Xiao Yan bowed and responded, "Yes." ”

After she returned home from Jingdao Hall, her father had a long talk with her, knowing that this time entering Beijing was not only the sage's desire to see her, but also the meaning of the family, just to go to the imperial capital to increase his knowledge and enrich his experience, and enter the Tiance Academy to study, and may not return to Hezhou until December next year.

"This is the list of spring banquets around the New Year's Festival." Xiao Hui picked up a gold-sprinkled paper folding list with orchid prints on the case and handed it over, Xiao Yan got up and took it.

"After reading it, remember it in your head." Xiao Hui said.

Xiao Yan respectfully agreed, knowing that this list actually reflected the relationship between the Xiao family in Beijing and China, and it could not be flowed out.

After reading it twice, she took it to heart, got up and handed the bill back to her uncle's case.

Xiao Hui said two banquets and said, "Except for these two, Ah Yan doesn't have to go to the other banquets first." Let your cousins go to wade through the water first, you will have more time in Beijing, and it will not be too late to socialize with these families in the future. In the next few days, you will follow me to meet the heads of the family. ”

Xiao Yan responded: "Yes." ”

knew that the eldest uncle was promoting her.

Because his father is the highest military governor in Hexi, he can't leave Hexi without the edict of the imperial court, so the eldest uncle who enters Beijing every year to congratulate is the representative of the head of the Xiao family.

And the family shows that they attach importance to her, which will definitely make her interaction with the family in Chang'an more beneficial.

She pressed down her slightly agitated mood and listened carefully to what her uncle said about the head of the family who she would visit tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

This kind of visit is not listed on the Spring Festival banquet list, but is both public and private.

When it comes to openness, it is because the mutual visits between the families are above board; However, the visit between the two parties is private. The Maison's transactions are often made in such visits, and attitudes towards certain events are conveyed through such visits.

Xiao Yan knew that she was taken by her eldest uncle to participate in such a visit, even if she went to the warm pavilion with the other party's children to drink tea or visit the garden when she was talking about things, it was enough to show that she could "participate in secret discussions" status in the family, which was very effective in improving her level of communication in Chang'an.

After listening to his uncle's arrangement, Xiao Yan thought about his mother's arrangement, and said in a tone of asking the elders' opinions: "Mother wants me to come over in the next few days." I want to spend Chinese New Year's Eve with my mother, Shen Shi will pass, and Zhengdan will come back after lunch. Uncle, do you think it's appropriate? ”

Xiao Xi thought about it in his heart, and said with a smile: "On the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, we have a sacrifice in the mansion, and it is a family banquet from noon, and the party will not rest until the third watch of Chinese New Year's Eve, it is not a big deal for the family, and you have used the family banquet to be reunited." You and your birth mother haven't seen each other for many years, and you should spend Chinese New Year's Eve with your mother. ”

Xiao Yan respectfully thanked him, "Yes, thank you, uncle." ”

She said goodbye to her uncle, took the guards back to Jinsu Courtyard, and heard the report from Xianglan that the three cousins had sent someone to ask, so she changed into a light cyan home jacket, and went to the three cousins' courtyard one by one to talk. So he changed to a short brown, practiced the knife technique for an hour, and then bathed in the bed, stayed for a while before meditating, thinking about what gifts to bring to his mother on Chinese New Year's Eve, and inevitably thought of Li Yuzhen, and sighed with his hand on his head. I think of what her mother said when she taught her to "set her mind": "Let it be destroyed on all sides, and I will not move." Xiao Yan said silently in her heart, between her and Li Yuzhen, I'm afraid that's the case.

Both of them are equally determined, and no one can convince anyone, it depends on who can grind whom.

Anyway, she became the emperor, and sooner or later she would get married, and then this love would naturally be broken.

Xiao Yan exhaled slowly, his eyes became clear, he closed his eyes, held the Qingxin glazed stone, and quickly entered the realm of clear sky.

From the next day, when she went to the Ninth Brother's Courtyard to eat the morning food, she went to her uncle's courtyard alone and went to the Song Guogong Mansion with her uncle to visit.

Song Guogong is the head of the Cui family in Qinghe, Cui Xizhen, one of the prime ministers of the three provinces, and the father-in-law of the prince, has won the trust of the sage, of course, this trust may also be a quarrel - Song Guogong served as a counselor and a doctor of the imperial history for many years before the edict was conferred on the servant, and the sage was an old enemy who quarreled with the palace, and it was common for him to quarrel with the sage after serving as the prime minister.

