Huang An breathed a long sigh of relief and said anxiously:
"Lao Zhang, where is my master now?"
This guy is indeed a talented person who became a manager right after he arrived.
He was looking after the flowing water mat at the side entrance. He knew a lot of real-time news and immediately said:
"The master is talking with the adults in the city in the main hall."
The steward was also excited. He saw the sack on the horse's back and said curiously:
"Fourth Master, is this a congratulatory gift for me? How about I take it with you to register?"
Huang An shook his head and asked:
"My senior sister, are you free?"
"I'm busy. Many gentlemen and ladies came today. The two ladies are at the Huxin Pavilion, busy entertaining people."
Huang An frowned slightly. Oops, all the guests must have arrived.
I made an appointment with my senior sister yesterday to go to Huxinting to help.
He waved and said:
"Then go ahead and I'll go back to the yard!"
Manager Zhang was surprised and suspicious. He glanced at the large sack on the horse's back. He didn't see what was going on, so he said goodbye and left.
Huang An turned around and walked directly to his yard.
He was not a public person to begin with, and since this strange beast had a shady origin, he was fortunate enough to leave it in the courtyard until he could meet his master before telling him about it.
After hiding the sack inside the house, Huang An closed the courtyard door and went straight to the Huxin Pavilion.
The Zhao Mansion is very large, with a small lake inside, lakeside pavilions and singing terraces, and everything you need.
There is a small man-made island in the lake. There is a high pavilion on the island, which is connected to the lake shore by a carved wooden bridge.
That is the place where young nobles and young ladies in the city are entertained.
Huang An hurried all the way and soon arrived at the Huxin Pavilion.
A crowd gathered together, about forty or fifty people, all handsome men and beautiful women.
The physical condition of a warrior is far superior to that of ordinary people. He was addicted to martial arts when he was young, so naturally he would not talk about marriage early.
Both men and women get married relatively late.
Of course, due to physical reasons and a wealthy family, male warriors marry wives and have children, and even take in several concubines. Even if they give birth to children, they will not delay their martial arts training.
After all, they just sow the seeds and take care of the children, they don't have to worry about it.
Ninety-nine percent of female warriors wait until their martial arts reaches a bottleneck and cannot make progress in the short term before they choose to get married.
Of course, Huang An also heard people talking about it in a restaurant, saying that there were female warriors who also raised several men.
The average age of everyone at this table is around twenty-three or four.
To be able to sit at the same table with two senior sisters among forty or fifty young ladies, they must all be people of high status.
Huang An guessed that she was at least a young lady from the palace of an official of fourth or higher rank.
At a glance, he saw Senior Sister Zhao sitting on the main seat, and a little money man on the other side who was chatting and joking with others, his eyes narrowing in laughter.
Both of them were entertaining guests and maintaining relationships, so they didn't notice Huang An's arrival.
Here, Senior Sister Zhao and Little Money Fan have the most distinguished status.
The master had a high position and was related to the lineage of King Qi, so he was barely related to the royal family.
Although Kyoto is in chaos now, the majesty of the royal family is not evident.
However, on the surface, the identity of a relative of the emperor and the country still cannot be ignored by anyone.
Even if everyone here is dissatisfied with the current royal family in their hearts, they still behave politely and politely on the surface, and do not dare to go beyond the slightest.
Huang An and the Zhao family's father and daughter were basically bound together. He contributed a lot to the Zhao family's banquet.
Although Huang An doesn't have much social contact, there are still many people who know him in the city.
After all, the topic of Mr. Zhao holding a big banquet has been circulating in the city for more than half a month.
Basically everything about Mr. Zhao has been spread throughout the city.
Although Huang An is a small person, he is the so-called prime minister who often comes in and out of Zhao's house, so he will naturally be mentioned.
At the very least, Huang An was noticed as soon as he appeared in the lake pavilion.
Some people even greeted him with a smile.
Although he didn't know these people, Huang An still smiled and returned the greeting.
Although he didn't like this kind of occasion, he had agreed yesterday. Although he was late today, he finally arrived and it was not too late.
They were greeting and joking all the way, and halfway through, they finally caught the attention of the two senior sisters.
Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment when he saw Huang An arriving suddenly, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
When it finally came, she thought something had happened.
Suppressing her doubts about why she came so late, she quickly smiled and waved, urging:
"Junior brother, come here and sit here!"
After saying that, he directly ordered the servants on the side to bring a stool and put it on the table.
Make room, the empty seat is next to her.
There are fifteen or six people sitting on this large square table. Presumably, the fathers of these people are the children of the big shots in Youzhou.
There were men and women at the big table, most of them women.
Looking at their faces and voices, Huang An was surprised to find that except for one or two women, all of these second-generation officials were warriors.
Although he could not see his specific martial arts cultivation, he could easily tell whether a person was a warrior.
Because there is a clear gap between warriors and ordinary people just by looking at their appearance.
Huang An even saw a cold, familiar face.
Commander Luo and your lord’s daughter, Luo Feiyao!
However, his second brother Luo Yuankai was not there, and he didn't know what to do.
Huang An held his hands all the way, saying hello first regardless of whether he recognized him or not.
Finally, with a smile on his face, he walked to Senior Sister Zhao and sat down.
