On the second day of the new year, early in the morning.

Chu Tianxiu took Li Yu, as well as Zu'er and Di'er, in a carriage, carrying a carriage of homecoming gifts, all kinds of filial piety, to the Dumhou Mansion in Wanghou Lane, and returned to the door.

Wanghou Lane has already been very lively.

There are many princely mansions gathered here, the princes and lords marry each other, every Spring Festival and New Year, the relatives who pay New Year's greetings, the women who return to the door, and the protégés of old friends, are as many as the Qing who crosses the river.

In the Princely Alley, all the powerful people come and go, and there is no white ding.

The Dusk Hou Mansion is at the end of the alley, and the Ping Wang's Mansion is at the end of the alley. Out of Wanghou Lane, it is the bustling and lively Changle Street.

Li Yu got out of the carriage with Di'er's support, and she looked at the Houmen Mansion in front of her, feeling a little excited in her heart.

She had waited too long for this day.

The glow of the bronze door handle of this Dusk Hou Mansion rubbing, the door is slightly old, it can be seen that the age is extremely old, and the two Pixiu statues at the door are mighty, still showing the afterglow of the bloodline of the previous dynasty in the past.

In Wanghou Lane, the Dull Mansion is undoubtedly a very special existence.

Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, all dynasties have believed in and worshiped ancestors, and regarded ancestor worship as the top priority of the court and family.

Regardless of the princes and generals, the princes and scholars, when they want to talk about their qualifications, they all compare the powerful characters that their ancestors once produced, then compare their current families, and finally their own abilities.

The Duhou Mansion has inherited the bloodline of the Chu State for thousands of years, and it has not been severed so far. This is unique in the entire Great Chu Dynasty, and no one dares to show off the identity of the ancestor in front of the Dusk Marquis.

As the Xiang family of the Great Chu royal family, he was once a general of the Xiong royal family, and the top ten families of Jinling were even more difficult to look up to, only admiration.

Even if the Confucian family of Shandong and the Confucian sect in the world, in front of the ancestors of the Duhou Mansion, they must bow down.

There are powerful people who respect the ancestors, and when they pass by the Duhou Mansion, they will dismount and walk.

Although they don't say it, the princes of Great Chu and the Jinling Gate Lords all default to the Dumhou Mansion being the first family with the most respectable bloodline.

Status: Inherently inferior.

But the blood in the bones is not a temporary decline and prosperity, and it can be easily changed.

The world's wealthy families are proud of their marriage with the top ten gate valves in Jinling. And the top ten gate valves in Jinling are the most respectful of the bloodline of the Dusk Marquis Mansion.

Even the royal family of Da Chu has a precedent of marrying the royal daughter in the Duhou Mansion.

Of course, it is precisely because the Duhou Mansion is the bloodline of Xianchu that its position in Great Chu is extremely embarrassing.

Emperor Taizu Xiang Yu swept the princes of the world with his own strength and ruled the world.

After the death of Xiong Xin, the last king of Chu Huai, in order to show his magnanimity as the emperor, Xiong Xin's descendants were named the Marquis of Dusk, with Chu as his surname.

This Dull Marquis Mansion has an admirable ancestral bloodline, but it also makes other meritorious princes and courtiers dare not get too close.

In addition to the matter of marriage, the gate valves are willing to marry with the Duhou Mansion. Other things are rarely with the Dull Mansion.

There are very few outsiders visiting the Duhou Mansion, only relatives.

Li Yu is now the daughter-in-law of the Dull Mansion, and she is naturally full of curiosity about this Dull Mansion.

...

"Bang bang bang! ~ Dad, my son is back. ”

Chu Tianxiu knocked on the door vigorously.

An old housekeeper hurriedly opened the door, and when he saw the little marquis returning to the door with the lord of Danyang, he showed an excited look, "The old prince, the old lady, the little marquis and the young lady are back!" ”

"Xiu'er is back!"

When the old dusk hou heard the sound, he ran out, and there was a hint of panic in his expression, but when he saw Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu and others, he immediately showed a look of great joy, "Dad wants to kill you." The county lord is here, come in! ”

"Yu'er has seen Daddy!"

