Xuan Shijing felt that he really underestimated Long'er, and stayed in the carriage for more than an hour with Erbao in his arms, Long'er and Gao Jun came back, Long'er jumped and walked in front, Gao Jun carried a roe deer in one hand, and followed behind with a pheasant in the other, seeing that there were no major wounds on the bodies of these two prey, they were all cut in the neck, which had to be very agile to do this.

"Little Marquis, let's pack up and go back to the city." Long'er walked to the carriage and said.

Xuan Shijing put the two treasures down, watched Gao Jun drag the roe deer and pheasants to the side of the carriage, and asked, "This is going back?" ”

"Little Marquis, you have to walk for an hour and a half on the road, if you don't go now, when you arrive in Chang'an, it will be dark." Long'er said, and carried Xuan Shijing off the carriage: "Today is the Laba Festival, not only Tian Hunting, but also worship the ancestors after we return home." ”

With the departure of the large army, Xuan Shijing ended the day's hunting trip, and returned to the Hou Mansion at dusk, and after going to see the Wang family, he was about to go back to the study but was told that he would go to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors after the Zhong steward was ready.

Dabao Erbao was handed over to Gao Jun and asked him to find a place to settle in the house, while Xuan Shijing took Long'er to the back garden for a walk.

In the back garden, Xuan Shijing and Long'er were strolling, walking slowly towards the study, and a noise was heard in the distance.

"What's going on?" Xuan Shijing was puzzled, when did his house become so lively?

Long'er looked at the source of the voice for a while, and then said, "Little Marquis, it sounds like your cousin and Uncle Xiang. ”

"Cousin?" Xuan Shijing thought about it for a long time, and then remembered that Xuan Lindao's son, Li Shiqing, had read this name several times, and Xuan Shijing could be regarded as remembering, but the name Li Shiqing always made people awkward to pronounce.

"Little Hou Ye, is it too disrespectful for you to say that this cousin gave this name?" Long'er said: "You see, there is only one word behind His Majesty's name, and this cousin doesn't know how to avoid it." ”

Xuan Shijing suddenly realized, and said, how can I read it, I can't help it.

"Let's take a look." Xuan Shijing said.

took Long'er and followed the sound and walked over, and saw Uncle Xiang following behind a seven or eight-year-old child in a brocade suit.

"Li Gongzi, you better go back to the courtyard, Madam said, you can't walk around the mansion at will."

Li Shiqing looked disdainful: "Why can't you walk around the house?" This is my cousin's mansion, you subordinates, don't talk to Young Master Rory here. ”

Xuan Shijing smiled secretly, this kid really doesn't teach any good children with the virtue of his cousin's family, this is what people often say that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the servants in the Hou Mansion, their own family has never regarded them as subordinates, Xuan Lindao's family has only been here for a few days, this child dares to play prestige here, and the feeling that Li Shiqing is more like the master of this Hou Mansion than his own Hou Ye.

Xuan Shijing stopped not far from the two of them and looked at them quietly.

"Master Li, it's not that the old slave is meddling, this is indeed what Madame ordered." Uncle Xiang persuaded hard and grabbed Li Shiqing's sleeve.

"What's the big deal, Young Master Ben has been stuffy in the yard all day, can't he go out for a walk?" Li Shiqing impatiently threw away Uncle Xiang's sleeves: "Let go of Young Master Ben, otherwise don't blame Young Master Ben for being unkind to you." As he spoke, he stretched out his leg and kicked at Uncle Xiang.

Xuan Shijing really couldn't stand it, he was so stubborn at such a young age, looked at Li Shiqing, and said to Long'er who was standing behind him: "Long'er, stop him." ”

Long'er answered, flew forward, and dragged Li Shiqing, who was already very close to Uncle Xiang, back.

Li Shiqing struggled violently in Long'er's hands, shouting while struggling: "Who are you!" Let me go! ”

Xuan Shijing signaled Long'er to let go of Li Shiqing, and after receiving Xuan Shijing's instructions, Long'er gave her hand, Li Shiqing quickly fled from Long'er, looking at Long'er with a somewhat frightened expression.

Xuan Shijing walked out: "Since my mother ordered you not to walk around in the Hou Mansion, you just do it, I remember that my mother told you that you are not allowed to treat people badly, this is the Xuanwei Hou Mansion, not the Li family in Shanxi, you are not qualified to be so arrogant and domineering in this mansion." Li Shiqing's actions just now made Xuan Shijing's impression of him fall to a negative value, and he was naturally no longer polite when he spoke.

"You're my cousin?" When Li Shiqing saw Xuan Shijing come out, he had the courage to open up more and came to Xuan Shijing's side.

"Sort of." Xuan Shijing smiled helplessly, no matter how much her mother didn't treat them, no matter how much she didn't like them, but the blood relationship still existed after all.

