“…… Reminiscing about the ancestor Emperor Shun, diligent government and love the people, glorious for thousands of years......"

"Remember the kindness of our ancestors and never forget; Inherit the inheritance of the ancestors, and there will be successors. In front of the wine tomb, pay tribute to the ancestors and ancestors! ”

"The sun is shining, the purple air is full of sky, great ancestors, sages of the world...... Gaozu Liu Bang, Han Feng Xuanyuan, Liangchen Fuming, Yang Shan and Eliminate Traitors, Liu Family, Talents ......"

Cai Yong stood in the main hall of the Liu Clan's temple, standing next to the statue of the ancestors, and read out the ancestral blessings loudly.

The blessing was very long, and it was read out for nearly half an hour, and Liu Xian knelt so much that his knees were a little numb.

After going through, almost the exploits of the emperors of the previous dynasties were said, especially the emperors of the Han Dynasty, and finally praised the first emperor Liu Heng for a long time.

In the end, it was to report to the ancestors that the Liu family was under the ancestor Liu Bang, the younger brother of the descendants of the first emperor, and accepted the grandson of the first Han royal family as a righteous son.

This is equivalent to passing on the descendants of the emperor Liu Xian to the name of the descendants of the emperors, inheriting the bloodline of this Han royal family, so that this Han royal family can be inherited for 10,000 years.

Liu Xian is basically equivalent to having the ability to never forget, and he can basically remember it once he reads it, but remembering is remembering, these classical Chinese blessings, Liu Xian is really difficult to fully understand at this time.

Of course, there is no need to understand it, just need to know that it is to praise the previous emperors of the previous dynasties and the emperors of the Han Dynasty, and to show them that the Ma nobles accepted Liu Xian as their righteous son, so that Liu Xian was officially included in this Han family.

Liu Xian understands this.

After the sacrifice is finished, it is to bow, and it is inevitable to kneel three times and bow nine times. Then it's music and incense.

After that, there are some festival dances and so on.

The main thing is still the dragon dance.

Anyway, under the auspices of Cai Yong, this ancestor worship ceremony was extremely formal and serious.

When you're done, return to the Plains Palace.

After returning to the Plains Palace, it was almost noon.

In fact, at this time, the ceremony of Ma Guiren accepting Liu Xian as his righteous son was basically over. After that, the feast began to welcome the guests who came one after another to congratulate them.

Some guests will arrive early, two days in advance, and these guests, in the morning, will also follow together to worship the Liu Clan Temple, which can be regarded as a witness.

There are people left in the Plains Palace, and the guests who come to the Plains Palaces at this time will also be led into the Mansion and placed them.

In the evening, it will be the time for Liu Xian to officially recognize Ma Guiren as his stepmother.

These also talk about the time, and it is also the time chosen by Cai Yong.

The banquet of the plain palace is a flowing water banquet, which will be held at noon until the evening banquet.

At this time, it also showed the luxury of the Plains Palace. In order to prepare for this banquet, the chefs of the entire Liwu County restaurants have invited to help.

The main banquet is located in the welcome hall of the Plains Palace, but there are also many open-air banquets in the courtyard in front of the Plains Palace.

Those with names and surnames and status will definitely be invited inside, and some nearby villagers generally eat and drink at open-air banquets.

This is the same in ancient and modern times, and there will always be a distinction between dignity and inferiority.

In the afternoon, the invited guests were basically all there, full of friends, and it was very lively.

Ma Guiren has been sitting in the main hall of the Plains Palace, Liu Xian is accompanying him, and every guest who comes will be brought here to meet Ma Guiren.

Ma Guiren is a noble person, and he will definitely not go outside to greet the guests one by one, generally after coming, report his name, receive by the next person, and register the congratulatory gifts they give by the way, and after a loud report, he will be led by the maid to meet Ma Guiren.

Ma Guiren met with this guest, and then introduced Liu Xian to this guest, and exchanged a few more kind words, and the guest was taken to the table by the maid.

Liu Xian will not feel bored or bored, because Liu Xian really needs to know these people one by one, after all, no matter what, among these people, they may become Liu Xian's help.

It's a pity that Liu Xian didn't find any names from the guests here who could make him hear. Liu Xian hopes to meet some famous talents and then use them for his own use.

Liu Xian paid special attention to the government officials of several nearby counties, who were all brought by the county magistrate and the county magistrate.

Liu Xian found that the county orders of these three counties seemed to be very polite to Ma Guiren, but they did not have too much deference.