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty has become accustomed to being scolded by his subordinates, which emperor has not been scolded? Too. Zu, Gaozu, Taizong, Renzong, Myeongjong, Gaozong, Sejong...... None of them escaped, and Emperor Zhaozong, who was scolded the most, also joked that "not being jealous is a mediocre talent, and not being scolded by ministers is a mediocre emperor", as long as you do things well, you can quarrel if you want to, and it is not ambiguous for the sage to quarrel. But the premise is that you can do things, and you can only grind your mouth, and most of the emperors will throw people to the Hanlin Garden and the National History Museum, where there are a bunch of people who grind their mouths, and you can debate the scriptures and discuss history every day. Cui Xi can really sit from the chief of Taiwan to the position of the prime minister, and he is by no means only a verbal fight, in major matters, the head of the Cui family can never be ambiguous, and he is a hidden saint party, so he has been sitting firmly in the position of the prime minister for more than ten years. Now the next emperor is his son-in-law, and the next emperor is also his granddaughter, as long as the Qinghe Cui clan himself is not stupid, it will not be a problem to continue to prosper for forty or fifty years.

"Under the Xiao family, it is the Qinghe Cui family. The children are prosperous and the talents are numerous. Choi Se-ja is the same generation as your father and is a magnificent. The Cui family has him as the leader, and the children are united, and they will not be inferior to the Xiao family. A family has a long history, one of which lies in the preservation of the Tao and the other in the concentricity of the children, which is more important than the emergence of talents. ……”

Xiao Yan rode on the horse, thinking back to what his eldest uncle said yesterday, combined with the tips of his father and fourth brother before going to Beijing, he slowly sketched out his initial impression of Qinghe Cui's family in his heart.

The carriage and horse soon arrived at Yongchangfang and entered Cui's Mansion from the Fangfu Gate.

The prince Cui Guangbi was dressed in a dress with wide sleeves and a belt, wearing a brocade face with a black embroidered gold claw pattern, and only the cuffs showed three inches of black oily hair, his appearance was fair and handsome, and he had a magnificent and broad bearing, leading several of his brothers and four or five nephews to greet him in front of the main gate.

Xiao Hui is also wearing a dress with wide sleeves and a belt, wearing a dark blue woven square victory pattern brocade hair, and his temperament is as gentle as ancient jade.

"Brother Dingrou hasn't seen him for a year, but his demeanor is still the same!"

Cui Guangbi laughed loudly, met Xiao Hui affectionately, and put his arm inside.

The children of the Cui clan also greeted Xiao Yan and the others up the stone steps and entered the gate.

The warm pavilion on the east side of the inner hall of Huanmen has burned the earth dragon, and everyone entered the room to sit down and drink two teas with a smile. Cui Guangbi got up and invited Xiao Hui to come in to meet his father.

Xiao Hui got up and only brought Xiao Yan with him.

Cui Guangbi was slightly surprised in his heart, but he didn't show it in the slightest.

Shoulders all the way to the north, after entering the inner Huan Gate, they arrived at the living yard of the head of the Cui family.

Cui Xizhen is seventy-one years old this year, a few years older than the saint, and it stands to reason that he should be seventy years old, but the saint still retains his position in the middle of the door - both inside and outside the court know that this is to wait until the new emperor ascends the throne before retreating.

His hair and beard are half white, but his spirit is very strong, combing his hair in a meticulous bun, wearing a pine green robe with large sleeves, the sleeves hang down to the couch, and the robe is embroidered with a few silver threads, solemn, elegant, and noble. The past years are as profound as a knife, carving deep furrows on his face, but they can't hide his brilliance, but because of the accumulation of years, people feel a profound wisdom, and people have an unfathomable sense of prestige in front of him.

Xiao Yan followed his uncle into the warm pavilion and took off his mask.

Cui Guangbi's eyes were shocked, and shock, doubt, and other feelings flashed in his eyes in an instant, but he couldn't take a glance and then disappeared.

"Shibo, this is Jingxi's third son, Ayan. - Ah Yan, come to meet Shi Bozu. ”

Xiao Hui looked back and smiled gently.

Xiao Yan replied "yes" and stepped forward to salute.

