Prefect Shen has always been the most observant of words and deeds, and understands the world's sophistication the most. This is recognized by the officials in Jiangnan, and it is also clear to Prefect Shen himself.

Since His Highness King Guangling is in a bad mood today, it is natural to make him feel better.

According to Shen Zhifu's observations during this period of time, His Royal Highness Guangling is not close to beauty, secondly he does not like flattery, and he has too much money to spend.

The only thing is that His Highness King Guangling seemed to like to drink at the reception banquet.

Follow Mr. Yongning, you drink one cup and I drink one cup, until the end of the banquet, I drank so much that my legs were flying.

Therefore, after all the officials were seated, Zhifu Shen went to find the owner of the painting boat, and relying on his many years of favor, asked him to beg for several altars of aged daughter red.

The river fish from the Slender West Lake is the best with wine.In particular, there is a dish of fish made of distiller's grains, and when served on one end, the table is full of fragrance.

Xue Yan frowned indistinctly.

Duke Yongning respected the rules, although Jun Huailang had a superior status and was more valuable than the officials present, but he had no official title, so Duke Yongning let him sit at the head with Shen Liufeng.

Xue Yan sat at the top, across the big table, the two happened to face each other.

When the distiller's lees fish was served, Jun Huailang had already seen Xue Yan frown, but immediately started the banquet, Shen Zhifu picked up a glass of wine, and immediately began to respect Xue Yan vigorously.

There is a posture that Xue Yan will definitely let Xue Yan drink to his heart's content today.

Shen Liufeng also picked up the wine and clinked a glass with Jun Huailang.

"My uncle found good wine today!" Shen Liufeng said. "Huailang, you can drink more today."

Jun Huailang agreed with a smile and had a drink with him.

But immediately after, his peripheral vision met Xue Yan's.

Jun Huailang paused, then subconsciously looked sideways at him.

Xue Yan immediately withdrew his gaze, as if the gaze just now was just an illusion.Just at this time, Xue Yan and Shen Zhifu clinked a glass, Xue Yan picked up the wine glass, raised his head, and drank the glass of wine.

When Shen Zhifu saw it, he had a bottom line in his heart.

Sure enough, his guess was right, His Royal Highness King Guangling is just like his own nephew, just greedy for this drink.

But Jun Huailang in the distance was stunned.

For some reason, he always felt that Xue Yan's behavior was a bit like drinking, and he didn't know who he was angry with.

Hesitantly, he also drank the wine in the glass.

The aged daughter's red is especially mellow, but the wine is also very strong. Once it enters the throat, it will be a burning mellow.

Jun Huailang couldn't help but glanced at Xue Yan worriedly.

He did remember that Xue Yan didn't drink well...

But none of the other officials were like him, who had spent so long with Xue Yan day and night.

All of them are human beings, with their eyes watching their noses, their noses and their hearts watching their hearts. As early as when Shen Zhifu went to toast, they had already carefully observed the movement there.

They don't even have the guts to talk to Xue Yan on weekdays, who would dare to toast him?

But he didn't expect that King Guangling would give face like this.Although he still had that expressionless, stern and ferocious appearance, he actually drank the whole glass of wine to save face.

For a while, everyone understood.

It turns out that during the reception banquet, King Guangling didn't have a good chat with Duke Yongning, but because he likes to drink!

Everyone who was ready to move immediately started to act.

One or two, normally they wouldn't even dare to look at the face of King Guangling, but now someone made a start, and one by two went forward to toast.

Unexpectedly, King Guangling did not refuse anyone who came.

Naturally, they didn't know that it was because the King Guangling was sitting opposite a person who could restrain him, prevent him from throwing his face and lose his temper, and at the same time made him unspeakably jealous. It's just being so easy-going that gives them an opportunity to take advantage of.

In the middle of the banquet, Xue Yan's ears turned red.

He had a bad temper, but now that he was drunk, his aura of not getting close to strangers burst out all at once.

His eyes were a little red from drinking, and everyone looked cold and hostile at the moment.However, today's alcohol was so strong that these people on the wine table were too drunk, and their observation skills became dull, so they didn't receive the danger signal from Xue Yan.

Jun Huailang saw it.

He has always known that in this kind of official drinking game, in the second half, few people can control the situation, and the drinking will only get worse.

Xue Yan had already drunk too much right now, so he couldn't let him sit here any longer.

He was meditating like this, when suddenly, Prefect Shen got up again holding the wine glass.

There are only two people present who can make him stand up with the wine, and one of them is Jun Huailang's father, who has already left the table to drink tea.

The remaining one is Xue Yan.

Jun Huailang sighed, ignoring the half-drunk Shen Liufeng beside him, picked up the wine glass, got up and walked over.

He held a good amount of alcohol and walked quickly, just in time for Shen Zhifu to toast Xue Yan, he stopped his glass.

"Master Shen, I would like to offer you a toast." Jun Huairang said with a faint smile and raised his glass familiarly. "This year in Jinling, thanks to your care, I have learned a lot."

In a few words, he brought the half-drunk Zhifu Shen with wine to chat with him.

The two chatted for a while about what they had seen and heard in the past year, and for a while they talked about the water control notes that Jun Huailang had transcribed. They talked about these things that Jun Huailang was good at, and he handled them with ease.

But he didn't notice that there was a burning gaze on the side, with a stubbornness that was not seen in ordinary times, and it never left him since he walked here.