Liu Xian understood in his heart that including the county order of Liwu County, where the Plains Royal Mansion was located, they all deliberately alienated Ma Guiren. Or rather, they didn't want to be under the control of the Plains Palace, they all had their own thoughts.

These Liu Xian also knew that now in addition to Liwu County, the other two counties have basically not paid the taxes due to the Plains Mansion to the Plains Mansion in recent years. They have completely escaped the control of the Plains Palace.

You must know that these three counties are all fiefdoms of the Plains Palace, and the taxes of these three counties do not need to be paid to the government or the imperial court, but only to the Plains Palace.

A long time ago, in various names, they made excuses to pay less, and then they stopped paying at all. If the Plains Mansion didn't negotiate with them, they wouldn't pay attention to the Plains Mansion at all.

They are like this, and the taxes that should have been paid to the Plains Royal Mansion are equivalent to letting them, the county officials, be greedy for ink.

They clearly bullied no one in the Plains Palace, and bullied Ma Guiren, a woman.

Now that Ma Guiren has accepted Liu Xian as his righteous son, they have to come to meet Ma Guiren, but they don't have that kind of reverence or deference to Ma Guiren.

Liu Xian saw it in his eyes, and remembered them in his heart, Liu Xian would clean them up sooner or later, it should be the Plains Palace, they must take it out, how much they swallowed, they must be doubled back.

However, at this time, Liu Xian didn't know too much about the facts, and these county officials were all appointed by Huangfu Song for the time being, or acquiesced. And Liu Xian doesn't know if they are still the original county officials after the Yellow Turban Riots last year. Therefore, Liu Xian is not in a hurry to clean them up, and will wait to investigate their situation first.

However, this county magistrate of Liwu must be cleaned up first.

Because seeing that they were not too deferential to Ma Guiren, Liu Xian didn't bother to talk to them, he just said a few words politely, and after remembering them, he didn't have much communication with them, and asked them to take them to the table.

The time was almost up, but it made Liu Xian a little anxious, because Zhang Ning and Liu Bei had not yet come.

Other people from famous families, people from rich families, including people from the government, Liu Xian didn't know or familiarize himself with them. Therefore, Liu Xian didn't want to pay attention to how many people came.

But Zhang Ning, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei are the people they want to see, and they hope that they can come. Of course, it is best that Liu Bei can't come if he has something, so he only lets Guan Yu and Zhang Fei come.

Liu Xian knew that this was impossible, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were in one, and if they wanted to come, they would definitely come together.

Just when Liu Xian was waiting a little anxiously, Zhang Ning finally came.

Xiaojing knew that Zhang Ning was coming, and she had already been waiting outside the gate of the Plains Palace.

"Brother Liu Xian, uncle, sister Zhang Ning is here. And brought quite a few things. ”

Xiaojing led Zhang Ning to come.

"Ning'er, you're finally here, I thought you weren't coming. Come on, come and see my uncle. ”

Liu Xian hadn't seen Zhang Ning for several months, and when he saw her, his heart was also very high, and he hurriedly stepped forward.

"When I came, I met a thief, so I delayed for a while." Zhang Ning's eyes looked at Liu Xiandao with a soft gaze.

"What? Got a thief? ”

"It's okay, I brought someone here, I guess we brought a lot of things, which attracted the prying eyes of some thieves, but I was sent away."

"It's okay."

Liu Xian looked at Zhang Ning for a while, and saw that although she was simple and simple, there were no traces of injury, so he was relieved.

"Uncle, she is Zhang Ning." Liu Xian turned his head again to introduce Zhang Ning to Ma Guiren.

"Zhang Ning visited Ma Guiren and wished Ma Guiren good health."

Zhang Ning naturally didn't dare to snub Ma Guiren, so he hurriedly stepped forward to knock on him.

Liu Xian had already told Zhang Ning about the Pingyuan Mansion in the letter, so Zhang Ning knew that this Ma Guiren was Liu Xian's aunt. She knows Liu Xian's true identity, so she also knows the true meaning of Liu Xian's worship and recognition of Ma Guiren as a righteous mother, and understands that Liu Xian is equivalent to recognizing his ancestors and returning to his ancestors. This, she thinks, is also extremely important, because from now on, Liu Xian can justify anything, especially when he wants to raise troops in the future, with this name, it will also be of great help to Liu Xian.

When Ma Guiren came in from Zhang Ning, he kept looking at this Zhang Ning.

At the first glance of Zhang Ning, Ma Guiren was also taken aback, she was shocked by Zhang Ning's extremely holy and dusty temperament.

