Chapter 135: First Update
The year in the palace, as Xie Ze said, is etiquette and prayer.
Up and down, even the lowliest handymen, they are all dressed in the best and most solemn clothes, from their expressions to their manners, they are rigorous and solemn.
The emperor and Luo Niangniang, who were sitting at the top, were dressed in clothes, and Li Ran felt heavy when she looked at it.
A little lower, it is the crown prince and the princess husband and wife, and they are also two grand dresses.
The eldest daughter of the crown prince and the crown princess, Sister Xian, was not yet one year old, and she came over in the arms of the nanny, and she participated in the ceremony, so she hurriedly hugged it back.
Next, it is Xie Ze and Li Ran.
Three or four steps away from the three tables, three rows on the left and right, filled with elderly military attachΓ©s dressed in military attache dresses.
Seeing that Li Ran looked at and kowtowed from time to time, the elderly military attache who was queuing up to take a seat, Xie Ze bowed slightly to Li Ran's side, and explained in a low voice:
"These are veterans who have made military exploits and are alone, and every Spring Festival, the emperor invites them to the palace to celebrate the New Year together."
Li Ran immediately thought of Zhou E, looked at Xie Ze, and without waiting for her to ask, Xie Ze continued:
"Zhou E came once, but refused to come the next year, saying that she was guilty."
Li Ran looked at the veterans in strict dresses and sitting upright.
He pursed his lips and smiled, and hummed lowly.
This is Zhou E's temper.
The prince looked at Xie Ze and Li Ran obliquely, looked at Xie Ze who leaned over and talked to Li Ran in a low voice, saw Li Ran from Xie Ze, and then looked back at Xie Ze, his eyes fell on the corners of Xie Ze's smiling mouth, and the corners of his mouth pulled all the way down.
The crown princess squinted at the corners of the prince's mouth and couldn't help laughing, "How good." β
"Good is good, it's ...... Tsk, it's really a thing to a thing. β
Before the prince finished speaking, he met Xie Ze's gaze, picked up the cup, and raised it to Xie Ze with a smile.
The big drama is long and uninteresting.
Of course, the Da Wu opera is not meant to please people, it is a prayer to the gods.
After the big show, Xie Ze and Li Ran quit, walked out of the Donghua Gate and got into the car, Li Ran was already sweating.
The clothes are too heavy and the road is long.
Purple eggplant and parsley waited in the car, waiting for Li Ran to remove the gold crown decorated with precious stones, comb her hair again, and then change out of the heavy dress with two layers of silk embroidered gold outside, and change into a homely dress.
Xie Ze is much simpler than Li Ran, that is, he changes out of the outermost dress.
Purple eggplant and parsley were very fast, changed and packed up, hugged their clothes, and returned to the back car.
The car went from very slow to slightly faster, and went to the Xie family Zhuangzi outside the city.
In the Xie family Zhuangzi, the lights are bright.
There was still a mile or two away from Zhuangzi, and a few stewards rode horses and carried bright horn lamps to meet them.
The car stopped at the second gate, Xie Ze got out of the car, reached out to help Li Ran, tightened her cloak, and walked side by side with her to the ancestral hall.
From the second gate to the outside of the ancestral hall, there is a bright corner lamp in ten steps, and a pair of healthy servants stand with their hands down.
At the entrance of the ancestral hall, a husband and wife in their thirties greeted them.
"Little nephew Xie Ai and his wife, give New Year's greetings to the prince and princess."
Xie Ze bowed his head, Li Ran bowed his knees slightly, and followed the two into the ancestral hall.
Xie Ze and Li Ran stood on both sides of the Xie family's branches and disciples from the outermost part of the ancestral hall, crossed the two rows of Xie family's descendants, and went forward, Xie Ze stood under Old Lady Xie, and Li Ran stood under Old Lady Shen.
Xie Ai and his wife, who welcomed Xie Ze and Li Ran, crossed the Xie family's branch and stood with their hands down.
After a crisp sound, a solemn and somewhat monotonous music sounded.
With the music, a plate of sacrifices was handed to Xie Ze and Li Ran by Xie Ai and his wife, Xie Ze and Li Ran handed it to Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Shen, and then placed them on the long offering table.
Mrs. Shao, on the far right of the front row, stood straight, looking at Li Ran, who handed the sacrifice to Mrs. Shen, and after a moment, looked at Mrs. Shen again.
The sacrifice was shorter than Li Ran expected, and after withdrawing from the ancestral hall, Li Ran stopped, looked at Xie Ze, who was being pulled by Old Lady Xie and was listening to Old Lady Xie's words, and stood and waited for him.
Mrs. Shao and Xie Ling stood side by side, and also stopped, looking at Li Ran from Xie Ze.
Old Madam Shen squinted slightly, looking at Mrs. Shao, and Xie Ling, who was standing next to Mrs. Shao, with her shoulders hanging and her eyes down.
And everybody either stood still, or slowed down.
Xie Ze and Old Lady Xie said a few words, and greeted Li Ran, and Mrs. Shao took two steps forward and looked at Li Ran from Xie Ze.
"I'm not for myself, I'm for your father, and I'm going to say a few words to you.
In the past, the old man used to say that when you become a family, you are an adult, and you can no longer be like a child.
Now that you have become a family, not only as a son of man, but also as a husband, and soon, you will also be a father, as the old man said, you should also be like an adult.
Since you were a child, you know how your father loved you.
In the chaotic times of that year, in the midst of war and chaos, human lives were like mustard, and countless tragedies occurred.
Just because of your father's powerlessness and panicked mistakes, you still hold a grudge, no father and no mother, Aze, your father loves you countless times, can't it be worth a negligence, a fault?
If all the children in the world are like you, who would dare to be parents?
You will soon become a father, you dare to say, as a husband, as a father, you are not bad, there is no negligence in the slightest? β
Xie Ze pursed his lips tightly and looked directly at Mrs. Shao, his face was slightly pale.
Li Ran glanced at Xie Ze, subconsciously took a step to the side, blocked between Xie Ze and Mrs. Shao, and looked directly at Mrs. Shao and said:
"What Xie Shangshu did back then was not a fault or negligence, he made a choice, between you and his son, he chose you and gave up his son.
When he abandoned an eight-year-old or a five-year-old child in the chaos of human life, he put his son to death, and he also put this father-son relationship to death.
It was his choice, not through fault or negligence. β
"It's his fault, in such troubled times, in a panic, man is not a god, he is not a saint, he can always be without fault, at that time, the danger is not there, your father, he is just in a panic.
Father and son, mother and son, blood connection, no matter how you treat him, his love for you, no less, is this father and son heart, mother and son heart, to you, it is different from the world? β
Madame Shao squinted at Xie Ze, who was staring directly at her.
"I heard that the servants and subordinates around you are all bought from the human market for money, I remember that there is a sentence on the deed, when the deed is made, the blood and family ties are all severed.
Selling children and daughters is the choice of parents, asking for money, or the affection of their children.
When you buy someone, have you ever thought about this father-son connection, mother-son connection, and blood connection? β
Li Ran turned to Xie Ling.
"Xie Shangshu, when you left the two toddlers behind, you knew that in such a panic, they would die, right? You made the choice because Mrs. Shao has only one, but you can still have a lot of children.
Now that you are in deep love, a pair of fairy couples, isn't it exactly what you choose to ask for? β
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