While speaking, the imperial driver had already passed the Liang Wangfu to watch the shed, entered the Xuande Gate, and the emperor rose to the Xuande Building, which was the climax of the winter solstice suburban sacrifice: pardoned, Li Xiaoqi stood up and walked to the front of the shed, Mama Zhang followed her, pointed to the dozens of flags standing in front of the Xuande Building, and said with a smile: "Five masters, the tallest one in the middle, the one that is level with the Xuande Building, is called the Gaitian Banner!" The one next to it, just erected, that is called the second Huanglong, only a little smaller than the Gaitian Banner, and then to the side, it is the Qingcheng Banner, the Taimiao Banner, the people outside don't understand, thinking that the Xuande Building in front of the Standing is called the Gaitian Banner, how dare they cover the sky? Li Xiaoqi nodded with a smile, pointed to the extremely thick square pillar in the middle of the square and asked, "That's called a chicken pole?" ”

"That's right! The fifth master looked at the top. ”

Li Xiaoqi followed Mama Zhang's fingers and looked at the wooden plate on the tip of the pole, on which a golden rooster stood upright, the chicken was holding a big red silk roll in its mouth, and the blue, yellow, red, and white thick silk ropes drooped under the plate, which hung down to about a zhang from the ground. Who doesn't know that the Tiger Wing Army of the Lord is the most powerful! Li Xiaoqi was silent and did not answer, this year's Great Gift Year Suburban Festival was hosted by Ningyuan Marquis Guo Minrui led the envoy, this arrangement is very different from previous years, she and Mr. Liang have analyzed this matter in private, the four armies belong to the father and son, the emperor is not very healthy•••••• Li Xiaoqi subconsciously squinted his eyes, and looked at the Xuande Gate that had calmed down.

Mama Zhang gently pulled her, Li Xiaoqi reacted, knelt on the ground with a long robe, the emperor ascended to the Xuande Tower, he stood on the Xuande Tower, and waved to all the people in the world, the people were kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, but in fact, they couldn't see the waving hand.

Li Xiaoqi and Mama Zhang knelt down and kowtowed, stood up, Xuande in front of the door has been neatly lively, four black tights, the head wrapped in a red scarf of the sturdy warrior neatly stood under the Xuande Gate, kneeling down on one knee at the Xuande Building and saluted, got up and stood to the chicken pole Quartet, each facing a color silk rope, ready to rush, a drum beat upstairs in Xuande, the four of them rushed a few steps like an arrow off the string and jumped up, grabbed the silk rope, climbed the foot pedal, while rushing to the pole head, while kicking the neighboring climbers, in an instant, thrilling, The samurai on the red rope grabbed the first, stretched out his hand to pull away the red silk in the mouth of the golden rooster, the corner of the red silk should fall heavy objects, and the wind quickly unfolded, revealing the four golden characters of 'Long live the emperor', the warriors in the direction of the red silk thundered, the mountain shouted long live, with the four samurai sliding down quickly, the whole Xuande Gate was in front of a mountain shouting long live, Li Xiaoqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this battle looked fierce, but also very good-looking, and the emperor took advantage of this color beautifully.

As soon as the cheers fell, a golden phoenix with colorful tail feathers slowly flew down from the highest place of the Xuande Building, and flew to the tall colorful building in front of the Xuande Gate, the general secretary of the Criminal Department was dressed in a big red auspicious suit, knelt on the ground, raised his hands and took the holy decree of amnesty from under the claws of the golden phoenix, stood up, and read out the amnesty decree in a loud and loud voice, and the sinners who had long been kneeling in front of the Cailou were all brand-new yellow cloth shirts, listening to the instructions of the jailer wearing a big red suit and hairpins next to him, and kowtowing neatly to thank him, long live the mountain, and the jailer was beaming, With a smile on their faces, they went to the sinners' flail, and the sinners stood up, raised their hands and shouted long live, and stepped back.

Li Xiaoqi couldn't stop laughing, this play was really good, Mama Zhang folded her hands and read the Buddha and sighed: "Those who can catch up with the amnesty are all blessed, don't do that hurtful thing when you go back, it's right to live your part." Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at her and laughed: "What you said is really good, it is right to live as you do." ”

The amnesty ceremony was completed, Xuande Gate was immediately lively, there was already a miscellaneous drama on the color building, the dancing next to it was non-stop, the dancing was juggling, and there was a heroic young man hanging on each of the four colored cords of the chicken pole, fighting and fighting, and the fight was better than dancing, Li Xiaoqi stood and watched for a moment, then turned around and whispered: "Go back." Mama Zhang's eyes were reluctant, but she didn't delay for a moment, beckoned a little girl to call a car, took a cloak and put it on Li Xiaoyi, let Li Xiaomi, and followed downstairs.

Li Xiaoqi wrapped his cloak and went downstairs, stopped slightly, waited for Mama Zhang to come down, and slowly walked to the car parked in the alley.

Looking at the curtain under the canopy, he quietly lifted the crack, a pair of gentle and peaceful big eyes stared at Li Xiaoqi carefully through the gap, Li Xiaoyi's pace slowed down, and suddenly turned around to look at the curtain, and the big eyes hurriedly flashed to the side, and when the curtain was lifted again, Li Xiaoqi had already turned into the alley.

