Chapter 466: Invitation
Hongchen frowned slightly: "Spiritualist spell? ”
Ai Ai nodded during the Chartonne period, "I, I just wanted to ask." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He drooped his head, not even daring to look up at Hongchen.
Hongchen sighed: "...... Looks like you're in trouble. ”
Xia Tong's face turned even redder instantly, but he closed his mouth and refused to say more.
Hongchen didn't mind, if he wanted to let him help, he would have to say it sooner or later, he was a little interested in this person at this time, and looked him up and down a few times: "Your name is Xia Tong, right?" A spirit master? ”
Before the words fell, Xia Tong immediately raised his head and said: "Since I was eleven years old, I have been a lay disciple in Dayun Temple, learning Buddhism and metaphysics with my master, and later studying with Wu'an Daoist, and it has been seven years now. ”
He was rarely proud, and he was clearly proud of his identity.
"I'm going to take next year's spirit master exam, I'm sure I'll be able to pass!"
But then he bowed his head again and said, "Don't talk about this...... I just wanted to ask about the Spiritualist Charm, can the Spiritualist really summon his own soul? ”
Hongchen smiled: "Anyway, I haven't seen a spirit master recruit his own soul, as for ordinary people...... It is impossible for ordinary people to get the spell of the real spiritualist spell, even if there is a spell, there is no way to work without spiritual power, so I haven't seen it either. ”
Xia Tong's face was even more bitter, he gritted his teeth, and raised his head sharply with determination: "Are you Xia Hongchen, the lord of Rong'an?" ”
Hongchen was stunned and nodded very casually, her identity is not a secret, and the little guy in front of her has a little relationship with the Lin family, so it is not strange to know who she is.
"I'm the lord of Rong'an, but I'm not surnamed Xia."
Although Hongchen doesn't mind much about her surname now, since His Majesty the former emperor deliberately gave her the surname Chen, it doesn't matter if she has the surname Chen.
At least, the Queen Mother likes it.
Xia Tong didn't understand at all, but as soon as she heard her say that she was indeed the lord of Rong'an, he breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "Can you accompany me to a place." ”
Hongchen smiled, this kid is a matter of course, she is also a county lord, and she is also a more bare-handed county lord than before, and now she is a high-ranking official, a family head who has been distinguished for generations, and she must be a little respectful in front of her, if you want her to do a favor, then you have to ask for courtesy, how can you speak so casually!
However, Hongchen didn't refuse, just smiled: "Where do you want me to go with you?" ”
"The ancestral tomb of the Xia family is the Yanhui Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing."
Hongchen: "......"
Today's weather is neither hot nor cold, the sun is shining, suitable for shopping, Hongchen got out of the teahouse, and he was not in a hurry to go home, but he was wandering around the street in a carriage, Xia Tong rode a horse and followed him for a while, after all, his skin was not thick enough, and he was embarrassed to continue tracking.
Of course, it is difficult for him to chase all the time, no matter how inconspicuous and low-key the guards around Hongchen are, it is impossible to allow a hairy boy to follow his county lord for too long.
Of course, Hongchen didn't agree to Xia Tong, and as soon as she knew that this kid was also from the Xia family, although he was just a side branch, she didn't bother to pay attention to it, got up and left.
Throwing off the kid, Hongchen didn't go shopping much, and went home after a while, and bought Lin Xu some fire medicine for him.
Well, recently, Prince Lin has been eating medicinal food for some reason, although it has stopped at this time, it is still very beneficial to go to the fire.
I didn't stay home for a while, and someone outside handed over a post and sent a letter, which was from Xia's house.
The post is still Cheyenne's post.
Hongchen couldn't help frowning.
How long has it been since she thought about the Xia family? It seems to have been completely forgotten for a long, long time, but now that I think about it, those memories are still clear.
It's no wonder that she didn't have a good time in her last life, and what the Xia family gave her was still the best wealth she could have at that time.
Her fate has indeed been played, she has indeed changed from a famous daughter to a village girl from a rural background, she can hate and resent, but if she doesn't have such a relationship with the Xia family, then she has been just a poor country all her life, without the love of her father and mother, maybe she will suffer a lot of hardships.
It's over, and there's no need to think about it.
Hongchen opened the letter slowly, the letter was an invitation letter, very familiar, exhaled, Hongchen didn't feel funny: "If I could get it in my last life, I must be very happy." "But when I see this thing in this life, I think it's a little ridiculous.
