"Just now, the wife of Duke Ping kept chatting with me. I don't know what Princess Kangning said to her. Seeing that she kept looking at me and asked me to call her aunt, I think she has bad intentions."

Yuntang did not directly state the intention of the wife of Duke Pingguo, but this was equivalent to a hint.

Xiao Beichen's face immediately darkened.

His junior fellow apprentice was too young to understand, so naturally, but how could he, an adult with a family, not understand?

When a woman is inexplicably nice to a young girl, it is probably because she is attracted to her.

Duke Ping had three sons and two daughters, and his wife had two legitimate sons.

The eldest son and the crown prince, Qin Mingyu, was eighteen years old. He originally followed his father to guard the Western Border. Last autumn, he was injured and fell into a coma on the battlefield in the Western Border and almost could not be saved.

After returning to Beijing, the imperial physician treated him for three months and detoxified him, but he became paralyzed on bed and became a useless invalid.

There is also a second son who is fifteen years old.

There is also a concubine's eldest daughter, sixteen, who got married this year, a concubine's second daughter, thirteen, and a concubine's son, ten.

The Marquis' Mansion has already had an arranged marriage with the Duke of Ping's Mansion, but it's between Jiang Yingxue and Prince Qin. What does it have to do with Yuntang?

So, what is Lady Pingguo planning?

"It seems that someone is desperate and is trying all kinds of medical treatments." Yun Xuanyu sneered and said disdainfully at the side.

"The wife of Duke Pingguo? Or the wife of Marquis Yong'an?" Xiao Beichen glanced at her sideways.

“I’m afraid it’s all of them.” Yun Xuanyu muttered.

Xiao Beichen's face became even uglier, and he said angrily: "You ignorant, stupid woman in the backyard, are you tired of the life of luxury?"

"Okay, it's Grandma Lin's birthday, why are you so angry?" Yun Xuanyu rolled his eyes at him and reminded him in a low voice.

Xiao Beichen's expression froze for a moment and he said nothing more.

Yun Xuanyu gently touched Yun Tang's little head and sighed, "I clearly prepared a lot of beautiful little girl clothes and jewelry for Xiao Tang'er, why doesn't she like to wear them?"

Yun Tang quickly smiled and explained, "I was wearing it originally, but I got used to wearing the Taoist robe a few days ago and couldn't change it for a while."

None of them wore Taoist robes today, but Xiao Beichen didn't wear a dragon robe either, he was just wearing casual clothes.

They came to pay birthday greetings to the oldest and most senior elder in their fellow brothers’ (brothers’) families, and they were all very low-key.

They talked for a while, then went over to chat and laugh with the old lady for a while. Gu Yifang from General Jingbei's mansion also arrived.

After Gu Yifang paid his respects and presented birthday gifts, he also bowed to all the uncles and aunts, and then looked at Yuntang eagerly.

"It's been a while since Junior Master returned to the capital, and I haven't been able to meet him yet."

"It's all Third Master's fault for not letting us go see Junior Master. The last time Junior Master went to the palace, Yifang didn't know about it, otherwise we would have gone to pay our respects to Junior Master."

Gu Yifang is twenty years old and is the oldest among his senior brothers’ children. Even Crown Prince Xiao Che would talk about brothers first and then monarch and subject when he meets him.

However, he is good at complaining, just like his father Yun Xuanwei, now General Jingbei Gu Chengfeng.

Ten years ago, Yun Xuanwei used complaints to get his third senior brother to allocate more mountain land to him for farming. He had long been known as the "Farming Taoist" in the northern border.

Thanks to the Taoist farmer, there was never a shortage of food in the northern border, and half of the military rations could be obtained nearby.

Two years ago, Gu Yifang returned to Beijing to work in the Ministry of War and got married. Last year, his grandfather also returned to Beijing to serve as the commander-in-chief of Beidaying.

The Jingbei General's Mansion is very low-key in the capital and does not interact much with other families. There are few family members in Beijing and it has little sense of presence.

