In Wang Baobao's tent.

He had already prepared everything and watched his men set up the banquet, with roasted lamb and boiled beef, making it very grand.

Toyin Timur said with a pale face.

“Brother, I think your current arrangement is really unreasonable.

Since our Yuan Dynasty has been destroyed, why do you have to work under Zhu Kai and do business with him? I don't know whether the imperial court knows about it.

After all, if the imperial court didn't know about the business he was doing, it would be a serious crime punishable by extermination of the entire clan."

Wang Baobao replied calmly.

"You are still young, and you are a wise man if you know the current situation. Since the current situation cannot be reversed, you can only leave it to fate."

"After such a period of time, I can also feel that Zhu Kai has some abilities, but I really can't rely on him like this..."

As Toyin Timur spoke, he clenched his fist and slammed it hard on the table.

At this moment, there was a scary report outside the door.

"Khan, Zhu Kai is here."

Upon hearing this, Wang Baobao quickly stood up, solemnly straightened his clothes, and prepared to go out to greet him.

"Guanyin slave, follow me out to greet them."

"He is not an important person. You have been doing business together for such a long time. Do you still have to treat him respectfully? We are the dignified Mongols, but we have to grovel to them. I really can't get over the hatred in my heart."

"Don't worry about him, let's go out."

Guanyin Nu lowered his head and followed his father out of the tent, ready to greet Zhu Kai. As soon as he walked out, he saw Zhu Kai lifting the curtain of the carriage and taking his wife down.

"So he came with his wife."

Zhu Kai looked over when he heard this.

"Wang Baobao, it's really a bit too grand for you to come out in person to greet us."

"You have a saying in the Central Plains that it is a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar. It is only natural for me to come out to greet you personally. You even brought your wife with you, which shows how much you value our invitation this time."

"Of course. You have been following me for some time and you are able to do business with me. You have really helped me a lot. I should give you this face."

"You mentioned before a word called winning."

“Win-win.”

"Yes, that's the word. I'm now working under you to help you with your business. We can both benefit from it, which is a very good thing.

What's more, the Eastern Chagatai are eyeing them covetously, and I have always wanted to help you annihilate them."

Zhu Kai discovered something was wrong at this time. Why was Guanyin Nu following him? Normally, when they were discussing serious matters, they never allowed women to be around.

Wang Baobao also seemed to notice that Zhu Kai noticed the Guanyin slave behind him.

He quickly stepped forward to explain.

"Your Highness, please don't misunderstand me. I came here today specifically to invite you to dinner. It can be considered a family dinner and we don't plan to discuss serious matters, so they all followed along."

"So this is ah."

"Hurry up and go in and sit down. I have already prepared beef, mutton and good wine in the tent. If you are late, they will get cold. Don't talk outside. It doesn't make sense to entertain guests outside. What do you think?"

At this moment, Xu Miaoyun, who was following behind Zhu Kai, also discovered that something was wrong, so he leaned over to Zhu Kai's ear and whispered.

"I felt something was wrong. He actually brought his sister with him. But I sensed some disappointment in his eyes. Was it because we didn't bring our third and fourth brothers?"

Xu Miaoyun is usually very meticulous.

It was indeed the right choice for Zhu Kai to bring him out this time. Zhu Kai also found that there was something wrong with Wang Baobao.

Zhu Kai pulled Xu Miaoyun and the other two and followed them to the door of the tent. Zhu Kai turned around and said.

"Lan Yu, just wait outside."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Wang Baobao originally saw General Lan Yu in armor. He was walking in front a little nervously. After hearing Zhu Kai's instructions to Lan Yu, he seemed to be relieved, turned around and said with a fake smile.

"General Lan Yu has already come here, how can he be guarding outside the tent?
This is really not a proper way to entertain guests. We are eating meat and drinking wine inside, while General Lan Yu is outside in the cold wind. How can this be appropriate? Let him come in together."

"Wang Baobao, this is the rule in our Ming Dynasty. It's different from yours."

"Since that's the case, that's fine."

