Night. Zhuang House. Exterior doors.

A fast horse neighed and stopped with its hooves back, and jumped off the horse, and a small flag was planted behind this person, and the flag showed the word "Zhuang". As soon as this person got off the horse, the three family members at the head of the door came up to pick up the horse, and the family Ding took the small flag on the person's back.

The horseman spoke quickly, and couldn't hide the joy and said: "Report to the old lady and the old lady, great joy, enter the palace tomorrow afternoon to face the saint thanks, and the queen mother will be rewarded." Let the eldest master, the third master, and the fourth master enter the palace, and the prince of the Dingwang Mansion Fujin will also be there at that time. The Queen Mother's special grace also invited the second master and the third master to enter together. The emperor also said that he would give the second and third masters a face-to-face salute alone. ”

The family who received the flag hurriedly turned around and entered the left corner door, trotted all the way, and did not stop until the second door touched the housekeeper, and then handed the flag to the housekeeper, and explained it clearly. When the butler heard this, he was overjoyed, and he ran faster than when the doorman came. The mouth shouted: "Old lady, old lady, old man, wife, great joy, great joy!" ”

At this time, the old lady was still talking to the three main wives of the Qin family, the county lord, and the Cao family, and when she heard that the housekeeper was coming, they all got up to greet her. I saw the housekeeper holding a small flag, knocking on the ground as soon as he entered the door, and said loudly: "Congratulations to the old lady, congratulations to the ladies and sisters, great joy!" ”

The old lady was not verbose, and said, "Say it quickly!" ”

The housekeeper truthfully said the good news outside, and the old lady listened to it, smiled, and smiled, holding the Qin family with her left hand and the county lord with her right hand, unable to hide the overjoyed energy, and asked the Cao family to help the housekeeper up.

The old lady said on the other hand: "Hurry up, tell the gentlemen quickly, it means that you don't need to come over to say hello in the morning, just go directly to the palace!" ”

The butler answered the word and went down with joy.

The Qin family said: "Old lady Hexi, the palace has been thinking about you. It's been so many days since her birthday, but the Queen Mother still hasn't forgotten. ”

The old lady said, "Yes, yes!" He turned his eyes to the county lord and said, "Did you hear that?" Dingwangfu Fujin is also there, but it's not that the third wife, your mother misses her two grandchildren. Give them a long face. You go back and tell you, let Pu'er and Ju'er be better, don't be reckless and rude, the Queen Mother is not very well, remember to be thoughtful. ”

The county lord said happily: "Please rest assured, old lady." ”

Cao Shi stood on the side, as if no one saw her, her face was happy, and her heart was somewhat unpleasant. In the early morning of the next day, the people of the family house, surrounded by pearls and jade, wearing court clothes and formal clothes, and the people who entered the palace did not need to be detailed, and the others were more rich and solemn. The old lady led the way out of the door, but the Cao family in the North Mansion was missing, and when the old men set off, the old lady was shocked to find out who was missing, and when she asked, the housekeeper replied: "The second lady went back last night and was blown by the wind, and the cold invaded her body, and she was resting on the bed." Zhuang Lu, the second old man standing on the side, didn't say a word.

And in this way, the old lady led the Mrs. Hefu and the girls to wait for the good news in the lobby of the central mansion. Outside the gate of the mansion, the doormen and servants were all scrambling, looking forward to it, praying that news would fly in from time to time, so that they could go in and ask the old lady for credit. At that moment, at the corner of the street, a master led a young man and two small Si, and Cechenino watched.

Take a closer look at it, it is none other than Mr. Yao who leads Zhuo Yiting, Sanxi and Huiyuan.

It turned out that Zhuo Yiting, Sanxi and Huiyuan escaped from the tiger mouth of Xianyuan Nunnery and went straight to Mr. Yao's residence. When it was nightfall, Mr. Yao was not in the house, and the three of them huddled at the door to keep watch. About one or two watch days, Mr. Yao came back drunk, holding a pot of Jinhuate liquor in his hand, shaking and trembling, while chanting and saying some drunken words. The three of them didn't dare to admit it at first, and then they dared to help him after a careful look, and Mr. Yao didn't say anything, so they entered the house together, and the three of them waited for him to rest, until they got up in Gaoyang the next morning, and Mr. Yao woke up, and only then did he shake the real eyes Zhuo Yiting and others.

