"I pay my respects to Your Majesty!" Xu Xian took a few steps forward to pay homage to Guo Wei.

Guo Wei put the teapot back on the table and said, "I told you that you should be at home. If you are not at home, why are you here in the palace?"

"Yuan Day is coming soon. I am of low status and am not qualified to congratulate His Majesty in Chongyuan Hall, so I will give you a congratulatory gift in advance. I wish Your Majesty a long life and eternal peace!"

As Xu Xian spoke, he put the cloth bundle he had brought with him in front of him. This was the tea he had prepared for Guo Wei.

Feng Dao smiled and said: "I didn't realize that Xu Dutou still has such sincerity and respect for His Majesty. I am not as good as me."

"He has a shitty heart of respect. He offended Wang Jun. He is rushing to curry favor with me because he wants me to ward off disasters for him. Just put down your things and get out of here. Don't let me get in the way."

The Grand Master speaks."

Xu Xian put down his things and stood up to leave, but Feng Dao said: "Wait!"

"What's wrong, Grand Master?"

"Your Majesty, as the emperor, you should respect him, and I think I have some friendship with Dutou. Why do you favor one thing over another and only give it to His Majesty, but not give me some."

This old guy is really shameless. The relationship between me and him is obviously a simple business and customer. For a few cans of free tea, a dignified grand master actually lowered his face and started to befriend him, a petty official as big as sesame seeds and mung beans.

Guo Wei was still joining in the fun, slapping the table and shouting: "Why don't you give it to the Grand Master!"

"Gift, gift, I will give it to the Grand Master personally as soon as I leave the palace."

Feng Dao stroked his beard, "I'm not coveting your tea, I'm just telling you this. I don't accept your things for nothing, and I will give you gifts in return."

"Bring it here!" Xu Xian couldn't wait to put his hand in front of him. He could take back a little bit, and he didn't mind having too little.

Feng Dao handed the clean tea bowl to his hand, "I'm not giving you something. Why are you reaching for it? You are already quite old?"

"This year is seventeen, and after the new year it will be eighteen. Is it possible that the grand master wants to act as a matchmaker for the lower official and arrange a good marriage?"

"I don't have any leisure time. Do you have a cousin?"

"Not yet! Please ask Grand Master to get one for me."

Xu Xian has wanted a cousin for a long time. After all, even Guo Ji has a beard. It makes no sense to him. With his cousin, people no longer need to call him "Dalang".

Teachers usually come to pick up the cousin's name. Xu Xian first asked Lao Zhang, but Lao Zhang didn't have a cousin himself and didn't know how to pick it up. Xu Xian also asked Zhao Hongyin. He felt that Zhao Kuangyin's cousin was good. Although Zhao Hongyin

I agreed, but half a year has passed and there is still no movement. I probably forgot about it.

Feng Dao is a real scholar and has a high status. If he can give himself a calligraphy, he would be worthy of giving him a few cans of tea.

Feng Dao stroked his beard and asked: "Tell me where the word 'envy' comes from?"

Xu Xian cupped his hands and replied: "My father was born in a small businessman. He was nearly forty years old and had no family yet, so he was worried about the future of his children, so he went to the fortune tellers. But the fortune tellers said that it would be better for Xianyu in Linyuan to retreat and build a net as soon as possible to get married as soon as possible.

right way.

My father listened to the fortune teller’s words and found a woman in trouble to marry, and that’s how Xiaguan was born. Because of the fortune teller’s words, he named Xiaguan Xian.”

"This is a good name." Feng Dao blurted out without thinking: "The fish has many seeds, which means that the descendants will be prosperous and have more than enough every year. The word "Xian" originally means redundant, so why not call it Duoyu."

He chose such a bad name, and Guo Wei was still applauding and applauding, "The name and the name coincide with each other, he is indeed a grand master!"

"I don't want this name, please ask the Grand Master to get another one."

"You really don't know how to commend yourself. The Grand Master gave you a nickname, and you still pick and choose!"

Feng Dao waved his hand and said: "Since the Dutou doesn't like it, it doesn't matter if I give him another one. You are already an eighth-grade Dutou at a young age, and you still have such a big business under your hands. You are young and promising, so why not just call him Young Master?"

Why."

"Well, it sounds okay, but it's too straightforward and seems to have no depth. I'd like to ask Grand Master to think about it again."

"How is Zixiao?"

"Xiaguan's parents have passed away a long time ago. I'm afraid they won't be able to fulfill their filial piety. It seems that someone has also used this word."

"Well, let's call him Xi Wen, right?"

Xu Xian refused again, "Well, the official is also a military commander after all. This name sounds a bit too flattering."

