Entering the door is a shadow wall several zhang wide, carved on the wall with a female and a male two dragon head lions, it is the Chen family's family emblem, Ziyan dragon lion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the lion's mouth spews flames, and is sacrificing Neidan. The lioness is fiery on all four paws and is teasing her cubs, and she is majestic and vivid.

Behind the shadow wall is the main courtyard of the Chen Mansion, the residence of the head of the Chen family, and still lives the old lady Chen and his six sons.

Chen Yue bypassed the shadow wall is a red door, a hall in the door in the courtyard, the corridor is brilliantly lit, and the maids in fresh clothes are in and out with trays, and they are serving food at a glance, so lively.

He was about to go in to greet his grandfather, but was stopped by the porter with a smile: "Yo hey, Young Master Yue is back, this is to greet the old lady? That's not a coincidence, the old lady is discussing things with several masters! Today, the old man of the Nangong family has sealed the 'King of Longxi', don't you know? Why don't you go back first, and when the old lady comes out, I will pass it on to you, and you will come back tomorrow morning? The old lady wants to practice boxing in the morning, and I will see you!"

The words are clear, but the meaning is clear - you can't go in!

Chen Yue secretly laughed at himself: "I came out of this courtyard, and now my father's former residence is still empty, and my son doesn't even have the qualifications to enter the door...... but he still has to thank the steward: "Then thank you for being old." ”

"Okay, young master, go slowly!" the steward snorted without smiling, and turned back to the porter.

On both sides of the shadow wall is a narrow street hundreds of feet long, which can accommodate about two carriages in parallel. There are two rows of small courtyards on the side of the street, and a slip on the south side is the secretary room that deals with various affairs, birth, old age, sickness and death, weddings and funerals, clothing, food, housing and transportation, civil and military goods...... Everything. To the north is the residence of the high-class servants, and it is also a separate courtyard.

The two ends of the long street lead to the east and west courtyards, and there is a long street between the main courtyard and the courtyard, and on the side of the street are two rows of row houses, in which live the ordinary servants of the house.

The main courtyard and the east and west cross courtyard are called the front yard, and there is a garden of hundreds of acres in the back, called the back yard. The pavilions and pavilions are dotted among them, and it is the residence of the core clan of the Chen Mansion.

In the Chen family, only by cultivating to break through the "Yijin realm" can you become a core clansman. And only when the "Purple Flame Dragon and Lion Bloodline" is stimulated, can it be regarded as a descendant.

The core clan is the "master" of the Chen Mansion, and the children born are the "young master" and "miss". And the core clan will be cultivated by the Chen family with all their resources, and they will have the opportunity to inherit the position of patriarch in the future.

When the young master and young lady of the Chen Mansion reach the age of seven, they will leave their parents and move to live alone in the east and west courtyards, and follow their master to practice literature and martial arts. But if you don't activate your bloodline by the age of sixteen, you have to leave your family.

The best way is naturally through the relationship of the Chen family, to seek a half-official position in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty, to earn a share of glory and wealth; secondly, to manage the affairs of one party on behalf of the family and to be a local tyrant and squire; secondly, to be responsible for a piece of entry and exit, mixed up with five or six individuals; and again, to join the army and eat a brain full of fat; and those who have neither popularity nor connections can only fend for themselves.

The officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were divided into nine grades, and the servants of the Chen family were also divided into six grades from the chief manager to the little maid, and there were as many as 1,000 servants and servants. There are twenty or thirty major and small affairs every day, and among them, the personnel distribution, money exchanges and other matters, Mrs. Chen still personally inquires. Even so, the old men often blew their beards and stared, and they had to be the biological mother of Old Lady Chen, Shangguan Old Taijun, to come forward and suppress them.

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The east cross courtyard is a large garden, with thick shade everywhere, flowers and trees blocking the eyes, which can be described as a scene in five steps and a change in ten steps. Small courtyards are located in between, only a few feet apart. Although they are not large, they have their own characteristics. At this time, the sky is hazy, the lights are dim, and the surroundings seem to be quiet.

Chen Yue was familiar with the road and stopped in front of a bamboo door. There was no light at the door, and by the hazy moonlight, it was vaguely visible that the door plaque was engraved with the three ancient characters of "Wangyueju", which was inscribed by Mrs. Chen when he was seven years old.

It is surrounded by a dense bamboo forest, and the sound of insects chirping one after another, which makes it even more secluded. Chen Yue sighed secretly, pushed open the door and entered the courtyard.

The courtyard was empty, and a tiled house was deserted. Push the door into the house, the furnishings are readily available, and it is sparse and dusty to the touch.

He lit the candle, his eyes lit up, the past was vivid, and the bright candlelight pierced his eyes and wanted to shed tears. A hint of warmth rushed to his face, and it made his heart cramp again. He took a deep breath, blew out the candle, and sat down in the courtyard with a chaise longue.

The spring breeze is light, the bamboo shadows are swaying, looking up at the vast starry sky, people seem to have returned to the mountains, and he feels better. He really shouldn't have come back today......

I don't know how long later, he was suddenly awakened by a cold light. It's moonlight, but not the moon from the sky. Looking down and seeing the light shining under the package, he couldn't help but be stunned, opened the package, and saw that a leaf-shaped relief on the lid of the box was shining silver. Within a few feet, a trace of silver was overflowing out of thin air, and hundreds of rivers were thrown into the leaf.