The invitation letter is only given to the descendants of the Xia family, and it must be capable and famous, recommended by the patriarch, agreed by the elders, most of them are descendants, and sometimes there will be some collateral lines, and the person who gets the invitation letter will participate in the assessment, and the best performance is the next patriarch.
After fighting with countless competitors that year, Cheyenne deserved it, and finally sat on the position of patriarch.
He is indeed not incompetent, if he is not a particularly outstanding person, how can he marry a princess?
Hongchen sighed, she didn't know who had received the invitation letter back then, and she didn't know what the content of the assessment was, but she vaguely seemed to have heard someone mention that every time the assessment of the successor patriarch was made, it was the elders who came up with the questions, usually one for each person, and then went to the ancestral hall to ask, and drew a question in the ancestral hall to finish the matter.
However, the successor patriarch of the Xia family is Xia Chengzu, a child of a side branch, stocky and generous, and Xia An are two completely different people.
At that time, the new patriarch succeeded her, she was already sick in bed, and she was a little happy to get the news, at least the patriarch elected this time was down-to-earth enough, and the Xia family needed a down-to-earth patriarch at that time.
Lin Xu entered the study, and when he saw the invitation letter on the desk, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Xia's? How dare you send it to Hongchen? ”
The emperor's will to change his surname, people outside may not know, and Hongchen has no intention of publicizing it, but the Xia family must know, and it is impossible for the princess not to know, the queen mother still cares about her daughter in her heart.
However, Hongchen changed her surname to Chen, and the princess would definitely not be unhappy, and maybe she was a little happy.
But since he has changed his surname, and it has nothing to do with the Xia family, this invitation is very inappropriate.
Could it be that their Xia family would still accept a county lord surnamed Chen as the future patriarch of their family?
Hongchen smiled, picked up the invitation from the table, looked at it repeatedly, and said softly: "Hey, I still won't go." ”
She casually stuffed things under the bookcase, and she didn't throw them into the charcoal basin and burn them.
As he was talking, someone outside came to report again, Xia Tong actually found the door, Hongchen thought about it, didn't turn people away, and still asked people to come into the study.
Every time he sees Xia Tong, Hongchen feels that he has an inexplicable pride, not to mention, just this arrogance, to be more imposing than ordinary spirit masters, maybe one day he will be introduced to Wang Banxian, Wang Banxian will like it.
That old boy always said that his current group of apprentices, all of them have no talent, they don't have that style and self-confidence, like him, he didn't understand anything back then, and he was still regarded as a fairy, and now these boys also have some ability under their hands, at least much stronger than when he went out to walk the rivers and lakes, but all of them are the same as those in the countryside, and they have no knowledge.
It is estimated that Xia Tong is like this, and he feels good.
Entering the study and seeing Hongchen, Xia Tong said awkwardly: "I...... I would like to ask you to accompany me to see a patient who has been crazy for months, and has been visiting famous doctors, but he has not improved, and I feel ......."
"Think you've lost your soul?"
Hongchen blinked and muttered for a moment, this time she didn't refuse, she usually rarely refused to treat and save people.
"Where?"
"Shi, Shijia."
Lin Xu raised his eyebrows: "It turned out to be to see Shi Ren." ”
Hongchen was also happy: "Oh? At that time, he was also a famous man in the capital, so I went to see if he would suffer a loss. ”
When the family in the capital was not a famous family, but it was also quite famous, scholarly family, both men and women in the family loved to read, but the temperament was more upright, and they couldn't mix in the court, but the more such people, the more they had a good reputation among the literati.
At that time, he was the leader of this generation, and the Shi family treated him as a top man, and now that he was sick, the Shi family naturally would not give up easily, and found many famous doctors, and even entrusted the relationship to the palace, and invited the best imperial doctor, all kinds of means were exhausted, and the imperial doctors only said that he was lost, and he was helpless!
Now that the medicine stone is ineffective, the Shi family is almost desperate.
Xia Tong led Hongchen into the door of Shi's house, and his father and mother were very polite when they saw him, and he took people to Shiren's room by himself, obviously trusting him, and his relationship with the Shi family was not bad.
"This is it."
All the way to the bedroom at the time, the mother-in-law guarding the door sighed: "Young Master Xia is here, hey, the son is still the same, you, you go and have a look." ”
Xia Tong hesitated, nodded, pushed open the door, and saw Ren sitting upright at the desk, holding a book and reading, and he didn't look back when he heard the movement.
