Le Yun entrusted Young Master Xuan with the matter of sending back the gifts. She had nothing to do, had a nice meal, and happily returned to Uncle Chao's house with her beautiful young brother and beautiful sister Fu.
Mr. host.
Great-aunt hurriedly set off back to the island to look for medicinal materials. Young Master Xuan was not worried about safety issues. If anyone dared to take action against Penglai Immortal, they might think that life was too rich. , need to taste the feeling of being exterminated.
He packed up and waited in the west hall. After 9:30, Jiang Shao, Zhou Shaoji, Shaohua Shao and Xin Shao came to visit from all over the world and met with Xuan Shao by appointment.
The first Mr. Jiang arrived and Mr. Zhou asked Mr. Xuan what happened. He smiled but did not answer. When everyone gathered, the round table meeting began. As the host, Mr. Xuan naturally spoke first, "I invite you to come over. First of all, I asked you to come and get the return gift from the little beauty. Secondly, since you are idle anyway, why not come and help."
"The little beauty has a return gift"
"Where are the return gifts?"
The five young handsome men happily touched their hands with an expression of "Please come up with our return gifts." What a return gift from the little beauty, I get excited just thinking about it. .
"Don't worry, I won't keep the return gift I gave you." Mr. Xuan was extremely depressed, "Why don't you ask what help you need?"
"What help do you need from us?" "The Five Great Young Masters follow the trend.
"You won," Mr. Xuan shook his head angrily and amusedly, "It's not that I need your help. In fact, the little beauty has given you some heroes."
" Ha, it’s the little beauty who asked us for help. Tell me what’s going on.”
“The little beauty needs our help. We will go through fire and water without hesitation.”
The Fifth Young Master instantly became energetic. The excitement made Mr. Xuan want to slap someone. Everyone was as excited as if he heard that he was going to help the little beauty, and he didn't take him seriously as the main person in charge.
He hummed secretly and did not care about the five people. He calmly explained the reason: "The little beauty is busy picking medicinal materials, so she doesn't have time to send gifts to each family. Please ask me to help send gifts. I I recommend you to help us be couriers. We can divide the return gift into several parts. Whoever is close to the family residence will be responsible for delivering it. If you are busy and have no time, don't force it. If you don't want to do errands, please mention it as soon as possible. I won’t despise it.”
“I’m free, so I can drop by and take a look.”
“I’m so busy.”
"It's just a good opportunity to take advantage of the gift-giving opportunity to visit other people's homes."
Jiang Shaozhou and a few others said that they were very free, and it was rare for the little beauty to need their strength. In this place, it is such an honor to help send gifts. They are in a hurry with anyone who dares to do their work.
Every young man from the five families was willing to be an errand boy. Mr. Xuan waved his hand and took out the roster. The name of the roster was Xiaomei.The woman made a statistical record and clearly listed which families and sects there were in a certain province or city.
If Jiang lives in Long Province, then Young Master Jiang is responsible for the return gifts in Long Province or the family or sect closest to the Jiang family; Young Master Hua and Young Master Zhou Shaoxin are from Jiangnan, and they are responsible for the three provinces of Jiangnan, so And each one is responsible for some areas, and can deliver the return gifts to each family and sect as quickly as possible.
The Xuan family, Mr. The return gifts of some sects or ancient cultivators are temporarily kept by the Xuanjia Gang, because the master said that they would go to the Xuanjia to collect them when their people come to Beijing.
Divide the tasks and go to the east wing hall to pack up the return gifts for each person's area. The gifts are distributed to everyone, and the quantity is not too large.
After taking away their tasks, Jiang Shao and others returned to their place of residence. Xuan Shao was not idle either. He immediately picked up several return gifts and went to visit Baiyun Temple and Master Xingyun of the Zen Sect to give the return gifts. Give it to the owner as a Dragon Boat Festival gift.
On the way back, Zhou Shaoxin and Hua Shaoji took a detour to give return gifts to the Tantai family, Jiangnan Chen family, Gangcheng Huo family, Fang family, and Lan family respectively. Send it to the responsible persons in Beijing; as for Mr. Jiang, he is closest to Sanweixuan and is not on the same road as the other courtyards of the ancient cultivators, so he has no mission.
While Mr. Xuan, Mr. Jiang and others were busy assigning work, Colonel Yan cleaned up his private nest hidden in a certain area of Laosi Hospital in central Beijing, and drove to the West Passenger Transport Station. At half past one, he arrived at the passenger terminal, parked in the parking lot, and went straight to the exit of the subway station.
At nearly ten o'clock, the guests carrying the high-speed train to Beijing from the direction of Xiaowutai poured out of the station. Old Shan Weng, Master Qian and his little Taoist boy, the two generations of the Zhongli family and their respective families The two personal guards he brought with him were also in the crowd. They lagged behind to avoid being squeezed into a pile by the bustling crowd.
