Chinese New Year's Eve passed, and time entered the eleventh year of orthodoxy.

In principle, the first day of the new year to the fifteenth day of the new year is a day of rest, but because of the large number of rituals, it is difficult for officials to take all these holidays.

The emperor wants to sacrifice heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, mountains and rivers, and also worship ancestors......

These activities are not only attended by officials, but also by royal descendants.

For example, at this time, Zhu Jinghong had already finished dressing and was going to pay homage to the ancestral tomb.

Zhu Jinghong walked out of Chengming Courtyard, and happened to meet Baochai and Xiangyun.

"See the Thirteenth Master!"

Without waiting for the two to kneel, Zhu Jinghong waved his hand and said, "No courtesy!" ”

"Where are you going?"

I only heard Xiangyun reply: "The queen's grace gave us three days off!" ”

"I see...... For the New Year, you should be allowed a few days off! ”

Just as Zhu Jinghong was about to say a few more words, Yu Hai reminded on the side: "Thirteenth Master, let's go quickly, the Lord is still waiting!" ”

Nodding, Zhu Jinghong said to Baochai and the others: "You have a safe journey, I will leave first!" ”

"Thirteen masters, go slowly!" The two girls saluted.

When Zhu Jinghong left, Xiangyun pulled Baochai to continue east, and they still left the palace from Donghua Gate for a while.

Seeing Xiangyun's joy, Baochai couldn't help asking: "Girl, not long after you entered the palace, you are like an arrow?" ”

This was originally a casual question from Baochai, but he heard Xiangyun sigh with emotion: "When I was at home before, I always felt that the elders were strict, thinking that one day when I grew up, I could leave them earlier...... But I was away from home for a month, but I missed them! ”

"Now that I think about it, the elders are strictly controlled, and it is really for my sake!"

Hearing this, Baochai smiled and said, "Can you think like this...... It's already grown up! ”

The two chatted like this, and soon walked out of Donghua Gate and continued to walk towards Dong'an Gate.

Outside the Dong'an Gate, at this moment, Xue Pan was already waiting with the slaves, looking forward to the direction of the palace gate.

"Uncle, the girl is here!" Ying'er shouted happily, and then rushed to catch up.

And everyone from the historian family on the side, at this moment, there are also people who greet the palace gate.

Outside the palace gate, Baochai said a few more words to Xiangyun before going back with their families.

Inside the sedan chair, Baochai was thinking about the affairs of the family, but heard Xue Pan outside say: "Sister, I used to come to pick you up, but Lian Er came in a hurry, but now that he has the princess in his family, he can't look down on us!" ”

Jia Lian didn't come today, so Baochai naturally noticed it. "Big brother, don't talk nonsense about this, after all, people and us are two families, and it is not our duty to come to love, how can we be resentful because of this!"

"I said girl...... Brother, I have a grudge in my heart, I still wish he didn't come! ”

"Every time I come, I take care of this and that, and it annoys people to death!"

Hearing this, Baochai couldn't help but quip: "You are right, when Second Brother Lian is looking for you to play, when are you not happy!" ”

Pulling the reins and trying to keep it level with the Baochai sedan chair, Xue Pan continued: "Sister...... You can say that this is bad, now that Second Brother Lian has become a candidate for the Dragon Guard, he hasn't come to play with me for a long time! ”

"People are self-motivated, big brother, you have to learn from second brother Lian!"

Baochai has a good impression of Jia Lian, and at this moment, he can't help but use him to advise his brother.

"Sister, am I not motivated? The errand of the thirteenth master, I haven't done it properly! Xue Pan was a little unconvinced.

Inside the sedan chair, Baochai said with a smile: "Of course it's better!" ”

Soon they returned to the mansion, and this was the first time Baochai had entered the mansion in the capital.

Compared with the Xue family and Rongguo Mansion in Jinling, it is obviously much smaller here, but there are also three main courtyards plus two cross-courtyards on the left and right, and it is no problem for a family of three to live.