Cui Xizhen smiled and said, "Jingxi is so blessed, there is a son like crystal jade, and the heart is full of medulla." "I already have six or seven points in my heart that this child was born by Li Yixun's demon.

Although the appearance is only two or three points similar, the pair of apricot eyes and pure black eyes printed in a mold, as well as the exact same chin, a shallow dent, were written by those family members as "beauty marks" and "fascinated chins...... said that this child was born to Anping, he really didn't believe it, even if the appearance was atavistic and the eyes were exactly the same as the saint, but who was the "fascinated chin" like? The saint didn't give birth to "beauty marks", hehe.

Although Cui Xizhen is over seventy years old, his eyes are still bright, and he thinks that he has not reached the old and dizzy Cheng Dù.

He looked at Xiao Yan a few times and felt that he liked it.

Those eyes were so well born, clean and clear, like crystal glasses on the bridge of his nose, pure and free of impurities. The eyes are the household of God, and the eyes are clear and the gods are right. This kid is good, he thought to himself, otherwise, with such a delicate appearance, a delicate demeanor, and a clear and clear temperament, I don't know how many girls will be lost.

Thinking of the time when Li Yixun was popular in the family, men were fascinated, and women were also fascinated, and their Cui family planted several of them, and Cui Shizhong felt that his heart was congested, what a disaster. Fortunately, the big scourge did not give birth to a small scourge. Xiao Jingxi is still in tune with raising children, not the saint's old and unfashioned man, raising a demon who harms people.

He temporarily changed his mind, and left the mutton fat jade bottle pendant carved with quail Ruyi, symbolizing peace and happiness, which was about to be sent, in the sandalwood box on the desk, and then instructed the waiter to take the pair of white sandalwood carved bamboo paperweights on the bookcase, handed it to Xiao Yan, and said with a kind smile: "This is the year I knew the destiny of heaven, and I have been using it for 20 years." Now I will give it to you, I hope you are like sandalwood, pure white, and bamboo. ”

Xiao Yan was surprised when she heard that it was Song Guogong "who carved the knife by himself, and it has been used for twenty years", but after listening to the last three sentences, she swallowed the words of resignation, because this is not a meeting ceremony, but a gift from the elders to the younger generations, she stretched out her hands and took it, and thanked her with a respectful and solemn expression: "Yan respectfully obeys the teachings of the ancestors." ”

Xiao Hui and Cui Guangbi were surprised in their eyes, but Xiao Hui was more happy, Song Guogong's woodcarving is famous in the Tang Dynasty, but after the age of fifty, he rarely carves wood to give away, and he can get the paperweight carved by Song Guogong himself, which shows that he has his appreciation or recognition, which is more precious than any gift!

After lunch, Xiao and his entourage said goodbye from Cui's mansion.

The carriage and horses returned to Yongxingfang, everyone went back to the courtyard to bathe and change clothes, and in the afternoon, Shen Shi went to visit the Weiguo Mansion.

Weiguo Gong Pei Chang, the head of the Pei family in Hedong, served as Zhongshu Ling, was the governor of Zhongshu Province, and one of the prime ministers of the three provinces.

Xiao Yan heard her mother say yesterday that she also has two elder brothers, the eldest brother is surnamed Pei with his father, and the second brother is surnamed Li with his mother, but after the death of the horse, his mother was sad, so she asked the sage to change the second brother's jade and let him change his surname Pei.

When I go to the Patriotic Mansion, I may have to meet these two half-brothers.

Xiao Yan was a little excited and a little curious.

remembered what A-Niang said, "Your eldest brother is an immortal, just drink the wind and eat Yulu; Your second brother is an iceman, holding a feather fan and pretending to be Zhuge every day", she felt very funny, and she wanted to see these two brothers who were blinded by their mothers.

Wei Guogong's mansion was in Anxingfang, east of Yongxingfang, and Xiao's chariots and horses soon arrived in Xiqu, where Pei's mansion was located.

It was also Pei Shizi who led several nephews to greet each other in front of the main gate.

Xiao Yan saw the two handsome young men behind Pei Shizi at a glance.

The taller one was about twenty-four or five years old, wearing a sky blue shirt with large sleeves, wearing a white background and blue silk embroidered with Ruicao Yunhe brocade snow fox hair, and the collar and cuffs showed snow-white fur.

