Jiang Chengjia comforted on the side: "Mother mentioned it today, and it was also when Zi Yu was still congratulating. The two of you already have the intention of worshipping... In this way, isn't everyone happy? ”

Ning Nan walked forward without saying a word, and his expression became more and more gloomy.

Jiang Chengjia almost couldn't keep up with him, and trotted behind.

Ning Nan walked forward with a sullen head, thinking about the words of the Cao family, and felt more and more strange in his heart.

How much the Cao clan objected to him and Dou Yueshan in the past, Ning Nan remembered it clearly.

When he was fifteen years old, he mentioned this matter to her, but Mrs. Cao sternly refused, and the reason she gave at that time was that although the Dou family was friendly with them, they had never befriended the other two sons of the Huai Palace. Worship such a major event that requires the ancestors to be invited, and we must not ignore the other two rooms in the Huaiwang Mansion.

But now, after many years, Mrs. Cao suddenly agreed to this matter, which caught him off guard and made him suspicious.

He frowned, thinking about yesterday's Chinese New Year's Eve vigil, Cao Shi and Dou Yueshan entered the front hall one after another, but their faces were not very good, and in the end they all left early, as if something had happened, and they felt strange in their hearts.

But what happened? made Dou Yueshan abnormal, and the Cao family even inexplicably mentioned the matter of worshipping ancestors?

Ning Nan couldn't understand it, and felt that it was not a taste in his heart.

Suddenly, he was shocked that someone was holding his hand, subconsciously shook it off slightly, turned around to look, but saw Jiang Chengjia staring at him worriedly.

Only then did he realize that he had lost his mind, and he completely forgot about Jiang Chengjia who was following him.

At this moment, his face was slightly pale, he took two steps forward, re-grasped Jiang Chengjia's slender little hand, and finally slowed down his pace.

The woman beside him was very quiet, silently by his side, and the two of them paced from the porch to the maple garden.

After closing the courtyard door, Jiang Chengjia opened his mouth and said, "Zhaoyuan." ”

Ning Nan snorted in a low voice and asked rhetorically, "What's wrong?" ”

He looked at her, his concerned gaze falling on her little pink, porcelain-white face.

Jiang Chengjia held Ning Nan's hands tightly and said, "Are you still angry with your mother?" ”

She looked at the residual anger on his face, and her heart sank.

At this moment, although Jiang Chengjia was also suspicious of the Cao family's sudden mention of worshipping ancestors today, he was most concerned about what Ning Nan would think?

She was afraid that he would be uncomfortable and sad because of Mrs. Cao's attitude.

Ning Nan was stunned, realizing that her expression might be too serious, which frightened her. So he eased his expression, hooked the corners of his lips and smiled: "How come? I didn't get angry with my mother. It was a trivial matter. I just wonder why my mother didn't agree to it in the past, but now she suddenly agrees..."

The smile he managed to squeeze out from his face was really a little reluctant, and Jiang Chengjia felt slightly sour and distressed in his heart.

She knew he was holding back.

"I love you the most. If... If you are not happy, don't pretend to be in front of me. Jiang Chengjia said seriously.

Ning Nan's eyes froze, and his heart surged.

He smiled, his expression slightly lonely.

Jiang Chengjia took his hand and walked towards the house. fantasy

"I grew up without my mother, and when my father left, my aunt and uncle were the best for me. In the past, when I saw that everyone else had a mother to call, I didn't mention how envious I was. It's just that envy is envy, I don't have that blessing after all.

After marrying you, Mrs. Cao treated me very well, so I also regarded her as my biological mother. Erlang, I can see that my mother actually cares about you very much. If it weren't for years of estrangement, she wouldn't know how to get along with you, and she wouldn't have pretended to be cold and ignored like this. She whispered reassuringly.

Ning Nan listened to her talk about herself, and talked about the past when she was a child without her parents. Seeing that she took off her usual disguise and showed a longing and lonely look in front of him, he involuntarily took her into his arms and said gently: "I know what you mean." It's just that... After so many years between me and my mother, there has been too much separation. Three-foot ice doesn't melt in a day. I have also seen the reconciliation and effort you have made between the two of us.

Can... It's not that I don't want to get along with my mother. It's just that she blames me and blames me, she hates her father to the bone, and she hates me even more because of my father's blood. For all these reasons, I couldn't talk to her all the time. ”

Mrs. Cao is too cold and distant, and Ning Nan is not a talkative character, but neither of them is willing to give up a step for each other, so they will go further and further apart.

The estrangement between the two of them is indeed as Ning Nanwei said, and it cannot be resolved in a day.

Jiang Chengjia secretly made up her mind that one day, she would be able to slowly melt the glacier blocked between the two of them.

"Today's New Year's Day, if it were in Luoyang, I am afraid that you and I would not be able to pace in the courtyard as leisurely as we are at this moment. Taking advantage of such a good opportunity, let's go to the back of the village to pay a New Year's greeting to the tenants? Ning Nan mentioned this matter and changed the topic. He didn't want Jiang Chengjia to frown because of his own affairs.

