『ps: The protagonist is married, are you still stingy with the votes? It’s almost the end of the month. Book friends who haven’t voted for the monthly votes yet should use the votes to smash me with the votes."

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Fei You was the last guest on Meng Zhong’s invitation list to attend the banquet. The reason why he said this is because he was the only one among the guests from Zhao State.

First of all, King He of Zhao did not come this time, but only entrusted Fei You to bring gifts filled with three carriages, and asked Fei You to bring them to Meng Zhong without saying anything, as if the monarch also had some resentment towards Meng Zhong.

Let’s talk about Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, a veteran Zhao who was stubborn and upright in Meng Zhong’s impression, passed away in the winter of last year, so naturally he could not come to celebrate Meng Zhong.

It is worth mentioning that before Yangwenjun Zhao Bao died, he formally handed over the military power of the Handan army under his command to his nephew Zhao Ben, and ordered Zhao Ben to continue to defend Rong Handan, together with Gong Boxinqi, who led the Gong Wei, as the few army of King He who supported Zhao He. Unfortunately, after the Shaqiu Palace Transformation, Zhao Cheng, Anpingjun, took over the Prime Minister of Zhao State and joined forces with Fengyang Lord Li Dui to control the government. At this time, the court officials of Zhao State had all turned to Zhao Cheng and Li Dui. Even if King He still had Xinqi to control military power, Zhao Ben and the other two were useless.

After the banquet that night, Fei You said to Meng Zhong privately: "Your Majesty also complains a little about your brother, so when Brother Yu came here, although the Lord Majesty entrusted me to send a gift, he did not pass a message." At this point, he glanced at Meng Zhong and simply made it clear about the "Why did King Zhao resentment towards Meng Zhong": "Last year, the Lord Majesty summoned Brother Yu to speak in the palace, and mentioned it more than once during this period. If Brother Yu was willing to stay in Zhao State to help him, how could the national government fall into the hands of Zhao Cheng and Li Dui?"

Hearing this, Meng Zhong said lightly: "Your Majesty is too overestimated. Only Meng Zhong, how can you beat Anping Jun and Fengyang Jun?... If I had known today, why would you be so heartless at the beginning?!"

Seeing Meng Zhong's expression indifferent, Fei You sighed secretly.

Fei You knew the conflict or grudge between King He of Zhao and Meng Zhong: King He hated Meng Zhong even if he refused to join him in the end, and to serve him, resist Anping Jun Zhao Cheng and Fengyang Jun Li Dui; while Meng Zhong hated King He of Zhao He was too cruel at the time and refused to let Zhao Zhufu go, so that he actually accused Zhao Cheng at that time, and Li Dui forced Zhao Zhufu into a dead end.

Everyone knows that the one Meng Zhong respects most in Zhao State is Master Zhao's father.

Therefore, it is really not easy to restore the relationship between the two. At least Fei You thought that he could not resolve the resentment of the two towards each other.

As for the title of Yangwenjun Zhao Bao, his eldest son Zhao Shang was finally inherited.

Zhao Bao had two sons, the eldest son was Zhao Shang and the second son was Zhao Jia. But as Zhao Bao had told Meng Zhong before, the Zhao Shang and Zhao Jia brothers were sent to live in a fief because their father Zhao Bao often led troops outside and lacked discipline, so they were not good at it. Therefore, they were sent to Zhao Bao to live in a fiefdom, and they were invisible.

After Zhao Shang inherited the title, his brothers and brothers came together with Zhao Cheng's son Zhao Wen and Li Dui's two Li Ji, and often caused trouble for their cousin Zhao Ben and asked Zhao Ben to return the military power of the Handan Army to him. It was no wonder that Zhao Bao handed over the most important military power to his nephew Zhao Ben before his death, rather than Zhao Shang and Zhao Jia, the two unscrupulous sons.

Excluding King He of Zhao and Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, who may have friendship in Zhao State, only military Sima Zhao Xi and Xu Jun were left.

But unfortunately, after the Shadui Palace transformation, Zhao Xi was transferred to "Lincheng" in the Xihe area to prevent Qin from taking the opportunity to invade Zhao; as for Xu Jun, the army Sima who once turned to Gongzi Zhang but turned to Zhao King He at the last moment, he was simply transferred to "Fushi" as the first defensive force to resist Qin's invasion of Zhao.