Li Yu said with a smile.

"I've seen Master Hou!"

Zu'er and Di'er hurriedly saluted.

The old dusk marquis hurriedly asked Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu, Zu'er, Di'er and others to come in.

Chu Tianxiu swaggered into the hall of the Dumhou Mansion to rest. The place where the "little dusk" grows, in his own home, is of course very comfortable, and there is no need to be polite.

Li Yu curiously entered the Duanhou Mansion, this is the first family in Dachu, the Duanhou Mansion that inherited the bloodline of the Xiong family in the Western Zhou Dynasty for thousands of years.

The courtyard of the Hou Mansion is much smaller than that of the Ping Palace. In addition to the old marquis, Mrs. Chu, and grandmother, there were some servants, a total of twenty or thirty people.

"Xiu'er, Yu'er is here!"

But I saw a graceful and luxurious lady walking out, full of spring breeze.

Mrs. Chu Cui Tong, the sister of Queen Cui Rou, looks quite similar. But in the Dull Mansion, there is no need to worry about the court, it is more relaxed, and her appearance is much younger than that of Empress Cui Rou.

"Yu'er has seen her mother!"

Li Yu gave a salute.

"Let's go, my mother will take you to the house to walk around."

Mrs. Chu obviously liked Li Yu very much, so she warmly took Li Yu's hand and took her to the Duhou Mansion to take a walk and meet the Duanhou Mansion.

Li Yu was born in the Pingwang Mansion, and he has seen the grandeur of any courtyard, and the ordinary mansion is not interesting at all.

But the Dull Mansion is different.

Li Yu followed Mrs. Chu around, and the whole person was stunned.

This Dumly Mansion is simply an antique museum of the previous dynasties.

Courtyards, halls, hanging on the walls, placed on the tables, and placed in the corners, all of them are antiques from the Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the pre-Qin period.

The incense in the courtyard is the gluttonous pattern of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

On the table in the hall, a Western Zhou Dynasty plate is engraved with 372 words of inscription, boasting the family history of the lord, commemorating the canonization and reward of King Xuan of Zhou, and also recording the changes of the royal family, the conquest, and the princes and kings of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Li Yu was shocked.

The bamboo slip collection of Wang Su's family is not worth the value of the inscription in front of him.

This is a thousand-year-old treasure!

In the hall, the table is served with a bronze kettle of beast ears in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and a double-eared disc with dragon and phoenix pattern in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Even an inconspicuous wine pot containing wine, if you look closely, it is actually a Warring States bird cover gourd pot, a thing used by the princes and kings, and the names of the princes are engraved on it.

It was placed in the hall, and if Mrs. Chu didn't introduce it to her, Li Yu wouldn't recognize it at all.

These antiquities, which are worth thousands of gold in the antique shop, are not decorations in the dusk, but are used.

Entering the Duhou Mansion, it was like returning to the old court of the Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the luxury was to the extreme.

Zu'er and Di'er followed behind Mrs. Chu and Li Yu, carefully and lightly, for fear of accidentally breaking an object, which was hundreds of thousands of years of princely antiquities.

picked up a pair of chopsticks, only to know that it was the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze jade chopsticks, and I was frightened and hurriedly put it down.

"Mother... How much money does this cost? ”

Li Yu was shocked.

She suddenly understood a little, why the Dull Mansion was so able to spend money, and the money was as deep as flowing water.

borrowed 100,000 taels of silver from the Ping Palace, but I didn't hear the splash, and it was gone in a few years.

"I can't say how much money I have spent on what I have accumulated over the years. The old marquis likes to go to Jinling City when he has nothing to do, and he collects these things everywhere... Others don't know the goods, but he recognizes them, and he buys them cheaply... My mother remembered that it cost 10,000 taels of silver for the Western Zhou Pan, and the rest of the plate would not exceed 1,000 taels. ”

Mrs. Chu smiled and took Li Yu into the inner house again.