Upstairs, a little girl in Tsing Yi looked at the car moving slowly, hurriedly ran down the stairs, and flashed into the curtain, inside the curtain, Ruyue was wearing a peach-woven brocade gray squirrel cloak, holding the curtain, and was still looking at the alley where Li Xiaoqi disappeared, the little girl gently pushed her, and called in a low voice: "Sister Ruyue? Ruyue put down the curtain, put her hand back on the hand stove, and said with a warm smile: "Hard work, since the fifth master is gone, you have to quickly find someone to find the chief housekeeper to report, and I will go back." ”

"Well, I'll send Sister Ruyue over." The little girl said diligently, Ruyue nodded, handed the hand stove to the little girl to hold, raised her hand and turned up the cloak and hood, took back the hand stove and held it, the little girl lifted the curtain, looked left and right vigilantly, flashed out, Ruyue followed closely, hung her head, the hood and cloak were tightly wrapped, and she walked to the alley on the other side of the shed, got into the car and went back to Liang Wangfu.

On the night after the amnesty, Kaiping Mansion was powdered and snowed, Li Zongliang and others rushed back to Huwei Camp in the snow, and the Li house after everyone left was very quiet, Mrs. Fan asked Yuyan to come over and pay the account and the rest of the silver taels to Li Xiaoyi, but she didn't mention anything about the weaving workshop, Li Xiaoqi didn't ask much, only transferred the account book to Wisteria, and explained the housekeeper's affairs to Mama Zhang and Mama Lu.

The snow fell for a day and a night before it cleared, the entire Kaiping Mansion was covered in silver, Li Xiaoqi got up early in the morning, commanded the little girls to shout and shout and piled up three or four strange-shaped snowmen, played enough, and was about to go out, the mother-in-law led Nanning who was sweating on her forehead to run in, Nanning stared at the three or four strange snowmen and blinked her eyes again and again, these five masters are really good at playing.

"What's wrong?" Li Xiaoqi patted the snow on his hand, looked at Nanning and asked, Nanning was busy to the end: "Nothing happened, the lord asked me to come over and quickly say to the fifth master, according to the usual practice, after the winter solstice, the emperor will come to the minister's house to travel luckily, it just so happens that the snow is falling well, the palace has passed the letter, the emperor will wait a while to visit the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, the lord asked the fifth master to hurry up and prepare, first go to the door of the Liang Wangfu to go over together, and the lord also let the confession, according to the convention, it is to join the poem." ”

"Who else is accompanying the second master?"

"And Mr. Liang, the two Lu Ye have already received the special order and went directly to the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, the second master of Shui is waiting for the master halfway, and they all have to go, this is an elegant thing once a year." Nanning explained with a smile, and Li Xiaoqi nodded: "Okay, I'll go over after changing my clothes, thank you." Nanning hurriedly gave up a few polite words, and hurriedly said goodbye and went back.

Li Xiaoqi returned to the half-acre garden, called Mama Zhang and Mama Lu in, and simply said Nanning's words and instructed: "I'm wearing men's clothes!" Mama Zhang nodded happily and said, "This is not rude, I will help the fifth master pick out clothes and cloaks?" ”

"Hmm." Li Xiaoqi breathed a long sigh of relief, nodded with a smile and answered, Wisteria hurriedly asked someone to send hot water and a kettle and a handkerchief to come in, and a few neat hands and feet waited for Li Xiaoqi to clean up again, comb his hair, Mama Zhang and Mama Lu had already picked out a green onion and yellow brocade thin cotton gown, and a silver fox cloak embroidered with apricot yellow orchids came out, Li Xiaoqi pulled the gown and cloak and asked, "This color is worn by the girl's family, right?" ”

"Isn't the fifth master a girl's family?" Mama Lu asked with a smile, Li Xiaoqi glanced at her, hung her head and stretched out her arms, Wisteria and Begonia hurriedly stepped forward to help change clothes, Danyue pursed her lips and smiled, looked at the clothes, picked out a mutton fat hosta, replaced the jasper hairpin that had just been inserted into Li Xiaoyi's head, Qingcheng picked a pair of maroon sheepskin boots over, handed them to Mama Zhang, and said with a smile: "The fifth master has to wear a pair of thick boots today, if you go to the garden to enjoy the snow or something, you won't be frozen." ”

Li Xiaoqi cleaned up, Wisteria burned a very small red copper hand stove, put on an embroidered plum blossom cover, and handed it to Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi took it and hugged it in his arms, enjoy it when it is time to enjoy it, whether it is a butterfly or a butterfly.

Li Xiaoqi got into the car out of the second door, and when he arrived at the gate of Liang Wang's Mansion, Su Zicheng was already sitting in the car and waiting, Li Xiaoyi's car came over, turned the horse's head directly without stopping, and followed Su Zicheng's car and drove away in the direction of Ningyuan Hou's Mansion. Li Xiaoqi lifted the curtain of the car, and the car didn't run far, when he saw a car with the Shuifu decoration following up and falling behind his car.

Not long, the car gradually slowed down, Li Xiaoqi looked out through the curtain crack, the roadside was full of cars, from time to time there were neatly dressed civil and military officials sideways to the side, or slightly bowed, or stared directly at the vehicle driving by, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly put on a cloak and prepared to get out of the car, but although the car was slow, it kept moving forward, until there were no cars on both sides of the road, and saw the gate of Ningyuan Hou's Mansion, the car entered from the side door and walked a shot before stopping, the curtain was lifted, and Nanning let Li Xiaoqi get out of the car with a smile.