"And who is this?" Passing over Cao Yongyi, who was courteous to him, Shi Yuanya pointed at Li Tianyang rather casually and asked.

"Oh, this kid was brought by my unsuccessful subordinate, until I feasted you today, an old friend, so please ask me to introduce you as well." Compared with his warmth for Cao Yongyi, Lu Gui naturally lost some enthusiasm when he introduced Li Tianyang, and prevaricated in a few casual words, introducing Shi Yuanya into the private room.

That's it, it's still up to Li Tianyang for the generous gifts he gave a few days ago, otherwise Lu Gui might really just find an excuse to give Li Tianyang to the private room where they were seated, instead of ignoring Li Tianyang and following Cao Yongyi into the private room like now.

"Sit down, sit down, I have a lot of love with you Lu Gongbus, if he hadn't said a few kind words for me in front of the first emperor's red man Gao Yu, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to stay in the palace now!" Shi Yuanya and Lu Gui sat down, and the other subordinates stayed outside the house with knowledge and interest, and only Lu Gui and the four of them were left in the house.

Seeing that Cao Yongyi and Li Tianyang were still standing in front of him, Shi Yuanya laughed and told him about the friendship between Lu Gui and him.

Compared with the intrigue above the officialdom, the eunuchs from these middle and lower levels have a little more human touch. For the benefactors who have helped them, these fathers-in-law can still keep this kindness in their hearts, thinking that they will have the opportunity to repay each other.

Just like what Shi Yuanya said just now, Shi Yuanya should have been swept out of the house because she offended the palace and thought that she was a concubine, but it was Lu Gui at that time who found the backer behind him, the popular man Gao Yu of the Wanli Emperor, which allowed Shi Yuanya to get through this difficulty.

It is precisely because of this kindness that Lu Gui has full confidence in introducing Cao Yongyi to Shi Yuanya, and asks him to say a few good words for Cao Yongyi in front of the celebrity in the palace and match the bridge.

Since Shi Yuanya has talked about this, Lu Gui's face is naturally bright, glared at Cao Yongyi and the two of them and said, "Gonggong Shi has said so, why don't you hurry up and sit down and say hello?" ”

"Yes, yes!"

Cao Yongyi and the two were killed, and immediately sat humbly at the table, and diligently poured wine and food for Shi Yuanya and Lu Gui.

And with Cao Yongyi's greeting and busy work, Shi Yuanya and Lu Gui did chat and talk on their own, and they deservedly enjoyed Cao Yongyi's care.

Until he was full of wine and food, and the night was late, except for saying a few words to Cao Yongyi and Li Tianyang politely, Shi Yuanya was more often Yu Lu Gui in Nala at other times and recounted the past that the two had experienced over the years.

The older they get, the more the old people like to reminisce about the past, and Cao Yongyi himself naturally disagrees with the insignificant conversation between Shi Yuanya and the two, but he is more concerned about when Lu Gui will mention the two of them.

However, Li Tianyang, from Shi Yuanya's simple reminiscences of the past, heard a lot of unknown palace secrets, but also listened with interest when serving Lu Gui and the others.

In this compartment, Shi Yuanya, who was talking to Lu Gui about family life on the surface, had actually been secretly observing the expressions of Cao Yongyi and Li Tianyang.

As a minion by Wei Zhongxian's side, although Shi Yuanya has always been the head of a worthless wine and vinegar noodle bureau on the surface, it is because she has been in the palace for a long time these years, Shi Yuanya is sensibly unwilling to compete with others for power and profit, but lives by guarding her own one-third of an acre.

At the beginning, Wei Zhongxian was not called Wei Zhongxian, but Li Jinzhong, and when he did not have the current His Majesty's nursing mother, Shi Yuanya formed a good relationship because of his qualifications in the palace and took care of this little eunuch who was a halfway monk.

And Shi Yuanya's character of not liking to fight for power and profit is also more favored by Wei Zhongxian, over the years, Wei Zhongxian has done things in order to be able to take the throne, and the benefactors he has betrayed abound, Wei Zhongxian's methods of taking the throne are cruel and shameless, but because of this, he hopes that the people around him will be loyal to him.

So whether Shi Yuanya wants to or not, when Wei Zhongxian took the throne, he took a lot of care and co-opted for Shi Yuanya, which also made outsiders can't help but recognize Shi Yuanya as Wei Zhongxian's first-class henchman.

In the end, Shi Yuanya became one of the notorious eunuchs in this way, but fortunately, Shi Yuanya knew his own affairs, and he didn't get involved in Wei Zhongxian's affairs many times, so he stayed in this small place of wine and vinegar noodles.

Of course, Shi Yuanya also knew that although he didn't agree with other people's opinions, outsiders finally regarded him and Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs as together, and his own background was not something that those high-ranking scholars could afford.

Therefore, whenever the eunuch party is in crisis, Shi Yuanya has never minded giving them a hand from the side, so that the Donglin party members will suffer some losses. After all, if the Donglin Party people had the upper hand, his little head of the wine vinegar noodle bureau would not be the fish in the pond that would be affected, and others might not care about his life.

However, it is precisely because of his attitude that Wei Zhongxian likes it even more, although he does not delegate important tasks to him, and he does not discuss many things, but in normal times, Wei Zhongxian also likes to find Shi Yuanya to chat casually and treat him as an ordinary friend.

When Lu Gui found him, Shi Yuanya knew that it was time to repay his debts, and he was cautious by nature and rarely recruited minions. For him, it is also a good choice to be able to guard himself and take one acre and three points of land for the rest of his life.

He was invited to this banquet this time, firstly, to repay Lu Gui's kindness, and secondly, to check whether the people introduced by Lu Gui were genuine.

The result obviously disappointed Shi Yuanya, in his opinion, Cao Yongyi, a middle-aged man, does not have many advantages, but there are too many shortcomings, and he is really just one of thousands of vulgar people.

Shi Yuanya really couldn't understand why Lu Gui, who seemed shrewd, would look at such an unworthy guy differently, and deliberately paved the way for him, insisting on doing an errand for him in Yingtianfu.

On the contrary, this young man named Li Tianyang, although he is humble on the surface, he has his own demeanor no matter how he acts. Judging from the perspective of all kinds of so-called young talents who have been in contact with all kinds of so-called young talents over the years, even if this young man is placed in Beijing, a city where humanities and elites gather, he is afraid that he is also the best among the younger generation!

For a long time, through the observation of Li Tianyang's behavior and facial expressions, Shi Yuanya found that this kid who had been pouring wine and vegetables for them with low eyebrows and solemn eyes actually listened to their conversation very carefully, and the little guy's ears fluttered from time to time, and the eyes that occasionally gained betrayed him.

Unconsciously, Shi Yuanya showed some interest in this young guy.

(End of chapter)