Whether it is Lincheng or Fushi, the two places are too far away from Mengyi. Optimistically, Zhao Xi may have just received Meng Zhong's invitation at this moment, and Xu Jun, who is far away in Fushi, may not even have received the invitation letter yet - if Meng Zhong's two invitation letters had not been lost by the postmen along the way.

Therefore, Fei You came here and only brought him a gift from himself, Zhao Wang He and Zhao Ben, and Zhao Ben’s three carts of gifts from Zhao Ben. He and Zhao Ben were half a cart. What was most surprising was that even Anping Jun Zhao Cheng and Fengyang Jun Li Du also sent half a cart of cloth as gifts.

Could it be that Anping Jun Zhao Cheng and Fengyang Jun Li Dui hope to use this matter to resolve their grudges with Meng Zhong?

Of course not!

With Zhao Cheng and Li Dui's power in Zhao State, even if Meng Zhong can make a fortune in Song State, what will it do to them?

After all, Zhao Cheng and Li Dui are just for Tian Zhang's face. After all, they also considered that Tian Zhang and Meng Zhong Naiyi's brothers, maybe Meng Zhong would defect to Qi in the future and even be the top minister in Qi. Instead of having trouble in the future, it would be better to give some gifts to show off now. After all, there was no direct and powerful conflict between the two sides after deducting this matter, and they were actually not a very enemy.

I have to say that Zhao Cheng and Li Dui are still very scheming, at least they can take the initiative to show their goodwill, even if they just raise their hands.

After thinking through the reasons why Zhao Cheng and Li Dui sent the gifts, Meng Zhong smiled with a little self-deprecating and a little melancholy.

To be honest, he had no position to avenge Zhao Cheng and Li Dui for Zhao Zhufu, after all, the factors in it were too complicated.

For example, the incident of the Dune Palace change was not initiated by Zhao Cheng and Li Dui, but by Gongzi Zhang with the tacit consent of Zhao Zhufu. In other words, Zhao Zhufu and Gongzi Zhang are the aggressive side, and Zhao Cheng and Li Dui are the ones that are striving to resist, and the purpose of their resistance is only to protect their vested interests.

After saying goodbye to Feiyou, Meng Zhong's mood was really complicated. After thinking about it, he decided to first check out the current situation of his teacher Zhuangzi and the Confucian saint Mencius.

At this time, Zhuangzi and Mencius were playing chess in a newly built house. They seemed to be light and quiet, but in fact they were in a turbulent tide, so that in the house, Wan Zhang, Gongsun Chou, Le Zheng, Gongdu and other Confucian disciples, as well as Taoist disciples such as Meng Sui, Wu Ying, Xiang Liao, Mu Wu, and Hua Hu, they did not even dare to breathe. They stared at their teachers at all times. Once each other's teachers meant to reach out to their crutches, they quickly stepped forward to persuade them to fight.

By the way, Zhuangzi and Mencius are both old people in their seventies and sages in the world today. Will they raise their crutches and fight each other because of some quarrels between them?

To be honest, yes! Really!

Let’s talk about Zhuangzi first, and I’m a little respectful to say that Zhuangzi is a stubborn little old man. Given that he rejects intentions and intentions, he is so old that he is like an old man with a childlike heart. He is straightforward in terms of joy or anger. If he really has any prejudice against Mencius, he will definitely raise a crutch and knock it on it.

As for Mencius, the situation is similar. With his age and identity, there are almost no one in the world who dares to be disrespectful to him. He feels like he is so cold that he is not as cold as a high place. Except Zhuangzi, the only one who has the same age and identity, must be called "Thief". Therefore, he is also happy to have fun with Zhuangzi, a confidant of his age and identity.

As for another reason, I think that when Mencius traveled around the countries, he never showed weakness, and therefore left behind a reputation of being "Mencius is good at eloquence" that is not clear whether it is praise or derogatory. This shows that Mencius is also a strong person, how could he give in to the young old man Zhuangzi?

But then again, Meng Ke was still very happy to get along with Zhuangzi. After all, Zhuangzi was both happy and angry, and his temperament was very straightforward. Although he was at risk of being beaten by a crutch when he was with him, he was very relaxed. Unlike those people who had met Mencius who had traveled around the country before, they were full of intrigue and exhausted.