The study room is full of dazzling bookshelves, placed with all kinds of bamboo slips and ancient books, almost all of which are out-of-print ancient books of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

On weekdays, the old dusk marquis and Mrs. Chu were idle, so they looked through ancient books in the study and spent their days leisurely, so uncomfortable.

Li Yu was stunned.

There are so many out-of-print books that you can't see them anywhere else in Jinling City.

Not to mention the martial heirloom of the Ping Wangfu, I am afraid that scholarly families like the Cui family and the Wang family will only be ashamed.

What is a millennial heirloom?

Mrs. Chu didn't mention such mundane things as silver at all.

Without these Shang and Zhou antiques and out-of-print ancient books, I obviously dare not say that I am a thousand-year-old heirloom.

...

Mrs. Chu took Li Yu to introduce the future hostess to the various colors in the Duhou Mansion, and it was only in the evening that she briefly said a small part.

The Dull Marquis Mansion is a little Dull Marquis, and no matter how many things there are, sooner or later they will be passed on to Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu, and to the future King Xiaoping.

Mrs. Chu is counting Li Yu's belongings, and she also knows how many things there are in the Duhou Mansion.

It's late afternoon.

Banquet.

The banquet of the Dull Marquis Mansion is extremely rich, although it is not as good as the palace banquet, but there are seventy-two kinds of dishes, and it is difficult for ordinary princely mansions to have such abundance.

Bears, deer, donkeys, shrimps, crabs, frogs, turtles, fish, chickens, ducks, quails, pigs, cows, sheep, rabbits... And so on.

Li Yu was speechless, and after careful calculation, this meal cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

In this Dusk Mansion, there is no sign of defeat!

At the dinner, Chu Tianxiu's grandmother finally came out, the wife of the old and faint marquis, the princess of the Xiang royal family, and the kind old grandmother, but she was old, and she didn't come out much.

When the old and faint marquis got married, the Empress Dowager Shen also followed the royal concubine to the Duhou Mansion to celebrate the wedding.

At that time, I don't know how many daughters in Jinling City were envious.

...

And when the night came, they had eaten and drunk enough, and at last they had to rest.

According to the custom of returning to the door, you can sleep in your mother's house. Of course, Chu Tianxiu wanted to sleep in the Duhou Mansion for one night, and then go back to the Pingwang Mansion early tomorrow morning.

Chu Tianxiu's heart was full of joy, and he had been looking forward to this moment for a long time.

The Pingwang Mansion is too big, and there are too many houses in Yuyuan.

Li Yu and Di'er slept in the main house, and he was always driven to sleep in the study, so there was no reason to be close.

But in the Dumhou Mansion, he had a big room and only a super big bed.

This time, Yu'er can't drive him out to sleep in the courtyard.

"Tonight is a good opportunity, I can finally be rightfully slept together!"

Chu Tianxiu happily returned to his house.

Suddenly.

He was dumbfounded.

His room was empty, and the super big bed was nowhere to be seen.

Chu Tianxiu couldn't help but wail.

"Daddy, where's my bed! One Dragon... Sanfeng Arhat bed! This is a super-large dragon that I deliberately spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to create a super-large dragon that came back from the South China Sea. Three phoenix arhat bed! ”

It must have been his father, who sold the bed while he was not in the house.

Chu Tian jumped to his feet delicately and rushed out to settle accounts with the old faint marquis.

Only his mother, Mrs. Chu, was there, and the old dusk marquis seemed to have expected that his son would settle accounts with him, and after the dinner, he said that he would go out to find someone to drink, and he disappeared.

Finished!

I don't even have a bed, and I still sleep with a fart.

Chu Tianxiu was sad and angry, and Li Yu, Zu'er, and Di'er went back to Yuyuan, the palace of Pingwangfu. But there are many rooms in Yuyuan, so they must sleep in separate rooms.

Alas, the great opportunity was ruined by this foolish father.

Li Yu, Zu'er, and Di'er, of course, saw his bad intentions, and they were angry and angry, and their stomachs hurt from laughing all the way, and they couldn't close their mouths.