Chapter 136: Don’t spoil your son’s surprise
Wu glanced at her and said, "I'm still here! What are you worried about?"
"That's what you said, but sister-in-law... Oh! Anyway, I think this arrangement is not appropriate." Li's words were just short of saying that your health is not good and you can't take care of such a big thing. If you leave it to Liu Yu, it will be all over.
Wu stopped what she was doing and said to Li expressionlessly:
"Then you should switch with Aunt Liu!"
"This..." Li hesitated again. Welcoming guests is a good job! She can easily meet many powerful ladies. Her eldest daughter is ten years old this year. She doesn't want to miss such a good opportunity.
Wu saw what Li was thinking, and she looked back at her sisters-in-law:
"My mother always said that you should do things according to your ability. If you feel that you are not qualified for my arrangement and you are not satisfied with it, you can tell me and I can change it for you at any time. If you feel confident that you can take on other things, you don't need to tell me either."
Li was speechless. After thinking it over again and again, she still didn't say anything. She couldn't feel that she was incapable. Instead, in comparison, choosing a good family for her daughter was more important.
Following Wu to manage the banquet was the responsibility of the mistress of the house. If there was any mistake, Liu Yu really felt that it was too heavy a responsibility. She let Li despise her just to let her persuade Wu not to let her be in charge.
But Mrs. Wu is no longer able to do it!
Liu Yu was about to try it herself, but Wu spoke first: "Aunt Liu, the old lady believes in you, and I believe in you too. You have a good relationship with Xiyao, and she will be happier if you prepare a feast for her."
After hearing this, Liu Yu swallowed all the words he wanted to say and acquiesced to Wu's arrangement.
After the preliminary decision was made, it was already dark when everyone left the main room.
……
Prince Qi's Mansion.
It was not until the first watch of the night that Zhang Lianci finally arrived.
Prince Qi Li Qi's face turned ugly.
Facing the prince's anger, Zhang Lianci smiled indifferently and calmly sat down at the position pointed by the servant. He asked:
"Your Highness Prince Qi, have you made up your mind to cooperate with me?"
When he expected that nothing would happen to Feng, Zhang Lianci submitted his letter of allegiance to King Qi, who neither agreed nor refused at the time.
In his heart, the one who was most beneficial to him and the one he favored the most was Crown Prince Li Yuan.
The Zhang family is powerful, so the emperor must be mediocre, and the crown prince is the best choice.
But since he knew that the emperor had no intention of changing the crown prince, he could not choose the crown prince. The old emperor would definitely take him and the Zhang family away.
As for King Cheng, he already had a powerful foreign relative, the Wang family.
The only one left is the queen’s second son. Fortunately, although he is smart, he is not uncontrollable. Doesn’t he like beautiful women?
"What if I say I haven't made up my mind yet?"
Zhang Lianci calmly took a sip of tea, shook his head and said:
"No, His Royal Highness Prince Qi has already thought about it."
Prince Qi did not engage in a war of words with Zhang Lianci. He asked directly:
"How are you going to help me?"
Zhang Lianci used the cup lid to pull away the tea leaves floating on the water, and said with a smile:
"Your Highness Prince Qi, don't worry about this for now. Since you have agreed to cooperate with me, why don't you listen to my conditions first?"
"You said."
"There is no longer a Zhou faction of officials in the Xin Dynasty."
Prince Qi tapped the table and nodded nonchalantly:
"That's fine." Zhou Zheng was Chen Zhihe's teacher. Even if Zhang Lianci didn't say anything, he would not let it go. It was just a few hundred more insignificant lives.
Later, Zhang Lianci said several things in a row.
All of these conditions were aimed at undermining the imperial power. Prince Qi stood up and stared at Zhang Lianci with unfriendly eyes:
"Master Zhang, you're going too far."
Zhang Lianci didn't think so. He said confidently:
“The success of anything depends on the help of powerful people.”
Hearing this, Prince Qi laughed: "But Mr. Zhang is not as powerful as you say. Recently, rumors about Mr. Zhang are flying everywhere. People in the capital are spreading them. My cooperation with Mr. Zhang is not all about benefits as it seems. There is also the possibility of threat to my life." Then Prince Qi told Zhang Lianci what was being spread. The people only knew him, Prime Minister Zhang, but not the royal family, and how the Imperial Guards gave way to the Zhang family, and how the Zhang family deceived everyone and everyone.
Even Zhang Lianci, who usually kept a calm face, broke out in a cold sweat. Who was it?
This is aimed at the lives of the Zhang family!
The Royal Family had always been wary of the Zhang Family and wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible, but they were worried that they had no leverage to use against them.
Isn't this just sending a pillow to someone who is sleepy? Once these rumors reach the ears of the royal family, no matter how much they try to explain, it will be useless.
"How long?" he asked.
King Qi answered truthfully:
"Probably since the Feng family was raided."
So long? Zhang Lianci's eyes flashed coldly, and it seemed that he had to prepare for the worst.
……
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Seeing that tomorrow is the birthday of the youngest aunt of the Chen family, everyone in the Chen family is busy. Some relatives who are close to the Chen family have sent people today, such as the old lady's family, the Ye family, the eldest aunt's family, the He family, the second aunt's family, the Gu family, the second uncle's family, and so on.
Liu Yu started to be busy and had no time to rest. The Chen family was a prominent family with many relatives and friends. This time, Mr. Chen Sanye moved to the Feng family and was appreciated by the royal family. His future was bright and almost all the officials from the court came.
However, there is another very important reason why all these people can come.
The youngest aunt of the Chen family is still unengaged! Every family has a few outstanding young men! Regardless of whether they can get one or not, as long as they can enter the Chen family, they all bring their own sons.
The Chen family is not a family that only cares about family background. What if the young lady also likes them?
You have to know that Zhou Ci Fu's grandson has also come, as well as the eldest son of the Privy Councilor. These first-rank ministers all want to win over Master Chen San, not to mention those fifth- and sixth-rank officials.
At one point it even exceeded the day when the Chen and Tao families got married.
You can imagine how many people there will be tomorrow. The more people there are, the more things to do. The eldest lady, Mrs. Wu, is not in good health and cannot do it, so basically everything will be done by Liu Yu.
At this time, Liu Yu was in the kitchen directing the maids and cooks to prepare tomorrow's backup dish, spring water mushroom soup. This soup used expensive mushrooms and took two hours to cook, so it needed to be prepared the night before.
There were more than one dish like this that took a lot of time and effort to prepare. It was not until after noon that the cook, who was watching the fire, had some free time and walked out of the kitchen.
"I don't know what kind of magic potion Aunt Liu gave to my sister-in-law and mother, and they all believed her. I just heard from the servants that Aunt Liu actually cooked many kinds of mushrooms together. We all know that these mushrooms cannot be cooked together, otherwise it will cause big problems."
"Should we tell the old lady?"
"Don't tell, Fourth Sister-in-law. Mother likes Aunt Liu! Even if you tell her, she won't believe it. She will even say that you are narrow-minded. Aunt Liu likes to show off. Let's just watch her embarrass herself and see if they still think we are not as good as her!"