Hongchen glanced at it, and was funny in his heart, on the door, on the wall, and on the bed, there were yellow charms everywhere, but it was not obvious, they were all disguised, and they were well hidden, and it was probably not that insiders couldn't see it.
Not to mention, these yellow talismans are not fakes, they are all superior, what kind of tranquilizer talismans, soul fixing talismans, everything.
Looking at Ren again, even Hongchen had to admire, this person was decent, very pleasing appearance, especially Zhou Zheng, he couldn't see where he was crazy at this time, sitting at the table reading silently, and he was bookish.
Xia Tong whimpered, and tears almost fell.
Only then did Hongchen notice that the book in his hand was upside down, and he seemed to be reading it seriously, but his eyes were rolling, and he was wandering out of the world.
"At the time, at the time."
Xia Tong shouted twice. The person on the other side didn't hear it, stretched his waist for a while, moved his wrist, got up and walked to the window, frowned, and showed a touch of sadness on his face: "It's going to be dark this day, has You Langjun returned?" ”
Hongchen was startled.
At that time, Ren's voice was a male voice, but the tone of his voice was tactful and long, and this expression was purely the appearance of a deep resentful woman.
Xia Tong's face turned blue all of a sudden.
The woman outside seemed to have been in battle for a long time, and she was not afraid at all, so she dragged out her voice and said, "You Langjun must have been delayed outside, don't worry." ”
After listening, Shi Ren sighed, turned his head and walked to the front of the bronze mirror, picked up a comb, combed his hair carefully, and hummed a little song softly in his mouth.
What the song is, Hongchen didn't understand, but with a little resentment, it's really not something that a big man can sing.
"You see, you see." Xia Tong was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, "It's been a few months, he's like this, and it's useless to see any doctors." ”
Hongchen looked around: "You didn't summon him a spirit?" "Just looking at some talismans, you can see that Xia Tong has bothered a lot, and he should have done a lot in this regard.
"Recruited."
Xia Tongne, the roots of his ears were red, "When there is no move, that is, I can't sleep, and the result is a move, and a move ......"
Hongchen: "......"
She can see it now, Xia Tong must be the culprit, no wonder she is so ashamed.
Xia Tong looked at Hongchen with a pair of eyes, gritted his teeth, and no longer cared about being embarrassed or not, and said in a dumb voice: "At that time, there was a gentleman in his academy, and he didn't know which one was crazy that day, and he said a bunch of things like conjuring spirits, and when Ren came back to tell me, I criticized him, and that guy didn't say it at all, and he didn't believe it at all, so I gave him a piece of ancient jade magic weapon in a hurry, and told him how to summon spirits, saying that if he didn't believe it, he could try it according to my method." ”
Hongchen: "...... If nothing else, you're so bold! Dare to give magic weapons! ”
Xia Tong also wanted to cry without tears, hanging his head and losing his spirit at all.
Hongchen sighed softly, thought about it, and could understand Xia Tong a little, he probably only had a sense of pride as a spirit master in front of an ordinary person like Shi Ren, and of course, he also wanted Shi Ren to agree, so he was a little out of proportion.
It is not easy to become a spiritual master, at least you must have a good inheritance, and it is best to have a master to teach carefully and carefully, of course, the more important thing is to look at your talent, and see if God will let you eat this bowl of rice.
In Hongchen's opinion, Xia Tong is not a talented, he has no aura, uh, maybe he is a little bit of a star, and he can be regarded as a spirit master in the eyes of ordinary people, but in her eyes, that little aura is completely negligible, and even a half-hung person is not counted.
It is not surprising that a person like him, looking at him and wanting to be a spirit master so much, will show off in front of ordinary people.
Hongchen took a closer look at the situation at the time, frowned, and said, "You want me to accompany you to the ancestral tomb of the Xia family, it has something to do with the situation at the time?" ”
“…… Well, when Ren went to play the conjuring spirit, he went to Yanhui Mountain, and then I helped him, and I helped him recruit souls for a long time, but it was useless...... I just thought, there must be something wrong with that place, but now I can't go, the Xia family closed the passage and didn't let me go. ”
Xia Tong grimaced.
Hongchen shook his head, looked at Shi Ren again, and frowned: "Since it's useless for you to go once, what can you do if you go again?" (To be continued.) )