Yu Jun was confused, and wanted to ask again, but Hongchen didn't say much, and directly served tea to the guests.

If you don't go, you can't go, from the moment she saw Hongchen, Yu Yi was all kinds of wrong, his body was heavy, he couldn't take a step, he always wanted to lie down, it took a lot of effort, his face rose red, and he barely made a fool of himself.

Yu Yi is also a young man, and in front of such a beautiful girl as Hongchen, he is not happy to always act like an idiot and make people laugh.

It's just that the father and son are a little disappointed when they leave this magical little broken house.

Especially Yu Jun, with a long sigh, his face pale.

Yu Yi's face was gloomy, and he sneered for a while: "Dad, I think that little girl is also bluffing, relying on some abilities to scare people." ”

He made a fool of himself in front of Hongchen, and he felt uncomfortable thinking about it, and it was inevitable that he would belittle her.

"Dad, what can you do wrong, in the past ten years, we have been staying in the capital at home, no one has entered the court as an official, acting in a low-key manner, never grudging with others, Dad has not taken care of outside affairs for many years, will he still offend people? What nonsense! ”

That's not wrong.

Yu Jun frowned, thoughtfully led his son back, the Yu family didn't look very beautiful, even those princes and disciples didn't dare to mess with it in the capital, but it was all by virtue of the shadow of the ancestors, these years are thin, nothing can be done, even he knows that his talent is insufficient, he obeys his father's orders, only honestly guards the family business, does not interfere with the affairs of the court, and has never done anything that hurts nature and reason, how can it be retribution to his son.

The New Year is coming.

This year, Yong'an is not very peaceful, and disasters are repeated. But I finally survived this year, looking at the weather, Ruixue Zhaofeng year, the omen is excellent, and the next year will be smoother than this year.

All the streets smell festive.

Luo Niang and the others had been reading the book for so long, and they were also tired, so they simply took advantage of the New Year's Festival to relax and relax, and the trees in the yard were full of all kinds of colorful satin lanterns, Hongchen liked it and thought about it. Get dressed neatly. Wrapped from head to toe, even with finger-splitting gloves on his hands, he led Jin Qing and Luo Niang to the garden and began to paint.

Use a knife as a pen and ice as paper. Draw the splendid scenery of the world.

Luo Niang even played with ice sculptures.

Small house. Overnight, it became a snow garden. Xue Baiqiao came to give a New Year's gift, but before he entered the door, he let the winding ice Great Wall dazzle the fans, and pounced on it for a while. Slide down for a while and have fun.

Lin Xu came with him, and Senior Brother Lin distributed red envelopes to everyone in the family, and the gift of this little marquis was still thrown in the snow and no one cared about it.

"Forget it, it's rare for him to be so happy these days."

The Xue family has also not been peaceful in the past two years.

Ning Hou is a leisurely idle marquis, and the emperor is a friendship that has been formed since childhood, in the capital is a person with a higher title than him and a greater power than him, and he easily does not dare to provoke him, it is said that there should not be much trouble, after all, even his young son has grown up very much, and he is deeply liked by the emperor, he reads well, and when he gets a fame, he can rely on his title not to enter the court as an official, or to be a scholar, life must be good, but the problem is that the youngest son is too promising.

Xue Songqiao, the son of the Xue family, is three years older than Xue Baiqiao, and he has been highly valued since his birth.

Xu is Ninghou has been too lazy since he was a child, and he is not a good son who can make his parents proud when he grows up, the old marquis manages Xue Songqiao very strictly, he reads at the age of three, and practices martial arts at the age of five, and he has not been idle since then.

The enterprising nobles in the capital almost educate their eldest sons like this, but some families manage their children more strictly, and some families love their children more.

Xue Songqiao has been cultivated as the heir of the Xue family since he was a child, and his younger brother was born with another title, so he will not fight with him, and the two brothers have a good relationship, but in recent years, after he married a wife and gave birth to a son, things have gradually changed.

I don't know why, Xue Baiqiao's sister-in-law has a deep hostility towards him, and Mrs. Hou loves her young son, so she is very willing to spend money on Xue Baiqiao, and even said that because the eldest son inherited the Hou Mansion and will split up in the future, she is afraid that the younger son will suffer, and her dowry will be kept for the child.