Jiang Chengjia smiled: "Okay... It just so happens that we haven't visited the tenants' homes in Houzhuang for a long time, and we should also see if those stewards are lazy and slack. But... Since you are going to visit the New Year, you can't go empty-handed. Uncle Ji half a month ago, didn't he order someone to cast a lot of money? It's also great to take those red threads and make a New Year's gizmos for the tenants' children. ”

She knew that Ning Nan really didn't want to mention the people or things of Liyue Pavilion anymore, so she also followed his words and changed the topic.

On New Year's Day, after two wars and turmoil, there were more people in the county than in previous years. Xu is a distant family member heard about the war in Linhe, but at this moment, he calmed down, and hurriedly returned to his hometown to reunite with his family, so this year's Linhe is much more lively.

However, no matter how lively Linhe is, it is still not as good as Los Angeles, which is far away in the north of the Central Plains.

Yesterday on Chinese New Year's Eve, the Captain's Mansion of Si Li, on the orders of the Son of Heaven and with the assistance of the Shaofu and the Le Fu Division, held a big show on the street of the market in order to drive away the epidemic. One hundred and twenty young men in soap suits, holding a rattle (rattle) and wearing masks and bear skins, paraded the streets and alleys with the lively scene of dancing with the twelve beasts, and finally the cavalry in the palace drove the statue representing the epidemic to Luoshui and burned it, which is to pray for the coming year to ward off the disease and disaster, and the country and the people will be safe. Such a big show is a grand scene that must be in Luoyang every year. Because it is Chinese New Year's Eve, the markets that are closed at the end of the year are allowed to open on these days, and the lively flower street market has become the most popular place for the people in the city to linger in these days.

On New Year's Day, in the capital, after the residual heat of the street parade prepared by the government yesterday cooled down slightly, the annual Zhengdan Conference in the Luoyang Palace was also carried out in an orderly manner in the Nangong Deyang Hall in accordance with the etiquette of welcoming and setting the New Year's Worship Ceremony discussed and set by the Jiuqing Father, the Three Princes and the Dongfu Division.

The ministers and officials and the envoys of the vassal states of Wei went to the palace in turn to congratulate the emperor, followed by the Fu and the prime ministers of the local counties and states to congratulate each other, and presented the local income and expenditure documents of the past year for the Son of Heaven to see, and presented treasures from all over the world as a gift of congratulations.

Among the princes and princes who entered Beijing to pay their respects at this moment, Ning Nankun, who was demoted to the Marquis of Changshan, also appeared among them. He was originally exiled to the north, and he was not qualified to return to Luoyang to congratulate the Son of Heaven again.

It's just that Changshan Hou Ning Nankun's mother was born in a high-ranking family, although she is a continuation of the string, she is also decent everywhere, and is deeply loved by Huai Wang Ning Zheng.

Ning Zheng has two princesses, although the mother of the eldest son Ning Nanqing, Cui, is not a big scholar, but she was also born in a very elegant scholarly family, but unfortunately, Cui's died of dystocia and blood collapse when giving birth to Ning Nanqing, and she did not enjoy the glory now.

The second princess is the daughter of the Langxie Wang clan who has been holding heavy troops for generations, and the power of the family is all over the counties of the Great Wei Dynasty - Wang Yuexian.

Although there are not many children of the Lang Evil Wang clan who have entered the court as officials, it is a century-old reputation. During the period when Wang Mang was in power, he loyally maintained the royal blood of the Ning surname, if it were not for the protection and strong support of the Wang family, the ancestor of that year may not have the opportunity to lead the Ning family to open up the territory of the Great Wei and sit on Kyushu.

Wang only needs to blow the pillow wind in Ning Zheng's ear and bother a few more words. Even if Ning Nankun had a great fault, and had a father who was a regent and the only acting king of the Great Wei Dynasty, he could return to Luoyang from the bitter cold land in the north, return to the capital to reunite with his mother, and congratulate the Son of Heaven.

Because the Marquis of Changshan entered Beijing, Shen Yuzhi, who was the prince of Changshan State, naturally entered Beijing with the main family.

At the Zhengdan ceremony, Sanyu saw Shen Yuzhi who was following Ning Nankun's side, and was very surprised. A few years ago, he heard that Shen Yuzhi and Ning Nankun had a quarrel in the bitter cold land of exile in the north, and the two of them had a big quarrel and almost parted ways, but he didn't think that today he was willing to accompany Changshan Hou into Beijing to congratulate.

Jiang Chengyi, who was sitting diagonally opposite Ning Nankun, was also a little surprised when he saw this scene, and glanced at Xue Qing who was accompanying him, and each of them was silent and thought about it.

After the civil and military officials are congratulated, the Son of Heaven sits down and gives, reopens the banquet, and introduces the singers and dancers of the Yuefu opera troupe and the servants to the main hall, making nine binchers, the relics come from the west, and the play is in the court. Bi, turned into a yellow dragon, eight zhang long, out of the water to play in the court, dazzling the sun in the two pillars of the long pole, the square play is finished.

After the hundreds of dramas and feasts, the confessor led the ministers and ministers to bid farewell to the Son of Heaven with their ranks, and the princes and princes went out of the palace slightly.

However, all the etiquette was turned in order, and Jiang Chengyi, who was already injured, turned even pale. When he left the palace, he was paralyzed, leaning on the little yellow door who came to support him, and he was never able to stand up straight.

Mu Yun, as the daughter of the head of the East Mansion, should go to the banquet held by the queen of the harem.