A few busy days have passed, and in a blink of an eye, it is the Laba Festival, according to previous years, today Xuan Shijing is going to enter the palace to see His Majesty Li Er, early in the morning, Long'er will wake up Xuan Shijing, and drag Xuan Shijing, who has not fully woken up, to freshen up in front of the bronze mirror.

"Long'er, it's just to enter the palace, you don't have to be so early, this chicken has crowed all over again." Xuan Shijing muttered inexplicably.

"Hou Ye, it's not early, I entered the palace today, Mrs. said that she would not go with you, and Sun Daochang happened to be going to the palace, so let you follow Sun Daochang, you still have to prepare gifts for Your Majesty and the queen's mother, besides, this Laba Festival is also an annual day of winter hunting for His Majesty and the nobles, and His Majesty specially asked people to come to the house to spread the news, saying that the little Hou Ye would also follow this year." Long'er said while helping Xuan Shijing comb her hair.

"Prepare a gift!? Winter hunting? Xuan Shijing heard Long'er say that she wanted to prepare a gift for His Majesty, and instantly sobered up a lot: "Great! ”

"Master Hou, what's wrong?" Long'er found that her marquis instantly came to her senses.

"It's a good thing, Long'er, our shop in the West Market also opened yesterday, how is the business?" Xuan Shijing asked.

Long'er shook her head: "It's not good, most of the people just come in to have a look, and there are very few people who buy it, little Hou Ye, are we selling it too expensive?" It only costs one penny to collect an egg, but when it is sold, it costs ten pennies" Speaking of this, the little girl Long'er was full of deep guilt, and looked at her little marquis timidly.

"Long'er, if you don't make money in business, then what are you going to do, don't forget, how much did it cost us to buy the shop in the West Market? The shopkeeper who was transferred from Erxian Village, this is all a cost, and it has to be earned from these ten cents, right? You say, if we take this pine flower egg out, we can take advantage of this winter hunt."

"Little Marquis, you mean to promote Songhua eggs among the nobles." Long'er's eyes lit up, a pine flower egg ten cents is a little unaffordable for the people for the time being, but Xungui is no problem, most of the Xungui in Chang'an are families, and they are all wealthy, so they naturally don't care about this small dozens of dollars.

"Long'er, how about it, do you want to go with Master Hou and me." Xuan Shijing turned his head and asked Long'er.

"Yes, yes." Long'er cheered: "Staying in this Hou Mansion all day, boring to death, just this time, Long'er can show her skills." ”

Xuan Shijing smiled, this girl is still thinking about her dreams of rivers and lakes: "Long'er, we are going to go winter hunting with Your Majesty, not to enjoy the mountains and rivers." ”

"Long'er knows, hehe, when the time comes, Long'er will definitely surprise the Hou Ye, and she will definitely not embarrass the Hou Mansion." Long'er said with a smile.

"I'm only four years old, even if I go to winter hunting, that is, to go through the motions, and it's not a shame to talk about anything." Xuan Shijing didn't care.

"How can the little marquis say that he is going through the motions? The field hunting of this Laba Festival is very grand, otherwise His Majesty will not specially organize the nobles to go out of the city, Laba Festival is the beginning of the alternation of the old and new years, the prey returned from the field hunt is used to worship the ancestors and gods, also called the winter sacrifice, the little Hou Ye can cheer up, in previous years, we only have their own family in the house, the little Hou Ye went to buy some rabbits and roe deer or something and it passed, don't forget, there is still such a family living in the courtyard of this Hou Mansion. Long'er said sourly.

"Don't you say that I can't remember, since my cousin's family lived in the Hou Mansion, I haven't seen them." Xuan Shijing said with a smile.

"What did the little marquis see them doing, out of sight and out of mind, Mrs. ordered them not to be allowed to walk around in the Hou Mansion when they moved in, and ah, little Hou Ye, that Li Shiqing, relying on his young age, was in the mansion all day long, holding a little master's shelf, I don't know, I thought he was the Hou Ye in this mansion." Long'er said indignantly: "What kind of parents teach what kind of children." ”

"Didn't I ask you to recruit people to watch them, why, there has been no movement at all these days? Who is this Li Shiqing? Xuan Shijing asked, it seems that he has been running on both sides of the study and bedroom all day in this mansion, and he has missed a lot of information.