As soon as I opened the tent curtain, the strong smell of beef and mutton hit my nose.

Xu Miaoyun usually eats very light food, and he really can't stand the smell of such heavy oil, but he can't cover his nose, which is obviously very impolite.

Xu Miaoyun frowned slightly and lowered her head, following Zhu Kai, and they came to the main seat.

"Is it inappropriate for me to sit here?"

Wang Baobao said.

"Of course it's appropriate. The most important guest here should sit in the most important seat. As a prince of the Ming Dynasty, you are worthy of this position. Please take your seat."

Zhu Kai smiled slightly and did not refuse again. After all, at the critical moment, he still had to maintain the dignity of a prince of the Ming Dynasty.

"Then I would rather obey your orders than be respectful."

As soon as he sat down, Wang Baobao turned around and made a gesture to Guanyinnu. He immediately turned around, picked up the wine jug, walked to the table of Zhu Kai and Xu Miaoyun, and started pouring wine for them.

"Asking your own sister to pour wine for us, isn't this a little bit..."

“We don’t care about that here.”

Xu Miaoyun, as a woman, also realized that today's banquet was definitely not simple. Wang Baobao usually doted on his sister. Moreover, the brother-sister relationship between them was completely different from the brother-sister relationship under the conflict of interests in the Ming Dynasty. Their relationship was deeper.

"Your Highness, please have some. This is the mare's milk wine we just brewed. Please have a taste."

"Thank you! Please take your seats. I'm not used to you standing by while the two of us sit here."

"Okay, Guanyin slave, you can sit over there too."

At this moment, Xu Miaoyun had a bad feeling. Guanyin slave, the look in her eyes when she looked at Zhu Kai just now was definitely not innocent. It seemed that there was some desire in her shyness.

"What on earth does Wang Baobao want to do? He arranged for his sister to pour wine for us. I think it's better to be cautious. Do you want to drink this wine?"

Seeing how enthusiastic the other party was, Xu Miaoyun knew that if someone ignored his kindness, he was either a traitor or a thief.

Although he was very dissatisfied in his heart, he felt that Wang Baobao seemed to be trying to win over Zhu Kai and Guanyin Nu, and his intention was obvious.

However, Xu Miaoyun was a lady from a noble family who never showed her emotions, and she would never offend the other person in such a public occasion.

Zhu Kai knew very well that Xu Miaoyun was a little unhappy, so he reached out his hand under the table and gently patted Xu Miaoyun's hand twice.

The two people can be said to be in sync with each other.

Zhu Kai was also unwilling to beat around the bush and guess the other party's intentions. He preferred to be straightforward and get to the point.

"Wang Baobao, you actually invited me to your family dinner today, and you said we don't want to talk about business.

Well, I am a little curious. I can see that you seem to have something to tell me. You might as well tell me directly. We are already so familiar with each other. If you have any request, I will not refuse as long as I can do it. "

Wang Baobao was drinking. After hearing Zhu Kai's words, his eyes rolled around and then he smiled with a slightly cunning look.

"Your Majesty, you are so smart that you can guess so quickly that I have something to tell you. But you don't have to be so nervous. I don't have anything serious to ask for your help. This is a good thing for both of us."

Hearing this, Zhu Kai was a little confused.

"A good thing? And it's a good thing for both of us?"

"Almost. To be precise, it should be a happy event."

When Xu Miaoyun heard this, he immediately had a bad feeling. Could it be that this guy really wanted to shamelessly send her sister to Zhu Kai as a concubine?
"Your Highness, we are already so familiar with each other, and our families have already surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. So why don't we make things even better and become closer?"

"What do you mean by this?"

"My little sister, Guanyinnu, is in her prime this year, and it's time for me to do something extraordinary. If you don't mind..."

Zhu Kai glanced at Guanyin Nu out of the corner of his eye. In the past, he and his brother often came to discuss business, but he had never looked at him straight in the eye.

Although he knew that she was one of the most beautiful women in the entire Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Kai was not interested in her at all.

Zhu Kai had only one idea, which was to build his career. He wanted to build the Ming Dynasty into his ideal form according to his own ideas.