Zhuo Yiting 1510 told the cause and effect of the Xianyuan Nunnery encountering the bloody disaster, Mr. Yao was amazed after hearing it, and said: "That's amazing, that sister-in-law must have told the government about your appearance." ”

The implication is that it is not safe to stay with Mr. Yao. Mr. Yao said: "The only way to do this is to enter the Zhuang Mansion is the truth." "I don't have a plan for how to get in. Sanxi made breakfast, and all four of them ate a little. After finishing, Mr. Yao said: "In the past few days, I have been guarding outside the Zhuang Mansion, and I have asked someone to inquire. Zhuang Mansion is going to enter the palace today to receive the reward, and the Tongfu must be sent out, maybe you can see the old lady, and you may be able to enter the mansion. But there is a bad one, there are many people. Now, I'm afraid that I have already set off to enter the palace, blame me for not knowing that you came back, and ate mixed wine and slept until this time, it is not the time when they sent the door. ”

Zhuo Yiting said: "According to Mr. Sense, what should I do now?" ”

Mr. Yao's meaning is blatant, so let the three of them dress up and go to the Zhuang Mansion to see and ask before making a theorem. So, no longer scrutinizing the plan, the four of them came to the corner of the street outside Zhuangfu and waited timidly. At this moment, I saw a few small servants at the gate of Zhuangfu walking back and forth, looking far away on the street, waiting for their master's family to return from a good thing.

Mr. Yao led the three of them to walk quickly to the door, and was about to talk to a servant, when he suddenly saw the four people in the house hurriedly running outside, and said with high interest: "Hurry! The other doormen waited to hear Mr. Yao's words, and they all surrounded Si'er with a grunt. Si'er said: "The palace rewarded three blood jade corals in the South China Sea, the second master, and the third master two strings of hand beads. The old men are thanking at the moment. The old man asked him to come back and say a word to the old lady and the ladies, and set up a table to celebrate. ”

When the doorman heard this, he jumped up for joy and said, "That's a great joy." ”

Si'er's breath was still panting, and he hurriedly turned around and said, "I have to wait outside the palace again, and then call a few more capable people to carry the frame together, prepare a few strong and good carriages, hurry up." ”

The doorman answered and went into the house to report to the old lady, and Si'er left quickly.

The corner gate of Zhuang Mansion is closed. The four of them stood dumbly at the head of the door, not daring to be irritable, and waiting. After a while, several strong men came out of the corner gate, and saw a group of carriage racks turning in the direction of the north corner of the street. The family caught up with the carriage and drove away. After a while, four doormen opened the door in the left corner, and you said I laughed, and came out with the bounty in hand.

Mr. Yao didn't wait any longer, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and begged: "A few masters, I'll look for your lord, and I'm sorry to report it." ”

A servant said: "The gentlemen are not in the house, and they have entered the palace today to be rewarded." ”

Mr. Yao was afraid that they would leave, so he grabbed a small doorman and said, "Your master is not here?" ”

The little doorman said, "Which master are you looking for us?" ”

Mr. Yao hesitated: "Master of the house." ”

The doorman smiled: "Then I found the big butler, but unfortunately, the housekeeper and the old man entered the palace." ”

Mr. Yao stomped his feet anxiously and said, "Then let's meet the old lady in your house, there is something urgent." ”

The doorman was about to reply to say something, when he saw a servant in the distance running back to report, so he waved his hand and asked Mr. Yao to stand aside.

The servant said to the servant, "Give the old lady a quick reply, and say that the master has come out of the palace." Let the old lady take her wife, and the girl will greet her at the door of the mansion, and light the red cannon at the high gate, and light it when she sees it from afar. Then the servant ran away again. At this moment, the doorman was even more reluctant to listen to Mr. Yao's entanglement, and rushed into the corner door to invite the old lady and others for credit.

