Chapter 567: Meeting Ceremony
Leyun entrusted Young Master Xuan with the matter of sending back the gift. She felt light and had nothing to do, had a nice meal, and happily returned to Uncle Chao's house with her beautiful brother and beautiful sister Fu.
Young Master Xuan saw off the three Chao brothers and sisters and happily returned to the teahouse courtyard on Tea Street. The young guard of the Xuan family reported that Immortal Master Penglai had left first, and asked Immortal Penglai Master to relay what he told them to the Young Master.
Great-aunt hurriedly set off back to the island to search for medicinal materials. Master Xuan was not worried about safety issues. If someone really dared to take action against Penglai Immortal, it could only be that those people felt that life was too rich and needed to taste the benefits of being exterminated. taste.
He packed up and waited in the west hall. After 9:30, Jiang Shao, Zhou Shaoji, Shaohua, Shao Xin and Shao Xin came to visit from all over the world and met with Xuan Shao by appointment.
Young Master Jiang, who arrived first, Young Master Zhou, asked Young Master Xuan what happened, but he smiled and did not answer. When everyone gathered, the round table meeting began. Young Master Xuan, as the host, naturally spoke first: "I invite you here. First, I want you to come and get the little beauty." A return gift for your family. Secondly, you are idle anyway, so why not come and help."
"Did you get a return gift from the little beauty?"
"Where is the return gift?"
Five young handsome men touched their hands happily and said, With an expression like "Hurry up and get our return gift", it's a return gift from a little beauty, I get excited just thinking about it.
"Don't worry, I won't keep the gift I gave you in return." Mr. Xuan was extremely depressed: "Why don't you ask what help you need?" "
What help do you need from us?" The five young masters followed suit.
"You won," Mr. Xuan shook his head angrily and amusedly: "It's not that I need your help. In fact, the little beauty has provided you with a place for heroes." "Ha, it's the little beauty who asked us for help. Come on, 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, which made Master Xuan want to slap someone. When they heard that they wanted to help the little beauty, they followed It was as if he had been beaten to death, and he was too disrespectful to be 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 recommend you to work together as couriers. , we can divide the return gift into several parts, and those who are close to the family residence will be responsible for delivering it. Those who are busy and have no time should not force it. Those who are unwilling to do errands should also put it forward as early as possible. I will not despise it. "
I'm free. I'm free. I can drop by home for a visit." "
I'm free. I'm so idle." "
I can take advantage of the gift-giving opportunity to visit someone else's house. What a great opportunity."
Jiang Shaozhou A few of them expressed that they were very free. It was rare for the little beauty to need their strength. It was an honor to help them return gifts. They were in a hurry with anyone who dared to do their work.
All the young men from the five families were willing to work as errand boys. Young Master Xuan waved his hand and took out the roster. The roster was made by a little beauty and recorded in a statistical volume. It clearly listed which family and sect in a certain province or city.
Jiang lives in G Long Province, so in G Long Province or the closest aristocratic family or sect to the Jiang family, Jiang Shao is responsible for the return gift; Hua Shao and Zhou Shaoxin Wu Shao are from Jiangnan, and they are responsible for the three provinces of Jiangnan. They are divided in this way, and each is responsible for some areas. , can deliver the return gifts to the hands of various sects as quickly as possible.
As for the Xuan family, Mr. The Xiu family's return gift was temporarily kept by the Xuanjia gang, because the master said they would pick it up from the Xuanjia family when their people came 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, Young Master Jiang and others returned to their place of residence. Young Master Xuan was not idle either. He immediately picked up several return gifts and went to visit Baiyun Temple and Master Xingyun of the Zen Sect. He gave the return gifts to the master as a Dragon Boat Festival gift. .
On the way back, Zhou Shaoxin, Wu Shaoji, Hua Shaoji and Shao Ji respectively took a detour and delivered the return gifts to the Tantai family, Jiangnan Chen family, Gangcheng Huo family, Fang family, and Lan family 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, Mr. Yan cleaned up his private nest hidden in a certain Laosiyuan area in central Beijing and drove to the West Passenger Terminal. At 9:30, he arrived at the passenger terminal , park in the parking lot, go straight to the exit of the subway station, etc.
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, as well as the two generations of Zhongli family heads and their two personal bodyguards also In the flow of people, they lagged behind to avoid being squeezed into a pile by the bustling crowd.
Sect leader Qian and his junior Taoist disciple were dressed as Taoist priests, while Zhongli's father and son were dressed in ordinary people's clothes. They had different attires, so they were divided into two groups. People who didn't understand thought they were two completely unrelated people.
Others were in a hurry, but they strolled around, forming a landscape. Because there were three Taoist priests, people often peeked in secretly, and some of them showed kind smiles.
Following the flow of people to the exit station, the old man Shan Weng looked around as he walked, and soon saw his disciple waiting outside a ticket gate. His disciple was like a green pine, with a majestic aura that could not be knocked down by any wind or force, and wore sunglasses. , covering half of his handsome appearance, but could not hide his outstanding demeanor.
Seeing his little disciple, Zhong Liyu was in a light mood. 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, I am waiting for you, my master." It's the right thing to do."
"Haha, no need to be polite, let's talk about it in detail when we get back." Qian Sect Master was very happy to see the tall and slender nephew, and he didn't have any airs about being the leader.
Zhong Liyu felt that it was too polite to introduce the two heads of the Zhong family to his disciple in public places, 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 Leader Qian, Xiao Daotong, and Zhongli's father and son were riding in the Cheetah. The Cheetah that Young Master Yan drove was not his personal Cheetah, but a military vehicle belonging to the Chief of Staff of the Military Distribution Brigade. When I went out, I removed the military license plate and replaced it with an ordinary license plate.
