At night, Qi Xianyu lay beside Tang Ning with his cheeks propped up, looked at Tang Ning who was sweating profusely and said, "Thank you for celebrating your concubine's birthday today." ”

"The old husband and wife, what are you polite about." Tang Ning said weakly.

Qi Xianyu's smooth shoulders were exposed, and his face was a little flushed. After a sigh, he said, "But is it really good that you don't see Zengxiang?" Didn't you say that he came to Runzhou to discuss things with you this time? ”

"Nothing bad." Tang Ning replied: "Although that old man did come from afar without any difficulty, who told him to scare our daughter."

If you like to lose your temper, you can find a cat and a dog on the street to send it, and I am reluctant to talk to her loudly. ”

Qi Xianyu pursed his lips, and said in his heart that Yu'er didn't dare to go to your side with a cold face every day for more than a year, just like you didn't do it yourself.

"Okay, since you said so, then the concubine doesn't ask much, it's not too early, let's sleep."

"Sleep, sleep." Tang Ning nodded, and then hugged Qi Xianyu and fell asleep.

Strange to say, since Tang Ning decided to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun by any means, he has never had any strange dreams.

When the quality of sleep is good, the dark circles under the eyes are gone, and the face is no longer the sallow yellow color it has been for more than a year, and it has gradually become shiny.

The only regret is that the hair has not yet grown......

I woke up early the next morning, and the porter came again.

"Master, the man who calls himself Zeng Bu is out there to see you again."

"You just said that my lord and I went to the Dream Creek Garden next door, and asked him to go to the Dream Creek Garden to find me if he had anything."

"Oh." The porter said yes and left in a hurry, and after almost two hours, he found Tang Ning who was playing with Tang Gong again.

"Master, Mr. Mengxi is here with the man who calls himself Zeng Bu."

"Alas, son, although Daddy wants to spend a little more time with you, it doesn't seem to be possible now."

Tang Gong was about to cry when he pouted, Li Zi hurriedly came over and hugged Tang Gong and said, "Daddy has something, is it okay for my mother to play with you?" Let's play a literacy game, boys can't read if they don't know how to read......"

Li Zi said while giving Tang Ning a look and asking him to leave quickly, Tang Gong, this kid is extremely pestering, especially when he is crying, he is entangled in this day, don't want to do anything but coax him.

It is also very clear who Zeng Bu is Li Zi, the right minister of the Great Song Kingdom, is a person who must not be neglected.

Originally, people came yesterday, and Brother Ning didn't know what kind of wind he smoked. Forget it if you don't see it, at least find a better excuse, sir, the excuse that I don't see a guest today is really bad enough.

So as soon as he heard the porter come over and talk about Zeng Bu, Li Zi thought about driving Tang Ning away quickly.

Tang Gong cried, and Tang Ning, who had left in a hurry, pretended not to hear.

Tang Ning had already told the porter earlier to let Zeng Bu and Shen Kuo in, so he saw the two of them drinking tea in the front hall.

Shen Kuo and Zeng Bu have a lot in common, and the two are about the same age. Shen Kuo is five years older than Zeng Bu, and he is seventy-five this year. But his physical condition is very good, which is inseparable from his early years of traveling the world.

When he was young, he visited many places to investigate science-related matters in order to pursue science, and later became obsessed with being an official and had a bad mind, which caused him to become notorious.

Zeng Bu has also reached this age where he is powerless, and this time Zhao Ji sent him to toss this old man miserably.

Although Zeng Bu was still worried about Shen Kuo's reputation, he unexpectedly found that the current Shen Kuo was not bad.

is no longer obsessed with official careers, but indulges in cultivating students, and Shen Kuo, the whole person's temperament has changed.

Although Tang Ning, who got along with him day and night, knew very clearly in his heart that this old man was still as thick-skinned as a city wall, but for people like Zeng Bu who didn't deal with him much, Shen Kuo was still a very attractive person.

Shen Kuo, who is humorous, well-informed, and has a lot of things in his head, is undoubtedly a good conversation partner. This is also the reason why Zeng Bu went to Shen Kuo's house and could chat for two hours without Tang Ning being present.

"Ah, stinky boy, you're here." The relationship between Shen Kuo and Tang Ning is extraordinary, not to mention the friendship between the two in the early years, Tang Ning has not lost letters with him over the years, and sometimes he will send Shen Kuo back if he finds anything interesting.

