Traveling through Du He, Li Chengqian's rebellion begins

Before big brother Du Gou could react, Du He released another bombshell.

"Brother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess, Princess Changle, Princess Nanping and others will also be here. You have to arrange seats for them."

When Du Gou heard that the crown prince and a group of princesses would also be coming, his expression froze for a moment.

Good guy!

People who didn’t know would think it was some prince’s wedding. There were so many people of high status attending this ordinary wedding banquet.

Du Gou's lips trembled as he said, "Second Brother, why did you invite all these nobles here?"

"The banquet is so crowded and chaotic. If any mishap happens to these nobles, it will be disastrous!"

If I had known that the second son was so capable and could make such a big scene, I should not have let him send invitations to these officials.

Failed!

Du He smiled and said, "Brother, many officials are here just for the prince, so they are trying their best to come to the wedding banquet."

"You should understand the meaning behind this, right?"

To put it bluntly, Li Chengqian used Du Aitong's wedding banquet to have a face-to-face contact with this group of ministers, and this contact would not arouse Li Shimin's suspicion.

For those who are interested, this kind of banquet is a good place to express their feelings, but for those who are not interested, it is just a place to join in the fun.

Du Gou nodded and said, "I see!"

Du He continued, "Brother, I will bring all the chefs from the Princess's Mansion to help, and the Crown Prince will also send the East Palace Qianniu to lead the guards to maintain order at the scene."

"In addition to ensuring that there are enough dishes and wine for the day, you also have to send someone to watch the kitchen to prevent bad guys from coming and poisoning!"

Then, the three brothers talked for more than an hour about the guests at the wedding banquet.

Before the ceremony ended, Du He said to Du Aitong, "Old Third, after your wedding ceremony is over, I will give you something to prove your merit!"

"As long as you submit Zhenguan Arithmetic and Horseshoes to the court, and wait until the Ministry of Personnel's annual assessment next month, you will definitely be promoted to Chang'an!"

"This way, the three of us brothers won't have to live in two different places."

Du Aitong is now the Sima of Jiang Prefecture, a fifth-rank official. After making great contributions, he will be promoted to the fifth-rank official.

Currently, most of the fifth-rank officials in the Tang Dynasty are in Chang'an.

Du Aitong said excitedly: "Thank you, second brother, for your support!"

I just returned to Chang'an today, and when I met my future father-in-law Lu Chengqing, my father-in-law talked about arranging for him to return to Chang'an to take up a position.

Now that my second brother has taken action, the matter is almost certain to be settled.

"You're a family, so you don't have to be polite." Du He waved his hand, and then said, "It's getting late now, I'll go back to the princess's mansion first."

...

The next day.

As soon as the civil and military officials returned to their mansions after finishing their shift, they received a wedding invitation from Jingzhao Du.

Wannian County, Xingdaofang, inside the lobby of Cui Mansion.

Cui Shenji took the wedding invitation from his father, glanced at it, and said with disdain.

"I don't know what the elders of the Jingzhao Du family were thinking. They actually scheduled the wedding date of their young man to coincide with Du Aitong's wedding date."

"It seems that the elders of the Jingzhao Du family are trying to steal the limelight from Brother Du's family!"

"Haha, you really don't know what I'm talking about!"

He was originally helping Du He deal with the people from the Jingzhao Du family, but he didn't expect that this group of people would dare to send wedding invitations to his father, and the wedding date would clash with that of Du Aitong.

You don't need to guess to know what the bad intention is.

Cui Shenji turned around and told his father, "Dad, we don't have to pay attention to these clowns from the Jingzhao Du family. When the time comes, our whole family will go to the Laiguogong Mansion to eat at the rich mansion."

"The hot stir-fry dishes recently were made by Brother Du. The taste is so delicious that I can't stop thinking about it!"

When Cui Yixuan heard Cui Shenji's words that were meant to criticize the Jingzhao Du family, his face turned dark.

He scolded in a deep voice: "What nonsense are you talking about, you bastard!"

"If I knew that you were slandering the Jingzhao Du family outside and deliberately provoking trouble, I would break your legs!"

Now Cui Shenji is helping Du He deal with the people from Jingzhao Du family. The two families have already become enemies secretly. If they continue to offend the people from Du family, a bloody fight is inevitable between the two families.

For the sake of his family's interests, Cui Yixuan naturally wanted to take precautions against this possible outcome.

Cui Shenji curled his lips and said, "Dad, the Du family has been almost dealt with by Brother Du. At most, they are just a sick cat. Why should we be afraid of them?"

"Besides, without the three brothers Du, the Du family is nothing compared to our Cui family!"

In response to Cui Shenji's arrogant remarks, Cui Yixuan's face turned purple and his chest heaved up and down violently.

The two brothers Cui Shenqing and Cui Shenfu, who were standing aside, saw their elder brother's heroic performance with eyes full of admiration.

"Rebel!"

Cui Yixuan roared angrily, then rolled up his sleeves, clenched his fists and chased after Cui Shenji and punched him.

After the cup of tea.

Cui Yixuan panted and said, "My rebellious son, the day after tomorrow I will go to the Laiguogong Mansion to attend the wedding banquet, and you will represent our Cui family to attend the Jingzhao Du family's wedding banquet."

Cui Shenji's expression changed and he said, "Dad, why?"

"If Brother Du knew that I was going to attend the Du family's banquet, I'm afraid we brothers would have nothing to do. If you want to go, go by yourself. Anyway, I'm not going!"

What a joke! If he does something like this to betray his brother, how will he have the face to meet his good brother Du He in the future?

"Humph!"

Cui Yixuan snorted heavily.

He said with a dark face: "Du Gou is the Minister of the Left, and he is my immediate superior. Is it appropriate for me not to go to the Duke of Lai's Mansion?"

Although Du Gou was 20 years younger than him, his official position was several ranks higher than his. He, as Zuosi Langzhong, was only a fifth-rank official position.

However, Du Gou's position as Shangshu Zuocheng was a senior official position of the fourth rank.

Cui Shenji touched his nose and muttered, "Dad, you don't want to offend Du Gou, and I don't want Brother Du to misunderstand. Can't we all go to Du Aitong's wedding banquet?"

"If you're worried about losing manners, the worst that can happen is that you can let Cui Shenqing attend the wedding banquet of Jingzhao Du family!"

What?

"Let me go there on behalf of the family?"

Cui Shenqing, who just turned 11 this year, lost all his admiration for his elder brother after hearing his elder brother's words.

Before Cui Yixuan could get angry at Cui Shenji, Cui Shenqing took the lead in waving his hand and refused.

"Brother, I just beat up Du Shenyan yesterday, so we can't go to the Du family!"

Good guy!

It turns out that these two rebellious sons had been hiding it from him and attacking the Du family behind his back. Was this a rebellion?

Cui Yixuan's face darkened: "Cui Shenqing, why did you hit the Du family's people?"

Cui Shenqing first glanced at his eldest brother, and then seeing that his father's expression was very scary, he had to shrink his neck and reply timidly.

"My eldest brother said that the people of Jingzhao Du Clan are all bad guys. If we see them doing bad things, we must punish them."

"Du Shenyan pulled up the melons that Widow Wang had worked so hard to grow, so I must enforce justice on her behalf."

These two traitors!

If we don't discipline them today, they might cause even greater trouble in the future.

Cui Yixuan picked up a small wooden stick beside him and roared loudly.

"I'm going to beat you to death!"