Chapter 81: Returning to the West Lake
After Xu Xian saw Xie En in the court, he came back and told Li Gongfu and Xu Jiaorong, saying that His Majesty was lenient and benevolent, and after learning that his parents had died early, he was given a special leave of one month, and he was allowed to go back to his hometown to worship his parents before going to Jinhua to take up his post. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Xu Jiaorong was naturally happy, but thinking that Xu Xian was going to return to his hometown with the honor guard of the imperial court, how could he go back one step ahead of him to make some preparations, so calculating the time, the period of January was actually not sufficient. At that time, he was urging everyone to return home.
Since the head of the family speaks in the literal sense, everyone must naturally do what is ordered.
When the Yang brothers learned that Li Gongfu's family was leaving, they were all a little depressed. They have a noble status and are respected by others on weekdays, but Li Gongfu's family really treats them as friends and even relatives.
But after all, it is a feast that is not dispersed in the world, and on the day when Li Gongfu and his party left Beijing, the two brothers reluctantly sent everyone outside Luoyang City, Yang Mengqi said to Li Gongfu: "My father has promised that when the two of us succeed in marrying, we can leave Meishan to travel the world." When the time comes, Menglin and I must go to Hangzhou to find Uncle Li first!"
Li Gongfu said with a smile: "Now that the cultivation of the two of you has reached the peak of Qi cultivation, if you settle down and work hard to cultivate, maybe you can break through to the Jindan realm in three or five days, then won't we be able to meet again soon?"
Yang Mengqi and Yang Menglin also thought deeply when they heard this, and they both decided in their hearts to retreat and practice penance immediately after returning home this time, and strive to succeed in marrying the Dan one day earlier.
After the two sides said goodbye, Li Gongfu secretly used the technique of "shrinking the ground into inches". Now his use of this spell is not only limited to himself, but can also cover a certain range and act on others. In order to avoid shocking the world, he only adjusted the speed of the carriage and horse to about double the speed. Rao was like this, and they also arrived with the messenger sent by the imperial court to Qiantang County to report the good news. As for Xu Xian, who walked with the imperial court's honor guard, he was still far behind.
Knowing that the champion of the current department is in this county, and the champion was appointed as the prefect of the fourth grade by the imperial court, Song Zhiyuan, the current magistrate of Qiantang County, naturally wants to dig out his heart and make a stammer.
The county lord pondered for a long time, and felt that in addition to arranging a grand welcoming ceremony to add glory to the face of the champion, there was also a ready-made favor at the moment.
Not long ago, Li Gongfu, the former head catcher of this county, wanted to buy the Qiuwangfu Mansion, which had been abandoned for many years, saying that he wanted to buy a family business for his wife and brother. Because Xu Xian was not the champion of the world at that time, although he heard that Li Gongfu had some background and was well connected in the county, he only gave a little care outside of official business, and the other party didn't seem to care about money, so he didn't have the slightest objection to this.
Fortunately, the two sides only agreed on the matter at that time, and had not yet gone through the relevant procedures, otherwise this opportunity to give favors would have been lost in vain.
After having an idea in his heart, Song Zhiyuan immediately called his master and redrew a contract for the sale of official property, the price was naturally half sold and half sent, and then ordered Zhang Quan and Li Wan, who were good friends with Li Gongfu, to send the contract to Li Gongfu's mansion together with the title deed of Qiu Wangfu's mansion.
After a few more days, Xu Xian finally returned to his hometown with a full set of champions, and the entire Qiantang County was empty, and everyone flocked to the street to see this new champion of Lianzhong Sanyuan.
Song Zhiyuan took the officials of Qiantang County to greet him from afar, which was considered to have given Xu Xian enough face.
Xu Xian tried his best to entertain, and was able to return home in the evening, and the family set up their own banquet to celebrate without mentioning it.
The next morning, it was a sunny day.
Xu Jiaorong had already ordered someone to prepare the sacrifices, divide them into two portions and put them in the food box, and the pig Po Long Ah Er picked them up with a flat pole, and went to sweep the graves of his parents with Li Gongfu and Xu Xian.
A group of four people did not ride horses and cars, and walked out of the west gate of the county to the western suburbs. Because the time interval between the two old people was not far away, and they were very close during their lifetimes, the tombs were also set up next to each other.
Xu Jiaorong first took Xu Xian's parents to worship, and talked about his younger brother's high school champion Guangzong Yaozu several times, thinking of the hardships of raising his younger brother after his parents passed away, he couldn't help but shed a few more tears, and Xu Xian on the side was also wet with tears.
Later, Xu Jiaorong accompanied Li Gongfu to worship her in-laws, during which she couldn't help but think of another thing.
It turned out that after the two got married, the family business was prosperous, and the couple was harmonious, and the only drawback was that there were no sons and half daughters. Xu Jiaorong felt deeply ashamed of the Li family for this, and asked God for divination in many ways, and even moved the idea of taking a concubine for Li Gongfu. Li Gongfu persuaded in many ways, and finally had to pretend to be a ghost as a cultivator, saying that he had calculated that the two would not have children until his younger brother Xu Xian got married, so he appeased her.
Now in front of her in-laws' grave, Xu Jiaorong remembered this again, so she silently prayed for the blessing of the two old people, so that her younger brother could get married as soon as possible, and she could continue the cigarettes for the Li family earlier.
After the worship was over, they burned the paper money, packed up the offerings, and still taught Ah Er to pick it up, and returned the same way together.
After walking for a while, Li Gongfu suddenly saw two slender figures, one white and one green, walking in the direction of West Lake, and the cyan figure seemed to be somewhat familiar.
And the two figures seemed to have used a technique similar to "shrinking the ground into inches", and they disappeared into the distance with only a slight flicker.
He stopped in his heart, and Xu Jiaorong and Xu Xian also stopped to look at him.
"There is such a clever method, is it really God destined this fate?"
Li Gongfu turned his mind around and glanced at Xu Xian a few more times.
Xu Xian didn't know why, and asked, "Brother-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
Li Gongfu suddenly smiled and said: "Hanwen, you will go to Jinhua to take up your post in the near future, and I don't know how long it will take to return to Qiantang County, why don't you take advantage of the holiday in the past few days to visit the mountains and rivers of this hometown? I see that the weather is good today, how about we go to West Lake together?"
Xu Xian and Xu Jiaorong both felt that this proposal was good, and they didn't let Ah Er follow at the moment, and only the three of them went in the direction of West Lake.
When they arrived at the edge of the West Lake, Li Gongfu excused himself not to make Xu Jiaorong hard, so the two hired a boat to go boating on the lake, and let Xu Xian take a walk around the lake at will.
Xu Xian also wanted to see the scenery of the West Lake, so he said goodbye to his sister and brother-in-law, and walked away with the people who came to visit the West Lake.
After watching Xu Xian take a few steps, Li Gongfu couldn't help but remind him in the back: "Hanwen, the scenery on the broken bridge is very good, where can you go to play for a while!"
Xu Xian agreed, and went away with the crowd.
Li Gongfu turned around and saw Xu Jiaorong staring at him with burning eyes, he couldn't help but feel weak for a while, and asked, "Jiaorong, what are you looking at me like this?"
Xu Jiaorong said: "Why are you a little weird today, is there something you are hiding from me?"
Li Gongfu laughed and said: "You are too careful, how can I dare to hide something from you? Okay, it's rare to have a free day, let's go to the lake!"
Without further ado, he dragged her to the lake to find a boat.