The gentlemen and ladies at the big table had different thoughts when they saw the natural and friendly behavior between Zhao Yan and Huang An.
Although the ladies were chatting with their companions, their peripheral vision glanced at Huang An's face.
Their eyes were full of curiosity. Why did this ordinary man with no background gain Zhao Yan's favor?
Moreover, I heard that Master Zhao had tacitly approved of this.
Mr. Zhao thinks too highly of this person!
It's really strange.
As for the few men in the field, they were smiling as they stared at Huang An, and even reached out to raise their wine glasses to have a drink with Huang An.
However, the jealousy and confusion in his eyes were quite strong.
Is it this boy who has taken the apple of Mr. Zhao’s eye?
What a shame, this guy started too quickly.
Since Huang An has been recognized by Mr. Zhao and the eldest daughter of the Zhao family at the same time, they will naturally not take the initiative to join in and do something to win people's favor. That would be too ungraceful.
Simply, there is a second young lady who is also pretty, so they still have a chance.
There is no fool who can sit at this table.
They grew up in fine clothes and fine food, worked hard to practice martial arts, and also took care of studying and being polite. They are much better than their peers in the market.
On this special day, no matter how unhappy I feel, I can only smile.
Being sarcastic and sarcastic is not their habit, and they don't even bother to do it.
Even some of them, such as the young ladies and gentlemen from Luo Mansion, Gao Mansion, and Zhang Mansion, have received instructions from their father.
Don't mess with that Huang An, try to make friends with him as much as possible.
Although these gentlemen and young ladies did not understand what they meant, they still listened obediently.
They couldn't understand why Huang An, a mere Huang An, was worthy of their father talking about him and even giving special warnings to them?
The atmosphere around the table was very harmonious.
Huang An felt relieved and breathed a long sigh of relief.
The senior sister did not blame him, and the embarrassing scene of being ridiculed at the table, which she had been worried about before, did not happen.
In fact, these gentlemen and young ladies took the initiative to talk to him, joked and toasted with him, and behaved politely, making him feel like a spring breeze.
It seems that the children of these important people are quite sensible and respectful.
Huang An naturally didn't know that the two pamphlets he gave to his master Zhao Dun to convince Master Luo and Master Gao still exposed him.
In fact, this matter is easy to investigate.
The origin of the booklet is also very easy to check.
Zhao Dun had served in the military before, and he went to the Firearms Department to learn more about it.
According to the accompanying Firearms Department official, Zhao Dun knew very little about firearms at that time and was basically at the level of a layman.
Those two pamphlets must not have been produced by Mr. Zhao himself.
The handwriting doesn't match either.
Master Zhao was excluded.
And Princess Qi, who came and left in a hurry some time ago, is even more impossible.
Because if Princess Qi knew the contents of those two pamphlets, it would be impossible for anyone to know about them, let alone for Master Zhao to take them out and hand them over to Youzhou.
And the only suspect is this inexplicable Huang An.
After being expelled from the Zhao Family Martial Arts School, why can he stay with Zhao Dun and be entrusted with important responsibilities?
Even the eldest daughter of the Zhao family has a close relationship with him?
There must be something extraordinary about him!
Otherwise, Lord Zhao Dun was drunk by him, or perhaps Lord Zhao Dun is a fool.
But this is obviously impossible.
He is the most suspect!
Or, he is the only one who can provide those two pamphlets.
Because Gao Zheng, the governor, personally sent an official from his residence to secretly check Huang An's handwriting in the letters he left at Master Wu Jiang's residence.
The handwriting is exactly the same as that on the two pamphlets.
This suspicion alone ensures their cautious attitude towards Huang An.
Kill people to silence them and keep secrets?
Not advisable.
They don't want to let the good situation in front of them turn bad. They finally let Zhao Dun stay in Youzhou, and they don't want to cause more troubles.
Since Mr. Zhao deliberately concealed Huang An's existence, they were happy to pretend to be ignorant.
It is naturally easy to come up with the attitude towards Huang An's needs.
Pretend it doesn't exist, and then tell your children not to mess with it.
The contents of those two pamphlets are closely related.
The special steel was directly refined on the third day after receiving the brochure.
The output and performance of the new steelmaking method are far more powerful than the technology currently mastered by Youzhou and even the Firearms Department in Kyoto.
Two Six Fu Realm warriors were holding ordinary steel knives and special steel knives respectively. It only took three times for the special steel knife to cut off the ordinary steel knife.
It is almost unimaginable to put this kind of steel knife on the battlefield.
When the two armies fight, the Youzhou army equipped with this kind of steel sword will definitely be able to defeat the enemy in a devastating manner.
As for the new musket, let alone it, it was a magical weapon in the battle between the two armies.
Now, the most precious things in Youzhou are the special steel and new needle gun technology recorded in those two books.
In the entire Youzhou, there are only three people who know the specific details of this.
The number of people who know something about this matter is less than the number of hands in one hand.
The governor and the capital commander have blocked the news.
They secretly forge steel knives and produce and stockpile new muskets.
At the same time, this steel was also used to try to produce cannons.
They are waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an opportunity to make these weapons shine!
They believe that they won't have to wait too long for that opportunity.
Huang An is the key suspect, and these big shots will naturally not let their children offend him.
What they want now is stability, and then wait for the world to change!