On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the small year of the Great Xia, also known as the New Year's Festival, the people of the human race sacrifice to the stove fire.

After all, the flame is the symbol of the evolution of the human race, cooking food with fire, heating with fire, so in order to be grateful, there is this festival.

However, the territory of Great Xia is vast, and the days of this small year are different in various parts of the thirty states, roughly between the twenty-third, fourth, and fifth three days of the lunar month, and the Shenjing City, which is located in the northwest, and the Zhao family, the lord of Great Xia, chose this twenty-fourth day.

The New Year's Festival can be said to be the most solemn festival before the first day of the New Year, so today Shenjing City is very lively, whether rich or poor, are busy selling meat, buying wine, buying fruits, and some gold and silver paper to sacrifice, at the same time, the first male city on the vast land of Shenzhou, the flavor of the year suddenly became strong.

In the middle of the morning, the wide carriage that was originally parked at the gate of Sitian Pagoda set off again, heading towards the vicinity of the Dao Palace in the eastern suburbs, and when passing by the bitter tea house where he had lived for a while, Zhao Yu specially let Liang Po stop for a moment, lifted the curtain, and looked at the courtyard gate that had barely changed.

"Your Majesty, do you want to go to the courtyard to have a look?"

As soon as Liang Po's inquiry fell, Zhao Yu shook his head, lowered the curtain, and then said:

"No need, go directly to Master Wen's house!"

Then the carriage moved forward again, perhaps it was a creation to make people, after driving through the courtyard next door, Chu Yanyan, who was still beautiful and lovely without powder, was returning from buying food from outside with his mother, and then the girl looked at the carriage that gradually disappeared at the entrance of the street, and felt a pain in her heart for no reason, feeling as if she had lost something important.

Since Si Tianta came out, the great master Huang Ting, who had always been elusive, disappeared directly, and he and Liang Po were left in this wide carriage, as well as a young supervisor of Si Tianjian, who was responsible for driving the carriage.

Inside the carriage, as if thinking of something, Zhao Yu raised his head and asked softly:

"Bai Zhining's situation, how is it now?"

"Back to Your Majesty, at this time, she is fusing the forbidden Dao soul, but because her original Dao soul has been stripped away, the difficulty will increase a lot, and Ruyue, who is also in the station of the small world of the floating island, is guarding every inch. ”

"Bai Zhining is a natural taboo person who has only been encountered once in countless years, and he has a strong foundation, so it should be no big deal. ”

Zhao Yu raised the teacup in front of him, took a sip of bitter tea, and after waking up and drinking Xuantian wine, his head was a little dizzy, and then he continued to speak:

"If Bai Zhining completes the fusion before the Yuan Day Festival, he will pick her and Ruyue to the White Emperor Palace, and I don't want the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the palace to be too cold. ”

"No!"

The house where the former prince and the prince Wenyu lived at this time was near the Dao Palace, and the White Emperor Palace originally divided a mansion in Zizhu Lane to give the old gentleman, but the old man had no children under his knees, and only the two daughters were married.

Earlier, someone from Si Tianjian came to report that at noon today, there would be a saint who would come to pay New Year's greetings, so this ruddy-faced old man had already changed into a grand brocade robe and waited at the gate of the house, and at the same time, the two daughters who had not married far away also arrived with their husbands and children, after all, this represented the grace of the saints.

Then, under the gaze of a pair of surprised eyes, a carriage without any guards, like an ordinary family, slowly stopped in front of the house, and then a young man stepped out gently.

The face is like a crown of jade, unparalleled in the world.

The former crown prince Wenyu took the lead in kneeling on the ground to ask for peace, and then knelt on the ground in front of the mansion, and even the people who heard the movement not far away and came to see the lively people also hurriedly knelt down, and their hearts were excited.

Zhao Yu stepped forward quickly, picked up Wen Yu, who had white hair, and said:

"Master, after all, you are old, you have waited in the cold wind for so long, how can you eat your body and bones, you can wait for me to come in the house in the future, you see that I have a private visit to Weifu today, and I only came to pay New Year's greetings as a junior. ”

The old lady Fu Wenyu showed a smile, stretched out her hand, and said with a smile:

"Heaven and Earth Monarch, this should not be lost, Your Majesty, please come in. ”

Later, surrounded by the people of the Wen Mansion, Zhao Yu and Liang Po stepped into the extremely simple mansion, although the area of Wen Taifu's residence is not small, but the interior is like an ordinary peasant family, a well, a few rows of fences, and a piece of private land for growing vegetables, and there are even a few free-range poultry fluttering their wings on it.

"Master, I know that you don't like yellow and white things, so when I came, I specially asked Liang Po to take some carefully marinated bacon in the palace, and it was a New Year's greeting. ”

On the path in the courtyard, the young and calm imperial voice belonging to Zhao Yu sounded gently, and then the old man stroked the white beard on his chest, looked up to the sky and laughed, and responded loudly:

"Then the old man thanked His Majesty Longen. ”

After finishing speaking, the old lady stretched out her finger and pointed to the fattest rooster in the yard, and whispered to her daughter in the back:

"Today, the Holy One came down and boiled the biggest rooster and made a nourishing chicken soup. ”

Mrs. Wen has always been known for her frugality in her life, so there are very few objects in the middle hall of the house, just a wooden table and a few futons, and then Zhao Yu and the old man sit on the futons opposite each other.

The old man Wen Yu called a middle-aged woman over and whispered in her ear, and then the woman nodded and left, the old man looked at the slightly tired young emperor opposite, and said softly:

"This year is approaching, Your Majesty must be very busy recently, today's Xiao Nian, come to the old body here, let's not talk about political affairs, Your Majesty can have a good rest. ”

Let Shi Gong see it smile. ”

Zhao Yu raised his hand and saluted forward, and then the old lady Fu Wenyu returned the salute, and only listened to the young emperor's voice continue to sound in his ears:

"In addition to coming here to pay New Year's greetings, I also invited Master Gong to go to the White Emperor's Palace on Chinese New Year's Eve and have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together. ”

As soon as the emperor fell, the middle-aged woman who had retired before stepped in again, holding a bowl of soup in her hand, respectfully sitting on it, and then the old lady stretched out her hand, gently pushed the bowl of soup in front of Zhao Yu, and said kindly:

"Just in front of the mansion, I smelled the strong smell of wine on His Majesty's body, and drank a bowl of decanting soup, otherwise it would be bad for my body. ”

Then Wen Yu looked at Zhao Yu, who was holding a bowl and drinking soup in front of him, his eyes were full of pity, and he continued to speak:

"Your Majesty, like your father, is afraid of loneliness and likes to be crowded and lively, so Your Majesty's invitation, the old man was flattered, and naturally he wanted to agree, but before that, the old man also hoped that His Majesty would agree to one thing. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Yu put down the sobering soup in his hand, looked at the old man in front of him with an inquiring ebony, and then the latter stroked his white beard, and the mellow voice continued to sound:

"Since the old man has agreed to His Majesty's invitation, His Majesty will also promise the old man to stay here at noon and have a light meal. ”