In the past, Xue Baiqiao was smiling, and Mrs. Hou said these words, and everyone only thought that his mother loved the child, afraid that he would not be able to get by, and planned for him, and even Xue Songqiao, who was the eldest brother, did not mind, but in the past two years, I don't know what happened, and there was a quarrel between the brothers.

"Hey, I really don't want to go back, my sister-in-law always says sour things, and my brother always listens to her, man, I forgot my brother after marrying my daughter-in-law."

Xue Baiqiao squatted on the Great Wall made of ice and sighed.

"Women are such a strange thing."

Luo Niang frowned and glared at him.

Hongchen smiled: "Huh? Don't look down on women? ”

Xue Baiqiao immediately shrank.

Lin Xu smiled, put on a newly made ink-colored robe, put on a fox fur coat, the collar of the big hair was erected, covering half of his face, and he also helped Hongchen tie a cloak as soon as he stretched out his hand.

"Let's go."

The two of them went out with an umbrella, but they didn't take a car, and walked slowly towards Dongcheng along the street, stepping on the snow.

Hongchen walked not easily, but he didn't feel tired, he was a little numb, I don't know how long he walked, he saw the misty Linfu archway, the glazed bricks were still dazzling, but they had already shown a trace of decline.

After a pause, Lin Xu seemed to hesitate.

At this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves behind him, and a group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys and girls flew across the archway, raised their hands, crackled, and the messy bricks and stones smashed on the vermilion gate of the Lin Mansion.

Hongchen's heart tightened.

Lin Xu's face was pale, his lips moved, and he still didn't speak after all.

After a while, the door of the Lin Mansion opened, and a lame old servant came out, slowly sweeping away the dirty things in front of the door, his movements were skillful, his expression was numb, obviously not the first time he had done this errand.

It wasn't until the old servant entered the door and the door was closed again that Lin Xu took Hongchen's hand and walked to the door.

Looking up, the golden plaque of the imperial gift was gone, and only the empty house remained.

"I want to ...... back then"

Thinking that when the old prince was alive, who would dare to run wild in front of the Lin Mansion. The civil official got off the sedan chair, and the military attache got off the horse, that was the common rule for everyone, and the emperor came in person, and he refused to sit directly in the palace with the imperial chariot, but now he has a dime at will, and he dares to insult the Lin Mansion.

In an instant, Lin Xu even wanted to arrest Miss Gongzi just now and beat him viciously, but he knew that the people who were still guarding the Lin family now did not want him to do this. It's really not necessary.

The honor and disgrace of the Lin family. Ben is not something that the slightest contemptuous act of these people can influence.

After standing for a long time, with snowflakes piled up on their shoulders, Lin Xu and Hongchen turned around and left, never coming to the door. It's time for them to go. The door of the Lin family opened. The old servant came out to look around and looked at Lin Xu's back for a long time.

When he got home, Hongchen was not in a good mood. went to put a stick of incense on Xiao Mo and offered him some tea and snacks.

Xiao Mo is not picky about anything, so he doesn't know what he likes to eat the most, and whether the things he offers are agreeable or not.

Time flies.

Soon it was Chinese New Year's Eve.

Hongchen sat down and took stock of this year's harvest, Luo Niang and the others reported everyone's business in the past year, and asked a group of children who had been trained secretly to come over to see the ceremony.

It's been two years, since Xiao Mo died, Hongchen has adopted a group of little beggars, saying that they are beggars, but in fact, there are many sources, and some of them are the same as Luo Niang, they are all hard-working warblers, and they choose those with good qualifications and good conduct, and ask Lin Xu to help, and use the training methods of Guigu to train seriously.

It is said that it is the method of Guigu, but in fact, Hongchen has improved a lot, and even Lin Xu was surprised when he saw it, feeling that the training method is in the same vein as Guigu, but it is much more mature.

He naturally felt familiar, they were all things that Hongchen had seen with his own eyes when he followed Mr. Guigu back then.

In this way, it is estimated that it is more effective than training in other places for three or five years, and the children who are eliminated from the training will be sent to Luo Niang and them, or to be a small servant, or to help with business, two years is too short, but it is barely enough to get a few people who can be used.