Sect leader Qian and his junior Taoist disciple were dressed in Taoist attire, while the Zhongli family, father and son, were dressed in ordinary people’s attires. They had different attires, so they were divided into two groups. People who didn’t understand thought they were completely unrelated. of two people.
While others were in a hurry, they strolled around and formed a landscape. Because there were three Taoist priests, people frequently peeked in secretly, and some showed kind smiles.
Following the flow of people to the exit station, the old man looked around as he walked, and soon saw his disciple waiting outside a ticket gate. His disciple's body was like a green pine, which could not be blown down by any wind or force. He is majestic and handsome, wearing sunglasses, which covers half of his handsome face, but cannot conceal his outstanding demeanor.
Zhong Liyu felt light-hearted when he saw his little disciple. He walked towards the ticket gate where his disciple was waiting. When he walked out, he was immediately supported by his disciple. The old man raised his hand and tapped his disciple's head: "Silly boy, please wait." Your master, the master, is the right one."
"Haha, no need to be polite, let's talk about it in detail when we go back." Qian Sect Master was very happy to see the tall and slender little master nephew. shelf.
Zhongli YushenHe felt it was too polite to introduce the two heads of the Zhong family to his disciple in a public place, so he nodded apologetically to his father and brother and followed his disciple.
After walking out of the high-speed rail station, Yan Xing first hailed a taxi and asked him to wait for a while to pick up his relatives and elders. He went to the parking lot to pick up the car.
When the private car arrived, Sect Master Qian, Xiao Daotong, and Zhongli’s father and son were riding in the Cheetah. The Cheetah driven by Colonel Yan was not his personal Cheetah, but belonged to the staff of the military distribution brigade. It was a long military vehicle. When he went out, he removed the military license plate and replaced it with an ordinary license plate.
The guards of Zhongli's home took a taxi, and the taxi followed behind the Cheetah.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the traffic was heavy. It took Yan Xing an hour and forty minutes to break out of the siege, reach the small street near his private house, park the car, pay the taxi fare, and walk to hide. A small dwelling in a courtyard residential area.
His den is a small courtyard with one entrance, but there are many houses. The main house and wing rooms are both five-room style. There are also wing rooms on both sides of the upper room, and there are also wing rooms at the end of the main room. In addition to the space occupied by the door, the side room with the main entrance also has side rooms, so it is shaped like a small quadrangle, and its area is almost as wide as a quadrangle with two entrances.
He stayed at the garrison headquarters all year round and rarely returned to his own home. He left the courtyard to be taken care of by two veterans who were once orphans and later retired from the army. One of the two veterans was named Xiao. A surname is Dai, and they are all in their fifties or nearly sixty. They each have a family, and their children have grown up. There are only two old couples living in the courtyard.
The veteran brothers and the old couple went out early and came back late. No one was at home. Yan Xing opened the door by himself, invited the master and the elders to enter the courtyard, then closed the courtyard door and invited the elders to enter the central hall of the upper room.
The old man Shan Weng made the decision for his disciple and asked his senior brother to sit in the first guest seat, while his father and elder brother took the second seat. Xiaodao and the Zhongli family guards put their luggage aside and also sat in the guest seat.
Invite the elders to sit down. Yan Xing first made tea with the boiled water in the hot water kettle. He picked up the first cup of tea on a saucer and knelt down upright in front of the head master. Serve tea to the leader according to the rules and etiquette, holding the saucer high above your head, "I have not entered the Yan family, Yan Xing, to pay my respects to the leader."
"Okay" Qian Sect Leader responded with a good word, picked up the tea, Open the lid, take a sip, say "good" again, take another two sips, say "good", put the teacup on the red sandalwood table, put your hand into your arms, and take it out from your pocket. A piece of exquisite white jade tied with a rope was placed gently in the saucer. "Yan Xing, although you have been a member of my Lotus True Sect for many years, your master did not take you into the sect to receive the ordination ceremony, so he did not give you the inscription. You This generation of disciples is called Congyu, and my uncle gave you the seal, the seal of the ancient jade seal. In the future, you will go back to the master with your master to make up for the ordination ceremony, and then open the sect's ancestral hall to write a memorial for you. Remember, don't let the master's treatment of you go down. "
When Qian Sect Master gave the word "Xi" to his disciple, Zhong Liyu looked at his senior brother in shock. , and the original meaning of the word "Xi" from ancient times is seal, one of the symbols of power in ancient times, so the word "Xi" is alsoThere is a deep meaning.
His master's surname was Baoxi. His last name was Cong Shui, and his senior brother's surname was Hao. Later, his senior brother succeeded to the throne, so he also inherited the name "Xi", and his senior brother's surname was "Hao Xi". , Xiao Longbao came from the generation with the character "玺", Xi has the meaning of double jade, and among the generation with the character "Yu", the character "xi" is the most noble. The head brother gave the character "Xi" to Xiao Longbao, which also means that he intends to make Xiao Longbao the subordinate of the sect. The meaning of being the heir
Zhong Liyu was shocked. He had never thought of letting Xiao Longbao return to the sect to take up an important position, but his senior brother had high hopes for Xiao Longbao. How could this be so good if it weren’t for the fact that there were lay people If someone is present, he will definitely make his senior brother think twice, but now that the two heads of the Zhong family are present, he cannot interrupt the senior brother who is the head of the family.
