The time of reunion is always very fast, and it will be the second day of the first month in a blink of an eye.

The people of the 36 states often take advantage of the good weather to go out on this day, or visit relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings, or travel together to play and go on a trip.

If it is said that Gwangju, the birthplace of the human race, has the most traditional and ancient celebration customs on the first day, then the place with the richest customs and patterns is not Shenjing City, but Chuzhou, the most magnificent and colorful pearl of Great Xia.

Great Xia Chuzhou, built on Lingbo Lake, the first lake in the vast land of China, is a real land of fish and rice, with unique advantages since ancient times, worry-free food and clothing, and rich living conditions have nourished a large number of literati and ink writers and talented beauties.

Over time, after the multiplication of generations, the scholarly atmosphere of Chuzhou has become more and more intense, and even in Qiushui City, there is a saying that there are ten people and seven scholars, although there are exaggerated elements, but there are many people in Chuzhou, which can be seen.

Compared with the five big and three coarse, simple-minded Northwest martial arts men, the minds of the scholars are more active, so the customs of Chuzhou to celebrate the first day of the New Year Festival are more abundant, such as the couplet conference, the competition to recruit relatives, the lantern parade and so on, in these days one after another, showing a completely different atmosphere of the New Year.

This morning, the sun above Chuzhou hung high early, and the sun shone down, making the temperature in Qiushui City on the shore of Lingbo Lake not low, as if spring was quietly coming in advance.

Qiushui City as the capital of Chuzhou, the area is naturally extremely large, and the architectural style is delicate and exquisite, a brick and a tile, an eaves and a corner are carefully crafted, the overall layout of the entire Qiushui City, the closer to the west area of Lingbo Lake, the more quaint the house is, the people who live here are the famous families who have a long heritage, and even more, the Great Xia Dynasty has taken root in Qiushui City before the opening of the Dynasty, and has hundreds of thousands of years of family heritage.

Among these famous families, the Qiao family is the oldest, it is said that its family inheritance can be traced back to the period of the previous dynasty of the Ying family, at the end of the previous dynasty, the era of endless wars, the entire Chuzhou, except for the Xiuyu clan that occupies the entire Lingbo Lake, is the most widely known to the Qiao family.

The Qiao family's mansion is actually not far from Lingbo Lake, and even above the high pavilion in the mansion, you can clearly see the entire endless, sparkling lake, no matter day or night, this scene is extremely magnificent and gorgeous.

Just after the New Year's pass, all the wang clans in Chuzhou today seemed to have made an appointment together, and collectively came to Qiao's house to send New Year's greetings, and at the same time, on the wide road outside the entire mansion, the water pavilion was blocked by luxurious carriages, and the small servants and housekeepers in the mansion were already busy at this time.

The main entrance of Qiao's mansion, visitors are naturally endless, but the side door of Qiao's mansion facing Lingbo Lake is a lot quieter, although it is a side door, it is still atmospheric and simple, and on the pillars on both sides of the door, there is also a couplet:

"The millennium swallow wing is only cultivating virtue, and Wan Lipeng is studying. ”

Basically it is to encourage future generations to be diligent in cultivating virtue and studying diligently, which also reflects the family rules and heritage of a thousand-year-old family, under the continuous noise ahead, this side door gently opened inward, a small head drilled out from behind the door, and the alert looked around, and after finding that there was no one, he hurriedly retracted his head.

After a while, the side door opened again, and this time two not tall figures rushed out directly and quickly from behind, and disappeared around the corner in a blink of an eye, and then a slightly worried voice sounded softly:

"Little, father-in-law, today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, the nobles of Qiushui City have come to the mansion to pay New Year's greetings, but the lord gave an order yesterday to let you not go out, let's escape like this, it's not appropriate, right?"

The voice came from a figure with a delicate face, small facial features and figure, but with this fair skin and small walking posture, a discerning person could know at a glance that it was a Xibei goods dressed as a man, and in front of this figure, there was also a seemingly extremely handsome boy, shaking a folding fan, wearing a very common scholar robe in Chuzhou, striding forward.

The person in front of him should be a veteran of women disguised as men, his demeanor and pace are vivid, but the flat Adam's apple and the faint fragrance on his body still betray him faintly, and then she put away the folding fan in her hand and said lightly:

"Don't panic, it's been like this every year, I've long been tired of it, and besides, these people are received by my father, I'm there with a piece of wood, it's better to go out for a walk, finally because the main gate is too busy, the family doesn't have time to care about us, so we can have the opportunity to sneak out of this side door." ”

Even though this personable Qiao Gongzi had specially suppressed his voice, his voice was still extremely pleasant, and then the little maid behind him hesitated for a while and continued to speak:

"That boy, where are we going today? There is no carriage here, and with the strength of the two of us on foot, we can't reach the most lively place in Autumn Water City for half a day. ”

"No, no. ”

Qiao Gongzi, who was walking in the forefront, suddenly stopped, then stretched out his right hand, held the folding fan and pointed lightly downward, and said with interest:

"Let's go there!"

Qiao's Mansion is located on a gentle slope, so looking down from the folding fan in Qiao's hand, it happens to be the shore of Lingbo Lake, and on the original open space on the lakeside, there is a building that has just been completed recently.

The white walls and black tiles of this building, with no other colors except black and white, are extremely solemn, which is incompatible with the rest of the surrounding exquisite and colorful buildings, and if you look closely, you will find that there are four large characters on the building that shine in the sun:

Great Xia School Palace!

The little maid dressed as a man looked down, and then said with a hesitant face:

"Childe, isn't that the Daxia School Palace that was just built recently, it is said that it will be officially opened after the beginning of spring, and this young gentleman from Shenjing City in the School Palace has a bad relationship with the talents of our Qiushui City, what are we going to do?"

The voice fell, and he stepped up again, with bursts of fragrant 'Qiao Gongzi', swaying the folding fan, and continued to speak lightly:

"The so-called amazing talents in our Qiushui City are all straw bales inside, and in less than a month, Xue Beichuan has won seven leaders in a row, whether it is poetry, couplets, debates or composing, and he has no power to resist, and he completely threw his complacent face to the ground.

"But these straw bales are still not convinced, yesterday they even joined forces to find someone to compare their cultivation, they are really stupid, the predecessor of this Great Xia School Palace is one of the ten major sects of Confucianism, how can cultivation be bad?"

After the handsome 'son' finished speaking, the little maid behind her opened her eyes wide, stepped forward quickly, and didn't care about hiding her name, and hurriedly said:

"Miss, what about the final result?"

"What else, naturally a group of people were beaten all over the ground by one person looking for teeth, and then they were called to fight in the school palace. ”

Then Qiao Yue, the eldest lady who sneaked out of Qiao's house, put away the folding fan, and the voice full of interest continued to come out:

"At this time, those people must be shrugging their heads to work, such an interesting scene, how can it not be unreasonable!"