Hongchen was just sixteen years old, still very young, and had a lot of time to do this, so she was not in a hurry.

Luo Niang has to call the organization they established 'Shengmen', and it is also very appropriate, the disciples in the door are all born in a desperate situation.

"Okay, everyone sit, sit down and eat dumplings, and hope that everything will go well in the new year." Hongchen raised his wine glass with a smile, everyone drank a glass of wine first, and while waiting for the dumplings to come out of the pot, there was nothing more, only a camphor wood box was moved out and opened casually.

It was covered with red silk and placed many puppets, all of which were wooden statues of everyone present.

Luo Niang smiled, took out her own one and held it in the palm of her hand: "It's only been two years, I think I'm beautiful." ”

Two years ago, Luo Niang also had a kind of beauty, which had gone through vicissitudes of life, secular beauty, but now it has an extra charm.

As usual, everyone took their small wooden statues and wiped them clean, and took grease to maintain them before they were put away again by the red dust.

Luo Niang couldn't help but pick up Xiao Mo's wooden statue, rubbed it carefully, wiped it for a long time, and sighed: "Back then, he asked for the portrait of Miss, and we also joked that this kid was also moved by his heart, knowing that he admired the beauty, and knew that he went so early, he should have encouraged him to say what he wanted to say, and he didn't have to leave with regrets." ”

They vaguely guessed that Xiao Mo might have been moved by Miss Hongchen, even if he didn't fall in love yet, at least he had some good feelings, and his first reaction was to persuade, hoping that he would cut off the sprout as soon as possible, don't think nonsense, after all, the gap between Xiao Mo and Miss Hongchen is too big.

But if you know that his life is so short, what if you let him have a thought, young man, love beautiful women, isn't it a normal thing?

"Alright, let's eat dumplings."

After putting away the things, the white dumplings were put on the table, steaming hot and very delicious.

Lin Xu's first dumpling, and after taking a bite, he took out a big copper coin, which made everyone around laugh and asked for blessings.

"That's not good, all the blessings are given to Ah Chen."

Lin Xu smiled and pulled out a long red thread from his sleeve, wiped the copper coin, strung it together, stuffed it into his purse, and hung the purse on his waist for Hongchen.

"I hope that next year we will have all the best and be happy."

Hongchen also smiled, she also thought that it was already the best thing in the world to be able to sit in her favorite place so peacefully, regardless of etiquette, not scruple about others, and only stay with the people close to her for the New Year.

The ones that I have been pursuing in my previous life, what fame and fortune. What wealth, what kind of love of relatives, those things are of course good, it doesn't matter if they don't have them, what she gets by herself is more valuable than others to give.

If she wants fame and fortune, she will take it herself.

She wants to be rich, and wealth is now within reach.

As for her relatives, these are all at the moment, and she exchanges her sincerity for sincerity. Not everyone will be Wang Yue. Everyone is as shameless as the Wang family.

"Okay, eat and drink enough to go and see the lights, but Xiaoqing has to go back to Wen Shu, and you have to take the exam at the beginning of the year."

Hongchen said with a smile.

Jin Qing suddenly made a bitter face: "...... Not! ”

The family went out to see the lights lively. Hongchen also made a few Kong Ming lanterns to fly into the sky. Lin Xu watched from afar. beckoned, called the kitten over, and made one himself. Splashing ink, he also drew a picture of the sunset in the desert and a picture of the silver flower of the fire tree on the lantern, all of which were extremely fast.

"Take it out there and put it out."

Hongchen looked at it, pondered for a moment, and said with a smile: "Go to the golden pond and put it higher." ”

The kitten answered, he was still a child, he liked to play, pulled the little fox together, and called a group of children to cheer and ran out.

Kong Ming lanterns fly higher and higher.

You can see it up and down the Lin Mansion on the opposite side of the Golden Pond.

The old princess of the Lin family opened the window, sat there with the fox fur in her arms, pinched the embroidery thread in her hand, and smiled softly: "The good grandson is back, and I don't know if I have married a beautiful daughter-in-law, so that we can continue the incense for the Lin family." ”

This mansion, which seems to have been buried by time, seems to be shrouded in a layer of gentle glow.

