As a restaurant opened during the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, Liuquanju has become the preferred banquet restaurant for all kinds of dignitaries in less than a hundred years.

Of course, in such a luxurious place, the cost of eating a meal is really not small, after receiving the invitation sent by Lu Gui, Li Tianyang specially asked people to inquire, and it is said that the cost of an ordinary meal there is around hundreds of taels of silver.

If you want to invite a chef who has been an imperial chef in the palace to do it, you have to spend a thousand taels, which can be called a banquet of thousands of gold!

The reason for exploring these is that Li Tianyang needs to rush to pay, do you still think that Lu Gui, as the host, will pay for you?

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Tianyang needs to buy a guy to ventilate and report to himself in advance before the guests invited by Lu Gui enter the building, so that he can know who Lu Gui's old friend is.

If there was enough time and manpower, Li Tianyang would still be able to roughly judge who Lu Gui would invite to the banquet by collecting intelligence. It's just that first, this Beijing teacher is extensive, Li Tianyang and they have no idea where to start when they first arrive, and secondly, they are not easy to act rashly, and when the Donglin Party and the eunuch party are fighting fiercely, they rashly come forward and attract people's attention.

Wei Zhongxian will fall sooner or later, this is a fact that Li Tianyang knows well in his heart, but now Li Tianyang, who has no official relationship background, wants to take a shortcut to a big man, so he can only find a corrupt official like Wei Zhongxian and Wei Gonggong who are easy to buy.

However, this does not mean that Li Tianyang is willing to bring this kind of thing to the light, let those Donglin Party members who are so small as a needle eye that they have a needle eye hold a grudge, and wait for them to take revenge on themselves after they gain power.

Earlier, Li Tianyang prepared three gifts of different values for this unknown nobleman, so he needed a ventilated person to make himself well prepared, which gift to give.

Don't look at the low status of these shopkeepers in Liuquanju, but in a restaurant like Liuquanju, they are more well-informed than Li Tianyang, a native bun who has just entered Beijing. Anyone who has some energy in the Jingshi scene, as long as he shows his face once in the middle of Liu Quan, these guys can almost remember the status and appearance of these people.

For example, this time Li Tianyang bought Xiao Er, who is known as a middle-aged guy in Liuquanju Xiaopeish, who has worked in Liuquanju for seven or eight years, he can basically know most of the officialdom in the entire Beijing Division, and there are faces among the underworld gentry, he can also call out his name.

Li Tianyang and them came early, although the invitation said that there was a banquet in Youshi, but in fact, Li Tianyang and Cao Yongyi came to Liuquan Juli early in the middle of Shen Shi and looked for the shopkeeper to take care of everything.

At two o'clock, Lu Guicai accompanied a guest to make a sedan chair to Liuquanju, at this time Li Tianyang and they were already hungry, but they did not dare to touch the wine and delicacies on the table that were said to be fried by the palace chef.

"Brother Shi, please!"

Below, when Lu Gui and the person who came were still falsely courteous to each other, Li Tianyang upstairs had already received the information sent by the guy he had bribed in the middle of Liu Quan, and knew the origin of the other party.

Shi Yuanya, in the Twelve Prisons and Eight Bureaus of the Inner Palace, the head of the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau, as the name suggests, this Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau, that is, an inconspicuous little supervisor under the palace dining room, originally Xiang Xiaobaishi Such a guy may not remember such a small person who is not on the table.

However, Shi Yuanya is the henchman of Wei Zhongxian and Wei Changchen, who is a powerful celebrity in the palace, although Wei Changchen has not placed any important position for him now, it is also Shi Yuanya, the father-in-law, who knows his own ability, and is unwilling to go to this troubled water, just thinking that he can spend his old age in peace.

"Brother Lu is polite, why should you and I care about these things on the scene after many years of friendship." A voice as soft as Lu Gui came from below, and then two white old men appeared side by side in the stairwell on the second floor.

The one who can walk side by side with Lu Gui is naturally the protagonist of tonight, the noble person Lu Gui is looking for for Cao Yongyi, Shi Yuanya in the mouth of Liu Quanju Xiaobaishi.

is also a eunuch in the palace, Lu Gui is feminine, but another feeling is that his personality is quite ruthless and sharp, but now after he was sent back to Beijing, he has more restraint. Coupled with the fact that he has been working hard all these years, the whole person seems to be a little premature.

But the father-in-law of Shi Yuanya next to Lu Gui, although he is also a eunuch and has a shallow beard on his face, he has a little more grace and majesty from his behavior, not like the corrupt officials in TV movies, but more like a rather powerful official.

The two walked and chatted, and when they came to the private room they had booked in Liuquan Center, Cao Yongyi and Li Tianyang were already standing in front of the door with their heads down and their hands on their knees to meet them.

"This must be the sailor warrior you want to entrust to me!" In front of the door, Shi Yuanya glanced at Cao Yongyi and the two of them a few times, and then pointed at Cao Yongyi and joked to Lu Gui on the side and said with a smile.

To tell the truth, where does Cao Yongyi look at this guy, he is not like the sailor in Shi Yuanya's mouth, Cao Yongyi, who was still a little bit tall in the early years, has been pampered in the past few years, and has already made a fortune, just his big belly like a doll that has been pregnant for five or six months has already made his body look bloated.

Not to mention the unique stammering words and deeds of the little people on Cao Yongyi's face at this time, the unsafe look in Shi Yuanya's eyes was fleeting, but it was Li Tianyang, who was lying down his head and bowing his chest on the side, silent, which made Shi Yuanya look twice.

"Hehe, you, you, you're still so fast!" Seeing that Shi Yuanya didn't wait for his introduction, he took the initiative to guess Cao Yongyi's words and deeds that were not polite to him, and in his eyes, it showed that this old friend still hadn't seen him, Lu Gui's heart was naturally extraordinarily comfortable: "Isn't it just that he is an unsuccessful guy, fortunately, he is loyal enough, if Brother Shi needs someone to run errands in the future, he can find someone to explain to him, and he will naturally be able to do it for you." ”

Cao Yongyi's ugliness, not only Shi Yuanya saw it, but Lu Gui himself also saw it in his eyes, like them, a well-informed father-in-law with countless experiences, who did not have a little insight in their eyes. Although I don't like Cao Yongyi's unbearable performance at this time, but thinking about this guy's loyal performance and his expectations for him in the future, no matter what, Lu Gui will also make a good round for him at this time.

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