Red Mansion Wind

Chapter 8 Rongguo Mansion.

The father and son went out from the front door, waiting for the groom to bring the horse from the backyard. Zhou Xu looked at the black horse he had brought, and his heart skipped a beat. Can he ride a horse?
"Master, please get on your horse~"

The boy put down the footstool and asked Zhou Xu to go up.

Zhou Xu scratched his head and looked at Father Zhou, only to see that Father Zhou stepped on the stirrup and turned over, sat firmly on the horse's back without any need for footsteps, and then looked at Zhou Xu.

Under Zhou's father's gaze, he felt that if he used the footstool that he used when he was a child, he would be somewhat disappointed, so he thought carefully about his movements just now when he got on the horse.

With a heartbeat, he pushed aside the footstool, grabbed the saddle with both hands and stepped on the stirrup, imagining that he was on a [-] bar, and stretched his legs vigorously.

"Whoa~"

"Hey! Hey! Hey!"

The horse swayed from side to side and was almost swayed by him. Zhou Xu hugged the horse's neck and was taken aback, and the groom came up in time to hold the horse to comfort him. What's going on?

Zhou Xu was speechless, his actions were very standard, this horse is too embarrassing!
"Hehe, my lord is super powerful, but this horse is not a war horse in the army, so it can't hold back your strength~"

Seeing Zhou Xu's ugly face, the groom hurriedly made up for him.

It's also strange that this guy doesn't want to think about his nickname, tiger idiot, tiger idiot, the ancients didn't say anything like a tiger, a tiger is a powerful man, and an idiot is a reckless and dull person.

Then can his strength be less?

This horse is just an ordinary horse, and it can withstand the strength he just exerted just now. Fortunately, he didn't make a fool of himself and fell off the horse. Zhou Xu stabilized his figure and Father Zhou shook his head and said.

"Walk."

"Oh~"

Father Zhou pulled the reins and walked forward slowly, Zhou Xu responded, he didn't dare to use his strength indiscriminately this time, he lightly kicked the horse's belly, the horse shook its head and stepped forward to kick~
This time the father and son went to Jia's mansion, and they didn't prepare anything, most of them were some special products from the south, and Jia's family came from the south to have these things, which is considered a courtesy.

At this moment, Jia's residence had already received a greeting card from General Xuanwei's residence, which was sent by Zhou Suyuan's servant in the morning, and it was now placed on Jia Zheng's desk.

Mrs. Wang glanced at the prayer beads in her hand, and closed her eyes again as a Bodhisattva, but her mouth was not full of Bodhisattva's tolerance.

"This week's family is really a good time to choose. Tomorrow is the first lunar month, so we rushed here. Baoyu has been in pain for several days and has not seen his family to ask. What are you doing now? I am afraid that the master will present a complaint to treat him. Is there no way to teach a child!"

"More than that, General Xuanwei Zhou Suyuan is on Jiangnan Road, he probably came to pay a visit just after he returned to Beijing, and besides, the youngest daughter may not have intentions to fight, Madam and the old lady take it too seriously."

Jia Zheng has also been troubled a lot these days, and he also saw Jia Baoyu's injury, and he beat him hard before he got into trouble, but the old lady Mrs. Wang reminded him every day to read Zhou Suyuan's book during the court meeting.

But how can he tell such a trivial matter, it will only make his colleagues laugh, and besides, there is an imperial concubine in the Zhou family, does he really think her old man is a clay bodhisattva?

"Master, what are you talking about? It's not the meat that fell off your body. Don't you feel bad? Have you ever seen Baoyu in the past few days? Lying on the bed in pain, you can't eat or drink, so I don't care about it."

Mrs. Wang put away the rosary, stood up and looked at Jia Zheng.

"There is no reason in this world. That little bastard beat my son for no reason. I can't forget it. If the master doesn't succeed, I'll just look for my elder brother to come out!"

After finishing speaking, he got up and went out of the house, the servant girl hurriedly followed, Jia Zheng raised his hand and put it down again, looked at the greeting card on the table, thought for a moment and gave orders outside the door.