Chen Yue was stunned, at that time, Qian Duoduo said that this box had a lot of origins, but he didn't care, he just thought that she was selling herself and boasting, and now it seems a little strange. Thinking that there was a strange ginseng inside, he wanted to open the box and take a closer look. The lid and body of the box seemed to grow together, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't open them.

"There is a strange ......" Chen Yue smiled bitterly and put the box down to observe carefully.

The string of gourd vines carved on the lid of the box, there are seven leaves on the vine, and seven gourds are hung, which is also an auspicious pattern that symbolizes many blessings and longevity, and it is very suitable for use as a gift box, and there seems to be nothing special.

If you look closely, you can see that the veins on the leaves are clear and lifelike. After the moonlight was absorbed by the leaves, it turned into a silver stream and poured into a gourd next to it. The seven gourds look the same, but there is a layer of extremely slender mystical patterns on the surface, and they are different. The carving is wonderful, and it is not human.

"Baby?" Chen Yue was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly carried the box into the house. The leaf suddenly dimmed, no longer absorbing the silver rays.

"Do you have to have moonlight?" Chen Yue moved the box to the moonlight again, and the leaf lit up again with silver light, and began to absorb silver rays again.

And so it was. Chen Yue's heart sank, and he quickly took the box back and looked around intently. After confirming that there was no night-seeking guard, he lowered the box under the window again, letting only a ray of moonlight shine on the lid.

The leaf lit up with a faint silver light again, and continued to absorb the surrounding silver rays. If you don't get closer, it's hard to spot the anomaly.

Chen Yue breathed a sigh of relief, although the effect was much worse, it was much safer. He believed that if the strangeness of this box was known to others, with the urine nature of the Chen family, there would be absolutely nothing to do with him, and someone would kill him.

And with this heart, today's encounter was temporarily buried in his heart: "Maybe everyone has a few memories that will never be touched, just as everyone has a few people in their address book who will never be contacted...... I'd like to see what's so weird about this box. ”

In order not to attract attention, he returned to the courtyard and sat down again, and his mind gradually turned over like a river and a sea, and thousands of thoughts came flooding in. The oppression of the family and the betrayal of Shangguan Yan...... said a thousand ways and ten thousand, or because he couldn't stimulate his blood and gather qi.

He moved into the Grange to practice before, and it seemed that he was working hard, but in fact, he was just working harder to follow the steps, and he still didn't directly face some more essential problems. For example, which cultivation can assist in qi gathering, and which cultivation has nothing to do with qi gathering.

He only knew that exercising mental power could enhance the sense of qi, thereby assisting in qi gathering. As for the method of exercising mental power, it is said that the old legend is a sentence - the virtual collar is strong, the body moves at will, and the strength is born from the heart.

For this sentence, the sages created a variety of boxing techniques. The children of the Chen family practice this kind of martial arts, which cannot be said to be useless, but the specific effect varies from person to person.

If I had to find an explanation for this situation, I would only say that everyone's qualifications are different. And Chen Yue's qualifications are too poor to comprehend the mystery of the exercises. As for the ancestors' exercises, there is no problem in itself, and if you don't succeed in cultivation, you deserve it.

"Aside from this punch method, is there a more direct way......" Chen Yue looked at the starry sky and began to think independently for the first time.

said that he would forget, but he would think of Shangguan Yan if he was not careful. Her heart was open, as if she had a thousand words to confide in her, and it seemed that as long as she poured out like this, she would be able to change her mind...... His thoughts drifted farther and farther away with the evening breeze, and he thought of his sister who was far away in a foreign land, and remembered their childhood......

Tears fell silently, and were dried by the wind, and his face was slightly spicy. It was a little difficult to breathe, his heart seemed to be trembling, and after a period of colic, he was determined to let go again, and forcibly suppressed Shangguan Yan to think about "mental power......

Chen Yue learned from the pain, his mind was muddy, but he couldn't sleep. Later, I fell asleep in a daze listening to the wind, but it seemed that it didn't take long for the sun to suddenly brighten up in front of me.

After two meals and another night of wind, Chen Yue only felt dizzy when he opened his eyes, and the world was spinning, but his heart really didn't hurt. His spirits were slightly perked, and a smile bloomed at the corner of his mouth: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, the baby doesn't cry today, don't cry ......"

There were a few crystals flickering in front of him, but Chen Yue was not hungry at all. After carefully packing up his clothes, he took a deep breath towards the rising sun, and silently said: "Let's eat something, it's not worth ...... for her"

The guests and servants of the Chen Mansion eat in the big kitchen, and the owners in the backyard can naturally make a list for the kitchen to make, and the young masters and ladies have to go to the kitchen to eat a big pot of rice by themselves.

Chen Yue came to the "Five Grains Zhai" by car, and there were still twenty-five tables of eight immortals neatly arranged in the lobby room, and a row of cage drawers and porridge buckets were placed on the counter, all of which were steaming hot and fragrant.

Chen Yue walked closer, and saw that there were as many as seven or eight kinds of staple food today, from steamed buns to dumplings, a total of more than a dozen kinds of thin foods from tofu brain to black rice porridge, and five or six kinds of pickles, so he couldn't help but smile.