The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 361
After leaving the palace, I felt that the air was much fresher. There were no carriages or horses. Xuan Shijing walked on the bluestone streets of Chang'an City.

The weather is a bit cold. Looking at the weather, it looks a bit gloomy. It seems that there will be heavy snow tonight. After the heavy snow, maybe the climate in Chang'an City will not be as dry and cold as it is now.

Walking on the road, Xuan Shijing remembered that tomorrow he had to go to the Taishi Bureau to watch that Taoist priest Li Chunfeng concoct alchemy, and now that he was no longer in the Wude Hall, what excuse would he have to enter the palace?Anyway, I also contributed a lot of blood, although the Taoist priest Li Chunfeng planned to make a pot of poison with his own blood.
I don't know if the mansion gave New Year's gift to the palace, if not, I just took advantage of this excuse to go to the palace to see Empress Changsun.

Although it is possible that His Majesty Li Er wanted to use himself to make alchemy, Xuan Shijing always believed that Empress Changsun was different. Empress Changsun has always opposed the idea of ​​longevity. She refuted the construction of a pagoda to pray for blessings. It has to be said that Queen Changsun is more pragmatic than His Majesty Li Er.

The distance from the imperial palace to Prince Qin’s mansion is not long, and Xuan Shijing also felt that he hadn’t walked such a long distance for a long time. In the past, he would either ride a horse or Shihu drove a carriage when going out, but now he is here alone. Walking around the city of Chang'an, it feels different.

The gate of the Hou Mansion is still closed, and the two stone lions in front of the gate exude an aura of repelling people thousands of miles away. This is true, whose gate is always open when it is idle?

There is a side door next to the gate. If the host’s house is not going out or there are guests visiting, the gate is closed. However, there are very few gates of this size in Chang’an City. light.

Walking to the gate and knocking lightly on the knocker, an old voice came from the gatehouse.

"Who?"

"Uncle Liu, Shijing is back." Xuan Shijing said standing outside the gate.

"It's the young master." Uncle Liu opened the door. Although Uncle Liu is old now, he still has a lot of kung fu. open.

Xuan Shijing walked into the Hou's mansion, looked around, but found that the Hou's mansion seemed to be very quiet. At this time in previous years, shouldn't the whole mansion be busy with work?
"Uncle Liu, why is the Hou Mansion so quiet today?" Xuan Shijing turned around and asked.

"Madam said that now at the end of the year, His Majesty has imprisoned Lord Hou in the palace. At this time of the culmination of the storm, the mansion should not be too ostentatious. Everything will be discussed after Lord Hou comes back." Uncle Liu said with a smile: "This No, Master Hou is back today, everything in the house is fully prepared, and I will start tidying up when you come back."

"How did mother know that I would come back today?" Xuan Shijing looked surprised.

"Madam didn't say that you came back today, Young Master, and it will be the first day in two days. Even if His Majesty grounds his feet, he will not let people go, so everyone knows that you, Young Master, were I will definitely be able to go back to the mansion, Young Master, since you are back, you should go to the ancestral hall to see your wife first, for these few days, my wife has been in the ancestral hall to take care of everything in the ancestral hall."

Xuan Shijing nodded, and replied: "Yes, I understand." After finishing speaking, he walked towards the ancestral hall in the backyard of the mansion.

Speaking of this ancestral hall, Xuan Shijing felt a little strange. If the Xuan family's ancestral hall was not for Xuan Mingde's sake, I am afraid that his own mother would not be so concerned. He took Xuan Shijing to watch from the sidelines, and the main sacrifices to the ancestors became Xuan Lindao's family, and Xuanqing also replaced what Xuan Shijing had to do in the past. Si is also with Xuan Lindao, the Xuan family whose roots are Miaohong.

In the past few years, Xuanqing has been quite promising in the Guozijian. I heard that next spring Xuanqing will go to take the big exam. The students who come out of the Guozijian, after the big exam, can become officials more or less, from the sixth department to the official cao , different in size, and the Wang family saw that Xuanqing was different from his father Xuan Lindao's hopeless life, so he made up his mind to let Xuanqing inherit the ancestor. Xuan Lindao passed Xuan Lindao and gave it directly to Xuan Qing. After all, Xuan Lindao married into the Li family back then.

Over the years, Xuan Mingde and the Wang family have done enough for the Xuan family. Perhaps after this year, they will be divided into the Chang'an Xuan family and the Hanzhong Xuan family.

Naturally, the Patriarch of the Xuan Clan in Chang'an is Xuan Shijing, but the Patriarch of the Xuan Clan in Hanzhong, Xuan Shijing dare not assert that the patriarch is inherited by Xuan Qing, but the position of Patriarch is according to Xuan Qing's soft and sticky rules. The temperament is mysterious and mysterious.

Walking into the ancestral hall, Xuan Shijing saw that his mother was wearing a cloth cloth and was carefully wiping the enshrined tablets in the ancestral hall with a white cloth.

Xuan Shijing strolled into the ancestral hall and called out in a low voice.

"mother."

Wang Shi straightened up, turned around, and saw Xuan Shijing, with a smile on his face: "I'm back."

"En." Xuan Shijing nodded: "Mother, hasn't this ancestral hall been cleaned once before the Laba solar term, why are you cleaning it again today?"

Mrs. Wang smiled, and continued to repeat the movements in her hands: "It's okay, this is also our Hou's mansion. It is the last time to clean the appearance for the ancestors of the Xuan family. Afterwards, the sect priest of the Xuan clan will be officially handed over to Qing'er."

Sure enough, as Xuan Shijing expected, the Wang family had already planned to hand over the ancestor priest to Xuanqing, otherwise he would not have come here during the Laba Festival to worship the ancestors.

"Originally, this ancestor should not be enshrined by your father. Although the father-in-law is the son of the Xuan family and treats your father like a son, your father is not of the blood of the Xuan family after all, and we definitely did not force the sect priest. It's just that Xuan Lindao joined the Li family before, and there was no successor for the Xuan family. Now, Qing'er is considered to be promising, so Qing'er should inherit this ancestor. The ancestor in our mansion is dedicated to your father and others. Your grandparents are." Wang said.

The Wang family also knows the situation in Chang'an more or less. Now that she wants to hand over the patriarch to Xuan Qing to inherit, it may be that she wants to draw a clear line with Xuan Lindao's family. For so many years, the Wang family also feels a little tired.

Ever since Xuan Shijing came back, the Hou Mansion has regained its vitality. Wang Shi thinks that life is not bad now, and she has nothing to do on weekdays, playing mahjong with the wives of various families, or sitting and browsing in the Xuanwu Tower. Going through the account books and handling the miscellaneous matters in the meeting at least made Wang feel that life is not as boring as it used to be, so she simply wanted to save the thought of dealing with Xuan Lindao and his wife.

(End of this chapter)