The provincial governor's yamen is located in the center of Hangzhou. The yamen covers a very large area and is divided into front yamen and back yamen. The front yamen is an office place. Many state assistants also work in the front yamen.

The Houya is the living area of ​​the provincial governor. There is a team of yamen running for duty in front of the door, and the Dengwen drum is placed on one side.

An escort from the Duke of Ningguo's mansion received the order of the Li family's younger sister and rushed to the front of the yamen with invitations.

"Who?" The yamen runner on duty was a little lazy, but when he saw this, he became shocked and pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife and shouted.

"I am the guard of the Ningguo Duke's House. I am the order of the lady to invite the provincial governor to go to the villa for a banquet." The guard of the Ningguo Duke's House quickly dismounted and bent down and presented an invitation.

The head yamen runner's face calmed down, reached out to take the invitation, and said politely: "Brother, wait, I'll go to see Lord Zhou Mu now."

"I'm working hard." The guards of the Ningguo Duke's Mansion thanked.

Of course, Gao Yimin, the Muslim in Wuzhou Prefecture, did not say that anyone could meet him as soon as he wanted, but Ningguo Duke's Mansion was an exception. Who said that Li Ganning was so powerful?

The yamen runner held an invitation and went straight to the rear yamen.

Gao Yimin was hanging out with the beautiful concubine in the study. In front of the desk, Gao Yimin called out a white dress and hugged a beautiful concubine in green skirt. The beautiful concubine was holding a pen in her hand. Gao Yimin held the beautiful concubine's hand, bent down, and wrote on the paper.

Dance and writing are the entertainment of literati, but it is obvious that Gao Yimin's interest is not here.

At this moment, the footsteps of the yamen runners rang out and landed outside the study. Seeing the scene in the study, he lowered his head and said, "Mr. Palace Master, Miss Li, please invite me."

Gao Yimin was a little disappointed, put down his concubine's hand and waved her to go down. Then he called the yamen runner in, and the yamen runner handed the invitation to Gao Yimin. Gao Yimin took the invitation and sat on a chair to watch.

The Li family’s younger sister wrote a simple letter on the invitation, inviting Gao Yimin, Jiang Biefeng, Li Shuangnian and several generals from Hangzhou to the villa for the banquet to thank him for the support that night.

"It seems that it's just a simple banquet." Gao Yimin closed the invitation and thought to himself.

At present, Zhang Baigong of the court held the power of life and death, and killed loyal ministers in a large number of ways, but the power of the court was still divided into mountains.

There is no need to mention Zhang Baigong's party. There are also a royal family, a party of meritorious people, a neutral party, and a loyal faction who has been terrified of being killed by Zhang Baigong.

Gao Yimin was an old minister of the late emperor, but he belonged to a neutral faction. His martial arts were not the highest in Hangzhou, or even at the bottom, but he did a good job of appeaseing all forces and making Wuzhou stable.

Official voice is OK.

It belongs to people that all parties want to win over.

With this kind of identity, Gao Yimin naturally considers more, and he must not be biased towards either side. If the Li family sister specially invited him to the banquet alone, he would have to refuse.

To avoid depreciation.

But when everyone goes together, it will be much more casual.

"Prepare a sedan chair and go to Ningguogong's villa for a banquet." Gao Yimin thought about it for a while, put down the invitation and said to the yamen runner.

"Yes." The yamen runner responded and prepared. Not long after, Gao Yimin came to the gate of the villa in a sedan chair. Before him, many people had already arrived. There were many slaves standing outside the door holding horses, and the master had already followed in.

To be precise, Gao Yimin was the last to arrive. After he got off the sedan chair, he was introduced into the lobby by Su Shuang, the chief manager of the villa. In the lobby, the banquet was already set.

Including Gao Yimin, Jiang Biefeng, Li Shuangnian and the other five generals of the court have all settled down. Although the Li family is a woman, because she is the master of the present, she sat in the main seat, and Zhang Ning sat next to him.

"I'm going to be late, please forgive me." Seeing that Gao Yimin was coming, everyone here stood up to greet him. Gao Yimin was very apologetic and bowed to the crowd.

"The tall man can't forgive him verbally, so he should be punished with a drink." As the master, the Li family girl was very cheerful and generous, and said with a smile.

"Three cups, three cups should be punished." Gao Yimin said with a smile.

Then Gao Yimin sat down and punished himself three times as he said. As the master, the Li family girl was really generous and drank with the officials of the court without losing the disadvantage.

It is very different from the image of a jealous girl all day long.

After three rounds of wine, the atmosphere came out. The officials present were familiar with each other, and many of them attended such banquets and laughed.

There is no need for the Li family to set off more atmosphere.

Zhang Ning became a little noticeable. He toasted the officials present one by one, but he didn't say much after that. It seemed like a lump of wood.

But this person is really dazzling and dare not ignore it.

This is unknown. A knife can allow everyone present to go to the underworld to meet Yan Jun.

The people present were smart, because they knew that if it was just an ordinary thank-you banquet, Wuming would not be invited to sit together.

First, Wuming was not from the Ningguo Duke's Mansion, and second, Wuming was quite cold when he met that night. But at this moment, Wuming was sitting at the banquet, probably for some reason.

Perhaps the banquet was an excuse, but it was because Wuming wanted to find people like them.

It has to be admitted that none of the people who can be local officials of the court are idiots. Sure enough, as these officials of the court expected.

After the banquet, Su Shuang asked the beautiful maid to come in to clean up the mess, while the Li family invited the officials of the court to have tea in a special elegant hall.

Zhang Ning and Li's younger sister sat on two chairs in the upper seats across a coffee table, while Gao Yimin and others sat on the guest seats on both sides.

The Li family girl said bluntly: "I believe you have guessed that this banquet is just an excuse. It is because my brother Zhang has something to look for you. But he didn't walk around on weekdays and didn't want to be a villain for nothing, so he invited you all over the place in the name of the banquet."

Gao Yimin and others looked at each other and thought to themselves: "It turns out to be so."

Immediately, Gao Yimin expressed his opinion: "Mr. Wuming has something to do, even if we can do it, we will definitely not postpone it."

In fact, saying it means not saying it, and it is very good to use this word.

If you can do it, you can do it, and if you can't do it, there is nothing you can do.

"Old fry." The Li girl must have muttered. Zhang Ning didn't care and said with a smile: "I heard something today, but this thing is closely related to everyone here."

As he said that, Zhang Ning told the news he got from Bai Shujing. Finally, Zhang Ning said: "This year is the year of Jiazi. If the black snake makes waves and attacks Hangzhou, hundreds of thousands of people in the city may become water ghosts."

There is one thing that Zhang Ning didn't say.

But he believed that everyone present would understand that if Hangzhou City was really broken by the black snake, everyone present would be blamed.

If Zhang Ning doesn’t say this, the old guys will understand it.
Chapter completed!