Regarding Zhang Ning's matter, Liu Xian did not hide Ma Guiren, and told Ma Guiren.

This is mainly because Liu Xian thinks that there is no need to hide it, they are all his own people. Moreover, on the bright side, Liu Xian's true identity is also unable to see the light, at least not for the time being. Therefore, it is nothing to let Ma Guiren know Zhang Ning's true identity.

When Ma Guiren saw Zhang Ning, he immediately liked it. Even she thinks that if it weren't for Zhang Ning's identity, she thinks this Zhang Ning is more suitable to be Liu Xian's wife. But it's a pity that the daughter of Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, and the daughter of the anti-thief, make it a note that she can't become Liu Xian's wife.

Why did Ma Guiren care so much about Liu Xian's wife? This is also based on future considerations, in her heart, Liu Xian is the orthodox successor of the emperor's throne, Liu Xian will have the opportunity to ascend to the throne of the Han Dynasty in the future, so as Liu Xian's wife, she is equivalent to the queen.

Ma Guiren would never have accepted Zhang Ning as the queen no matter what. Whether it is Miss Kong or Miss Cai, she thinks it is all suitable. The reason why she chose Miss Kong Xue of the Kong family first, in addition to some of the reasons mentioned earlier, in fact, Ma Guiren also saw that Kong Xue, the Miss of the Kong family, has a simple temperament, and she also knows books and etiquette, although she is slightly squeamish, but it is also harmful.

It's good for women to be simple, if a woman in the world is too shrewd and has too many scheming, this will definitely not be a good thing. Ma Guiren is also thinking about Liu Xian's future backyard, and he doesn't want Liu Xian's backyard to catch fire in the future.

Ma Guiren hoped that Liu Xian would be like his father, with a group of wives and concubines and many children, and would never want Liu Xian to be like Liu Shuo, or even the first emperor, who had three thousand beauties, but in the end he only had two or three daughters, and he didn't even have a prince to inherit the throne.

Ma Guiren is also a smart woman in ice and snow, and she has indeed thought a lot about it over the years.

She thought that since the first emperor could have several daughters with a woman, it showed that there was no problem with the first emperor himself. But the question is how can an emperor with three thousand beauties have such a low pregnancy rate? Liu Kui is only the emperor's brother, and there are not as many women as the emperor's brother, and they all have more than 100 children.

You really just need to think about it with your head to know what's going on.

There are definitely traitors in this.

Ma Guiren insisted on being strict with Liu Xian, and would never let Liu Xian follow in the footsteps of the first emperor, Liu Xian's backyard, she would never allow those dirty things to happen, if any woman dared to do anything, she would not be spared.

Well, these are indeed the real mentality in the hearts of Ma Guiren. Therefore, she thinks that a simple and lovely woman like Kong Xue, who does not have so much thought, is more suitable to be Liu Xian's wife and the queen in the future.

As for Cai Yan, Ma Guiren just thinks it's too intellectual and sexy.

Therefore, this is also one of the reasons why she chose to propose to Kong Rong first.

Now, she feels that this Zhang Ning seems to be born with a holy temperament, this temperament will be more noble, and if she becomes the queen, it seems to be more suitable.

But it's a pity, but it's the daughter of Zhang Jiao.

But she really likes this Zhang Ning more, and immediately said to Zhang Ning with a smile: "Get up, since you are also the woman Xian'er likes, then you will be a family in the future, you are the same as Xian'er, when there is no one, call this noble person an uncle." Come here, this jade bracelet, I'll give it to you as a meeting gift. ”

Ma Guiren said, and took out a jade bracelet from his arms.

"Thank you, auntie."

Zhang Ning glanced at Liu Xian, and when she saw Liu Xian nodding, she stepped forward to pick it up.

"Hehe, you don't have to be so polite to your aunt, you have worked hard all the way, right? I think it's pretty much the same, why don't you just have a table first, eat and then rest? ”

"Uncle Niang, I'm not tired, I wanted to come to see Uncle Niang earlier, but Brother Xian went to Youzhou again, and people don't know when he will come back. Also, there are some industries in Quyang City that need to be taken care of. By the way, I also brought some gifts for my aunt, I don't know if my aunt likes it or not. ”

"Oh? Ning'er, you have a heart, no matter what it is, Uncle Niang likes it. ”

Ma Guiren said with joy.

"Lord Liu Bei of Anxi County has arrived!"

At this time, outside the hall of the palace, there was another communication from the subordinates.