
Su Zijin did not feel that anything was wrong at all. Her husband took her to the cave and picked mushrooms. He just brought some back. Her husband takes good care of her!
The sweet little life between Xue Zhan and Su Zijin lasted for half a month. On this day, the troops led by Qi Rui finally rushed back to Kyoto after half a month, and Xue Zhan had also slipped in quietly the night before.
As the army returned victorious, Emperor Ming naturally wanted to entertain the generals leading the army. That night, including Xue Zhan and Qi Rui.
More than a dozen generals in the palace attended the celebratory banquet held by the emperor. Emperor Ming also gave them quite a lot of face this time around. Not only did he let three ministers accompany him, but he himself was present from the beginning, and returned to the end.
As a key figure in this victory, Qi Rui was of course sought after by all the ministers. Anyone who had a sharp look, could see that the emperor praised General Qi more than once during the banquet, He was young and promising, and his future was limitless.
These civil servants might say that they were not good at fighting with soldiers, but they were able to pay attention to the emperor's thoughts.
They heard that general Qi was not married. If their daughter fell in love with the general, even if she did not become the first wife, she would become a concubine, and this would also be an additional help in the future.
As the so-called hero, it is very sad that beauty passes.
Qi Rui looked towards her brother and smiled bitterly. Hearing this pretentious talk of the civil servants made his head dizzy, and he had to deal with them, so he had to strengthen himself and deal with it.
Compared to the excitement over Qi Rui's place, Xue Zhan's place was quiet. This victory was clearly stated in the warning, without any help from Xue Zhan, so all these ministers looked down on Xue Zhan, and even the emperor looked down on him.
However, Xue Zhan's influence in the early years was so great, that even Emperor Ming was afraid of him, so there was no immoral person to bother him.
Xue Zhan was happy to have some free time. But the military generals, have a lot in their hearts. They had always admired Prince Xiao, so some people who had been friends with him in the past had come to to toast him.
Among these generals, there was also Xue Zhan's old subordinate. They felt uncomfortable seeing Xue Zhan being treated so coldly, but no one knew what was going on in the middle of it, so they had to drink together, one after another.
Song Huimin stood in front of the door and briefly recognized the figure that used to protect him from the wind and rain.
Early in the morning, he got word that Xue Zhan was coming back. Before dawn, he urged the servants to dress him up and bury him, he was also wearing Xue Zhan's favorite attire.
She was dressed in lake-blue clothes and her hair was bunned like a young girl, which made her look several years younger.
Reasonably, female family members should not attend such banquets, not even the queen appeared at the banquet. But after all, Princess Huimin was the son of a general and had grown up in the army, She knew most of the generals now, so this trip did not break the rules.
Song Huimin first bowed and paid his respects to Emperor Ming, then turned around and picked up a wine glass to toast the generals. He was the first to approach Xue Zhan with great expectation, his eyes exuding boundless gentleness. Anyone present who was not blind, could see it. Princess Huimin might not have forgotten Prince Xiao.
"Xue Zhan, congratulations on your victory, I want to toast you." Song Huimin directly called Xue Zhan by her name to express her closeness, and did not directly refer to herself as me, which seemed to be full of sincerity.
He treated each other with the manners of a king and his minister, and then sat there eating food nonchalantly without even looking towards Song Huimin, who was well dressed.
Song Huimin could barely hold a glass of wine in his hand. Although he had prepared in his mind that Xue Zhan would not give him a good appearance, but he did not expect, that he would be so disrespectful to him.
A cold look in Xue Zhan's eyes, deeply hurt Song Huimin. At this point, Song Huimin took a deep breath, he could barely maintain the attitude of a princess.he toasted to the general, then how could the soldiers present not see this?
Huimin's daughter was dazed, so she didn't want to bother him too much. Song Huimin returned to his seat, with all sorts of emotions in his heart, he did not know what to do.
The scene made him lose face. It had to be said that Huimin was still unable to get used to Xue Zhan's attitude, who was so indifferent to him, and he was unwilling to make a move to find Xue Zhan. He was waiting for Xue Zhan to come to him, even if he questioned him and scolded him.
It seemed, Song Huimin was destined to be disappointed. Until the banquet ended, Xue Zhan did not come to him or even see him again. His attitude was as if he did not know her.
Song Huimin closed his eyes and sat in his chair bitterly. The regret in his heart came immeasurably, and flooded over him.
After the banquet, Xue Zhan felt funny as he looked at Qi Rui waiting for him at the door anxiously. Just at the banquet, Qi Rui was surrounded by a group of people, and he did not bother to say a few words to his brother. However, this move made people understand the clues.
Some officials talked about it, saying, there is a rift between King Xiao and General Qi Rui because of this war. Some of the more outrageous people said that Xue Zhan was envious of Qi Rui's talent. So he called his ex-brother.
The moment Qi Rui heard this conversation, he wanted to punch the man. But after all, he was no longer the wild child he used to be, he only silently remembered the names of those people, just waiting to find an opportunity to deal with them in the future.
But eldest brother, this award clearly belonged to the eldest brother, if he heard such a remark, he was worried that Xue Zhan would feel unhappy. Although he knew that his eldest brother was not the type who cared about fame and fortune, but at the last glance, he was the one who took credit. It would be ridiculous if he damaged the relationship between brothers because of these trivial things.
Xue Zhan naturally heard those words. He did not know, was this matter ordered by Emperor Ming? but, if he wanted to alienate their brotherly relationship, it would be too underestimated if he invited him.
"Brother, I.." before Qi Rui finished speaking, Xue Zhan interrupted him with a wave of his hand, he wrapped his arm around Qi Shen's shoulder and said: Second brother, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, Xue Zhan interrupted him with a wave of his hand, we brothers don't care about this, as long as you and I understand it.
"Brother, I think too much about it. We just had a bad time, drinking with those people. Let's go get Jinnian again. The three of us will have a good drink today."
“You don't need to tell me, that Jinnian has been waiting for a long time in Wang Ma.”
“Haa ha,” both walked towards the palace gate laughing, and joking, they looked like they had no grudges, and those who saw them would be disappointed.
"prince Xiao, please stay here.” a woman's voice sounded from behind him.