Seeing that he couldn't get in, Mr. Yao turned back to Zhuo Yiting and said, "It seems that we don't have a chance for them to come back here." Let's go, go to the street and wait, I guess I will go up and report a gap, maybe it will be an opportunity. ”

Zhuo Yiting looked up at this time, the gate of Zhuangfu, red and gold, majestic, strict, dizzy and cold. Move out and put your hand on the stone lion pier, chilling the texture; I can't tell how much coldness and desolation I have in my heart. Sanxi slightly held her hand and whispered, "Girl." Let's go. The two of them moved, and Hui Yuan behind him stared intently at the two gilded characters "Zhuangfu" on the door plaque, but he was wrong.

Four people walk along Chang'an East Street, the end of the street is a high marble Nanmu archway, the front and back of the horizontal plaque on the archway are inscribed, the inscription in the direction of Zhuangfu is "Huide Changle", and the inscription on the square side of the street is "Chang'an East Street". From the archway through the left turn is a downtown street, and then through the main Beijing Avenue. The four of them came, and there was no end of prosperity, walking on the streets, walking horses, driving cars, shouting, acrobatics, inviting guests, countless heads, endless market merchants, and endless pennants fluttering. Looking from afar, the ant-like surging flow of people, picking up the rising dust, the mist is elegant.

I don't know which end of the street, someone shouted: "Zhuangfu's is coming" and spread the word of ten hundred and thousand, and the crowded avenue opened by itself. Mr. Yao asked Zhuo Yiting and the three of them to follow closely, and the passers-by avoided them. The four of them walked briskly along the roadside, wanting to meet the Zhuang family as soon as possible.

The people and horses of Zhuangfu are mighty, except for the neat domestic servants and fast horses, look closely, first the eldest man Zhuang Xi is the leader of the mount, wearing an official uniform, wearing a flowering coral top, a lion lake blue robe, a twist of the beard is elegant, the eyes are like a torch and not smiling, standing proudly; On both sides of his horse are eight escort officers and soldiers, and eight people from the honor guard palace are postponed, followed by three open sky covered yellow section of the car, the car is raised, and the cover is the dragon and phoenix embroidered yellow silk, which must be the treasure rewarded by the palace; This was followed by two roof-covered carriages loaded with people, followed by the retinue of the Zhuang family.

Mr. Yao and Zhuo Yiting squeezed into the crowd, and seeing the huge momentum, Mr. Yao turned his head to Zhuo Yiting and said, "There are so many people, it's not good to come forward." The lord must be in the carriage! ”

Sanxi said: "If only they could get out of the car." ”

At this time, two carriages loaded with people passed by, someone in the first carriage lifted the curtain, and vaguely saw that there were three people sitting inside, Zhuo Yiting didn't look at it carefully, only to see that the one who opened the curtain was a beautiful young man, wearing a Baoyu black hat, a black tight collar under a Duan Qing dark pattern robe, a jade-like face, beautiful eyes flowing, peak exquisite nose, smiling thin lips, his hand that lifted the curtain hung a string of yellow silk jade bracelet. This beautiful young man is none other than Zhuang Sanye - Zhuang Jue. Of course, Zhuo Yiting didn't recognize it, but there was Zhuang Jue's second brother Zhuang Pu and his father Zhuang Qin sitting in this carriage.

After Zhuang Jue came out of the palace, he once said to his father: "On such a good day, you should drink tea with your friends." On the day of entering the palace, I was uncomfortable and had no fun. Intentionally or unintentionally, he played with the jade bracelet rewarded by the emperor, and his heart was not very happy, and his father did not pay attention to him, and when he muttered, he said: "Have you ever heard that the Holy One is good to which slave?" This mouth, the implication of the words, the holy favor to give treasures, is a gift from heaven, and it is not satisfied. Zhuang Jue didn't dare to contradict it, and he didn't say anything all the way. Zhuang Pu is lively, the emperor gave him a string of agarwood Dongzhu bracelet, the emperor told Zhuang Qin that Zhuang Pu is lively and smart, agarwood quiet, maybe a pressure can be calm, and Zhuang Qiong Yao noble group and, then give the jade bracelet, Zhuang Pu out of the palace, actually want to exchange with Zhuang Ting. At this moment, Zhuang Ying was still pestering Zhuang Ying to exchange bracelets, and whispered in his ear: "You changed it with me, and I will take you out another day." How is it? Zhuang Jue didn't pay attention to him, so he lifted the curtains and looked outside, and Zhuo Yiting and the others saw him.