No one knows that the current General Jingbei and the Emperor are brothers.

"You little brat, are you blaming your uncle for not letting you go to your junior uncle to ask for a gift earlier?" Xiao Beichen scolded with a smile.

Everyone laughed.

Yuntang was just that young when he left Beijing last time, and he was old enough to be happy with a string of candied haws or a piece of cake.

Now that he has returned to Beijing at the age of thirteen, he has become more skilled in acting like a junior master than when he was a child. He always gives gifts when meeting someone regardless of age.

The guys who got the gifts first have been showing off everywhere these days, so the brothers Lin Haoran and Lin Haoyu found out, and Gu Yifang naturally knew about it too.

But when they clamored to see the junior master, the junior master had already gone to Yunshang Temple.

I can only wait anxiously for my junior uncle to come back.

Yuntang smiled and reached into his sleeve, and took out an Eight Trigrams Heart Protecting Armor magic weapon and a set of exercises, and gave them to Gu Yifang as a gift.

Gu Yifang is a general and also a Taoist disciple taught by Fourth Senior Brother since childhood. Naturally, he has no shortage of weapons. Not to mention that he has surpassed his master, he has definitely inherited his legacy.

Therefore, Yuntang still focused on defense, and was not stingy with his skills improvement techniques.

"Thank you, Junior Master-Uncle!" Gu Yifang took it with both hands with a happy face and thanked him.

He didn't feel at all that it would be awkward to ask for a meeting gift from a thirteen-year-old girl at his age.

Who made the little girl the junior master uncle of their Taoist sect!

He is also a master who has made rapid progress in strength after three years of seclusion and has reached the peak of the Heavenly Master realm!

"I will go to see my little nephew during the full moon banquet." Yun Tang promised again.

"Yes, nephew, I would like to thank you on behalf of Yuaner." Gu Yifang smiled and clasped his fists and bowed again.

At this time, Lin Haoran knew that Gu Yifang had arrived and rushed over as well.

Following behind was Lin Haoyu who had just returned from school, and behind them was Xiao Ye and a large group of people who had just arrived.

Before anyone had even spoken a few words in the main hall, the noise of a group of young men paying their respects to the birthday was heard.

The old lady was so happy to see so many children coming to celebrate her birthday that she couldn't stop smiling. She even asked Xu Wan to give them some golden melon seeds.

Lin Haoyu was still thinking about the gift from his junior uncle, so he squeezed through the crowd and saluted Yuntang with a smile.

They were both thirteen years old, but the boy did not feel anything awkward about the greeting.

He was studying in the academy in the north of the city. He was not familiar with his brothers in the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion. He was still a scholar living in the academy and had not returned for a while.

It was because my great-grandmother’s birthday was approaching that I took a few days off in advance to go home, and only then did I find out many things.

Naturally, Xiao Ye, Xiao Jian, Xiao Hong and the others also showed off in front of him, which made him jealous.

"Uncle Junior Master, I also want a dagger..."

The young man thought the long sword was inconvenient to carry. His father had given him a long sword when he entered Taoism. He wanted a powerful short sword that he could carry with him.

Of course, Tianji Pavilion also forges swords and various magical instruments, but Tianji Pavilion is mainly focused on making money. How can their children always take advantage of it?

Therefore, after learning that his junior uncle was very good at sword-making and refining weapons, he was eagerly looking forward to it.

It was just that he had gone to the Shangshufang to study with everyone early this morning and had just returned, so he was unable to go with his elder brother to pick up his junior uncle, and so they met only now.

Seeing that they all came to ask for gifts as if they were competing with each other, Yuntang gave the boy a blank look with a helpless smile, but still reached into his sleeve, took out an antique dagger inlaid with rubies and handed it to him.

"The name of the sword is Changming. Tomorrow in Qingfeng Palace, I will teach you how to use the sword." After Yuntang said this, he glanced at the young men who were looking around not far away.

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