This is a beautiful man who is as beautiful as the moon and the frost.

His eyebrows are vaguely like his mother, Xiao Yan is sure in his heart that this is the "immortal" eldest brother Pei Songzhi.

The young man on his right was twenty-one or two years old, wearing a snow-white fox fur, with a handsome appearance, but like a piece of ice jade carved out, so cold that he had no expression, and his bones were as clear as ice jade, and he held a feather fan in his hand, which was half hidden on his chin.

Xiao Yan thought to himself that this is the second brother of the "Iceman", and what is covered under his feather fan is the "beauty mark" that resembles his mother, right? Xiao Yan couldn't help laughing, and the corners of his mouth tugged slightly.

Pei Rongzhi felt the gaze from the opposite side, and when he raised his eyes like ice, he met a pair of clear and bright eyes.

Xiao Yan nodded to the second brother with a smile, and suddenly tapped his chin with a smile.

Pei Rongzhi's ice-like face immediately became even more cold, and her ice-like gaze shot over, as if she was about to stab the mask on her face into seventeen or eighteen holes.

This Lang Jun of the Xiao family is so rude, he even came to laugh at his beauty marks?

Xiao Yan couldn't help laughing, as the three cousins and several children of the Pei family saw the ceremony, although Pei Rongzhi was unhappy in his heart, he would not lose the courtesy of the master's family, but he deliberately walked beside Xiao Yan, saying greetings in his mouth, and his eyes emitted a cold "moving" light.

Xiao Yan smiled with a smile and talked politely with the second brother of the "Iceman", looking at him with a feather fan covering his chin, and his heart fell with laughter.

Everyone entered Huanmen, talked in the Dongnuan Pavilion, and after laughing and talking a few teas, Pei Heng got up and took Xiao Hui inside to meet his father.

Xiao Hui still only brought Xiao Yan alone, leaving Xiao Yan and the three of them to talk to the Pei family's disciples.

Pei Rongzhi looked at Xiao Yan's back and muttered in his heart: Liang Guogong's young son is very valued by the family...... It's really annoying.

The children on both sides talked about poetry and books and played chess for half an hour, and a waiter came from the inner gate and said that the head of the family asked the two gentlemen of the long room to pass.

Pei Songzhi and Pei Rongzhi glanced at each other, slightly surprised in their hearts, the two got up and saluted and confessed, went out of the warm pavilion before and after, sat on their shoulders and followed the attendants to their grandfather's courtyard.

In the study of Tangyuan Hall, Pei Changzheng was talking to Xiao Yan about the interesting story of hunting in Shanglin Yuan when he was young, and Xiao Yan laughed and was very happy.

Pei Heng was talking to Xiao Hui, and when he heard Xiao Yan's laughter, he couldn't help but glance at her a few times, and said in his heart: This child is more like their mother than Songlang and Ronglang. The grandfather had a grudge against his sister-in-law, but he was very fond of all three of her children. This fate is really strange.

But this Xiao Seventeen, it's hard not to like it.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Xiao Yan's face, and involuntarily outlined the pair of beautiful apricot eyes in his mind, and a slight pick was a thousand kinds of endless enchantment, the pure black eyes were sparkling, and the most beautiful brilliance was revealed...... His heart was sour again, and even though all the years had passed, he was still jealous of his eldest brother.

The attendant's message came from outside the door.

Pei Songzhi and Pei Rongzhi took off their shoes, bypassed the barrier and entered the study, and stepped forward to salute their grandfather, who was leaning on the pot door couch.

Pei Rongzhi looked up and saw Xiao Yan sitting next to his grandfather and was stunned.

Is that Xiao Yuezhi?

His chin is ...... Beauty marks?!

Pei Rongzhi's ice-like handsome face was stunned, dare not Xiao Seventeen laugh at him before?

Pei Songzhi's eyes had already passed with surprise, and two points of incredulity suddenly arose in his heart, could it be that he was ......

"I've seen my uncle."

"I've seen Xiao Shibo."

Although the two brothers were surprised, they both came to their senses in an instant, saluted the two elders one after another, and then sat down on the small couch under the head of their uncle.

Pei Chang stroked his beautiful hair, and said with a smile: "Zimao, Ziju, this is your third sister, Xiao Yuezhi." ”

Three...... Younger sister?

Younger sister?

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