"Go and invite the great master, come with the master of the Ningguo Mansion."

"Yes, sir"

The servant hurriedly sent someone away. The reason why Jia Zheng called his elder brother and Jia Zhen was because he was a civil servant and did not deal with military generals very much. General Willie.

With the two of them around, it is good to talk to that Xuanwei general Zhou Suyuan.

It is said that Zhou Xu and his father Zhou Suyuan left the gate of the mansion, and went straight to the West Street and turned to Yujie. The street outside the General's Mansion was sparsely populated before, so Zhou Xu thought it was because it was too early.

It wasn't until he turned around the intersection and arrived at Yujie that he saw the ancient scenery, which opened his eyes.

Royal Street was originally used by the royal family to go to the suburbs to worship the sky and other grand ceremonies. It stretches for more than ten miles and is about 300 steps wide. Not to mention the street, Zhou Xu thought it was a square, and it is nearly [-] meters long.

The street is forbidden to walk, but it is used by the royal family. There are [-] meters on each side for the common people to walk, from the Xuande Gate of the imperial city to the outside of the South Gate.

On both sides of the Royal Street, there are tens of thousands of shops and merchants from most of the capital, and each street extends to the back. These are the central organs of the imperial court, the residences of the emperor's relatives, civil and military officials.

Zhou Xu couldn't take his eyes off it just by looking at it, his heart became agitated, he just wanted to go down for a stroll, and he knew it was the original body's longing.

The Washe at the passing eye, performs various performances such as zaju, puppet show, acrobatics, movie, storytelling and so on day and night. In the morning, the shops sell food from both the north and the south. The pastries, rice balls, and cheese are fragrant. .

Thousands of men and women walked by, shoulder to shoulder, not at all inferior to the style of later generations, which also made Zhou Xu uncertain whether it was the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty or the time of the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Not long after walking in, there are shops of gold, silver, treasures, antiques and jade everywhere, which are more luxurious than the buying and selling shops I saw just now, presumably it is a place where wealthy people live together.

There are not as many people here as there were just entering the street, but there are many silk and satin people. When you look up, you can see that the imperial city is tall and majestic. There are three gates facing south from the north. The closer you are to the imperial city, the more noble your status is.

Take Rongning [-]nd Street for example, Zhou's father turned his horse's head and led Zhou Xu into a street with red tiles and high walls on both sides of the street more than ten meters wide. Zhou's father asked Zhou Xu's two Malays to lead the horses.

Walking a hundred meters, I saw a seven or eight meters high and ten meters long archway, with three gilded characters on a vermilion plaque.

"Rongguo Mansion"

If you look carefully, there are still small characters in the annotations, the imperial court in December of the third year of Chengwu, the feelings are written by Emperor Daqian Chengzu himself, no wonder he dismounted early and walked.

Looking further ahead, there is another one a few hundred meters away, which is Ningguo Mansion.

Tsk tsk, now Zhou Xu understands what a noble family is, a noble family, and this archway alone is more grand than other houses.

There is an ear room behind the archway, and behind the ear room is the main gate. When a few gates see people coming, they are not dressed like ordinary people, so they hurriedly greet them and ask questions.

"I don't know if there is something wrong with such an uncle?"

"Zhou Suyuan and his dog Zhou Xu came to pay homage to member Wailang, and have already handed over the invitation card."

Zhou Suyuan said something lightly and then stopped responding. Hearing this, the door hurriedly entered the side door to ask the housekeeper in the front yard.

Not long after, the side door at the southeast corner opened, and a few people came out, the leader was dressed in luxurious clothes with a smile on his face, and bowed his hands.

"However, General Xuanwei is in person. The little Rongguo steward Zhou Rui has seen the general. My master is not a first-class general. General Wei Lie has been waiting for a long time, please come into the house~"

"Please~"

Zhou Rui stretched out his hand to ask, and Zhou's father walked towards Rongguo Mansion with his hands behind his back. Zhou Xu stared at this guy for a long time, and couldn't help but cursed in his heart.

Damn, it turned out to be a housekeeper!

(End of this chapter)