"I haven't noticed any abnormal movements for the time being, this Li Shiqing is your cousin according to his generation, I heard that my cousin. No, Steward Zhong said let's call him Mr. Xuan Lindao, I heard that Mr. Xuan Lindao has joined the Li family, really, a big man, he is also our husband's cousin, how can he run to join the family? Saying this, Long stomped his feet angrily.

"Okay Long'er, there's no need to be angry, you have been by your mother's side when I was not born, don't you know who my cousin's family is?" Xuan Shijing said with relief.

"It's because I understand that I get angry." Long'er looked serious and said one by one. Then his face relaxed: "Forget it, little marquis, you better hurry up and have breakfast, let's go into the palace after breakfast, your steamed buns and white porridge have already been prepared in the kitchen." ”

Xuan Shijing and Long'er finished breakfast in the side hall, the horseman had already set up the carriage and waited at the gate of the Hou Mansion, and Long'er took Xuan Shijing into the carriage.

"Long'er, have you brought all the things for Your Majesty and the Queen Mother? There is also the noon food of the two of us and a few Guogong. "The profession of an explorer in his previous life made Xuan Shijing maintain the habit of checking good things before setting off no matter where he went, which is also a kind of responsibility for himself.

"Don't worry, Master Hou, it's all ready, this field hunt will take only one day, and it will be in the royal hunting ground on the outskirts of Chang'an." Long'er got into the carriage and sat next to Xuan Shijing.

Sun Simiao had been waiting in the carriage for a long time, and when he saw Xuan Shijing and Long'er getting into the carriage, he ordered the little servant to drive towards the palace.

"The little marquis looks good, it seems that the little marquis has been practicing seriously in accordance with the five fowl plays given to you by the poor road in the past few days." Sun Simiao said with a smile.

"It turns out that the illustrated books with characters painted by Sun Daochang are the famous Five Fowl Opera, no wonder, Shijing feels much more relaxed these days, thank you Daochang." Xuan Shijing bowed to Sun Simiao seriously.

Sun Simiao smiled and waved his hand: "Little Marquis, don't be polite to the poor man, your father and your mother are old friends with me, and the son of the deceased, it is also appropriate to take more care." ”

"Sun Daochang, I don't know if you have entered the palace to see a doctor in the past few days, how is Niangniang's condition?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"As in the past, what Poor Dao can do is only stabilize Niangniang's condition, these days in the basic medical skills found in the library of the house, Poor Dao has benefited a lot, and also found some good ways to treat qi diseases, presumably this winter, Niangniang can be easier than in previous years."

chatting with Sun Simiao all the way, they arrived at the palace, there were already some ministers gathered in the palace, and the courteous ministers on weekdays all changed into narrow sleeves and round-necked hufu clothes, and they were still wearing black-winged gauze hats, standing together in twos and threes to talk.

As soon as the carriage entered, a small yellow door greeted him, and Sun Simiao was the first to get out of the carriage.

"It turned out to be Sun Daochang, Sun Daochang, this Laba Festival field hunting, Your Majesty wants you to go with the team, after all, Niangniang will also follow Your Majesty this time." Xiao Huangmen stood in front of Sun Simiao and bowed down and said.

"Your Majesty, do you know that Niangniang's body is not suitable for travel?" Sun Simiao's face was a little serious.

"This majesty knows it, but the queen mother has to go, saying that this annual Labada hunt is to worship the ancestral gods, as the mother of a country, if you don't go, wouldn't it be disrespectful to the ancestors and disrespectful to the gods." Xiao Huangmen said with trepidation.

Sun Simiao thought for a while, sighed in his heart, and then straightened the body of Xiao Huangmen: "That's it, it's okay to go through this poor road, not to mention, you can also take care of the little marquis." ”

Xuan Shijing was also picked up from the carriage by Long'er.

"Slave maid, see Xuanwei Houye." Xiao Huangmen hurriedly saluted Xuan Shijing.