Prefect Shen also admired him, and now he started talking after drinking, and began to praise him without hesitation.

"I always tell your father that you will have a great future in the future! Look, you have such insights before you have been crowned! It is really a tiger father without a dog, and it is also your father's ability to teach such a thing. Good boy!"

Jun Huailang smiled lightly and echoed: "Sir Shen is absurd, how can a late student be worthy of it..."

At this moment, a hoarse voice sounded: "It's worth it."

After Jun Huailang finished speaking, he saw His Royal Highness Guangling sitting there with a cold and calm expression, but his eyes were red, and he was looking at him fixedly.

It looks like he drank too much.

When Jun Huailang heard him interrupt, he was about to laugh, but was burned by his gaze for a moment.

He staggered his eyes a little hastily.

Shen Zhifu, who was at the side, was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "It's true, even the prince appreciates His Royal Highness so much, it can be seen that I have a good vision!"

Xue Yan remained silent, as if he hadn't heard, but still looked at Jun Huailang.

Jun Huailang quickly clinked glasses with Shen Zhifu, and drank the wine in the glass with him.

Only then did Shen Zhifu be sent away.As soon as he left, Jun Huailang immediately put down his wine glass, and said to Xue Yan: "My lord, it's a bit stuffy in the boat, why don't you go out with me to blow some air?"

Xue Yan, who didn't seem to hear the prefect's words just now, seemed to be hearing very well when facing the soft-spoken Jun Huailang whose voice was almost drowned out.

"Yeah." He nodded without hesitation for a moment, and immediately stood up against the table.

Everyone looked at him with a cold and solemn look, but Jun Huailang saw that he was not paying attention to his hands, his legs were weak, halfway through standing, he was about to fall back into his chair unsteadily.

... As expected, he was so drunk that he couldn't tell the difference between the world and the north.

Jun Huailang stretched out his hand quickly, and supported Xue Yan.But he is tall and big, with tight muscles and strong bones, now he is like a mountain after drinking too much, and Jun Huailang almost staggered under the weight.

He heard Xue Yan click his tongue inaudibly, full of annoyance.

Then, he slowly wanted to pull out his arm, obviously knowing that he was on Jun Huailang and was about to dodge.

Jun Huailang grabbed him.

"My lord is not paying attention, I'd better support you." He said.

Xue Yan didn't speak when he heard the words, but followed Jun Huailang out of the boat like a big dog on a leash.

Along the way, although his feet were fluttering, he tried his best to stabilize his figure with the only sense of balance left after he was drunk, looking like he was facing an enemy.

Jun Huailang was teased by him and laughed softly.

"My lord drank too much," he said.

After leaving the painting boat, the surrounding area became quieter.The night wind in early summer was not cold, it blew gently on his face, and together with Jun Huailang's voice, it blew into Xue Yan's ears.

Therefore, Jin Bao, who was guarding outside the painting boat, saw Xue Yan like this.

A tall man who was half a head taller than Jun Huailang, but now he was leaning on his body, slightly lowered his head to look at him, frowned, and said in a low voice: "They always persuade me to drink alcohol. .”

The irritability and impatience clearly covered his face, but when facing Jun Huailang, he softened a lot, acting like a tiger acting like a baby for a while.

Jinbao: …….

He couldn't see it.

Jin Bao had no choice but to pretend that he was blind and deaf, and walked up to him with a dull head, waiting for the orders of the two masters.

On the other side, His Royal Highness Shizi was quite patient. Hearing Xue Yan's words, the hand that supported his arm was still on his forearm to comfort him twice, and said, "Next time it's like this, just decline it. How can everyone drink?"

This kind of common sense naturally doesn't need him to teach Xue Yan.But Jun Huailang couldn't help but look at his sullen look at this moment.

Xue Yan hummed in a low voice, quite obediently.

Jun Huailang carefully helped him across the bridge, not far away were their chariots and horses.Seeing Jinbao coming up to welcome him, Jun Huailang raised his head and said to Xue Yan: "Most of the game inside is over, it doesn't matter if you leave the table now. Since the prince drank too much, why don't you go back first?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand to hand over Xue Yan to Jin Bao.

Jin Bao didn't dare to pick it up, he would rather pick up the machete with his bare hands that sealed his throat with blood.

Jin Bao backed away again and again, and Xue Yan also stood still.

For a while, people couldn't get out, Xue Yan still pressed heavily on Jun Huailang's shoulder.

"My lord?" Jun Huailang thought he was asleep.

But he heard Xue Yan speak.

"You come with me."

It's a declarative sentence, loud and clear, leaving no room for questioning or rebuttal.

Jun Huailang was taken aback: "Me?"

Xue Yan stared at him fixedly.

Jun Huailang hurriedly said: "The banquet has not yet ended, and my father is still inside. The prince just returns first, and the rest will be handed over to me. I will bid farewell to the prefect of Shen on the prince's behalf..."

But Xue Yan repeated: "You come back with me."

This time, there was a bit more stubbornness in his tired, drunken voice, like a child who played tricks on others.

Jin Bao rubbed his forehead.

"You can go together, His Royal Highness." He bowed forward resignedly and said with a smile. "The prince is drunk, you send him back, and the servant will go and explain to the magistrate and the Duke of the country for you, don't worry, His Royal Highness."

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