So when he saw Tang Ning, Shen Kuo said this sentence very naturally.

Then he looked at Tang Ning's big bald head and was overjoyed, every time he saw Tang Ning's bald head, Shen Kuo would show an expression that he wanted to laugh but didn't want to laugh.

Tang Ning knew that he made this constipation look completely to disgust himself, but in fact he didn't want to laugh at all.

"Why are you here, Old Man Shen." Tang Ning asked knowingly, and then looked at Zeng Bu with a black line on his face and said in surprise: "Oh, isn't this Zeng Xiang?" Why did you come all the way from Tokyo to Runzhou?

You are not young, there is no less tossing along the way, come on, help Zeng Xiang to rest, hurry! ”

The servants rushed up to put Zeng Bu down, Zeng Bu took a deep breath and told himself not to be angry, he said in a deep voice: "Danyang Hou, the old man obviously only met you yesterday!" ”

"Oh? Is it? Tang Ning scratched his head and said: "Then maybe we didn't have a good time when we met, so let me forget, it's okay, let's just treat it as the first time you meet after you come to Runzhou!" ”

After that, he pointed to the servants and said loudly: "What are you doing, why don't you hurry up and help Zeng Xiang down to rest?" If something happens to each other, can you afford it? ”

Shen Kuo smiled

watched, didn't speak, and drank tea leisurely.

It seems that Zeng Bu offended Tang Ning a lot, but it is also a kind of ability to make this kid so angry and disgusting.

"Enough is enough!" Zeng Bu's servant mustered up the courage to stand up and said, "Marquis of Danyang! Yesterday's incident is even if it's the villain's fault, please don't embarrass the lord anymore! ”

Tang Ning blinked and said, "What do you mean?" Besides, Ben Hou has forgotten about yesterday's incident, and Ben Hou didn't embarrass your master, Ben Hou This is out of humanitarian care, what if your master faints when he is tired and falls into Ben Hou's house?

As soon as this news spreads, can't people in the world think that Ben Hou murdered Zeng Xiang? ”

Zeng Bu was angry when he heard this, it was clear that this bastard was making fun of himself.

To be honest, he really wanted to come to Tang Ning's house to get sick and be ill in order to dispel Tang Ning's arrogance, but now it seems that this trick will not work.

"Don't worry, Danyang Hou, even if the old man dies, he will crawl outside your house before he dies." Zeng Bu sneered and said.

Tang Ning waved his hand and retreated from the people around him, sat on the chair and said with a smile: "If you have this, you have already said no, come on, come on, I have seen you drink tea quickly, this is the best tea." ”

This bastard!

Zeng Bu's nose was almost crooked, he obviously said something disgusting to him, but why is he so angry now?

Turning his head to look at Shen Kuo, who was gloating, Zeng Bu suddenly realized. Sure enough, Shen Kuo still knew Tang Ning better, and just now at his house, Shen Kuo told himself not to try to provoke Tang Ning no matter what happened for a while, it would only hurt himself.

Zeng Bu adjusted his breathing and said in a deep voice: "Danyang Hou, the old man came to visit you today for a very important matter. ”

"You say." Tang Ning nodded: "But whether you agree or not, Tang doesn't dare to guarantee it." ”

"......" Zeng Bu quietly clenched his fists, he looked at Tang Ning's underbeaten face, and tried hard to persuade himself not to be impulsive.

"Alas, if there is chaos today, wolf smoke is everywhere, there are worries about the righteous army inside, and there are troubles of summer and gold outside. The imperial court is really lacking in skills, and those who can recruit good fighters are all in the northwest to command soldiers to fight against the party, while the righteous army and the Jin army are unable to deal with it.

Your Majesty intends to let you re-lead the Zhenguo army to pacify the thieves and sweep away the chaos, I don't know what the Marquis of Danyang wants? ”

Tang Ning laughed and said: "A group of rabbles who were still farming yesterday can disturb the world, then the world will be disturbed." ”

"......" Zeng Bu had bruises on his forehead, but he knew that Tang Ning was deliberately mocking himself, and it was more convenient for him to negotiate conditions after he provoked himself, so Zeng Bu repeatedly advised himself not to be fooled.

"Your Majesty said that if you want, you can do whatever you want, and he will let the others cooperate."

“……”