Daming: What abandoned baby?That is the grandson of the old Zhu family!

Xu Jinghan's personality is careless and informal, and the episode just now didn't affect his good mood of eating and drinking.

About half an hour later, Xu Da sent someone to pick him up.

The two also met the newly appointed Prime Minister Zhan Huai.

Zhan Huai was only forty this year, with a refined and gentle face, dressed in a first-rank official uniform, which made him look a little handsome with white hair and a childlike face.

"Presumably these are the two young masters of Duke Wei's family." Zhan Huai asked Zhu Xiongying.

Zhu Xiongying and Xu Jinghan bowed upright.

"I have seen the Prime Minister."

Zhan Huai smiled very kindly: "You don't need to be too polite, your father and I are good friends, you can call me uncle."

After some courtesies, Zhan Huai's eyes fell on Zhu Xiongying.

There was something prying in his eyes.

"This is the Second Young Master Xu?"

Zhu Xiongying nodded politely: "I'm Xu Huaiying."

"That's right, the young talent that the old man admires very much, your name has spread in the capital, and everyone must know it." Everyone praised Zhan Huai.

"Uncle Zhan won the award. Huaiying has only read a few books of poetry and knows a few big characters. How can he be a young talent." Zhu Xiongying replied politely.

"Hey, since the old man personally selected him, he naturally has something special about him. Why should my nephew be so self-effacing?"

"There are many talented people in this world, and Huaiying is just lucky. She was appreciated by His Majesty, and she got a big deal. She really dare not forget her duty because of it."

After a series of conversations, Zhu Xiongying was always humble and polite, and did not show complacency at all because of praise. Xu Da couldn't help but sigh that his eldest grandson is really capable.

Zhan Huai also appreciates it very much. Unexpectedly, at such a young age, Zhu Xiongying can not be surprised by favor or humiliation.

It seems that the old man has always had a good eye for seeing people!

"Okay, the banquet will start in half an hour. You two young people can go to the back garden to chat with other officials' families, and you can also make friends along the way." Xu Da said.

Zhan Huai smiled: "That's right, just ask the servants in the mansion to prepare whatever you want to eat and drink, and treat this as your own home. You even called me uncle, so you don't have to pay attention to those polite etiquette!"

"Okay, thank you Uncle Zhan." Zhu Xiongying cupped his hands.

Zhan Huai nodded and watched Zhu Xiongying and Xu Jinghan leave.

"Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times. Your grandson is really amazing." Zhan Huai turned his head and said something to Xu Da.

Xu Da smiled triumphantly: "Of course, I dare not boast about anything else, but my grandson is indeed a once-in-a-century child prodigy!"

Zhan Huai felt a little jealous. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang's respect for Zhu Xiongying would make everyone jealous, but Zhan Huai was the prime minister of the court and had frequent contacts with Xu Da, so naturally he would not put these secret thoughts on the surface. .

"Yeah, I used to hear people in the palace telling how the old man loves your grandson. At first, I thought it was just that the old man was old and hoped for a younger baby." Zhan Huai said with some emotion, "After all It is indeed a sad thing for a white-haired person to give away a black-haired person, although the old man has always been tough, he is still a mortal, how can he let go of his emotions and desires?"

Xu Da's smile slowly froze on his face, and he felt that Zhan Huai seemed to want to say something.

Although Xu Da has a straightforward personality by nature, he is not good at beating around the bush, and he is not like other officials who are officials in the court, who are full of bad things and disagree with each other.But after being an official in the court for so many years, he has more or less "sighted" and learned to judge who has something to say.

"Brother, we've known each other for a day or two. If you have something to say, you can just say it directly. You don't have to beat me around like this." Xu Da said straight to the point.

Zhan Huai was not at all embarrassed by being exposed, so he laughed twice.

"Brother Xu is indeed a man of temperament!"

"It's good to know! So if you have something to say, say it quickly, and if you have to fart, let it go!"

Zhan Huai smiled, and his eyes suddenly became deep: "Although I was an official in the local area a few years ago, I didn't come to this capital. But as an important member of the imperial court, I still know a little bit about some things, Yiwen I had the good fortune to meet Prince Zhu Biao from afar..."

Zhu Biao is a man of the noble tree, and he is very good-looking. Coupled with the noble status of Zheyu, the locust prince, many people just glance at it, and they will never forget it in their lifetime. It just so happens that Zhan Huai has a surprisingly good memory. It was the first time I saw Zhu Xiongying, I knew who this child looked like.

Don't look too much like it!
If it wasn't for Zhan Huai's disbelief in the ghosts and ghosts in this world, he would have thought that Zhu Biao, Prince Yiwen, had returned from his dead body.

Xu Da frowned, and then slowly unfolded.

"The old man knows that brother Zhan is a smart man, and I don't bother to make up some lies to deceive you." Xu Da turned his hands away, with a bit of hostility on his face, giving a kind of coercion invisibly, "I can only tell you this There are many things involved in it, and the water is much deeper than we imagined, so I believe you will naturally have a sense of what to say and what not to say."

Zhan Huai is not a person who doesn't know how to measure: "I don't need to remind you, I understand it naturally. It's just out of selfishness, I still want to remind you that the tree attracts the wind, that child is too outstanding now, and there is an old man behind him. Expressing love for this child, sometimes it may not be a good thing."

"Don't worry, the old man is not as stupid as we think. Although he is old, he is like a mirror in his heart. Just let him arrange everything."

Xu Da roughly touched his face, whistled and went to the backyard.

There was no smile on Zhan Huai's face for a long time, but it was a little cloudy and uncertain.

He just came to Beijing this year to be an official, and he hasn't stood in line yet. As the prime minister, Siran had many people to make room for him, but he didn't make hasty decisions.

But seeing Zhu Xiongying today, I seem to have made up my mind.

Zhu Xiongying's ability can indeed be entrusted with a big task, and with Zhu Yuanzhang as a big tree, the chances of winning are quite high.

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"Huaiying, are you going back so early?" Xu Jinghan took a sip of wine and turned his head to look at Zhu Xiongying.

Zhu Xiongying nodded, he didn't like this kind of Vanity Fair, the smell of rouge, gouache, wine and meat all over the room made him frown.

Zhu Xiongying scoffed that a prime minister's promotion banquet peeled off its shell was nothing but a hypocritical "friendship party".

"Well, you come back with Daddy, I'm leaving first."

"Okay." Xu Jinghan nodded.

Zhu Xiongying left without looking back.