"Roar!"

Hongchen was lying on the recliner, the whole person shrunk into a ball, and suddenly a tiger's roar sounded in his ears, and he sat up suddenly, "By the way, kitten, have you fed them?" ”

The kitten was hurriedly cleaning up the melon seed skin on the ground, and when he heard this, he was stunned and touched his head: "Uh, it seems to have forgotten." ”

Today's Chinese New Year's Eve, the animals at home also followed the New Year, they prepared a few live sheep early in the morning, killed and slaughtered, and forgot to feed them in a hurry.

The kitten hurriedly threw the broom in his hand and ran out, and Hongchen got up, first loosened the soil for the old ginseng, and then watered the little jasmine, and by the way, put the little jasmine on the windowsill, and let it see the scenery outside.

Although the jasmine flowers are still bright green in winter, it will definitely be strange for outsiders to see them.

But the few people who saw it recently didn't show anything, and it seemed to be taken for granted.

The kitten and the little fox didn't ask, but when they took care of little Jasmine as usual every day, they became more gentle and careful.

It took many days for Hongchen to react, and in their minds, if there were no abnormal events around them, it would be abnormal.

Under the gentle entanglement of the jasmine branches, Hongchen added some water to it, and couldn't help but feed it with spiritual power, and after feeding it twice, he heard Lin Xu talking outside, as well as the voice of the monk, Hongchen was stunned, and hurriedly put on his clothes and went out.

I saw that the monk was really standing in the courtyard, with a kind face and a smile, and was talking to a few little girls who were sweeping the floor in a low voice.

The little girls were very happy, holding all kinds of pastries in their hands.

"Master Turbulence?" Hongchen was stunned, and hurriedly said, "Why did you come to the capital?" "He is not a three-hate, but a senior monk of Puji Temple, when Hongchen was in Qi County, he was not less taken care of, and even Luo Niang and they had his favor several times, so they lived peacefully in Qi County for two years, and never received any harassment.

It can be said that in the eyes of those who know the inside story, the three hatreds are a fake monk, no big deal, but the monk really belongs to the monks who must be respected.

"It's not like choosing a spirit girl again." Monk Jian sighed, "This year, Puji Temple was also invited to participate, so I had to come." ”

Also, the face of the imperial court must not be given, don't look at the temple and look at the coldness, in fact, it was built in the Great Zhou, and it was subject to the control of the Great Zhou government, and the monks were also people, and if they offended the officials, they would not have good fruit to eat.

The selection of the spirit girl by the imperial court is a grand event of this dynasty, and the temples and Taoist temples around the country are invited to participate in the ceremony, which is glorious, and if you don't come, you will despise the court, and the monks will not be happy and will not come.

Hongchen smiled, hurriedly let the master into the room, and asked in a low voice, "The three angers are also here?" ”

"He didn't worry, he had to follow, he was watching the carriage outside at this time, saying that he wouldn't look at the female Tanyue show, I really don't know what this kid thinks."

Hongchen: "......"

It is also the monk who dares to treat that evil monk as a child, that guy will definitely not be able to go to the Western Elysium when he dies in the future, and the eighteen layers of hell are all tolerant.

"That's right. This is Yu Jun Yu Tanyue, he has a friendship with my teacher, and today he asked me to his head, and I couldn't refuse, so I could only bring him with him, and I also invited the female Tanyue to be strange. ”

Monk Yun pointed to the Yu family father and son who had been following him.

Hongchen frowned, so he had to look over, it was only a short time since he saw it, Yu Jun was okay, Yu Yi's head was wrapped again. The complexion is not good. The face is pale and bloodless, apparently a symptom of excessive blood loss.