"Disciples respect the precepts of my master, filial piety, loyalty, trust, etiquette, justice, integrity and shame, and never dare to forget the Eight Virtues." Yan Xing knelt to listen to the instructions, put the saucer on the ground, bowed respectfully to the ground, and bowed down.
"Okay, let's get up." Sect Leader Qian stood up and personally helped his nephew.
Yan Xing stood up, helped his uncle to sit down, picked up the saucer, and put away the greeting gift given by the master. The greeting gift given by his uncle was a piece of top-quality mutton-fat jade, engraved with the authentic symbol of the lotus. The lotus and lotus cloud pattern, the master's uncle gave him the master's jade, which also represents the recognition of him as an authentic disciple of the lotus sect.
After giving a great ceremony to the master's sect leader, he once again brewed a cup of tea, carried it to the old head of the Zhong family, and knelt down with the same respect: "Disciple Sun Yanxing, please invite Master Zhongli. "Jin'an."
"Okay." Zhongli Yunling happily picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, put the tea cup on the table, took out the jade from his pocket and put it in the saucer, and then supported his disciple. When he got up, he did not lecture him. After his son Zhongli Yu entered the Lotus Zhengzong, the Zhongli family became a lay family. The disciples his son received were mainly from the Lotus Zhengzong. It didn't matter whether he recognized Zhongli's family as his disciple or not. If he recognized Zhongli, he Leaving home to become a disciple is where the filial piety lies in respecting the teacher.
Yan Xing accepted the meeting gift from Master Zhongli, made tea again, and gave it to his master’s brother as a great gift, “My nephew Yan Xing has met Master Zhongli, and Master Ji’an.”
"Good boy." Finally it was his turn. Zhongli Jing happily picked up the tea, took a sip, put down the tea cup, put the greeting gift he had prepared in advance on the saucer, and helped his nephew up.
After bowing to the elders, Yan Xing offered tea to the master, then poured tea for the guards of Zhongli's family and the Taoist boys, then poured tea for himself, and sat next to the master.
When he sat down, the little Taoist boy went to salute his uncle. Yan Xing accepted the gift from the sect disciples and gave him a small gold lock as a greeting gift. He was the elder, and the little Taoist boy was received by his fellow disciples. His disciples and grandchildren must be given some gifts.
The guards of the Zhongli family also saluted the new entrants to the Zhongli family. Six generations of the Zhongli family live under the same roof. Young Master Yan who entered the Zhongli family is the disciple and grandson of the old head of the family. He is the third generation and has a very senior position. big.
After all the proper etiquette had been performed, Yan Xing brought the fruits, asked the master to sit with the elders, and then went to the kitchen to make lunch. Some things had been prepared in the morning, and the rice was steamed again. Steam, heat up the soup and stewed vegetables in the morning, and stir-fry a few vegetables. It only takes less than half an hour.Make a lunch of five dishes and one soup.
After lunch and drinking tea for digestion, Yan Xing sent his master and uncles to the guest room. The elders were all in the upper room, and the guards of Zhongli's family and the little Taoist boy lived in the west wing.
After settling down, I walked around the yard with the elders, walked a few laps, sat in the yard to bask in the sun, drank tea, and played Go.
Zhongli’s old family master grabbed his disciple and grandson to play chess with him, but he was killed without leaving any piece of armor. He was embarrassed to say that his disciple didn’t respect his elders, so he angrily picked up the chess pieces.
Sect Master Qian was overjoyed that his nephew was so good at chess. He was about to ask his nephew to play a game with him when he heard his cell phone ringing and kept silent for now.
Yan Xing took out his cell phone and looked at it. He found that it was a little lolita who had sent a message. He clicked on it and saw a short line of text: Handsome guy, leaving tomorrow, please book your flight as soon as possible.
We will set off tomorrow
He was a little surprised, silent for a second, and reported the news to his elders, "Master, uncle, little Loli said we will set off tomorrow to look for medicinal materials."
"It seems that if we want to have tea with the little girl alone, we have to wait for another opportunity. Xiao Longbao, you are busy with your business. We are used to coming and going freely." Qian Sect Leader is open-minded and seeing him is a chance. , I can’t see you, my fate is not there for the time being.
Zhongli’s old family leader also nodded in agreement. Since their Xiao Longbao was on good terms with the little girl, if they had anything to ask for, the little girl would probably consider Xiao Longbao’s face and give him priority.
Yan Xing felt relieved and immediately replied to the message. After waiting for a few minutes, there was no reply. He once again played chess and chatted with the elders.