The guards at Zhongli's house took a taxi, and the taxi followed behind the Cheetah.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, there was heavy traffic. It took Yan Xing an hour and forty minutes to break out of the siege and reach the small street near his private home. He parked the car, paid the taxi fare, and walked to the small house hidden in the courtyard neighborhood. .
His den is a small courtyard with one entrance, but there are many houses. The main room and the wing rooms are all five-room style. There are wing rooms on both sides of the upper room. In the space occupied by the door, there are also wing rooms, so the shape is said to be a small courtyard, and the width of its area is almost as wide as that of a two-entry courtyard.
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 had a surname of Xiao and a surname of Dai, both of whom were five years old. There are more than ten to nearly sixty people, each with a family, and their children have grown up. Only two old couples live 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 on behalf of his disciple and asked his senior brother to sit at the first guest seat, while his father and elder brother sat at the second seat. Xiaodao and the Zhongli family guards put their luggage aside and also took their seats at the guest seat.
The elders were invited 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 in front of the head master. He bowed to the head master according to the rules and etiquette. Tea, raised the saucer high above his head: "I have not yet entered the Yan family, Yanxing, to pay my respects to the master."
"Okay!" Qian Sect Master responded with the word "good", picked up the tea, took off the lid, took a sip, said "good" again, took another two sips, said the word "good", and placed the tea cup on the red sandalwood flying crane Xiangyun On the Eight Immortals table, he reached into his arms and took out a piece of exquisite white jade tied with a rope from his pocket. He gently placed it in the saucer: "Yan Xing, although you have been a member of my Lotus True Sect for many years, because of your master I didn't take you into the sect to receive the ordination ceremony, so I didn't give you the word "Yu". The name of your disciple in this generation is "Yu". The master gave you the word "Xi", which is the seal of the ancient jade seal. You can follow your master back to the school in the future. After the ordination ceremony, the sect's ancestral hall will be opened to write a composition for you. Remember, never let down the master's expectations of you."
When Qian Sect Master bestowed the word "Xi" on his disciple, Zhong Liyu looked at his senior brother in shock, "Xi", in simplified Chinese The word "eryu" is separated into two characters, which means you are a beautiful jade. The original meaning of the word "xi" in ancient times is seal, which is one of the ancient symbols of power. Therefore, the word "xi" also has a deep meaning.
His master's surname was Baoxi. In his generation, his surname was Congshui, and his senior brother's surname was Hao. Later, his senior brother inherited the title of head of the clan, so he also inherited the character "Xi". His senior surname was "Haoxi". The word "Xi" means double jade, and among the jade generation, the word "Xi" is the most noble. The head brother gave the word "Xi" to Xiao Longbao, which also means that he intends to make Xiao Longbao the next successor of the sect. Zhongli Yu's
heart He was shocked. He had never thought about 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 good? If it weren't for the presence of lay people, he would definitely make his senior brother think twice, but now that the two heads of the Zhong family are present, he can't interrupt the head brother's words.
"Disciples respectfully respect the precepts of my master, filial piety, loyalty, propriety, justice, integrity and shame. I will never forget the Eight Virtues." Yan Xing knelt down to listen to the instructions, put the saucer on the ground, bowed down respectfully, and bowed down.
"Okay, let's get up." Sect Master Qian stood up and helped his nephew up personally.
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 master was a piece of top-quality mutton-fat jade, engraved with the lotus and lotus cloud patterns that represented the authentic lotus. Bo was bestowed with the jade of his master, which also represented recognition of him as an authentic disciple of the Lotus Sect.
After paying a grand tribute 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 teacup, took a sip of tea, put the teacup on the table, took out the jade from his pocket and put it in the saucer, and then helped his disciple up. He did not lecture his son Zhongli Yu. After entering the Lotus True Sect, Zhongli's family became a lay disciple. The disciples his son received were mainly from the Lotus True Sect. It didn't matter whether he recognized Zhongli's family as his disciple. Accepting Zhongli's family as his disciple meant respecting his teacher. The filial piety of Tao lies.
Yan Xing accepted the meeting gift from Master Zhongli, made tea, and gave it to his master's brother as a gift: "My nephew Yan Xing has met Master Zhongli, and Master Ji'an." "
Good boy." It was finally 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 golden lock as a greeting gift. He was the elder, and the little Taoist boy was the disciple of his fellow disciples, so he had to give Point of ceremony.
The guards of the Zhongli family also saluted the new entrant into the Zhongli family. Six generations of the Zhongli family live under the same roof. Young Master Yan, who entered the Zhongli family, was the disciple and grandson of the old head of the family. He was the third generation and had a very senior position.
After all the necessary etiquette had been performed, Yan Xing brought the fruits, asked the master to sit with the elders, and went to the kitchen to make lunch. Some things had been prepared in the morning. The rice was steamed again, and the soup and stew were ready in the morning. Once the vegetables are hot, stir-fry some green vegetables, and in less than half an hour, a lunch of five vegetables and one soup is ready.
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 Xiao Daotong 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 a piece of armor. He was embarrassed to say that his disciple didn't respect his elders, so he angrily picked up the chess pieces.
Master Qian was overjoyed by his master's nephew's superb chess skills. 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 mobile phone and looked at it. He found that it was a message from a little loli. He clicked on it and saw a short line of text: Handsome guy, we are leaving tomorrow. You should book your flight as soon as possible.
Leaving tomorrow?
He was a little surprised and was silent for a second before reporting the news to his elders: "Master, uncle, and little Loli told me to leave tomorrow to find 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 Master can see clearly that if you can see him, it is chance, if you can't see him, the 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 give him priority in consideration of Xiao Longbao's face.
Yan Xing felt relieved and immediately replied to the message. After waiting for a few minutes, no reply came, so he once again played chess and chatted with the elders.
(End of chapter)