After Meng Zhong came to the house, Zhuangzi and Mencius' disciples breathed a sigh of relief. After all, they could see that these two sages would basically maintain restraint in front of this brother (?).

When Meng Zhong talked about the gifts from Zhuangzi and Mencius, Zhuangzi said lightly: "If you are not happy, just go back. There are no worries in the world, and mediocre people are just disturbing themselves."

After hearing this, Mencius opposed it, "Master Zhuang's words are wrong!" After that, he taught Meng Zhong: "A Zhong, as the saying goes, he sends a gift to him, and you send it back. When you go back and forth, you don't owe them anything, and you don't need any burden... If you still have hatred for those two people in your heart, you will take revenge again when you have the opportunity in the future, as long as this move does not go against your integrity!"

Upon hearing this, Zhuangzi suddenly stared at the sight and cursed: "Hmph! What's the act of pretending to be kind and righteous! Thie Ke, this is how you taught your disciples?"

Mencius stroked his beard and smiled and said, "I, Confucianism, have always "repay grievances with righteousness and virtue with virtue"!"

"The right and wrong are all in the heart. What is integrity? What is biased? "

"Persistence in the righteousness in the heart is integrity!"

"It's just the integrity of your Confucian family!"

When the debate reached the intense point, both sages got angry and even picked up crutches they carried at any time. Meng Zhong and the Confucians were so scared that they rushed forward to persuade the fight.

"It won't be possible if this continues."

Mencius's great disciple Wan Zhang privately discussed with Meng Zhong: "These two must be separated."

Meng Zhong nodded and said to Zhuangzi: "Teacher, why not stay at Mengsui's house tonight?"

"No!" Zhuangzi said, blowing his beard.

Meng Zhong thought about it, and then said to Mengzi: "Master Meng, why don't you live in Mengwu's house in my uncle?"

Mencius glanced at Zhuangzi who was angry not far away, and said with a smile: "It's not as interesting as here!"

So, Wan Zhang, Meng Zhong, Meng Sui and other juniors immediately understood: Don’t look at these two people fighting every time, they are actually happy to live together.

If you think about it carefully, at the age and identity of these two people, only those who can communicate equally and communicate with each other.

"It's just that I'm waiting for these juniors..."

When he looked at each other, including Meng Zhong and Wan Zhang, Zhu Jun felt helpless.

After thinking about it, Meng Zhong could only ask Wan Zhang, Wu Ying and others to guard these two old men who were more and more childish as they lived, so as not to fight each other with crutches.

In this way, Mengyi was lively and had a day after day. In a blink of an eye, June 12th, which was the happy day for Meng Zhong and Le Yan to get married.

Early in the morning, Meng Zhongbing, with the help of Meng Hu, Meng Sui, Le Yi and others or simply started to make fun of him, put on a red deep clothes. Although there were actually more expensive robes among the gifts sent by Song Wangyan, Crown Prince Dai Wu, Zhao Wang He and others, considering that this robe was sewn by his mother Ge, Meng Zhong naturally chose this outfit.

As for Le Yan, who came to Mengyi from Leyi afterwards, she wore a white dress with a green curly hem dress on her hair, and the first time she was wearing a few jade hairpins given to her by her mother and her married sister. She looked quite graceful and dignified.

The marriage ceremony was set up in the ancestral hall of the Mengyi tribe. As for the witness, the man was of course Zhuangzi. After all, Meng Zhong's father Meng Qu had long passed away, and the teacher was like his father, so Zhuangzi should have been presided over. The woman should have been Meng Zhong's father-in-law Le Guo, but seeing Zhuangzi standing in the distance with a crutch, Le Guo felt that his identity was not enough to preside over the marriage with Zhuangzi.

So, Mencius took the initiative to propose that he should replace him, which surprised Le Guo and repeatedly claimed to thank him.

The other guests also applauded, but Zhuangzi was very dissatisfied with this and stared at Mencius unhappily. However, considering that this was the marriage of his disciple Meng Zhong, the old man finally did not make any extraordinary moves.

Under the auspices of Zhuangzi and Meng Zi, Meng Zhong and Le Yan worshiped each other's parents, and then respectfully bowed to each other amid the cheers of honored guests such as Prince Dai Wu, Tian Zhang, and Dai Busheng.

"Please take care of the rest of your life." [ps: This sentence from the book review is good.]

Looking at the girl in front of him who was about to become his wife, Meng Zhong said sincerely.

