The New Year’s Eve dinner was held in the Heroes’ Juyi Hall. It is actually just a large cave.

There have been many arrangements here, with red cloth hanging on the walls and dozens of huge red lanterns lit in the house. There are countless red waxes as thick as pine oil torches, which are no different from those during the day.

There are at least twenty tables of banquets in the cave. Although there is no special food on it, the New Year’s Eve dinner should be served, including wine, meat, fish and shrimp. It is already very good to be prepared to this level at this time.

When Zhang Gui came in, most of the room was full. When he saw them coming in, all those who knew each other stood up and bowed and greeted each other. Zhang Gui also returned the gifts one by one. Everyone changed into new clothes and everyone looked happy on their faces.

"It's a good job, Lao Wu, you spent a lot of money." Zhang Gui looked at the banquet at the table and immediately said with a smile.

"Hey! Don't laugh at us! We also want to make it better, but we really don't have the ability. These things are made nearby, so we have to prepare some chicken, duck, fish and meat, right? The beef and mutton are not enough, so we can only use pork instead. Please ask brother Haihan. Brother here!" Zhang Heng explained with a smile while bringing Zhang Gui to the chairman.

When Zhang Gui saw that the seat they left for him was the main seat, he immediately refused, "How can this be done? No matter what, I am a guest, how can I occupy the nest? I will definitely not be able to sit in this main seat."

But Zhang Heng and Yu Tao were very persistent. Yu Tao said, "Where are you not going to sit here? Everyone here comes with your face. When we all want to invite you to be the leader of this alliance conference tomorrow. Now you are just the master seat. What's wrong with it?" As he said that, he pulled Zhang Gui from left to right and insisted that he sit down. Zhang Gui couldn't refuse, so he had to sit down.

Zhu Danian has always stood behind Zhang Gui and never left her step. The others were taken down and sat down. Zhang Heng looked at it and smiled and said, "Are you afraid that we will harm your brother?"

Zhang Gui also waved his hand, "You go down and find a place to sit down and have a meal. You stand behind me, I can't drink." Zhu Danian then turned around, but he also knew the meaning in his eye contact with Zhang Shun, so he didn't drink any wine after going down, just eat vegetables and pay attention to everything that happened in front of him at any time.

Most of the people on the main table were known to Zhang Gui, and only the two people sitting next to Yu Tao, Zhang Gui had never seen them, so he looked at them curiously.

One of them was dressed as a young man, with beautiful eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but there was a yin energy between them, and the other was dressed as a Taoist priest. Zhang Gui asked Zhang Heng who those two were, and Zhang Heng immediately introduced, "This one is Chen Feng, the young master of Daxu Mountain, next to him is his good friend and his senior brother Yu Zhenzi. These two are also young heroes."

Zhang Gui bowed his fists, and Chen Feng smiled and returned the favor but did not say anything. Yu Zhenzi didn't even look at Zhang Gui, but just ate and drank on his own, which made Zhang Heng feel a little uncomfortable.

But Yu Tao immediately explained, "This Yu Zhenzi has a bit of a quirk. She has never been to the mountains and rivers. Please forgive me, brother." Zhang Gui just smiled and said nothing.

After a while, the banquet was held, and Yu Tao also stood up and raised his glass to celebrate, "Good friends, we can gather in my small place today. I have the blessing of my three lives. My small place is also full of glory. I have prepared anything good here, just some vulgar food. Everyone eats and drinks casually, don't be restricted. Today is like home, we have a reunion year together. I have had this cup!"

"Do it!" Everyone replied with a loud bang.

After a glass of wine, Yu Tao said again, "We can get together this time because of tomorrow's alliance meeting. Why are we holding this conference? Actually, I can't say it well, but we have a distinguished guest today, so I can understand it. Let's invite Mr. Zhang Gui to tell you about it. Brother, please."

Zhang Gui never thought that in such an occasion, he would say a few more words by himself, and immediately became a little dazed. He was not as eloquent as Zhang Shun. However, when he saw other people looking at him, he gritted his teeth and made a cruel decision. He just said it. Anyway, after following the third brother often listened to him about ideological education, let's learn to speak today, and we can't be embarrassed at this time.

He made up his mind and stood up slowly. He was not tall, only about 1.5 meters tall, but he was extremely burly. His face formed a sharp contrast with his height. In addition, he was a heroic person and also had a great reputation in the underworld, so even if someone looked down on his figure at this time, he could not look down on him.

"I'll just say a few words casually. Everyone knows that I'm a rough man, I haven't been to school, I don't know how many big words, and I don't know what kind of person I am when the shoulder pole is down, so if I say something wrong, please forgive me."

"Brother Zhang, please tell me, we are all the same rough people." Many people below shouted, and it seemed that they were people with good relationships with Zhang Gui or had a long history of friendship.

Zhang Gui nodded, raised his hand and drank the wine in the glass, and then said loudly, "Some of you here know me, some don't know me, but you should know what kind of background I, Zhang Gui, were not a good person before, and I have done a lot of things in selling private salt, stealing official boats and fighting in groups, but those have been for life. Who told us that we were poor? We can only fish and farm land, but the government's taxes and silver are so heavy, and I'm afraid we can't even get a wife without getting some foreign wealth?" Everyone laughed immediately after saying this. In fact, most of these people are the same. Who will do this with good family conditions?

"I have resisted taxes before, beat tax collectors, and worked for a year in prison. I didn't hide this from everyone. After all, I didn't think too much about it at that time. I just wanted to support my mother and take care of my younger brothers and sisters. Who told me that my father died earlier than me? I am the boss, who would stand up if I don't go out and fight, who would care about their life or death? I don't care about their life or death in order to make them have enough food." When I said this, the laughter was gone, and everyone was stoked with their own past. In fact, the late Southern Song Dynasty was not as good as the legendary one, and everything was similar to other similar eras. How could there be any glorious eras that would fall down? Only when people live in miserable lives will have one after another.
Chapter completed!