At this moment, Aunt Xue was waiting in the inner house, standing under the eaves and staring at the outside gate, unable to persuade her to leave.

"The girl is back!"

Hearing the rumors outside, Aunt Xue immediately smiled, and then walked towards the courtyard, and the next moment Baochai was surrounded by girls and walked in.

"Mother, how do you ......?"

Before Baochai finished speaking, he heard his own mother speak: "Bao girl, I can look forward to you back!" ”

"Daughter to Mother!" Baochai knelt down to salute.

However, Aunt Xue held her up, and said at the same time: "It's cold outside, don't care about these false courtesies, let's go in and talk!" ”

After entering the house, Baochai officially saluted her mother, Aunt Xue couldn't bear it, and her daughter was very happy to be filial.

"Over the years, your brothers and sisters have been in front of me, but now that you have been away from home for a long time, you still don't feel like anything on weekdays...... At the end of the year, my mother always felt empty in her heart! ”

"Now that you're back, my mother will be at ease!"

Every sentence in the words is full of Aunt Xue's love for her daughter, and Baochai also has tears in her eyes.

Don't look at her tenacious personality, knowledgeable and polite, but she is only a fifteen-year-old girl, and she has just entered high school in modern times.

"How long will you be back this time?"

"Niang Niang is allowed to take three days off!"

"It's only been three days? Alas...... Having is better than nothing! Aunt Xue looked regretful.

Seeing that his mother was not very happy, Baochai said: "When I came back this time, my mother rewarded me with a lot of things, so come and see it!" ”

After that, regardless of whether her mother wanted to or not, Baochai pulled her to the side room, and a girl had already placed her "luggage" here.

Originally, Aunt Xue was not very interested, but when she saw Baochai receiving a crown dress and the royal gift, she couldn't stop laughing.

A first-grade crown suit, you must know that the old lady of Rongguo Mansion is just a first-grade crown dress.

When Aunt Xue was happy, the emperor took the ministers and officials all the way out of the imperial city.

In order to ensure the safety of the emperor's travel, the Beijing camp and the guards went to the direct army, and each dispatched tens of thousands of troops to follow, and the soldiers and horses of the five cities were even more in full force.

Five miles before and after the emperor's dragon chariot, and within a range of three miles to the left and right, all of them were in a vacuum state, so as to ensure absolute safety.

The villages and towns encountered along the way, regardless of the status of the people involved, must be moved out of the warning range.

Under this kind of vigilance, it is impossible to assassinate the king and kill him by manpower, but Zhu Jinghong's heart is still hanging.

After all, the White Lotus Sect in this capital is like a weed, so he can't help but worry about this trip.

In addition to today's sacrifice to the ancestral tomb, the next step is to sacrifice the heavens, earth, mountains and rivers, but according to the practice of previous years, the emperor should let the crown prince do it for him.

It stands to reason that the sacrifice of heaven and earth should be put first, and the emperor should come in person, but it is all reversed here in Zhu Xianming.

It can also be seen from this that Zhu Xianming respects his grandfather so much that he directly puts him in front of heaven and earth.

"But this grandfather, calmed down the turmoil and rebuilt Shenzhou, completely completed the land reform in the southwest, and subdued the Tibetan Tusi and all the tribes in the north......"

"The establishment of Qinghai, Anxi, Anbei, and Andong has strengthened the imperial court's control over the surrounding areas, and it has also implemented land reform and return to the river in these places, which is simply a number of strongmen in the past and present......"

This thirty-five years of ruling experience is not an exaggeration to say that it is the same as Kaihang, even if the current emperor has done a good enough, but compared to the ancestors, it is much worse.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jinghong couldn't help but sigh: "It's no wonder...... The old man respects the ancestors so much, as a descendant who inherits his career, he will naturally be honored!! ”

(End of chapter)