silent while holding his dishes, looking back at Wang Zhu from time to time.
About half an hour later, Wang Min arrived with a middle-aged civil servant in a green robe and several heavily armed street patrols.
"I have met His Highness." Wang Min led the civil servant and saluted him.
Guo Zongyi stood up to return the courtesy and asked the green-robed civil servant: "Who are you?"
"My lord, Li Lu, the military commander of the Zhenning Army, would like to ask His Highness Jin An." The military commander named Li Lu took a step forward and saluted.
Guo Zongyi glanced at Wang Min, who was like an old monk in trance, and wondered why he had brought the official.
Looking at Li Lu, he didn't remember that this person was recorded in the history books, and he stopped greeting him. He turned to Wang Min and said, "Wang Jiefen, Wang Zhu is drunk, please take him back."
Wang Min looked at him in disbelief, Li Luyi raised his head and glanced at it, then raised it high and put it down gently?
But seeing that Guo Zongyi's expression was as usual and not joking, he had no choice but to reply: "Yes, Your Highness."
The two of them went to the street and the patrolman carried Wang away.
Cao Bin couldn't help but ask: "Wang Zhu was drunk and causing trouble, and almost offended his superior. Wang Min even brought him for promotion. Why did you let him go so lightly?"
"Because I have a broad mind and a kind heart." Guo Zongyi prevaricated nonchalantly.
Cao Bin smiled in agreement, and seeing that he didn't want to talk, he stopped asking. Guo Zongyi secretly sighed and said he didn't understand humor. In order to prevent the two of them from being separated, he still thought of an excuse and explained: "I asked Wang Min to come, and my intention was to let him I wanted to take him back and teach him a lesson, so that the big problem would be reduced to a minor issue, but Wang Min brought the official with him, and his attitude was very clear that he didn't want to deal with such things, so I, the idle grandson of the emperor, can only let it go gently."
As he said that, he glanced at Wu Shen who was standing beside him. Perhaps he felt his master's gaze like a knife, scraping across his body. Wu Shen shuddered and bent even lower.
Looking away, Guo Zongyi didn't want to go into details. Eunuchs are like this. A little yellow and white substance can pry open his mouth. Unless it is a matter of life and death, don't expect these eunuchs to keep their mouths shut.
"But if things are done like this, where will the majesty of His Highness be placed?" Cao Bin was convinced, but still felt unhappy. He was at a young age, and he still believed in the idea of a king humiliating his ministers and dying.
Guo Zongyi slowly shook his head and walked out, saying: "I have no position or power at this time. The officials are just looking at my status and giving me some favors. How can there be any majesty? He can come right away, even in his heart, You have me in your eyes."