Perhaps in front of the elders and guests, Le Yan's face turned red and she suppressed her shyness and said, "Where is, I don't know the etiquette. If I am rude in the future, I would like to ask my husband... husband... for forgiveness."

"Etiquette!"

Without waiting for Mencius, who was still stroking his beard and nodding his head and smiling, Zhuangzi said with a crutch on his own.

Immediately, Le Yan's two brothers, Le Zeng, Le Meng, and Meng Zhong's good brothers Meng Sui and Meng Hu, a total of four people, sent Le Yan, the newlywed wife to Meng Zhong's home on behalf of Meng Zhong, and waited for Meng Zhong to entertain the guests there.

Meng Zhong invited the guests who witnessed his marriage with Le Yan to his ancestral home to entertain the guests.

Considering that the seats were arranged a little bit wrong a few days ago, Meng Zhong specially changed his seat today, with Zhuang Bo accompanying Zhuangzi and Tian Zhang accompanying Mengzi to sit at a table, and with him and the prince Dai Wu, so that Zhuangzi and Mencius would not have any disputes at the banquet - although it was a mostly joking dispute.

In addition, Meng Zhong's father-in-law, mother-in-law, Le Guo and Xiang, Meng Zhong's mother, Ge and sister Meng Yan, Wan Zhang and Gongsun Chou, and other Confucian disciples, Dai Busheng and Hui Ang, Fei You, Meng Jian, Meng Yan, and the elders of the Le family. Then there were two tables of Song officials in Shangqiu, headed by the county magistrate "Biguanji" and county Sima "Xiao Zhu".

As for other members of the Montessors, as well as members of the Le clan, including Meng Zhong's friends Wu Ying, Xiang Liao and other Taoist disciples, the venue was all set in the open air outside the ancestral house. Considering that it was mid-June, the open air was also cool, but the light was insufficient after dusk, so the Montessors lit many braziers and candlesticks outside.

I have to say that even though Meng Zhong has a good alcohol tolerance on weekdays, he was dizzy this time by the guests, the people of the Montessus and Less. This was still the case when Le Yi, Wu Ying, Hua Hu, Mu Wu, Rong Fen and others helped him share the burden.

About the Xu hour, Meng Zhong was almost drunk, so Le Yi, Wu Ying, Hua Hu and others carried Meng Zhong back to the latter's home. Then, Meng Hu, who was still guarding Meng Zhong's house at this moment, smirked and threw Meng Zhong to the east room - the bed of the house where Meng Zhong and Le Yan lived in the future, and then greeted Meng Sui, Le Zeng, Le Meng and others to entertain guests on behalf of Meng Zhong.

During this period, Rong Fen, who was the guard of Meng Zhong, stayed with four Song soldiers and guarded inside and outside the yard to prevent thieves - although it was unlikely.

I don’t know how long I slept, but in a daze, Meng Zhong felt as if someone was wiping his face for him.

He opened his eyes with some difficulty, and then he saw that it was Le Yan.

With the dim lights in the room, Le Yan also found Meng Zhong, who was lying on the couch, opened his eyes slightly, and couldn't help but thump in his heart, and explained stammeringly: "I... I'm seeing you... Well, I'm sweating a lot when I see you..."

I have to say that Le Yan is even more nervous and shy than when she was still in the ancestral hall. But thinking about it is, after all, she is also a 19-year-old girl, and of course she knows what will happen next after a man and a woman gets married.

Her mother Xiang and her two married sisters had already told her about these things a few months ago, and her cheeks were so embarrassed that she was flushed.

"Is there water?"

Meng Zhong swallowed and felt a little thirsty in his throat.

"Yes, I'll go now."

Le Yan quickly got up from the couch, stepped on her shoes and found the kettle on the table in the house, and helped Meng Zhong pour a bowl of water.

After taking the bowl, Meng Zhong drank it all, then wiped his mouth with his sleeve and asked, "When is it?"

"I don't know..." Le Yan shook her head and guessed: "When Meng Hu sent her husband into the house just now, it seemed to be after Xu, and it should be after Hai..."

"It's the hour of Hai?" Meng Zhong was stunned for a moment, then listened with his ears, and he could still hear the laughter coming from the ancestral house. It was obvious that the banquet over there was still going on.

"Do you still want to entertain guests at the ancestral house?" Le Yan asked.
To be continued...