Feng Dao was not impatient, but Guo Wei was annoyed, "I am also a warrior, and there are words in my cousin's name, so what? It is said that elders dare not refuse gifts. The grand master is old and has a high status, so I will give you my cousin.

It’s your glory, there’s no etiquette at all, it’s really a bastard.”

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if I give him a few more because my hands are short!" Feng Dao pondered for a long time before saying: "You all think that the word "Zhixian" is good?"

After being scolded by Guo Wei, Xu Xian didn't dare to be picky anymore. He thought the calligraphy was pretty good and said, "That's it. Thank you, Grand Master, for giving me the calligraphy. May I ask, Grand Master, what does this calligraphy mean?"

Feng Dao shook his head and said: "It doesn't mean anything. I just put two unrelated words together. As long as you are satisfied, hahaha..." Feng Dao raised his head and laughed, and Guo Wei also laughed...

Like later generations, the court would have a seven-day rest every Yuan Day. Senior officials did not have this blessing. On Yuan Day, they had to go to the Chongyuan Hall to congratulate. They also had to follow Guo Wei to the Ancestral Temple to offer sacrifices to celebrate the first anniversary of the Zhou Dynasty.

period of danger.

Zhang Yongde was very shameless and went home to celebrate the New Year, but asked Xu Xian to guard the camp around Yuan Day. Xu Xian could only hear the excitement in the city but could not leave the camp gate.

With nothing to do, he could only lead a group of rough guys to make dumplings in the camp. Xu Xian really overestimated the skills of this group of people. A dumpling could be made as big as a fist and naturally fell apart when placed in the pot.

Zhang Yongde, who came to take over, also ate a bowl and said that the meat filling soup cake was not bad, but the taste was too bland. It would be better if more salt could be added.

Xu Xian walked out of the camp gate and sighed, "I can finally go home and have a decent bite of dumplings."

Jiubao asked from the side: "Brother Xian, why do you always call wontons dumplings?"

"It doesn't matter how you call a bowl of food. The important thing is that you can't call me wrong. Call me Dutou in the camp, and Zhixian when you leave the camp. I have a nickname now, so I can't call me the same way as before.

I envy you, especially if you can’t call me Da Lang!”

"Zhixian! Zhixian!" Da Kui called out twice in a row, and then laughed and said, "It sounds really interesting!"

"Oh... it would be nice if it was interesting!" Xu Xian sighed and walked home with a few disciples from Liuhewan.

After a year of recuperation, Bianliang City finally had a sense of celebrating the New Year. In the Tang Dynasty, there were markets, and merchants, large and small, only did business in fixed places. However, this system also gradually collapsed in the troubled times.

Residential houses along the street can open their own doors to do business, and many vendors can also sell goods along the street. Naturally, the number of people on the street has also increased.

Jiubao took the money and bought a wooden hairpin and a bag of candies from the salesman and handed them to Xu Xian, "You can give them to Xiaocan for me later!"

"Why don't you go by yourself? Do you have no hands or a mouth?"

In this era, Jiubao is already considered a warm man, and Xu Xian doesn't want Xiaocan to marry too far away in the future. Jiubao is really a good candidate, but Xiaocan doesn't seem to like him very much.

"I don't dare to go. I don't know why. Now that I see Xiaocan, my face gets hot!" Jiubao said seriously: "Brother Xian...Brother Zhixian, if you say you will let my father come to you after the first spring,

Is it okay to propose marriage at home?"

"No, as long as Xiaocan is willing, I won't stop you two from eloping. Otherwise, even if you invite the Queen Mother to be your matchmaker, I won't agree."

Dakui said from the side: "It would be difficult for the man to be affectionate and the concubine to be interested. Look at Xiaocan now like a little fairy. Look at Jiubao, who has grown two inches taller but still looks the same. The two of them stood there

None of them are correct."

"At least I have an idea. It's not like your unmarried mother-in-law who just said no and disappeared. She didn't even ask for the betrothal gift back. I'm afraid she will suffer a big loss."

"How can I engage in a loss-making business? My mother-in-law said that in two years, when her little girl grows up, she will get married to me."

While they were talking, they had arrived at Zhouqiao. From a distance, they saw a group of knights coming from the city gate. The people who were shopping were startled and fled in all directions.

The patrolling imperial guards hurriedly stepped forward and raised their guns to stop them, "The imperial court has issued an order that soldiers are not allowed to ride horses in the city to disturb the people before the Ghost Festival. Come down quickly!"

The knight on the horse kept saying anxiously: "I have urgent military information to report to the Privy Council!"

"You have to walk for any military information!"

"You damn bastard is so ungrateful! Do you know that the Yanzhou Taining Army has rebelled? If you don't get out of the way, I will kill you right now!"
Chapter completed!