Therefore, Zhu Kai was not interested in anyone except Xu Miaoyun. However, Zhu Kai had to admit that Guanyin Nu was indeed quite pretty.

As Wang Baobao spoke, he kept observing Zhu Kai. Seeing that Zhu Kai was staring at his sister intently, he was still very lucky about this matter and perhaps there was a glimmer of hope.

"Your Majesty, although I am not the most beautiful woman in the world, I am still considered to be quite pretty. If you don't mind, I can send her to your house to serve you."

Xu Miaoyun stood by and remained calm, although he had already expected that as the principal wife, ordinary men would have three wives and four concubines, let alone the emperor's family.

He had already prepared for this, but he didn't expect that this day would come so soon. He thought that he could escape this matter by moving away from Yingtian Prefecture and coming to the Liaodong area, but he didn't expect that someone would come to his door on their own initiative.

After Wang Baobao said this, he began to observe the expressions of Zhu Kai and Xu Miaoyun.

These two people are really worthy of being a couple. There is no flaw in their expressions. Even if they are satisfied or dissatisfied in their hearts, there is no way to tell from their expressions.

Toyin Timur looked at Zhu Kai and heard that his brother had tried every means to show goodwill but still had no expression, and he couldn't help but feel angry.

Originally, he was very unhappy about his sister marrying into the palace as a concubine.

After all, they were once nobles of the Yuan Dynasty. Although they have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and lost their noble status, they should not have fallen to this point. What's the difference between this and selling one's sister?
"Your Majesty, my elder brother has already spoken out, do you agree or not? You have to give us a quick death today.

It would not be good for Guanyin's slave to be here, as he would not be given the honor of having a daughter.

Do you know that in our tribe, any woman who is Xu Kun, if rejected by her husband’s family, will never be able to hold her head up in the tribe for the rest of her life? "

Zhu Kai was thinking about these people in his mind. They all had countless ideas in their minds.

How could he know these customs in the tribe, whether they had existed for a long time or were specially made for himself? However, Zhu Kai didn't care at all. He had never thought of taking a concubine.

Wang Baobao knew very well that he should let Xu Miaoyun speak first about this matter. In the Ming Dynasty, women were most concerned about the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, and they had to marry repeatedly. It was also very normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines. Xu Miaoyun would definitely not reject him on the spot.

So, Wang Baobao said to Xu Miaoyun with some ill intention.

"Princess, I have already said this. I am afraid that this matter must be approved by you first. I wonder what your attitude is?"

Xu Miaoyun lowered her head and smiled faintly, with some of the gentleness of a Jiangnan woman. In comparison, she was many times more beautiful than Guanyin Nu.

"Wang Baobao, you think too highly of me. A woman should obey her husband after marriage. I still have to obey the wishes of His Majesty.

If you want me to agree to this on behalf of the prince, it is absolutely impossible. Although the Ming Dynasty emphasizes three wives and four concubines, it still requires the consent of the parents and the matchmaker. "

"Could it be that one of them has to go back to the capital to report to the emperor for such a small matter? That's not necessary.

If it really doesn't work, just consider it as taking another concubine. I have admired the prince for a long time. If I can serve him sexually, I will die without regrets.

Besides, our tribe has long been in decline, and being able to follow the prince will give our whole family a backer."

After Zhu Kai heard Wang Baobao say this, he immediately understood what the other party meant. It seemed that his real purpose was that he was worried about the business between them and wanted to put someone next to him to spy on him.

To put it another way, even if he really wanted his sister to come and serve him, Zhu Kaiyue would definitely not agree for the sake of Xu Miaoyun and his own career.

Moreover, although the Mongolian tribes, Mobei and Chagatai have been pacified, the most terrifying thing is the Japanese pirates in the coastal areas. With so many enemies, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be facing internal and external troubles.

Zhu Kai couldn't think about this kind of problem at this time. He didn't allow himself to fall. After all, his real purpose of traveling here was to build a career, and everything else had to be put aside. (End of this chapter)