Before she could speak, Yu Yi had already slammed into the ground and said softly: "This time I took the liberty of visiting." It's not about asking for help. I just heard that the young lady can make yin and yang and harmony. It is very effective, Yu is willing to buy at a high price, please Miss must allow it. ”

Hongchen was happy all of a sudden. He smiled and said, "I know, it seems that you have found a spiritual master with some cultivation and thought of a way to solve it?" ”

Yu Jun's face was also somewhat relaxed, and he said in an accentuated voice: "Yu still has a little thin face on a certain ancestor, although the national teacher has been in retreat for many years, and the last time he also said that my son is fine, but he is still willing to perform the supreme magic method to help my son's wish come true, but as a national teacher, yin and yang and this kind of symbol, it is naturally not suitable to make it yourself, and I am grateful to be able to point to a certain sentence, and I am grateful, and the master said that the talisman drawn by Miss is the real spirit talisman, and there is no second one in the capital that can be compared at present." ”

Although the words are touting, it is obvious that Hongchen is also regarded as a coolie who cannot enter the stream.

This kind of thing is very common, but the spirit masters of the Great Zhou Dynasty can't easily draw it, and those wild people, goddesses and gods, and swaggering people are willing to do it.

It's not that there is anything wrong with it, people who are purely serious cultivators don't like to get involved in cause and effect, and in this world, the most likely thing to be contaminated with cause and effect is the matter of marriage and husband and wife, people's lives are too long, whether the husband and wife will be kind and loving for a lifetime, no one knows, people who are contaminated with this kind of thing, that is, they are asking for trouble.

Even Monk Jian listened to his words, frowned, and couldn't help but speak: "Yong'an Yuelao Temple sells and fits, if Tan Yue wants it, he can buy it." ”

However, Hongchen was not angry this time, and he was not afraid of trouble, so he really casually asked the kitten to prepare yellow paper and cinnabar, and drew a talisman for him.

Yu Jun showed a little smugness on his face, no matter how mysterious and unpredictable he was, he still wanted to do his business-

"Make a price!"

Hongchen shook his head with a smile: "No, this time the friendship is given, for the sake of Master Dian." This year is Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is better for the Yu family owner to go back early for the family reunion, and I will not leave guests here. ”

Yu Jun nodded, in fact, it is indeed inappropriate to come to the door tonight, if it weren't for the fact that the national teacher would do it on the first day of the new year, he should have kept vigil at home at this time.

Seeing Yu Jun's father and son turn away, Hongchen smiled and chased again: "Tomorrow, the head of the Yu family will definitely take Ling Lang with him, don't leave." ”

Yu Jun didn't understand, he was happy at this moment, and he didn't care what Hongchen said.

The monk felt that there was something in Hongchen's words, but he inexplicably came to the door on Chinese New Year's Eve, and also led the evil guests to come, and some were a little careless, just caring about stuffing amulets and red envelopes into Hongchen's family, and didn't think much about it for a while.

It was late at night, the weather was cold, and the curfew time was approaching, so Hongchen didn't let Monk Dian go, leaving him in the guest room for one night.

"We are new to the capital, we are in a hurry to buy a house, and the house is too small, so don't dislike it."

Monk Jian was already moved: "It's already very good." ”

It is indeed very good, His Majesty has become particularly stingy in recent years, the palace has not been repaired for more than ten years, and the palace room is so bad that it can't be seen, so it is simply sealed directly, and the palace concubine is moved out to live with others, and he refuses to rebuild, and the coins rewarded to his subordinates are all used in old and seriously damaged, not to mention the residences arranged by the monks and spiritual masters who come to Beijing, it is simply crowded, dark and breathable, and the bedding is also thin.

If he doesn't have a way to live, he has no way to live, so he has to reluctantly live, and wakes up in the middle of the night every day.

Lying on the soft and comfortable bed, the monk fell asleep as soon as he slept, dreamless all night, and the next day, before dawn, he jumped up from the bed with a burst of crying and screaming.

"What's going on? On fire? Something happened to Chen? ”

The monk didn't even put on his robes, so he casually wrapped a coat and rushed out, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw a black head outside.

The people in the family, as well as Luo Niang, all gathered there and pointed and pointed.

He walked over to take a look, Yu Yi cried and mourned, and helped his father to stand in the yard, his father Yu Jun had a lot of bright red silk threads wrapped around his neck, and there was a stack of yellow paper on his nose and mouth, at least a dozen pieces of yellow paper, which were even more miserable than the suppressed zombies, the whole body was stiff, and he didn't even move, but his eyes showed strong fear, his eyes were full of tears, humming and chirping. (To be continued......)