"What do you mean, cousin, you see cousin, I stay in the yard all day, and I'm almost bored to death, just tell them, don't always follow my ass when I go out for a walk, it's annoying." Li Shiqing's arm put on Xuan Shijing's shoulder, hugged Xuan Shijing and said.

Xuan Shijing quietly moved Li Shiqing's arm away, and said indifferently: "I don't want to disobey my mother's wishes." ”

"Cousin, look, this" Li Shiqing was about to say something to Xuan Shijing, but Zhong Zishuo, who came from afar, interrupted the conversation between the two.

"Little Marquis." Zhong Zishuo came to Xuan Shijing's side and said, "Little Marquis, Madame asked me to take you to the ancestral hall." ”

"Well, let's go." Xuan Shijing nodded, took Long'er to follow Zhong Zishuo away, and before leaving, he turned back to Uncle Xiang and said: "Uncle Xiang, you are not too young to follow behind Li Gongzi all the time, if there is such a thing in the future, it will be handed over to the guards of the house." ”

Uncle Xiang bowed to Xuan Shijing.

Xuan Shijing pursed his lips, sure enough, children with poor tutoring are the most annoying.

followed Zhong Zishuo to the ancestral hall, Wang was already waiting at the door of the ancestral hall, saw Xuan Shijing coming, stepped forward to take Xuan Shijing's hand, and walked into the ancestral hall together.

The table in the ancestral hall enshrines the spiritual seat of the ancestors of the Xuan clan, and on the leftmost spiritual seat, it is covered with a red cloth, which is the spiritual seat of Xuan Shijing's father, Xuan Mingde. The table was already full of various sacrificial supplies, the plate was full of fruit, a huge pig's head was placed on the middle plate, and the rest of the meat was made of roe deer meat brought back by Xuan Shijing.

Entering the ancestral hall, Xuan Shijing knelt on the futon in the center of the ancestral hall, Wang knelt on Xuan Shijing's side, and Zhong Zishuo bowed and stood behind the two.

Zhong Zishuo stepped forward to the table and took six tribute incense, lit them and handed them to Wang and Xuan Shijing respectively, and then retreated.

Wang held the tribute incense in his hand, looked at the row of spiritual seats enshrined on the table, and said reverently: "Daughter-in-law Xuan Wang, bring the descendants of the Xuan family, Shijing, to worship the ancestors and ancestors. After speaking, he respectfully kowtowed three times, and then got up and inserted the incense into the incense burner on the table.

Xuan Shijing did the same, and also bowed to his nominal ancestor, and then, Wang uncovered the red cloth on Xuan Mingde's spiritual seat, led Xuan Shijing to him, and said, "Jing'er, kneel." ”

When Xuan Shijing heard this, he quietly followed Wang's words.

Wang's hand gently stroked Xuan Mingde's spiritual position, and tears flashed in his eyes: "Mingde, you see, Jing'er is getting bigger and bigger, getting smarter and smarter, and her bearing and charm are very similar to you back then." ”

Xuan Shijing knelt in front of the spiritual seat, bowed his head, after he was born, in the past three years, every year the Wang family will come to say a few words to Xuan Mingde's spiritual seat when worshipping the ancestors on the Laba Festival, on weekdays, the Wang family does not dare to come, for fear of touching the scene and hurt, but once he sees it, he will always be sad secretly.

"Are we late?" Li's voice came from the door of the ancestral hall, but they didn't come in, and Zhong Zishuo stopped them at the door.

"Steward Zhong, what are you stopping us from?"

Wang wiped away his tears, walked out of the ancestral hall, looked at Xuan Lindao and his wife, and his face was cold: "Lindao, you come in with me." ”

Xuan Lin nodded resignedly, and followed the Wang family into the ancestral hall, leaving the Li family with an embarrassed face.

Xuan Lindao entered the ancestral hall and bent his knees to kneel on the futon in the middle, but Wang opened his mouth and said: "Lindao is your next disciple, kneeling on the right." ”

Xuan Lindao moved his position awkwardly, knelt on the futon on the right, took the incense handed over by Wang, bowed respectfully three times, and got up to insert the incense into the incense burner.

"Lindao, since you have chosen to join the Li family, then I won't say anything, I told you before, this is the last time you worship the sect, and after that, you will not be a member of the Xuan family."

"Cousin, I"

"You don't have to say much, the road is your own choice, how to go, it's also your business, after all, you are Mingde's cousin, and no one can erase your blood relationship with Mingde, but, Mingde has gone, and now the Hou Mansion is only me and Jing'er rely on each other, no matter what purpose you come to Chang'an and Hou Mansion this time, I hope you will do it yourself." Wang's expression was a little sad.

"Actually, cousin-in-law, I want Shiqing to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors and change his surname back to Xuan." Xuan Lin said.

Xuan Shijing, who was kneeling on the side, listened to Xuan Lindao's words, and couldn't help but be curious, let Li Shiqing change his surname back to Xuan? Didn't Xuan Lin Dao join the Li family?